Friday, May 26, 2017
MONTANA
The Montana House seat race that Dems thought they could pull out especially when the Republican candidate punched a reporter sending that reporter to the hospital, they couldn't. It didn't matter that a Republican assaulted a reporter as it happened too late and many Montanans are allowed to vote early. Beyond that the violent nature of too many Americans prevails again.
Montana is a white state and gerrymandered to the hilt. Dems cannot win when Republicans play by their own rules and ethics is not a consideration for this ugly part of our nation. It matters not how much I work so hard to write IF Democrats cannot translate our majority into power. NON ethical Trump and his Republicans who care only for money and power will win every time just like Hitler's charisma won over a very very smart and advanced German nation. I urge you to watch Frontline "Bannon's War" it explains much. Bannon's philosophy (extreme nationalism, Alt Right neo Nazism, other extremists of the right and a clash of Christian and Muslim culture beliefs) is the spark that propelled Trump to power. White populist anger is the gasoline for the angry white part of our country who hate minority groups and immigrants they think soil the nation. Trump has given successfully that angry part of our nation a voice it never had before even though his policies would decimate his own middle class supporters. Hate is a powerful message. I strongly urge you to watch "Frontline -- Bannon's War." It explains much!
It is sad and frightening to me especially but to many who knew what this country was as a humane beacon of welcome to those who need help. Gerrymandering districts by Republicans has killed the power of Democrats. If we do not corral our progressive power our nation will, in fact, die a Trumpian ugly death!
Resist!
Thursday, May 25, 2017
ASSAULT IN MONTANA -- Who are we?
"Montana GOP Candidate, Greg Gianforte, Charged With Assault After ‘Body-Slamming’ Reporter"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/us/politics/greg-gianforte-montana-republican-body-slams-reporter.html
As the title of the article above states a GOP candidate for the House, Greg Gianforte, body slammed a reporter because the reporter had the temerity to ask him a pertinent question about health care which the candidate did not want to answer. Audio and video of the incident tell the truth.
I feel like I am in a nation I do not know. MSNBC Ari Melber talked about a coarsening of the culture and the inability of two groups to at least talk to one another. He is, of course, correct in his assessment. The power of the presidency sets an example of the national character and shows the face we want to present to the world. Trump's aura is certainly not that of a humanist but that of a fighter, a bully and one who yearns for the day when one can, if one disagrees, "punch them in the face." He has said so and there are many examples of his belligerence and ugly epithets he has used on the campaign trail to prove the violence of his voice. He appeals to that part of this nation that has a violence to its soul which has been there since the nation's inception. This is not alien to our history as slavery, the treatment of the Indian and the many wars fought to usurp power and wealth reflects.
Senator J. William Fulbright, United States Senator from Arkansas until 1974 and Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee wrote a book entitled "The Arrogance of Power" which I read and loved as a freshman in college. It changed the trajectory of my politics. A reviewer of that book writes on Amazon:
We are two groups today, as the candidate's violent encounter with the reporter shows, moving to our respective corners one ready, at the drop of a hat, to fight the other. I'm not a fighter and yet my views of a humanitarian nation are so entrenched but so I perceive existentially threatened by those forces like Trump who want to erase the better angels of our nature that I say things often in a way that is not who I want to be.At a time when there were no heart transplants and America had yet to put a man on the moon, one man wrote a book that speaks of our country today as much as it did when he wrote it in 1966. It is a reflection on what we have become, and the choices we make for our future. There are two competing forces for the direction we take, what the author Senator J. William Fullbright calls two Americas: One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson and the other is of Theodore Roosevelt and the Superpatriots. They are two distinct sides of the American character. The character of Lincoln is rooted in humanism and assumes that America's greatness is its recognition of its imperfections. The character of Roosevelt is rooted in American Exceptionalism, or what the senator refers to as an arrogance of power. The dominant strand of the American fabric is the democratic humanist one. It is rooted in the principles of our Founding Fathers, humanism, tolerance and accommodation. The coexisting strand is that of Theodore Roosevelt's belief in America's superiority, or what Fullbright sees as intolerant Puritanism. It is the belief that America expresses its cultural superiority through its wealth and dominance, that superiority is measured in military might.
I feel angry and aggrieved by the lies and inhumanity of the Republican right and those who prod them on like Fox News that I become intolerant of their beliefs because now, as I perceive it, our very survival as a humane nation -- a sanctuary for the poor, the desperate among nations who sail toward Lady Liberty's feet -- is at stake.
Trump and his supporters are devoid of morality willing to lie, steal, cheat and commit violence to do whatever it takes to grab power and the money its sidecar brings. Trump who so profoundly states that he could shoot a gun in the middle of Times Square and get away with it, as I think he could, reflects a nation in which I do not want to live. Those middle Americans, many of whom supported Trump, do not realize they will die from his true policies as the 1% who have the most and whom Trump is and represents will grab all they can get from those who have the least.
What have we become, who are we becoming and who do we want to be?
