Among many other things; three years of Donald Trump as
president have shown us two central truths.
That America 's
population is more racist and divided than we ever admitted; and
America 's
politicians are more vile & corrupt
than we ever imagined.
The impeachment and acquittal of Donald Trump was a showcase
of treason, corruption &
cowardice. It was the final death knell
of democracy, and the coronation of America 's
first dictator.
Even as I write these words, the bloodbath of retaliation & revenge has begun as Trump lashes out
vindictively at his growing list of enemies (real & imagined), more emboldened than ever. "Teflon Don" is now officially
above the law and feels like he can get away with anything after surviving
the porn star scandal, Mueller investigation, Quid Pro Quo and impeachment. Since his
acquittal Trump has scrubbed 70 Obama holdovers from the National Security
Council. You just watch, it won't be
long until he goes full-goose Caligula...I don't think it'll be a long wait
either.
The thing is that witness retaliation is against the law, just like witness tampering and intimidation are, and Trump could care less. I submit that the entire impeachment team should remain on the job, and slap Mango Unchanged with more articles of impeachment every single time he breaks the law. Yes, I know if they did that very little else would get done, except for limiting the damage he can still do; but nothing else has worked. If he is allowed to now get away with witness retaliation without being held accountable, he will see that as a green light to run amok.
The thing is that witness retaliation is against the law, just like witness tampering and intimidation are, and Trump could care less. I submit that the entire impeachment team should remain on the job, and slap Mango Unchanged with more articles of impeachment every single time he breaks the law. Yes, I know if they did that very little else would get done, except for limiting the damage he can still do; but nothing else has worked. If he is allowed to now get away with witness retaliation without being held accountable, he will see that as a green light to run amok.
"Real Power is...I don't
even want to use the word...fear"
~Donald Trump - March 31, 2016
When Trump first arrived in D.C. he saw that congress and
the senate were comprised of greedy old men whose primary focus was their own
re-election; and he immediately knew exactly how to control them. First he had to set an example early on for
all to see. Anyone who opposed Trump,
spoke out against him or failed to vote with him was singled out, attacked as
being weak, ineffective, etc and given a nasty nickname. The same tactic used so effectively against
former GOP presidential candidates in
2016.
Holding their very re-elections as hostage, Trump brow beat
the GOP senate into submission; then
ensured their future obedience by getting them all on Putin's payroll incentive
plan. Why else would Mitch McConnell
block every single bill to protect and defend our elections from foreign
interference?? Why would he do that if
he was working for the American people?
Treasonous cowards all, every last one of them.
Immediately following the impeachment acquittal, stories
began hitting the internet media that quoted several senators who were asked
why they voted to acquit, admitting it was out of fear. Fear that they
would be singled out, that Trump would give them one of his childish nicknames
and badmouth them on the playground.
Imagine that, an American senator afraid of a nickname, now imagine 52
of them so afraid of the man they all vote to acquit!
"I
feel like I'm standing over a casket"
~ Bill Maher -(2-8-20 ) ~
~ Bill Maher -(
People have been comparing Trump to Adolph Hitler almost
from the start of his presidential campaign, and for good reason. As it turns out Trump is quite a student, fan
and follower of the despised Nazi dictator.
According to an ex-wife, Trump keeps a book of Hitler's speeches in his
night stand...and we have time and again seen how Trump fawns over contemporary
dictators like Putin, and Kim.
Trump studies how dictators rise to power, and how they keep
it...and its not because he is a history buff.
In so many ways, Trump has done his level best to remake America
in the image of Nazi Germany; perhaps now that the senate has given Trump his
version of the enabling act, maybe its a good time to take a deeper look into
his obsession with Hitler.
I simply couldn't believe my eyes when Trump announced he
was awarding the medal of freedom to hate monger Rush Limbaugh. That was not only a travesty, it was an open
and sadistic
insult to decency and decorum. The
incident was made even worse still for the fact that the last surviving pilot
from the all black Tuskegee airmen
was present in the audience, who should have received the medal. Rewarding a scumbag like Limbaugh with the
medal of freedom is like giving the International Culinary Award to Jeffrey
Dahmer! Trump did this to show just how
nasty he can be.
