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whttps://ww.facebookrewin.com/BlockBg/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008656361041 http://www.livingstondaily.com/story/news/local/community/howell/2017/08/16/200-gather-howell-support-trump-wake-criticism/572060001/ From Wikipedia on the city of Howell, Michigan: Reputation For many decades, Howell has had the reputation of being associated with the Ku Klux Klan due to White Supremacist leader and Michigan Grand Dragon Robert E. Miles, who held KKK gatherings on his farm, located 12 miles north of the city with a Howell address.[12] Miles died in 1992. However, these gatherings, including the burning of crosses, continued.[13] The reputation has persisted into the 2000s, with events such as a public auction of KKK items scheduled for Martin Luther King Jr's birthday in 2005,[14] the 2010 suspension of a teacher who removed students for wearing a confederate flag and making anti-gay slurs,[15] and the high school basketball team's racist tweets towa...

So. Trump fumbled his first attempt at addressing the violence in Charlottesville because, in his heart, he's a racist. He tries to redeem himself by reading a script on Monday, and we rightly scream "Too little, too late!" And three CEO's on some Presidential Commission resign out of disgust for his obvious bigotry and pandering to NAZIs. Are we supposed to pat these CEOs on the back for standing up? If Trump's act ("act" being the operative word here) of contrition Monday was "too little, too late", why were these people anywhere near involved with this administration in the first place? Who did they think they were dealing with? Fuck these guys. https://www.wsj.com/articles/merck-ceo-quits-trump-advisory-council-after-charlottesville-violence-1502717371

While the Dems keep talking about "compromise" and the "middle road" and "moderation", what they've been doing is conceding almost every point. This is how we got, not "trickle down", but huge gushing upward, a vacuum of wealth going to the top, all by design. While the top democratic leaders bow to Goldman Sacks for direction and directors. We're not looking at a party in disarray because of a dirty hippy fringe. We're looking at a party that is cooperating in grand larceny. A party that no longer can give a message that anyone gives a damn about.  Deregulation of the banking system came under BOTH parties' watches, supported with gusto from both sides. Working out great for the bankers. For the rest us? Meh. A Canadian would know better. http://crooksandliars.com/.../daily-show-you-cant-ram... The Daily Show: You Can't Jam Banking Regulation Down A Country's Throat The Daily Show's John Oliver and Jason Jones t...