Salient Points and my opinion in italics and bracketed

have tried to copy and paste what I think are the most salient parts of the Whistle Blower Complaint.  I think it easier to understand if it is written.

My opinion:  Lost in the retelling of the Whistle Blower Complaint is my opinion that the real effort of Trump is to change Ukraine back to right wing leadership that would be favorable not only to Trump but to most importantly Putin taking the onus of Russian interference in the US 2016 election, proved beyond a reasonable doubt, and placing it on so called by Trump Ukrainian corruption which is a lie and has since been disproven.  The former Ukrainian Russia friendly corrupt leadership in Ukraine is now hold up in Russia as he was removed from Ukraine.  Russia has taken part of Ukraine -- Crimea -- and Ukraine is now fighting a hot war on that border with Russia.  Ukrainians generally loathe Russian aggression. Putin's desire, of course, is to return the entire Baltic region to Russian control lost during Glasnost and the fall of the former Soviet Union.  Putin is aiming at Kiev to take all of Ukraine.  The question becomes and always has been in my opinion WHY OH WHY IS TRUMP SO DEDICATED TO ADVANCING RUSSIAN AUTHORITARIAN INTERESTS AND TURNING HIS BACK ON THE DEMOCRACIES?  Once we find this out all other dominoes to me would fall into place.   The accusation of Biden's interference has been disproven and is now a conspiratorial lie promulgated by none other than the professional liar Trump!  It helps Putin!

Phone call of July 25 and beginning of the whistle blower Complaint

initiate or continue an investigation into the activities of former Vice President Joseph Biden and his son, Hunter Biden;

assist in purportedly uncovering that allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election originated in Ukraine, with a specific request that the Ukrainian leader locate and turn over servers used by the Democratic National  Committee (DNC) and examined by the U.S. cyber security firm Crowdstrike,  which initially reported that Russian hackers had penetrated the DNC's networks in 2016; and

meet or speak with two people the President named explicitly as his personal envoys on these matters, Mr. Giuliani and Attorney General Barr, to whom the President referred multiple times in tandem.

COVER UP and FOOTNOTES:  Relegating certain information to be held as "Classified" which should not remain classified but is in order to cover up certain actions by Trump or his minions.  "I also believe that applying a classification marking to this information would violate EO 13526, Part 1, Section 1.7, which states: "In no case shall information be classified, continue to be maintained as classified, or fail to be declassified in order to: (I) conceal violations of law, inefficiency, or administrative error; [or] (2) prevent embarrassment to a person, organization, or agency."

It is unclear whether such a Ukrainian investigation exists. See Footnote #7 for additional information.

"I do not know why the President associates these servers with Ukraine. (See, for example, his comments to Fox News on 20 July: "And Ukraine. Take a look at Ukraine. How come the FBI didn't take this server? Podesta told them to get out. He said, get out. So, how come the FBI didn't take the server from the DNC?")

The President also praised Ukraine's Prosecutor General, Mr. Yuriy Lutsenko, and suggested that Mr. Zelenskyy might want to keep him in his position. (Note: Starting in March 2019, Mr. Lutsenko made a series of public allegations—many of which he later walked back—about the Biden family's activities in Ukraine, Ukrainian officials' purported involvement in the 2016 U.S. election, and the activities of the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv. See Part IV for additional context.) [My note:  The entities Trump praises are among the right wing corrupt and have since been voted out of office or removed. Zilenskyy a seemingly honest president, is supposed to clean things up. THERE WAS NO UKRAINIAN INVOLVEMENT IN THE US 2016 ELECTION.  THAT WAS RESERVED FOR RUSSIA PROVEN BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT]

They told me that there was already a "discussion ongoing" with White House lawyers about how to treat the call because of the likelihood, in the officials' retelling, that they had witnessed the President abuse his office for personal gain.

The Ukrainian side was the first to publicly acknowledge the phone call.

  "Donald Trump expressed his conviction that the new Ukrainian government will be able to quickly improve Ukraine's image [i.e. with Trump and Putin] and complete the investigation of corruption  cases that have held back cooperation between Ukraine and the United States." [lie with much needed by Ukraine to fight Russians 240 million dollars of US military equipment held back]

In addition to White House personnel, I was told that a State Department official, Mr. T. Ulrich Brechbuhl, also listened in on the call.

 Based on my understanding, multiple State Department and Intelligence Community officials were also briefed on the contents of the call as outlined above.

COVERUP:  In the days following the phone call, I learned from multiple U.S. officials that senior White House officials had intervened to "lock down" all records of the phone call, especially the official word-for-word transcript of the call that was produced—as is  customary—by the White House Situation Room. This set of actions underscored to me that White House officials understood the gravity of what had transpired in the call.
•    White House officials told me that they were "directed" by White-House lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored for coordination, finalization, and distribution to Cabinet-level officials.

THE POIGNANT QUESTION:

The poignant question is: WHY DIDN'T THE DNI WHEN HE RECEIVED THE WHISTLE BLOWER COMPLAINT FROM THE IG SAYING IT WAS URGENT GIVE IT DIRECTLY TO CONGRESS AS THE LAW STATES? INSTEAD TRUMP TOLD OFFICIALS TO "LOCK DOWN" ALL RECORDS OF UKRAINE CALL!!

Nancy Pelosi Announces Formal Impeachment Inquiry of Trump

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/24/us/politics/democrats-impeachment-trump.html?emc=edit_na_20190924&ref=headline&nl=breaking-news?campaign_id=60&instance_id=0&segment_id=17294&user_id=85a8ac1c6f518c011d82f4864472cc9b&regi_id=75028030ing-news

SPEAKER PELOSI WAS MAGNIFICENT! An IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY WILL HAPPEN. MADE ME CRY SHE WAS THAT GOOD. STAY TUNED TO MSNBC FOR REPLAY AND AS EVENTS OCCUR!

BEN FRANKLIN WAS ASKED WHAT FORM OF GOVERNMENT DO WE HAVE.  HE SAID "A REPUBLIC IF YOU CAN KEEP IT"  KEEP IT WE WILL!!!

A BRILLIANT INTERVIEW

If you haven't seen Rachel Maddow tonight watch at a later time or go to MSNBC and try to get her show tonight 9/23. She has many revelations that will leave you aghast especially an interview she conducted with Rep. Elaine Luria from Virginia an eloquent soft spoken woman, a physicist and a Navy veteran working in many countries including war zones with nuclear weaponized ships. She is BRILLIANT and it was a brilliant interview testament to the seriousness of Trump's actions which rise to a new level of the necessity of impeachment.