For me the high point
of the state of the union address was when Nancy Pelosi ripped up her copy of
Trump's speech in open protest to the stream of lies pouring like sewage from his
mouth. After, when a reporter asked her
why she did it, Pelosi replied, "Because the speech was a manifesto of mistruth!"
To show the world what a petty, vindictive little man he is;
Trump posted an edited video of Pelosi ripping up his state of the union
speech which was altered to make it look like she was doing it as the Tuskegee
airman was being introduced. YouTube has
refused to delete or remove the video on the grounds that freedom of speech
includes the freedom of misleading and outright false speech! It would seem that even YouTube is afraid of
Trump.
Trump turned his state of the union speech into another rally,
then turned the solemn
national prayer breakfast into a shameless pity party including vehement
attacks against his "persecutors"
despite the events theme being that of forgiveness.
A reporter asked Trump after his acquittal if he was now out
to settle scores, his cryptic, if not chilling response was simply..."You'll see - let's see what
happens."
"Power corrupts, Absolute power corrupts
absolutely"
~ Lord Acton~
~ Lord Acton~
Trump now wants the entire impeachment to be expunged
from the official records; imagine that.
Now imagine the senate being so scared of Trump they just do what he
wants. It is being reported that Trump
will now order the IRS
to turn over Bidens income data; even as they refuse (ordered not to) release Trumps.
Are the justice & treasury
departments also scared of Trump retaliation if they incur his wrath? The Iowa
caucus disaster gave Trump much enjoyment on his post-acquittal victory lap;
and has all the earmarks of yet another attack on our elections. Not one of the several excuses given for the
disaster pass the smell test, much less the logic test and yet there aren't
many voices demanding a full FBI investigation.
Why is that?
How very convenient for Trump, between impeachment acquittal
and state of the union speech the democrats come off looking like the Keystone Cops! "Perception is Reality"- Trump
knows this, its why he has never stopped holding rallies to keep his base fired
up; just
like Hitler did.
As the tangerine
scream prepares to serve up vengeance to his enemies and fix the next
election, the democrats just can't seem to get it together in any meaningful
way and have yet to produce anyone who can derail the Trump train. They are all carrying on as if this was just
a normal election from back in the 50's...they all say they can beat Trump but
none of them will say exactly how.
"Right Matters"
~ Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman ~
~ Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman ~
The sole glimmer of hope might
be Mayor Pete Buttigieg. He appears to be the one sane voice
in the crowd of wannabes, he seems to
be that bright shining light to lead us out of the darkness. He is young, intelligent, articulate and
always seems to say things most of us want to hear. But wait a minute, we've seen this show
before!
Obama appeared to us the exact same way, seemingly out of
nowhere, and this reminds me a lot of that. Of course once Obama caught on and
his popularity skyrocketed it wasn't long before he was in the tank, bought &
owned by special interest groups and power brokers. It's called the JFK gambit
and it has worked before; maybe it'll work again... "Let's see what happens."
Meanwhile; Michael Bloomberg is spending $38
bucks a minute on his presidential election campaign...370 million
dollars so far. Great, just great, all
we need is another out-of-touch billionaire president telling us what to think. Reports have surfaced stating that the Bloomberg campaign is doing something no one else seems to have thought of...He has retained the services of an expert on narcissism to help get in Trumps head & under his skin. Not a bad idea.
We have gone from our first president who could not tell a
lie, to our worst president who cannot tell the truth. Democracy has run it's course, we're in the post-truth era now, where bat-shit crazy
is the way its going to be from now on.
Welcome to Trumpland where democracy has been replaced with an
authoritarian dictatorship "the
likes of which the world has never seen". It used to be that if you lied under oath,
you lost your job, now under Trump's authoritarian rule, you get fired if you
speak the truth under oath!
When the Fascists take over they don't declare it on social
media or take out full page ads in the Wall Street Journal...they come wrapped
in the American flag & carrying a bible.
