Think Again

If one thinks it does not matter who is elected president I would advise them to think again.

Historically review events and learn what one man can do to the nation and to the world. He/she (I will use the generic he) can plunge us both into war or he can plunge the nation and the world into a negotiated peace. The latter, of course, is much more difficult. It is easy to drop bombs to resolve disputes as this nation has dropped many of them but it is much harder to pick up the pieces after the bombs have dropped. As Colin Powell famously said of Iraq "If you break it you own it." The president can, through his advisors, negotiate to avoid the possibility of war or even, perish the thought, nuclear war and through his advisors can avoid all the destruction, mayhem and death war inevitably brings but it is the Commander-in-Chief--the President--who will make the final decision since Congress has not done its Constitutional duty in a very long time. War can last, as Iraq II surely shows, and it can last a very long time costing thousands of lives and trillions in treasure.

The profound effect the American presidency has on all of mankind is, in our common era and before, staggering. The selection of a president is serious, perhaps, even the most serious thing one can do in one's lifetime because it is life bestowing and/or it is a life taking choice. It can mean the life and death of you, your children, your grandchildren and beyond. It is why you must make altogether sure that the president selected can calmly and coolly occupy an office not only able to take that 3:00 a.m. phone call but to take all calls in an office that does not lend itself to calmness and serenity. The office of the American presidency has by its very nature life and death global consequences.

Historical examples: Think on World War II. Think on the volcanic destruction of it, the refugees, the death camps, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombs dropped and ask what if FDR had not made the choices he did and Germany won that war? I, a Jew, would not be writing this today. All of Europe and perhaps even you would be marching to totalitarian jackboots. What if a North Korea threatened to drop a nuclear bomb on us today? What would it take for the president to act calmly if such an event threatened? Jack Kennedy during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis knew how close this nation came to nuclear war. It took a man who was willing to act against the advice of his generals to avoid the potential catastrophe. We live today because of the coolness of Jack Kennedy. I can assure you Donald J. Trump is NO Jack Kennedy but the coolness, steadiness and vast foreign policy experience of Hillary Clinton says that she is. War and nuclear war is not a Trump Tower or golf course business deal nor will it conform to the contents of Trump's ghost written book "The Art of the Deal." War and the avoidance of war is serious business for those who are experienced at that business.

Iraq II has been assessed by some foreign policy experts to be the worst foreign policy blunder in US history made by a president "elected" under questionable circumstances who had neither the knowledge nor the savvy and skill to wage such a war after the destruction of the World Trade Center. He waged war, dropped thousands of tonnage of bombs on a nation that did nothing to us, created civil war in that country, created Al Qaeda in Iraq never there before which created its offshoot ISIS. War continues to this day as our 13 year slog is not over yet. Iraq II fractured a Middle East creating never ending civil war and changed the course of global history. It created the Middle East refugees we encounter today and this nation still cannot put Humpty Dumpty back together again if it ever will. The consequences of Iraq have been enormous. We have one candidate, Trump, who is trigger finger happy and wants to shoot from the hip to easily (he thinks) obliterate the problem. That will never happen because our nation is not alone in this fight and has angered many in that Middle East arena causing a cacophony of complexity. This nation will NEVER obliterate the problem certainly not by, god forbid, the naivete of a Trump presidency.

When you vote for president and before you pull the lever for a thin skinned con and bombastic bully that is named Trump choose wisely by choosing the most experienced, the most competent, the most calm and collected person for that office. I believe there can be no doubt your choice should be Hillary Rodham Clinton.

If you think it matters not who one votes into the office of the American presidency think again. The life you save may truly be your own.

Profiling Donald Trump -- Who are we?

The malevolent Trump advocates profiling. Would YOU like to be profiled? Would you want your children to be profiled? Would I want to be profiled because I may, for example, look Middle Eastern or wear a hijab, the head covering for some Muslim women.

If one could time travel back to the era of WWII, I aver Trump would himself be one to be profiled as he looks so German and his right wing views are so extreme. He, like the American aviation hero Charles Lindbergh of that time, may have cheered what was happening in Germany and like Trump does now wanted to keep America First. I think he could have been followed during that dangerous time. How would he have liked it? The state can profile anyone even one who has done nothing wrong.

Diversity is our strength. The danger, and our Founders knew it, is the power of the state to do nearly anything it wants no matter how intimidating or brutal and to do so on a whim albeit profiling someone if the state thinks that someone looks dangerous. The state has that power. Our Founders' goal in constructing our republic, I think, was to restrain the power of the state and to empower the individual with certain rights that put a check on the state as to what it can or cannot do to deem and detain someone who may be thought to dangerous or be guilty of a crime he may not have committed. The worry is for the state to be able to apprehend and do whatever it wants because it has the power to use force against those who may and most especially MAY NOT be guilty of anything simply because the state can.

The danger here is rounding up those who are guilty of no crime merely because they look like they could be or are of a race, religion and culture that is not accepted by the majority. Charging, punishing and jailing those who have committed no crime is the greatest fear. THAT is our challenge and that is what some groups face merely because they were born into a certain group that is different from the majority or which the majority does not approve. We must NOT empower the state to do this no matter how imperiled the time in which we live. We must obey those Constitutional civil liberties our Founders emblazoned into our national holy grail. These rights are accorded to each individual even when it is the most difficult to observe those rights.

One cannot help those ascribed statuses into which one was born and may give him great disadvantage because the majority can impugn to him or her apriori guilt with no evidence and therefore no proof. The first 10 Amendments to our Constitution or the Bill of Rights are our greatest strength. Let us not lose that as Franklin Roosevelt so brilliantly said in his First Inaugural Address because "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes ... ." Even Donald Trump deserves those rights. Profiling anyone even Donald Trump and even if another democratic nation does it should be verboten even in our dangerous time lest we lose the essence of who we are.

Listen to the charismatic Elizabeth Warren on Fire--WONDERFUL

http://www.dailykos.com/…/-Elizabeth-Warren-was-on-fire-yes… Elizabeth Warren was on fire yesterday in Ohio for Clinton and Strickland Pres. Obama wasn’t the only Democrat on fire yesterday. Elizabeth Warren was in Columbus, Ohio campaigning with Ted Strickland. If you only have time for a… dailykos.com

Dr. Wizard of Oz

Guess what? Dr. Oz is a Muslim -- a secular one but a Muslim nonetheless. When hate groups attack, and there has been an abundance of attacks against Muslims, also Jews, gays, Hispanics and others around the nation, the attackers do not care if you are an observant Muslim or an observant Jew or not.

This is a fabulous article posted below. It is sickening that this is happening, of course, in our nation of immigrants and this rotten-to-the-core syrup of Ipecac requiring right wingnut Nazi type white supremacist part of Trump's base is having a field day supporting him and attacking others!! Not only are Muslims at risk but so are guess who? Jews, Hispanics, gays and of course persons of color but Drumpf's supporters who may not be violent do not get it.


We SHOULD here and around the nation VOTE in November in droves for Hillary Rodham Clinton who is the opposite of hate. The theme of her campaign says we are "stronger together" and I believe this to be true.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/dr-ozs-epic-fail_b_12046834…?

Dr. Oz And His Epic Fail | Huffington Post
Donald J. Trump released his long-awaited medical records (if we can call them that) this week on the 'Dr. Oz Show'. In true showmanship manner, he got ...

