Showing posts with label Opinion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Opinion. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 11, 2017

TRUMP IS NOT AMERICAN, HE WORKS FOR RUSSIA

Here are the great big right-in-the-open FACTS we all know about what just happened in Hamburg, Germany last week:
  1. Trump deliberately scheduled a major meeting with Putin.
  2. The meeting lasted two hours.
  3. Only ten minutes worth of the meeting has been explained.
  4. Only two translators were in the room along with the four leaders.
  5. Trump allegedly challenged Putin about cyber-warfare.
  6. Putin said he didn't do it.
  7. Trump said he didn't think Putin did it.
  8. Trump mocked the 17 United States Intelligence agencies for their findings.
ERGO: TRUMP WORKS FOR PUTIN


There is little room for debate about the clear conclusions to be drawn from the basic facts of what Trump (and Putin) have shown us to be true:
  • Trump is not an American.
  • Trump does not represent America.
  • Trump will never choose the interests of America over the interests of Trump.
THESE FACTS ARE NOW SELF-EVIDENT.


Any margin for alternative interpretation of the Trumps is now gone. They are working on a corporate merger between two powerful countries, with each of them as CEO of their respective major divisions. They both expect to be able to write their own rules, as corporate boards have always allowed when accompanied by profits. The fact that our nation, the United States, is designed in such a way as to be CONSTITUTIONALLY AVERSE to this style of operation, is merely a stumbling-block at the front-end of their venture.

Trump has no interest in courts, or a congress, and certainly not any free media, and he intends to dispense with all of those things to model his beloved homeland in the image of modern Russia, combined with Nazi Germany and any old European Monarchy. And he will be patriotic about it every step of the way. He sees himself as the first in a long line of King Trumps.

Sunday, January 15, 2017

THIS PICTURE IS WORTH ONE THOUSAND WORDS



PUTIN TAMES THE "WILD BORE" AND RIDES HIM DAILY

As "funny" as this picture may be, it sums up what has been happening in our world about as well as any other single image. Vladimir Putin politically seduced Donald Trump years ago, subsequently extorting him to win the United States Presidency.

Now Putin rides Trump on a daily basis, commanding him to open up the Russian oil fields to Exxon. The profits of that venture would enrich Trump and fund the rise and return of the Soviet Union. Trump is not only anti-Obama, he is also anti-Reagan.



Monday, December 26, 2016

ANOTHER TOP TEN LIST FROM BARACK OBAMA

We continue our series of "Top Ten" lists - - - the "Greatest Hits" of Barack Obama - - - taken from the web site "Please Cut The Crap", which lists 400 accomplishments of the first openly bi-racial President. Each claim comes with a link that allows you to check out the basis of the claim.

Don't let the "Fake News History Team" re-write the story of what actually happened under the Obama Administration. It was truly one of the best periods of modern American life, despite the continual efforts of the Republican Elite Class to distort the picture. Trump inherits a peaceful nation with a steadily growing economy. If the status quo is not maintained, the fault is with Trump, not Obama.


Specific Examples of Economic Improvement

As of October 2016, a record 73 consecutive months of overall job growth. http://on.msnbc.com/1TKFCPQ

As of August 2016, Unemployment drops below 5% for the first time in eight years and without a significant bubble, remains below 5% all year so far. 4.9% http://on.msnbc.com/1TKFCPQ

As of October 2016, there have been 80 consecutive months of private sector job growth. http://1.usa.gov/1Xhizho

In April 2016, new unemployment claims hit their lowest level since 1973. As of September 2016, they remain at 43-year lows. That means lower than at any time during Saint Reagan’s Administration. http://yhoo.it/2eaIPbf http://nyti.ms/1YhZEBk,

Since February 2010, when unemployment peaked, 15.6 million non-farm private sector jobs have been created. http://1.usa.gov/1Xhizho

Contrary to GOP rhetoric, most of the new jobs created have been full-time, not temporary. http://bit.ly/2dF7pjO

Oversaw a reduction in the federal budget deficit by two-thirds since taking office. http://bit.ly/1xKMmjY

