Part 1 – Yet Another Earthshaking Week of News!
We have devoted our Part 1’s through the years to news of Trump’s crimes. During the heydays of the Russia probe & Ukraine scandal, there were plenty of posts where Part 1 comprised a big percentage of our total message. Real crimes were indeed exposed, but the DOJ put the kibosh on the Mueller investigation, while the GOP senate failed to convict after overwhelming evidence from the impeachment trial. Today’s newsletter has the bulk of our reports in Part 3, as have most of our posts in recent months, with news on the economy, virus & election dominating the news lately. And even switching to a reliance on only MSN & Yahoo links, as you can see below there’s no shortage of articles in today’s post.
We request you join our crusade & please circulate our blog address to as many people as possible, as we consider this a civic duty in helping our country before a critical election, especially considering we’re getting down to the wire & 15 days from now it will be too late to do anything more about it. Don’t take it personally if Trump fans decline your offer. If they want to keep their heads in the sand by avoiding truths while staying inside their delusional bubble, that’s their prerogative. But those willing to check it out, you might be able to change some minds or at least get them thinking, something many of them haven’t done in awhile when they let the prez & his echo do the thinking for them.
So while our posted links only have a few updates on new reports of Trump’s crimes here in Part 1, the news headlines overall remain on overdrive! Part 2 is loaded up with Trump’s assault on democracy aided by his party & echo, along with other sections on the cultish QAnon & other dangerous white supremacist groups which our prez is inciting, along with too many evangelicals still being deceived by these evil influences. Then Part 3 is really overflowing with recent reports on the sinking economy, rising COVID infections & deaths, plus a very contentious election season with songs at the end. We’ve got the different sections & groups of live links generally organized by topic, so below each of our commentaries you can peruse the list of link titles while clicking on those most intriguing to you. So here’s only a handful of articles revealing potential Trump illegal activities, a far smaller number than usual for this serial criminal mob boss:
Part 2 – Please Heed the Warnings!
Do not be mistaken what’s at stake in this election: https://www.msn.com/en-us/
I readily admit to having ZERO tolerance for the Trumpeter base, especially with our constitutional rights & freedoms on the line as never before. A surefire sign of how Trumpeters can be counted on to embrace the lies can be seen in the way they swallow every conspiracy theory put out in front of them. This unmasking nonsense was always a hyped-up hoax to begin with: https://www.msn.com/en-us/
And this next absurd conspiracy is equally nonsensical, just more Rudy propaganda fed to him by shady Kremlin associates, as this is 2020’s version of Russian collusion: https://www.msn.com/en-us/
As I heard Thomas Friedman say this past week, Trump doesn’t stop at red lights. The prez got away with his conspiracy with Russia four years ago to illegally interfere in the election which may have swayed the outcome, so with the help of crazy PR lawyer Rudy he has no hesitation to try it again: https://www.yahoo.com/
I have no good answers for Max Boot’s question what are they thinking when referring to Trump supporters still willing to vote for the worst president in our history: https://www.yahoo.com/
Let me repeat & I can’t emphasize the dangers enough, the second term could become even more catastrophic with an empowered prez allowed to become even more unleashed & unhinged! We only need to review the collective knowledge from the thousands of links to articles in these Part 2’s over the years, which taken as a whole offers irrefutable evidence we may be currently looking at the perfect storm for ushering in dictatorial fascism. Trump has made great inroads in controlling the instruments of power, from within his own party to the courts & intelligence community, while wielding a perplexingly powerful influence on his state-run media & merry band of Trumpeters. He has shown no regard for the institutions of our democracy, balance of power, rule of law, the Constitution or the common good among all the people. Given another 4 years to further surround himself with corrupt loyal henchmen & backed by relentless echo-propaganda, it’s no longer so farfetched to think things could spiral out of control fast as Trump-world keeps seeking to transition from democracy to tyranny. Yes, it really could happen here as it’s happened to many other countries throughout history, so don’t for a second think America is immune from fascism. The warning signs are definitely there if anybody wants to take the time in clicking on the numerous links below & in our archives. This grand long-standing experiment of American democracy is worth taking the time, worth paying attention & worth fighting to save!
Here’s one of the rare moments when a sitting Republican senator actually tells the truth! Listen to this audio where Ben Sasse answers a voter’s question about Trump, when the juicy part begins at the 2-minute mark: https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/
And sometime after Nov. 3rd, just watch as more who served within the administration will also unload on this supremely flawed human being completely devoid of integrity, with our prez indeed being among the most dishonest & immoral individuals any of us have ever known: https://www.msn.com/en-us/
There are other recent articles worth noting that clearly signal dangerous attacks on our laws, democracy & Constitution. This is the type of murderous police state Trump envisions as a means to enforce his fascist society, which he even admits to supporting such gestapo-like tactics: https://news.yahoo.com/trump-
Crazy Like a Lyin’ Fox
In Aesop’s Fables, the boy lied to the villagers only two times before they caught on & stopped believing him whenever he cried wolf. In the modern-day version of the fable, the wolves are howling outside the doors of the White House. But for regular Fox viewers, they’ve been lied to hundreds if not thousands of times, but they still keep tuning in to mindlessly absorb the constant string of lies in perpetuity. Either they are gluttons for punishment or their minds have turned to mush from watching too much Fox primetime. The same thing applies to hardcore Trumpeters, largely the very same befuddled folks as Fox viewers, who have been lied to by their king more than 20,000 times while in office, but inexplicably they still fall for everything he says! In servitude to Trump, Fox has deliberately abandoned real news as they provide riveting entertainment to their captivated viewers, but hyping the drama requires repeatedly lying: https://www.msn.com/en-us/
Any of us who are close observers are able to dismiss the Fox/echo lies immediately, but for their conservative audiences who automatically believe what their preferred media sources are saying to them, they internalize the falsehoods unconditionally without questioning the authenticity. Without fail those echo-conspiracies are eventually disproven by the facts, at which point the echo & their customers have already moved onto the next crazy conspiracy. It’s why I can’t handle Fox watching anymore, their lies are so transparent to me & it drives me nuts! I’ll confess for many years listening to Limbaugh & Hannity while largely agreeing with their viewpoints, but back then I could hardly foresee how dangerous their rhetoric would become as they steadily became more & more extreme, especially in the last 5 years when they’ve gone all-in on Trumpism. We always put our songs at the bottom of Part 3, but Fox hosts have earned their own song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
We can vote out Trump which is an absolute prerequisite, but the Trumpian narrative will still be circulating out there all throughout the echo, so saving any semblance of a sane conservative party will require a thorough repudiation of that destructive conspiratorial disinformation. Once we’ve successfully put down the nonsense, ideally whatever new conservative party ultimately emerges can be based around acceptance of facts, so constructive dialogue can someday resume with the Dems to negotiate, compromise & work out viable solutions to our common problems. It’s a long road back to civility & bipartisan problem-solving, so we’ll take it one step at a time & the first step happens November 3rd. So many Trumpeters seem confident the polls are wrong & their master will prevail, but maybe we should point out to them even this guy thinks Biden will win in a landslide: https://www.msn.com/en-us/
Evil Echo Mindset can Evolve into Deadly Violence
When at his cult rally in Michigan the other night, the crazed crowd chanted lock her up over their governor’s actions to fight the virus, which our prez went right along & urged on his fans. They’re all sick & twisted, the king & his court! This happens to come on the heels of a few Trump’s white supremacy followers being busted for planning to kidnap & possibly murder the governor. So our prez is actually encouraging these rally chants which serve to increase the threat on her life! This is the way dictatorships can form, when powers on high permit a movement of rabid loyalists who swear allegiance to their master & are willing to carry out his requests no matter how hideous, which tends to include harsh punishments imposed on any political opponents. If empowered by a second term, the threats & attacks can only rise to far higher levels by a vengeful president who can’t tolerate even a hint of dissent. We shouldn’t scoff at such a risk, since if I’m reading the vibes of Trump’s personality traits accurately, he’s mad with power & will stop at nothing to seize total control.