Explosion rocks Chelsea District in New York City

One should remember the Chelsea District in NYC is a gay district near Greenwich Village. Can you say White Nationalists as possibly responsible? I am not saying definitively but but simply saying generally right WINGnut vicious racists, nationalists, anti-Semitic and homophobic hate that can be responsible too. Do not automatically think ISIS terrorism. We have our own terrorists under the Alt Right Nationalist banner those who enthusiastically support Donald Trump.

Donald Trump's right is as violent, hate infused, racist, sexist and generally vicious as any other group and was responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing, Waco, Texas standoff and many other violent episodes throughout the nation!


http://nypost.com/2016/09/17/explosion-rocks-chelsea-in-new-york-city/

Best Video of the Trump Personality(ies)

Who is the REAL Donald Trump? Answer: Not even he knows and worse he does not care. I urge you to watch.

Send this anywhere you choose.


https://www.facebook.com/TheDemocraticCoalition/videos/496910710512309/

The Retraction

The retraction of Donald Trump's birther views that the president of the United States was not born here is now the pivotal point of the downward trajectory of the worst candidate for the presidency in the history of this nation. He did NOT end the birther debate that he began. He did NOT finish it. His many many many lies beyond the birther egregious lie are now sealed into his book of life for the ages of history to judge. One thing will be true. Donald J. Trump will NEVER be president of the United States.

Lies and Videotape

Donald Trump cannot tell one truth without following it up with a lie. It is a wonder of psychology that his brain is wired the way it is.

He told the truth FINALLY after five years beginning the "birther" movement that Barack Obama, indeed, was born in the United States and therefore is the legitimate president of the nation. We breathed a sigh of collective relief that finally the grand high exalted master and wizard of us all gave credence to our duly elected president. But he followed it up with a lie. He said that Hillary Clinton began the "birther" movement.

Can this sick, disgusting bag of deplorable humanity be for real? He wants us to believe that the woman, critical from day one that anyone would question the president's legitimacy, in fact, gave birth to the birther movement? It is a LIE of grandiose proportions that while he told the truth that the president was born in this country at the same time LIED that Hillary began the sickening birther meme. There are lies but there is videotape to prove he lies. What is this human mass of putrid verbiage named Trump? From underneath what rock was he hatched? Why were we cursed to have him among us?

I am NOT kidding when I say he MUST MUST MUST be defeated by CRUSHING him on November 8 so that on November 9 Hillary Rodham Clinton, light years more qualified and intellectually ready than the liar-in-chief, Donald Trump, to be president of the United States will be. If and when she is elected and I think ultimately she will be, FINALLY FINALLY we and humankind around the world can, hopefully, breathe a monumental sigh of relief!


GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE AND SAVE THE NATION FROM THIS CRETAN WHO MUST HAVE COME FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA!

Trump Admits Obama Was Born In The United States After 5 Years Of Racist Denials

But the orange Cretan accuses HRC as starting the birther rumor. UTTERLY RIDICULOUS. THIS IS THE KIND OF VILE SLIME THIS GUY IS. WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM? HE IS UTTERLY MENTALLY DERANGED.

The birther bulls&^% was started LONG before Hillary. Bachmann used it as did many others in the extremist right and the so called Alt Right segment of the Republican Party!

It is yet ANOTHER preposterous lie among an entire campaign of lies that Trump has spit out.

GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY OR LOSE THIS NATION.

Sociopath

Yesterday that mental blowhard Trump went to Flint, Michigan allegedly to find out how they were ameliorating the horror of lead in their water perpetrated by the Republican Governor Snyder.  Trump took the podium in a black church and began in front of few to talk NOT about the most salient Flint lead-in-the-water eradication project but rather talked about how horrible Hillary engineered the economy!  Is this know nothing serious?  What did Hillary have to do with the economy as a solitary senator or Secretary of State that this liar-in-chief thinks she completely failed to fix?  The female black pastor of that church ended Trump’s talk nicely telling him to not wax political.  He meekly agreed and snakely slithered away.  It was nice to watch.

It’s the economy, stupid? I think not but I do think Trump is, in truth, stupid.  No, I do NOT think he is as smart as he puffs himself up to be.  In business he has encountered at least 6 bankruptcies while stiffing his construction workers of their pay.  His main talent is that he knows how to con better than a Harold Hill of “Music Man” fame or the religious huckster Elmer Gantry.  He made some money by dodging and weaving tax law, making use of bankruptcy law and not paying his workers what they earned.  The entertainer, Trump, has entertained well.  We need, obviously for him to put out his taxes which he refuses to do so that we may see the extent of the wool he has pulled over some not so bright eyes.

Yes, I am sickened that the rancid, mean, rude, crude vitriolic, lying blowhard con man that is Trump sometimes is ahead of Hillary in some swing states and that the election is this close.  With all of Hillary’s experience and all the fabricated issues the Republicans have used against her, costing the taxpayer millions, and which she has weathered so well she should be double digits ahead against the most deplorable know nothing candidate to ever have historically run for the presidency.

I will though look at the glass half full.  Hillary still leads nationally and most of the present polls against her, I believe, have little merit.  Obviously, coming down with a case of pneumonia in the most important phase of her campaign taking her off the trail for four days is not, for her, a plus.  Add to that the totally unnecessary health frenzy surrounding it by the army of Trump which played into the Alex Jones School of Conspiratorial Lunacy and the media's unnecessary obsession with her health skewed the polls in Trump's favor.  Few called out the Dr. Oz circus tactics of Trump’s own health letter role out.

If Hillary returns from her short sick leave today and IF, god forbid (yes, I pray now, too,) no relapses occur to add to the crackpot rightwingnut health conspiracies AND if she can fend off the know nothing bully that is Trump in the debates then I think she will recapture much of what she lost.  The 26th of September debate SHOULD I say a cautious SHOULD put it away for her barring Trump usurping the stage with his ever growing insulting big mouth.

From Trump's fake health letter by his gastroenterologist which my own personal opinion says is in Trumpian style and that Trump wrote it having his gastroenterologist sign it to yelling inanely about Hillary tanking the economy and failing at everything, the Republican presidential candidate is a nut job menace. All his foreign business entanglements some with adversarial regimes, Middle East precarious allies and even dealings with criminals puts him and us, if he becomes president, in the cross hairs of madness.  Trump is a sick narcissist as the illegal purchasing of the 6 foot painting of himself with Trump Foundation money can attest.  An author (name unknown) wrote a book about Trump entitled "Sociopath."  I think that says it all. 

