The intent of this blog is to promote human equality, human progress, human peace and justice, and optimism. To accomplish this, to encourage the discussion of ideas after identifying and discovering problems, and then creating positive solutions for "we the people," in order to provide for the "general welfare" and "domestic tranquility" of America now and its "posterity" into the future. To encourage an emphasis on separation of religion and state for all, no matter if this is for those "of faith" in a Maker / Creator (Deists, God-loving people, Christians, various people of spirituality) and atheists or agnostics.
Axios is one dumb turd of a media. It wants to report on a Democrat who is black from Florida and hide what Trump and billionaires have done which is far worse in avoiding taxes. Get a life and concentrate on stopping the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans) from destroying our government and our democracy. Insolvency is not the fault of that person from Florida. It is the fault of a strategy by billionaires whose puppets are in the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans and their leaders).
First of all, let me explain my background knowledge. I was trained to lead democratic groups based on Roberts’ Rules of Order for Parliamentary Procedure. Compromise and consensus were two very important words I learned. A leader does not control by trying to control others with his/her opinions and force those opinions upon others. Democracy is about discussion and coming to consensus by means of compromise, if necessary. If you don’t like this description of democracy, then leave this nation and find one that does and see that you do not befall execution or genocide. My heart would bleed for such lainbrains, then. But then, I am NOT a bleeding heart. I rely on learning from history, not re-living history or repeating history. My heart aligns with other human beings of all kinds so we can ALL achieve success and satisfaction in life, even if it means we do NOT always have our way in a minor way, but are not forced to do what we don’t like.
Fascists are those who wish to control what other human, beings eat, drink, have sex, so as NOT to be merry.
Prohibition of alcohol is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
Prohibition of drugs is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
Prohibition of porn is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
Prohibition of abortions is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
Prohibition of nudity is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
Prohibition of guns is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
Prohibition of prostitution is fascism (even Christ, who said, “judge not lest you be judged,” told a crowd who wanted to judge a prostitute that “the one who has no sin should throw the first stone”); regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
Censorship of information is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
Lying and slandering is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
Government run by authoritarianism is fascism; teaching how to run meetings with Roberts’ Rules of Order for Parliamentary Procedures is democracy; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
Shutting down communication because it goes against someone’s opinion is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
Attitudes of “I must win with my opinion only” is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
Telling someone “don’t speak to me about politics” is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
Forcing economics based on love of money with criminals who gain most of the money due to the evil love of money is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
Free markets left unregulated and without the balance defined by capitalism is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
Business monopolies which destroy competition is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
Supply-side Reaganomics, a one-sided economic system, is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
Jim Crow was/is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
Anti-Semitism is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
Anti-civil rights and anti-voting rights is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
One group controlling other groups in society is fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
Foreclosures and taking real estate and property from people is fascism (and this includes the white man taking from the indigenous, Castro taking from Cubans, and the Bolsheviks taking from Russians); regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
Thievery, murder, genocide, executions, corporal and capital punishments are fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
Anarchy produces fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
Apathy produces fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
Not voting produces fascism; regulation, teaching safety, teaching moderation in all things and teaching self-control is democracy
Have I said enough to make my point? I could go on and provide a never-ending list. Have I made my point? Or are you too stupid to humble yourself and learn? Shame on you. Everybody is ignorant, but no one has to remain ignorant and if they do, they become stupid.
Everyone talks about hoping Trump can be removed from office. But what needs to be done is to destroy the Man-baby Regime. The entire regime. For the entire regime is a puppet of the wealthy billionaires who are white supremacist fascists. This is thanks to Citizens United and a SCOTUS black man married to a white man, Clarence “Uncle Tom” Thomas. What is important here is to “follow the money” and that goes beyond JUST the Man-baby.
The strategic plan has been written. The plan is to destroy democracy and replace it with a fascist authoritarian regime. Such a fascist authoritarian regime has the same characteristics of King George III, the mentally ill crowned person of Britain which the colonists opposed and defeated in the American Revolutionary War. Had the colonists lost, a large number of them would have been executed by the King George fascist regime of the time period of the 1780s. Thus, while some stupid Americans have no brains so as to be convinced that instantaneous gratification can be done by an authoritarian regime and takes more time with a democracy. But that instant gratification means more than half the population would not be happy. The only peace with justice which could be achieved by a fascist regime is to make false claims and false witness of those who oppose the regime and then execute AND implement genocide among the population.
