Category: Donald Trump
Everyone Seems Astounded That the Trump Administration Has Derailed

What could go wrong if you put the fox inside the chicken house?

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” Matthew 19:24

By James Thompson

The MSM seems to be beside itself and is twittering and blasting out its astonishment that something has gone wrong in the White House since Donald Trump has assumed the throne. People are talking treason and/or impeachment of this president who was elected by a minority of the voters in the US democracy.

How could this be? What could the voters be thinking of?

People in the US have been dumbed down for many years now. They have been trained by a massive brainwashing campaign carried out by the government on behalf of the bourgeoisie which it serves.

Most people in the US believe that Karl Marx, V. I. Lenin, Frederick Engels, Joseph Stalin and communists in general are villains. However, Marxists have some important lessons to teach. Communists have a long history of fighting for the interests of working people.

For those that listen, Marx taught us that capitalism can only be sustained by theft of the value produced by the workers’ labor. Marx taught us that capitalism is theft and capitalists are thieves.

Nevertheless, the US people persist in their uncritical worship of wealthy people. It is generally believed that wealthy people are superior to working people. They believe that the wealthy have mysteriously earned their income. Few people seem to understand that wealthy people gain their wealth the old-fashioned way, they steal it.

Now, if people will just open their eyes, they will see Donald Trump on the throne, and he has no clothes on. In other words, his ignorance has been projected out for all the world to see. His history of exploiting people to increase his own wealth is visible to all. His disregard for other humans is obvious. He is the same man that bragged that if he shot someone on Fifth Avenue, people would still support him. He is the same man that talked of grabbing women in inappropriate ways just because he could.

People are astounded that Trump may have been mixed up with Russian mobsters and bankers. They are astounded that the healthcare act he proposed was obvious thievery from working people to further enrich the wealthiest people in the country. Perhaps working people will finally get it that wealthy people will always steal working people blind if given the opportunity. Maybe working people will decide that it is time to fight for their own interests instead of licking the boots of the capitalists.

Trump is a dirty politician
| March 25, 2017 | 5:00 pm | A. Shaw, Analysis, Donald Trump, political struggle, Russia | Comments closed

By A. Shaw

“The Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) prohibits any foreign national from contributing, donating or spending funds in connection with any federal, state, or local election in the United States, either directly or indirectly.  It is also unlawful to help foreign nationals violate that ban or to solicit, receive or accept contributions or donations from them.  Persons who knowingly and willfully engage in these activities may be subject to fines and/or imprisonment, ” the Federal Election Commission says on its website.

Federal Election Commission (FEC) statement of the law, cited above, applies to “ANY FOREIGN NATIONAL.”

In the current investigation of Donald Trump and his campaign for treason or high crime, two Russian banks — SBV Bank and ALFA Bank — appear to be foreign nationals relevant to the investigation.

The FEC statement of the law also deals with ” funds in connection with any federal, state, or local election in the United States, either directly or indirectly.”

The FBI is the lead agency investigating the treason or high crime case against Trump and his campaign.

Since Oct. 2016, the FBI has conducted electronic surveillance of the relationship between a Russian computer firm, located in Trump Tower, and the two Russian banks mentioned above.  The FBI has further watched the relationship between this Russian computer firm in Trump Tower and high-ranking individuals in the Trump campaign, including among others, Donald Trump, Paul Manafort, Carter Page, Ivanka Trump, and Roger Stone. The FBI watched the relationship between these five above-named individuals involved in the campaign and financial vehicles connected to the Trump campaign, such as PACs and SUPER-PACs.

Money flowed from the Russian banks to the Trump campaign.

The money flowed “directly and indirectly.”

A presidential campaign is a “federal election.”

The phrase “in connection with” includes a wide range of relationships between the things connected.

“Persons who knowingly and willfully engage in these activities may be subject to fines and/or imprisonment” the FEC statement says.

Article II, Section Four of the US Constitution says “The president … shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason … or other high crimes and misdemeanours.”

Fixing an US election in collusion with a foreign country is treason or, at least, a high crime.

There is now probable cause to impeach Trump, the so-called president.

