I can't believe what I'm seeing today from Trump on Facebook. It's stunning. This is out there today, now.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2020
This President Is Now Publicly Asking to Incite Rebellion
On Republican Party Racism
Did you see this on CBS' "60 Minutes"?
Be sure to vote.
And vote blue.
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Quote of the Day -- Presidential Throwback Edition
True then, all that long ago. Still true, even more so, today.
"Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing to help him go broke.
They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing.
They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights.
They favor minimum wage--the smaller the minimum wage the better.
They endorse educational opportunity for all--but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools. They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine--for people who can afford them.
They think the American standard of living is a fine thing--so long as it doesn't spread to all the people. And they admire the Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it."
− Harry S. Truman, October 13, 1948, St. Paul, Minnesota, Radio Broadcast
Vote, folks.
And vote blue.
#BlueWave2020
Sunday, October 11, 2020
Quote of the Day -- On Packing the Courts
Know this, ladies and gentlemen.
George Takei @GeorgeTakei·From 2015 to 2017, Mitch McConnell refused to seat any of Obama’s 100+ federal judges. Then he raced to fill them after Trump was elected. They did the same with Merrick Garland’s seat.
Don’t @ me with your “court packing.”
Let’s talk about court UNPACKING.
Donald Trump IS the Swamp
Read the front page story of the NYT today, folks, the photos alone tell the story.
The Taliban announced they support this Republican Party President Donald J Trump for reelection. Fantastic. I love it! And why wouldn't we? Thanks, fellas! Perfect timing, too. And thanks, Republicans. As I keep saying out here, that's quite the guy you got there and quite the guy you foisted on us all, on the nation.
President Trump took a step even Richard M. Nixon avoided in his most desperate days: openly ordering direct, immediate government action against specific opponents, timed to serve his re-election campaign.
A businessman-president transplanted favor-seeking in Washington to his family’s hotels and resorts — and earned millions as a gatekeeper to his own administration.
Donald Trump can no way "drain the swamp." Donald Trump IS the swamp. And he's shattering the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution. We've never had a President that was so much for sale. Our government has never been so much for sale as under this Republican Party President Donald J Trump.
And check out this little beauty, too, that broke this weekend.
This is what he did earlier this week, too.
The thing is, too, first, he doesn't even know he's doing it and second, he doesn't know how or whythis is even wrong.
Meanwhile, here we are nationally.
And here is where we are locally.
Thanks, Mr. President.
Thanks, Republicans.
Let's do this.
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Saturday, October 10, 2020
Quote of the Day -- On These Presidential Candidates
I'm going there.
We're three weeks out from saving our Democracy. Our Social Security. Our health care. Our freedom of speech. Our peace of mind, spirit and body. We're three weeks out from either voting for probably the most despicable display of a human I've ever witnessed. Trump or a true American who wants to and has saved this country from catastrophe.
Trump, a "man," and using that description very loosely, who has filed bankruptcy six times. Who has had three marriages. Who is a cheater. A serial liar. A conman. A racist. A misogynist. Truly, a despicable human being. Could not care less about you. His word. His promises. Think about it. What promises has he kept?
None.
And, somehow, this disgusting, vile person got in our White House. Additionally, he is sabotaging and killing the very core and spirit of this country. He has promoted white supremacy and is the leader and head of that gang. He gives them the green light to forge ahead by telling them to "stand by." He has called Latinos "rapists and killers and thieves."
He is the lowest form of any example of a good human.
He holds rallies while sick, not caring how that may affect his supporters but cares only about the attention and acollades these ridiculous, blinded followers still throw his way. It's truly astounding.
All that said, Joe Biden is a good man. He's a good human. He would not have been my first choice for the Democratic Party nomination but he's a good man. And he knows how to govern this country. He will hold us up, united. He will fold us back in with our allies. He and President Obama saved this country from a very trying time when we were facing a recession which would have devastated this country. They turned it around and saved this country. Whether you like Biden or not, that is a fact. Trump was given the gift of that good, strong economy from Biden/Obama. That is a fact.
If you value your Social Security. If you value your preexisting conditions. If you value your family. If you value this country and its unity and truly becoming the truly "united" states once again ... there is only one choice.
