The Realm of the Extremist Right

I convey my fervent hope that senators vote a decided no on the Kavenaugh SCOTUS nomination.  I ask those who oppose it as I do to contact their senators by phone and/or email.  If you know others in other states especially red ones please ask them to contact their senators as well.  For a number of reasons I oppose the nomination.  I quote a letter to the editor by a Susan Gibbs whom I thought best stated some of my beliefs.  She said:

"It is imperative that we have an independent judiciary. President Donald Trump has hand-picked Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court to do his bidding. Judge Kavanaugh is ready to change settled law, change the Constitution and take away rights we all enjoy among them health care. Millions will be denied it and ultimately die.  Moreover, he does not believe that charges can be brought against a sitting president. He will help Trump escape prosecution and consolidate power.

Judge Kavanaugh will not protect our clean air and water and will vote consistently with big corporations. He will take away women's rights, worker's rights, immigrant rights, consumers rights, LGBTQ rights and many more. He will sway the court in President Trump's favor if he is charged with multiple crimes against the American people. Senators should oppose this nomination."

I thought this letter summed up my reasons in opposition to Judge Kavenaugh's appointment to SCOTUS perfectly.  There are more reasons that make the affirmation of Judge Kavenaugh more than troubling and mendaciously suspicious.  He had a very hard time answering yes or no as to whether he spoke with a law firm attorney Kasowitz who is defending Donald Trump.  During his first day in the confirmation process he garbled his way through a non-answer answer.  It was not clear.  In his second day of sworn testimony he answered a definite no.  I suspect that he was lying as he had during the Bush administration when an email was found to prove he lied in his response to an issue of Democratic email stealing.  Perhaps if not confirmed for SCOTUS he could be impeached as a justice on the US Court of Appeals for perjury. 

Furthermore, as we know thousands of pages of Judge Kavenaugh's opinions have been withheld.  Thousands more given to Democrats with little time to review them.  The most problematic for me is that I suspect Judge Kavenaugh will rubber stamp the Trump administration's roll back of environmental pollution rules and the denial of science reported climate change.  It is no secret that many across our flood water choked nation are losing their homes and livelihoods due to climate change.  Yet another potential Category 4 hurricane is due to strike our North Carolina coast.  Our once pristine waters now are becoming again polluted because of the rollback of necessary environmental laws.  For these reasons it should be enough to vote a decided NO on Judge Kavenaugh's confirmation. 

In addition, however, Judge Kavenaugh was not on the original list Donald Trump was given.  Judge Kavenaugh was added, I must submit, because he was one who could be trusted to affirm presidential power and be a get-out-of-jail-free card for Donald Trump.  A reactionary turn to right wing extremist powers of hate, science denial, voter suppression and corporate elevation now are in a position to completely control the face of American power in a Republican attempt to control yet another branch of a division of powers government, the Supreme Court.  As President Obama said: How hard can it be to say that Nazis are bad?  Very hard if they are now a part of the so called Republican base.  Yet another reason to vote a resounding no on Judge Kavenaugh before our nation moves into another realm of the extreme right.   SEND THIS TO ANYONE YOU CHOOSE.

A clear and present danger

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/north-korea/north-korea-still-making-nukes-trump-admin-now-taking-much-n907651

Perhaps this is the story Anonymous had in mind. (See link above) Trump's insipid statements of praise for the N. Korean strong arm dictatorial leader, Kim Jong Un, while Kim produces in hiding and in secret more nuclear weapons to potentially eradicate nation states including a good part of the US and its allies.

If Trump knows this, and I suspect he does, one should fear immensely the opportunity he may be planning to nuclear strike first while Mueller is coming closer and closer to implicating him and his corrupt administration including his

​family​

. N. Korea presents the perfect opportunity for an unhinged president to go rogue to obscure Mueller's pristine investigation against

​his administration and ​

him.

Trump is a clear and present danger to the survival of our nation. He must be removed by any legal means necessary

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God help us!

RESIST AND SAVE YOUR CHILDREN, YOUR GRANDCHILDREN, YOU AND YOUR NATION AS IF ALL THEIR LIVES DEPEND UPON IT BECAUSE THEY DO!

WOWOW ... Senator Whitehouse is amazing!

This is one of the greatest opinions for a SCOTUS decision EVER. He is TRULY presidential!!! Gorgeous speech and 100% accurate! Everyone should hear this!!
 


https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4746953/senator-whitehouses-opening-remarks-supreme-court-hearing

The Changes of Fall

The leaves will soon turn.  I feel a fall wind colored Democratic blue approaching.  Dare I hope an electoral blue tsunami propelled by progressive Democrats, persons of color and women is hovering ready for us to feel its forceful winds of change?  Democrats are, it seems, throwing caution to that wind unafraid of promoting their progressive ideals that help all people.  After all, to quote our inarticulate president what have we got to lose when a deplorable Trump and his lackeys afraid of Trump repercussions run rough shod over our democracy alienating democratic nations who heretofore were allies and kicking the teeth out of NATO?  Democratic moderation does not work.  It elects Republicans who are divisive and stand for the opposite of humanitarian policies for which Democrats do stand.

Can one imagine health care for all, a foreign policy that retrieves our loyal alliances, eschewing Putinesque tyranny, and a return to procedural normalcy?  Can one imagine policies in concurrence with the science-based realities of climate change melting arctic ice caps that someday will sink our coasts including Boston.  Progressives will attack climate change instead of withdrawing from a climate agreement that the majority of nations signed but from which our less than brilliant president has withdrawn.  Science does not care if one believes in it or not.  It will do what it will do despite the stupidity of some.   A blue wave could save the planet, your home and your life.  What your eyes see is real and it is truth -- the millions of gallons of flood waters all over the nation, tornadoes in states that rarely encounter them and more of them in states that do, and droughts promoting the onslaughts of devastating fire in the once beautiful California and the west so there is zero protection against rains that will come; ferocious hurricanes like Maria that hit Puerto Rico and a president who simply did not care about people with brown skin.  His efforts amounted to little more than throwing paper towels, an insult to people whose loved ones died -- 3,000 of them -- and not 64 dead as a president who lies all the time pronounced.  Can one imagine a legislature that cares about these things; that cares about children separated from their parents, some forever, by a Republican racist attempt to keep America white denying asylum to the tempest tossed of their own nations where death awaits.  

