www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nyt-hitler-review-trump_us_57ebecc9e4b024a52d2bf804?section=&
My comment: I hate, loathe and detest Trump. I cannot even look at the orange-faced orangutan without muting the TV every time he speaks because I cannot stand his ugly voice sniffing away. It nauseates me.
Having said all of that I am leery of all Hitler comparisons because there truthfully has not been a saturated with evil man like he yet. The difference in our nation is that no one will keep silent. If he so much as tried dragging someone off in a train to deportation he and his goons will face resistance.
I am Jewish. The worst thing about the Holocaust, in my opinion, is that Jews went to the slaughter pretty much without resistance. They had no guns. When they did resist like in the Warsaw Ghetto of Poland it proved effective because the Nazis did not expect it. Now, in our time in our Republic NO ONE but NO ONE will be carted off to the slaughter without receiving resistance times 10. It is a different time, a different place and a different people.
Moreover all this talk, in my opinion, will be moot as he is NOT going to take the presidency. People of color and Hispanics are enrolling to vote en masse and will NOT be denied. There are plenty of whites like me who stand with them side by side. It simply ain't gonna happen that this orangutan clown with his vile entourage will walk into the oval office... NEVER not now or not EVER!
This is a running commentary on contemporary social, political and religious issues. From the Introduction of James Comey's book "A Higher Loyalty -- Truth, Lies and Leadership" "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary" Reinhold Niebuhr
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
The Pot Calling the Kettle
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/donald-trump-alicia-machado…&
Trump Doubles Down On Attacking Former Miss Universe's Weight
"We had a real problem with her," “She was the worst we ever had,” he said. “She was the winner, and she gained a massive amount of weight, and it was a real problem." He called her Miss Housekeeping because she was Latina
Alicia Machado the former Miss Venezuela and Miss Universe is lovely but that is not the issue. The issue is Trump is a beast with no character! What kind of man would say in front of millions of viewers or really in front of anyone that "We had a real problem with her," “She was the worst we ever had,” he said. “She was the winner, and she gained a massive amount of weight, and it was a real problem." He called her Miss Housekeeping because she was Latina?
Donald Trump has absolutely ZERO humanity and ZERO empathy. I hate that man more than I have ever hated anyone in the political sphere and there have been a number of disgusting know nothing politicos that have trod the path of deplorables but he, without question, to me, is, perhaps, one of the worst!
I will stoop to his level and say he is one of the ugliest men inside and out I have seen with his comb-over bleached orange hair. Not only is he ugly but he is hugely overweight. How about someone telling that jerk that fact and see how he likes it? He is truly the pot calling the kettle fat!
Poor Melania Trump in four years she will be 50. God forbid she gain any weight or her skin shows signs of aging or what if she becomes disabled from the ravages of disease? The serial philanderer Trump will trade her in for someone younger, skinnier and a healthy woman in a nanosecond as if a woman were just a car one can exchange for a new model.
What do his statements say to those of us who do not measure up to his Miss Universe standards? Should we retire from life, suffer from self-hatred and commit suicide or should we kick sand in the bully's face, fight back and not let him get away with hurling insults that pierce our psychological armor?
Donald Trump, you are truly the pot calling the kettle fat. I believe in justice and fair play. Trump has done many unjust egregious things to the less powerful among us. He is the consummate bully whose insults land as broken glass piercing our hearts. Sometimes, I believe in revenge toward the bully so that the weakest among us who is hurt by him becomes the most powerful and helps those who have been stymied by life's tragedies. That is justice.
Matthew 16:26 says "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?" Donald, you have forfeited your soul a long time ago. We need, as an electorate, to make sure he does not, through the presidency of this nation, gain the whole world.
A quick debate review--off the top--BABE RUTH
I was SO very sick with a cold/sinus infection but I did everything I could to watch it all while sneezing, coughing and using up boxes of Kleenex. I did watch the whole thing and 1/2 hour of the analysis. I wanted to kick that rude lying excuse for a human Trump. He is so sickening, so awful, so utterly VILE and a pathological liar. I knew Hillary had won big.
Hillary was EVERYTHING she should be. Most of all she was prepared while Trump wasted the day. She looked beautiful, strong, smiling and utterly put together. It was like watching Babe Ruth in comparison to youth little league. I was SO happy. I had the worst absolute worst rhino virus of my life but if I was on my death bed I would not have missed it.
He is the worst piece of humanity to ever sadly cross our political paths. The reviews are coming in very good for her I think. She was SO prepared, the consummate professional and when he ever said she did not have the stamina the audience even laughed -- 12 hours in front of the Benghazi Committee, travel to 126 countries, Secretary of State she helped to make major agreements that were solid agreements, had two terms in the Senate yeah right she had no stamina. He is an IDIOT!
Trump was ugly and the split screen did him NO justice. His facial expressions were off putting. The guy never smiled--never. He sounded nervous with a very dry mouth drinking water profusely and the lies kept piling up. Oh by the way what is with that sniff? He sounded at times like he needed an oxygen mask. Okay, I know it's a low blow but since he is the king of the low blows he deserves it.
Last I saw in the middle of the debate it was Trump 11 lies and Hillary 0. I rest my case.
Monday, September 26, 2016
A Day at the Office
The opinion by Doug Bandow at the link below is excellent in its brevity but wise in its scope. It makes a compelling case in precise fashion against eternal war waged by the US. I urge you to read it in view of our upcoming election and US policies of continual war and the Wharton Business School fantastic Trump's risk of beginning a nuclear one. My comments are below the link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-bandow/clinton-and-trump-call-yo_b_12172340.html?
