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Posting comments here using vitriol and hate simply isn't going happen.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13829283375082711360noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23257473.post-52359719571466442602018-09-05T19:01:00.002-07:002018-09-05T19:04:11.284-07:00Resistance Inside the Trump Administration<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Today, The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New York Times</span></a> published an OP Ed titled; “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration”. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Let’s assume, for a moment, that this shallow, misguided effort was indeed written by an “official” from within the administration. What does he/she hope to accomplish? What are this person’s motives and how do they intend to achieve their goals?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">If this is as it appears, it scares the Hell out of me, and it damned well should you too.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">As much as I despise Trump, I have very serious concerns about this “letter” and those portrayed within; suppose every president is saddled with a person/people surreptitiously subverting our leader(s) to "protect the nation”?</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-kerning: none;"><i style="background-color: black;">But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">There truly could not be a better excerpt from a Hollywood storyline about anarchism, or endless revolution.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Keep in mind; these officials are NOT elected. Rather, they are appointed, so from where do they derive their authority? And if from nowhere; what, in a republic built around the concept of democratic principles, will self-appointed authority accomplish but chaos?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">And, if they simply assume this authority, what then becomes of our government, indeed our republic, when the few, or even more sinisterly, the one, decide they have a better way than those elected by you and me?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Is this not saying “I know better than one-hundred, thirty million Americans”? Is this not saying; “I don’t approve of the way the election turned out, so I’m taking matters into my own hands”? And, if this is indeed the sentiment, where/when does it stop? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">This person/people seem to think fulfilling their “first duty to this country” is to supplant the very democratic principles they swore to protect, but to simply agree with their results, despite their methods, is inviting disaster on an epic scale.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">A nation is at its most precarious point when a few decide to usurp its elected leader(s) and democratic processes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">We’ve been given the means with which we can remove an irrational, amoral, psychopathic moron from office. That means is the Constitution of the United States. And, if our elected representatives in DC cannot find the courage they espoused during their campaigns, then the governors of the states need to take action.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">We have redundancy within redundancies in safe-guards to protect our republic and the last I heard, a few disenchanted appointed officials weren’t included in those redundancies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Despite our efforts to eradicate them, the indelible memories are those of distasteful, pernicious events implanted in the our minds return, often unannounced, flooding our thoughts with the same emotions we experienced when they occurred.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">For me, the most hated, unpleasant of memories is that of the unforgettable stench of racism and xenophobia which permeated life as a teen during the nineteen-fifties and sixties. Hovering in the air like a poisonous gas surreptitiously invading our souls the moment we disregarded the dangers and breathed in the noxious fumes of bigotry. The poison didn’t just exist, it thrived when I was young. For decades we erroneously thought it was subdued, relegated to the dark, foul sewage that is bad memories. However; in truth, it was simply laying in wait to continue its destructive invasion, awaiting willing hosts to spread to spread it among the unwitting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Bigotry’s twin, injustice, seemed to wane a bit as well, but together they now creep along the paths of humanity, seeking the slightest of opportunities to infect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Well camouflaged amongst assumption and opinion, injustice is unconditionally destructive to individuals and entire civilizations deluded by its capricious nature as it worms into the cracks and crevices created by naïveté and opinion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Capitalizing on those naive and opinionated are those who seek to advance their self-serving agendas. The guilty, the sanctimonious and the egotistical, using rhetorical dogma and diversion to segregate themselves from truth and justice, attempt to create the illusion that justice is injustice for them, thereby perverting justice for all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">In what has become a political circus in our nation’s capital, we witness, virtually every day, attempts to pervert justice. Yet; even more worrisome are those utterly blinded by acceptance of unfounded, fallacious claims of “justice”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">We’ve grown accustomed to watching justice unfold before our eyes in the various forms of media. Likewise; we’ve grown accustomed to inserting our opinions, judging juries, and denigrating the courts. But justice must remain blind; it cannot be commutated using hegemony and opinion disguised as justice and it must be allowed to run its course, despite our discomfort with the outcome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 11px;">As we watch our elected officials attempt to disrupt and thwart justice for the sake of partisan dogma, take care that your own patrimonial naïveté, brought about by the same tribalistic partisanship, doesn’t permit the worms of injustice to creep into and consume your mind, for injustice can easily disguises itself as justice, living comfortably among the complacent.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13829283375082711360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23257473.post-39931416338440218492018-06-26T18:22:00.002-07:002018-06-26T21:45:28.325-07:00Red Herrings, Red Hens and Moral Equivalence<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Several articles regarding the "confrontation" between Sarah Huckabee-Sanders and the staff of the Red Hen made their way into the news this past week, the writers of which seem to have grave concerns over our health and the direction our morals are heading, writing;</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Providing its own brand of political perspective on the actions of Red Hen employees while comparing it to another recent issue concerning bakeries and gay couples, the <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/sarah-huckabee-sanders-red-hen-lesson-in-civility/" target="_blank">National Review</a> also contends;</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Well, the National Review got it partly right - they choose to stand up to Huckabee-sanders, but certainly not for the absurd reasons stated. No one know on the left that I know would even suggest punishment by anyone, much less the government, for participation in same-sex weddings. In fact; I think the would say it’s none of their damned business. </span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Is this the same WaPo of the sixties and seventies? The WaPo we’ve come to admire as the bastion of government watchdogs? Or is this institutional self-righteous might exposed in the heat of the moment?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">I can’t speak for “the “left”, or the “right” nor do I even wish to try, as I’m just one more person with yet another opinion about this, a who's, fed up with fed a diet of stories that imply we must be either right or left. No </span></span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue";"><span style="font-size: 14px;">labels, no </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px;">hyperbole,</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"> I just see this debate in a far different light.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Likewise, the act of the employees and patrons of Red Hen politely asking Huckabee-Sanders to leave, was not because she’s Sarah Huckabee-Sanders. It was, however, a voice of opposition to the ideology she embraces. Not simply a representative, but a distinguishable leader of a very aggressive and oppressive institutional ideology.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Obviously, he’s far from having the “answer” himself. In fact, if he thinks turning our heads, allowing bakers to degrade others and covering our eyes while Huckabee-Sanders preaches politics of hate is the answer, he not only has the answers wrong, he’s got the wrong test and is in the wrong school. The Golden Rule is not and never has been about institutionalized ideology, rather it’s about quite the opposite. It’s about treating others fairly, period, end of story.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Ideology such as that Huckabee-Sanders is promoting attempts to redefine “kindness” to mean “kind behavior towards all, as long as that person harbors similar beliefs”. That's the target in the actions taken by those protesting the baker and in that of the employees at Red Hen. IT IS NOT, as media prefers, protesting the individuals, so protest is not just acceptable, it is righteous.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Perhaps I’m personalizing it too much. Perhaps the columnists are right and we should refrain from acting when others are wronged. Perhaps Trump apologists, and the intolerant have it right and we should see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13829283375082711360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23257473.post-78802250238679025672018-06-18T11:10:00.000-07:002018-06-18T11:10:18.660-07:00The Rail Monster Within Us All<br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Sitting on exposed roots of a blackjack oak poking out from under the rust-red clay that stretches for hundreds, perhaps thousands of miles in the southern plains, I’m utterly mesmerized by the white, cotton-like seeds from cottonwood trees gently floating to the ground, the white in stark contrast against the red clay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">It’s now early September and summer is stubbornly refusing to capitulate to the inevitable changing of the guards. With the Sun now low in the sky, the muscles in my face are beginning to throb from constant squinting, the light glinting from broken glass, crystals, and even from the crowns of railroad tracks, slamming onto the retinas of my eyes like ricocheting bullets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I’m hiding in vegetation so thick it creates a cave of twisted Johnson grass, kudzu vines and chokeberry bushes; a green cave created by the undergrowth of a hellish and almost impenetrable fortress. And there’s good reason to hide until the time is right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The cave is not the most comfortable of “homes”, but the heat, the constant drone of the cicadas and watching the endless parade of parachutes falling from the cottonwood trees begins to take a toll on on my eyelids. I can’t focus and my body jerks each time I realize I’m falling asleep. I’m but a few seconds away from an involuntary nap when suddenly it arrives. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I’ve been waiting patiently for it and it didn’t disappoint. It edges its way towards me, closing the distance between the gnashing teeth and the wailing mourn. Like a siren luring a sailor into the black depths beneath his ship, the sound is faint, even soothing and caressing. At first. But then; as it draws nearer, the sorrowful, whine bellows out, loudly! </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">As it approaches, the sorrowful whine is replaced by the harsh shrill of steel wheels on steel tracks and a low throbbing rumble from the . It’s just past the edge of the forest now and I can feel the huge beast as it shakes the earth beneath my feet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">It’s in front of me now and the thick, humid air is laden with the smell of diesel. After three gorgeous Rock Island engines and ten or fifteen freight cars pass me by I leap from my green cave and run alongside the freight car. The handles of the ladders were made blistering hot by the sun, but I dare not let go lest I become a tasty meal for the demons residing below and the screeching, clicking, hissing and gnashing from those demons are constant reminders of the pending doom, the horrendously painful death that awaits any miscue on my part.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">With a leap, a quick grab of the ladder, and a pull, I’m safely on the first rung on one of hundreds of ladders, on hundreds of railcars. Quickly making my way to the top of the boxcar, I sit facing the direction of travel and lean back on my hands and arms while the ride washes over me like a tangible dream from which I never want to wake; the cooling wind created by the motion of the train displaces the hot, still, humid summer air.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">As I look back on these rides, they were dangerous as hell, but I never felt danger, from either the train, or the “career train-hoppers”. The rides, from Shawnee to Earlsboro, Oklahoma, just short of nine miles, were never long enough and they sometimes resulted in a bit of a hike home, or, if I was lucky, a train-hop in the opposite direction, but one thing’s for certain; I always detested the end of the</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.8px;"> </span><span style="font-kerning: none;">ride.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13829283375082711360noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23257473.post-48986916995231751712018-05-31T13:08:00.000-07:002018-05-31T13:18:46.094-07:00Protectionism, or Personal Gain; Motives Behind Trump’s Tariff Binge?<br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Via Wilbur Ross, yet another ventriloquist dummy pursuing power and security at our expense, we’re forced to endure one more whiff of the unbearable stench being emitted in a perpetual zephyr of bullshit flowing freely from Trump’s mouth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I’ll be the first to admit that I know little about either industry (<i>but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night</i>). It does require, however, a bit more than the average skill required to read, write, and understand the two-hundred eighty character limitations in Twitter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Fulfilling his juvenile ambition to antagonize our allies, friends, and even adversaries, Trump’s malignant narcissism and his impulsive behavior is, once again, severely retarding the ability of the United States to compete in global markets, or develop new domestic markets, thereby placing many of the nation's industries, employees, consumers, and even national security at risk.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Steel production in the U.S. is currently less than ten percent of the volume produced by China’s 831.7 million tons. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Also; the nation imports 90% of all the primary aluminum used for manufacturing.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Finished products such as aircraft, trucks, tractors, construction material, and automobiles require high-quality product, thus we are incapable of supporting current needs for exportation or domestic consumption and it would take years to rebuild the manufacturing, logistics, and support systems required to meet the needs of such an industry.</span></div>
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T-rump Courtesy <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/8/19/1561941/-The-Creature-Unveiled" target="_blank">Daily KOS</a></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Culture; commonly defined as customary beliefs, social forms and norms, material traits of a racial, religious, or social group, foods, and laws shared by people in a place or time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">All humans, whomever and wherever we are, tend to establish these defining characteristics as an extension of who we are by assuming our cultural identities as our own, sometimes to the detriment of the very cultures with which we identify.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Throughout human history, cultures have influenced virtually every aspect of our lives. It determines what and how we eat, how we view and interact with one another, our religious and political preferences, our housing and even our sexual behavior.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">We can certainly reject some of the attributes of our cultures, however, none can authoritatively claim the overly coveted “self-determined individual”, for there are far too many factors influencing our lives. From the moment we’re born, until we’re pushing up daisies, we become little more than the sum of our surroundings, influenced by other people and the cultures in which we’re born.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Likewise; merging and converging cultures, or “transculturation”, has unavoidable effects on all aspects of life for us. As with each human, cultures influence and change other cultures as well. Through the technological advances influencing today’s trade, exploration/tourism, migration, and even war, cultures change via appropriation of the attributes of other cultures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">From food to dress; from religion to politics, cultures have and will continue to impact others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">This phenomenon is not without conflict, however, and those vociferously opposing the idea of blending cultures, desiring to remain isolated, fail to realize that all modern cultures are, and will continue to be, representative of almost every other culture on the planet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">And this fact creates opportunity for two very distinct choices; hegemony and harmony.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The convergence of cultures screams opportunities in education, personal growth, and expansion of one’s understanding of the world; in short, wisdom. And, in todays world, it also screams necessity for change, for acceptance of and growth within this challenge, much in the same manner as biological evolution, will ensure survival of the culturally fit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Regardless of personal preferences, converging cultures WILL evolve and survive. It is inevitable, for one cultural identity simply cannot exist in a global society of many cultures, and we are now, much to the dismay of some, a global community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The technological advances shrinking Planet Earth have ensured inevitable changes, and they will continue to drive cultural evolution, leaving behind those who cannot, or will not, evolve.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">And what of those who are themselves products of the very enculturation of generations before them, yet, in their own hegemonic bigotry, intolerance, and xenophobia, choose to ignore this evolutionary fact?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Like the prima donna dinosaurs they are, they will be left to decay, leaving behind nothing but fossils for a culturally advanced civilization to marvel upon.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13829283375082711360noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23257473.post-14594799654416828522018-05-02T14:30:00.001-07:002018-05-03T17:03:21.843-07:00THIS IS MY STORY & I’M STICKING TO IT<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">Let’s make one thing very clear from the start; this is my blog, so the opinions within are, without question, correct and accurate. It is abundantly clear to all that my insight into the topic is thorough, precise and unquestionably accurate and there’s not a damned thing you can do about it. You cannot electronically enter the Net and punch my ticket; you cannot call the local law enforcement for harassing you; you cannot even swear at me effectively; can you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">You don’t like it? Too damned bad!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">So; let’s get on with it; shall we?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">1. The Electoral College has, once again, proven its worthless existence by placing the biggest buffoon ever into the Oval Office, that buffoon being, of course, Donald Trump. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">2. Said buffoon is the biggest embarrassment to the nation; at least since leisure suits were a thing anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">3. The only thing more embarrassing than leisure suits would be the President of the United States tripping on his own tie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">MY well-researched perspective is: We have entered a veritable political Twilight Zone wherein we all speak a common language, yet we have no idea what in Hell we’re saying to one another. So, in order to clarify, we repeat the same position even more firmly and vociferously with each reiteration. After all; that’s how we, as “rulers of the animal kingdom”, are supposed to communicate, isn’t it? That’s how we begin to understand one another as fellow human beings/U.S. citizens/liberals and conservatives, right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">To forcefully reaffirm our own thoroughly enlightened perspective so those who are not as intellectually gifted as ourselves will inevitably see the error of their ways is how we reach common ground; is it not?