On a positive note, Russia continues to get a very good return on its investment, e.g. the United States continues to be screwed by its own president. So that's a good thing, right?
  
Do I think Donald Trump is a commie? Nope. Not near smart enough, for one thing and too, any decent communist will have a coherent philosophy. Trump bounces from one way of thinking about something to the next based on which way the wind is blowing. His "beliefs" flipping 180 degrees depending what direction will get him the most twitter followers. On the other hand, Trump is very definitely Putin's puppet. Vladi pulls the strings and Donald dutifully mucks it up for the USA. A perfect setup, really. If your Putin. Meanwhile the rest of the world looks on in confusion and horror, shaking their heads at the downfall of democracy.

Questions for the day:
How can anyone who believes in democracy support Trump? He seems to make it a personal goal to desecrate the United States flag every time he opens his mouth, uses the Constitution as toilet paper and delights in your willingness to let him take away your freedoms. Freedom of speech freedom of religion freedom of the press freedom of you fill in the blank. Running the country with a seemingly endless line of almost remarkably unqualified clowns otherwise known as his family and friends. A level of nepotism typically reserved for backwards, inbred banana republics not meant to last.
And of course next time you say anything in public pray you remember to first consult the (growing) list of banned words and phrases lest you slip up and say something illegal. Something Donald doesn't approve of. You better hope you talk the right way think the right way look the right way pray the right way.........do everything the "right" effing way cause if you don't Donald will build a wall around you or otherwise make you even more miserable than he makes you anyway.

Anyone who enjoys the outdoors........hiking, hunting, fishing just being outside enjoying our beautiful lands held in common by all of us - how can you possibly justify support of this bozo? He is giving away our public lands at a pace that will dispose of all of it before he is out. Two million acres and counting. Your legacy, my children's legacy being sold to the highest bidder so it can be exploited by his rich cronies at the expense of the rest of us.
 
For that matter how can you support any country (in this case the ONLY country) that removes itself from the global effort at protecting the planet? How can you support your president for thinking he knows more than nearly every scientist alive? The United States of Trump is the only country on Earth that has inside information different from anyone else, regarding the health of our home.
  
How can ANY woman support trump? Pointless to go into detail here as none of the female trumpites would be reading this. Instead I assume you all must be off somewhere smiling and moaning as some aging pervert "grabs your pussy."
What is it like to so completely sell-out your entire gender? Seriously. What is that like? Please explain it too me cause I don't have a hope of figuring this out on my own.
 
How can any veteran support Trump? Your Commander in Chief, a FIVE TIME DRAFT DODGER who slams those who have given so, so much in service of this country (e.g. John McCain.) Any veteran who supports Trump - there can be no valid explanation. None. If you are a veteran and support trump you dishonor everyone who has ever worn a uniform for this country.

How can any parent support Trump? A president who has made it clear he plans to trash the public education system in favor of pay as you go private schools so his cronies can make even more money. The same president who does everything he can to ensure a pedophile is elected. Just so he can use the sick little perv's vote to further his hate-filled agenda.

Those of you pretending to want peace in this world yet still find a way to be a donald fan, how does that happen? What it is like to turn your back on your values and watch as he brings the entire planet closer to war? Every day a little closer to blowing up the whole place. Making adversaries out of allies just because he can acting like a 2-yr old having temper tantrums when he doesn't get what he wants and in so many ways alienating, isolating us from the rest of the world. Openly threatening to use nuclear weapons, putting the lives of millions in the balance.
What gives you the right to do this to my children? What gives you the right to do this to YOUR children? What gives you the right to put us on the brink of disaster?
The questions are rhetorical - NOTHING gives you the right to do these things.

A narcissistic sociopath, his reality bares no relationship to yours or mine. He does not know who you are or what you want, and more importantly - he does not care. Donald cares about Donald. Nothing more. He is incapable of empathy (find any shrink out there who disagrees with any of these statements and I will withdraw all of them.) There is no "too low" for him to stoop. He does not have ethical boundaries same as you and me. Trump is the ultimate drama queen and you have given him the ultimate stage on which to play the role.
He does not care about the USA. Donald is too busy seeking Facebook likes to have time to care about this country.