Reduced the federal budget deficit from 9.8% of GDP in Fiscal Year 2009 under Bush, to 2.5% of GDP in FY 2015. http://bit.ly/2cI4ABV

Scolds Congress and gets a $305 billion highways bill passed. This bill has the added benefit of created hundreds of thousands of new jobs and creating incentives for green cars. http://bit.ly/1NsL2Zq

Stock market has reached record highs, restoring most of the economic losses felt during the Bush Recession. http://bit.ly/1z4FAtL
400 Accomplishments of Obama
web site link






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Friday, December 9, 2016

OUR AMERICAN MILITARY SHOULD REMAIN UNDER OUR CIVILIAN CONTROL

The nomination of "Mad Dog Mattis" as Secretary of Defense is a fancy way for Donald Trump to tell everybody in the United States: "Shove it up your wherever, I'm in charge and you can't stop me."

Mattis is not eligible for the position. By law, he must have been out of uniform (or never in uniform) for at least seven years. Trump knows that Mattis does not qualify, which is probably one of the reasons for his nomination.

The US Congress clearly stated its intent for Secretary of Defense nominations immediately following World War II. Appointing Mattis would violate the clear policy instructions of the Americans who survived the fascist tide of Nazism by defeating the Axis Powers. It might be considered "patriotic" to follow those instructions, but Trump is no Patriot.

These maneuverings by the presumed-president-elect have brought the concept of "civilian control" to the center of public debate. Most everybody would agree it's best to not have the foxes guarding the hen houses. But Trump is banking on the broadly-respected Mattis to convince everybody inside the beltway to - - - once again, just like the election - - - act against their own self-interests by letting the military run the military.

It's pretty clear that Trump is gearing up for a series of major wars. He will view geopolitical divisions as a business opportunity. 

In business, the big companies take over the small companies. We've seen that happen countless times in the last century or more. Whether that's good, bad, or ugly is an economic discussion; it's not my point here.

Trump the Simpleton will see the smaller countries as inferior due to their size, and will consider them ripe for takeover by the larger countries. Hence, his adoring fascination with Vladimir Putin and his unprecedented love for Mother Russia.

Trump the Fool will allow/encourage Russia to "consolidate their business operations" by taking over several eastern european countries, effectively re-forming the U.S.S.R. under the standard practices of large corporations. He intends to work with Russia on a variety of business initiatives, in part to ruffle the feathers of China, in part to enrich his family fortune. He only risks world war in doing so, and he has calculated his own survival of such a disaster to be high.

Trump the Assaulter wants to show "American Strength" to the world, using military force to make smaller countries comply with his demands. He wants most of North America and South America to be "owned by" the United States, while ceding most of Europe to the resurrected Soviet Union, putting pressure on China to do what they are told by the superior powers.

He misunderstands China. As much as he loves Mother Russia, he does not "get" the Chinese view of life and their role in the world. There are 1.2-billion Chinese, and they have the longest-running large culture in the world. They will not back down when pressured, and they are not vulnerable to bribes and money. They have more intelligence in their military kitchens than we are about to have in the White House.

China will mop the floor with Trump, but the costs in human lives will be of epic proportions. The likelihood of nuclear weapons usage is very high under Trump.






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Thursday, December 8, 2016

TRUMP UNIVERSITY CASE SHOWS TRUMP GUILTY

How many times in United States history has a convicted con-man become President? That question remains officially unanswered, as Donald Trump avoided conviction with an out-of-court settlement last month in the Trump University class-action lawsuit.

We all know the basics, as Trump agreed to pay out 25-million dollars to those aggrieved by his interstate con-game. That case floated over his head during the final stages of the campaign, with the Trump-loving media allowing it to go unmentioned for weeks at a time while it was arguably the number one criteria for selecting the next President. After all, the Republican-loving media had portrayed Hillary Clinton as a criminal without any charges to back up the depiction, yet there were actual charges against Trump implying true criminality in this case. 