Things will still look, feel and
work the same as before, for a while. You'll
probably still have your job, (unless
you've been a vocal anti-Trump sort of dissident) and the trains will still
run more or less on time; but make no mistake about it, things are going to be
very different from now on and my guess is that it won't be long before you
notice what I'm talking about. Just
don't forget to yell "Jenga"
when everything falls apart.
We have to remember that Trump didn't do this all
alone. There were serious indications
that he was being groomed as a potential presidential candidate in 2012 after
the 2-term success of GW Bush...but it was decided it wasn't his time yet. Enter the Tea Party: first build the base,
then give them their candidate. Begun in
2009 the tea party movement was a rag-tag conglomeration of right wing
reactionaries, and when the movement gained in popularity despite sketchy
leadership the republican party began assimilating it, and taking it over to
serve their agenda. By 2016 the GOP
had all but shed the name 'tea party'
to disassociate from the negative press and none of the 'tea baggers' seemed to
mind their status upgrade to full-on republican. All that remained was to provide a champion to
lead them; Donald J. Trump.
The GOP never dreamed
that Trump would then go on to literally hijack their entire party in order to
consolidate his power. They never saw
him coming. They underestimated him
entirely, thinking they had him outnumbered; they failed to see him for the
predator he truly is. As if he was
running a reality show like "Survivor"
Trump made it clear early on that if you crossed him or failed his loyalty test
you got voted off the island.
Trump has many times said on camera he'd like to imprison
his political rivals, beginning with his infamous "Lock Her Up" chant in the 2016 campaign. Recently he has revived the usage of that
chant since his acquittal, only now it refers to Nancy Pelosi! True American presidents do not seek to
imprison their rivals, but cowardly dictators do!
We know who Trump is now, as he has revealed himself to be a
heartless narcissistic psychopath; but that's just part of the puzzle. Several experts have stated publicly that
Trump has chronic narcissism disorder, but we didn't need the professional
diagnosis as we can clearly see for ourselves that he is the textbook gaslighting
narcissist. Unfortunately for the rest of us, that isn't the only mental
disorder Trump exhibits; he also has one of the worlds largest, overfed egos
which at the same time is as delicate as fine china.
Take for example his annoying penchant for hyperbole. Why is it that everything he has, says
does or brags about is always the biggest, &
best that the world has ever seen? He is
like a spoiled rich kid brat on the schoolyard.
Its easy for us to see that the hype and bragging are to cover up and
compensate for his many shortcomings (pun
intended), what is problematic and even dangerous is that HE doesn't see
the same thing. Rounding out Trump's collection of mental problems is
perhaps the most apparent, he is truly stupid. Tragically uneducated.
Recently after the Kansas City Chiefs won the super bowl
Trump congratulated Kansas . An easy mistake to make, for a fourth
grader!! Time after time Trump astounds
us with both his staggering stupidity and his inability to construct coherent
sentences. To make it even worse, he
repeatedly says some of the dumbest things we have ever heard anyone say while
trying to be serious and presidential.
What makes his stupidity scary is he keeps telling us he is a
"very stable genius"
because he truly believes he is. Like
Bill Maher said of Trump, "He's like
a toddler with a loaded gun, you're always a little worried."
Yesterday, responding to the Coronavirus which may
become a global pandemic, Trump said "Just wait a couple months until April, it'll
be warmer and that will kill the virus." Sure, and windmills cause cancer. When it
comes to politics, and disasters I do not believe in synchronicity,
happenstance or coincidence. Big,
impactfull events are nearly always the doings of evil minds; which is why we
must view this outbreak with no small degree of suspicion and perhaps even
trepidation.
The emergence of a global pandemic health crisis literally
on the heels of Trump's impeachment/acquittal is just way to sketchy for
me. It again demonstrates how events
keep accelerating faster than we can process them. Its like we just can't catch our breath or
sort things out before the next horrible thing hits us. So here we are stuck between Fukushima and Coronavirus with the Trumpland blues
again.
For someone who can dish out the attacks & insults Donald Trump is famous for being
unable to take it in return. Like a
child throwing a tantrum he gets outraged if anyone should criticize him in any
way. Trump loves to mock other people
for being fat, short, ugly, little, etc. yet gets furious when people make fun
of his short fingers, his low IQ, or his weight.
To defeat Trump you must understand the mindset of the chronic narcissist. Their very lifeblood is the attention of others; nothing matters as long as they are in the limelight. The narcissist not just craves this attention from as many people as possible for as long as possible, they actually need it! It makes no difference whether the attention is positive or negative so long as they are the focus of the narrative.
Narcissists need this constant attention the way a junkie needs his fix. If deprived of the sought after attention for very long they actually become physically ill with a wide range of symptoms & associated pain. So this is why we must endure unhinged insecure twitter rants at three AM, just in time to be picked up by the morning early news cycle! Unfortunately (for us) mental health professionals do not consider narcissism as a true disease because those having it do not suffer from it. Instead it is considered a mental condition, even a mental illness because narcissists never seek psychiatric help for being narcissists. Suddenly Mike Bloomberg begins to look smart for employing an expert on narcissism and a comedy writer on his campaign...until you realize he has been a Democrat, and a Republican, and an Independent in his political career. That seems a bit narcissistic to me as well. At some point it all boils down to a pack of Velociraptors fighting over scraps of meat.
Now that acquittal has left him feeling invulnerable, how long can it be before Mango Unchanged criminalizes all criticism of him in any form? Maybe that is the key to defeating Trump: simultaneously ridicule & ignore him! While I still have the freedom to do so, allow me to share my favorite Trump anagrams with you. There is of course 'Lord Dampnut' which has been making the rounds on social media; but his name also anagrams out to: 'Plod Turd Man' & 'Old Damp Runt' so, if you like them share them. If humor is the only way we can fight back then I say let us mock, insult and ridicule him until his head explodes. Justifiable self-defense!
To defeat Trump you must understand the mindset of the chronic narcissist. Their very lifeblood is the attention of others; nothing matters as long as they are in the limelight. The narcissist not just craves this attention from as many people as possible for as long as possible, they actually need it! It makes no difference whether the attention is positive or negative so long as they are the focus of the narrative.
Now that acquittal has left him feeling invulnerable, how long can it be before Mango Unchanged criminalizes all criticism of him in any form? Maybe that is the key to defeating Trump: simultaneously ridicule & ignore him! While I still have the freedom to do so, allow me to share my favorite Trump anagrams with you. There is of course 'Lord Dampnut' which has been making the rounds on social media; but his name also anagrams out to: 'Plod Turd Man' & 'Old Damp Runt' so, if you like them share them. If humor is the only way we can fight back then I say let us mock, insult and ridicule him until his head explodes. Justifiable self-defense!
"I have the absolute right
to do whatever
I want with the justice system"
I want with the justice system"
Donald Trump, (2-12-20 )
~[Lie #29,753] ~
As if there is an
expiration date on creating even more chaos in this country Trump has signaled
he will exonerate his convicted pal Roger Stone, convicted
last year of lying to congress and witness tampering. Stone was originally sentenced to a maximum
50 years in prison for his crimes, which prosecutors got reduced to 7 to 9 years.
Evidently this wasn't good enough for Trump who tweeted "Cannot allow this miscarriage of justice". Evidently shocked beyond belief that Trump
has the unmitigated audacity to use the phrase miscarriage of justice after his kangaroo court impeachment
acquittal; all 4 prosecutors on the case walked out in protest.
As usual A.G. "Bullfrog"
Barr is the main culprit here, enabling Trump to break both traditions and laws
with impunity...how is this not a dictatorship run by a
madman? You just watch, before this is
over Trump will give a presidential pardon to his friend and political mentor
Roger Stone. We all live in Trumpland
now.
Try as I might, I just can't shake this idea that Trump is
Hitler re-incarnated. It would sound
loony if not for all the little similarities & connections. Firstly there is something about the eyes
that strikes me as similar, every now and then you see it in a fleeting
glimpse, that same evil soul-less
look in his eyes.
Hitler hated America
and wanted to destroy it; from all indications &
actions the same is true for Trump.
Hitler was the absolute authoritarian who demanded loyal obedience from
officers and civilians alike. Anyone who
failed to do so was punished...same with Trump.
Hitler railed against the open media, calling them "The lying
press"- with Trump it's "Fake News" but its the same exact
thing: attacking the press as enemies of the state when they are critical of
your regime, or "administration".
Hitler hated America
because our involvement in the second world war cost him his conquest of Europe ,
and the world. That would be a most
serious grudge to carry forward into a subsequent incarnation. Cheat your way into becoming America 's
leader, then systematically destroy it from within and build your 4th Reich on
the ashes. Suddenly the last three years
is beginning to make more sense.
"Trump
is acting like a third world dictator"
~ Chris Matthews- (2.12.20) ~
~ Chris Matthews- (2.12.20) ~
As he is already demonstrating, Trump intends to not just
attack his enemies, but to destroy them as well. Remember Lt. Col Alexander Vindman who was in
on the "perfect phone call" and testified at Trumps impeachment
proceedings? Evidently it wasn't good
enough to just fire him for speaking the truth, now Trump is threatening to
slap him with a military tribunal as well.
Anyone who thinks or says that Trump learned
his lesson from being impeached and that he wouldn't dare commit such
crimes again are either shills or stupid; if you are senator Susan Collins,
both!
The only lesson Trump learned from being impeached is that he
now completely owns the republican party, is above the law, and can do whatever
he damn well pleases!
What
lessons have WE learned from the last three years?
Lying, Stealing &
Cheating are OK,
Corruption is OK,
Racism is OK,
Sexism is OK,
Persecuting LBGTQ is
OK,
Subverting the constitution is OK,
Inciting your followers to violence is OK,
Using fear &
intimidation to get your way is OK,
Asking our enemies to interfere in our elections is OK,
Bribing a weaker country to dig up dirt on your political
opponent is OK,
Mocking the disabled is OK,
Firing those who speak the truth under oath is OK,
Protecting pedophiles is OK,
Silencing those in jail who know your secrets is OK,
Abuse of power is OK,
Obstructing congress is OK,
Violating the Emoluments
clause is OK,
Someone is gonna have to explain
to me how this is not a dictatorship.
I've been saying for years that Donald Trump is a dangerous
psychotic narcissist with delusions of grandeur and the desire to be a
dictator. Now that he has achieved that
desire, what do you suppose he will do with his new found power? Do you think Trump will ask for Putin's help
again in the election?? What chance does
fairness have? - zero! We already know Trump will pull out
all the stops to prevent a fair, honest election, the question is, how far is
he willing to push it? Would he for
instance, plunge the country into civil war, then invoke martial law...which
would postpone elections indefinitely?!
The big question is the one Bill Maher has been asking for awhile now; and that is if Trump
loses the election, will he leave the white house? What is the likelihood that if he loses the
upcoming election Trump would just scream that it was rigged against him, that
it was a hoax, fake news, a democrat conspiracy? We all know that's exactly what he would say.
So, what if he claims he won the election, refuses to vacate the white
house, then mobilizes troops to enforce martial law? If you think that would never happen then you
simply haven't been paying attention at all.
Did you know Trump employs food tasters...just like Hitler.
Trump won't want to vacate the white house if he loses in
November because he is far from out of the woods when it comes to legal
problems. There are still around 16 or
so investigations into Trump and his crime family, and perhaps most notably,
the state of New York is waiting
to slap Trump with federal charges the moment he is no longer president. How far will Teflon Don go to avoid that?
Again, I don't think we'll have long to wait until we find out.
As far as I am concerned, Trump is the literal embodiment if
not actual re-incarnation of Adolf Hitler, and as such has become America 's
first dictator. Democracy didn't die in
darkness, it was murdered in broad daylight as we watched. The Coup D'etat was televised.
With so many Trumpisms
mirroring Hitler; perhaps karma has an unpleasant surprise in store for the count of mar-a-lago. He is trying to so closely follow in Hitler's
image perhaps he'll meet the same fate: to die by his own hand as his enemies
close in from all sides. About all we
can hope for now is that karma doesn't wait until he sets the world on fire...again. Buckle up Buttercup!
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ReplyDeleteNightmares is an interesting choice of words...interesting and accurate.
DeleteBuckle up Buttercup!
Hope you are doing well sister