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Stephen Colbert Interviews Author Michael Wolff: You Should Believe All of 'Fire and Fury'

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makeitstop1/11/2018 7:07:42 am PST

re: #148 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That is the point; they know that we would rather chase these squirrels than sit down and discuss the issues that are really shaping our nation and our lives.

We need to do both, IMO. And both are being done, and in a limited way, achieving results.

Were it not for people pointing out over and over again Trump’s insanity as regards his conduct as president, how many casual observers would have accepted that conduct as business as usual? Maybe not enough people have caught on at this point, but that’s why we need to keep ringing that bell.

Democrats hammered the administration incessantly on ACA, and what do you know - even being in the minority and working against a media stacked against them, they got the message out that Trumpcare was a scam.

Meanwhile, people like Maddow, Melber, O’Donnell and others are discussing the issues day in and day out, and people are beginning to listen. As many as we’d like? Probably not. Enough to stop odious legislation like the tax scam? Unfortunately not.

But the (small) success there is that the record shows that the tax scam is a giveaway to the rich. As much as Trumpers would have liked to run roughshod over that message and kill it, they were unable to. And it will cost them. Today? No. In the mid-terms? Absolutely, provided we do the work to get people out to vote.

This is, for lack of a better term, a multi-front war. We cannot neglect any aspect of how Trump is fucking this country over. ‘Chasing the squirrels’ and educating people about bad legislation and illegalities are of a piece here. We must continue to do both.