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ThinkProgress: Trump confidant dumped millions in steel-related stock last week (Also the Trade War thread)

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The EU has also consistently indicated its willingness to discuss current market access issues of interest to both sides, but has also made clear that, as a longstanding partner and friend of the US, we will not negotiate under threat. Any future transatlantic work programme has to be balanced and mutually beneficial.

 

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They will vote for the same group anyway, and the GOP knows it.

THE single most frustrating thing in all of it. 

The GOP has nothing but disdain for it's own base, knows how dumb it is, cultivates it's stupidity even further, and exploits the living hell out of them.

Chumps.

 

~Bang

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People talk about how our government is a system of checks and balances, but forget that the voters are also a part of that system and in a very real way the ultimate check and balance.

There are different qualities of democracy, and higher quality democracies require informed voters, who can sift between quality and bull****. 

 

I wish our country would start having a national conversation about our responsibilities as people exercising that ultimate check and balance. A lot of people are waking up to this dereliction and getting to work, but I wonder if there is a way to get everyone involved in raising their standards, regardless of political leanings.

Be what you want to be, believe in what you believe in, but do your damn due diligence. Understand that if a base is involved enough as that final check, these representatives will get in line. We have that power, but it is also a responsibility that must be exercised wisely. 

We as a people need to be able to recognize what high quality democracy looks like, so we can aspire to it and push back on iterations that fall short of it.

 

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4 hours ago, Bang said:

They will vote for the same group anyway, and the GOP knows it.

THE single most frustrating thing in all of it. 

The GOP has nothing but disdain for it's own base, knows how dumb it is, cultivates it's stupidity even further, and exploits the living hell out of them.

Chumps.

 

~Bang

 

...but guns and abortion! 

 

Oh duh, and Hillary! 

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Fresh8686

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Fresh,

I think we will see that happen in mid-term elections. A Dem-controlled congress will go a long way towards curtailing Putin's Orange Crush


I hope so. It'll be interesting to see how we eventually move forward as a country from all this, especially after Trump is gone. With technology people are becoming more aware than ever of the events around them, while also more vulnerable than ever to misinformation. Eventually those two arcs have to be resolved in some way. Trust, accountability, and transparency will have to be earned all over again, with the voters holding the line of accountability by being informed and accountable voters and consumers themselves. 

Sometimes I zoom out and take a macro look at the shifts and swings of our country and I wonder what will be different, as the next set of actions and reactions take place. What happens if Dems do take control from November to 2020 and beyond? How will the Republicans respond? Especially, as the Millenials ascend into the forefront of political relevancy and the older generations fade out of political power. Will they stick to the Newt Gingrich script or will they adapt and increase their quality as a political party to stay relevant?

A lot of people in this country feel left behind and forgotten by the American dream. A lot of them voted for Trump as a **** you to the government. What happens to them if the economic pressures and hopelessness continue to rise?

We need healthier people in power, who have been trained to handle the pull of appetite when in office so they don't sell people short. People who have been trained to reconcile the individual wants and needs of people with the shared space of community and nation. People who are smart enough to realize that if you keep allowing companies and individuals to parasite of the American people it will eventually cause the people to turn on those parasites. People with courage to be authentic and actually speak their mind and risk taking a stand, rather than just pivoting, deflecting, and parroting the same talking points over and over again.

Better quality leaders, discourse, and behavior which all starts with us having those very same qualities and demanding it from the people we choose to have as representatives. And all that starts with practicing those qualities and behaviors in every day life, challenging ourselves under stress and risk to hold up to those standards, so they break and build, again and again, like working and building a muscle.

It's easy to complain about the state of things in this country, but what are we all going to do about it? What will we choose and decide to practice and invest in that we weren't doing before, to cause all this?

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