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wall in Game of Thrones<\/strong><\/p>\n

My dad was born in 1913, in a small town in Illinois. There were 5 kids – the oldest sister, Barbara, then brother Joe, my dad, Bill who was killed in WWII, then baby sister Margaret. The family was poor. At some point, my dad and Joe moved to Oklahoma, both of them got accounting degrees, and were hired by Standard Oil and\u00a0 sent to Venezuela in 1937.<\/p>\n

He was a Republican for most of his life. And yet, in 2000 when the fate of the presidency went to the Supreme Court, there were cracks in his Republican beliefs. He grew to detest Bush and the war in Iraq. He felt the Republican Party was falling apart. He died in 2005. If he were alive today, he wouldn\u2019t recognize what the Republicans have become, the party that:<\/p>\n

snatches children from their mothers at the borders
\ngives massive tax cuts to the the rich
\nsupports dictators & a man like trump
\ngerrymanders
\ndisenfranchises voters
\nseeks to dismantle health care for women
\nKeeps the government shut down so that: 800,000 federal workers are furloughed; TSA employees are expected to work without pay so many of them are calling in sick because they\u2019ve taken part-time jobs or have quit; 80 percent of the IRS is furloughed, which means that tax refunds will be delayed; human excrement is piling up in national parks, creating a health hazard\u2026the list goes on.<\/p>\n

Google it. All of of this for trump\u2019s $5 billion plus\u00a0 wall at the southern border, which he promised Mexico would pay for.<\/p>\n

Republicans care about one thing: getting re-elected. They\u2019re scared of trump\u2019s fabled base so they bow before him. Mitch McDonnell, the Reptilian from Kentucky, won\u2019t even bring this wall issue to a vote in senate, which is supposed to be a separate entity from the executive branch.<\/p>\n

Now trump is threatening to declare a national emergency, as Bush did in the wake of 9-11. If he does this, 136 statutory powers<\/a> are at his disposal.\u00a0 I find many of these troubling because they are authoritarian. But don\u2019t take my word for it. Click that link. You decide.<\/p>\n

Trump won\u2019t waste your time writing long posts defending himself and \u2018correcting\u2019 us with more lies, half-truths and ignorance of the facts. Just as MSNBC no longer broadcasts Sarah Sanders press conferences because they are filled with so many inaccuracies and outright lies, we are no longer posting comments by Trump apologists. We believe he should be removed from office ASAP for the good of the country and the world. Posting\u00a0 comments here in his defense would be counterproductive, like allowing Trump to edit Mueller\u2019s upcoming report on his actions related to the Russian investigation. In fact, that is precisely what the administration wants to do in order to hide the truth.<\/p>\n

In the past, we’ve published defenses of trump. But because these defenses are as specious as the reality\/fact manipulations engineered by the administration and their cheering media at Fox News, we’ve changed course. If this is offensive to the apologists, well, go start your own blog on how wonderful a job trump is doing.<\/p>\n

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