“We have to go back to that future, 2017-2020. We want those four years one more time.”” No we don’t, because 4 years ago we had refrigerated trucks and mass death. How stupid do these corrupt f*ckers think their voters are? Are they really counting on mass amnesia to simply wipe away the malicious indifference that allowed a million deaths? These sociopaths seem to have no agenda beyond killing off people they don’t like and keeping everyone else as sick and desperate as possible.
Yes, Republicans want voters to have cloudy memories of four years ago. The fact is, in our fast-moving country - where yesterday AI was only an imagined creation and today it is reality - Americans DO HAVE clouded minds. We live more in the moment instead of remembering the past. Four years ago under Trump - COVID was rampant and hundreds of thousands of Americans were dying as our President recommended people to use Ivermectin (for horses) or inject bleach to stop COVID. The Center for Disease Control tells us that as of this February, about 1,200,000 Americans have died. Trump, in his massive stupidity, even refused to recommend wearing a mask to prevent spread of this disease. Masks were found to be an effective shield in the spread of COVID and perhaps half of the reported deaths could have been prevented. Are we better off with Trump in the White House? - Hell NO.
Brian Butler's (Trump's 5th Employee) is not telling us anything new about Trump, he is reaffirming the character of this man who is convicted of being a liar, a fraud, a sexual predator/rapist, and is currently facing 91 criminal charges - not one or two, but 91 charges of breaking the law. The laws in the United States are the underlying fortress that guides our society and country. Laws provide us a fair and independent process - to ensure that justice prevails and everyone is treated equally and fairly.
I spent the majority of my career living and working in communist and dictator-led countries. These countries have ONE law which says "lay-low and do not anger the leader" or you end up in prison or dead. I barely escaped Turkmenistan one day before I was to be imprisoned for holding "Christian" meetings in a Muslim country. It was a drummed-up charge and I was not "holding meetings, nor did I have a Bible in Ashgabat - the capitol of Turkmenistan. I designed and was operating a micro-credit multi-million dollar program of small loans to the poor so they could operate small businesses and generate extra income. Micro-credit is indicative of free markets and provides supplemental income to those with government assigned jobs - which is the entire population in a dictator-led country. If they had killed me, USAID and CAAEF would have pulled all program funds from Turkmenistan. Instead they just threatened me with prison, but allowed me to leave unharmed. The program and the millions of dollars were then managed by a local woman who worked for the local government - controlled by one man - named Turkmanbashi, he was fanatical about societal control and was just another crazed dictator. In 2002, he named months and days of the week after some of his relatives.
This story is relevant because it describes Trump as well - who just hired his daughter-in-law to head up the ROC. Trump is not just a liar, a bully, a criminal, and probably a traitor, but an archaistic individual who wishes to return the U.S. form of government to obsolete, ancient, and medieval times - centuries ago when King's ruled through terror, torture, murder and prisons that were comparable to the Gulag where Navalny was murdered in Siberia.
It's time for Americans to WAKE UP. Our country is considered a civil society, where the rule of law is critical to daily operations and the safety of all citizens. Imagine a busy intersection where there are no traffic lights and no police to help people navigate. It results in horns honked, disorderliness,
and a morass of confusion and traffic accidents. This is the world that Trump proposes - where the only laws that apply are the ones Trump wishes to work for his benefit - this sounds a whole lot like Putin and other dictators.
"On June 1, 2020 and amid the George Floyd protests in D.C., Law Enforcement officers used tear gas and other riot control tactics to forcefully clear peaceful and lawful protesters from Lafayette Square in D.C. to create a path for Trump to walk from the White House to St. John's Episcopal Church and to hold up a Bible for a photo op." Trump does not attend this church and this was an attempt to appeal to potential voters in the Bible Belt region of the U.S. (Wikipedia) This was an affront to the First Amendment right to the freedom of assembly. In July 2020, Trump sent federal agents to Oregon to combat the protests against police brutality and racism. These rioters were escorted into unmarked cars by men wearing no identification. This is NOT how a democracy works.
