,I watched the other night, as Barak Obama, a man I respect greatly, exhibited his despair at the criminal who has replaced him as president of this country. The presidency has brought to us a wide and disparate group of men, some brilliant, some dumb as a post, some highly functional, others blatantly incompetent, but until now we have not had a president who was an actual criminal. We have had men in the presidency that did awful things in support of policies that were abysmally wrong but to the best of my knowledge none did things that were wrong just for his personal advancement or to enrich his own bank account. Trump is just a cheap crook. All right, maybe he’s an expensive crook but he is definitely a crook and once he is no longer protected by the veil of the presidency his indictments should pile up like ’88 Chevys at a demolition derby.
Just like any mob boss who is only comfortable with men who reflect hi; Trump has surrounded himself with criminals. He chooses criminals as his associates because he so often needs them to act in a criminal manner in order to carry out the jobs he wants them to do.
There has been a lot of speculation over how much provable dirt Bannon has to trade for a light sentence. He was deeply involved in the 2016 Trump campaign and the period after; all of which involved a lot of communication that has often been alluded to as collusion with the Russians. Does he have something to trade and will it be important enough to help him? I never thought Bannon was as smart as those who admired him claimed, but this stupid con shows he is just as dumb as the rest of the crooks who have followed Trump down the rabbit hole.
Of course once you start talking about what Bannon may know about Trump and the Russians you have to start asking again; why was Geoffrey Berman really fired? Was he investigating Bannon and this case? Considering Bannon’s relationship with the President and the criminal nature of both, it all looks pretty suspicious. If it can be proven that Barr fired Berman because he was investigating Bannon, it would present an awfully good case to put Barr behind bars
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How do you vote for an incompetent boob who stands in front of a TV camera and tells an audience of millions that the postal service; of which he is in charge, won’t be able to handle the rush of ballots at election time and so the election will be rigged? Well, if you’re Donald Trump I guess you blame it on Barak Obama who hasn’t been in office for four years. This is an imbecile, too stupid to realize that if the post office doesn’t work and he’s the president, it’s his fault.
This is a clown that admits he can’t do the job he was elected to do, but still wants those dumb enough to buy his bullshit to vote for him anyway.
So when you vote, remember which guy already told you he can’t do the job.
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Mark Meadows says that Trump reads more than anybody he knows Does that mean that all of Meadow’s friends are in pre-school? But you’ve got to hand it to him. He’s not a coward. He showed up on This Week, knowing that he would be preceded by the news of Trump’s sister bad mouthing the Fat Liar all over national TV. But having a little bit of guts doesn’t mean you have to have even a little bit of brains. Meadows actually stated that the virus isn’t just going to go away.
Wait! Didn’t Trump say that the virus was just going to go away? You’d think maybe these clowns would get their stories straight? But then Trump has never gotten his story straight. He just goes on lying.
The GOP convention is happening and we’re told that all Trumps’ children and their spouses will appear and speak. That’s the part of the family for which he pays the bills. The ones that don’t depend on him to eat all have a different story to tell. But Trump doesn’t want you to hear that.
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In another discussion this week it was suggested that even if Biden’s motives and plans are correct that there will not be enough money to carry them out. This is ludicrous. There is plenty of money out there; it’s just a question of taking it back from where Trump and the GOP hid it and putting it to work solving the problems they created.
Where are those places? Let’s start with waste in the military where hundreds of millions have been wasted building weapons that are no longer functional just because certain military industrial complex players have lobbies big enough to put money in the right hands. Then lets go on to the only piece of legislation that Trump got passed, the one in which he gave unneeded tax breaks to billionaires and corporations that were already paying no taxes. Then we can go on to the subsidies that are still going to fossil fuel corporations that are costing us hundreds of millions in cleanup costs even while they continue to poison the land. The above waste adds up to two or three trillion. Then we get to income in the form of tax packages that impose tiny taxes on stock trades, or on income to billionaires on everything over $50 million, which can produce even more trillions in revenue. Don’t kid yourselves folks and what’s more important, don’t let the Republicans lie to you. There’s plenty of money out there for even the Progressives most wildly imagined programs.
I’m not saying we implement them all, but I am saying that we should pursue many of them simply because they will help to make the lives of the people of this country better and by doing that make this a better country in which to live.
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In another interesting development, Martha Raddatz interviewed three voters in North Carolina who had all voted for Trump in the last election. The first was a white woman who owns a tobacco farm. Her problem with abandoning Trump was that she didn’t want to see socialism take over the country. This woman sells poison for a living and she’s worried about socialism.
The next was a black woman involved in education and child-care. She said she wouldn’t vote for Trump again if her life depended on it.
The third was a seemingly middle class white man with a family who is still torn. He is a lifelong Republican who votes that way because he approves of GOP policy but he is torn now because he understands that Trump is a liar with zero character who doesn’t fit his image of a president while Biden does.
Do they really represent voters across the country? Does this mean that Trump will lose 2/3rds of those who voted for him last time? Sure, it sounds good but we’ll just have to wait and see.
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Chris Christie made a big point on Meet the Press about all the Democratic candidates at the debate raising heir hands when the question came up at the debates of who supported decriminalizing the border. His point was that these are the people who will make up Biden’s cabinet and if you are uncomfortable with decriminalizing the border you have to look at the alternative. It was a nice little speech until you got to the punch line. The “alternative” they will look at is Trump and that’s the GOP’s problem. No intelligent, functional human being will vote for that “alternative.”
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Barbara Comstock former GOP Senator from Virginia made the GOP’s last most futile plea this Sunday when she suggested that even if you aren’t going to vote for Trump you should vote for your Republican Senator just to keep the Democrats from having both houses of congress along with the Presidency. That, she said, would keep a balance in government. What she didn’t say, maybe what she doesn’t understand, is that giving the Senate to the GOP will guarantee the same kind of gridlock that our government has lived with for the last 30 years. Nothing gets done with a split congress. Bills get passed when you have agreement across the government. Sometime you love the bills and sometimes you hate them, like when the Democrats passed the bail-out after the 2008 crash, or maybe you hate them like when the Republicans passed their rich guy loving tax bill, but at least they represent action and right now we are desperate for action on problems like the COVID-19 virus, healthcare in general, jobs, education, infrastructure, gun control, student debt, immigration, you name it. Trump has stalled or eliminated almost every program necessary to make this the United States we all want and need. It’s time for him to go and his Senate with him. It’s way past time.