http://www.newsweek.com/2016/
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
"How the Trump Organization's Foreign Business Ties Could Upend U.S. National Security"
This is the article from "Newsweek" many have been waiting for written by Kurt Eichenwald about Donald Trump's spider's web nest some with allegedly criminal connections of international business interest that could upend our nation's national security. Larry O'Donnell and Rachel Maddow reported the first news of it in part last evening. Here is the rest of it. If you know any one who has the remotest thought of voting for this charlatan, blowhard, lying, immoral LITTLE man Trump you should forward this to them and to all you think should know this before it is too late!
http://www.newsweek.com/2016/
http://www.newsweek.com/2016/
Harry Reid mocks Trump's health -- Reid is 100% correct --Tevya said it best
Article printed below my comment:
Reid is 100% correct. If it were Hillary that had all his egregious suspect transactions they would be hammering and crushing her flat. Clearly there is a double standard. The problem is there is SO much suspicious associated with Trump (see "Newsweek" article out today "In the Company of Trump") from his health to his less than pristine business record of bankruptcies, fraudulent business practices and in the Bondi case an allegedly egregious in your face quid pro quo illegality. There is so much he says and does that is outrageous and would get another candidate thrown out of the race on their face but he, because of his flamboyance and APPEARANCE of wealth, gets away with it. Tevya from "Fiddler on the Roof" said it best: "When you're rich they think you really know." In Trump's case he doesn't.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/harry-reid-trump-health_us_57d85058e4b0fbd4b7bc026b?
Sunday, September 11, 2016
The Play's the Thing
Yes, Shakespeare's words from "Hamlet" "The play's the thing" reverberated in my ears when I waxed thoughtful after we had seen a theater performance of "Alabama Story" at the WHAT Theater in Wellfleet on Cape Cod.
The Date of the play: 1959; The place: A library in Montgomery, Alabama; the social setting: after the Rosa Parks Montgomery Bus Boycott; the subject: a children's book, "The Rabbit's Wedding," about two rabbits -- one black and one white who marry which was illustrated by the author of the book not to make a racial statement but rather because black and white provided contrast so children could understand which rabbit was which when they married. It was, by all measure, an innocent children's book that, not surprisingly for the time, evoked hysteria among whites in the deep south who wanted it pulled as they interpreted it through their own unsurprising racist prism.
The acting was superb. Among the characters were one young, blond, white woman who sat on a "whites only" bus-stop bench, a black man who loved her, a librarian who was flummoxed by the racial animus over a children's book in her library and a large Cat-on-a-Hot-Tin-Roof Big Daddy white senator who held his white, southern, Confederate flag heritage like a badge of honor to his breast.
More details of the story I think are unnecessary to uncork the rationale behind what it said at least what it said to me. Where does this story come from? From what depths of the sea does it emerge that one hundred years after the Civil War was lost by the south the same prejudice and discrimination that began it through slavery gave birth to Jim Crow at that time? The question for our ears now is one which Justice Roberts said when the Court in their infinite wisdom watered down the 1964 Voting Rights Act. He said we are in a post racial time.
Really, Justice Roberts, really? After our cities still burn with black rage, lead-saturated water fouled in a black neighborhood of Flint, Michigan, black men killed for selling loosie cigarettes or killed for walking in an area with a package of Skittles for merely being black. The officers or those who kill them are often exonerated and the black prison population explodes in the business of private prisons. There are so many more examples of that to make one's head spin.
Where is Montgomery now and who is Montgomery now? Montgomery is here and we are, all of us, Montgomery now. It is no accident that the Donald Trump campaign carries with it a heavy dose of white nationalism, Ku Klux Klan support, and Confederate flag sympathy. It is no accident that Donald Trump's audiences are almost 100% white with an occasional black trot-out to show how egalitarian he is. It is no accident that Donald Trump speaks in almost exclusively white forums sometimes on black issues and it is no accident that his goons assault black protesters at his deplorable rallies.
