President Donald Trump has committed many crimes for which he should face justice, and incarceration.
But in many ways, the worst crime of all is his war on children and the American future for present day greed and profit, by a man who has zero compassion, empathy and concern for those who are suffering.
Trump claims to be pro life on abortion, but he is a phony, as he has no concern about children, whether born in America or in other nations.
He is willing to separate young children from their parents, something not done by Franklin D. Roosevelt with the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II.
Thousands of vulnerable children from Central America and elsewhere have been basically kidnapped by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), US Customs and Border Protection, and the Department of Homeland Security, and they are suffering mightily in emotional terms, as well as being poorly treated with inadequate food, clothing and housing, and many have been sexually and physically abused.
There are young children taken from their parents at ages under two years old, who now cannot speak or walk, and are permanently disabled, and will never be normal. To blame parents escaping bloodshed, crime, rape, and death in gang ridden Central America for what has happened requires one to have absolutely no concern for human life and dignity, and anyone who has no concern about the crime against humanity being perpetrated by Donald Trump and his despicable criminal collaborators is indeed an evil, uncaring person.
The only real difference from Nazi concentration camps is that so far as we know, no children have been executed, although about seven children have died in the captive conditions provided by the evil doers who collaborate with Donald Trump and his evil supporters who refuse to speak up for morality, ethics, common decency, and equal justice.
Additionally, Trump has worked to pollute the environment; deny health care to millions; and take no steps to cut the dangers to children in schools besieged by gun nuts who have made our education system captive.
Racial and ethnic minorities have been pushed into further poverty and degradation by a President who utters racial and nativist rhetoric on a regular basis.
The ultimate answer should be for Trump and his band of evil doers to be tried under international law in the Hague, being held accountable for his crimes against humanity!
Heh. Talk about “a target-rich environment.”
Very, very few Americans who claim to be “pro-life on abortion” have any concern whatsoever about any living children wherever they are. Just for starters: How many pro-lifers oppose “The Forever War”?
Got to hand it to You, Professor. You are the only person i have ever heard who found something “good” about FDR’s totally unconstitutional, illegal, and immoral incarceration of American Citizens of Japanese birth during WWII: that he didn’t separate the Kids from their Parents. Well, that was certainly White of him, wasn’t it?
Wow. What a humanitarian. Puts him right up there with Truman and his decision to use the atomic bomb on those pesky little slant eyes so as to cut the War short, eh? Sheesh.
So where’s the OUTRAGE in Congress? What have Pelosi, “The Squad,” or any of the rest of SwampLand’s corporate liberal/neo-proto-socialist “Left” done about and for those Kids? Actually, really DONE besides beat their breasts, massage their gums and egos, and get on the evening news?
Have they threatened to cut off all funding of ICE, etc? Have they threatened to shut down the government if the problem with the kids on the southern border isn’t addressed and fixed immediately? Have they done anything but make noise and pretend they are really accomplishing anything to actually, really help those kids? If so, what? Can You cite any examples?
One thing that everybody conveniently forgets [including particularly the anti-Trump crowd], is that all that ” bloodshed, crime, rape, and death in gang ridden Central America” is the direct result of 40 years of American foreign policy in Central America, starting with Reagan and Iran-Contra, the School of the Americas, and all that. Dutifully carried on by Clinton and, where appropriate and deemed necessary, by Obama. And always supported by every Democrat in Congress during the terms of those perpetrators and perpetuators of this obscenity. [Actually, it started long before that when Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson authorized the establishment of pro-American business dictatorships throughout Latin America; but that’s another rant].
The “crimes against humanity being perpetrated by Donald Trump” didn’t start with Trump.
Again: So what does that make of all those who oppose Trump and his “evil supporters” and who have done absolutely nothing REAL about “morality, ethics, common decency, and equal justice,” and not just on America’s southern border; but all over the Planet? What does that make that debt ceiling limit deal crafted by Pelosi, Shumer, Wall Street, and Trump just before SwampLand’s Summer Vacation last August?
More specifically: When’s the last time the Democrats in Congress didn’t give Trump and his Defense, Homeland Security, and Immigration Control Departments everything they have asked for and more?
And what steps have the Democrats in Congress taken to counter any of these actions, except to pursue an impeachment that is guaranteed to not result in a conviction?
Do You have any numbers to back up that assertion about “further poverty” for racial and ethnic minorities? What, for example, is the unemployment rate among those folks compared to what it was when Obama left office?
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And are Pelosi and her Band of Merry Pranksters to be charged as accessories to and enablers of all his crimes against humanity? And what about Obama’s and/or Bush’s and/or Clinton’s crimes? Or is the only thing that matters is Trump’s?
And, most importantly: What do You propose to do about that solid 40-45% of American citizen-voters who approve of the job he has done, is doing, and promises to keep doing? Send them to The Hague, as well? Or to internment camps of Your own?
“We have to prevent another four years of Donald Trump. It is time Democrats became partners again with American workers, not elitists who think of the rank and file as deplorable.”
“It is time Democrats said we need our factories back.”
“It is time Democrats called illegal immigrants illegal immigrants.”
“It is time Democrats represented the gay community less and dispossessed factory workers from Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Appalachia more.”
“It is time Democrats promised to end hegemonic wars the military-industrial complex is forever selling, and slash the defense budget so student loan debt can be paid off and college graduates working at Starbucks and living in their parent´s basement can have future to look forward to.”
“And it is time they announced clearly, forcefully, and unambiguously that the most important priority which overshadows everything else is climate change. We are in the midst of the sixth extinction, and that includes the human race. We cannot endure a President who does nothing to stop the climate Armageddon we are facing.”
“The only hope, yes, the only hope, is that the Democratic Party will awaken from its delusory fugue state in time.”
“If it refuses to take off its halo and step down from the pulpit, obdurately insisting that the fundamental issues of our time are racism, sexism, transgender rights, and the Me Too Movement, Trump will walk away with the election hands down, further reduce restrictions on coal, and proceed to set the planet on fire.”
FOUR OMINOUS REASONS TRUMP WILL WIN IN 2020: Moody’s forecast: Trump will win 2020 election in landslide, by Jerry Kroth [informationclearinghouse.info/52462.htm]
October 30, 2019 “Information Clearing House” – Moodys Analytics correctly predicted every Presidential winner since 1980, and two days ago, smack in the middle of the latest impeachment kerfuffle, they predicted Trump would win in 2020 by an electoral landslide.[1]
As a supporter of climate activism, having a climate change denier occupy the presidency another four years is absolutely bone-chilling. But the way the Democratic Party machine is acting, tethered to the corporate media as it is, chances are looking dimmer every day.
Here are four intrusive smelling salts intended to rouse Democrats from their sleep, because if they don´t wake up, Donald Trump is going to get re-elected.
REASON 1: ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION…[Excerpts]
One million people were stopped trying to cross into the United States last year. Yes, one million people! [2] One can only guess how many snuck into the country that were not stopped.
This actually bothers many Americans.
Here´s a voice large segments of the media and Democrats in particular, have not heard, are not listening to, but most importantly, will not listen to:
“Just because I don´t like these folks coming into our country, I don´t like being called a racist. I don´t like being told I am intolerant or that I´m a hate criminal. I just don´t like a hundred and fifty thousand foreigners slipping into our country every month, enrolling in our schools, using fake social security numbers, taking jobs, having babies who are given citizenship on the spot, being granted driver´s licenses, even medical insurance, and getting away with it all. The media and the Democratic Party seem to support every bit of it. And if you are opposed like I am, they call you a bigot. The only person I see who represents my feelings at all is Donald Trump!â€
Most Democrats think something in those words is deeply offensive, or racist, or politically incorrect, or at the very least inappropriate, but unfortunately they represent feelings of real people. . . lots and lots of real people.[5]
Eighty percent of Americans think illegal immigration is a serious problem, [6] and if Democrats and the liberal media do not wake up, Trump is going to exploit this sentiment and take illegal immigration fears, worries, and anger right to the bank.
He did it before, and he´ll do it again.
REASON 2: IMPEACHMENT BACKLASH…[Excerpts]
Americans are weary of the impeachment circus parading on their nightly news. Impeachment talk began as soon as Trump took office and continued throughout his entire Presidency. If there was insufficient Mueller proof that the President colluded, that morphed into obstruction. And when obstruction withered, the Ukrainegate flag was raised for more saluting.
But a large share of the American body politic is beleaguered beyond belief by the obsessive CNN-MSNBC-New York Times fixations on this subject. Some of the population just doesn´t buy in. They are tired. They believe most of it is based on falsehood, rumor, inaccuracy, and wholesale hatred of the President of the United States.
Trump is going to accuse the media, Rachel Maddow, Major Garret, Jake Tapper, CNN, the Washington Post and SNL of promoting a witch hunt made up of falsehood, rumor, innuendo, defamation, endless conspiracies, constant attacks on his Presidency, character, and family, and he will remind his twitter followers that none of this turned out to be true. He will wear the “No collusion, No obstruction, Fake News†trope blazoned across his chest right across the finish line into 2020.
REASON 3: ENDLESS WARS…
Democrats used to be a party of freedom, peace, and love. They were opposed to war, especially the Vietnam War. Most liked Fidel too.
But today Elizabeth Warren and Nancy Pelosi applaud when jingoist John Bolton wants to overthrow the government of Venezuela….Democrats today seem just as blood thirsty to overthrow Maduro and Venezuela as the Neo-Cons are.
When a peace initiative goes out to North Korea…Democrats object saying Trump is giving away too much or that he is grandstanding.
When Trump wants to withdraw troops from Syria…they call it “betrayal.â€
They yoked themselves so thoroughly with the military-industrial complex and Lindsey Graham they insist on remaining in Syria as much as he does. They want to press ever closer to Russia´s borders in the Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Estonia, and The Black Sea, and of course, their pom poms wave wildly as they cheerlead even more anti-Russian hysteria.
What Democrats miss is that a majority of Americans have consistently wanted us to leave Iraq (58 %), [7] to stay out of Syria (53 %), [8] to leave Afghanistan (61%), [9] and not to get embroiled in any war with Iran (57%). [10]
Seventy percent of Americans are opposed to these endless military adventures. [11] All of those majorities have been ignored by corporate Democrats when those polls were taken, and they still are ignored today.
Only Tulsi Gabbard meekly tries to remind the Democratic Party of its nonviolent roots as she is gingerly escorted out of the room by party insiders.
But Trump will stand up and say he did not enter any new wars as he promised, that he removed troops from Syria as promised, that he is negotiating a pull out from the 18-year disaster of Afghanistan as promised, that he sought peace in North Korea as promised, and that if re-elected he will continue to remove the U.S. from its idiotic wars.
And that salesmanship will rack up even more points that he can take to the bank, because his words fully resonate with how the majority of Americans actually feel.
REASON 4: POCKETBOOKS…
Finally, and despite panglossian globalist rhetoric that permeates the media, Americans are not stupid. They can look around the Midwest and see decaying inner cities and eviscerated factories emptied of manufacturing jobs that went abroad in search of 50 cent-an-hour labor.
They never liked it in the first place, and when Trump offered to “make America great again†the slogan more than made the grade in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio. They remembered their cities were once thriving manufacturing engines that made steel, aluminum, cars, televisions, and refrigerators.
But Democrats and the corporate media raged on for years against it. It is “tribalism,†they say, “nativism,†“populism†“protectionism†and, of course, all of these attacks are reflexively counterpointed with assignations that Trump is a criminal, a racist, a whoremonger, and a white supremacist to boot.
Underneath the media hyperbole, though, is an embarrassing reality that is hard to shake. Middle-class incomes are $6000 higher than they were when Trump took office. [12] 401K retirement plans went up 33 percent,[13] and many of these folks think Trump´s ballsy talk about tariffs and deals with Mexico, China, Canada, and Japan helped make all that possible.
A large swath of Americans were opposed to corporations outsourcing their jobs abroad. Bernie Sanders captured those feelings perfectly, but when Hillary railroaded him out of the nomination, Trump surreptitiously filled Bernie´s vacuum with the same message they wanted to hear and still want to hear.
He did it once and he’ll do it again: “Your incomes are better, your good-paying jobs are returning. Your retirement portfolios have grown. Your factories are coming home. I´ve stopped lots of countries from ripping us off, and I´ll stop them even more if reelected!â€
Trump is expert in catalyzing anger and resentment, and he is all ready to bang out another home run and sashay around the bases with his signature haughtiness.
The former Democratic majority leader Harry Reid, and a Trump antagonist, last week warned that “Trump is a very, very smart man who won´t be easily beaten in 2020!â€[14] Trump is far more cunning and intelligent than Alec Baldwin on Saturday Night Live makes him out to be.
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Jerry Kroth, Ph.D. is Associate Professor Emeritus in Counseling Psychology from Santa Clara University and author of his forthcoming text on climate change, Ecocide. He may be reached at http://www.collectivepsych.com
Trump is despicable and anyone supporting him is despicable too.
Jeffrey Moebus writes, “More specifically: When’s the last time the Democrats in Congress didn’t give Trump and his Defense, Homeland Security, and Immigration Control Departments everything they have asked for and more?â€
That is the hypocrisy of the false movement from “Resistance†people—a co-opting by a corporate, Democratic Party Establishment.
This is also why I do not trust “leaders†like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. And this is why the records of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates—congressional incumbents who voted for continued funding for the wars—need to be brought to light.
The Resistance is a loose alliance of people who oppose his administration – liberals, environmentalists, social justice activists, Never Trump Republicans – who are fighting against Trump because Trump poses a threat to US democratic norms and institutions, as well as standing against the bigotry of his administration.
Facebook and Twitter is how The Resistance shares information about protests, voting, fights against fake news, etc.
The Women’s March is an example of The Resistance.
Exactly, Pragmatic. It’s a grassroots movement of everybody who is against Trump and the despicable Republicans who support him. It started quickly after his election via Twitter with #Resist. #Resist has come to symbolize the fight for all those most vulnerable under Trump — immigrants, Muslims, people of color, women, members of the LGTBQ community and anyone else who feels they have been targeted by his policies. The Resistance is also fighting to ensure that we still have a free press, separation of powers, etc.
“The Resistance” is fighting against Trump because he has exposed the fact that a significant number of Americans are not at all impressed with the agenda of those liberals, enviros, SJWs, NTRs, etc; and in fact openly reject it.
If You don’t believe that, explain his solid 40-45% approval ratings. They also oppose him because they are out of power in SwampLand, and don’t like it; not one bit. The whole impeachment charade is the obvious and blatant example of that.
More importantly, “The Resistance” is being hammered by a Not-At-All-loose [and in fact quite tight] alliance of individuals, institutions, and organizations who openly and actively oppose that Resistance agenda. That all started back in 1964 with Goldwater and has led, ultimately, to Trump.
If it was seeded by Goldwater, it sprouted under Reagan/Bush the Elder, broke soil under Cheney/Bush the Lesser, and has blossomed ~ complete with thorns ~ with The Donald. And was nurtured and nourished by Clinton and Obama, particularly in the realm of foreign policy, and, in Obama’s case, piling up that national debt [which, obtw, officially reached $23 Trillion yesterday].
That 40-45% are uneducated people. A lot of the ones I’ve encountered are bigots.
ALL 40-45% are “uneducated people”? Wow. According to Your information, then, there are [or were] 62,984,828 uneducated Americans who voted for Trump. Is America really that uneducated?
Given that 65,853,514 voted for Clinton, what’s that bring America’s total uneducated total to: 128,838,342?
His pejorative usage of the term SJW outs him as a Trumpanzee.
People who voted for Hillary are educated.
All 65 million plus of them? Then how come they weren’t smart enough to win the Electoral College vote?
And i didn’t introduce the term “social justice warrior” into this conversation; Pragmatic Progressive did. All i did was acronymize it.
Pragmatic is not the one here who is bigoted.
Yeah. Rustbelt was the one to introduce that very informative concept into the conversation.
Resistance Definition of “bigot”: Anybody who disagrees with Us.
Precisely, Rustbelt. Bigoted right-wingers are using code to espouse their racist, misogynistic and/or anti-multicultural views. SJW, an acronym for “social justice warrior,†is their way of mocking people who are fighting for civil rights. https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/toolkit-for-what-is-the-altright
They’ve been using it to attack female and black sci-fi heroes – the new Star Wars trilogy, the Black Panther, the Supergirl TV show.
Wrong again, Prag. The people “fighting for civil rights” are the ones who like to call themselves SJWs. Especially the “Warriors” part.
They are a sub-branch of the PSJWs, or “Peace and Social Justice Warriors.”
You know, the folks who have done absolutely nothing that has accomplished anything to stop “The Forever War.” And all their Presidential hopefuls for next year have never done anything to stop it either. And promise not to do anything, if elected.
Attacking black and female science fiction heroes [and, presumably, heroines]?!? Wow. That IS serious. What sort of science fiction heroes [probably no heroines, i guess, eh?] Do they embrace and champion?
Attacking black and female science fiction heroes [and heroines], eh? Have those people no shame? Let alone taste in science fiction?
Seconded, Rational Lefty. I’ve been noticing that lately when I browse the reviews of those on Amazon and Rotten Tomatoes.
The Batwoman TV show is the latest the Trumpsters are attacking.
BATwoman!?! On TV!!!???!!! My God; is Nothing sacred to those Infidels?
The Browning of America Is Making Us Safer
New data reveals the younger, more diverse generation is more law abiding than the generations that fear them.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/11/01/the-browning-of-america-is-making-us-safer/
Hope for Humanity as Trump’s Base Begins to Leave Him
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/11/01/hope-for-humanity-as-trumps-base-begins-to-leave-him/
That’s an interesting chart in the WM article. i wonder if details are available that breaks it down by State; or Region [Northeast, Deep South, etc]., or by inner city, urban, suburban, and countryside areas. Has Youth Crime, for example, gone down in New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles?
The chart also raises an interesting question: Why did Youth Crime grow steadily from 1984 to 1996, then drop to 2001, then level off to 2007, and then drop to its current level.
Must be something Clinton and Obama did, eh?
Virginia Republicans are getting desperate.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/11/1/1894396/-VA-GOP-s-last-ditch-effort-before-losing-power-Nov-5-Go-all-in-bat-crazy-Trump
Virginia – go blue!
This will be an important precursor for next year.
Folks, Jeffrey is not worth talking to. Let’s all vow not to waste our time talking to him.
Seconded, Former Republican.
I say we include D in our vow too.
Hey D! Looks like we made the big time, eh? We’re not the only ones not worth talking to here, i can assure You.
Trump got booed again, this time at a UFC fight! 🙂
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/11/2/1896877/-Trump-boo-d-at-UFC-promotional-event-in-NYC-is-he-losing-his-base
THE MUELLER MEMOS – This ought to be interesting! 🙂
BuzzFeed News sued the US government to see all the work that Mueller’s team kept secret. They have subsequently received and published the first installment, 500 pages with revelations about the Ukraine conspiracy theory, Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort, and more.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/mueller-report-secret-memos-1?origin=web-hf
These memos once again make it clear how corrupt Trump is and those around him are too.