Out of Denial

Flip flops

            Who were among the very first to tell us what a bad President Trump would make?

            It was Republicans—a lot of leaders of the GOP along with their respective supporters. Men and women well known for their conservative backgrounds.

            At one point early in the Republican primary I believe that there were 20 candidates vying for the nomination in the 2016 primaries. It was a tough roll-around-in-the-gutter race thanks to Donald Trump. So far the only time in our history as a nation that the size of a man’s penis was made a part of a Presidential debate. They were united by probably only one thing during that time – their contempt for Donald Trump. Are we to believe now that they were all liars and rogues that didn’t really mean what they said about then candidate Donald Trump?

            But now, a lot of the very same people that told us how bad of a President he would make are blaming and claiming that the “Liberal” media is biased in their reporting and treating the President unfairly. Even though President Trump’s actions have proven beyond any shadow of a doubt that they were right in what they said about him.

Instead of claiming vindication they’re crying foul.

            Here’s a quote from President Trump’s book “The Art of the deal”.

        “Even though the publicity was almost entirely negative, there was a great deal of it, and that drew a tremendous amount of attention to Trump Tower. Almost immediately we saw an upsurge in the sales of apartments. I’m not saying that’s a good thing, and in truth it probably says something perverse about the culture we live in. But I’m a businessman, and I learned a lesson from that experience:  good publicity is preferable to bad, but from a bottom-line perspective, bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all. Controversy, in short, sells.”

Fake news invented

            As it turns out he apparently doesn’t really believe that. Now he calls bad publicity “fake news”. He still wants it though. He craves it. He spends hours watching it.

            President Trump is the one marketing his Presidency. He sells what he isn’t every day. He sells it daily with his tweets and actions. He’s selling it with his lies. He lied before he started seeking the office. He lied while running for office. He has lied as President. It’s his nature. He has made the office of the President a seemingly never-ending soap opera. He did it. The man that campaigned on doing it all from day one and appointing the best people did it to himself.

Good people did catch on.

        Here’s another quote from President Trump’s book “The Art of the Deal”.

        “You can’t con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don’t deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on.

        I’d never understood how Jimmy Carter became president. The answer is that as poorly qualified as he was for the job, Jimmy Carter had the nerve, the guts, the balls, to ask for something extraordinary. That ability above all helped him get elected president. But then, of course, the America people caught on pretty quickly that Carter couldn’t do the job, and he lost in a landslide when he ran for reelection.”

            Well, his cult appears to not have caught on yet. They didn’t get the memo. They’re still being conned by the man that considers shaking hands with them disgusting. His cult aren’t the people that he hob nobs with. They are the people that he uses. They are his servants.

They are expendable.

 Tribal chanting.

            We don’t have to depend upon media interpretation to know what he’s doing. We just watch the video of him talking and read his tweets as he flails around from one day to the next. His history is laid out before us. He has reversed himself time and time again. He does the very same things that he criticized President Obama for doing. All anyone has to do is watch the entire videos made during his campaign and before. They’re there.

            Here’s a link to a video where he said that he would release his tax returns if he ran for President. It’s a long video and he was quite coherent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg-5KEt1Abg He made his comments about his tax returns at about a minute and a half into the video. He talked about a lot of other things as well that he has ended up making a complete mockery of.

            Here’s some video from one of his Thank You rallies where he says that locking up Hillary Clinton was just campaign talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix49LjgaTaI How about that. Nothing happened. Nothing. How many of his supporters bought into that? I’m guessing not many. It was just fun to chant. They’re still chanting it.

Favorite lie.

            This is a favorite of mine. Seriously. Watch this video. It’s from Fox News. President Trump claims that the story about him hitting his music teacher is not true and that he hates the story. The story comes from his book! On page 71 of his book “Trump the Art of the Deal” he said that he gave his music teacher a black eye. The book that he says he wrote.

https://archive.org/details/FOXNEWSW_20161125_020000_OBJECTified_Donald_Trump/start/180/end/240 (Click on the video at 6:03 pm. The text is below the video.)

He hasn’t changed. He has only gotten worse.

Put the ‘fun’ in fundamentals.

            Evangelicals like Franklin Graham and Pool Boy Falwell Jr. talk about the faith of President Trump and his Christian values. The public sees what his Christian values are like on a daily basis through his tweets and his actions.

            Here is a link to Trump’s view on just one of the fundamentals of the faith. In response to a question Trump answered that he doesn’t ask God for forgiveness. He tried not to answer the question but finally at a minute and a half into the video he says no, he doesn’t. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyDbOHvfdiE

The point.

            What’s the point of all this? For me the point is that supporters of President Trump in general accept all this. They accept the thousands of his well-documented lies. They hear the same falsehoods that the rest of us do and know that he has contradicted or reversed himself time and time again. They know that in spite of complaining about President Obama golfing and taking too many vacations and saying that he wouldn’t have time, he vacations and golfs more than Obama did. They expected that he would give tax breaks to the rich at the expense of the middle class. They knew that he had taken advantage of rich, poor and everyone in between most of his adult life. They see that the man who said that he was going to appoint the “best” people has seen almost half of his staff come and go. Some only lasted hours.