The Mad Men days of white control of our nation, abuse of women and ignoring minority lives are, in hope, coming to a close.  Even though one can see many persons of color, women and progressives on the precipice of victory our fight should never end.  Persons of color, women and progressives becoming engaged and winning means we all will win.  The force of this nation is in its perpetual motion trying still to fulfill its creed and dream that all men -- all -- are created equal etched in our Constitutional DNA and in the Declaration of Independence as our brilliant Founders said, endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights those of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  We are engaged in an eternal struggle with those who want to roll back and rip those rights from those who never had them but fought so fervently for them spilling blood to gain rights for their cause. 

The victories of Maria Robinson in my own Massachusetts 6th state district, in the national House by an upset win in Massachusetts 7th District the win taken by a person of color, Ayanna Pressley, and other hopefuls across the nation like progressive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York defeating a long term congressman and importantly the Florida's governor's race showing Gilliam, a person of color slightly ahead of Republican DeSantis despite Republican racist robo calls against Gilliam.  Republicans win if they cheat, they negatively mendaciously advertise, are saturated with corrupting unlimited money, if they gerrymander districts to suit them and if Democrats and Progressives pay no attention and worse do not vote.

Persons of color, women, and progressives across the nation are diving into hope and running for office.  Democrats are signing up in droves and will vote in November.  Maybe just maybe the nightmare of Trump will come to a cataclysmic end.  In time, perhaps, we will thank the corruption of Donald J. Trump and his corrupt minions for making this progressive blue wave possible.  I am hoping for a fall Democratic wind of change to emerge soon.

RESIST THE REPUBLICAN TRUMP CON AND PURGE REPUBLICAN CORRUPTION FOR ALL OF US.  VOTE DEMOCRAT AND SAVE LIVES!

A MUST SEE

A documentary was advertised, I believe, on MSNBC.  It is entitled "Active Measures."   If you love truth telling documentaries and even if you do not love documentaries but want to know the etiology between Trump and his love affair with Putin's Russia you must see this.   It can be seen though Itunes and Apple TV.  I searched in Apple TV under movies and it appeared.  One can rent it for only $3.99 and it is well worth it to see how the deplorable, corrupt, unethical, bully Trump made it to the most powerful office in the world.  It is, to say the least, a chilling expose of corruption not only of Trump but those in his cabinet and those Republicans who are afraid to, at the highest levels, oppose a man whose corruption knows no bounds.  It is still going on as I write this. 

The documentary is massive in its scope and true in its message.  The liaison between Trump and Russia did not just happen in 2016 but has a history going back decades.  Watch, see and believe what you are seeing and why Putin has Trump "over a barrel."  Then vote Democrat in the November 6, 2018 elections to take our nation back from crooks, thieves, liars, con men and the most unethical filthy administration in this nation's history corrupted by the greatest election con, perhaps, in the history of the world.

I have been told that power does not come from the top down.  Do not expect those who steal elections to renounce their ways.   Power comes from the bottom up; from we the people.  We are still a democracy but are on the precipice of losing it if we do not take power out of the hands of oligarchs and mendacious thieves and place it where it belongs--in the hands of those who want clean, ethical and principled government our Founders envisioned for us.

RESIST AND VOTE DEMOCRAT AS IF YOUR NATION AND YOUR LIFE DEPEND UPON IT BECAUSE IT DOES!!!

What Composes a Man?

"Michael Cohen Says Trump Ordered Him To Illegally Interfere In Election"

What human beings of conscience would do such a thing to this nation? It is a betrayal of the highest magnitude yes, it is treason. We saw it in Helsinki when Putin stood smiling like the Cheshire Cat beside a compliant Trump. Trump has colluded with Russia to win an election.  This is the high crime of treason to this nation. How anyone could even think that this boatload of corruption would pass unnoticed I will never know. This is how stupid the Trump "administration" is. How anyone anyone at all could line their fortunes up with the authoritarian politics of a useful idiot and Manchurian candidate not to mention the corrupt politics of him is beyond reason.

What evil is in the hearts of men who should know better? I quote Christ often because what he said or is alleged to have said is profound:

"What profit a man if he gain the whole world but lose his soul?"

Not over yet--My Comment

See links below:  "The beginning of the end of the Trump presidency" and "Michael Cohen says Trump ordered him to illegally interfere with the election."

My Comment: Our electorate keeps electing Republicans that have ZERO ethics, do not care about human life and are war making violent. This bestial Trump has given even Nazis a "respectable" face. 

Our foreign policies post WWII create more problems not less and line up the regions of the world we invade against us. The Republican Party as it is now especially but even to a degree what it was MUST be taken down. They are killing (literally) this nation. George W. Bush looked good compared to the JERK now in the White House but in truth he invaded a nation Iraq that did nothing to us and did NOT have WMD. It set up a domino slide of violence throughout the entire Middle East. Now with the Jerk we are in a mess times 10 and that mess kills human life even our nation's best.

