When Donald Trump was running for the Presidency he promised that he would appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate all the things Hillary Clinton was supposed to be doing illegally. That Prosecutor has now been appointed. This is literally the only thing that Trump promised that has actually come to pass. Trump and his thugs; men like Mike Flynn instigated the “Lock her up,” chant, at their rallies. That chant was aimed at propagating the fake news that what Hillary was doing was endangering America’s security with her email server. As it turned out that email server was just about the only one in Washington that the Russians were not able to hack. They did hack just about everything else including all the political porn channels that carried Trump’s message to his degenerate buddies. But now Trump, in the ultimate act of egotistical assholery has blabbed all kinds of classified material to the Russians and thinks nothing of it. This is what releasing classified information to the enemy really looks like. Are you watching 96%?
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Back in December Trump took a lot of credit for saving about 700 jobs in the auto industry. This week he bragged about the tremendous amount of jobs that he is creating in the auto industry. The reality is that between Ford and GM there will be about 5500 firings in the next couple of weeks. So what the hell happened to Trump’s job creation? Like everything else about Trump it was a phony lie. Trump isn’t creating any jobs except in his bloated head. If you voted for him based on his job promises you have once again, deservedly, been had.
Trump knows the manufacturing jobs that have been lost aren’t coming back but it suits his agenda to lie and so he does. The manufacturer of the future will be completely robotic and digital. By 2025 digital robots will produce 25% of our goods. Pick a manufacturer, Ford, Nike, Hasbro, Hershey, anyone you want, and you will see that the digital/robotic revolution is already a fact of manufacturing. You can simply get more products at a lower price and with better quality. It promotes greater merchandising, helps trade and productivity. And that merchandising will also be digital, costing even more jobs.
So what’s the answer? What happens to all the jobs if robots are doing them? How do we feed our families? The answer is training and retraining. No country in the first world except Germany has had the forethought to do this. We are getting our brains beat out by third world countries that do a bad job in areas where we can’t do the job at all. But they do it for five bucks an hour when our workers want twenty-five to get out of bed.
The only answer is education and we aren’t even considering programs that will fill the bill. The President’s new one page budget cuts most of the funds for training and education and his Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos doesn’t even know what adult job training is.
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So Trump has embarked on his “Getaway From My Critics in the States/World Peace Tour” and the first thing he did on his peace tour was sign an enormous arms deal with the Saudi’s. That’s the way Republicans promote peace, by selling guns.
But I‘m not being fair. This country has been selling guns all over the world for the last seventy years regardless of what Party was in office and we, more often than not, have been selling them to the wrong people. Let’s take a brief look at two countries in the Middle East on whom this deal will have the greatest effect, Saudi Arabia and Iran.
We have been friends with the Saudi’s ever since WWII. We buy their oil, educate their kids, sell them guns, ignore their human rights violations and whine uselessly as they promote a Wahhabi sect that is the progenitor of almost all current terrorism. Did I say we buy their oil? Well we do. They are the third largest supplier of oil to the United States, a country that uses more oil than any other in the world. But that percentage is a little deceiving because we supply about 80% of our own oil while Canada our second largest supplier sends about 12% and the Saudi’s less than 8%. The Saudi military has always depended on us to arm them and to train their officers and pilots. So what did we get for that? We got 911 where most of the terrorists who flew planes into the World Trade center came directly from Saudi Arabia and the guy who sent them; Osama bin Laden was a member of the Royal Family. So basically, no good deed goes unpunished.
Then there’s Iran, which used to be a really close friend of ours until their ruler told us he wanted to do business with both the Soviet Union and us. So we pouted, arranged an assassination and put the Shah, our own puppet, into power in that formerly friendly country. When they finally kicked the crooked Shah out they were no loner our friends. This despite the fact that previously they had been the most western of Middle Eastern countries, the most in line with our international thinking, the best educated country in the region, the most like us and the best suited to be our outpost in the Middle East. But that didn’t make any difference to Richard Nixon. No Arab was going to do what they wanted as long as he was President. Of course, the Iranians aren’t Arabs, they’re Persians but Nixon wouldn’t have known that.
Iran is still the best suited of all Middle Eastern countries to be our ally. The people love us even if the religious leaders don’t. The big lie is that they are the biggest exporters of terrorism in the world. Really? And the Sunni Wahhabi Sect that is the progenitor of both ISIS and Al Qaeda along with other terrorist groups is just your friendly neighborhood social club? Terrorism comes from all over the Middle East but mostly from Saudi Arabia, which also has a far worse human rights record than Iran has ever had. Still, that’s the bunch that Trump wants to be friends with. Maybe it has something to do with his oil interests or his hotels that sprinkle themselves all over the Saudi landscape.
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This blog understands that Trumpanzies refuse to give up their allegiance to the clown that is occupying the White House but that doesn’t make him any more intelligent or any less guilty of any number of offenses against the nation and humanity in general.