She has an op ed in the Washington Post along with other members of Congress supporting impeachment. Trump has violated his oath of office numerous times swearing an oath to support the Constitution protecting the country from all threats both foreign and domestic.  We are in a new era where the survival and security of the nation and all of us are at risk. It is serious!

Senator Dianne Feinstein laying the groundwork to sue DOJ for release of the whistleblower report

 https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/21/1886964/-Senator-Dianne-Feinstein-laying-the-groundwork-to-sue-DOJ-for-release-of-the-whistleblower-report?detail=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0PEHqdx99bDquahkHsPC8cPwucWUnCc6dfX9hsSYemuOmJ74nx37-ww_Y

 

 

Impeaching Donald Trump cannot be done fast enough for me. At the risk of labeling Democrats feckless and weak it is a MUST to salvage any remaining respect Democrats have lost by their failure to act fast, vociferously and certain on this issue.

If there has ever been a time to impeach -- and I might add convict -- a president for the flagrant abuse of power and obstruction of justice the time is now lest our three branches of government the Founders, in their wisdom, created each a check on the other disintegrate into thin air.  I always knew that this republic stands precariously solely through the consent of the governed.  My fear is the proof of Trump's guilt is so voluminous, so vast and so complex that the electorate tunes out to the very important foundational principles it should uphold. 

How many more illegalities must Trump commit for Congress to do what needs to be done.  Impeachment is the only constitutional remedy short of an election loss to exact this sickening pound of flesh? Trump says he can shoot a person on Fifth Avenue and get away with it. Let us see that he does not!

Whistle Blower Call and email to Speaker Nancy Pelosi

I called and emailed Speaker Nancy Pelosi and told her that the Democratic Party MUST in view of this whistle blower accusation, if true, begin impeachment proceedings IMMEDIATELY.  I was vociferous that Democrats cannot appear to be weak.

I said, Trump should not have the privilege of keeping this Whistle Blower complaint from the Congress receiving it as required by law.  It is an abuse of power against a co-equal branch of government to keep Congress from seeing the Complaint.  It is Congress's duty by law to see the Whistle Blower Complaint and it is also incumbent upon them to keep the name of the Whistle Blower confidential to ensure his/her safety. 

If this egregious even treasonous alleged extortion act by Trump delivered by phone to a  foreign power Ukraine trading $240 million dollars in military aid for dirt on Joe Biden's son to help Trump's campaign, if true, is not grounds for impeachment and even conviction by the Senate then nothing is. 

The Whistle Blower Complaint should be given to Congress post haste.

Here are her contacts if you so choose to voice your opinion.  I suggest you do.  Nothing but the life of the Republic is at stake

Phone Number: (202) 225-4965

https://www.speaker.gov/contact/email-sent

It's Warren

Just made my choice it's Warren for the brilliant person she is. My God let's not choose mediocrity which seems to the American way. Mediocre intellect Bush, and corrupt as all hell disgustingly moronic is Drumpf. Holy God we can surely in a nation of 350 million do better than that.

I like Biden and if he is the choice or anyone else with a "D" after their name they will get my vote. If, however, I could magically create the next president it would be Elizabeth Warren. There is NOTHING mediocre about her. Biden is, in my opinion, too old and not sharp on the come back. Sanders is too old and too gruff.   I want someone SMART and tough but gentle at the same time. Warren is it!! 

Emmett Till’s Memorial Sign Shot Up again 35 days after being replaced -- DESPICABLE

https://blacknewsalerts.com/2019/09/04/emmett-tills-memorial-sign-shot-35-days-replaced/?fbclid=IwAR1SpuDV6Ub1IssubFGolXbkDCk3DnRPTIISB7cqVIqbv6yENKLQK3ZOImM

As long as he can get their vote Trump capitalizes on hate by welcoming the haters into his ranks, refusing to call the extremist right out for what it is and always has been a vessel for hate. Yes, it's always been there but it never has achieved the legitimacy that Trump has accorded it. As long as the haters support Trump, and they do, he will not speak out against it vociferously and condemn it with passion. No he will say there are good people on both sides of the political equation. No, a Klu Klux Klanner, an American Nazi and many in the Republican Party today through his acceptance are NOT good people! Hate courses through their veins and they will use it.

The one or the many who defaced the sign of Emmet Till, who did nothing to deserve his fate, are surely not good people. I cry and shake my head and simply hope even in Mississippi there are more like us than there are of them. If you are Christian follow Christ's words: Matthew 25 40 ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Rollback of clean water protections

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/climate/trump-administration-to-finalize-r

If this does not make your mind explode than nothing will. See link above.  Are we creatures with a brain, do we not have children and grandchildren, do we have human beings that we love? What kind of nation is this that cowers to corporate interests while not giving a rat's petuti about the people who will sicken and die from the pollution effects of these roll back regulations.

One need only look at Flint, Michigan to see what polluted water will do and how torturous the deaths are including an abundance of Legionnaires' disease from tainted water. This is utterly horrible beyond comprehension and hazardous to all of our health!

Call your congress persons and scream bloody murder because this is in fact murder! Send this to anyone you choose.  Vote blue up and down the ticket to save your life and the life of the democratic republic that is at least for now our nation!

See Frontiline's "Flint's Deadly Water."

FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series

My letter to Nancy Pelosi

Speaker Pelosi.  The amount of egregiously flouting law and undermining our Constitution by this president knows no end.  The sheer volume of law breaking criminality of Trump is jaw dropping.  Please do not do what Democrats seem destined to do and that is snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

The overabundant rationales for the impeachment of this presidential menace are staggering.  I implore you to get behind those legislators in the Democratic party who are for impeachment and with precision and haste steer them to the road of drafting Articles of Impeachment.  To do anything less would be to turn one's back on the Founders who gave us a roadmap to prevent an authoritarian mad man like Trump from using the powerful office of the presidency to attain unlimited power and wealth at taxpayer's expense subverting from within the Republic they created. 

"Trump Claims Those Fleeing Bahamas Could Be 'Very Bad People'"

 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-bahamas-hurricane-dorian-survivors_n_5d76aad9e4b0752102312348

 

 

Each day is a new outrage or new outrages.  All those human beings left with nothing from Hurricane Dorian and he wants to keep them from coming here without scrupulous checks on their so called "criminal" status because some fleeing he says "could be very bad people."  What about Trump's criminal status?  Should we not check on that?  He says he does not want to keep them out because they are from the Bahamas and might be "criminals" our supremely racist squatter in the White House meant to say he wants to keep them out because they are black.

