THE STATE OF OUR UNIOM… UNION IS… PRETTY MUCH IN A WORD SAD

So now after Trump’s pathetic showcase of reading a speech, the alleged smoking gun to end the “witch hunt” concocted by Devin Nunes and Trump himself has again showcased all they ever do is make stuff up and lie 

THIS PROVES ONE THING, DONALD NEVER READS and definitely watches way too much Fox Faux News for our nation’s own good. Talk about the perfect representation of what’s wrong with everything we are currently suffering through, a typo on invitations for the sheep who were planning on attending Trump’s latest attempt to try to read presidentially. Sadly this wasn’t the first but one of many screw-ups by those in Trump’s inner circle, who seemingly have never heard about spell check or proof readers. But come on, this was the State of the Union, the one time during the year when our ‘elected’ leader gets to go on television and showcase what a great job he or she did, and how they were planning on fixes for whatever problems that weren’t overhauled during the preceding year. 

I must write at the start that I honestly refused to watch the event, and still haven’t. Sorry, I just couldn’t. Not this year, not while this clown still has the title of President of the United States. The last time I missed one George Walker Bush was President, and sorry the only thing I wanted to hear from him was I screwed up. That he had started a war with the wrong nation on false Intel or worse, and caused our economy to implode with his tax cuts and never ending war. Sadly I am still awaiting that apology, and I am definitely waiting for some members of the Bush Walker White House to get the punishments that some if not all surely deserve. Other then than that I’ve never missed one. Even when Ronald Reagan was President, and I worried myself sick that any day World War 3 was gonna start I watched. I booed and shouted at my television, but I witnessed history in the making that at least came with a semblance of reality. Even if his reality was slightly off-kilter.

So after a year of Trump spouting off lies, tweeting like his life depended on it, and his never-ending attacks on others for simply doing their jobs, while systematically it appears on an agenda to destroy our very Democracy from the inside out, I decided to miss out on his version of history. I’m sorry how much more can one human being take before his television set becomes a victim of his shall we say dissatisfaction in how our world has turned into a perpetual nightmare. I know this speech is supposed to show us where our nation has been and where the person in charge is gonna be taking us, but I’m sorry I simply couldn’t stomach one more minute, let alone an hour or more of Donald reading off nonsense that most likely could be the first time he himself is learning about it what he’s reading. 

Some of my friends told me that I have to watch to see and hear it from my own perspective, especially since I write a blog about politics and definitely would be putting my two cents in. That listening to other interpretations of what he said, instead of hearing it on my own, makes me in some ways as bad as those who spout nonsense off on Fox that seemingly comes from their overseers in Moscow. That missing it, and discovering via others who had to sat through it, or as I can imagine suffered through it, wasn’t the proper thing to do if I was planning on writing an editorial dissecting the word salad that others had written for him. I guess you, the reader will be the judge if my missing it, helped or hindered my opinion of his big moment to shine a light on all of his accomplishments.

That said, after listening to how the speech was criticized and destroyed by most, and seeing the little of it that I could stomach, I think the best part of the speech was the fact that I was smart enough not to sit through it. Not to suffer listening to pretty much gibberish. It was refreshing for once to hear people not say how Presidential he was because he could read the TelePrompTer and behave like an adult. I thought MSNBC’s Chuck Todd actually made a bigger fool of himself, then usual when he seemed upset that Donny was boring and that during this big event he wasn’t “authentic” Trump. I guess, meaning a pathetic Don Rickles insult double, spewing hatred and insults to everyone who doesn’t bow down to his treasonous immoral impulses? Which is pretty much how Chuck Todd described it. I wish I was kidding, but Chuck actually was longing for a little off the cuff Trumpisms. While listening to him whine about Donald, I simply shook my head and said to myself, this is whats wrong with our political talking heads today, especially after listening to him for once bitch on and on and on about longing for a real leader to run our nation. No Chuck, honestly the only good thing about the event was that he didn’t go off script. What are we to make of the sad excuse for whats happening right in front of our eyes? The non-stop applause by Donald, for the things he just read off the TelePrompTer was kind of unnerving, even if seen only through clips of the event. Yes, the madness of King Drumpf gets more apparent every day, while his minions get more and more stuck in the muck that he or his associates got us in, in the first place. As their lies protecting their cherished cheeto faced president, get wackier and more insane each day then anyone could have believed possible.