There is a reason the once Grand High Exalted Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke, explodes in ebullient praise of Donald Trump. The black man knows when Donald Trump says make America great again he surreptitiously does not mean it is about him.
The arc of slavery runs deep within the American blood stream and has grown a cancer on its soul despite all the changes in race relations where its persons of color are concerned. It is so difficult, we can see, to erase the indelible racist ink from our clothing's seemingly permanent stain.
How do we do this? I do not know. Yet we MUST do this and the way to do this is not through the authoritarian discords, minority group roundups, Muslim keep-outs and other swindles and cons a Donald Carnival Barker Trump can exude. The way, rather, it seems to me, is through understanding and the ability to truly walk in another's shoes. We must do this together and do this now or, as our wise Founder Benjamin Franklin said to the revolutionaries of his time and pertinent, I think, to ours: "We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately."
The Date of the play: 1959; The place: A library in Montgomery, Alabama; the social setting: after the Rosa Parks Montgomery Bus Boycott; the subject: a children's book, "The Rabbit's Wedding," about two rabbits -- one black and one white who marry which was illustrated by the author of the book not to make a racial statement but rather because black and white provided contrast so children could understand which rabbit was which when they married. It was, by all measure, an innocent children's book that, not surprisingly for the time, evoked hysteria among whites in the deep south who wanted it pulled as they interpreted it through their own unsurprising racist prism.
The acting was superb. Among the characters were one young, blond, white woman who sat on a "whites only" bus-stop bench, a black man who loved her, a librarian who was flummoxed by the racial animus over a children's book in her library and a large Cat-on-a-Hot-Tin-Roof Big Daddy white senator who held his white, southern, Confederate flag heritage like a badge of honor to his breast.
More details of the story I think are unnecessary to uncork the rationale behind what it said at least what it said to me. Where does this story come from? From what depths of the sea does it emerge that one hundred years after the Civil War was lost by the south the same prejudice and discrimination that began it through slavery gave birth to Jim Crow at that time? The question for our ears now is one which Justice Roberts said when the Court in their infinite wisdom watered down the 1964 Voting Rights Act. He said we are in a post racial time.
Really, Justice Roberts, really? After our cities still burn with black rage, lead-saturated water fouled in a black neighborhood of Flint, Michigan, black men killed for selling loosie cigarettes or killed for walking in an area with a package of Skittles for merely being black. The officers or those who kill them are often exonerated and the black prison population explodes in the business of private prisons. There are so many more examples of that to make one's head spin.
Where is Montgomery now and who is Montgomery now? Montgomery is here and we are, all of us, Montgomery now. It is no accident that the Donald Trump campaign carries with it a heavy dose of white nationalism, Ku Klux Klan support, and Confederate flag sympathy. It is no accident that Donald Trump's audiences are almost 100% white with an occasional black trot-out to show how egalitarian he is. It is no accident that Donald Trump speaks in almost exclusively white forums sometimes on black issues and it is no accident that his goons assault black protesters at his deplorable rallies.
There is a reason the once Grand High Exalted Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke, explodes in ebullient praise of Donald Trump. The black man knows when Donald Trump says make America great again he surreptitiously does not mean it is about him.
The arc of slavery runs deep within the American blood stream and has grown a cancer on its soul despite all the changes in race relations where its persons of color are concerned. It is so difficult, we can see, to erase the indelible racist ink from our clothing's seemingly permanent stain.
How do we do this? I do not know. Yet we MUST do this and the way to do this is not through the authoritarian discords, minority group roundups, Muslim keep-outs and other swindles and cons a Donald Carnival Barker Trump can exude. The way, rather, it seems to me, is through understanding and the ability to truly walk in another's shoes. We must do this together and do this now or, as our wise Founder Benjamin Franklin said to the revolutionaries of his time and pertinent, I think, to ours: "We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately."
