Tweets by thepoliblog – 2
January 27, 2020 at 4:26 pm | Posted in Disinformation, Dysfunctional Politics, Enemies of Freedom, Enemies of Planet Earth, Fairness, Global warming, Presidential election | Leave a commentTags: Chuck Schumer, Cipollone, Cory Booker, Dan Balz, Devin Nunes, Donald Trump, E. J. Dionne Jr., Erin Chou, Eugene Robinson, Fiona Hill, Group of Seven, impeach, Jim Acosta, Jim Jordan, Joe Biden, John Delaney, John McCain, Kamala Harris, Kevin McCarthy, Lindsey Graham, Louis Gohmert, Marsha Blackburn, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, Narendra Modi, Pete Buttigieg, President Chump, Puerto Rico, Putin, Rudi Giuliani, Sekulow, Stepanie Grisham, Stephanie Grisham, Ted Lieu, Tom Perez, tweet, Twitter, US Congress, US Senate
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Here are newer tweets by thepoliblog.
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2019-08-23
#PresidentChump, you said that Xi Jingping is an enemy of the United States.
Xi is not the only enemy head of state.
Putin is another.
You are the third, and worst.
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2019-09-06
[@SpeakerPelosi, who noted that Chump opposed energy-efficient light bulbs.]
Who bought #PresidentChump this time?
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2019-09-06
[@SenSchumer]
If McConnell will only bring up bills that #PresidentChump supports,
then he is violating the Constitution by undermining its checks and balances.
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2019-09-09
After the Group of Seven met, the other leaders said,
“The US is not sending us their best.
It sent us an ignorant, insecure, bigoted groper and would-be rapist.“
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2019-09-09
[@drerinchou (Dr. Erin Chou)]
The Straight Pride marchers are as insecure as President Chump.
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2019-09-09
[@SenSchumer]
Trump is Putin’s chihuahua, and McConnell is Trump’s chihuahua.
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2019-10-09
[@SpeakerPelosi, @Eugene_Robinson, ]@RepAdamSchiff, @SenSchumer
#PresidentChump claimed that he was worried about corruption in Ukraine.
But he didn’t say “I need you to do the right thing.”
He said, “I would like you to do us a favor though”. He asked for corruption.
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2019-10-19
[@SpeakerPelosi, @Eugene_Robinson, @RepAdamSchiff, @SenSchumer]
Why does #PresidentChump want to withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty?
The editors of the Washington Post say that the treaty “monitors the conflict
in eastern Ukraine being fueled by Russia.”
Chump wants to aid Putin.
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2019-10-25
Medicare for all would be a Government monopoly of healthcare.
It would become like the VA at its worst, with no alternative.
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2019-10-25
To undo #PresidentChump’s damage:
Biden, who is electable, humane, and knowledgeable,
backed up by Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg (one as VP and one in the Cabinet),
and John Delaney, Cory Booker, and other good candidates in the Cabinet.
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2019-10-26
[@realDonaldTrump]
#PresidentChump, why isn’t your Twitter tag @realJohnBarron?
In pretending to be someone else, you tried to create REAL fake news!
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2019-11-22
[@SpeakerPelosi, @Eugene_Robinson, @TomPerez]
Today’s Washington Post described Bernie Sanders as “staunchly liberal”.
Sanders is not liberal, he is statist. He is not a democratic socialist,
because he doesn’t like democracy.
Sanders wants Gov’t to be the only source of everything,
with no alternatives, no choice.
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2019-11-22
McConnell blocked sanctions on Russia
because after McC’s wife joined #PresidentChump’s administration,
McConnell ceased to be on our side. He became #MoscowMitch.
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2019-11-24
[@SpeakerPelosi, @Eugene_Robinson, @TomPerez]
Fiona Hill’s words apply to Devin Nunes, Jim Jordan and Kevin McCarthy:
they “promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests”.
To help #PresidentChump, they have to help Putin. So they do.
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2019-12-02
@SpeakerPelosi, @Eugene_Robinson, @TomPerez, @SenSchumer
Devin Nunes, Jim Jordan, Kevin McCarthy: Putin’s mouthpieces in the House.
Either unknowingly or knowingly. Stupid or disloyal or both. #Putin’sMouthpieces.
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2019-12-02
[@SpeakerPelosi, @Eugene_Robinson, @TomPerez]
#PresidentChump wants to build a #ChumpTower in one or more cities in Russia.
