Donald Trump Must Be Removed From Office

He must be prosecuted for his crimes, present and past, along with those that followed his illegal orders…..

If there was ever a case for the 25^th Amendment removal from office for a renegade president and administration, it is the present and past Trump administration(s). We must not forget that this man actually stole classified intelligence documents, (commonly called “treason or sedition” when instigated by anyone other than Donald Trump), claiming they “belonged to” him, and tried to hide the boxes full of stolen intelligence (commonly called “obstruction of justice” when instigated by anyone other than Donald Trump) when told the FBI was on their way to recover them. In fact, had there been any other party in charge other than the hapless, spineless, Dumocrats, the Felon in the White House would have been served a heaping helping of justice already and would be, most likely, now sporting an orange jumpsuit.

In this second administration, he is not only breaking laws almost daily, but he is basically flaunting it with complete impunity in the face of the courts, Congress, and the American people. Extorting millions from law firms for not prosecuting them for the outrageous act of representing those that successfully sued or prosecuted him, or may have pursued justice against the so-called Jan 6^th traitors, or that won lawsuits against him or his businesses. He now has the power of “point & prosecute”, virtually calling attention to anyone or any entity for any transgression, real or perceived, and the “appropriate” agency or authority – legal, regulatory, and even tax agencies – will take it from there. No need for any legal process, least of all the due process of law allowed by his most formidable enemy, the Constitution of the United States of America. This must be corrected, and justice must be served both to the imposter in the Oval Office and those that have chosen to collaborate, facilitate, or remain silent while he scoffs in the face those that oppose him and breaks the law with complete impunity. This includes the real “enemies of the American people”, those sources of actual “fake news” that continue to provide cover for his lies, misrepresentations, and crimes, namely, Fox News, Newsmax, and OAN. These purveyors of pure nonsense and mendacious propaganda are the real opponents of democracy and truth in journalism that continue to cause irreparable harm to our well-being and way of life.

“Sic Nos Sic Sacra Tuemur”

80% OF EVANGELICALS VOTED FOR COMRADE TRUMPSKY! 😇

HERE’S WHAT THE HYPOCRITICAL ‘JESUS PEOPLE’ VOTED FOR: (JESUS WOULD BE SO PROUD!)

64 Times Mentioned in Epstein Report

97 Times Pleaded the Fifth Amendment

34 Felony Convictions

91 Criminal Charges

26 Sexual Assault Allegations

6 Bankruptcies

5 Draft Deferments

4 Indictments

2 Impeachments

2 Convicted Companies

1 Fake University Shut Down

1 Fake Charity Shut Down

$25 Million Fraud Settlement

$5 Million Sexual Abuse Verdict

$2 Million Fake Charity Abuse Judgment

$93 Million Sexual Abuse Judgements

$400+ Million Fraud Judgment

1^st President to increase the deficit every, single, year

1^st President with Debt to GDP ratio > 100% his entire term

Highest Annual Budget Deficit EVER

Most Debt Added to National Debt in a single term

Most New Unemployment Claims in History

Largest Single-Day Point Drop in the History of the Dow

1^st Major Candidate in 50 Years to lose popular vote twice

Longest Government Shutdown in History While his Party Controlled Both Chambers of Congress

1^st to Maintain Net-Negative Approval Rating his entire term

1^st/Only President In History to be Impeached Twice.

1^st President with Bipartisan Conviction after Impeachment.

Most Indictments, Guilty Pleas, and Criminal Convictions of His Administration Members (“All the Best People”!)

1^st President to Have a Mug Shot

Please Lookup Every Claim. All are verifiable. JESUS WOULD BE SO PROUD! SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!

COMRADE TRUMPSKY’S “HISTORIC” ACHIEVEMENTS

Despite All His Blathering, He Has Done Some Truly Historic Things! Here Are Just a Few:

64 Times Mentioned in Epstein Report

97 Times Pleaded the Fifth Amendment

34 Felony Convictions

91 Criminal Charges

26 Sexual Assault Allegations

6 Bankruptcies

5 Draft Deferments

4 Indictments

2 Impeachments

2 Convicted Companies

1 Fake University Shut Down

1 Fake Charity Shut Down

$25 Million Fraud Settlement

$5 Million Sexual Abuse Verdict

$2 Million Fake Charity Abuse Judgment

$93 Million Sexual Abuse Judgements

$400+ Million Fraud Judgment

1^st President to increase the deficit every year in office

1^st President with Debt to GDP ratio > 100% for his entire term

Highest Annual Budget Deficit

Most Debt added to the national debt in a single term

Most New Unemployment Claims in History

Largest Single-Day Point Drop in the History of the Dow

1^st Major Candidate in 50 Years to lose popular vote twice

Longest Government Shutdown in History while his own party controlled both chambers of Congress

1^st to Maintain Net-Negative Approval Rating

1^st/Only President to be Impeached Twice.

1^st President with Bipartisan Conviction after Impeachment.

Most Indictments, Guilty Pleas, and Criminal Convictions of Administration Members

1^st President to Have a Mug Shot

Please Lookup Every Claim. All are verifiable.

My Delayed Response To The Election

It’s taken a bit of time for this one to sink in but I think I have a plan.

I am very fortunate to have the opportunity of spending some quiet time at my lake house in New England. Especially now, at this particular time of year, the lake is very quiet. Many of the homes on my road are inhabited seasonally or intermittently, so the lake is extremely quiet during the early winter months. I often joke with friends that it is as if I am the last person on Earth after the apocalypse, but in a good way! Not a boat, a jet ski, even a kayak, to be seen for weeks or months on end. As Martha would say, “It’s a good thing!”

I have basically turned off the news in all its ugly forms since the election, mostly as a way of coping with who-the-hell-knows what we’ll be dealing with in the next 6 weeks or so. I can’t even stomach the odious idea of Joe & Mika – I hope they get everything they deserve for their obsequiousness bullshit they paid to “Dear Leader” – or anyone else on MSNBC for that matter, or CNN, or any of the other so-called, “news” shows. I am resolved to finding new sources of “legitimate” news, if that be a thing, mostly meaning journalism delivered with an objective of shining the necessary light on the government and its’ corporate cronies and holding them accountable for their actions and misdeeds. If the Trump years have shown us anything, it is the extent to which our elected – and unelected – officials will go to enrich themselves or avail themselves of the most depraved excesses, and mostly at the expense of the taxpayer.

This brings me to the Democrats. I have supported the “Dumos”, as I prefer to think of them, for too many years now, spiritually and financially, but mostly because there is no alternative if you are in any way liberal or progressive. We are stuck with the worst of the worst. From Nancy Pelosi suggesting that enriching herself and her family through insider stock trading information that only the members of Congress possess as the perks of “a free country” (she should sell that bullshit to Martha, in fact), to Chuck the Schmuck Schumer’s incestuous ties to Wall St, I have finally just had enough. I can no longer in good conscience continue to support a party which, in my opinion, is only slightly less corrupt than the other party, and infinitely dummer!

Putting aside the myriad disasters they’ve left in their wake; botched elections, congressional agendas, political positions (after all, they talked more about the rights of transgender people – a whole, entire, 1.14% of the national population*) than they did about the rights and plight of the middle class, a miscalculation that cost them dearly across an entire host of demographic categories. Looking at the presidential elections where Rupugnanticans won, it is always over a ridiculous social issue that the Dumos just wouldn’t let go of.

And now, this botched election – and the monumental way in which they botched it – demonstrated a level of incompetency and delusion that I, personally, can no longer abide. What they now left for us to have to deal with somehow, someway, is anyone’s guess. But, in the meantime, Kamala Harris and the Democrats squandered over a billion and a half dollars in little over three months; a burn-rate record that could last some considerable time. With Trump in office, it could be weeks!

So, what shall I, personally do? My response is to withdraw all support I once provided them; this inept, incompetent, group of mindless milquetoasts and spineless morons that I put so much of my ‘faith’ in and for so very little and put my efforts and resources into finding/creating a new liberal/progressive party that can achieve the admirable objectives of a fairer and more prosperous country for everyone. Objectives that are in fact, very achievable given a party of competent, and judicious minded patriots. Stating it simply for now, at least, If you don’t have an “I” next to your name on the ballot, don’t call, text, or write.

I believe it can be done.

* usafacts.org/articles/what-percentage-of-the-us-population-is-transgender/

More Death in Texas – The Blood Red State

Should Texas Be Accountable For The Deaths Caused By Their Abortion Laws?

Reading this morning’s article in ProPublica’s daily email story regarding the death of another pregnant young girl in Texas, I was confounded by the lack of action or comment by the cretins running the state. According to the article:

“It took three ER visits and 20 hours before a hospital admitted Nevaeh Crain, 18, as her condition worsened. Doctors insisted on two ultrasounds to confirm “fetal demise.” She’s one of at least two Texas women who died under the state’s abortion ban.” [Alexandra Zayas, Deputy Managing Editor, ProPublica]. Needless to say, as a result of this barbarous and cruel act of “legislation”, the doctors were fiercely panicked in their approach to this patient, now having to worry not only over the health and well-being of the patient, but would could potentially happen to them as a result of their treating her!

If she were my daughter or niece or granddaughter, I would be looking for justice and that would have to come from the state that implemented these odious laws without even the concomitant medical knowledge necessary to make such crucial, life-altering, even life-ending, decisions. An act so obviously bereft of even a modicum responsibility to anyone other than their mindless religious fanatics, in fact, seemingly doing everything they can to obfuscate, deny, avoid disseminating such vital information to the public as to allow for informed debate. No, the Texas governor and legislation went ahead and passed actual laws that deny medical services and attention to their own constituents, even when their very lives are in danger!

For me the answer is clear: Yes! The State of Texas and the scum that currently occupy their governing offices and legislation are indeed responsible for the deaths that are directly caused by their incompetence and their complete intransigence regarding a matter of such elevated urgency and importance.

Ms. Crain’s family and survivors should initiate legal action against the State of Texas, the Governor, and the entire GOP legislation, holding them legally responsible for the death of their family member.

My “Goodbye” to Jeff Bozos, WaPo & Amazon

Now that Jeff Bozos, owner of the WaPo, Amazon, among other entities, with enough money to piss away a billion or so on a 15 minute rocket ship ride to nowhere, has subordinated himself to the potential threats from Donald Trump it’s finally become time for me – and millions of others, by my calculation – to dismiss him from our minds and pocketbooks by cancelling my subscription to the Washington Post AND, since that isn’t a drop in the bucket to him, STOP USING AMAZON.

Remember that one of the last remaining powers that we have, “we” being us little people, is our power as CONSUMERS! Jeff Bozos need to be reminded of this!

Trump & The Christian Nationalists

Jesus once said: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” ~ Matthew 22:37-40

Is there anything that calls out Fundamentalist and Evangelical Christians for their phony piety and maligned morality than their support for Donald Trump? Do they really believe that god – any god, pick one – would have anything to do with the four-time-indicted, 34-time-convicted felon, adjudicated sexual predator and the most mendacious individual to ever occupy the Oval Office of the United States? If you’d like to see an example of the piety crowd at their most delusional, then look no further than their slavish devotion to Trump and their obvious excitement at the prospects of him occupying the office again. If they have achieved anything with this misplaced support it is to further reinforce the impression that their religion and their motivations are nothing more than a politically-motivated pretense to move the country further towards their goal of a Christian nation.

The demonic forces they claim lay behind the campaigns of Joe Biden, now out of the race since handing the baton to VP Kamala Harris, can only be defeated by, of all people, Donald Trump! Yes, according to these purveyors of religious delirium only Donald Trump can save our country from the depravity and debauchery into which it has been led by the “godless” Democratic party! Christian political activists are putting millions of dollars on the very man convicted of 34 felony crimes (and counting), multi-million-dollar business tax fraud in New York State, and an adjudicated sexual assault predator! This is the man that the phony piety crowd is putting their money on to save the country and bring us back to the god-fearing nation we once were, even though we have never been a Christian nation in any real respect. The very same man that can no longer participate in a charity in the state of New York due to his fraudulent mishandling of funds AND who sold phony university degrees to armed services veterans not worth the paper upon which they were written has been sent by god to save the United States. Yeah. And I’m the Easter Bunny.

Only the most seriously deluded and cognitively dissonant can rationalize such nonsense and, as it happens, that’s the very target audience many Christian organizations have focused their efforts. Those that believe in the invisible man in the sky, a 6,000-year-old planet Earth, (an Earth where dinosaurs and humans cohabitated) humans that literally “popped” into existence in our current, “unevolved” state, a worldwide flood that wiped-out humanity save a single family, talking serpents and asses, (although as “talking asses” go I believe Trump has proven this conclusively) and dead people rising from their graves and parading around city! The most adroit snake-oil salesmen in the country are focused on convincing their delirious sheeples of the truthfulness of their claims, even while their candidate demonstrates the very opposite of virtually everything and anything that Jesus ever said and taught. (See Matthew quote above; remind you of Donald Trump? I didn’t think so, me either!)

We now know about the vast and various Christian power bases behind this most despicable candidate and the dystopic society they would have us living in given their ability to do so. Consider the so-called Ziklag organization, a Christian organization supported by wealthy Christians such as the owners of Hobby Lobby and described by investigative journalists ProPublica as: “A network of ultrawealthy Christian donors is spending nearly $12 million to mobilize Republican-leaning voters and purge more than a million people from the rolls in key swing states, aiming to tilt the 2024 election in favor of former President Donald Trump.” Christians collaborating to steal the election as I assume they would have us believe Jesus would as well.

