Wow, it has been one heck of a news cycle for the past week. I apologize for not getting a blog out sooner, but life happens sometimes and my schedule did not permit me to get the research done that I needed to late at night, because sleep was found to be at the top of my priority list in recent days.
The President has been on an absolute rampage on Twitter recently. He is doing everything he can to move the attention of people off of the Mueller Investigation, Russia, Michael Cohen, the Putin Summit, and North Korea. He is also trying his hardest to discredit the media coverage on said subjects.
I hope that most of you out there have logical minds that can conclude the reasoning behind much of what the President is doing right now. Trump has found himself in a corner with investigations closing in all around him, bad press on his overseas visits, on his treatment of allies, on his policy at the border of the United States and Mexico, on tariffs he generated because of "National Security", on his treatment of dictators as opposed to allies, on his actions at the G7 and NATO meetings, on the information coming out in the Cohen Investigation, on the investigation into the Trump Foundation, and on so much more. Trump is doing everything he can to try to poke holes in stories, discredit anything he can, and divert attention from one subject to the next.
You see the NFL coming back up again, more attacks on Obama and Hillary, and a response on Twitter to Iran that should concern us all. This is all in an effort to divert attention from the investigations and accusations the President sees in front of him. This is a tactic Trump has been using for decades, and one that worked well for him as a businessman. The problem is, he is finding that it doesn't work quite as well on the Presidential scale, where every word you say and every action you take is compared to things you have said and done previously. His life is monitored and recorded for the world to see, and every lie and misleading comment is out there for the world to see.
Trump's horrific summit with Putin was something the world will remember in history books as a dark day in the history of this Country. Trump bowed down to an Adversary and gave that Adversary a stage he should have never had. Trump complimented Putin rather than condemn his actions. Trump lifted up Putin to a level that looked equivalent morally to the United States. Trump denigrated the United States and took the word of an Adversary over that of his own Intelligence Community (that would be the ENTIRE Intelligence Community). By 'Adversary' I really mean murderous dictator who has destroyed his enemies to remain in power for so long, and who continues to meddle in elections, kill people with nerve agent, take over lands with military force, etc. I just wanted to make sure everyone understood because the truth about Putin is far worse than the word 'Adversary' can portray on its own.
Trump cannot seem to stand up and directly condemn the President of Russia. It really leads most to wonder what Putin has on Trump. It just doesn't make any sense that an American President would treat the President of Russia with such a soft, complimentary, approach.
Trump continues his Tweet rampage, denigrating the media by calling them "Corrupt" and "The Enemy of the State". He denigrates the media continuously in order to attempt to discredit them. This is something he said publicly long ago. Even if the media is right (which is almost always), he denigrates them so that he can sway the opinions of enough people to his side. He believes that if you say something enough, people start to believe it, which is unfortunately true. Being someone who looks at multiple media sources and reads the comments of many people on social media, it is obvious that Trump's tactics work with many people who refuse to look any farther than the surface for facts. Too many people take everything the President says as Fact, without properly vetting the information. That is dangerous, considering the vast majority of what comes out of Trump's mouth are outright lies and mistruths.
Americans, stay strong. Go out this year and every year hereafter and vote. We need voter turnout like this country has never seen before, and a Congress that is ready and willing to hold this President accountable for his words and actions, and put forth legislation that is good for the current and future stability of this great nation and its citizens. If we aren't fed up enough by now to act, I don't know what it will take for us to be fed up. If you go back through the events, Tweets, news conferences and everything else from the past year-and-a-half, all of that information should be more than enough to enrage enough people to get up and vote.
The United States of America used to be the shining beacon of the world. We held ourselves to a high standard and welcomed immigrants who wanted to enter our country instead of denigrating them all and calling them all rapists, murderers, drug dealers, and MS13 members. We had partisan politics in Congress, but we always found a way to find a middle ground that was best for the people and pass historical legislation.
In recent years, Congress has become an absolute abysmal organization. The Republicans for 7 years talked about how Obamacare needed to be repealed and replaced with their much better plan, and yet when the time came and Republicans had the power to make the change, they had no plan of their own. There are 2 voices in Congress today, and neither voice will bend or compromise to come to true legislation that is good for the people and the country. There is no meeting in the middle anymore in America. The President denigrating people, organizations, and the press has had a huge impact on the way many Americans look at politics. Many of us take major issue with the way the President and those around him carry themselves, and yet a large base of people are just perfectly fine with the lies, denigration, mistruths, and diversion tactics, saying that Trump is the best thing to happen to the United States in the history of the world.
That may, in a much different way than those Trump supporters mean it to, be absolutely true. My hope is that when the investigations are complete, to include the Mueller Investigation, the Trump Foundation Investigation, and the Cohen Investigation; we as Americans can stand up and for the first time all see the horrible truths many of us have been screaming about for the past year-and-a-half, and that those truths will somehow bring us closer together as we pick up the pieces and move on with new leadership in this country.
We are currently on track to isolating ourselves from the rest of the world. We have pulled out of everything possible on the world scale, pushed our allies farther and farther away with every passing week, and treated our adversaries as if they are moral equals. We have transitioned from "Bring me your huddled masses" to "Go back to your shitholes". On our current track, there is only so long our allies will hold out and put up with the treatment they are receiving before pulling their support. Since pulling out of the Iran deal, our relationship on that front has come to a horrible head, with the President all but screaming at Iran and telling them he will destroy them. These are all things that make Russia and China happy, and we seem to be continuing to make Russia and China happy on a regular basis.
The tariffs Trump is putting on China, and threatening to put on everything China ships, will have no long term affects on China. Their President is there for life. They can weather the storm of tariffs in the long term. Our businesses and citizens who are going to feel the pain of all of the retaliatory tariffs cannot weather the storm in the long run. It will destroy American businesses and cost families too much.
When Trump started saying, "Make America Great Again!" I questioned it because I felt that America was already great. With every passing day, I feel Trump's catch phrase becomes more and more relevant. I would like to 'Make America Great Again!, but to do that we need to end the reign of the narcissistic, xenophobic, racist, bigot that currently runs this country. Ironic, don't you think?
DUNK
The President has been on an absolute rampage on Twitter recently. He is doing everything he can to move the attention of people off of the Mueller Investigation, Russia, Michael Cohen, the Putin Summit, and North Korea. He is also trying his hardest to discredit the media coverage on said subjects.
I hope that most of you out there have logical minds that can conclude the reasoning behind much of what the President is doing right now. Trump has found himself in a corner with investigations closing in all around him, bad press on his overseas visits, on his treatment of allies, on his policy at the border of the United States and Mexico, on tariffs he generated because of "National Security", on his treatment of dictators as opposed to allies, on his actions at the G7 and NATO meetings, on the information coming out in the Cohen Investigation, on the investigation into the Trump Foundation, and on so much more. Trump is doing everything he can to try to poke holes in stories, discredit anything he can, and divert attention from one subject to the next.
You see the NFL coming back up again, more attacks on Obama and Hillary, and a response on Twitter to Iran that should concern us all. This is all in an effort to divert attention from the investigations and accusations the President sees in front of him. This is a tactic Trump has been using for decades, and one that worked well for him as a businessman. The problem is, he is finding that it doesn't work quite as well on the Presidential scale, where every word you say and every action you take is compared to things you have said and done previously. His life is monitored and recorded for the world to see, and every lie and misleading comment is out there for the world to see.
Trump's horrific summit with Putin was something the world will remember in history books as a dark day in the history of this Country. Trump bowed down to an Adversary and gave that Adversary a stage he should have never had. Trump complimented Putin rather than condemn his actions. Trump lifted up Putin to a level that looked equivalent morally to the United States. Trump denigrated the United States and took the word of an Adversary over that of his own Intelligence Community (that would be the ENTIRE Intelligence Community). By 'Adversary' I really mean murderous dictator who has destroyed his enemies to remain in power for so long, and who continues to meddle in elections, kill people with nerve agent, take over lands with military force, etc. I just wanted to make sure everyone understood because the truth about Putin is far worse than the word 'Adversary' can portray on its own.
