Blue Horseshoe

Democrats Have Forgotten the Working Class. It Will Cost Them In November ....I remember vividly when, just before I turned 18 years old, my father filled out my selective service paperwork and voter registration and, against my protests, registered me as a Democrat. To my father, it did not matter that I considered myself a Republican, because, as he put it, "our family are Democrats." My family saw this as an essential plank of our identity. "We are Mexican. We are Catholic. We are Democrats." My family believed that the Democratic Party looked out for working families and stood for their values. To whatever extent that may have been true in the past, it is apparent that in 2022, it is no longer the case. Working-class families are finally taking notice....At this time, American families are struggling economically, and no one is being hit harder than the working class. Under a Democrat-controlled Congress and a Democratic president, we have watched inflation and gas prices skyrocket. Rather than address this issue, Democratic politicians have asked the working class to sacrifice more while liberal elite celebrities dismiss the concerns and even poke fun at those feeling the impact. Just this week, multiple media pundits on the ideological Left went so far as to admonish voters for being more concerned with inflation and gas prices than with topics they believe should be the priority, such as the January 6 hearings.... ...Regardless of what a person believes about January 6 and the subsequent hearings, it is unrealistic, out of touch, and frankly insulting to expect working-class voters to prioritize anything over the well being of their families as they try to make ends meet. It is hard to imagine anything more out of touch with the values held by families like my own than Stephen Colbert telling his audience "I'm willing to pay $4 a gallon. Hell, I'll pay $15 a gallon because I drive a Tesla," while working-class families are trying to figure out how to afford groceries and fill their gas tanks.... ...But inflation and gas prices are not the only working-class problems Democrats have shown themselves to be unaware of or unconcerned about....Instead of meaningful immigration reform, President Joe Biden has effectively opened the borders, wreaking havoc in states along the southern border, such as my own state, Arizona. The nonprofit organization that I co-founded—Cece's Hope Center, which works with victims of sex trafficking—has been overwhelmed by the increased demand created by disastrous border policies. And fentanyl, a drug that comes to America from China by way of illegal smuggling through Mexico, has become the number-one killer of Americans between the ages of 18 and 45.... ...As our children continue to fall behind academically and struggle emotionally (another crisis felt most deeply among the working class) following the school closures of the COVID-19 pandemic, Democrats have focused on implementing social experimentation and politicized curricula that are at odds with the values of many working-class Americans. Educating our children and preparing them for college and the workforce should be the top priority.... The values and priorities of the Democratic Party today are not reflective of the working-class families, such as my own, that supported it for years. It should come as no surprise to anyone this November when we see a "Red Wave" in the midterm elections; this will be the cost that the Democratic Party pays for forgetting about the working class, the backbone of America.... https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-have-forgotten-working-class-it-will-cost-them-november-opinion-1719880

