CWAA: Can We All Agree™ – 6/10/17 edition
June 10, 2017
Can we all agree, if Donald Trump testifies under oath, perjury charges and then impeachment are sure to follow?
Can we all agree, maybe Mr. Trump is right about Mr. Comey – if there’s one thing Mr. Trump knows, it’s how to lie?
Can we all agree Speaker Paul Ryan should be embarrassed by his suggestion that Mr. Trump can be forgiven, because he’s “unfamiliar with political protocol?”
Just two guys, Barack and Justin, having a night out in Montreal.
Can we all agree the talk about obstruction of justice is irrelevant in the impeachment debate, because impeachment has nothing to do with legality, it’s all political?
Can we all agree, the Senate and Mitch McConnell, take a back seat to no one in the chutzpah department, by passing healthcare reform, while most of the nation was watching James Comey testify?
Can we all agree, Theresa May’s loss in the British election really makes you wonder if this was the real point to the ISIS attacks in London and Manchester?
Can we all agree Montana should be very proud that they will soon have a politician with an assault conviction representing them in Congress?
Can we all agree we should learn a lesson from the Mayor of London who simply ignored Mr. Trump’s ridiculous tweets?
Can we all agree the best story of the week is the dinner between President Obama and Canadian Premier Justin Trudeau – just two guys having a night out?
Can we all agree the funniest story of the week was the North Koreans blasting Mr. Trump as an egomaniac?
Can we all agree, the more South Korea tries to placate their neighbor to the north the more bellicose North Korea becomes?
Can we all agree when the President says one thing and the Secretary of State says another, one of them will be ignored, and it probably won’t be the President?
Can we all agree the EPA administrator needs to check his facts on coal jobs created over the last few months?
Can we all agree the House of Representatives should really stop wasting it’s time on legislation that has no chance of passage in the Senate?
Can we all agree as the administration’s poll numbers continue to deteriorate, it should be only a matter of time before the GOP abandons the Trump ship of state? But it doesn’t look that way.
Can we all agree, Mr. Trump’s infrastructure plan, announced this week, is little more than a reward for contractors who supported him?
Can we all agree, most Americans doubt that Mr. Trump is really the right person to undo the political crises with Qatar that he may have created?
Can we all agree, after this week’s exchange between Mr. Comey and Mr. Trump, it’s hard to imagine that anyone would want to lead the FBI?
Can we all agree most Americans had little reaction to the ISIS attack on Iran, because they, unfortunately, agree with Mr. Trump’s tweet?
Can we all agree The Chinese had it right this week when they welcomed California Governor Jerry Brown and ignored Energy Secretary Rick Perry?
Can we all agree, at least Mr. Trump’s mention of Pittsburgh, PA, gave the city a chance to show the world how much it has changed since its days as a steel town?
Can we all agree, Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s offer to resign, was almost a dream come true for progressives? Which is probably the reason the offer wasn’t accepted.
Can we all agree Uber’s move to fire 20 employees over sexual harassment claims really makes you wonder why anyone would want to work there? Sort of like the White House.
Can we all agree Harvard University’s move to revoke acceptance to students, over their social media activity, is an ominous warning to the millions of immature high schoolers who don’t realize the internet is forever?
Can we all agree the Democratic race for President might make the GOP’s 20-candidate field in 2016 look very small?
Can we all agree the arrest of a private contractor for leaking sensitive documents, could slow the leaks, as sources worry whether journalists will protect their identity?
Can we all agree Republicans support for the administration’s plan to cut 30,000 employees by creating a private corporation, is surprising since it is essentially unraveling the policies of the GOP’s favorite leader, Ronald Reagan?
Can we all agree there might be a glimmer of hope for the GOP, given what’s happening in Kansas?
Can we all agree Megyn Kelly’s interview with Vladimir Putin, just gave him another forum to lie to the world?
and finally:
We should all take a break and head out to see Wonder Woman this weekend.
CWAA: Can We All Agree – 11/19/16 edition
November 19, 2016
Happy anniversary to my lovely wife.
Can we all agree the actors at ‘Hamilton’ who lectured VP-Elect Mike Pence at last night’s performance, spoke for many of us?
Can we all agree Donald Trump will be asking for a lot of apologies over the next 4 years, if he can’t take the criticism?
Can we all agree, the only reason Mr. Trump settled his fraud case was because, even he realized that a president-elect testifying would be an embarrassment?
Can we all agree that the least Paul Ryan can do, as he campaigns to eliminate medicare, would be to tell the truth?
President Obama says his last good-byes.
Can we all agree that the GOP will have no excuses if the economy tanks over the next four years?
Can we all agree that the cabinet appointments Mr. Trump has announced do nothing to quell the fears of most Democrats?