September 11 -- DASTARDLY AND DEPLORABLE
It is September 11. Today marks the 15th anniversary that our nation was so dastardly attacked by the most severe assault in this country's history. We should all, one would think, stand together but, alas, we could not be farther apart and we are still,15 years later, at 9/11 war.
I am sad for September 11 and sadder still for our very divided, angry and violent nation. What has changed since then? Some things have for the better changed but much has gotten worse!
Hillary now is being criticized especially by the Republican monster candidate Trump that she erred and insulted those who support him because she said many were "utterly deplorable." She walked back only the scope to which she refereed but not the content.
I, of course, think Secretary Clinton utterly correct because Trump is SO egregious, so insulting and so rude to so many, including in his own Party, it is the height of hypocrisy to accuse her of so little when he has perpetrated so much. The unjust, insulting and untrue comments this Cretan Republican has made against the innocent staggers the mind. The things he has said, if Hillary had said them, would be a game killer for her.
She said something about the human content of his campaign that is in fact true. His campaign IS loaded with DEPLORABLES. It composes, even in its hierarchy, right wing extremists reflected by the KKK who love him, white nationalists, Breitbart dirty tricksters, antiSemites, Duck Dynasty stupids and those who would do anything, even if illegal, to win,
Trump has made huge assaults against his own ally Republicans like "captured McCain" that are, in fact, deplorable assaults but he gets away with them. Trump's entire campaign is a never ending deplorable that concentrates on sensational superficiality but never on the particularities of the issues because he knows NOTHING about them.
It is a revolting, dastardly and deplorable development in which we the people and the electorate find ourselves. This deplorable ugly American, Trump, MUST be crushed or he will crush the nation and take us down with him!
I am sad for September 11 and sadder still for our very divided, angry and violent nation. What has changed since then? Some things have for the better changed but much has gotten worse!
Hillary now is being criticized especially by the Republican monster candidate Trump that she erred and insulted those who support him because she said many were "utterly deplorable." She walked back only the scope to which she refereed but not the content.
I, of course, think Secretary Clinton utterly correct because Trump is SO egregious, so insulting and so rude to so many, including in his own Party, it is the height of hypocrisy to accuse her of so little when he has perpetrated so much. The unjust, insulting and untrue comments this Cretan Republican has made against the innocent staggers the mind. The things he has said, if Hillary had said them, would be a game killer for her.
She said something about the human content of his campaign that is in fact true. His campaign IS loaded with DEPLORABLES. It composes, even in its hierarchy, right wing extremists reflected by the KKK who love him, white nationalists, Breitbart dirty tricksters, antiSemites, Duck Dynasty stupids and those who would do anything, even if illegal, to win,
Trump has made huge assaults against his own ally Republicans like "captured McCain" that are, in fact, deplorable assaults but he gets away with them. Trump's entire campaign is a never ending deplorable that concentrates on sensational superficiality but never on the particularities of the issues because he knows NOTHING about them.
It is a revolting, dastardly and deplorable development in which we the people and the electorate find ourselves. This deplorable ugly American, Trump, MUST be crushed or he will crush the nation and take us down with him!
Saturday, September 10, 2016
CLINTON GETS REAL: ‘BASKET OF DEPLORABLES’ BEHIND TRUMP
She is catching heat from the Trump campaign naturally
from Kelly Ann Conway. Funny how this seeming saccharine Trump
spokesperson does not get what Secretary Clinton said.
Hillary Clitnon is 100% correct. I COMPLETELY AGREE. Trump's supporters ARE a basket of deplorables that include the KKK, white supremacists, Anti Semites, homophobes, anti-Muslim, anti persons of color and Duck Dynasty just plain violent morons.
He said he loves the uneducated and that is who he got so ARE they deplorable? YES, MANY are!