https://www.fftodayforums.com/forum/topic/515051-trump-indicted/?page=34&tab=comments#comment-7319225 Posted by @BuckSwope 08/02/23 at 06:55 AM "This is the spin- he was just innocently "holding out hope"? Thanks for the am laugh. Delusional? If not jail time, shouldn't believing you won an election you didn't should at least disqualify you from office." ******** Clinton Won't Rule Out Questioning 2016 Election, But Says No Clear Means To Do So "Did it make it especially hard knowing that the person you lost to, who is now our president, is somebody you've described as "a con man with no experience to be president and not the right temperament to be president"?" It did make it a lot more painful. I have said, "Look, if I lost to another Republican I would be disappointed. I would not agree with a lot of their approach toward economics and other important issues, but I wouldn't fear for my country." I believe that Donald Trump poses a clear and present danger to our democracy, to our institutions, to the rule of law, to the civil rights and human rights of so many Americans.... I want to talk with you about Russia. Hmm. Please. [Laughs] There was never an election like this one with Russian interference. And we continue to find out more, just about every day about what the Russians did. It was recently reported that in addition to the hacking of the DNC and John Podesta's email in addition to creating and pushing out fake news, Russia created fake affinity groups on Facebook, which tried to organize anti-immigration rallies, anti-Muslim rallies. What questions to do you have about what we don't know about what the Russians did? I think you're right that we've learned a lot. We've learned a lot since I closed out my manuscript at the end of June. And in my chapter on Russia I try to explain what we knew before the election and how we tried to sound the alarm. I had the leaders of my campaign going to the press and saying, "Look, Watergate was a physical break-in. This was a cyberattack, to steal information, to weaponize it." So we knew before the election that the Russians were playing hard and we knew from what we heard — In the last month of the campaign, Trump mentioned WikiLeaks 160 times. Why? Because they were making up stuff 24/7. You told Susan Page at USA Today that you believe that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians. What leads you to believe that? I was careful with that. I said we know they communicated. We know they tried to hide all of the communications — both phone calls and meetings. We know that they took advantage of very well-timed Russian activities. We know that they had a very clear line of communication that was set up, that, in fact, after the election, the Trump people wanted to continue — and not in the sight of our intelligence providers. We know that the intelligence community of our country — people who I've worked with, people who I have every bit of confidence in — have concluded that this came from the top of the Kremlin and was intended to help Trump. You've basically said that you thought the Comey comments about the email investigation is what tipped the election. Yeah. And ultimately caused you to lose. But you've also said the Russian bots and Facebook pages and affinity groups and the hacking all contributed to your loss. Yes. I believe that. Democrats have said that they think there was Russian interference in the election, but that they're not challenging the results of the election. As more and more information comes out about the depth of Russia's interference in the election, do you think, at some point, that it would be legitimate to challenge the legitimacy of the election? ....In fact, I think part of the reason Trump behaves the way he behaves is that he is a walking example of projection. Whatever he's doing and whatever he thinks is happening he will accuse somebody else of. And there are examples during the campaign when he did just that, like when he called publicly on Russia to hack my personal emails. I want to get back to the question, would you completely rule out questioning the legitimacy of this election if we learn that the Russian interference in the election is even deeper than we know now? No. I would not. I would say — You're not going to rule it out. No, I wouldn't rule it out....Now, I do believe we should abolish the Electoral College, because I was sitting listening to a report on the French election and the French political analyst said, "You know in our country the person with the most votes wins, unlike in yours." And I think that's an anachronism. I've said that since 2000....I think the American people deserve to know there was an FBI investigation [into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia] that had started in early 2016 — Americans never knew that. .....So yes, I do think sexism and misogyny played a role, and it's not just about me — I make that clear. I think voter suppression played a much bigger role than people are acknowledging. That is not going away. I think Comey cost me the election, but it was aided and abetted by Russia, WikiLeaks and all the other things we've now found out about Russia..... https://www.npr.org/2017/09/18/551217204/hillary-clinton-says-shes-optimistic-about-our-country-but-i-am-not-naive

https://www.fftodayforums.com/forum/topic/515051-trump-indicted/?page=34&tab=comments#comment-7319225 Posted by @BuckSwope 08/02/23 at 06:55 AM "This is the spin- he was just innocently "holding out hope"? Thanks for the am laugh. Delusional? If not jail time, shouldn't believing you won an election you didn't should at least disqualify you from office." ******** 67 Democratic Congress Members Planning to Skip Inauguration ....Dozens of Democratic members of Congress have announced they will skip Donald Trump's inauguration this Friday. While some of the 67 made their decision in previous weeks, many more have come forward in recent days, citing the president-elect's perceived insult of Rep. John Lewis as the final straw.....Trump lashed out at the civil rights icon Saturday morning after Lewis said in a Friday interview he didn't view Trump as "a legitimate president." Lewis, a Georgia Democrat from an Atlanta-area district .also said he would not attend the inauguration.... Below is the full running list of Congress members who are planning not to attend the inauguration: Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala. Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz. Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz. Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif. Rep. Tony Cardenas, D-Calif. Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif. Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Calif. Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif. Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif. Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Calif. Rep. Grace Napolitano, D-Calif. Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-Calif. Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Calif. Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif. Rep. Juan Vargas, D-Calif. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla. Rep. Darren Soto, D-Fla. Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill. Rep. Dan Lipinski, D-Ill. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill. Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Ill. Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine Rep. Anthony Brown, D-Md. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md. Rep. Michael Capuano, D-Mass. Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Mo. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, D-N.H. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J. Rep. Donald Payne Jr., D-N.J. Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y. Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y. Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y. Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y. Rep. Jose Serrano, D-N.Y. Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y. Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y. Rep. Alma Adams, D-N.C. Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C. Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore. Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Ore. Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pa. Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Pa. Rep. Dwight Evans, D-Pa. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas Rep. Al Green, D-Texas Rep. Filemon Vela, D-Texas Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va. Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va. Rep. Donald McEachin, D-Va. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash. Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis. Rep. Alan Lowenthal, D-Ca. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/50-democratic-congress-members-planning-skip-inauguration/story

