My (not so) brief analysis of (belch) President Donald Trump, the man and his new job.

Trump is a wannabe oligarch. He wants to be the Putin of the West.

 This desire is evident in that he is not only hateful, racist and anti-American, if by "American" we mean it's citizens and our rights rather than our nuclear stockpile, a piece of fabric called "our flag", our military or Money. I assert he's exceedingly stupid as well which in my mind settles the question once and for all if  "people who have made billions are very smart, know how to run a business and therefore this country."

Um, no, Trump is simply more methodical, self centered, greedy and hateful than the people he's scammed money from and now the highest office in this country. But let's not just yet sell the ignoramus hateful  morons short that got him elected. They  voted for him all the while making excuse after excuse for his blatant misogyny, racism, meanness, nastiness and hatefulness (quadruple redundant I know, but that is how bad his mouth and actions are), Showing once again that if you have money, YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH ANYTHING in this world because my assertion is, if he had not been rich, these voters WOULD NOT have voted for him after all the bile he spewed forth during the campaign. His campaign for me was like a Daily Reminder not to even consider voting for him. And why? Duh! But I will repeat for those who endorsed his meanness and voted for him PRECISELY because of it: He's repeatedly shown during his campaign and ever since that he is a hateful, mean sonofabitch that I don't want in the highest office of my country, which, by association,makes all of the people who voted for him THE SAME.

He clearly worships power and money at the expense of the "America" I know, THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES who  deserve but STILL don't have access to decent, affordable health and higher education for our children, he's doing everything in his power to undercut  those things even more while lying his stupid arse off about it.

 It turns out that while Putin is highly intelligent, by contrast, Trump is f**king stupid like  a carnival barker, which is exceedingly  dangerous in his current position.

 A friend said about his coworker recently "Everything that comes out of that boy's mouth is f**king stupid." The coworker, he said,  supports Trump and believes aliens gave us all our technology. The scary part is that our POTUS believes similar nonsense and also DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING OF SUBSTANCE EVER except BAD things that he comes up with that hurts entire groups of people  in this country. And when he's not attempting to use his office to hurt and demean entire groups of people, the only other thing he ever says is how great and wonderful  a job he is doing about everything.

 Trump's presidency is just continuation of con job he pulled getting there that depended upon the fears and prejudices of his supporters and the state level Republican gerrymandering to win the outdated, ANTI-DEMOCRATIC Electoral College.

 From putting a flunky son-in-law in charge of EVERYTHING, to the hate, bullshit and total nonsense spewing from his nasty pie hole, now we (intelligent nice people who didn't vote for the sonofabitch) really know how he got rich: with BULLSHIT.

But then what does an ex-stripper know about such things? What I hear and see, that's what.

Another conservative politician tries his hand at revising the historical record

On The Daily Show tonight, Sen. Rand Paul (R Kentucky) said that the Wall Street bankers who got 100s of millions in bonuses would not have gotten those bonuses had it not been for government intervention. Yeah right senator! Our newspapers and tv news media have only been full of news for the last 15 years about private corporate CEO's and other top execs getting big fat bonuses while their companies floundered or when bankrupt & their employees were forced to take pay cuts. If one follows the logic of Rand's particular brand of historical revisionism, the federal government force them to take those bonuses. Now if we are to believe the "Honorable" (what a laugh. what honor is there in being a politican engaging in a propaganda campaign for the benefit of himself and his political bosses?) Mr. Paul, the U.S. Government must have forced the companies of these executives to take their bonuses just like he said tonight that the government is the reason the Wall Street bankers who took our financial system to total collapse got theirs! All I got to say about Mr. Rand and his laughable attempts to revise history is: Kentucky voted him but now the rest of us have to deal with his lying bullshit

Where Have All The Republicans Gone?

   Why are there any Republicans left in political office?
Why hasn't this species died out? One would think that
aren't nearly enough fellow greedy, filthy rich, hateful,
selfish, working-class-hating  SOBs to vote for them! So
whose votes keep them in office? As I see it, the only
way they win office is by dividing& conquering, lying to,
 bullsh!tting & otherwise conning the majority, poor &
working class people (whom they loath) to vote for them.
Surely the vast majority of working & poor people
understand what the Republicans are pulling & won't vote
for them, right? RIGHT?
     I mean it is not like the Republicans hide it or don't
prove every chance they get that they hate the working
class (The vast majority of American citizens). It's not
 like they don't blatantly assault the working class,
speaking against and  trying to undermine
or eliminate every single initiative that would help
anyone in any way who isn't filthy rich. It isn't like they
even bother to pretend to support (but Democrats do)
things such as your health care, Social Security, welfare,
Medicaid, Medicare, collective bargaining, safety
regulations, governmental inspection and oversight of
safety in the food, drug, financial and other sectors.
After all, it is their government (the United Corporate
States of America), not yours, so why spend their money
(tax dollars) on stuff for you, right?
     They've been bought (the vast majority of our politicians)
and paid for fair and square! Now all they got to do
is get us(working stiffs)to keep voting for them (all Tea Party,
all Republicans, most Democrats).
     So why should the ultra-rich's campaign contributions to the
politicians they bought (Democrats, Republican, Tea
Party candidates) do anything to benefit you (Tea Party
member, Democrat & Republican voters)? A majority of
Democrats are even more two faced. They lie, saying
they are for all the things that benefit you & I (the
Republicans call these entitlement programs), yet do
nothing but make excuses about why they didn't
give us meaningful healthcare reform even when they
had a majority of both houses!  Obama's  health care bill
(as everyone likes to call it), when passed, wasn't the
bill he proposed. Rather it was a version that Democrats
could all vote for: a big package of results from
extortions and bribes to fellow Democrats (not Republicans)
to get them to vote for it.
     Case in point of how the Democrats just pretend to
be for us (United Corporate States of America citizens):
Obama was video taped in his campaign saying, that if
during his administration, there are any assaults on
collective bargaining (the cornerstone of unions
organizing the workplace to represent the interests of
working Americans) that he would "put on a pair of
comfortable shoes" and walk the picket line with them.
But as union officials and liberal pundits are repeatedly
pointing out, Obama has even said barely a word about
the fight for working class (most) Americans in Wisconsin
that is rapidly spreading to other (stupid voter) states
that had enough blathering poor idiots to vote in
Republican governors. Now in office, the governors are
 making good on their backroom promises to their
secret ultra-powerful puppetmasters to break the back of
the unions in their states. I love it how they rail against
all our "entitlements" such as Social Security, collective
bargaining and Medicare but say nothing about the billions in 
corporate entitlements that are handed out every year in the
form of tax breaks to ship jobs off shore, farm (Food
Conglomerate owned) subsidies, little-known laws
(we know about this one thanks to Obama
publicizing it in his campaign) that make Americans pay
more for drug prescriptions from our "American"
pharmaceutical companies than any other country.
There are similar cozy, little known (only the result of
them is known by me) anti-competitive, anti consumer laws
meant to benefit the entertainment, automotive, battery, cell
phone & printer ink industries, to name just a few, at the
expensed of the working class & consumers.
      In addition, the systematic dismantling by
Republicans of our regulatory and inspection agencies is a big
example of  corporate handouts because corporations are able
 to (like BP) save billions not spending money to follow safety
and environmental regulation. The cost to the world
is global recession, war & massive oil spills. Additional
costs that Americans bear for this is friends and family
members dying of lead poisoning (the wars), salmonella
& E-coli poisoning (from federal authorities lacking the
ability since a 2000 Supreme Court ruling to shut down
food processing plants that are in violation of health standards)
and death by FDA approved drugs because the Bush
administration has let all the drug companies self perform
clinical trials!
     But wait! Then there is the record deficits and debt to
bail us out by, of all things, giving 100s of billions in government
money (our money) to the very scumbags that put us in the hole
in the first place. Harry Truman said "The only
place "trickledown" trickles to is their damned pockets."
Trickle up works though (every single day, day in day out
month in month out every time we check out at the cash
register, pay a bill). If we had given us the money to pay off our
mortgages and buy the foreign made cars (made by our
"American" car manufacturers, Chrysler, GM and Ford), all
that spending would have trickled up and fixed the
economy problem & tons of families would have owned a house
&a foreign car made by one of our own Big Three auto
 manufacturers all free and clear. But they can't let that happen
because they've been diverting our attention and bleeding us dry,
getting fatter off the corporate-owned-government dole
(your tax dollars) for more than 200 years!
       Oh but this isn't even the good part about the
bailouts! News reports were recently saying that they are
all paid back! Early reports about the repayments showed
the very same congressional members, who are now
harping on the deficit, scrambling to think up ways to
spend the money instead of applying it to the deficit. But