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
My Lettter to Rachel Maddow
As I always do, and last evening was no exception, I tune in to three MSNBC political commentaries reviewing the day's events with unparalleled excellence -- Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow and Larry O'Donnell. News in our time, as most of you know, is consumed with the labyrinthian complexity of Trumpian connections to an adversarial and dictatorial power, Russia. It is, to say the least, a very complicated process to understand filled with everything from espionage to financial intricacies the investigation of which most of the electorate, including me, know little. Rachel Maddow and others before and after her show explain the Russia connection to this presidency with crystal clear alacrity. Guests are experts in the intelligence, political and legal arenas. It is academically precise, riveting and brilliantly entertaining.
These events, possibly leading to a presidential impeachment, have little precedence to any other in US history with the possible exception of the events surrounding the Nixon presidency about a third-rate burglary but, in pertinent part to Trump, was also about an administration's crime cover up that proved presidency fatal.
If one wants to know what is occurring in our government, the once enviable crown jewel of democracy, I paste the Rachel Maddow web site below. Yesterday's broadcast was jaw dropping excellent. One can look at other broadcasts and the broadcasts of her two colleagues, Larry and Chris to try to get a better understanding of the difficult-to-understand trajectory of these important events.
I also paste my letter to Rachel, et al I sent yesterday and hope it acts as a vehicle for you to click on the link below or Google her show and others at MSNBC to better understand these ever-so-important complex events occurring in our nation in our time. Since the summer of 2016 and before she has laser-looked at the Trumpian facts of alleged colossal corruption and conflicts of interest with microscopic clarity. It will have implications for you, for your children and for their children. In veritas, it will be written for all history for all time.
MY LETTER TO RACHEL (slightly edited):
Rachel, I have watched you every day since you have been on MSNBC. There have been many superior days of your broadcasts that I walk away astounded by your brilliance. Today's broadcast, though, had to be one of the most superior of all. Your modus operandi connecting the dots of Trump and his administration to its plethora of financial potentially incriminating evidence is without parallel.
I am amazed by your intellect and the entertaining way you put across such difficult-to-understand information. You have a star quality that goes unmatched even by those historical greats in journalism. I have always called you the Edward R. Murrow of our time. Now, though, I think you are even better than he.
Chris Hayes, you, Rachel and Larry are, what I call as they did the Yankee greats of old -- Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, and Tony Lazzeri -- "murders row." You are the murders row of political commentary and news analysis. Through the disastrous excruciating Trump presidency you provide a reason for me and I know others, too, to go on and be involved.
Thank you all for all you do!
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show
These events, possibly leading to a presidential impeachment, have little precedence to any other in US history with the possible exception of the events surrounding the Nixon presidency about a third-rate burglary but, in pertinent part to Trump, was also about an administration's crime cover up that proved presidency fatal.
If one wants to know what is occurring in our government, the once enviable crown jewel of democracy, I paste the Rachel Maddow web site below. Yesterday's broadcast was jaw dropping excellent. One can look at other broadcasts and the broadcasts of her two colleagues, Larry and Chris to try to get a better understanding of the difficult-to-understand trajectory of these important events.
I also paste my letter to Rachel, et al I sent yesterday and hope it acts as a vehicle for you to click on the link below or Google her show and others at MSNBC to better understand these ever-so-important complex events occurring in our nation in our time. Since the summer of 2016 and before she has laser-looked at the Trumpian facts of alleged colossal corruption and conflicts of interest with microscopic clarity. It will have implications for you, for your children and for their children. In veritas, it will be written for all history for all time.
MY LETTER TO RACHEL (slightly edited):
Rachel, I have watched you every day since you have been on MSNBC. There have been many superior days of your broadcasts that I walk away astounded by your brilliance. Today's broadcast, though, had to be one of the most superior of all. Your modus operandi connecting the dots of Trump and his administration to its plethora of financial potentially incriminating evidence is without parallel.
I am amazed by your intellect and the entertaining way you put across such difficult-to-understand information. You have a star quality that goes unmatched even by those historical greats in journalism. I have always called you the Edward R. Murrow of our time. Now, though, I think you are even better than he.
Chris Hayes, you, Rachel and Larry are, what I call as they did the Yankee greats of old -- Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, and Tony Lazzeri -- "murders row." You are the murders row of political commentary and news analysis. Through the disastrous excruciating Trump presidency you provide a reason for me and I know others, too, to go on and be involved.
Thank you all for all you do!
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Trump’s Budget Cuts Deeply Into Medicaid and Anti-Poverty Efforts--My Comment
What kind of humanity makes up these Republicons and Trump? How do they live with themselves? To give tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires but slash efforts to help the poor with Medicaid and other anti-poverty programs is just plain representative of human beings without conscience.
How much money do these millionaires and billionaires need? How many houses can one live in or cars can one drive or boats can one sail? I simply do not understand how human beings living in the most affluent nation on earth can choose to spend hard middle class earned tax dollars on weapons of war that do nothing but kill other human beings, many helpless, but solve nothing and let those in this nation, most of whom through no fault of their own, cannot exist without help from these necessary programs.
Many will die of that one can be assured. Who will care? I care and so many that share my values care. We must resist with all that we have to resist because what Trump and his merry men want to do is simply just wrong, it is evil and surely they are not the Christians they claim so fervently to be.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/us/politics/trump-budget-cuts.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
Monday, May 22, 2017
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME?