Keith Olberman gets it right -- Forward to anyone you choose.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/keith-olbermann-donald-trum…&

Keith Olbermann Is Back, And He Thinks Donald Trump Is A 'Demonic Messiah'

Plus, he has 176 reasons why you-know-who shouldn't be president.

huffingtonpost.com

"How the Trump Organization's Foreign Business Ties Could Upend U.S. National Security"

This is the article from "Newsweek" many have been waiting for written by Kurt Eichenwald about Donald Trump's spider's web nest some with allegedly criminal connections of international business interest that could upend our nation's national security. Larry O'Donnell and Rachel Maddow reported the first news of it in part last evening. Here is the rest of it. If you know any one who has the remotest thought of voting for this charlatan, blowhard, lying, immoral LITTLE man Trump you should forward this to them and to all you think should know this before it is too late!

http://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/23/donald-trump-foreign-business-deals-national-security-498081.html

Harry Reid mocks Trump's health -- Reid is 100% correct --Tevya said it best

Article printed below my comment:

Reid is 100% correct. If it were Hillary that had all his egregious suspect transactions they would be hammering and crushing her flat. Clearly there is a double standard. The problem is there is SO much suspicious associated with Trump (see "Newsweek" article out today "In the Company of Trump") from his health to his less than pristine business record of bankruptcies, fraudulent business practices and in the Bondi case an allegedly egregious in your face quid pro quo illegality. There is so much he says and does that is outrageous and would get another candidate thrown out of the race on their face but he, because of his flamboyance and APPEARANCE of wealth, gets away with it. Tevya from "Fiddler on the Roof" said it best: "When you're rich they think you really know." In Trump's case he doesn't.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/harry-reid-trump-health_us_57d85058e4b0fbd4b7bc026b?

The Play's the Thing

Yes, Shakespeare's words from "Hamlet" "The play's the thing" reverberated in my ears when I waxed thoughtful after we had seen a theater performance of "Alabama Story" at the WHAT Theater in Wellfleet on Cape Cod.

The Date of the play: 1959; The place: A library in Montgomery, Alabama; the social setting: after the Rosa Parks Montgomery Bus Boycott; the subject: a children's book, "The Rabbit's Wedding," about two rabbits -- one black and one white who marry which was illustrated by the author of the book not to make a racial statement but rather because black and white provided contrast so children could understand which rabbit was which when they married. It was, by all measure, an innocent children's book that, not surprisingly for the time, evoked hysteria among whites in the deep south who wanted it pulled as they interpreted it through their own unsurprising racist prism.

The acting was superb. Among the characters were one young, blond, white woman who sat on a "whites only" bus-stop bench, a black man who loved her, a librarian who was flummoxed by the racial animus over a children's book in her library and a large Cat-on-a-Hot-Tin-Roof Big Daddy white senator who held his white, southern, Confederate flag heritage like a badge of honor to his breast.

More details of the story I think are unnecessary to uncork the rationale behind what it said at least what it said to me. Where does this story come from? From what depths of the sea does it emerge that one hundred years after the Civil War was lost by the south the same prejudice and discrimination that began it through slavery gave birth to Jim Crow at that time? The question for our ears now is one which Justice Roberts said when the Court in their infinite wisdom watered down the 1964 Voting Rights Act. He said we are in a post racial time.

Really, Justice Roberts, really? After our cities still burn with black rage, lead-saturated water fouled in a black neighborhood of Flint, Michigan, black men killed for selling loosie cigarettes or killed for walking in an area with a package of Skittles for merely being black. The officers or those who kill them are often exonerated and the black prison population explodes in the business of private prisons. There are so many more examples of that to make one's head spin.

Where is Montgomery now and who is Montgomery now? Montgomery is here and we are, all of us, Montgomery now. It is no accident that the Donald Trump campaign carries with it a heavy dose of white nationalism, Ku Klux Klan support, and Confederate flag sympathy. It is no accident that Donald Trump's audiences are almost 100% white with an occasional black trot-out to show how egalitarian he is. It is no accident that Donald Trump speaks in almost exclusively white forums sometimes on black issues and it is no accident that his goons assault black protesters at his deplorable rallies.

There is a reason the once Grand High Exalted Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke, explodes in ebullient praise of Donald Trump. The black man knows when Donald Trump says make America great again he surreptitiously does not mean it is about him.

The arc of slavery runs deep within the American blood stream and has grown a cancer on its soul despite all the changes in race relations where its persons of color are concerned. It is so difficult, we can see, to erase the indelible racist ink from our clothing's seemingly permanent stain.

How do we do this? I do not know. Yet we MUST do this and the way to do this is not through the authoritarian discords, minority group roundups, Muslim keep-outs and other swindles and cons a Donald Carnival Barker Trump can exude. The way, rather, it seems to me, is through understanding and the ability to truly walk in another's shoes. We must do this together and do this now or, as our wise Founder Benjamin Franklin said to the revolutionaries of his time and pertinent, I think, to ours: "We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately."

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September 11 -- DASTARDLY AND DEPLORABLE

It is September 11. Today marks the 15th anniversary that our nation was so dastardly attacked by the most severe assault in this country's history. We should all, one would think, stand together but, alas, we could not be farther apart and we are still,15 years later, at 9/11 war.

I am sad for September 11 and sadder still for our very divided, angry and violent nation. What has changed since then? Some things have for the better changed but much has gotten worse!

Hillary now is being criticized especially by the Republican monster candidate Trump that she erred and insulted those who support him because she said many were "utterly deplorable." She walked back only the scope to which she refereed but not the content.

I, of course, think Secretary Clinton utterly correct because Trump is SO egregious, so insulting and so rude to so many, including in his own Party, it is the height of hypocrisy to accuse her of so little when he has perpetrated so much. The unjust, insulting and untrue comments this Cretan Republican has made against the innocent staggers the mind. The things he has said, if Hillary had said them, would be a game killer for her.

She said something about the human content of his campaign that is in fact true. His campaign IS loaded with DEPLORABLES. It composes, even in its hierarchy, right wing extremists reflected by the KKK who love him, white nationalists, Breitbart dirty tricksters, antiSemites, Duck Dynasty stupids and those who would do anything, even if illegal, to win,

Trump has made huge assaults against his own ally Republicans like "captured McCain" that are, in fact, deplorable assaults but he gets away with them. Trump's entire campaign is a never ending deplorable that concentrates on sensational superficiality but never on the particularities of the issues because he knows NOTHING about them.

It is a revolting, dastardly and deplorable development in which we the people and the electorate find ourselves. This deplorable ugly American, Trump, MUST be crushed or he will crush the nation and take us down with him!

CLINTON GETS REAL: ‘BASKET OF DEPLORABLES’ BEHIND TRUMP

She is catching heat from the Trump campaign naturally from Kelly Ann Conway.  Funny how this seeming saccharine Trump spokesperson does not get what Secretary Clinton said.

Hillary Clitnon is 100% correct. I COMPLETELY AGREE. Trump's supporters ARE a basket of deplorables that include the KKK, white supremacists, Anti Semites, homophobes, anti-Muslim, anti persons of color and Duck Dynasty just plain violent morons.

He said he loves the uneducated and that is who he got so ARE they deplorable? YES, MANY are!

CNN caught rigging its polling methodology to falsely claim Donald Trump is beating Hillary Clinton. Why am I NOT surprised?

Shame on you CNN and any other cable news that puts across faux statistics!


Dailey News:


CNN and other cable news networks have spent weeks reporting that the race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has been “tightening” – even though there has been little to no evidence in the polling averages of any such tightening – in an apparent attempt to keep their audiences tuned in even as the election grows potentially stale. Now, in an belated effort at legitimizing its invented narrative, CNN has produced a new poll which shows Trump suddenly catapulting into the lead for no apparent reason. But an analysis of CNN’s changes to its polling methodology reveals that it’s a rather blatant fraud.

Recent elections have shown that seven percent more registered Democrats tend to vote than registered Republicans, even if they don’t always vote for the party they’re registered to. That means pollsters must decide whether to sample seven percent more registered Democrats in an attempt at getting the most realistic result, or to simply sample both parties equally under the assumption that they’ll end up showing up in equal proportion. But as it turns out, CNN did neither with its poll: it’s suddenly sampling four percent more registered Republicans than Democrats.