Trump believes that the use of force is justified, but Oregon's Governor called Trump's action as "simply adding gasoline to a fire." ((NPR, July 2020). He feels that he can do whatever he wishes - including ignoring all others or even existing laws.
Trump's followers demonstrated their willingness to create violence when on Jan. 6th a mob of Trumpers attacked the U.S. Capitol building in an attempt to stop the legal process of counting votes for the legal transfer of Presidential power. "Approximately 749 federal defendants have had their cases adjudicated and 467 have been sentenced to periods of incarceration." (AP News, Jan. 2024). "Washington's federal courthouse remains flooded with trials, guilty plea hearings and sentencings. The hunt for suspects is far from over." (Ibid).
Trump admires "strong dictatorial men". His recent visit with Viktor Orban, Hungary's dictator is an example. Hitler was estimated to have murdered about 6 million human beings, but another million or more died on the battlefields attempting to stop Hitler's regime and madness. History tells us that Stalin, who was perhaps the most vile dictator of all times, killed over 20 million people. Putin has been compared to Stalin and is proud of this assessment. This is relevant because Trump openly admires and emulates Putin.
Putin acquired his dictatorial skills while working in East Germany as a Russian spy. He brought these tools back to Russia, and is now ruling the largest nuclear armed country in the world as a murderous dictator. He has threatened global peace AND the stability of his arch enemy the United States. He had plotted the demise of our form of government and he has used Donald Trump as his stooge. Trump sold his soul and our country to the Russians at least 20 years ago. (proof is in From Democracy to Democrazy which is available worldwide).
The majority of cyber attacks into the U.S. come from Russia - disrupting our food/supply chains, our financial and banking systems, our hospital and medical care, our military and security, and perhaps this year most importantly our elections and probably our polls. As CNN or NYT say that Trump is leading in the polls - I cringe. The polls sway voters, and Putin knows this. He also is shouting to the whole world that "Trump will win the 2024 election." So what do you think he knows that we in the U.S. do not?
Butler was just another person used and abused by Trump. His report sheds more light on to Trump's behavior and disregard for our national classified information system and top secret military documentation. More importantly, there appears to be Top Secret documents missing. I would not doubt that this information - perhaps critical U.S. nuclear capabilities and military secrets are now in the hands of Putin and have emboldened him to say yesterday "Russia warns that they are ready for nuclear war." (Reuters, 3/13/2024)
I wrote From Democracy to Democrazy with one purpose - to WARN Americans and others around the world of the disastrous consequences if Trump is re-elected President of the United States. I have lived in several dictator-led countries and do not wish to relive that experience.
Thanks for another excellent piece. I asked my Tennessee mortgage producer cousin why she would vote for Trump a third time and her response was, “I want interest rates low again.” I told her the POTUS doesn’t control interest rates and in 2020-2022 we were in the middle of a pandemic, which was why the Fed lowered interest rates. She doesn’t care. She doesn’t WATCH THE NEWS so Trump’s scandalous indictments don’t affect her. She’s an intelligent, college-educated woman and I was SMH in response.
I live very near where the first Covid patient was identified in January 2020. So I kept a timeline of the cases reported. Between March 10 and March 23, the number rose from 1000 to 46,438. That's 13 days. I had been earlier watching its progression in Italy, where it was seen as a mystery plague. It wasn't "over by Easter."
Remember shelves barren of toilet paper? Even with the lockdowns, my greatest fear was that it would affect production of my meds, including insulin. If I couldn't get that I WOULD die, isolation or not.
How anyone could think they were "better off" 4 years ago requires willful amnesia.
Trump is a mass murderer and that's what he should have been charged with the second Biden took office. His selfishness and incompetence killed fellow Americans swiftly and without remorse.
What we need to do is REMEMBER to vote in November! The choice is clear: Biden or Dictatorship!
