Remorse in Following
Ending:
Boy-howdy, I guess those of us who say
anyone can become president of the United States weren’t kidding. However, for
those that said anyone can grow up to be president are a bit off, for...has
Trump truly grown up? Need I not have to remind ya of his vulgar slurs, vile
insults, incessant lying and bullying ways? Is that truly adult behavior and
maturity?
This will be my last political article. It is
not due to the election results that I am giving up; no, quite the contrary,
for I’m more energized than ever to combat the lying and deceitful Republican
strategies they have endorsed and carried out throughout these past decades simply
to hold onto power at expense of the nation.
The reason is mechanical. I have only thirteen
more spaces to write articles on my website before it totals out to its
capacity of one hundred. The remaining thirteen publishings I wish to write
will be devoted to science articles and a couple of religious and philosophical
writings.
Currently, I want to get more involved
than ever by organizing some grassroots movement, to set priority goals and to
hold Trump and Republicans in check. Not through the signing of a few
petitions, but through actively engaging in one-on-one, eye-to-eye
conversations with those that are now marginalized and fearful of the election
results and to those that are initially elated by the election results, but
will be sadly disappointed in the longer term in realizing they voted for the
very entities that wish to continue their struggles through policies that only
benefit the upper elites. Change is coming; that is what they voted for so they
say, but the change will be even more profound in negatively impacting average
Americans’ lives.
Once organized, in the off election years
I want to canvas neighborhoods. Go up to homes, knock on doors, ask pertinent
questions, listen to the answers, evaluate data, revisit, have a question and
answer follow up, revaluate data then give that data to progressive fronts and
Democrats to focus.
There will no more be an Obama
presidency or a Hillary first woman ever U.S. president to blame it on; it will,
as the 2016 electoral year right-wing voter, be on the shoulders of the bigoted
voters’, Christian Right’s, Trump’s and the Republican congresses.
Various Republican relatives, friends,
bloggers and the ones met in the streets, tell me, to get over it and give Trump
a chance. Yeah OK, I will, just like they gave Obama a chance.
They say, in Trump’s victory speech, he
wants the nation to unite and that he represents all Americans, ya know the old
reliable rehashed speech that all past triumphal American presidents have said
at their victory speech. But none of the past presidents based their entire
campaign on such divisive issues as Trump has pitting American against American
through social, race, income, class, cultural and religious intolerances.
I do accept him as the new president of
my nation, but as far as respecting him, well he’s going to have to really earn
that first before respect is even considered.
With this last political commentary, I
thank ya kindly for your readership and am grateful to all that won’t give up
on the fight. So to those that agreed with my thoughts and words in my exposés
and to those that didn’t, I salute you all.
The
Effect & Fallout:
For me personally the initial shock of
the election results was a 10 ton megawatt jolt, unfathomable in the
consequences of the outcome. It was a downtrodden result for sure. There was to
say the least, a tad bit of sulking ramping up.
Protests over Trump’s victory
immediately spread nationwide extending into a week with Los Angeles holding
over 100,000 protesters. Protests also went global spreading out into European
major city streets.
I felt for Hillary and all her female
supporters. With an impending despair they were lost for words. In the 242 years
America has been a nation it still hasn’t elected a female president. So close
this time, but vanquished by electing a misogynistic sexist over her. That is a
blatant reminder of adding insult to injury.
Hillary gave a fine concession speech asking for unity and in how much she believed in this nation, even how proud she was to be an American. Her speech was a far cry from what Trump was foreboding if he lost. How many times did he express the election is rigged, encouraging supporters to rebel and take to the streets if he lost. That he wouldn’t concede. Hillary’s concession spoke through the heart; as for Trump, well he has excreted through the bowels so many times throughout this election cycle, one can only imagine what diarrhea would have squirted forth from the guts in his concession speech if he had lost.
Hillary gave a fine concession speech asking for unity and in how much she believed in this nation, even how proud she was to be an American. Her speech was a far cry from what Trump was foreboding if he lost. How many times did he express the election is rigged, encouraging supporters to rebel and take to the streets if he lost. That he wouldn’t concede. Hillary’s concession spoke through the heart; as for Trump, well he has excreted through the bowels so many times throughout this election cycle, one can only imagine what diarrhea would have squirted forth from the guts in his concession speech if he had lost.
Hundreds of thousands of female voters
have expressed their heartfelt disbelief. They are disparaged and for sure it
has to do with Hillary losing, someone they identified with and felt secure
with in what it’s like in being a female in this country. However, they truly
are fearful because it goes beyond Hillary’s loss.
Most women at one point in their lives
have been sexually assaulted in some form or another. Now, the nation has just
elected a known sexual predator as president. So don’t ever question why they
are bereaved. Allow them the time to accept this in their own due time frame,
for there is no time limit for their disappointment to end. They’re bereft of
the hope that vanished overnight in these election results.
Sure right-wingers might want to bring
up, Bill Clinton for comparison, but there is no comparison. I won’t defend
Bill’s actions for they were wrong, but Clinton behaved in the manner as more
of a charmer; Trump was an aggressor ‘grabbing’ what he wanted and that is much
more threatening.
After this election, I plainly see now
that substantive facts are subpar; trivial as compared to rhetorical ideologue.
Trump campaigned that he and he alone is going to create millions and millions
of jobs, so many jobs that workers will tire at which job to choose from. In
various speeches he proclaims, “The
wealthy are going to create tremendous jobs.” He claims under his ideas, “The economy will average a 3.5% growth and
create a total of 25 million new jobs.”
So, the Trumpers liked that and bit into the bait hard...hook, line and sinker. But, when I speak to the Trumpers and Trumpettes, I ask, “How is he going to achieve this?” They have no idea and merely respond by saying, “I don’t know, but he said it, so he’ll do it.” They truly don’t know for Trump has given no policies or detail on how he will achieve it. Just like they confess, Trump merely says it, but it appears that’s good enough for them.
So, the Trumpers liked that and bit into the bait hard...hook, line and sinker. But, when I speak to the Trumpers and Trumpettes, I ask, “How is he going to achieve this?” They have no idea and merely respond by saying, “I don’t know, but he said it, so he’ll do it.” They truly don’t know for Trump has given no policies or detail on how he will achieve it. Just like they confess, Trump merely says it, but it appears that’s good enough for them.
There is no arguing, racism climbed
after the nation elected its first black president. Trump tapped into that in
forming his base support. Since Obama’s inauguration, according to the ‘Secret
Service’, he receives a minimum of thirty death threats per day. That’s a 400%
increase over all past presidents.
So, I also tell Trump supporters that
you voted for and am celebrating the victory of the very same person the Ku
Klux Klan (KKK), every white nationalist group and every American Nazi social
media outlet praised, endorsed and voted for.
Calling it the ‘Victory Klavalkade Klan
Parade’, I explain the KKK is even planning a victory parade this December 03. Former
Grand Wizard, David Duke thanked Julian Assange for helping elect Trump. Heck,
for that matter, Marine Le Pen of France, Geert Wilder of the Netherlands,
Nigel Farage of Britain and Norbert Hofer of Austria, all leaders of European white
nationalist movements were one of the first to phone and congratulate Trump on
his triumphal victory.