That is why he finds it convenient to believe Putin rather than the CIA.
President Chump is one of #Putin’sMouthpieces.
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2019-12-06
#PresidentChump was mocked at the NATO conference because he doesn’t favor
the free world. He is not the leader of the free world.
President Chump Made America Second Rate Again.
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2019-12-19
[@Eugene_Robinson, @TomPerez]
#PresidentChump, you send asylum seekers back to dangerous areas.
Should Spain in the 1930s and 1940s have deported those who snuck into Spain to flee the Nazis and Vichy France? How was that different from refugees from gangs?
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2019-12-19
[@Eugene_Robinson, @TomPerez]
#PresidentChump’s deferrment from the draft resulted from
a diagnosis of heel spurs made by a doctor whose office was rented from Fred Trump.
Chump’s walking never shows any effect of heel spurs.
Chump, prove that you really had heel spurs.
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2019-12-19
McConnell promises to lie under oath during Trump’s trial by the Senate.
Isn’t that impeachable? Cannot McConnel be at least censured?
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2019-12-20
[@SpeakerPelosi, @Eugene_Robinson, @TomPerez]
President Chump’s post-impeachment message to Nancy Pelosi proves it:
#PresidentChump is a psychopath.
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2019-12-24
[@Spea[kerPelosi, @Eugene_Robinson, @SenSchumer]
If McConnell blocks #PresidentChump’s Trump’s conviction on the current
bills of impeachment, Chump can be re-impeached on other counts.
This justifies Congress’ calls for hitherto refused testimony and information.
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2019-12-24
[@Eugene_Robinson]
As Eugene Robinson noted, Mark Galli’s editorial in Christianity Today said,
“Mr. Trump did not have a serious opportunity to offer his side of the story …”
#PresidentChump was offered that opportunity, but refused it.
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2019-12-24
Mahatma Ghandi and Jawaharlal Nehru would both be aghast at what that bigot Modi has done.
Narendra Modi spits on what India once stood for.
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2019-12-24
[comment to to a tweet by Jim Acosta about Trump’s claims about windmills]
#PresidentChump is too stupid to know when he sounds stupid.
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2019-12-26
A rare opportunity for #Republican Senators: #PresidentChump’s impeachment.
Return to classical Republicanism. Reclaim your honor.
Disassociate from #MoscowMitch.
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2019-12-26
#Republican Senators: switch back from Putin’s side to the American side:
expel the creepy clown in the White House.
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2019-12-26
If enough #Republican Senators vote to expel the creepy clown in the White
House, then neither the Chump nor his base would have a well-defined target.
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2020-01-07
[@LindseyGrahamSC]
Lindsey Graham, why did you stop being a patriot?
The answer: you thought it would boost your chance of being re-elected.
John McCain would have been ashamed of you. You should be, too.
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2020-01-07
@LindseyGrahamSC]
In the history books, you will be grouped with Devin Nunes and Louis Gohmert.
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2020-01-13
[@TomPerez, @Eugene_Robinson]
#PresidentChump: defective as a human being, and is destructive to America and to the free world.
But if Sanders becomes the Democratic candidate I will leave blank the Presidential line on the ballot.
Sanders would be as bad as Trump, but in a different way.
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See Heathcare For All? Yes! But Beware Medicare For All
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2020-01-13
[A comment to Erin Chou’s tweet that
“I’m puzzled by the growing number of so-called vegan products being peddled by Burger King and others. If I were a vegan, why would I want to support a business whose core is based on cruelty and slaughter?”]
Let them transition. Every increase in humaneness has been gradual.
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2020-01-13
[A comment to Nancy Pelosi’s tweet that
“After this weekend’s 6.0 earthquake, we continue to pray for our fellow American citizens in Puerto Rico. Trump Admin must quickly approve Governor’s request for a Major Disaster Declaration and stop withholding Congressionally appropriated funds to recover from 2017 hurricanes.”]
He’s withholding the Congressionally appropriated funds because he wants a favor, though.
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2020-01-13
[A comment to Jim Acosta’s tweet that
“Grisham defends Trump’s tweet of Schumer and Pelosi in traditional Muslim clothing: “I think the president is making clear that the democrats have been parroting Iranian talking points and almost taking the side of terrorists and those who were out to kill the Americans.”