The latest blundering is the revelation that Trump approached the head of National Intelligence and the Director of NSA with the same request he made of James Comey; that they all intervene to stop the investigation of Trump’s administration for collusion with the Russians to tamper with our 2016 election.
Everyone understands that these clueless acts do not prove criminal intent but the fact that Trump approached these intelligence leaders to halt an investigation into an action that could involve him leads any cogent listener to arrive at the conclusion that Trump is covering up something. Innocent men don’t endanger their own positions for nothing. It’s the guilty that act the way that Trump has.
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Mike Flynn has officially declared himself guilty of anything of which the Senate committee wants to accuse him. He has done this by telling the committee that he will be taking the Fifth. That’s not this blog’s opinion it’s Mike Flynn’s. He stated this unequivocally when be declared that Clinton and her assistants would be guilty if they took the Fifth. His idiot boss, Trump, nailed it down when he came out with the same opinion. So okay, you called it, now you live with it.
The problem with Trump, and it appears, everyone with whom he surrounds himself, is dishonesty. Even more than that it’s stupidity. To be a really good crook you have to be smart and neither Trump nor any of his associates are anything but dumb. Buy that! Learn to live with it. Every time Trump even breathes without a script he screws up.
“We just got here from the Middle East.”
Where was Trump when he made that statement? –Israel. Where is Israel?
“I didn’t mention Israel. The name never crossed my lips.”
Who asked him? No one asked did you give Israel’s secrets out to the Russians but the big mouth boob just had to spill his guts like any guilty imbecile.
Commerce Secretary Wilber Ross simply had to make the statement that there were no protests at the event in Saudi Arabia. Really Wilber? Why do you think that is? Could it be because protesting in Saudi Arabia will most certainly cost you your head or a least an arm? Wilber could lose his head? Of course in Wilber’s case no one would notice the difference. Least of all Wilber.
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As the revelations keep rolling in about Trump trying to pressure various national intelligence and security people to drop the investigation into his collusion with the Russians, Trump keeps looking worse and worse. This blogger really didn’t think much would come of the investigations into the Russian hacking. By that I mean, that I really didn’t think anyone would be able to make the connection between Trump and the Russians. It really looked like a political ploy by the Democrats but now it is looking more and more like Trump really has something to hide. Why else would he be hustling all the heads of our security and intelligence operations to give it up? All his dumb actions have been revealed in an atmosphere of leaks. It seems that it’s impossible to keep anything secret in the White House. Not a great image for national security. Exposing himself to the danger of reckless conversations with the heads of our intelligence and security offices was the act of a desperate man, a guilty man, terrified of what the investigations would reveal.
There is one other possibility but even with a nut case like Trump it’s pretty far fetched. Of course it entails Trump’s ego and the fact that he lost the popular election, which has obviously acted as a burr stuck to his ass. For a man with his ego problems it really isn’t too far out to think he is trying to crush the Russian investigation because he doesn’t want anyone to think that they helped him get elected; that only his brilliant strategies and engaging personality were responsible for his victory. Of course if you believe that, you are forced into the position of realizing that anyone who would do what he has done because of ego is so nuts he needs the canvass suit with the straps, for his own good as well as that of the country.
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You cannot change the genes! It’s the punch line of an old joke but when expressed to describe our President it is right on the money. The one, maybe the only, good thing you can say about Donald Trump is that the guy who ran is the guy we got. He may have lied about his plans, he may have promised stuff he has no plans to deliver but the guy we saw in the political race, the bully, the misogynist, the racist, the terminal liar are all still there, only now they’re in the President.
It’s about character or the lack thereof, because the lack of character is what Donald Trump is all about. You can go back over every TV appearance that Trump has made since the beginning of his campaign and there isn’t one spot where you can see him doing the right thing just because it’s right. He has done a couple of things right, but it’s always because he is getting something for it. He has never made a move that went against his own interests simply because it advanced the greater good. It takes character to do that and character is something as alien to Trump as truth is to his press corp.
What kind of man praises slime like Erdagon and Duterte? Two dictators who are guilty of heinous crimes against heir own people. Trump does. Why? Not because he is trying to bring them over to the side of the angels but because he is trying to protect his properties in their countries. Trump has hotels in both of them. And, oh yeah, why is he in a position to be putting his own business empire in the way of what he does as President? Because like any cheap crook, completely without character, he refused to divest himself of the business elements that would obviously cause him problems when they came into conflict with his Presidential duties. All the other men who served in the White House managed to do this, but Trump wouldn’t. Why? Because retaining all his money was more important to him than being President. Yes, it would absolutely have cost Trump some money to divest before he took office but the cheap crook wasn’t willing to lose even one cent just to be President of this country. So all you clowns that thought this grubby con man was going to help you get jobs or healthcare can take another look. This degenerate creep isn’t going to help anyone but himself. This is a slug that would take the food from the mouth of your starving baby if he felt the slightest need to fill his fat belly. This is a man without character, without morals, without shame and without the slightest idea of what it means to possess those traits or how to act as President. This is the disaster we now have leading our nation.