The Man-baby Trump Regime is a puppet of the money people like billionaires. The only answer is simply NOT to vote for ANYONE who is Republican, especially those who are very open to support of Trump. But all others can easily hide their support of the Man-baby, just to get along with others who don’t like the Man-baby Regime.
It is good for the opposition to raise enough money to oppose the Man-baby. But the Man-baby Regime is made up of cowardly people who have fear that such money can hurt them. Such demonic people are happy to hide their nasty parts and push all the stuff which can put up smoke and mirrors to cover over the true intentions of their strategic plan.
By the opposition pushing to raise tons of money, they also put aside the possibility of educating Americans about the true intent of the fascist authoritarians and what the results can be without a democracy and peace without justice among the population. To achieve peace is to execute and perform genocide. That is a very big lack of justice when it is defined by fake accusations and fake witnesses.
Lee Moran of Huffpost reviewed the Daily Mirror description of Trump and reported on Lawrence O’Donnell’s MSNBC reaction. The following is a portion of what Moran wrote:
The Daily Mirror reported on the president’s lie-filled speech to the United Nations on Tuesday via the one-word, withering headline “DERANGED.”
In one subheadline, the tabloid described Trump as the “world’s most powerful man-baby,” a brutal description that O’Donnell went on to use to taunt the president with again and again during his monologue.
It is nice to focus on the “man-baby.” Makes us feel good. At the same time, this example plus many other “feel good” activities draws our attention away from investigating where the money goes to support him or “follow the money trail” and eliminate the money trail.
Is the only thing we can do is keep giving money to defeat the man-baby or more investigation research about that money trail and shut down the trail? FDR shut down assets of those who wanted to destroy democracy and were people who followed Hitler. Teddy Roosevelt filed lawsuits against the wealthy as he was wealthy himself. Are the more wealthy like TR so engulfed in subjugation by ritilin or Prozac so they just cower in a corner somewhere, while the demonic ones with a love of money continue to zap others?
And don’t listen to those who claim, “there is nothing we can do” or “there is no hope.” By people saying this and these all become self-fulfilling prophesies. Rather than people repeating what can be done, they repeat what cannot be done and they predict the future.
A self-fulfilling prophecies being repeated over and over again will validate what is said that “united we stand, divided we fall.” Except the prophecy and prediction come true with a collection of many people using negative self-fulfilling prophecies.
To unify for the good of democracy, we need to be proactive against everything which surrounds the Man-baby and that regime. Period.
Wimps, wimps and nothing but wimps. Afraid to say emphatically, “Do not vote for Republicans. PERIOD.” Wimps are afraid to say this. But the Republican Party is NOT the Republican Party to which I registered when I turned 18 and registered to vote. IT IS NOT. The Republican Party SHOULD be called the American Fascist Party. PERIOD. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. If you want fascism, you would vote for an authoritarianism which is no different from what Gus Hall and the American Communist Party wanted.
Just because Blakeman has mucho dollars does not mean a “resounding loss” for Governor Hochul. That indicates the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans) want to push fear and intimidation about not having enough money to win. In the process, these fascists bury all other issues because they cannot defend the other issues with facts rather than emotions. Get real. Get tough against fascists.
Let’s get real and face the reality of what is happening. Stop being WIMPS.
Begin to address civil rights. Just because a Muslim heads New York City, challenge strongly what the American Fascist Party (aka, Republicans today) are saying about Muslims being “terrorists.” One Muslim might do something distasteful which is similar to what some white Christians might do. With white Christians then, does it mean ALL white Christian people are bad? Doe it mean all white people are terrorists? Go to hell if you think that because you are letting your EMOTIONS run your brain and with absolutely no logic.
Be strong, not weak. Don’t be WIMPS.
Challenge the idiocy of “bloody” Man-baby fascists like Blakeman and say they follow a goosestep similar to the one done in Nazi Germany under Hitler. Hit hard. Does the majority support Nazi or fascist ideas? What the hell is the fear of saying such things? If the majority is like that, then I will eat my hat. Stop being so kind.
Convince New Yorkers that they should NOT vote for ANY Republican at ANY level because they are all in lockstep with fascism and a party claiming to be Republican. Speak out that the Republican Party should not be called the Republican Party but the American Fascist Party. Split the Republican Party down the middle. Be tough. Be hard. Don’t beat around the bush. Give examples of achievements of integration and multi-cultural multi-racial society. Get tough. Be hard.
