Evil-Echo Empire Update

There’s an article below stating while nearly half of all voters support Trump’s impeachment, nearly 80% of Trump voters virtually admit to being enemies of America & our Constitution by saying Trump should remain in office even if he’s proven to have been involved with colluding with Russia! I honestly don’t understand the level of stupidity it takes to give a pass to an administration who plotted with our enemy to attack our election!  Folks, we’re talking about the real possibility of a serious crime here! With a base like that, no wonder the GOP has turned into such an unprincipled nutwing party! That unmistakable mindless & sinister thinking must have been cultivated through the echo. The echo & GOP base have truly taken the party down the gutter hole, becoming an evil presence threatening our rule of law & democratic system.

This goes well beyond political ideology, as we’re seeing powerful forces of deception infiltrating the party.  We have our work cut out for us trying to retrieve the majority of the GOP base back to some semblance of sanity, needing to deprogram them after they’ve been victims from many years of echo-brainwashing.  America will never regain their status as a great nation if one of their two major political parties remains so delusional in their radicalization, as they’re currently taking our nation down to a very dark place.  I’m a lifelong GOP supporter, so I’m calling them out since they’ve become unrecognizable as a responsible governing party.  Not enough in the base have perceived this slippery slope down a dangerous path the party has taken by falling for intellectually-dishonest depravity.

With millions in the GOP base being snookered daily by the echo, that’s why I’m shouting from the mountaintops they should take a step back & honestly evaluate the diseased garbage they are feeding their minds & believing in.  The echo has launched their audiences into a distant galaxy light years away from the planet Earth, subjecting those naïve followers to toxic mind-control masquerading as conservatism, where human logic, decency & honesty are tossed to the wind in favor of an unprecedented brand of entrenched tribal extremism.

If you’re aware of any friends or family members regularly immersed in shows like Dimbulb & Insanity, you know you’re dealing with a political mindset not steeped in reality, but much of that crowd seem so thoroughly brainwashed they’re beyond hope.  The echo has successfully indoctrinated a whole army of tunnel-visioned, closed-minded, hypnotized zombie-type creatures, like something out of Night of the Living Dead.  It’s unfortunate, but they accept all the lies since it promotes the pre-established ideologies supported by their team & readily accepted within the bubble.  Their bubble is a very dark, backward-thinking place that the light of truth rarely can penetrate.  In the darkness is where fascism can be allowed to fester, as one article below explains Trump is following an autocrat’s playbook.

I even liken the echo to being much like a cult with Trump the anointed leader.  Anyone who questions/criticizes their omnipotent sovereign chief, be it from inside or outside the cult, is to be dealt with harshly as an enemy.  To them it’s blasphemy for their supreme master to ever face opposition, since to cult members the great maharaja can do no wrong.  Even if he always lies & may have committed a heinous crime, that’s all well & good since in his infinite wisdom, he’s doing it all for them.  He’s the savior Trumpeters have always dreamed of & he demands of them their unconditional love, loyalty & complete surrender.

An important litmus test is for loyalists to submit to mind-control training through unfettered devotion to his compliant echo, so as to become fully indoctrinated into their version of alternative-fact truths.  Their senior all-knowing sage, Rush Dimbulb, incessantly instructed the flock back in the 1990’s the Dem President was not worthy with his constant lying & sexual abuse of women, with Rush’s constant overriding theme drummed into his followers’ heads back then was character matters!  Fast-forward two decades & we find El-Rushbo’s standards no longer hold true, as the cult is required to worship at the alter of a leader with the same character flaws.  So in the echo-trumpeter religion, adherence to a fanatical far-right ideology has been proven to be given a far higher priority than ethical moral principles.  The means to an end justifies the sins.

Might I suggest to rational conservatives, those closer to the center-right instead of those way out in fairytale-land on the extreme-right, that as things have evolved we’re far better off watching MSNBC than Fox fake-news, simply because they’re far more accurate & actually closer to our political ideologies.  MSNBC reports on real news, exaggerating their opinions based on wishful thinking which is to the left of center-left.  Compare that to what Fox has become, who invents their own news & lies about what they report based on a predetermined hardcore agenda, & is to the right of the extreme-right of the radical right to where their thinking has exited the planet.