Trump who is so corrupt the CIA does not even trust a Moscow asset living here who could be compromised by Trump, the Putin lover, himself.  The CIA fears for our spy's life.  See "The Case of the Moscow Asset."  https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cia-russia-informant-putin-extracted_n_5d76f3b5e4b0fde50c2bbc9b

Chilling.  If this does not confirm alleged treason or CIA fears of it for good reason committed by Trump then I do not know what does.  He must be thrown out of the White House either through impeachment or electorally because he is a very bad person!

IMPEACHMENT NOW! 

VOTE BLUE UP AND DOWN THE TICKET!

Prince Joseph Kennedy wants what’s properly his--by the Globe's Scot Lehigh

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2019/08/27/prince-joseph-kennedy-wants-what-properly-his/galIUiQ8WSlwPPTQ0ceelK/story.html?fbclid=IwAR3eFu0kCOgDzEzf6-xfGmwoc0fJlOppQvrZOG-ITurqnRU0XciL2I6_j4g

It's not that I have anything against Joseph P. Kennedy III who is now holding 9 point lead over Markey but when I put the two of them side by side Markey, I believe, has been wonderful on all the issues and has the greater seniority than Kennedy.

I reserve my right to change my opinion but I have never thought as highly about Joe Kennedy III as I have about other Kennedys. I believe he has yet to show the intellectual heft that Markey possesses. After so sterling a record as Ed Markey has had after Markey's 43 year stint in Congress a head to head match shows Joe Kennedy leading Markey by an even larger 14 point margin. I am surprised. Of course, I would support Joe if he is the Democratic primary choice but is there nothing to be said for experience? I guess it is out with the old and in with the new in Democratic politics these days. There is something to be said for that but in this case at this time Markey gets my vote!

"Trump poses with fake map to make it seem like he didn't lie about Hurricane Dorian"

"The National Weather Service corrected Trump to say there would be no hurricane effects in Alabama. So Trump presented a Sharpie-altered map falsely showing Alabama getting hit."   When asked who drew a circle around Alabama with the Sharpie he said as he said about authorizing the sex silencing payments to Stormy Daniels and Susan McDougal.  He meekly said "I don't know."  He does not know?  How about if one takes a wild guess and say it was Drumpf who authorized the payments and it was Drumpf who drew a fake hurricane circle to include erroneously Alabama.

This may seem like a minor lie but it is not minor. It would be if this were the only thing about which he lied but he has lied over 12,000 during his presidency. It would be minor if people's lives did not depend on accurate hurricane reporting.  It would be minor if this were not the essence of this man. He is a pathological liar and a pathological narcissist which makes him extraordinarily dangerous.  His small hands are within reach of the nuclear football. That is what makes all of this a frightening nightmare.

His state department offers cash to Iranian ship captains. It was authorized by Brian Hook of the State Department. When Drumpf was told this his question was "Who is Brian Hook?" He has no idea who is even in his State Department. This is NO joke. The joke is on those of us who had the stupidity to be conned by this supremely immoral man!

https://shareblue.com/trump-fake-map-hurricane-dorian-alabama-lie/?fbclid=IwAR0QEWeuUlZ5ilF4NaBfsl3nhRcKQD9Bi-C4Kpm4-FGnl3PH6kFC_jEIPBY

General Maddis on Morning Joe

The discussion with General Maddis and the co-author of his book on Morning Joe was riveting. The military competency of General Maddis cannot be denied. I understand what he was saying vis a vie remaining silent on the critique of Donald Trump under whom he served. He did not want to undermine, by getting involved in things political, the strength and success of its leader. He does not stray publicly from the main goal of a military leader and that is to carry out what his commander-in-chief, the president, dictates. It seems when he felt he could no longer do this he left the administration.

I disagree with his adherence to his aforementioned tactic and belief. If General Maddis loves this country so much, was willing in so many cases to lay down his life for it and, it seems, believes firmly in the Founders' separation of powers and democracy they created then I believe it is incumbent upon him to reveal to the American public the criticism of Donald Trump that I know he has. 

This president is a grave threat to this republic as if an enemy were at our gate supporting dictators but critical of democracies and as if he took up the weapons of war in allegiance to tyranny. It is, therefore, I think, mandatory that someone of General Maddis's stature to save our nation from the edge of the abyss, should tell it like it was and what prompted his exit. The very success of this experiment we call democracy depends on it and someone like General Maddis not only could but should critique this president publicly as if he were taking up arms to defend the nation!

Recession Part II

Austan Goolsbee was on Larry O'Donnell. He is an economist who is currently the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. Goolsbee formerly served as the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers and was a member of the cabinet of President Barack Obama. He says Trump's tariffs are INSANE and leading us into another recession. Tariff wars according to him are NOT easy as the Beast lies when he says they are. China will not give in and is in fact selling its wares to other nations. Things American manufactures rely on to create their products are soaring in price. Goolsbee thinks because of Trump's idiocy tariffs what will happen is the opposite of what Trump says.

Trump is cratering the economy that already is a hardship to those Trump thinks are his base -- farmers. Unless he changes his ways, watch, wait and see as we retreat to yet another recession affecting our 401K's, other investments and earnings his base relies on to survive. The suicide rate among farmers is the highest it has been as they lose their family farms!! VOTE BLUE UP AND DOWN THE 2020 TICKET AND SAVE LIVES!!

FB Post -- Funny

A Hitlerian Menace

By George Voyager

I genuinely wish I was making this up. Because every normal human being in this country wishes this was not true. It is.
"When you’ve already separated families, thrown children in cages, and held them in conditions that “could be compared to torture facilities,” it’s a bit of a challenge to come up with your next act. Evil takes creativity, and once you’ve forced migrant kids to go weeks without a shower or change of clothes and fed them expired food, it’s tough to continue nailing those Hitler comparisons. Somehow, though, the Trump administration always rises to the occasion:

Immigrant advocates in Boston say federal authorities are unfairly ordering foreign-born children granted special immigration status for medical treatment to return to their countries. The Irish International Immigrant Center says it’s aware of at least five local families who have received notices this month to leave the U.S. within 33 days. The families have “medical deferred action,” which enables them to receive government-funded health care and work legally while their children receive medical treatment…. Advocates say similar notices have been recently issued in California, North Carolina, and other states.

The new policy is reportedly a major departure from long-standing legal practice; for decades, the federal government has used it to exercise discretion where a little humanity is warranted, like when a child is critically ill and will die if ordered to leave the country. Unfortunately for such children, humanity is not part of the Trump administration’s agenda. Per the Boston Globe:

Consider the case of Marie and her 13-year-old son. They were visiting Boston in 2013 when the boy fell ill. He was diagnosed with sickle cell anemia, a genetic condition for which he’s been treated at Boston Medical Center. She filed for medical deferred action almost immediately and they were approved in 2017. The status, valid for two years, meant she could get a work permit and he would be granted MassHealth and afford access to life-saving care. She is required to bring him into BMC for monitoring every two months; otherwise acute problems might arise that can result in brain damage or kidney failure, she said. Last week, Marie got a denial letter from US Citizenship and Immigration Services after filing for a renewal. They were instructed to leave within 33 days or else risk deportation."