Can we all agree Mr. Trump’s meeting with Mitt Romney, is just for show?
Can we all agree that Mr. Trump’s election has already made the racist segment of the population more aggressive?
Can we all agree that using the WWII Japanese internment as a rationale for ‘registering’ Muslims is just offensive?
Can we all agree, no one is shocked that Mr. Trump sees no problem in putting relatives is key positions or allowing his family to profit from his position?
Can we all agree, it won’t be long before Mr. Trump gets in serious trouble with his twitter account?
Can we all agree, the press and GOP are working overtime to avoid labeling Steve Bannon what he is – a racist? Using the term alt-right or noting that he didn’t write the pieces on Brietbart – he just published them – just masks his real intention.
Can we all agree this pretty much sums up what Hillary is thinking?
Can we all agree Mr. Trump loves to see headlines noting that no-one knows what he is going to do?
Can we all agree Mr. Obama is trying to put on a brave face as he attempts to make sure his entire legacy will not be undone?
Can we all agree it’s not the first Supreme Court appointment that will be important, but the next three? – which Mr. Trump may make.
Can we all agree, the Democrats might be on to something, by trying to work with Trump, since it’s a good bet the divided GOP probably will not agree on much?
Can we all agree the Democrats need new leadership in the House?
Can we all agree Mr. Trump does not have a clue about how to conduct a cohesive foreign policy? – or a cohesive national policy, for that matter.
Can we all agree that Mr. Putin probably can’t contain his enthusiasm now that Mr. Trump has been elected? Over the next four years he will retake Ukraine and the Baltic states.
Can we all agree the number of lobbyists in the Trump administration may break all records?
Can we all agree Mr. Trump’s appearance on 60 Minutes did little to clarify anything?
But enough about Trump.
Can we all agree United Airlines has reached new depths with their latest proposal for budget airfares?
Can we all agree that fakes news will always be a problem on the internet – that’s why they invented editors?
Can we all agree the Chinese bird that looks like Mr. Trump is pretty funny?
Can we all agree that cell phone apps are playing a major role in the increase in traffic fatalities?
Can we all agree it’s about time we had a museum of women’s history?
Can we all agree we’d be surprised if Mr. Zimmerman did accept his Nobel prize in person?
Can we all agree $850,000 is a small price to pay for the Ten Commandments?
Can we all agree the more research is done, the clearer the connection becomes between fracking and earthquakes?
and finally:
Can we all agree Steven Hawking is being optimistic when he says we have 1,000 years to find a new planet to colonize?
CWAA: Can We All Agree – 11/12/16 edition
November 12, 2016
Can we all agree even Donald Trump did not really expect this week’s result?
Can we all agree it’s time to board the Kamala Harris 2020 bandwagon? Maybe she can create the Democratic unity party leaders want.
Can we all agree, no-one is surprised it only took Mr. Trump a few hours to mess up his first job as President-elect?
Can we all agree there is no way to predict what Mr. Trump might do once in office, now that he’s already altering many of the policy proposals he offered while on the campaign trail?
Can we all agree, Mr. Trump’s supporters are going to be disappointed if they think the manufacturing jobs lost over the last 20 years, will be coming back any time soon?
Can we all agree that the exit polls may explain what happened but they don’t explain the why?
Can we all agree that, among other things, the Trump presidency will mean the end of financial reform and any efforts to curb global warming? It’s probably the reason the stock market has hit record highs and lobbyists have been celebrating on K Street, while coral reefs continue to die.
Can we all agree Mr. Trump’s first test on immigration may come with the surge in migrants from Central and South America?
Can we all agree it would appear that the plants are smarter than a good portion of the US voting public? They seem to understand the need to scrub pollutants from the atmosphere.
Can we all agree we’re disappointed to see that the parties in the Trump University lawsuit are negotiating a settlement?
Can we all agree, putting Mike Pence is charge of the transition is like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic?
Can we all agree that the split in the voting public means that there are probably parts of the United States that President Trump will never be able to visit without continuing protests?
Can we all agree, many people were offended that President Obama used Veterans Day to urge us to come together to support Mr. Trump?
Can we all agree we would expect nothing less than the calls for an open mind from Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton? But one wonders if that’s the kind of concession speech Mr. Trump would have delivered if the roles had been reversed?
Can we all agree that GOP leaders, who say we should accept Mrs. Clinton’s defeat, like they accepted Mitt Romney’s loss 4 years ago, don’t understand the difference between a qualified candidate and a racist, misogynistic liar or the hate that he has spawned?
Can we all agree, the world is in shock, journalists are embarrassed and no-one knows what will happen during a Trump administration?
Can we all agree the best news story this week was the prediction that Mr. Trump will probably be impeached?
