Left Delaware

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[leftdelaware]

This.

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Romney-Ryan 2012: The Go Back Team. 

[leftdelaware]

This is the best one today. Like Tom Tomorrow said this morning, #xmasinaugust (via TumbleOn)

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AOC.

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[politicalprof]

‘Tis an accomplishment . ..

[leftdelaware]

Stop trying so hard to reach new lows.

[tastefullyoffensive]

When life imitates Netflix. (via smallmoralworks)

[leftdelaware]

When life imitates Netflix, INDEED!!!

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Trump meets Putin today. Can he be successful where so many other leaders have failed? https://t.co/kismQt5C4p https://t.co/ZcwZe24kX2

Source: twitter / BBGVisualData

[leftdelaware]

Trump doesn't have to be successful with Putin, as he's already doing Putin's bidding, completely, totally revering everything Putin stands for.

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8 months later, the nation’s top cyberbullying experts still haven’t heard from Melania Trump

Eight months ago Melania Trump announced she would take on cyberbullying as first lady of the United States.

Today, some of the nation’s most prominent anti-cyberbullying experts told Mic that neither they nor any of their colleagues in the field had been contacted by Trump or anyone from her staff.

“It’s one of the many mysteries of the 2016 presidential campaign,” Larry Magid, CEO of ConnectSafely, “Why she chose to put herself in a position where she is taking on the very issue that her husband is so publicly guilty of is just bizarre.”

After her stated commitment, Magid told Mic he reached out directly to Trump to work with her on how she could be an effective combatant of cyberbullying. However, he said he heard no response from either the first lady or anyone from her office. Read more (7/7/17)

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Nobody could have predicted this.

[leftdelaware]

I'm not at all surprised.

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Your mind is programmable – if you’re not programming your mind, someone else will program it for you.

Jeremy Hammond (via tr-apstar)

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Republican congressman shoots selfie video in Auschwitz gas chamber

Louisiana Republican congressman Clay Higgins shot video of himself talking about the need for invincible U.S. power—while wandering the gas chamber at Auschwitz.

In his five-minute ramble, Higgins explains the horrors that took place at the camp, where some 1.1m people, mostly Jews, where murdered by the Nazis during World War II. And that “this is why Homeland Security must be squared away, why our military must be invincible.”

Officials at the museum and memorial denounced him for using it as a stage for his politics, pointing out that there are signs asking for silence throughout the former death camp.

People keep talking about President Trump’s behavior eroding international respect and trust for America. But he does get a lot of help from his friends.

https://boingboing.net/2017/07/05/republican-congressman-shoots.html

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[leftdelaware]

May the force be with you.

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The World According to Trump

To Donald Trump, the world is made up of only two sorts of people, or nations: strong winners whom others respect and fear, and weak losers whom others exploit and laugh at. There is no other alternative.

“At what point does America get demeaned? At what point do they start laughing at us, as a country?” Trump asked Thursday during his major announcement from the White House Rose Garden that the US would be withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement. “We don’t want other leaders and other countries laughing at us anymore. And they won’t be. They won’t be.“

For Trump, there is no such thing as collaboration for mutual gain. Cooperation is a sham. 

Similarly, social insurance is a con. Billionaires can be trusted because they’ve already made their money – presumably by out-exploiting others. 

Dictators are admirable because they’re respected and feared. But democratically-elected prime ministers and presidents need to be shown who’s boss – their hands grabbed in white-knuckled contests of dominance, their bodies shoved aside if they get out in front. And treaties and compacts need to be renegotiated so America wins.

It’s the same at home: Political opponents must be humiliated, White House staffers demeaned (even the Vice President shown his place), the press degraded, recalcitrant judges debased, others intimidated. 

Everything is a giant zero-sum game in which either you win and they lose, or they win and you lose. And if they dare put up a fight, you get even.

This is the personality of a sociopath. 

Trump is now the single most powerful person on the planet, with the ability to order the destruction of the world in just over four minutes. It is necessary to get him out of the White House, peacefully and legally, as quickly as possible.

[leftdelaware]

So well said. Think about the grab & pull handshake. Did trump do that to Theresa May? He wouldn’t shake Angela Merkel’s hand at all.

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Idaho GOP Congressjerk: "Nobody dies because they don't have access to health care"

Rep. Raul Labrador [R-Westeros] (Twitter: @Raul_Labrador, DC: [phone]; Meridien: [phone]; Lewiston [phone]; Coeur d'Alene [phone]), to a constituent who was angry he’d voted to take away healthcare from 22,000,000 Americans, dooming some to premature deaths: “That line is so indefensible. Nobody dies because they don’t have access to health care.”

A peer-reviewed, high-impact factor study published in the American Journal of Public Health found that being uninsured increases your risk of death by 25%.

https://boingboing.net/2017/05/06/red-of-tooth-and-claw.html

[leftdelaware]

Call the Delaware Store [phone] to order. Or go by the shop in Dover, Delaware- on the Green.

[phroyd]

If you research the web and seek personal accounts of that day’s events, you will notice a significant absence of a description of any airliner flying low over Washington DC.

You will also hear accounts by professional experts concerning the absence of any footage in any camera, the science of  impact and debris and how the Pentagon did not have any evidence supporting the “airline” theory.

It gives no Answers, but Raises Far Too Many Questions; especially as the offices which had all of the accounting for the missing $Trillion Plus from the Defense Department, were “destroyed.”

You Do The Math.

Phroyd

[leftdelaware]

Well, nice to know this is still a thing.

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Cultivating Metta Toward Self

May I accept this pain without thinking it makes me bad or wrong.

May I remember that my consciousness is much vaster than this body.

May all those who have helped me be safe, be happy, be peaceful.

May all beings everywhere be safe, be happy, be peaceful.

May my love for myself and others flow without limit.

May the power of lovingkindness support me.

May I be open to the unknown, like a bird flying free.

May I accept my anger, fear, and worry, knowing that my heart is not limited to them.

May I be free of dangers, may I be peaceful.

May I be free from anger, fear, and regret.

May I live and die in ease.

- Sharon Salzberg // The Power Of Meditation

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Metta