Speak out that the love of money, not just money itself. The love of money is the root of all evil. Money is what we use to live our lives financially stable, so it is NOT evil. Make the difference. Greed and selfishness go with money-loving jerks. Speak about such people as being money-loving jerks who don’t care if they take from others so as to gather much money together. by means of the free market that despicable freaking lousy Reagan gave to them on their path to amassing money out of love for money, not other human beings.
Speak out that profits are not love of money, but a matter of living financially well in a capitalist economy.
Speak up that “disposable income” is a lousy term to use to represent PROFITS for the common man and woman. Profits are NOT a love of money but just like “balance” in our personal wealth so we can all live a life of “pursuit of happiness.”
Paradigm shifts about attitudes need to be said. DO IT.
Resounding loss is a pitiful statement from wimps. Stop being wimps.
Back in the day, Joe Biden should have stood behind Anita Hill at the hearings to confirm Clarence Thomas. Stop playing Mr. Nice Guy and DO SOMETHING. NOW before it is too late. How about if we learn from the history of that ordeal and not cry in our milk about something which happened several decades ago?
One writer says, “According to fascists, only those who share the correct attributes can be part of ‘the people’ and therefore true members of society. Others are outsiders, perhaps tolerated as guests if they respect their place and society feels generous. But outsiders have no right to be part of the democratic order: Their votes should not count.”
To be quite frank and to put it bluntly (not mildly), the idea that “only those who share the correct attributes” can be part of “the people” is a BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT statement.
Further, f***ing Tucker Carlson is an asswipe and a traitor. “This helps explain why Tucker Carlson claims “our democracy is no longer functioning” First of all, show us the evidence of this statement that “democracy is no longer functioning.” Secondly, rather than unleash DESTRUCTIVE forces, work together for REFORM of any problems in our democratic government. Find some thoughts from ideas of BEST PRACTICES and invoke them, don’t destroy what has worked for 250 years, you asswipe MAGA Maggots and Tucker Carlson. Go to hell.
The full statement from the author mentioned above: “This helps explain why Tucker Carlson claims ‘our democracy is no longer functioning,’ because so many nonwhites have the vote. It also helps explain why Carlson and others so vigorously promote the ‘great replacement theory,’ the idea that liberals are encouraging immigrants to come to the U.S. with the specific purpose of diluting the political power of ‘true’ Americans.”
This is all a BULLSHIT and treasonous statement made by Tucker Carlson. He needs to be executed for treason. PERIOD. He is worse than Benedict Arnold who defended mentally ill King George III of Britain. We executed Timothy McVeigh for his attack on black people in Oklahoma. Carlson and the fascists are doing nothing more than re-defining the Pledge of Allegiance where it says, “liberty and justice FOR ALL.” And this is why, for more than 20 years now, I have been attempting to highlight this statement in the Pledge and no one pays one damn bit of attention to what I say. Instead they listen to jerks like Carlson.
I have also been highlighting words such as “… life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Another wording I have been highlighting is the following three words: “WE THE PEOPLE…” which are the first three words of the U.S. Constitution (Preamble). I usually point out that it does not indicate an aggregate few groups like, “we the billionaires of America” or “we the white folk of America” or “we the fascist thinking people of America” or “we the Bills fans of America” or… so on.
The writer of the article continues with: “The importance of seeing the people as an exclusive, privileged group, one that actually includes rather than is represented by the leader, is also at work when Trump denigrates Republicans who defy him, even in the smallest ways, as “Republicans in Name Only.” The same is also true when other Republicans call for these “in-house” critics to be cast out of the party, for to them any disloyalty is equivalent to defying the will of the people.”
What the writer fails to mention is that the “privileged group” today is nothing more than what Europe had with the “privileged group” of the aristocracy and divine right to rule. We fought our American Revolution to tear down that notion. Anyone bringing this up today is a traitor to the U.S. and our American Revolution with the Declaration of Independence of 1776.
All of the quotations above are found in a writing at UC Davis by Mark R. Reiff, 8 November 2022. The writing appears to be somewhat well researched, but could also touch those who are confused by democracy. Therefore, we should share suggestions for reform, not destruction of democracy. First thing is to fully understand how democracy should be best handled and fascism does not do it justice at all. And a democratic leader of the 20th Century made a succinct statement about democracy which people should not just pass off and come to understand it.
Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II (against the Hitler regime) said: “Democracy is a very bad form of government, but all the others [including fascism and Nazism and authoritarianism and communism and autocracy and benevolent dictatorships] are so much worse.”
