The 2020 election is on the horizon and, suddenly, in the media, FINALLY, we’re seeing more direct “evidence” of what a thug “we the people” have as our IMPEACHED so-called president. Several of the reports have to do with what people either KNOW, or think about individual 1’s relationship with RUSSIA. Of course, MOST of what is suddenly appearing in the headlines has been available to ANYONE who wanted to actually do a little “digging” on individual 1’s history. For example, the apprehension of people like Dan Coats, the former head of the Department of National Intelligence, about RUSSIA “having something” on individual 1 has been OBVIOUS, at least, to me, since he refused to even recognize this ATTACK on our nation. There are SEVERAL books which, factually, list individual 1’s history of dealing with RUSSIA and the Mueller investigations SHOULD have prepared “we the people” for what we’re now hearing from multiple media outlets.
And, the FACT individual 1 has been denigrating members of our armed services seems to have “struck a chord” with more and more Americans, especially after it was reported why he refused to visit the graves of American soldiers in France while calling those in the graves as “suckers” and “losers” for giving their lives for their country. This was NO surprise to me because I’ve been paying close attention since the day individual 1 took (LIED about) the oath of office to “defend our nation from threats foreign and domestic.” Not only did he denigrate those Americans who gave their lives in WW I but, on the same trip, he attacked our NATO allies and, generally, was an “A hole” on the world stage – one of the many times he’s embarrassed Americans who care about our standing in the “free world.”
So, now, today, the preview of Bob Woodward’s new book “Rage” is coming out and, almost unbelievably, individual 1 did EIGHTEEN recorded interviews with Mr. Woodward – RECORDED! Sure enough as his own words are becoming public our IMPEACHED so-called president is calling Woodward’s book a “hit job.” Let me say this one more time, his words in Woodward’s book, are part of EIGHTEEN recorded interviews. Yes, I’m thankful we are going to get a lot of information he CAN’T LIE himself out of, but the FACT he gave these RECORDED interviews, to me, is an indication of how STUPID our IMPEACHED so-called president really is. If it’s a “hit job” it’s a self inflicted “hit job.” (Of course, Woodward sitting on a lot of IMPORTANT information reminds me of John Bolton keeping important information “secret” so a BOOK can produce MORE profits – the American way!)
Now, if you’ve spent any time at all on this site you would know I am somewhat OBSESSED (can you be “somewhat” obsessed?) with doing ANYTHING I can to help encourage a MASSIVE run on the polls by progressive voters to vote this thug into the history books (right next to Benedict Arnold) come November 3rd. Well, as I’ve said many times here, individual 1 has given “we the people” all the evidence we need to understand he is an unworthy, incompetent, dishonest, and disloyal IMPEACHED so-called president. These revelations about his calling our fallen “heroes” “suckers and losers” SHOULD be enough to get even those in his CULT following to reconsider their “blind loyalty” to him – although I consider that unlikely – but, I believe it will motivate more people “in the middle” to join the rest of us in voting AGAINST him – if not FOR Joe Biden.
But, this slighting of our military (and, there’s much more than just the denigration of our fallen heroes in those French graves or elsewhere, along with the disrespect of “his generals” and the Russia “stuff”) is, to me, secondary to individual 1’s unthinkable FAILURE to lead a coordinated effort to fight off the Coronavirus pandemic . In Woodward’s book individual 1 admitted, on FEBRUARY 7th, he was aware of the DANGER of the coming Covid-19 pandemic. If you remember all the “stuff” referring to the “missing 70 days” at the beginning of this crisis, well individual 1 has now made it clear virtually EVERYTHING we – I say “we” because I was among a chorus of people condemning individual 1’s FAILURE to organize a national plan to fight the coming virus right from the beginning, were correct in our criticism of him.
