Part 1 – The Only Sucker & Loser is Donald Trump!
As much as I’m appalled by the Trump presidency, nothing has ever disgusted me more than the comments attributed to him about our fallen soldiers! I hope the vast majority of Americans feel the same way. In case we haven’t already figured this out, we simply cannot tolerate this heartless jerk remaining in office as our president. Conversely, this is the man who needs to replace Trump & become our next president: https://news.yahoo.com/biden-
Just look at the true character & the heart of Trump, as this is the article which sparked all the fireworks this past week: https://www.theatlantic.com/
I definitely believe it! Because we know so well who Trump really is, I do believe he made the awful statements & am livid that anyone would say such things of our fallen soldiers. But I’m sure Gold Star families are far more livid: https://thehill.com/homenews/
Adding to the pattern of critical remarks, we’ve heard him disparage other military members many times in the past, certainly dovetailing into the likelihood the prez would really make those despicable comments about dead soldiers being suckers & losers, or other statements from him in these new reports that people don’t want to see disabled veterans in military parades. Consider how in the past Trump has very publicly smeared Gold Star families. There’s another report Mr. Bone Spurs chided our Vietnam soldiers for being drafted into that war (even bragging that avoiding a sexually transmitted disease was his Vietnam): https://www.washingtonpost.
I’m fairly certain Trump’s quick & vehement denials about The Atlantic story weren’t because he never said those things, but he knows how damaging this story could be to his reelection chances. And why would we ever trust the word of a president who’s been caught in more than 20,000 lies while in office (yes, WaPo is tabulating). Trump really went ballistic when a Fox News reporter confirmed the basic thrust of the story, even requesting she be fired: https://www.thedailybeast.com/
Keep in mind out of necessity journalism is often based on anonymous sources, especially such highly controversial topics where witnesses fear repercussions. For example, the Watergate story broke from anonymous sources. When a reporter has solid information from credible witnesses & those accounts are corroborated by multiple credible sources, it’s a story they can confidently run with. It’s how the American people can learn of any nefarious happenings going on behind the scenes. On The Atlantic story, expect more shoes to drop: https://thehill.com/homenews/
Biden was already leading among members of the military before this headline story landed: https://www.huffpost.com/
https://www.axios.com/biden-
Criminal Presidency
We always place new news on Trump’s crimes here in Part 1. There have been times in the past when Part 1 was flooded with hundreds of articles detailing his numerous illegal acts. This section would be overflowing again with article links if we ever found out what’s in his tax returns, but Trump has been dragging out the court cases in hiding his taxes. NY prosecutors & grand jury evidence still hidden from public view are on the trail to Trumpian crimes that I’m confident are there, so we just need to wait til it’s all pieced together. Also be aware of financial shenanigans from the Trump inauguration, which more headlines & perhaps indictments could come down at any time on those crimes. And all those corrupt Trump sycophants who have been or soon will be accused &/or indicted, they’ll be pressured to flip on the prez. Floating pardons just won’t have the same impact if Trump’s about to leave. As much as Russia & Ukraine collusion was a prominent story for years in the headlines, which the preponderance of evidence did disclose rampant criminality, it’s likely only a part of the bigger picture of an apparent crime syndicate still waiting to be unveiled. So stay tuned & here’s the latest:
Part 2 – Blatant Presidential Racism & also Lies from the Echo
I would hope most Americans are discerning enough to see through Trump’s campaign diversion of making rioting the most important concern, playing his racist card to scare whites into voting for him. And it’s a deliberate ploy to distract away from the most pressing issues, such as hundreds of thousands of Americans are losing their lives from a virus which this White House chose to downplay rather than effectively fight. That failed leadership also led to a collapsed economy where tens of thousands of small businesses went out of business, while tens of millions of workers have lost their jobs. Those are America’s biggest problems this year! As for increased violence in our cities, yes it’s a concern, from which our collective stress over the pandemic & losing our economic livelihoods greatly contributed to the mayhem we’ve seen in places like Portland & Kenosha. But Trump will always blame others for the messes he creates: https://www.theguardian.com/
So our prez is amplifying the racial unrest that he is largely responsible for instigating!: https://thebulwark.com/trumps-
Rather than letting Trump dictate & control the messaging, the media & the public need to follow the Biden campaign by returning their focus back to the key issues which are devastating so many families all across America, which we have seen more of that shift in recent days to news more pertinent to the nation as a whole than street violence. Some encouraging recent polling indicates Americans are more concerned with the virus & the economy over any disturbances in our cities. And another poll shows the public believes they’d be safer with a Biden presidency than another 4 years of Trump: https://www.aol.com/results-
We do always post a whole lot of links, but keep in mind most of these articles contain alarming details the likes of which we’ve never seen before from an American president. It shouldn’t be lost on us how outrageous & disruptive the Trump presidency is on practically a daily basis. The huge number of dire reports embodies just how perilous our current journey really is should we take the wrong path going forward. And any single article might have evolved into a major scandal for any normal president. If only more Americans were to understand how truly close we are to falling into fascism, the complacency would disappear immediately: https://www.alternet.org/2020/
A smorgasbord of information is below to be sure, which the best way to utilize these many live links is to peruse the titles while clicking on only the ones you find most intriguing. I don’t even read the body of most of these stories since there aren’t enough hours in the day, so just cherry-pick. And please do share as other voters need informed. The wrong side has become as sinister as they are dishonest, so they need to be called out. It’s incredible the corruption & lawlessness from the Trump administration have become so commonplace, we’ve managed to normalize awful behavior & gaslighting in our country to where any individual scandal gets lost in thin air within the public consciousness. But the bottom line is our current prez must be stopped before the damage becomes permanent: https://www.washingtonpost.
https://www.motherjones.com/
https://www.washingtonpost.
https://nymag.com/
https://www.alternet.org/2020/
Fox Fake News Keeps Lying & Doing Damage
Like we do in every middle of Part 2, we give Fox plenty of space & rope to hopefully hang themselves someday. No good can come from a network that regularly lies & deceives their viewers, which is why our divided nation can’t deal with a conservative base who’ve so drastically departed from accepting facts. And most of our president’s most horrible ideas originate from Fox:
Going Off the Deep End
As a lifelong Republican, I’m shocked by what’s happened to my former party & the people in it. They’ve abandoned truth & now stand for lies, propaganda & conspiracies. They’ve attached themselves to some of the most hateful, vile & preposterous thoughts imaginable. There is no redeeming value to the most extreme folks among them in their current insanity, so it’s hard to foresee the worst of them returning to constructive reality any time soon. Aside from being Trump worshipers, the most insufferable ones have turned evil beyond recognition, joining a wacko Nazi/white supremacist movement that is growing out there & largely being incited by our president.
Their beliefs are ridiculous, but it becomes a serious problem when hordes of racist nutballs believe this stuff & act upon it. People who fall for these outrageous conspiracies like those spouted by QAnon are several meters short of a kilometer, but their main problem is they’re being hopelessly brainwashed. In striving to be part of a cause bigger than themselves, they’ve embraced nihilistic destruction. It’s the same type of mental conditioning/group derangement fueled on social media propelling deranged movements such as radical Islamic jihad inspiring terrorist groups like ISIS. It’s terrifying to think these white supremacist movements in history have already killed far more Americans in terrorist attacks than jihad radicals, which they’re likely to really go off unhinged should their de facto leader lose on November 3rd. If Biden could win decisively with 350+ electoral votes, it might put a lid on their bizarre civil war fantasies. We need to understand the enemy, so read about their latest crackpot escapades here:
Evangelicals Please Come Home
Make no mistake about it, white evangelicals are Trump’s most important constituency. Any significant dip in their support & Trump is toast. When I was going to church before I couldn’t take the knucklehead mentality anymore, I found there were Jesus Christians & Trump Christians, which it became difficult to tell the wheat from the chaff. Some of these self-proclaimed Christians have really gone off the rails with their faith by embracing QAnon. To the extent a demonic spirit of deception is sweeping through portions of the church & greatly influencing others there, it has the potential to kill the whole body. They’re sabotaging their own religion & don’t even know it.
My evangelical brethren don’t like hearing such warnings as they often get trapped inside their own bubble, but for the time being it might be the most important message they could possibly hear. Trump Christians need to look closely in the mirror to see who they’ve become. The best thing that could happen to the evangelical church aside from a rededication to Christ, would be a Trump defeat which could save believers from themselves. The prez is playing them for fools: https://www.independent.co.uk/
Part 3 – Economy, Virus & Election
Trump is running for reelection on an economy he destroyed through his mishandling of the virus, so he’s trying to brush off the current economy & present what a great economy we had pre-virus. But those boasts about our prior economy are absurd, since even then we had tepid GDP growth, spiraling deficits, escalating wage/wealth gaps & roughly half of all working Americans living paycheck-to-paycheck. If that period under his watch before the virus was really the greatest economy ever as Trump claims, then it must be true it’s great having a rigged system where workers are being exploited, & the great American Dream must have never existed! Nope, do not for a second buy Trump’s hype, as the working class has been steadily losing ground for decades. And the prez is not helping, as apparently Trump was more interested in giving the fat cats their tax cuts!: https://www.salon.com/2020/09/
Facts First: Actually, middle class income grew in the final years of the Obama administration but has stagnated under Trump. Median household income stayed essentially flat in 2018, at $63,200, breaking a three-year streak of increases, according to the most recent Census Bureau data. Median income ticked up only 1.8% in 2017, Trump’s first year in office, and then plateaued despite a strong job market and very low unemployment, according to the latest Census data, which predates the pandemic and this year’s recession. In the last two years of former President Barack Obama’s administration, median income rose more sharply — increasing 5.2% in 2015 and 3.2% in 2016. However, the middle class has not advanced much, if at all, over the past decade. Median income in 2018 was not statistically different than in 2007 or 1999, which was the high point.
Here are more of my thoughts on our economic condition…This is not shaping up to be a V-shaped recovery as the administration opines. The virus is still ravaging us & plenty of industries have been devastated. Ask anyone working in businesses associated with travel, tourism, hospitality & restaurants. As Biden described, it’s looking more like a K-shaped recovery, where the wealthy corporate-types have found their footing & reap the riches while struggling rank & file workers are generally still going in the other direction: https://www.msn.com/en-us/
Plenty of jobs can’t cover the bills & sometimes even two jobs don’t pay a livable income: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/
About half the lost jobs stemming from the pandemic have returned, but getting the other half back will be much tougher. A lot more Americans these days don’t even have enough to eat. Meanwhile, Trump’s policies continue to reward rich oligarchs on the backs of the working class (https://www.theguardian.com/
So make no mistake, those grandiose boasts we hear are nothing but hollow words, he really has no idea what he’s doing. I just heard Trump’s Labor Day presentation/presser this afternoon & the whole thing were a string of lies, probably nearing 100 lies in less than an hour, the very definition of pathological! Every time he moved his lips today, lies came flooding out: https://www.msn.com/en-us/
https://www.businessinsider.
Virus Pandemic Allowed to Spiral Out of Control
Terrible Numbers…A conspiracy running amok in the far-right echo-media is that the death counts are overinflated, just because the CDC reported that 94% of the deaths from the virus occurred in people with preexisting conditions. It seems as though the attitude of the Trump-world base is diminishing the lives of those with health problems as not being as important as young healthy people, portraying the deaths as somehow not as bad. But the truth is the vast majority of people who are listed as dying from COVID, they would not have died when they did had they not contracted the virus. And when we consider the significant number of deaths from COVID who weren’t counted as COVID deaths because they were never tested, it’s a virtual certainty the overall number of deaths from the virus is dramatically underreported, not overreported. We’ve just surpassed 190,000 deaths with the real total likely being well past 200,000, & there’s no end in sight. It should have never gotten this bad had we really committed as a nation to fighting this scourge. Here are updates refuting the phony conspiracy:
Safe Vaccine?…The CDC may be politicized by Trump, based on a notice they sent out to the states to be ready with numerous vaccination sites set up by November 1st even though any vaccine is still in a testing phase. My how convenient, they’re anticipating having a vaccine cranked out two days before the election, when vaccines typically take years to develop. Here is a rare moment when an expert within the administration actually gives us the straight story: https://news.yahoo.com/trump-
And because Trump twists the truth on everything about this virus & potential treatments, could Americans really trust such a rushed vaccine to be effective & safe? Not I, especially if Trump had anything to do with the timetable: https://www.msn.com/en-us/