We won't apologize to Israel over intel disclosure, Tillerson says
"To the extent the Israelis have any questions, or clarification, I'm sure we're happy to provide that," the secretary of state said.
nbcnews.com
The story is developing but CNN is reporting and showed Trump with Netanyahu defending his leak of intelligence that probably came from Israel by saying "I NEVER SAID IT WAS ISRAEL!!"
Now how stupid is this idiot to say that especially when his trip was going relatively decently admitting he told the Russians intelligence but said he never said it came from Israel.
How utterly stupid does he think Israel and really all of us are?
Should I laugh at the utter stupidity or cry?
"To the extent the Israelis have any questions, or clarification, I'm sure we're happy to provide that," the secretary of state said.
nbcnews.com
The story is developing but CNN is reporting and showed Trump with Netanyahu defending his leak of intelligence that probably came from Israel by saying "I NEVER SAID IT WAS ISRAEL!!"
Now how stupid is this idiot to say that especially when his trip was going relatively decently admitting he told the Russians intelligence but said he never said it came from Israel.
How utterly stupid does he think Israel and really all of us are?
Should I laugh at the utter stupidity or cry?
Saturday, May 20, 2017
Monuments
A blogger friend of mine quoted: "The civil war is over. The confederacy lost. And surely we are better for it." -- Mayor Mitch Landrieu, New Orleans - after the last Confederate monument/memorial was removed.
My Comment:
MONUMENTS
One can only imagine if the Confederacy had won the Civil War. We cannot totally predict that suppositional reality but we can somewhat speculate the opposite result of a war that was waged, no matter how much one couches it in Constitutional clap trap, to preserve the institutionalization of slavery and most importantly would have preserved the notion of the endemic superiority of one color of skin over another.
An ascribed status through accident of birth would have relegated one to a life of servitude and the other to a life of privilege. There would be no get out of jail free card as the permanency of DNA skin color cannot be changed. The thought of that is, for me, impossible to digest. It would have ensured ultimately a war between one race against another. Assuming persons of color would have allies, and a plethora of them, one can only imagine, the lives that would have been lost. Surely it would have been staggering even more so, perhaps, than the lives lost in the Civil War itself -- some 600,000.
In modernity one cannot completely calculate the savagery of what one man can do to another over a superficial something as the color of one's skin. It is the evil hemisphere of the reptilian part of our nature that perpetuated the cruelty of an apartheid-like system but perpetuate it we did. Testimony to its racism is cemented in the depths of our mind, body and the sinews of our soul. We still, even now, through Republican voter suppression and other nefarious acts, have kept the legacy of slavery institutionalized, sown into the very marrow of our bones.
It is a cancer that will either kill us or someday make us stronger. I hope it is the latter that is a monument to, as Lincoln called it, the better angels of our nature because anything else would mean massive destruction of these United States and would strike a blow to the heart of justice, equality and democracy this nation has tried so hard to perfect. It would ultimately be a death knell killing off those ideals which have made us who we are and which we represent and export to the world. Who would we be then? No one good of that I can be assured!
My Comment:
MONUMENTS
One can only imagine if the Confederacy had won the Civil War. We cannot totally predict that suppositional reality but we can somewhat speculate the opposite result of a war that was waged, no matter how much one couches it in Constitutional clap trap, to preserve the institutionalization of slavery and most importantly would have preserved the notion of the endemic superiority of one color of skin over another.
An ascribed status through accident of birth would have relegated one to a life of servitude and the other to a life of privilege. There would be no get out of jail free card as the permanency of DNA skin color cannot be changed. The thought of that is, for me, impossible to digest. It would have ensured ultimately a war between one race against another. Assuming persons of color would have allies, and a plethora of them, one can only imagine, the lives that would have been lost. Surely it would have been staggering even more so, perhaps, than the lives lost in the Civil War itself -- some 600,000.
In modernity one cannot completely calculate the savagery of what one man can do to another over a superficial something as the color of one's skin. It is the evil hemisphere of the reptilian part of our nature that perpetuated the cruelty of an apartheid-like system but perpetuate it we did. Testimony to its racism is cemented in the depths of our mind, body and the sinews of our soul. We still, even now, through Republican voter suppression and other nefarious acts, have kept the legacy of slavery institutionalized, sown into the very marrow of our bones.
It is a cancer that will either kill us or someday make us stronger. I hope it is the latter that is a monument to, as Lincoln called it, the better angels of our nature because anything else would mean massive destruction of these United States and would strike a blow to the heart of justice, equality and democracy this nation has tried so hard to perfect. It would ultimately be a death knell killing off those ideals which have made us who we are and which we represent and export to the world. Who would we be then? No one good of that I can be assured!
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Israel Said to Be Source of Secret Intelligence Trump Gave to Russians
Trump is in DEEP
s&^%! Of all the nations to spill the beans on, ISRAEL!!!! He has
the right to reveal our intelligence information but not another
nation's intelligence information. This is sickening and worse because
this jerk is paying a visit to Israel. Good timing you idiot. Take
that Netanyahu for such "good" judgment to hitch your wagon to the most
unfit human of our species who has his hands on the nuclear codes!
This is ugly!