CNN has provided no reason for its sudden jarring change in methodology, which goes against everything that’s known about the national voting base. In fact NBC News studied the changes and concluded that CNN has no reasonable justification for deciding to begin sampling what it calls “an electorate we’ve never seen before.” When even the usually false-equivocating Chuck Todd of NBC is taking a stand against CNN’s bizarre rigging of its own poll, it stands out as being particularly blatant.

Although NBC News was polite enough not to say it in exact words, I will: CNN purposely rigged the methodology of its own poll in order to produce a result that’s in line with the supposed “tightening” that it’s spent the past few weeks falsely reporting on. When you back out the rigging in the CNN poll and re-sample it using a method that’s generally considered valid by professional pollsters, the actual result of the CNN poll appears to show that Hillary Clinton is leading Donald Trump by four points, which is just slightly below the overall polling averages. In other words, nothing to see here, beyond the question of how much CNN may have hurt its own reputation with such a stunt. By releasing phony new poll numbers which fit its preferred narrative, CNN has succeeded in convincing its own most loyal viewers that its ongoing claim of a “tightening” race are indeed valid, thus keeping them glued to the set in suspense – and it’s generated quite a bit of outside attention for the network as observers try to figure out what to make of the shocking (and ultimately fictional) revelation that Trump somehow came out of nowhere and climbed into the national lead. But it’s just the latest reminder that cable news is the lowest of all news formats, the least accurate and the most willing to willfully mislead its audience, and that even network TV news is more willing to draw the line.

CNN caught rigging its polling methodology to falsely claim Donald Trump is beating Hillary Clinton

Shame on you CNN and any other cable news that puts across faux statistics!

Daily News:

CNN and other cable news networks have spent weeks reporting that the race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has been “tightening” – even though there has been little to no evidence in the polling averages of any such tightening – in an apparent attempt to keep their audiences tuned in even as the election grows potentially stale. Now, in an belated effort at legitimizing its invented narrative, CNN has produced a new poll which shows Trump suddenly catapulting into the lead for no apparent reason. But an analysis of CNN’s changes to its polling methodology reveals that it’s a rather blatant fraud.
Recent elections have shown that seven percent more registered Democrats tend to vote than registered Republicans, even if they don’t always vote for the party they’re registered to. That means pollsters must decide whether to sample seven percent more registered Democrats in an attempt at getting the most realistic result, or to simply sample both parties equally under the assumption that they’ll end up showing up in equal proportion. But as it turns out, CNN did neither with its poll: it’s suddenly sampling four percent more registered Republicans than Democrats.

CNN has provided no reason for its sudden jarring change in methodology, which goes against everything that’s known about the national voting base. In fact NBC News studied the changes and concluded that CNN has no reasonable justification for deciding to begin sampling what it calls “an electorate we’ve never seen before.” When even the usually false-equivocating Chuck Todd of NBC is taking a stand against CNN’s bizarre rigging of its own poll, it stands out as being particularly blatant.

Although NBC News was polite enough not to say it in exact words, I will: CNN purposely rigged the methodology of its own poll in order to produce a result that’s in line with the supposed “tightening” that it’s spent the past few weeks falsely reporting on. When you back out the rigging in the CNN poll and re-sample it using a method that’s generally considered valid by professional pollsters, the actual result of the CNN poll appears to show that Hillary Clinton is leading Donald Trump by four points, which is just slightly below the overall polling averages. In other words, nothing to see here, beyond the question of how much CNN may have hurt its own reputation with such a stunt.

By releasing phony new poll numbers which fit its preferred narrative, CNN has succeeded in convincing its own most loyal viewers that its ongoing claim of a “tightening” race are indeed valid, thus keeping them glued to the set in suspense – and it’s generated quite a bit of outside attention for the network as observers try to figure out what to make of the shocking (and ultimately fictional) revelation that Trump somehow came out of nowhere and climbed into the national lead. But it’s just the latest reminder that cable news is the lowest of all news formats, the least accurate and the most willing to willfully mislead its audience, and that even network TV news is more willing to draw the line.

Trump Lies and Matt Lauer

I have not liked Matt Lauer or even the Today Show, in general, for a long time.  It is mostly a silly saccharine entertainment show while the nation is politically on life support.  It is a far cry from its beginning in the days of Dave Garroway who used to sign off the show by saying "peace."  Matt Lauer, like much in the faux news business, I believe, is a corporate shill and was so during the Foreign Policy Forum of the presidential candidates.  I suspect he went Trump light because the entertainment value (and that is all Trump is) of Trump must be protected so he will agree to be "interviewed" on the Today Show and attract viewers.  It’s all about the money, of course, except our LIVES are at stake if this con man walks into the oval office.  It would truly be, in Trump's words, a DISASTER.  Lauer had a moral obligation to walk Trump back from the lies he said like he did not support the Iraq War from the beginning.  He did support it from the beginning and he is ON TAPE saying so. The lying bucket of orange swill, Trump, gets away with ALL of his lies. Trump is one big con as Romney said.  I was no Romney supporter but he was 100% right on Trump.  Matt Lauer had the obligation to we the people to nail Trump on every lie.

3/4 of the things or more that Trump says are lies.  He says he gave money to 9/11 victims but there is NO evidence of that.  He allegedly knew "hundreds" who died on 9/11 but there was NO evidence of that either.  What funerals of the victims did he attend? -- Answer: We know of NONE!  He said he saw from Trump Tower people jumping out of the Trade Center buildings when the Trade Towers would NEVER be within proximal eyesight of Trump Tower.  Those jumping out of buildings were barely visible to those who were closer to them. He lied when he said he could see hundreds of Muslims cheering as the Towers fell.  None he claims to have seen was cheering.  That was a dastardly lie alienating half the world. 

Although, he did give a $25,000 dollar contribution from his charity, Trump Foundation, wholly illegal, to the campaign of Republican Pam Bondi AG of Florida.  Directly after that she dropped joining as a group plaintiff in the lawsuit against Trump University fraud and they bold face lied about it including Bondi who said the claim is outrageous.  It is NOT outrageous and should be investigated.  The quid pro quo of that gift begs investigation and to again use a Trump phrase “many others believe it too.”  The same quid pro quo allegedly occurred in Texas.  They dropped the prosecution of Trump University after the AG in Texas received a contribution from Trump.

Trump’s campaign is one big lie including how many bankruptcies he has filed, how much he is worth, what his taxes are, the fraud of Trump Institute, stiffing his workers including recently Republican policy wonks that left his campaign allegedly on masse claiming they were not paid. Surprise, Republicans want to be paid! Last but not least his love affair with Putin is money-driven conflict of interest suspect.

According to the Washington Post “USA Today tallied the number of lawsuits Trump had been in over the course of his career. It figured the number topped 4,000 since 1976 — an average of 100 lawsuits a year.  Of the lawsuits in which Trump has been involved, though, few are so perfectly Trump-y as the lawsuit filed AGAINST Trump's campaign by the USA Freedom Kids,” the group of three very young adorable patriotic girls dressed in patriotic garb who sang at Trump rallies in Pensacola, Fla., this year.  They claim he agreed to pay them but didn’t. Story: USA Freedom Kids v. Donald J. Trump for President Inc. posted below.