These Trump voters I spoke with didn’t care, didn’t even flinch while flashing a skirmish smile, but yet are the same ones to label a liberal as fascist. As a religious right-winger, one female Trump voter even tried telling me that the KKK was backing Hillary and Democrats. She got learned real quickly from a little bit of my own brand of West Texan growing up schooling after that comment.
These Trump voters I spoke with didn’t care, didn’t even flinch while flashing a skirmish smile, but yet are the same ones to label a liberal as fascist. As a religious right-winger, one female Trump voter even tried telling me that the KKK was backing Hillary and Democrats. She got learned real quickly from a little bit of my own brand of West Texan growing up schooling after that comment.
Seeing people cheering for the outcome
of this election waving the Confederate flag, one can understand the real
bereavement, the disenfranchisement to their nation and the concern the other
half of Americans feel. I mean there are minority children waking up from this
election result asking their parents if they are going to be taken away from
their homes.
Watch the video below for Van Jones’
take on how and why insecure feelings have overwhelmed half the nation.
In the following, before I point out the extremist right-wing actions due to the elections, I would like to say there were a few isolated left-wing transgressions as well, but it was only a handful due to the frustration in the loss. No less, there is no excuse for it, but it does not compare to the scores of numbers of right-wing transgressions in feeling Trump’s victory opened the doors to behave as such and one can only imagine how they would have handled the frustration in losing if this is how they acted in winning.
Also, as an attempt to diffuse the
right-wing actions, some of the claimed left-wing violent acts were false. The
bogus posting of a video showing liberals beating to death a Trump fan in
Philadelphia was fabricated. The video is of an unfortunate result, but is
actually the footage of irate family members assaulting a homeless man on April
07, 2015 after a boy had told his mother that the homeless man had hit him. The
man had to be put into a medically induced coma to treat his severe injuries,
but it had nothing to do with the outcome of the November 2016 elections.
Or how about this anonymous post that
was circulating through the right-wing websites:
“The
father of a 4-year-old girl died after anti-Trump protesters blocked roads and
delayed an ambulance from reaching the hospital, according to an anguished
message posted on Facebook. I have to
unfacebook for a few days. I had a patient die during a transfer last night
because our ambulance was stopped by protesters and had to drive an extra 45
minutes around the blocked roads.”
The post concludes, “I can’t today. They can give their f**king
safety pins to my patient’s fatherless 4 year old daughter.” This post is
totally unfounded and is a common thread that has been used in years past
blaming ‘Black Lives Matters’ (BLM) protests for the exact same false actions.
Then there was this false claim:
“And
a Black Lives Matter protester realized how stupid she really is after she
slapped a police horse. The horse immediately kicked her in the head. She fell
flat on her face and then ran away holding her nose. That’s instant karma!
These horses are military grade they are trained for riots and will defend
themselves if stupid human beings attack them Think again before touching Gods
chosen.”
It is true that an incident of a white
woman in Kingston, Ontario, Canada was kicked in the leg by a policeman’s
horse, but she was not part of the BLM.
However, there were without doubt two
confirmed reports of a Connecticut and Bronx man punched and kicked for being a
Trump supporter. This is uncalled for.
There has been a spike of hate crime
reports, an increase in racist vandalism and a rash of hateful threats to
American minorities since the election results. The day after the elections,
‘The Southern Law Poverty Center’ received over 200 hate crime reports. Since
the election, the center has seen a 40% spike in hate crimes.
As the center’s president, Richard Cohen
says, “Since the election, we’ve seen a
big uptick in incidents of vandalism, threats, intimidation spurred by the
rhetoric surrounding Mr. Trump’s election.” Pert-near every state has been
impacted.
In total as of November 14, there have
been over 300 at 332 reported hate crimes committed and still climbing.
Some examples of the day after elections
are:
The left leaning Democratic Underground
was shut down on election night by a Trump supporting hacker.
On the morning of 11/09/16 in Cambridge Massachusetts at a Shell gas station, bystanders and the Hispanic of interest witnessed a USPS white male employee yell at the Hispanic, “Go back to your country. This is ‘Trump Land’. You ain’t getting your check anymore.”
On the morning of 11/09/16 in Cambridge Massachusetts at a Shell gas station, bystanders and the Hispanic of interest witnessed a USPS white male employee yell at the Hispanic, “Go back to your country. This is ‘Trump Land’. You ain’t getting your check anymore.”
In Ann Arbor, Michigan, a Muslim woman
was threatened by a man that he would set her on fire if she didn’t take off
her hijab.
The vehicle of a transgender woman in
Denver, Colorado was spray painted with hate graffiti.
Parents encouraged by Trump and in cycle, children encouraged by their parents have resorted to some post-election ethnic taunts at their schools.
Parents encouraged by Trump and in cycle, children encouraged by their parents have resorted to some post-election ethnic taunts at their schools.
At a Pennsylvania high school, ‘York
County School of Technology’, white males were video recorded walking down a
hallway with two holding up a Trump sign while others behind them were shouting
“white power.”
At Detroit’s ‘Oak Brook Middle School’
in Michigan, white students in the school cafeteria were recorded chanting
“Build the Wall” to students that were Hispanic; some were crying.
Also in Dewitt Michigan’s junior high
school, a group of white students, by forming a handheld human wall blocked the
entranceways to classes and lockers for those they deemed Hispanic.
In Texas’ Plano East High School a group
of male students forcibly took off a female student’s hijab.
Also in Texas at the small northwest border
town of Fort Hancock, visiting supporters from the Archer City volleyball team
were shouting from the stands “Build The
Wall” while holding Trump signs during play. It most certainly would’ve
been nice if Fort Hancock, who are primarily Mexican American, had won the game. Unfortunately they didn’t, but hung in there and played the whole game nonetheless.
In Maple Grove, Minnesota, graffiti was written in a male bathroom saying, “Go back to Africa. Make America Great Again,” and on the stall door...well, I don’t need to repeat it, just look at it if ya want in the photo below.
In Maple Grove, Minnesota, graffiti was written in a male bathroom saying, “Go back to Africa. Make America Great Again,” and on the stall door...well, I don’t need to repeat it, just look at it if ya want in the photo below.
A Muslim student at ‘San Diego State
University’ was first harassed by two men making comments about Trump and the
Muslim community, they then accosted her and took her purse, backpack and car
keys. She went to the campus police department and by the time they arrived
back at the scene they’d stolen her car.
As reported by President John J. Hurley
of Canisius College in eastern New York, students hung a black doll from a
dormitory curtain rod with a meme about congratulatory Trump fans.
Below is an incident at ‘Ohio State
University’ where a Trump supporter rams a peaceful Trump protester down a
flight of stairs.
These were not isolated incidents happening across the nation at our children’s schools on the very next day after the elections, they are just a few examples.
