THE ERA OF TRUMP

[Smitty-48]

It's all Animal Spirits; look good, feel good, shoot good. The economy is a self fulfilling prophecy, if people thinks it's gonna be good, it will get good, if they think it's gonna be bad, it will be bad, it's all psychological.

[de officiis]

A voice in the wilderness from the Democratic Party?

Joe Kennedy says the Democrats can gain back the voters they lost to Trump by 'addressing the economic needs of working class and middle class voters'

Massachusetts Congressman Joe Kennedy says contemporary party leaders could take a page from that history by listening harder to the economic worries of Democratic voters who bolted the party in November.

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'There was a message sent on this Election Day where many voters that had traditionally come back home to the Democratic Party didn't,' Kennedy told The Associated Press. 'I think not taking the time to ask the question why, to listen to their response, and to try to understand why we lost some folks that had been in support of Democratic candidates and the Democratic Party for so long is folly.'
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Kennedy said Democrats can do that while also sticking to their progressive roots, including standing up for 'people that feel marginalized and voiceless.'
'We've got a proud history of that and we should never back away from that,' he said. 'You can do that while also recognizing there are an awful lot of people in our country hurting and that we have to do a better job addressing the economic needs of working class and middle class voters.'

[Speaker to Animals]

It kind of feels like it's too late. The republicans are the party for the working class now. I don't see how the democrats can turn that around in this generation, or even the next.

They bought and owned the anti-white, urban, and corporate votes. Now a significant portion of their base are those people lighting our streets on fire, attacking people, and expressing endless racial and gender hatred for the rest of us, and who really wants to join with them under any tent no matter how big?

Oh you suddenly care about the working man, even though you hate his whiteness and the male privilege he possesses while he can't find a job, lost his family, and daily considers joining all the men who commit suicide? Sure thing, princess.

[de officiis]

It kind of feels like it's too late. The republicans are the party for the working class now. I don't see how the democrats can turn that around in this generation, or even the next.

They bought and owned the anti-white, urban, and corporate votes. Now a significant portion of their base are those people lighting our streets on fire, attacking people, and expressing endless racial and gender hatred for the rest of us, and who really wants to join with them under any tent no matter how big?

Oh you suddenly care about the working man, even though you hate his whiteness and the male privilege he possesses while he can't find a job, lost his family, and daily considers joining all the men who commit suicide? Sure thing, princess.

Well, you may be right, but it would be good to have both parties competing to help the working & middle classes.

[Speaker to Animals]

It kind of feels like it's too late. The republicans are the party for the working class now. I don't see how the democrats can turn that around in this generation, or even the next.

They bought and owned the anti-white, urban, and corporate votes. Now a significant portion of their base are those people lighting our streets on fire, attacking people, and expressing endless racial and gender hatred for the rest of us, and who really wants to join with them under any tent no matter how big?

Oh you suddenly care about the working man, even though you hate his whiteness and the male privilege he possesses while he can't find a job, lost his family, and daily considers joining all the men who commit suicide? Sure thing, princess.

Well, you may be right, but it would be good to have both parties competing to help the working & middle classes.

That's not really how American politics work. Two parties generally fight over voter demographics. A party generally captures a demographic at once as we saw last November, though you could see it coming as far back as the Clinton administration when the democrats stabbed the working class in the back (and continued stabbing them in the back until last November).

I think the democrats are losing the female vote next, ironically enough. They talk a good game about the "war on women", but a lot of women are turned off by being ignored and silenced because they don't agree with the feminist narrative, for example. Trump still won white women, so I dare say the racism on the left is costing them, but the democrats struggled to score the women vote in general as well.

Those chicks you saw marching around, screaming, and littering the streets with their garbage do not really represent most women in America. They even outright banned women's groups from marching in their little parades because those women didn't agree with Planned Parenthood's agenda.

If you look at the people the democratic party actually helps and serves, you really are talking about relatively wealthy and urban people, and the corporations they work for. That's really it. The rest of it is so much bullshit.

Identity politics is causing the left to eat itself to death. Good riddance.

[Ex-California]

It kind of feels like it's too late. The republicans are the party for the working class now. I don't see how the democrats can turn that around in this generation, or even the next.

They bought and owned the anti-white, urban, and corporate votes. Now a significant portion of their base are those people lighting our streets on fire, attacking people, and expressing endless racial and gender hatred for the rest of us, and who really wants to join with them under any tent no matter how big?

Oh you suddenly care about the working man, even though you hate his whiteness and the male privilege he possesses while he can't find a job, lost his family, and daily considers joining all the men who commit suicide? Sure thing, princess.

I think you're right. They've lost the hearts and minds of the majority working-class people by focusing on snowflake wedge issues and corporatist interests. I've always been on the left spectrum of things but I could never again support a party that literally hates people like me

This meme out of yesterday's Women's March Meme Battle sums it up the best

[PartyOf5]

Chinese steel is shit - and its a major issue....the problem is it hasn't officially been banned (that's called corruption), so contractors keep using it. But you can bet your ass it's structurally unsound....

Total bullshit, there's nothing wrong with Chinese steel, Donald Trump uses it all the time, Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas was made with Chinese steel, the issue is simply that Chinese taxpayers are subsidizing steel, which is a direct transfer of wealth from the Chinese taxpayer to the American consumer, great deal for Americans.

You're wrong on the quality of Chinese steel - Know that I will "show my work" - right now I need to get some sleep.

I concur that Chinese steel is not of high quality. Their quality control is sh$t. I worked for a manufacturer whose main raw material was steel.

[Speaker to Animals]

Chinese steel is terrible.

We should buy Crucible steel.

OrU.S. Steel.

[Speaker to Animals]

MAGA is spreading cross borders, folks.

Despite his dislike of walls, Pope Francis declared Friday that “every country has the right to control its borders,” especially where the risk of terrorism exists.
In an extended interview with the leftist Spanish newspaper El País, the Pope reaffirmed basic Catholic doctrine regarding immigration, namely, that sovereign nations have the fundamental right to maintain secure borders and to receive immigrants in an orderly and controlled fashion.

“Yes, every country has the right to control its borders, who comes and who goes,” Francis said Friday, “and those countries at risk —from terrorism or such things— have even more right to control them more.”

The one qualification to this right, the pontiff continued, is that “no country has the right to deprive its citizens of the possibility to talk with their neighbors,” as often has occurred in the case of totalitarian states such as East Germany and the U.S.S.R.

http://www.breitbart.com/national-secur ... l-borders/


The Pope finally fessed up to what Church teachings were on immigration instead of that marxist open borders kumbaya.

[Fife]

They ain't broke yet. Not by a damn site.

Soros Has Links to 56 'Partners' of the Women's March on Washington

The Open Society Foundations denies any involvement in funding the demonstration. In this, they probably speak the truth -- as they understand it. But where did the money come from for all those buses, all the organizational costs that were borne by "partners" who almost certainly hadn't budgeted for such expenditures? No doubt the funds were in the form of donations to the groups with no specific purpose mentioned. So Soros can keep his plausible deniability and the "partners" get the cash they need to pull off a monster protest.