I can even make an argument MSNBC has a better collection of conservative commentators than even the sane ones in the Fox stable, just by rattling off the names of the five S’s.  Michael Steele, Charlie Sykes, Steve Schmidt, Bret Stephens & Joe Scarborough are simply outstanding!  They consistently offer dialogue of intelligent center-right conservatism providing pragmatic solutions for getting things done, which to be a productive party again the GOP needs to get back to.  It’s the type of wise counsel necessary for responsible governing that’s badly needed to get America back on track.  For goodness sakes, even George Will appears on MSNBC after fleeing the muck of chicanery at Fox.

Other links in the related articles below provide more substantiation that Fox & the rest of the echo are evil conspirators in tearing down our democratic society & institutions.  A Plum Line article about a Saturday Night Massacre does an excellent job describing the deranged echo-efforts toward complicity in turning the tables on the truth to fulfill a crazed alternative-facts reality, pointing out factors are merging in this unique time in our nation’s history offering a real authoritarian threat.  It also reveals the 3 most dangerous persons in America to be Trump, Bannon & Hannity.  There’s another link to “When conservatives turned into radicals,” which we’ve seen happen recently. Several links in that same area show Insanity’s show has done what was once thought impossible, the entire hour has become 100% non-stop lies.  Another group of links take us to a reveal even Fox employees are embarrassed by the ridiculously-biased Trump apologists coverage, so workers there realize their product is a bunch of lyin’ crap.  Also see the Jump the Shark article with this excerpt in these next few paragraphs:

 

To those who understand this sick cable news game, it is obvious what is really going on here (and why I, as someone who has long been blackballed by Fox News, am one of the few conservatives willing to say it). Fox News is stuck because the vast majority of their audience is made up of Trump cult members who cannot risk being offended with the truth about him.

 

They also can’t allow their audience to see that the emperor that they created has no clothes, as it would leave them with BOTH no credibility AND no audience. They have clearly chosen, like Trump himself, to hold on to the cult for dear life at the cost of everything else.The primary reason I have always vehemently opposed Trump is that I knew that the catastrophic long-term damage to conservatism which would inevitably ensue from him would not be worth the meager short-term gains. Fox News, in a business where what happens today is all that really matters, obviously never game-planned out this rather simple equation.

 

 

As hard as it is to currently believe, Trump will one day, maybe soon, maybe not, no longer be president. What is to happen to Fox News once Trump is gone? Not only will his cult quickly lose interest and go away, but they will have no credibility remaining on which to build a new audience.

 

As a conservative, the thing which concerns me most is now about Fox News is, now that they sold all of their integrity to service a cult, what will stop a Democratic version of Trump from taking power next, with no effective media counter measure? Now that Fox News has blindly defended Trump over nearly every conceivable wrongdoing, on what basis will they ever be able to attack a future Democratic president in a way which won’t be instantly provoke wide-spread laughter?

 

Back to other links, there’s a fact check article on the uranium deal that creepy Nazi-sympathizer Gorka said last week on Insanity Hannity’s show that Hillary should get the electric chair over.  As I’ve concluded with every message I write, Insanity is no longer just a nickname, as every night on his show he’s proving beyond doubt that he really has gone insane.  That must mean his viewers are as nuts as Alex Jones’ followers.  And the show hosts immediately preceding & following him on Fox are almost his equal as crackpots, which we also have articles on them.  Fox would probably even go so far as to hire Saddam’s PR-lackey Baghdad Bob to their prime-time lineup if he were still around, since he fits the profile with his uncanny ability to twist outlandish tales way beyond the recognizable truth.  So while we’ve diagnosed how Fox is evil, other demented sources such as Breitbart & Sinclair may go as far as being demonic.  And beware of anything falling under the Bannon-Mercer umbrella.

Moving on down the links, the Salt Lake City & Chicago Tribune plus the New Yorker give us a chuckle over Trump being done, Fox impeachment & non-stop Clinton coverage.  There you can also see links to the phony uranium scandal, where it’s no coincidence why the echo dredged it up now after 7 years to use as a diversion & false equivalency.  Trump bemoans the institutions of government restrict him from going after Hillary, wanting to be a dictator like Putin attacking his political opponents.  Also see an insightful CNN story on Trump’s fog machine.  In the bottom links, there’s no question CNN is far more middle-of-the-road & objective than Fox.  In fact, it’s not even close!  Those who honestly believe Fox is more trustworthy are either showing their ignorance or are so enthralled with their hyper-partisanship, they can’t see straight.  That’s a bigger problem in America than Americans can even comprehend, the fact Fox is dumbing down their viewers so much that it could wind up destroying our nation’s lone major conservative party.