Trump lies and he lies ALL the time.  It is the moral obligation of the press, including Matt Lauer, to put a microscope to the lies and to CALL THE CRETAN TRUMP OUT on all of them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/07/here-it-is-usa-freedom-kids-v-donald-j-trump-for-president-inc/

Homo Sapiens -- a Short Note on the Forum

Hillary Clinton did SPECTACULARLY last evening at the foreign policy forum. I believe, or at least I hope, it is portents of things to come. She can field the most difficult questions stunningly well. The ONLY thing of which she must beware is Trump's penchant for interrupting blabber, lies and insult appellations. I suspect she is much too seasoned a politician to let that unnerve her. Insults and critiques WILL unnerve him, however, and that is when the Cobra can strike him. He loses control easily. I can tell by his body language errr I mean thin skinned facial language. Color him BEET red. Nervous much Herr Drumph?

I cannot wait until September 26 for the first debate IF he shows up. I WANT HER TO CRUSH him. He is a lying, mean, malevolent excuse for a human being. He gives our species, homo sapiens (Latin for wise man), a bad name. How about in his case changing it to homo stultissimus -- Latin for VERY stupid man.

Tap Dancing -- Foreign Policy Forum

How anyone on this planet could have viewed this Forum and listened to both candidates on foreign policy could not come away truly believing that Hillary Rodham Clinton is a phenomenal expert with phenomenal experience that makes her phenomenally more capable of handling the complexities of the American presidency than Donald J. Trump or anyone else for that matter, is beyond me. Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate, was asked on Morning Joe a question on Aleppo and did not know what or where it was. For those who may not know since few I suspect pay close attention to the Syrian civil war, it is a battle the Syrians have been waging against rebel forces destroying that town, creating hundreds of thousands of dead including women and children, thousands more wounded and millions of refugees fleeing a city of no infrastructure creating a refugee crisis like none other which, in the end, affects the west. It is a tragedy of monumental proportions and Gary Johnson not knowing what Aleppo is proves conclusively that he is NOT ready for prime time either as Donald J. Trump is not. Hillary seemed cool, calm and collected. She answered questions with authority because she has experience for a job that requires much experience. She made me proud to have been supporting her since day one of the campaign.

Trump's face was beet red which made him seem nervous and answered questions, of course, in generalities that is his same modus operandi during his campaign. There is no question to me that the focus of the media on Clinton's email has been extraordinarily over done. They do not concentrate on her every campaign appearance as they do Trump probably because Trump's histrionics are more interesting to the average American viewer who often eschews policy depth. Depth though is understatedly important. Hillary Clinton has a plethora of policy depth and showed it last night. If she could not complete the answer due to time constraints she referred listeners to her web site which contains even more of it.

One hopes that the media will focus on Trump's erroneous and weak responses that show much bluster but little else. Moreover, he committed an egregious sin with respect to his State Department briefings he now gets. He revealed his own perception of those who are briefing him by saying their body language and they spoke to the fact that the administration is not taking their expert opinions seriously. He is supposed to say NOTHING that transpires with them but forgot that rule which is why Trump can be trusted with nothing. His policies wax and wane by the hour. The fact that Matt Lauer did not press him on his support for the Iraq War in 2003 and beyond many times proves how inept the press is when it comes to the interrogation of Trump. He was caught in another lie but Matt Lauer said nothing. This is another instance of the press not adequately hold Trump's feet to the fire no matter how fast he tap dances around the questions.

It was an interesting format proving yet again the superiority of Hillary Rodham Clinton as if one needed any more proof as it proved Donald J. Trump utterly, totally and completely UNFIT for the job.

VOTE HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON AS IF YOUR LIFE DEPENDS UPON IT BECAUSE IT DOES!

Foreign Policy back to back

HILLARY CLINTON FABULOUS ON FOREIGN POLICY. TRUMP WILL NEVER EVER BE ABLE TO BE AS SPECIFIC AS SHE!!  WOW!! CLEARLY SUPERIOR!

Trump's usual baloney .... room full of military heavily weighted Republican.  If I were Republican I would be ashamed.  I think Trump STANK but then again I admit bias.  Nope he did stink!

There was NO comparison!

"Donald Trump Does Detroit" by NYT editorialist Charles Blow

So, after weeks of preaching his sinister sermon of black pathology to mostly white audiences as part of his utterly fake “black outreach” — which is in fact the effort of a bigot to disguise his bigotry — Donald Trump finally brought his message before a few mostly black audiences.

He spoke Friday to a handful of African-Americans in North Philadelphia, and as described on philly.com, told them that “he is not a bigot, and blamed the media for portraying him that way, according to people who attended a private event.”

No sir, stop right there. We are not going to allow any deflection or redefining of words here. You are a bigot. That is not a media narrative or a fairy tale. That is an absolute truth. No one manufactured your bigotry; you manifested it.

You have proudly brandished your abrasiveness, and now you want to whine and moan about your own abrasions. Not this day. Not the next day. Not ever. You will never shake the essence of yourself. Your soul is dark, your character corrupt. You are a reprobate and a charlatan who has ridden a wave of intolerance to its crest.

You were a chief birther against President Obama. You have maligned Mexicans and slandered Muslims. You have treated women with disdain. You have mocked the handicapped. You have displayed a staggering lack of basic knowledge about governance. You have applauded dictators. You have encouraged the assault of protesters at your rallies.

You are a prime example of the worst of humanity. You are what happens when incuriosity meets intolerance.

You are not to be praised for your fourth quarter outreach, but reviled for it, because it contains contempt, not contrition Trump wants to demonstrate to white moderates that he’s not a dyed-in-the-wool racist and to demonstrate to his base that he’s unafraid to walk through the valley of the shadow.

Then on Saturday, Trump traveled to Detroit and visited with a church congregation, or at least with a fraction of that congregation, judging from an image of the nearly empty venue.

Before Trump read his remarks, he said, “I just wrote this the other day knowing that I would be here, and I mean it from the heart he said, “I just wrote this the other day knowing that I would be here, and I mean it from the heart.”

That’s the first thing that sounded like a lie. The New York Times reported last week that Trump’s advisers had gotten the questions Trump was supposed to answer during an interview in Detroit and prepared a script for him. What makes us think that they didn’t also write his pandering speech?

He told the gathering, “Our nation is too divided,” while not acknowledging that he is a principle source of that division. He said: “We talk past each other, not to each other. Those who seek office do not do enough to step into the community and learn what is going on.” And yet he never acknowledged that until now, when his poll numbers have dipped and worrisome numbers of people said they believed he appeals to racism and bigotry, he has avoided coming into the black community like one might avoid the plague.

The speech was feather-light on policy, but what was there was just repackaged Republican claptrap that reinforced negative perceptions about liberalism and blackness.
 
Trump said, “I believe we need a civil rights agenda of our time, one that ensures the rights to a great education and the right to live in safety and in peace and to have a really, really great job, a good-paying job, and one that you love to go to every morning.”

Translation: I want to further weaken public education through more charters and vouchers. I want to flood your neighborhoods with more police because you can’t control yourselves. I want you to stop freeloading, get off welfare, and get a job.

Everything about this spectacle was offensive: that a black pastor had invited this money changer into the temple to defile it; that Trump was once again using the objects of his aggression for a last-ditch photo-op; that news media continue to call this an “outreach to black voters,” when it’s clearly not.