Stephanie Grisham, the taxpayer funded Press Secretary, does not do her job.
Instead she creates disinformation.
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2020-01-16
[@Eugene_Robinson, @EJDionne]
E.J. Dionne Jr’s op-ed today mentioned “Rudi Giuliani’s unseemly efforts to undermine
our own ambassador to Ukraine”.
Giuliani’s actions were illegal for a US Citizen.
Lock him up!
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2020-01-19
[@Eugene_Robinson, @danbalz]
Another #NeverSanders voter!
Make that #NeverSanders, #NeverTrump.
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2020-01-19
[A a comment to Ted Lieu tweet about Devin Nunes]
Nunes can’t change the fact that he will go down in history as one of Putin’s mouthpieces.
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2020-01-24
Every time McConnell is mentioned in connection with #Trump’s trial,
recall that McConnell’s wife is in Trump’s Cabinet.
Conflict of Interest!
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2020-01-24
[A comment on a tweet by Jim Acosta that
“Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn spent hours attacking Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a key National Security Council aide who testified before Congress on the Ukraine scandal, on Twitter, including questioning the Purple Heart recipient’s patriotism”]
That proves that Marsha Blackburn is not a true patriot, and opposes those who are.
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2020-01-25
Washington Post headline: “defense [of #trump] will focus on Bidens”
Note the attempt to change the subject. Note the utter irrelevance.
This proves that Cipollone and Sekulow have no case – NOTHING!
Disloyal Americans in Congress
August 19, 2018 at 3:58 pm | Posted in Abuse of Office, Conceited, Disinformation, Dysfunctional Politics, Enemies of Freedom, Presidential election | Leave a commentTags: Beth Kreydatus, Bob Goodlatte, Carl Bernstein, cyber-defense, Devin Nunes, disloyal Americans in Congress, E.J. Dionne Jr., Freedom Caucus, interference in elections, Jennifer Rubin, Jim Jordan, Joe Scarborough, Kathie Sowell, Margaret Sullivan, Mark Meadows, Matt Gaetz, Max Boot, Putin, Robert Mueller, Rod Rosenstein, Rudi Guliani, Washington Post
Jim Jordan (R-OH) in the 114th Congress.
In a recent Congressional hearing, Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) shouted at Rod Rosenstein, “Why are you keeping information from Congress?”. This question referred to Robert Mueller’s special investigation of Putin’s interference in the Presidential election in 2016. Mueller’s investigation had been approved by Rod Rosenstein.
Jim Jordan’s question was loaded, like “When did you stop beating your wife?”
A question is loaded if it is being used as a vehicle for making an un-proven assertion, usually a derogatory assertion. The question is being used in a sneaky attempt to implant the assertion into the minds of those who hear the question.
Jim Jordan’s question was dishonorable. Indeed, Jim Jordan is both dishonorable and disloyal.
Jim Jordan is posturing at due diligence in Congress, in part to deflect attention to the fact that he either did not exercise sufficient due diligence to learn about Richard Strauss’ widely known sexual abuse of wrestlers at Ohio State University , or else that he knew about it but chose not to do anything about it.
Here are some legitimate questions. They are not loaded questions, because they assert about Jim Jordan only what his actions have proved about him.
– Jim Jordan, why are you opposed to the investigation of the well-established fact that Putin interfered in the Presidential election in 2016?
– Jim Jordan, why are you opposed to the United States and it allies learning from Mueller’s investigation how we and our allies can combat Putin’s future attempts at manipulating public opinion and elections in our country?
Your opposition amounts to obstruction of justice, and delays the improvement of our cyber-defenses.
– Jim Jordan, why are you obstructing justice?
– Jim Jordan, since you are obstructing justice, and are delaying the US’s defense against Putin’s manipulations, why should anyone believe your claim that you didn’t know about Richard Strauss’ sexual abuse of wrestlers at Ohio State University?
– Jim Jordan, when did you cease to be a patriotic American?
As an institution, Congress is worthy of respect. But not all Congressional Representatives are worthy of respect.
Jim Jordan is not worthy of respect.
The same is true of the notorious Devin Nunes, and of Bob Goodlatte, Mark Meadows and Matt Gaetz, who collude with Jim Jordan.
Each of these disloyal Americans in Congress proritizes partisan advantage over justice, and also proritizes partisan advantage over the election-based legitimacy of the United States Government.