What is this person made of?  

I rest my case:  VOTE BLUE in 2020 to get the Hitlerian menace of Trump off our necks!

"Breaking Hate" -- our lives imperiled

I am posting this a little late but you can catch it, I am sure, at other times tonight or even ultimately online. MSNBC is showing a special entitled "Breaking Hate." It is a must see for all those who in our time see the threat of Fascism within these United States. It is guaranteed riveting broadcasting for all groups and most especially for my fellow Jews and other minorities. Is Hitler dead? He is in body but his spirit lives on. We must be aware in our Trumpian times of those whose main purpose in life is to kill those whom they do not consider white.  Hate and the violence it breeds is infecting our nation and is getting bigger every day we do not pay attention to its threat. 

Who of us could know when Trump descended his escalator in Trump Tower to announce his candidacy for president that he would win, ultimately condone and usher in an extremist force hell bent on creating a totalitarian dictatorship within a once strong democracy?  It is sick and he is sick but those who could legally through impeachment end his repulsive rule will not budge within a Republican Party that brings back memories Hitler's brown shirts in the 1930's.  Do not be deceived it can and is happening as this is being written right here and right now.  

AntiSemitism and many other hate crimes against minorities have risen to heights never before anticipated as has the violence against our brown and black brothers and sisters. It is mandatory to view "Breaking Hate" for the words Never Again to mean something. It can happen here unless we, all of us, who are of kind and empathetic hearts stop it before it ruins a heretofore great nation and imperils all of our lives.  RESIST!

My bet -- Sewage for a soul

Just a hunch with no proof but hey if Drumpf can indict Clinton with no proof I can indict the Beast.  I'm betting on Drumpf and/or his minions of his ultra wealthy men allegedly having sex with Epstein's underage teens had a LOT to lose.  Somehow he/they got to one or more prison officials and said just let Epstein stay without a suicide watch and let him do his own handiwork killing himself. No one has to actually do a thing except let him be on his own with no one in his cell.  Epstein attempted suicide two or three weeks before.  Epstein will take care of the dastardly deed and let the ultra rich off the hook.   Money talks in the U$ of A.

The fact that Drumpf tweeted Clinton as the guilty one took the spotlight off Trump or so he thought.  It really put the spotlight on the Beast. I say no. Drumpf coming out so quickly to offer up the false flag of Clinton to me only made Drumpf look guilty and more likely that he allegedly committed the crime or his ultra rich crime syndicate did by having those in prison power, the guards, do his/their bidding.  My guess is it would be for a nifty price that could easily be paid by polluted, corrupt and very rich men with sewage for a soul.  

Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Apparent Suicide Ahead Of Child Sex Abuse Trial--Doubting Thomas

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwDqfGdJgnstJpKstqvFxHVHsNt?compose=new

 

 

Something is rotten in Denmark. Epstein was supposedly on suicide watch but the watch allegedly was turned off in federal prison. This man had the goods on allegedly SO many powerful wealthy men. Please forgive me if I am a doubting Thomas on this "suicide." Epstein allegedly ran his business out of Mar A Largo, Trump's so called southern White House. Supposedly Drumpf was not involved in this? You will forgive me again if I question the veracity of that. More WILL come out.

Surely if those who wanted Epstein dead think this will be the end of it. Think again. More questions will arise, more on Drumpf's role if any, and more on other rich and powerful men who may be named.  My God how LOW can it go?

The President's Speech--My dear he does not give a damn

Trump utterly fails to draw a straight line between his own racist hate provoking never ending vitriol in front of his base and the violence it evokes.  He delivers speeches of hate indicting inner cities calling them infestations and comparing them to Afghanistan.  He calls immigrants diseased invaders coming to this country in caravans uninvited spreading disease and lawlessness.  Trump knows nothing but lies.  He's told by the Washington Post over 10,000 of them. 

Moreover, he spews words spoken with utter malice toward the four persons of color congresswomen telling them if they hate America (which they do NOT) meaning if they disagree with his rancid policies then they should go home. He never considered their home was here.

His brew is toxic and his election has opened the skies to right wing extremists including white separatists and neo Nazis. He, if you can remember, called himself a NATIONALIST. He said "I'm a Nationalist. " We know what he is talking about. Does he think we are so dumb that he can bamboozle us with his sentiments of lies from a teleprompter?  His speech was probably written by someone else. It sounds nice but my prediction: Nothing but nothing will get done and nothing was said about making weapons of war illegal.

Right wing extremism is VIOLENT, it is cruel and even kills their own people if one does not like what the other is saying. They are an explosive, gun loving, toxic and inhumane political movement who now thinks they died and went to heaven because finally they have a president who yearns for their vote. They never had that before and now they do. It is no accident that hate crimes have increased since Trump walked his unfit-for-the presidency body into the oval office.

Until we rid our nation of the terrible plague of Trump you will see he simply, my dear, does not give a damn!


RESIST AND VOTE BLUE UP AND DOWN THE TICKET

The Threat

White tribalist racism is not new. What is new is a rancid ugly president who sees this strain in the American body politic and, as the con that he is, stokes it and provokes it to win the presidency with the help of Russia. Couple that with the speed of the Internet and it is a recipe for profound disaster.

Trump is without a doubt not blameless. His voice however stupid is heard by his adoring stupid racist base. The Proud Boys, the American Nazi Party, Storm Front, Aryan Nations and so many more think they have died and gone to heaven as their hate groups gain a foothold through Trump. Their ideology heretofore was on the fringe and their path to power a pipe dream. Their thought of becoming mainstream seemed out of reach.

 

American Nazi Lincoln Rockwell was assassinated by one of his own men in 1967 and George Wallace burned out in the American south. I thought it was the end of the extreme of extreme rightwing. Now it is hard to believe its a reality in contemporary politics. Amazing a phony slug like Cretan Trump is responsible for stoking the embers of American hate which never in reality totally burned out. Worse, white nationalism it is worldwide.

RESIST and vote blue up and down the ticket!

OMG another mass shooting

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/shooting-dayton-ohio_n_5d467878e4b0aca3411eede9

OMG another gd shooting in Dayton, Ohio!!!!!!!! 9 dead. I am sickened just sickened. What can one say what can one do? We cannot do much with an entire OBSTRUCTIONIST Republican Senate. I hope it is not too late....all the so called progressive ideals and predictions have come true. There are too many gd guns, military assault rifles and some states with zero or lax background checks for those crackpots who want to injure innocent human beings; climate change is real and has shown its face here and all over the world. Science doesn't care what a science denier thinks and it will do what the real scientists are saying it will.

