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Listen, I swear my intent with this weekly bits and pieces column is not to keep constantly bashing the Trumpster, really it isn’t. But what am I supposed to do? I have never – ever – experienced an adult human being who knowingly and with gusto lies up a storm even about things that aren’t debatable then insists that you join him in his delusion. What do you do with that? Are we all supposed to just give in because he’s president? Honestly, I think some people will. Heck, maybe I will. Maybe I’ll bow to the Ego-in-Chief, just to get a little peace. Yup, if you say so, two plus two is five, Donald. And those aerial photos of your inauguration? Lies, all lies.
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Oh, and I completely agree with what you said yesterday, Donald, about being an environmentalist, too, even though on the same day – the very same day – you signed executive orders advancing two pipelines (Keystone and Dakota) that actual environmentalists say are disasters in the making. But forget them. You’re a regular Ranger Rick, you are. Up is down, down is up, left is right and white is black. Go, nature! -
OK, sure, about the pipelines decision the president of the Sierra Club said, “Trump is an environmentalist in the same way that he is a feminist: every action and move he makes is offensive, divisive, and dangerous to the people and places we love, but he pays lip service to what he thinks people want to hear. He’s the only world leader to deny climate change and has actively attacked environmental protections.” But he’s just a sore loser.
- And speaking of executive orders, didn’t Republicans nearly hock up a lung the last eight years shrieking at Obama for issuing so many (even though he issued fewer than Bush and Reagan)? I guess they’re suddenly a good thing, eh?
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Hillary Clinton is said to be thinking about writing a book. My guess the working title is “Hey, America, I Don’t Look So Bad Now, Do I?”
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Everyone was mystified when Kellyanne Conway used the term “alternative facts” last week when talking about the number of inauguration-goers. Trump’s press secretary explained this week that “alternative facts” are like weather reports, which are sometimes conflicting about the same weather pattern. OK. That’s a pretty clever sleight of hand, until you engage your brain for two seconds. To whit: Weather reports are predictions, whereas facts are just plain old facts and will always remain facts. Two plus two will always be four. Unless of course you’re Trump, then two plus two is whatever the heck he says it is. “Could be five – you don’t know.”
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The winter is starting to get long but there’s only three weeks until the Tigers start spring training. So chin up. The long gloom ends soon.
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The Dow hit 20,000 today for the first time ever. Panic time! (When it comes to the stock market casino, I believe good is inevitably followed by horrible and vice versa. Um, not that YOU should panic, though.)
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I guess it’s nice that the Pistons and Red Wings are going to be in downtown Detroit along with the Tigers and Lions, but won’t traffic be a nightmare? I used to work down there. The freeways entrances and exits just aren’t built for that. And another thing, there are a lot of hospitals near there – what do ambulances do on nights when there is more than one game?
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“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” – Walter Elliot.
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Hey Andy,
Just read a letter to the editor in the Escanaba Daily Press (1/25/17)…
You know you ‘ve made it big when you, Andy Heller, are in the same sentence as Michael Moore and Snoop Dog!
Vicki
Oh man, I gotta see that.
Hey Vicki, please post a link here.
http://www.dailypress.net/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2017/01/hellers-so-far-left-he-cant-see-the-right-side/
Daily Press Letter
Wow! I have the name Tom on this website, but be assure I am not Tom Gant who wrote that letter.
Gosh Tom, since you’re Andy’s lap dog slappie on this forum nobody thought YOU wrote that letter. Remember the other day when you adoringly begged Heller to offer new political prose as a ‘safe space’ for your angst? Once upon a time, a ( democrat) politician said ” elections have consequences”. Suck it up, cupcake.
We can’t just ‘ give in’ . DT is dangerous and more danger comes when rational folks stop speaking up. Thankful for you & those that are vocal . Many of us are in utter disbelief- mortified by his actions in just a few days and fearful of his instability . I hear you about craving some peace , my head and heart hurt.
Mmm, I have a question about the 3-5 million illegal voters: If Hillary Clinton was smart enough to get 3-5 million illegal people to vote for her, wouldn’t she have gotten them to vote in the states that would have swung the electoral votes?
Don’t bother him with logic.
No…. Illegal aliens that are illegally registered to vote in Los Angeles, CA would not be able to vote in Ohio.
If you tell a lie often enough people will believe it. If you bash the press often enough as unreliable, people will believe it. If you bash one group of people against another to create hate, people will believe it. Sounds like something that happened about ninety years ago under Hitler.
Pretty darned similar, unfortunately. The National Day of Patriotic Fervor, or whatever, is eerily similar too.
Ah…. The ever intelligent Hitler reference….. Such genius!
Ah…. If one would only read a history book on fascism you may become a genius also.
“OK you guys”….. Thanks to the American Heroes Channel and the National Geographic Channels on TV, there are a number of documentaries about Hitler and his reign of terror. I don’t think our schools spend enough learning time on the evils of his regime, or any of the other world leaders who ordered mass genocide on groups of people.