Taking a closer look at what Churchill said, we can say that “democracy is slow becasue we must attain a consensus and that takes time. Autocracies and authoritarianism has one person to make a quick decision. Don’t argue that. But what if that decision does NOT take into account an overall view of ALL the people, as fascism does? What happens to the portion of the population who ends up getting stamped on by such a hasty decision. Even a declaration of war is a slow process in a democracy and there is a reason for it. The Man-baby’s attacks on Iran have demonstrated this and if you don’t take a look at what has happened, then all I can say is you are a dumb jerk dismissing what I say. Furthermore, it was the Republicans who sabotaged efforts in the 1930s and 1940s to send aid to help protect Britain and other nations in Europe from Hitler’s war to FORCE people to abide by fascism. And what did Hitler do to groups who refused to abide by his dictatorial stink? Genocide. Who can justify genocide when democracy would help to avoid genocide. Reiff of UC Davis never even mentions this in his 2022 article. Gaining peace without justice means people are executed and murdered. Fascism creates such a barbaric society. We can learn from the historical examples of fascism in the Roman Empire. Reiff never touched on these aspects so as to LEARN FROM HISTORY, rather than the f***ing emotions generated because something in democracy does not work for some people.
Which means that Reiff never touched on the ideas regarding civilized society and civility v. barbarism with execution and genocide. Even Cubans displaced by one authoritarian regime when they were living under another authoritarian regime have come to America and MANY have pushed for civility in America. Not all Cubans, like f***ing Rubio, but MANY have done so. But then. What is Rubio’s background? He is not only Cuban, but also comes from an Italian Mussolini fascist background.
Learn from history, Mr. Reiff and incorporate thoughts of civility and civilization which require guidelines with democracy and balance to make life better, as is defined by our American Founding Fathers.
Rather than work for destruction of democracy, here is my list of suggestions for reform. (There are many more which can be added to this list and in a democracy can be added by others who refuse to simply dismiss mine and replace with their egotistical inspired suggestions, as would happen with fascists who survive because they think they are experts or… “drips under pressure”).
(1) Eliminate the Electoral College; it is an outdated 18th Century guideline (2) Eliminate gerrymandering; it is an outdated 19th Century guideline. (3) Have the members of the House of Representatives reflect the same percentage of the entire population as the example of our House of Representatives when we began this government in 1790; in this case, we made a mistake in updating the original 18th Century guidelines. (4) Return to the 18th Century definition of the U.S. Senate when governors of each state appoint two senators; too many candidates for the people to vote make the election process confusing – vote for governor and understand the governor appoints the senators. (5) If MAGA and the Man-baby have such a thrill out destruction, then DESTROY THE PACs and put limits on campaign financing so one group of people with all the money CANNOT control our government – oh, I forgot but those asswipes who have all the money are not usually those of color, are they? In other words DESTROY the SCOTUS Citizens United Decision. (6) To put a limit on campaign financing, have members of the House of Representatives serve ONLY one term which coincides with the 10-year census; KISS. (7) While we are at it, stop the “till death do we part terms of SCOTUS.” (8) Change the dynamic nature of changes of congressional districts to one of a static nature and still assure that each House member represents the number of people stipulated by the laws or has a weighted vote according to the population. (9) Return to the days of balance in the economy which were put in place by the Roosevelts: Teddy, Franklin D., and Eleanor. Notice there are Republican and Democrat in those I named, but no fascists. (10) DESTROY ICE. (11) Solidify the voting rights and civil rights acts into constitutional amendments. (12) Resume and/or increase the teaching of history and civics in public education, including memorization of the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution and Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. (13) Resume and/or increase the teaching of the history of ALL people who have made this nation happen and demonstrate how much we should appreciate what we have in this nation, due to ALL people in this nation. (14) Stop corporal punishment in all American schools because it goes against some people’s religions and our Constitution guarantees a freedom of religion; we CAN create humility for the purpose of having people learn and it can be done WITHOUT corporal punishment or humiliation of people and children so as to create a humility to learn; could be done should we all come together rather than some working to sabotage such efforts. (15) Finally, and most importantly, if we keep ICE, than use it to DESTROY the entire Trump Man-baby Regime, MAGA shitheads, and the American Fascist Party which sabotages democracy. Why do we have the elimination of teaching of civics and history in schools? Because this has been a plan carried out now for decades, since the original fascist, Reagan, who claimed he represented something other than authoritarian Communism. He did not. Sabotage and telling lies over and over again so the lies become the truth has been the Goebellizataion of America since Reagan and no one listened to those of us who pointed it out. We were crazy, don’t you know? Why have we ended up like this? Because of the Bush elimination of the Fairness Doctrine and wimpy Obama, when asked to put it back in place, not doing so. What an example of a unilateral authoritarian mechanism than what George H.W. Bush did, as well as Reagan. We may have delayed much of what we see today by keeping Bush to only one term. The sabotage of the banking industry also began under Bush with his son, Neil and the S&L hoax when Neil was caught with his hands in the cookie jar. What a deliberate way to destroy the S&L and banking regulation created by FDR. And Jeb Bush used it in the early 2000s in Florida (perhaps Trump was also involved?) by manipulating the price of housing so much that in just a few years, prices of housing went up 125%. This was an increase which far exceeded the length of time of a 30-year mortgage. It destroyed the housing market and banks like Chase and Bank of America swooped in to pick up the pieces so as to raise prices to levels so high that only the wealthy could afford the housing while common folk were forced to rent and lose the homestead exemption in Florida.
Side note. Once again, apparently the MAGA maggots have some instrument of destruction on WordPress to block the AI image generation I have used in the past on WordPress. All of a sudden it has stopped. I will continue pointing this out until WordPress does something to sabotage whatever app it uses and destroy and shut down the sabotage. I have tried 20 times to generate an image. I have tried several different types of image generation. Apparently, I am being blocked.
Was Maeleine Albright targeted with bad words because she was too intelligent regarding fascism and the fascists building power and control within the Republican Party were fearful about what she could accomplish? Were too many Americans too stupid to notice or just bent on going about with their partying and sex to take notice? I wonder.
I make no apologies for using words as bullshit, shithead, and hell, so forth. If there was not too much of our media focusing on pushing what the fascists want, I would not be using this language. Until that stops and we return to the Fairness Doctrine in the media, I refuse to stop using vulgar language. Please note how many times I like to use f***ing rather than the true word. I try to stop there.
Most likely, the one behind the Man-baby Trump’s attitude about Cuba is Marco Rubio of Florida. From the time Rubio first appeared on the Florida political scene, he was a detestable character. Before becoming U.S. Senator, he served in the Florida House of Representatives where his attitudes were so noted as being quite lousy. Rubio’s family migrated to the U.S. and if anyone should be the target of ICE (and ICE had existed in those days gone by), it should have been Rubio, except he was not living in those days when his family arrived here. It certainly would make more sense than some of the crap ICE is currently doing. But fascist Cubans are overlooked as immigrants when they are no different than the communist autocrats.
I have spoken with many Cubans because I lived all those years in South Florida. The best person was one who had a great deal of common sense and did not define anything she disagreed as being communist and Castro. She worked for civility and I admired and respected her for doing that.
Rubio is part Italian. He is similar to what an old Italian woman described for me as the Italian named Mussolini and what she remembers from Mussolini’s rise to power in Italy.
As a gay man, I despise what Castro did in using the Cuban LGBT+ for his purposes and then spit them out like seeds in his teeth. Rainaldo Arenas is one example, but there are more examples.
But with many years after Castro, there are many good examples. I spoke with some who had departed Cuba who viewed a better education system there. Also, the Cuban health R&D has benefited many Americans, including a relative, with the battle with cancer. All I can say is leave that nation alone. F*** Rubio and Trump with their desires as they are autocrats, too, just as Castro was. These detestable ones with the f***ing lousy hawks of a military run by a stupid jerk from Fox News who is a lainbrained idiot who has no fellow feeling at all, but is like all the Man-baby MAGA maggots who only know how to win for their own greed and nothing about how to deal with one another and have a consensus of people, only how to tell everyone how to live lives defined by their stupidity.
End the hawks of America and stop spending American tax dollars in huge amounts on our military. End it now, whether it be Venezuela, Iran, or Cuba. Stop this BS of people who don’t know how to lead America. We want the demise of the Man-baby regime, including the f***heads from Florida, from the Man-baby to Bondi to Rubio.
Eric Trump says the son of the Iranian Ayatollah is incompetent. Who the hell are we, the USA, to determine the leader of another nation? Imagine the late 1600s, Oliver Cromwell of England, the Lord Protectorate, dies and his son is in line to take over, and other nations stated that the son is “incompetent?” Did any other nation have the right to say that? Did the American colonies? Yes, they did. But not other nations around the world. We don’t have the right to tell other nations how to select their leaders. If so, I would tell Israel that Netenyahu, the Zionist, is incompetent as a leader.
