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Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Trump Fail

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

Last Thursday, I said that we would cover Trump's NASA space initiative unless something else came up. Well, it didn't take long. On Friday, the TrumpCare bill was put on indefinite hold because it lacked sufficient support by Trump's own party. Trump said he has moved on to other issues. In fact. his weekly Saturday address was about NASA, but was completely ignored by the media which focused on the TrumpCare defeat. For our meeting, we will follow the media's lead. Here are the video's:

Monday, March 20, 2017

Trump's Budget

Thursday, March 23, 2017, 10am to 11:30 in the Meeting Room (behind the fireplace)

So many things concerning Trump are happening this week that it was head to choose which to focus on. The few comments I received were about the national debt, so we will do a session on debt and Trump's budget.

The following videos show the magnitude of the national debt problem and how Trump's budget does not address it. Budget Director Mulvaney says that the current budget just addresses discretionary spending and a more complete budget is due later, but the even this partial budget is creating much alarm. Here are to videos for the meeting:

Sunday, March 12, 2017

TrumpCare

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

The debate to repeal and replace ObamaCare has started in earnest. The replacement, proposed by Paul Ryan, is on the table and has been named TrumpCare by the press. Trump supports Ryan's plan but not the nickname.

Just like everything else with Trump, things are moving fast; so I will wait until Thursday morning to make the final selection of videos. For now here are some videos to provide background:

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Here are the additional video shown at the meeting:

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: