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Thursday, March 2, 2017

Trump's Court

Thursday, March 9, 2017, 10am to 11:30 in the Meeting Room (behind the fireplace)

I will be away next week; Norm will lead the discussion on the Supreme Court and Trump's "originalist" criterion. Norm has worked out the technical difficulties which forced him to cancel two weeks ago.

Saturday, February 25, 2017

Trump Continues

Thursday, March 2, 2017, 10am to 11:30 in the Meeting Room (behind the fireplace)

I honestly don't know what will be the trending Trump news when we meet, so I will not select the videos until the day before. I still have some left over Trumps videos from two weeks ago, particularly about the visits from the leaders of Japan, Canada and Israel. We still have not talked about the repeal of Obamacare, or the dismantling of federal regulations, or the war on the press, or the end of the separation of church and state, or global trade, or states rights, or tax reform, or infrastructure, public education, or climate change. Did I miss anything?

If you have a Trump topic you would like to cover please post it on this blog.

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We dedided to talk about Trump's speech before Congress, with the focus on the requested increase on defense spending. Here are the videos that were shown:

Thursday, February 16, 2017

Trump Break

Thursday, February 23, 2017, 10am to 11:30 in the Meeting Room (behind the fireplace)
---- meeting was cancelled ----

We will take a break from Trump for the next meeting, not because we ran out of material, but because I will be on travel. Norm will be leading the discussion. He is thinking of doing a session on Supreme Court originalism. This is definitely a pertinent topic since it is one of Trump's primary criteria for nominating Judge Gorsuch.

Please feel free to use this blog page to air your thought about this topic. It is far easier to prepare for a meeting material when w know your concerns.

Monday, February 13, 2017

Trump - Week 4

Thursday, February 16, 2017, 10am to 11:30 in the Meeting Room (behind the fireplace)

John Oliver is finally back on HBO for 2017 with THIS scathing attack on Donald Trump's detachment from reality. Normally, this video would be the basis for our discussion at out meeting, but with so many other Trump issues this week, you will just have to view Oliver's video at home. Here is a partial list of the videos for our meeting:

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So much happened in the three day from the time of the blog post to the meeting that much of the video list was modified. Here sre the videos that were shown during the meeting:

Here are the videos shown during the overtime session:

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Trump - Week 3

Thursday, February 9, 2017, 10am to 11:30 in the Meeting Room (behind the fireplace)

The third week of Trump seems like a continuation of the second week with the news and protests still focused on the travel ban. So we will spend the meeting with deeper look into the travel ban and other aspects of Trump's foreign policy. Here are the video we will review at the meeting:

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In addition to the videos listed above, we showed at the meeting:

Kelly take the fall for the Travel Ban rollout

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Trump - Week 2

Thursday, February 2, 2017, 10am to 11:30 in the Meeting Room (behind the fireplace)

I don't know what the second week of Trump will bring. In just the first week, he upset women rights groups, the mainstream media, environmentalists, supporters of sanctuary cities and the governments of China and Mexico. His Supreme Court nominee will not be revealed until the third week. So we will just have to see what he has in store this upcoming week. I can't wait.

If a topic comes up that you want to talk about, be sure to add a blog comment so we can reserve time for it in our next meeting.

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Here are the videos shown during the meeting:

Sunday, January 22, 2017

The First Days of Trump

Thursday, January 26, 2017, 10am to 11:30 in the Meeting Room (behind the fireplace)

Hope you all had a pleasant break. While in Hawaii, I spend absolutely no time thinking of Trump. Now that I am back and catching up with the news, I want to go back to Hawaii. But, as promised, we will talk about Trump for our first meeting of 2017, sorry.

It seems that Trump has escalated his war with the media, shaming CNN for breaking the story on Pee Gate, and then denouncing the press over the crowd size of his inauguration. This would be a good topic for a meeting, but there is three more days before we meet on Thursday, and Trump is just beginning. So I will not limiting the meeting to any specific topic. But if you want to cover a specific Trump issue, please post your topic as a comment and we will make time to discuss it.

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Here are the videos shown at the meeting: