Wednesday, August 30, 2017

WHAT A DISASTER, ONE WOULD THINK I’D BE TALKING ABOUT HURRICANE HARVEY, SADLY I’M DISCUSSING OUR PRESIDENT 

Now about the most recent worst storm in our nation’s history, can we finally seriously talk about global warming? Cause whats happening in Texas is because of it… not because of somebody’s sexual preference! 

WOW I ALREADY WISH DONALD WENT BACK ON VACATION! I know I complained about Donald having too much free time on his hands, as we watched him cause one crisis after the other. But man since he’s been back its actually gotten worse! The scary thing is what could be next? Seriously we found out, a so-called natural disaster of epic proportions. I’m amazed my knees aren’t shaking as I write this. So a man who has no knowledge about government, about politics, about helping the less fortunate, has now got to figure out how to save Texas from going the way of Atlantis! The most obnoxious part of all this is, Trump recently rolled back an Obama-era executive order for infrastructure projects that was to design structures like roads and bridges, to survive rising sea levels and other consequences of climate change. So he cuts funds for things we so desperately will be needing now. Somehow I know this is gonna be a Democrats screw up. Like when they blamed the deaths in Benghazi on Hillary Clinton. The Republicans spent millions going after her work abilities. They attacked her for her failings, yet it was them, the Republicans who cut the funds which caused the lack of protection at the embassy. She actually warned them about it, but they didn’t listen. 

But no big deal, right? As we all know, there is no such thing as global warming or climate change in Trump’s universe. What is occurring in Texas and now Louisiana has nothing to do with rising sea levels or man’s talent for destroying everything that makes living on this planet a possibility. As Trump has showcased with his executive actions, worrying about our ecological world only matters if it doesn’t hurt profits. So what if we all die because of their greed, as long as Donald and his pals, which includes Vladimir cleans up, screw the little people. 

Our President talks like tomorrow the entire region will be a paradise again. Lying as he smiles to his adoring sheep, Trump disregards the reality of what’s to come. Has he no memory of the states that were effected by Katrina in 2005. They’re probably still rebuilding there. Has he forgotten what happened to his home city of New York, after Sandy? People are still waiting for their relief checks on that one. I’m sure he remembers the government windfall he got from Sandy relief funds for the damage to his property that apparently didn’t really have any. 

Any time a disaster of this size occurs, it takes years, maybe decades to rebuild if ever. How about the millions whose lives will never be the same, the deaths, the hardships? Did you notice that the monster who is now our President, didn’t really meet with any of the victims of Harvey. He just made a speech, shook a few hands for the camera. Sold some hats and went back to tweeting his obnoxious nonsensical tirades. So don’t worry everybody, King Trump, will make it all work out, simply by snapping his fingers or more accurately giving us the white power symbol. Google search it, if that alone doesn’t give you the creeps, nothing possibly would.What gets me is we had a Republican President, remember, the one who used to be the worse President ever, named George Walker Bush. As opposed to what the Bots out there keep trying to tell us. That President Barack Obama was President when Katrina happened, not George. Don’t you love it when fools, try to lie about history? Make up their own facts to suit their agenda. Accuse others of crimes that their saviors are actually committing. Now in the real world not the delusional one, the newest and worst of the lot, Donald J. Trump is even making Bush’s fly over look good. Of course we are talking Trump, so why should we expect anything else? We are also talking Republicans. Even if its the new version. The quasi white supremacist, with a little Nazi thrown into boot. Plus just add a smidgen of KKK to add a little salt to the wounds of democracy. Now that Trump’s bigotry has been outed, and his deflection has caused our nation to go nuts over all  historical statues in our nation as opposed to the hate itself he sided with. Let’s try very badly to segway to acting like a President so people will completely forget what happened just days a go. I mean its worked so far, hasn’t it?

What gets me is, The Mad King recently proposed massive budget cuts to some of the federal government’s most vital agencies that would confront disasters like the current one we are living through. For example Trump wants to cut FEMA’s budget by $667 million. He wants to chop $62 million from the National Weather Service, and so forth. Much like his Government, somehow he expects things to get done just because they should get down. I guess humans aren’t necessary in Government, so why appoint ambassadors or diplomats to do the jobs. I mean why would any of that be important when it looks like war with multiple nations are a soon to be possibility. Who needs to talk to North Korea, when we’ve got Trump tweeting his negotiation. You know what the rest of would call threats. We the people can simply sit back and wait till Kim Jong-un’s nuclear warheads reach our shores. Well, the good thing in a nuclear war, me thinks it would end the biggest threat to the man himself, the investigation into his Russian connections. Who would care about Trump sleeping with the enemy if we are under attack and at war with the North Koreans, if not one or two other nations at the same time. Perhaps with all the warfare with other nations, Trump being in bed with Putin might be a good thing. So should we thank the traitor? By the time this revelation becomes the talking point on MSNBC and Fox Faux News’ excuse for Trump treasonous activities. That is if any or all of it is true. I guess we should give even him the benefit of the doubt in this. 

There is that long shot chance that he’s simply the dupe in the middle of a school of piranhas, known by the term Trumpeter. Of course this doesn’t even begin to discuss the ‘floodplains’ of Houston, which has had 3, as they call it ‘500 years floods’ in the last 3 years. Meaning hurricanes success as Harvey, which should happen once every 500 years or so are now happening year after year. Each time it happens, it gets bigger and more costlier. We are talking billions in dollars, the costs to people’s lives unfathomable. Also, scarily for millions in Houston, Texas, approximately 85% its citizens don’t even have flood insurance. 

Here’s a link to a story that fully explains why people in Texas choose not to have coverage:

https://qz.com/1063985/hurricane-harvey-why-85-of-homeowners-in-houston-dont-have-federal-flood-insurance/

So what happens to those people? I presume that's what Congress will be voting over. Trump will just gets to sign his name to it. And of course he will take all the credit, no matter how good it is or how little it really helps the people. The helping of the people doesn’t matter with people like the Trumps. Its the talking point that does. The spin. But the people, they can fend for themselves. Sadly for some reason, why do I feel business owners will be the big winners after Harvey. Sure they lost a lot, but somehow, when all is said and done they will have brand new warehouses and factories with state of the art facilities, as opposed to spaces that have been around for decades if not longer. And the rest of the victims of Harvey, hopefully they’ll get a place to live again and a new lease on life. Why do I ponder how many Trump properties will now spring up all along the reconstruction of the decimated landscape. And now that they are rebuilding, they can put up a few new ones statues. It Texas, I see a huge shrine to George Walker don’t you. Perhaps a few new Confederate statues to spit in the face of African Americans everywhere. And why wait for Trump to leave office or die, let sculpt a tribute to the greatest president in the history of Trump’s mind. Donald Trump.

I wouldn’t be surprised if this historic storm is making these Trumpeters giddy. See a chance to change the subject. Look another opportunity for the big orange fool to showcase his humility, his humanity and his God given abilities for the betterment of mankind. I threw in “humility” because that’s what Kellyanne Conway said was Trump’s most notable characteristic, his humility. Whatever she’s on, they better pry it out of her hands and put her into detox, cause she sounds delusional. God I must sound horrible. How did I become me, writing such evil thoughts about our President? Oh, I know, a decades worth of lies by republicans. Months upon months of never-ending Donald Trump garbage has turned me into a crazed leftist.   

So I ask you, what would be the best deflection of all, besides a nuclear war with North Korea, to change the subject from Russia? Luckily for him, and unluckily for the rest of us, a tropical storm named Harvey arrived in Texas to wreck havoc on the population, the landscape and the infrastructure. Turned hurricane, Harvey has sadly far exceeded all the worse forecasts. I lived through Sandy in New York, I saw the devastation that once in a century event caused, and they say this is worse. Well if he was gonna pivot, this I presume would be the perfect storm, no pun intended. But, it sadly does fit the conversation. I’m at the point, that I could see the madness in him thinking this. As if God himself, or in Donald’s case, perhaps Adolph, or Vladimir.

Remember George Walker Bush was reelected after going to war with the wrong nation. If he could survive that, why shouldn’t Donald J. Trump survive his error in judgment. His deals with the Russian powers that be.
I understand that Republicans and the Trumpeters don’t actually believe Global Warming exists, or at least I hope their sponsors, their backers, are paying them not to. Which makes them even bigger monsters. Is it worse that they are dumb or refuse to see the reality of the situation. That they refuse to listen to the scientists and the facts. How did any of them ever graduate school? It appears, none of them learned anything. Or was it that they sold their souls for political power and financial reward? Disregarding the reality of the situation, and the cost in actual human lives for their own private gains.

As the deniers keep trying to tell us, its all a made up plot by the Chinese or some liberal democratic college educated whiner. But even if you don’t agree, shouldn’t you do something to prevent the what ifs? It’s gonna cost possibly billions of tax payers money for Texas and Louisiana after Harvey’s still on going destruction has finally ended and the clean up begins. Where is that money supposed to come from? When Congress argues and makes their personal pitches for the rebuild, how many of them will come off as hypocritical monsters. The political leaders who are begging for funds, when its their turn, who voted against funds for others when then were confronted by their own once in a lifetime natural disasters. Maybe we should make a deal, if those Republicans who voted no for funds for Sandy relief, quit jobs and allow others who believe in science to replace them, they get every cent they want. Otherwise let them drown their biblical fantasies. Of course I am only saying these suggestions, who could be so heartless to deny anyone aide when their lives are actually at stake. Oh yes, that's right, the Republicans who want to deny health care for millions. Who keep trying to kill off life saving organizations like Planned Parenthood. Who tried to destroy the Clinton Foundation for their own political needs.

Perhaps this time, when rebuilding the infrastructure they take into account the worsening effects global warming, instead of just rebuilding it and waiting for the next time. Reconfigure the landscape to take into account what is inevitable in the years to come. Just in case. Otherwise we the American people are simply throwing money away again. I know that probably sounds heartless in light of what’s occurring as I write this. Sadly and infuriatingly, this isn’t the first storm that the people of Texas has faced. More specifically the people of Houston. Rachel Maddow had a piece on this recently, showcasing the problem, which blew my mind. Seems, they haven’t learned anything Yet. At least in places like Florida and Louisiana, the political leaders there are beginning to realize that if they don’t fix their infrastructure the right way and quickly, they might not have a place or a city left over ground for its citizens to live and to have futures at. Remember the movie Water world? Well that fantasy is quickly becoming real in our world and they better wake up and start doing their jobs before our worst nightmares becomes the world we live in.

Its possible that its true, maybe God is punishing us? Maybe we deserve whatever storms we get faced with. Maybe Trump himself is our punishment for being bad, how many times can you keep reelecting the monsters before somebody upstairs says enough! Perhaps this storm was actually sent by the big guy to test Donald. Listening to the talking heads on the right. The religious leaders who hear Gods voice or is that the Devils? They spew bigoted homophobic rhetoric against the sinners out there. For example blaming the gays heinous acts has the reasons we recently had that way cool Solar eclipse. As if a solar eclipse is a bad thing. A punishment that somebody caused. Just think about that. These talking heads, who people follow, fully believe that we have the power through our actions to cause planets and stars in the heavens to shift in their orbit. Somebody pleas get the white jackets and the padded rooms ready. Listening to the way they hate people. The things they still say about Hillary Clinton. Maybe we deserve the wraith of the all-mighty? How dare we give the LGBQT community equality? Marriage? Compassion? Nothing in the bible about that? Surely God should smite us all down for that, right? God doesn’t teach us about love, or compassion or simple human kindness, he teaches us about hatred, about vanity and about greed, right? At least if you listen to these hypocrites or their flock of inbred fools that's what I hear. Those famous ten commandments? Actually are probably more of a what to do, than a what not to do it list. Thou shall not kill. Oh really, tell that to the police that shoot to kill their innocent victims. 

