Journalists may feel the need to go through the motions of pretending or asking the President how he plans to get Mexico to pay for his Wall. But this is clearly nonsense. Mexico is never going to pay for his Wall. That’s obvious. As any businessperson knows, the promise and commitment you get at the beginning is always the most solid one you’ll ever get. Your leverage only goes down. Mexico will never pay for the wall. And the initial cost estimates are almost certainly low. This will be tens of billions of dollars for Trump’s ego trip. You will pay. Mexico will laugh.
The ‘Mexico will pay’ song and dance was always about dominance and power, not budgetary savings. Democrats should confront it on those terms. The precise dollar amount isn’t the point. After all the promises about his strongman power, how Trump bends the weak to his will, Trump got owned and now is sticking tax payers with the cost of his nonsensical promises about how we’re just ‘fronting’ the money. He got owned. He lied. And now he’s resorting to the same ‘oh you’ll get paid later’ flimflam he’s used to rip off countless investors over the years.
Climate Denial Crock of the Week 
January 26, 2017 at 9:33 am
Of course he is not a Marxist. Have you read Karl Marx at all?
January 26, 2017 at 9:50 am
Not Karl, Groucho
January 26, 2017 at 1:08 pm
Well, he sure isn’t a Groucho Marxist either, Groucho was very smart and funny.
January 26, 2017 at 10:24 am
or is he a Lennonist?
January 26, 2017 at 10:38 am
or a Trumpskyite?
PS Have you unhooked VERA and thrown her back yet?
January 26, 2017 at 9:52 am
Good job, Greenman. LMAO! The dumbest fish in the pond swallowed the bait and is now flopping in the bottom of the boat.
And the answer to your “serious” question is “Of course Trump IS a Marxist” (and Groucho would have made a better president than he will be).
January 26, 2017 at 10:03 am
Reblogged this on AGR Daily News Service.
January 26, 2017 at 11:01 am
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January 26, 2017 at 11:53 am
The similarity I see between our time and what Karl Marx has talked about is the conflict between the working class and the wealthy. The far right is pissed at their own leaders and they are the forgotten and ignored ones. This is very apparent right in Donald Trump’s own message. “””I will never ever forget you.””” Interesting thought in the other direction is he has a cabinet of millionaires and billionaires. It appears to be a story playing out in his style of leadership.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism
Marxist methodology originally used a method of economic and sociopolitical inquiry known as historical materialism to analyze and critique the development of capitalism and the role of class struggle in systemic economic change. According to Marxist perspective, class conflict within capitalism arises due to intensifying contradictions between the highly productive mechanized and socialized production performed by the proletariat, and the private ownership and appropriation of the surplus product (profit) by a small minority of the population who are private owners called the bourgeoisie. As the contradiction becomes apparent to the proletariat through the alienation of labor, social unrest between the two antagonistic classes will intensify, until it culminates in social revolution. The eventual long-term outcome of this revolution would be the establishment of socialism – a socioeconomic system based on social ownership of the means of production, distribution based on one’s contribution, and production organized directly for use. As the productive forces and technology continued to advance, Marx hypothesized that socialism would eventually give way to a communist stage of social development, which would be a classless, stateless, humane society erected on common ownership and the principle of “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”.
January 26, 2017 at 12:17 pm
He has trouble staying on message owing to his high impulsivity. The reason he won was the story and narrative he told. He has high emotionalism in front of audiences. Even though I disagree with him, I can’t help but pay attention to him.
http://www.salon.com/2016/08/16/of-psychopaths-and-presidential-candidates-to-what-degree-do-modern-candidates-resemble-psychopaths_partner/?source=newsletter
The table below reveals each subject’s scores for psychopathy’s eight component traits. The first three traits — social influence (SI), fearlessness (F) and stress immunity (STI), known collectively as the Fearless Dominance traits — tend to be strong in successful leaders. The next four qualities, collectively called Self-Centered Impulsivity, can be more problematic: Machiavellian Egocentricity (ME), Rebellious Nonconformity (RN), Blame Externalization (BE) and Carefree Nonplanfulness (CN). The eighth trait is Coldheartedness (C), which can be helpful in making tough decisions such as sending a nation’s youth to war but is dangerous in excess.
January 26, 2017 at 12:23 pm
Donald Trump scores two points higher than Hitler does on the Psycopath scale. Its an interesting view of how to look at the Don.
January 26, 2017 at 3:41 pm
What a ridiculous headline… Trump isn’t a ‘Marxist’. He’s a Fascist.