Part Sechs of You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

Great to hear our brethren in the UK sing Take Me Out To the Ballgame during the 7th inning stretch of the Yanks/Red Sox game.

They made every Cubbie fan proud.

BESIDES BEING BILLIONAIRES and spending much of their fortunes to promote pet causes, the leftist financier George Soros and the right-wing Koch brothers have little in common. They could be seen as polar opposites. Soros is an old-fashioned New Deal liberal. The Koch brothers are fire-breathing right-wingers who dream of cutting taxes and dismantling government. Now they have found something to agree on: the United States must end its “forever war” and adopt an entirely new foreign policy.

In one of the most remarkable partnerships in modern American political history, Soros and Charles Koch, the more active of the two brothers, are joining to finance a new foreign-policy think tank in Washington. It will promote an approach to the world based on diplomacy and restraint rather than threats, sanctions, and bombing. This is a radical notion in Washington, where every major think tank promotes some variant of neocon militarism or liberal interventionism. Soros and Koch are uniting to revive the fading vision of a peaceable United States. The street cred they bring from both ends of the political spectrum — along with the money they are providing — will make this new think tank an off-pitch voice for statesmanship amid a Washington chorus that promotes brinksmanship. Per the Boston Globe

Maybe just maybe some good can come from this.

Many of the Democrats running for president won't make it to the next debate. Hickenlooper may be the first to go & is better off running for Senator.

de Blasio can't even set his alarm properly to show up on time for a scheduled interview.  

GONG!

Trump has planned another rally in Greenville, NC on July 17th.

Robert Mueller testifies before congressional committees the same day.

Wonder how many different names Trump will call Mueller at the rally.

Enough with the rallies. Do some farking work for the country besides planning a parade & getting your fragile ego stroked.

The Trump extravaganza scheduled in DC on the 4th billed as TRUMPSTINYPENISPARADE may be hampered by showers and thunderstorms. That would really suck for those there to see the fireworks. However, there may be some real laughs seeing Trump trying to open/use/close an umbrella and watching a tank or two fall into a DC sinkhole.

Trump will ask Jerry Falwell to lead all evangelicals in prayer to scare away the storms.

So you hate Trump so much that you're defending big pharma? Ha. I swear, there are many nutjobs, "...on both sides", that will say, defend, and/or overlook anything to bolster their side. Obamacare is a great concept, yet no without flaws. Repeal and replace is a scam and that's why it has yet to go over. The skyrocketing cost of perscription drugs is a huge issue and Obamacare didn't do anything to address this. Trump campaigned on bringing prices down. Trump, though often misguided, atleast feigns addressing his campaign promises. Democrats talk a lot and say nothing. It's no surprise that Hillary didn't campaign on any kind of platform. You can't break a promise you don't make. Everything Trump has done, some I agree with, a lot of it I do not, but everything he's done are things he said he would do, ir attempt to do, on the campaign trail.

You're the only person, both in person and on the internet, that i've ever seen try to defend pharmaceutical companies. Either you work for a pharmaceutical company or you are just as biased, if not more so, than any Trump defender on this site.

I swear, midnight gives me a hard time about not picking a side but you people make it hard to. The republicans push a lof of agendas that I just can't get behind (they push some I definitely can and do) but the democratic party, and it's constituents, are all batsheet crazy. The drug companies are fleecing Americans all while flooding the streets with opioids and pushing us right into a crisis. They are comparable to the cartels. And here you are talking about their "free speech". You have democratic candidates who say, "We're not gonna campaign to the middle-class, nor even lower-class Americans. We're not gonna campaign to the forgotten Americans. Those is middle America, in the rust belt. Flyover country. We're not gonna canpaign to the veterans. We're not even gonna follow our old playbook and campaign to African Americans. Nope! We're gonna campaign directly to illegals!" To the point where you have candidates dusting off their high school Spanish and sounding like idiots.

The Republicans have had 10 years to repeal and replace Obamacare. They have made numerous attempts to repeal, but have not offered even one replacement plan. The intent is clear, only the repeal part is important to them. They hold the Senate and the White House, therefore can block literally anything the Democrats want to do; good, bad or indifferent. Big Pharma can also be described as Big Contributor, so nothing REAL is going to change, just some cosmetic and misleading side steps. Bad news?

No, the really bad news is that they are going to win again in 2020. The Democrats are so thoroughly disorganized and running hither and yon trying to out-welfare each other they are chasing voters that matter way out of their influence. Do they really think the middle class (taxpayers) want massive new taxes or deficits to pay for reparations, abortion, green new deals, and miscellaneous other "here, we got money and benefits for everybody" scams? Black, White, Asian, Native American, Hispanic?

It does not matter, most of every segment is in the middle class, some just emerging from poverty into it, and none are in a frame of mind to pay for more massive government and give away programs. The first 90 days of Trump's presidency I thought he was doomed in 2020, now I think he and a Republican Senate are a lock.