Trump: Ignoring It Is What The Germans Did

HITLER. Does anyone out there remember? Have the numbers of those who witnessed, lived, fought WW2 declined so drastically that the horror of Hitler has disappeared? Are the atrocities committed by the Germans under his direction not taught in schools?

WHY are there not daily condemnations of Trump’s plans for a second term, which are CLEARLY AUTHORITARIAN – plastered over every single news site and newspaper?

What the HELL is WRONG WITH THE MEDIA?

30% of the Republican base has its head up its ass because they are too stupid to realize that he doesn’t give a rat’s patootie about anything but power. Perhaps they actually need an authoritarian personality to rule over them. The rest of the population, many of which are in Trump’s camp, some tilting toward not, need to be constantly shown how truly dangerous he is. Those of us who knew what he was at the get-go in 2016, are truly alarmed.

We all know the history of Trump and his proclamations are clearly getting worse. His loss to Biden, which, to Donald Trump, whose father Fred C. Trump relentlessly pounded into him “YOU WILL NOT LOSE!” is unfathomable. He started the 2020 election lies even before the election, if anybody remembers.

Now he’s out for revenge. Like Hitler and others, he’s vowed to rid this country of “vermin” and “scum,” and will certainly gather together those who will not question him.

Just like Hitler.

Several journalists have pointed out there is no choice: Brian Klaas, a political scientist at University College London wrote in “The Case for Amplifying Trump’s Insanity” that the race is between a “77-year-old racist, misogynist bigot who has been found liable for rape, who incited a deadly, violent insurrection aimed at overturning a democratic election, who has committed mass fraud for personal enrichment, who is facing 91 separate counts of felony criminal charges against him and who has overtly discussed his authoritarian strategies for governing if he returns to power against “an 80-year-old with mainstream Democratic Party views who sometimes misspeaks or trips.”

If that’s not enough, consider that he’s proposing weaponizing the justice department to get back for all the slights against him.

The Washington Post reported on November 6th in an article by Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey and Devlin Barrett that Trump “wants the Justice Department to investigate onetime officials and allies who have become critical of his time in office, including his former chief of staff John F. Kelly and former attorney general William P. Barr, as well as his ex-attorney Ty Cobb and former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark A. Milley.”

He wants revenge and plans were discussed even during his first term, “that’ll be the second term.” Stephanie Grisham, former White House press secretary warned in October on Good Morning America that Trump would be consumed by “revenge” and implement “pretty draconian policies” across the federal government if he wins in ’24. “I want to just warn people that once he takes office, if he were to win, he doesn’t have to worry about reelection anymore,” she added. “He will be about revenge. He will probably have some pretty draconian policies that go on.”

Trump issued his Thanksgiving message. This man is so hellbent on revenge, bullying and belittling.

“Happy Thanksgiving to ALL, including the Racist & Incompetent Attorney General of New York State, Letitia ‘Peekaboo’ James, who has let Murder & Violent Crime FLOURISH, & Businesses FLEE; the Radical Left Trump Hating Judge, a ‘Psycho,’ Arthur Engoron, who Criminally Defrauded the State of New York, & ME, by purposely Valuing my Assets at a ‘tiny’ Fraction of what they are really worth in order to convict me of Fraud before even a Trial, or seeing any PROOF, & used his Politically Biased & Corrupt Campaign Finance Violator, Chief Clerk Alison Greenfield, to sit by his side on the ‘Bench’ & tell him what to do; & Crooked Joe Biden, who has WEAPONIZED his Department of Injustice against his Political Opponent, & allowed our Country to go to HELL; & all of the other Radical Left Lunatics, Communists, Fascists, Marxists, Democrats, & RINOS, who are seriously looking to DESTROY OUR COUNTRY,” the ex-president posted. “Have no fear, however, we will WIN the Presidential Election of 2024, & MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”

HE’S talking about weaponizing the Department of Justice? Projection, because that exactly what he intends to do.

This man IS dangerous. I’ve been saying this for a long time. I’m just hoping that this country has had enough of him to make sure he gets nowhere near the Oval Office again. There is no telling what he’ll try to do once in. Our Democracy is done if he’s reelected.

January 6, Christian Patriots, Roe & Fascism

We’re slowly making the slide into fascism.

Evangelical Christians, aided by the recent Supreme Court decision on Roe v Wade, are celebrating but they’re not about to give up. They’re coming for the rights of many: LGBTs, people of color, contraception, women’s rights, voting rights and many other issues.

The January 6 Committee is unearthing what we knew about Trump: He was a scared little man, unwilling to let go of power and would do anything to keep it. He plotted. He planned. He schemed, threatened and cajoled. Some of his disciples went along, others were hesitant. Some have since come forward to shed light on this conspiracy to overthrow the government – to steal the election. Funny, though – he was screaming STOP THE STEAL while trying to do just that.