Hillary Clitnon is 100% correct. I COMPLETELY AGREE. Trump's supporters ARE a basket of deplorables that include the KKK, white supremacists, Anti Semites, homophobes, anti-Muslim, anti persons of color and Duck Dynasty just plain violent morons.
He said he loves the uneducated and that is who he got so ARE they deplorable? YES, MANY are!
CNN caught rigging its polling methodology to falsely claim Donald Trump is beating Hillary Clinton. Why am I NOT surprised?
Shame on you CNN and any other cable news that puts across faux statistics!
Dailey News:
CNN and other cable news networks have spent weeks reporting that the race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has been “tightening” – even though there has been little to no evidence in the polling averages of any such tightening – in an apparent attempt to keep their audiences tuned in even as the election grows potentially stale. Now, in an belated effort at legitimizing its invented narrative, CNN has produced a new poll which shows Trump suddenly catapulting into the lead for no apparent reason. But an analysis of CNN’s changes to its polling methodology reveals that it’s a rather blatant fraud.
Recent elections have shown that seven percent more registered Democrats tend to vote than registered Republicans, even if they don’t always vote for the party they’re registered to. That means pollsters must decide whether to sample seven percent more registered Democrats in an attempt at getting the most realistic result, or to simply sample both parties equally under the assumption that they’ll end up showing up in equal proportion. But as it turns out, CNN did neither with its poll: it’s suddenly sampling four percent more registered Republicans than Democrats.
CNN has provided no reason for its sudden jarring change in methodology, which goes against everything that’s known about the national voting base. In fact NBC News studied the changes and concluded that CNN has no reasonable justification for deciding to begin sampling what it calls “an electorate we’ve never seen before.” When even the usually false-equivocating Chuck Todd of NBC is taking a stand against CNN’s bizarre rigging of its own poll, it stands out as being particularly blatant.
Although NBC News was polite enough not to say it in exact words, I will: CNN purposely rigged the methodology of its own poll in order to produce a result that’s in line with the supposed “tightening” that it’s spent the past few weeks falsely reporting on. When you back out the rigging in the CNN poll and re-sample it using a method that’s generally considered valid by professional pollsters, the actual result of the CNN poll appears to show that Hillary Clinton is leading Donald Trump by four points, which is just slightly below the overall polling averages. In other words, nothing to see here, beyond the question of how much CNN may have hurt its own reputation with such a stunt. By releasing phony new poll numbers which fit its preferred narrative, CNN has succeeded in convincing its own most loyal viewers that its ongoing claim of a “tightening” race are indeed valid, thus keeping them glued to the set in suspense – and it’s generated quite a bit of outside attention for the network as observers try to figure out what to make of the shocking (and ultimately fictional) revelation that Trump somehow came out of nowhere and climbed into the national lead. But it’s just the latest reminder that cable news is the lowest of all news formats, the least accurate and the most willing to willfully mislead its audience, and that even network TV news is more willing to draw the line.
CNN caught rigging its polling methodology to falsely claim Donald Trump is beating Hillary Clinton
Shame on you CNN and any other cable news that puts across faux statistics!
Daily News:
CNN and other cable news networks have spent weeks reporting that the race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has been “tightening” – even though there has been little to no evidence in the polling averages of any such tightening – in an apparent attempt to keep their audiences tuned in even as the election grows potentially stale. Now, in an belated effort at legitimizing its invented narrative, CNN has produced a new poll which shows Trump suddenly catapulting into the lead for no apparent reason. But an analysis of CNN’s changes to its polling methodology reveals that it’s a rather blatant fraud.
Recent elections have shown that seven percent more registered Democrats tend to vote than registered Republicans, even if they don’t always vote for the party they’re registered to. That means pollsters must decide whether to sample seven percent more registered Democrats in an attempt at getting the most realistic result, or to simply sample both parties equally under the assumption that they’ll end up showing up in equal proportion. But as it turns out, CNN did neither with its poll: it’s suddenly sampling four percent more registered Republicans than Democrats.
