BET has not decided yet whether Maxine will reprise the role of Sapphire or her mother.
Personally, I'm betting on the mother. (Maxine is old enough to remember "Amos 'n Andy".
Posted on 01/26/2018 10:08:57 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
The establishment media have saved Democrats from embarrassment by refusing to cover their struggling attempts to explain away the positive economic effects the Republican tax bill delivered for the working class.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other leading Democrats predicted the tax bill would be a disaster for the working class — “Armageddon” is how Pelosi described it — only to see more than three million American workers receive bonuses and pay raises as a result of the GOP tax cuts. Additionally, 90 percent of workers are expected to see an increase in take-home pay in 2018.
Pelosi, one of the wealthiest members of Congress, has consistently dismissed the bonuses that workers are receiving as “pathetic” and “crumbs.”
Democratic Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), similarly struggled to explain the bonuses when confronted about them at a town hall. Wasserman first claimed that she hadn’t “heard of any bonuses over $1,000,” even though tens of thousands of workers have received bigger bonuses than that. (Apple, for example, gave employees $2,500 bonuses.) After establishing that misleading premise, Wasserman Schultz then claimed that $1,000 doesn’t go “very far for anyone.”
Republican have pointed to Pelosi and Wasserman Schultz’s comments as proof that the Democrats are out of touch with working class voters. Republican senators even released an ad mocking Pelosi for the “crumbs” comment.
But the establishment media have ignored the entire Democratic debacle. As of this article, the New York Times, the Washington Post and CNN have combined for zero articles about Pelosi’s “crumbs” comments, even as she has doubled– and tripled-down on them.
If Speaker of the House Paul Ryan had dismissed working class benefits from a Democratic bill as “crumbs,” Washington Free Beacon editor David Rutz argued Friday, “the press and chattering class would have a field day.” Rutz noted that CNN and MSNBC’s on-air coverage have similarly buried Pelosi’s comments from public view.
It’s worth noting: at the same time that they were ignoring Pelosi’s “crumbs” comment, some prominent members of the establishment media were instead advancing conspiracy theories about President Trump’s mental health.
Waters will be shown on BET channel.
Alot of people do NOT have 401’s.
Where it comes to the Democrat party, my real optimism lies in the hope that it fails as an organized national movement.
It ceased to be an American political party a long time ago.
BET has not decided yet whether Maxine will reprise the role of Sapphire or her mother.
Personally, I'm betting on the mother. (Maxine is old enough to remember "Amos 'n Andy".
As of this article, the New York Times, the Washington Post and CNN have combined for zero articles about Pelosi’s “crumbs” comments, even as she has doubled– and tripled-down on them.
We are all on a fixed income. I get what my boss says I get and no more.
“In a massive orgy of racial hatred, anti-women venom and LGBTQ oppression, the Republican administration just gave almost everyone a tax cut.”(/media)
You are right of course. There are people with out 401K’s but that is beside the point.
There lots and lots of folks both democrat and Republican that do.
When they realize their wealth has dramatically increased and come to understand the magnitude of the increase, they are going to feel good about the economy. They are going to spread the word.
Part of the administration task is to assure that there is some indication and in fact is an increase in economic well being of everyone.
Black it out all they want.
Everyone will see it when they open their next paycheck or so.
I already did.
God Bless President Trump.
Democrats never planned on having to appeal to Americans... they thought controlling angry illegals and maneuvering them into voting booths would keep them in power for decades. Remember how democrats would say, 'it's all about demographics..."
And imagine what would happen if the GOP were to grow enough balls to tell the truth about them.
The only "workers" the RATs actually fight for, are government employees...and most of them don't actually work.
(effin bureaucRATic parasites)
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi must be working for us - her ‘crumbs’ comment was so offensive
... hard to believe any human is that out of touch - and that big a jerk.
Then again, she is a democrat....
What?! NOBODY in the MSM asked Skellator about the ‘crumbs’ of the supposed $2500 medical savings? The $2500 that not only NEVER materialized, but was smoke up the caboose of millions of Citizens as their medical costs SKYROCKETED above the ‘crumb’ range??
Oh, if we ONLY had a Free Press...
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