This has been eloquently stated by Kathie Sowell and by Beth Kreydatus in their letters to the Editor of the Washington Post.
These disloyal Americans in Congress are opposed to investigating attacks on our electoral integrity, and therefore on the legitimacy of our government.
They are opposed to obtaining the information that is needed for developing defenses of our electoral integrity, and therefore of the legitimacy of our government.
Their loyalty is to their party, in its current degenerate form. Their loyalty is not to their country.
They are colluding in a Trump-Putin disinformation campaign.
None of them merit security clearances.
None of them deserve to be re-elected next November.
They should be impeached, or at least censured.
A “Freedom Caucus”? They are the exact opposite.
Disloyal Americans in government are also found outside of the House of Representatives: Rand Paul in the Senate, by President Chump, Rudi Giuliani (formerly a hero, now a heel), and their cronies in the Administration.
The headline of a Washington Post article by Max Boot: “Trump is ignoring the worst attack on America since 9/11 … we are at war without a commander in chief.”
An astute and careful commentator, E.J. Dionne Jr., notes “And Republicans should bear in mind that disrupting Robert S. Mueller III’s probe serves Putin’s interests, not just Trump’s.”
In an insightful article about the attempt by Jim Jordan and cronies to impeach Rod Rosenstein, Jennifer Rubin quotes Norman Eisen (a former White House ethics counsel ) and Fred Wertheimer (founder of Democracy 21): “Key House Republicans are abusing their offices and the public trust to blindly provide protection for [President] Trump. They are doing so instead of working to get to the bottom of the worst foreign attack on American elections in our history.”
In an update that is included in the online article, Jennifer Rubin then noted: “In case it wasn’t clear that this is all about Jordan’s political aspirations, he [Jim Jordan] indicated today that he is running for speaker[of the House of Representatives].”
You may remember Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who uncovered crucial information about the break-in at the Watergate by Nixon’s team. Margaret Sullivan, of the Washington Post, reports that “Earlier this month, Bernstein said on CNN that he had never seen anything like the political reaction to Trump’s kowtowing to Russian President Vladimir Putin at a news conference following their Helsinki meeting: “We’ve never had a moment in our history like this where serious people of both parties are questioning the loyalty of the president of the United States. Unprecedented.””
“The GOP, AWOL as the U.S. is attacked“. That is the headline of an important article by Joe Scarborough in the Washington Post. Scarborough’s article is well worth looking at. It is a masterful concise summary that includes all of the most important facts.
The active disloyalty of Jim Jordan, Devin Nunes, Bob Goodlatte, Mark Meadows and Matt Gaetz, and their ilk must be distinguished from the passive disloyalty of Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan. The passively disloyal deliberately refuse to legislatively forestall Trump’s likely attempt to fire Mueller, much as he fired Comey over “the Russian thing”, and removed Brennan’s security clearance to silence a voice that was pointing out Trump’s errors.
Posters and Chants Against Depravity
June 21, 2018 at 7:37 pm | Posted in Abuse of Office, Climate change, Conceited, Crime and punishment, Disinformation, Dysfunctional Politics, Enemies of Freedom, Enemies of Planet Earth, Fairness, Global warming, Presidential election | Leave a commentTags: concentration camp, disloyalty, Fox and Friends, Fox News, human rights, inadvertant agent of a foreign government, Jeff Sessions, mistreatment of children, President Chump, Putin, Rupert Murdoch, Sean Hannity, Trump, Un-American, un-Constitutional
President Trump = President Chump
Dump President Chump
No More Concentration Camps for Kids
Trump
Made America Ashamed Again
Trump the Chump
Toxic for America
Fox News
Fux News
Murdoch of Mordor
Murders the News
Fox and Fiends
Font of Fake News
Hannity Is Insanity
Disloyal Donald
Putin’s point-man in the White House
Trump is Cruel and Unusual
Punishment for the United States
Trump is Evil
President Chump Undermines America
President Chump
Inadvertent Agent of a Hostile Government
The Soviets had a name for people like Chump:
Useful Idiot!
Rupert Murdoch
America’s Most Toxic Immigrant
These slogans were all created by thepoliblog.WordPress.com,
who hereby declares them to be in the public domain.