Trump has no real chance in Detroit, and he knows it. During this year’s Michigan primary, Trump got just 1,679 of the total 132,602 votes cast in the city of Detroit.

But again, the citizens of Detroit — or black people in general — are not the intended audience for this pageant of perversity. You can’t earnestly court the black vote while at the same time your party is enacting laws in multiple states to suppress the black vote. The whole thing is a logical fallacy.

Trump closed his speech in Detroit by quoting a passage from First John, Chapter 4 in the Bible: “No one has ever seen God but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.”

I too would like to close by quoting a passage from 1 John 4: “Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.”

Everything about Trump reads to me as false, and I hope that on Election Day, America exercises the gift of discernment.

Trumpettes (Children of Trump)

For the life of me I cannot understand the thought processes of the children of demagogues -- children of truly sick, narcissistic, and cruel parents who support their parent's party line. Did not ANYONE in their supposed illustrious higher ed schools teach them to think? Or perhaps they simply do not care and are Ayn Randian enough to parrot their parent's beliefs. What legacy do these Cretans want to leave to their posterity? Perhaps they care only for their own enrichment -- all for me and nothing for anyone else -- and some, perhaps, on a genetic level are missing the empathy gene as their parents clearly seem to be.

Maybe some of us have too much of that empathy gene and simply get depressed at the trajectory of a nation gone half monstrously mad with hate and wondering if ever there will be a sustained effort to implement the greatest good for the greatest number or are my and other progressives' efforts after decades of trying failing.

When I first saw two of the Trumpettes proudly with killing rifle in tote displaying the kill of a GORGEOUS tiger I knew what the substance of those men were and wondered how could they be loved by their mates or really by anyone. In short, I am STUMPED.


GET OUT TO VOTE FOR HILLARY CLINTON AS IF YOUR LIFE DEPENDS UPON IT BECAUSE IT DOES!!

Pray for Me

I am a news junkie. Even as much as politics interests me I am up to my earlobes in campaign swill. It began more than a year ago and saturated cable airwaves for ad infinitum months. It still is not over. The campaign is MUCH MUCH too long and MUCH too much oodles of cash is wasted on it. Every time I see Trump and every time I hear about email I want to throw a shoe at the tube. Trump is IMPOSSIBLE to listen to with his bluster, rudeness and lies. He lies ALL the time. I turn most of it off now and I might -- might -- pick just one of the debates to hear.

When Trump is blustering I mute my TV which covers him too much because I suppose some people want to listen to his volcanic eruptions with the malevolence they contain and that brings in network cash. Well, it does not bring cash to me but rather brings on a headache! Hillary is NOT on enough to add to the saturation. I wish she had come out more to refute the accusations levied at her which amount to NOTHING compared to the damage Republicans have done both to the economy and to the ruination of the Middle East. Moreover, they have obstructed Obama, an African American Democrat, at every turn. He could have accomplished much more if not for the disloyal Republican opposition and it is the eighth wonder of the world that he accomplished as much he did. If not obstructed she will accomplish more.

Hillary Clinton is CLEARLY by far and away more qualified than Trump. She will IF she can get more Congressional support create multi-faceted much needed change in our nation. I view Trump as dangerous to life and incapable of performing the most complex job on the planet. It is a job necessary to possess an encyclopedic knowledge of events and the ability to respond to them which Hillary has the capability to do. He has none of either. I surely hope Secretary Clinton wins BUT I am sick to death of the constant air wave blather promulgated over and over again by talking heads who often know nothing about which they speak. HELP I'm drowning in political quicksand! Pray for Hillary, VOTE her in November and by the way pray for me that I survive the onslaught to come.

A Man Who Cannot Drive

Truthfully, as Bernie Sanders said of Hillary Clinton's emails, "ENOUGH I'm sick of your damn emails." End of story but it isn't because the disloyal opposition wants to keep it alive as they think they can win by doing so. Revelation: They cannot and will not win. The electorate, I believe, at this point, since 2015 is sick to death of Hillary Clinton's email clearly political so called "scandal" to help the Republican cause whatever cause that cause may be.

It does, I think, present the question: Why oh why were Bush, Cheney and the gang given a free pass on so much mendacity? Their lies and decisions based on those lies to take a nation to war -- the Iraq War -- have cost hundreds of thousands of lives, millions of refugees and trillions in cash while it imbalanced and ruined a Middle East for generations. The devastating war in Syria bloomed out of the winds of the Iraq War as did Al Qaeda in Iraq and its vicious sidecar ISIS . Now, THAT war was a topic worthy of investigation by Congress but never got one. It could and should have resulted in a presidential impeachment. I suppose Republicons write up Articles of Impeachment only for Democratic presidential sexual faux pas.

The lies and preconceived notions of the Republican Bush administration that took a nation to war based on those lies for which we the people must still pay in precious blood and treasure is seared into history's memory if not the memory of the electorate forever. It truly boggles the mind that Cheney and Bush suffered no retribution and nothing was heard from Republican hypocrites except now against a Democrat when they know the presidency and even both houses of Congress could be at risk because of a mendacious, incompetent, rude and malevolent hypocrite Republican Presidential nominee Trump who cares nothing for this nation except what money he can squeeze out of it. It is as 2012 Republican Presidential nominee Romney stated and should be a title of a book about the insane 2016 campaign for US president -- "The Greatest Con Ever Sold."

Hillary's emails in question are nothing and did no harm in comparison to the greatest Republican committed foreign policy blunder in the history of this nation and one which carried with it the most profound generational consequences both here and around the world. We truly are fools if we get fooled again and give the car keys to another man who cannot drive.

Anti-Semitic Preacher Hopes Trump Will Be God's Instrument To Finally Destroy The Jews

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/…/anti-semitic-preacher-hopes…

Anti-Semitic Preacher Hopes Trump Will Be God's Instrument To Finally Destroy The Jews

Among the anti-Semites and white supremacists rallying behind Donald Trump is Christian writer…

rightwingwatch.org

Special Report: Donald Trump got his start in a housing empire marred by a long history of racial bias

http://www.nytimes.com/…/po…/donald-trump-housing-race.html…

‘No Vacancies’ for Blacks: How Donald Trump Got His Start, and Was First Accused of Bias

As Mr. Trump assumed an increasing role in his father’s business, the company’s practice of turning away potential black tenants was painstakingly documented.

nytimes.com|By Jonathan Mahler and Steve Eder

Trump's new campaign manager's Steve Bannon's vicious Anti-Semitic Jew hating comments

Steve Bannon, the new Trump Campaign Manager, is VICIOUSLY anti Semitic as well as anti-Muslim and anti-Hispanic.

There is major news coming out which I am not able to find the headlines yet. It has to do with the Trump campaign manager and former Breitbart editor Steve Bannon and his VICIOUSLY antiSemitic Jew hating remarks he made in court papers in a spousal abuse and ultimately divorce case against his wife. He is a VICIOUS anti-Semite. Headlines to follow!

Tell me who your friends are and I'll tell you who YOU are.

Why am I NOT surprised?

Don't fail to tell all of our Jewish friends who somehow think the Republican Party is for them and Israel to give it another look. Donald Trump is NOT a friend!