Comment
It is truly amazing the nations we have hit and/or invaded in a century or more of invasive war. Post WWII we have waged permanent war all around the globe most of which were unsuccessful and all to advance US interests and, oh yes, fed to us through the faux line of democratizing and freeing the nations we invade.
Yes, every nation state has interests but our invasions are exceptional -- what else for an exceptional nation, perpetual and never ending. Often it does not win friends nor influence people. Our geographical blessing has kept us free from invasion but has not saved us from nation state condemnation and rage of those we attack. People get angry when you drop bombs on their heads and kill those attending a wedding, family reception, friends that they love and not to be forgotten the innocent children who do not know the why of any of it or what collateral damage means.
60 Minutes last evening showed a segment on the growing threat of nuclear war especially between Putin's Russia and us. It gave us a snapshot of our nuclear arsenal and the planes that will drop the nuclear bombs. It was chilling enough to freeze the toes off a polar bear. Those interviewed talked about it like they were making a ham sandwich or taking you through a tour of a Fritos factory. It was, indeed, one of the most frightening 60 minute segments I have watched.
Oh yes, Russia is prepared to drop a nuke and we are surely prepared to drop one on them or two or three. Whatever we have, of course, Russia has more encouraging our military industrial complex to salivate and prompt a desire to add more to our arsenal making those who own those companies very very very rich;1% rich. Ho hum, just another day at the office.
The cavalier attitude of both nations to fight a nuclear war albeit a small one was bone chilling frightening. So let's keep up never ending war and see who will be first to drop the bomb and begin a cavalcade of mutual and global destruction. If climate change does not kill you then nukes surely will!
Sure, elect Donald Drumpf who knows nothing about anything and see how fast he can jet propel the globe into annihilative nuclear war. Since he asks so many questions about the nukes he knows nothing about one can almost be assured if, god forbid, he is elected to the presidency he will love to try a few out! You know, like a new car. Simply take it out for a spin and while he is at it take the planet and us out with it What a guy!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-bandow/clinton-and-trump-call-yo_b_12172340.html?
Comment
It is truly amazing the nations we have hit and/or invaded in a century or more of invasive war. Post WWII we have waged permanent war all around the globe most of which were unsuccessful and all to advance US interests and, oh yes, fed to us through the faux line of democratizing and freeing the nations we invade.
Yes, every nation state has interests but our invasions are exceptional -- what else for an exceptional nation, perpetual and never ending. Often it does not win friends nor influence people. Our geographical blessing has kept us free from invasion but has not saved us from nation state condemnation and rage of those we attack. People get angry when you drop bombs on their heads and kill those attending a wedding, family reception, friends that they love and not to be forgotten the innocent children who do not know the why of any of it or what collateral damage means.
60 Minutes last evening showed a segment on the growing threat of nuclear war especially between Putin's Russia and us. It gave us a snapshot of our nuclear arsenal and the planes that will drop the nuclear bombs. It was chilling enough to freeze the toes off a polar bear. Those interviewed talked about it like they were making a ham sandwich or taking you through a tour of a Fritos factory. It was, indeed, one of the most frightening 60 minute segments I have watched.
Oh yes, Russia is prepared to drop a nuke and we are surely prepared to drop one on them or two or three. Whatever we have, of course, Russia has more encouraging our military industrial complex to salivate and prompt a desire to add more to our arsenal making those who own those companies very very very rich;1% rich. Ho hum, just another day at the office.
The cavalier attitude of both nations to fight a nuclear war albeit a small one was bone chilling frightening. So let's keep up never ending war and see who will be first to drop the bomb and begin a cavalcade of mutual and global destruction. If climate change does not kill you then nukes surely will!
Sure, elect Donald Drumpf who knows nothing about anything and see how fast he can jet propel the globe into annihilative nuclear war. Since he asks so many questions about the nukes he knows nothing about one can almost be assured if, god forbid, he is elected to the presidency he will love to try a few out! You know, like a new car. Simply take it out for a spin and while he is at it take the planet and us out with it What a guy!
Sunday, September 25, 2016
For Whom to vote or not to vote that is the question
It is beyond far beyond my comprehension how anyone who calls themselves human with a human big brain cannot see the CON in this Republican con man, Donald Trump. His corruption is so obvious if one is following the campaign it could hit one in one's face.
Hillary's emails pale by comparison to Trump's incessant lying, Foundation illegalities taking allegedly charitable money and pumping it in to personal purchases, Trump Corporation's foreign megga conflicts of interest vis a vie China, Russia and other hostile nation states. Add to it the fact that attorneys general will go after Trump for perjury with respect to the Jeb Bush attempted bribe to make Florida casino land. Bush did NOT bite and Trump got mad, had his henchman working on it but fell flat. Jeb Bush told the 100% truth on the Republican debate stage. Trump either flat out lied to Republicans in the primary debate or perjured himself in a deposition about it. Oh yes, one more thing that $20,000 alleged buck bribe to Florida Attorney General Bondi for her NOT to pursue the multiparty lawsuit against the allegedly fraudulent Trump University.
