Trump’s swamp-draining is leaving behind all the vermin-infested sludge and alligators.

         Trump is at it again, reneging on another campaign promise to shake up Washington DC and “Drain the Swamp” as his supporters and staffers urged him to start saying he would do as his presidential campaign wrapped up. He's draining the swamp by adding another alligator.  

            Donald Trump's pick for Treasury Secretary is Steven Mnuchin (pronounced Mi-New-Chin), a financier with deep roots in Wall Street and Hollywood. He began his career at Goldman Sachs, where he became a partner and worked for them for 17 years…yes, GOLDMAN SACHS. You remember the name from when this was reported less than 10 years ago:

After leaving Goldman Sachs he created his own hedge fund, moved out west where he became a movie financier, and founded RatPac-Dune Entertainment which produced a number of well-known movies, including part of the X-Men franchise and Avatar. Using his Wall Street expertise, he was able to syphon off another $40 million into his own bank account.

The Wall Street Journal writes that Mr. Mnuchin was the national finance chairman for Donald Trump’s campaign and his selection elevates another wealthy loyalist to a pivotal economic post. Mr. Mnuchin’s selection fits…the word they used is, uneasily…with Mr. Trump’s numerous attacks on the financial industry. In a campaign ad that was an indictment of the chief executives of Goldman Sachs as the personification of a callous global elite, Donald Trump accused them of having “robbed our working class.” Those working class people were the ones who came out by the thousands to vote for Trump. And now he's appointed one of the executives that helped rob them by using the company's underhanded and piratical capabilities against us...AGAIN! (Apparently, they didn't get it all the first time!) Goldman Sachs executives have repeatedly shown that they are to our economy what a wrecking-ball is to a wall. I hope Trump's supporters are paying close attention, because this is how Trump is making America great again. He's making it great for his wealthy buddies at our expense.

President Trump - Please Remember Your Promises to Us



Dear President Trump,

          You made many, many promises and guarantees while campaigning for the highest office in the land and you have succeeded beyond just about everyone’s wildest expectations. You are now my president too and all who voted for you expect you to honor every one of those promises. I don’t want you to forget what you told us you would do, many times "on day one", or  "as soon as I'm elected", so I have kept a list of things you repeated to crowds all over the U.S. These are certainly not all of your promises, but it is a good start…so here we go:

Mr. President, how soon will you repeal the Affordable Care Act, or "ObamaCare", and replace it with your better program? You guaranteed this at virtually every rally so please don't let us down on this one as we're counting on you to toss it ALL out.

How soon can we expect a Special Prosecutor to look into Hillary Clinton’s lies and email scandal and see to it she is jailed? Even if Obama's last executive order is pardoning her, don't let her off the hook. "LOCK HER UP" means exactly that.

How soon will the wall along the Mexican border go up, and how will the Mexicans be forced to pay for it?

How soon will you start hiring Americans to begin building that wall from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean? How much will they be paid per hour...on average? What kind of wall will it be - the type of materials used, its length, width, height, will it be electrified, how deep will it go...etc.?

How soon can you begin deporting all 11 to 12 million undocumented workers and illegal immigrants including small children who were born here?

How soon will you hire the huge number of agents that will be needed to search for, arrest, and deport them? In what will they be deported...truck, train, boat, airplane...etc.? Where will they be held until deportation? Will they be provided with any medical care, water or food while waiting? How will that be paid for?

How soon will we see your “great economic plan”. And when can we expect to “double our growth and have the strongest economy anywhere in the world”? (Which you said on national TV on 11/09/16, the day after you were elected.)

How soon will you release your tax records so we are finally treated to proof you are as rich and successful as you have continually reminded us you are?

How soon can we expect you to reform the Veterans Administration?

How soon will the ban on Muslims entering the U.S.be put into effect?

You have said repeatedly that when you become president “ISIS...GONE!” and that you have a plan to get rid of them. Then you said once you became president, your generals will have 30 days to come up with a plan (why do they need 30 days when you already have a plan?). What is your timeline for ISIS to be “GONE”? Will you commit to using U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines to engage in combat wherever ISIS fighters are located?

How soon will you scrap NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Pact and renegotiate the treaties?

How soon can we expect you to impose up to 35% higher tariffs on Chinese and Mexican goods dumped on our markets, all while keeping the deficit in check?.

How soon will you cut the taxes on the wealthy and on businesses?

How soon will you overhaul the Tax Code as you guaranteed at most rallies?

How soon will the U.S. withdraw from any agreement that tries to curtail climate change?

How soon will you tear up the Iran/nuclear deal and renegotiate it?

How soon will we renegotiate our military agreement with NATO?

How soon can you start to fix the nation’s roads, waterways and railroad infrastructure?

How soon before we can finally see some curtailment of the First Amendment by changing the libel laws, making it easier to sue someone?

Will you immediately strengthen the Second Amendment so that no one, now or in the future, can take any of our guns away or weaken what kind of firearms, clips and ammo we can own?

How soon will you appoint Supreme Court Justices who will overturn same sex marriage and Roe v Wade? And as an added bonus, how soon will you establish a punishment for women who have an abortion?

How soon will you implement a program to fix the inner cities where you said African-Americans suffer from 50% jobless rates, failing schools, and crime so rampant people are afraid to leave their homes?

How soon will our CIA and military be allowed to use torture, waterboarding, carpet bombing…and, as you put it, “much worse”, again?

How soon will we be able to pursue and kill the families of terrorists in foreign countries? What kind of standing army will we need to carry that out and prevent retaliatory attacks on the U.S. or American families overseas?

How soon will you force China, Mexico, India, Vietnam and other places you said have taken our jobs, to return them to us?

You said you were going to be the “Law & Order” president. What will that mean? How much will the police forces grow? How will those additional officers be paid with so many taxes being cut?

As your spokesman Dan Scavino Jr. tweeted on October 25, 2016 “Watch what happens to her after the election”, how soon can we expect Megyn Kelly to be removed from Fox News? What WILL happen to her?

We’d love to have a time line so we know how quickly we will see our nation returning to its perceived lost Greatness.

 

Thanks.

 A registered Republican who votes.

P.S. Is it now acceptable that if I see an attractive woman, I can grab her by the pussy? We discuss this frequently in the locker room, and since your wife grabs her own, surely it's permissible, correct?

From Melania's nude photo shoot for the January 1997 issue of Max Magazine

The Rigged Election



Donald Trump was right…the election was rigged.

He warned us over and over for the past four months and we didn’t listen.

The election results would be fraudulent.

As the Orlando Sentinel put it on November 9, 2016, if there was a word of the year, it was “rigged”…Trump was the primary instigator. He spread conspiracy theories about rampant voter fraud and accused reporters of unfairly covering his campaign.

And Trump was right; reporters did unfairly cover his campaign in that they unfairly reported exactly what he said and what went on at the rallies; the assaults on dissenting voices, the shouts of “Jew-S-A” at the press, the made-up stories of an assassination attempt that the Secret Service TOLD Trump immediately afterward was just a man (a Trump supporter, no less) with a cardboard sign...there was never any gun, the crass bragging about his wealth while refusing to release his tax records to prove it, and disparaging minorities, women, and people with disabilities. The media constantly mentioned the huge crowds so Trump can’t complain about unfair coverage on that point.

But notice that Trump was the primary instigator of the rigging conspiracy.

He said the system was slanted repeatedly. When he projects things onto other people that HE is actually guilty of; how clear does he have to tell you that he’s really talking about himself?

One Pro-Trump supporter tweeted “There is plenty of evidence of voter fraud and machines flipping.” This was sent via Twitter on Election Day afternoon. Who was benefiting from that voter fraud and machine flipping?

Now that he’s won, will Trump apologize to the American people and admit the system wasn’t rigged after all?