--Hilary De Witt
Quote of the Day -- Another Proud Day for Missourians
"Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years.
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called Social Security.
Socialism is what they called farm price supports.
Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people."
--President Harry S Truman, said this day, October 10, 1952
Give 'em Hell, Harry.
And thanks. Thanks so very much. For all you did and said and stood and fought for.
Thursday, October 8, 2020
Mitch McConnell Doesn't Trust the White House
Did you see this in the news?
From the article:
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday said he has not been to the White House in more than two months, suggesting that the Trump administration's lax COVID-19 protocols make him feel unsafe.The Kentucky Republican said that since early August he's instead opted to speak with President Donald Trump by phone.
"I actually haven't been to the White House since August the 6th because my impression was their approach to how to handle this was different than mine and what I insisted that we do in the Senate, which is to wear a mask and practice social distancing," McConnell said at an event in Kentucky.
The Republican Party Senate Majority Leader himself, Mitch McConnell, doesn't himself trust this President, this White House on this very killing pandemic.
Why should we?
Why should anyone?
Now Fearing For Our Nation
Seems this President Trump was offered to have a virtual debate with Joe Biden and he turned it down. He won't appear. It seems clear and obvious he felt he couldn't shout down and interrupt so he wanted no part of it. Then this happened, too.
Trump Calls Sen. Kamala Harris a ‘Monster’ in Rage-Filled Fox Interview
He went berzerk, calling Kamala a "monster" and a "Communist." In his unexpected rant, he attacked Hillary, again, and Obama too. He announced he is refusing next week's debate. He blasted all the media, claiming all the polls are rigged.
Anyone who's paying attention politically now is or should be concerned from now to November 3, especially, and then from that time to January 20. It seems clear this President is already rather "melting down." I'm afraid it's only going to get worse and more so as we get closer to these dates.
He's losing it, folks. With it, he's also sealing his political defeat.
How bizarre that we are and must be concerned about our nation due to the man who is supposed to be leading us all.
How bizarre that we are and must be concerned about our nation due to the man who is supposed to be leading us all.
More proof, as though we need it.
This broke yesterday.
Esquire Magazine said it right.
Last evening, in the Vice Presidential debate, this happened.
Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday night joined President Donald Trump in refusing to commit to ensuring a peaceful transfer of power, dodging a question about how he would handle a Joe Biden victory and parroting Trump's baseless narrative about widespread mail-in voting fraud.
This news broke this morning.
What isn't frightening about this is infuriating. This President and his Vice President seem to think we are their banana republic.
Thanks, Republicans.
And God help us all.
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Psychology Today Asks an Excellent Question
I saw this headline of this article from the magazine Psychology Today and was taken aback.
Are Americans Just Stupid?
As I said, I was taken aback. My first response was a bit of shock. But then I got to thinking about it, which is what the author intended, without doubt.
Seriously. Think about it.
Think about what we've been through with this President. Think about what he's taken us through. And our system, our systems, our political and electoral systems allowed it.
First, a bit from the article:
Perhaps that thought arose last week as you watched the cringe-worthy presidential debate, which pundits have called "a disgrace" and "an embarrassment for the ages." Our public discourse has been in decline for so long that it was bound to come to this, right? Effective self-government requires an intelligent and engaged public, and it seems the American electorate falls woefully short. With large segments of the population brazenly rejecting facts and science – whether the issue is climate change, evolution, the coronavirus, or the latest conspiracy theory – it's no surprise that social and political dysfunction are rampant.
Seen this way, it’s tempting to chalk up the clown car of American democracy to the collective intellectual deficit of its population. In truth, however, there is little evidence to support the notion that the American people are stupid. Objective measurements of intelligence can be controversial, raising questions of true objectivity and cultural bias, but it is difficult to find any that suggest Americans are lacking in IQ compared to those in other countries.
Where I think potential stupidity comes in, to me, is in our for-profit healthcare system in our nation. Consider the following 3 simple, fast facts about our American health care system:
--Most expensive health care system in the world, far and away
--Only nation where citizens go bankrupt for health care costs
--Number one reason or source for bankruptcy in the nation is bankruptcy at 40% of all bankruptcies
With all of this, way too many of us defend and support the system. It's insane. It makes no sense whatever.
I can't imagine what else you can call this support but stemming from pride.
