‘War Time President Trump’ LOST.THE.WAR.

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Sunday January 17, 2021 · 8:10 AM PST

2021/01/17 · 08:10

Americans dead from the CoVid-19 Pandemic have exceeded the total number of Americans dead in World War II. The total number of Americans killed in World War II from all causes was 405,399. As of this writing 405,418 Americans have died in the pandemic. Early in the pandemic Trump bragged he felt like a wartime president, Now he owns it. He Lost The War. In just 11 months the CoVid pandemic has killed more people in America than those killed in the 45 months of World War II. There are more dead from CoVid than the accumulation of the dead in WWII frombattleship row at Pearl Harbor to the death march of Battaan to the more than 1,500 ships sunk at sea to the B-17s with crews of 10 men shot down by the scores on missions over Europe to the dead of D-Day and from all of the other battles Americans fought and died in across the world. War Time President Trump. It’s been a horrific year and hundreds of thousands are dead who did not have to die other than because Trump was President. I’m sure this was the first time I used President and Trump together and it will be the last time I use those two words together. In terms of mass death events in the U.S. the CoVid-19 pandemic is now in third place behind the estimated 675,000 people who died in the 1918 pandemic and the 655,000 people who died on both sides during the Civil War. As Trump said, “It is what it is.” So much dying.

WWII death toll from, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_of_war

CoVid-19 death toll stats. I have used worldometers to track CoVid-19 stats since the start of the pandemic. It tends to be early on the aggregate numbers of cases or deaths, but the other pandemic tracking models do arrive at the same numbers - usually a few days later. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

More Americans have now died from CoVid-19 than died

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Thursday October 01, 2020 · 8:09 AM PDT

2020/10/01 · 08:09

As I write this 211,988 Americans have died from CoVid-19. That number represents a number greater than all the American suckers and losers who died in World War I, The Korean War and the Vietnam War combined. The American dead of those three wars which lasted 25 years was 211,241(combat and noncombat deaths). Trump's catastrophic mishandling of the CoVid-19 pandemic has caused us to pass that death toll in nine months.

My reference for the death toll in this pandemic is www.worldometers.info/… The death count provided by worldmeters tends to be a little ahead of other organizations. I’ve been following it since the early days of the pandemic and have found the information supplied by states in attached footnotes credible. If you are following other organization’s death tolls, keep in mind the 211,241 dead from those three wars. In that case the death toll from this pandemic will exceed the number posted by other organizations in a few days.

The American dead in the three wars cited comes from United States military casualties of war in Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/… The deaths from all American wars - from the Revolution to Afghanistan - exceeds 1.35 million. Trump’s unstated herd immunity strategy will cause the CoVid-19 pandemic to pass that number many times over.

At this time the CoVid-19 death toll is the fourth most deadly event in American history. It’s behind the 1918 pandemic with an estimated death toll of 675,000; the Civil War with an estimated death toll of 655,000 and World War II with a death toll of 405,399.

FIVE words Trump

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Monday July 27, 2020 · 2:16 PM PDT

2020/07/27 · 14:16

Not the five words you have used repeatedly to prove you are all there (you’re not BTW). But these five words - Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly and Petition.

See if your addled brain can remember them - more importantly if you can comprehend them.

While your five words - person, woman, man, camera, TV were obviously chosen so that you could understand the correlation between them and after practicing them enough, repeat them to suggest you don’t have dementia.

I’d bet you wouldn’t have a clue regarding the correlation between religion, speech, press, assembly and petition. Nor do I believe your Storm trooper goons in Portland or other American cities understand the correlation between religion, speech, press, assembly and petition.

Nor do you or your Storm trooper goons have a clue about the primacy of those five words used in an eloquent sentence where the operative words are, “make no law”.

To help you understand the connections between these words Trump, I will use them in a sentence for you, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Practice these words Trump. Tell you Storm trooper goons deployed across America that their actions must obey this law.

116,516

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Saturday June 06, 2020 · 10:16 AM PDT

2020/06/06 · 10:16

That’s the number of Americans who died in World War I. That includes combat and non-combat deaths. I’m sure many of those deaths were from the flu of the 1918 pandemic.

The number of Americans who have or will die during the CoVid-19 pandemic will almost certainly exceed that number next week. As you know, the deaths in this pandemic will have happened in less than four months. It (116,516) is a reference number that should be shared and mourned.

Source — Wikipedia under United States military casualties of war.

I suspect Drumpf fires Rod Rosenstein this week with poll

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Sunday February 04, 2018 · 2:21 PM PST

2018/02/04 · 14:21

Trump’s reality, if one can call it that, is in another world — the ‘Fox News’ world. So, he’s completely filled with rage over this ‘Russian Witch Hunt’ that Rosenstein won’t stop. So he’ll stop it. If you’ve not seen the Hannity clip from Friday night you should watch for as long as you can stomach it. Drumpf’s being led around by the nose by a propaganda operation. Millions of brain dead people (aka Trump’s base) masquerading as patriotic Americans are also being fooled by this propaganda.

video.foxnews.com/…

Such propaganda results in Twitler tweeting —

This memo totally vindicates Ã¢ÂÂDrumpfÃ¢ÂÂ in probe. But the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on. Their was no Collusion and there was no Obstruction (the word now used because, after one year of looking endlessly and finding NOTHING, collusion is dead). This is an American disgrace!
— Donald J. Drumpf (@realDonaldDrumpf) February 3, 2018

I fear this will be very dangerous week for the American republic. It would be nice if Robert Mueller could put cuffs on as many traitors as possible this week — Monday would be good.

