Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin, North End, Boston

Monday, September 7, 2020

 Trump is the #ultimatedestructor of American values, liberty and spirit.  He has made Americans sick, die and unemployed while weakening America in geopolitical power grid and he did it all in 3.5 years. 


Trump is America's greatest failure and Russia's greatest achievement. 

HORRIBLE: Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’


Every American should be deeply ashamed of this loathsome villain:



Trump Canceled Trip To Cemetery Honoring Slain Soldiers Who He Called ‘Losers




"President Trump reportedly skipped his scheduled visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018 after dismissing the U.S. soldiers who died during the Battle of Bellaeu Wood as “losers.” According to a report in The Atlantic published Thursday, Trump’s excuses of “the helicopter couldn’t fly” and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him to the cemetery in France due to the rain were false claims.


 Citing four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day, The Atlantic reported that the President was reluctant to pay a visit to the cemetery in France honoring slain American soldiers because of concerns that his hair would become disheveled in the rain. Additionally, Trump reportedly mocked the soldiers who died during the Battle of Bellaeu Wood during a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit. “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers,” Trump said, according to The Atlantic. 

 The Atlantic also reported that Trump characterized the more than 1,800 marines who died in the Battle of Belleau Wood as “suckers” during a separate conversation on the same trip. Trump also asked aides, “who were the good guys in this war?” and expressed that he didn’t understand why the U.S. would intervene on the side of the Allies. 

 The Battle of Belleau Wood in the spring of 1918 proved to be consequential in that it was the first large-scale battle fought by American soldiers in World War I. The U.S. Marines and Allied forces had stopped the German advance toward Paris in the forested area. After weeks of the Marines launching attacks, Americans prevailed, but at the cost of nearly 10,000 dead, wounded, or missing in action."





"...[Trump] has also clashed with the military leadership by extending clemency to accused and convicted war criminals, seeking to order active-duty forces into the streets of Washington to crack down on demonstrations and trying to block an effort to change the names of Army bases named for Confederate generals. 

 A new poll by The Military Times taken before the party conventions last month and released this week showed former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. leading Mr. Trump with 41 percent to 37 percent among active-duty troops, a stark departure from the military’s longstanding support for Republicans. 

 People familiar with Mr. Trump’s comments say he has long scorned those who served in Vietnam as being too dumb to have gotten out of it, as he did through a medical diagnosis of bone spurs in his heels. At other times, according to those familiar with the remarks, Mr. Trump would marvel at people choosing military service over making money."

Friday, September 4, 2020

 



 

The Pentagon has ordered Stars and Stripes to shut down for no good reason

Trump wants to pull funding from Stars and Stripes, a newspaper for American troops that began in the Civil War and has been serving our soldiers.


Even for those of us who are all too wearily familiar with President Donald Trump’s disdain for journalists, his administration’s latest attack on the free press is a bit of a jaw-dropper.

In a heretofore unpublicized recent memo, the Pentagon delivered an order to shutter Stars and Stripes, a newspaper that has been a lifeline and a voice for American troops since the Civil War. The memo orders the publisher of the news organization (which now publishes online as well as in print) to present a plan that “dissolves the Stars and Stripes” by Sept. 15  including "specific timeline for vacating government owned/leased space worldwide.”

“The last newspaper publication (in all forms) will be September 30, 2020,” writes Col. Paul Haverstick Jr., the memo’s author. 

Thursday, September 3, 2020

The Lawless Republican President...

 


encouraged North Carolinians to break the law:



President Trump on Wednesday suggested supporters in North Carolina should illegally attempt to vote both by mail and in person, saying doing so would test the integrity of the system. 

 Asked by reporters whether he trusted North Carolina’s mail-in balloting system, the president responded, "Let them send it in, and let them go vote, and if their system's as good as they say it is, then obviously they won't be able to vote. If it isn't tabulated, they'll be able to vote." 

 "If it's as good as they say it is, then obviously they won't be able to vote. If it isn't tabulated, they'll be able to vote. So that's the way it is. And that's what they should do," he added. 

Voting more than once in the same election is illegal.



Below is a photo of President Chaos inspecting what's left of America after almost 4 years of his disastrous presidency:

Donald Trump Almost Got Away With His Brazen Kenosha Store-Owner Switcheroo



TRUTH!