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">"The positive and negative aspects of existence as a human being, esp. the inevitable events such as birth, childhood, adolescence, love, sex, reproduction, aging, and death AND POLITICS"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">A fascinating thing about humans; we inherently choose a tribe in which to function and with which to identify. Imbedded in our very DNA is an undeniable survival characteristic, that of belonging to a group.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Our prehistoric ancestors established this trait simply for the need to survive the harsh environment in which they lived and, adhering to the genetic code, we continue to do so likewise, but we now select and promote truly pointless abstracts too, as though our lives depend upon our tribal selection; our schools as if our lives depended upon the selection (I know! I repeated myself. It made you understand; right?); our nation of origin; our favored football team; our political affiliation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The implication of the tribal “politics” is filled with treachery and devastation for the human race. Our membership in that particular tribe seems to require that we freely and vehemently deny the one truly important group its due validation - “tribe humanity”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">There’s even a place where I can aggressively offend you; the only place I can demean you without threat of retaliation, or embarrassment; the place which provides anonymity for all perspective-mongers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The Net!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I can think of nowhere that provides such freedom, yet such destructive capability, as the “World Wide Net”. Here, we can express our thoughts, ideas and opinions without mercy, without respect for another’s perspective.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The once unwritten rule of human interaction and communication; “the rule of respect for one another’s perspectives” has been left at the firewall. Our ability to communicate effectively has been reduced to an unwanted virus, or malware.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I reiterate! My opinion is the one that matters. It is without doubt accurate and valid. My opinion trumps yours (pun intended). My group is far more important to the existence of humanity than yours will ever be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hitler is a bit of a slow read (<i>most definitely not due to interest, rather due to the detail one must pay very close attention to</i>) both books are a vital read, given the political scenario in which we find ourselves and our nation today.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">While reading “On Tyranny”, I kept thinking of the old B&W movie “The Wizard of Oz”. I’m normally not one who typically picks up on subtle symbolism in movies, or books. It takes books with the obvious, such as 1984, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, etc., the kind of books intended to engage our imagination via symbolic characters and scenarios.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">In Oz, there’s apparently symbolism in almost every character, blade of grass and flower in the story, <a href="http://wickedtour.net/symbolism-of-the-wizard-of-oz"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">symbolism that has been debated for generations</span></a> unbeknownst to me :-)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Hitler Hubris”, no symbolism whatsoever is attempted. It’s straight out in the open, even spelling it all out for the reader. However; what it does expose is an extraordinarily frightening parallel between Adolph Hitler and Donald Trump; two men who’s contribution to society will live in infamy as long as there is even but one human being left on this planet with either a memory or the ability to read.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some characters aren’t just equated with the worst of what society has to offer, but those who literally define the worst of the worst; sociopathic characters straight from Hell providing the very story of hate, deceit, treachery, ardent narcissism, arrogance, truculence, cruelty, dishonesty, aggression, pusillanimous, ignorance, ruthlessness, etc. etc. etc.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">However; one is creating his own repulsive story as you read this - Donald Trump; a “great and almighty wizard” who is certain he knows all and can even grant people’s most outrageous of wishes, simply by doing nothing but turning knobs, pushing buttons, pulling handles, and communicating from behind a curtain, in fear of dogs; dogs, like you and me, who have already pulled the curtain hiding his fraudulent existence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Armed groups first degrade a political order, and then transform it. Violent right-wing groups, such as the Iron Guard in interwar Romania or the Arrow Cross in interwar Hungary, intimidated their rivals. Nazi storm troopers began as a security detail clearing the halls of Hitler’s opponents during his rallies. As paramilitaries known as the SA and the SS, they created a climate of fear that helped the Nazi Party in the parliamentary elections of 1932 and 1933. In Austria in 1938 it was the local SA that quickly took advantage of the absence of the usual local authority to loot, beat, and humiliate Jews, thereby changing the rules of politics and preparing the way for the Nazi takeover of the country. It was the SS that ran the German concentration camps— lawless zones where ordinary rules did not apply. During the Second World War, the SS extended the lawlessness it had pioneered in the camps to whole European countries under German occupation. The SS began as an organization outside the law, became an organization that transcended the law, and ended up as an organization that undid the law.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Dear Mr. President -</i></span><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Congratulations on a remarkable run. Millions have placed their hopes in you, and </i></span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><i>all</i></span><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i> of us, regardless of party, should hope for expanded prosperity and security during your tenure.</i></span><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>This is a unique office, without a clear blueprint for success, so I don't know that any advice from me will be particularly helpful. Still, let me offer a few reflections from the past 8 years.</i></span><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>First, we've both been blessed, in different ways, with great good fortune. Not everyone is so lucky. It's up to us to do everything we can (to) build more ladders of success for every child and family that's willing to work hard.</i></span><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Second, American leadership in this world really is indispensable. It's up to us, through action and example, to sustain the international order that's expanded steadily since the end of the Cold War, and upon which our own wealth and safety depend.</i></span><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Third, we are just temporary occupants of this office. That makes us guardians of those democratic institutions and traditions -- like rule of law, separation of powers, equal protection and civil liberties -- that our forebears fought and bled for. Regardless of the push and pull of daily politics, it's up to us to leave those instruments of our democracy at least as strong as we found them.</i></span><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>And finally, take time, in the rush of events and responsibilities, for friends and family. They'll get you through the inevitable rough patches.</i></span><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Michelle and I wish you and Melania the very best as you embark on this great adventure, and know that we stand ready to help in any ways which we can.</i></span><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Good luck and Godspeed,</i></span><br /><span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>BO</i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Now, personally, had I received such a letter from anyone with the experience and credentials of President Obama, not only would I read it, I would memorize and recall it daily in an attempt to follow the suggested outlines of success.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(29, 33, 41); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">The letter is not just a guide towards decency for all human beings, but to a successful role as the nation’s leader.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Sadly; the only ladder Trump has built is the ladder to HeII for the U.S. Every effort Trump exerts is an effort to achieve a negative outcome for us all, placing us at the foot of that ladder, holding it steady while he, in his own world, climbs that ladder.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">In his arrogance; an arrogance so absolute, so utterly extreme, Trump’s incapable of taking advice, incapable, of listening to any who have gone before him and learned the lessons from which he could benefit; he’s incapable of understanding that there are many, many who have gone before him who can guide him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Instead, he took the opportunity to show his clownish, juvenile view of all who, in his mind, are beneath him (<i>all other human beings</i>), waving the letter mocking its sender as though it was a love letter between two lovers and he'd discovered it and wished to amuse and make himself feel taller than all others with it by exposing it to the world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">And; this effort is not entirely due to Trumps absolute ineptness at virtually everything he does, but many of his efforts seem to be intentional disregard for the purpose of childishly thumbing his nose at President Obama. Trump’s obsessive character trait will not allow him to accomplish anything other than to display his obsession for revenge politics, his bigoted perspective of the world and his disgusting treatment of the poor and disabled.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Well, I suppose, if “you're like this really smart guy who earned a four-year degree at Wharton's School of Finance and Commerce”, you have the right to flaunt that degree in the faces of the likes of Bill Clinton, a Rhodes Scholar (something that would make graduating from Wharton's look like graduating from pre-school), and Obama's Occidental College, Columbia Thesis for his Master's Degree, and his Doctorate in Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Well, I take that back. I doubt you have any right at all to compare yourself to either Bill Clinton or Barack Obama in any form of education and certainly not in intelligence. That Wharton degree? Keep it for when we have a TP shortage. It’ll look really good next to your gold-leafed vanity mirror.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Trump’s myopic view of the world is a direct result of his extremely sheltered, wealthy childhood. Though most wealthy children grow up with a healthy perspective towards life and are highly educated, Trump’s dangerous narcissism accompanied with his pampered childhood has created a man whose only thoughts, indeed obsessions, are of himself and how he can get more for himself. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">But; Trump is nothing, but the world’s worst leader, perhaps ever. And; in that, I don’t mean bad because he leads us down the wrong path, though that is indeed what he’s doing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">What I mean is he is utterly incapable of leading men and women towards any path; towards any goal. The man doesn’t even understand the skills it takes for good leadership and he is abdicating every leadership role the U.S. has taken decades and many wars to build, both amongst allies and adversaries alike.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Simply through watching him, I can guarantee I know which style of leadership he subscribes to; the style that those most new to leadership, or those who are far too arrogant to learn ALWAYS use.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">He will never learn anything; anything at all. Rather; he’ll continue to view those he sees as his “followers” as disposable, even useless sheep who don’t have the brains to follow his “highly valuable” leadership and should be responding to his autocratic rule, or they’re committing acts of treachery. Hence, Sally Yates, Preet Bharara, James Comey, Steve Bannon, Sean Spicer, etc, etc….are no longer around.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Hopelessly addicted and frequently spending hours reading as many sources as I can find on any event, or topic that catches my eyes. As painful as it is, I’ll even read Fox News just to make certain I’m not developing a closed-minded perspective, although watching Chris Wallace and Shepherd Smith provide some much needed grounding with that media outlet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I wondered; Is there even an ounce of hope that Trump’s Americans will finally realize the error of their horrendously poor decision in November 2016, and like me, to the core of their inner self as did I, see and feel the dire consequences this situation constructs? Understand the very high potential for the complete destruction of the entire planet? And, if they do wake up, will they demand Congress do something about the one lunatic we can?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">It is as unimaginable as it is inescapable and reprehensible; the United States has managed to unite the worst election results, EVER, with decades of ignoring an imbalanced political leader obsessed with obtaining the nuclear plague. And now; we have a new one who’s obsessed with unleashing the largest collection of that plague on the planet. And if they do wake up, will they join me in demanding Congress do something about this lunatic? Just as with Kim Jong-un, Kim Dung-un has become a cult and I fear it will be damned difficult to rid ourselves of the Dear Leader.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Like a teeny bopper, incessantly tweeting disparaging remarks directed towards the person(s), or media with whom he’s agitated on that particular day. The mindless moron can’t comprehend the responsibility that is his to bear and is oblivious to the dire consequences the United States is reaping in his ineptness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Rather than face those he “fires” face to face like a man, he either tweets it, or sends an errand boy to do his work for him. He’s even tweeting, rather than speaking directly to Congress, that he’ll shut the government down if he doesn’t get his way with his wall of shame.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Even he knows he’s incapable of leadership. His only experience with such is directives and directives is not governing. The simple reality is that he’s doing everything in his power to turn our republic into a tweeting dictatorship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">So; as if the news wasn’t perilous enough, I watched Kim Dung-un’s completely disconnected, incomprehensible rant, the likes of which even he hasn’t topped. Yet!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">In his usual style, he spontaneously concocted lie after lie, bogus story after bogus story, all in a string of disjointed, disconnected nonsense; stories that were nothing more than the rantings of the lunatic he is, none of which had anything whatsoever to do with the needs of the United States, or even his obscenely early reelection campaign.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">In the juxtaposition of the recent Trump election with the existence of Kim, we now live in an extraordinarily frightening and unstable environment, with two raving psychopaths in both the western and eastern hemispheres of this planet; our home; our ONLY home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The results of the November 2016 election gave us our very own illiterate, disjointed from reality, dictator Kim Dung-un and he’s doing all he can to return the United States to the pre-20th Century mentality, wherein hate, xenophobia and racism was the accepted norm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Trump represents the same ugly, unacceptable, oppressive form of government that exists in North Korea today; a psychopathic dictatorship governing with extreme dogmatic rule; the dismantlement of our eyes and ears in the behavior of government - the media, the destruction of our freedom of speech, reversal of scientific findings and even inhibiting future scientific research.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">With his absolute lack of understanding in the realm of global politics; his sub-zero knowledge of economics; even in his completely self-indulging overestimation of support for his presidency, he will achieve a great deal more than he had hoped to accomplish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">In his case; infamy is a gross understatement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Trump’s ignorance and his overzealous attempts to appease his small, ever-shrinking base of supporters who blindly agree with everything Trump, will likely accomplish irreparable damage to his own presidency.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">His foolhardy, thoughtless actions will most assuredly do likewise to the United States as well, devastating decades of efforts by Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians and Independents alike to place and keep the United States in a role of global leadership.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">His actions to date alone has caused damage that will take years, if not decades to repair, and we haven’t even reached the five month mark into his presidency. It makes me shudder to think how this bodes for us all in the ensuing three years and six months; if he even makes it that far. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The most recent and likely the most foolish move Trump has made to date will NOT put “America First”, rather it will be placing us somewhere in the back rows of the nose-bleed section of the ball park; hell, if we can even get into the ball park.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Despite one's conviction that anthropomorphic activities is, or is not causing climate change, his decision will have a devastating effect on many aspects that will do the U.S. harm in "bigly" ways, ways not even directly connected to the climate change facts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Here is a substantially truncated list of the damage Trump has just caused the United States with his mindless move to remove the U.S. from the Climate Change Accord. A move undoubtedly conjured up by his puppet-master, Steve Bannon, for certainly the mindless malignancy on humanity that is Trump is far too consumed in his own minuscule world to think even beyond his own front door.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Economy: Economically, Trump is driving us hard towards a devastating impact with a concrete wall, and not the wall he foolishly promised his fellow xenophobes.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Our only hope now, is that corporations, such as those who <a href="https://www.c2es.org/international/business-support-paris-agreement" target="_blank">openly oppose Trump’s foolish behavior</a>, buying full page adds in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post; Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Adobe, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Danfoss, Dignity Health, Gap, The Hartford, Hewlett Packard, Ingersoll Rand, Intel, Johnson Controls, Levi Strauss, Mars Incorporated, Morgan Stanley, national Grid, PG&E (Pacific Gas and Electric), Royal DSM, Salesforce, Schneider Electric, Tiffany & Co., Unilever, VF Corporation, continue to protest Trump’s mindless maneuvers not only meant to appease a minute number of Trump followers, but a move of which Trump himself is too dimwitted to understand the extremely negative ramifications.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Corporations that also include <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/corporations-stand-trump-climate-change-article-1.3215535" target="_blank">Tesla and Disney Corporations</a>, whose leaders both left the President’s Business Advisory Councils, and many more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Along with corporations whose leaders understand the very negative impact this utterly moronic move will have, many c<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/02/climate/trump-paris-mayors.html" target="_blank">ities and states, blue and red alike</a>, have also taken exception to his ignorance: Austin, TX; Milwaukee, WI; Washington DC; San Diego, Ca; St Louis, MO; Pittsburgh, PA, Charlotte, NC; Massachusetts; Washington; Ohio.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Trump is very fond of claiming all news not praising him as “fake news”, but Trump’s fake claim that he is doing this for the Coal Industry is as fake and empty a promise that can be made, for the coal industry jobs losses are not due to the Paris Accord, but to automation and the very fact that green businesses are literally taking away fossil fuel jobs with competition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Competition: The very heart and soul of business. Yet; once again, the blind followers of partisan politics are falling for a fool’s promises that can be demolished with five minutes worth of research.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Global Leadership: Rather than “Making America Great Again”, Trump is rabidly pursuing a course to demolish everything decent the United States stands for, from religious freedom and racial tolerance to global leadership. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Between this decision and his continuous negative comments about NATO, Trump has sent the world the message that the U.S. is no longer interested in playing a leadership role among the world's nations; PERIOD! He has effectively abdicated our role in all leadership roles, leaving other nations, as my best bud abroad clearly pointed out to me, such as Germany, China and Japan who are eagerly willing and waiting to take the position and run with it full steam ahead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">This list of damages to the credibility, leadership, economy, simple humanitarian efforts, etc. is, as I stated, extremely truncated, for I would need to literally write a book on the harm that Trump has already caused you, me, the nation, and indeed the entire planet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Trump's "America First" nonsense is accomplishing the precise opposite of what his empty words imply. Instead; he is taking the U.S. full speed astern, reversing decades of efforts to truly keep America a fair and equal participant in the planet’s political and economic actions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">In his zero-sum game, it must be a winner (Trump) and a loser (the entire planet); nothing else is even possible in his feeble mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">More than I can recall at any point in my lifetime, we hear how U.S. media outlets are no longer trustworthy; how everything they report is “fake news” and; “they are nothing but bias rags for corporations”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">And; as if they are themselves the “sole harbingers of truth, justice and humanity”, there’s not one politician anywhere on this planet who hasn’t blamed the media for the errors/missteps that lead to their failures and/or demise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Indeed, in the United States, the media seem to have become more despised, unethical, and despicable than even the politicians they report on; something I find incredulous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">This especially true since the invention of television. I’ll explain the reason for this in a moment, but first I want to make sure you understand, that blaming the media is an exercise in finger-pointing in which I’m not even remotely willing to participate. And I fervently hope, that if you are one who does, despite your favored rag and your suspicion that all other rags are printed by the Devil himself, you stop such foolish and supremely dangerous behavior immediately.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">While I’m certain there is an abundance of misinformation in the media, that does not mean, or even imply, that the media are completely corrupt and useless. In fact; nothing could be farther from the truth, and no single comment could be more damaging to freedom itself, if taken as absolutely as people appear to be doing with Mr. Trump at the helm of His Majesty’s Ship, “Destroy The Free Press”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Despite that common misconception, there remains to be an absolutely vital need for media in our daily lives; media who give us our daily bread. I’m referring to media who go far beyond simply informing us of the accident at the corner of Main and Main, or advising us that the weather is going to be cold and snowy, despite the fact that it’s the middle of August in downtown Miami.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Media; one of the very reasons the first amendment exists, cannot be painted with that “bigly” and broad hegemonic paint brush Mr. Trump so loves to do, with his alternative facts, in his alternative universe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">We, as U.S. citizens, have grown far too fond of dismissing media as the enemy, when they provide information we dislike and with whom we disagree as we praise our preferred outlet(s) as if they’re the very tools with which the the words of the gods themselves are written, all the while, not even considering the implications of this behavior.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">But; here’s a fact, a REAL, indisputable, historically observed and proven fact; the reality is that they’ve ALWAYS been filled with bias and erroneous information.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">According to this source; “<a href="http://www.hoover.org/research/brief-history-media-bias"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Hoover Institution</span></a>”, it has been bias since the early 19th Century (for those of you with the brains of Trump, that’s the 1800’s).</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">“The roots of media bias go back to the nineteenth century, and complaints about bias in part reflect a questionable idea about the media’s role and purpose: that newspapers and other dispensers of public information exist to transmit objective, factual information gleaned and communicated by credentialed professionals.</span><br />
<span style="font-kerning: none;">In fact, the notion that reporters should possess Olympian objectivity is relatively recent. In the nineteenth century, most newspapers were explicitly linked to a particular political party and the economic interests of the publisher. In California during the Gold Rush, for example, the <i>San Francisco Alta California</i> was the enemy of Democratic governor John Bigler, whose press champion was the <i>Stockton Republican</i>. Most of the coverage of crime during this period––particularly the spree of the Mexican bandit Joaquín Murieta and the state-funded posse that tracked him down and killed him––reflected those political interests and loyalties rather than mere facts. Moreover, the stories were written in a florid, dramatic style more suitable for a dime novel than a presumably more sober newspaper. Of course protestations of objectivity and accuracy were made, but these were understood to be mere rhetorical camouflage for the editorial opinions sown throughout most news stories.</span><br />
<span style="font-kerning: none;">The tradition of lurid sensationalism, scandal-mongering, and exaggeration put in service to profits and a political agenda continued in the “yellow journalism” famously on display in the circulation war between the Hearst and Pulitzer newspapers in the late nineteenth century. More significantly, that was also when the progressive movement promoted the notion that the proper function of the media was to instruct and shape the opinions of voters too uninformed and irrational to be trusted with making the right choice based on facts alone.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Yes! I’m not promulgating alternative facts here. Even the “<a href="https://ethics.journalism.wisc.edu/2011/04/20/the-fall-and-rise-of-partisan-journalism/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Center for Journalism Ethics</span></a>” agrees;</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">“You don’t need to have a degree in history — or even to have paid much attention when you suffered the US history survey course as an undergraduate — to know that American newspapers were very partisan in the 19</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; line-height: normal;">th</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> century. “Editors,” wrote one historian, “unabashedly shaped the news and their editorial comment to partisan purposes. They sought to convert the doubters, recover the wavering, and hold the committed. ‘The power of the press,’ one journalist candidly explained, ‘consists not in its logic or eloquence, but in its ability to <i>manufacture </i>facts, or to give coloring to facts that have occurred.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Bias and the media have been uneasy partners since long before journalism planted its roots in 15th Century Europe and American Colonies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Harboring a bias either in favor of the King, or in favor of the Continentals, printed journalism has ALWAYS formed opinion, politics and nations. Indeed, within the same continental townships, there were opposing views in the printed press; those supporting the King and those protesting the same, all printed up nice and neat for us to decide, right in the midst of the American Revolution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">In fact; Journalism has been the very means with which to propagate the words and direction of the wealthy rulers for a minimum of five hundred years, after <a href="http://www.skwirk.com/p-c_s-56_u-422_t-1108_c-4280/the-impact-of-the-printing-press/qld/the-impact-of-the-printing-press/renaissance-and-reformation/the-reformation"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Johannes Gutenberg</span></a> created the first printing press; a new tool shining the first light on the Dark Ages. And, just as it is today, it was also used as an instrument of protest. Media aided and planted almost every revolution man has ever been involved in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">In the hope that I can rely upon your education to recall the events that lead us from those Dark Ages to the present, let’s return to the 21st Century, amidst an endless paradox; the forever raging and ancient battle of “whose rag is telling the truth and whose is lying beyond belief.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The cold, stark reality of “free press” is that no human being is even capable of being bias-free. It is literally impossible to make that claim and to insist it upon others simply shows one’s ignorance and sheer stupidity. Especially considering the fact that those who do so are simply insisting that the rag they despise, reflect their own perspective, rather than give them "false information".</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">This is due to one reason and one only - hegemony; the condition that’s engrained into each and every one of us; past, present and future, as a result of the socio-economic conditions into which we were born and raised.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">While reporting as objectively as possible IS their job, it IS NOT the job of the press to give you the truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I’ll repeat that; IT IS NOT the job of the press to give you the truth!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">It is, no more their job to provide you with the truth than it is the prosecutions and/or defense’s jobs in a trial to provide the truth to a jury. Rather; their job is to present fact and anyone who’s ever served on a jury knows; fact is not crystal clear, but muddy as hell. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Likewise; it is the job, of the press to provide, to the best of their ability as hegemonic human beings, <a href="https://www.ijpc.org/uploads/files/ghiglione.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">to report the facts as they are</span></a>. It is then YOUR job to make the determination of what those facts represent; be it true or false, or in the vernacular of Mr. Trump “fake or real”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Again! <a href="http://history.journalism.ku.edu/1920/1920.shtml"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">It’s YOUR job to determine truth in what you’re reading</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">And in that responsibility, you cannot shirk. It is yours permanently and you cannot take that monkey off your shoulders and put it on those of the press, the politicians, your neighbors, your children, the cops, or the preacher; it is YOUR JOB ONLY.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If we assign this task to anyone other than ourselves, the <a href="http://www.beaconforfreedom.org/liste.html?tid=415&art_id=475"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">risk of censorship is massive</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Absolutely and without exception; the most important function of a free press is that it reports to us; you and me, the behavior, events, issues related to and the direction our government is taking us. In every sense of the phrase; they are our eyes and ears, sending us the information that’s vital for a functional republic such as ours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">You but need think of how despotic governments around the globe currently operate - “state owned media”, with which the State promulgates propaganda, eliminates opposition, hides the facts, and even expands its own powers, all while we’re blissfully unaware. So, next time you feel like joining in on the choir’s song, you must make damned sure you know what the choir is singing, or you could be singing your own death song; along with that of 300 million + U.S. citizens without even realizing it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Remember! Without a free media to report the facts, we have a horrifying scenario in which our government can and DOES operate in secrecy. It has happened right her in the U.S. in the South, prior to the Civil War and later in many bar backrooms of the old “<a href="https://sheg.stanford.edu/political-bosses" target="_blank">boss politics</a>”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">This cannot be stressed enough: If we follow the current Administration’s insidious direction, in undermining, castigating, and discounting the media, we are, each and every last one of us, in deep peril.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">To make it easier to shirk our responsibilities, we now we have a new player in the search for the truth, one that’s far more insidious and covert than any written media could possibly be - televised media. More hindrance than help, televised media only adds to our human tendency to kick back and let others do our jobs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">We watch Fox News and accept for truth, the extraordinarily heavily biased representation of fact, leaning in their preferred direction and call it a day on our efforts to seek the truth. Or; we watch MSNBC and accept extraordinarily heavily biased representation of fact, leaning in the other direction and call it a day on our efforts to seek the truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">With a few exceptions, factual televised media is almost non-existent. The very dynamics of the interactions between the human mind and television supports far more influence-peddling than does the printed media.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">There’s a reason televised media is completely consumed with, even overpowered by commercials, and a reason the <a href="http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2013/special-reports-landing-page/the-changing-tv-news-landscape/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">relativity of commentary and news</span></a> has changed dramatically since the invention of television.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">That simple reason is; <a href="http://www.cracked.com/article_18856_6-shocking-ways-tv-rewires-your-brain.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">television literally rewires your brain</span></a> and both the televised media and their commercial sponsors want to be there when it does.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">So put aside that remote, turn on your PC, and start reading, reading, reading and reading. Spend as much or more time reading the news than watching it and I promise you; at the very least, you will be a better reader, and at the very most, you’ll be very well informed in local, national and global events, culture and simple awareness. And; be it Fox News or MSNBC, RT, or AlJazeera, don’t just read your preferred source. The ONLY way you’re going to find truth is through assimilation of a variety of perspectives.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13829283375082711360noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23257473.post-61248095113361669582017-02-18T12:16:00.000-08:002017-02-18T12:22:28.995-08:00Truth and the Consequences of Ignoring it<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">In an extremely serious and autocratic move (something we’ve seem much of these days), Venezuela’s President, Nicolas Maduro, recently disconnected all Venezuela’s access to <a data-mce-href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/15/americas/cnn-en-espanol-venezuela-off-air/" href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/15/americas/cnn-en-espanol-venezuela-off-air/">CNN’s Spanish feed</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The banishment was a result of the report generated by the CNN affiliate, after more than a year’s investigation conducted by CNN and Venezuela’s legal adviser to the Venezuelan Embassy in Iraq, Misael Lopez. Together, they exposed Venezuela’s Vice President’s links to selling fake passports at their embassy in Iraq; to people including Hezbollah.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Very troubling events paralleling Caracas and Washington DC lately; rather than becoming concerned about the serious allegations arising from the investigation, President Maduro blamed CNN instead.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">And; <a data-mce-href="http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/02/16/venezuela-ousts-cnn-as-tensions-flare-with-the-trump-administration/" href="http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/02/16/venezuela-ousts-cnn-as-tensions-flare-with-the-trump-administration/">the familiar bell-rings right here at home</a>, where, rather than digging deeper into the traitorous connections between his campaign personnel and Russia, our very own autocrat has just blamed the “leakers” and damned the press who, in Trump’s narrow perspective, “always present a negative light” on Trump’s behavior.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Don’t get me wrong here; I would never suggest, either in a bigly way or a smally way, that Maduro and/or Trump have reason to kill the messengers. I would never suggest that they’re trying to destroy the press in the eyes of the public. And most importantly; I would never consider either man a serious danger to freedom of the press and to democracy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Nope. For; not just a suggestion, I am screaming the warning at the top of my lungs.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">And now a word from the writer; “<a data-mce-href="https://boomerswordsofpoorinsight.wordpress.com/2017/02/05/the-rise-of-the-fourth-reich/" href="https://boomerswordsofpoorinsight.wordpress.com/2017/02/05/the-rise-of-the-fourth-reich/">I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO</a>”.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">In Maduro’s response, one more country south of our border is telling the U.S., in no uncertain terms, to pound sand up our collective asses.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">First Mexico, then the majority of <a data-mce-href="http://www.voanews.com/a/middle-east-europe-anger-mounts-over-trump-travel-ban/3697232.html" href="http://www.voanews.com/a/middle-east-europe-anger-mounts-over-trump-travel-ban/3697232.html">Muslim nations, much of Europe</a>, and now Venezuela.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The dominoes are falling, and are doing so in rapid succession. Hell, even Russia is now pushing the Trump Clown buttons and for some “unexplained reason”, Trump’s not pushing back. Rather; he continues to s<br />y “we should try to have good relations with Russia.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">A very unstable man at the helm of the US nuclear arsenal, one has to wonder; will he? And, the answer is a resolute; “Hell-fucking yes he will; in a heart beat”. Among all the others concerns we have about him, we need to worry about both, Trump’s and Putin’s commonalities.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Massively (even YUGELY) narcissistic, severely ignorant to most things outside their own ego-driven minds, and worst of all, insanely impulsive.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“America's nuclear force is based on the nuclear triad, a concept that baffled Trump when he was asked about it during the campaign. The "triad" means the three delivery systems — land-based, launched from silos; air-based, delivered by strategic bombers; and sea-based, launched from submarines…….</span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Once launched, these missiles cannot be recalled or diverted. The second worst danger is that they could be launched in response to a false alarm or a technological glitch. The worst danger is that they could be sent on their way by a president who, in the pre-dawn darkness, opts for the nuclear trigger over a tweet.” <a data-mce-href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-nuclear-war-trump-missiles-button-perspec-0118-md-20170117-story.html" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-nuclear-war-trump-missiles-button-perspec-0118-md-20170117-story.html">The Chicago Tribune</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“The <a data-mce-href="http://www.npr.org/2017/02/17/515630467/with-fake-news-trump-moves-from-alternative-facts-to-alternative-language" href="http://www.npr.org/2017/02/17/515630467/with-fake-news-trump-moves-from-alternative-facts-to-alternative-language">FAKE NEWS</a> media (failing <a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/nytimes/" href="https://twitter.com/nytimes/">@nytimes</a>, <a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews/" href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews/">@NBCNews</a>, <a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/ABC/" href="https://twitter.com/ABC/">@ABC</a>, <a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/CBS/" href="https://twitter.com/CBS/">@CBS</a>, <a data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/CNN/" href="https://twitter.com/CNN/">@CNN</a>) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“<a data-mce-href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/02/17/trump-calls-the-media-the-enemy-of-the-american-people/?utm_term=.619699834b47" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/02/17/trump-calls-the-media-the-enemy-of-the-american-people/?utm_term=.619699834b47">The enemy of the people</a>?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Hell! The press is the ONLY thing standing between you/me and complete autocracy. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Many, far more intelligent than Trump could even hope to be, have even referred to the media as “<a data-mce-href="http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/educate/elections/elect5.htm" href="http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/educate/elections/elect5.htm">the fourth branch of the government</a>.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Unfortunately, the dictator in the making (and his puppet, Trump) is quickly accomplishing what his intentions have been all along - to destroy confidence in the very thing that sets us apart from autocratic rule - freedom of the press.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">There is no coincidence in the fact that one autocrat, President Maduro, ripped a giant hole in free speech and in the fact that another autocrat, Donald Trump, is in the process of doing the very same thing. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">This is a concern of epic proportions, for two reasons;</span></div>