The main take-away is that they don’t care.

 Code speak

        They understand his basic code. He’s a white President that is undoing everything that the black President before him did. The Neo Nazis, Alt Right, White Nationalists, Confederates and Evangelicals figured out early in the game who Donald Trump was at his core. It’s why they continue to support him. He doesn’t like brown people of any shade—immigrants, Mexicans and people of color from all points further south. He isn’t too crazy about yellow people either. He does make exceptions for those that are giving him money or making it easier for him to make money, like Middle Easterners, or those dictators he admires, like Kim Jong Un. He embodies the white privilege his followers say they don’t understand. He’s tearing apart the government that has let them down in favor of people of color. He’s fulfilling prophesies for the guns and bibles crowd. Those that don’t admire or aspire to be him for his moral failings are perfectly willing to overlook them in favor of his greater good ….

…. for a Whiter America.

 

 

 

 

Random Trumping [POLITICS]

        ^ Is knowing that someone is telling you truth important? Does it affect how you feel about someone if you know that they are a liar? Can you trust a liar?

        ^ Growing up my parents told me that being a liar was terrible. If you told lies no one would trust you. Telling the truth was important. Being a good person was important especially if you wanted to grow up and be President. Shows what they knew.

NOTE:  Once again, if you’re a supporter of President Trump there is no need for you to go any further. You won’t like it. Guaranteed! Just consider me as being already told off properly with as much ugliness as you could possibly imagine.

        ^ On a regular basis I check out articles and videos to stay updated on events and information. Checking out information these days is a little tricky but not as hard as some people make it out to be. At times I check out often well intentioned posts to verify their veracity. Usually I skip over the ones that are obviously false or that are posted just to inflame passions be insulting rather than encourage civil discourse. Like others I do slip up from time to time. (Most often when I do slip up it’s due to a little too much wine or beer while I’m writing. I love Jesus but I drinks a bit.) However, my intention is NOT to insult family, friends or even strangers for that matter.

        ^ An article from a news source that I don’t use other than for the entertainment value caught my eye. It just looked to be false from the headline alone. I hate it when the headline indicates something totally opposite from what is in the article. It’s aggravating but headlines are by design supposed to attention grabbing. It seemed to imply that President Trump said that wind turbines release fumes into the atmosphere. That isn’t true. At least not in the videos where I saw him make the comments about wind turbines. He said that it was the manufacturing process that was releasing fumes into the atmosphere. Now I have to add the caveat that there may be other videos where he did make the comment and was less clear about the source. I will add here that the manufacturing of any large complicated machinery does leave a carbon footprint.

        ^ His diatribes are becoming increasingly random, lacking in cohesive structure. At times what he is saying is simply gibberish. Fractured sentences. No discernable point. Just random words strung together with some kind of implied meaning or authority. He used to be a much better speaker when he was talking to a different audience.

        ^ In the video that I was watching President Trump was talking about all of the negative aspects of wind turbines. He really doesn’t like wind turbines. Trump mentioned that one of the negative aspects of wind turbines is that they lower property values by 50%. That was funny to me because I had just finished watching a video of him claiming that they lowered property values by 75%. He does this kind of stuff all the time. He just makes stuff up on the fly and if anyone has spent any time at all watching our President they simply have to know this or they have been incredibly unobservant. He has done this the majority of his adult life. It’s what he does. He is seriously good at it.

        ^ I knew a person that was a pathological liar. They lied about anything and everything. This person had a breakdown and ended up in therapy. They reached a point where there were simply too many lies to sustain and there were some serious consequences to some of the lies that they told. Serious.

        ^ No, I don’t believe that President Trump is going to have a breakdown. For one thing there haven’t been any personal consequences to his lies. Others may have been harmed but not him. On the contrary he has been rewarded. He is being enabled by all those around him, his family, his associates, his supporters. Everyone else is his enemy.

        ^ There are entire web pages dedicated and documenting the lies that he has told. He is over the 10,000 mark and climbing. A business employee from one of his hotels maintained that if a person spent an hour with Trump they would hear 10 to 15 lies. We just get to hear the ones that he tells in public. Can you even imagine the number of lies coming out of the White House on a daily basis?

        ^ I had the opportunity to study up on Donald Trump years ago when gambling interests were pushing for an expansion in Kansas. Trump was a casino operator then. He was a liar and fraud then as well. He lied to gaming commissions. He lied to banks. Now, I understand that some people may want to call what he did misrepresentations but they were lies pure and simple. He used undocumented workers then. He stiffed working people then just like he has continued to do until the present.

        ^ He was also a racist then. I want people to understand that I don’t take calling anyone a racist lightly. Anyone. I reached that conclusion based upon his actions up until then. He’s covered a whole lot of other racist ground since that time. He didn’t like black people then. He didn’t want them handling his money in casinos because he didn’t trust them. He didn’t want them renting his apartments. He didn’t like white women dating black men either. 