Don’t hold your breath.

Trump will give them their privileged positions back

I continually wonder why anyone would vote for Trump, baffled by how his supporters can ignore his crude comments about women, where grabbing them by the crotch is somehow considered locker-room-talk-acceptable, where women are simply aesthetically pleasing objects, should be punished for having an abortion, or are dogs, pigs, slobs, and disgusting animals. Where promises made and then broken about Trump releasing his tax records doesn’t upset any of them. Where he demands to know, three times in less than an hour interview, if the U.S. has nuclear weapons, why we don’t use them? (Apparently forgetting we DID in August 1945.) I was still searching Friday night when I happened to have a conversation with a newscaster at one of the radio stations where I work. My co-worker is a reporter for the news/talk station. We had a 15-minute window to discuss the current election and he talked about people he interviewed at a Trump rally last week in Sanford, Florida. What he told me confirmed what I had long suspicioned but had no concrete proof until these Trump supporters out-and-out admitted it.

People are supporting Trump because he is promising them that they can have their privileged positions back.

It doesn’t matter that he can’t deliver on any of it. He verbally soothes their ruffled feathers to let them know that they will once again have those lofty places on pedestals, and receive the preferential treatment they deserve. Just elect him and he will make sure they get it all back.

A white male and two females the reporter talked to identified themselves as evangelical Christians and they were thrilled that Trump has guaranteed them they will have their positions of power and privilege returned. It would make for a better world where biblical law was the law of the land, where other laws would be re-enacted to secure Christianity’s unassailable position above all other religions across the country, where stores closed according to biblical dictates; like no working on Sunday, where school-led prayers would be everyday occurrences, ten commandment monuments and plaques would be commonplace in government buildings, and the Supreme Court would automatically strike down laws that went against biblical teaching, like same-sex marriage and women holding a position of authority over men, like, say, president. (Guess who that was aimed at?).They did say Mormons, Moslems, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jews, and others would be free to worship, just out of sight, out of mind… where any Christian could not see them.(Although one woman did say she was not in favor of it because those people worshiped false gods) They were also sick of seeing caucasians pushed to the side. Trump would fix that.

Another man was a former factory worker. He had completed 10^th grade but didn’t need college as he used to have a fairly good paying job on an assembly line in Michigan. He was angered about all the American jobs that were sent overseas and supported Trump because he would bring those jobs back. He was glad Trump would build a wall to keep all the Mexicans out. They were taking American jobs. The reporter asked him if his job was sent to Mexico…would it be returned by Trump…and did he want it back? The guy said his job was still in Michigan, but that his position has been automated. He had been replaced by a computerized machine. He was asked if he went back to get trained to work the machine. “Hell no,” the guy responded, “but we got to get our manufacturing jobs back. Those are American jobs!” What kind of pay would he want to do those old manufacturing jobs? He felt he was worth $25 to $30 an hour. The reporter didn’t mention that very same job in Mexico paid $8.50 an hour, nor was Jose coming here to take a job away.  

Another group holding up anti-gay signs said they were fed up with seeing LGBTQ people get so many rights that they didn’t deserve. They claimed the Pulse shooting in Orlando gave these people national exposure and changed the way they were seen in society. The reporter asked, “Should they be discriminated against?” “Well, they shouldn’t have the same laws and rights we have. It’s not right.” one man was blunt enough to say. Trump will repeal all those liberal laws so that his supporters are once again allowed to be politically incorrect and treat others with disdainful behavior and unethical actions. Hell, they’ve earned the right.

Trump's supporters are quick to condemn Hillary Clinton in the most derogatory and threatening manner possible. It gives them a fallback position. But it is because, like with religion, Trump makes one empty promise after another and his followers don’t need even a hint of evidence that he’ll deliver; he’s the only candidate who is telling them they can have their pedestals back and return to a lofty position of looking down on everyone else like it was meant to be in their dreams.

What a privilege.