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<li><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">El Salvador is, as I said, accustomed to perceiving the direction of their government and developing work-arounds to authoritarian rule. They also stand up against what they see as corruption and authoritarian rule.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The United States, on the other hand, is filled with naive, foolish, closed-minded xenophobes who, not only don’t care that the train is derailing, they happily support the equally foolish, closed-minded, xenophobe, Trump, in his efforts to destroy the rails upon which the train is traveling. Trump is doing precisely what Maduro is; but on a much grander scale (and yes., a BIGLIER scale), by demonizing ALL the media outlets which inform us of the government’s behaviors, be they honorable or nefarious. </span></li>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">If Trump’s followers continue their rage against all things different; their blind and completely unfounded hatred for all those they now call “snowflakes”; seeking some ill-conceived need for retribution learned at the behest of partisan politics, they will literally be aiding him in destroying the very values upon which this country was built, beginning with freedom of the press and speech.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">I can promise them; the trump apologists will fall much harder than those snowflakes, </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">now among the millions of others who are different than they, and </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">for</span><span style="font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> whom they've</span><span style="font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> suddenly developed unfound, venomous hate. For, at least those snowflakes see it coming and can brace themselves for the impact.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">I’m always completely amazed at the incredible foresight the Founding Fathers had and, even though it occurred through much dissension, often anger and always debate, finally formed the governing bodies of the United States in three separate functions - the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">What a perfectly amazing understanding of human behavior, philosophical foresight and perspective these people held in their minds! That there are some human beings who could possess the philosophical genius and debate adroitness they grasped is extremely inspiring to me. What it must be like to have such capabilities!!!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">With a few exceptions, these were men who would, and absolutely should, be ashamed by all who hold positions within the Executive and Legislative branches of government today.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">However; if you simply take a few moments to think; to truly consider the nation’s needs outside the confines of your respective commitments to partisanship for a moment, and even take an hour or so to read some of the links I provide throughout this post, I honestly think you will realize just how detrimental; to the nation, to you, to me, and even to the entire planet, partisan politics is and has been for centuries.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Partisanship is a leach upon the Republican form of government the Founding Fathers envisioned. In fact; the scourge the Founding Fathers sought to <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/07/the-founding-fathers-tried-to-warn-us-about-the-threat-from-a-two-party-system.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">avoid completely</span></a>, is destroying the nation from within. And, due to the sheer momentum of human behavior, that plague is being inhaled, not only willingly, but with the vigor and intensity with which thirsty horses seek a distant pond.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">But, that pond is rank with with disease and contamination, brought to us shortly after the formation of the Constitution, by<a href="https://www.quora.com/What-did-the-founders-think-about-the-idea-of-political-parties-and-how-did-America-come-to-have-a-two-party-system"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> Alexander Hamilton</span></a>; a very member of those Founding Fathers who knew just how quickly it would garner power for himself. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">In <a href="https://www.constitutionfacts.com/us-founding-fathers/george-washingtons-farewell-address/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">George Washington’s farewell address</span></a>, he warned us of the real dangers political parties posed; “The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The rantings of all history’s seers; from the Bible’s “Revelations”; Platos “Oracle”; or Nostradamus, are nowhere near as clear as those of George Washington’s warning. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The warning that, given today’s political environment, were beyond crystal clear as they’re being played out today in such clarity, in “full, living color”, his words could very well have been spoken this morning.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">To make my case, by the current numbers: The 115th Congress is comprised of 54 Republicans, 46 Democrats and 2 “Independents” in the Senate. And 241 Republicans and 194 Democrats in the House of Representatives.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Now let’s really stretch the imagination and make a claim that not one single citizen in the United States, outside our elected officials, is either bigoted, racist, authoritarian, warmongers, or hold any other negative human trait; that we’re all, to very last soul humanitarian, loving and live by their professed code of honor; you know, all that bullshit like “love thy neighbor as thyself”, etc.; I’m the ultimate humanitarian and all my efforts are pure and wholesome.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><br /><span style="color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">1. Considering that all of you are now striving to be the best you can be; how many of you, simply in order to vote for someone they SAY will support those human traits you hold dear, have had to commit to a specific political party, just to take part in a process the nation is founded upon - to elect one’s own government?</span><br /><span style="color: white; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12px;">2. And; how many of you truly believe that those political parties actually embody that character trait and have given you an individual who will fight as hard as possible to maintain that embodiment in their elected positions?</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Remember, we’re being honest with ourselves, so I’m willing to say that that number is still ZERO.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The reason for this? You know as well as I do; it is that they fight for the party’s stance, the partisanship they, themselves, had to commit to, just so they, in turn, could, ostensibly, take your commitment to humanity to their seat in government.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Certainly it’s literally impossible, back here in reality, to unequivocally represent 100% of every person in 100% of their human perspectives. But, that isn’t the point. My point is, that partisan politics restrain every United States citizen to two and only two positions, when there are literally unquantifiable numbers of perspectives. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">TWO! Just two parties who claim to be THE representative government for that the vast majority of U.S. citizens; partisans who, you know as well as I do, are so utterly corrupt and self-serving, they’re beyond anything any of us remotely consider valid representation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Be you a conservative, or a liberal individual or any one of millions of in between, these “entities” are neither capable, nor even interested in standing up for you and/or me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Partisan politics has overridden the very <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/13/is-the-united-states-of-america-a-republic-or-a-democracy/?utm_term=.69ee16810d55"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Republic</span></a> the Founding Fathers created and, despite Washington’s warnings, the nation has done precisely what he warned against. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Immaterial to whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican, the very definition of “Republic” and the Constitution by which our government is bound, tells us that the power is to lie with the people. There’s absolutely no mention, in either the definition of, or the wording of the Constitution of the United States, that political parties determine who we vote for.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Yet; that’s exactly what we have today. Through deceit and power garnered by the few, the political parties represent theirs and only their political views.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Consider the constraints of a two-party system. The single most important aspect of which limits us to two choices, Republican or Democrat. Partisanship in which the majority of states REQUIRE submission to in order to participate in “government by the people”. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The primaries of these two parties; where two individuals are singled out, courted, and financed and in every sense of the word “limits” our choices to who THEY select. And if you doubt that, try running for an elected office without “joining” one of the political parties.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Bernie Sanders is a prime example of this. A very well known and very qualified Senator from Vermont, had to abandon his lifetime commitment to being independent of political parties to run as a candidate in the Democrat Party. Yet; the Democrat elite turned their backs on him when he was, arguably, the better candidate between he and Clinton.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">This is a perfect example of the iron grip partisanship has on the Republic.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Extremely limited, if not impossible, opportunity for any non-affiliated potential candidates to speak to the electorate; extremely limited choices for you and me to hear those alternative perspectives. And the very distasteful, limited outcomes as a result of and created for that very reason. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Limits placed upon us to control, both by whom and how we’re governed. This does not, in any manner whatsoever, define the republic from of government. In fact; it’s inarguably the precise opposite of republican government.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Aside from outright coup and dictatorship, it is the ultimate power scam. A scam in which government by the rich and powerful, is literally forced upon the rest of us. The very idea of partisan politics is nothing more than manipulation of you and me to obtain and hold the power to govern, as we are fooled in to abandoning the very conceptualization and definition of The Republic in which we live.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">But the flame of democracy is still burning, in every state in the nation, as people are beginning to wake up to the deception perpetrated by partisan politics and the leach that is partisan politics is losing its slimy grip on our skin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">As an adult, I’ve made a habit of always questioning my own convictions. Introspection is vital to mental health and in evaluating one’s own decisions. Ignoring the potential that your thought processes may be flawed hinders personal growth; it can also be dangerous as an adult, for making decisions based upon faulty perspectives almost always ends in faulty outcomes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">It’s a constant internal struggle I deal with, an endless process I can't turn off. I even find myself wondering if my endless introspection is itself an unhealthy obsession.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">But as I watch this new so-called “president" I cannot find one reasonable alternative with which to argue against my current perspective, for every time I give him the benefit that he and I may simply have a difference of opinion, I hear him speak; I see his words; I see what he’s doing to the very foundation of our nation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">In simple terms; he’s a repugnant, delusional, self-absorbed, ignorant, human being who has no business sitting in the chair he’s in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Any person who wanders into the CIA, desecrating the very hall they view as hallowed beyond holiness and says; “I know you all voted for me, but but I will not ask you to<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-cia-speech-transcript/%20%20https://theretrospect.org/2017/01/27/donald-trump-desecrates-the-cia-memorial-wall/" target="_blank"> raise your hands if you did</a>”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Then again, this very day, he repeated the same words, this time in a room full of military personnel; people who are required to obey his orders; people who die at his command. To hear it once is disgusting; twice is absolutely repulsive and unconscionable, especially among those with whom he’s speaking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">He is completely and hopelessly obsessed that someone, even one person, in this country didn’t vote for him. Although he’s sitting in the chair he sought, he’s still so completely preoccupied with the thought that someone out there had the misplaced balls to vote for someone other than he. So much so, in fact, that he’s <a href="http://www.gq.com/story/donald-trump-is-signing-executive-orders-that-he-doesnt-read-or-understand" target="_blank">signed yet another</a> one </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">of his <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02/06/report-trump-not-fully-briefed-on-exec-order-that-gave-bannon-seat-at-nsc-meetings.html" target="_blank">unread burning bush decrees</a> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">to begin an investigation**, a very expensive investigation, into fraudulent voting.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Three million frauds need to have their voting privileges removed.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Hell; who knows?</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Maybe they’ll be his first prisoners at the renewed Gitmo, or one of the other black sites he’s reopening.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Was it you? Yes; I am most certainly one of those who derailed the ego of a man who shouldn’t even be outside a mental institution, much less sitting in the office he now occupies. I know I’m unrepentant in this, but; who else, I ask, would have such unmitigated, spineless gall to vote for someone other than Trump?? How can we, the three million plus (<i>he so damned stupid, he hasn’t even considered the fact that there are far more than just the three million of us</i>) even live with ourselves, whomever the rest of you are?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">This, his past behavior, his never-ending tirades against any who hold a different view than; “Trump is the light, the truth and the reality of all things” clearly, indisputably is all the proof one should need to come to the same conclusion I have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">For, everything that so much as implies differently; the “<a href="http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/watch_president_trump_tells_military_dishonest_media_refusing_to_report_terror_attacks" target="_blank">dishonest media</a>"; </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">The </span><a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/318023-trump-any-negative-polls-are-fake-news" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" target="_blank">fake negative polls</a>; <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">The <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trump-proposes-two-illegal-responses-flag-burning-n689726" target="_blank">laws of this nation are</a> all wrong; </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">all things true must come from him and only him, for he is <a href="https://www.blogger.com/.http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/08/18/donald-trump-i-will-always-tell-you-the-truth/" target="_blank">the only purveyor of truth</a>, the light of lights; i</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">ntelligence reports from the people who are pros at <a href="http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21714345-his-relentless-criticism-donald-trump-destroying-trust-intelligence-agencies" target="_blank">intelligence reports are useless</a>, unless it comes from Trump’s mouth (and, of course, unless he’s face to face with those who put their lives on the line for those reports); t</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">he judges, especially that one, <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-04/trump-attacks-so-called-judge-over-ridiculous-travel-ban-ruling" target="_blank">you know, the one in California </a>that misinterpreted his intent.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">After all, he’s not a bigot; how dare they even suggest such a thing?</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Judges are all corrupt and shouldn’t be trusted, especially when they interfere with the almighty’s view; t</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">he government agencies who gather data, REAL data, are useless liars and do nothing but promulgate hoaxes. <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-02-02-trump-planning-major-cuts-at-epa-primary-agency-that-pushes-the-global-warming-hoax.html" target="_blank">The EPA is full of lying scientists</a>; t</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">he Department of Interior and National Parks Services <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/21/politics/trump-national-park-service-tweets/" target="_blank">employees can no longer speak their minds</a>, for they don’t speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the Trump truth.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Oh, and s</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">omehow, in just two weeks, he’s turned the entire economy around and has saved hundreds of thousand of jobs, hell; maybe millions for all we know - all because the Trump Almighty is now holding court in the Oval Office and issuing decree after decree to right all the horrific wrongs perpetrated against those who did truly vote for him. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Obama was lying about the jobless numbers,<a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/sep/30/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-unemployment-rate-may-be-42-perc/" target="_blank"> numbers that, in truth (his truth), were closer to 42%</a>, </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">numbers that through some Trump-inspired miracle, in the span of two weeks, have dropped from 42% to 4.7%.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">My god!!</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">He is indeed the miracle-worker.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">If you don’t believe it, just ask him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">After all this, I ask but one simple question. A question anyone could answer, IF they don’t have their eyes and ears shut down; IF they aren’t afraid to see the reality, that this guy, who is truly just a moment away from nuking the entire planet, not if, but WHEN he finds there is someone out there who is not subscribing to the Trump Truth. The simple question is; how can any human being with even just one brain cell still functioning not agree that this guy is mentally unstable and needs to be removed from office before he creates a real truth - there is no more democracy in the United States?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Or even worse - there is no more planet Earth, for the lunatic pushed the button because he got mad at some lying scientist, government employee, media outlet, judge, pollster, CIA agent, or one of us fraudulent voters who saw through his shallow charade the day he opened his mouth.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">To use the already excessively, however misquoted “</span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">” attributed to the philosopher, George Santayana, all rolled into one eloquent eleven word phrase which, in its true form; “</span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">” denotes a far more sinister and dangerous impact. A horrifying thought now becoming a terrifying reality in the newly elected Reich Chancellor Trump. With the help of course, the prodding and poking of the most extreme politician we’ve seen in the US since the Joseph McCarthy era, the new fascist propaganda master, Steve Bannon, we have created an almost unstoppable phenomenon, the likes of which we haven’t seen since the rise of the Third Reich.