Understanding Trump

Thursday, December 28, 2017, 10am to 11:30 in the Meeting Room (behind the fireplace)

For the past year, pundits have been trying to figure-out Trump. Is he just a Dotard, or is there a method to his madness, or is he being used by some puppet master. In any case how do you counter someone whose missteps seems to be the source of his strength. Maybe the trick is to just laugh.

Here are the videos for the next meeting:

• What exactly is a 'dotard'?
• How Trump makes extreme things look normal
• Robert and Rebekah Mercer
• Comedians have figured out the trick to covering Trump
• Jeff Sessions Gump
• Stephen Reacts To Trump Calling Him 'A No-Talent Guy'
• Not The White House Correspondents' Dinner
• #MAGAMealChallenge

Tax Cuts, Infrastructure and China

Thursday, December 21, 2017, 10am to 11:30 in the Meeting Room (behind the fireplace)

This should have been the week where we focused on the Republican tax bill, but then two major failures in infrastructure, a power failure in Atlanta's airport and an Amtrak derailment south of Seattle, happened within days of each other. Then Trump, as part of his national security strategy, warned of global completion from China. So will the tax cuts further degrade our infrastructure, can we compete globally without fixing it. 

Here are videos to tie these themes together:

• Winners and losers of the latest GOP tax bill
• GOP losing the messaging battle on tax reform?
• GOP tax plan will usher in bleak future
• Passengers Left Stranded After Atlanta Airport Blackout
• Amtrak Train Didn't Use Safety Tech
• Private vs Public: Infrastructure Spending
• You didn't build that
• Can America out-innovate China?
• Who will reap the wealth of the GOP corporate tax cut?

MeToo Alabama

Thursday, December 14, 2017, 10am to 11:30 in the Meeting Room (behind the fireplace)

As of this writing the polls in Alabama will close in a few hours. By Thursday, we should know if the MeToo movement was enough to affect the result of the special Senate election. No matter who wins, the MeToo movement is about to shift its target from Moore to Trump. So unless Moore wins in a landslide, we can expect Trump's lewd behavior with women to be a major factor in 2018 midterms.

For our next meeting we will discuss the results of the Alabama election and the continuing MeToo movement. Here are some of the videos for the meeting:

• Trump Lost To The #MeToo Movement
• How we can end sexual harassment at work
• Gillibrand on Military Sexual Assault
• Betsy DeVos announces rollback of Obama-era policies on campus sexual assault allegations
• Betsy DeVos Takes Aim At Title IX's Sexual Assault Protections

Mo' Trump

Thursday, December 7, 2017, 10am to 11:30 in the Meeting Room (behind the fireplace)

It appears that I lost my opportunity to have a No Trump meeting. With what happen on Friday, there is no way to avoid Trump. So instead of a No Trump meeting, we are having a Mo' Trump meeting. Here is a video to to summarize the situation:

• Weekend Update on the GOP Tax Plan

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Here are the other videos shown at the meeting:

• Jerusalem, God, And The United Shursh
• GOP Gives America's Neediest Millionaires a Tax Break
• Jimmy Kimmel Explains Trump Flynn Scandal Using Star Wars
• Trump is Finished