ok, big news on the old sensational journalism line is that Trumpie fired the FBI Director
I used to work at the FBI...it was then a part of the Justice Department. Since the time I worked there, the FBI has moved to the most uninspired piece of architecture in DC...the FBI building. Once there were several strip joints on that block where that building now stands. I imagine there are STILL strip joints in that neighborhood...it's pretty weird that such places exist alongside the monuments to our national heritage of truth and justice. Today's firing of Director Comey, whom I know diddly squat about, is typical of the lunchtime provender of our current president.
I think Trumpie is vying for the position of 'most unpopular president ever elected'.
A staunch enemy of bloated government, Cleveland vetoed more bills than all the previous 21 presidents combined. As I said about Trumpie, read Cleveland's history and you'll be getting a tasted of where the 'bloat' actually is... Sure there's a lot of employees in a beauracracy. Driving down the road the other day watching the county boys fix the road, three of them were standing there shooting the breeze and one guy was actually working. That's typical. What isn't typical is that we've got a farce going on in our national politics. The real guy working through the nonentities actually sitting in the big chairs in government is none other than the guy who lost the vote: Bernie Sanders. Every time Trumpie makes a move to actually govern the populace: Bernie sets off another landmine and Trumpie looks like a fool
Good thing Trumpie is Bernie's dog, otherwise we'd be worried at the announcement that Trumpie's made another doodie.
Cleveland was seen as such a laid-back man that those around him feared he wouldn't be able to keep up with the rapid changes that were propelling the United States forward. After his second term he left the office in disgrace, but in time his administration came to be seen as one of the most effective of the 19th century: so it will be as Romney cum Obama (figure out how to insure nearly all Americans health care, good job there) gives way to Trumpie via Sanders.
Politics is complicated: there's a push on now to Replace Obamacare with Trumpcare: more veterinarians is the only outcome I see in that regard. The Soviet Union is a problem but the only real issue is are we going to insure that the extraterrestrials engaged in bringing that issue to an end will be guaranteed a dog or a cat if they want one? That's what the firing of Mr. Comey is all about: Trumpie wants playmates, other doggies to chase the ball with. Why not be as vague as the moon behind the clouds: exactly what are we talking about Comey gets fired?
We know media never really spills the beans but rather lets them sit in the fridge and nobody eats them because they 'aint chilly'.. the Trumpie logic people are the same. A dog barks, the prejudiced, white supremacist backwaters answer with shotguns aimed at what? black people? Asians? American Indians...oh yeah, I hear they bulldozed Standing Rock...now why is that nothing new?? Because its not a precedent that's why. You can tackle the opposition but when it's freedom and the American way it becomes a nebulous concept that only people who say things like 'what do you mean what's up, nothing is up'...anyway you look at it, it's a rude comment but if made by a dogsbody...
perfectly acceptable as an alternative to what dog's usually use firehydrants for...
I think you get my gist...and I'm hearing this from my own son...don't get that a certain segment of the population believes it's ok to be so rude... but Mr. Sanders is going to set that all straight as he implements more and more tactics relied upon in the days of Mr. Nixon...eight year old Tom Hanks was mostly responsible for those days...and he grew up to be a responsible actor who got stranded on a desert island with a basketball...
I think he's still there wondering where life led him..
Meanwhile, back at zoo city let's have some more facts on Grover Cleveland, who incidently made a really cute puppet on Sesame Street...
least he combed his hair back but he's got the same joggly jowl..Cleveland was the leader of the pro-business
Bourbon Democrats who opposed
high tariffs,
Free Silver, inflation,
imperialism, and subsidies to business, farmers, or veterans on libertarian philosophical grounds.. libertarian philosophical grounds? what does that mean, I get it not you??? couched phrase I think...
couched in the philosophy of money belongs to me...
His intervention in the
Pullman Strike of 1894 to keep the railroads moving angered labor unions nationwide His crusade for political reform and
fiscal conservatism made him an icon for American conservatives of the era...Cleveland was aware of graft in the sheriff's office during his tenure and chose not to confront it...reputedly impregnanted a woman and had her put in a mental asylum and the child in an orphanage..The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow-citizens in misfortune, he later said in office.
Wikipedia goes on to make Cleveland a fairly apt politician. Behaving more as a modern day Republican he trimmed the fat while it office: Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.
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I'm sure Mr. Trumpie would approve...
Cleveland, like a growing number of Northerners (and nearly all white Southerners) saw
Reconstruction as a failed experiment, and was reluctant to use federal power to enforce the
15th Amendment of the
U.S. Constitution, which guaranteed voting rights to African Americans
Cleveland believed the Dawes Act would lift Native Americans out of poverty and encourage their assimilation into white society. It ultimately weakened the tribal governments and allowed individual Indians to sell land and keep the money.
[147]In 1892, Cleveland had campaigned against the
Lodge Bill,
[201] which would have strengthened
voting rights protections through the appointing of federal supervisors of congressional elections upon a petition from the citizens of any district.
In a 1905 article in
The Ladies Home Journal, Cleveland weighed in on the
women's suffrage movement, writing that "sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by men and women in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence."
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