HILLARY TORCHES TRUMP

FABULOUS SPEECH. LISTEN TO ALL OF IT HERE OR AT THE LINK BELOW.

THEN GO OUT AND WORK HARD FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON AS OUR NEXT PRESIDENT!!!

http://gothamist.com/2016/08/25/clinton_trump_alt_right.php

Why I am depressed -- I urge you to listen to this YouTube and Make a Decision

I urge you to listen to this Youtube by Noam Chomsky. You do not have to agree with all of his politics throughout his life but what he says now with respect to our political system is spot on correct! Listen and make a decision as to what needs to be done most especially electorally crushing not only Trump but the entire Republican Party before we can begin to address the destroyers of our species and planet -- climate change and nuclear war.

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFtE1MNcMdA

A Little Levity -- very little -- I actually made up a joke!

What would Jesus say to Trump after hearing his cruel, mean, vindictive, angry, hostile, mendacious, crude, murderous, and rude verbosity?

Perhaps he would say to him "Go and sin no more."

To which Trump would say "No, I cannot pivot and won't change."

To which Jesus would say "To hell with you, I'm a With Her!"
 

OUCH!

Republicans lie and they lie ALL the time. Problem is their not too bright base believes the untruths. Sad and so worrisome. The anti-intellectualism of right wing extremists burns my brain.

It's simple. One can analyze it through Darwin's survival of the fittest truth. If one does not accept the truths of science that culture will die. Eventually, for example, if global climate change is not addressed by getting OFF fossil fuels we will NOT survive.

Those nations that accept the truths of science SIGNIFICANTLY reducing and even eventually eliminating fossil fuels WILL survive. So it's simple really either you accept science or die rejecting it believing a sky god will make things right. It won't. WE MUST! HILLARY CLINTON DOES NOT REJECT SCIENCE BUT TRUMP DOES!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/neal-larson-neil-degrasse-t…&

OUCH! Neil deGrasse Tyson Absolutely Burns Right-Wing Radio Host

ON RELIGION -- THE BEATITUDES

I love to surf the Internet and do so on religious issues at times about which I write for others to contemplate too. I was talking to a friend about Christianity and told her when I was in college I had a flirtation with Christianity because I was politically very left of center more than even now. I loved the peace and the love message of Christianity and thought then maybe Christ's message had reason and that he had purpose. We talked about the "Beatitudes" of which there are 8. They are enumerated below.  I have questions at the end of them:

"Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are they who mourn,
for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are the meek,
for they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they shall be satisfied.

Blessed are the merciful,
for they shall obtain mercy.

Blessed are the pure of heart,
for they shall see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be called children of God.

Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."

How on this earth can the religious fundamentalist extremist right wing square their beliefs with that. Santorum, Huckabee, Carson surely Trump who is NO Christian or any other right wing fanatic of which white supremacists haters are among them who claim to be Christian when all the Beatitudes that allegedly came from Christ's own mouth at the Sermon on the Mount sound more like liberal sentiment than they do the "conservative" right. It is why Christianity appealed to me then so many years ago.

Christ allegedly overthrew the money changers in the Temple but the Republican Party is the Party of big money and big religion is about big money. This Jew is asking how does the essence of Christianity square with modern day hateful Republican political Christian thought? I think these things are the seeming hypocrisies, another thing Christ loathed -- hypocrites. The Republican Party is FILLED with them.

GET OUT THE VOTE FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON WHOSE PARTY IS THE PARTY OF INCLUSION NOT EXCLUSION. GOTV ON NOVEMBER 8, 2016 FOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON TO SAVE ALL OF OUR LIVES.

I did not write this article but I could have. I've been saying the same things since Trump came off the esclator to infect our lives

Once again, Trump snatches defeat from the jaws of victory in the news cycle -- Daily Kos

We so often hear that Donald Trump’s real talent is in showmanship, sales skills, marketing and public relations. The talking heads crow with pride that he’s a political outsider, they remind the faithful over and over that Trump can really take care of business, that he's a black-belt when it comes to PR and back-room negotiating, and we’re then reassured that that’s why we should all suspend common sense and vote for him. It seems to work on lots of voters, around 35% to 40% by last count.

But to watch the Republican nominee for President bumble his way straight toward the worst ass kicking since McGovern and Goldwater combined is a study in what to never do when cameras and microphones are pointed in your direction. At this point any objective observer has to wonder, could he screw it up worse if he tried?

And the answer isn’t eleventy-billion dimensional chess or anything like that. Trump is just a common trust fund kid who got in over his head by a quirk of fate, and he doesn’t have a chance in hell of coming out of it with a shred of dignity left intact.

The list of Trump’s strategic and tactical failures is rapidly becoming to tl;dr. Two highlights are the Judge Curiel and Gold-star family Kahn debacles, each of which resulted in two separate, empirically measurable poll crashes from which Trump may never recover.

These aren’t exceptions any more, they have become rules. Time and time again, Trump has swaggered into the limelight in the midst of a news cycle that was already working in his favor, only to halt any positive momentum and redirect the nation’s spotlight to his serial failures as a candidate. This weekend, the backdrop was the flood stricken waste of what was once a nice part of Louisiana:

The enduring image of an uncomfortable Trump literally handing Play-Doh to Pence while flooding victims stared at him in confusion is already playing poorly across nearly all portions of the political media spectrum, apart from extremist site Breitbart, which is now officially running Donald Trump’s campaign as of this week. Trump may end up wishing he had heeded the Louisiana Governor’s warning and simply made a donation instead.

For several days the alt right has been building a myth that President Obama had stubbornly, selfishly remained on summer vay-cay, not so much as lifting one of his brown fingers, and thus condemning the desperate, whiter victims of Baton Rouge and other flooded communities in the Pelican State to a watery grave. It was nonsense, it is part and parcel to the usual managed ignorance dipped in vitriol so favored in those dark corners, and it had a better chance of hanging a Katrina level streak of cruel incompetence around Obama’s neck than anything else they’ve tried in the last eight years.

But instead of that carefully cultured story dominating right-wing cable news and bleeding over into the rest of the media universe, there are now pics depicting about as clear a sleazy exploitation of tragedy ever seen going viral all over social media. Each and everyone starring Donald J Trump in the leading role.

This is not a fluke, it’s happened too many times. This is not bad advice, it’s happening over and over again despite several senior staff shake ups. This is Trump, this is who he really is when the insulation that vast inherited wealth can provide is ripped off and the man underneath is revealed: Trump is no master showman, he is no PR wiz, and he’s not even particularly bright. Trump is just another lucky one-percenter who was born wealthy and managed to not lose that endowment. Hardly evidence for investing brilliance in the middle of the longest period of prosperity for the super-wealthy since the Pax Romana.

Trump bought some NYC real estate with daddy’s money, and that’s an investment much like the &P 500; you simply could not lose over the last three or four decades on that deal. In fact, there has been some convincing debate that just parking money in a blue-chip index fund like the S&P 500 would have performed significantly better than Trump has done with all his supposed investment mystique.

Trump is a complete fraud, from head to tail. He’s a garden-variety trust fund kid with trophy wives who bought his way into leagues he can’t compete in. Like so many trust funders he fell prey to the seductive idea that he did it all by his lonesome. The only difference between most rich kids who make that mistake and Trump is he’s in over his head in the public sphere in such a big way that no one can protect him, so it’s all unraveling in a rather spectacular public fashion at his expense. And I don’t know which is funnier, watching Trump flail around like a drunken monkey so far out of his league that the light from the league would take a million years to reach him, or reading various pundits who should know better, and probably do, explain that, somehow, Trump is so dang successful and cunning that he’ll come out of this better off -- and maybe he even planned it all along.