Another Christian organization dedicated to the election of Trump is the Alliance Defending Freedom, an Arizona-based Christian conservative legal nonprofit. According to the Washington Post: “The organization has had nine successful cases before the court in the past seven years, including Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, which allowed corporations to opt out of covering contraceptives based on religious beliefs. And it was ADF that created model legislation for “bathroom bills,” which bar students from using restrooms that don’t correlate to their sex at birth.”

There are many, many more. Christian organizations across the country are working diligently to re-craft our society into the white-washed and white-dominated country they contend their imaginary savior endorses and represents a real and present danger to the democratic life that our relatives and ancestors fought and died for, and of which the rest of the world looks upon with envy. These groups are not community volunteers nor are they motivated by altruism. These are people of power for whom money and power are virtually everything and they want control, complete and boundless; of the government and the rules of our society, and they see Donald Trump as the vehicle to their ends.

As it has become painfully obvious, the self-designated “Freedom Party” and “Freedom Caucus” in Congress, AKA the GOP, which includes the likes of such political standouts as Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, has been the party that takes your freedoms from you while telling you it is in your best interests and those of society at large. Yes, it is in our collective best interests not to be able to decide what we or our children can read which is why the repugnant red states are purging our libraries of such radical tomes as “Animal Farm” and “Anne Frank’s Diary”. We simply cannot be responsible to choose reading material on our own, it must be done for us and by those that claim to know better and, therefore, will make these decisions for us. Similarly, women cannot be trusted to make their own decisions about their health, particularly their maternal health. We need the government to intercede on behalf of woman, even as some women cling to their very lives for lack of medical care while the government dawdles in the courts. Hopefully, they’ll still be alive when the government finally arrives at its’ decision about their healthcare. The party that has been extolling the virtues of getting government off our proverbial backs would now like for the government to, not just share in the most intimate decisions of our lives but will actually have the last word over these matters.

And these kinds of behaviors go on and on and into all areas of life. Consider the solutions to “voter fraud” legislated by red states that always seem to include making it more difficult to vote and overwhelmingly in areas of black or brown people. Texas has closed over 700 polling places since 2022 exclusively in areas where minorities vote while positioning the changes as solving some colossal threat to democracy from non-whites and/or “illegal aliens”, undocumented workers that already have no lawful right to vote.

There is much more to reveal about this, we haven’t even begun to discuss the introduction of the Bible into our public schools complete with morning prayer and Creationism being taught as a legitimate alternative to evolution, as if there is any legitimacy at all to the Judeo-Christian mythology that warrants such special status over both the Constitution as well as other religions. They don’t seem to have any anticipation of the obvious battle over which of the 12,000 variations of Christianity in the U.S. will be the universally accepted version. We’ll wait with bated breath, I am sure.

When Kamala Harris wins the presidency and, with a lot of effort and hard work, the Democrats take the House and retain the Senate, they will need to pass new legislation aimed at securing the secular nature of the government complete with a new and vigorous reinforcing of the Johnson Amendment. The Johnson Amendment is a provision in the U.S. Tax Code that prohibits all 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations from endorsing or opposing political candidates. Section 501(c)(3) organizations are the most common type of nonprofit organization in the United States, ranging from charitable foundations to universities and churches. The amendment is named for then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, (of all places!) who introduced it in a preliminary draft of the law in July 1954. With a new emphasis placed on the Johnson Amendment and a reform of the Supreme Court including term limits and an ethics code with teeth, we can make tremendous progress towards a more compassionate and representative government for all Americans regardless of race, sexual identity, or any other discriminating factor.

We have less than 97 days; let’s stay focused and vigilant. Kamala Karma is Koming!

Pastor Greg Locke and the Insanity of Evangelicalism

Thank You Sam Alito & SCOTUS!

You Did What No One Else Has Done; United the Democrats!