Below are some images of post-election
graffiti:
So, why are these attacks going on by the Republican nationalist commoner? Perhaps it might have to do with the encouragement by Republican leaders. In reference to First Lady Michelle Obama, a local official in Clay, West Virginia, as director of the ‘Clay County Development Corporation’ posted this on her ‘Facebook’ message list:
As in all crises, there blooms a silver lining. First off, in the day after the elections, artist, Mathew ‘Levee’ Chavez set up a little booth in an underground subway station filled with post-it notes, pens and a sign that read “Subway Therapy.” He felt the despondence and depression he was witnessing needed a soothing hand, so provided for anyone to write down their thoughts of the elections and post-it on the walls.
This is when he just set up his little booth.
This is the result just a couple hours later.
In Texas, the day after the elections,
Natasha Nkhama was walking down the sidewalk to her class on the ‘Baylor
University’ campus when another white male student bumped into her knocking her
from the sidewalk, then said, “No n----r
allowed on the sidewalk.”
She was devastated which led to becoming
fearful as she told a friend. Word of the incident must’ve erupted, for by the
time her class ended, over 300 students were waiting for her to have her back
and walk with her.
If you would like to see the outpouring
of the students in solidarity with Miss Nkhama, click here to
watch the 45 second video as she is overwhelmed when first seeing how many
students are willing to walk with and stand with her in solidarity. It’s a tad
touching.
On a CNN November 13, 2016 interview, Jake Tapper confronted Paul Ryan with this, “There are millions of Americans out there who are, frankly, terrified about what a President Trump will mean for them. Is there anything that you as Speaker of the House, one of the leaders of the nation want to say to them?”
On a CNN November 13, 2016 interview, Jake Tapper confronted Paul Ryan with this, “There are millions of Americans out there who are, frankly, terrified about what a President Trump will mean for them. Is there anything that you as Speaker of the House, one of the leaders of the nation want to say to them?”
Ryan, acting surprised, even a bit
stunned as if this is the first time of hearing it retorts, “I hate it that people feel this way and
second of all, they should not. I think people should be rest assured America
is a pluralistic inclusive country. It is, it has been and it will continue to
be. So, I really think people should put their minds at ease.”
Of course, in Ryan’s reply, there is
some parallel in what fascist members were saying to the German public in their
rise during the 1930s.
In explaining to Ryan all the hate
crimes presently going on, Tapper impresses, “There are these incidents taking place all over the country.” Ryan
replies as once again acting surprised, “That’s
terrible. By the way, that’s not Republicans. We are the party of Lincoln.”
Maybe once upon a time, but today, Lincoln is not rolling, but roiling in his
grave due to current Republican coterie behavior and penurious nature.
It’s not just half the population of
America that is fearful of a Trump presidency. I have to add here what the
Irish senator, Aodhán Ó Riordáin opened up with in the Irish Upper House
convening after the American election results in the video below. Watch it and
see what he has to say; it’s powerful stirring stuff.
Who knows what Trump’s acting prowess is? Is it what he contended in the campaigning stage, or is it his backtracking after the victory on repealing Obamacare in its entirety? Trump can literally change in mid-sentence ending it with an ideology that totally contradicts the sentence’s beginning.
In any case, Republican leaders, now
that they feel totally in charge with mandates to serve, have all proclaimed
they will repeal the ACA Act. It is a social program primarily geared for the
folks in poverty and alleviated taxpayer dollars going to pay for emergency
care visits by low income means folk that couldn’t afford healthcare. It didn’t
matter in the Act’s good intentions or successes, since it was an Obama policy,
Republicans despised it and attempted to repeal it in part or whole nearly sixty
(60) times.
The GOP has also been in total
opposition to the Act due to their slant towards racism. They’ve been opposed
to everything Obama has offered in policies, merely because they literally
disdain what he represents...a black president fighting for the American that’s
been marginalized. That’s why they tried to demean it by calling it Obamacare,
although the president wore that nametag on his lapel with pride. They’ve
failed miserably in their obstruction in trying to shred the Act and don’t seem
to realize that plenty of the white poor are on Obamacare too. In fact 22
million, plus another 100,000 new enrollees for this month alone are presently
insured by Obamacare.
I got a feeling there is going to be a lot of delay in what the GOP and Trump have promised they will repeal, defund or get rid of on day one. Just watch all the campaign proclamations start melting away. But, whether they hem-haw in all their repeal threats or actually act out in going forth; they will either be slain by their extreme right-wing base for reneging, or blistered by the liberal left for doing away with tried and true social programs. They cannot sway blame, for in the past under Obama’s presidency, they were that dog that always chased the car down the road and now, in control of both houses of congress and the White House, they are that same dog that finally caught the car. That is not a good thing when the dog lastly catches the car. No it is not.
This also includes Ryan’s plans of implanting
Social Security into Wall Street allowing the next recession or market crash to
devour it leaving senior Americans, (who’ve contributed to Social Security
their whole working lives), without that once guaranteed safety net pension. Ryan
also plans to shove Medicare into the private corporate insurer sector to
manage seniors’ annual subsidies that are limited in funding. All this is
primarily being conducted by Republicans to pay for the offset in the budget
due to the furtherance of the rich and corporate tax cuts they plan to install.
In general, police unions opposed
Hillary due solely to all the uproar in cops killing unarmed Blacks. It’s
presently up to 102 for this year in police killings of unarmed Blacks. Of the
234 Blacks killed thus far by cops, it turns out, 57% were unarmed. Since San
Francisco 49ers quarterback, Colin Kaepernick’s silence on bended knee during
the playing of the ‘National Anthem’ as a protest for this very reason,
sixty-seven more Blacks have been killed by cops.
Along with Trump supporters, the police
have come up with the moniker, ‘Blue Lives Matter’ to counter the ‘Black Lives
Matter’ slogan in suppressing its meaning. It’s a non-repentant standing. I
feel most everyone does empathize with police being killed in the line of duty,
but only while a lot ignore a Black’s death at the hands of a cop.
That’s utter nonsense in trying to defuse the warranted issue Blacks are facing every day during police encounters. A cop can take off his blue uniform and as much as the bigoted would like, Blacks cannot take off their darker skin color. In fact in America’s past, any Black that tried to lighten their skin, they were incarcerated for trying to pass off as white.
Yes indeed, nonwhites and non-Christians
have a lot to be apprehensive of in this election result. According to a
post-election Gallup poll, 42% of Americans are afraid of the election results
while 34% feel devastated. That shows Trump really has a lot of confidence
building to do. Is he up to it if it draws sharp contrast between his hyper
ego?
Realization
Setting in:
Below is a video by CNNs Joy-Ann Reid’s
take on Trump’s election victory. It is grounded and eye-opening.
The Christian Right, for cryin’ out loud...the fundamentalist religious, lost souled Christian Right and their greater than thou evangelical soothsaying preachers. Preacher Kenneth Copeland on his ‘America Stands: Election Coverage in the Spirit of Faith’ proclaims that now he has a direct line to deliver messages from God to Trump. Copeland also believes, or rather likes you to believe he believes he can cure Ebola merely by speaking in tongues.
These prosperity gospel TV evangelicals in
saying how America escaped the wrath of God because Trump won are sort of, but
basically puke in a myriad of ways. Essentially stealing money from lonely
elderly viewers is actually an assault on Jesus’ teachings and I’m sure he has
a place for them in Hades, for getting rich off of the lonely poor and budgeted
in his name no less, is pure unadulterated greed. Profits for prophets!
Fundamentalists and evangelicals pretty
much adhere to a one way street when it comes to judging folks of their
lifestyles until veering into a sharp U-turn in electing Trump.
These fundamentalist American Christians
would have voted for the Anti-Christ as long as he had a big red R painted on
his forehead before thinking of voting for Hillary. In fact, in voting for
Trump, some could reasonably argue they did.
Christian Right fundamentalists’ psyche requires a human-in-form redeemer, but oh what a redeemer they have chosen; a very distant one from Jesus Christ, but it is only a front for their biased views as they will bend it when it is in direct conflict with their moral views.
Christian Right fundamentalists’ psyche requires a human-in-form redeemer, but oh what a redeemer they have chosen; a very distant one from Jesus Christ, but it is only a front for their biased views as they will bend it when it is in direct conflict with their moral views.
For instance, Trump, in knowing his past
infidelity escapades and misogynist/sexist quotes, they still blindly pulled
the Trump lever. Steve Bannon and his ex-wife are the parents of twins that
were born just days after they married. Now, as an ol’ West Texan redneck
liberal, that doesn’t bother me one iota and I would not hold it against him
and his ex-wife. But, the Religious Right with their ‘family values’ moniker
entrenched within the Republican Party, it definitely should not have assuaged
them.
Pretty much, suffice it to say from the
election outcome...Christian Right underlined is white nationalism. If that is
still too hard for you to see then you never will, for you are destitute of
vision and it will soon be called ‘post trumpatic disorder’.
Along with Ken ‘Wink n Nod’ Blackwell, a
fundamentalist also, who currently sits on the ‘Family Research Council’ is to
head up Trump’s domestic transition team, composed of special interest
lobbyists and former W. Bush appointees.
At least a few Trump supporters are
paying attention as one disgruntled Trump fan relayed to ‘Politico’s team
reporters, Andrew Restuccia, Isaac Arnsdorf and Nancy Cook that, “The Bush crew is definitely trying to
pretend that Trump’s win is not a direct repudiation of their failed
administration. I’m surprised by the hypocrisy of the whole thing.”
Blackwell first gained national
notoriety as Ohio’s ‘Secretary of State’ in his 2004 election attempts of voter
suppression. He also has compared ‘same sex marriages’ to farm animals when on
January 05, 2009 he came out against homosexual marriages sating “it defies barnyard logic.”
Former W. Bush employees being
considered include, Kay Cole James, Jamie Burke and Aldo Machida who was Dick
Cheney’s top domestic policy aide.
Why even a few former W. Bush officials
are even slated to hold permanent offices such as Victoria Lipnic for ‘Labor
Secretary’, William Evers for ‘Education Secretary’, Van Hipp Jr. as ‘Army
Secretary’ and Pamela Patenaude is being considered to run ‘Housing and Urban
Development’.
Some corporate lobbyists working with
Blackwell on the transition are, Cindy Hayden of tobacco giant, ‘Altria’,
Michael McKenna and Mike Cantanzaro who both lobby for the oil, petrochemical
and chemical industries and David Bernhardt, who has special interests with
mining companies such as ‘Rosemont Copper’.
Why, even Pam ‘Pay-for-Play’ Bondi, the
Florida Attorney General has been slotted to be on the transition team.
Remember her, when she was considering charging ‘Trump University’ (TU) with
fraud in the state, but after visiting Trump personally where he purchased her
with a $25,000.00 campaign gift for reelection, then three days later she drops
all charges, leaving Florida TU students milked out of thousands with no
justice? Apparently the ‘pay-for-play’ paid off. It’s hard to believe she had
the corrupted gall at the RNC convention to proclaim in reference to Hillary, “Lock her up; I love that,” as she
pointed to a Trump supporter’s sign.
Longtime establishment, Congressman Lou
‘Anti-Immigrant Extremist’ Barletta (R-PA) is onboard the transition team. As
mayor of Hazelton, Pennsylvania he led a sweeping crackdown on immigrants
making those that lived there legally, possess identity at all times on their
persons and penalized landlords and employers who rented or hired to
immigrants. He enforced his town laws until a federal court ruling deemed it
unconstitutional. He has carried his anti-immigrant extremism to the House of
Congress as well introducing a bill that would require exit fingerprinting at
all airports and borders. The unconstitutional bill failed.
Also, Kansas Secretary of State Kris
‘Voter Suppressor King’ Koback is being assigned to the transition team to sort
out candidates for immigration reform. Nice choice for immigration, for he is
the Kansan architect of draconian anti-immigration policies. The ‘Kansas City
Star’ reported in their March 04, 2015 newspaper edition, he also once
concurred with a fellow Republican on a radio talk show that it was “not a huge jump” to think Obama might
try to stop future criminal prosecutions of Black people in America. Kobach
continued, “Well, it’s already happened
more or less in the case of civil rights laws. So I guess it’s not a huge jump,
I think it’s unlikely, but you know I’ve learned to say with this president,
never say never.”
Kobach, along with ‘Trump PAC’ spokesperson,
Karl ‘Get the Muslims Out’ Higbie are pushing for the days of America’s
Japanese American internment camps by recommending a national registry
targeting Muslim American immigrants. Higbie cites WWII USA internment camps as
precedent for Muslims.
George Takei gives an excellent take on U.S.
internment camps in the below video.
Myron ‘LOL’ Ebell, who is director of ‘Global Warming and International Environmental Policy’ at the ‘Competitive Enterprise Institute’ is Trump’s pick to lead the transition team for head of the ‘Environmental Protection Agency’ (EPA). Even though he is not a scientist, Ebell has been instrumental in drawing up fake scientific statistics in his strategy to deny that Climate Change is manmade much less that it even exists. He is not only a Climate Change contrarian, he promises to have all energy related EPA regulations annulled, so coal industries can dump their pollutant waste anywhere they please.
In an organized stunt, on 11/17/2016,
Ebell ripped up a copy of the ‘Paris Climate Agreement’. Climate Change is
serious. If you cannot already see the changes here, you’re definitely
illiterate enough to not realize what other changes are coming in the ignorant
zest for temporary economic and partisan political gain. We have only one
home...Earth...mess it up and there is permanently nowhere else to move to. He
will fast track The GOP agenda in privatizing America’s public lands.
I am ashamed of my generation in leaving
a legacy that will profoundly affect the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness
of future generations in our reckless pursuit of fossil fuels that is not only elevating
climate temperatures, but as well, is choking off the very fresh air that
sustains us in every breathe we take.
For Homeland Security chief, Trump is
earmarking either, Arizona’s Maricopa County Sheriff Joe ‘Pink Prison Garb’
Arpaio or Milwaukee County Sheriff David ‘Pichforks & Torches’ Clarke.
Currently, Arpaio has been charged with contempt of court and once convicted,
perhaps he should be forced to wear the pink prison clothing he issued to
Mexican American prisoners.
Clarke has tweeted, “It’s incredible that our institutions of
government, White House, Congress, DOJ and big media are corrupt. Pitchforks
and torches time.” Clarke followed up, “Just
heard from a friend that there has been a run on pitchforks and tiki-lamp oil
at Home Depot!” Both men are vile, abusive, corrupt and bullying in their
form of serving out justice. Now it appears, one of them will be in charge of
national justice.
Our ol’ friend, Ben ‘Joseph Built the
Pyramids’ Carson is being considered for ‘Secretary of Education’. I don’t
really know why because some Republicans want to wholly get rid of the
educational department, but regardless, what a fine choice for running
America’s education. Remember, Carson denies evolution, promotes false history,
and opposes LGBTQ youths. It was Carson who declared the U.S. should cut
funding to liberal universities for what they teach, but give a pass on
conservative and religious universities on what they teach.
Of course, then there is Jefferson
Beauregard Sessions who doesn’t need a pun name like I’ve put in the middle of
all the other names, for he was named after a Confederate general. Sessions is
slated to be the attorney general, a post that is the main legal governing
advisor. He migrated to Trump early in the campaign defending Trump’s ban on
Muslims entering the U.S. His racist background is sparkling with his proposals
of canceling funds to sanctuary cities, criticized civil rights groups as “un-American”, “communist inspired” and dubbed a white civil rights lawyer as “a disgrace to his race.”
In 1985, Sessions prosecuted Alabama
civil rights workers for attempting to register Black voters and said that the
only thing he disliked about the KKK was that some of them were pot smokers,
although later he said he was only kidding.
Chief of Staff was between two candidates, RNC Chairman Reince ‘Weenie Boy/ Shelf Elf’ Preibus and Trump’s campaign manager, Steve ‘Loose Cannon’ Bannon. Trump went with the Republican establishment Preibus. I’m sure that wasn’t Trump’s true call, as it has Pence fingerprints all over it. Preibus is close friends of fellow Wisconsinite, House Speaker Paul Ryan. This triage will allow Pence to have more sway in allowing Ryan to move his agenda. But Trump didn’t totally ignore the alt-right Bannon, he has tapped Bannon as his chief strategist/senior aide.
Chief of Staff was between two candidates, RNC Chairman Reince ‘Weenie Boy/ Shelf Elf’ Preibus and Trump’s campaign manager, Steve ‘Loose Cannon’ Bannon. Trump went with the Republican establishment Preibus. I’m sure that wasn’t Trump’s true call, as it has Pence fingerprints all over it. Preibus is close friends of fellow Wisconsinite, House Speaker Paul Ryan. This triage will allow Pence to have more sway in allowing Ryan to move his agenda. But Trump didn’t totally ignore the alt-right Bannon, he has tapped Bannon as his chief strategist/senior aide.
Trump wasn’t going to leave Bannon out,
so he made him senior aide to the president, ya know, the same position Karl
Rove was to W. Bush as just a whispering earshot away.
Due to domestic violence, according to
Mary Louise Piccard vs. Stephen Bannon 2007 divorce papers, Ms. Piccard,
Bannon’s ex-wife testified that Bannon didn’t want the couple’s children
attending Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles because of the number of
Jewish children there.
Ms. Piccard’s testimonial reads, “The biggest problem he had with Archer is
the number of Jews that attend... I told him that there are children who are
Jewish at a competing school and he asked me what the percentage was. I told
him that I didn’t know because it wasn’t an issue for me as I am not raising
the girls to be either anti-Semitic or prejudiced against anyone.”
Of course, even if the divorce documents
are in court records, Bannon spokesmen only and not Bannon himself, claim he
never made those document statements like the good Republican always does in
denying past actions.
Bannon intentionally is not exposed to
the public and most likely you’ve already noticed that there are only a few
photos of him that is tossed around in the media. There is a reason for keeping
him hidden in dark recesses. Trump members do not want him to be interviewed,
for that might shed light on his domestic violence past and white supremacist
strong leanings, so, only surrogates go out defending him.
As you might recall, Bannon was Trump’s
campaign manager who left Breitbart News’ social media as its executive
chairman to take over management of Trump’s campaign. Breitbart disperses
misinformation like weeds disperse allergenic pollen. Bannon controlled
Breitbart headlines like, ‘Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy’
or, ‘Bill Kristol Republican Spoiler Renegade Jew’.
Dylann Roof, a confederate flag waving
white supremacist summarily shot and executed nine Black folks in a Charleston,
South Carolina church. Under Bannon’s executive editorial management, two weeks
after the tragedy, Breitbart put up a front page that bristled, ‘Hoist it High
and Proud. The Confederate Flag Proclaims a Glorious Heritage’. The headline
timing wasn’t off...it was deliberate.
Bannon has even admitted so himself that
in Breitbart interviews when he ran the misogynist, anti-Semitic, anti-LGBTQ,
xenophobic, racist Breibart media outlet, he did so as a platform for white
nationalist viewpoints.
Trouble is, even if the Republican
congress would ever be so persuaded to protest Bannon’s role as senior aide,
they couldn’t do anything about it for that role is an appointment and not a
nomination to be voted on for congressional approval.
With a Breitbart audience of 37 million,
Trump and Bannon could have a media outlet that is comparable to Putin’s
government controlled ‘Pravda’ news outlet.
A president is a presidency. It has to show a standard and that standard must represent all Americans. I don’t care how much Trump feels he must appease his supporters in picking an outsider to D.C.; choosing Bannon, a well-known established anti-Semitic white nationalist is too far a drift.
Republicans have a real double standard
issue at play here. Using Obama’s words in their propagandizing of his plea to
America that “it’s time to unite,”
yet have mercilessly excoriated every word Obama has put out during his entire
presidency is incredulous. They’ve also been blasting of all people, Van Jones for protesting Bannon’s appointment.
One might recall, Jones, in Obama’s
early administration was seated as a low level official. Republicans lashed out
in guttural screaming protests for something Jones had said when he was in
college. So loud and insistent were their screams, Jones resigned.
The video below is an example of the
double standard with Van Jones and Republican pundit, Kayleigh McEnany.
Other possible cabinet holders being considered is Sarah ‘Drill Baby Drill’ Palin as ‘Secretary of the Interior’. Slated is, Rudy ‘Mad Foam Mouth’ Giuliani as ‘Secretary of State’. Giuliani assures us that Trump will not leave out Chris ‘Bridgegate’ Christi when he stated on November 11th, “I can tell you that from Donald Trump's point of view, he tremendously respects Gov. Christie's contributions, and greatly respects the governor's intellect, ability and loyalty.”
