Late last year republican politician Mike Rounds admitted (touted actually) that holding children’s health insurance (CHIP) hostage was a good “bargaining chip" that would force Dems to accept republican "terms" without having to deal with DACA that Trump had rescinded as part of his MAWA agenda. He wasn’t alone.
Lately, most every republican politician is real worried that deliberately holding Children’s Healthcare hostage along with DACA recipients and the resulting government shutdown in order to engineer their ‘whites only’ platform will be viewed by most Americans as what it is. The GOP’s hostage taking scheme; pitting children’s healthcare against PoC (DACA) — a typical republican move and completely deliberate.
Just below is the only AMJoy video that would embed . It captures republican OMB director Mulvaney attempting to sell that republican con.
This is what Mulvaney told Fox “News" Sean Hannity:
Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney said in a radio interview that he found it "kind of cool" that he gets to be the one to officially shut down the government.
Reverend Dr. William Barber tells the whole cruel truth about this long time GOP agenda (if the video does not play it can be viewed at the link below & here):
AM JOY 1/20/18
The shutdown of 2018 is the result of DACA and CHIP being used as bargaining chips by Republicans, according to the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, who tells Joy Reid they are risking vulnerable children for a ‘demonic’ border wall.
— If the video doesn’t play on first attempt, wait a few seconds until the video reappears and try again — it should work as it does in this comment — fingers crossed — also try re-loading page - refresh :)
Reverend Dr. William Barber also exposes the inherent racism driving one of leading white evangelical preachers — Franklyn Graham. It is very enlightening to watch as Franklin Graham (@ minute 5:34) attempts to white-wash the pious racism out of the Trump/GOP regime
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Sarah Kendzior reports what the media should have gotten around to reporting a long time ago — imo
Watch the faces of Law Professor Paul Butler and Malcolm Nance as Sarah Kendzior minces no words speaking the truth about Trump: “a consistent scum-bag":
Joy-Ann Reid had several excellent segments Saturday and today that I was unable to embed.
AM JOY 1/20/18
The government shutdown of 2018 can be blamed on Donald Trump alone, Sen. Chuck Schumer explained from the Senate floor. Joy Reid is joined by the former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox, and her panel.
Although I disagree that the government shutdown — “can be blamed on Donald Trump alone".
It’s real clear that senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, deliberately went along with holding CHIP hostage for months as a “bargaining chip”.
House speaker Paul Ryan, another republican politician, could have brought any of several bipartisan Bills to the floor, but instead chose to cater to the so-called ‘freedom caucus’. The extreme rwnj “alt-right” caucus aka Trump’s core base
The racist Willie Horton type of ad, has been brought back. Another typical republican fear-mongering campaign to smear PoC:
AM JOY 1/21/18
A controversial ad put out by a pro-Donald Trump organization depicting illegal immigrants as murderers and linking imagined crimes to Democratic leadership is being called racist by many. Joy Reid and her panel discuss.
One of the GOP’s leading white supremacists, Tom Cotton, spells it out (video). He and others like him don't now and never had any intention of working out a deal that would protect DACA recipients - ever
Republican Sen. Tom Cotton said Sunday he would not necessarily agree to an immigration deal with Democrats simply because it had President Donald Trump’s support, as the government shutdown entered its second day with no end in sight.
“I can’t make that commitment at all,” Cotton said on NBC's “Meet The Press,” adding he would “evaluate any deal on its merits and what's best for the people" of his home state of Arkansas.
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The really good thing is; People all over the world are getting it — and are woke:
AM JOY 1/21/18
The Women’s March 2018 saw hundreds of thousands march in New York City, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Toronto and many more locations. Joy Reid and her panel discuss turning this potential into political capital.
yeah; I’ve included the Women’s March in with DACA, Dreamers vs the GOP malfeasance, and Trump blackmailiability into kind of a mix of topics, but on every issue it is Trump and the GOP that present a threat to everyone and the land we all live on — imo — and why we do need many more women in positions now dominated by too many corrupt men
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with one last end note: republicans can not be trusted (covered here by Joan McCarter):
Meanwhile, Graham says he's been in touch with House Speaker Paul Ryan, who told him "don't bind the House" on immigration.
That would be the same Ryan sent a spending bill over the Senate, written basically by the Freedom Caucus, that he knew could not pass the Senate. Since McConnell refuses to do to Ryan what Ryan did to him—stick him with a bill he can't pass with just Republican votes—a breakthrough now seems unlikely.
Dems must Resist — republicans have chosen Whites Only -> Paul Ryan: “don’t bind the House” on immigration