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Despite the likes of some truly good people, such as Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Al Franken, and the sole Republican, Lindsey Graham and perhaps a few others who ever so quietly oppose him, the nation, now under the despotic rule of a man hellbent to destroy the very people who put him into power, we find ourselves in precisely the same scenario Germany found herself in; a disaster unfolding before our eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Mr. Trump, in his efforts to destroy his predecessor’s steps to at least level the playing field somewhat, is behaving as the 1930s child he models himself after, seeking retribution for a personal attack; a non-existent attack which, if it were reality, should be of utter insignificance to the billionaire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Just as with Hitler; we don't speak in terms of rationality when we speak of Trump. Rather, a replay of an old game built by many who came before him with intellects far superior to his utter void of the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">And again, as with Hitler in 1930’s Germany, Tump is exhibiting the same absolute intolerance for others who are not of the same pasty white bigoted, racism; “his people”, who, to the very last one, subscribe to the dogma he promotes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Indeed, the facade he’s creating; this bigotry, hate, and insanely over-amplified nationalism is working perfectly to hide his true intentions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">He’s succeeded in fooling many, but Trump is focusing on his remedial game of checkers, as he attempts to match wits with a master chess player; that player being <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/republicans-denounce-trumps-defense-of-killer-putin-234665" target="_blank">Vladimir Putin</a>, a man with skills far superior to those of his own in political manipulation; skills Trump could never achieve due to his absolute ignorance of anything outside his life-long protective bubble.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">That attraction is beginning to turn the U.S. inwardly, dividing us as a nation and into a pariah, even amongst our best allies, as he informs each and every one of them, that he has no intentions of watching their six. In fact; his behavior has served them all with notice; “the U.S. is neither interested in being your protector, nor even an ally”. A message received loud and clear from many of our once inseparable friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The absolutely impossible-to-build wall of shame with which he’s attempting to appease the racists in this nation has completely alienated Mexico. A checker which is the first of many checkers to be taken out by Putin’s masterful manipulation of the fool who sees nothing outside his maniacal ego.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">And for no reason whatsoever, but for the false belief that Mexico is encroaching upon our soil. A belief firmly discounted by the fact that these "encroachers who rob us, murder us, rape our women" as trump claims, have been at the lowest level since 1969. Not to mention the reality that "illegal aliens" are responsible for a proportionately low rate of crime in the U.S. and contribute, in Trump's words "bigly" to our economy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"></span>Just the sheer logic of it should send the racists to their closets in shame, if they would stop bleating like the sheep they are, long enough to consider even simple logic. Think about it. Would you, if you were seeking a better way of life for yourself and your family, take the associated dangers and risks of getting here, just to rob, murder and rape? Such an argument makes no sense whatsoever. Especially if you consider the ease of which such conduct is carried out where they already live.<br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">So, as the puppet on the end of Putin’s strings, Trump is playing into the masterfully played game of high stakes, million-dollar chess pieces, and Trump is betting this entire nation on his dim-witted and futile game of remedial checkers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The United States, after Trump has alienated the entire planet, will be standing alone. And although we most certainly have the largest, most capable military ever conceived, it will be of no consequence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">For; rather than building the necessary infrastructure to support our own extreme consumption habits; an infrastructure that has long ago been left behind to rot, before he alienates all we depend upon, he, as he always has, made his moves backasswardly - alienating all we depend upon before we can possibly provide for ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Putting is claiming Trump's checkers as rapidly as Trump is issuing his absurd executive orders. Yet; in his all-consuming, unearned arrogance, he is blind to even his own ignorance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Like Hitler, he’s completely incapable of seeing rationality, or even a glimmer of reality, for his ego is the singular guiding light he follows; not the sacrifice of office who so many before him have committed themselves to; not the sanctity of humanity; not even a morsel of decency and care for the rest of humanity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">id is he; id is an Adolph Hitler who now sits in his “Eagle’s Nest” demanding absolute, blind allegiance and takes it to the completely <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38876644" target="_blank">irrational and juvenile level</a> of a personal attack if that order is not obeyed in lockstep manner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">id, the likes of which the only difference between Trump and Hitler is a mere 81 years of history; history already forgotten by all those who fell in love with a maniacal game-player who’s destined to lose it all. Again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">And that loss will surely not effect himself; rather it’ll be all the members of this society, even those of us who refused to select him as the next Führer. Those who, despite clear warnings to the contrary, propelled him into power through their own fascist hate and bigotry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">People love to use the phrase “we’ve come full circle”. It’s one of those new catch-phrases that has the ability to make those who are in fact truly ignorant, feel, in their own minds, knowledgable and informed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Rarely do we see such a glaring example of an actual and factual full circle developing right before our eyes, such as the one we are witnessing today, presenting itself for full view in this article.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Make no mistake; this is not one of those scenarios in which anyone, and I do mean anyone, can dismiss with any of the new, absurd catch phrases such as “fake news”, or "alternative fact.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">One cannot dispute, or escape reality, as we humans often attempt to do if it presents a need to change perspectives. What this is clearly and indisputably presenting us with, is the very real, very frightening development of a full circle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">From superstition, ignorance, and darkness, to fact, knowledge and enlightenment, brought to us in full living color by our good friends in the science community, and right back to superstition ignorance, and darkness, brought to us by foolish, blind acceptance of drivel, presented to us in equally full living color.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">With the constant promulgation of alarmist information by, among others, Jenny McCarthy, Charlie Sheen, Alicia Silverstone and our very own self-aggrandizing Donald Trump, all of whom are promoters of the <a href="http://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2017/01/anti-vaccine-movement-has-brought-back-measles-and-mumps/" target="_blank">anti-vaccine movement</a>, the people who settle for/prefer this nonsense rhetoric over scientific fact, are blindly following the dangerous ignorance of this “movement”, rather than taking the time to seek and research truth and reality for themselves, through reputable and reliable sources for the real and accurate answers to their concerns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Clearly, there are potential risks with vaccinations, there is no disputing that. There are risks with virtually every drug on the planet, from aspirin to Viagra. There are risks with everything we as human beings do, from exercising to sleeping, but both provide essential benefits simply for survival, as is the case of vaccines. And, in the case of vaccines, we know from experience that the benefits far outweigh the dangers; we have a simple example, history, with which to compare. And in this lies the problem, for how often do we ignore history, always with the results one would expect - repetition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The problem we can see in this article today from <a href="http://outbreaknewstoday.com/washington-mumps-outbreak-nears-300-cases-88245/" target="_blank">Washington State</a> was predicted by both the medical community and science alike. It is now manifesting the entirely expected and predicted results of subscribing to this false alarm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Thanking ignorance, it’s very likely that we're going to see thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of children reintroducing far more virulent and deadly strains of diseases, diseases, some already very deadly, especially for infants, such as mumps, measles, rubella, smallpox, polio, diphtheria, and varicella to this country that, due to the incredible ability of viruses to mutate, are completely resistant to the old vaccines. This, entirely due to a large volume of the population of this nation who, since the late 1970s, seem to have literally fallen in love with a bewildering disdain for proven science.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Rather; this insanely silly and dangerous movement has now begun striking the new generations that are just beginning life, including, not only their own children and grandchildren, but those of others who were diligent enough to listen to science.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">They will suffer intensely for our love affair with the ill-informed, whose insistence to return us all to the dark days of hollow heads and blind acceptance of those who impress, not with knowledge and understanding, but with silly popularity and uninformed rhetoric.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Those people who were and are stubbornly ignorant of fact, will be those who carry the responsibility for the return of deadly diseases, many of which were either completely eradicated, or on the verge of eradication in this country by science, not alarmist reaction and celebrity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">This may very well be taking us back to massive outbreaks of diseases that have the ability to sicken, maim and kill millions of children, just as they did only a few decades ago, before scientists who developed vaccines, the well informed public all but eliminated many of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">While only in its infancy, this crusade against knowledge and understanding, not simply regarding vaccines, but all scientific discoveries, is not just insanely frustrating and concerning, it will also usher into the world, the utter obliteration of thousands of years of knowledge gained and much of humanity as well.</span></div>
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For that is THE ONLY WAY Mexico is going to pay for TRUMP'S FOLLEYAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13829283375082711360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23257473.post-64477757741099676332017-01-25T10:44:00.000-08:002017-01-25T15:56:53.526-08:00Meet the New "The Holy Great Leader; The Dear Leader" of the United States<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">We’ve learned so many things in the, oh so very long period of Trump’s presidency; it’s hard to believe, but it’s been an ever so long five days.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">And damned if he hasn’t been a busy Danny Boy in those twenty-five days</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">He’s accomplished things like - circumventing the Press. And he’ll do so via “Twitter Feeds”. After all, his pet names for the Press are; “dishonest," "not good people," sleazy, and among the worst human beings he has ever met” and he knows the public wants to rid ourselves of such despicable pukes. Right?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">He has effectively blinded the citizens of this country to the actions of the Federal Government, as the press is our ONLY conduit for information about what our government is doing behind closed doors, be it noble, or, as in this case, nefarious.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">He’s issued orders to resume the Keystone pipeline, for in his own words, because it will create 29,000 jobs. But, he’s learned the slight of hand trick with numbers, almost as well as Obama knew it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Trump is claiming this will create "And if they like we will see if we can get that pipeline built - a lot of jobs, 28,000 jobs, great construction jobs." It's interesting to note, that the claims made by the Obama Administration were even higher at 42,000 jobs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I remember this, as I conducted substantial fact-checking on my own, simply because it sounded as outlandish then as it does now.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">1. The oil comes from Canada, where most of the jobs will be long-term as they mine the tar sands in that nation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">2. The oil will be transported to existing refineries already capable of handling the increase in production as is.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">3. The refined products will be distributed by means of a distribution system that already exists.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">So!! Where do these jobs come from?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Well, mostly from up the sleeves of the ever bull-shiting politicians on both sides of the preverbal aisle.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The ONLY jobs this will create, other than a few (42 according the the State Department) long-term jobs for babysitting the pipeline for the inevitable leaks, explosions, malfunctions, flow, etc, etc…..are temporary construction jobs. Lasting somewhere around 12-15 months.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">And he’s an extraordinarily sensitive man; a man whose skin is so thin, he demeans, berates, destroys, or simply silences people with whom he disagrees (which is just about everyone); in fact, his skin is so thin it’s damned near translucent orange. Almost as though he’s been sniffing Cheetos and getting most of the orange on his face, instead of his fingers..</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">But, I see though it like any other peace of dog shit covered in translucent, Giardia -induced slime.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Why, just today, he <a data-mce-href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-epa-idUSKBN15822X" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-epa-idUSKBN15822X" target="_blank">SMASHED</a> the freedom of speech for Federal Employees. ,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">And, he’s told Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, that, since he can’t control the gun deaths in his state, “<a data-mce-href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-epa-idUSKBN15822X" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-epa-idUSKBN15822X">he’s going to send in the Feds</a>” to restore order.” -</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">And, by “Feds” he most certainly does not mean send in the FBI, I’m sure of that; they’d do little to restore order in a massive city such as Chicago. Rather; my bets are on the illegal use of the military for this purpose and he would declare martial law in Chicago on a whim, just as does every goddamned thing else.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I KNEW this would happen with this dictatorial jackass; I knew it the moment he won the election.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I remember the draw-dropping shocking threats as clear as if they were issued five minutes ago, and I clearly understood then, just as I do now, precisely what he was thinking for our future.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">“We must maintain law and order at the highest level or we will cease to have a country, 100 percent…. “We will cease to have a country. I am the law and order candidate, I will restore law and order to our country believe me. It will happen very fast, believe me.”</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">And true to his promise, in less than a week this lunatic has effectively shackled the press to a point at which they either cannot or will not become aggressively serious in investigating and questioning his behavior.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Oh, and BTW - trump still supports the NRA, so you clowns at the NRA don’t need to worry about this Chicago issue. Donny Boy has your back on that. Just have your manufacturers keep on cranking out all those firearms. Trump’s troops need a little practice in supporting a tyrant’s dictatorship.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">"Trump has raised the prospect of Washington intervention in Chicago before. His latest musings on the subject came just a day after Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) criticized the Republican president for focusing so much on the size of the crowd at his inaugural ceremony”</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">His absurdly thin skin antics are now becoming a very serious threat to the stability of this nation. This is all about retribution for the above comment made by Mayor Emanuel. It is classic Trump - o beyond getting even with all who have ever opposed or disputed Trump in any matter, seek to destroy them for even thinking such an atrocity against this thin-skinned imp.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">But Donny Boy. Here’s what the law says:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">“Federal Law prohibits military personnel from enforcing the law within the United States except as expressly authorized by the Constitution or an Act of Congress. The threat of catastrophic terrorism requires a thorough review of the laws permitting the military to act within the United States in order to determine whether domestic preparedness and response efforts would benefit from greater involvement of military personnel and, if so, how.”</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">In less than a week, he’s begun shutting out Congress AND the press with his private meetings, threatening the freedom of speech for Federal employees, and now he’s threatening to move on Chicago (interestingly enough, where President Obama comes from) like the dictator he wishes to be.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I am certain he will fulfill this threat and will very likely declare martial law in Chicago. The alarms are ringing like mad people, but it's beyond me why all of Congress isn’t up in arms over these very serious developments; the behavior of a mentally unstable fool in the White House.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">This shit cannot just take place on his whim. He's threatening to violate US law, the Posse Comitatus Act, which forbids military intervention in domestic affairs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">"Federal Law prohibits military personnel from enforcing the law within the United States except as expressly authorized by the Constitution or an Act of Congress. The threat of catastrophic terrorism requires a thorough review of the laws permitting the military to act within the United States in order to determine whether domestic preparedness and response efforts would benefit from greater involvement of military personnel and, if so, how.”</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">By using the words “carnage” he’s threatening the use of a law, used long ago to quell unchecked violence during the post Civil War Reconstruction Era and again threatened during the violence created by the shit head KKK and other white supremacist jackasses - but blamed on the black protestors as they were the ones who were being being pummeled by "law enforcement” and others during the Civil Rights Movement.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">"In December 1981, additional laws were enacted clarifying permissible military assistance to domestic law enforcement agencies and the Coast Guard, especially in combating drug smuggling into the United States. Posse Comitatus clarifications emphasize SUPPORTIVE AND TECHNICAL ISSUES”.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">In 2006, Congress modified the Insurrection Act as part of the 2007 Defense Authorization Bill:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">"The President may employ the armed forces... to... restore public order and enforce the laws (there’s those words again guys) of the United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition... the President determines that... domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of maintaining public order... or [to] suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy if such... a condition... so hinders the execution of the laws... that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law... or opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws”</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">And within there, are some very famous verbiage; the same terminology I’ve had to include in every departmental and HR policy I’ve written over the past 30 years which allow managers to include virtually everything and anything a manager deems necessary for the benefit of the corporation - everything from issuing purchase orders, to washing the windows, if that’s what the manger deems necessary. You’ve all seen them and likely joked about them, but, instead of saying “and all other tasks deemed necessary”, in perfect vagueness, this change to the Posse Comitatus Act says "or incident, or other condition”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Here’s a short, partial analysis of the law as <a data-mce-href="http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2033&context=dlj" href="http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2033&context=dlj">Duke University</a> interprets it:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">"The Presidential Intervention Principle: a principle that allows presidential use of the military domestically and Section 333, a long-dormant and little-discussed remnant of reconstruction legislation, was en- acted in order to secure the fourteenth amendment's guarantee of equal protection of the laws. Judicious exertion of the powers conferred by this statute may serve both remedial and deterrent functions for the suppression of mass violence which the states are unwilling or unable to control”.