WAKE UP AMERICA, vote blue up and down tickets or lose your nation and I might add the planet too! My heartfelt condolences to all the victims of mass shootings. Our nation is on the precipice of a sad death at the hands of man's cruelty to his fellow man unless we act -- VOTE. In the end we ALL of us are of one race -- the human race. Rest in peace my fellow Americans we are most ALL of us with you and those who grieve for their loved ones lost!

El Paso Walmart Gunman Identified As 21-Year-Old Trump Supporter Who Was Reportedly Against “Race Mixing” -- A preliminary comment

https://gossiponthis.com/2019/08/03/patrick-crusius-el-paso-walmart-shooter/?fbclid=IwAR1QBtpXv-mBJ96ZxupxjYvcGEC9eDWkcQH-zUYL6Qcm47umEAAidGMJYfY

This is madness:  https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nation-reacts-to-el-paso-walmart-shooting-social-media_n_5d460517e4b0aca3411ec19b

This is indeed madness for a plethora of reasons too late to enumerate now. We MUST as Americans where most of us who were and are the product of immigration stand firm to oppose this right wing terrorist's so called screed of white supremacy​, white nationalism​ and race separation. He is an obscenity and should be shunned as such. The sooner he is tried, prosecuted and rots in prison for life or put to death as he did to infant children and human beings in the El Paso mall the better for our nation.

We who support a kinder, gentler and empathetic nation are NEVER going away, we will NEVER succumb, ​we will NEVER surrender; ​we will join hands each to the other and say as Martin Luther King did: WE SHALL OVERCOME!

Ugly Nationalism

I omitted an important point in Trump's racist rule in my opinion yesterday entitled "My Words are Insufficient" and that is the racist component of Nationalism: Trump calls himself a "Nationalist."  Most in his sphere especially Trump, I am guessing, have not a clue what Nationalism means.  It sounds so intellectual though doesn't it?  Trump, indeed, is no intellectual.  He probably learned that term at the feet of Steve Bannon his once philosophical guru or Stephen Miller his extreme right wing racist advisor. 

Nationalism is often racist -- white racist and it is at its heart and most of all a punishing authoritarianism. It appeals to the many in nations who have a racist history and, too, have felt ignored in national policy and perceived by them demeaned and unappreciated in international sentiment.  It rules out of fear of the "other."  Trump calls himself a Nationalist but we know that means white nationalism. Nationalism means for Trump by his own words America First.  America First was used by the Nazi lover and, sad to say, American aviation hero, Charles Lindbergh.  America First adherents do not care whom they hurt or even kill to get what they want.  The followers who call themselves Nationalist must be unquestioning and submissive to the leader and authority. The penalty not to be so or to question him or those in authority to him can be, of course, in Trump's case removal of them from office or in "The Apprentice" like fashion fired! 

Nationalism is ugly; Nationalism was Nazi Germany; Nationalism was Mussolini's Italy and Nationalism was Franco's Spain. It is authoritarian, it is expansionist, it is cruel and it is murderous in its ideological intent. It seeks war and domination of nations and/or alliances with other authoritarian leaders. Democracy is its enemy.  WWII Nationalism at its end killed 50 and some say 70 million human beings world-wide. It makes no pretense about humane policy; it is not humane; it makes no pretense of being all inclusive. It is not all inclusive. It is exclusionary, separatist and racist.  In the US case it is America First but really means the leader and his henchmen first.  Right now the penalty for opposition to the leader is removal from a job or any angry puerile tweet.  Trump has removed so many they cannot be enumerated on a cable TV panels. Most positions in the Trump universe are "acting."  The impermanence of that means the leader Trump can change on a whim persons who occupy that office.  Trump demands total unquestioning loyalty and appoints those like Trump on this Nationalist path. He is singularly trying to destroy our balance of power system, placing the Executive branch Constitutionally first, Congress second and filling the courts with his right wing extremist lackeys whom he can be assured will do his bidding.  It is chilling that in two years he has been successful in near obliteration of this system of government's checks and balances while pitting one American against another stirring simmering racial animosities that heretofore have remained latent or within fringe groups vociferous.  Trump has given these racist groups an equal voice.

In reality we are and should be a global community interconnected in a thousand ways. Yes, we care about our own interests but must compromise and learn to play well with others. Trump's eradication of everything Obama will, I hope, ensure his failure.  Trump is a failure in business, failure in governing, failure in ethics, a failure in marriage, and an egregious failure in telling the truth.  Again RESIST Nationalism at all costs and save the world.

My words are insufficient

I have been trying to formulate an opinion which directly addresses the poison of racist white nationalism that has infected part of our body politic.  It is understatedly dangerous to ignore as it is advanced by an incompetent, unfit and racist president of the most powerful nation on earth.  The most important historical event which has shaped not only my politics but my being is the WWII Holocaust.  It has done this not only because I am a Jew but because I am an empathetic human being who knows what it feels to be the recipient of the slings and arrows of those who have little to no empathy and a witness to where the path this lack of understanding can lead.  I am able to stand in the shoes of the so called "other."

The question for me becomes how do people do the evil they are commanded to do by their leaders carrying out supreme brutality toward their fellow man and often carrying out heinous orders to abuse not only other men but women and children too.  How can they do it and wake up in the morning, look in the mirror with a satisfaction of who they are?  I stand incredulous that this nation is imprisoning asylum seekers thousands of them -- men, women and children separating innocent children from their parents and enclosing them in crowded cages of filth, disease, with no place to shower or relieve themselves for weeks.  Children are sleeping when they can sleep on cold floors with thin aluminum covers and must often defecate in place.  They are subjected to an endless variety of cruelty, sometimes sexual, certainly humiliating encouraging fear they will never be free.  One young man who had correct documentation of his citizenship rejected as false, was nevertheless detained and finally after more than three weeks was released.  He had lost 26 pounds as the food, if one can call it that, was less than nutritious nor plentiful.  Asylum seekers' sin is leaving a home country of certain death, walking over a thousand miles to the US border to escape that certain death to a better life only to be greeted by a plethora of attitudinal pathology by US guards who locked them up in cages, with little food, facing death again through disease from close confinement and no hygiene not even a toothbrush.  Many who are confined as each day goes by with lights on at all times, find sleep difficult if not impossible so their psychology deteriorates.  They may be scarred for life.