Trump Has Admitted His Guilt
June 1, 2018 at 2:50 pm | Posted in Abuse of Office, Crime and punishment, Disinformation, Enemies of Freedom, Presidential election | Leave a commentTags: 2016 Presidential election, Jeff Sessions, Paul Waldman, President Chump, President Trump, Putin, Washington Post
Men in Bramhall stocks, Bramhall, England, 1900, unknown photographer.
Trump has admitted his guilt, without realizing that he has done so.
This point was made recently by Paul Waldman, in an article in the Washington Post.
Quoting from that aricle, “According to a January New York Times story, when Sessions decided to recuse himself, “the president erupted in anger in front of numerous White House officials, saying he needed his attorney general to protect him.” (Emphasis added.)
There would be no need for the Attorney General to protect Trump from the investigation of Putin’s interference in the the Presidential election in 2016, if Trump had not done something illegal in connection with that election.
The Attorney General’s job is to protect the American people from crime, not to protect the President – or anyone else – from the consequences of illegal actions.
About the nature of Trump’s crime, we know only that it pertains to Putin’s interference in the Presidential election in 2016. That is the topic that always presses Trump’s buttons, and elicits his most feverishly desparate reactions.
Further evidence of Trump’s knowledge of his own guilt occured in Trump’s meeting with Sessions in March 2017. According to Paul Waldman’s article, “[Trump’s] grievance was with Mr. Sessions: The president objected to [Session’s] decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation. Mr. Trump, who had told aides that he needed a loyalist overseeing the inquiry, berated Mr. Sessions and told him he should reverse his decision, an unusual and potentially inappropriate request.” Why would Trump need “a loyalist overseeing the inquiry”, if he wasn’t scared about some fact connected to this particular topic?
See also the previous post on this blog.
I know it won’t happen, but for such a hypocrite I cannot resist: “Lock him up!”
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Trump Is Guilty
May 4, 2018 at 7:38 am | Posted in Abuse of Office, Conceited, Crime and punishment, Disinformation, Dysfunctional Politics, Enemies of Freedom, Presidential election | 1 CommentTags: legitimacy of the United States government, New York Times, Putin, Robert Mueller, Trump
Old gavel and court minutes displayed at the Minnesota Judicial Center, photographed by Jonathunder, 2008-04-17.
Trump is guilty of something that causes him to frantically impede the investigation of Putin’s interference in the American election in 2016.
Trump is so guilty, that he opposes an investigation that every patriotic American would want to succeed, because the legitimacy of elections underlies the legitimacy of the American government.
Trump is so guilty, that he seeks to terminate the only activity that would exonererate him if he wasn’t guilty.
Trump is so guilty, that he seeks to terminate the only activity that would remove the cloud on his legitimacy.
For a summary of the issues, see the New York Times article on Robert Mueller’s questions to Trump.
Robert S. Mueller, III, director of the FBI from 2001 to 2013
Dishonorable Devin Nunes: What Are His Loyalties?
March 29, 2017 at 12:18 pm | Posted in Abuse of Office, Disinformation, Dysfunctional Politics, Enemies of Freedom, Presidential election | Leave a commentTags: Adam Entous, Devin Nunes, Devlin Barrett, Ellen Nakashima, Greg Miller, House of Representatives, Julie Tate, Karoun Demirjian, Philip Rucker, Putin, Robert Costa, Russian interference in the Presidential election
Illustration of the Devil in the Codex Gigas, folio 270 recto, early 13th century, by Herman the Recluse of the Benedictine monastery of Podlažice.
To what Is Devil Nunes loyal?
The one who is better known as Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)
Based on his stonewalling of investigations into Russia’s role, and his frantic attempts to divert the focus of the investigation away from Russia and away from Trump’s campaign, and toward the patriots who alerted the country, and his secret nightime trip to confer with the White House, it appears that Devin Nunes’ loyalties, in their order of importance to him, are
- First, Devin Nunes himself, followed – possibly closely – by his family.
- Second, Trump, followed – possibly closely – by the Republican Party in its present grotesquely deformed version.
- Third, possibly the United States, possibly including the district that he supposedly represents.
Given that order of priorities, it is not fitting that Nunes should be a member of the House Intelligence Committee, much less that he should chair it.
Nunes was in Trump’s transition team. Yet he claims that there is no conflict of interest for him to lead the investigation of contacts between Trump’s campaign and Russia.
The conflict of interest is clear. Nunes cannot be objective about this issue.
In attempting to deflect attention away from the real danger – Putin’s mafia – Devin Nunes betrayed his country.
