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20/02/2024

This post was supposed to come out yesterday but my computer crashed...

Today is Presidents Day and so I Thought I would share a story about our first President that most people don't know.
First of all, the signing of The Declaration of Independence was not at the end of The Revolutionary War but at the beginning...The war was not won until 1783. After that we had the hammering out of the constitution in 1787, the founders spent months arguing back and forth everyday about this document and what form our government would take. Out of these debates came a new type of Democracy never really seen before, a noble and lofty experiment that put the people in charge of their destiny.
Despite their differences on the form of the government, The Founding Fathers all agreed that the first President had to be George Washington....hands down. As the time got closer to start this new government some of the founders began to worry that maybe this new experiment wouldn't work and that after years of conflict it all would come apart...These men suggested that maybe Washington should be appointed King and that way he would have way more control of this new country than depending on 3 branches of untried government. Washington told them this "I will be your President but absolutely wont be a King. If you want me, those are the terms" Thankfully, for all of us they agreed.
I think this is so telling on a number of levels. First of all we know that Washington was not the greatest General in terms of military strategy BUT he was a Great Leader. He could inspire men to follow him in the most dire circumstances and he did all through that war and this is why the Founders knew that he had to be the first President of the United States. What I find even more telling and inspiring is that finally when it came time to start this new government, even some of the most Revolutionary founders had some moments of doubt about if it would work and he basically told them....We fought for this and I am committed to it or find somebody else...THIS IS WHAT LEADERS DO.....
Leaders are hard to find these days in this Great Nation...
Look to George Washington and his commitment to this idea called The United States of America...That is Leadership and a message to us all as we head into a Presidential Election...Anyone who basically is planning to be a King is as Anti-American as you can get...Anyone who tells you that your neighbor, a fellow American, is your arch enemy simply because they have a different belief on some political issues than you do is Anti-American...This country is Great because of the back and forth of different points of view...
E Plurbis Unum....Out of Many, One....
Happy Presidents Day Everyone!

19/02/2024

The Best Way To Punish Putin For Murdering Navalny Is To Approve Aid To Ukraine and Support Democracy...

06/01/2024

3 years ago today I had been working outside doing some kind of day work and when I was done I went over to a friend's house and they had the TV on and were watching as thousands of American citizens attacked our capitol building...I was stunned beyond belief and I watched in horror as this continued to get worse and worse right in front of my eyes....It is a moment I will never forget just like the day JFK was killed or the day the twin towers came down...
As shocked as I was , I wasn't surprised....It was the culmination of an effort by one man to stage a coup....That man of course was Donald Trump...All though the summer of 2020 during the election campaign he had been saying that if he didn't win it would be because the election was "Rigged"....Of course everyone seems to have forgotten that he said the same thing in 2016 ....until he won!
As I watched the early days of that campaign I said to myself that a sitting President should not be allowed to sow this kind of doubt about our elections on the campaign trail....I was offended and frightened that this could be legal...As I watched the people attack the Capitol I was shocked and frightened by the fact the the man who incited this insurrection was sitting comfortably in the Whitehouse watching it happen and doing nothing to stop it....Why wasn't he being dragged out in handcuffs and put in jail on the spot....In that moment I realized that Presidential Power in this country needs to have many more checks than it does....
And now here we are 3 years later and this very same man is able to run for President again and while he runs he is basically telling his audience that he is going to end our Democracy and apparently there is nothing any of us can do to stop him except vote and hope???? Really??? This also points out the flaws in our whole system....A system that always has depended on honorable people who respected the constitution and the rule of law...But the system is fragile if it is confronted with a lying grifter who does not care for or respect the constitution or the rule of law!
Make no bones about it....Donald Trump tried to stage a coup against the United States of America...We all watched it in real time....Trust your eyes and your ears....Use your common sense...we all saw it and heard it happen...Anyone who says different is simply a LIAR....Truth and Facts still exist folks Keep your heard on straight keep your eyes on the TRUTH.....Let's "SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY IN 2024...."

30/12/2023

I am sure glad that Joe Biden is president… He has done so much for all of us!

19/12/2023

19/12/2023

Wow....Donald Trump has now said "Immigrants are poisoning our Blood"... Really?
This is Full On N**i Rhetoric...
Wake Up America

19/12/2023

Don't You Think if there really was a "Deep State" that they would have gotten rid of Trump Years Ago?