Tuesday, September 1, 2020

HELPING A "VERY CONCERNED" TRUMP SUPPORTER

 A "very concerned" Trump supporter writes:

I keep hearing [things] like this and want your help: 

How has Trump encouraged violence? 

Apparently, the Trumper who wrote this is either lazy or can't handle the truth. A quick Google search found dozens and dozens of instances that connect Trump's rhetoric and incitements to physical violence by his supporters. 

Here are just a few:

After a Latino gas station attendant in Gainesville, Florida, was suddenly punched in the head by a white man, the victim could be heard on surveillance camera recounting the attacker’s own words: “He said, ‘This is for Trump.'" Charges were filed but the victim stopped pursuing them.

When police questioned a Washington state man about his threats to kill a local Syrian-born man, the suspect told police he wanted the victim to "get out of my country," adding, "That’s why I like Trump."

Reviewing police reports and court records, ABC News found that in at least 12 cases perpetrators hailed Trump in the midst or immediate aftermath of physically assaulting innocent victims. In another 18 cases, perpetrators cheered or defended Trump while taunting or threatening others. And in another 10 cases, Trump and his rhetoric were cited in court to explain a defendant's violent or threatening behavior.








Concerned Trumper:   How has Trump exhibited racism? 

Obviously, this Trump supporter, again, is either too lazy to do the research, ignores the evidence that's been out there since Trump began his campaign, or is deliberately being ignorant and can't handle the truth. 


Then Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, said that Trump's complaint that he would not get a fair trail because Judge Curiel was Mexican (he was born in America), is itself "the definition of racism."

How did the Trumper miss that? It was all over the news!

Here's more on all the times Trump has manifested his disgusting racism:




 Concerned Trumper: When did he ever do anything that was anti-gay? 

Again, this Trump supporter refuses to do the research. Just because this Trumper doesn't personally know Trump's anti-gay history, this person is stunned to think there is evidence to show that he is anti-gay. When we say that Trumpers are deliberately ignorant of Trump's miseralble record as a leader of ALL Americans, that's not being provocative, it's telling the truth. People like the Concerned Trumper just don't want to know!

Here is a list of all the times Trump has thwarted or tried to thwart the LGBTQ community from enjoying equal rights protected under the Constitution:




Concerned Trumper:  Does this administration really want violence on the streets? 



HERE'S TRUMP IN HIS OWN WORDS:





 Concerned Trumper: Is he really going to put an end to social security? 

Trump:  “At the end of the year, on the assumption that I win, I’m going to terminate the payroll tax,” he said at a press conference. (The payroll tax FUNDS Social Security.)

“We’ll be paying into Social Security through the general fund.” 

 When questioned about the $2.8 trillion deficit now facing the federal government, Trump claimed the economy is “going to have tremendous growth” next year. 

 Notably, it's not within a president's power to unilaterally change tax law or re-appropriate government funds



Concerned Trumper:  Is he really not desirous of controlling COVID and has he really done nothing about it?


No. Trump doesn't seem "desirous of controlling COVID."


The fact that the Concerned Trumper asks these questions that can easily be researched, and that C.T.  is astonished that these questions are even OUT there shows us that Trump supporters live in a bubble -- A FAUX NOOZ or OAN bubble that filters out all the horrible, terrible, anti-American and anti-Constitutional shenanigans and actual law-breaking that's been going on since January 21, 2017, and is still going on now.

Trump supporters are ignorant either by willfulness or the inability to face the truth about the worst president in modern American history.




BIDEN-HARRIS 2020

HERE IS THE TRUMPUBLICANS' PRESIDENT IN ALL HIS RECKLESS AND LAWLESS GLORY:

 

The party of "Law and Order" supports an egregious law-breaker (and liar):



Trump defendes Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old supporter of his who is charged with murdering two protesters in Kenosha









Trump Broke The Law In Freezing Ukraine Funds, Watchdog Report Concludes



The GAO just said Trump broke the law. It’s another reason impeachment was necessary.


Court: Trump violates Constitution 





Sen. Bernie Sanders:


 "Trump claims he's a 'law and order' president. 

That's funny. 

This is a president who shamelessly violates the Constitution, incites violence, uses his office to enrich his family, and seven of his top campaign advisers have been criminally charged (so far). 