The American people must THINK THINK gd it as to who you are voting for and what the consequences of their policy might bring. Republicans as they exist today we can see clearly with our own eyes how devastating returning to a semblance of normal will be as Trump the Cretan will not go down easily even now when he is crucified by the persons that know him the best. Saint Mueller in you I trust because our national nightmare is not over yet.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/08/21/the-beginning-end-trump-presidency/2c9HhJ7jA1s1HIUCG9bnHL/story.html#comments

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michael-cohen-plea-deal_us_5ad20bd8e4b0edca2cba4685

Out Damn Spot Out

Pope Francis Pens Scathing Response To Clergy Sexual Abuse Scandal

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pope-francis-response-sexual-abuse_us_5b7a9ebfe4b0a5b1febd0318

My Comment: A response from Pope Francis, a man whom I have liked, no matter how scathing cannot, at this point, say enough to rectify the many hypocrisies of pedophile priests who commit mortal sins within an institution that is all about teaching moral behavior and sin control.  Not so much, though, is that institution about washing out the stains of these sins from particular priests but more about preserving the institution in which they are allowed to thrive.  "Out, damned spot! out, I say" says Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth in Act V Scene I as she feels the sin of murder she knows they committed but she cannot wash it and the guilt she feels out.  The stain of sex abuse by clergy perpetrated on their own flock can never come out.  The institution itself needs massive change or face bankruptcy.  Think how many have been abused and multiply it 10 fold for those who died with an unsettled heart for being the victim of those priestly sex abuse sins upon them.  The number probably would be staggering.

Here is what I think should happen:  The Church first needs to pay damages to the thousands all over the world who were and still are abused by priests.  It needs also to expel those priests who have committed such ugly sins on children. If it cannot then it must declare bankruptcy as these abundance of accusations will, in the end, cost the Church millions and even, perhaps, billions.  The Church, in Reformation style, needs to renew itself.  It needs to include women among its clergy imbued with all the powers the Church bestows on its male priests and it needs to allow marriage of priests within the church.

The problem of sex abuse by Catholic priests upon children is not new and is a heinous thing.  The Church must imbue itself with massive change otherwise it will fracture and cease its 2000 year existence as we know it.   

What would Jesus say?:  "But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." Matthew 18:6.

Trumpland Lies

"Traveler's in the Third Reich" by Julia Boyd seems like an interesting read but through the dark lens of history's hindsight of what really occurred in 1933 and beyond it is a warning. The Jewish people like Hispanics during the age of Trump were hunted down, captured, and killed or in the case of Hispanics, separated from their children and sent back to a country where they will be killed and/or brutalized at will.

Nothing can expunge the true history of the world's most despotic despot Hitler and his attempts, nearly successful, at the elimination of the entire population of the Jews of Europe.  Hispanic children coming with and eventually separated from their parent(s) want nothing more but to seek asylum because certain death awaits them in their country.  Trump lies and does so with impunity.  The preponderance of asylum seekers are not members of the lawless group M13 neither are they rapists.  

I am reminded of the 1 million Jewish children separated from their parents told they were going to the shower as Trump's henchmen told Hispanic mothers with children to calm them so they would await in silence their dastardly fate. Trump and his flock are criminals such as this nation has never seen with the exception of those who rounded up the Japanese during the Second World War and, of course, those who prospered by slavery itself.

Those of us with a shred of human decency and conscience revile the treatment of American Japanese who loved this nation and see its resemblance to the criminal Trump's treatment of Hispanic and other persons of color who have done no crime to this nation but merely want sanctuary in a nation that professes on its Statue of Liberty to "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"  Trumpland professes no such lofty thoughts but does rather like a more Hitlerian mantra “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”

OMAROSA HAS A STASH OF VIDEO IN ADDITION TO AUDIO TAPES -- POETIC JUSTICE

There are no words in my vocabulary to state the extreme depravity of Trump's latest action, removing security clearance from John Brennan, one of the most knowledgeable American patriots who has dedicated decades of his life to the nation's national security trying to keep you and me safe.  I may not have always agreed with his opinion on policy but no one can expunge John Brennan's loyalty not to a Party but to the nation.  He has served under both Republican and Democratic presidents.  This unfit-for-the-presidency Trump is ready to deny so many others like John Brennan, based not on rational indictment for things they may have done but solely because they criticized Trump, the only person for whom Trump cares.  Because I do not have the words to express my disdain in extremis to Trump I will let the story below speak for itself.

Instead of waking up and wanting to jump out a window because of yet another of Drumpf's horrific heinous acts that compromises our democracy and national security, my heart soars listening to Omarosa, whom we first met on Trump's only success, the TV show "The Apprentice," as just retribution to a corrupt, mendacious, sickening, inhumane racist man of little intellect and zero understanding about the policies for which he advocates let alone empathy for the many human beings those polices adversely affect.

It is the perfect irony in the extreme and poetic justice reaching the heights of Everest that this woman of color, no matter her faults, could take this beast down by the truths she tells.  Praise the Lord let it be so! 

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/omarosa-video-trump-white-house_us_5b779461e4b018b93e940a64

Aretha Franklin Obama inauguration -- My Country Tis of Thee

Reduced me to a puddle of tears.  Gorgeous rendition by the Queen of Soul.

Dear God protect this nation from those with cruelty and no heart who would destroy it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NqszdLiJxg

My letter to the MDNews: Write-in Candidate Maria Robinson, Democrat for State Representative 6th Middlesex District

I would like to personally endorse a write-in candidate, Maria Robinson, Democrat for State Representative of the 6th Middlesex District.  As stated in the MetroWest Daily News "voters will write-in candidates during the September primary. The candidate with the most votes will then be on the ballot in November." 

Here is why I strongly support Maria Robinson.    As Maria has said she has a decade of experience working with state governments including legislatures, agencies and commissions.  She was also a Town Meeting Member.  Most impressively to me she is an MIT graduate with a degree in chemical engineering and a Master's Degree in law.  Moreover, her platforms encompass diversity.  She entertains progressive policy on education, health care, paid family leave, a living wage as well as fair and inclusive voting rights, affordable housing, and senior living.  She is supportive of LGBTQ rights, clean energy, consumer protection, immigration and cybersecurity. 