He doesn’t belong in Congress.
For his future, his best career option is to apply to become a caddy at one of Trump’s golf courses.
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Questions that Moderators Should Ask Trump in the Presidential Election Debates
September 19, 2016 at 3:27 pm | Posted in Conceited, Enemies of Freedom, Enemies of Planet Earth, Presidential election | 2 CommentsTags: Anderson Cooper, Assad, Chinese Communist Party, Chris Wallace, Clinton, dictators, Hillary, Hitler, Kim Jong Un, Lester Holt, Martha Raddatz, Michael Morell, Mike Vickers, moderators, Mussolini, Presidential Election debates, Putin, Trump, Trump's tax forms
The Presidential Election Debate on September 26 will be moderated by Lester Holt,
Lester Holt, Sept. 25, 2012, before departing Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan.
that on October 9 will be moderated by Martha Raddatz and Anderson Cooper,
Martha Raddatz interviews John W. Miller, commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, U.S. 5th Fleet, Combined Maritime Forces, 24 September 2014.
![Anderson Cooper at Tulane University, 14 May 2010 . By Tulane Public Relations (Anderson Cooper & Tim Clinton) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.](https://thepoliblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/354x480-anderson_cooper_at_tulane_university.jpg)
Anderson Cooper at Tulane University, 14 May 2010 . By Tulane Public Relations (Anderson Cooper & Tim Clinton) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons.
Chris Wallace in Washington, D.C., February 23, 2010
Photo by Jim Greenhill from Arlington and Durango, USA – 100223-A-3715G-168 .
Here are three questions that every moderator of a Presidential Debate should ask Trump.
Why hasn’t Trump released those of his tax forms that are not being audited?
If they will be released, when?
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Trump admires Putin.
Putin supports Assad, the dictator of Syria.
Does Trump support Assad?
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Trump admires Putin’s way of controlling Russia, and of suppressing dissent.
Putin’s techniques are completely contrary to the US Consititution.
Which of Putin’s techniques would Trump adopt, and which would he reject?
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A moderator who does not ask these questions is not exercising due diligence.
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An addendum to this post:
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Mr. Trump, you have expressed your approval of the forcefulness of so many dictators:
– Putin;
– the Chinese Communist Party, for its brutal suppression in June 1989 of the demonstrating students in Beijing and in other cities;
– Kim Jong Un .
Please name the dictators – present (such as Assad) or historical (such as Saddam Hussein) – whose forcefulness you don’t approve. How do the dictators you do approve differ from those you don’t approve?
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Mr. Trump, an op-ed by defense and intelligence experts Michael Morell and Mike Vickers says that “At the Comander-in-Chief Forum on Sept. 7, you [Trump] said that as long as Putin says nice things about you, you will say nice things about him.” If we were back in the 1930s, would you have said “As long as Hitler says nice things about me, I’ll say nice things about him”? After all, Hitler would have liked your isolationism, so he would indeed have said nice things about you.
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Fact: Of all of the dictators, past and present, Trump most resembles Mussolini.
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Putin => Wikileaks => Trump
July 24, 2016 at 5:16 pm | Posted in Disinformation, Dysfunctional Politics, Enemies of Freedom, Presidential election | 2 CommentsTags: Abby Phillip, Amber Phillips, Democratic National Committee, DNC, Hillary Clinton, Putin, Putinia, Russia, Trump, Washington Post, Wikileaks
Trump Approves of Putin. Image created by thepoliblog.WordPress.com.
(After writing this posting, I searched for URLs to cite as evidence for what is asserted in it. It immediately became evident that others had come to the same realizations: see the articles by Abby Phillip and by Amber Phillips in the Washington Post. But since different aspects are emphasized in what follows, it seemed non-redundant to go ahead and post it.)
Putin is the Tyrant of Putinia (which has replaced Russia).
Putin ordered his minions to hack into the computer files of the Democratic National Committee to steal the emails and plans of Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Putin wanted to use that information to boost Trump’s chances in the US Presidential election in November.
Putin wants Trump to win.
Trump and Putin like each other’s philosophy and style. Both are authoritorian and greedy. Each hides his insecurity by projecting brazen self-confidence. Neither of them gives a hoot about the constraints imposed by laws, or even Constitutions.
Trump also drools over the potential for business opportunities in Putinia. So he is careful to always ‘make nice’ to Putin, and never challenges what Putin does.
