Trump Lies and Matt Lauer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Homo Sapiens -- a Short Note on the Forum

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

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

Tap Dancing -- Foreign Policy Forum

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

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

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

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

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

Foreign Policy back to back

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

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

There was NO comparison!

"Donald Trump Does Detroit" by NYT editorialist Charles Blow

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trumpettes (Children of Trump)

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

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

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


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

Pray for Me

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

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

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

A Man Who Cannot Drive

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

rightwingwatch.org

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

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

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

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

nytimes.com|By Jonathan Mahler and Steve Eder

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

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

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

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

Why am I NOT surprised?

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

HILLARY TORCHES TRUMP

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

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

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

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

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

 

 

 

 

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

OUCH!

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

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

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

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

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

ON RELIGION -- THE BEATITUDES

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

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

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

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

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

Blessed are the merciful,
for they shall obtain mercy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sow the Wind

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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