She will be a strong, ethical, honest and effective voice of the people giving the position of Representative 100% of her time and attention.  If I am supporting a candidate one can be assured that dishonesty will not be a part of her repertoire.  It is refreshing to me to have a candidate who believes in humane and progressive answers to the problems of our time.  As an example and as stated on her web page "she supports the Safe Communities Act which will allow law enforcement to focus on local crimes instead of acting as an agent of federal immigration policy.  This law will keep Framingham safer, as it will allow for our citizens to feel comfortable reporting local crimes." Most importantly to me, she supports a pathway to citizenship for DREAMers.

 

If voters want to know more about Maria Robinson and more about where she stands on the issues they can go to www.votemariarobinson.com to take a look.  

I am sure they will be as impressed as I am in her qualifications for the job.  I have no doubt that she will excel in the position of Representative for the Middlesex 6th District and will give us the kind of leadership that reflects the better angels of our nature!

Aretha Franklin, The ‘Queen Of Soul,’ Dies At 76

A giant among musicians. This is when one sees the importance of character. She lived her Christian faith and all the humanitarian precepts that go with it putting her voice and her soul in it.

If only those in leadership would take a page from her book of life!

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aretha-franklin-dead-queen-of-soul_us_57489412e4b03ede4414cc5d

Judge halts mother-daughter deportation, threatens to hold Sessions in contempt--My Comment--A Republic?

A federal judge by his order literally turned around a plane that was headed for El Salvadorian violence and ordered a mother and daughter at risk of death there back to the US to have their case for asylum legally and procedurally heard as is their right. The judge said he would hold Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen in contempt if the plane carrying the mother and child were not ordered back to the US and, through due process, have their case for asylum heard.  The Trump administration in the dead of night whisked the mother and child away, placed them on a plane heading back to their Central American country from which they sought asylum.

I limit the amount of time I can endure hearing the disastrously inhumane Trump speak.  His incoherent irrationality is not much different from all Nationalist right wing governments including those of 1930's fame.  I rely on my writing and wonderful groups like the ACLU that fight for justice through the courts which gives me hope.  The mother and daughter because of the judge's order are now back safely in the US. 

I do not know what to focus on first because there is too much Trumpian corruption for one person to address it all.  Some cable plays to our urgent calls for social justice from this vile Trump administration's unconstitutional behavior. I understood Trump would be unfit for the presidency when he "won" it but I never thought he would be this bad issuing more than 3000 lies in 466 days during just the first term of his usurpation of power.   I believe he attained power through unlawful means that encompassed unconstitutional even treasonous assistance from an adversarial power, Russia.

I hope enough Independents understand, as Democrats do, how horrific this administration is and what a threat to our democracy it is as well.  One would have to be ignorant not to see how its unconstitutional behavior is manifested.  Unite the Right white supremacy is coming to Washington this weekend.  I hope no one gets killed as Heather Heyer did in Charlottesville on this day a year ago.  The right wing is NRA violent and armed to the teeth. 

I hope our non-violent voices against white supremacy can compete with the ever-so-violent right wing extremists.  If we had a president who was on the side of the powerless like other presidents were before him then I could feel some solace but we do not have that.  Trump has stoked the fires of hate.  We have a president who is on the side of violent racists and, I believe, that direction has trickled down even to the Charlottesville police who seemed to let Neo Nazis and Klansmen violence happen with little opposition.  It is the earmark of a fascist state when the powerless call for help but authority stands down.  That is when one knows democracy is in danger. 

"A Republic if you can keep it," Benjamin Franklin answered in 1787 when a woman asked the type of government the Founders created.  "A Republic if you can keep it."  Can we? 

Melania Trump’s Parents Become U.S. Citizens, Using ‘Chain Migration’ Trump Hates--MY COMMENT

The difference for Neo American Nazis and white supremacists is that Melania Trump's parents are white!

This vile white supremacist white racist administration instead of uniting this nation each day in every way is tearing it apart with clearly white racist sentiment.

Drumpf can cover it up any way he wants but in the end he is provoking an internal domestic violence this nation has not seen since the Civil War. 

 

There are no words that adequately express his ugly, mendacious and rancid character. He is a Beast and must be taken electorally down fast! 

RESIST!

 

 

The Worst

Didn't Trump and his administration deplorables ever think maybe just maybe their humongous global business entanglements many with unsavory ties, alleged money laundering, alleged international bank fraud and Trump's own legion of unethical behaviors just might get the nation's investigative microscopes ready to cast a transparent eye on his life especially the parts Trump want hidden at all costs like his forever-in-audit tax returns.

How utterly stupid and dense these Cretans must be not to know a legal magnifying glass would eventually be put on their plethora of darkest secretes and most opaque lives?  Trump must be the greatest daredevil or stupidest fool who ever occupied the Oval Office. 

Mr. Trump, government is not a private enterprise real estate deal although you must have thought it was.  It is not supposed to be about corporations or cabinet secretaries stealing federal dollars to surreptitiously put in their pockets. Government is supposed to be about the people -- all the people -- not just the wealthiest 2% who need it the least.

Surprise, Mr. Trump, government comes equipped with experienced lawyers and courts that deal with fraud, money laundering, tax evasion, insider trading and a host of other white collar crimes and has the ability to hold those who abridge those laws accountable.  The FBI and other legal federal entities that bring down those who would illegally rape this nation of its taxpayer dollars and pocket the money have instruments that can read every strand of ugly red hair on the unfit-for-the-presidency incompetent president's head.

No matter how much Trump tweets that he is the best president ever he is not.  He is the worst!