Someone finally put Trump in his proper place!
| March 15, 2017 | 9:23 pm | Donald Trump, humor | Comments closed
Trump in his proper place

Trump in his proper place

Response to: … Sanders: US facing ‘very scary times’
| March 12, 2017 | 10:25 am | Analysis, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, political struggle | Comments closed
By A. Shaw
“These are very scary times for the people of the United States, and … for the whole world. We have a president who is a pathological liar. Trump lies all of the time,” Sanders, a frequent critic of President Trump, said in an interview with The Guardian.
So, fear rises while hope falls.
The main cause of the rising fear and hopelessness in a pathological liar.
Everybody lies some of the time, but Trump, a degenerate, lies all of the time.
Experts on divine beings tell us that only demons lie all of the time.
Does this mean that Trump is a demon?
If Trump is a demon, then indeed “these are very scary times.”
When we are visited by a divine being known as a demon, we usually go find an angel, the opposite type of divine being.
But angels are all busy with other cases these days.
So, we, the humans, must find ways to oppose the monster in the White House.
Sanders: US facing ‘very scary times’
| March 12, 2017 | 10:22 am | Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, political struggle | Comments closed

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© Greg Nash

Former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders Vt.) said this week that while it is a “scary time” in the United States, people should not “despair” but fight back.

“These are very scary times for the people of the United States, and for the whole world. We have a president who is a pathological liar. Trump lies all of the time,” Sanders, a frequent critic of President Trump, said in an interview with The Guardian.

Sanders also offered advice to those concerned about the current political climate, saying people “should take a deep reflection about the history of this country, understand that absolutely these are very difficult and frightening times.”

“But also understand that in moments of crisis, what has happened, time and time again, is that people have stood up and fought back,” he added. “So despair is absolutely not an option.

Oval Office Cold Open-SNL
| February 5, 2017 | 9:54 pm | Donald Trump, humor | Comments closed

Resist now!
| January 31, 2017 | 8:30 pm | Donald Trump, Immigrants' Rights | Comments closed

The president’s order was misguided.

January 29, 2017

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Resist-now-10892771.php

Hundreds of people protesting President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration march down Rusk Street outside Super Bowl Live in downtown Houston Sunday. ( Michael Ciaglo / Houston Chronicle ) Photo: Michael Ciaglo, Staff / © 2016  Houston Chronicle

Photo: Michael Ciaglo, Staff

Hundreds of people protesting President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration march down Rusk Street outside Super Bowl Live in downtown Houston Sunday. ( Michael Ciaglo / Houston Chronicle )
Hundreds of people protesting President Donald Trump’s executive…

Where else could Lady Liberty be but in New York Harbor, gateway to a vibrant nation of exiles and refugees? She has held high her beacon of light, hope and new beginnings since 1886.

And now, her light has been extinguished, the ideals engraved on her pedestal defaced into mockingly ironic graffiti. With one cruel and ill-conceived executive order, this nation has entered a disorienting dusk.

How long the torch of liberty remains dark depends on the strength and fierce commitment of liberty-loving Americans everywhere. With every legal, nonviolent means available, this nation must resist a president in thrall to a man who, until invited into the White House, presided over a noxious website that traffics in white supremacy, anti-semitism, bizarre conspiracy theories and fake news. It’s apparently Stephen K. Bannon’s cowardly nativist notions that the president was implementing when he temporarily banned people from seven predominantly Muslim nations from entering the country and indefinitely suspended the resettlement of refugees from Syria, the world’s most pressing humanitarian crisis. Trump’s order also threatens legal permanent residents.

We can point the accusatory finger at the president’s in-house ideologue – just named a full member of the National Security Council – and yet the buck stops with Trump. His cruel and intemperate campaign language has become, with shocking immediacy, cruel and intemperate action. His order, craven and xenophobic, irrational and counter-productive, is an affront to American values.

It was sickening over the weekend to hear Texas Congressman Roger Williams, as well as numerous Trump sycophants, defending this travesty. Listening to Williams, a mild-mannered former car dealer from Weatherford, we could imagine him in decades past rationalizing our internment of Japanese Americans or calmly explaining why we couldn’t take in Jews from Nazi Germany. Might be terrorists, you know.

The words of various apologists for the president’s unconstitutional order brought to mind John Kasich’s presidential campaign ad from way back in November 2015. The ad paraphrased the haunting words of the late German pastor and concentration-camp survivor Martin Niemoller, who warned that by ignoring threats against others, there would be “nobody left to speak for me.”

Not to be alarmist, but that warning is beginning to look prescient, particularly in America’s most diverse city, a city that long has welcomed refugees and immigrants, that recognizes and celebrates their contribution to this community.

We must resist. In the courts, in the streets, through phone calls and emails to our elected representatives, we must speak out on behalf of sacred American values. We must stand tall against this move by the president. As tall as that majestic lady who lifts her lamp “beside the golden door.”