Tell that to the millions who get shot and wounded by the owners of weaponry never dreamed about by our forefathers. Mention it to the thousands of uneducated fools, who all seem to have mental issues, who parade our American streets like they are invading a foreign land. Spewing obscenities that they really need to off themselves for saying. Sorry, I went a little off topic here, or did I? But listening to fools like our President ignore reality and science, irks me to no end. They argue against things that are simply right in front of our eyes which is utterly maddening. Its not as if we don’t know about the melting of the icecaps, or seeing how the land masses around our globes are quickly shrinking as the oceans expand and cover up huge areas of land. Even if it was just a natural change in our world, wouldn’t you think those in power would know to try to solve the problem? 

In Trump’s America, who needs people in place to do the jobs in our government. For example, Donald still has not appointed many ambassadors and diplomats. So currently who do we have to negotiate with the North Koreans? One person, the businessman turned President, who could snap his fingers and get whatever he wanted as the head of a family run empire. Sadly he still doesn’t understand that is not how the real world operates. Or more importantly, Trump doesn’t understand that he now works for us, and not the other way around.So Harvey turned from a tropical storm into a hurricane and the Donald has to do something to showcase that's he’s up to the job. Lets all cross our fingers. This is something he can’t just tweet about. Catastrophic events such as Hurricane Harvey actually takes some bit of maneuvering, political and people skills to work, something of which Trump has yet to show any capability to do. He can not bluster a hurricane away.

So Donald flies into Texas with the Mrs., has a meet and greet with the political leaders in the state and thanks his audience for attending his campaign. What a crowd! Did I hear clearly? Thanks for coming! Is he kidding? What planet does Donald come from? Who or what trained him in his people skills? Later sitting there with Greg Abbott, discussing how great their work will be considered once this job is done? Already predicting that all will run smoothly. Can you say pathetic. Seemingly slapping the governor on the back with congratulations when nothing has been done so far, is not the image they should be presenting. Please someone explain to the man who is oblivious to others, this isn’t about you. This is about us! For once grow some human skills. All of us, not about you and your ego. Trump actually had the nerve to blame others like President Barack Obama for the state being in this situation. Sadly, I’m awaiting for the tweet from Donald announcing that this was the biggest ever audience in the worst disaster in American history. Yeah me! Look at how great I am for handling the mess so easily.  See Donald saved everyone. Time to crown him King or is that God, if you listen to his followers. 
If you ask his spokespeople, anything bad that happens like the now reported 17 deaths so far caused by Harvey, is Obama’s fault. Perhaps President Barack Obama’s DAPA policies caused God to flood the streets and kill the innocent. That's right, go ahead and say it Trumpeters, it was America’s last real President’s policies that caused the flood. It was his Kenyan roots that made the rains come down. It was his signing off on Gay marriage that caused Harvey to kill the victims of the downpour. Supposedly Hurricane Harvey is actually worse than Sandy or Katrina I guess if God wants to show his wraith for allowing a person of color to be our President. Well thank God we have the master businessman, the lying douche bag to save us all from drowning, right?

The worse part of all of this, is as with everything Donald, Harvey isn’t about the people suffering on the ground, or those who have and will lose their lives. This is about visuals, about pitching his reelection and banking those bucks. Turns out Melania’s little fashion show and Donald’s little speech of congratulations to himself and the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, was simply a show. His television ad campaign, paid for by the American people. Seems to Donald his trip to decimated Texas was more of a photo op to sell hats! It appears, Trump’s and the Mrs.’ wardrobe choices are simply a fashion show to showcase Donald’s reelection items for sale.

I must say, seeing Melania wearing that hat with the words FLOTUS stitched across the front, I honestly wanted to rip it off her head and explain to her that in a flood of epic proportions seeing the word FLOTUS in a hurricane might look bad! At least she took off the stilettos when she walked from the limo and back to Airforce 1. Seriously what was she thinking? I understand that the word float and the letters F-L-O-T-U-S aren’t the same thing. I get that this acronym or initialism, which is how Merriam-Webster described it, for the first letters in the words First Lady of the United States, has nothing to do with floating or a hurricane or water even. But that is exactly what smacked me in the face when I saw her standing next to her husband wearing that cap. I saw the hat, with those letters and I saw bodies. As in dead bodies, floating down the newly formed Houston River, which was created by hurricane Harvey as they drift to the gulf of Mexico. Sorry if that visual is too much, but that's what felt and where my mind wandered. Now speaking of hats, I talked about Melania’s, wouldn’t want Donald to get jealous, would we? Turns out Trump, the man himself, our savior was wearing a hat that he sells on his website for $40 a pop. That's right. That red baseball cap with the white letters, its for sale if you want to reelect the fool on the hill. This has got to be high on anyone’s scale of lows that any President has ever done. Profiting off of tragedy. Trump wasn’t there to help people, he was there to pocket some change. Promising suckers magic if we just believe him once more. I promise this time, everything will all work out. Disregard whats behind that curtain. Disregard how I’m tearing about the very fabric of what makes America great. Is this how far our nation has sunk? Well if we have another presidential election and Trump wins again. I would have to say, perhaps America is dead!  

Donald is promising as usual to fix everything, and its gonna be quick and cheap. What’s ironic about this, at the same time he’s cutting the budget on the very agencies he will need to stem the tide till Congress can approve the funds to fix the late great state of Texas and its surrounding areas. Plus lets not forget, as this is happening, Trump is threatening a Government shutdown unless he gets funding for the wall. So how are they gonna work on fixing Texas if the Government is shut down? I presume by the time the storm is over and the clean-up is beginning, the shutdown would have already started. If the Government is closed until further notice, whose paying for the clean up? Is this gonna be an all volunteer army? Are we gonna be using prisoners which I heard one political leader suggest? You know, like the good old days that Trump keeps drooling over. When the president was asked that question, that is, what happens if he shuts the government down? He basically said, don’t worry. Tell that to the millions whose lives are under miles and miles of water. Does anyone actually believe Donald Trump can handle anything? I wonder how many of those Texan’s now regret voting for Trump as opposed to Hillary, of course, right now they have more important worries than if they were stupid to vote for a fool. 

Sadly, as is his lot, Trump is already lying about his journey to Texas. You see Donald tweeted that he had witnessed “first hand the horror & devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey” when in reality he was nowhere near it. I mean its possible that he flew over it like George Walker did during Katrina’s aftermath, but “first hand” that's a bold faced lie. Like killing Obamacare was gonna give the citizens of the United States, better and cheaper health care, as opposed to no health care at all. 
Today in the midst of the biggest crisis of his presidency, instead of focusing on the hurricane and being Presidential. Perhaps getting funding set up for the victims of Harvey, something even the Democrats would agree with. Trump came out and pitched tax reform, deciding he and his Republican friends in the Congress want to give billions of dollars of tax breaks to the rich while stiffing the regular folk. Which of course isn’t what he ran on, but has been the way he pitches legislation as the President so for. His big breaks for the rich folk, remember trickle down economics, again this is what they’re pitching. This is supposedly gonna raise salaries on the members of society that are still lucky enough to have gainful employment. 

At the same time Trump wants to cut millions in funding from everything else, he’s gonna also give himself and his rich friends a huge tax break. While this is happening he wants to also fund his wall along the Mexican border and I guess the entire southern border of our nation. So just like the vote to repeal and replace Obamacare Trump’s attempt failed miserably, nothing will get done with tax reform. If Trump doesn’t get his way, he has warned us that we will watch as our nation goes on hiatus. If he doesn’t get what he wants, the people will suffer in the streets. Anarchy will be the new name for our nation and Donald John Trump would have done exactly what he came to Washington to do. Tear apart the very fabric of democracy. You still don’t think he’s a Nazi? Lets just hope our nation is strong enough to survive till his exit. And lets hope that the citizens who are living through the ordeal of Harvey’s ramifications all somehow survive and prosper sooner than later. I would hope that Donald Trump as President of these United States would still be in power when those whose lives have been devastated have been able to go back to a normal way of life. But that would mean a President named Trump would still be in power for years to come. If that's the case, in theory that Donald is no longer President, but King or Dictator. I guess the only good thing in that scenario I can fathom is, that we somehow survived the nightmares to come. Of course surviving might be the best thing any of us could ever expect in a world where a Trump could actually become the most powerful man on Earth. Even if he is the most incompetent.  

Just one man’s opinion
© Neil Feigeles, Neilizms, Thursday, August 31, 2017

Saturday, August 19, 2017

SO THE POWER PLAYERS IN WASHINGTON WENT ON VACATION, WHAT WERE YOU EXPECTING, SUNSHINE AND LOLLIPOPS? 

Seems all Hell is breaking loose people, North Korea, nuclear war, Trump possibly outs himself as a Nazi, plus Steve Bannon walks! The lazy, hazy days of Summer, not in Trumpland!  

TRUMP DECIDED HE EARNED HIMSELF A “WORKING” VACATION, I know I sure needed one from him! After what we’ve been through lately, and what we as a nation are seeing on an ever escalating chain of groan inducing unbelievably deplorable events, I’m pretty sure a lot of other people needed a respite too. Now pile those on top of all the previous episodes Trump has put us all though, and you can see why I’ve had trouble stomaching any of the lies the Trumpeters pathetically spin desperately trying to save what’s left of his sinking ship. As for all the other craven political players who sold the rest of us out for their own political, personal and financial gains, well lets just say there’s a special spot awaiting the lot of them in Hell or whatever the place is where the soulless spend the rest of their eternities. 

I grew up watching movies where we get bombastic monsters in power and always had problems dealing with those over the top characters. Like the Prime Minister in V For Vendetta, I simply couldn’t believe arrogant fools like a Donald J. Trump as a political leader would ever exist in the real world. How could people be so dumb to vote them in? But look at what’s happened in Turkey, seemingly following in the footsteps of Russia, where citizens sadly voted to make their President their dictator. I can almost understand that happening in places where there were kings or tyrants, or at least maybe if this was a hundred years ago. But elected officials in the year 2017, I'm sorry, not in the United States of America! Right?

I guess I was or I am, seriously naive, but look at who our political leaders are. There’s a Paul Ryan or a Ted Cruz, a Newt Gingrich, and yes even a Donald John Trump and a Mike Pence amongst hundreds, thousands, who hold elected positions and seem to have the souls of Lucifer himself wedged deep inside their hearts. Peruse who we the citizens have voted into elected office and try not to gag as you scan the trolls running our Government. It is rather scary, sickening and outright unbelievable how many of them actually got elected in the first place. Or worse how they repeatedly get reelected time after time after time. No matter how many of their own crimes and despicable behavior is revealed. But if a George Walker Bush can get reelected after causing America’s longest war by attacking the wrong nation, why can’t a Donald J. Trump get his chance to destroy our nation too? I guess the sad truth is, some day there could actually be another president even worse than Donald J Trump. None of us thought anyone could top the second Bush President. Well, somebody did. In other words don’t worry Donald, someday someone might actually top your level of ineptitude. How scary is that? On the bright side, if we survived George Walker Bush for 8 long years, its feasible that we will even survive the presidency of a Donald John Trump. 

So Trump decided that as President he had earned lots of free time, and sadly we’ve learned that that much free time on his hands isn’t such of a good idea. I mean how many rounds of golf can one man play? Obviously he's had way too much time on his hands, look at the ramifications. Perhaps, locking him up inside the White House where most of us haven’t a clue what he’s been doing for days. Except for what they tell us during the White House press briefings. I’m not a doctor, and yes I have played one on television, so its not like I can diagnose the man. But me thinks his spasms, those Twitter tantrums that last for hours, might be a signal that its time for his meds, or to possibly change his dosage. Maybe it’s even a cry for help and no one is listening to him. I mean obviously the man is in pain, just look at him. We should interview that wacky medical professional who claimed he was Trump’s personal physician. Better yet, maybe we should examine the doctor, because his opinions on the man sound as delusional as the man himself.  

I originally began this post as a ‘what if’ scenario. About a week ago the big question in the land was what happens if Donald decides to fire Mueller during his time away? How crazy would it get? Remember the Congress was also on, as they call it Summer recess. So what happens? But in order for Trump to fire Mueller, since everyone of the talking heads kept saying that this would cause a congressional crisis, Donald needed a major distraction, to deflect the subject enough to get away with yet another monstrous act. So, what to do? Well her thought, he had one surely big enough to change the subject. In fact, possibly causing a nuclear war with North Korea. One day, out of left field, as Trump’s plane was travelling away from Washington DC, North Korea, now was capable of destroying us with Nukes. 

So if you were President and your past was closing in on you fast, what better way to change the subject then to act like you were a twitch away from sending our nation into a nuclear war with an insane dictator! In the universe of distractions, I would think this would be near the top. That is if any of any of this bluster was real or just made up lies, remember those WMD’s. So we got a two nut jobs spatting tweets on social networks, sounding more like junior high school losers arguing over a computer game. Well it worked, all the talk of fire and fury changed the subject instantly from Mueller’s canning to nuclear war. Immediately my only question besides if any of this is true, was which nut job was gonna blink first? Or who is insane enough to, shall we call it drop the bomb and end humanity as we know it? 

Luckily others in the know, have basically said to ignore whatever Trump has said on this subject of our destruction. As always, Donald handlers tell us it was a joke. A very sick and sarcastic laugh riot that is the explanation when ever one of his comments doesn't land the right way. We of course are the idiots to take a President at his word. Obviously the end hasn’t come, because I’m still writing this and now I’ve put it out there for the world to read. So I guess his talking heads were right, this time, the rush to war which seemed to begin in days has quickly quieted down. Seems Donald’s ‘red’ line with North Korea hasn’t broken yet, that is if he even has one.  

Hillary Clinton surely said it best, “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.” It pretty amazing how right she was, and so sad how many people refused to listen to her experienced knowledgeable intelligence, while believing Donald’s flat out lies. When Donald Trump came out and told us we might be in a nuclear war with North Korea, my worst fears were becoming real. We had elected a certifiable madman. After wards, when I had time to think about it, I discovered later on MSNBC, Trump had probably watched old Presidential videos before scaring the pants off half of the population. It appears Donald borrowed his little bombshell talking points on nuclear war from President Truman’s announcement on his dropping of the Atomic Bombs on Japan. On air they showed a side-by-side of both President’s speeches, and honestly I was stunned. I now want to know who showed the speech to the President. For some reason I doubt he ever learned about it in school. Perhaps, Steve Bannon before he was supposedly kicked out of the inner circle had offered his pal this bit of historical information? 

Oh that right, lets add another event to the list, Steve Bannon has been pushed out of the inner circle, seems one of the biggest deplorable members of Trump’s basket was thrown out for making the President look bad. As usual with anything to do with Trump, as soon as the announcement rang out on the airwaves his deflection has seemed to do exactly what Trump intended. His error in words, siding with monstrous bigoted anti-Semites, had now been forgotten, lost in Bannon’s ouster. One of the reasons we were told that Bannon was still by Trump’s side was the fear factor. What would he do if he was kicked from the inner circle? What did this troll have on Donald Trump, that had him so close to the most powerful man on Earth that he seemed to be turning Donald into another Bannon before our very eyes? Had he put Donald under some kind of spell? Well Bannon resigned or was canned, either way according to the talking heads, the man already got his old job back at Breitbart. Perhaps this was the plan all along, to help the man get into office. But now that his needs can't be accomplished inside the inner circle, its time to ratchet it up a notch outside of it. I wouldn't be surprised if the two of them will still have non-stop communications coordinating events in Trumps agenda. 

When Donald J. Trump promised to make America great again, who knew part of that stomp speech would have a ring of truth to it. But that greatness he promised to return our great country to wasn’t the one most of us were dreaming of. His America is more like the pre-Thirteenth Amendment era, when equality in the land was simply a dream for most people of color. A dream that one day a previous Republican President would finally sign off on, how sadly ironic is that. You want the white folk out there to get jobs, remove the people of color from the work force. Delete Muslims from our shores and return our states to the good old days when woman didn’t work, abortion was illegal, and the white man was in charge while the rest of society were simply second class citizens. As for the Jews, don't worry we have ways of getting rid of them too. But from what we’ve just witnessed, it turns out all the harbingers of racism that were slipping out throughout the Trump campaign and his years of racist attacks against former President Barack Obama are hitting the next level. 

I keep wondering if the Trump voters will ever wake up and if so, what will it take? If not that disgusting Access Hollywood bus incident or a thousand and one lies, what does the man have to do or say to get run out of town? A possible treasonous duet with Putin seems to be a non-starter for them. Perhaps a nuclear war with North Korea or Venezuela or even Guam? Sadly if they actually wake up from their slumber, their awakening will occur while most of us turn into radiated heaps of ash from the fallout of the radiation. Hopefully the WMD North Korea scare that Donald is trying to use to deflect the public will be just that a scare. And now that fear of nuclear war seems to be subsiding a little, lets trout out an old familiar deflection to continue side-stepping impeachment talk. Lets try a little racism and anti-Semitism, but lets punch it up a bit and use the words that always make most people sit up and take notice. Lets bring into the mix, the trifecta of evil. The Nazi’s, the White Nationalists and the KKK, oh my. With that said, you now have got to wonder if what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia, will finally wake at least a few of them up. Seemingly it has, as today, a nation has erupted into protests against the same people who caused the riots in Charlottesville in the first place. A beautiful sight indeed. Much like the day after the election when the world woke up to the horrors of the reality of a Trump presidency. This protest goes against the President and those who on the side of hatred and bigotry, for trying to equalize Nazi's in the United States.

‘Not all Republicans are racists, but all racists are Republicans’ is an expression I’ve read lots of times online, in fact I’ve used it once or twice myself. So I guess Trump being a coming out of the closet racist or anti-Semite might not hurt him if that sentiment is prevalent with his followers as some think. But if the villains in the plot actually turn out to be Nazi’s for real, or members of the KKK, perhaps that will finally be a bridge too far for even Donald’s biggest defenders. This is of course nothing new in our nations history, but, now these racist monsters, aren’t afraid to show their faces. I mean the President of the United States sided with them, he didn’t call them out. It appears their belief and possible real feelings is that they’re the reasons Trump is in fact in the Oval office. That he needs to listen to them. That his being the President has given these monsters, the belief that they can proudly show their faces. So what happens when those working inside the White House decide its safe to reveal their truths. Will the public finally lose it? Or again will the bar be lowered that much lower, like all the other times Trump supposedly crossed the line few others had ever crossed, and none have survived?

It is ironic that out of all the talking heads out there David Duke probably put the president in this place more than anyone else did. When he smacked back at Trump for bending a little in his commentary against the racist monsters. Duke, the former KKK grand wizard, tweeted “I would recommend you take a good look in the mirror & remember it was White Americans who put you in the presidency, not radical leftists” and I practically spit out my hot tea. Hysterical, Duke, point blank called Trump out, that he was elected because of these Nazi, white supremacists. They according to Duke, put him in power. Remember Trump started his political life by going after President Barack Obama’s citizenship. Donald was the one who helped turn the Birther conspiracy into a national movement.  

Watching Donald, day in and day out, it becomes more and more apparent that the man was either a terrible student, never did his homework or is seriously an idiot who is on the verge of a complete mental breakdown. What else can you presume when you listen to him prattle on about history or any other subject that he should have studied up in school. Listening to him go off on the removal of Confederate memorials throughout our nation is unbelievably nerve wracking. Of course if it’s true that he is a Nazi or a fan of the Confederacy, his inane argument how we were erasing history might make more sense. His comments about the heroes of the Confederacy is either his morality or possibly his intelligence. If you look at the spectrum of comments he’s made especially since becoming President, the policies and Executive Actions he’s executed, if they don’t make you go, yup the man’s a raging racist, you really need to stop watching Fox faux news. His belief system or is that his stupidity level is pretty similar on pretty much everything else you want too discuss. Listen to his backwards logic on ‘what next, we’ll start removing George Washington’s or Thomas Jefferson's...’, as if a Confederate Soldier, a traitor to our nation is equivalent to the men who were two of our greatest Presidents, is well infuriating. 

Point blank Donald needs to crack open a book and learn something. Trump, that’s a real book not a crib sheet that one of your cult members read to you before you were tucked into bed. All that said, I would hope that his sudden welcoming of Nazi’s and Klansman is simply, his stupidity as opposed to his really being a racist monstrous Nazi. There are those who say, if Trump is using those people to get his way, that makes him a Nazi, even if he's just using the monsters for political gain and isn't really one. Of course in Donald’s case does it matter? Either he’s mentally damaged or he’s a coming out of a bunker in a full SS uniform.  But yes it matters if our President is mentally deficient, a white hooded bigot, both or simply on the cusp of a brain hemorrhage. Any of these reasons are grounds to remove him. How scary is that that this is how we are discussing our President. Just imagine Trump is a Nazi, how nerve racking is that? Look what Adolph did with his weapons, look what Donald could do with our nations nuclear arsenal. 

Of course with all that I’ve just written, again, this Nazi infatuation, this possibly White Supremacist hidden life, even the KKK sleep overs, could all be simply another Trumpian deflection. As with everything we’ve lived through in the past, as the truth of his and their crimes become more and more apparent, the deflections get more and more insane. We went from Mueller’s possible firing, to a nuclear spit ball spat with North Korea, Venezuela and even Guam. Now we’re onto Nazis and the KKK, in a single week! How sad, looking back at the attacks on Hillary Clinton, I almost long for them all now. How sweet, how innocent, compared to what we are dealing with now. 

The Republicans warned us how terrible it would have been if she became President. How it would be non-stop hearings, impeachment talk and nothing would ever get done in Washington. So now that we’ve stepped into reality and not made-up fake news that Fox faux news helped spawn, how many of you out there would now give their own left arms to have the Republican attacks dogs still going after Hillary as before, just as long as the orange faced buffoon wasn’t now the President. So I end this as I began it, the President takes a vacation, what could go wrong?  Hm, possibly everything!

Just one man’s opinion
© Neil Feigeles, Neilizms, Saturday, August 19, 2017

Wednesday, August 02, 2017

SIX MONTHS IN, OUR PRESIDENT IS TALKING ABOUT PARDONING HIMSELF… YUP, ITS GOTTEN THAT BAD

Bravo to the three “brave” Senators who voted no, but as Obamacare dodged another bullet, no one’s talking about the 49 Senators who voted yes for the ‘skinny’ bill, they need to go!

WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK IT, in the span of a few days I went from wishing the worst of John McCain, to wanting to erect a statue in his honor. Talk about an emotional nerve-wrecking bunch of days, as the nations citizens pondered life without any health insurance. So on the big night of the big vote I was coming home from a job. I discovered on Facebook, that a live video transmission of the Senate vote to repeal Obamacare was taking place. As usual at that time of night, there was no local buses so I walked the 30 blocks home. Which gave me plenty of time to watch the bill go down in flames as it was happening. Talk about walking on pins and needles listening as the people who we elected decide the futures of millions of American lives. Seriously evil doings are going down on Capital Hill these days. Willing to hurt millions to give your benefactors millions of dollars of tax breaks, pretty much ranks up there with conceiving of gas chambers to annihilate entire races of people. Yes I went there.Listening to the Republican talking heads argue that we should blame those who voted against the Republican healthcare bill was making my stomach sick. Mitch and his murderers row of Republican Senators pulled a pile of manure from out their asses. They gave very little time to peruse it, and then tried to kill the nation’s healthcare in the middle of the night. Unbelievably, this version of their bill was 8 pages long and was scribbled down during lunch, and they are complaining that they couldn’t pass it? Three Republicans said no, so it’s their fault, not because the bill sucked moose. No accusations thrown at the 49 fools who voted for this monstrous bill, seems they were in the right. Plus I shouldn’t forget to blame the Democrats, if just a few of them had said yes, the national nightmare known as Obamacare would be a thing of the past. Right Trumpeters? Fools like Hugh Hewlett are angry that the 3 Senators refused to vote for something that supposedly the Republicans didn’t really want to enact in the first place. Seems they really weren’t happy with it, but they made that damned pledge to slay the dragon so Obamacare had to go no matter how pathetic the legislation was. The idiots should be angry this was what they came up with, not that some political leaders with a conscience voted no. They should be angry that this was what your leaders thought was acceptable for Americans, not that they voted it down. Seriously what is wrong with these bloodthirsty monsters, oh that’s right, they’re bloodthirsty freaking monsters who have no humanity in their souls.  

So as yet another bombshell dropped, I had a thought. Seems I might have figured out what we’ve been dealing with with the Trump Presidency. Simply put, the election was an earthquake, and the hourly bombshells are its aftershocks. Years ago I lived in Hollywood, and experienced the Earth moving on too many occasions. In fact right before I moved back I visited a cousin in San Francisco, and you guessed it, I was there during the famous 1989 World Series. But to me what was worse then the quakes were the aftershocks. Because you could spend weeks feeling the earth jolt beneath your feet, as opposed to the one jolt which woke you up in the middle of the night. It was after one specific after shock which was actually stronger than the quake that started the latest jolts that finally made me decide to leave the West Coast for good. Right now, I kind of feel the same way I did then. Just too much, please, enough. If there is such a thing as Trump fatigue, I’ve got it bad. There is too much being thrown at us on a daily, if not hourly basis. It feels like I’ve hit a wall, or is that the wall has hit me? I mean where do you start? 

So many bombshells being dropped on us, at such a pace that I seriously need a time out. Talk about a conundrum, each time I start to focus on one event, something unbelievably crazier or more important occurs. Just in the last week we’ve witnessed or read about Jared Kushner’s testimony and all that goes with that. Juniors and the Trumpeters never ending lies trying to cover up their recently disclosed nothing burger of a get together with possibly a town hall filled with Russians. The latest update is that daddy Trump, actually dictated what Juniors initial response was gonna be. Not that he okayed it, not that he helped rewrite it, but that he concocted the lie. Its pretty amazing as the revelations about this come out, how many of the Trumpeters get caught in their own web of lies. Tell me Donald, if you didn’t do anything why do you keep making things up. Why do you keep trying to cover up crimes, if they never happened?

Amazingly that wasn’t the only thing, that occurred, but just the appetizer. Lets not forget, Donald’s never ending attacks on Jeff Sessions. Jeff don’t resign, you can actually feel Donny shaking in his boots these days, as his world is imploding on itself. Please make the fool fire you. Please make Trump cause the Constitutional crisis, not you. But as we ride the incredible roller coaster we are all riding on these days, amazingly instead of Jeff Sessions getting the heave ho, it turned out Reince Priebus got the pink slip. Or according to Reince, he resigned the day before. Which makes the fact that after whatever occurred ass backward. You see after this, Reince went to Long Island with Trump to witness the Mad King’s latest stomp speech embarrassment, on his never ending, ‘I’m the President damn it, why doesn’t everybody love me tour?’

To put a cherry on top, the man who campaigned on being the friend to the LGBTQ community, or whatever initials he threw out incorrectly, just tweeted he wanted to kick out all transgender members of the military. According to the Trumpeters, this was about cost and being considerate to them, not about homophobia. A few hours after that obnoxious tweet became the latest fire storm, word came out that Jeff Sessions was gonna try to push back against gay rights. You see the Trump administration’s Department of Justice is arguing that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, does not protect gays, only African Americans. Seems President Barack Obama went too far, again. How dare he make ‘them’ equal in the eyes of the law? Is it a bad thing that as each new revelation get trumpeted out, that inside I’m dancing for joy? When it was announced that ‘almost’ Trump communications director Anthony Scaramucci, was fired even before he officially was hired for it, I practically jumped for joy. I guess he did his job, Reince is gone. But in so doing, the Joe Pesci of the Trump administration lost his wife for selling his soul, to as Hillary perfectly called him, Putin’s puppet.