Economy Section

 

Trump can make ​the benefits of his bold claims sound so good, which is largely the basis of his Trumpeter support.  Lowering corporate tax rates, removing onerous regulations, renegotiating better trade deals, repeal & replace Obamacare, tighten immigration requirements, all those ideas do have merit.  But Trump is very surface in his views, so making the right changes could do a lot of good but making the wrong ones can do more harm than good, which Trump doesn’t have enough understanding of the details & all the nuances to know the difference.  So he defers to Congress to work out the specifics, but there are so many different factions with so many conflicting ideas, finding consensus on anything can be like playing QB for the Cleveland Browns, it’s nearly impossible.  Of course, the echo would try to spin that the one playing QB is Hillary, so she’s the reason for all the losses.

 

​On the tax plan the GOP is desperate for any kind of win, but just like the Trumpcare proposal, different parts of it will prove so unpopular with disparate groups, it may likely become too toxic to pass.  Trump is so enamored with this big beautiful tax cut, he pays no heed to the trillions it could add to the debt.  He cleverly wants the bill known as the Cut Cut Cut Act, ostensibly because calling it Debt Debt Debt would make for bad optics.  Supporters are spinning this by using magic pixie dust to project unattainable growth estimates, but like the Cleveland Browns they’re operating out of a playbook that’s decades obsolete.  I’ve said about 1000 times, trickle down doesn’t work in this current global economy like it used to.  I do agree corporate tax reform is a good idea, but with so many competing interests poking holes in the plan, can it be done in a smart way?  It gets complicated with how the new bill will treat pass-throughs, hedge funds & close the various loopholes needed to make it more revenue neutral in offsetting the big reduction to the 35% rate.  On the surface it looks like the bill heavily favors big corporations over small business, the exact opposite of what it should.  Trump is unaware of any of this, he’s just looking for a win & a talking point.  His cluelessness on the details & horrifically simplistic sales pitch won’t win over the public, so should the bill fail he’ll again pass the buck & blame Congress, which his Trumpeter fans always swallow that excuse.

 

Even if they get it perfect, tax reform is far from a cure-all.  There are numerous reforms that should be put on the table to revive America’s working middle class.  But now that the tax plan has been unleashed, we see how GOP congressional members do a better job selling it than the prez, emphasizing help for working families.  But the actual specifics are a tough sell, not matching the hype, & the only possible reason this has a slight chance of passage this year is they’re so desperate for a win.  The question becomes does the middle class really pocket an extra $1000 per year from the cuts to the personal tax code & can that really be done without busting the budget?  There’s at least 1.5 trillion reasons it won’t!  And can they show the middle class will actually benefit more than the wealthy?

 

There are plenty of pluses with this plan, for instance capping mortgage deductions I’m all for, but those in expensive communities won’t like it.  And while doubling the standard deductions & child-tax credits are all well & good, again what about deficits?  Major stumbling blocks remain on certain particulars, such as removing deductions on state taxes, medical costs & student loans.  Repealing the death tax is seen as a giveaway for the rich, so I would think it’d be better to just make special provisions for the example they keep using about family farms.  On the corporate side, small business in particular need lower rates to be more competitive, while the big guys need incentivized to repatriate their $’s back here.  But if the corporate rates go from 35% to 20%, where are the offsets by closing loopholes?  The whole thing it’s like threading a needle to get this right.  Dems will argue it’s a huge giveaway to big corporate interests, so with everything in DC so politicized & both parties hyping up their side, it’s hard to know what to believe.  But overall the bill won’t pass in its current form.

 

In the related articles, the first group starts off with more examples of persistent economic issues our country has been doing an abysmal job in addressing.  There’s even some wild ideas in a couple of the articles but we should evaluate anything at this point.  The overriding challenge if we ever hope to fix our economy is to proactively formulate comprehensive plans which help put more Americans in more productive jobs/careers.  Every economic idea & proposal should focus like a laser on targeting that basic dilemma, especially helping the bottom 50% to rise up economically.  Then there’s back-to-back links where a corrupt administration is filling the swamp & setting the stage for legislative gridlock.  That is followed by the headline story from today which is the GOP releasing details of their tax plan, which we have tons of links mostly about the problems with the plan & challenges that lie ahead.  Then we conclude with various articles dealing with healthcare.

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