Trump cannot seem to stand up and directly condemn the President of Russia. It really leads most to wonder what Putin has on Trump. It just doesn't make any sense that an American President would treat the President of Russia with such a soft, complimentary, approach.
Trump continues his Tweet rampage, denigrating the media by calling them "Corrupt" and "The Enemy of the State". He denigrates the media continuously in order to attempt to discredit them. This is something he said publicly long ago. Even if the media is right (which is almost always), he denigrates them so that he can sway the opinions of enough people to his side. He believes that if you say something enough, people start to believe it, which is unfortunately true. Being someone who looks at multiple media sources and reads the comments of many people on social media, it is obvious that Trump's tactics work with many people who refuse to look any farther than the surface for facts. Too many people take everything the President says as Fact, without properly vetting the information. That is dangerous, considering the vast majority of what comes out of Trump's mouth are outright lies and mistruths.
Americans, stay strong. Go out this year and every year hereafter and vote. We need voter turnout like this country has never seen before, and a Congress that is ready and willing to hold this President accountable for his words and actions, and put forth legislation that is good for the current and future stability of this great nation and its citizens. If we aren't fed up enough by now to act, I don't know what it will take for us to be fed up. If you go back through the events, Tweets, news conferences and everything else from the past year-and-a-half, all of that information should be more than enough to enrage enough people to get up and vote.
The United States of America used to be the shining beacon of the world. We held ourselves to a high standard and welcomed immigrants who wanted to enter our country instead of denigrating them all and calling them all rapists, murderers, drug dealers, and MS13 members. We had partisan politics in Congress, but we always found a way to find a middle ground that was best for the people and pass historical legislation.
In recent years, Congress has become an absolute abysmal organization. The Republicans for 7 years talked about how Obamacare needed to be repealed and replaced with their much better plan, and yet when the time came and Republicans had the power to make the change, they had no plan of their own. There are 2 voices in Congress today, and neither voice will bend or compromise to come to true legislation that is good for the people and the country. There is no meeting in the middle anymore in America. The President denigrating people, organizations, and the press has had a huge impact on the way many Americans look at politics. Many of us take major issue with the way the President and those around him carry themselves, and yet a large base of people are just perfectly fine with the lies, denigration, mistruths, and diversion tactics, saying that Trump is the best thing to happen to the United States in the history of the world.
That may, in a much different way than those Trump supporters mean it to, be absolutely true. My hope is that when the investigations are complete, to include the Mueller Investigation, the Trump Foundation Investigation, and the Cohen Investigation; we as Americans can stand up and for the first time all see the horrible truths many of us have been screaming about for the past year-and-a-half, and that those truths will somehow bring us closer together as we pick up the pieces and move on with new leadership in this country.
We are currently on track to isolating ourselves from the rest of the world. We have pulled out of everything possible on the world scale, pushed our allies farther and farther away with every passing week, and treated our adversaries as if they are moral equals. We have transitioned from "Bring me your huddled masses" to "Go back to your shitholes". On our current track, there is only so long our allies will hold out and put up with the treatment they are receiving before pulling their support. Since pulling out of the Iran deal, our relationship on that front has come to a horrible head, with the President all but screaming at Iran and telling them he will destroy them. These are all things that make Russia and China happy, and we seem to be continuing to make Russia and China happy on a regular basis.
The tariffs Trump is putting on China, and threatening to put on everything China ships, will have no long term affects on China. Their President is there for life. They can weather the storm of tariffs in the long term. Our businesses and citizens who are going to feel the pain of all of the retaliatory tariffs cannot weather the storm in the long run. It will destroy American businesses and cost families too much.
When Trump started saying, "Make America Great Again!" I questioned it because I felt that America was already great. With every passing day, I feel Trump's catch phrase becomes more and more relevant. I would like to 'Make America Great Again!, but to do that we need to end the reign of the narcissistic, xenophobic, racist, bigot that currently runs this country. Ironic, don't you think?
DUNK
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