I ain't locked up in a camp yet.

For you Trump supporters who might be keeping score at home:

There will be no wall.
Mexico certainly will not pay for a damn thing in the US.
There will be no ban on Muslim travel.
There will be no Muslim registry.
There will be no 35% tax on foreign produced goods.
There will be no reining in of Wall Street.
There will be no "draining of the swamp."
There will be no wholesale rejection of DC insiders.
(Statements and actions from Trump prove all of my above points.)

What there will be is looting of the public treasury on a scale not seen since Caligula.

So, tell us again what it is you voted for, and why we should give Trump "a chance"?

 The "solution" to the influx of undocumented workers has been right there all along. Find, charge, prosecute, and punish the businesses and bosses who hire them. The workers come because they know they can find jobs. Eliminate the jobs, and you eliminate the draw for the immigrants.

Also, a worker, foreign or domestic, cannot "steal" a job. The job is assigned and awarded by the employer. No one secretly sneaks in and begins working in a field or factory, and then mistakenly gets paid by the owner.

And, BTW, 14 MILLION + jobs were added to the economy under the Obama administration, 14 million NEW jobs. And you want to crow about 1,000 "saved" jobs? If you do, you aren't very good at math.

Way back in 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave us the road map for living in the Trumpublican era:

" I say very honestly that I never intend to become adjusted to segregation and discrimination.

I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry.

I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism, to self-defeating effects of physical violence. "

Republicans, the party of live fetuses and dead children.

Donald is considering Palin for a high position because he want's someone around who has a shorter attention span than he does.

And because he plans to grab her by the pussy.

Derek Penwell says,

Pro tip: If your primary defense of your candidate is, "Let's wait and see what does first; he may not be as big a train wreck as everyone fears," maybe it's time to reevaluate your loyalty.

November Ender.

We will resist Trump.  We will fight fascism on our shores.  If the Democratic Party will not move against Trump, then we must move against the Democratic Party.

There are not two Americas. There is one. We are in it together. If the nation is damaged, we are ALL damaged.

The lie of two nations, or two groups, one of which can be "put down" while lifting the other up, is a lie of the 1%. The 1% will gladly destroy BOTH Americas in order to amass more and more wealth. They spread the lie of "a divided population." There is only one real division, and that is between the Oligarchy and all of us. ALL of us. Don't think of other voters as "they," think of the 1% as they. That is how we will win. By realizing you can't just destroy half of a people. We are ALL at risk.

I agree totally with this other vet. And I SURE don't want to hear about patriotism from a crooked, lying, draft dodging Donald.

Vince Pesce 

I swore the oath, carried the weapon and stood the post to protect American freedom.
The first amendment of the Constitution, which I swore to defend against all enemies, foreign or domestic, guarantees all Americans freedom of speech among other rights.
The Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag is protected under the first amendment of the Constitution I swore to defend.
The minute it becomes illegal to burn the American flag I'll be burning mine.
My grandfather fought against fascism abroad, I will not stand for it here!

Trump is against burning a flag. But he's ok if you want to paint a swastika on one.

I do something every day that scares hell out of Republicans.

I read.

Q: What did Santa say when he found three Trump women at the White House on Christmas Eve?

A: Ho, Ho, Ho.

Soon, the CIA and the NSA are going to have to start giving briefings to Donald. They are stocking up on crayons and hand puppets.

The fact is, the vast majority of babies in the world have "no crib for a bed "

Trump did not win because he recognized and tapped into the anger and fear of the white middle class.

The Democrats lost because they failed to recognize and address the fear and anger of the white middle class. The party of the working people failed to even address those people.

I don't care how you identify, but if you say about another ethnic group or religion, "If they would only...........", then you are displaying your racism and bigotry. As the scripture says, look to the log in your own eye.

The metaphor of Bethlehem.

OK, first of all disabuse yourself of any illusion of Biblical literalism, it just isn't. For example, only two of the four Gospels contain a birth narrative, and the two of those are so different as to be totally incompatible.

BUT, the message of Bethlehem, the metaphor contained, is that the one who will overcome the wealthy, greedy, oppressive, and powerful of the world will not come from the palaces or the temples. Salvation, no matter how you choose to define it, present world or future world, will be the poor leading the poor to throw the yokes off of their shoulders.

The wealthy and the powerful have NEVER given up any power, or a shekel of wealth willingly. The fight, the victory, must and will come from below.

Of course, the powerful moved quickly to confiscate this truth and metaphor, and pervert it so that it could be made to serve them and their stranglehold.

And so it continues today. Christmas is not a story about "King of Kings." Christmas is a story about how revolutions must begin and grow.

Wonder what would happen if they tried to run a pipeline through St. Patrick's in New York, or Temple Square in Salt Lake City?