My only hope is that the Justice Department charges him with this, and as a sentence, expressly forbids him from EVER holding federal or public office again.

The man CANNOT be President e.v.e.r a.g.a.i.n.

Meanwhile, supposed “patriots,” wielding Bibles and hoisting flags, have proclaimed themselves monitors of morality, are cheering the SCOTUS’s recent ruling on Roe V Wade because they want to “save the children.” Republicans are jumping for joy but they’ve done nothing to ensure that we’re safe going about our lives.

We’re being slaughtered at parades, in grocery stores, at church, in bars and restaurants.

Our children are being turned to hamburger meat in schools.

Citing the 2nd Amendment – WRITTEN IN 1791 – Republicans refuse to add any teeth to a gun law which would,

A: Raise the minimum age to buy a gun to 21

B: Have waiting periods to buy a gun.

C: Initiate a nationwide comprehensive/complete system of background checks that would include any & all police reports of violence, attempted suicide and any other behavior that truly would constitute a “red flag.”

D: Of course – ban the manufacture, sale and ownership of high capacity assault-type weapons and magazines.

E: How about a buy-back?

F: Realize that we ARE NOT LIVING IN 1791 and that the gun laws should reflect this.

I don’t know about you, but I’m tired. I thought that with Trump out of office, things would get better. He exited with thoroughly botching the COVID response. We’ve dealt with this for 3 years now. He’s still around, salivating to get back in the spotlight. Now we’ve got the SCOTUS ruling with hints from Justice Thomas that more draconian measures are to come.

We’re backsliding as a nation and we’re sliding into fascism and Christian Nationalism.

We’re SUPPOSED to be a nation with “freedom of religion,” and freedom FROM religion but the Christian Evangelicals are winning. Eventually this will mean that it will be OK to discriminate against people of any other faith, (or no faith).

When will this end?

The only way will be to turn it around this November and in 2024.

If we don’t, we’re done as a Democracy.

Let’s Start Using The “F” Word: Fascism

David Frum, former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, said in an article in The Atlantic:

“Those who uphold the American constitutional order need to understand what they are facing. Trump incited his followers to try to thwart an election result, and to kill or threaten Trump’s own vice president if he would not or could not deliver on Trump’s crazy scheme to keep power.”

Since the insurrection Trump supporters and most of the GOP, have embraced the idea that the people who hold office under our government are illegitimate and that, therefore, overturning the election is a patriotic duty.

“It’s time to start using the F-word.”

The word he meant is “fascism.”

Meanwhile, President Biden said today: “We are facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War. I’m not saying this to alarm you; I’m saying this because you should be alarmed.” We must have the will to save and strengthen our democracy.”

Meanwhile, Republicans in 17 states are working hard to suppress voting rights, in other words RIG the vote, cheat so they can win.

Texas in particular, where Governor Gregg Abbott presides, has a good chance of flipping to Blue. With the February and June electrical grid failures (and 200 deaths) along with slimy Senator Ted Cruz getting caught trying to escape to Cancun during the blackout in February, Republicans are consistently turning to fascist tactics to keep their hold.

Donald Trump sounds like a broken record and his dimwit supporters are eating it up. The GOP, for the most part, is doing their damnedest to help his cause.

COVID Keeps Winning

Although a good portion of our country is vaccinated against covid, a recent statistic has arisen:

99% of the deaths in recent months have been of UNVACCINATED people.

It takes a special kind of stupid or ignorant or brainwashed or belligerent because the covid vaccine saves lives.

To the unvaccinated I say: What the hell is wrong with you people?

Your friends or family tempted fate, buying into the conspiracy theories and the politicization by “45” and there you have it. They’re dead.

Dead.

Maybe a family member refused to get the covid vaccine and died. As a survivor, what would you say to them? Would you rant and rave and say, “if only…” ?

Are you not vaccinated, also? The clock is ticking with the Delta variant ramping up across the globe.

I have zero sympathy for you. This wasn’t “just” the “flu.” It was something far worse.

The GOP Is Broken & Dysfunctional

Our government isn’t functioning.

The GOP is totally broken, not interested in governing. They don’t even want to help their supporters.

Every piece of legislation designed to help the American people is thwarted by McConnell. He’s obstructing. President Biden’s programs of infrastructure rebuilding – which would add jobs for the people of this country – especially those in hard-hit Republican states, Moscow Mitch has thumbed his nose at. Republicans are screaming “socialism” at proposed healthcare and care for our people and taking the rest of the GOP crowd down with them.

Joe wants to help everyone – that’s you AND me, Democrat or Republican but the GOP wants no part of it.

This is how much the Republicans care about their constituents.

Zip, zero.

They don’t want Americans to have any power of their own, but want them to be beholden to corporate boardrooms rule. That means the rich get richer, themselves included.