The Coming Civil War

I hope I am wrong. I really, fervently hope I am completely off-base and that I’m worrying about nothing. But the signs are there that my worrying appears to be quite justified. I never thought this country could be threatened with ANOTHER civil war.

In the United States, we are about to elect a new president. Every other presidential candidate in past elections has gone along with the 240-year-old tradition that they would abide by the American people’s decision on Election Day. Even in the cases of very, very close elections like in 1876, 1960 and 2000, no candidate has, prior to this election, said that he would contest the outcome or even threatened to do so out of petulance, beforehand. And all of those candidates stayed within the framework of U.S. law.

Until now.

And what this will possibly lead to...is a civil war.

 On October 9, 2016, in his debate with Hillary Clinton, feeding on his assertion that the whole election system is rigged against him, Donald Trump refused to say whether he would accept the election results with “I will tell you at the time. I’ll keep you in suspense, okay?”  He followed it up on October 20th by stating he would accept them...if he wins.Those are not empty words to his followers. He is telling them ahead of time that only he should win. If he loses, it proves the system is rigged against him. And since he will leave us in suspense when that happens, his Schutzstaffel-like followers will know he was cheated and act out everything violent they’ve displayed at his rallies, only now on a national scale. Think I'm kidding?

Remember cowboy-hatted redneck John McGraw who climbed past several people to lash out and punch Rakeem Jones, a passing protester being escorted out of the rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina? This will become a weekly, then daily, and finally, an hourly event. It may get even worse since afterward Mr. McGraw said on live TV that “Maybe next time we’ll have to kill him…” Several White Supremacist organizations and right-wing fringe groups have come right out and said there will be an armed insurrection if Trump doesn't win. So expect shooting, burning, drowning, hanging…it’s all good because Trump has his crack legal team ready to defend them. Besides, someone has to stand up to those ISIS-sympathizin’,America-hatin’,non-older angry white, "libtards" who won’t kowtow to Trumpism, in whatever form he decides in best for the nation.

Remember Shirley Teters of Asheville, NC, the 69-year-old grandmother on oxygen who was punched by a Trump supporter as the guy left a rally? Police were later informed the same man had grabbed and punched several other protesters inside and outside the building before slugging Shirley in the face, knocking her to the sidewalk and bashing her head against her portable oxygen tank. This will become an acceptable way of dealing with those people Trump supporters don’t like. If you don’t love the leader, you don’t deserve to be here...at least not without fresh blood pouring out of some wounds.

 Remember Trump himself bragging to his audience that he could shoot someone and not lose any support? The allusion there was, no one would stop him before or after he pulled the trigger because everyone loves him. He is giving his followers an open invitation to do the same. Find some liberal SOB who most likely supported Clinton…and shoot them...on Fifth Avenue. Do you think Trump is going to stop them? 

These are just the tip of an iceberg of hatred, violence, animosity, malevolence, and vengeance that will lead to a torrent of blood spilling. People who are not older white Anglo-Saxon Protestants (and even a few who are) yet have had absolutely nothing to do with Clinton’s success or Trump's failure will also be drawn into a fight or a battle just for living here...and they will pay dearly for it.

Trump commands not a group of supporters; he’s now their cult leader. They’ll follow him and do whatever he says as if he was Jim Jones, David Koresh, Charles Manson, Idi Amin, and Joseph Kony rolled into one. These men are or were demagogues. They thought they were the center of the universe; everyone else orbited around them and did their bidding. Trump will expect no less from his followers. And he understands what "low information" voters they are.

If Donald J. Trump loses the election...after whining and complaining that the deck has been deliberately stacked against him, the political polls and the media have been misrepresenting his support, the whole system is rigged, and that Hillary Clinton is a criminal, unfit to be president, and should be in jail, if not dead...his followers will not say “well, it was a tough election, but Hillary won. Let’s put aside our differences and work to make our nation the best it can be.”

They will want blood.

I hope I am wrong, but I am concerned that I am not. 

"Trump...command us. We will follow you!"