Nasty Judge

State's witness, Rick Gates's, Manafort's partner in the Paul Manafort trial was on the stand.  Gates wants a reduced sentence for testifying against Manafort. Without going into great detail that judge seems off. He is making all kinds of incendiary statements toward the prosecution regarding their looks and other inappropriate  things. The judge sounds like he has some kind of emotional problem as he is making very biased angry comments against the prosecution which judges should not make.

The problem, of course, for the prosecution is they cannot appeal the trial if they lose the case even if the judge is guilty of ridiculous behavior and even if he pushed the trial in the defendant's favor--double jeopardy and all that. The defendant can appeal but not the prosecution.

In my unbiased opinion though the voluminous papers in the Manafort case prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that he committed the crimes alleged but it could be possible for the prosecution to lose it because of the judge's biased and uncalled for comment

s

. Unless 

the judge

proves himself otherwise

,

the prosecution drew a nasty judge!

Morehouse College -- We Shall Overcome -- GORGEOUS!

Morehouse College -- We Shall Overcome -- GORGEOUS!

There's a long history of fearing strong black voices in America. Demeaning intelligence is the tactic of a coward. But listen to this beautiful rendition of We Shall Overcome from Morehouse Glee Club and feel the determination to fight for a better world.-- Dan Rather

Morehouse College - We Shall Overcome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aor6-DkzBJ0

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Serious

I knew when I retired for the evening that I had to write something momentous in the morning because the times in which we live now are proven dire.  Sometimes the more mountainous the obstacles, the more unjust, and the more perilous the times the less I think I am capable of imparting the seriousness of the moment.  It rather than forces me to write it ensures that I may not. However, I have rejected the intractability of my cerebral cement of fear because our national nightmare has been cast in stone and the titular head of our nation does not, indeed, refuses to address it, and perhaps, even cannot mount a Herculean effort to ameliorate it.

Yesterday, our national security titans -- Director of National Security Dan Coats, FBI Director Christopher Wray, National Security Advisor John Bolton, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen , and General. Paul M. Nakasone, the head of the National Security Agency entered the White House Press Briefing room where each declared this nation to be in an imminent, clear and present danger from attack by the adversarial nation of Russia and its thug president Putin.  Each national security heavy weight said in their own words the nature of the threat and how committed they all are to addressing and stopping it.  Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said "Our nation is in the cross-hairs."

Someone, though, was absent from this important meeting.  If you guessed it was the President of the United States you would be correct.  He was not there.  Where was he you might ask.  He was speaking at another insufferable campaign rally in Wilkes Barre, PA delivering to his cheering worshipful audience the same old things they love to hear while he loves to soak up their applause.  He tells them that the Russian threat to our nation is a hoax cooked up by, of course, the enemy of the people, the press undercutting what his own national security officials have stated. Think about it.  The president of the United States is declaring

the Russia

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meddling in our national election

of 2016 and soon the 2018 midterms

to be

doubted as fake news

 while the proof of which not only has been

overwhelmingly

abundant but is now being stated in front of the American people as true

by our own national security giants.

Trump's sanity is being questioned by some professionals and non-professionals alike that this president is in the throws of a mental decline if not dementia as illuminated in the former Apprentice star Omarosa's new book: "Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House." I believe and have since Trump's winning the presidency that we have elected an unhinged, truth denying hideous monster with no conscience who occupies the seat of the greatest power on earth and who could order a nuclear attack if he, at a moment of ranting, so chooses.  I do not think I am being hyperbolic if I say this nation is in one of the most treacherous times since WWII.  At least then we had a president who was dedicated to saving democracy and not eradicating it.  Another president did the same by saving the better angels of our nature over 150 years ago. 

Trump's appearance and statements at Helsinki beside Vladimir Putin were the antithesis of strong.  They were this president's anathema weak.  Our democracy is at risk as it never has been before and Trump's adoration of demagogues, his evisceration of benign democratic leaders and allies all of whom he has insulted, diminishing of NATO as well as his commission of many unconstitutional acts is proof of what I say. 

The histrionics of his campaign rallies are old, redundant and filled with lies.  The Washington Post, the New York Times, and many other newspapers as well as the cable commentators of CNN, MSNBC, NPR and PBS are the truth tellers of our age.  They come both in the liberal and the conservative flavor alike.  Trump, a lover of all truly fake news like Fox tells his adoring Orwellian worshipers that his lies are truth and that alleged truths are lies; He instructs them to believe only him.  He tells them that Putin is strong, that the 2016 election could have been hacked by a 400 lb hacker sitting on a bed, that some Neo American Nazis are good people, that you need an ID to buy food and all those with brown skin who are attempting to escape their own perilous nations need to be rounded up, separated, as punishment, from their children (kidnapped) and ultimately sent back to certain death in the national violence they are trying to escape.

Believe the experts who addressed the media last evening and who told us of the danger of attack, who know the evidence while the president would have you believe only his own lies.

Trump is sick.   This time Trump is the cancer not only on our presidency but on our national democracy entire the chemotherapeutic eradication of which is voting Democratic this November. Do so without fail!

The Antithesis

Trump is evil incarnate -- the anti-Christ. He ropes in the Evangelicals and I aver is not even a believer himself and, indeed, he probably mocks religion when no one is within ear shot. I have never seen him attend a church service, have never seen him praying, in fact, says he has never asked for forgiveness. The irony being he probably has broken every commandment 9000 times and does so every day. I will go out on a limb and say he has never read specifically the New Testament from which Christianity takes its belief.