While the votes were being counted in the U.S. Senate Republican primary race between Dr. Oz and blue-collar McCormick who became successful by working his way to the top, Trump’s endorsed candidate, Dr. Oz and his followers were crying about losing. Trump bloviates that there should be “paper ballots.” His theme is always about fraud in the elections. Then, after the votes were counted, Trump’s candidate won by a slim margin. Justifies using paper ballots, right?
But wait just one minute. Was it not Trump who, during the 2020 presidential election blasted the use of paper mail-in ballots? Perhaps I am mistaken about this and Trump’s claim that he would lose by the use of paper ballots? From this perspective, perhaps Trump needs to “eat crow?” Perhaps he needs to “open mouth and insert foot?”
Trump is inconsistent as a drunk driver driving down the road and not remaining consistently within the lane designated for the driver heading in a certain direction. He is as inconsistent as a British person, confused because in America, we drive on the right side of the road, keeps forgetting this and drives in the right lane but then mistakenly drives in the left.
But Trump does not figure he is inconsistent. Why? Because he seeks the type of power and control dictators such as Putin, Stalin, Hitler, Castro, Mussolini, and Tojo, among others, have sought and gained. Trump wishes to destroy democracy with gerrymandering and blocking changes which could be made to eliminate gerrymandering. Trump realizes he gets support largely from white supremacist racists who wish to return to their version of the “good old days,” when the 2nd Amendment was proposed and supported mainly by plantation owners, white supremacists, and the supremacy over the black folks. Thus, Trump is a Prince Machiavelli type seeking power and control, with a love of money and materialism, because “the end justifies the means.” In this case, the Machiavelli types validate the fact that “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
In the 1970s, in the aftermath of Watergate and Nixon with Republican criminals, the conservative character, Arthur, on the sitcom, Maude, reacted in quite a bold way. Maude, played by Bea Arthur, says Arthur is a criminal doing nasty things, indicating that Arthur should be ashamed of himself. Arthur’s reply was to say, “it doesn’t matter because I am a Republican.”
“Many a truth is spoken in jest” (attributed to Chaucer). This is a more important statement than concern over using the “f” word or vulgar language such as the British do with the word “bloody.”
Those who follow the path of Machiavelli should not be allowed to participate in a democracy which they intend to their own hidden agenda to end democracy and use anything at their disposal to do so. Hitler did it. Carnegie, Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, “robber barons” and “fat cats” of the late 1800s and early 1900s, followed the same Machiavellian ways. To all of these and others, they don’t give one damn about community, society, and humanity because “the end justifies the means.” They twist capitalism to their favor with the same type of supply side economics employed before Adam Smith defined a better capitalism. They don’t care if they need to “open mouth, insert foot.”
People like Murphy, who wrote “My Turn” on Sunday, March 13, 2022, and a nearby photo of bloviating Trump, get their ideas for support of “strong and independent” America because they are mesmerized by too much false crap out there which hides the truth.
In reality, Trump, McConnell, DeSantis, Santorum, Rick Scott, Scott Walker, among others, are allied with Putin and other dictators in the world. They hide their affiliation. But they say the same things, particularly about bigotry towards the LGBTQ+, all the time.
They also are all in support of control and power, with the Koch brothers, of oil as a fuel. They don’t want alternative fuels to be developed. They want to drill off-shore in the USA and build projects like the Keystone pipeline (and others). What better way for Putin and these dictators to divide and conquer, but to have Putin start a war in Ukraine and force gasoline prices sky-high? After all, they have worked to sabotage the development of alternative fuels and green technologies. They accomplished this with four years of Trump in power, after LOOSING the popular vote to Hillary in 2016.
Being upset at losing in 2020, what better way but to lie about fraud in elections which, even many Republicans are saying, does not exist, especially to the extent claimed.
It’s about time Murphy and others learn the truth, rather than dwelling on the lies and fake news.
Your “My Turn” columnist (3/13/2022) gave credit to Trump for achieving peace in the world, for America to become “strong and independent.” The examples given were about peace in the Middle East. One cannot argue with some of those points made. What was not said by the “My Turn” writer was that, in each case, there may have been peace, but in order to achieve the peace, there was no justice. For much of the peace was in support of the Saudi Arabian sheiks. During the Trump years, we also witnessed the sheiks ordering beheadings of their own people by using swords. They are awful pictures of injustice towards human beings. Then we saw the ISIS, supported by Putin and the Arab sheiks, who did the same thing. In other words, justice, to Putin, the Arabian sheiks, and Trump, is how they define justice. If one does not agree, like Hitler and Stalin, then they are executed. By silencing the opposition, they achieve peace. We cannot achieve peace without justice for all.