15/12/2023

Good morning everyone… The truth of the matter is our economy is really good…

07/12/2023

ARE YOU FU***NG KIDDING ME?????
Donald Trump has now announced he will be Dictator on Day 1 if he wins in 2024!!!
I AM DONE WITH THI BULLS**T...HOW MUCH MORE DO WE HAVE TO TAKE?
HOW STUPID ARE WE?
HOW DEBASED HAVE WE BECOME?
HOW DEADENED ARE OUR SENSES TO SIT AROUND AND LISTEN TO THIS CRAP FROM THIS POS?
I REMEMBER IN 1996 WHEN BOB DOLE WAS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT AND THE RACE WAS OVER FOR HIM WHEN HE TRIPPED ON A SET OF STAIRS GOING INTO AN AIRPLANE..RECENTLY THAT HAPPENED TO JOE BIDEN...GUESS WHAT IT HAPPENED TO ME WHEN I WAS 29...
AND YET WE HAVE TO LISTEN TO SOME MO********ER WHO SAYS ONE OF OUYR GREATEST GENERALS SHOULD BE EXECUTED BECAUSE HE COMMITTED TREASON? i'M PRETTY SURE THE ONE WHO COMMITTED TREASON IS DONALD TRUMP...AREN'T YOU???
I MEAN C'MON LET'S GET REAL...WTF IS GOING ON HERE????
WE HAVE LISTENED TO THIS AS***LE FOR ALMOST 8 YEARS NOW AND IT IS JUST ONE OFFENSE AFTER ANOTHER FROM THIS GUY...WEA ARE ALL SO TIRED AND NUMB THAT WHEN HE SAYS THIS S**T WE ALL GO ..."YEAH , JUST ANOTHER DAY" REALLY?????
HAVE WE FORGOTTEN WHO WE ARE???? 10 YEARS AGO WE WOULD HAVE KICKED THIS PEICE OF S**T TO THE CURB...
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO US???
GUESS WHAT....I MAY NOT AGREE WITH YOU ON SOME ISSUES HERE OR THERE BUT I AM YOUR BROTHER...WE ARE AMERICANS FIRST AND FORMOST...THIS LIAR IS TRYING TO TELL US COLLECTIVELY THAT OUR ENEMY IS THE PERSON WHO LIVES ACROSS THE STREET...ARE YOU KIDDING ME????
WE ARE AMERICANS AND WHAT MAKES US GREAT IS THAT WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE WE ARE THERE FOR EACH OTHER..
E PLURBIS UNUM...OUT OF MANY...ONE...
IN THE GREATEST DEMOCRACY OF OUR AGE ARE WE GONNA LET SOME GRIFTING LOWLIFE SAY TO US THAT HE IS GONNA BE DICTATOR ON DAY 1 IF HE WINS THE ELECTION IN 2024???
YOU ALL HAVE FATHERS AND GRANDFATHERS WHO FOUGHT AND DIED IN WW2 TO STOP HITLER....THEY DID IT FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY...
KICK THIS FU**ER TO THE CURB...END HIM NOW,,,AND EVERY DUMB ASS WHO AGREES WITH HIM...
THIS IS "YOUR" COUNTRY...NOT HIS
WE ARE AMERICANS....ALL OF US..
WE ARE ALREADY GREAT...WE DON'T HIM TO BE THAT!!!!

06/12/2023

Donald Trump,
Using the due process of Democracy so can stay out of jail and end Democracy...

18/03/2022

Donald Trump should be in Prison...He is a Seditionist
There is nothing lower...

04/03/2022

Put Donald Trump in Prison...
Why is He still Free???

30/01/2021

Expel This Insult To Our Congress...Read This article about Her Comments and Video's...This is NOT ABOUT POLITICS...It Is About A Crazy Deranged Violence Threatening Member of Congress...!
SHE MUST BE EXPELLED!!!!!!!!!!

The GOP now faces a steady stream of revelations about the new congresswoman’s extreme views and advocacy for fringe causes and baseless claims.

28/01/2021

Expel Marjorie Taylor Greene,
Start with Her...!

11/01/2021

Contact Your Representative and tell them to "Remove Donald Trump From Office!"

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02/12/2020

Watch this Video and Read This Article...Save Your Country!