The United States of America is being dragged down into the mud by a 71-yr old grade-school playground bully. In less than 12 months we have gone from being the greatest country on earth to the biggest joke in the world.
A very big, very dangerous joke.

Welcome to 1984. Brothers and sisters.
Where two plus two equals three.
Orwell had it right.
And Hitler would be so very pleased with you for what you've done.


I've been here ranting about this before, realizing I am either singing to the choir or singing to myself. I feel need to keep doing it, however.
In my 59 years I have seen many, many administrations come and go. I watched as Nixon embarrassed us. The Clinton boo-boos. I even remember when there were nukes, loaded in missiles and pointed at us, within 78 miles of our shores. I have been witness to much political skeeziness and concern. But it's different now, really it is. This one isn't simply criminal, or stupid. He is a combination of those along with being frighteningly unpredictable, divisive and so incredibly self-centered.
This one is truly dangerous.

A few recent quotes from the news:
"If you want to preserve -- I'm very serious now -- if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press." "Without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started." - John McCain, (conservative) Republican when asked about Trump's obsession with "fake news" and the negative impacts on freedoms he is having not just in this country but worldwide.
 
"Trump undermines democracy with media attacks", David Cameron

"(Trump's) U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines Thursday to repeal landmark 2015 rules aimed at ensuring a free and open internet, setting up a court fight over a move that could recast the digital landscape." Rather than protecting Net Neutrality Trump is "...handing over the keys of the Internet to a “handful of multi-billion dollar corporations. Trumps cronies will decide what information we have access to.”

Which of course fits in nicely with: "The Trump administration is prohibiting officials at the nation's top public health agency from using a list of seven words or phrases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now forbidden from using, in any form, the words: "vulnerable," "entitlement," "diversity." "fetus," "transgender." "evidence based," and "science based."

A quote from a little further back, courtesy of Thomas Jefferson: "Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost." "Our first objective should therefore be, to leave open to them all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions."

Then one for you Trump supporters: "Rather than suppress the news we shall instead seek to tightly control its flow and interpretation and to deny access to alternative sources of news."
- Adolph Hitler

Those of you managing to talk yourself into continued support of this train wreck may want to consult a dictionary. Definition of "democracy."
Then look yourself in the mirror and see who it is destroying ours.

Freedom of the press, freedom of speech is the foundation of our way of life. Your president swore an oath to protect that freedom. He is not only failing that oath but is in fact actively working against it while you stand by nodding and smiling like so many bobbly head dolls. Disrespecting the sacrifices of my father and his father and his father and his father and his father as veterans who fought and suffered for your freedom. Just so you can close-your-eyes-cover-your-ears and hum real loud as you let a draft-dodging coward who is afraid of the truth take those freedoms away.
   
To be clear: I do not think Donald Trump is some evil monster out to do us all in. He isn't near smart enough, for one of many things. Rather, I see him for what he is - a narcissistic sociopath, desperately seeking the approval of others (everyone), not particularly bright, who is personally responsible for almost none of the successes in his life. Even now - he is president in SPITE of all that is Donald. Without Stevie Bannon and his merry band of haters (not to mention a significant assist from Vladimir Putin) Trump would not have been elected. He was, and is, being used. Used by an unhappy, angry bunch of people who are desperately trying to fill the empty that is them. Anyone who's ever opened a Psych 101 textbook will know Freud would have a field day with these broken individuals. These are the grown up versions of the kids always picked last for basketball in gym class. Aside from misdirected rage they are mostly empty inside.

And they are running the place. Trump and his relatives and cronies and reality show contestants with stripper names being tackled in the bushes by the Secret Service. A constantly changing cast of clowns, nearly none of whom are qualified for the jobs your nepotistic president gives them - are running the country.

Donald Trump is an increasingly dangerous train wreck. A dangerous train wreck who is capable, and possibly willing, to bring the whole thing down.

Of which almost a majority somehow decided - Hey, here's an idea! Let's make him the fucking president of the United States of America! Let's see how quickly he can destroy the greatest political experiment in history! That'll be fun!