In the same way, Trump achieved a “peace” in Afghanistan and put our pullout on a timetable. Biden chose to work with the opposition and stuck to the timetable established by Trump. Trump is applauded for achieving the peace while Biden gets slammed for removing troops from Afghanistan. It appears Biden and the Democrats are “damned if they do and damned if they don’t.”
As far as the issue of inflation is concerned, there is evidence that the tariffs imposed by Trump on one nation (China) have had an impact on increased inflation. Biden is dragging his feet about getting rid of the tariffs and then Biden gets slammed for inflation. Again, Biden and the Democrats are “damned if they do and damned if they don’t.”
Trump never achieved domestic peace within this nation. He emboldened many people in opposition to Democrats and the war on the COVID-19 pandemic. He could have provided supplies by invoking the Defense Protection Act. He could have done this at the time Gov. Cuomo and other governors (both Republican and Democrat) needed them. Cuomo ends up getting blamed and Trump does not. Again. Democrats are “damned if they do and damned if they don’t.” Republicans are simply above the law because of the fundagelical crap in American religion with their god of hatred.
In the midst of all this, Trump, DeSantis, Santorum, McConnell, Rick Scott, Scott Walker (Wisconsin) all get to spend their time on suppression of voting, power in gerrymandering, bigotry towards gay folks and people with colored skin, while ignoring the domestic issues about human justice, human equality, and humanity in general. In fact, some of them are spending more time in coming up with anti-gay and anti-colored-people rules for denying the ability for human equality. In effect, they are working against the very preamble of the U.S. Constitution which talks about maintaining domestic peace (“domestic tranquility”) and are hypocrites each time they repeat the Pledge Allegiance to the Flag and say, “…liberty and justice for all.” There is no “domestic tranquility,” due to Trump and the Republican cronies who dwell on anti-humanity legislation and legitimizing the wealthy and elitist plutocrats who don’t want a democracy because a democracy is dependent on a middle class. In this sense, Trump and his cronies, not following the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution, are traitors to America and its democracy.
Wow! I cannot believe the words that I was reading in Sunday’s Opinion page (“Trump made America strong and independent”).
I am impressed. After all, it makes me happy when people are doing better in this world. Such wonderful individuals who think the whole world revolves around such an individual. How nice! Wow!
Was the world was at peace? Hallelujah! Yes, impressive about the world being at peace, especially when there was no justice. The world cannot be at peace without justice. Justice also means treating domestic citizens of all kinds like they are human beings, whether it’s the color of their skin, their religious beliefs, or if they are LGBTQ+ who are pleased that there has been progress which surpasses the shit they had to put up with in schools. Talking about being gay was out of the mouths of bullies who called us sissies because we did not always act like men. Yet, how did we hurt such people, while they hurt us?
I must admit. I could probably identify some improvements in the world, from 2017 to 2021, while Trump and the Republicans were in charge. Let me think a bit. Just wait. They will come to me. Well, there was one improvement. I suffered a near-tragedy in 2018 but survived! That was an improvement, for sure.
When Trump attempted to work out a one-nation tariff, I anticipated something good coming out of it. After all, I have always followed the conservative proposal for a Value-added Tax. A VAT is a domestic version of a tariff. When I mentioned to a friend that I hoped that maybe something good would come of the tariff proposal, my friend helped me to understand that the reactions from China were nothing but laughter. As it turned out, Trump’s track record in business by ignoring the debt he or others owe was influential in the failure of his proposal for a tariff. I tried to find something plausible.
A February 2022 analysis reported:
In addition to fanning inflation, tariffs on Chinese goods have provoked retaliatory tariffs that have sharply reduced American exports to China, allowing other nations to move in on markets once dominated by the U.S. To offset the losses to farmers and other exporters, the U.S. government has paid out subsidies, adding to the U.S. budget deficit. At the same time, the tariffs have weakened the private sector in China and led to more state control over China’s supply chains, making the U.S. less secure.