CNN has provided no reason for its sudden jarring change in methodology, which goes against everything that’s known about the national voting base. In fact NBC News studied the changes and concluded that CNN has no reasonable justification for deciding to begin sampling what it calls “an electorate we’ve never seen before.” When even the usually false-equivocating Chuck Todd of NBC is taking a stand against CNN’s bizarre rigging of its own poll, it stands out as being particularly blatant.
Although NBC News was polite enough not to say it in exact words, I will: CNN purposely rigged the methodology of its own poll in order to produce a result that’s in line with the supposed “tightening” that it’s spent the past few weeks falsely reporting on. When you back out the rigging in the CNN poll and re-sample it using a method that’s generally considered valid by professional pollsters, the actual result of the CNN poll appears to show that Hillary Clinton is leading Donald Trump by four points, which is just slightly below the overall polling averages. In other words, nothing to see here, beyond the question of how much CNN may have hurt its own reputation with such a stunt.
By releasing phony new poll numbers which fit its preferred narrative, CNN has succeeded in convincing its own most loyal viewers that its ongoing claim of a “tightening” race are indeed valid, thus keeping them glued to the set in suspense – and it’s generated quite a bit of outside attention for the network as observers try to figure out what to make of the shocking (and ultimately fictional) revelation that Trump somehow came out of nowhere and climbed into the national lead. But it’s just the latest reminder that cable news is the lowest of all news formats, the least accurate and the most willing to willfully mislead its audience, and that even network TV news is more willing to draw the line.
Daily News:
CNN and other cable news networks have spent weeks reporting that the race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has been “tightening” – even though there has been little to no evidence in the polling averages of any such tightening – in an apparent attempt to keep their audiences tuned in even as the election grows potentially stale. Now, in an belated effort at legitimizing its invented narrative, CNN has produced a new poll which shows Trump suddenly catapulting into the lead for no apparent reason. But an analysis of CNN’s changes to its polling methodology reveals that it’s a rather blatant fraud.
Recent elections have shown that seven percent more registered Democrats tend to vote than registered Republicans, even if they don’t always vote for the party they’re registered to. That means pollsters must decide whether to sample seven percent more registered Democrats in an attempt at getting the most realistic result, or to simply sample both parties equally under the assumption that they’ll end up showing up in equal proportion. But as it turns out, CNN did neither with its poll: it’s suddenly sampling four percent more registered Republicans than Democrats.
CNN has provided no reason for its sudden jarring change in methodology, which goes against everything that’s known about the national voting base. In fact NBC News studied the changes and concluded that CNN has no reasonable justification for deciding to begin sampling what it calls “an electorate we’ve never seen before.” When even the usually false-equivocating Chuck Todd of NBC is taking a stand against CNN’s bizarre rigging of its own poll, it stands out as being particularly blatant.
Although NBC News was polite enough not to say it in exact words, I will: CNN purposely rigged the methodology of its own poll in order to produce a result that’s in line with the supposed “tightening” that it’s spent the past few weeks falsely reporting on. When you back out the rigging in the CNN poll and re-sample it using a method that’s generally considered valid by professional pollsters, the actual result of the CNN poll appears to show that Hillary Clinton is leading Donald Trump by four points, which is just slightly below the overall polling averages. In other words, nothing to see here, beyond the question of how much CNN may have hurt its own reputation with such a stunt.
By releasing phony new poll numbers which fit its preferred narrative, CNN has succeeded in convincing its own most loyal viewers that its ongoing claim of a “tightening” race are indeed valid, thus keeping them glued to the set in suspense – and it’s generated quite a bit of outside attention for the network as observers try to figure out what to make of the shocking (and ultimately fictional) revelation that Trump somehow came out of nowhere and climbed into the national lead. But it’s just the latest reminder that cable news is the lowest of all news formats, the least accurate and the most willing to willfully mislead its audience, and that even network TV news is more willing to draw the line.