WHAT IS GOING ON??? Has half our Country Lost their Minds because of this Toxic President? For the last 4 Years I have watched this President do things and say things that would have ENDED THE CARREER of any other Politician in my Lifetime BUT somehow By His Sheer Denial of Reality and the Truth He was able to still be Viable....Once He lost The Election I thought "Thank God It's Over" But I was wrong...WTF Is Happening in This Country? Are we going to be in the streets fight with people over whether the Sky is Blue? The Sun Exists? The Earth Is Flat?
It appears that there is a Large Group of People who can actually be Convinced that a Lie is the Truth if it is repeated over and over again ad nauseum and if it is what they want to be True as Opposed to what Is True.
As I have said for at least the last 2 years, Donald Trump is a Dangerous Man. We are seeing that He is willing to do anything, Literally anything, to push HIS AGENDA even if it is this Outrageous Claim that this Election was stolen From Him....IT IS RIDICULOUS and this Coddling of Him and His Fantasy has Got To Stop!
Bill Barr, Who I am No Fan Of Yesterday announced the results of the DOJ's investigation into alleged election fraud and found Nothing and now He is Being Attacked By Fox News and Others...
How Does This Make America Great???
So now we have Election officials across the Country getting Death Threats, many of them Republicans, simply because they reported the Election Results...The Results are the Results!!! If your a Decent American who works in that Field You take Elections Very Seriously and Are Dedicated to Reporting The Results and Getting it Right...
Donald Trump, does Not Want To Leave...He Likes The Power To Much...He is Trying to Incite some kind of Civil War between Those who know the Truth and those who simply want HIS Un-Reality to Be True...Think About This...I mean really think about this...He is actually Trying To Bend Reality To His Will...To Push His Agenda So Far that It Destroys What We as Americans Have Been Doing for 240 Years....He should Be Stopped...And any Republican Who is Holding Office and Does not Condemn This Behavior should Condemned also and at a minimum pay for it in the next Election...Our Country Cannot Survive This Type Of Denial Of Reality...It Will Destroy Us...
I say that anyone in this Country who is Trying to Incite People to Violence Should Be Arrested For Inciting Violence....Add To That Trying to Incite Violence By Saying that an Election Is Not Legitimate even though every Court in The Land has said It Is NOW That Moves Him into another Category. This is a Man Who Is Trying To Subvert Our Democratic Republic....He Is Trying To Steal an Election FROM THE VOTERS IN THIS COUNTRY!
THIS IS TREASON and HE SHOULD BE DEALT WITH ACCORDINGLY! I Cannot Believe that we are Watching This Happen and NO ONE IS DOING ANYTHING about IT! The People of this Country should not have To Put Up With This!!!
When A President is Sworn In He Takes an Oath of Office and One Part of that Oath says that He will "Protect Us From all Enemies Foreign and Domestic" But What If The Enemy Is HIM???
We Should All Write and Call Every Representative in This Country and Let Them Know That This Will Not Be Tolerated...
Donald Trump Is Doing What DICTATORS DO....He Has Become, In No Uncertain Terms....THE ENEMY!!!!!!!!

'It has to stop': Georgia election official slams Trump's rhetoric on voting fraud

27/11/2020

What a Disgrace!!!

President Donald Trump said he’ll relinquish power if the Electoral College affirms Democrat Joe Biden’s win, but he signaled he may never formally concede defeat, and may skip the Democrat’s inauguration.Trump fielded questions from reporters on Thursday for the first time since his election ...

11/11/2020

RIGGED ELECTION? REALLY????