The first case of Covid-19 occurred in “my” state, Washington, in January and it was clearly serious because several people in a retirement facility in Kent Washington died – almost suddenly. Seattle was one of the first “hot spots” in dealing with the virus and my niece, who works in the University of Washington hospital system, gave me my first view of the magnitude of this virus. She’s an occupational therapist but she was pulled away from her normal duties to essentially participate in supporting those dealing with the Covid-19 patients by helping them to change their PPE every time they came from one room in the hospital to another – especially those in the ICU. Everyone involved, including individual 1, knew the DANGER of this virus at that point in time.
Individual 1 was totally aware of the danger imposed by Covid-19 and he’s been LYING ever since the February 7th interview he gave to Woodward where he admitted knowing of the danger of the virus via a conversation he had with China’s president. It was president Xi who informed him of what to expect from Covid-19 and, yet, he’s been BLAMING China for all sorts of things which are, essentially, all LIES. Of course, MILLIONS of Americans knew our IMPEACHED so-called president was LYING right to our faces, but sadly, his CULT simply believes whatever comes out of his mouth. And, you don’t have to be a psychologist to understand individual 1 is a pathological LIAR. He can’t help himself and his “base” simply doesn’t want to believe what is right in front of their eyes. Sad!
According to SCIENTISTS who are experts in communicable diseases individual 1’s incompetent FAILURE to address this pandemic – with a plan which was “left behind” by the Obama administration – has led to the deaths of MANY tens of thousands of Americans – and, continues to lead to the DEATHS of more Americans who SHOULDN’T have to be dying from this virus. Individual 1 does ANYTHING if he believes it will help him get re-elected. Clearly, he cares not about the number of people DYING – as his niece says in her book, individual 1 “checks off all NINE indicators of a NARCISSIST” which is simply more EVIDENCE his behavior is all about himself! How can his “base” continue to support this coming from the highest office in our nation? Yikes!!!
This, of course, leads us back toward the military and individual 1’s relationship with Russia. Woodward’s book is bringing out the reality several of those who were members of individual 1’s administration were puzzled as to “What does Russia have on him?” I’ll not forget our IMPEACHED so-called president standing in front of cameras beaming the press briefing in Helsinki around the world as he took the side of Vladimir Putin over our intelligence service in regard to Russia’s interference in our election of 2016. Quantifying whether Putin was totally responsible for individual 1’s “victory” in 2016 (with three MILLION fewer votes than Secretary Clinton) will likely never be possible, but the reality he’s (Putin) still at it four years later is sobering. And, individual 1 continues doing NOTHING to stop this!
When you read about Paul Manafort giving key campaign information (remember, both Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon were involved in their campaigns’ connection to Cambridge Analytica who had “mined” key data from something like 75 MILLION American Facebook users which had been analyzed into key tendencies of the potential voters – I believe they called it “neighborhoods”) to Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian intelligence officer, you really have to think their (The Russians) influence on the election very well could have been more significant than most of us are thinking. This “collusion” is continuing on some, at this point, unknown level and “we the people” are likely not going to understand what the Russians are doing in 2020 unless Biden wins the election and ANOTHER Russia investigation can go forward.
And, the reality individual 1 is doing NOTHING to stop the Russians from spreading MORE misinformation (the REAL “fake news”) should have more people than those who think like me to be wanting to KNOW what Russia does “have on our IMPEACHED so-called president.” Additionally, it should have people on edge knowing the Russians are attempting to penetrate various state voting systems obviously attempting to spread chaos once again. While I don’t hold out any hope his CULT followers are going to rebel from this – keeping in mind Fox “news” has them totally BRAINWASHED via tactics originally used by the Third Reich – to me, it’s UNFORGIVABLE for EVERY one of the republicans in Congress who continue SILENTLY supporting this IMPEACHED so-called president who’s a DANGER to this nation – we just don’t know how serious the DANGER really is. And, those in individual 1’s administration supporting his “collusion” to Russia – like Chad Wolf and others who are helping to HIDE the intelligence which is being blocked by Wolf and others in the DNI are acting like TRAITORS!