Yet, Biden and the Democrats are to blame, totally, for inflation? The only thing which Biden MIGHT be blamed for, in this case, is dragging his feet in ending the Trump tariffs. Wow! Was it not Trump’s timeline for ending the war in Afghanistan, never achieving justice there, in which Biden is blamed for? I see. So Trump is able to make peace and make “America strong and independent,” but … oh, well. I guess Republicans are above the law, so when they cheat and lie, they are a-ok guys, right? Republicans also won state elections in states in which they claimed fraud during the elections. Must be that Republicans cannot possibly win by using fraud, ain’t that right?
As for the “peace” achieved in the Middle East by Donald Trump, perhaps someone needs to “take a look at the world around him. Trump’s friends in Saudi Arabia were using swords to chop off the heads of its citizens. Same procedures used by ISIS, too.
The border being secure? There were interviews with people in Arizona who were happy that the towns on the border were secure. But they also identified the true methods to end the influx is to work out many of the details to be more proactive in identifying the true problems which cause immigrants to seek a better nation. The wall is treating the symptom but putting it in place never does an in-depth diagnosis of the problem.
Energy independent? Sure. So we can pollute the atmosphere and spit out of smokestacks the type of stuff which gave acid rain to upstate New York and the northeastern USA. Wonderful. That made America great, right? Acid rain dumping. Back when George Bush was president, he proposed developing an energy product which was based on switchgrass, a vegetation with a fast fermentation to enable faster production of fuels. It is a less-polluting ingredient. Where is it? Pipelines and drilling squashed the efforts, as we did not try to produce new products while considering a “savings account” in oil which could be tapped during times of need. Like now.
Speaking of Chinese. The Chinese were smart enough while American investors were dumb asses when it came to long-term investments for our future. We gave up new biomass and green technology productions of energy sources, as Chinese communist investors bought up the long-term businesses because they knew, as well as most others, that the world will possibly run out of oil from the ground. A good Boy Scout would realize that we need to be prepared. Keystone and other oil pipelines obstruct us from being prepared for the future.
Wow! Energy independent?
Middle class did better pre-Biden and the Democrats? We did? My family paid more taxes in the form of income taxes than we did in the pre-Trump years, even when Bush was president. Are you saying that I was cheated by my tax preparer? Really? There were various reasons. But my charitable contributions were given less credence than before. Perhaps it was a good thing when churches who relied on such tax breaks were part of the mainstream religions and the ultra-right wing churches which worship a god of hate don’t rely on tax deductible donations, due to tithing?
On top of this, Trump wanted to destroy healthcare for all, especially for those who were not employed and/or were retired. Heck, the Republicans had already put in place measures to curtail coverage from Medicare. So, we faced the dilemma of staying healthy in retirement or break our bank. Sorry, but we failed to see how much the middle class made out during the Trump years.
As for “reversing course” on the issue of Ukraine, this letter to the editor (“:guest columnist”) addressed this Democrat who felt we needed to call the bluff of Putin. But this Democrat also realizes that Trump, DeSantis, and Scott (and many of the other bigots within the Republican Party) all fall in line with Putin’s bigoted attitude towards people he does not like. This situation makes it look good that Trump maintained peace? Again. The word justice should be added to this equation. Putin and Trump held the same ideas about justice based on bigotry. So such bullying buddies get along quite well, do they not?
The attitude here, based on individualistic success and happiness during the years Trump occupied the office, is just like saying, as with the Gannett publications, that “no one reads print copies of newspapers anymore.” Fads based on a reality created and manipulated by those who are happy with the money they make while lining their pockets, not earning it the old-fashioned way.
These are perspectives based on stereotypes. It is just like the insurrectionists on Jan. 6 who only believe in individual rights and happiness. Yet, the media, during the election of 2020, often interviewed common folk who said things like, “I have succeeded better during the years of Trump.” No wonder there are those who think there was fraud in the election because they just could not believe it when the picture painted by the media contained so much information about people who were happy during the Trump years. At the same time, no one gave the microphone to people like me who may not have been as happy.
Point being? Talk about the facts and statistics, and stop emphasizing how this one or that one was happier than the ones being given a microphone. Same thing with Biden, as the spin is put on. The microphone being given only to common folk who are negative about Biden. Evidence, facts, statistics, please.
Media Should Concentrate on the Fascist Movement by Trump and MAGA Where the Billionaires Don’t Pay Enough Taxes
Axios is one dumb turd of a media. It wants to report on a Democrat who is black from Florida and hide what Trump and billionaires have done which is far worse in avoiding taxes. Get a life and concentrate on stopping the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans) from destroying our government and our democracy. Insolvency is not the fault of that person from Florida. It is the fault of a strategy by billionaires whose puppets are in the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans and their leaders).
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