So here we are a week after the 2020 Election and Donald Trump still has not conceded after losing to Joe Biden. Let us remember 2016 where Donald Trump claimed that the election was "Rigged against him" and said he would only accept the results if he won...And then He did win, and we promptly never heard another word about it...But wait, I thought it was rigged against him? If so, how did he win?....Anyway he is back in a big way making the same claim and this time since he's a sitting President he has a lot more power and options to throw a monkey wrench into the whole works...and he is doing that...All the while Giving The Middle Finger to the Greatest of American Institutions....A Free and Fair Election!
So let's dissect this claim and Mr. Trump while we are at it...I never thought I would give Trump kudos for anything But I must say He Is A Really, Really Good Liar. Good at making them up, Good at telling them over and over and Good at getting others to believe them! I have been reading Michael Cohen's book about Trump titled "Disloyal". He was Trump's personal lawyer and fixer for over 10 years and this is what he wrote about him and his lying...
"This was the pattern I had grown accustomed to, not since Trump had entered politics, but in all the years I had represented the Boss. If your caught in a lie, double and triple down. It was the opposite of Occam's Razor: Instead of the simplest explanation being the likeliest, this strategy involved complicating the narrative, throwing sand in the eyes of the onlooker, claiming that transparently implausible stories were true unless proven
otherwise, and even then denying the obvious truth. It was a variation of the old joke: Are you going to believe me or your Lying Eyes? It was surprisingly effective over time, if your willing to be brazen and relentless. It helped if you never truly thought about the past, or the consequences of lying, and if you always lived in the present tense, like a shark swimming through water only able to survive through constant motion"..."Trump's mind was so permeated with deception and delusion -of others and himself-that I had to be prepared to literally depart from reality and enter a kind of fantasyland when I spoke to the President"
I think those words sum up what we have watched for 4 years pretty well But let's dig a little deeper...Here's a few more quotes..."A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth"...and...."If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself" These are a couple of quotes by Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister for the N**is during WW2 who is widely aknowledged to be the father of propaganda. I mention these 3 quotes because they speak to the method that Trump uses to spread his propaganda.
At least 6 months ago Trump began stating that if we used mail in voting that it would result in a corrupt and rigged election. Now rigged elections are just not something that has ever been a subject during national elections in this country in all the years I have been voting. If any candidate would have claimed ahead of OR after a Presidential Election that the election was "Rigged" people would have looked at him like he was crazy...It's just not something we think about...We have a great system...Not that it's perfect BUT it is pretty damn good. So here comes Trump, claiming once again that the election is "Rigged" against him. In 2016 he claimed it was "Rigged" because of Illegal Aliens voting against him and he actually formed a commission after he was elected to investigate that because he was convinced that that was the only way Hillary Clinton could have beat him in the Popular Vote. Well that commission, with the full force of the government behind it was quietly disbanded less than a year later because they could find NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER of Election Fraud!!! Of course we never heard about that part did we?
Anyway, so now Trump starts talking about Election Fraud, because of mail in voting, this time around and now because he is the President, every time he mentions it, it gets reported. Over and over and over again he repeats this Lie...After a while it becomes a subject that is discussed on news programs, talked about at the water cooler and so on...Something that never would have been considered just a few years before is now, magically, a subject of conversation...Like it is actually a viable subject to talk about....BUT WAIT...! Trump just made it up...Do You see what I'm saying here? There never has been any evidence at all that mail in voting was ripe for fraud...NEVER! And it's been in use almost 200 years. So Donald Trump, makes up this scenario, repeats it over and over using his Presidential Megaphone and magically it becomes a topic. Then, knowing that mail in votes will be counted last in certain states, especially in a few battleground states, and that most mail in votes will skew Democratic, he tells all his base to vote in person on election day knowing that votes for him will spike election night and the next day...Then when the mail in votes start coming in later and states Votes start becoming more Democrats, he can claim that he was ahead and then the Democrats used phony mail in votes OR votes that came in after the polls closed or whatever the lie is that he decides to make up, and he then claims that He Was Robbed of the Election...But let's remember,
HE MADE ALL OF THIS UP...IT ISN'T TRUE...IT IS ALL A CREATION OF A MAN DOES NOT WANT TO LOSE POWER...THIS IS WHAT DICTATORS DO...IT'S HAPPENING RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU...
In reality we just had a hard fought election, with a Pandemic thrown in that made Mail In Voting a major player in the election in a way it had never been. The result of mail in votes counted last and in great volumes was predicted by everyone. Nothing was nefarious or suspect, it was exactly as everyone in the know thought it would go. Trump's people knew that too and He took that info and spun it into another Bogus Conspiracy...
Here's the thing, We have been having Elections in the country for 240 years....In Every Presidential Election One Guy Lost... Statistically, every Candidate has a 50% chance of losing before any votes are even counted...Donald Trump didn't even believe he would win in 2016 but he did...This election was exceptional in that we had a very high turnout and mail in voting was used in volume because of the Pandemic...In reality it was a really great election but in another way it was just like every other Presidential Election we've ever had in that One Guy Was Victorious and the Other Guy Lost...It's Happened Every Single Time...How Normal and Unexceptional...There is no Fraud Here...Just A Sore Loser... and in my View a Man who is careening toward Treason if he doesn't stop what he is Doing and Concede an Election He Lost...
What He Does Not Understand Is That The Act Of Concession and The Peaceful Transition of Power Is...
"THE" Thing That Makes America Great!

28/10/2020

Read This!!!

Every time the president ramps up his violent rhetoric, every time he fires up Twitter to launch another broadside against me, my family and I see a surge of vicious attacks sent our way.

16/10/2020

Dear Lindsay Graham...
“We the People” are coming for You!

