He tries to sound like a tough guy bragging about how tough he has been on Russia and Putin responds by testing missiles right off the coast of the Baltic leaders that were with Trump at the press conference. Will Trump respond to Putin’s actions? Of course not, bullies are cowards; and Trump is the biggest bully this country has ever seen! He still wants us to be BFF’s with Russia — mainly because he hopes that’ll soften the country’s reaction to learning how indebted to Russia Trump really is.

Perhaps CRS has never heard of a "beer summit." Lots of things have been courteously discussed and/or successfully negotiated over a variety of various assorted alcoholic beverages.

Seriously: Why in the world would anyone ever have to rescind an offer for a damn beer? *LOL*

I fear that's wildly optimistic. You're letting our agreement(s) on political facts outweigh our differences on political philosophy.

If CW ever wanders back into the realm of economics as it translates into Lib vs Con political philosophy, I fear you'll be forced to promptly rescind the offer of the free beer.

I think we probably agree on 90% or more of things. The problem at the moment is we are defining our bubbles by the 10% or less we disagree on.

If you are ever in the Bay Area I'd always buy you a beer at my local watering house.

Now the Asshole-in-Chief cam claim to be the 'great uniter', and not be lying for perhaps the first time in his life!!

Especially when one side has an election in November and the other doesn't hold elections.

Trump is too stupid to see what is coming down the road, but all the Chinese need to do is make vaguely conciliatory remarks while insisting they have the right to tit-for-tat tariffs, then wait six months.

* Mexico is not going to pay for any "wall."

* Honestly, there isn't going to be any "wall" that isn't already there, and anyway we call it a fence.

* The swamp hasn't been drained; it's been filled with sharks and alligators.

* Trump hasn't changed corruption in Washington, DC. In fact, he's the most corrupt POTUS we've had in a long time.

* Trump didn't have a health care plan for "everyone." Who knew health care was so difficult? <--- Everyone with a pulse except BLOTUS.

* There isn't going to be a huge tax cut for the middle class, but Trump did away with the AMT and saved himself millions.

* The puny tax cut you did get will be eaten by inflation and trade wars.

* Trump didn't want to become POTUS to help anyone except Trump.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: There will come a day when many of the Trump cultists will finally come to the realization they were conned by a pathological lying orange pus bucket. <--- thanks for that one, Paula. :)

IL and MN are already blue states.

The majority of the population in what are consider rural states are in urban areas. Urban is usually more blue than rural. IL has 89% of its population in urban area. IA is 64% urban. MN is 73% urban. The remainder of the top 10 soybean and pork producing states follow the same percentage trends. I'm not sure there is enough of a rural vote to turn red states blue.