The conditions in these border prisons of brown asylum seekers, of course, remind me of those camps in Germany during WWII. Through their dehumanization of the Jew Germans rounded them up and ultimately slaughtered six million of them gassing them to the ovens.  What does this teach? It teaches us that it can surely happen here; that all human beings have the capacity to stoop to the lowest most hateful denomination of their nature.  It takes a charismatic leader like Hitler then and Trump now to stoke the embers of worry, anger, fear and hate among whites who have felt ignored against the other.  Man's solace is to place the answer to all of his problems in one man, though that man a con, because they think he will keep them safe.  He will not keep them safe.  He will stoke the fires of hate against particular minority groups that has always been there and can lead to violence of violent men against that perceived enemy perhaps even leading to civil war.  It is dangerous.

"Facing History and Ourselves," an organization in Brookline, Massachusetts is dedicated to the understanding of how demeaning and disparaging groups of human beings can lead to a Nazi like totalitarian end and that we must face our own racist historical past as well as our own present being.  In Daniel Goldhagen's book "Hitler's Willing Executioners -- Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust" he writes that ordinary people not simply the powerful were involved in the perpetration of the Holocaust. 

Perhaps my favorite quote is one from "Gentlemen's Agreement" with Gregory Peck.  He is Protestant and a writer who assumes the identity of a Jew in America after the war and says:  "I've come to see lots of nice people who hate it [anti-Semitism] and deplore it and protest their own innocence, then help it along and wonder why it grows. People who would never beat up a Jew. People who think anti-Semitism is far away in some dark place with low-class morons. That's the biggest discovery I've made. [It's] the good people. The nice people."

We must all of us join hands and together return this nation to what it was and what it says on the Lady Liberty's plaque in New York Harbor which my immigrant grandparents saw welcoming them to a new land and new life where they could be free:  In pertinent part it says: ... “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she With silent lips. “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-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” 

Though my own words are insufficient this is who we are but we must reclaim it, take it back from that ugly incompetent leader in our midst and his henchmen who would keep us from it forever.  RESIST!

My letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell--With all Deliberate Speed

Senator McConnell: I remain shocked and incredulous that you refused to send two bills to the floor which would shore up our electoral security at this most threatening time. I think you have shown a side of you that is unethical, self centered and one who does not give a damn about this nation except to secure your own next election and power. This time you will ​not​ secure it. This above any other obstruction you have done remains the most egregious and almost, I dare say, treasonous.

We have been told many times by our intelligence services and now Republican Special Counsel Robert Mueller how Russia, a nation you and Republicans thought an adversary for so long, has been involved in breaching this nation's democratic electoral system the essence of what our democracy is all about. They will continue to do so both here and in Western Europe, Australia and all free democracies of the ​world.​

Russia does not give a damn about our nation, Trump or you except to use you as compromat useful to their goals and that is sowing division among us and electing a president Trump who takes the authoritarian Putin's side over ​the​ best information of our national intelligence agencies. Putin has method to his madness and that is to recoup what Russia during Gorbachev's Glasnost (a freeing up of Russia's autocratic norms) lost. Communist Russia fell and lost its empire. It lost the Eastern European nations like Poland, Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria, ​East Berlin, ​the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, and more. Putin, a former KGB agent, wants his empire back, the glory it would bring to him and wants Russia on top of the international power pile. He is using his best efforts at subverting this nation, the crown jewel of democracy by sowing extremist nationalist discord, electing an American president Trump who kisses Putin's ring, dismembering NATO and more. He is doing this not only to us but to all western democracies. The Republican Party, you in particular and, of course, Trump, are helping him do this.

Moreover, Steve Bannon's original wish for supporting a populist right wing white racist autocrat Trump and his power broker Putin is to make America white again. His nefarious goal is part of the strategy too. You by not allowing election security legislation are helping all of Putin's goals. Please, quoting Joseph Welch at his finest moment during the Army/McCarthy hearings against phony red bating by Joseph McCarthy "At long last​, sir,​ do you have no sense of decency left?"

I, with intensity, ask you as part of a Republican Party which used to be against Russian domination to bring these pieces of legislation to the floor to secure our national elections which at this moment and beyond Russia is trying to subvert and are at risk. Our nation and all democratically elected nations are in peril. If you can do nothing else for our democratic humanity do that. We are all in danger including you! I believe you will lose your 30 year seat in 2020 because you are now on the wrong side of history! Bring this election security legislation to the floor with all deliberate speed before it is too late!​​

Neal Balks At Using New New York State Law To Get Trump Tax Returns

Just called his office and lambasted his worker that he should ABSOLUTELY get Drumpf's tax returns from the NY law just signed by Cuomo to do so. So why is he balking? Trying to get it from the courts? Don't hold your breath. Call his office and demand he use the NY law to get Drump's taxes he's avoided since he ran for office. Why because he has numerous things to hide and WHY does not Neal want to get his taxes? I don't know it makes me wonder how clean they all are. Getting them through the courts takes too long. 

His Washington number is: (202) 225-5601 Tell him to absolutely get Trump's taxes from the NY state law. State taxes often mirror federal taxes.

Oversight of the Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election: Former Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III Wed, 07/24/2019 - 8:30am

Mueller will testify on July 24 R 8:30 a.m. in an open session before the House Judiciary Committee and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The two chairs of those committees, Reps. Jerrold Nadler and Adam Schiff, announced Mueller’s appearance. He will appear separately before both committees, according to a Congressional aide."

If you can't watch it then tape it.

Hearings and Markups

https://judiciary.house.gov/hearings-and-markups

THE SQUAD

The attacks on the so called "Squad" of Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts have been viciously stoked by Trump and the Republicans. They are attacked, in my view, because the forces of entrenched power as well as the politics of hate find them ever so threatening. I am donating when I am able to one and ultimately all of these Congresswomen because they stand for what is moral and right, because they stand against the forces of hate, and because they stand for returning our nation to the international reputation it had before the worst president in American history unfortunately landed through the forces of deception in the oval office where he besmirches its very ground. One does not have to agree with every position these great Democratic congresswomen have but one MUST defend their right to the freedom of speech to say what their opinion is. Standing up to power takes guts and determination. It is not only their right to stand up for what is ethical, moral and right it is their and our obligation to do so! 

I ask if you can afford to contribute to their agenda because their positions on issues should be all of our positions on the issues then do so by googling their Congressional web sites.

