It’s obvious that someone has finally explained the concept of “face” as understood in the Asian world to Donald Trump. He opened his interview on the trade deal with a long peon to Xi before he talked tough about our position on trade with China. This is in contrast to the way he spoke about Kim before he decided he loved him and wanted to have his children.
Ignoring, as he has, the serious nature of the world’s most pressing concern, the climate, Trump failed to show at the G7 environmental conference. Then he told the press that he couldn’t make it because he had a meeting with Indian and Pakistani leaders about the situation in Kashmir. One problem. The leaders he named were, present at the climate meeting, exposing what he had said as just another Trump lie.
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At some point, hopefully before the election in, 2020, America will have to deal with the fact that we have a President who does something wrong every day he is alive. I’m not talking mistakes I’m talking about deliberate decisions that hurt this country, its citizens or innocent bystanders. I’m talking about acts of dishonesty, depravity or out and out inhumanity. The fact of the matter is, that the thing in the White House is a vampire not a human being.
Normally he is guilty of some insane or inhuman act every day he is alive, but last week he had a special day. In only one day he committed three despicable acts that were all worthy of impeachment.
He started the day by declaring that he was going to hold the 2020 G7 meetings at the Doral Country Club in Miami. The Doral is a resort that has, in recent years, been cited by the health department of Miami for a myriad of violations, an almost unprecedented event if you know anything about Miami, but it is also owned by Trump. So for starters he is in violating the emoluments clause in he constitution, which is punishable by impeachment. Clinton was impeached for participating in a consensual sex act. Let’s see if Trump can get himself impeached for criminal activity?
Next he declared that it was okay for border officials to grab property by means of eminent domain so that he could construct a border wall for which he has no money to pay. When told that such action would be illegal, he commented that he would pardon anyone convicted. Who cares if his orders are illegal? Well, certainly not our president. But what about the poor clown who tries to serve the illegal papers on some irate homeowner and gets shot for trespassing. A pardon doesn’t do you any good when you’re dead. But what does Trump care? Nothing!
And on another front the Amazon is burning and on this day Trump moved to open Alaska to the logging off of the existing and ecologically necessary arboreal forest. Is he insane? Of course he is but that’s no excuse for trying to destroy the world.
Trump’s final act of inhumanity was reserved for his favorite victims, helpless immigrants. He has issued an order that rescinds an Obama order allowing sick people, primarily kids and their parents to travel to and remain in this country as long as needed for treatment that is not available in their home country. So the Trump administration is delivering letters to people while they are in the hospital, demanding that they leave the country within 33 days.
Is he crazy? No, just disgusting! Just an inhuman reptile; a bilious genetic mistake. Who does shit like this? What sub-human creature sits in his moldy corner of the cave and thinks this crap up? Is it really Trump or is it Steve Miller, another reptile that infects the White House. Somehow America must realize that we have elected a man to the Presidency who is not fit to drink dysentery. There is a foul creature infecting room after room in the White House and no anti-contaminant will ever be able to remove the stain he is leaving behind. America will forever be held responsible for the disease that is Donald Trump!
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Trump’s latest dip into inhumanity, deciding to kick sick children and their parents out of the country even though for most of them it will mean a death sentence, has managed to surpass even the ripping of babies from their mother’s breasts along the border.
We’ve all heard of war criminals. Trump is a peace criminal! On January 21, 2021 Trump will be out of office. Is there any sane, just man who will not fight to bring him before a jury?
For the sake of greed or hate or whatever, Donald Trump has attempted to inflict suffering and death on helpless people all across the country but especially on our borders and especially people of non-white or ethnic origin. I don’t know if Trump is crazy, he certainly acts like an insane person, but regardless, he must be disgraced before the nation.
Trump convicted before the world! Trump made to stand and face the disgrace he has, through his greed and degeneracy, brought on himself, his family, his followers and the nation, is part of the punishment, and in his miserable case it’s probably worse than hanging. Trump at the American version of Nuremburg is the only just result of his grotesque Presidency.