Frank ‘Conspirator Purge’ Gafney is
slated to be Trump’s ‘National Security Adviser’. Gafney is a proud Islamophobe
and has served as a base for baseless right-wing conspiracies including that
Obama is a closet Muslim. He intends to purge the security agency of anyone he
fears won’t be loyal.
The other Trump appointee that might get
the nod as ‘National Security’ Adviser’ is Lt. General Michael ‘Temperament
Like Trump’ Flynn, who is known to frequently fly off the handle. He also fits
the anti-Muslim Trump administrative requirement. Describing American fear of
all Muslims as “RATIONAL,”
(his caps and not mine) earlier
this year he tweeted his followers to deem a ‘You Tube’ anti-Muslim video as a
requirement to watch.
Newt ‘RHINO Deceit’ Gingrich will hold a title in some general planning capacity and Laura ‘Disinfo’ Ingram, who daily has broadcasted a right-wing radio show, is being eyed for ‘Press Secretary’.
Newt ‘RHINO Deceit’ Gingrich will hold a title in some general planning capacity and Laura ‘Disinfo’ Ingram, who daily has broadcasted a right-wing radio show, is being eyed for ‘Press Secretary’.
The street Republican is going to be
duped, but it is self-inflicted. Scapegoating others does not lift one up.
Until the common Republican realizes if one doesn’t care for others, nothing in
the long run is going to be better for their own.
Yepper, down with the Berlin wall and up
with the Trump wall...or is it? According to Newt Gingrich, just two days after
the election he confessed on a conference call sponsored by the global law
firm, ‘Dentons’ that, “He’ll [Trump] spend a lot of time controlling the border.
He may not spend very much time trying to get Mexico to pay for it, but it was
a great campaign device.”
But who knows, as Kris Kobach just said
in a ‘Reuters’ interview, the Trump administration may move forward with a
costly $8-12 billion border wall while not seeking congressional approval.
Heck, for that matter, as of 11/17/2016,
Giuliani and Gingrich might be out of the run for ‘Secretary of State’, ousted by
none other than, Mitt ‘Never Trump’ Romney in him taking away the ‘Kiss Butt Award’ from
Chris Christie.
To prevent upheaval, there are certain norms a newly inducting administration must establish for reasons of transparency and emotional security of the nation. The early signs of what Trump is incorporating as the new norm are indeed troubling.
To prevent upheaval, there are certain norms a newly inducting administration must establish for reasons of transparency and emotional security of the nation. The early signs of what Trump is incorporating as the new norm are indeed troubling.
Just to add this in here, Trump, who
proclaims, “I love the veterans” did
not attend one ‘Veteran’s Day’ event and neither can I gather that any of his
immediate loyalists did either.
Such
Contrast:
To give Trump credit, Republican
‘Federal Communications Commission’ (FCC) officials are delaying and deleting
the agenda items to incorporate the video accessibility access for all the
millions of blind Americans. Due to this decision, the 1.3 million Americans
who are totally blind and the millions who are impaired enough to be legally
blind will have to wait for experiencing the expanded video description
somewhere further down in the future.
This gives the Trump administration say
in whether they will even incorporate it or not. If Hillary had been elected,
the program would already have begun the preliminary stages of incorporation
that began under Obama. Republican’s obstinate and continuous obstruction of
Obama policies are still in affect even in the waning days of his office.
In trying to warn Americans how Trump
operates through manipulation, Jeff Daniels had issued this warning back in May
2016.
Hilary’s campaign was about hope, inclusiveness and a big ethical heart. Trump’s was based on frustration, exclusiveness and hatred. She was going to build bridges for this divisive moment in American history; Trump will build a wall. As Hillary went ‘high’, Trump went and has gone ‘low’.
Trump’s ego is obviously being rubbed
the wrong way with the popular vote. Just like the W. Bush administration did
in the 2000 election in campaigning, Trump exalted that the electoral is a “disaster;” today, he is calling it “genius.” Why? Well it’s the same result
as in 2000 because Trump won the electoral, but lost the popular vote; same as
W. Bush did.
In fact, the W. Bush campaign thought
they would win the popular vote, but lose the electoral vote so much so that
they had set up a legal team to take it to federal court in attempts to repeal
the electoral vote count. Of course as it turned out, W. won the electoral but
lost the popular by over a half million votes. The same outcome as well occurred
in the 2016 results. In fact, for over a quarter of a century, Republicans have
only won the popular vote one time for the U. S. presidency.
As the final tallies on the popular vote
keep edging in, Hillary’s popular vote continues to increase. As of this
writing on November 17, the popular vote stands at: Hillary- 62,916,638 — Trump-
61,547,580. That’s going on a million-half more votes cast for Hillary
currently standing at a 1,319,580 difference in her favor.
Ya know, Trump said during his campaign speeches
that he’ll be the “greatest jobs
president that God has ever created.” Hillary mentioned that too, but with
policies to back it up and other programs to support it like bold investments
in infrastructure/manufacturing, equal pay, limiting childcare costs to no more
than 10% of annual income, paid time off for new baby care and raising the
minimum wage to a living wage. She never expressed job creation without backing
it up with her policies. Trump, well, there was nothing there but hot air and
blown smoke with no facts on how he is going to accomplish it.
During Hillary’s concession speech, one could tell she was visibly upset, but she so gracefully went through it, calling for respect of the outcome and unity for the nation. She called trump to congratulate him and even he himself said it was a gracious call.
During Hillary’s concession speech, one could tell she was visibly upset, but she so gracefully went through it, calling for respect of the outcome and unity for the nation. She called trump to congratulate him and even he himself said it was a gracious call.
If Trump had lost, how would he have
acted? Unfortunately we’ll never find that out, but if you judge him by his
proclamations of a “rigged election” and
touted the “election as a conspiracy”
during the campaigning while throughout threatening to not concede, he had
geared his followers to start a rebellion.
I don’t see Trump changing. His only for
Trump blueprint views on life hasn’t changed in seventy years, so why now. It
is who Trump is. If he changes then he is not Trump.
But it’s Pence waltzing into the oval office that concerns me even more. Those beady little eyes, leering smiles, smug look and condescending always patronizing attitude reveals his inner self and intentions. His ever incessant whine of religious freedoms is one thing, but as he directs its benefits only toward fundamentalist Christians is another.
Mike Pence, who is among crowded
Republican red state governorships, has one of the strictest religious freedom
bills in his state. He will in his supercilious way nudge Trump to pick Supreme
Court justices who will reverse the decision on marriage equality. He borders
on child abuse by supporting gay children conversion therapy. He has allowed
Indiana businesses to exercise prejudices in refusing service and freely
discriminate against LGBTQ communities and youth. Of course LGBTQs feel a real
impending threat to this administration elect. They knew Hillary would have
ensured all Americans equal rights and now, they’re in a vulnerable limbo of
what’s to come.
