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Turtle, it's rational to think about the current president. A sitting president and their policies are pretty relevant to most Americans. Wendy P.

I like this version better:

The 'funniest' (read: most disgusting) part about that is that most 'ordinary' people are not paying less in taxes. I'm not. I'm actually paying a little bit more overall in Federal taxes. The 'more money in their pockets' is a trick. When the tax cut passed, the Mango Mussolini directed the IRS to reduce the withholding amounts. So each individual paycheck increased a few bucks. But the amount owed at the end of the year didn't change much. So most people saw that 'big fat refund' disappear. I went from a small refund to a small amount owed. It's absolutely amazing how many people are too stupid to see this.

Forbes is right wing. It's a magazine for rich Republicans.

This came to me the other day. Soldiers go through basic training and one of the things they learn is to kill people. Not many have chance to do that this day and age. The leave the military and become police officers and are itching to shoot someone because that is what they were trained to do and didn't have a chance.

Forbes is a magazine that idolises wealth, capitalism and power, and their editor and chairman twice ran as a candidate in the Republican primaries. Just because you're further right than Saddam Hussein that doesn't make his magazine left wing.

Well I did start reading your article. From the first paragraph lie #1 Soros was the fifth largest donor not the largest.. As compared to the Koch brothers who spent $4.3 million in Wisconsin alone among the $30-$40 million to get trump elected. The insider trading fine Soros paid was less than a tenth of the fine trump paid for fraud for his trump University Scam. Furthermore was only $300k more than trump paid for theft from a charity.

I am (not) sorry to see you are losing the battle. From conservative-leaning Forbes magazine: ======================================================= Republicans Are Breaking From Trump Like We’ve Never Seen Forbes Updated Jun 12, 2020, 10:35am EDT Much of the Trump presidency has been defined by the president’s uncanny ability to bring the GOP in tow, but in recent weeks—with the nation battling two separate crises and the White House response to the turmoil under scrutiny—members of the party have begun to distance themselves from the president in unprecedented fashion. 1) Few Republicans supported Trump’s highly controversial photo op in front of St. John's Church (which was made possible only after protesters were cleared with tear gas and flash bangs) and several GOP senators “cringed” at Trump’s tweet Tuesday morning suggesting that a 75-year-old protester in Buffalo—who was shoved backward by the police and bled from his head after falling—might be a member of Antifa, Politico reported. 2) Trump’s ability to divide the country by discovering and exploiting wedge issues also appears to have lessened, as some Republican leaders and large swaths of the business community are openly supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, and the White House instead focuses its efforts on the economy, and promoting “law and order,” as the president often tweets. 3) Hours after President Trump declared that his administration “will not even consider the renaming” of army bases named after Confederate generals, the GOP-led Senate Armed Services Committee privately adopted an amendment Wednesday for the Pentagon to remove the names of Confederate generals from military assets within three years, CNN reported. 4) Several high-profile Republicans have recently said they will not support the president’s reelection bid, including former President George W. Bush, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), and former Secretary of State Colin Powell, the New York Times reports; Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) told reporters last week she’s “struggling” with whether to vote for the president in November. 5) The dissent from inside the GOP also comes on the heels of plummeting poll numbers for Trump: Trump’s approval rating has dropped ten points since May and has fallen below the 40% mark, according to the latest Gallup poll, and polling analysts say the president is in deep trouble come November. 5) He is losing military support. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark A. Milley said Thursday he “should not” have been at the church photo op; Defense Secretary Mark Esper said last week he was opposed to sending active-duty soldiers into American cities; and in a statement published in The Atlantic on June 3, former Defense Secretary James Mattis slammed the photo op and added he was “angry and appalled” that he has seen police officers “violate the constitutional rights of their fellow citizens.” 6) In a widely read statement published by The Atlantic, former Defense Secretary Mattis said he was “angry and appalled” that he has seen police officers “violate the constitutional rights of their fellow citizens.” He also excoriated Trump’s photo op in front of St. John’s Church. “We know that we are better than the abuse of executive authority that we witnessed in Lafayette Square. We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution,” he said.

Ron, I fear what I said I feared -- people who seek to divide this country of ours. People who don't accept that the America they remember of the 1950's never existed because of the number of people it excluded, any more than the America of the screaming 60's never existed because of the number of people who were willing to sign up to fight a proxy war in another country. The wealth-driven America of the 1980's didn't exist either -- it was just a small piece. And the rural America of the 1890's was nearly 40% urban. Ron, America is a big place. I'm glad you have your little enclave, but my main concern is that you want to spread what you believe politically across an America you don't accept. Trump did not win the popular vote in 2016. The majority of the voters who voted did not support him -- just enough of the more important voters. Wendy P.

It's a simple solution really. Name all the bases and put up statues in honor of those 3,520 Medal of Honor recipients. Of those, 90 of the MoH's went to 89 African-Americans (Sweeney was awarded twice). Who's gonna take exception to an MoH recipient.

In 1967 about 100 American Indians occupied Alcatraz Island - a government facility - for two years, demanding changes to reservation laws. Their initial statement: "We invite the United States to acknowledge the justice of our claim. The choice now lies with the leaders of the American government – to use violence upon us as before to remove us from our Great Spirit's land, or to institute a real change in its dealing with the American Indian. We do not fear your threat to charge us with crimes on our land. We and all other oppressed peoples would welcome spectacle of proof before the world of your title by genocide. Nevertheless, we seek peace." Guess you must have missed that, huh.