after a few news reports over a couple days, the press
quit following the story (a celebrity died or got a DUI
arrest). Now the very best part (in case you still don't
believe that this country was originally set up to stick it to
the working class for the benefit and further enrichment
of the non-working class): The debts were paid back out
of record profits made by the borrowers (Bank of
America, Chase, others) who borrowed next to zero-interest
short term loans from the government and then
lent it back to cover deficit spending at  much higher
interest rates! This isn't even against the law, rather it is
the law! That's how "our" government works and who it is
& has been working for over the past 230 some years!
     So they are not about to start now letting us get our
hands on their pie (our tax dollars). They've been having sex
with our backsides while mesmerizing us with shiny baubles
 and bullsh!t meant to take advantage of our preconceived
fears and prejudices (The NY Mosque "controversy" for
example) since a bunch of rich white guys decided a couple
hundred years ago that they didn't want to pay their taxes .
      That's right, this all started in 1776 when our
"Founding Fathers" suckered a bunch of poor people
(average working class British colonial citizens, many
of our ancestors) to fight the war
using propaganda about "freedom" and "equality." But
then after we won independence "freedom" and
"equality" turned out to be just for the "Founding
Fathers" (mostly eloquent liars, in my estimation) and
others like them (or becoming like them) by virtue of
property ownership, being male and white. No
African-American slaves, women or the majority of white
guys who just fought the war needed apply for these
rights! Having accomplished that, to this day they (the
richest and most powerful of "us" that I want no part of)
are still up to the SOS, having  grudgingly only giving up
the rights they bandied about in 1776 in fits and jerks
under popular pressure (by union activism, the female
sufferage movement, the civil rights movements) over the
next 190 years.
          Thus the Revolutionary War had the same motivation
as the wars in Afghanistan & Iraq: being nothing but elaborate,
expensive (profitable for them) income
shifting devices. The only difference between the wars is that the
revolution set laws and practices in motion whereby they could
eventually start wars like the current ones designed to use
working people and steal our resources, in the name of safety
and security (manipulating our fears for monetary & political gain.
Whatever happened to FDR's quote: "We have nothing to fear
but fear itself.") just like they did 125 years ago in the unsafe
factories where they paid us pennies a day to work in until unions
formed and literally physically fought them for decent living wages
and safe working environments.
             Both the current wars and the working conditions 125
years ago that the unions formed to combat are examples of
concentrated economic and physical assaults on the American
Middle Class. It's just that today, we have better laws
(many not enforced) to protect us in the workplace (minimum wage
law, collective bargaining chief among them which all Republicans
constantly fight to dismantle). Not being able to dismantle the laws
the unions have gotten in place to protect us, like the time-and-half
for overtime and 40-hour work week, the Republicans have just
resorted (in concert with Democrats in Congress) to going along
with trumped-up excuses for supporting wars to help them continue
stealing everything for themselves that this nation has to offer.
      It works ("your" government)  this way: our politics and laws
have been and are owned by and are only for the benefit of fat
cats who own big businesses (who unofficially own and run
"your" government) who want the rest of us to have
nothing. But they have to maintain a facade of civility
about it. It's not like they can just walk up to the U.S.
Treasury and take what they consider to be theirs
(everything). Rather, today, to pull that off, they have to 
invent reams of bullsh!t to feed you about how they have
to start wars to "protect our (or obtain) freedom" to
justify it. How did we benefit from those wars? We
didn't. All we got was our brothers, sisters, husbands,wives
 parents, cousins, uncles, aunts and friends getting killed in them
while the defense & oil industries (as well as many
others) got even filthier rich off them.
     But I digress. I'm going back to answer the question
of how can there be enough predominantly working-class
voters to keep electing Republicans to office. I know
that they get elected again and again by spending billions
convincing, exploiting our fears and prejudices, poor stupid
working stiffs to vote like they tell us. But I ask, how is that
possible generation after generation? Why aren't the stupid
ones of us, who consistently vote against our own best interests,
dying out from accidents such as using electrical appliances
while taking a bath? It's obvious that these voters have no
more sense than not to go outside when it is raining, look up
in the sky with their mouths open in wonderment and
drown! Is it that as a species we've finally circumvented
Charles Darwin's law of "survival of the fittest?" Does
there need to be new U.S. law incorporating Darwin's
Law into the codes and statutes of our local, state and
federal governments that sets up a new enforcement agencies
charged with enforcing Darwin's Law? Should we empower
a cadre of elite Darwin's Law Enforcers to execute people who
are alive but shouldn't be (voting) according to Darwin's Law?
 It really appears so to me. We've tried everything within the
Constitution (with no result, it only has gotten worse) to
thwart Congress from having it's back door wide open to
influence peddling for votes. At any time, it is lawful (in
fact their constitutional duty) for any congressman to tell
a lobbyist to "take a hike" but they never do because the
lobbyist's boss (their boss too) will see to it that they do
not get elected (with your votes) again.