Pence always puts up the façade that he
is serious and stately covering up his real intentions to mold legislation into
his warped perspective at the expense of minority equalities. To further hide
his true views, surprise, surprise...Pence is going to court to ensure his private
e-mails are not to ever be made available to any inquiry or investigation and remain
nontransparent permanently to the public.
Funny that, well ya know on how
Republicans demeaned and discredited Hillary for her private server and
e-mails, but how it is A-OK if they not only do it, but get court orders to
protect it from any congressional or judicial investigation like they
constantly hounded Hillary with.
In essence, Pence is negating judicial
branch checks on executive power and removing the public’s right to know what
the current government is doing and how it is spending American tax
dollars.
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| Putin/Russia meddling in U.S. elections |
I must admit, FBI Director James Comey’s letter to the Republican House Congress, did affect the outcome of the elections to a degree. Republican women that were looking for anything to sway them back to Trump...this was exactly what they were looking for.
Red state voter suppression also hurt,
shaving off percentage points and for sure the Republican’s relentless bogus
conspiracy Benghazi and Clinton e-mail lies hurt her chances with voters.
However, more than 200 million Americans
that were of voting age did not vote. That’s 46.9% of the voting populace
decided to sit this one out on their couch duffs rather than going to the polls
and cast a vote in this ever so important election year. That is what really
hurt Hillary, she could not get voters enthused enough to turn out and vote in
key electoral states due to all the Republican conspiracy theories that
abounded; falsely implanting the ‘Crooked Hillary’ syndrome, when all
along...it was Republican actions that were crooked.
The GOP should be ashamed in destroying
a woman’s, a grandmother’s, a mother’s and to all children as a surrogate mom’s
true character.
The spinal character in what Republicans
bring out in their cellar voter and what Democrats bring out can show no greater
a contrast than in subsequent post-election thoughts.
In the following day after election
results, Trump surrogate, Michael Hill, as president of the white supremacist,
‘League of the South’ said this:
“So
here is my warning to the victors: do not go back to sleep and think all is
well. If you don’t finish the job by routing your enemies and driving them into
the sea while you have the chance, they will re-group and be back at your
throats in no time! You have been given a reprieve by God; do not give your
enemies and His a reprieve.
Their
goal is to dispossess you of everything. If you have not heard that over the
past year, then you have not been listening. Just what the hell do you think
multiculturalism, diversity, and tolerance are all about? Your enemies care
nothing about those things. They are merely used as weapons against you for
your dispossession and ultimate destruction. The sum of their effect is White
Guilt.
These
media elites (and others of their elite ilk) look forward to the demise of old
white America and the rise of a new paradigm in which they will hold sway. You
will be dispossessed, sequestered in the equivalent of ghettos, and will be a
despised and hated minority in the country your ancestors built.
You,
by God’s grace, may have been given a short reprieve from this scenario. Redeem
the time! As for me, I recommend that we get busy with Southern independence.
We need our own country, and it must be run by us for our own interests. It
must once again be White Man’s Land.”
Now, compare the ‘NAACP’s national
president, Cornell William Brooks’ response following the election results. He
was a stout Hillary supporter but stated:
“Even
as we extend our congratulations to President-Elect Donald J. Trump, the NAACP,
as America’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, must bluntly note
that the 2016 campaign has regularized racism, standardized anti-Semitism,
de-exceptionalized xenophobia and mainstreamed misogyny. Voter suppression, as
the courts have declared, has too become rampant and routine.
From
the day that General George Washington accepted the people’s charge to become
their first commander-in-chief, to the day that we elected Barack Obama as our
country’s first African-American president, America has come together to ensure
a peaceful transition of power. This most recent presidential election must
meet this distinctly American standard. President-Elect Trump’s victory speech
avoided a divisive tone and thus invoked this standard.
During
this critical period of transition, we are now calling upon the next president
to speak and act with the moral clarity necessary to silence the dog-whistle
racial politics that have characterized recent months and have left many of our
fellow citizens snarling at one another in anger and even whimpering in fear.
The more than 120 million Americans who cast ballots in this election – as well
as the more than 100 million more eligible voters who declined to vote –
deserve no less.”
If you’re thinking of true American
patriotism...there is no comparison between the two speeches.
Final
Say:
Republican legislation will surge
targeting the impoverished, the disabled, LGBTQ communities, seniors, and other
religions in defunding or reshaping public policies. It is a frightening
thought when you know that the only thing standing between the onslaught of
Republican corrupt legislation and you is Trump.
These are tough times for emotional
health, but our mind is our greatest asset; allow reason and common sense to
rescue you. Tough times are analogous to choppy waters making one feel stranded
and/or hopeless. Once you come up from under that last wave’s deluge for a gasp
of fresh air, another wave smashes in inundating you once again below the
surface. But even in this survival mode, if one reasons, calm will come and be
restored in due time; corrections will be made. It’s not only mechanical
survival it is also...spiritual.
There is a common thread in all of us
which includes, believe it or not, gays and skinheads. We all have common likes
and wants and could readily see this if we weren’t so hung up on the small
differences, rather than affirming the vast similarities. It is this bond of
humanity that appeals to respect. If Trump realizes this human factor, he can
qualm the nationalism he has fostered and nurtured throughout his campaign. But
will he absorb the implications he has rejuvenated in hate, anger, conspiracies
and hate crimes to correct them, when after all, these were driving forces to
his support base?
Below is a tweet from Nancy Sinatra, the
daughter of ol’ blue eyes himself, Frank Sinatra. For me, her tweet is
courageous in its foretelling of foreboding consequences from this election.
Also in reassuring minorities they are not alone, safety pins are being worn as a sign of solidarity. I like how swiftly a positive counter reaction can form. Below are my daughters, Amber, Claire and Paige, my son, Jason and myself wearing that symbol of we are all together in one safety pin.
Indeed I do feel for Hillary and not simply due to sympathy in the loss. This loss is on all of us and not just her shoulders.
Also in reassuring minorities they are not alone, safety pins are being worn as a sign of solidarity. I like how swiftly a positive counter reaction can form. Below are my daughters, Amber, Claire and Paige, my son, Jason and myself wearing that symbol of we are all together in one safety pin.
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| Composited by my wife, Veronica of Shticks fame |
Indeed I do feel for Hillary and not simply due to sympathy in the loss. This loss is on all of us and not just her shoulders.
Thank ya kindly, Hillary for what you
stood for and for what you stood up to. Hillary’s never ending endurance in
holding her head up high above the scorching embers of countless attacks, extreme
political partisanship, incessant conspiracies and false accusations has left a
lasting impression on all of us in standing up for who you truly are and in
making a society just and empathetic for the downtrodden.
Hillary’s long fought ongoing battles
mirrored the way sincere Christians see just how Jesus truly felt in her
constant calling of attention directed towards the minority, the impoverished,
the afflicted and our children.
Hillary, we all saw you wipe away the
tear rolling down your left cheek during your concession speech. Us too, we all
feel the pain in loss as we weep through our hearts lingering anguish. But the
secured inlay you have shielded us with will allow us to continue in our
permanence to endure.