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The ego that walks like a man has informed us that despite a category 5 hurricane approaching the southeast coast of the nation, there’s no problem because he has everything under control. Really? That will definitely be a first. In fact he’s very fortunate that he somehow appointed Kevin McAleenan as Acting Director of Homeland Security because, unlike most of his appointees and his cabinet, McAleenan is a functioning human being and he does inspire faith in FEMA, which also has an acting director.
But because these men heading up our major rescue operations are only acting,the buck stops at Trump, a terrifying thought. With almost any other president except maybe George Bush, stopping at the president would be reassuring but never with the sick liar in the Oval Office. If something horrible does go wrong you can bet your last drachma that Trump will start blaming someone else before the first camera rolls.
Of course Trump could have gotten off the schnied simply by having his acting directors approved by congress but that would mean he would have lost a little bit of control over them and we all know that the egomaniac needs to feel that, like any good dictator, that he controls everything. That’s exactly why all his good appointees, and there have been very few of those, have left his administration, and why we are left with garbage like Mulvaney, Pompeo, Miller, DeVos, Cain and so many others not even worth naming, running what’s left of the country.
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So as of Sunday, Sept 1, Trump will impose big tariffs on almost all goods coming from China. Trump isn’t totally wrong in his attitude about China screwing us, he’s just totally wrong about how he’s dealing with it. The tariffs already imposed have been a burden on American consumers, American farmers and American manufacturing that uses component parts whose prices will increase because of the tariffs but still have to compete with European and other manufacturers who do not have tariffs increasing the costs of their products.
Sure China will be hurt by these tariffs too, maybe more than us, but the big problem is, tariffs do not deal with the major source of irritation, which ius China’s refusal to comply with our intellectual property laws, and that by not doing so they lower the competitive prices of their goods and steal from our patent and copyright holders.
Simply put, tariffs aren’t the answer to the problem. Direct confrontation on patented products is. This blog has already submitted that the answer to this problem is to ban the imports to this country of all products made by any company ignoring our intellectual property laws. That’s not just the patented products but also all other products. This will effectively ban said company from doing any business in America. Such a death sentence would force the Chinese to begin honoring our laws immediately or see a big piece of their trade completely disappear. I believe it would make the point without doing as much damage here as the tariffs promise to do.
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The latest mass murder in Texas … wait, didn’t I just say this a few days ago? Of course I did and it wasn’t new then. So what’s the problem? Between seventy and ninety percent of American’s want something done about guns, so there is no debate outside the bought and paid for congress. An enormous percent want something done so what’s the problem? Well, most of the problem is what to do.
Contrary to one popular canard: People kill people. Guns are just a tool. So if you want to slow he murder rate, take away the efficient tool and replace it with something that doesn’t do the job anywhere near as well.
I grew up a hunter and for twenty years of my adult life I was a federally licensed gun dealer. No I didn’t sell to the public but that’s not the point. My uncle, Joe Raso taught me to hunt and he had two rules. You use a single shot .22 or 30-30 because if you can’t hit your target with a single shot you aren’t ready to hunt and you don’t shoot what you don’t eat. People who kill animals for enjoyment are already too sick to own a gun. It is for that reason that I call for our legislative branches to come together and present the President with a veto proof bill that will prohibit the sale or ownership of any weapon that requires an ammunition clip to function. This will reduce the legal gun specs to single shot long guns and revolvers and will end the ownership of any and all automatic or semi-automatic weapons.
I look for a veto proof majority in this bill because our useless President who has lied about his backing of any number of bills after disasters like the last one. He spent his latest diatribe raving about how he didn’t think expanded gun regulations would work. Of course they will never be enough, but not for the same reason the liar in the Oval Office wants us to believe. He thinks if he tells us that the expanded background checks won’t work we’ll just forget about them and even more important, forget about getting rid of the guns that are killing our children. Let’s prove this disgusting liar wrong.