Think on the many blue collar workers who said they did not get paid for work on Trump's buildings and the plagiarism and alleged fraud of Trump Institute. It is mind exploding how anyone on planet earth USA would vote for such a liar, con man and fool. Think on the many authors and noteworthy persons who know him and have worked with him like the ghost writer of Trump's book "The Art of the Deal," Tony Schwartz, in his lengthy interview with the New Yorker said: "I helped to paint Trump as a vastly more appealing human being than he actually is. And I have no pride about that. ... I did it for the money. It's certainly weighed on me over the years. "Now, since he's ... in a position to potentially become president, it makes my decision back then look very different than it did at the time." "One of the chief things I'm concerned about is the limits of his attention span, which are as severe as any person I think I've ever met," Schwartz says. "No matter what question I asked, he would become impatient with it pretty quickly, and literally, from the very first time I sat down to start interviewing him, after about 10 or 15 minutes, he said, 'You know, I don't really wanna talk about this stuff, I'm not interested in it, I mean it's over, it's the past, I'm done with it, what else have you got?' "
Then there is what David Cay Johnson writes in his book "The Making of Trump." Johnson is an expert in tax law and has studied Trump for 30 years. He has little good to say and a lot of bad.
Finally, Trump's ever present taxes which would tell so much but he refuses to reveal them. An audit makes no difference he still could release them or at least release other tax returns from years where his taxes were final. If they proved him right he would reveal them but they do not and releasing them would nail him as the liar he is. He paid little to no taxes and made few charitable contributions of worth. I rest my case. For whom to vote? That's easy. Without question it should be Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Hillary's emails pale by comparison to Trump's incessant lying, Foundation illegalities taking allegedly charitable money and pumping it in to personal purchases, Trump Corporation's foreign megga conflicts of interest vis a vie China, Russia and other hostile nation states. Add to it the fact that attorneys general will go after Trump for perjury with respect to the Jeb Bush attempted bribe to make Florida casino land. Bush did NOT bite and Trump got mad, had his henchman working on it but fell flat. Jeb Bush told the 100% truth on the Republican debate stage. Trump either flat out lied to Republicans in the primary debate or perjured himself in a deposition about it. Oh yes, one more thing that $20,000 alleged buck bribe to Florida Attorney General Bondi for her NOT to pursue the multiparty lawsuit against the allegedly fraudulent Trump University.
Think on the many blue collar workers who said they did not get paid for work on Trump's buildings and the plagiarism and alleged fraud of Trump Institute. It is mind exploding how anyone on planet earth USA would vote for such a liar, con man and fool. Think on the many authors and noteworthy persons who know him and have worked with him like the ghost writer of Trump's book "The Art of the Deal," Tony Schwartz, in his lengthy interview with the New Yorker said: "I helped to paint Trump as a vastly more appealing human being than he actually is. And I have no pride about that. ... I did it for the money. It's certainly weighed on me over the years. "Now, since he's ... in a position to potentially become president, it makes my decision back then look very different than it did at the time." "One of the chief things I'm concerned about is the limits of his attention span, which are as severe as any person I think I've ever met," Schwartz says. "No matter what question I asked, he would become impatient with it pretty quickly, and literally, from the very first time I sat down to start interviewing him, after about 10 or 15 minutes, he said, 'You know, I don't really wanna talk about this stuff, I'm not interested in it, I mean it's over, it's the past, I'm done with it, what else have you got?' "
Then there is what David Cay Johnson writes in his book "The Making of Trump." Johnson is an expert in tax law and has studied Trump for 30 years. He has little good to say and a lot of bad.
Finally, Trump's ever present taxes which would tell so much but he refuses to reveal them. An audit makes no difference he still could release them or at least release other tax returns from years where his taxes were final. If they proved him right he would reveal them but they do not and releasing them would nail him as the liar he is. He paid little to no taxes and made few charitable contributions of worth. I rest my case. For whom to vote? That's easy. Without question it should be Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The Road Ahead -- by the 100 year old Kirk Douglas
It is short and beautiful essay and the essence of who I hope we are!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-road-ahead_us_57e03be4e4b08cb1409749f2
Friday, September 23, 2016
What a President can do -- Thoughts on my good news--my shadow
I am rethinking my ebullience of
last night after listening to Rachel Maddow’s very hopeful unique summary of
election events. I begin to reflect and
the pessimism that has a front seat on my shoulder takes over the view. I begin to think I will look less than analytically
stellar if Republicans mount an effort on election day and God forbid win. The correctness of
my analytics means nothing but all of our futures do, indeed, mean something.
Before
Rachel’s show last night I listened to WGBH which had a segment that discussed
what would happen in a Trump presidency.
The damage that low life could do to our social fabric is heart
stopping. My heart sank. Trump, if elected, could do IMMENSE harm to
all the positive things those who, over centuries, were dedicated. Many gave their lives so justice could prevail.
All of the positive social change can be overturned in a near nanosecond
by a narcissistic always mendacious blob of humanity Trump who could occupy the
most powerful position in the world – the American presidency.
What could a
president Trump do especially if he carries a Republican Congress with him and
even if he doesn’t? Answer: TONS. Some things include the obliteration of the nuclear
deal with Iran which would allow Iran to immediately begin building nukes stopped
under the agreement. Iran directly has
stated just that. A president Trump
could change the face of SCOTUS backwards into prior centuries stopping a woman
from controlling her own body or gaining equal pay for equal work, nullify the world's climate change agreement, eradicating
the Affordable Care Act placing 20 million without health insurance, lowering an
already painfully low minimum wage, an immigration round up of 11 million human
beings many of whom built law abiding lives over decades having children born
here who are Constitutionally citizens,
building a wall costing billions to keep humanity out, and not allowing Muslims
to immigrate or Syrian and other Muslim refugees in at all. The policy on Muslims is particularly odious
since this nation began an Iraq War that resulted in the breakup of an entire
Middle East. The mayhem the Bush
presidency created by that war Trump SAID he was for and the horrific Syrian
Civil War we see today are ramifications of it.
