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History Can’t Repeat

20 Wednesday Jan 2021

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            Each morning I watch the BBC’s World News to get a picture of what happened around the world yesterday. They devote a minute to the past major events which occurred during that week. Recently it has shown America’s space exploits, Viet Nam, Hurricanes, 1960s Race marches, and other admirable and despicable events.

            I am sure the invasion of the Capital will be one repeated year after year during the week in which January 6 falls. I hope the following week doesn’t reach the status of being a worthy news item. May nothing like the happenings of January 6 ever be repeated on BBC’s “Week in History” ever again?

What Will They Do?

20 Wednesday Jan 2021

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            The question no one seems to know is what will the deluded Americans do when they find out they will have been lied to by political leaders, conned by many of them for their own benefit, and probably guided and financed by our enemies abroad?

            One video of the insurrectionists was of them reading through right wing Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s papers. One of them was yelling “He planning to sell us out.” Another video had people yelling to get Cruz. Cruz’s base is, or maybe was, these people. He may already have lost the support of moderates and independents, but loss of radicals may be personally dangerous.

            What will the millions do when their eyes are finally opened to the fact Trump lost the election? Will they all learn at the same time or will it be a slow process. The reaction will be dependent on which one? Many media and podcasters will continue to harangue those gullible people. Many of them are violent and are completely indoctrinated into the radical conspiracies. Many people may be true believers like the Nashville Bomber who believed 5G was causing Covid 19 or several shooters who believe large areas are under Sharia law. Many still believe black helicopters are swooping down to take people to concentration camps in Montana.

            Some people will always be easily deceived which is why Russia and other countries have been so successful in creating a corrosive society. What will they do? Will they quietly say to themselves “you suckered me once but never again” or will they go after those who embarrassed them in a violent way? Let’s hope for the first!

Banning on Social Media

12 Tuesday Jan 2021

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            To those who criticize the social media companies banning Trump from their platforms. Remember, Trump has been in favor of this for his entire presidency. Social media has been shielded for the libel laws TV, radio and newspapers have been subject to. Trump wants the platforms responsible for the content put on their platforms. Section 230 considers them like a telephone company but many in leadership and congress want to eliminate that protection since they have the ability by algorithms and human viewing to audit and drop bad content.

            Would 9-11 have happened if social media had been monitoring their platforms? Trump has often said no. His constant telling of lies and conspiracies has been the root cause of the mistrust and violence Wednesday. His personal appearance before the attack just repeated what he and his family had been saying on social media.

            Remember, we all agree the laws preventing people from yelling fire in a crowded theater are correct and inciting people to riot is also wrong. The only way to stop gullible people from being misguided is to restrict lies and baseless conspiracy theories from being spread on social media. We must agree with Trump on stopping people from the illegal, immoral, and stupidity that social media has allowed on their platforms.

The Sinking Ship

12 Tuesday Jan 2021

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            The news is full of Republicans backpedaling from Trump by saying they didn’t see the character of the man. They have been scared of or sucking up to Trump for the last four years. Some have said he has changed since the election so they can no longer support him.

            How could anyone not see this was going to happen? Did they not listen to what he has said in front of cameras for over five years? He acted like the dictators he has befriended and defended. Again, how could anyone not see this coming?

            It is an old but valid axiom about rats fleeing from a sinking ship. Apparently the capital invasion was a rope to shore for the rats to flee. Many have decided to go down with the ship, hoping they can keep the support of his radicalized followers. Let them all go down with the ship!

Healing the Party

07 Thursday Jan 2021

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            Trump is ripping apart the GOP by burning down our democracy by coercing and bullying people to follow him down the rabbit hole. These sycophants are afraid he will continue to try to stay in front of his deceived base and the dark side podcasts hurting their re-election prospects.

            Ordinarily a President is more or less ignored by a legal entity since they no longer have any power and declining influence. To stop the destruction of the GOP and the erosion of the Constitution, the FBI and the states must continue their investigations and indictments of Trump.

            Even with pardons, the FBI should continue their investigation into Trump, his family, and cohorts. A pardon prevents an arrest, indictment and trial on the pardoned crime. However, it means they have to state fully their crime when questioned or it is an obstruction of justice and if they lie, it is perjury. The truth or the crimes will destroy his ability to lead most of his followers.

            The states’ can get Trump on income tax evasion, perjury on tax forms, and financial documents. Georgia can be added to the list of states since Trump has been taped trying to secure vote fraud which is a Federal and State crime. Today they can add incitement to riot.

            Unlike Adolph Hitler, his power and influence would quickly decline, allowing the Republican Party and the country to heal. Locking him away would prevent another President from abusing power. This aberration must not be allowed to ever happen again.

Mismanagement at the Top

04 Monday Jan 2021

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            Donald J. Trump will go down in history as a poor one-time President when he could have been remembered as a two-timer near the top of the second tier. Why? The lack of management and leadership during the pandemic causing hundreds of thousands of deaths that could have been avoided. In spite of a need to coordinate the response among states by purchasing and distributing personal protective equipment; at first he said he would, then changed his mind, then he would, and finally cast the states against each other.

            He belittled his scientific experts at the daily briefings and made extremely stupid suggestions about how to keep from getting it and how to kill it if they got it. He put a Fox talking head with had no expertise in virus to head the scientists. His example of not wearing a mask caused millions to emulate him causing tens of thousands of them and their families to die.

            Instead of a few thousand dead we have a quarter of the world’s deaths with only 4% of its population. Other leaders which followed his example have met with the same results. Brazil’s leader followed Trump’s example and Brazil is now second in deaths per 100,000.