Trump must go."

Monday, August 31, 2020

TRUMP'S AMERICA

 

17-year-old charged with homicide after fatal shooting during Kenosha protests, authorities say




This 17 year old, who is not old enough to buy alcohol, vote, or even join the military, joined up with a white supremacist "boogaloo" group, took his firearm to Kenosha, and is accused of killing people who were exercising their 1st Amendment rights.

Trump's own FBI has claimed that white supremacist groups are the most dangerous in America and have been responsible for more terrorist acts than any other groups. 


Kelvin Lashley writes:


"[Trump] has encouraged vigilante white supremacy behavior from the Very first day of his campaign.
He has openly yearned for the “Good ‘Ole days”
And encouraged cops to “NOT BE SO NICE..”
Among other things. As though they were so very nice to minorities before..
You know this. I don’t have to post video clips and quotes of every vile thing that he has said.
But what is even more interesting is this:
The Republicans keep telling you that this is what Joe Biden America will look like.
However, people, use a small piece of common sense.
THIS IS DONALD TRUMP’S AMERICA!
Not Joe Biden's.
Not Obama's
Not Hillary's
Not Nancy Pelosi's!
IT IS DONALD JOHN TRUMP’s AMERICA.
DONALD TRUMP HAS SOWN, CULTIVATED AND NURTURED THIS DIVISIVENESS AND IT IS BEARING FRUIT IN PLAIN VIEW!"


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Image may contain: 1 person, text that says 'This is 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse. He was just charged with murder for killing two civil rights protesters last night in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He's not an immigrant. He's not ISIS. He's not MS-13. He's not "antifa." He is yet ANOTHER homegrown domestic terrorist with an assault rifle. AMERICA, WE HAVE A PROBLEM A WALL WON'T FIX. OCCUPY DEMOCRATS'

THIS NEVER GETS OLD

  Flynn Loses Bid to Force Trial Judge to Quickly Dismiss Criminal Case 



 




 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit found that Flynn had not demonstrated a need for an intervention preventing U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan from proceeding with an inquiry into the Justice Department’s retreat from the prosecution.





MEANWHILE:

Hillary is not fighting the courts to keep them from locking her up!





via Gfycat

Trump "intensely loyal?" LOL!

 


If you want to try to understand the psychology of many Americans who believe they're critical thinkers and moral Christians and who believe in the Ten Commandments, just read what Trump's 3rd wife said about him:


Melania had the chutzpah to state this lie in front of the American people when everyone knows that he cheated on all of his wives, and especially humiliated and cheated on her when she gave birth to Trump's 5th child. 

Everyone knows that Trump had a one-night stand with a porn star (Stormy Daniels) and he was also in a long-term affair with Karen McDougal while married to Melania. And those are the affairs we know of. How many more did this "intensely loyal" adulterer engage in?


KAREN MCDOUGAL:

“ 'After we had been intimate, he, he tried to pay me — and I actually didn’t know how to take that,' she told Anderson Cooper of CNN in an interview broadcast on Thursday night. 'I looked at him and said, ‘That’s not me, I’m not that kind of girl.’” 

 As a security aide of Mr. Trump’s drove her home, she said, 'I started crying, I was really sad — it really hurt me.' But, she said, in spite of that encounter in 2006, 'I went back,' conducting what she described as a 10-month, serious relationship that she finally ended when she could no longer bear the guilt of betraying Mr. Trump’s then-new wife, Melania."



Did Melania seriously think people would forget what Trump did to her and their marriage? What kind of nonsense is she trying to sell the American people? "Intensely loyal?"

Melania is as much of a liar and dissembler as the cheat she married.

And still the Evangelicals support this cad.

Who's surprised? Jerry Falwell, Jr., supported him as well. And that support came after Trump's "fixer," Michael Cohen, got rid of embarrassing photos of Falwell's wife and the pool boy in flagrante delicto while the "holier than thou" Falwell, Jr., looked on.  That's some dirty quid pro quo! 

I'm writing this to document the dirt and squalor Trump's supporters are willing to ignore in order to "stick it to the libtards," and to fill judicial appointments.

Also, never let those supporters forget how willingly they got into the cesspool of Trumpian lies, cheating, and fraud to advance their agenda.