That said, could something like that be in our future? I think it’s unlikely. But our electoral manner of voting in a new President should be looked into. If we have the freedom to vote for who our President will be, why did Hilary get a few million more popular votes than Pres. Trump, but he still won! I just can’t figure that one out. Maybe that’s why a lot of people don’t vote.
All in all, we need to be better examples to our children, even if we do disagree with things the government does. Let’s go after the media who keeps pouring fuel on the fires.
Yeah, that awful media keeps reporting what the guy says and does and pointing out when he outright lies. Damned media.
I agree with Cathy. We can’t just give in. Trump is so wearing on the mind. So much, so fast, my head is spinning and don’t know where to start to stop it all. Makes you feel like it’s a full time job working against him.
Awright you guys… We have these “populist” or “nationalist” leaders and movements in the USA and in Europe now. Maybe compare Europe in the 1930s. They had Hitler in Germany, Mussolini in Italy. Those are the most famous. But, we also had Franco in Spain, Salassar in Portugal, Metaxa in Greece, plus other dictators in eastern Europe. ( Remember that Hungary and Bulgaria voluntarily joined Hitler.)
All these infamous geniuses led us into the worst war ever, starting in 1939.
Now, we have Trump, plus Brexit, plus candidates-with-a-chance in France and Holland, plus how many others? This may be a pattern, ready to repeat. And, Trump is charging ahead with all his preposterous ideas, no tone-down. Let’s hope he and the rest get stuck in some reality mud, and do not have a chance for creating disaster.
OK, Trump says things that you say are over the top. But President Obama who right up until the last day when he departed, said a whole bunch of “facts” that were not facts. The economy is good, he “created” a lot of jobs, he didn’t have a scandal in his administration. The IRS, Benghazi, “you can keep your doctor”. He exaggerated about a lot of things. He just said it with a big wide grin and wasn’t as blustery as Trump. But he did tell some big ones.
I’m watching and waiting to see what Trump’s actions are, not the bluster.
Annie B. Toklas, Ha ha ha! The economy is much better now than what your pal G.W. Bush created and left us with. Do you actually believe the baloney you write?
Our National Twit is on TV right now, advocating torture. ABC network.
Love the Sierra Club definition of Trump: ODD – Offensive, Divisive, and Dangerous. That says it all in 3 letters.
As I have stated before, Donald Trump is not not my favorite pick for president, but, I believe that he is a better choice than Hilliary Clinton. A lot of us have followed hilliary’s career since the Watergate hearings. Yes, Andy she was not fired, however, the person that was her boss would have fired her if had the authority. He was overruled by his boss.
In one report that I read that there over 5,000 counties in America. Donald Trump won well over 3,000 of them . Most of the counties that he won are in fly over country. That is the section of the country the liberal progressives fly over the get from the east coast to the west coast. And they fly over it because they think that all those who live in fly over land are not worth listening to.
I will say that bill clinton has groped and molested more women than President Trump has. In fact hilliary once got a rapist (who raped a12 year old girl) out a prison term by destroying the 12 year old on the witness stand.
Then later she admitted that she knew the rapist was guilty.
Every time a woman would accuse bill of rape, hilliary would go after the accuser with an all out assault on the women’s character.
As far as I can tell President Trump has not stated that he was going to take away women’s rights, or deny an American the right to vote.
He has stated that he is going after the illegal immigrants in this country and those who break laws. Nothing about going after any legal immigrants and those who are legally in this country.
I do not care how many was on the mall on the day when President Trump took the oath of office. I wonder how many millions who had to stay home and work watched the inauguration.
The history of the quote that supposedly started with hitler “tell a lie enough a people will believe it to be true” did not start with hitler. It was coined by a member of Woodrow Wilson’s inner circle of White House advisors.
Democrats just keep on repeating it.
I’m detecting a few oft-repeated and seldom verified comments here. I don’t know what you think women’s rights are, but several million of us were concerned about his and other Republican’s plans to defund Planned Parenthood (providing health care, sex education and information on sexually transmitted diseases, and birth control), among others. And as for legal immigrants, what about that Muslim Registry? The quote about “tell a lie often enough” was Goebbels, talking about the British attitude at the beginning of WWII. No, I don’t care about the size of the crowd either, but I am very concerned about conflicts of interest with Trump’s businesses around the world, and whether or not foreign banks have loaned him money. I’m hearing a lot of cheering today about “draining the swamp”, but I remember him saying that because he was a businessman and knew nothing about government, he would hire experts just like in his businesses. I cannot believe that he would have put people in positions they knew nothing about in his businesses, but the confirmation hearings have been mind-blowing! People telling the committee they would study up on the departments, and hire experts to operate them? I won’t even bring up gag orders on how many departments and the firing of all upper level State Department staff (some hired by Bush who were kept on by Obama). Conservatives seem to be people who gladly take advantage of all those things Liberals have fought for through the years (40 hour work-week, overtime, women’s right to vote, Civil Rights, just to name a very few), while screaming “Don’t take my taxes to pay for any of this!”