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/
READ AND KNOW
Donald Trump Defends Sharing Intelligence With Russia
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/MY COMMENT:
TRUMP IS SAYING HE HAS THE RIGHT TO SHARE ANY INFORMATION EVEN THE MOST CLASSIFIED WITH RUSSIA BECAUSE HE IS THE PRESIDENT. UNTIL DEMS TAKE BACK CONGRESS THIS DOLT COULD IN FACT SHOOT A GUN IN TIMES SQUARE, KILL SOMEBODY AND GET AWAY WITH IT. HIS MINORITY WOULD CHEER HIM WAIVING THEIR FLAGS OF TREASON. HE IS THE BIGGEST THREAT TO OUR NATION THAN ANY COMMUNIST, FASCIST OR TOTALITARIAN STATE EVER WAS. THERE WAS A TIME WHEN REPUBLICANS WERE NOT SILENT ABOUT RUSSIA. NOW TRUMP COULD SUPPORT HITLER AND HE WOULD GET AWAY WITH THAT!!
THE CLASSIFIED INFO HE SHARED WITH RUSSIA WAS GIVEN BY ONE OF OUR ALLIES WHO DID NOT NOT NOT WANT IT SHARED WITH RUSSIA. THOSE NATIONS MAY NOT GIVE US ANY MORE VITAL INFO.
THE GOVERNMENT YOU GET IS THE GOVERNMENT YOU DESERVE IF YOU DO NOT VOTE FOR A DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE THAT HAS A CHANCE OF WINNING!!!! THIRD PARTIES DO NOT WIN. AS NADER BEFORE HER AND CANDIDATES LIKE JILL STEIN AND EVEN, I AM SAD TO SAY, BERNIE GIVE ONE TRUMP. A FREE NATION DEPENDS UPON YOU!!
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Monday, May 15, 2017
Goodfellas, Gotti, Hitler and Trump
https://www.bostonglobe.com/…/6unHo4xZ2wfPqnF4xd…/story.html
The ‘Badfellas’ presidency rolls on - The Boston Globe
"This presidency operates like a criminal enterprise, the likes of which we’ve only witnessed in Martin Scorsese gangster films."
My Comment:
I thought the above a brilliant opinion and an insightful analogy of Trump to "Good Fellas " (one of my favorite gangster films) and Mafioso John Gotti. I keep asking myself what the hell does anyone see in this guy Trump who is as transparent as a fishbowl and as evil as a piranha. He has zero heart and absolutely no conscience. He is government of himself, by himself and for himself.
So what do I like about "Goodfellas?" It is, I suppose, the power of these men; the feeling of safety one might have in their presence. The irony, of course, is that there is no safety in their presence and, in truth, they are not even safe from themselves.
The baddest character in "Good Fellas" is played by Joe Pesci. Everyone was scared stiff of this guy whose vicious temper could turn on a dime against someone and have them killed if they as much as looked at him the wrong way. In the end the killer of killers Joe Pecci's character is whacked. No one is safe in the world of "Goodfellas." All it takes to get whacked is one bad move and someone removes even the remover. The rats are everywhere and worse for those in the world of "Goodfellas" no one knows who the rats are just ask Billy Bulger.
Over the weekend I watched the docudrama "Downfall" which was a reenactment of the last days of Adolph Hitler in his bunker in Berlin as the allies with the Russian bear are closing in. Destruction is everywhere and it is brutal--second only to a nuclear blast. Accounts of that time in the bunker say Hitler was prone to wild rages, fury and anger one could only describe as cyclonic. He is told his beloved German people are surrounded and thousands will die if Germany does not surrender but he does not care, will not surrender and thinks the German people worthy of death because they did not win for him.
The simile of Hitler's last days of rage reminded me of Trump in the White House now as a Russian bear of another sort is closing in. Trump's tirades and accusations against even those who support him are said to be explosive. There is no trust in the White House now as everyone fears everyone else but the most fear is reserved toward Trump who carries the key to everyone's survival.
Inside "Goodfellas," Trump and, yes, Hitler, too, lurk feelings of utter powerlessness and weakness deep in the marrow of their bones. They do not feel powerful at all. They feel impotent and weak. If they felt truly powerful they would not have to tell us over and over and over again how powerful, successful and wonderful they are even when events dictate otherwise and the emperor can be seen not wearing any clothes.
The end of Trump's reign of terror may not be pretty or swift. Trump and his henchman's end may happen in impeachment, conviction and, I hope, jail. It would be like a thousand pound weight lifted off the American people's shoulders. Maybe then our Republic will survive and paraphrasing what President Ford said of the crook Nixon: our long national nightmare will be over!
Sunday, May 14, 2017
Oh NO!!! Larry O'Donnell: My Letter to MSNBC
MSNBC, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE renew Larry O'Donnell's contract for next year. One of the premier voices in television news and commentary, Larry O'Donnell, is without question one of the greats. My evening and survival in these horrific politically perilous times consisting of both Rachel and Larry are the life preservers I rely on to save my life from what would be crippling depression. I have never experienced better progressive views expressed with academic heft.
Larry's experience in things political, the law and television is without parallel and impossible to duplicate. My relatives, friends and I hang on every word and our lives would be significantly diminished if his contract is not renewed.