Trump Lies and Matt Lauer
I have not
liked Matt Lauer or even the Today Show, in general, for a long time. It is mostly a silly saccharine entertainment
show while the nation is politically on life support.
It is a far cry from its beginning in the days of Dave Garroway who used
to sign off the show by saying "peace." Matt Lauer, like much in the faux news
business, I believe, is a corporate shill and was so during the Foreign Policy
Forum of the presidential candidates. I
suspect he went Trump light because the entertainment value (and that is all
Trump is) of Trump must be protected so he will agree to be "interviewed"
on the Today Show and attract viewers. It’s
all about the money, of course, except our LIVES are at stake if this con man
walks into the oval office. It would
truly be, in Trump's words, a DISASTER. Lauer
had a moral obligation to walk Trump back from the lies he said like he did not
support the Iraq War from the beginning.
He did support it from the beginning and he is ON TAPE saying so.
The lying bucket of orange swill, Trump, gets away with ALL of his lies. Trump
is one big con as Romney said. I was no
Romney supporter but he was 100% right on Trump. Matt Lauer had the obligation to we the
people to nail Trump on every lie.
3/4 of the
things or more that Trump says are lies.
He says he gave money to 9/11 victims but there is NO evidence of
that. He allegedly knew
"hundreds" who died on 9/11 but there was NO evidence of that either. What funerals of the victims did he attend? --
Answer: We know of NONE! He said he saw from Trump Tower people
jumping out of the Trade Center buildings when the Trade Towers would NEVER be within
proximal eyesight of Trump Tower. Those
jumping out of buildings were barely visible to those who were closer to them.
He lied when he said he could see hundreds of Muslims cheering as the Towers
fell. None he claims to have seen was
cheering. That was a dastardly lie alienating
half the world.
Although, he
did give a $25,000 dollar contribution from his charity, Trump Foundation,
wholly illegal, to the campaign of Republican Pam Bondi AG of Florida. Directly after that she dropped joining as a
group plaintiff in the lawsuit against Trump University fraud and they bold
face lied about it including Bondi who said the claim is outrageous. It is NOT outrageous and should be
investigated. The quid pro quo of that gift begs investigation and to again use a
Trump phrase “many others believe it too.”
The same quid pro quo allegedly
occurred in Texas. They dropped the
prosecution of Trump University after the AG in Texas received a contribution
from Trump.
Trump’s
campaign is one big lie including how many bankruptcies he has filed, how much
he is worth, what his taxes are, the fraud of Trump Institute, stiffing his
workers including recently Republican policy wonks that left his campaign allegedly
on masse claiming they were not paid. Surprise,
Republicans want to be paid! Last but not least his love affair with Putin is money-driven conflict of interest suspect.
According to
the Washington Post “USA Today tallied the number of lawsuits Trump had been in
over the course of his career. It figured the number topped 4,000 since 1976 —
an average of 100 lawsuits a year. Of
the lawsuits in which Trump has been involved, though, few are so perfectly
Trump-y as the lawsuit filed AGAINST Trump's campaign by the USA Freedom Kids,”
the group of three very young adorable patriotic girls dressed in patriotic
garb who sang at Trump rallies in Pensacola, Fla., this year. They claim he agreed to pay them but didn’t.
Story: USA Freedom Kids v. Donald J.
Trump for President Inc. posted below.
Trump lies
and he lies ALL the time. It is the
moral obligation of the press, including Matt Lauer, to put a microscope to the
lies and to CALL THE CRETAN TRUMP OUT on all of them.
Thursday, September 08, 2016
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.
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!
Wednesday, September 07, 2016
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!Monday, September 05, 2016
"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.
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!!
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.
Saturday, September 03, 2016
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.
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.
Saturday, August 27, 2016
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…/d
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
Friday, August 26, 2016
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!
Thursday, August 25, 2016
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/
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