            Proper leadership as in Germany, Austria, Italy, Japan and Australia are examples of how Trump should have led in the controlling of the pandemic. He claims his people got the vaccine out at Warp speed but many of “His” vaccines are from foreign companies. His efforts in distributing vaccines has been scattered and behind other countries. Those countries with national health services have tested more and faster, secured more vaccines per capita, and have injected it into more people than we have.

            We can only hope Biden’s experienced people will save hundreds of thousands of us from choking to death and long term disabilities.

January 21, 2021

04 Monday Jan 2021

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           Why does Donald J. Trump want so much to stay President of the United States since he has spent so little time working on doing the job? Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution prohibits civil and state laws from applying to a sitting President. On January 21, 2021, he could be hit with subpoenas concerning at least two civil suits and several state crimes for income tax evasion, fraud, perjury, and other crimes he has been avoiding for years.

            Ivanka has already been before a grand jury involving an emoluments type crime and diversion of campaign funds regarding Trump’s D.C. Hotel. He has talked to staff members about pardoning himself and his family. Pardons would protect them from any violation of Federal crimes but not civil and state offenses.

            He had planned to live at his Mar-a-Lago Resort but he had signed an agreement limiting his time there to a few days per year. While the President’s area residents could only complain, now their suit can go forward preventing him from living there. That means Donald and Melania Trump’s votes may have been voting fraud since the club can not be his legal address.

            Since New York City and State want to be first in line, the Trumps will not be staying in their New York Hotel. Since most of Europe, in particular Scotland, will not welcome him, maybe his close connection to Netanyahu – oops, he is trying to stay in power because he has prosecutors waiting for him to leave office, too. Maybe an Arab country without extradition to the United States will be his new home.

Leadership Is Critical To Survival

28 Monday Dec 2020

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            I watched “Ike” starring Tom Selleck last night. Eisenhower’s primary job was not the planning of the invasion because he had hundreds of people doing that. His job was to hold all the countries and the huge egos together. The result of his work has been to hold not only those countries together but add many others.

            Several years later many of the same countries and others helped us in Korea. We weren’t alone in Viet Nam and in some of the brushfire wars, as well as Desert Storm. When we were attacked during September 9, 2011, most of the world’s countries came to our aid in Afghanistan. Some of those we had considered unfriendly like Iran and Russia assisted by closing the southern border to block the Taliban escape or allowing us to overfly sensitive areas with bombers, fighters, and transport planes.

            After almost four years of antagonizing and belittling their leaders and countries, I doubt that even the United Kingdom or Canada would help us. Instead of leading the free world we are outsiders. Our President was shunned by those in the G-20 meetings. Military cooperation is kept quiet so our President and his sycophants could not stop it.

            President Biden will be faced with a huge number of major problems needing to be solved but none are more important than rebuilding the trust and cooperation we once had with our allies and to let our enemies know we have regained our former leadership role. If we are attacked again and have to go into another war we will need their military, their intelligence, and their support like before. Let us hope President Biden can put the free world back together.

An Electoral College Comment

16 Wednesday Dec 2020

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            I disagree with the Electoral College giving small states a disproportionate say in electing a President. The proponents forget they are called fly-over because they aren’t worth the time and money of a campaign in the state. For instance Idaho or the Dakotas going to vote for the Republican candidate so why campaign there.

            If we use the popular vote then every voter’s decision counts so it would be worth putting money and a nominee’s time in the state. On a winner-take-all basis, a few more votes for one negate the votes of the few less.

            In theory twelve votes are all that counts to win over the Electoral College. The electoral vote of only twelve states is enough to win over 270 votes. Theoretically, a nominee could spend hundreds of millions in each state on getting the independent voters and some of the other party in a state normally voting for the other party to win their electoral votes. A Republican might win New York and California as Reagan did or a Texas and Florida as Biden almost did.

            A compromise might be a proportional Electoral vote where some formula would allow every voter’s decision to count in deciding how many votes go to each nominee. Perhaps the top two nominees split the votes on a percentage basis. South Dakota’s three votes might be split if one nominee gets less than half so the majority would get two. If one got less than one-third then all three would go to the majority winner.

            The compromise would be fairer and America would be the Democratic country we espouse around the world and to ourselves.

Grifting is in the Blood

16 Wednesday Dec 2020

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            The last five years has been nothing more than a huge con to protect Donald Trump, to a lesser extent, his offspring, and money. Being President enabled him to divert IRS and FBI attention away from him and his activities. The constitution kept New York and other states from indicting him.

                Ivanka Trump has just been questioned in moving money from the campaign to their Washington, D. C. hotel by greatly increasing the price of Trump events at the hotel. That diversion of funds is illegal!

                Trump, Jr. wrote a best seller which surprised people who know him. Even with a ghost writer it allowed the campaign to buy tens of thousands of Junior’s books putting campaign money into Junior’s pocket. That’s illegal, too.

                Why was more money so important to the campaign in the last few months before the election? The family and friends listed as campaign people blew through $800 million on plush resorts, fancy cars, meals, and other luxury expenses having no connection to the campaign. Much of the money was spent at Trump properties. That’s illegal, too.

                The current grift is the fundraising to fight voting fraud. So far they have conned over $2,700 million from his gullible followers. Someone donating money must spend over $5,000 before any money goes toward that baseless effort. Guess where the first $5,000 from each person goes! Now that con IS legal, since you are told!                

Even after he pardons himself and his family for all the Federal offenses, they can still be indicted under the state laws of New York and Florida. High priced lawyers will try to postpone trials and jail time.

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