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Here’s more of <a data-mce-href="http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2033&context=dlj" href="http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2033&context=dlj">Duke’s interpretation</a> of the law</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">"When outbreaks of domestic violence in the wake of the civil rights movement have necessitated a federal presence in the form of troops or marshals to maintain public order, section 333 of title 10 of the United States Code has been invoked by federal authorities to authorize federal intervention. Section 333, a long-dormant and little-discussed remnant of reconstruction legislation, was en- acted in order to secure the fourteenth amendment's guarantee of equal protection of the laws. Judicious exertion of the powers conferred by this statute may serve both remedial and deterrent functions for the suppression of mass violence which the states are unwilling or unable to control."</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Though it is a major problem for Chicago, this does NOT meet the definition of mass violence, unless you have a specific goal in mind, and that goal is not going to be beneficial for ANYONE, but Trump and his scumbag cabinet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">If trump uses “Feds” you can be sure, those “Feds” are going to show up wearing Combat BDUs, combat boots and helmets, while walking the streets of Chicago with loaded automatic weapons.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">I’ve written to every Senator and Representative of my state tonight about his illegal clamp-down on free speech and freedom of the press, then this shit happens. Yet; it’s beyond me why none of them are doing anything to rid us of this snake. And that snake is one very dangerous and deadly snake.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: white;">Amid all the clutter of post-campaign whining and bitching; the claims of stolen elections; of unfair and illegal electors; of foreign interference, one very important issue stands out, far above, to me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: white;">But; sadly, I've not heard even a minuscule piece of reporting on the true cause of this absurdly foul election; hell, not even a whimper.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="color: white;">Why? Because facts no longer make news. Rather; showboaters such as Trump; the violence across the world, or the ever-so important happenings of the True Housewives of Dim-wit City. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: white;">Sure, Russia can and most certainly did influence the simple-minded souls who voted with their emotions, along with their irrational, unfounded fears of the unseen/unknown; accepting without a moment's analysis, the continuous lies and deceit which Trump and even Clinton promulgated throughout their campaigns.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: white;">In fact; the method used by Russia and Trump was not direct intervention, rather the use of a very effective method perfected by a man named Joseph Goebbels - deceitful propaganda; creating the horrifyingly effective means to instill fear, hate, and distrust out of nothing but the sick imagination of despots.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="color: white;">And; I firmly believe we have the very same disgusting propaganda method being utilized by two people of equally disgusting character as Goebbels, namely; Donald Trump and Steve Bannon. Two people who shouldn't be allowed to tread upon on Capitol Hill's lawn, much less in the operations rooms of the white House.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: white;">However; I do maintain a liberal political perspective, unless voting conservative provides a better choice. And we liberals, and I'm hoping at least some of the more level-headed conservatives, are dismayed at what we see as completely unacceptable results of electing a president who's credentials amount to nothing more than those of a child running for captain of the elementary schoolyard monitor, or perhaps, a teeny-bopper on steroids using an extraordinarily silly and immature campaign method; a campaign almost entirely operated via Twitter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: white;">Silly, juvenile comments that show us the true mental state of the person we've just elected as president; a person who can and WILL do everything in his conniving, cheating ability to further his personal wealth, using the White House to accomplish that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: white;">And, while the liberals, and again, many of the responsible conservatives are dismaying, the conservatives who fall into the category of blind partisanship voting are gleefully relishing in the fact that "their team won".</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="color: white;">Then we should all take big, smelly dump and sit our asses in the pile, for that's precisely where we are now.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">That win places those who voted for Trump in the annals of history that will illuminate sheer ignorance and pettiness; "</span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">my side is the winning side</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">" for the future to read.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Despite the fact that the win will most assuredly send civil rights to the back pages of a history book and dismantle the Constitution, from the first amendment through each and every one of the remaining twenty-six, (</span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">even, their precious second amendment will be attacked by Trump and his team, for they are surely not going to want an armed insurrection</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">) as he turns himself into an oligarch the likes of which we haven't seen for almost one hundred years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: white;">We ALL should be horrified at the fact that we've fallen for the propaganda of a person whose entire life has been completely absorbed by NOTHING, but himself; a person who has helped no one; whose entire life has been focused on one person and one person only - himself, while ripping off thousands and destroying their lives and businesses with scam after scam.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="color: white;">Perhaps he would have fit better as a replacement for Kim Jong Il rather than the President of the U.S.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(61, 89, 109); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;">He's a person who not only doesn't understand the requirements of the office for which he ran and won; nor has he even a remote understanding of the selflessness required for life as a public servant, he actually believes</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(61, 89, 109); font-size: 15px;"> the job itself is a part time job.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">We all know this and if you're refusing to believe it, you're so deep into the rabbit hole, you'll likely never find a way out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="color: white;">But, while all this is accurate, none of these are the reasons Trump was elected.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: white;">The real reason is the shear laziness and apathy of we Americans; those eligible to vote who did so with little, to no effort in making their choices and those who just didn't even bother to get involved in one of the most important aspects of this nation's existence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="color: white;">This past election has presented us with some of the most dismal voting participation numbers the U.S. has seen, with most voters participating in the most careless and dangerous manner possible - using their emotions to guide their decisions; emotions clearly manipulated by Donald Trump and those who wish to instill fear via propaganda.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: white;">Sure, we had two despicable candidates from which to vote, but voting, begins at the primaries/caucuses. In fact; the primaries and caucuses are the first and most important step in deciding the future of our nation. It is here that we should be most informed and involved, for this is the point at which the real selections are made.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="color: white;">It's the cold, hard facts of todays elections that clearly show us what our true problem is.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: white;">Example: Many politicians are elected through apathy and non-participation, leaving the decision for the extremists on the fringes of partisan politics. This is precisely how Ted Cruz won his first Senatorial seat.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">"Cruz didn’t place first in the 2012 Republican primary; he placed second behind then-Lt. Governor David Dewhurst. However, Dewhurst, who received roughly 45 percent of the primary vote, was not able to garner enough votes to avoid a runoff. Cruz placed second with approximately 34 percent of the vote.</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="color: white;">And in that runoff, Cruz garnered 57 percent of the vote, while Dewhurst received a little over 43 percent. Cruz then advanced to the general election, where voters got to choose between him and Democrat Paul Sadler. In a Republican-dominated state, this ‘election’ wasn’t a real competition.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"></span><span style="font-kerning: none;">In short, Ted Cruz got 631,812 votes in the primary to effectively win a seat that represents 26.97 million people."</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: white;">Most people who read the numbers from election results interpret them erroneously.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: white;">However, looking closely at the numbers above, one can see Cruz won by a number which, in reality, represents a minute percentage of the eligible electorate in his district, leaving only the extreme of the extremes to determine who was to fill the Senate's seat, with just 57 percent of the 8.5 percent of the electorate who bothered themselves to vote.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: white;">And ours as a nation to feel the shame we've just perpetrated upon our democracy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: white;">Or, in using Trumps superior intellect and his special Trump vernacular: I won with very, very ,very small numbers; really, really small numbers; numbers that were very little. Numbers. Small numbers, but numbers with very complicated lives.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: white;">It's far too early to define precisely the percentages Donald Trump won the election by, but even Trump himself is being fooled by the numbers that exist today (<i>which, given his proclivity for megalomania, shouldn't be surprising</i>), absolutely certain he won by massive margins when in fact, his winning numbers are likely to be more like those of Cruz's numbers above.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="color: white;">Had the 37.8% VAP and he 42.7% VEP folks who didn't bother, gotten off their asses and, not only voted, but properly researched the candidates, we would have had a President Elect that at least has a vague idea of what being President of the United States means.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="color: white;">Instead; we had people who aren't interested enough in theirs, or the futures of their children to bother voting; we have people who don't want to be bothered to perform due diligence before casting their ballots; and we have people voting with their fear-based emotions rather than their brains, such as they may be.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="color: white;">So the next time we seek blame for placing a thoroughly ignorant, narcissistic, imbalanced human being in the most important and powerful seat on the planet, perhaps we need to perform a bit of introspection upon ourselves as a nation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="color: white;">For some further interesting facts</span><span style="color: #3d596d;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/behind-trumps-victory-divisions-by-race-gender-education/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #3d596d;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 170, 220); color: #00aadc;">Pew gathered statistics as follows</span></a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #3d596d;">:</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="color: white;">Females preferred Clinton over Trump by a 12% margin.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="color: white;">The educated preferred Clinton over Trump by a 9% margin.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="color: white;">And the very disheartening demographic - Democratic edge among young voters declined by a 6 point margin.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: red;">I listened as they called my President a Muslim.</span></span></div>
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I listened as they called him and his family a pack of monkeys.</div>
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I listened as they said he wasn't born here.</div>
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I watched as they blocked every single path to progress that they could.</div>
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I saw the pictures of him as Hitler.</div>
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I watched them shut down the government and hurt the entire nation twice.</div>
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I watched them turn their backs on every opportunity to open worthwhile dialog.</div>
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I watched them say that they would not even listen to any choice for Supreme Court no matter who the nominee was.</div>
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I listened as they openly said that they will oppose him at every turn.</div>
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I watched as they did just that.</div>
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I listened.</div>
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I watched.</div>
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I paid attention.</div>
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Now, I'm being called on to be tolerant.</div>
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To move forward.</div>
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To denounce protesters.</div>
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To "Get over it."</div>
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To accept this...</div>
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I will not.</div>
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I will do my part to make sure this great American mistake becomes the embarrassing footnote of our history that it deserves to be.</div>
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I will do this as quickly as possible every chance I get.</div>
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I will do my part to limit the damage that this man can do to my country.</div>
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I will watch his every move and point out every single mistake and misdeed in a loud and proud voice.</div>
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I will let you know in a loud voice every time this man backs away from a promise he made to them.</div>
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Them. The people who voted for him.</div>
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The ones who sold their souls and prayed for him to win.</div>
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I will do this so that they never forget.</div>
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And they will hear me.</div>
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They will see it in my eyes when I look at them.</div>
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They will hear it in my voice when I talk to them.</div>
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They will know that I know who they are.</div>
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They will know that I know what they are.</div>
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Do not call for my tolerance. I've tolerated all I can.</div>
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Now it's their turn to tolerate ridicule.</div>
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Be aware, make no mistake about it, every single thing that goes wrong in our country from this day</div>
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forward is now Trump's fault just as much as they thought it was Obama's.</div>
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I find it unreasonable for them to expect from me what they were entirely unwilling to give."</div>
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</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13829283375082711360noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23257473.post-32833073597283556932016-12-14T22:29:00.000-08:002016-12-14T23:47:45.974-08:00There Was Once a Man Who Scammed the Entire Nation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b>You may now kiss my ass; for I very successfully scampaigned the entire nation, from “the idiots in Iowa” to the “Mexicans that rape our women”</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Yeah, OK! You did indeed; and much, much more.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">You know? Most human beings view the world with extraordinarily limited information with which to define our own perspectives – sound bites from television media outlets, written media outlets, and even blogs, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">We assimilate that information with a very thick set of rose-colored, hegemonic lenses; taking shallow, narrow-minded clips here and there, based solely upon the views we are most comfortable with; those views being embedded by decades of influence, indifference, and socio-economic backgrounds. We then repeat that information, not as it is in reality, but how we wish that information to be viewed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Sadly, it’s a very negative human trait. I am human, therefore, I do the same. Although I desperately try to avoid that pitfall, I do it just like you and every other human being.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">We embody yet another human trait that has the ability to create dire consequences; that which is imprinted onto our very DNA – to belong to a group for the safety the numbers provide.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Almost all animals behave in this manner; humans have been doing so since before we were even humans.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">That ever present psychological need has served us well in survival mode. It is such a powerful character trait, it’s literally imbedded in our DNA. Psychologists have often referred to it as the need to belong and it’s referenced in “Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs”, as important as shelter and food. It offers comfort, protection, commonality, and safety.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Virtually every human experiences this need for group association. Yet; most are not even aware it exists.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Yep! You’ve got yourself some good ol’ team spirit going on right in that skull of yours every day of your life; indeed, every minute of your life, and it is quite literally impossible to ignore.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Think doubt it; when we were kids, we cheered for our elementary school and jeered the others. The same character trait follows us throughout our entire life: we obsessively cheer for our high school; our college; the sports teams of our choice; the community, state and nation in which we live. And if anyone attempts to “harm” or “berate” that team, our reactions are most often harsh and sometimes, even violent.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Sadly in my own hegemonic perspective, the forty-fifth President of the United States, Donald Trump; a stranger than strange human being; a man with an extraordinarily frightening ability to become a world-class despot; has been elected by “your team” (<i>please note; I did not say OUR team, for I am seriously jeering someone else’s team at this moment, and for very good reason</i>).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">For the second time in under twenty years, our president elect won by a majority Electoral votes, but lost the popular vote; this time, by drastic numbers – losing the popular vote by almost three million votes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Although it may bother some, this, in and of itself, is nowhere near as disturbing as the end results.