They don’t want “We The People” to be able to advance, to get ahead, maybe have a better life. Nope. No good jobs for you.

No universal healthcare because they want you to be under the thumb of Big Pharma and Big Medical.

Unions? We don’t want no stinking unions! That would give the people power and there’s none of that allowed. … and they accuse the Democrats of being Communists….

THE BIG LIE and its progenator, Donald J. Trump has the GOP by the balls. They initially denounced the January 6th insurrection but now the majority of them, (read COWARDS!) realize in their quest for power, they have to keep up that lie to siphon off Trump’s supporters.

Where HAS morality gone?

Where HAS support of country gone?

They serve and work for this country, not that slithering snake with the strange hairdo.

The whackos have commandeered the Republican Party. “He-who-will-not-be-named,” and the likes of Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Josh Hawley, Jim Jordan, Lauren Boebert, along with the good old standbys: Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and all the others who’ve succumbed to the hypnotism of 45 and Q.

What the hell has happened? There is no pride, only prejudice in trying to overthrow the basic right to vote. Cheating, they think, will get them everywhere. There is no truth, just an adherence to conspiracy theories (and they get weirder by the day) and stalling tactics to deflect how warped how their sense of country has become.

They’ve become the Party Of Hate, egged on by Fox News, OAN and Newsmax.

This isn’t governing, it’s a shit show and we’re a captive audience.

He’s Screaming STOP THE STEAL While Trying to STEAL The Election

Trump won’t give up. He’s so desperate to stay in office to avoid prosecution in New York that after SCOTUS told him “Stop, it’s over!” he’s still going to try to influence Congress.

Sadly, his millions of followers are going right along with it. This weekend in Washington D.C., thousands of Trump minions jammed the streets, mostly mask-less, waving Trump flags and clashing with counter-protestors.

Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) stated on the Senate floor last week:
“You cannot, at the same time, love America and hate democracy,”

Yet, this is exactly what Trump and his followers are doing.

They claim to be “patriots,” but have fallen in love with an authoritarian.

They claim to be “patriots” but fawn over a nationalist.

They claim to “love” the Constitution, and the Bill Of Rights, yet support one who is actively, on a daily basis, subverting it to its core.

STOP THE STEAL they scream, when it is their hero who is attempting to do just that.

3+ Years On The Trump Rollercoaster: Lies, Blame, Bullying, Deflection & Incompetence

This country is tired, exhausted.

We’ve been in the Trump House of Mirrors for 3+ years, on the Trump Tilt-A-Whirl, the Trump “Cyclone” rollercoaster of lies, whining, blame, bullying, deflection, and incompetence.

I haven’t written in so long because there’s really nothing to say.  I’m tired.  I can’t take this any longer.  Please, God, this HAS to be over soon because our democracy can’t take it.  The world can’t take it.

Republican strategist Steve Smith put it this way:
“The American people are going to throw you out of office.  You will be repudiated and disgraced. You’ll leave nothing behind but the stench of epic failure. No American has ever failed this country worse than you. None. Your incompetence, ignorance, ineptitude and old fashioned stupidity have caused economic collapse and made the U.S. the epicenter of Coronavirus death and suffering. You have shattered American Alliances and weakened our military. You are a disgrace. Your name will be a synonym for losing, failure and weakness. Biden is crushing you and you want to know why? It’s because he is a good man and you are a bad one. He cares about the American people and you do not. He is respected on the world stage and you are laughed at like some type of grotesque and buffoonish clown. He is capable and you are not. You attack because you are scared. Take a minute to look at the picture of Fred Trump on your desk. Do you think he would be surprised by your failures? He would not. He bailed you out over and over again. He bailed you out because you couldn’t cut it as anything other than a Conman. There will be no monuments and no encomiums for you. The whole country has watched you fail. The whole country is watching your increasingly feeble state. The whole country is watching you lose. We will all watch you return to your golf clubs as the biggest loser the American Presidency has ever produced.”

This “presidency” has been like a washing machine.   The cycles are set, predictable.  LIE, BLAME, BULLY, WHINE, DEFLECT, repeat.

We’re in the midst of a pandemic, people are dying, the economy is in free-fall but all he does is rage-tweet about “preserving our heritage” (read Southern white racist good-ole-boy Bible-thumping Christianity) and spreading division. He is not a “uniter” but a “divider.”

The Coronavirus has put us all on edge.  Our lives have been totally disrupted.  Add to this, George Floyd’s death kicked this country over that edge.  It finally exploded.  Trump only equates the protests with “thugs,” “looters,” but fails to see (or care about) the societal history that’s caused it.  He doesn’t care.  Black lives don’t matter because Trump IS a racist.