Friday, August 28, 2020

BREAKING NEWS!

 BREAKING:  Joe Biden's DNC Speech received a staggering 2 MILLION more viewers across 9 networks than Trump's speech last evening according to Nielsen.


23.6M vs 21.6M







Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Day Two of the Trumpublican Propagandapalooza

 



You all saw it. Day 2 was full of lies, distortions, and dissembling. IOW, a typical Trumpian display of hubris, hypocrisy, and humbug.

One of the stranger things to come out of Day 2 was the 3rd Lady, Melania Trump, giving her speech at the White House dressed like a Fidel Castro wannabe. With all the money she has from her "billionnaire" husband plus her experience as a fashion model, why would she choose an olive drab militry-type uniform to address the nation?

Her speech was as phony as the fake uniform she wore.

Here are just a few highlights from Tommy Christopher:


On Wednesday morning’s Morning Joe, Scarborough described some of the happenings at night 2 of the RNC, and said you also had Melania actually criticizing people who were mean on social media, and gossipers.”
“Of course, never heard her criticize her own husband when he said that Mika was bleeding badly from a facelift,” Scarborough said bitterly, describing one attack that Trump made on Mika Brzezinski, Scarborough’s wife and co-host.
“Or when I was a murderer,” Scarborough continued, referencing a vicious smear Trump repeatedly pursued over an intern who tragically died of natural causes, “or when a woman who had passed away tragically 19 years ago, her husband was begging Donald Trump to stop being so hateful and causing their family extraordinary pain, begging him to stop and he just continued, over and over again causing pain for that family.”
“I’m just, I never heard Melania say anything, never heard her say anything when Donald Trump talked about bleeding badly from a facelift, but somebody used her child’s name in a pun and oh my God, locusts were descending from the heavens. It was the end of the world,” he said, referencing a White House reaction to Barron Trump’s name being invoked by a witness to Congress.
“So I guess she’s fine with Donald Trump savaging other people everyday, causing immeasurable pain, being the most extraordinarily hateful, malevolent force in American politics on a personal level in his constant daily attacks, but she’s going to stand up and lecture? About gossip? She’s inside the house, going to lecture about gossip? And she’s going to lecture about the meanness of social media? I mean seriously. Talk about being a shameless, absolutely shameless,” Scarborough said.



Tuesday, August 25, 2020

TRUMP AND THE TRUMPUBLICANS WANT YOUR VOTE FOR 4 MORE YEARS OF THIS:

 The Trump Administration Crime Syndicate:




After 8 years in office, President Obama, 0 indictments.


After 4 years in office, Trump (so far) has 215 indictments!


FOUR MORE YEARS OF CRIMINALITY?


VOTE NO!


VOTE BIDEN-HARRIS 2020

Monday, August 24, 2020

The RNC starts today. Here's its line-up:

 


I was unexpectedly away for a few days, but back just in time for the RNC debacle:

No platform, and uninspiring speakers, plus Trump showing up each day to tell us what a great job he's doing in piling up more Covid-19 dead Americans, job losses, school closings, unemployment, and overall misery for the American people.

I plan to skip the show and read a synopsis, rather than submit myself to more of Trump's American Carnage.



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Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Sunday, August 16, 2020

FROM A VIETNAM VETERAN:

 



"I was a 21 year-old Marine NCO in Vietnam when I was seriously wounded during the Tet Offensive in 1968. (I am intensely proud of my time as a US Marine.) 

After I was shot I spent several months in crowded military hospitals with other young Americans who'd been wounded fighting for our country and, like so many others, I was eventually designated a disabled veteran. After my medical retirement the VA stepped in, sent me to college and law school and, since I began to practice law in 1973, my family and I have lived a good life (and--special bonus!--the taxes I've paid have refunded America's investment in my education over and over). 

 As a disabled veteran I've received various prescription meds--by mail--every month. Now, for the first time in almost five decades, I face the prospect of delivery of those meds being delayed because the psychotic-in-chief finds it politically expedient to screw up the US Postal Service. 

 Please note that, as a personal matter, and on behalf of all of my fellow disabled veterans who are equally dependent on receiving their meds by mail, there is nothing short of death that can stop me from voting for Biden-Harris on election day. NOTHING." 