There are lots of talented people in the GOP. Overturning Roe was more than just Trump picking people for SCOTUS. It was a long attrition based fight for decades. What happens in State Legislatures is often the net impact of the adherence to form, process and logistics by the Conservative base. It's easy to look at a nimrod like Lauren Boebert and try to cast the entire GOP in that light. But that's just not true. Now, if I will be fair, Trump has made bad Cabinet level picks before. That's not something I'll dispute. But to castigate the entire Republican apparatus as some kind of hillbilly monolith as some whacked out death cult is just not reality. Big Social Media, Hollywood, Big Education and the activist MSM coordinated with the previous administration, the intelligence agencies and federal law enforcement agencies to persecute a sitting POTUS. Even if you hate Trump, and there's lots to hate, that's a death knell for our Republic. The kind of people who do that will just outright kill your children if it's "politically expedient" enough to do that. Do some of you radical leftists here get that? Hate Trump if you want. He's an imbecile and an exhausting grifter. But the pathway to hunt him non stop creates the practical environment where the nation you live in right now, and that your children will inherit one day, is looking less and less like a real democracy. One day Trump will be gone, one way or another. But the pathway to relentlessly try to destroy him at all costs creates a country where it's just far easier for your children to get lined up against a wall one day. Hate Trump if that's your choice. Despise him. But is that worth the safety and security and future of your kids? Because some of you activists don't realize that's exactly what you are choosing. If you think so little of The Big Cheeto, why burn your own kids at the altar of that dipsh!t? Team Blue and the DNC were so desperate to get rid of Trump, in 2020, they let entire cities burn. Do you think they'll have any more mercy on your children? If you think I'm wrong, crack open a history book sometime.

You radical leftists can't have it both ways. Sometimes Trump is an incompetent buffoon when it fits the narrative. Now, according to you, Trump is the second coming of Keyser Soze. You activists can't keep your narratives straight. Trump is an imbecile. He's a failed reality TV star grifter. He has no real understanding of the law. All he would be is a green light. The people the DNC and Team Blue should fear are Jim Jordan, Josh Hawley, Matt Gaetz, Elise Stefanik and Ronna McDaniel. And if they get Cabinet posts, then Tulsi Gabbard and Vivek Ramaswamy. How much "retribution" potential is possible is based on how hard Jordan and Stefanik will hit the gas pedal. And neither of them are open sadists.

Make Jim Jordan as Attorney General and then get out of the way. Trump is lazy. He understands financial policy and how to be a host, he's not well versed in most other subjects. The nuts and bolts of the House GOP is run by Elise Stefanik. McCarthy is just the public face and title. All the real power is held by Stefanik from a logistical standpoint. Decent odds he gives Tulsi Gabbard a cabinet position. She was formerly high ranking in the DNC before she was essentially black listed and ousted. If Gabbard is anywhere in power, Hillary Clinton will be prosecuted. I know many people don't like Jim Jordan, but he is highly effective. He's basically the Red version of Amy Klobuchar. I suspect Jordan would be the perpetual speed bump here, to keep it from going over the edge completely. Yes, I think he goes after everyone. Big Social Media might be first. But the Clintons and Obama will see no mercy from him. Blinken, Weingarten, Granholm and Mayorkas are big fat softball targets. Trump is lazy. He'd let Jordan and Stefanik deal with it and they aren't sadists. Stefanik is a rising star in the GOP and the future Speaker Of The House one day. She's not risking that on a pure blood hunt. Would would define 'crossing the line'? That becomes an interesting question. I don't think it would go to the lengths of what Team Blue has done since 2015. However you need "fresh meat for the base" for the successive Mid Term elections to come. Conservatives and Republicans in this country aren't going to forget easily what was done. They will want an accounting of the crimes committed against the working class. What I believe would happen is Trump would do a press conference every single day. As sitting POTUS, no platform could ban him. And he could just list off every scandal of every Democrat in office. For example, Gavin Newsom cheating on his second wife with a staffer. Or Nancy Pelosi's son, who has done some stuff that would get him imprisoned and executed in other non Western countries. The corruption of Gretchen Whitmer and Big Pharma. Trump is all talk. So let him talk. That's the most he'll do with his own hands. But it will be enough to drag the reputations of everyone who went after him. He's only good at one thing, and that's fighting. He loves to fight. He loves it when people hate him. He thrives off of that chaos. But it's Jim Jordan and Elise Stefanik who will be slow, methodical and precise. Josh Hawley is incredibly effective at basically interrogating people in Congressional hearings, strong bet he'll just be let loose, let free from the kennel and told there is no bag limit. The people who will likely face the full fury will be Jesse Armstrong, Adam McKay and Will Ferrell. Basically most of the brain trust around the show Succession. The character Greg "The Egg" Hirsch was designed to mock what would happen to Barron Trump when he got older. On paper, the story was supposed to be modeled after Rupert Murdoch and his family. But a lot of it was basically a bunch of free shots at characters built around Trump's family. No one, I mean no one in Hollywood would be OK with a show that basically openly mocked the Obama daughters. Trump operates like that. He'll ignore lots of standard criticism because it's fuel for his narcissism. But the stuff aimed at Barron Trump is going to be a bridge too far.