With QAnon messaging & videos being (hopefully) banned from social media, it can help prevent people from getting indoctrinated into their wild conspiracy theories, & stop those tactics from being used as a recruiting tool into radicalization. Sure, there’s an issue of free speech, but groups like QAnon have been designated a dangerous domestic terrorist group, so by comparison we’d never allow recruitment videos promoting ISIS to stay up. QAnon & like-minded hate groups are so hideously insane, we might surmise they’re demonic-inspired movements originating from the pit of hell. Those who’ve fallen into the Q-cult got initially attracted by messaging about legitimate concerns like sex trafficking or pedophilia, but once they get hooked can fall prey to the darker side of the deranged conspiracies. It’s a mystery where those lunatic Q-messages originate from, but there’s no question who their inspirational leader is: https://www.yahoo.com/news/
It’s hard to imagine the mentality it takes to buy into these various lies & conspiracies, but suffice it to say these folks must be several trees short of a forest. It’s incredible to think how the numbers infected are growing from being bamboozled with online messaging, but the stuff they believe in can be so outrageous as to register off the scales on the fact-checkers. The concerns ratchet up whenever they threaten physical harm, either deliberately or inadvertently like when they demand the freedom to commit negligent homicide against others: https://www.msn.com/en-us/
Evangelicals Will Get Their New Justice…
To my evangelical brethren, you’ve already achieved a lopsided court with another justice soon to be confirmed, since the Senate at least for the time being have the GOP numbers on their side. I would hope the faithful would be willing to now cash in your chips & move on from Trump. They can’t pin any disqualifying traits on the new justice that would cause GOP senators to vote against her, particularly since during the hearings she basically wasn’t answering any questions at all: https://www.msn.com/en-us/
Now It’s Time To Move On!
I have long sensed the Trump base has turned into a cult. Along with white non-college & white nationalists, white evangelicals comprise the bulk of his support. Together, they form a voting bloc that could disintegrate everything that’s ever been great about America, perhaps even relegating our long cherished rights & freedoms to the dustbin of history. It’s a byproduct of buying into the deceptive promises of a demagogue who knows how to push their buttons, since a tyrant needs the undying loyalty from groups he can use as stepping stones to usurp unbridled power. If this world of Trumpeters were only to understand the consequences of getting their way in this election, I’m sure they’d be as horrified as the rest of us. But for now they are unwitting dupes helping drive our nation’s car towards a dangerous cliff, which we can slam on the brakes if the rest of us can outnumber the indoctrinated cult members in key swing states. Who’d have ever thought white evangelicals would form a strong coalition with white supremacists in support of a moral degenerate? Make no mistake, it can be a thin line between true faith & a cult.
Coming from the evangelical world, I’m personally at the same time perplexed, disconcerted, appalled & petrified that so many of the faith would succumb to earthly leadership with abysmal character traits so diametrically opposed to God’s holy ways. I fear their moral compromise has exposed the hypocrisy & done irreversible damage to the evangelical church, as a cult mentality has indeed seeped into the mindset of many congregants. It almost seems some of the faithful I’ve encountered have placed Trump on the throne as practically the equal to our almighty savior, which even with Trump’s own ego he won’t go quite that far: https://www.yahoo.com/news/
The big problem with evangelicals is as a group they’ll be most responsible if Trump gets reelected, so together they should be held accountable if in their naivety they unknowingly destroy their own church, their conservative party & our country. All those unthinkable outcomes become a real possibility in play with another 4 years of an off-the-rails Trump presidency. If a group lives in a bubble & can’t see the forest for the trees, when their anointed leader is cutting down the trees with his chainsaw, the followers may not notice until the terrain is bare. I’ve tried to get through to these people but my lines haven’t been registering. If Trump holds around 80% support of white evangelicals like he did in 2016, they would provide conclusive proof that most of the faithful are blind to who Trump is. The scriptures say Satan is the father of lies, so he must be working overtime in writing material for Trump. So to evangelicals, if you still vote for Trump after all you know about him, you know not what you do.