I concentrate on New Testament thought because Trump says he is a Christian.  When one thinks on Christian verse, taken from various online sites, Trump falls woefully short. When asked his favorite Bible verse Trump said that was too personal to answer. That was too personal to answer because he has never read any and knows nothing of its thought: 

Jesus said "What profit a man if he gain the whole world but lose his soul (Mark 8:36); or "Inasmuch as you have done it to the least of these my brethren you have done it unto me" (Matthew 25:40); or “many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first” (Matthew 19:30); “Woe to you who are rich!” Luke (6:24); " it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”(Matthew 19:24).^{Most importantly Jesus goes on to say:} "For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,  I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.^"  

^{In the Beatitudes Christ says: "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." 
 
To which of these verses does Trump adhere?  Answer: None.  He is the antithesis of them all!}

My letter to Senator Warren

Senator Warren:   I am one of your ardent supporters, worked and wrote letters for you in your election as senator. Whoever runs on the Democratic ticket this is what I believe is important on which Democrats should campaign because Trump will boast, gloat and generally become obnoxious touting his "great" economy. It is not great and that needs to be hammered home: Bret Stephens Op Ed for the NYT in part said:  "... an economy that continues to struggle with painfully slow wage growth, spiraling budget deficits and multiplying trade wars that have hurt businesses as diverse as Ohio soybean farmers and California chip makers" must be enunciated loud and clear. “What do Democrats stand for?” he asked. “Lawlessness or liberality? Policy making or virtue signaling? Gender-neutral pronouns and bathrooms or good jobs and higher wages?” I believe we must stand for everything that makes the Democratic Party humane and great. Most especially we need to realize "it's the economy stupid" that wins elections. Yes, don't forget that while we remember this lawless administration and a president who deserves impeachment and not reelection. Yes, remember it's the economy but do not forget so many other moral things on which Democrats can and should run!!

Stephens said: "As is his way, Mr. Trump wasted little time rubbing salt into Democratic wounds. “Democrats used to stand with the Working Man,” he tweeted Wednesday morning. “Now it’s the party of Abortion and Amnesty. All that’s missing is Acid. Sad!” Go get him, Democrats, by standing for something not just against Trump. 

Tariffs and huge deficits Republican born and bred should make him and Republicans vulnerable! Do not lose this message but do not lose everything else as well!

IF TRUE

In my zeal to get something out about the latest egregious behavior of Trump I neglect good grammar and pristine syntax; I reworked my thoughts below.

If Trump knew about the Trump meeting with the Russians in advance is true this is not only treason but high treason beyond the wildest dreams of anyone who has sent one to the presidency. I am rocked and I am stunned.

For high treason nations execute the guilty but to have a president of the United States -- a president -- to have committed undisputed treasonous acts is mind exploding. Is this the Manchurian candidate and Benedict Arnold who live still in historical ignominy as traitors? If true the unthinkable has come to life.

If true this era in our history is as ugly as Trump is. If true is all the money in the world worth it? Will Trump, when he dies, put all that money in his coffin and literally take it with him? I use Christian quotes often not because I am Christian or even a believer but because Christ's thoughts have created a road map of humane profundity. Truly,"What profit a man if he gain the whole world but lose his soul?"

Trump, you have sinned great sins. You have separated mothers from their children; you have allegedly committed financial frauds; you have regurgitated incessant lies, you are a man of incessant mendacity; you have broken all your marital vows; you have left crumbling infrastructure; you have given permanent tax cuts to the top 2% wealthy and have given the rest a pittance; you have not only failed to do anything about global climate change you have refused to do anything about it so the west is now on fire with triple digit temperatures the norm. People's homes and their lives are destroyed; you have repealed regulations which means you have given sanction to corporations which put sewage, lead and other poisonous chemical waste into streams that provide drinking water; you are sowing division and with profanity are pitting brother against brother; you glorify racist behavior and called some Nazis good people when none of them is; you are destroying a nation.

Trump, you are a curse on this country. You are a plague that will kill it unless in November the people rise up and electorally crush you and all those who have given you sanctuary. If all that is said is true, if there is a hell, may you rot in it for the egregious things you have allegedly done with those who have assisted you and those who have stood by in silent acquiescence doing nothing to stop you.

Shame on some in this nation who have been fooled not once, not twice but many times. Let's hope they do not get fooled again.

AMERICA, RISE UP AND RESIST THIS PLAGUE.  DO IT FOR YOU, DO IT FOR YOUR CHILDREN AND DO IT FOR THE PERPETUATION OF OUR NATION!

Send this to anyone you choose!

Trump Doesn't Have the Skill to Pull Off His Most Nefarious Plots + My Comment

My Comment: If you want to learn the essence of our current administration I strongly suggest you take the time to read a summary of the inept, incompetent and dangerous reality show of Donald J. Trump linked below. It is one of the most extraordinarily thoughtful opinions that contains more than one page of astute analysis of Trumpist policy, events circling you and our globe which will have an impact on all of our lives and not positively so. I urge you to read this summary of the worst, most dangerous, most cruel, most ignorant, most corrupt, most unfit presidency and its side car administration in US history.  The opinion is written by Thom Hartmann, one of the most thoughtful and intelligent author of news commentary today. 

NB:  There are, even on progressive sites, the insufferable advertisements.  I suggest you ignore them.  It has been my experience that some things if they sound too good to be true usually

are!

https://www.opednews.com/articles/1/Trump-Doesn-t-Have-the-Ski-by-Thom-Hartmann-Incompetence_Trump-And-Putin_Trump-Broken-Promises_Trump-Ego-180725-323.html

The game just fundamentally changed + My Comment

My Comment:  Take that you bunch of evil liars.  Trump, et als gaming the system will soon end in monumental failure and Trump will be the first president not to be impeached but to be convicted and impeached.  The utter saturated stupidity of Trump lies not in his vying for the presidency but actually believing that with so much of his international money corruption, money laundering and other schemes as well as surrounding himself with the most dishonest, craven, greedy bastard Russian oligarchs and billionaires who would steal their grandmother's eyeballs to make a buck that he actually could, by becoming president, steal the American taxpayer blind and get away with it. 