He knows he’s losing so he’s going for broke, desperately trying to hang on to his base (that’s only the usual 30%) which won’t give him the election.  The more he rages, the more he’s hurting himself.  The Dems are raking in money, Blacks are signing up in record numbers to vote, even many of Shitler’s suburban and older voters are finally getting disgusted.

It’s TIME TO UNPLUG THE WASHING MACHINE!

 

Elijah Cummings, A Man Of Honor

Elijah Cummings was truly a man of honor.

 

A great man passed recently.  His name was Elijah Cummings.  He recognized that our democracy is in dire peril.

He knew that because of our democracy, he, a black man, was given an opportunity on the faith of the American people.  It was their trust in him to uphold our Constitution.  This, they knew, would keep our country strong.

He was a man of honor, knowing that those who attack our system of checks and balances and the rights afforded by the Constitution are tearing down the walls of this great country.

To those who have followed this commentary, you’ll note I’ve been largely absent.  In truth, I’m frustrated, angry and tired of all the childish games, temper tantrums and attacks on our institutions by Donald Trump and his pack of enablers.

This entire “presidency” is a sham, a joke and a stain on the history of this nation as well as on the notion of democracy worldwide. Because of Trump, our country has lost its credibility.  It’s gone from being revered to reviled.

Mr. Cummings knew that his role, and that of our government, is to maintain the system that our Constitution dictates.  Rule of law must be adhered to, even by those most high.  That includes our “president.”

He wrote in his upcoming book, In Defense of Public Service:  How 22 Million Government Workers Will Save Our Republic. (due Feb 2020)

“As I pen these words, we are living through a time in our nation’s history when powerful forces are seeking to divide us one from another; when the legitimacy of our constitutional institutions is under attack; and when factually supported truth itself has come under relentless challenge.

I am among those who have not lost confidence in our ability to right the ship of American democratic life, but I also realize that we are in a fight — a fight for the soul of our democracy.”

There is a clear and present danger, and Elijah Cummings vowed,

“And this is also why I, personally, will remain in the fight to preserve our republic and the humane and equitable values at its foundation for as long as I can draw breath.”

He did so, even from a hospital bed just before his death.  This is honor.  This is dedication to our democracy.  This is a man who will sorely missed in the halls of our government.  Elijah Cummings was a fighter for democracy, our democracy.

The soul of this nation depends on others following in his stead.

 

Assault Weapons Were Banned Before. Let’s Do It Again – NOW!

Assault weapons need to be taken off the shelves of gun stores in America. NOW!

This is not unconstitutional.  Machine guns have been illegal since the 30’s.

Just about the same thing, right?  A firearm that’s capable of shooting hundreds of rounds in a short period of time.

I don’t want to hear the bullshit excuse of the NRA or proud “patriots” that this is “taking our guns away.”

It isn’t.

America is under attack from within.  White supremacists are taking the racist rhetoric of Donald Trump to heart.

This HAS to stop – now!

I work in retail.  This could have happened in my store.

Let’s get serious.  We banned assault weapons once before, we CAN do it again.

Lawmakers have not passed legislation limiting semiautomatic weapons since 1994, when they passed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which made it unlawful in most cases to make, transfer or possess semiautomatic assault weapons. It expired in 2004.

President George W. Bush let it expire.

Let’s do it again.

1:  Ban the manufacture and sale of assault-type weapons.
2:  High capacity magazines over 10 rounds, illegal to manufacture or sell, too.
3:  Make the manufacture or sale of equipment to convert weapons to automatic fire illegal.
4:  Institute a limit of the amount of ammunition one could buy over the internet and in gun stores.
5:  Why NOT a buyback?  I’m sure we could find the money somewhere to offer people a substantial amount as an incentive.
6:  Increase funding for the ATF and FBI for domestic terrorism.

Finally… and you knew I’d say this:  VOTE OUT THE RACIST HATE-MONGER in the White House.  Donald Trump’s words have given rise to hate crimes.

ENOUGH!  We are living under siege from our very own citizens.

 

 

Trump’s Mueller Fallout: It’s Not Over

Go ahead and laugh. It ain’t over, buddy. Far from it.

It’s not over till the fat lady sings, “president” Trump.

According to a new report from the New York Times, Mueller has farmed out federal investigations to:

1) the SDNY, in Manhattan,
2) the EDNY, in Brooklyn,
3) the EDVA in Virginia,
4) the U.S. Attorney’s office in LA,
5) the U.S. Attorney’s office in DC,
6) the DOJ National Security Division,
7) the DOJ Criminal Division….”

All is not lost or over by any means.  Justice is still working.

Don’t gloat, yet, Trumpsters.

Follow the money.

A key line in Mueller’s report:

“while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.” 

It is also possible that others still will be charged with crimes – even his own family.  Many questions are still unanswered.  Read a summation here from the Washington Post.

Now we wait.