RESIST THE REPUBLICAN SWAMP OF CORRUPTION AND HATE.  VOTE DEMOCRATIC BLUE IN 2020 UP AND DOWN THE TICKET AND SEND THIS TO
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THE MUELLER REPORT

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House Democrat introduces articles of impeachment against Trump--500 "likes"

I want to "like" that 500 times! Of course what will happen with it? I never get my hopes up with the Beast. The snake slithers out of everything! I loathe, detest and hate that man. God forgive me I hate to hate. I even made exceptions with Bush but not this evil sewer and his corrupt administration. I can't forgive what he, a former Democrat, has done to catapult the goodness of our nation that which brought people to its shores from around the world; that which truly made our nation great and powerful he is catapulting it into ruin. It shows he does NOT give a damn about ideology and probably did not understand even ideological manufacturer Bannon's rationales. He tapped into what was already simmering in our nation from 2007 the year of the Great Recession under Bush to the election of the first person of color Obama the Good.

There was a fever in the land, he saw it, he felt it and damn the torpedoes he would use his Apprentice skills to attain immense power and the wealth he knew it would bring. He, I will admit, is a master of the con and so was Adolph Hitler!

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-democrat-introduces-articles-impeachment-trump/story?id=64380733&fbclid=IwAR1Hak9rN_AeIu9XRQ3zgU5Xw59iN_9aV3QFYlEOcu7sydygkgoYRUAXTmw

Text of House Resolution 489 -- A Masterpiece

H. RES. 489

Condemning President Trump’s racist comments directed at Members of Congress.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

July 15, 2019

Mr. Malinowski (for himself, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Ted Lieu of California, Mr. García of Illinois, Mr. Carbajal, Ms. Omar, Mr. Krishnamoorthi, Ms. Mucarsel-Powell, Mrs. Torres of California, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Ms. Tlaib, Ms. Pressley, Mr. Raskin, Ms. Jackson Lee, and Mr. Espaillat) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

RESOLUTION

Condemning President Trump’s racist comments directed at Members of Congress.

Whereas the Founders conceived America as a haven of refuge for people fleeing from religious and political persecution, and Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison all emphasized that the Nation gained as it attracted new people in search of freedom and livelihood for their families;

Whereas the Declaration of Independence defined America as a covenant based on equality, the unalienable Rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and government by the consent of the people;

Whereas Benjamin Franklin said at the Constitutional convention, “When foreigners after looking about for some other Country in which they can obtain more happiness, give a preference to ours, it is a proof of attachment which ought to excite our confidence and affection”;

Whereas President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists”;

Whereas immigration of people from all over the Earth has defined every stage of American history and propelled our social, economic, political, scientific, cultural, artistic, and technological progress as a people, and all Americans, except for the descendants of Native people and enslaved African Americans, are immigrants or descendants of immigrants;

Whereas the commitment to immigration and asylum has been not a partisan cause but a powerful national value that has infused the work of many Presidents;

Whereas American patriotism is defined not by race or ethnicity but by devotion to the Constitutional ideals of equality, liberty, inclusion, and democracy and by service to our communities and struggle for the common good;

Whereas President John F. Kennedy, whose family came to the United States from Ireland, stated in his 1958 book “A Nation of Immigrants” that “The contribution of immigrants can be seen in every aspect of our national life. We see it in religion, in politics, in business, in the arts, in education, even in athletics and entertainment. There is no part of our nation that has not been touched by our immigrant background. Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.”;

Whereas President Ronald Reagan in his last speech as President conveyed “An observation about a country which I love”;

Whereas as President Reagan observed, the torch of Lady Liberty symbolizes our freedom and represents our heritage, the compact with our parents, our grandparents, and our ancestors, and it is the Statue of Liberty and its values that give us our great and special place in the world;

Whereas other countries may seek to compete with us, but in one vital area, as “a beacon of freedom and opportunity that draws the people of the world, no country on Earth comes close”;

Whereas it is the great life force of “each generation of new Americans that guarantees that America’s triumph shall continue unsurpassed” through the 21st century and beyond and is part of the “magical, intoxicating power of America”;

Whereas this is “one of the most important sources of America’s greatness: we lead the world because, unique among nations, we draw our people — our strength — from every country and every corner of the world, and by doing so we continuously renew and enrich our nation”;

Whereas “thanks to each wave of new arrivals to this land of opportunity, we’re a nation forever young, forever bursting with energy and new ideas, and always on the cutting edge”, always leading the world to the next frontier;

Whereas this openness is vital to our future as a Nation, and “if we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost”; and

Whereas President Donald Trump’s racist comments have legitimized fear and hatred of new Americans and people of color: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That the House of Representatives—

(1) believes that immigrants and their descendants have made America stronger, and that those who take the oath of citizenship are every bit as American as those whose families have lived in the United States for many generations;

(2) is committed to keeping America open to those lawfully seeking refuge and asylum from violence and oppression, and those who are willing to work hard to live the American Dream, no matter their race, ethnicity, faith, or country of origin; and

(3) strongly condemns President Donald Trump’s racist comments that have legitimized and increased fear and hatred of new Americans and people of color by saying that our fellow Americans who are immigrants, and those who may look to the President like immigrants, should “go back” to other countries, by referring to immigrants and asylum seekers as “invaders,” and by saying that Members of Congress who are immigrants (or those of our colleagues who are wrongly assumed to be immigrants) do not belong in Congress or in the United States of America.

An Obligation

There are no words left anymore to describe the sickening epithets, moronic tweets and corrupt actions of Trump.  He now goes against Democratic women who have the unmitigated gall to critique his holiness.  His policies including the roll back of regulations allowing corporations to pollute air, water and anything else they can get their lobbyist hands on that spells corporate money guaranteed to kill generations most especially children, denied climate change dooming this planet to certain destruction, made lobbyists of money king, nuked Obama's Iran nuclear deal because it was, of course, Obama's opening this nation and the world up to nothing less than nuclear war.  In Hitlerian Fascist-like fashion he is exploiting the white part of the American population's racist fear of the country's metamorphosis into brown and whose cruelty against asylum seekers is a crime against humanity -- a return to those heady concentration camp days of 1942.  He exploits untruths of hot button words like Communist and Socialist which do not describe the squad of women of color he critiqued but did allow them to hit bullseyes as they addressed Trump's vicious and yes, of course, racist lies against them.

The trajectory of Trump's life has been spent in a courtroom suing those whom he has perceived to critique him, or to defend against the illegalities he has allegedly committed to accumulate cash and its attendant side car of power. His life has been a trajectory of greed, lies, abuse of women and a desire to beat the system no matter how illegal his attempts are and walk away with billions he should not have. The fact that he became a national leader -- our leader -- who loves dictatorships and is the so called "leader" of the free world is all of our immense misfortune. He is a curse on our nation and a curse on the world. He made lucky men out of the world's worst men -- Putin, the true Communist tyrant Kim Jong Un, the murderous bin Salman, and others who think they died and went to heaven laughing all the way to wealth and power while, accumulating a powerful ally, a treasonous US president named Donald J. Trump.   Again, I quote Christ in whom right wing nationalists and extremists profess to believe but their actions say they do not. I again say to the hypocrite of hypocrites, Donald Trump: "What profit a man if he gain the whole world but lose his soul." Right wing extremists do not answer to me but allegedly answer to the Jesus Christ in whom all of them say they believe.

