“READERS FORUM” FEBRUARY 27, 2019

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We hope that today’s “READERS FORUM” will provoke honest and open dialogue concerning issues that we, as responsible citizens of this community, need to address in a rational and responsible way?

HERE’S WHAT ON OUR MIND TODAY.

Recently the Republicans Legislature rejected a proposal authored by Representative Ryan Hatfield (D-Evansville) that would have funded a pedestrian bridge over U.S. Highway 41 in Evansville near Benjamin Bosse High School?  We agree with Mr.Hatfield that “We have a pedestrian bridge for nearly every other high school in town and it is time we protect Bosse students too.”

WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND TODAY?

Todays“Readers Poll” question is: Should the Republican-controlled State Legislature approved a pedestrian bridge for Bosse High school students?

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  1. How Trump Diminishes America: Before Our Eyes, We’re Becoming A Smaller Country

    There will be no Mount Rushmore for Donald Trump. But if there’s a presidential library, it should contain a Hall of Tweets, a Hall of Lies, a Hall of Insults and, with the “Marines’ Hymn” softly playing, a Hall of Montezuma, with a section of his border wall. Finally, there should be a Hall of Consequences, the grandest in the place

    Trump has remade the Republican Party. It is no longer the party of Lincoln or Reagan, but increasingly a snarling, sneering collection of score-settlers, white nationalists, immigrant bashers, homophobes, science-deniers and religious reactionaries who praise a President who has lived a squalid personal life but who promised them a Supreme Court in their own image

    In foreign affairs, the Trump presidency has had a huge impact. By fiat, by insult and by a dazzling display of historical ignorance, Trump has diminished the Atlantic alliance which every President since Roosevelt has supported and nourished. The lessons of World War II and of the implosion of the Soviet communist empire, signal achievements of American involvement and leadership in the affairs of Europe, are being discarded. At the Munich Security Conference last week, much of Europe stood to applaud German Chancellor Angela Merkel but stayed seated for Vice President Mike Pence. Merkel reproached Trump’s foreign policy, Pence defended it. The symbolism was stark: America may not yet be isolationist, but it is isolated

    It’s hard to know which of Trump’s actions have had the greatest consequence. But maybe the most damaging is how he has soiled the presidency itself. His incessant lying (The Washington Post counted 8,459 false or misleading statements as of Feb. 3) has turned the presidency into a gong show. He sits at the desk of Presidents who took the truth seriously, who may have lied on occasion but never routinely. Trump, though, spouts lies like a drunken parrot, with, approximately, similar plumage. He has diminished the importance of truth, making it indistinguishable from lies, just more noise

    Will America recover from the Trump era? Not soon, maybe never. The wounds to the environment may never heal. Inept judges serve for life. Our erstwhile European allies will move on, finding their own way, which, we must pray, will not be the old way. The planet will cook and despots will thrive. Bad days are coming

    But maybe the most terrible consequence of all is the growing realization that Trump mined a vein of meanness in the American electorate. We are not the country we once were. As we see politicians act like cowards and a malevolent presidency grow at the expense of Congress, our once-unbounded faith in our own goodness is shaken. These are the consequences of Trump’s presidency

    Trump has not made America greater. Instead, he may have put greatness out of reach

    https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-after-the-damage-done-by-trump-can-america-ever-be-great-again-20190218-story.html

    • The democrat was and still is the party of the KKK, wants to destroy the constitution and thinks it’s OK to kill viable living babies and is out to destroy the Judeo/Christian religions. To be a democrat and state you don’t buy into this is the same as saying you’re member of the KKK but don’t buy into their beliefs. Democrats claim to be the most degreed people in this country, if that is true, what did you do with the education?

  2. The New York Times obtained Michael Cohen’s opening statement for his highly-anticipated appearance before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday morning. Michael Cohen says he’s ashamed of his work for Donald Trump, calling him a “racist, con man and a cheat”

    Cohen goes onto say that Donald Trump was absolutely aware that his pal Roger Stone was coordinating with Julian Assange and Wikileaks to release the hacked Democratic National Committee emails to damage Hillary Clinton AND he details an exchange he witnessed and overheard around that Trump Tower meeting with the Russians

    Here are the transcripts of the low-points

    VIOLATING CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAWS

    I am providing a copy of a $35,000 check that President Trump personally signed from his personal bank account on August 1, 2017 – when he was President of the United States –pursuant to the cover-up, which was the basis of my guilty plea, to reimburse me – the word used by Mr. Trump’s TV lawyer — for the illegal hush money I paid on his behalf. This $35,000 check was one of 11 check installments that was paid throughout the year – while he was President.The President of the United States thus wrote a personal check for the payment of hush money as part of a criminal scheme to violate campaign finance laws. You can find the details of that scheme, directed by Mr.Trump, in the pleadings in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.So picture this scene – in February 2017, one month into his presidency

    FRAUD

    Mr. Trump directed me to find a straw bidder to purchase a portrait of him that was being auctioned at an Art Hamptons Event. The objective was to ensure that his portrait, which was going to be auctioned last, would go for the highest price of any portrait that afternoon. The portrait was purchased by the fake bidder for $60,000. Mr. Trump directed the Trump Foundation, which is supposed to be a charitable organization, to repay the fake bidder, despite keeping the art for himself. Please see Exhibit 3B to my testimony

    RACIST

    Mr. Trump is a racist. The country has seen Mr. Trump court white supremacists and bigots. You have heard him call poorer countries “shitholes”

    He once asked me if I could name a country run by a black person that wasn’t a “shithole.” This was when Barack Obama was President of theUnited States

    While we were once driving through a struggling neighborhood in Chicago, he commented that only black people could live that way. And, he told me that black people would never vote for him because they were too stupid

    http://bit.ly/2NvJW7v

    And JoeyBiden idolizes Trump. Sad…

  5. Karma, meet poetic justice.
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    Woman Who Attacked MAGA Hat Wearing Man Is Illegal Alien, Turned Over to ICE

    A woman living in Massachusetts who was arrested for assaulting a man wearing a MAGA hat at a local bar was turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after she was found to be an illegal alien.

    “Deportation officers with ICE’s Fugitive Operations Team arrested Rosiane Santos, an unlawfully present citizen of Brazil, today near Falmouth, Massachusetts,” ICE spokesman John Mohan reportedly said.

    “Santos is currently facing local charges for assault and other offenses. She is presently in ICE custody and has been entered into removal proceedings before the federal immigration courts.”

    https://bigleaguepolitics.com/woman-who-attacked-maga-hat-wearing-man-is-illegal-alien-turned-over-to-ice/

  6. Taking a page from the dictator’s handbook, Trump blocks U.S. reporters from Kim dinner

    Trump administration officials excluded selected reporters from Donald Trump’s dinner with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un after two of the reporters asked awkward questions about denuclearization and Michael Cohen at an earlier photo op. North Korean reporters, who can be relied on not to ask questions, were allowed at the dinner, while U.S. reporters had to protest to get any print reporters at all included.

    The White House cited “sensitivities over shouted questions” in excluding the reporters, which could sound like catering to a dictator’s delicate sensibilities—bad enough—but the sensitivities in question are most likely Trump’s own. The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman notes that it’s the “Same two reporters who asked questions Trump didn’t like in Helsinki during Putin joint press conference.”

    And in a typically juvenile move, “While the WH punished reporters for asking Trump questions, Trump reveled in the attention of the print photographers allowed into the dinner spray, asking Doug Mills to send him photos so he could share them with Kim,” the Los Angeles Times’ reports

    https://m.dailykos.com/stories/1838070

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