Nobody seemed to question why Trump got a free-pass from the courts to wait until after the election to see if there was proof that he was actually guilty. Why did that happen? His lawyers claimed he would be "too busy" to attend to such a case during the campaign. But he was not too busy to hit the road for a Victory Tour. How "favored" can one person be without people noticing?

When Trump agreed to the payout in order to avoid trial, he essentially sent a message confirming his own guilt in the scam. This is not rocket-science or brain-surgery.

When the accused party settles out-of-court,
they are always presumed "guilty".

This means a confirmed con-man is heading to the White House.

How does Trump keep getting away with everything? He will be using this settlement to further avoid paying taxes, as the payments are considered to be a tax-deduction.

Do you remember Trump's twitter-war against the "Hamilton" cast after Mike Pence was booed at a recent performance?

That "performance" by Trump served as "cover-fire"
to distract attention from the class-action settlement.

Since then, we've had multiple recounts, the bogus Carrier "deal", and an "Apprentice-style" parade of potential cabinet appointments dominating the headlines. All of these news-flurries have taken the public eye off of an unprecedented and egregious ethical breach by the person lined-up to take over control of the executive branch of the United States. Trump should be held to scrutiny over his de-facto "guilty verdict", regardless of what he tweets about tomorrow.




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Wednesday, December 7, 2016

TRUMP IN UGLY GROUP AS "PERSON OF THE YEAR"

Since Time Magazine just named Donald Trump as "Person of the Year", Trumpists everywhere are proclaiming his greatness. But what the herd of Trump Sheep don't understand is that the Time selection is not necessarily a popularity contest. It's more a measurement of "impact", be it positive or negative.

So you might say the "Person of the Year" recipients over the decades have been a combination of "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly". Charles Lindbergh, Franklin Roosevelt, and Mahatma Gandhi come to mind in the "Good" category. William Westmoreland, Henry Kissinger, Newt Gingrich and Kenneth Starr are names from the "Bad" group.

Trump fits into the "Ugly" category for this award.
He has had impact, and it has been awful.

Here are some of the other folks to get this distinction largely based on their "Ugly" impact on humanity:

  • 1938:  Adolf Hitler
  • 1939:  Joseph Stalin
  • 1957:  Nikita Khruschev
  • 1971:  Richard Nixon
  • 1979:  Ayatollah Khomeni
  • 2007:  Vladimir Putin

Don't believe me? Here's what the magazine said about their award:
"It's hard to measure the scale of his disruption. This real estate baron and casino owner turned reality-TV star and provocateur -- never a day spent in public office, never a debt owed to any interest besides his own -- now surveys the smoking ruin of a vast political edifice that once housed parties, pundits, donors, pollsters, all those who did not see him coming or take him seriously. Out of this reckoning, Trump is poised to preside, for better or worse."



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Monday, December 5, 2016

TRUMP'S CARRIER DEAL IS CHICKEN-FEED COMPARED TO OBAMA'S JOB-SAVING RECORD

Donald Trumpet blew his own horn again last week, loudly as usual. The presumptive-president-elect was claiming victory (again) after what can only be described as a mediocre performance, at best.

Trump says he "saved 1000 jobs" at a plant in Indiana, but he conveniently neglected to mention that another 1300 jobs at that same company are still headed to Mexico. Plus, it's not really 1000, it's much closer to 800. So that means that 500 jobs are temporarily staying home, but there is no binding agreement that keeps those jobs permanently in the United States. The original plan to move those operations was not scheduled for completion until 2019, so we won't really know for years whether they even stayed or not. And it only cost millions of dollars of Hoosier taxes to complete this "deal". We wrote about the whole fiasco here.

This latest episode of "Trump in Wonderland" raises a comparison between Barack Obama and this dramatic Batman-to-the-rescue story from Indianapolis. After all, if saving 500, or even 1000 jobs is so impressive, then how well has Obama been doing these last eight years?

How does Trump compare to Obama on the jobs problem?
Has Obama ever "saved" 500-1000 jobs before?