“We have to go back to that future, 2017-2020. We want those four years one more time.”” No we don’t, because 4 years ago we had refrigerated trucks and mass death. How stupid do these corrupt f*ckers think their voters are? Are they really counting on mass amnesia to simply wipe away the malicious indifference that allowed a million deaths? These sociopaths seem to have no agenda beyond killing off people they don’t like and keeping everyone else as sick and desperate as possible.
Yes, Republicans want voters to have cloudy memories of four years ago. The fact is, in our fast-moving country - where yesterday AI was only an imagined creation and today it is reality - Americans DO HAVE clouded minds. We live more in the moment instead of remembering the past. Four years ago under Trump - COVID was rampant and hundreds of thousands of Americans were dying as our President recommended people to use Ivermectin (for horses) or inject bleach to stop COVID. The Center for Disease Control tells us that as of this February, about 1,200,000 Americans have died. Trump, in his massive stupidity, even refused to recommend wearing a mask to prevent spread of this disease. Masks were found to be an effective shield in the spread of COVID and perhaps half of the reported deaths could have been prevented. Are we better off with Trump in the White House? - Hell NO.
Brian Butler's (Trump's 5th Employee) is not telling us anything new about Trump, he is reaffirming the character of this man who is convicted of being a liar, a fraud, a sexual predator/rapist, and is currently facing 91 criminal charges - not one or two, but 91 charges of breaking the law. The laws in the United States are the underlying fortress that guides our society and country. Laws provide us a fair and independent process - to ensure that justice prevails and everyone is treated equally and fairly.
I spent the majority of my career living and working in communist and dictator-led countries. These countries have ONE law which says "lay-low and do not anger the leader" or you end up in prison or dead. I barely escaped Turkmenistan one day before I was to be imprisoned for holding "Christian" meetings in a Muslim country. It was a drummed-up charge and I was not "holding meetings, nor did I have a Bible in Ashgabat - the capitol of Turkmenistan. I designed and was operating a micro-credit multi-million dollar program of small loans to the poor so they could operate small businesses and generate extra income. Micro-credit is indicative of free markets and provides supplemental income to those with government assigned jobs - which is the entire population in a dictator-led country. If they had killed me, USAID and CAAEF would have pulled all program funds from Turkmenistan. Instead they just threatened me with prison, but allowed me to leave unharmed. The program and the millions of dollars were then managed by a local woman who worked for the local government - controlled by one man - named Turkmanbashi, he was fanatical about societal control and was just another crazed dictator. In 2002, he named months and days of the week after some of his relatives.
This story is relevant because it describes Trump as well - who just hired his daughter-in-law to head up the ROC. Trump is not just a liar, a bully, a criminal, and probably a traitor, but an archaistic individual who wishes to return the U.S. form of government to obsolete, ancient, and medieval times - centuries ago when King's ruled through terror, torture, murder and prisons that were comparable to the Gulag where Navalny was murdered in Siberia.
It's time for Americans to WAKE UP. Our country is considered a civil society, where the rule of law is critical to daily operations and the safety of all citizens. Imagine a busy intersection where there are no traffic lights and no police to help people navigate. It results in horns honked, disorderliness,
and a morass of confusion and traffic accidents. This is the world that Trump proposes - where the only laws that apply are the ones Trump wishes to work for his benefit - this sounds a whole lot like Putin and other dictators.
"On June 1, 2020 and amid the George Floyd protests in D.C., Law Enforcement officers used tear gas and other riot control tactics to forcefully clear peaceful and lawful protesters from Lafayette Square in D.C. to create a path for Trump to walk from the White House to St. John's Episcopal Church and to hold up a Bible for a photo op." Trump does not attend this church and this was an attempt to appeal to potential voters in the Bible Belt region of the U.S. (Wikipedia) This was an affront to the First Amendment right to the freedom of assembly. In July 2020, Trump sent federal agents to Oregon to combat the protests against police brutality and racism. These rioters were escorted into unmarked cars by men wearing no identification. This is NOT how a democracy works.