Being pro-life shouldn’t mean supporting an obnoxious & incompetent buffoon for president who doesn’t possess an ethical bone in his entire body. A temporary win on the ongoing abortion battle can’t make up for permanently losing the higher moral ground as a church. So advancing the cause on that one pet issue doesn’t excuse the hundreds of areas where your earthly leader failed us & it takes a lot of nerve to vote for someone with no moral character. I’ve personally long been pro-life, but if Hitler came back & ran on a pro-life platform, it doesn’t mean I’d vote for him. And pro-life should extend to human lives beyond the womb: https://www.msn.com/en-us/
Part 3 – Starting Off this Section with the Terrible Trump Economy
Of course he always calls it terrific. It’s true GDP for Q3 will be an impressive number, but that only reflects the huge hole we got stuck in with this COVID economy. So no matter how high that number jumps when it comes out the end of this month, we’ll still be behind where we were entering this year. But it will give a braggart like Trump something to brag about: https://www.msn.com/en-us/
But what’s really disturbing about this current virus economy is the way it’s greatly exacerbated the uneven lopsided divides (https://www.msn.com/en-us/
Despite the Trump campaign’s relentless talking point, Biden is not controlled by the socialist Marxist radical left segment of his party. If anything, Uncle Joe has pushed back against the progressive wing while attracting significant support from independents & moderate-conservatives, which would otherwise risk suppressing turnout on the far-left if not for the anti-Trump sentiment burning red-hot. So as Biden runs to the middle & is not plotting some socialist takeover, my many prior warnings still ring true now more than ever….If we fail as a society to fix modern-day capitalism for the working class, by osmosis it won’t be long before out of frustration we fall into socialism. Restructuring our flawed economic model will require much bigger thinking into bigger ideas at a higher level of discussion: https://www.msn.com/en-us/
Extending that thought to the next level, it’s really the GOP who could lead America into socialism, since they’ve been the party most adamant about not addressing the problems inherent in our current capitalist model. Many in the working class have hit their boiling point & ready to revolt, as they’ve already tried Trump & he let them down, so they might soon flip the switch & go in the exact opposite direction: https://www.msn.com/en-us/
It’s a big part of the Trump campaign scare tactics to accuse the Dems of supporting socialism. But is it actually the other way around? Just look at the way conservative politicians in particular are protecting the current rigged system favored by their rich donors, since it’s the GOP that has advanced socialism for the oligarchs in that they’re always devising creative ways to provide handouts for the wealthy. So it’s Republicans who’ve been adamant about keeping socialism in place for the top 1% as bureaucratic benefits & perks are directed towards them. As a prime example, could this case be even worse than Trump’s tax fraud?: https://www.msn.com/en-us/
Just listen to Trump talk. He doesn’t know anything! More an empty vessel, he can’t articulate any solution or plan! Plus we can’t trust anything he says! He only talks to his rabid base & ignores (or insults) the rest of us. And the topics are always about himself, his ego demands he’s always bragging even when the facts don’t add up. When he does talk about others, it’s usually to criticize. He thinks he can elevate himself by putting down others. The prez has strong support from a decent chunk of the working class since he talks a good game, but his policies leave them behind while enriching the wealthy who don’t need it. So the widening wage/wealth gaps are accelerating at a rapid clip, made much worse by the K-shaped COVID pseudo-recovery. But the economic reality stunk for many workers even prior to the virus hitting, as revealed inside https://www.msn.com/en-us/
When are blue collar workers finally going to realize this guy that so many of them support is returning the favor by stabbing them in the back. Granted, the problem of stagnant wages & lack of upward mobility pre-dates the pandemic & pre-dates Trump, but our prez is only making the problem worse as he totally neglects the issue. Those workers who buy into his bold promises seem to embrace that hard-edge rhetoric, but in reality are voting against their own self-interests by voting for Trump. Sure, the rich do provide lots of jobs, but as a society we shouldn’t have to beg & grovel at the feet of the oligarch class for the table scraps. Restoring the American Dream will require a new model where a stronger economy offers shared growth & upward mobility: https://www.msn.com/en-us/
In the links below providing recent reports on the economy, we see so many Americans are facing dire financial circumstances. With virus cases still spiking along with the stubbornly high new weekly jobless claims, it’s maddening in DC they can’t agree around a new stimulus deal despite months of negotiations. Is tomorrow the day?: https://www.msn.com/en-us/
A little further on down are links describing that health care was a substantially winning issue for the Dems in 2018, & will be again here in 2020. We can’t be opposed to repealing the ACA if there was a better plan replacing it, but the fact is the GOP had 10 years to come up with an improved version of healthcare coverage & they’ve come up empty. It’s something Trump keeps promising, but he repeatedly lied about it in the previous campaign & is still repeatedly lying about it in this campaign. There is no plan & never was, only empty rhetoric. Plus he constantly lies about protecting preexisting conditions. Please check out these titles as this economic malaise is sure to be around for awhile:
Going In the Wrong Direction on the Virus
Here in the U.S. & around the world we’re mostly seeing large public gatherings being avoided altogether, or carefully done so social distancing & mask wearing can be adhered to. But that’s not the case with the Trump cult rallies!: https://www.msn.com/en-us/
So the prez is gunning for some distant vaccine & herd immunity (https://www.msn.com/en-us/
And the experts who write for prestigious scientific journals concur Trump’s handling of the pandemic was completely inadequate & dishonest, while through it all he denied & shunned science: https://www.msn.com/en-us/
Ironically, with our advanced healthcare system, expertise, technology & funding capabilities, America should have had the capability to lead the world in fighting this deadly scourge. Instead with so many leadership missteps, we had the worst outcomes in the world to the point of becoming pitied & even a laughing stock! Nope, it’s never been “Totally Under Control:” https://www.msn.com/en-us/
Dueling Town Halls
There was such a dramatic difference between the two presidential candidates, as one of them actually knows what he’s talking about. Also comparing the two, it really stands out that Trump appears to be the one possibly losing his mental faculties. Overall, Biden is way way way more levelheaded, knowledgeable & presidential than Trump could ever dream about, plus Uncle Joe resides in a world of reality. And Trump’s The Apprentice ratings magic has disappeared, as Biden tops him in the TV ratings game in their head-to-head competing town halls: https://www.yahoo.com/
While Biden’s town hall did have lots of substance, Trump’s was a cacophony of evasion & lies. There was so much wrong with almost every answer, but parsing the topics our current prez botched badly with mangled word salad were about masks & details about other COVID misinformation, healthcare coverage & preexisting conditions, not knowing if he tested negative on the day of the first debate, immigration & DACA, QAnon, voter fraud & accepting the results of a legitimate election, conspiracies against Biden & Obama, hyping the state of the economy & the massive debt he personally owes. His town hall wasn’t a total train wreck like his debate performance, but it didn’t win him new voters & may have driven more away. See the specifics here:
2 Weeks To Go
After an election season that seems 100 years long, we’re finally getting down to the wire! With extremely long lines for early voting in states like Georgia & Texas (https://www.msn.com/en-us/
On the other hand, there are signs most of the battleground states are still too close for comfort, so any swings in these last two weeks could tip the scales: https://www.msn.com/en-us/
A lot of the GOP gains in registering voters this year came from going door-to-door since they don’t care about the virus, plus the college campus outreach the Dems count on has been hindered by COVID. It could indeed be as reported that GOP voter registration in key battleground states is in their favor for this year, but Dems (hopefully) have the overall advantage in most states since 2016. That advantage came largely from the 2018 blue wave. Plus the demographics keep changing & it appears voter enthusiasm is way up, so the Dems that stayed home 4 years ago seem more galvanized to vote this year: https://www.msn.com/en-us/
The past 4 years in many ways seem like 4 decades. And this year alone seems like a full decade. With all that’s happened here in 2020, it’s incredible to think the year started with an impeachment trial. It seems voter preferences are baked in the cake & most are firmly behind their candidate: https://www.msn.com/en-us/
Some concluding thoughts, we need to send an unmistakable message to Trump’s cult party by voting out as many of those bootlickers as possible, since putting the GOP out of power can be a good first step towards fixing a party that’s gone astray. That in turn can help repair our nation, but we must first excise the cancer that has gripped the GOP. I wish Biden was more active on the campaign trail this week (or maybe just a TV cameo appearance on a show like Cooper or Rachel?) in refuting Trump’s old & frail barbs, but debate prep is being prioritized. While I don’t like those optics, I guess Biden being cooped up sure beats Trump’s raucous super-spreader death-cult rallies that are bound to kill people. With the peculiar quirks of our electoral system, our 3 largest cities of NY, LA & Chicago are being marginalized, so the weight of the world rests with those like the voters of metropolitan Philly, being counted on to save our cherished constitutional freedoms here in the U.S. & by extension around the world: https://www.msn.com/en-us/
Lots of Music in Recognition of the Election to Save America!
Here’s a collection of new songs from Springsteen to Lovato & Randy Rainbow…
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