Or stupidity.
Then there's our ignorant money paid out for defense spending.
And this Republican Party President's continued support.
Wow.
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Entertainment Overnight -- Sick, Twisted Presidential Edition
God help us, folks.
But vote.
And vote blue.
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I Can't Believe How Far Down Trump Has Dragged and is Dragging Us
Yet another new low in our nation, in and from this President, his people and administration.
I cannot believe where we are.
I can't believe how far down, down, down this President and his people and his administration and political party have dragged us all as a nation.
Thanks, Mr. President.
Thanks, Republicans.
Now, at long last, America. Let's do this.
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The Big Questions and Concerns Once Trump Loses and is Gone
Okay, once this President Trump is no longer President next year, there arises a very new and very real concern and possible if not actually likely scenario and problem for us, for the nation.
To what kind of insanity will we, the people and nation, be exposed?
And then, as President, Trump knows and is aware of some of our nation's tightest and potentially most important secrets, national secrets, national security secrets.
He's shown himself to be just exactly who he is and that virtually anything and everything is up for grabs--and for sale--in his life, in his world.
It's known he owes 421 million dollars. We just don't know to whom.
Is it Russians? Is it Russian mob bosses?
Again, we don't know to whom he owes this nearly half a billion dollars.
For the first time in our nation's history, I think we have to, nationally, somehow see to his, then-ex- President Donald Trump's silence.And I don't mean anything lethal or ugly, not at all. We just have to protect the nation, ourselves.
But how do we make certain this man Trump doesn't sell off any national information in order to save himself?
Then, what assurance do we have that, during this transition phase from that November 4 to January 20, once it's known he's lost, who and what will keep him in control even emotionally but especially in his actions on our nation? It seems no one in his political party is up to the task, at least to date.
These are a very real problems. And they're coming up quickly, very, very soon.
More of the unprecedented from and with this President.
Thanks, Republicans!
Link:
Thoughts on a Madman
But here's the thing.
If this November election goes as it looks and he, Trump, is trounced, as it looks he will be, what about from November 4, after the election, to January 20?
To what kind of insanity will we, the nation, be exposed?
It's nearly if not actually frightening to even think about.
God help us, folks.
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Quote of the Day -- On Being Nice
In this modern age of computers and cell phones and now a coronavirus pandemic.
Hold doors for strangers.
Let people cut in front of you in traffic.
Say good morning, please, thank you, excuse me, and I'm sorry.
Be patient with sales clerks.
Smile at passersby, as often as we are provided the opportunity.
Don't stand idly by and live in a world where unconditional kindness is absent or invisible.
Join in showing kindness to someone who may not necessarily deserve it, but who needs it.
We all need it.
Find your own way to swing the pendulum in the direction of kindness.
Be kind to strangers, as well as to friends and family who may seem like strangers these days, today and every day.
-- Written, I'm told, by one Alexis Barclay I'm told. Edited here by me.
Go. Enjoy.
Be happy.
Be nice.
The world needs that. Heck, you and I need that.
Always.
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Incredible Development Today, Sure to Sink This President's Reelection Chance
As with so many things of and about this President in the last 3-1/2 years, I can hardly believe what I'm reading today. This just broke.
Trump orders aides to halt talks on COVID-19 relief
He apparently, obviously no way realizes this will help sink his chances of reelection. He clearly seems to know nothing of our national election history showing that sitting Presidents virtually never get reelected in poor or bad economies.
In sharp contrast check out what someone else, aware and informed and adult but still from this administration has to say on this.
Powell warns of downward spiral of layoffs, recession without further coronavirus aid
Powell Urges More Stimulus From Congress, Citing ‘Strong But Incomplete’ Recovery
As proof of my claim for this article, check out the effect his, Trump's announcement is having on the markets.
Stocks drop after President Trump calls off stimulus talks
Biden Scores 14-Point Lead Over Trump in Poll After Debate
And note the source for that last story, last claim is from the very Right Wing, Republican Party supporting, ultra-conservative Wall Street Journal, too, folks.
It should be nearly all over but the crying for this President, folks. At least for him.
If not also his political party.
Thanks, Mr. President!
Vote!
And VOTE BLUE!!