Trump believes that the use of force is justified, but Oregon's Governor called Trump's action as "simply adding gasoline to a fire." ((NPR, July 2020). He feels that he can do whatever he wishes - including ignoring all others or even existing laws.
Trump's followers demonstrated their willingness to create violence when on Jan. 6th a mob of Trumpers attacked the U.S. Capitol building in an attempt to stop the legal process of counting votes for the legal transfer of Presidential power. "Approximately 749 federal defendants have had their cases adjudicated and 467 have been sentenced to periods of incarceration." (AP News, Jan. 2024). "Washington's federal courthouse remains flooded with trials, guilty plea hearings and sentencings. The hunt for suspects is far from over." (Ibid).
Trump admires "strong dictatorial men". His recent visit with Viktor Orban, Hungary's dictator is an example. Hitler was estimated to have murdered about 6 million human beings, but another million or more died on the battlefields attempting to stop Hitler's regime and madness. History tells us that Stalin, who was perhaps the most vile dictator of all times, killed over 20 million people. Putin has been compared to Stalin and is proud of this assessment. This is relevant because Trump openly admires and emulates Putin.
Putin acquired his dictatorial skills while working in East Germany as a Russian spy. He brought these tools back to Russia, and is now ruling the largest nuclear armed country in the world as a murderous dictator. He has threatened global peace AND the stability of his arch enemy the United States. He had plotted the demise of our form of government and he has used Donald Trump as his stooge. Trump sold his soul and our country to the Russians at least 20 years ago. (proof is in From Democracy to Democrazy which is available worldwide).
The majority of cyber attacks into the U.S. come from Russia - disrupting our food/supply chains, our financial and banking systems, our hospital and medical care, our military and security, and perhaps this year most importantly our elections and probably our polls. As CNN or NYT say that Trump is leading in the polls - I cringe. The polls sway voters, and Putin knows this. He also is shouting to the whole world that "Trump will win the 2024 election." So what do you think he knows that we in the U.S. do not?
Butler was just another person used and abused by Trump. His report sheds more light on to Trump's behavior and disregard for our national classified information system and top secret military documentation. More importantly, there appears to be Top Secret documents missing. I would not doubt that this information - perhaps critical U.S. nuclear capabilities and military secrets are now in the hands of Putin and have emboldened him to say yesterday "Russia warns that they are ready for nuclear war." (Reuters, 3/13/2024)
I wrote From Democracy to Democrazy with one purpose - to WARN Americans and others around the world of the disastrous consequences if Trump is re-elected President of the United States. I have lived in several dictator-led countries and do not wish to relive that experience.
Elizabeth www.democrazy2020.org
Noah,
Thanks for another excellent piece. I asked my Tennessee mortgage producer cousin why she would vote for Trump a third time and her response was, “I want interest rates low again.” I told her the POTUS doesn’t control interest rates and in 2020-2022 we were in the middle of a pandemic, which was why the Fed lowered interest rates. She doesn’t care. She doesn’t WATCH THE NEWS so Trump’s scandalous indictments don’t affect her. She’s an intelligent, college-educated woman and I was SMH in response.
The GOP is re-writing factual history with science fiction.
I live very near where the first Covid patient was identified in January 2020. So I kept a timeline of the cases reported. Between March 10 and March 23, the number rose from 1000 to 46,438. That's 13 days. I had been earlier watching its progression in Italy, where it was seen as a mystery plague. It wasn't "over by Easter."
Remember shelves barren of toilet paper? Even with the lockdowns, my greatest fear was that it would affect production of my meds, including insulin. If I couldn't get that I WOULD die, isolation or not.
How anyone could think they were "better off" 4 years ago requires willful amnesia.
Trump is a mass murderer and that's what he should have been charged with the second Biden took office. His selfishness and incompetence killed fellow Americans swiftly and without remorse.
I am a big doxie fan as well. Glad you like my post. Read From Democracy to Democrazy by Graham for more.
Big thanks, Elizabeth