Arizona Democrat: 'We have a duty to treat Trump like the threat he is'

[babylonsister]

A breath of fresh air!!

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/17/1600845/-Arizona-Democrat-We-have-a-duty-to-treat-Trump-like-the-threat-he-is?detail=facebook

Arizona Democrat: 'We have a duty to treat Trump like the threat he is'
By Laura Clawson
Thursday Nov 17, 2016 · 11:42 AM EST


If you were looking for a Democrat to say no, it is too dangerous to try to work with Donald Trump, even on infrastructure—meet Rep. Ruben Gallego. Gallego spoke on the House floor Wednesday night, and while he opened by expressing his understanding of President Obama and Hillary Clinton’s efforts to make the transition of power run smoothly, “I feel that I have a different obligation at this moment, as do my colleagues in this House.”

I have a duty to tell the truth about Donald Trump. We cannot treat him like any other politician, or even like any other Republican, because he is not. He represents something much more dangerous. And while none of us want this to be the case, we have a duty to treat him like the threat he is – a threat to our values, a threat to our people, and a threat to our national identity.

And tell the truth Gallego did—leading to repeated interruptions from the chair warning him not to say such things about Trump on the House floor. But Gallego didn’t just call Trump out as a sexual predator, as a demagogue, as a bigot, as a liar. He didn’t just highlight Trump’s upcoming Trump University fraud trial, his lack of financial disclosure, his hiring of a white nationalist as a top adviser, his plan to deport millions of immigrants. All that is why, Gallego said, “I was alarmed by the words of senior leaders from both the progressive and centrist wings of the party regarding their openness to working with Donald Trump on infrastructure.”

Under ordinary circumstances, we would welcome a plan to invest in infrastructure -- even if that plan came from the other side of the aisle. Especially if it came from the other side of the aisle!

But Donald Trump is not an ordinary politician. He is a con-artist. He has refused to give the American people reason to believe that he is not in this to enrich himself. In fact, he has bucked tradition by maintaining his family's interest in a private corporation.

And, unfortunately, his infrastructure plan is really a privatization scheme, rife with graft and corruption, whose real purpose is to enrich the Trump family and his supporters. He is not reaching out. He is reaching his hand into America's pockets, just as he has his whole career. And we must not let him do it.

Watch the video below.

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[tblue37]

2. K&R. nt

[Generator]

3. Resist or perish

Even IF Trump doesn't get us in a war or destabilize the currency or deport millions of people or build a wall or overturn roe v wade or any of a myriad other bad things he has promised or could do..in four years or eight or ten..someone WORSE will be out there. Because racism worked for Trump. Hatred of women worked for Trump. Even Antisemitism light worked for Trump. Mocking all people and threatening all people WORKED. Endless lies and conspiracy theories worked! So why won't it work for the next guy? He/she might even be smart, smooth and good looking and young. (you know not an obvious con man like Trump)

If this man isn't drummed out of office as a total failure there will be no America in the future. It's really that bad in my eyes. And anyone that doesn't get that is fooling themselves. It's now or never.

[workinclasszero]

13. I think the era of Trump and the alt right takeover

of America is the most dangerous time period for this country in my life.

One excuse is all they are looking for to snuff freedom out for good in this country.

Franklin: A republic...if you can keep it.

Yeats: Things fall apart, the center cannot hold
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

[mountain grammy]

4. Duly noted.

Bravo, Congressman, bravo! You represent me!

[zonkers]

5. Give Ruben some love. retweet his statement/video and fave his tweet....

https://twitter.com/RepRubenGallego/status/799278807970619393

[Lucinda]

6. KNR

[JonLP24]

7. K&R

[MADem]

8. Here's another breath....we all need to just keep breathing.....

https://vimeo.com/191751334

[liberalla]

16. damn! that was good! i'm going to watch it again, and pass it on

thank you!

[lonestarnot]

9. Pugs have been trying to kill solar in the sunshine state, gentrify neighborhoods to raise property

taxes, raise rents, put a payday loan bullshit stop on every fucking corner, disenfranchise voters, dry up all the fucking water, and build and contract private internment camps and prisons, and stupid ballgame shit arenas and sell them at fire sales, and they are never going to finish counting the fucking votes!

[DesertFlower]

10. K&R. nt

[kentuck]

11. Damn!

Is there no end?

[smirkymonkey]

12. K&R

[KT2000]

14. Thank you Rep. Gallego!

Finally someone who has not rolled over. The nightmare continues with Democrats appeasing this insane poser.

[greyl]

15. K&R! nt

[lark]

17. Finally, a Dem with a spine who tells it like it is.

Dems should vote no on every single bill put up by the Repugs. We may not be able to stop another Scalia, but we can sure make sure that his priorities don't go through. Even the infrastructure bill privatives a lot of roads, turning them into toll roads. Vote NO. Do not go along with this facist on anything unless it represents our values. Since that' probably not going to happen, except maybe with trade, vote no on everything else.

No retreat, no surrender!

[zonkers]

18. Yo, Babylon, sister. I'm kicking this thread. THIS is the mindset that must permeate

the ether.

[bdamomma]

19. K&R

[DemonGoddess]

20. K&R!

[Fast Walker 52]

21. yep!

[red dog 1]

22. K&R

Thank you Rep. Gallego!