Some leader of the free world Trump would be! He has a built-in conflict of interest.
Putin cannot legally afford to admit that he is responsible for the hacking.
Also, if it were known that the release of the information was intended to aid Trump, then the impact of the released information would be diminished.
So Putin had the stolen information forwarded to Wikileaks. Having Wikileaks release the information gave Putin deniability.
Wikileaks – having no sense of privacy and decency, and deserving none – eagerly made the stolen information public.
Releasing the stolen information can have had only one possible purpose: to embarrass and hamper Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Trump is guilty of many things, but he had no knowledge of this.
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Why Trump Esteems Putin
June 30, 2015 at 11:56 am | Posted in Conceited, Enemies of Freedom, Presidential election | 4 CommentsTags: autocrat, dictator, Donald Trump, George Washington, Lord Acton, Michael Gerson, Presidential election, Putin, Republican, Republican candidate, tyrant
Trump Approves of Putin. Image created by thepoliblog.WordPress.com.
This astonishing fact appeared in an important column by Michael Gerson on Trump’s political position, and was discussed in the second half of the previous post.
The present post seeks to understand why Trump esteems Putin.
Why does Trump not see in Putin’s actions what everyone else sees?
The explanation is to be found in Trump’s job history.
“Trump began his career at his father’s real estate company”, according to Wikipedia. So he started with a strong dynastic advantage.
Trump spent almost his entire career as the unremovable top executive of a large company.
No one in his company could gainsay him.
No one in his company could contradict him.
No one in his company could refuse to do what he asked.
Despite nearly fatal business mistakes in 1989 through 1991, no one in his company could criticise him.
Only sycophants were allowed.
In his company, he became an autocrat.
He enjoyed being an autocrat. (“You’re fired!”, said he, with relish and glee. )
He eventually came to believe that autocracy was the only effective way to obtain results.
That is why Trump approves of Putin, and is unable to see how massively Putin has damaged Russia.
Conscience leads almost every autocrat to wish to believe that they are a benevolent autocrat.
Trump wants to believe that he is a benevolent autocrat.
That is why he repeatedly says “They love me!” (The emphasis is his.)
When you hear words, even if they were spoken by yourself, they activate the same neural chains that are activated by words spoken by others.
So words spoken aloud by yourself are more comforting and supportive, and they carry a whiff of objectivity and outside validation.
(That is why prayer and wishes and political slogans said aloud, either by yourself or spoken in unison in a crowd, are so much more reassuring than silent prayers or wishes or slogans.)
So Trump says again and again, emphatically, “They love me!”
Of course benevolent autocrats are rare, even among those who wish to believe that they are benevolent. Lord Acton’s insight applies: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Acton’s insight does not refer to corruption by greed, but to corruption by rationalization and by arrogance.
Picture of John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton.
Created, no later than 1902, and published in the book ‘Letters of Lord Acton to Mary Gladstone’, published by Allen & Co.
Trump is the opposite of George Washington, that avid self-taught student of the history of freedom versus autocracy, who, as the first President of the US, deliberately and adamantly refused to set monarchical precedents, and who accepted the decison of Congress even when he thought it to be mistaken. Washington thereby set the most precious precedents of all.
The Lansdowne portrait of George Washington, painted by Gilbert Stuart in 1796.
Trump is a would-be President who doesn’t understand or like democracy.
He doesn’t understand the creativity and self-correction that is provided by the intellectual
crowd-sourcing that arises from the uproar that occurs in any open society.
Trump is utterly unfit to be President.
Trump’s advantaged career history also explains his other peculiarities:
Trump is arrogant. While announcing his candidacy, Trump astoundingly asserted that he would make Mexico pay for building a wall along its US border. Make? How? This is Bluster’s Last Stand.
Trump is conceited. So he feels no need to have his ideas critiqued before announcing them or acting upon them. Trump asserted that Mexico keeps its good people for itself, and “sends” its criminals and other misfits to the US. Does Trump suppose that a panel in Mexico reviews information about each of it citizens, and then issues orders to each, either stay or head north? This breathtaking idiocy is of a piece with Trump’s assertion that Putin has boosted the rest of the world’s opinion of Russia. It is also of a piece with Trump’s disastrous business decisions during the late 1980s and early 1990s, which nearly bankrupted his business and himself.