In an unnecessary and antagonistic move, your president just upended decades of international effort and made great strides towards his apparent goal of creating has much destruction as possible.  This as payment for some of the votes he bought, in this case support from what is now the SECOND most dangerous terrorist in the world (Israeli government - recently bumped from the top position by your president.)  His international policies specifically those guided by his pathological hatred of a particular religion have resulted in so many deaths already.  Now your president has absolutely positively guaranteed more will die. Many, many more.  And this isn't just a bus bomb in some backwater town in Egypt.  Nope, your president is intent on not only putting in danger Americans abroad, but also in bringing the bloodshed home.  With today's announcement about Jerusalum, congratulations - your children are less safe.  With your continued support of Trump YOU have decided to put your children in danger.  Worldwide, including here.  You are less safe.  Combined with letting an unstable North Korean with nukes (not to mention his BFF Vladimir) pull his strings like a pathetic marionette, the president you support continues to ensure you and me live in a more dangerous world.    

Interfere with the judiciary.  Silence the press.  Threaten to take your ball and go home if you don't get what you want, threaten to shut down the government.  Oppress entire cultures because of their beliefs.  Put up fences both real and metaphorical.  Oppress minorities oppress women oppress anyone not like you.  Turn your back on allies, isolate yourself.  Live in a world of your own creation.  A world the rest of us can only wonder about, what with most of us not being clinically narcissistic sociopaths (who apparently also support child abuse, child molestation.  That's a nice new touch.)    

"Make the lie big, make it simple.  Keep saying it and eventually they will believe it."    

"Tell people a lie three times, they will believe anything.  Tell people what they want to hear, play to their fantasies."  

Two separate quotes.  One from Donald Trump.  The other, Adolph Hitler.  I would ask if you can guess which is which but, considering they are saying the same thing and apparently come from the same mindset I guess it doesn't matter.

Achtung, baby.    

If you are not against him you are for him.    

For anyone who claims to care about Mother Earth yet still finds a way to support Trump:  what are you doing to rationalize your support of the fact the U.S.A. is the ONLY country on the planet to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord? 195 other countries stayed in.  While I am willing to consider that gifted genius otherwise knows as Dr. Donald has top secret information nobody else, anywhere, has, I'm afraid I am going to need to see it before I change my mind.  You know, what with nearly every scientist in this part of the universe thinking different than Trump.

For all the veterans out there who voted for this coward or otherwise are not opposing him - how do you reconcile the fact he is a chickenshit draft dodger?  What possible argument can you present yourself to make it O.K. that your Commander in Chief's daddy was able to pay for him to stay home safe while 58,223 American soldiers came home from Vietnam in boxes and hundreds of thousands more were permanently damaged?.  Cause their daddies didn't know the right people and grease the right pockets.  All while Donnie was warm and safe at home.  Partying and screwing around with his rich privileged friends.  Five times he received deferments.  How are you O.K with that?  I'm honestly curious.  Probably the same way you can justify him slamming John McCain for being a POW.    I don't even much care for McCain's politics but how much of a skeaze does someone have to be to make fun of him being a prisoner of war?   That's who you voted for (same thing if you are not actively opposing him.)  You are supporting the Coward (Commander) in Chief dissing someone who went to a very bad place in defense of his country.  McCain is a patriot Trump a low-life coward.  Simple as that.  The McCains of this Country are the only reason a disease like Trump is allowed to spread his infection.  And Trump uses some of that freedom to make jokes about POWs.  While you all just keep smiling and nodding like stupid bobbly head dolls.    Why do you do that?   Probably the same way you support his childish, self-serving and truly dangerous aggressiveness regarding such places as the Korean Peninsula.  Hundreds of thousands, millions of lives in the balance.   But none of the potential casualties are Trumps (cowardice appears to be a family trait.)  So that's O.K. right?

For all the women out there who voted for him, or are otherwise not opposing him - what's that like?  As you spread your legs so this 72 year old pervert misogynist can reach in there and grab your pussy (maybe he'll think of you while he's with is half-his-age fresh-off-the-boat immigrant trophy bimbo.)  For you women - what exactly do you have to say to yourself to sell out so completely?  You helped elect a man who thinks of women as objects.  YOU, did that. Do not complain to ME about it.

