Is episode "Past Tense" an omen of a Donald Trump presidency?
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Given the level of opposition to anything Obama wanted to do, raising the minimum wage the way you want or the way I want (in the USA and here in Canada, it should be $20.25 USD/CND, IMHO) would have been opposed by the GOP. What he got was was a compromise (remember that word?) between what he wanted and what the GOP would have not allowed.
Again, what was Obama supposed to do, make singe payer a Presidential Executive Order across all 50 states and three territories? I'm sorry, but in many of the countries that have a national health care system (Canada included) it took years for said system to be set up (in Canada's case, it took a few years from when Tommy Douglas proposed it in the 1940's to when it became a reality in the 1960's, and all provinces had to agree to it.) That same thing will likely have to happen in the USA as well.
Supporting and setting up the TPP isn't really siding with free-trade Republicans (and there's nothing wrong with the TPP, as this blue-collar worker had written.)
And how would you have fought the GOP on this if you were POTUS without having to compromise what objectives you wanted to achieve? The key thing to being a president, prime minister, or chancellor in a democracy is that you will have to compromise on an objective and not get exactly what you want. Seriously, no offence/insult meant to you, but you need to take civics about your own government, like a lot of left-wing (emoprogressive?) Americans, IMHO.
No, so-called progressives (emoprogressives, more like) caused the Dems to lose control of Congress when they failed to vote in the mid-terms of 2010 and 2012, as a way to 'punish' Obama for not being like Harry Potter or Albus Dumbledore and waving his magic want to fix everything just like that (as Wanda Sykes one said, 'he went to Harvard, not Hogwarts.')
I'll agree with you on that, but one thing must be said-these people did get Osama Bin Laden due to Obama making him a priority.
NEITHER man should be in the White House as POTUS, period. And nor should Bernard Sanders, as he's just like them, but with a liberal coating.
People (white 'liberals' and alt-left extremist emoprogressives) voted for Obama because they were full of shit and wanted a dictator, but for the left-somebody like Fidel Castro with a mix of MLK, Malcolm X, Franz Fanon, Thomas Sankara, and Kwame Nkrumah, who would nationalize the banks and most corporations (he kind of did that with the bail outs of Chrysler and GM), as well as 'throw all banksters into jail' (which he couldn't do because they had done nothing under the current laws to warrant being arrested, tried and sentenced for financial crimes and then thrown into jail) plus a lot of other unrealistic pie-in-the-sky emoprogressive magical rainbow unicorn pony bullshit. When he didn't fulfill that, said people turned on him and called him everything but the Son of Satan, and then decided to 'punish' him as I mentioned above in the mid-term elections.
As for Trump, well, we all know why most 'moderate' Americans voted for him (with the help of the left.)
For future elections, I (and anybody else in other countries) expect you Yanks to do better when voting, as well as know about your governmental system better-these should serve as a pointer:
Politics 101 For The Left, Revisited
Ten Truths Every Progressive Should Embrace For 2014 And Beyond
Oh, and one other thing: Obama accomplished a lot as POTUS: here's the list.
Nothing wrong with the TPP, are you kidding?
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Check out these article outlining why the TTP was going to be good:
The TPP Education Project, Preface: Questions of "Fast Track", "Secret Deal" and NAFTA
The TPP Education Project, IP: An Intelligent Look at Intellectual Property in the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
The TPP Education Project, Jobs and Labor: Globalizing the Rights of Working People.
"The TPP is dead": How the American Left screwed workers and damaged US global leadership.
Tripping Over #TPP: Debunking Elizabeth Warren's Lies on the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
TPP Mythbusting: The Tortured Myth of "Made in America" Chinese Cars.
TPP's Dispute Settlement Limits Corporate Privileges, Safeguards Public Welfare and Environmental Regulations.
A Pragmatic Progressive’s Response to Hair-on-Fire Opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Oops! President Obama Vindicated on Trade by the Very Case Peddled by TPP Detractors
I don't know I've seen articles like that and they are all pro TPP for obvious reasons. I've read the other side too where people talk about the new proposals for IP regulation and, I'm not 100% sold on the thing, so somewhat glad Trump killed it.
^Hey, at least I tried.
No problem.....
The TPP might be good for business or business interests but there's two camps of opposing views and I'm on the fence in regards to this.
Were not corporations being allowed to sue whole nations if they enacted laws that hindered their ability to make profits? The ISDS sections and such?
I find that is a bit to much over reach.
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