We will close the doors to those people in desperate life and death situations
which in large part were created by our own malevolent war based on lies.
Moreover, The
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (a truly bipartisan group) came out
with their report saying Trump's revised economic plan would add $5.3 TRILLION
to our debt (his original program would have added more than $11 trillion),
while HRC will add only an additional 200 billion dollars to the budget and get
more bang for the buck because most of Hillary’s
increased spending will be paid for by higher taxes on the rich.
Trump has
already profited more than $8 million by charging expenses to his
campaign. He collects rent from
having his national HQ in the Trump Tower, charging for his plane and putting up
his entourage at Trump hotels. Yes, he
is the essence of unethical conduct and also the king of self-dealers. Self-dealing using other people’s money
gleaned from one’s own supposedly charitable foundation to pay one’s own bills is
illegal and Trump has done that.
If one looks
at it semi rationally (well I try) the Republican Party is in a shambles. It is split right down the middle and then
some. Many so called "establishment”
Republicans with all the power they enjoy will not vote for the crackpot
Trump and some will even vote Democratic. The Never Trumps meant exactly
that – Never Trump.
Hispanics by
Trump’s vow to round them up and persons of color who are witnessing an attempt
to shoot them down guilty or not are realizing hope resides only within the Democratic
Party. Third parties, in our time, are NOT
the vehicle to solidify social changes that have been earned over centuries through
blood, sweat and plenty of tears. I am
hoping what happened in Charlotte, North Carolina and Tulsa, Oklahoma will bring
out the black vote even though Obama is not on the ballot as their future is at
stake. Hillary Rodham Clinton will
expand human rights not curtail them and will ensure Obama’s legacy and not
obliterate it.
Yes, the
president can do immense damage to humanity hence my happy volcanic eruption
when I heard a positive assessment for Hillary. I
hope the happiness lasts and that shadow which sits on my shoulder does not
perfect a hostile takeover.
GET OUT THE
DEMOCRATIC VOTE!
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Some good news!
SOME VERY GOOD EARLY POLLING DATA OUT OF SWING STATE OF NORTH
CAROLINA. IF YOU TAPE RACHEL MADDOW SHE WILL EXPLAIN OR GOOGLE THE
RACHEL MADDOW
SHOW FROM TONIGHT. TRUMP ON TRACK TO LOSE AND LOSE BADLY!!!! MOST
IMPORTANTLY GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC PROGRESSIVE VOTE, AND MOST ESPECIALLY
THE HISPANIC AND AFRICAN AMERICAN VOTE AND STILL
PRAY BECAUSE THIS IS MERELY A SNAP SHOT BY NBC NEWS PARTNERED WITH
ANOTHER ENTITY THAT TRACKS EARLY POLLS.
THIS IS THE
FIRST GOOD NEWS I HAVE HEARD AND I AM SAVORING IT BUT IT IS NOT A DONE
DEAL BY A LONG SHOT. WHAT IT SHOWS THOUGH IS THAT LIKE ROMNEY WHO LOST
THE HISPANIC VOTE BY A LOT TRUMP IS POISED TO LOSE IT BY MORE AND THAT
MAY i SAY MAY SPELL DOOM FOR THE WORST MOST SICKENING, RACIST BEAST
CANDIDATE TO EVER HAVE STAR CROSSED OUR PATHS. IF HE LOSES MAY HE ROT
IN TRUMP TOWER AND FILE FOR COMPLETE BANKRUPTCY. HE'S GOOD AT THAT. HE
DOES IT ALL THE TIME. HE LIES EVEN BETTER. THIS CRETAN I PREDICT NOW
IS GOING DOWN. MAY HE ROT IN HELL!
"The most thorough, profound and moving defense of Hillary Clinton I have ever seen"
It's long but it's worth the read and surely reinforces why
I'M WITH HER!
http://www.dailykos.com/…/-The-most-thorough-profound-and-m…
I'M WITH HER!
http://www.dailykos.com/…/-The-most-thorough-profound-and-m…
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Holocaust II -- How many Trump wants to kick out -- 11 Million human beings--See my thoughts below the pic
My thoughts are below the pic.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ …/undocumented-immigrants-don…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
11.1 million, according to the most recent estimate.
My thoughts:
Forget all the stats and the rationale for this Nazi-like policy Trumpet thinks will go so swimmingly. Just how is one going to get 11 million rounded up and out of the country without those people you are doing that to AND I might add millions of others who support their cause (like I do) and think this is the most inhumane Nazi-like policy since the round up of Jews of Europe to the camps, resisting it. The estimate of Jews who died in Europe during that fateful time is now 11 million and NOT 6. 6 is an understatement. It is a HUGE amount of humanity.
For Germans of that era to round up all the Jews of Europe it took a MASSIVE attempt with a complicity of, as the historian Daniel Goldhagen put it, "Hitler's willing executioners." In other words not only must you get all that humanity rounded up you must have the let's call them the nativists of this nation to assist in the roundup.
Thank God I believe in this nation people ARE, as Anne Frank put it, basically good. It will be if attempted a blood bath not only of so called undocumented workers who will not go quietly into the night but those with a smidgen of morality who say NO to it as well.