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"Is this treasonous?"

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Monday November 13, 2017 · 4:29 PM PST

2017/11/13 · 16:29

CBS reporter Norah O'Donnell WENT THERE in asking a question to an ex-CIA official about Trump believing Putin's claims that Putin didn't authorize interference in the U.S. elections. The question is asked at about the 2:20 point in this clip.

www.cbsnews.com/…

This is the first time I’ve heard this question asked by a major network news reporter. It needs to be asked more often so that the framing of the issue is moved to focus on the Reality of Traitor Trump’s action.

Attacking Roy Moore by invoking an Alabama native son

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Tuesday October 24, 2017 · 8:19 AM PDT

2017/10/24 · 08:19

Hugo Black — Supreme Court Justice of the U.S. and a former Representative and Senator from Alabama. Many historians place Black in a short list of the greatest justices of the Supreme Court.

It’s Black’s words relating to the Bill of Rights and in particular the First Amendment that could be used against Moore’s extremist views. Some examples,

“A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.”

”The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.”

“The First Amendment was added to the Constitution to stand as a guarantee that neither the power or the prestige of the Federal Government would be used to control, support, or influence the kinds of prayer the American people can say.”

“These men (the Founders) knew that the First Amendment, which tried to put an end to governmental control of religion and of prayer, was not written to destroy either. They knew rather that it was written to quiet well-justified fears which nearly all of them felt arising out of an awareness that governments of the past had shackled men's tongues to make them speak only the religious thoughts that government wanted them to speak and to pray only to the God that government wanted them to pray to. It is neither sacrilegious nor anti-religious to say that each separate government in this country should stay out of the business of writing or sanctioning official prayers and leave that purely religious function to the people themselves and to those the people choose to look to for religious guidance.”

He often is quoted on the importance of the free press,

“The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.”

‘The firstness of the First Amendment,’ is how Black assigned importance to the liberties granted in the First. Recalling a long ago TV interview that I saw of him, Black said the rights in the First were at the top of the Bill of Rights because they were among the most important rights granted.

Black was viewed as a textualist on the Constitution. According to Wikipedia it is a theory in which the interpretation of the law is primarily based on the ordinary meaning of the legal text. So……..an inference could be made this is similar to Originalism. No brickbats please. I’m just using this as a political argument to say that Black held some views that are similar to what today’s conservatives love to see in ‘their’ Supreme Court Justices. Dare I say the name Scalia? This is all about framing a political argument — that’s all.

And yes he wrote the Korematsu decision and his vote on Griswold was one I would not have agreed with and he was a member of the Klan in his youth (resigning in 1925), but he’s still viewed as a great Justice.

So……...any Alabamians connected with the Doug Jones campaign, or any other interested citizens of Alabama it would be good to dust off the history books and see how the words and thinking of native son Hugo Black can be used against Moore.

70 years ago today…

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Saturday April 15, 2017 · 8:48 AM PDT

2017/04/15 · 08:48

One of the most important Americans in our history played a baseball game.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson, baseball’s first black major league player, made his official debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers on opening day at Ebbets Field. (The Dodgers defeated the Boston Braves, 5-3.)

The Supremely Illegitimate Court

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Friday April 07, 2017 · 8:47 AM PDT

2017/04/07 · 08:47

That’s what I’m going to call the new iteration of the Supreme Court with Gorsuch on it and I encourage all to do so. Those citizens still participating in the ‘Marketplace of Ideas’ need to publicly rebuke this Court. It’s legitimacy needs to be undermined for the good of the nation. Future rulings against individuals and for corporations or against any progressive issue under consideration from this right wing Court must be decried as coming from a Supremely Illegitimate Court.

The Republican controlled Senate violated their constitutional oath when their failed their duty of advice and consent on the last Supreme Court nomination of President Obama. As Senator Merkley has said, ‘They stole the seat.’

Gorsuch was nominated by a Joke of a President who is in the office only because of Russian intervention in our election. The Joke of a President chose Gorsch from a list of candidates provided by the extremist Heritage Foundation. No one extremist group should hold sway over who is nominated to the Court.

Now the Republican controlled Senate has stripped the minority of its right to filibuster, so Gorsuch gets his lifetime appointment thanks to the phoney legitimacy of the President and the Republican Senate. Political legitimacy ain’t what it use to be in the American Republic. The rule of law under the Constitution is severely damaged by the actions leading to this appointment and most probably by future decisions from Gorsuch.

The legitimacy of the Supreme Court has been eroding for decades. Over that time period conservative court rulings have eroded the rights of the individuals guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. Big corporations and big government more often than not win over individuals in cases brought before the Court.