10/10/2020

Most people don't realize that Hi**er was a beloved figure by thousands of Germans in the early and mid thirties. He had taken a country that was devastated by WW1 and in the following years it's economy had plumetted AND he had brought it back to having one of the strongest economies in Europe. Hi**er had Rallies everywhere and thousands of people would line the streets just to see him drive by in an open car...But there were a number of people who saw Hi**er for what he was and what he would become. Imagine if there was someone who decided that the best way to deal with him was to assasinate him...Well there was such a man and his name was George Elser and he had an amazing elaborate plan that would have killed Hi**er and the other N**i's that were in his inner circle in one fell swoop. His bomb did go off and destroy the stage where Hi**er was speaking just minutes before BUT Hi**er had an unexpected emergency and left early.
So here I am today thinking about how the world would have been so different if he had succeeded...Imagine No WW2...Europe would not have been destroyed, 6 million Jews would not have been killed, 20,000,000 Russians would not have been killed...50,000,000 million people would not have died had George Elser been successful on that fateful day...
I guess my point is that it's amazing to think of the destructive possibilities of one vitriolic man with an axe to grind and no one to check him AND also amazing to think that if he got taken out how much destruction could be averted.

09/10/2020

To All Biden Voters, we strongly encourage you to Vote In Person on Election day if your OK with it...
There are Reasons!!!

07/10/2020

Wow! So here we are, still in need of more pandemic stimulus and Trump shuts it down till after the election??? We still have massive unemployment and people who will be getting evicted from and losing their homes BUT it will all happen after the Election....SO let's make sure that the guy who shut it down does not get a chance to do that again...VOTE HIM OUT!!!
And remember, this is the guy who said he'd build a wall and Mexico will pay for it". Remember that? And then remember what he did at Christmas Time in 2018? He wanted money for his wall and congress wouldn't give him exactly what he wanted so he shut down the country and the Federal Employees who were labeled "essential" had to work for no pay for almost 2 months at Christmas Time...Remember that? Yeah because He cares so much about Americans...NOT! He cares about Donald Trump....
BUT We can fix this....We have power....Let's use it and RID OURSELVES of the other Virus we've had for 4 years...
"Voting is Our Vaccine"

The president walks away from $3 trillion that could have saved his campaign.

06/10/2020

He is a Lowlife who lives in a Tower...The only tool he uses to deal with any situation is either a LIE or a HAMMER...He is a bully who has never given a good Godamn for the thousands who have died in this Pandemic and suddenly He and his cabal of super spreaders are now expecting some kind of understanding or Empathy???
You Reap What You Sow People...

Trump supporters love how he "owns the libs," mocks the afflicted, and makes no apologies. Now they're aghast that critics are being "mean" to him.

22/09/2020

That we are even talking about a President who refuses to leave office is Why we need to Decisively Vote Him Out!!!

17/09/2020

Impeachment By The People
and For the People...
It's Our Turn November 3rd!

16/09/2020

"Dirty Democrats or Let's Talk About The Truth!"
Donald Trump is now touring the Country in full Campaign Mode trying to get you to believe that the Democrats are for Looting an Burning, That they want Socialism in this country, That they will repeal the 2nd Amendment, That if Biden appoints a Supreme Court Justice that somehow the whole court will become so Liberal that they will vote to repeal the 2nd Amendment and other horrible things and that if He loses the Election it's because it was rigged against him...(Same claim he made in 2016 by the way) ...These Charges are Irresponsible, Outrageous and So Not True...But that does not matter to Donald Trump.
I would expect stupid, outrageous charges like this from Alex Jones but this is coming from...wait for it...The President of the United States! We are in Bizarro World folks and it is really hard to navigate these waters for those of us who practice Common Sense, Believe in Science and Believe that there is a such thing as FACTS and TRUTH...
The President spends his time "Clouding the Air" with so much Flux and Disinformation that it is almost impossible to keep up with it all. We can never give up on Truth...Ever! In times like these let the Truth Guide You. It feels so disconcerting to watch someone who is not bound by the Truth manipulate and divide people with no Regard Whatsoever to the consequences for our Great Nation!
We must all be strong and realize that there are Millions of us who still know and believe the Truth! We Must show up in Masse on Election Day and Rid Ourselves of This Bitter, Small, Insignificant Excuse for a Man! He's Gotta Go and the Answer is simple...
It Is Now The "People's Chance to IMPEACH Donald Trump!" Let's Do It With Gusto and make this Guy a forgotten, Ugly Footnote of our history!
"IMPEACHMENT BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE"

10/09/2020

You do know that anyone can nominate anybody for a Nobel Prize...
What Crap!

02/09/2020

Trump is a Liar,
Trump is the Hoax,
Trump is a deadly Virus...