        ^ It’s immaterial to me if people don’t agree with this assessment. It’s like people claiming George Wallace wasn’t a racist or that David Duke isn’t one. White Supremacists/Alt Right/White Nationalists/KKK members/Confederates/Nazis etc. are drawn to and support President Trump for a reason. They recognize that he is one of them and his policies towards brown people are a reflection of that. If you support a racist and their policies you end up in their camp. Hate crimes against people of color and Jews are increasing for a reason. Racists have been emboldened by this Administration. After all President Trump sees some of them as very good people.

        ^ As I often do I have strayed from the path that I laid out in the beginning. I’ll get back to what I wanted to talk about primarily. The lies of President Trump or rather my favorites. A pathological or compulsive liar lies about anything. They lie when the truth would serve them better. They lie with no particular rhyme or reason.

        ^ In all the things that I will and have mentioned there are links available on the WWW to find them. I’m really not going to bother. I usually post the links but I have found that people don’t bother to go to them, refuse to believe them anyway for a multitude of reasons or simply excuse his actions.

        ^ So, on with my favs:

·        My all-time favorite is an interview that he did with Fox Pravda after he was elected and before he assumed office. During the interview he was asked by the host about the story that he punched his elementary music teacher and gave him a black eye. Trump said that he didn’t know where that story came from. It came from the book “Trump: the art of the deal” that he claimed he wrote.  (The story is on page 71 if you have the book.) No, he didn’t get expelled.

·        I have heard people say that Trump lies about where his father was born but that isn’t true. He lies about where his grandfather was born. In the book “Trump: the art of the deal” He said that his father’s father Fred Trump was born in Sweden. (Page 66) Nope. His grandfather father was born in Germany. He left Germany to avoid three years of compulsory military service to his country. Sound familiar? His grandfather’s name was Friedrich Trump. People will read that name and think that it means Fred Trump his father.

·        Then we have his initial claim before he had announced his running for President that he would release his income taxes. This is a really big lie that he told early on. He said that during an Irish television interview. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg-5KEt1Abg ) This was in 2014. Straight out. No qualifiers. He would release his taxes. It was a very coherent interview. He was addressing a base of supporters then. No theatrics. None of the sing song syntax. No name calling. It was a good interview. I recommend anyone to watch it before the link is pulled. It’s had less than 50,000 views. That’s kind of surprising to me at this stage of the game. Now he’s asking the court to uphold his NOT releasing his income taxes.

·        That Mexico would pay for the wall on our border. This is just a lie of epic proportions. One of his main campaign themes. Really worked the crowds up. He said that it would be easy. Monumental lie.

·        Repeal and replace “Obama Care” with something better. Never happened. I consider it a lie because he never had a better health care plan ready. It’s almost poetic that so many of his supporters were insured under the Affordable Care Act and the only thing that he along with the Republican Party have accomplished is to make it worse not better.

·        Another stand out lie occurred during the Republican primary when Trump was doing interviews. This was essentially free campaign advertising for him. Free. He played media beautifully. I was watching one interview where he was asked about something and he talked extensively about it. Then at another interview with a different network not ten minutes later he claimed to be unaware of the subject. The panel had watched the interview on the other network and were incredulous but didn’t call him out on it.

·        Self-funding. Trump claimed numerous times that he would self-fund his campaign. Never happened. Donald Trump, the avowed multi-billionaire was taking in money from outside sources from the very beginning. He did spend his own money.

·        Not golfing because he would be too busy working. This lie is just a hoot! He gave his Presidential salary and so far we have spent $180 million guarding him while he golfs not to mention the millions that have been spent at his various properties. Remember when he complained about President Obama golfing? I’ll bet that you do. Seriously now, the man is supposed to be a multi-billionaire. Should hard working Americans really be picking up the tab for him?

·        Lock her up! He announced after the campaign that this was just rhetoric. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix49LjgaTaI  ) At his rallies they still chant about locking her up. This one is really funny when you stop to consider how many of his administration have been locked up so far and that he’s been impeached.

·        The stories that he passes along about when he’s talking with someone and then the names change the next time that he tells the same story. A Trump classic.

·        I really got a kick out of the story where he claimed that grown men were crying about some great thing that he did and the video of the occasion showed that no one was crying.

·        I watched a campaign rally recently where he claimed that he had started his campaign a few months ago. He filed to run almost immediately after taking office and has been going to rallies since the beginning of his Presidency. He needs the love and admiration. It’s his fuel.

        ^ Oh really, that’s more than enough. Why is any of this important?

        ^ It’s important because his word is meaningless and the rest of the world outside of his base knows what he is. They know that he simply can’t be trusted. After bailing on our allies the Kurds and leaving their fate to the Russians and the Turkish strongman do you think any remaining ally of ours feels like they can count on us when the chips are down? Think that the President of the Ukraine doesn’t know that?

        ^ We don’t live in a vacuum. The people of the world watch him. They see his actions. They hear his words. They know his character. He was laughed at on the world stage because of the man that he is.

        ^ I think that he’s going to get elected again. I’ll get into the why of why I think that at another time.

        ^ In the meantime I believe that our nation is better than the man at the top. I believe that we can do better. Much better. I believe that knowing right from wrong and the truth are important. I believe that character is important. What a person values is important.

        ^ This is more serious than Hillary’s emails.