Hint: this flameout campaign wasn’t planned, folks, everyone should drop that nonsensical idea. This is what actually happens when an overgrown juvenile bozo like Trump buys his way into the big leagues without paying his dues or demonstrating any talent. This what happens when a clown that’s been sheltered all of their life from the consequences of lousy or humdrum choices and instead told they are a genius at everything they touch, actually goes out onto a level playing field with actual world-class competitors.

This is like one of the Walmart kids buying their way onto an Olympic Team: there is no miracle finish. They don’t win Cinderella gold, they don’t win consolation silver, they don’t knock out Apollo Creed and bring home split-decision bronze. They barely get a chance to catch their breath on the field before being humiliated and bruised and bloodied. Trump will be crushed by this defeat, he will never live it down, he will never be the same. Trump will forever be the biggest political loser of our time. And when it is over, he might at best limp along grifting the extreme right like a neutered Sarah Palin for a few years, before sinking into a final reclusive eccentricity and well deserved senility.

Young Voters Flee Trump -- I can't believe it

In response to Jeff Jacoby's Sunday Boston Globe, August 21, 2016 editorial "Young voters flee Trump" (linked below) what can I not believe?  I cannot believe this most liberal progressive as I am  thinks the nearly always conservative Jeff Jacoby's snap shot of young voters' response to the Trump-stained Republican Party is 100% correct.  This must be the first time in which I agree with every sentence of the article Mr. Jacoby wrote.  He is spot on accurate.  Trump has been a death wielding cancer on the Republican Party that showed profound impotence to fund a credible NeverTrump pharmacological movement to try to eradicate its fatal disease.  Now it has become a genetic mutation whose DNA will be carried from generation to generation.  If a Party loses the youth vote it loses its future.

I have never supported a Republican for president but I never loathed Dole, McCain or Romney as much as I do Trump.  Trump is an obnoxious right wing extremist fringe category unto himself.  Although I personally cannot say I was overcome with the vapors for Ronald the Adored Reagan, a president whom Jeff Jacoby loves, I will admit to the likeability of the man.  He was in one word nice.  Nice is not a word used in the Trumpian dictionary to describe Trump.  Rather the words ugly, miscreant, malevolent, and mendacious to describe Trump come to mind.

The GOP is not and has never been in modernity the Party of Lincoln.  That is fabulistic.  It does have its nascent roots, however, in the 1968 white racist Independent Party of George Wallace that won the deep south. The Republican Party of red took over from Wallace and happily fostered its fringe. The fact that Mr. Jacoby thinks that Republican Party is gone forever makes this progressive very happy.  I can only hope that Jeff Jacoby is correct!

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2016/08/20/the-voters-trump-drives-from-gop-aren-likely-return/Kk84iHLG4OK4xLSAAjsM5I/story.html

Sow the Wind

NO MATTER HOW DIFFICULT TO WATCH YOU SHOULD, IN FACT, WATCH IT AND KNOW WHAT IS AT RISK IF THIS NATION ELECTS TRUMP. Go to Youtube NF4LQaWJRDg.

This is what COULD happen if the thin-skinned Trump is even near the nuclear codes about which he asks so many questions.

You should know the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were minuscule compared to what exists in our arsenal today. The United States remains the only country to have dropped the atomic bomb and Japan still lives with the consequences of both the physical and genetic effects of radiation as well as the emotional effects of trauma.

If you care about your children, if you care about your grandchildren, if you care about those you love and if you care about yourselves then the explosive Trump, the know nothing Trump, the foreign policy ignorant Trump, the uber nationalist Trump and his entourage of right wing hateful extremists must NEVER EVER be allowed near the nuclear codes.

MAKE SURE YOU WORK AND VOTE FOR THE ONLY CANDIDATE WITH EXPERIENCE WHO CAN DO THE HERCULEAN JOB OF PRESIDENT, HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON. VOTE FOR HER AS IF YOUR LIFE DEPENDS UPON IT BECAUSE IT COULD!

"Conservative" Never Ending Blather The Good Clinton Fooundation Has Done

If Sec. Clinton took baby sitting money the gd conservative so called "judicial watch" would have something negative to say. HRC cannot breathe without some "conservative" JERK trying to get her. She is dealing and has dealt with the appearance of the Clinton Foundation but that is not enough. Trump THE NEVER ENDING HYPOCRITE with PLENTY of things of his that should and maybe are being investigate should shut his ever widening orange mouth.

What good CF has done: Opinion by Huffington Post: AMY CHOZICK and STEVE EDER

Begun in 1997, the foundation has raised roughly $2 billion and is overseen by a board that includes Mr. Clinton and the couple’s daughter, Chelsea. Mrs. Clinton joined when she left the State Department and stepped down in 2015 before beginning her campaign. Its work covers 180 countries, helping fund more than 3,500 projects.

Having a former president at the helm proved particularly productive, with foreign leaders and business people opening their doors — and their wallets — to the preternaturally sociable Mr. Clinton.

Among the charity’s accomplishments: Its Clinton Health Access Initiative — which is run by Ira C. Magaziner, who was a White House aide involved in Mrs. Clinton’s failed effort to overhaul the health care system in her husband’s first term — renegotiated the cost of H.I.V. drugs to make them accessible to 11.5 million people. The foundation helped bring healthier meals to more than 31,000 schools in the United States, and it has helped 105,000 farmers in East Africa increase their yields, according to the foundation’s tally.

In December 2008, shortly before Mrs. Clinton became secretary of state, Mr. Clinton released a list of more than 200,000 donors to defuse speculation about conflicts.

Soon after, Mrs. Clinton agreed to keep foundation matters separate from official business, including a pledge to “not participate personally and substantially in any particular matter that has a direct and predictable effect upon” the foundation without a waiver. The Obama White House had particularly disliked the gatherings of world leaders, academics and business people, called the Clinton Global Initiative, that the foundation was holding overseas. The foundation limited the conferences to domestic locations while Mrs. Clinton was secretary of state. On Thursday, Mr. Clinton said the gathering in September in New York would be the foundation’s last.

Even Losing Is Winning -- By NYT Neal Gabler

Here or linked

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/20/opinion/campaign-stops/to-trump-even-losing-is-winning.html?mwrsm=Email&_r=0

My Comment:

Neal Gabler wrote a brilliant article. I can only salivate at his talent for the written expression of captivating verbiage. I agree with all he said.

I might add, though, if Trump is doing as Gabler says in his well-written article and IF we the people do not support Trump's efforts at complete media success even after he loses the election then we the people are the real losers. We have only ourselves to blame as we have the control. I say to all those who can read or listen when the Trump channel is on our cable TV of choice turn the channel to another and do not let Trump win his last race.

The Kardashians are allegedly some of the most famous reality TV stars their lives of glitz and glamour filled with conflict and empty words so I am told. I would not know any of the Kardashians (except, perhaps, Caitlan through mainstream news) if I tripped over them because I refuse to watch inanity. I gain nothing from someone's shallow conspicuous consumptive life that bears absolutely no resemblance to my own.