It’s truly incredible that shows like
Saturday Night Live, not funny/no talent, can spend all of their time knocking
the same person (me), over & over, without so much of a mention of “the
other side.” Like an advertisement without consequences. Same with Late Night
Shows......
4:59 AM - 17 Mar 2019
....Should Federal Election
Commission and/or FCC look into this? There must be Collusion with the
Democrats and, of course, Russia! Such one sided media coverage, most of it
Fake News. Hard to believe I won and am winning. Approval Rating 52%, 93% with
Republicans. Sorry! #MAGA
5:13 AM - 17 Mar 2019
There is great anger in our Country caused
in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news. The Fake
News Media, the true Enemy of the People, must stop the open & obvious
hostility & report the news accurately & fairly. That will do much to
put out the flame...
....of Anger
and Outrage and we will then be able to bring all sides together in Peace and
Harmony. Fake News Must End!
“I can tell you I have the support of the police, the support of the
military, the support of the Bikers for Trump – I have the tough people, but
they don’t play it tough — until they go to a certain point, and then it would
be very bad, very bad.” Donald Trump following the pledge of allegiance during a Bikers for
Trump event at the Trump National Golf Club August 11, 2018 in Bedminster, New
Jersey
It is still
a common rallying cry as Donald Trump addresses his uber-loyal base at his
rallies. Trump still shunts virtually all of the allegations, investigations
and claims against him and his crony-appointments, into a continuous blathering
about Hillary Clinton, who holds no public office, and her emails of old. As
you can see from the revolving door of his White House senior staff and his
cabinet appointments, the only quality Trump endorses for those working for him
is blind and unquestioning loyalty. The proud, self-admitted “pussy-grabbing”
president can also justifiably claim that one quarter of voter-age Americans
believe he was anointed by God to be President.
My friends
on the left and right coasts just don’t see the passionate religious zeal of those
traditional, mostly older white voters in America’s middle and southern states.
They do not see the nexus between God’s perceived mandate for Trump to rule and
his rather unambiguously autocratic desires. For those who label Trump as
merely an “autocratic wannabee” surrounded by a solid democracy based on
carefully-constructed constitutional checks and balances, they have apparently
missed the 20th and 21st century lessons of history, that all genuine autocrats
rising through political quagmire, democracies included, began as such
“autocratic wannabees.” Every one of the above Trump statements are charges
that the United States Constitutional limits should not be applied to him and
his political agenda.
Indeed,
Trump’s presidency is wrapped up in so many beliefs within the majority of his
evangelical base that his leadership of America is simply God’s will. That his
rather libertine and mean-spirited bullying, laced with hyperbole (lies
actually), fly in the face of the New Testament are actually seen as supportive
of his God-given political ascendancy. Citing Biblical verse, these
evangelicals find parallels of a non-believer who saved the faithful.
Thus saith
the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden,
to subdue
nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings,
to open
before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut…
Old Testament/Torah,
Isaiah 45: 1
For a
detailed explanation, see my January 12th blog, A King Shall Rise Up. With
support like that, emanating from one of only two constituencies that Trump
represents (the mega-wealthy and his base), Trump’s disdain for anything that
opposes his vision – including those constitutional safeguards – apparently in
just about every word he speaks and, increasingly, every action he takes. He
does what he wants and directs his political minions to tow the party line as
well.
Donald Trump
vetoes a majority bipartisan House and Senate vote that railed against a
clearly false declaration of a national emergency, one Trump himself said he
really “didn’t need,” to reallocate money not remotely authorized by Congress
to fund his vanity wall. Although all Congressional appropriations bills are
constitutionally mandated to originate with the House of Representatives, Trump
claims that a vaguely-worded Congressional act allows the president almost
unlimited discretion to call whatever he like a “national emergency,” even if
there is statistical evidence to the contrary. He says Congress ceded him all
the authority he needs to spend whatever he chooses if all he does is label an
event a “national emergency.”
White
supremacists cheered as he moved against “brown people,” their perception of
the wall. They must have smiled at Trump’s understated reaction to an
Australian’s mass murderer of 50 Muslims in New Zealand. The killer used a
semi-automatic military-grade assault weapon championed by the National Rifle
Association here in the United States and fully supported by Donald Trump. The Aussie
murderer specifically praised Donald Trump as a “symbol of renewed white
identity” in his online manifesto. Immediately after the shooting, despite
dramatic statistical, evidence to the contrary, Trump repeated that he did not
see “white nationalism as a rising threat worldwide.” Just get Congress to do
whatever I want, Trump demands.
“Homeland
Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Tuesday [3/12] that congressional
opposition to her department's border security measures makes her ‘fear for our
democracy,’ insisting that members of Congress focus on changing the law
instead of asking DHS to change how it is enforced.
“‘I said it
before, but I really fear for our democracy when the body who creates the laws
is telling the body who enforces the law, ‘just don't enforce the law,’ ’
Nielsen said in an interview with Fox News. ‘If they don't like the law
they should change it, but the men and women at the Department of Homeland
Security have sworn an oath to protect communities to secure the homeland and
to enforce the law that Congress passed.’” Politico.com, March 14th. But Trump would
clearly veto that change in the law. He does not want “the law” to get in the
way of his rule, and he repeatedly states, when his opponents win an election,
that election fraud is always against him:
“One day
after the North Carolina State Board of Elections voted unanimously
to order a new election [in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District], Trump
deflected when asked about his relative silence on the disputed race.
“‘I condemn
any voter fraud of any kind, whether it’s Democrat or Republican,’ Trump told
reporters in the Oval Office. ‘But when you look at some of the things that
happened in California in particular, when you look at what has happened in
Texas with all of those votes that they recently found that were not exactly
properly done. I condemn all of it.” Politico, February 22nd. Reading all of
these Trump statements, there is a growing body of Americans who fear that
Donald Trump may well use “fake news” and “election fraud” as justification to
remain in office in 2021 if he loses the November 2020 presidential election.
“Testifying
before a Congressional House Oversight and Reform Committee on February 27th,
former-Trump personal attorney and convicted felon, Michael Cohen, said: “Given
my experience working for Mr. Trump, I fear that if he loses the election in
2020, that there will never be a peaceful transition of power, and this is why
I agreed to appear before you today.” Military, police and bikers join with the
evangelical faithful who believe that The Donald must rule America? Civil War?
Like it’s never happened before in this country?
I’m Peter Dekom, and for those who
simply take democracy for granted, there are severe consequences that history
has bestowed on others who made similar assumptions.
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