Please, MSNBC, do not fail to renew his contract as I read on Huffington Post (link below) that it is in question. He is so unique, well versed in the law and brilliant having depth, insight and humanity so many of us would miss without him.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lawrence-odonnell-msnbc-future_us_59162d8ce4b00f308cf5534a?bw6&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
Larry's experience in things political, the law and television is without parallel and impossible to duplicate. My relatives, friends and I hang on every word and our lives would be significantly diminished if his contract is not renewed.
Please, MSNBC, do not fail to renew his contract as I read on Huffington Post (link below) that it is in question. He is so unique, well versed in the law and brilliant having depth, insight and humanity so many of us would miss without him.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lawrence-odonnell-msnbc-future_us_59162d8ce4b00f308cf5534a?bw6&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
Friday, May 12, 2017
My Letter to the FBI
I want to register my support of the FBI and Mr. Comey in view of the fact that it and he are getting so much criticism from our Executive branch. I am not a critic of the bureau nor am I a critic of Mr. Comey. I have believed for quite some time well into the Bush administration that Mr. Comey's credentials were impeccable and that he held no allegiance to any person or Party but he did hold allegiance to the truth and to the Constitution while making the most difficult decisions few would want to make.
I was and still am an ardent Hillary Clinton supporter. While I was not thrilled at Mr. Comey's decision to reopen her email investigation before the election I believe now he arrived at his decision honestly and to the best of his ability tried to make the most ethical call. While I differed then with his decision I did not doubt for one second that he arduously deliberated the issues involved. He is by all accounts the most ethically deliberative of men.
It hurts me to see Mr. Comey's and the FBI's reputation tarnished by a Chief Executive who does not know how to tell the truth, lies all the time, and in view of that presents the electorate with the impossible task of believing or not believing what he says. Usually, I do not believe much if anything of what Mr. Trump says.
I do not for one moment think Director Comey a show boater or a granstander but think quite the opposite. It is an insult and the most grievous offense to impugn Mr. Comey's reputation with those appellations, as he is, I believe, the most honorable of men. It is irony, indeed, that the show boater and grandstander is Mr. Trump.
Further, I could, as a rational person, never believe that Mr. Comey said to Mr. Trump that he was not under investigation. That is the most preposterous of statements Mr. Trump has made and he has made so many. The question he posed to Mr. Comey, the account of which I believe, is if Mr. Comey were loyal to Mr. Trump. If that is not obstruction of justice then I do not know what is. I believe Mr. Comey said he was loyal to honesty. I further believe Mr. Trump called for the dinner meeting because the FBI was getting too close to the truth about the Trump administration's collusion with Russia and because it was the President of the United States Mr. Comey stayed true to the importance of that office and accepted the Mr. Trump's invite.
Please convey to Mr. Comey the fact that there are millions like I who know that his decisions were the apex of difficult but that he always has put country ahead of Party. Obviously, the Republican Party in particular is sadly incapable of doing that.
I hope the FBI will continue to scrupulously investigate all crime that threatens our nation but, in particular, investigate and keep watch on this president's ties to a hostile power, Russia. If he or anyone in is administration were guilty of collusion with Russia that would be nothing short of treason. I hope justice will prevail in these United States again and that the FBI will play no small part in securing it!
I was and still am an ardent Hillary Clinton supporter. While I was not thrilled at Mr. Comey's decision to reopen her email investigation before the election I believe now he arrived at his decision honestly and to the best of his ability tried to make the most ethical call. While I differed then with his decision I did not doubt for one second that he arduously deliberated the issues involved. He is by all accounts the most ethically deliberative of men.
It hurts me to see Mr. Comey's and the FBI's reputation tarnished by a Chief Executive who does not know how to tell the truth, lies all the time, and in view of that presents the electorate with the impossible task of believing or not believing what he says. Usually, I do not believe much if anything of what Mr. Trump says.
I do not for one moment think Director Comey a show boater or a granstander but think quite the opposite. It is an insult and the most grievous offense to impugn Mr. Comey's reputation with those appellations, as he is, I believe, the most honorable of men. It is irony, indeed, that the show boater and grandstander is Mr. Trump.
Further, I could, as a rational person, never believe that Mr. Comey said to Mr. Trump that he was not under investigation. That is the most preposterous of statements Mr. Trump has made and he has made so many. The question he posed to Mr. Comey, the account of which I believe, is if Mr. Comey were loyal to Mr. Trump. If that is not obstruction of justice then I do not know what is. I believe Mr. Comey said he was loyal to honesty. I further believe Mr. Trump called for the dinner meeting because the FBI was getting too close to the truth about the Trump administration's collusion with Russia and because it was the President of the United States Mr. Comey stayed true to the importance of that office and accepted the Mr. Trump's invite.
Please convey to Mr. Comey the fact that there are millions like I who know that his decisions were the apex of difficult but that he always has put country ahead of Party. Obviously, the Republican Party in particular is sadly incapable of doing that.
I hope the FBI will continue to scrupulously investigate all crime that threatens our nation but, in particular, investigate and keep watch on this president's ties to a hostile power, Russia. If he or anyone in is administration were guilty of collusion with Russia that would be nothing short of treason. I hope justice will prevail in these United States again and that the FBI will play no small part in securing it!