I suspect Christian churches even many Fundamentalist Christians en masse will say NO as will most especially Jews and other minorities like Muslims, Hispanics, native Americans and many others in this nation who know what a round up of human beings means, have a hint of humanity and will rise up. There WILL be violence of that one can be assured that is IF Trumpet wins which I believe he will not because in the final analysis the rationality and humanity of the American people will, I surely hope, prevail. A people who fought a World War with hundreds of thousands of Americans dead will NOT enact Nazi-like policy and have that war mean nothing.
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Think Again
If one thinks it does not matter who is elected president I would advise them to think again.
Historically review events and learn what one man can do to the nation and to the world. He/she (I will use the generic he) can plunge us both into war or he can plunge the nation and the world into a negotiated peace. The latter, of course, is much more difficult. It is easy to drop bombs to resolve disputes as this nation has dropped many of them but it is much harder to pick up the pieces after the bombs have dropped. As Colin Powell famously said of Iraq "If you break it you own it." The president can, through his advisors, negotiate to avoid the possibility of war or even, perish the thought, nuclear war and through his advisors can avoid all the destruction, mayhem and death war inevitably brings but it is the Commander-in-Chief--the President--who will make the final decision since Congress has not done its Constitutional duty in a very long time. War can last, as Iraq II surely shows, and it can last a very long time costing thousands of lives and trillions in treasure.
The profound effect the American presidency has on all of mankind is, in our common era and before, staggering. The selection of a president is serious, perhaps, even the most serious thing one can do in one's lifetime because it is life bestowing and/or it is a life taking choice. It can mean the life and death of you, your children, your grandchildren and beyond. It is why you must make altogether sure that the president selected can calmly and coolly occupy an office not only able to take that 3:00 a.m. phone call but to take all calls in an office that does not lend itself to calmness and serenity. The office of the American presidency has by its very nature life and death global consequences.
Historical examples: Think on World War II. Think on the volcanic destruction of it, the refugees, the death camps, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombs dropped and ask what if FDR had not made the choices he did and Germany won that war? I, a Jew, would not be writing this today. All of Europe and perhaps even you would be marching to totalitarian jackboots. What if a North Korea threatened to drop a nuclear bomb on us today? What would it take for the president to act calmly if such an event threatened? Jack Kennedy during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis knew how close this nation came to nuclear war. It took a man who was willing to act against the advice of his generals to avoid the potential catastrophe. We live today because of the coolness of Jack Kennedy. I can assure you Donald J. Trump is NO Jack Kennedy but the coolness, steadiness and vast foreign policy experience of Hillary Clinton says that she is. War and nuclear war is not a Trump Tower or golf course business deal nor will it conform to the contents of Trump's ghost written book "The Art of the Deal." War and the avoidance of war is serious business for those who are experienced at that business.
Iraq II has been assessed by some foreign policy experts to be the worst foreign policy blunder in US history made by a president "elected" under questionable circumstances who had neither the knowledge nor the savvy and skill to wage such a war after the destruction of the World Trade Center. He waged war, dropped thousands of tonnage of bombs on a nation that did nothing to us, created civil war in that country, created Al Qaeda in Iraq never there before which created its offshoot ISIS. War continues to this day as our 13 year slog is not over yet. Iraq II fractured a Middle East creating never ending civil war and changed the course of global history. It created the Middle East refugees we encounter today and this nation still cannot put Humpty Dumpty back together again if it ever will. The consequences of Iraq have been enormous. We have one candidate, Trump, who is trigger finger happy and wants to shoot from the hip to easily (he thinks) obliterate the problem. That will never happen because our nation is not alone in this fight and has angered many in that Middle East arena causing a cacophony of complexity. This nation will NEVER obliterate the problem certainly not by, god forbid, the naivete of a Trump presidency.
When you vote for president and before you pull the lever for a thin skinned con and bombastic bully that is named Trump choose wisely by choosing the most experienced, the most competent, the most calm and collected person for that office. I believe there can be no doubt your choice should be Hillary Rodham Clinton.
If you think it matters not who one votes into the office of the American presidency think again. The life you save may truly be your own.
Historically review events and learn what one man can do to the nation and to the world. He/she (I will use the generic he) can plunge us both into war or he can plunge the nation and the world into a negotiated peace. The latter, of course, is much more difficult. It is easy to drop bombs to resolve disputes as this nation has dropped many of them but it is much harder to pick up the pieces after the bombs have dropped. As Colin Powell famously said of Iraq "If you break it you own it." The president can, through his advisors, negotiate to avoid the possibility of war or even, perish the thought, nuclear war and through his advisors can avoid all the destruction, mayhem and death war inevitably brings but it is the Commander-in-Chief--the President--who will make the final decision since Congress has not done its Constitutional duty in a very long time. War can last, as Iraq II surely shows, and it can last a very long time costing thousands of lives and trillions in treasure.
The profound effect the American presidency has on all of mankind is, in our common era and before, staggering. The selection of a president is serious, perhaps, even the most serious thing one can do in one's lifetime because it is life bestowing and/or it is a life taking choice. It can mean the life and death of you, your children, your grandchildren and beyond. It is why you must make altogether sure that the president selected can calmly and coolly occupy an office not only able to take that 3:00 a.m. phone call but to take all calls in an office that does not lend itself to calmness and serenity. The office of the American presidency has by its very nature life and death global consequences.