This is actually an easy question to answer. A quick look at the FACTS shows that Trump couldn't carry Obama's jockstrap when it comes to job creation and/or retention.
The Obama Administration has "created" more than 11-million jobs over the past eight years. That works out to an average of nearly 4,000 per DAY.
There were 161,000 jobs added to the United States economy in October, 2016. That's an average of more than 5,000 per DAY
There were 156,000 jobs added to the United States economy in September, 2016. That's an average of more than 5,000 per DAY.
The job gains itemized above are just a glimpse into the overall national economic picture. A detailed summary of job gains and losses over the past years can be found here.
Overall, the official Unemployment Rate dropped from about 10% (where George Bush left it) when Obama took office, to less than 5% now (4.6%). After a bumpy first two years, those numbers have been on a gradual downward slide during the entirety of the Obama Administration.

Trump was squawking like a goose about his great "jobs victory",
but it pales in comparison to what Obama has been doing
on a regular basis for years.

The Carrier deal is just another example of Donald
blowing his Trumpet about Donald.




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Monday, November 28, 2016

TRUMP COUNTS KLANSMEN & NAZIS AS FRIENDS

Time to give Wolf Blitzer credit where credit is due. He is one member of the commercial media that found a key angle to make the point that tens of millions of Americans have been riled about all year. It's the threat that Don Trump poses to abuse, imprison, and/or murder innocent people who are part of racial and religious minority groups, ala Adolf Hitler.

The Trumpologists say those claims are crazy and unfounded, that nothing like that is actually on the agenda beginning in 2017. But what does Trump say? Not much. Just a few words scattered here and there over the past several months, and only when strongly pushed on the subject.

According to press releases from the Trump campaign, the presumed-president-elect "disavows" the so-called Alt-Right. A tweet or two says he doesn't know David Duke. The occasional comment by the Don himself have only lightly brushed the topic aside.

But there has been no clear and comprehensive rebuke of the Ku Klux Klan, or the Nazis, along the same lines as dozens of other topics (and people) that have been roundly pounded by the son of a Klansman. And that's what Wolf Blitzer exposed last week.




This is an uncommon example of a long-time veteran of the mainstream media actually UNCOVERING A KEY ANGLE with which to view the current news. It seems more typical these days for new perspectives to come from the less traditional news-sources, and to be "picked up by" mainstream media. CNN reports on the story here. The Huffington Post has the story here. And Media Matters has their version here.

Wolf Blitzer has made the
most important point of the election to date.

We can all see Trump getting riled-up,
almost out-of-control at times, over certain things.

But not over this thing.

TRUMP DOES NOT SEEM TO BE BOTHERED
BY THE NAZIS OR THE KLAN.

Consider some of the many other things that seem more important to Trump that rebuking the Klan and the Nazis. Here are some of the topics of his most famous "twitter wars":


This list could go on and on and on and on. Like the "Energizer Bunny", when Trump really cares about a subject - - - when he feels it - - - he racks up the twitter feed and rolls out the tweets ad infinitum. Consider his hundreds of twitter wars with the media, as summarized here by Bloomberg. There have been so many twitter wars triggered by Trump that the New York Times summed-up the 282 people, places, and things that Trump has taken on, just since he declared his campaign for the presidency.

If Don Trump wanted to make his views about the Klan
and the Nazis well-known, he would have
"taken them on" via Twitter by now.

The fact that he has not, as pointed out by Wolf Blitzer,
proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is not bothered by,
or offended by, the various elements of the so-called "Alt-Right".




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Sunday, November 27, 2016

EVEN THE IRISH UNDERSTAND THE TRUMP THREAT

The 2016 Election exposed the lunatic fringe in the United States, as Trump's apparent election has caused Nazis and Skinheads across the country to jump for joy. The freaks of American society who love Trump so much are a big problem, but not necessarily a big surprise. The shocking part about what happened on November 8 is that otherwise normal, seemingly intelligent people actually voted for Trump.

How can that be so? Trump clearly telegraphed every disgusting aspect of his pathetic personality, and despite getting a bunch of support from the mainstream media, much of his professional misconduct was exposed as well. If nothing else, just a few minutes of any Trump speech showed what a callous, crude, lowbrow, arrogant, narcissistic, sexist, xenophobic, fear-mongering, ignorant, incurious, vindictive, self-absorbed megalomaniac he truly is.