The pied piper of hate Trump said what he did because the Democratic Congresswomen had the gall to criticize him. They love this nation and its democracy as I do but loathe what it has become under Trump. We are under Trump an unethical sewer where so many have been fired or left there is no room on TV computer panels to list them all.  The worst fox is guarding the chicken coop.  Trump promised to drain the swamp but in fact he is the swamp.   I hope the progressive four and a Democratic House, Senate and Presidency in 2020 ultimately can right Trump's immense wrongs which is sinking our ship of state and get across to the American public it is not a sin to criticize a leader and, in fact, in a democracy it is an obligation to do so!

INTELLIGENCER: "... Trump Says Only Trump Supporters Deserve Free Speech"

"Trump’s invocation of “free speech” is consistent: His entire goal is to promote supportive views and suppress hostile ones. And the willingness of virtually the entire conservative movement to support or tolerate his cynical conscription of free speech to intimidate the media reveals how little it, too, cares about freedom."

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/trump-free-speech-twitter-google-facebook-authoritarianism.html?utm_source=fb&utm_campaign=nym&utm_medium=s1&fbclid=IwAR0ZyWJuGBne9TbCpwjGyTPbxr0LIzQlSgeXOrJRsUeKALP5kPYqUqatH0k

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July 4th -- Before it's too late

uly 4th took on different meanings for me at  different ages.  When I was very young, unlike others with whom I played, July 4th was always sad.  I learned later why it was so.  My sister five years older than I died of birth defect complications on July 4, two weeks after her birth.  My mother never got over the sadness of that date and it permeated our household. 

Later as I grew to learn all the patriotic songs, listened to George M. Cohan's patriotic music, I came to realize the tug of July 4th on my patriotic heart strings and, of course, accepted all the stories, some true and some not so true, about the American Revolution, the birthday of our nation and what it meant for us in our time.  Patriotic holidays and their accoutrements were woven into the sinew of my soul at a very young age concentrating on the positive and leaving the negative realities of the nation's birth such as the demolition of the indigenous Indian population, on the cutting room floor.

I had to wait until my college years in the late 1960's for the questioning of government policy as well as our national history to take shape.   The foundation of it began to crack.  Two issues one foreign (Vietnam) and one domestic (the black experience) began my questioning of our national truths.  Our nation's gravest and, in my opinion, most egregious domestic sin, slavery, was brought into view.  The injustice of the institution of slavery became vivid.  Lincoln freed the slaves but would gladly have repatriated them to Africa if it would have saved the union.  In high school a young woman of color whom I knew told me she was going to run for class office.  She said she knew she would never win.  I asked why and she said "because I'm black."  It shocked me then but surely does not now.   She never did win; a white girl did of course.  I reflected on that in my more mature years finally acknowledging the impact of racism on this nation.  In 1966 she could not win not even in the most academically rich and progressive state of Massachusetts.  The profound injustice in this nation of the experience of persons of color to me could not be denied and still cannot.  We see it everywhere -- in voter suppression, in a return to Jim Crow era poll taxes in some states making it harder even in our more aware time for persons of color to vote.  The right to vote, the most elemental right in a democracy is still, even now, attempted by Republicans to suppress the black vote denying power to a people who have never had enough of it.  The court packed with conservatives through nefarious means recently approved gerrymandering to ensure Republican victory in demographically changing times in those areas of the state that were purposefully drawn that is rigged for them to do so.  This is heinous.

In foreign policy I accepted the myth that this nation in war was always on the side of right.   That could certainly be said for WWII.  Since that time, however, things changed.  Vietnam I learned was based on a lie, the Gulf of Tonken resolution, and worse supported a fascist-like regime of Thieu and Ky.  Our enemy the Viet Cong won.  In the late 1960's I protested that war and now cringe at the loss of 58,000 American lives and probably a million Vietnamese, as well as the defoliation of a nation by the release of Agent Orange which kills trees but also kills humans and produces human deformity even to this day. Fast forward to 9/11 when a president took a nation to war with Iraq, a nation that did nothing to us, provoked a civil war and the introduction of Al Qaeda, a terrorist organization, never before seen in Iraq.  With the invasion of Afghanistan a 17 year old war continues.  Thousands of lives have come to an end because of it.   How many more will and to what purpose?

Paragraphs could be written about our latest worst and most democracy erasing corrupt so called president, Donald Trump.  From his support of the worst of dictators on earth to the accepting of Russian influence to elect him, Trump has probably done the most to destroy this Republic Benjamin Franklin asked us to keep.  The worst of this most nefarious, mendacious and misogynistic "president" is his crimes against humanity- the inhuman treatment of those seeking asylum here trying to escape from certain death in their country of origin.  Human beings including thousands of children are subjected to concentration-like imprisonment separating parents from their children.  There is disease in these camps, hunger, malnutrition, and stench with no place even to bathe despite the Trump administration lying telling us it is not so when it most definitely is so.  Is this the patriotism Washington and our Founders created or is it one they feared?

Still, on July 4th even with this nation's aforementioned national sins I still cry at the National Anthem, God Bless America, the Stars and Stripes Forever and take joy in the fireworks of July 4.  I do so because there is still something to be saved in this nation which in 2008 elected its first black president, in 1965 passed the Voting Rights Act, in 1917 gave women the right to vote, in 2018 the Democratic Party elected to Congress the most women in its history for a Democratic victory with a woman for the second time receiving the gavel of Speaker of the House, in 2015 it bestowed marriage rights to its gay citizens and it sill has press freedom the greatest freedom of them all.   It, despite, the previously mentioned flaws remains a work in progress.  Old Glory and the Constitution for which it stands, I believe, is the freest, strongest, wealthiest most liberated nation on earth and despite our present administration's worst efforts at corrupting it all dooming this nation to planet destruction and even possible nuclear war, I believe, it will still endure despite the strongest efforts of the richest among us to steal it. 

To prevent this we all must vote blue in every state, local, national elections and most of all RESIST this current cesspool of Trump corruption to win the day before it is too late for all of us!

President Trump Said Revolutionary War Troops 'Took Over the Airports' in His Fourth of July Speech

I kid you not:  The idiot speaks!

Scroll down to Ch. 4 News

https://time.com/5620936/donald-trump-revolutionary-war-airports/