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Someone else’s “team” has accomplished something more startling and worrisome than anything I’ve ever witnessed in 65 years of politics; electing a despotic, narcissistic, racist, demagogue to the office of President of the United States; the man the Electors are scheduled to cast their votes for by the end of the day on December 19, 2016. And, if they do so, as in the past, simply rubber-stamping the Republican Party’s selection, they do indeed need to be dismantled, for they will continue to be as useless a lips on a chicken.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Despite what many think, the Electors are NOT required to support the partisan’s choices. In fact, doing so defies the very purpose the Founding Fathers were thinking when they created the Electoral College.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“What?” you ask. The Electors must vote their party’s choice”.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Sorry – that’s a myth, and a very common misunderstanding of their purpose. The common myth that Electors MUST vote for the party’s choice is inaccurate as hell. Remember this as you read beyond the fact that the Electoral College system was developed by the Founding Fathers before partisan politics had even been considered; more than a decade before the first political parties even existed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Fact; the Electoral College was developed by the Constitutional Convention in 1787, before the Constitution, of which the Electoral College process is a part, was even ratified in 1788.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">And, for further destruction of the myth; the first political parties didn’t even begin to sprout their ugly twigs until 1796 when the “Federalist Party”, given birth by Alexander Hamilton and the “Jeffersonian Democratic-Republican Party” birthed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, began their first journey into partisan politics.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Many; but the primary concern of the Founding Fathers, who actually believed voting for the nation’s politicians was too important for commoners like you and me, AND given what the new nation had just experienced, the American Revolution, they were extremely concerned that foreign influence in future elections could return the nation to the distasteful habits of one-time Mother England. So; they developed the Electoral College to ensure that, in the event any foreign influence interfered with our elections, the Electors could override the effort.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Well, goddamn!! Does that sound familiar or what????</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">This is the easiest description to read, otherwise I’d send you to the “.gov page” and you’d be there for a week, just trying to find the information about the topic.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the-electoral-college/2012/11/02/2d45c526-1f85-11e2-afca-58c2f5789c5d_story.html?utm_term=.51405cf96ba1" style="background-color: black;"><b>From The Washington Posts “Five Myths About the Electoral College”.</b><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: #81699b;"><b></b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-kerning: none;"><b><i style="background-color: black;">5. Electors must vote for the candidate who wins their state.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-kerning: none;"><i style="background-color: black;">In theory, this is true. In practice, however, electors may vote for whomever they please, and on rare occasions, they do. In a tight election, such behavior might deny either candidate a majority of the electoral vote and throw the election into the House of Representatives.</i></span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: white; font-kerning: none;"><i style="background-color: black;">For generations, pollsters have found that a clear majority of Americans support direct election of the president. The longer we cling to the electoral college, the longer we’ll have presidential campaigns that leave large numbers of voters feeling left out, along with a system that distorts the public’s preferences.</i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">So, you and I aren’t the only ones who have a bit of distaste for the process, but in light of recent events, IF they follow their instructions as provided by those incredibly wise men almost exactly 240 years ago, we will avoid catastrophe.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Remember that little thing called “The Supremacy Clause and the Doctrine of Preemption”?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">You should, if you don’t; it’s the very focal point of many outrageous “uprisings” including the recent events at a wildlife refuge in Oregon by a bunch of nut cases by the name of Bundy and the other event, fomented by the same people who tried to create a shootout with Federal authorities north of Las Vegas.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">In essence, the Constitution of the United States is the Supreme Law of the land. And the Electoral College is part of that very U.S. Constitution. So; the states can write all the laws they wish, but if they are in contradiction to the Constitution, those laws are the same lips on a chicken. And, the Electors cannot be punished for doing what the Constitution tells them to do.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">In reality, they have another option – to refuse to allow the worst demagogue in the history of our nation into the office and take it to the House of Representatives as is required by the U.S. Constitution, if we’re to preserve what the nation’s Founding Fathers created and prevent precisely what they feared.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Although some states, heavily influenced by early modern partisanship, have enacted “laws” insisting that Electors behave as they’re told, not as they’re supposed to behave, those laws have exactly zero impact legally. The specific political parties can certainly remove them, but; why would they do such a thing and openly oppose the very Constitution they’ve vowed to protect?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know; they already do it all the time.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Now, let me make it perfectly clear, my team is neither Republican nor Democrat; I’m a partisan outcast, registered as a “non-affiliated” voter in my state, or most commonly referred to as “independent”.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">I do this for two very important reasons (<i>at least important to me</i>): the parties are NOT giving us qualified candidates who have the needs of US citizens in mind; and I firmly believe partisan politics, in its current state, is antithetical to democracy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">I’ll vote Democrat, Republican, Green party, Purple Party, or Independent. But definitely NOT the “orange-man party.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">So, keep all this in mind as you read, for I guarantee you, that your first inclination, had I not forewarned you, would be saying “this is just another old Democrat fart pissing and moaning about the loss of the election to the Republicans.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Sorry, another myth.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">I know this for certain, for I’ve already engaged in conversation with many “conservatives” on various Websites since the election, trying to debate the catastrophic results this is going to present us with.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">And, without exception, that is precisely what every one of those with whom I “spoke” said, along with volumes of juvenile expletives, long before they even bothered to question my reasons for not accepting the results of this “election.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The truth of it is, neither Clinton, nor Trump could care less about my needs, or yours. Neither of them could care less about the nation’s needs.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Rather; Hillary Clinton was looking for a chance to create a second Clinton legacy and hell, probably even another Clinton Presidential Library, while Donald Trump is looking to use the Oval office to advance his already massive financial empire.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Make no mistake about the validity, and the horrific consequences we need to be prepared for as a result, of the latter portion of that statement.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The recent information we’re now receiving about Trump, post-election, is the same issues and behaviors I was concerned about from the beginning and throughout his “campaign”, many of which violate the Constitution and Federal laws. Below are problems I saw then and see now, and why they are problems:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>President Elect Trump is determined to <a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2016-12-13/donald-trump-likely-to-use-presidency-to-benefit-his-businesses-poll"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(129, 105, 155); color: #81699b;"><b>continue growing his financial</b></span></a> power while he is in the Oval Office</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>This not only <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/2635.702"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(129, 105, 155); color: #81699b;"><b>violates the law</b></span></a>, it is <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/lindachavez/2016/06/03/trump-treads-on-the-constitution-n2172571"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(129, 105, 155); color: #81699b;"><b>unconstitutional</b></span></a> for an individual to use their political position to further their personal worth/wealth. Trump’s sole attention must be devoted to governing the nation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Trump insists that the presidency is a <a href="http://trump%20presidency%20is%20part%20time%20job/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(129, 105, 155); color: #81699b;"><b>part-time job</b></span></a> and, in his own words, he will <a href="http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/donald-trump-mark-burnett-celebrity-apprentice-executive-producer-1201937420/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(129, 105, 155); color: #81699b;"><b>continue producing</b></span></a> his absurdly silly reality show</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>While he may not be required to (<i>and it may even be virtually impossible due to the expanse of his empire</i>) divest in order to remain impartial and impervious to outside influences, he certainly <a href="http://www.npr.org/2016/06/09/481351291/if-elected-president-would-trump-put-his-investments-in-a-blind-trust"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(129, 105, 155); color: #81699b;"><b>needs to create more distance</b></span></a> than he seems intent upon doing. I don’t believe for a second that this man will leave running the business in the hands of his children, not even his highly intelligent and seemingly capable daughter (<i>yep, that one, the one he would like to date</i>). Trump is far too narcissistic to allow anyone but Donald to run his business empire.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Trump has immense worldwide financial holdings that can and WILL present security issues</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Maintaining financial ties to foreign interests is a direct conflict of interest and <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/23/donald-trump-foreign-business-deals-national-security-498081.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(129, 105, 155); color: #81699b;"><b>raises serious security issues for the US</b></span></a>, for a president can easily make global decisions based solely upon those foreign interests. There are already issues arising before he even takes office. A recent hint of an article being prepared by Newsweek gives us a terrifying glimpse at this reality. Turkish business connections are already attempting to turn the screws on the US to turn over the <a href="http://turkish%20imam%20in%20pennsylvania/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(129, 105, 155); color: #81699b;"><b>Turkish Imam</b></span></a>, or <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/its-happening-maddow-previews-explosive-newsweek-story-that-hints-at-turkeys-blackmail-of-trump/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(129, 105, 155); color: #81699b;"><b>lose the “Trump Tower” business connections</b></span></a> in that country. And Turkey is “an ally”. Imagine what a nation such as China, where much of his, and his daughter’s, clothing products are made. And Russia, who has very strong connections with Exxon oil tycoon Rex Tillerson. I am certain Putin will use that to his advantage and if you aren’t, you aren’t wearing rose-colored lenses, you’re wearing total blackout-blinders</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Before he’s even been inaugurated, he’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/12/donald-trump-questions-us-commitment-to-one-china-policy"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(129, 105, 155); color: #81699b;"><b>disrupting US relationships with foreign governments</b></span></a>, all of which are stunned at his behavior.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Though it’s nothing unusual for President Elects to receive congratulatory phone calls, Trump is aggressively pursuing personal agenda with foreign nations via those and other calls. His entire campaign was filled with negative remarks about China, and Trump would have the ability as President to start trade wars. <a href="http://donald%20trump%20welcomes%20trade%20war%20with%20china/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(129, 105, 155); color: #81699b;"><b>This, he has all but sworn to do with China</b></span></a>. If he lives up to his promise, <a href="http://fortune.com/2016/11/10/donald-trump-china-trade/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(129, 105, 155); color: #81699b;"><b>he will indeed begin a trade war </b></span></a>by substantially increasing tariffs on imported goods. The really frightening concern about trade wars, is trade wars are notorious for turning into military conflicts, and here we have Trump calling for <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/04/06/should-more-countries-have-nuclear-weapons-donald-trump-thinks-so/?utm_term=.69ec8a10de98"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(129, 105, 155); color: #81699b;"><b>Japan and Saudi Arabia to develop nuclear weapons</b></span></a> before he starts those trade wars</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">These and his endless, oddly disconnected rants and comments go far beyond unacceptable behavior; they defy all acceptable norms of adulthood, much less presidential decorum. They range from the most absurd statements I’ve heard a sane, mature adult make “I know more about ISIS than the generals do” and “I get my foreign intelligence from watching the news” to offensive and degrading remarks that give us a glance into his true abhorrent self and his attitude towards others; in particular <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politics/donald-trump-sexism-tracker-every-offensive-comment-in-one-place/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(129, 105, 155); color: #81699b;"><b>women</b></span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Oh yeah, and the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016%E2%80%A6"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(129, 105, 155); color: #81699b;"><b>Mexican-Americans</b></span></a>, the <a href="http://fortune.com/2016/06/07/donald-trump-racism-quotes/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(129, 105, 155); color: #81699b;"><b>African-Americans</b></span></a>, the stupid people in <a href="http://how%20stupd%20are%20the%20peoplein%20iowa/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(129, 105, 155); color: #81699b;"><b>Iowa</b></span></a>, the <a href="http://www.dw.com/en/how-donald-trump-managed-to-wear-out-scotlands-welcome/a-36257814"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(129, 105, 155); color: #81699b;"><b>Scots</b></span></a>, hell, even the rest of our team <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRUc11fPAwk"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(129, 105, 155); color: #81699b;"><b>America</b></span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">I suppose, in a very odd twist, we are indeed all on one team in this circumstance, for one thing’s for certain, he abhors virtually everyone other than himself, the one person he really loves.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Now, here teammate (<i>or not</i>). If you can read these quotes and still have a desire to see this man in the White House, I say you have a serious “id” issue yourself. These range from utterly childish fabrications (<i>such as the first one below</i>), to senseless ramblings similar to those of a rambling ninety-year old with Alzheimer’s.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">At a November 2015 rally, for example, Donald Trump stated that he watched the Twin Towers come down in Jersey City, NJ, and that thousands of Muslims there cheered what was occurring:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">During a March 2006 appearance on “The View” with his daughter Ivanka, Donald Trump was asked how he would react if Playboy magazine were to ever feature Ivanka’s picture on its cover. Mr. Trump responded:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">At a December 2015 rally in Charleston, South Carolina, just a few days after the San Bernardino shooting, Trump told thousands of supporters:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">In his book, <i>“</i>Trump: The Art of the Comeback,” Donald Trump pontificated on women:</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-kerning: none;"><i style="background-color: black;">“Women have one of the great acts of all time. The smart ones act very feminine and needy, but inside they are real killers. The person who came up with the expression ‘the weaker sex’ was either very naive or had to be kidding. I have seen women manipulate men with just a twitch of their eye — or perhaps another body part.”</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">In April 2015, after Baltimore erupted in protests regarding Freddie Gray’s death in police custody, Donald Trump took to Twitter blaming President Obama for the violence there.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-kerning: none;"><i style="background-color: black;">“Our great African-American President hasn’t exactly had a positive impact on the thugs who are so happily and openly destroying Baltimore.”</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">In a 1991 interview with Esquire, Donald Trump suggested that sexy girlfriends are the antidotes to bad press:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">During his candidacy announcement speech in June 2015, Donald Trump first proposed the idea of building a wall along America’s southern border, adding that, due to his real estate experience, he was uniquely qualified for the job:</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-kerning: none;"><i style="background-color: black;">“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending the best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems and they’re bringing those problems. They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime. They’re rapists and some, I assume, are good people, but I speak to border guards and they’re telling us what we’re getting.”</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">On October 28, 2012, he tweeted this about Grammy, Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Bette Midler:</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-kerning: none;"><i style="background-color: black;">“While @BetteMidler is an extremely unattractive woman, I refuse to say that because I always insist on being politically correct.”</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">In his 1990 book, “Trump: Surviving at the Top,” Donald Trump addressed his dating track record:</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-kerning: none;"><i style="background-color: black;">“I’ve never had any trouble in bed, but if I’d had affairs with half the starlets and female athletes the newspapers linked me with, I’d have no time to breathe.”</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">In February 2016, while delivering a victory speech following the Nevada caucuses, Donald Trump proclaimed his love for the various demographics that led him to victory:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">During a July 2015 campaign event at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, Donald Trump took on Senator John McCain’s reputation as a war hero:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">In his 2004 book, “Trump: How to Get Rich,” Donald Trump wrote:</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-kerning: none;"><i style="background-color: black;">“All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me – consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.”</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">In an August 2015 interview with the <i>New York Times, </i>Donald Trump commented on supermodel Heidi Klum, who had just turned 42:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">During the CNN GOP debate in September 2015, moderator Jake Tapper asked Dr. Ben Carson if he believes that vaccines can cause autism. He does not. When the question was asked of Donald Trump, however, he responded:</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-kerning: none;"><i style="background-color: black;">“I am totally in favor of vaccines. But I want smaller doses over a longer period of time. Same exact amount, but you take this little beautiful baby, and you pump–I mean, it looks just like it’s meant for a horse, not for a child, and we’ve had so many instances, people that work for me. … [in which] a child, a beautiful child went to have the vaccine, and came back and a week later had a tremendous fever, got very, very sick, now is autistic.”