Historical examples: Think on World War II. Think on the volcanic destruction of it, the refugees, the death camps, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombs dropped and ask what if FDR had not made the choices he did and Germany won that war? I, a Jew, would not be writing this today. All of Europe and perhaps even you would be marching to totalitarian jackboots. What if a North Korea threatened to drop a nuclear bomb on us today? What would it take for the president to act calmly if such an event threatened? Jack Kennedy during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis knew how close this nation came to nuclear war. It took a man who was willing to act against the advice of his generals to avoid the potential catastrophe. We live today because of the coolness of Jack Kennedy. I can assure you Donald J. Trump is NO Jack Kennedy but the coolness, steadiness and vast foreign policy experience of Hillary Clinton says that she is. War and nuclear war is not a Trump Tower or golf course business deal nor will it conform to the contents of Trump's ghost written book "The Art of the Deal." War and the avoidance of war is serious business for those who are experienced at that business.
Iraq II has been assessed by some foreign policy experts to be the worst foreign policy blunder in US history made by a president "elected" under questionable circumstances who had neither the knowledge nor the savvy and skill to wage such a war after the destruction of the World Trade Center. He waged war, dropped thousands of tonnage of bombs on a nation that did nothing to us, created civil war in that country, created Al Qaeda in Iraq never there before which created its offshoot ISIS. War continues to this day as our 13 year slog is not over yet. Iraq II fractured a Middle East creating never ending civil war and changed the course of global history. It created the Middle East refugees we encounter today and this nation still cannot put Humpty Dumpty back together again if it ever will. The consequences of Iraq have been enormous. We have one candidate, Trump, who is trigger finger happy and wants to shoot from the hip to easily (he thinks) obliterate the problem. That will never happen because our nation is not alone in this fight and has angered many in that Middle East arena causing a cacophony of complexity. This nation will NEVER obliterate the problem certainly not by, god forbid, the naivete of a Trump presidency.
When you vote for president and before you pull the lever for a thin skinned con and bombastic bully that is named Trump choose wisely by choosing the most experienced, the most competent, the most calm and collected person for that office. I believe there can be no doubt your choice should be Hillary Rodham Clinton.
If you think it matters not who one votes into the office of the American presidency think again. The life you save may truly be your own.
Monday, September 19, 2016
Profiling Donald Trump -- Who are we?
The malevolent Trump advocates profiling. Would YOU like to be profiled? Would you want your children to be profiled? Would I want to be profiled because I may, for example, look Middle Eastern or wear a hijab, the head covering for some Muslim women.
If one could time travel back to the era of WWII, I aver Trump would himself be one to be profiled as he looks so German and his right wing views are so extreme. He, like the American aviation hero Charles Lindbergh of that time, may have cheered what was happening in Germany and like Trump does now wanted to keep America First. I think he could have been followed during that dangerous time. How would he have liked it? The state can profile anyone even one who has done nothing wrong.
Diversity is our strength. The danger, and our Founders knew it, is the power of the state to do nearly anything it wants no matter how intimidating or brutal and to do so on a whim albeit profiling someone if the state thinks that someone looks dangerous. The state has that power. Our Founders' goal in constructing our republic, I think, was to restrain the power of the state and to empower the individual with certain rights that put a check on the state as to what it can or cannot do to deem and detain someone who may be thought to dangerous or be guilty of a crime he may not have committed. The worry is for the state to be able to apprehend and do whatever it wants because it has the power to use force against those who may and most especially MAY NOT be guilty of anything simply because the state can.
The danger here is rounding up those who are guilty of no crime merely because they look like they could be or are of a race, religion and culture that is not accepted by the majority. Charging, punishing and jailing those who have committed no crime is the greatest fear. THAT is our challenge and that is what some groups face merely because they were born into a certain group that is different from the majority or which the majority does not approve. We must NOT empower the state to do this no matter how imperiled the time in which we live. We must obey those Constitutional civil liberties our Founders emblazoned into our national holy grail. These rights are accorded to each individual even when it is the most difficult to observe those rights.
One cannot help those ascribed statuses into which one was born and may give him great disadvantage because the majority can impugn to him or her apriori guilt with no evidence and therefore no proof. The first 10 Amendments to our Constitution or the Bill of Rights are our greatest strength. Let us not lose that as Franklin Roosevelt so brilliantly said in his First Inaugural Address because "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes ... ." Even Donald Trump deserves those rights. Profiling anyone even Donald Trump and even if another democratic nation does it should be verboten even in our dangerous time lest we lose the essence of who we are.
If one could time travel back to the era of WWII, I aver Trump would himself be one to be profiled as he looks so German and his right wing views are so extreme. He, like the American aviation hero Charles Lindbergh of that time, may have cheered what was happening in Germany and like Trump does now wanted to keep America First. I think he could have been followed during that dangerous time. How would he have liked it? The state can profile anyone even one who has done nothing wrong.
Diversity is our strength. The danger, and our Founders knew it, is the power of the state to do nearly anything it wants no matter how intimidating or brutal and to do so on a whim albeit profiling someone if the state thinks that someone looks dangerous. The state has that power. Our Founders' goal in constructing our republic, I think, was to restrain the power of the state and to empower the individual with certain rights that put a check on the state as to what it can or cannot do to deem and detain someone who may be thought to dangerous or be guilty of a crime he may not have committed. The worry is for the state to be able to apprehend and do whatever it wants because it has the power to use force against those who may and most especially MAY NOT be guilty of anything simply because the state can.