NYT: "An Open Letter to the Deputy Attorney General" and My Comment -- A Cancer on the Nation
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/opinion/deputy-attorney-general-open-letter.html?emc=edit_ty_20170511&nl=opinion-today&nlid=1707636&te=1&referer=
My Comment: There are no words anymore that adequately express the political hell in which we as a nation are. Maybe just maybe Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein can either appoint a special prosecutor, which I believe he should and said he would do if he thought he had to or conduct the investigation himself knowing that at least rumor has it that he was going to resign if Trump did not rectify the memo and tell the world that citing Dep. Atty General Rosenstein's Hillary Clinton prime reason that Comey must be fired was not true. It was, so obviously, bunk and preposterous as was Trump's lie that Comey told him Trump was not under investigation. He so obviously is!
Trump from his own stupid lips admitted in the Lester Holt interview yesterday the Russia "thing" weighed on him as Comey asked for more funds and personnel to expand the investigation into Russia's ties with Trump. He was to say the least fearful of that and, by some accounts, the explosively angry Trump decided to fire Comey. That very admittance along with the dinner Trump requested of Comey asking for Comey's loyalty to him may -- I say may -- be the obstruction of justice illegal thread pulled that can unravel the emperor's clothes.
What has our country done? Yet again, one must follow the money to see the rock under which the cancer destroying our nation lies!
Thursday, May 11, 2017
LIAR IN CHIEF
THE PATHOLOGICAL LIAR IN CHIEF SAID TO LESTER HOLT TODAY THAT HE ASKED COMEY IF HE, TRUMP, WERE UNDER INVESTIGATION THREE TIMES AND COMEY SAID NO!!! LIES LIES AND NOTHING BUT LIES. THAT WOULD BE INTERFERING WITH AN INVESTIGATION HIGHLY ILLEGAL AND COMEY WOULD NEVER EVER EVER REVEAL THAT INFORMATION TO ANYONE NOT EVEN OR MOST ESPECIALLY THE PRESIDENT! THAT IS RIDICULOUS!!!!
TRUMP SAYS COMEY IS A GRANDSTANER! REALLY TRUMP REALLY? THIS COMING FROM THE GRANDSTANDER OF GRANSTANDERS TRUMP! MR. COMEY DID DESCRIBE TRUMP AS "OUTSIDE OF THE REAL OF NORMAL EVEN CRAZY!" NOW THAT IS ONE TRUTH I BELIEVE.
BOTTOM LINE THIS JERK PRESIDENT IS CRACKPOT NUTS!
TRUMP SAYS COMEY IS A GRANDSTANER! REALLY TRUMP REALLY? THIS COMING FROM THE GRANDSTANDER OF GRANSTANDERS TRUMP! MR. COMEY DID DESCRIBE TRUMP AS "OUTSIDE OF THE REAL OF NORMAL EVEN CRAZY!" NOW THAT IS ONE TRUTH I BELIEVE.
BOTTOM LINE THIS JERK PRESIDENT IS CRACKPOT NUTS!
WORSE THAN WATERGATE
I cannot possibly summarize all my thoughts about and the facts of the greatest scandal in US history -- greater than Warren G. Harding's Teapot Dome, greater than the Lewinsky scandal of the Bill Clinton era and, yes, if you can believe it, greater than Nixon's Watergate that resulted in the first ever resignation from office of a president. Watergate was about the executive branch colluding to break into the Democratic offices of the Watergate office building in Washington. It was solely a domestic affair. The Lewinsky scandal was unimportant to many involving a president's sexual appetites and deposition alleged perjury I aver few cared about. This scandal involving US Presidential complicity with an adversarial foreign nation, Russia, is on an international scale higher than any other we as a nation have ever known. It could involve prosecution for alleged treason and other criminal acts by those in the Trump campaign, Trump White House officials or even Trump himself depending on where the FBI, which is still operating in full force, finds the essence of the collision.
Trump has fired the chief investigator of the FBI, Richard Comey. The Godfather did not say "keep your friends close but your enemies closer" for nothing. This so called president has fired and made red hot angry those loyal to Comey creating a firestorm within the FBI and beyond that will not be extinguished and is cancerously metastatic spreading fast even alienating Trump's own White House people with Sean Spicer literally hiding behind the WH bushes telling them to turn out the lights in the White House. Well, the light are blazingly on. The results of the firing of Richard Comey are that subpoenas are beginning to fly from various legal and intelligence gathering offices including the US attorney of Virginia. These are the threads that will pull down the faux garments of Trump and show that this emperor is not wearing any clothes.
I post below a must see segment of Brian Williams last evening. I suggest if you want to hear excellence in truthful news analysis of this gargantuan scandal google Rachel Maddow of course, Larry O'Donnell, and Brian Williams. Williams had a particularly excellent show with talking heads of credentialed Republicans such as Steve Schmidt, John McCain's presidential campaign manager and other Republicans. Williams and his guests were articulate, serious and brilliant. Brian Williams showed the excellence of the broadcasting abilities I know he possesses.