I’ve talked, here, many times about the DAMAGE individual 1 is doing to this nation and it continues to mount. The country is overwhelmed by this pandemic individual 1 has chosen being AWOL from opposed to leading a national response to the virus, the country is, essentially, teetering on an economic depression with close to 20 MILLION Americans unemployed – and more on the horizon, students across the nation are doing school on a computer – if they’re lucky enough to have one and to have access to high speed internet – and, keep in mind, there are MANY who DON’T fall into that category, the streets are full of protesters, and “we the people” have an IMPEACHED so-called president who is clearly willing to CHEAT in order to remain in POWER. If “we the people” don’t massively REJECT this pseudo fascist, narcissistic, racist, xenophobic, and misogynist thug on November 3rd the America we have known since WW II will be in ruins.
Read “The Family” by Jeff Sharlet if you want to understand more about the moneyed interests which lie behind this version of the republican party which is totally willing to accept individual 1 as the party’s leader. The LYING doesn’t matter to them. The CHEATING doesn’t matter to them. The devastation to our environment today and into the future doesn’t matter to them. All the terrible comments about members of our military both living and dead doesn’t matter to them. The only thing which matters to these invisible supporters of this un-American occupant of the “White House” is MONEY. Wall Street is what matters to them. They could care less about “Main Street.” They are counting on “we the people” being so turned off by the incompetence of our government – under the “leadership” of individual 1 that they choose NOT to vote. And, for those who are willing to VOTE but not totally committed they (republicans) are attempting to put out “roadblocks” making it difficult enough to discourage them from doing so. Our country rests, right now as the November election approaches, on a MASSIVE rejection of individual 1 at the polls!
Final Thought: I’m presently reading (finishing) a book, “White Too Long” The History of White Supremacy in the Christian Church by Robert P Jones, focused on White Supremacy and the Church. As a Christian, myself, I’m always a bit reluctant to broach the subject of politics in church because I know where the conversation will go. I go to church because I refuse to give up my beliefs due to seeing things so differently from MANY in our congregation. This book is going, hopefully, to give me more FACTUAL information should I manage to get into conversations which, hopefully, would be “fruitful” and not deteriorate into people being defensive about their beliefs. Naturally, MANY of the people I’m referring to are individual 1 supporters and I, personally, am constantly struggling to understand how they can “go there” while committing themselves to the “Teachings of Jesus.”
I’ve brought this up here before but my thinking tonight has to do with the reality I’ve come to the conclusion the White Nationalist movement in America is somewhat similar to terrorist movements we’ve seen around the globe in recent years. From researching on the web how some of the organizations – most of which seem affiliated with a moniker using the word “Boogaloo” – act like terrorist groups and seek to “radicalize” unsuspecting ” dupes on the internet somewhat similar to how groups like Al Qaeda operate. I remember right after George Floyd was LYNCHED and the ensuing protests began springing up all across the country I found on the “web” various groups “calling their members to arms” – encouraging them to converge on the demonstrations with the express purpose of stirring up violence and trouble. I still believe, when all is said and done, many of those who were doing the instigating in the protests, including setting the fires and damaging businesses, came from these right wing White Nationalist groups.
Of course, it conveniently allowed individual 1 and his supporters to BLAME the Black Lives Matters protesters – and, undoubtedly, these White Nationalists were successful, in my view, of “sucking” many of the protesters into their “plan” with many entering the businesses which had their windows and doors broken open to participate in the looting. To me, none of that is OK and I’m, personally, OK with anyone who was causing damage or STEALING from businesses to be prosecuted if it can be proven they are guilty – but, I believe the VAST majority of the instigating came from these organized White Nationalist groups – many who claim their goal is to start a “race war.” Time will tell if I’m correct – although I have the picture of the 17 year old young man who had just murdered two people in Kenosha, Wisconsin walking right past several police vehicles out of Kenosha as if he was just your normal WHITE kid walking down the street with a smoking AR15. I couldn’t help but wonder, “What would the cops have done had he been Black?”