</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">On May 8, 2013, Donald Trump took to Twitter to explain his superiority to “the haters,” writing:</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-kerning: none;"><i style="background-color: black;">“Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest -and you all know it! Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure, it’s not your fault.”</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">In a May 2012 interview with Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren, Donald Trump addressed his Twitter feud with Cher by saying:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">In his June 2015 candidacy announcement speech, Donald Trump told a cheering crowd of supporters:</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-kerning: none;"><i style="background-color: black;">“Our country is in serious trouble. We don’t have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don’t have them. When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let’s say China, in a trade deal? I beat China all the time. All the time.”</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">During an August 2015 CNN interview, shortly after the Fox News GOP debate, Donald Trump said of moderator Megyn Kelly:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">During his candidacy announcement speech in June 2015, Donald Trump first proposed the idea of building a wall along America’s southern border, adding that, due to his real estate experience, he was uniquely qualified for the job:</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-kerning: none;"><i style="background-color: black;">“I will build a great wall — and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me –and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.”</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">I will be first in line to say that virtually NO presidency has been problem-free, but this presidency in the planning stages is rife with immaturity, mental instability, racism, extreme exceptionalism, off the wall and incredibly lame remarks that should make anyone wonder about his thought processes, and worst of all, highly concerning comparabilities to other despotic regimes, both historical and current; regimes the United States should be opposing and preventing, not creating within our own borders – borders that this despot wants to wall off.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">As you can see, these are not one of those one source “fake news” as many extremists childishly claim if any story is in disagreement with their perspective. This is one story after another and another and another, all of which add up to a despot who just hamstrung the political process in the U.S. as many Americans went to the polls, either asleep, or in their version of wonderland. The various reports are gleaned from following the patterns of behavior, comments, and the total disregard for reality, truth and stability by a very unstable person.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Yet; I would personally be perfectly satisfied if another Republican is selected by the House of Representatives; ANYONE other than Trump, using the Oval Office as a stage for his megalomania and the expansion of the Trump empire; all while he sells the rest of the nation down the river.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">For those of you who voted to end rule by corporate billionaires, you should look at who you elected and who he’s selecting for his cabinet positions. You may have had utopian dreams of releasing us from demagoguery, but this election has only saddled us all with a nightmare instead; a nightmare that is Demagoguery Hell.</span></div>
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Much ado about it if you're Vladimir Putin, Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson, Petro Poroshenko, Lionel Messi and Ian Cameron, etc.</div>
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I did. The first time I read the breaking news - not one US official, or citizen named anywhere. "Curious;" I thought. I even began to suspect a cover-up, but I was dead wrong and this is why:</div>
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I had forgotten that, for the very rich and the corporations in the US, it is perfectly legal to rob our nation of taxes. Completely legal, and very common for them to take advantage of GOP supported trade agreements which provide these tax havens.</div>
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This particular arrangement with Panama is relatively new - five years ago, a majority of our puke-inducing, rage-generating elected officials passed the Trade Promotion Act with Panama (TPA), making it perfectly legal for our US corporations and our very wealthy to hide money in that country.</div>
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Five years ago, a few of our politicians were vociferously opposed to the act, but unfortunately, the majority, mostly the GOP (<i>what a surprise</i>) were in favor.</div>
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The stakes are not just economic. South Korea, Colombia and Panama are three important partners in strategically vital regions. With the passage of these agreements, America has delivered for our friends and allies. I want to thank Presidents Lee, Santos and Martinelli for their patience and willingness to partner with the Obama Administration as these agreements moved through Congress. </blockquote>
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But our work is not yet done. We will not be content until these agreements are fully implemented so that American exporters can reap the benefits as soon as possible." <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238);"><a href="https://blogs.state.gov/stories/2011/10/13/passage-colombia-panama-and-south-korea-trade-agreements" target="_blank">DipNote US Department of State Official Blog</a></span></blockquote>
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The siege at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon is coming to an end. We knew it would, just as all such actions end, sooner or later.</div>
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Despite their claims of peaceful negotiations, they threatened two communities with violence; repeatedly threatened and goaded law enforcement officers into violent confrontation and harassed citizens of the surrounding communities; people who neither invited, nor wanted the "peaceful" group in their towns or business.</div>
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In an era of utter obsession with firearms and personal rights in the United States, peace is not at the top of the list of objectives with groups such as those who illegally seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. In fact, peace is not even a remote possibility, for firearms do not represent peace, rather they literally exude violence. The very existence of firearms is for violent action, or reaction.</div>
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The <a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ff-oregon-refuge-fbi-20160127-story.html"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 170, 220); color: #00aadc;">L.A. Times</span></a> reports, and we've all read and/or heard the comments from Bundy and others of the group insist that; "the occupiers’ principle concerns—upholding the Constitution, protecting the rights of individuals and crushing socialism."</div>
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However; the same uninvited, "law-abiding and peaceful" group, according to multiple sources including the L.A. Times noted:</div>
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When groups of people use intimidation, fear and force to declare their rights over the rights of all others, such as the Bundy Bunch; how are we to discern between them and the likes of the Taliban, ISIS, or any other terrorist group? As far as I'm concerned, there is very little to differentiate them.</div>
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It's beyond me what connection the BLM and Socialism have, but what is abundantly clear is that peace was of no concern for the Bundy Bunch. In fact; I dare say they were hoping for a violent outcome. That was as evident in Oregon as it was in Bunkerville, Nevada.</div>
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There's a problem with so many people declaring their "rights" in such vociferous, confrontational and violent manners. "Rights" are not what one group forces upon others. Rather; rights are what all respect and allow others to observe without impeding upon one another.</div>
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Without creating an endless "Hammurabi's Code" defining everything for everyone, I believe the Founders of this nation expected the future citizens of this nation to respect one another's rights without having to precisely define them.</div>
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And therein lies the quandary. We, in the United States, Iran, Iraq, Syria, etc.. have become so obsessed with "our" rights, we can neither see, nor respect the rights of others.</div>
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How do we insist upon the nation being "Christian" without trampling the rights of those of the Muslim Faith, or of no faith? How can we insist upon marriage as being between male and female only without discounting the rights of those of the LBGT Community among us?</div>
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How can we be a nation of peace when the first thing we think of using for "peaceful protest" are firearms?</div>
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Many, including The Bundy Bunch are infamous for this lack of respect for the rights of all. One cannot consider public land open for their own financial gain, for public land is precisely what it implies - it is land owned by the government (the government you and I elect) to protect, for public access and enjoyment, against those who would use (and abuse) for their personal financial gain.</div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">The Malheur National Wildlife Refuge is over and what did it accomplish? Just as with the Bundy Ranch standoff, absolutely nothing, for Cliven Bundy still owes you and I a very hefty bill for grazing on our public land.</span></div>
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Nothing gained, except this time, it cost a man his life who seemed to want to die in some self-fancied martyrdom during a "peaceful protest." A protest to ensure his personal rights over the rights of the entire nation to maintain public land.</div>
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False Absolutes</h3>
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Arguments frequently ignore reality, are always devoid of empathy, and never productive.</div>
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Once humans reach the extreme emotional stage created by a potential threat to their self interest and their accepted dogma, they will rarely, if ever, see anything beyond the creed they have committed themselves to. There are simply too many emotions at stake when they endow upon themselves the “absolute truths” of their world.</div>
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Pride, self-confidence, embarrassment, etc.; ignoring all logic that may show them the alternative truths, the end result of their emotional position is, well it is nothing.</div>
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Nothing is accomplished; they are right and everyone else is wrong. Period!</div>
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In a world of seven billion humans; hell, in a nation of there-hundred million, absolute is only possible in proven science, yet we in the United States are severely divided by many false absolutes and no false absolute could be more divisive than the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.</div>
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Masters of Manipulation</h3>
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Hidden in these false absolutes is a man almost all of us have heard of; a man most would never associate with the US Constitution, and certainly not the second amendment. Yet; he permeates our world like the air we breath. He is often called the Father of Propaganda, even the Father of Marketing.</div>
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Hermann Goering was not A master of creating false absolutes, he is THE master of this psychological “art.” He was the master of the Nazi propaganda machine, one of, if not the most successful marketing efforts EVER; a man whose techniques are used probably more than the psychology of Freud, the science of astronomy, or the teachings of Jesus and Mohammed combined. A marketing scheme that ended with more than six million innocent people executed and <a href="http://www.nationalww2museum.org/learn/education/for-students/ww2-history/ww2-by-the-numbers/world-wide-deaths.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #81699b; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">approximately one-hundred and fifty million people across the globe dead</a> is is work.</div>
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The planet is filled with students of Goering many of which work for Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Northrup Grumman, Colt, Remington, Ruger, Newscorp. Viacom, Time Warner, the Democratic and Republican political parties, The National Rifle Association, etc……..</div>
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Neoliberalism</h3>
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There is nothing new about the concept of “neoliberalism,” but the term is relatively new in the US, with good reason.</div>
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The idea of neoliberalism is, very succinctly – the rich get richer and the poor poorer. It is an economic concept in which <a href="http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/neoliberalism.html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #81699b; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">few control the wealth of the entire world.</a></div>
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Until the 1980’s, our economy was booming, becoming more and more inclusive. In other words, working class America was gaining in our efforts to reduce the wealth gap in the US.</div>
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Collective bargaining and our unions were instrumental in improving the lives of millions of Americans. Our economy was amazingly strong and stable. Social programs were increasing and lifting those in poverty out of the trenches and into homes. Communities were thriving and people were united in their effort to live a decent, comfortable life; people were happy and united.</div>
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Keep that in mind – <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“people were happy and united.”</strong></span></div>
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In 1981, an economic policy called “trickle down economics” was introduced by a very wealthy television actor who was most certainly a member of the wealthy elite of this nation and the perfect tool for the wealthiest of the wealthy in this world.</div>
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When Ronald Reagan took up residence in the White House, we watched our unions dissolve. We saw the wealth gap not only return, but grow quicker than ever before.</div>
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Everyone is complaining incessantly today about executive orders issued by or our current president and frankly, I agree. Executive action is not an authority that should be misused. However, as you can see, it’s not even remotely unique to Obama <a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/orders.php" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #81699b; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">(Obama – 227 to date, Reagan 381)</a></div>
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Far more devastating to our welfare, Reagan even took it upon himself to terminate employment of an entire industry, just for exercising their rights to collective bargaining. And, if you think about it, you can see the reasoning behind his action – he had the entire airline industry seeking his help.</div>
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What, is more important to collective bargaining than leverage?</div>
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Reagan’s action against the air traffic controllers in the US marked the beginning of the end for income equality and the beginning of Neoliberalism in the US.</div>
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Second Amendment, The Patsy Amendment</h3>
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What does any of the previous have to do with the Second Amendment you ask?</div>
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I can think of nothing more divisive in this nation than the ever-present argument over firearms. Nothing in my entire 64 years of life has created such dissension among an entire, supposedly, “free and developed population.” Nothing.</div>
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Our arguments are utterly filled with false absolutes; for who can possibly know for certain what the Founding Fathers were saying with the verbiage of the Second Amendment?</div>
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We have Constitutional scholars nationwide who can’t agree on the matter, yet we have millions of ordinary citizens across the nation arguing that they know for certain what it means.</div>
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I don’t know for certain and I am willing to bet you don’t.</div>
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The verbiage of the Second Amendment is not as clear as many seem to think and we are certainly not in the situation the nations founders were when they wrote the words. Nothing is even remotely similar between then and now.</div>
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While we argue amongst ourselves and the division between you and me grows daily, we are creating a chasm that makes the Grand Canyon seem like a slight crack in the sidewalk.</div>
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We are arguing over false absolutes; over a scenario that doesn’t even exist. Why?</div>
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The world is being controlled my friend, by subscribers to neoliberalism. You know it as well as I do – one percent of the world’s population owns ninety-nine percent of the world’s wealth.</div>
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An absolute that, unfortunately, you can’t take to the bank. Why?</div>
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Because you and I allowed this to happen. While we were arguing over semantics; over non-existent boogymen and conspiracies; over theological and political differences, the one percent took our decreasing wealth gap and turned it against us.</div>
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The Master Manipulators used our nation’s psyche against us, creating propaganda that insists “we must arm ourselves.”</div>
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The Hermann Goering students and teachers who are working for the gun manufacturers lobby – the NRA have reached into our minds and pockets to increase that wealth gap even more, while the firearms industry is growing beyond their wildest dreams. And frankly, out of control.</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“People were happy and united,”</strong></span> but no longer. The patsy amendment is being used to destroy us; we are no longer even remotely united. We argue over false absolutes while we become poorer and poorer. We have become so divided, we no longer trust one another to even walk and talk together, unless we’re carrying our Colts, our Rugers and Remingtons hidden in our belts and in our socks.</div>
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<a href="http://riseuptimes.org/2016/01/08/henry-a-giroux-americas-addiction-to-violence/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #81699b; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">Violence feeds</a> on corporate controlled disimagination machines that celebrate it as a sport while upping the pleasure quotient for the public. Americans do not merely engage in violence, they are also entertained by it. This kind of toxic irrationality and lure of violence is mimicked in America’s aggressive foreign policy, in the sanctioning of state torture, and in the gruesome killings of civilians by drones.</div>
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Rather than bring violence into a political debate that would limit its production, various states increase its possibilities by taking a plunge into insanity with the passing of laws that allow “guns at places from bars to houses of worship.”[7] Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law, based on the notion that one should shoot first and ask questions later is a morbid reflection of America’s national psychosis regarding the adulation of gun culture and the paranoiac fears that fuel it. This fascination with guns and violence has produced a pathology that reaches the highest levels of government and serves to further anti-democratic and authoritarian forces…..</div>
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There is a not so hidden structure of politics at work in this type of sanctioned irrationality. Advocating for gun rights provides a convenient discourse for ignoring a “harsh neoliberal corporate-state order that routinely generates pervasive material suffering, social dislocation, and psychological despair—worsening conditions that ensure violence in its many expressions.</div>
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I don’t need to tell you what comes next. You might wish to consider the divided nations such as Syria, Iraq, Libya, etc…. for future reference.</div>
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<span style="color: white;">For more on this matter, listen to the audio</span> <a href="http://www.alternativeradio.org/products/girh001#" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #81699b; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;">“The Human Coasts of Neoliberalism”</a></div>
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