The danger here is rounding up those who are guilty of no crime merely because they look like they could be or are of a race, religion and culture that is not accepted by the majority. Charging, punishing and jailing those who have committed no crime is the greatest fear. THAT is our challenge and that is what some groups face merely because they were born into a certain group that is different from the majority or which the majority does not approve. We must NOT empower the state to do this no matter how imperiled the time in which we live. We must obey those Constitutional civil liberties our Founders emblazoned into our national holy grail. These rights are accorded to each individual even when it is the most difficult to observe those rights.
One cannot help those ascribed statuses into which one was born and may give him great disadvantage because the majority can impugn to him or her apriori guilt with no evidence and therefore no proof. The first 10 Amendments to our Constitution or the Bill of Rights are our greatest strength. Let us not lose that as Franklin Roosevelt so brilliantly said in his First Inaugural Address because "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes ... ." Even Donald Trump deserves those rights. Profiling anyone even Donald Trump and even if another democratic nation does it should be verboten even in our dangerous time lest we lose the essence of who we are.
Sunday, September 18, 2016
Listen to the charismatic Elizabeth Warren on Fire--WONDERFUL
Pres.
Obama wasn’t the only Democrat on fire yesterday. Elizabeth Warren was
in Columbus, Ohio campaigning with Ted Strickland. If you only have
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Dr. Wizard of Oz
Guess what? Dr. Oz is a Muslim -- a secular one but a Muslim nonetheless. When hate groups attack, and there has been an abundance of attacks against Muslims, also Jews, gays, Hispanics and others around the nation, the attackers do not care if you are an observant Muslim or an observant Jew or not.
This is a fabulous article posted below. It is sickening that this is happening, of course, in our nation of immigrants and this rotten-to-the-core syrup of Ipecac requiring right wingnut Nazi type white supremacist part of Trump's base is having a field day supporting him and attacking others!! Not only are Muslims at risk but so are guess who? Jews, Hispanics, gays and of course persons of color but Drumpf's supporters who may not be violent do not get it.
We SHOULD here and around the nation VOTE in November in droves for Hillary Rodham Clinton who is the opposite of hate. The theme of her campaign says we are "stronger together" and I believe this to be true.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/dr-ozs-epic-fail_b_12046834…?

Dr. Oz And His Epic Fail | Huffington Post
Donald J. Trump released his long-awaited medical records (if we can call them that) this week on the 'Dr. Oz Show'. In true showmanship manner, he got ...
Saturday, September 17, 2016
Explosion rocks Chelsea District in New York City
One should remember the Chelsea District in NYC is a gay district near Greenwich Village. Can you say White Nationalists as possibly responsible? I am not saying definitively but but simply saying generally right WINGnut vicious racists, nationalists, anti-Semitic and homophobic hate that can be responsible too. Do not automatically think ISIS terrorism. We have our own terrorists under the Alt Right Nationalist banner those who enthusiastically support Donald Trump.
Donald Trump's right is as violent, hate infused, racist, sexist and generally vicious as any other group and was responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing, Waco, Texas standoff and many other violent episodes throughout the nation!
http://nypost.com/2016/09/17/explosion-rocks-chelsea-in-new-york-city/
Donald Trump's right is as violent, hate infused, racist, sexist and generally vicious as any other group and was responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing, Waco, Texas standoff and many other violent episodes throughout the nation!
http://nypost.com/2016/09/17/explosion-rocks-chelsea-in-new-york-city/
Best Video of the Trump Personality(ies)
Who is the REAL Donald Trump? Answer: Not even he knows and worse he does not care. I urge you to watch.
Send this anywhere you choose.
https://www.facebook.com/TheDemocraticCoalition/videos/496910710512309/
Friday, September 16, 2016
The Retraction
The retraction of Donald Trump's birther views that the president of the United States was not born here is now the pivotal point of the downward trajectory of the worst candidate for the presidency in the history of this nation. He did NOT end the birther debate that he began. He did NOT finish it. His many many many lies beyond the birther egregious lie are now sealed into his book of life for the ages of history to judge. One thing will be true. Donald J. Trump will NEVER be president of the United States.
Lies and Videotape
Donald Trump cannot tell one truth without following it up with a lie. It is a wonder of psychology that his brain is wired the way it is.
He told the truth FINALLY after five years beginning the "birther" movement that Barack Obama, indeed, was born in the United States and therefore is the legitimate president of the nation. We breathed a sigh of collective relief that finally the grand high exalted master and wizard of us all gave credence to our duly elected president. But he followed it up with a lie. He said that Hillary Clinton began the "birther" movement.
Can this sick, disgusting bag of deplorable humanity be for real? He wants us to believe that the woman, critical from day one that anyone would question the president's legitimacy, in fact, gave birth to the birther movement? It is a LIE of grandiose proportions that while he told the truth that the president was born in this country at the same time LIED that Hillary began the sickening birther meme. There are lies but there is videotape to prove he lies. What is this human mass of putrid verbiage named Trump? From underneath what rock was he hatched? Why were we cursed to have him among us?
I am NOT kidding when I say he MUST MUST MUST be defeated by CRUSHING him on November 8 so that on November 9 Hillary Rodham Clinton, light years more qualified and intellectually ready than the liar-in-chief, Donald Trump, to be president of the United States will be. If and when she is elected and I think ultimately she will be, FINALLY FINALLY we and humankind around the world can, hopefully, breathe a monumental sigh of relief!
GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE AND SAVE THE NATION FROM THIS CRETAN WHO MUST HAVE COME FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA!