As I have often said, the Supreme Court of the United States isn’t populated with judges on the Conservative side; it’s populated with political operatives. When John Roberts is the moderate you know you’re in deep doo-doo when it comes to rights. Remember Roberts, (along with Ted Cruz), was one of the crooks in Florida in 2000 trying to shut down the vote so George W. Bush could steal the election which, of course, he did. This SCOTUS has taken away any sense of safety we once had because of their abhorrent and false interpretation of the Second Amendment, scraped the Voting Rights Act giving license to the GOP to pass laws almost exclusively aimed at keeping minorities from the polls, and stripped a woman’s right to manage her own body and healthcare. This seems to be the “final straw” for many if not most American voters, repeatedly certified by the voters in states where abortion is now actually baked into the state constitutions by referendum. It appears that the “Freedom Party” is the party that actually strips our rights away, and in a way that the people of United States adamantly oppose. Under their egregious oversight the government will decide what you can and cannot read, what can and cannot be taught in our schools, and whether a woman would be granted rights to decide their own healthcare. For a political party that’s been decrying “small government” and working to minimize the effect of big government on our personal lives, this seems to be the very opposite of their political rhetoric. I cannot think of a more oppressive big government idea than having the state decide what we can read or how a woman manages her own body. Thankfully the repeal of the Roe v Wade by the “best Supreme Court that money can buy” seems to have been the move that awakened the “Sleeping Giant” that is the US voter.

The problem with this court is their fanatical belief in their religious dogma which they now seem hell-bent on imposing upon the rest of us whether we like it or not and a plurality of Americans are saying they do not like it at all. They seem to be genuine theocrats looking to impose the Bible into our laws. For all their screaming about the “impending“ imposition of Sharia law during the Obama administrations, it seems as though it’s quite another story as long as it’s the Judeo-Christian law being imposed.

But let’s give the devil his due, Samuel Alito and the Conservative Theocrats on the court have done what no one else has been able to do, i.e., unite the herd of cats that is the Democratic Party. This, coupled with the myriad clips of Donald Trump gloating over his single-handedly overturning Roe v Wade, should all but put the cherry on Joe Biden’s second presidential run. You should be prepared to see those clips over and over again in 2024.

Thank you, Samuel Alito, et al. We’ll see you all next November.

Christian Persecution?

Wait Until You See The Persecution They Perpetrate Given The Power To do So!

Listen to Christian radio and you will hear an awful lot of lying; from what the Bible says and means to the so-called persecution of Christians around the world. I try and listen to it everyday, at least for a while, to understand how they still are able to sell this mythological nonsense to the sleepy-sheep at large and in the 21st century. It is mind boggling. Often I think the speaker is either lying or doesn’t know his real scripture and, of course, his audience doesn’t know theirs at all, making things much easier. But the real threat coming from the delusional mythology crowd has to do with their intrusion into our government and their (phony) insistence that the United Stated was founded as a Christian nation which, of course we know, it was not. If there is anything about our history – our real history, not the “cooked-up”, white-washed nonsense they’d have you believe – it is absolutely clear that we are no friend of any deity’s.

Look at the absolute chaos and cruelty they have already perpetrated just with their new abortion laws; and this despite the facts that a majority of Americans believe that abortion services should continue to be available. Pregnant ten year olds forced to have the child of a rapist or a parent, women forced to carry an underdeveloped fetus to term knowing it will not survive after birth. Doctors refusing to conduct the procedure, not because they don’t believe an abortion is necessary or warranted, but because they are afraid of the legal ramifications brought on by the phony-baloney fundamentalists and conservatives. Look up the recent case of Milo in the papers and see how both the child and the parents suffered through the process; the child struggling to breathe (the poor babe never even cried) and the parents left to hold him until he expired 99 minutes later. I wonder how the doctors felt about having to put the unfortunate family into the senseless and cruel despair their actions propagated. “First Do No Harm?” Again, it is not enough for them to live by their own mindless sensibilities, we ALL have to be subjected to them as well. (Oh, wait, I forgot; we have their thoughts and prayers to get us through. Well, you know what you can do with their specious “thoughts ands prayers”.)

And this is just the beginning. You can bet there will be MUCH more in store for us as they continue their unconstitutional trek towards a theocracy. Keep in mind that whatever persecution Christians were subjected to in the first couple of centuries of their existence (nothing like they assert, they are many sources to confirm this) pales in comparison to the mind-boggling numbers of those tortured, murdered, executed, and exiled in vast numbers after Christianity became the new game in town. Entire towns, villages or faiths exterminated for having a different belief – sometimes only a slightly so – as soon as the new power holders took over. No one kills like those in the name of a god. Just crack open a religious history book, probably one of those banned from their libraries, and you will see what I mean.

From banning LGBTQ+ and transgender individuals from healthcare and other societal privileges, to banning books they just don’t want anyone to read, to forging a minority rule whereby they can implement a theocracy, you can believe we are just on the precipice. If we don’t fight this vehemently we will lose our democracy, our freedoms, our country.