But out of all the events this past week, at present, and most importantly to the millions of American’s whose life was on the precipice of death, Mitch McConnell’s failure to jam his heinous heath care bill gleefully down the Senate’s throats failed once more. So at least the citizens of this nation could rest easy for the next few days. That is till they try their next attack on humanity. Hopefully they actually do what John McCain suggested in his heartfelt speech. Lets do it the old fashioned way, as opposed to another midnight jam session. All that said, what a week Donald J. Trump had. While no literal smoking gun, we’ve been presented with enough could be’s to make anyone who loved Democracy drool. To those of us who practically pray on bended knee each night that our current President might actually be leaving earlier then expected, this has been a week like few others. The dreams of those of us who are still aching for a Hillary Clinton administration, the end of this nation’s nightmare, the presidency of Donald J. Trump, can’t come soon enough. 

Each day, well each hour, we get more and more evidence that our President or at least a number of Trumpeters conspired to, or colluded with Russian associated folk who in one way or the other helped elect our current liar in chief. I can only imagine what the should be President, Hillary Rodham Clinton must be thinking, as each revelation is revealed. Her warning to all of us that sounded to some like crazy talk appears more and more to be what actually happened. I can honestly say I was one of those who believed her spiel about Russian entanglements, and I got the blog posts to prove it. But nothing she warned us about prepared me for what we’ve learned and witnessed so far. Nobody could have predicted it would be the President’s son, who in future history books, might be considered the smoking gun in this historical moment in time. 

Of course if you listen to Fox Faux News or one of the Trumpeters, it is eye-opening witnessing how the spin is being spun for all of us in Trumpland. Their pitch, the Russian thing never happened, or even better that Hillary Clinton was the one doing it boggles the mind. So what are we to believe, Hillary was in on it, but they doublecrossed her and instead helped the true patriot? Not that he knew anything about it, of course. Is that what you want us sheep to believe? Lets disregard entirely the sanctions bill that overwhelmingly passed which the Congress pretty much forced Trump to sign. Today after a few long days of waiting, this morning he finally did. But instead of having a big event on national television, showcasing that he signed a bill, Donald put his autograph on the bill almost as if he was trying not to. Seems he’s pissed that the Congress could do this, but not pass healthcare reform. Oh, and he kind of made it sound like he would follow the bill, instead of saying this was now the law of the land and what it says he would do. In other words, Donald won’t be following the rules of law, again, unless that is, if he can make some money off of it. 

Adding to the pile of revelations, its turning out that one of the many disgusting things Fox News did, using the death of Seth Rich during the campaign as an attack against Hillary Clinton was possibly pushed by Donald J. Trump. Yes, let me explain that a bit more coherently. Fox news misquoted Rod Wheeler, a former DC homicide detective on air. Why this is this important? Fox news, tried to pitch this lie as proof that Trump and the Russian collusion scandal was simply fake news. That the real criminal in all this was Seth Rich, a former employee of the Democratic National Committee who had colluded with Russia not them. Whats really disgusting about all this, Seth Rich is dead! The man was murdered in what looks like a robbery. But as of now, the police are still investigating. So instead of focusing on that and who or why he was murdered? It appears their pitch was that he was murdered because he was colluding with Russia. I guess Hillary put a hit out on him? So they tried to destroy the name of a man who died in a still unsolved crime, by tarnishing Hillary Clinton. And, why this is important? Our President wanted this to be what the people were talking about, not reality. Could you imagine if you were Seth Rich’s family? Not only dealing with a loved one’s murder, but the political might of Fox Faux News tainting the man’s very history. Even after the supposed news outlet came out and explained they were wrong, their talking heads still pitched the lies as truth all for political gain. Sean Hannity was of course the loudest cheerleader of the lies. This all came out because of a law suit by Rod Wheeler, wanting to clear his name. So lets get this straight, again, like with Juniors big meet, Donald lied to cover up his illegalities. The scariness of it all is how many people out there still swallow their lies whole. I mean who are we to believe, our lying President or the fake news truthers? According to the Trumpeters, its all a liberal, excuse me, a Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama loving delusional lie that Americans are being fed by the likes of CNN, NBC, The Washington Post and whomever doesn’t fall in line. It appears, all of these hurtful and jealous unjust attacks are hiding Trump’s huge successes as President. Its like we’re living in two worlds at once, reality and whatever one the Trumpeters can concoct.  

If you watch the ridiculous propaganda ads that the Trump reelection committee is pitching to the masses, you actually might think that, wow, the man is the greatest President who has ever led this nation. No, seriously, if I had been asleep since election day, and had had amnesia about the last year and a half or so, this winning bull that they are pitching wouldn’t be so delusional. The other day, Trump said something, that as usual just made you shake your head no. According to Donald, Trump’s the second greatest President who ever sat in the White House. Seems in Trump’s generosity of spirit, he allowed Abraham Lincoln to be considered a little better than him. Someone needs to explain to the moron that others decide where you land in the history books, not your own personal insane and stupefying opinion. I sometimes sit back and marvel between fits of rage, at the alternate reality they keep pitching us. I find it ironic that after years, actually decades of never-ending conspiracies against Hillary, unbelievably after just a few months of drip, drip, drip allegations against Trump, that this according to them, is now destroying our very democracy. Get a grip folks, the only thing that’s putting our democracy in danger is what the Trumpeters are doing, not the investigation into if our current President shouldn’t be in the Oval Office. In the scheme of things, that in fact might be the thing that actually saves democracy from extinction.

Just one man’s opinion
© Neil Feigeles, Neilizms, Wednesday, August 2, 2017