Trump is tone deaf. He has far less than the normal ability to see himself as others see him. He has lost much of his former skill in mentally mirroring others that was demonstrated by his college career. He seems to have retained only the mental mirroring skills needed for business deals.
It is sometimes asserted that sucess in business is one of the best indicators of suitability for executive office.
Trump illustrates the truth that being a business executive who lacks extensive experience in elective politics, or in another arena having frequent give-and-take between evenly matched participants, does not indicate suitability for high office. Instead it indicates unsuitability. (The same is true for military leaders.)
Trump illustrates the truth that a sense of entitlement is the root of most evil.
Trump is utterly unfit to be President.
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Was Donald Trump Born in the US?
June 25, 2015 at 12:31 pm | Posted in Conceited, Disinformation, Enemies of Freedom, Enemies of Planet Earth, Global warming, Presidential election | 5 CommentsTags: Barack Obama, birther, Constitution, Donald Trump, Michael Gerson, President, Putin, Republican, Republican candidate, unpatriotic
Trump Sr. at Citizens United Freedom Summit in Greenville South Carolina May 2015, photo by Michael Vadon.
Donald Trump recently announced that he is running to become the next President.
This is the same Donald Trump who refused to accept the abundant evidence that Barack Obama was born in the US, and that Obama’s Presidency was therefore legitimate according to paragraph 5 of Section 1 of Article II of the Constitution of the United states of America.
This is the same Donald Trump who insisted that President Obama publish a validated copy of his birth certificate.
Billboard challenging the validity of Barack Obama’s birth certificate. The billboard is located in South Gate, and photo was taken on November 12, 2010.
Barack Obama’s long form birth certificate, from the State of Hawaii Department of Health.
This is the same Donald Trump who wasted so much of his own time and attention, and that of the public, by being the last prominent ‘birther’ to refuse to accept the abundant solid evidence about the place of Obama’s birth. This is the same Donald Trump who ensured that time and energy and newsprint and bandwidth would continue to be wasted on what was generally acknowledged to be a refuted claim.
This is the same Donald Trump who selected himself to stand in the schoolhouse door, in what everyone knew would be a futile attempt to block Obama’s path.
Is this Donald Trump eligible to be President?
Is the energy and time – his own and the public’s – that Trump expended on this silly charade, an indication of how he would allocate his attention and the nation’s resources, if he became President?
He was smart enough to know that it was a charade, wasn’t he?
If he did, then his wasting of our time and energy was so egregious that it was unpatriotic.
If he didn’t, then he is unfit to be an executive of anything.
I cannot believe that he was stupid enough to fall for the birther wishful thinking.
Therefore he had chosen self-promotion over the welfare of the country.
That is unpatriotic enough to make us wonder, was Donald Trump born in the USA?
At Trump’s every campaign appearance, demand to see his birth certificate.
Demand that he publish a certified copy.
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Michael Gerson recently reviewed lesser known aspects of Trump’s political history.
The review contained a bombshell: Donald Trump’s approval of Putin, the most destructive tyrant of Russia since Stalin. Gerson’s column says of Trump:
The defects of democracy, in this view, are remedied by the strongman. It is not a coincidence that Trump expresses admiration for Vladimir Putin. “He’s doing a great job,” says Trump, “in rebuilding the image of Russia and also rebuilding Russia, period.”
Official portrait of Vladimir Putin (2006). This file comes from the website of the President of the Russian Federation and is copyrighted.
Putin: the person who derailed Russia’s transition to becoming a fair and open society, governed by the rule of law, instead of by the convenience of a mafia.
Putin: the mugger who robbed Crimea from Ukraine because Ukraine had overturned Putin’s protogee Viktor Yanukovych. Putin: who subsequently manufactured a surprisingly well equipped military separatist movement in eastern Ukraine that has triggered a new cold war.
Somehow Trump forgot to mention his admiration of Putin while announcing his candidacy.
After all, the voters deserve to know about each candidate’s role models.
Is someone who approves of Putin fit to be President?
At Trump’s every campaign appearance, ask him about his approval of Putin.
At every interview, ask Trump about his approval of Putin.
Donald Trump:
A birther, who wasted everyone’s time by pretending that a dead issue was still alive, solely to draw attention to himself.
An admirer of Vladimir Putin’s approach to governing.
This post can be summarized in three words: Trump Tramples Truth!
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