Yes, this is worse -- much worse -- than Watergate and it has just begun. It took 900 days for Richard Nixon to be forced from office. We are into only 110 days of Trump. Let the games begin!
http://www.msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/steve-schmidt-comey-firing-an-enormous-abuse-of-power-by-trump-941149251519
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
BREAKING: CNN reporting that grand jury subpoenas were issued before Comey firing
One of the most astounding features of FBI Director's James Comey's firings—besides the news itself—was the White House coordination surrounding. The roll out included quotes from Donald Trump, the press secretary Sean Spicer, and a White House press statement. As NYT reporter Michael Schmidt noted, it's clearly been in the works for a while.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions eventually found his hook—Comey's false testimony last week about Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abbdin's emails.
There's even a paper trail before Trump took action: A letter from Sessions (now recused from the investigation) to the president stating "a fresh start is needed at the leadership of the FBI."
And then there's the supporting memo from Trump appointee and deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, now technically overseeing the Trump-Russia investigation, quoting both former Democratic and Republican officials alike calling Comey's actions into question.
C'mon, now. Something ain't right here. This is a White House that not only can't walk and chew gum at the same time—it gets the gum stuck on the bottom of its shoe, trips on the way to the bathroom, and stumbles head first into the commode. It’s the same team that invited House Intelligence chair Devin Nunes over to the White House for a little CYA on Trump's false "wire tapp" claims, only to have it blow up in their face and take down Nunes along the way.
The Trump-Russia investigation under Comey, whatever we may think of him, appears to have uniquely focused the Trump administration. Now, Sessions—the guy who recused himself from those investigations for lying about his Russia contacts—seems to have built a methodical case for firing the guy who was in charge of those investigations.
To state the obvious, nothing about that chain of events inspires confidence.
My Comment: This investigation of Trump's tie to Russia is NOT going away and the less than intelligent Trump has done something that is going to bite him in the posterior ultimately. There is breaking news on CNN that grand jury subpoenas were issued before the Comey firing. Trump has hurt himself more than anyone else as the Trump administration's link to Russia and not the handling of Hillary Clinton email is the binding tie that will hang Trump. He could not have given a rat's petuti about Comey's investigation of Clinton and even praised Comey when he revealed a week before the election the Clinton email investigation was going to be reopened. His words in one of his cheer leading forums even urged Russia to hack Clinton's email adding salt to this festering treasonous infected wound.
Trump is a bumbling mendacious malevolent idiot who does not have a clue what he is doing. I will eat those subpoenas if this does not blow up in his ugly orange face! As Rachel would say: "Watch this space!"
Summer solider and the sunshine patriot
Thomas Paine famously wrote in 1776: “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. “
Tuesday, May 09, 2017
Profiles in Courage
I saw, as many did, the Kennedy Center Profiles in Courage award given to President Barack Obama. I cried through much of it especially films of the Kennedy legacy and, in comparison to who holds power today, that moved me to tears. The depth of thought and deed these political giants have given to this nation are incalculable and in the case of JFK and RFK have too soon been lost to us. I can only imagine how our politics would have been so different if John Kennedy lived and won a second term to be followed by his brother Robert. Would that have happened? Who can say especially because JFK would not have continued the Vietnam War the disputation of which spawned Robert Kennedy's candidacy. Speculation, I know, is futile as we are left always with what is.
We must, as both Kennedys would have wanted us to do, to peacefully protest injustice, unethical conduct, hatred and government for and by only the rich. Barack Obama did all of that. He is a giant among men too whose example of empathy and kindness should be a beacon to us all. He did much in the face of searing hatred and the opposition it spawned. I love all of them and miss their powerful presence in the halls of power. I will not enumerate all of those inspirational things they have done but merely tout their example of what it would be like to have kind, empathetic and just people in high positions of power and how much inclusive justice they can sow.
I would like to put the former acting Attorney General Sally Yates as a profile in courage as well. Thank you, Ms. Yates, not only for your courage to testify but for your courage to do in practice what was right, just, Constitutional and necessary to hold accountable those who govern no matter how rich or corrupt they are and to say and to do what you knew was right despite the criticism and attacks you would and will get. You are the consummate professional and emissary of justice. I can only hope that you stay within government to give us and it the quality of leadership this nation deserves.
We must, as both Kennedys would have wanted us to do, to peacefully protest injustice, unethical conduct, hatred and government for and by only the rich. Barack Obama did all of that. He is a giant among men too whose example of empathy and kindness should be a beacon to us all. He did much in the face of searing hatred and the opposition it spawned. I love all of them and miss their powerful presence in the halls of power. I will not enumerate all of those inspirational things they have done but merely tout their example of what it would be like to have kind, empathetic and just people in high positions of power and how much inclusive justice they can sow.
I would like to put the former acting Attorney General Sally Yates as a profile in courage as well. Thank you, Ms. Yates, not only for your courage to testify but for your courage to do in practice what was right, just, Constitutional and necessary to hold accountable those who govern no matter how rich or corrupt they are and to say and to do what you knew was right despite the criticism and attacks you would and will get. You are the consummate professional and emissary of justice. I can only hope that you stay within government to give us and it the quality of leadership this nation deserves.
Sunday, May 07, 2017
Macron, Well Ahead of Le Pen, Is Poised to Be President of France--Link below my Comment!!!!
YEEEHAAAA!!! 