For ANYyone out there who voted for him or is otherwise not opposing him - how are you able to stand for, to support the Terrorist in Chief as he continues to foment a climate of divisiveness, anger?  And then offend us as you pretend to be surprised the number and impact of hate crimes are skyrocketing.  How much longer will you bother to pretend you do not see the haters peeking out from behind their pretty white hoods and capes?   Congratulations to all of you.   Your day is finally here.  Cause this is a very good time to be a white supremacist.  Nazi, whatever.  This is your time to gather together your .00001 molecule of combined courage and come out of hiding.  To show yourselves in the light of day for a change.  Big, brave cowards.  To come out of hiding click your heels together and pledge your undying allegiance to Aldoph.  Excuse me - Donald. 

Don't mind me.  Just ranting to myself again.  Suppose I should be careful - I think this may be one of those things mom told me I could go blind doing.   Mmm.  On the upside, turns out Russia did not meddle in the U.S. presidential election.  Trump got the news direct from his BFF Vladimir. 

Whew, glad that's cleared up.  

Senator Jeff Flake, Republican (and conservative) from Arizona: “We must never regard as normal the regular and casual undermining of our democratic norms and ideals,” Flake said. “We must never meekly accept the daily sundering of our country — the personal attacks; the threats against principles, freedoms and institutions; the flagrant disregard for truth and decency.”

Trump is "dangerous to our democracy."

“We must stop pretending that the degradation of our politics ...and the conduct of some in our executive branch are normal. They are not normal. Reckless, outrageous and undignified behavior has become excused and countenanced as ‘telling it like it is’ when it is actually just reckless, outrageous and undignified.”

"It is time for our complicity and our accommodation of the unacceptable to end.” “Politics can make us silent when we should speak, and silence can equal complicity.”

Or, and as paraphrased by yours truly: you stupid effing rednecks put a mean-spirited sociopathic mentally unbalanced childish racist misogynistic terrorist loving Putin puppet dictator wanna-be in the White House. Well, you and your communist Russian friends did. Yes comrades, you have accomplished the near impossible - you somehow managed to drag down into the sewer the greatest country ever to exist and in so doing have made me, and yourselves, the biggest joke in history.
The most dangerous terrorist on the planet and you gave him the nuclear codes. What's more, and in a disappointing display of predictably masochistic human behavior, you continue to support this nut-job. Unwilling to let yourselves accept the simple fact, you fucked up.  Even if you DO see the error in your ways, standing by quietly and doing nothing (being complicit) makes you part of the problem.
Excellent work. :)

This is basic human behavior on full display. Pathetic yet evolutionarily necessary herd mentality. Works fine so long as you don't have a dangerous loony tune pulling the strings. A dangerous loony tune who happens to be able to feed off the energy of people's anger, and hate. Trump is a parasite with lucky timing.  The same type of person has showed up many times throughout history. 
Every time, it ends in disaster.  And never, do we learn from the mistakes.  

I am officially dropping the microphone and leaving the building. This is hopeless.

Trump held a press conference on Monday during which he claimed that many past presidents have not made phone calls to the families of military members killed in action.  Whether he was just being astoundingly ignorant or was telling a massive lie, the comments made San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich—an Air Force veteran—irate. Unsolicited, he call journalist Dave Zirin of The Nations to vent:

This man in the Oval Office is a soulless coward who thinks he can only become large by belittling others. This has of course been a common practice of his, but to do it in this manner—and to lie about how previous Presidents responded to the deaths of soldiers—is as low as it gets. We have a pathological liar in the White House: unfit intellectually, emotionally, and psychologically to hold this office and the whole world knows it, especially those around him every day. The people who work with this President should be ashamed because they know it better than anyone just how unfit he is, and yet they choose to do nothing about it. This is their shame most of all.

Well said, coach.

Prey on the public's anger, confusion.  Use it to fuel your hate filled agenda.
Preach divisiveness, prejudice.  They are different from us they must be evil.
Isolate the country.  Separate from, make enemies of those who were allies.
Attack the judiciary.  How dare they uphold the rule of law.
Silence the media.  Anything bad written about me must be wrong.  


Your president is playing from a previously written script. 
Think Germany in the mid to late 1930s.

Lets everybody slap our heels together hard and push one hand way up.
Heil Donald.