The enemy of the people he called the press is in reality the enemy of him because to create the gargantuan schemes while president the national and world press would have to be silenced.  So far we are NOT the banana Republic of Trump and guess what, you evil unstable moron, the United States of America never will be.  Nice try though but you cannot win an election by merely capturing the deplorables of your base.  The rest of us with the nation's national security patriotic force who put their lives on the line for us remain vigilant to your unconstitutional emoluments, to all your other illegal money schemes and to your support of an adversarial power, Russia with your arms around its murderous leader Putin.  You, Mr. Trump, will have to declare bankruptcy yet again and this time you may ultimately be measured for red, white and blue pin stripes made in China!

By Murfster35 -- Daily Kos

Let's start our Saturday rime together off on a lighter note. By far and away, my choice for "Comment of the Week" goes to Chuck Rosenberg, a former federal prosecutor. Talking on MSNBC about Trump's invitation for Vlad the Imp to pop over this fall and plant some bugs in the Oval Office, Rosenberg quipped, "I just hope that Mr Putin doesn't decide to bring his children with him,  because they'll be forcibly separated at the border." Priceless.

No matter how you cut it, this was a disastrous week for Trump. Starting with his "The Gimp from Pulp Fiction" performance, publicly fondling Putin in Helsinki, to his invitation for Putin to darken our shores before he even told us if he had ceded Alaska because "Putin can see Alaska from his back porch," to committing legal suicide by releasing a Michael Cohen secretly recorded tape, this week had it all. And bless his little heart, Rudy Ghouliani desperately tried to keep up with his boss. Only a drooling dotard can say that Donald Trump discussing with Michael Cohen about whether to pay Karen McDougle directly to shut her up, or repaying AMI for doing it for them with a check rather than cash was somehow exculpatory. Personally, I think it just meant that Trump didn't trust Cohen with 150 large. He learned from Paul Manafort that giving his kind of friends oodles of walking around cash wasn't a great idea.
But, watching the events of this last, hectic week highlighted something that has been going on for over a month now. When you talk to a Trumpcake, their greatest admiration for Trump comes from the fact that he's "a mans man," and that he "never backs down, he always doubles down." Trump's success, going all the way back to the campaign was that he set the dynamic, he set the news cycle for the day. Trump called a morning show and said something stupid, and that became the topic for the day. Which is what Trump wanted. If something negative about Trump broke, Trump said or tweeted something stupid on a completely unrelated topic, and that became the story, drowning out the negative press. No matter what happened, it was Trump who was driving the conversation and coverage, and always to his advantage.
But that changed, more than a month ago. Trump had KKKeebler the Elf roll out his shiny new child abduction policy at the border, and in doing so, knocked over a hornets nest. The media latched onto this story like a lamprey on a shark, and wouldn't let go. Trump tried his normal tactic of doubling down, but that only doubled the recrimination, easily drowning out his supporters racist cheers. Even GOP incumbents who weren't slinking out the doors of congress next January criticized Trump. Even Trump's quick capitulation didn't stop the coverage of the basically nonexistent reunification plan, but the media gleefully chortled about His Lowness' humble capitulation, adding personal humiliation.
The same has happened with Trump's trade war. The reasoning for the action was so convoluted that even Trump supporters could see "Stupid" written all over it. Non retiring GOP incumbents like Jodi Ernst and even Mitch McConnell have directly criticized the tariffs, and there is even talk of legislative action to take Baby Trump's toy away from him. once again, Trump went to Old Faithful, and is threatening to double down with more sanctions on China and the EU.  And as a result, some of Trump's greatest supporters, Midwest soy farmers, are converging on Washington, to try to convince Republican lawmakers to give The Cheeto Prophet more of whatever it is that they use to keep him docile.
And now the debacle in Helsinki of disappearing into a closet for two hours to play a game of slap-and-tickle with Vladimir Putin. Robert Mueller rained on that particular parade before it even left the staging area, by indicting the 12 GRU intelligence officers. Now, not only is everybody screaming bloody murder about his press conference, but Putin is slyly sticking it to Trump by leaking some of the goodies that Trump may or may not have agreed to in that private meeting to the world. Trump has tried a twofer here. First, he had Sarah "Who's a pretty birdie" Sanders tweet out his invitation for Putin to the Casa Blanco. This idea is going over like a lead balloon, so he went to his backup, misdirection, leaking the story about the secret Cohen recording to change the subject. But, while the media is more than happy to remind everybody what a sex degenerate Trump is, there's plenty of time left in the hour to hammer the $1 Store Caligula about his black fishnet scene with Putin.
This is dangerous to Trump for two reasons. First, the events of the last month or so have shattered his invincibility with his base. Tough guys don't back down, and Trump had to back down on his immigrant kidnapping scheme. And he looked pathetically weak in doing so. And as much as invertebrates like Marco Rubio may grasp the "Should have been wouldn't instead of would" straw from Trump, nevertheless, it was the weak showing of a kid called to the principals office. And while Trumpaholics will continue to shout his praises from the rooftops, remember this, you can always tell when somebody bought a piece of shit car, by how loudly they proclaim what a great deal they got. With Trump's name not on the ballot in November, a Duck Dynasty marathon may prove to be a tantalizing reason to not bother driving over to the high school gym to pull a lever. The Democrats have already targeted at least 40 districts as being vulnerable, and each of those representatives on the GOP side has an uncomfortable decision to make regarding Glorious Bleater.
But more dangerous to Trump is the fact that GOP incumbents are slowly, and in some cases not very meekly, peel away from Trump. Texas GOP representative Will Hurd just wrote a blistering NY Times op-ed, saying that Trump had been openly "manipulated" by Putin on the world stage, embarrassing not only himself, but the US as a country and it's intelligence services. Hurd is not ensconced in some ruby red district, he's in a competitive swing district. If incumbents like Hurd start campaigning against Trump, no matter how gently, it is a disaster for Trump. If they run against him and lose, that means a Democrat in that seat, opposing Trump. And if they run against him and win, then they are on a short leash, and they are going to have to pay attention to constituent concerns, and oppose him when necessary in congress to be reelected again in 2020. Either way, his House caucus is weakened. And a sufficiently weakened Trump in the House may make some of the 20+ GOP Senators up for reelection in 2020 think twice about any articles of impeachment that may bubble up from the House in 2019.
Donald Trump could remain successful only as long as he could control the narrative. It didn't matter what the topic was, or how stupid Trump was, as long as he was the one standing on something, and everybody else was back on their heels opposing him, Trump was the "strong man," the guy in control, the man of his supporters dreams. But, even if he blusters and holds his ground, if Trump is the one responding to the narrative, and not the one driving the narrative, he no longer looks like the one in charge. And with Trump, image is everything, simply because there is no substance.
 I see no reason for this trend to reverse itself, Trump has lost control of the narrative for the foreseeable future. Trump-Russia will continue. Even if Mueller "goes dark" after Labor Day, Manafort's second trial is scheduled for mid September. And if Cohen is indicted before Labor Day, there will be court hearings between then and November. DHS and HHS have only reunited 437 out of 2,550 immigrant children, that will drag on, with continued media attention for months yet, especially when lawsuits start piling up. The rich shitpokes got their tax cuts, but John and Jane Q Public aren't feeling the love, it'll be Democrats running on Trump's tax cuts in November, instead of Republicans. The Trump tariffs will start to bite after Labor Day, and Democrats will gleefully remind everybody who to thank. And lo and behold, in mid October, only weeks before the election, the new health insurance premiums for 2019 will be announced.
Donald Trump lost the narrative for two reasons. First, through stupid and harmful actions taken purely to satisfy a base that isn't large enough to get elected to a school board seat. But more importantly, he lost the narrative because he ran out of easy, slam dunk GOP issues to trumpet. And there are no more of those to be found under the sofa cushions. The narrative is gone, and I don't see it coming back for him anytime soon.
The wait is over! Volume two of the trilogy, President Evil II: A Clodwork Orange is now available. Amazon is whining about me crashing their site, but the hell with them, I ain't in this for their health. You can also find volume one, President Evil as well. And fear not, work on volume three is just beginning.