He told the truth FINALLY after five years beginning the "birther" movement that Barack Obama, indeed, was born in the United States and therefore is the legitimate president of the nation. We breathed a sigh of collective relief that finally the grand high exalted master and wizard of us all gave credence to our duly elected president. But he followed it up with a lie. He said that Hillary Clinton began the "birther" movement.
Can this sick, disgusting bag of deplorable humanity be for real? He wants us to believe that the woman, critical from day one that anyone would question the president's legitimacy, in fact, gave birth to the birther movement? It is a LIE of grandiose proportions that while he told the truth that the president was born in this country at the same time LIED that Hillary began the sickening birther meme. There are lies but there is videotape to prove he lies. What is this human mass of putrid verbiage named Trump? From underneath what rock was he hatched? Why were we cursed to have him among us?
I am NOT kidding when I say he MUST MUST MUST be defeated by CRUSHING him on November 8 so that on November 9 Hillary Rodham Clinton, light years more qualified and intellectually ready than the liar-in-chief, Donald Trump, to be president of the United States will be. If and when she is elected and I think ultimately she will be, FINALLY FINALLY we and humankind around the world can, hopefully, breathe a monumental sigh of relief!
GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE AND SAVE THE NATION FROM THIS CRETAN WHO MUST HAVE COME FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA!
Trump Admits Obama Was Born In The United States After 5 Years Of Racist Denials
But the orange Cretan accuses HRC as starting the birther rumor. UTTERLY RIDICULOUS. THIS IS THE KIND OF VILE SLIME THIS GUY IS. WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM? HE IS UTTERLY MENTALLY DERANGED.
The birther bulls&^% was started LONG before Hillary. Bachmann used it as did many others in the extremist right and the so called Alt Right segment of the Republican Party!
It is yet ANOTHER preposterous lie among an entire campaign of lies that Trump has spit out.
GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY OR LOSE THIS NATION.
The birther bulls&^% was started LONG before Hillary. Bachmann used it as did many others in the extremist right and the so called Alt Right segment of the Republican Party!
It is yet ANOTHER preposterous lie among an entire campaign of lies that Trump has spit out.
GET OUT THE DEMOCRATIC VOTE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY OR LOSE THIS NATION.
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Sociopath
Yesterday
that mental blowhard Trump went to Flint, Michigan allegedly to find out how
they were ameliorating the horror of lead in their water perpetrated by the
Republican Governor Snyder. Trump took
the podium in a black church and began in front of few to talk NOT about the most salient Flint
lead-in-the-water eradication project but rather talked about how horrible
Hillary engineered the economy! Is this
know nothing serious? What did Hillary have
to do with the economy as a solitary senator or Secretary of State that this
liar-in-chief thinks she completely failed to fix? The female black pastor of that church ended Trump’s
talk nicely telling him to not wax political.
He meekly agreed and snakely slithered away. It was nice to watch.
It’s the
economy, stupid? I think not but I do think Trump is, in truth, stupid. No, I do NOT think he is as smart as he puffs
himself up to be. In business he has
encountered at least 6 bankruptcies while stiffing his construction workers of
their pay. His main talent is that he
knows how to con better than a Harold Hill of “Music Man” fame or the religious
huckster Elmer Gantry. He made some
money by dodging and weaving tax law, making use of bankruptcy law and not
paying his workers what they earned. The
entertainer, Trump, has entertained well.
We need, obviously for him to put
out his taxes which he refuses to do so that we may see the extent of the wool
he has pulled over some not so bright eyes.
Yes, I am
sickened that the rancid, mean, rude, crude vitriolic, lying blowhard con man
that is Trump sometimes is ahead of Hillary in some swing states and that the election
is this close. With all of Hillary’s
experience and all the fabricated issues the Republicans have used against her,
costing the taxpayer millions, and which she has weathered so well she should
be double digits ahead against the most deplorable know nothing candidate to
ever have historically run for the presidency.
I will
though look at the glass half full.
Hillary still leads nationally and most of the present polls against
her, I believe, have little merit. Obviously,
coming down with a case of pneumonia in the most important phase of her
campaign taking her off the trail for four days is not, for her, a plus. Add to that the totally unnecessary health
frenzy surrounding it by the army of Trump which played into the Alex Jones School
of Conspiratorial Lunacy and the media's unnecessary obsession with her health
skewed the polls in Trump's favor. Few
called out the Dr. Oz circus tactics of Trump’s own health letter role out.
If Hillary
returns from her short sick leave today and IF, god forbid (yes, I pray now,
too,) no relapses occur to add to the crackpot rightwingnut health conspiracies
AND if she can fend off the know nothing bully that is Trump in the debates
then I think she will recapture much of what she lost. The 26th of September debate SHOULD I say a
cautious SHOULD put it away for her barring Trump usurping the stage with his
ever growing insulting big mouth.
From Trump's
fake health letter by his gastroenterologist which my own personal opinion says
is in Trumpian style and that Trump wrote it having his gastroenterologist sign
it to yelling inanely about Hillary tanking the economy and failing at everything, the
Republican presidential candidate is a nut job menace. All his foreign business
entanglements some with adversarial regimes, Middle East precarious allies and
even dealings with criminals puts him and us, if he becomes president, in the
cross hairs of madness. Trump is a sick
narcissist as the illegal purchasing of the 6 foot painting of himself with
Trump Foundation money can attest. An
author (name unknown) wrote a book about Trump entitled
"Sociopath." I think that says
it all.
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