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<p>In the age of Trump, how does one define "too vulgar"?</p>
<p>Just sayin'</p>
<p>Debi R-S<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/5/2018 5:11 PM, Ron Force wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Bogus
resistance. The author is just trying to cover his a** so
he'll be welcomed into polite society after the Trump
administration goes up in flames. The actions are fine, but
the tone is too vulgar.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><i><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13.2px">What
does this resistance fighter think are Trump's -- excuse
me, the Resistance's -- good policies? "Effective
deregulation, historic tax reform, a more robust
military and more." So: the destruction of the </span><a
href="https://www.thenation.com/article/trumps-epa-is-poisoning-our-children/"
target="_blank"
style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(121,121,121);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13.2px"
moz-do-not-send="true">EPA</a><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13.2px">, </span><a
href="http://nahbnow.com/2018/02/trumps-fiscal-2019-budget-seeks-18-3-cut-to-hud-budget/"
target="_blank"
style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(121,121,121);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13.2px"
moz-do-not-send="true">HUD</a><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13.2px">,
et alia; </span><a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/03/30/the-richest-americans-get-a-33000-tax-break-under-the-gop-tax-law-the-poorest-get-40/"
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moz-do-not-send="true">massive tax breaks for the rich</a><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13.2px">;
and a </span><a
href="https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a22727400/john-mccain-defense-spending-bill-donald-trump/"
target="_blank"
style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(121,121,121);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13.2px"
moz-do-not-send="true">wasteful and dangerous increase
in military spending</a><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13.2px">.
The resistance fighter doesn't say anything one way or
the other about the administration's other controversial
policies, such as the Muslim ban, the ongoing attempt to
stack SCOTUS to kill </span><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13.2px">Roe</span><span
style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13.2px">,
or the ICE child-stealing atrocities. You think that's
because this person doesn't have an opinion about them
-- or because this person doesn't want you to know what
it is?</span> </i><br>
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moz-do-not-send="true">http://alicublog.blogspot.com/2018/09/stephen-miller-welcome-to-resistance.html</a><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2">Ron Force<br>
Moscow Idaho USA</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 3:26 PM Moscow Cares <<a
href="mailto:moscowcares@moscow.com" moz-do-not-send="true">moscowcares@moscow.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<div>Courtesy of the <i>New York Times</i> at:</div>
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<div><a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html</a><br>
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<div>———————————————</div>
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style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline-block;max-width:531.92578125px">I
Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump
Administration</span></h1>
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work for the president but like-minded colleagues
and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and
his worst inclinations.</p>
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<div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><span
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style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:italic;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">The
Times today is taking the rare step of publishing
an anonymous Op-Ed essay. We have done so at the
request of the author, a senior official in the
Trump administration whose identity is known to us
and whose job would be jeopardized by its
disclosure. We believe publishing this essay
anonymously is the only way to deliver an
important perspective to our readers. We invite
you to submit a question about the essay or our
vetting process </span><a
class="m_2466287949963050894css-1g7m0tk"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/reader-center/oped-questions.html"
title=""
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style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:italic;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">here</span></a><span
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<div>President Trump is facing a test to his presidency
unlike any faced by a modern American leader.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>It’s not just that the special counsel looms large.
Or that the country is bitterly divided over Mr.
Trump’s leadership. Or even that his party might well
lose the House to an opposition hellbent on his
downfall.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>The dilemma — which he does not fully grasp — is
that many of the senior officials in his own
administration are working diligently from within to
frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst
inclinations.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I would know. I am one of them.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>To be clear, ours is not the popular “resistance”
of the left. We want the administration to succeed and
think that many of its policies have already made
America safer and more prosperous.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>But we believe our first duty is to this country,
and the president continues to act in a manner that is
detrimental to the health of our republic.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>That is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do
what we can to preserve our democratic institutions
while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses
until he is out of office.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>The root of the problem is the president’s
amorality. Anyone who works with him knows he is not
moored to any discernible first principles that guide
his decision making.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Although he was elected as a Republican, the
president shows little affinity for ideals long
espoused by conservatives: free minds, free markets
and free people. At best, he has invoked these ideals
in scripted settings. At worst, he has attacked them
outright.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>In addition to his mass-marketing of the notion
that the press is the “enemy of the people,” President
Trump’s impulses are generally anti-trade and
anti-democratic.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Don’t get me wrong. There are bright spots that the
near-ceaseless negative coverage of the administration
fails to capture: effective deregulation, historic tax
reform, a more robust military and more.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>But these successes have come despite — not because
of — the president’s leadership style, which is
impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>From the White House to executive branch
departments and agencies, senior officials will
privately admit their daily disbelief at the commander
in chief’s comments and actions. Most are working to
insulate their operations from his whims.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails,
he engages in repetitive rants, and his impulsiveness
results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally
reckless decisions that have to be walked back.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>“There is literally no telling whether he might
change his mind from one minute to the next,” a top
official complained to me recently, exasperated by an
Oval Office meeting at which the president
flip-flopped on a major policy decision he’d made only
a week earlier.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>The erratic behavior would be more concerning if it
weren’t for unsung heroes in and around the White
House. Some of his aides have been cast as villains by
the media. But in private, they have gone to great
lengths to keep bad decisions contained to the West
Wing, though they are clearly not always successful.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but
Americans should know that there are adults in the
room. We fully recognize what is happening. And we are
trying to do what’s right even when Donald Trump
won’t.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>The result is a two-track presidency.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Take foreign policy: In public and in private,
President Trump shows a preference for autocrats and
dictators, such as President Vladimir Putin of Russia
and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and displays
little genuine appreciation for the ties that bind us
to allied, like-minded nations.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Astute observers have noted, though, that the rest
of the administration is operating on another track,
one where countries like Russia are called out for
meddling and punished accordingly, and where allies
around the world are engaged as peers rather than
ridiculed as rivals.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>On Russia, for instance, the president was
reluctant to expel so many of Mr. Putin’s spies as
punishment for the poisoning of a former Russian spy
in Britain. He complained for weeks about senior staff
members letting him get boxed into further
confrontation with Russia, and he expressed
frustration that the United States continued to impose
sanctions on the country for its malign behavior. But
his national security team knew better — such actions
had to be taken, to hold Moscow accountable.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>This isn’t the work of the so-called deep state.
It’s the work of the steady state.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Given the instability many witnessed, there were
early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th
Amendment, which would start a complex process for
removing the president. But no one wanted to
precipitate a constitutional crisis. So we will do
what we can to steer the administration in the right
direction until — one way or another — it’s over.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>The bigger concern is not what Mr. Trump has done
to the presidency but rather what we as a nation have
allowed him to do to us. We have sunk low with him and
allowed our discourse to be stripped of civility.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Senator John McCain put it best in his farewell
letter. All Americans should heed his words and break
free of the tribalism trap, with the high aim of
uniting through our shared values and love of this
great nation.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>We may no longer have Senator McCain. But we will
always have his example — a lodestar for restoring
honor to public life and our national dialogue. Mr.
Trump may fear such honorable men, but we should
revere them.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>There is a quiet resistance within the
administration of people choosing to put country
first. But the real difference will be made by
everyday citizens rising above politics, reaching
across the aisle and resolving to shed the labels in
favor of a single one: Americans.</div>
</div>
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<div><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Seeya
'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div>
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<div><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"Moscow
Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants
on)</span></div>
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<div><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Tom
Hansen</span></div>
<div><span
style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Moscow,
Idaho</span></div>
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