The Rest of the Virus News…Daily infection rates are still far too high in numbering around 40,000 per day, yet a lot of Americans are acting as though the pandemic is over. And by year’s end a new model projects we could surpass 400,000 deaths: https://www.msn.com/en-us/
Most of this disaster can be laid at the feet of our incompetent leadership at the highest level. Rather than fighting the virus, the prez surrendered to it: https://www.msn.com/en-us/
The Campaign & Election
Chronic Cheater…We knew Trump will do anything to cheat, but now he’s gotten very open about it with his supporters by telling them to vote twice. It’s what we’ve come to expect from a lawless president. It’s ironic that as the prez keeps alleging voter fraud, he’s trying to orchestrate voter fraud on his own behalf as his best chance to win. He’s convincing his Trumpeter base the election was stolen when he does lose. So he keeps bad-mouthing mail-in voting, which may well be the safest way to vote from a health standpoint plus getting our votes counted. Mail-in ballots are already starting up in some states, as in NC requests for absentee ballots have gone through the roof. Part of that might be to avoid standing in line on election day during these COVID times, but it could also be due to a huge anti-Trump turnout about to transpire:
America has Never Had a More Important Election…Let’s admit based on what we’ve seen of him the last several years, Trump is a far better campaigner than he is a president, since he’s a master of being a BS con artist spinning all sorts of ridiculous tales that he somehow gets his loyal followers to believe. The prez routinely presents as facts various conspiracy theories stemming from social media sites that are pure alt-right/Russian bots propaganda. Our prez seems OK with & even gloats in his ability to divide, deride, deceive, diminish & swindle people, a man without a conscience since for him the one greatest sin is to be considered a loser, which should become his fate two months from now. Consider if the prez is this much of a corrupt, lying, bullying & divisive demagogue now before reelection, imagine how terrifying a second term would be when he’s unleashed from having to worry about another election. And his insults continue to be nauseating: https://www.msn.com/en-us/
I must confess to having very little tolerance anymore for doting Trumpeters, since their level of cluelessness & lack of awareness are appalling to me. I personally find Trump morally reprehensible & by extension also feel the same of his supporters. I also realize how imperiled our democracy becomes if they get their way in November. I don’t personally hate Trump or his supporters, but I do hate the lawless authoritarian direction they’re trying to take our country. It’s very motivating for me to keep pumping out logical/reliable political news to help inform our fellow citizens, particularly those who are still wavering, plus help inspire all of us on the side of truth & justice to get out & vote. I also request your help in this vital mission, so please send this message around to your contacts by any means possible. There’s too much at stake so let’s finish strong these last two months, since if voters make the same disastrous decision as the prior presidential election, by November 4th it will have become too late to reverse another cataclysmic mistake!
The polls post-conventions are bouncing around within a relatively narrow range as Uncle Joe remains in front: https://www.msn.com/en-us/
An alarming combo, Trump is both the worst & most dangerous president in our nation’s history, since he has no regard for the truth, the law or the Constitution. Even those who refuse to accept my concerns that our democracy is in jeopardy, do they still want 4 more years of all this division, mayhem & nonsense?: https://www.washingtonpost.
So I’ll say it again, we should mobilize by spreading this information out to as many as we can in keeping voters informed, plus encourage those who seem non-committal to register & vote. Let’s finish strong these next two months, as those of us who understand the huge stakes now in play, we should consider it our civic duty to join together in this all-important crusade! Half of all voters plan on voting early through mail or in person, so November 3rd is basically already starting. Don’t be discouraged that hardcore Trumpeters are unwilling to accept facts, since if we can get the word out there en masse, those who are still rational will accept logic. So we don’t really need the brainwashed 40%, we just need all the rest to vote & vote correctly on the side of integrity, justice & freedom. We can be confident while taking nothing for granted, so let’s all get proactive! Nothing is more important until Nov. 3rd! The latest from the week are inside these links:
https://www.businessinsider.
https://thehill.com/homenews/
Fortunate Son
Trump has no conception about military service or sacrifice. Born into privilege, he used his family’s means & influence to skip out on the Vietnam War, which is what our song is about. The American soldiers who fought in that war were mostly drafted & forced into service. In the wars that followed, our brave soldiers volunteered their service. Trump’s comments, attitude & lack of understanding caused him to disparage all our fighting heroes from different generations, making him not only a jackass but uniquely unfit to be our commander-in-chief.
Here are the lyrics: https://www.azlyrics.com/
And here is the song during the Vietnam era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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