JUST clicked on nervously to get the results. Macron SIGNIFICANTLY beat right wingnut Le Penn as the French smart people that they are could see how HORRIBLE Trump is!! So happy I am actually crying ... over France??? YES because it meant so much more!!
Vive la France!!!
JUST clicked on nervously to get the results. Macron SIGNIFICANTLY beat right wingnut Le Penn as the French smart people that they are could see how HORRIBLE Trump is!! So happy I am actually crying ... over France??? YES because it meant so much more!!
Vive la France!!!
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/
Wealthy investors can buy their way into the U.S. A link and a Comment--The American Nightmare/the American hope
Link to the story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jared-kushners-family-tries-selling-immigration-status-to-wealthy-chinese_us_590e51e0e4b0d5d9049cf6c3?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
How much money do these extremist right wingnut Cretans need? The damage they can do is daunting. It means the top 2% wealthiest will control it all and means death for the rest of us. We better hope that this does not translate into their capturing the planet and ridding it of
people like us.
If Le Penn wins in France it will be like the domino theories of old about the Communist menace of the 1950's except this time the menace is reinventing the Hitlerian fascists and our nation's powerful are with them not being a force for good but a force for evil.
They are taking all of our wealth with them to seize
gargantuan power. Listen to the George Carlin Youtube "The American Dream" monologue. It is genius and is so prescient.
Trumpian dictators are seizing control of nation states all over the world and killing thousands of those who would dare oppose them. Dictatorial corrupt thugs such as Duarte of the Philippines, Putin of Russia, Erdogan of Turkey, al-Sisi of Egypt are sent congratulatory tweets and support. Trump voices hope that the right wing extremist National Front Party of Marine Le Penn, daughter of the Party's founder, antiSemite, Holocaust denier and racist Jean Le Penn, wins as elections in France are being held today. Other strongmen dictators for whom Trump has praise are Sadam Hussein, a butcher whose downfall was perfected with gallons of American blood, and Kim Jung Un the megalomaniac murderous dictator of North Korea Trump declares it an "honor" to meet.
This is the American nightmare happening now in our time.
We must hope there are those who share our fears, empathize with our plight and who have the fortune it takes to stop it.
How much money do these extremist right wingnut Cretans need? The damage they can do is daunting. It means the top 2% wealthiest will control it all and means death for the rest of us. We better hope that this does not translate into their capturing the planet and ridding it of
people like us.
If Le Penn wins in France it will be like the domino theories of old about the Communist menace of the 1950's except this time the menace is reinventing the Hitlerian fascists and our nation's powerful are with them not being a force for good but a force for evil.
They are taking all of our wealth with them to seize
gargantuan power. Listen to the George Carlin Youtube "The American Dream" monologue. It is genius and is so prescient.
Trumpian dictators are seizing control of nation states all over the world and killing thousands of those who would dare oppose them. Dictatorial corrupt thugs such as Duarte of the Philippines, Putin of Russia, Erdogan of Turkey, al-Sisi of Egypt are sent congratulatory tweets and support. Trump voices hope that the right wing extremist National Front Party of Marine Le Penn, daughter of the Party's founder, antiSemite, Holocaust denier and racist Jean Le Penn, wins as elections in France are being held today. Other strongmen dictators for whom Trump has praise are Sadam Hussein, a butcher whose downfall was perfected with gallons of American blood, and Kim Jung Un the megalomaniac murderous dictator of North Korea Trump declares it an "honor" to meet.
This is the American nightmare happening now in our time.
We must hope there are those who share our fears, empathize with our plight and who have the fortune it takes to stop it.
Saturday, May 06, 2017
I wish George Will were playing for my team!
George Will: Trump disabled by inability to think, speak clearly
Political commentator George Will in his latest column blasts President Trump as someone who is not able to "think and speak clearly."
"It is urgent for Americans to think and speak clearly about President Trump’s inability to do either," Will wrote in The Washington Post.
"This seems to be not a mere disinclination but a disability. It is not merely the result of intellectual sloth but of an untrained mind bereft of information and married to stratospheric self-confidence."
In the column, Will pointed to the president's comments about Frederick Douglass and his recent remarks about Andrew Jackson.Trump in an interview published earlier this week questioned why the country had a Civil War and suggested Jackson could have prevented it had he served later. Jackson, the nation's seventh president, died in 1845. The Civil War began in 1861.
"Library shelves groan beneath the weight of books asking questions about that war’s origins, so who, one wonders, are these 'people' who don’t ask the questions that Trump evidently thinks have occurred to him uniquely?" Will asked.
"What is most alarming (and mortifying to the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated) is not that Trump has entered his eighth decade unscathed by even elementary knowledge about the nation’s history," he continued.
"As this column has said before, the problem isn’t that he does not know this or that, or that he does not know that he does not know this or that. Rather, the dangerous thing is that he does not know what it is to know something."
Will went on to criticize Trump for some of the comments he made before assuming the presidency, pointing to his remarks on the nuclear triad and the "one China policy."
Will warned that Americans have put "vast military power at the discretion of this mind."
"So, it is up to the public to quarantine this presidency," he wrote, "by insistently communicating to its elected representatives a steady, rational fear of this man whose combination of impulsivity and credulity render him uniquely unfit to take the nation into a military conflict."
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