                                  
 

How to vote or how not to vote. This is the question

In the last election were you confuse about who to vote for? Were you trying to weigh what everybody had to say about the candidates before making your decisions? If so, that was your worst mistake. Below is my sound, experienced advice for potential voters whether you are affiliated with the Tea Party , Dems, Reps, independents, progressives (whatever because none apply to what I have to say). Rather than being for voters with a specific party affiliation, this advice is for anybody who is intelligent enough to understand the merit of what I am saying & has enough regard for others to want to cast a vote for the common good of all.

     Here is my advice: First and foremost: Don't listen to  anything  anybody has to say about any candidate. I say this because anything negative about any candidate is either coming from the opposition, whose job it is to make the candidate look bad or coming indirectly from them through your friends and colleagues with whom you discuss politics. Conversely, the same is true for anyone saying good things about the candidate! So don't listen to them either. Their job is to make the candidate look good and and they've influenced people who are trying to influence your decision at polling time.

     Instead, listen to the candidates & your own perception of the candidates as you weigh how they behave and speak. Listen to the candidates every chance you get & to determine if they are addressing the issues that are important. Are they actually talking about substantive issues in a meaningful way or are they just talking a lot about nothing & repeating vague platitudes about ephemeral things like "the American Way" & "justice for all." Are they continuously bashing their opponent or do they seem to be masters of doublespeak? Or are they talking about their  plans to do the job if elected & do the seem sincere& honest? If you tune out all the BS, all the lies, all the news media commentary and opinions and let the candidates speak for themselves, it becomes easy to differentiate between the charlatans who just want the power & prestige & the candidates who have an altruistic motivation for seeking the office. But to cast a vote for the common good, your mind can't be polluted by the self-centered, racism & greed & ethnocentric hatred that they throw at Obama like he is Hitler, a nigger, a socialist etc.They hiss "Muslim"  about him, trying to control your vote by playing on your irrational fears about those thing. So along with my advice not to listen to anyone but the candidate, I will say that this only works if you've cleared your mind of all the irrational fears mentioned above. Because if you still harbor them at poll time, you're either a puppet casting the votes your puppet masters want you to cast, or you 're a selfish, self-centered SOB who cares for no one but yourself (in other words, you're an average American).

     So, all you need to cast a good vote is to not be influenced by all the garbage spread about candidates & you need to quell your irrational fears so your choices can't be manipulated by others. The last thing is that you need only listen to the candidates themselves.  If you maintain an open mind and listen to only what the candidates say and nobody else, and look to them for speaking the truth & being, sincere & candid, I promise you that more often than not, you can reach a choice on your own that is yours and as good or better than anyone else's choice.  That's because, you know what? Most people let their minds get polluted by the enormous amount of pure horseshit that is thrown around in these campaigns due to two factors: their ignorance & their irrational fears that allow them to believe, for example that all Muslims are terrorists and Christianity is superior, being conveniently devoid of terrorism throughout it's entire history despite such events as the killings & bombing in the abortion industry by avowed Christians; the Oklahoma Courthouse Bombing by Timothy McVeigh; David Koresh and his cult; the years of Christian-on-Christian terrorism in Ireland, The Salem Witch Trials and the Spanish Inquisition to name just a few blemishes. 
     But if you've tuned out all the crap & have just listened to the candidates, come voting time, you're much more qualified than most people to cast a good vote. Don't listen to stuff about the candidate, listen to the candidate. Anybody saying things about the candidates cannot and should not be trusted because they either work for them or against them and are getting paid to either build the candidate up or tear him/her down.

      This advice is not comprehensive and will not guide you through an entire ballot of obscure offices and unknown candidates for positions you didn't know existed, but at the very least it will help you to make your own decision on a few races that are important to you.