US Healthcare System vs This Pandemic
Can we not now, with this pandemic, recognize and admit that our for-profit health care system in the US is clearly hurting Americans? We are supposedly, reputedly the "wealthiest nation in the world" and have the "best health care system in the world" but, but it's not universal health care.
We are the only Western, industrialized nation IN THE WORLD without universal health care.
We are the only nation in the world that has citizens declaring bankruptcy due to health care costs.
The number one cause of bankruptcy in the nation is health care costs.
With all that, finally, and, again, this pandemic, we have MORE DEATHS from this pandemic than ANY OTHER NATION IN THE WORLD.
Can we not see a connection between this for-profit health care system and all these pandemic deaths?
Can't we?
And then, can we maybe do something about all this?
We are, after all, "exceptional."
Right?
Monday, October 5, 2020
At What Point Do We Address Climate Change?
Look at just three things, only three, from the last one year.
--15 million acres of Australia burned last year, in 2019--It got over 100 degrees in the Arctic this year
--More than 4 million acres of California burned and that's just so far this year
Are we going to do anything yet? At what point are we going to do things? At what point are we going to collectively change?
Links:
At Least This Would Make Sense
(click on picture for easier reading/viewing)
God help us all.
Vote, folks.
And vote blue.
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Donald Trump, In a Nutshell
Here, ladies and gentlemen, Americans, is Donald J Trump, reputed President of these United States.
Anand Giridharadas@AnandWrites
He hosted a super-spreader event to honor a justice who would have the government control your body but refuse the duty to care for it, and when the virus he helped go around came around, he availed of the healthcare he would deny others, financed by the taxes he refuses to pay.
Thanks, Mr. President!
Thanks, Republicans!
Let's do this, folks.
Vote. And vote blue.
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Quote of the Day -- Self-involved, Narcissist Edition
Trump looked so small today from inside the cocoon of his armored Presidential limo. Yesterday, the WH gaslighted America with two photo ops taken moments apart and with Trumps dramatic live signing of blank paper. Today, though, America witnessed the “Ride to Nowhere." It was an exquisite metaphor for the end of Trump’s Presidency.
Slow moving and pointless, the motorcade enthralled the Q-Anon conspiracy nuts who gathered outside the hospital hoping Trump would give them another clue about his smashing the Pedophile ring that is running America.
Inside the limo were agents of the Secret Service who would jump in front of a bullet for the President and his family but weren’t worthy of any consideration by Trump. It was a parade of one for an audience of one. It was a slow rolling celebration of selfishness and malfeasance.
Trump couldn’t be bothered to make any comment about the 200,000th dead American but today, because he has become infected, he decided to give the nation a Presidential funeral procession. It took the purposeless form of a slow rolling meander around Walter Reed.
Trump waved at the gathered Q-Anon conspiracy loons and demonstrated through his clinical neediness his profound unfitness for command. Trump’s recklessness is responsible for his infection and many others. Trump’s lying has killed over 150,000 Americans who would not have died otherwise.
Hundreds of thousands more will die. Why did it happen? How did it happen? Watch the video of the malignant buffoon in the back seat of the Presidential Suburban. It will explain a lot.
--Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES
Vote, folks. And vote blue.
#BlueWave2020
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What a real President, a real leader should and would do.
Sunday, October 4, 2020
Quote of the Day -- Dangerous President Edition
From Conservative, very Right Wing, Republican Bill Kristol today.
I hope President Trump has a swift and complete recovery from COVID.
I hope the United States has a swift and complete recovery from President Trump.
From his keyboard tray to God's eyes.
Let's do this, folks.
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#BlueWave2020
Neither Presidential Nor a Debate
To repeat, that was neither Presidential nor a debate. Fortunately, even though the nation is going to Hell, at least we have "Saturday Night Live" to give us some humor, however painful, to help us get through this/these nightmare(s).
Our nation may be going to Hell but at least we have this. (Thanks, Mr. President! Thanks, Republicans!)
Again, folks.
Vote!
And VOTE BLUE!!
Let's get back to sanity. And reality. And intelligence.
#BlueWave2020
This Incredible President
The President of the United States is smarter than COVID and the doctors and specialists and scientists and economists and everyone and everything else.
Except when he's not.
Except when he's not.
Thanks, Mr. President.
Thanks, Republicans.