Indulge me: In our perilous time The Battle Hymn of the Republic calls us to

remember the essence that drove our nation, to those who sacrificed their lives for it and the millions that sailed and trod through danger to get to it to see Lady Liberty's light.

My love for our union and the magnificent president Lincoln who saved it will never die as long as I live. I hope it is passed to the next generation who in turn will pass it to the next.

This Battle Hymn of the Republic has never had more meaning then it does today.  We must remember and never forget that light that lights our nation and has lit the world!

 

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy6AOGRsR80

NBC News poll: American attitudes toward Russia worsen under Trump -- Story + My Comment

I paste the link to these stories below.  Heed them for you, your children and your grandchildren!

My Comment: ELECTION DAY TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2018 -- MARK THIS ON YOUR CALENDAR AND BE 100% SURE TO GET OUT TO VOTE

FOR DEMOCRATS ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2018 TO RETURN THIS NATION TO A SEMBLANCE OF SANITY.  REPUBLICAN CONTROL OF

EVERYTHING MEANS THIS NATION'S DEMOCRACY IS AT GRAVE RISK BECAUSE OF TRUMP.  REPUBLICANS OF OLD ARE NO MORE. 

REPUBLICAN MEANS TRUMP AND TRUMP MEANS AN ERADICATION OF OUR DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCES ABROAD INCLUDING NATIONS

IN THE 70 YEAR OLD NATO ALLIANCE.  SINCE WWII NATO HAS WRAPPED ITS PROTECTIVE ARMS AROUND NATIONS TO PROTECT THEM FROM RUSSIAN AND TOTALITARIAN ENCROACHMENT.  IT HAS IN MODERN TIMES HELPED KEEP THE EASTERN EUROPEAN NATIONS FREE.  WITHOUT IT RUSSIA IS PREPARED TO RETURN TO SOVIET ERA STRONGMAN TACTICS AND RETURN TO A TAKEOVER BY AUTHORITARIAN RUSSIA OF EASTERN EUROPE. 

WORSE IT MEANS A RESURGENCE OF FASCISM IN EUROPE.  TRUMP IS TOXIC TO WORLD STABILITY AND ALL THE FREEDOMS THAT DEMOCRACY PROVIDES TO IT.  YES, YOUR VOTE IS THAT IMPORTANT.   WE AS A NATION MUST VOTE THIS TOXIC REPUBLICAN

PARTY OUT OF OFFICE SO BOTH FREEDOM ABROAD AND JUSTICE AT HOME WILL PREVAIL.  REMEMBER NOVEMBER 6, 2018 -- VOTE AND VOTE DEMOCRATIC!

DON'T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT.  TAKE JAMES COMEY FORMER FBI DIRECTOR A LIFE LONG REPUBLICAN'S WORD  FOR IT: 

James Comey, Longtime Republican, Tells ‘All Who Care’ To Vote Democrat In November

“History has its eyes on us,” the former FBI director said after Trump’s remarks in Helsinki.  

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/james-comey-vote-democrat-november_us_5b4ea2ede4b0b15aba89c148

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/nbc-news-poll-american-attitudes-toward-russia-worsen-under-trump-n892196

SEND THIS EMAIL TO ANYONE YOU CHOOSE AND ESPECIALLY TO THOSE IN RED REPUBLICAN STATES AND SWING STATES.  TRUMP REPUBLICANISM MUST NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN!!