I hear argument that it wasn’t the constant petting and stroking of bigotry that took Trump to victory, where the argumentative ones claim it was just anger and frustration. Not so. Right in the beginning, Bannon saw an outlet for a nationalist movement and hitched that ride onto the coattails of Trump, turning Trump’s campaign into a furtherance of that movement. It resonated and rejuvenated well with the vociferous extreme right, but too, collected the attention of the silent bigoted majority that prefers keeping a white stall in authoritative control.
I hear argument that it wasn’t the constant petting and stroking of bigotry that took Trump to victory, where the argumentative ones claim it was just anger and frustration. Not so. Right in the beginning, Bannon saw an outlet for a nationalist movement and hitched that ride onto the coattails of Trump, turning Trump’s campaign into a furtherance of that movement. It resonated and rejuvenated well with the vociferous extreme right, but too, collected the attention of the silent bigoted majority that prefers keeping a white stall in authoritative control.
This rampant and fast moving nationalist
movement has actually normalized bigotry in its tentacles of racism, sexism and
xenophobia. It is freely argued for and defended today when just a year ago it
would have been the death knell toll for any politician to argue on its behalf.
Trump freely expressed bigotry throughout his campaign and was rewarded for it.
This election result is viewed by all as
a nationalist victory and in particular by the nationalist right.
For Republicans to normalize Trump and his entourage endangers national security foreign and domestically. Trump is so surrounding himself by people who are anti-establishment, angry and vengeful in feeling as once victims now out for revenge. So much so, experienced national security personnel are bowing out not wanting to work for the new administration.
For Republicans to normalize Trump and his entourage endangers national security foreign and domestically. Trump is so surrounding himself by people who are anti-establishment, angry and vengeful in feeling as once victims now out for revenge. So much so, experienced national security personnel are bowing out not wanting to work for the new administration.
There is a big reason why the public
feels Hillary is dishonest and always pathetically state choice as the lesser
of two evils...even with Trump over Hillary. As I’ve stated before, it was due
to the constant stream of actual Republican dishonesty in their conspiratorial
attacks of her, so what the gilded pig ears do ya expect?
Of my opinion, Trump really didn’t
expect to win and would have been most comfortable in crawling back to his
Trump caverns firing up his brand of conspiratorial media to be a constant
harassment to Clinton’s administration by firing up his challenged supporters
in keeping with the incessant Republican subliminal rage. Trump’s a confirmed
conspiratorial follower.
But he did win. Trump, as a candidate
spent the entire election cycle stoking racial animus, hate and misogyny, but
regardless, this nation saw fit to elect him president. Since his election,
reports of hate crimes have ricocheted across the country. Ethnic minorities,
varying religions, immigrants, those impoverished and those who believe in American
inclusiveness...all are terrified and justifiably so, no matter how pretentious
Republicans are in saying there is nothing here to fear as they wallow in their
celebratory control of power backed by the spineless racist backbone in America.
He has got to mature and jump out of his
authoritative business suit and democratically begin to lead. Mercurial Trump
has got to quit being a twitter-bug and rise to the office he’s inheriting.
If Trump goes into negotiation talks
with diplomats to meet him halfway, but he walks all over them demanding that’s
not enough, or if he strong arms, insisting it’s his way or the highway for
American politicians that were willing to compromise, then he deserves to not
be given my respect or chance. We’ll know within a month into his presidency.
Remember, this is the authoritative man that admitted he walked in on women
dressing and undressing because he could.
Trump is middle fingering concerns about
conflicts-of-interest, saying he would just hand over control of his business
interests to his children; calls it a blind trust, but that is not a blind
trust. A blind trust is when assets are liquidated then handed over to a third
party. In his knowing his children, take for granted, he will know his business
dealings.
At the other end of the Trump spectrum,
allowing his children (Ivanka with Japan’s president, Shinzo Abe) to be sitting
in on government diplomacy calls, picking out administrative top official
positions (Donald Jr./Eric) while assigned to the transition team and
strategizing (Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner poised to wield clout) their
administrative moves with Trump’s new government officials, nepotism has run
amuck merging both Trump business and governance. There are anti-nepotism
federal laws, but apparently the nose is being thumbed as the Trumps’ feel they
can bypass them.
Trump voters want a change yes, but all cultural, ethnic and minority American blue collar workers wanted change too, because all American workers not only see, but through a burgeoning pain, feel the wealth moving into the hands of the elite few while they struggle simply to pay a monthly bill. This is what made Bernie Sanders so popular in constantly pointing it out with substantive fact.
Trump voters want a change yes, but all cultural, ethnic and minority American blue collar workers wanted change too, because all American workers not only see, but through a burgeoning pain, feel the wealth moving into the hands of the elite few while they struggle simply to pay a monthly bill. This is what made Bernie Sanders so popular in constantly pointing it out with substantive fact.
However, by pushing America’s withering
democracy into an oligarch, Trump voters want change backwards, not change
forward. They want the exclusiveness that once was and not the inclusiveness of
what being American truly means...cultural diversity and not just solely from
European heritage.
But with all the above said, I don’t see
Trump taking a wrecking ball smashing all the social programs he’s promised to
do. He may even hinder the GOP congress in their attempts to do so and actually
caucusing with Democrats in some instances. Nonetheless, in utilizing special
interest lobbyists for his transition teams and picking old line established
Republicans for posts; I don’t see him seeking out a pump to drain the swamp
either.
It’s funny that, Republicans claim
special interests are odious too, for it is lobbyists’ money’s change of hands to
politicians that corrupt government. They know the American public sees that.
But when special interests serve them, then they refer to the lobbyist as on
his/her side; a team member of the GOPs political base.
For now, it certainly seems like Trump
has already been inaugurated into D.C. in the frame of business as usual. Give
Trump his two years due in seeing who he really is, as I feel that is within the bounds of what it
will only take for major impeachable concerns and malfeasance from this administration.
Trump is not only the culmination of the
Republican Party; I wager he will be its conclusion too.
As time goes on...let’s all see...
In my final political say, I would like
to compare this Trump election result to the ‘Portsmouth Sinphonia’. This was
an orchestra formed by the English conductor, Gavin Bryers in 1970. He
purposefully picked orchestra members that could not play an instrument so that
two-thirds of its members were musically illiterate. Naturally the result was
appallingly bad. But curiously, the orchestra received good reviews by critics
calling it “refreshingly original”
and “unhampered by preordained melody.”
Leonard Bernstein even went so far as to credit the ensemble in, “changing my attitude to the ‘William Tell
Overture’ forever.”
Due to this populist movement, the
orchestra made record deals and became quite popular in their inept and
unskilled symphonic performances. So what does the ‘Portsmouth Sinphonia’ have
to do with the Trump election victory...the moral...they both yet again
demonstrate the public’s great appreciation of incompetence.
Have a Happy
Turkey Day!
S’ long Podnuhs
BJA
11/18/16
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