Can we all agree the Trump victory has almost buried one of the other major news stories from the election: Marijuana is well on it’s way to becoming legal in the United Stated? If the NFL wants to start using it a tipping point has been reached.
Can we all agree that ISIS has taken advantage of our preoccupation with the election to begin a campaign which includes massacring civilians as they abandon territory in Iraq?
Can we all agree that Leonard Cohen, who died this week, deserved more coverage than he got?
Can we all agree that immigration raids, which have already reached record levels, will be increasing in the coming years – until business lobbyists make their case and Mr. Trump quietly ends the deportation program?
Can we all agree, China’s recent crackdown on dissent in Hong Kong, makes you wonder if the city is really governable as a democracy?
Can we all agree there is a certain symmetry to Mr. Trump’s victory and news that the state of New Jersey will take over Atlantic City’s government?
Can we all agree the owners and reporters at Rolling Stone Magazine do not deserve sympathy as they lost the first of several court battles over their poor performance in reporting an alleged rape at the University of Virginia?
Can we all agree we thought the smog in Bejing was bad until we read about the problems in Delhi?
Can we all agree Prince Harry is right to complain about the way the British press has been treating his girlfriend, but we doubt anything will change?
and finally:
Only in San Francisco could one stuck shoe ruin the morning rush hour for thousands of BART commuters.
And my train wreck of the week award goes to football player Colin Kapernick, who created a storm of protest by declining to stand for the National Anthem, to highlight the condition of ‘oppressed people’ and then didn’t even bother to vote.
and:
In honor of Veterans Day I’m reposting my story on my Dad, who would not believe his sacrifice has led to a Donald Trump White House. Dad’s story
CWAA: Can We All Agree – 9/3/16 edition
September 3, 2016
Can we all agree that, with stops in California and now China, President Obama is making sure his environmental legacy lives on long after he leaves office?
Can we all agree this week’s biggest loser was Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto?
Gene Wilder: He will be missed (Photo by Steve Wood)
Can we all agree the only folks who expected a pivot on Mr. Trump’s immigration stand were wishful thinking Republicans?
Can we all agree Mr. Trump’s visit to an African-American church in Detroit will have to be an Academy Award performance if it’s going to make any difference in the campaign?
Can we all agree the release of FBI files on Hillary Clinton the Friday before Labor Day weekend, guarantees that only the politicians will be paying attention?
Can we all agree that while polls seem to show the presidential race tightening, it’s only a matter of time before Trump implodes again and the margin widens?
Can we all agree the leaders of Venezuela seem incapable to doing anything to provide even basic services or food to their citizens?
Can we all agree the impeachment vote in Brazil was a foregone conclusion?
Can we all agree that when ‘only 151,000 new jobs’ are created in a month it’s time to stop worrying about the economy?
Can we all agree that anyone who thinks the North Carolina voter laws were designed to stop voter fraud are just fooling themselves?
Can we all agree the states should be more worried about foreign hackers than they are about local voter fraud?
Can we all agree that launching a new generic version of the EpiPen which is still 10 times more expensive than it was a few years ago, is still outrageous?
Can we all agree we’re having second thoughts about this whole privatization of space travel, now that another rocket has exploded on a Cape Canaveral launch pad?
Can we all agree the United States should be embarrassed that we’ve ‘reached our goal’ of accepting 10,000 Syrian refugees?
Can we all agree the situation in Syria is so bad the sides can’t even agree on whose bomb killed an ISIS leader?
Can we all agree that the European Union’s aggressive stand against the tax policies of its own countries, is just discouraging business?
Can we all agree, it does seem a bit odd that Wikileaks never seems to say anything bad about Russia or its leader Vladimir Putin?
Can we all agree we should be just as outraged that homes were allowed to be built on contaminated land in Indiana, as we were about the water in Flint. MI?
Can we all agree that American’s reaction to even minor incidents just shows we have have a collective case of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
Can we all agree Anthony Weiner has some serious issues to deal with if he ever wants to return to a public life? Chris Brown might want to retire too.
Quarterback Colin Kapernick kneels during the national anthem next to former Green Beret Nate Boyer. (AP photo)
Can we all agree that San Francisco Forty-Niners quarterback Colin Kapernick has every right to stage a protest, but the whole scene seemed a bit odd, since he had never even mentioned anything about human rights since he got to the NFL?
Can we all agree that when Americans read about the death of the Uzbekistan president, they had no idea how to find the country on a map?
Can we all agree that when your flagship product has to be recalled because the batteries overheat and explode, you have a serious quality control issue?
Can we all agree its nice to know that living organisms were on the planet a few billion years sooner than we first thought?
Can we all agree every dog owner knows that their pet understands every word they say?
and finally:
Can we all agree that Gene Wilder will be missed?
And, in case you are worried about cheating on your taxes, at least one expert has some good news.