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Trump frankly acknowledged that he’s starving the U.S. Postal Service of money to make it harder to process an expected surge of mail-in ballots, which he worries could cost him reelection. 

In an interview on Fox Business Network, Trump explicitly noted two funding provisions that Democrats are seeking in a relief package that has stalled on Capitol Hill. Without the additional money, he said, the Postal Service won’t have the resources to handle a flood of ballots from voters who are seeking to avoid polling places during the coronavirus pandemic. 

“If we don’t make a deal, that means they don’t get the money,” Trump told host Maria Bartiromo on Thursday. “That means they can’t have universal mail-in voting; they just can’t have it.” 

Trump’s statements, including the false claim that Democrats are seeking universal mail-in voting, come as he is searching for a strategy to gain an advantage in his November matchup against Joe Biden. He’s pairing the tough Postal Service stance in congressional negotiations with an increasingly robust mail-in-voting legal fight in states that could decide the election.



Saturday, August 15, 2020

TRUMP IS ATTEMPTING TO CORRUPT OUR ELECTION IN NOVEMBER

 

Pay attention, people. 


Trump is trying to corrupt our election right in front of our eyes. His plan is to shut down Americans' ability to vote by mail. He has a corrupt Post Master General doing his bidding.


Please note: trump and his 3rd wife have requested  mail-in ballots for voting in Florida.


We're watching trump steal an election right in front of our eyes.


By now, it’s no secret that Trump and his allies are trying to sabotage the Postal Service. 

The question is what Democrats will do in response. Republicans have had their crosshairs on the USPS for decades now, and for the usual conservative reasons: it’s a national service that they would prefer be wholly privatized and parceled off for profit. But the circumstances around the COVID pandemic the 2020 election make the continued ability of the Postal Service to handle ballots in a timely manner an life-or-death battle for American democracy itself. 

 Put bluntly, Democrats do better in elections the more people vote; the pandemic makes voting in person more dangerous; universal mail voting increases voter turnout and bypasses a variety of traditional conservative voter suppression strategies; and Donald Trump has convinced a large number of Republicans to avoid mail voting, such that most of the mail-in vote is likely to come from Democratic voters. 

Trump and his Republican allies are currently performing poorly in public polling, further incentivizing them to try to narrow the electorate through suppression of opposing communities. Trump and McConnell are refusing to allow money to fund the Postal Service as part of a new COVID relief package, and Trump just admitted to doing so as part of an attempt to hamper mail-in voting. 


 This Tweet is from Molly Jong Fast:




Tuesday, August 11, 2020

On to November!

 










via GIPHY

If anyone had any doubts about the decline and degradation of the current GOP, just read this and weep:

 

‘Listening to experts is elitist’: Idaho Republicans move to strip power from public health officials


"Idaho lawmakers are moving to strip the authority of public health districts to close schools in emergencies or require masks for safety reasons. 

 The legislature’s Education Working Group voted overwhelmingly in favor of the proposal to take away power from “elitist” public health officials and allow school boards to make those health-related decisions, reported Boise State Public Radio."

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During the worst pandemic since 1918, the Republican Party has convinced itself and, sadly, its followers that expert advice is "elitist," and belief in conspiracies and other stupidities are what is needed to survive this pandemic.

We know that the GOP's president has had a large influence in getting people to disrespect and suspect the experts in epidemology, virology, as well as the doctors and nurses fighting Covid-19 on the front lines.

It's as though Trump and his true believers want to send more people to their unnecessary deaths.

Don't forget that Trump gets tested every day, and no one is allowed near him unless he or she has been tested. So Trump is personally careful about this very deadly, very contageous virus, but careless when it comes to protecting the American people.

He was stubbornly anti-facemasks for months and months, and only gave in to wearing them when it became politically necessary, and that was only for a brief time. He's careless about social distancing. One only needs to have seen his latest rally (disguised as a presser) this past weekend at his private golf club in New Jersey to understand Trump's recklessness and disregard for the safety of Americans during this crisis.

Looking at the MAGA-hat-wearing audience members at a Trump rally or bikers swarming South Dakota, one can only conclude that they are prime examples of groupthink. And it is members of these groups who are most likely to oppose wearing masks and other public health measures to contain this pandemic. What we are witnessing is, in fact, an expression of effective, targeted propaganda, starting with the president at the top and his media supporters.