So how could any intelligent, educated American
voter choose Trump on Election Day?

There are no easy answers to that question. Okay, there is an easy answer; all of those Trump-voters are actually blithering idiots, bent on self-destruction. That may actually be true.

But people who live in other places could size this one up accurately, including a Senator from Ireland, Aodhan O Riordain. Watch the video clip below for an incisive commentary on America's "Pubic Enemy Number One":


Have you already seen this speech? Probably not, as the mainstream media in the USA does not value such a statement as (commercially) "news-worthy". There have been many reports on the Irish Senator, like this one, and like this one. But only one report can be found from a legitimate American source.

The question remains: How could so many people worldwide have such a clear perspective of the Abominable Showman, yet more than 60-million Americans voted for Trumpism?




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Thursday, November 24, 2016

TELL YOUR TRUMP-VOTING RELATIVES EXACTLY WHO - - - AND WHAT - - - THEY JUST VOTED FOR

Disruptions to the traditional Thanksgiving Day are sweeping across these United States, as Americans and Trumpists are coming together for the first time since Election Day. Citizens are faced with family members who openly support Donald Trump, sitting across from them at the holiday table, with only the turkey and stuffing to keep them apart.

Some may say this is what always happens, every four years in our country, so this holiday season is no different from 2012, 2008, 2004, and so on. But for many people of conscience, the stark contrast between and Trump vote and a Clinton vote may be too much to keep under wraps.

Millions of Americans face a moral question:
SHOULD I SPEAK UP TO MY RELATIVES?

We all know the prices to be paid for such an honest presentation. There will be raised tempers, name-calling, and a lot of ruffled-edges to the Thanksgiving Dinner tradition. But what may be the price of NOT speaking up?

If you think this Election was "not normal",
and that the results have unusually powerful consequences,
you should lean on the First Amendment and speak your piece.

TRUMP VOTERS MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR VOTE. They are thrilled to see the Abominable Showman heading to the White (Supremacist) House, happy with their choice, and sitting on the edges of their seats waiting to see what happens next in this great TELEVISION SHOW, oops, er, I mean NATION.

If you press their noses to the window of what just happened, and it turns out they were right, and there is no massive threat forming on our horizon, then the discussions you had will gradually settle into the dustbins of history. You can feel free to apologize, blaming your outbursts on gas pains. Everybody will be able to laugh about it later.

BUT, and this is a big-league BUT: If the threats posed by Trump begin to move into place, your frank and open statements to your relatives at the Thanksgiving Holiday MAY sensitize them enough to what's happening around them that they can join the resistance movements that are so crucial to saving the United States of American, and indeed, the Planet Earth.

Here's are some "Cliff Notes" to get you started. These are some of the many things that all Trump voters supported on Election Day:
  • Sexual harassment of girls and women
  • Denial of reproductive rights to women
  • Millions of Americans to lose health insurance
  • Violations of the United States Constitution by the government
  • Military incursions by Russia against our international allies
  • Unwarranted military actions by our country
  • Continued sluggish economy with slow job growth
  • Lower wages for hourly workers
  • Rise of the Ku Klux Klan
  • Increase in "Hate Crimes"
  • Higher costs for higher education
  • The news media should be put under government controls
  • Climate Change will be officially ignored by the USA
  • Racial minority groups will be persecuted by citizens
  • Racial minority groups will be persecuted by the government
  • LBGTQ Americans will be persecuted by citizens
  • LBGTQ Americans will be persecuted by the government

As Americans, we all need to step out of our family comfort zones and take a risk for the benefit of American Families everywhere. Voting the right way was a first step, but now we need to do more.

PLEASE CONFRONT TRUMP-VOTERS WITH
THE REALITIES OF WHAT THEY HAVE EMPOWERED
DONALD TRUMP AND HIS NAZI SUPPORT GROUPS
TO DO AGAINST MILLIONS OF AMERICANS.

THE TIME IS NOW.




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