Thanks, Republicans.
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Trump is hospitalized, COVID-19 is exploding across the GOP
Friday, October 2, 2020
America's Obscene, Grossly Immoral Health Care System
I just saw this out on Facebonkers.
How SHIPs Can Help With Your Medicare Questions and Problems
Yes sir and ma'am. Far and away the most expensive.
And complicated?
Heck we have a system mostly for the elderly that's so difficult, companies and organizations actually have to create systems and places and events for people to LEARN how the whole system functions.
Additionally, finally, at least here, today, the US is the only nation, also, the ONLY nation, in the world, where citizens go bankrupt, broke, from and because of medical bills.
The only nation.
Additionally, it is the NUMBER ONE CAUSE of bankruptcy--medical bills---at roughly 40% of all bankruptcies in the nation, consistently, year after year.
Insane.
We Americans. We're "exceptional" all right.
Exceptionally stupid. Exceptionally proud. Exceptionally gullible.
Yay, Capitalism, huh?
Ain't we great?
Breaking News This Morning
The medical community is already responding, naturally.
Have a nice day, everyone.
Additional links:
RNC chair tests positive for coronavirus
Looks like maybe all around this political party. The President, Melania, Hope Hicks, the head of the RNC and now this guy?
Meanwhile:
Joe Biden tests negative for coronavirus
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Quotes of the Day -- Presidential Debate Edition
After last evening's debacle of a debate, it seemed a good time to maybe quote some evaluations of it. Mind you, too, most of these are from conservative sources, too.
"I can’t say this any more clearly: Our democracy is in terrible danger....And that is why the only choice in this election is Joe Biden. The Democrats are not blameless when it comes to playing politics, but there is no equivalence to the Republicans. The Democratic Party sorted through all the choices, and, led by older Black men and women in South Carolina, rejected the Democratic socialist candidate and said they wanted a moderate unifier named Joe Biden.
The Republicans — who in the past voted for Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, sane conservatives who could be counted upon to uphold the common good — have done no such equivalent thing. They have fallen in line lock step behind a man who is the most dishonest, dangerous, meanspirited, divisive and corrupt person to ever occupy the Oval Office. And they know it. Four more years of Trump’s divide and rule will destroy our institutions and rip the country apart."
--Thomas Frieman
After that fiasco, Biden should refuse to debate Trump again. The president was petulant and puerile, so what is the point? I wasn’t in the crowd of people who believed Joe Biden shouldn’t deign to debate President Trump, but put me in the crowd that believes he shouldn’t debate him again. Not after Tuesday night’s horror show: a disgrace to the format, an insult to the country, a nearly pointless 90 minutes. And, I should add, a degradation of the presidency itself, which Trump had degraded so thoroughly already.
--Frank Bruni, The New York Times
This debate was disgraceful and painful to watch; everyone knows the reason was Trump. The psychological effect of this debate will be fairly profound on the majority of Americans, which is, “I can’t bear four more years of this.” Trump is the most intensely unlikable candidate in American history, and that matters.
--Peter Wehner
Chris Wallace..."utterly failed at the job assigned to him, which was to make the president behave like a normal human for 90 minutes."
--Alyssa Rosenberg
"For all his heckling, shouting and nonsense talk, Trump made one thing perfectly clear: He’s getting ready to take his chaos and mayhem from the debate stage and use it to try to disrupt the election itself."
---Dana Milbank
"When faced with questions about his actual record and policy, Trump threw up word salads, switched topics, made scurrilous accusations and convinced any rational viewer he is in over his head. He mostly interrupted, repeatedly and falsely accusing Biden of harboring positions that his more progressive opponents in the Democratic primaries held. Trump was a walking Twitter feed — no facts, all bluster and all insults. Unfortunately, moderator Chris Wallace was never able to control Trump, so the debate devolved into constant interruption."
Chris Wallace "...should have halted the debate or cut Trump’s microphone until he agreed to abide by the rules. Trump’s strategy was to be so obnoxious and aggressive that he could avoid answering questions and defending his record. Trump’s job was to win over voters. It’s hard to believe anyone not already part of his cult would be persuaded to support a rude, blustering know-nothing."
--Jennifer Riubin
Let's do this, folks. Vote. And vote blue.
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