A Republican Court installed George W. Bush as President in a 5-4 vote. Dissenting in that case moderate Republican Justice John Paul Stevens wrote, “One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential election (2000), the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.”

From that decision to insert Bush as president came two conservative Court nominations Roberts and Alito. Imagine if Al Gore had picked two people to the Court? In his nomination hearing John Roberts perjured himself when he compared himself in his opening statement to an umpire, “I will remember that it's my job to call balls and strikes and not to pitch or bat.” Once one the Court he took a bat to campaign finance laws a century old when he was in the majority in the Citizens United case.

Since that ruling, unlimited amounts of money have flooded into political elections allowing, (as Teddy Roosevelt said) “the malefactors of great wealth,” to buy elections so bought off politicians can do their bidding and install a right wing extremist like Neil Gorsuch on the Supremely Illegitimate Court. Expect decades of rulings that will threaten to destroy the foundation of the American Republic. Can the Republic survive a Supremely Illegitimate Court?

Congressional Democrats need a War Council

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Tuesday January 24, 2017 · 7:29 AM PST

2017/01/24 · 07:29

For the Democratic leadership to go into a meeting with the Unpresidented and sit there as if they are deaf, dumb and blind while the narcissistic sociopath drones on and on about the 3 to 5 million illegal votes that cost him the popular vote and say nothing is outrageous.

Oh, it’s great the NY Times calls it a lie and just about everyone here loves that story, but the Democratic leadership should have said it to Drumpf’s face.

As soon as he bleated that out, some Democrat should have said, “No Mr. President there are no facts that support that.” If he drones on the reply should be, “You have no facts Mr. President. There is no such thing as alternate reality. If you continue with this, then I assume you are lying.”

Drumpf would blow up and if he threw he/she out for saying the truth, then that leader should have the backbone to stay there until he/she was physically throw out. Great theater!

Drumpf is going to roll the Democrats at every chance - that’s what fascists do to their opposition. So biting their collective tongues only emboldens the Unpresidented!

This morning I read Nancy, ‘wasn’t going to go there.’ Same strategy Nancy had when the Democrats won control of the House after the 2008 election. She wasn’t going to go there concerning how Cheney/Bush led this nation to war. How’d that work out?

Drumpf won the big lie yesterday. The Democrats need leadership that understands it’s at war with a lunatic who is an existential threat to our republic. Democratic leadership - SAD!

Hillary's 'counter punch' to Trump's rigged charge

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Tuesday October 18, 2016 · 10:28 AM PDT

2016/10/18 · 10:28

“Donald with the way it’s trending. If you win, then I would think it was rigged,” would be the short and sweet Hillary counter punch.

I hope she’s on the attack during the debate to put this narcissistic sociopath away. Think 8th round ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ — Trump’s ready to go down for the count.

Donald, it's too bad your name isn't Jack

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Wednesday May 04, 2016 · 11:32 AM PDT

2016/05/04 · 11:32

‘Because You Don’t Know Jack!’

‘Jack, er Donald, on issue after issue you really don’t know Jack.’

Now there’s a pejorative that can be added usually after Jack. Any thinking citizen should be able to figure that out and can add that 4 letter word that begins with S and end with T to what Donald’s name should be. As in ‘Donald you don’t know Jack SHIT’.

‘Donald on any domestic issue YOU DON’T KNOW JACK!’

‘Donald on any foreign policy issue YOU DON’T KNOW JACK!’

‘Donald even on simple matters like what is a birth certificate YOU DON’T KNOW JACK!’

This could go on and on. The list of what Donald doesn’t know Jack Shit about is seemingly endless. It would have a nice cadence to it if a candidate were to use it in a speech, ‘and that’s one more issue about which Donald doesn’t know Jack...’ and the audience yells back, ‘Shit’.

Now that Trump is the Republican candidate it’s time to deploy marketing strategies pounding on one of the important dimension where Trump can be attacked — his ignorance. However, and this is important, what hasn’t worked in attacking this man who doesn’t know Jack Shit is arguing with facts — facts don’t matter to Trump and a large segment of the voting population attracted to Trump.

Try to reason with Trump and he’ll hit you over the head with a folding chair. Democrats are going to have to hit back with branding concepts that resonate to a segment of the electorate attracted to Trump. Donald you don’t know Jack Shit is a slogan that resonates. Everyone gets the meaning. Hell, you don’t even have to have facts to make it stick even though there are gigabytes of facts proving he doesn’t know Jack.

Calling him a pathological liar is so boringly, logically accurate.

Say he doesn’t know Jack and that sticks. Brand him as Mr. Jack Shit.

This is just one arrow in the quiver folks. What do you hit him back with when he smashes you with a folding chair? When he bellows ‘Lying Hillary’ for the 10,000 time? There’s going to be a high road, a very, very low road and an infinite number of roads in between to run on in this campaign against The Donald, er Jack Shit.

This is a nice little pejorative that is not only true, but will resonate with the electorate. They get it.

And………….it will really get under Trump’s skin. Hell, use it a few times and he’ll come up with a picture of Bill Clinton with Lee Harvey Oswald. Make ‘Donald don’t know Jack Shit’ crazy and he spews even more crazy. That can help the Democratic candidate win.

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