We spent weeks being teased about the Nunes memo release. Seriously, the more they try to showcase that the whole thing is a left wing witch hunt conspiracy concocted to help Hillary Clinton and hurt Donald Trump, the more they look idiotic and all in on the crime. Seems a Russian troll named Carter Page who somehow got in bed with Donald, after years of working in Russia, is who they have decided to hang their hats on to defend their President or should I write their Führer. Seriously? This Bozo? Supposedly the anti FBI intelligence memo was going to be the smoking gun that would take out the Democrats and seemingly at the same time put the FBI into the grave. As usual with attacks by Republicans its always “bigger than Watergate” and that any public officials named in it would be sent to prison because of its shocking and anti American revelations. This sham concocted by fools was gonna prove without a shadow of doubt that everyone is against Donald. The FBI, the CIA, anyone who didn’t vote for him, that means the majority of citizens, and of course means the Democrats who according to Trump are now treasonous because they refused to give him any applause at his State of the Union fiasco. I presume the man in orange has never watched a State of Union address, because if he did he would know this is just standard protocol by the political parties not to give an inch to their adversaries. But with Donald, somehow he keeps forgetting he’s a President and not a Czar, Dictator or leader of communist nation.  

What gets me with this whole fiasco is that the members of Congress who have decided to work for Donald as opposed to the people who actually elected them, went against precedent and demanded to see the FBI transcripts against the wishes of everyone who isn’t in bed with Trump. Then after weeks of wrangling to get them, and having won that round, they obnoxiously did exactly what some of us worried about. They used the Intel, that nobody was supposed to ever see to not to seek the truth in what happened during the also election. But to instead try to end the investigation into the possibility that Donald J. Trump had stolen Hillary Clinton’s Presidency. Remember in the end we are describing what is the stealing of a presidency, with the assistance of a foreign government. For some reason, thats the one thing that all of these Republican fools keep forgetting to discuss. That crime, doesn’t seem to matter. According to Trumps minions colluding with a foreign country against our own isn’t criminal, but being the saint, who uncovered the crime is. The old lets attack the whistle blower defense.

So after a 24/7 onslaught by Fox News, as well as the Republican talking heads beating the drum that this memo had to be seen by the American people for transparency purposes, the Republicans on a straight party line vote handed Donald what they hoped would be his get out of jail card for free. Hysterically or is that sadly, neither Senator David Nunes or Donald J. Trump himself ever actually read the 4 page memo that supposedly was gonna exonerate the 45th President. I should say, that yes I did read the 4 page memo after reading Trump’s tweets announcing to the world that the memo proves that he’s innocent. That according to him, there is no collusion, it’s all fake news, and all of the conspiracies against him should all be called false and simply be forgotten. So he can enjoy the rest of his tenure as leader of the land of Trumptopia and do as many crimes as King Joffrey desires.  

A few days after the initial memo was released, except for Fox news of course, its actually had the opposite effect on people’s opinions then the Trumpeters had hoped or had well, trumpeted. Happily for democracy, it seems most people who are in the know, or who have actually read the memo have come out to say it showcases that Carter Page’s part of the investigation wasn’t what started people’s questions about the Trumps and their ties to Russia. Especially when in the very last paragraph of the memo it states that he in fact wasn’t the reason for the investigation. Something happened earlier which got the Fed’s juices flowing, and his name is George Papadopoulos who as we remember has already secretly pled guilty to lying to federal agents about his contacts with Kremlin-connected Russians. The fact is Carter Page was already under investigation way before he even got involved, proves the investigation currently taking place had nothing to do with any dossier. It had to do with all the other oddball and frankly criminal like behavior apparently everybody associated with Donald has been doing for years, or least for as long as they’ve been involved with Trumps political career.

So the question has to be, why go through all that process of distorting the facts, destroying precedent again, to try to help Donald get away with crimes against the state? Why? I understand if its to save your own bacon or the people you love, but for Trump, again why? I mean if you sold your soul for political or financial gain and the slop about to hit the fan, I get why some would do practically anything to muddy the waters to try to save themselves from a prison sentence or even better a firing squad. But if you’re gonna do it, shouldn’t you do it when its not such a pathetically bad attempt at a cover-up? I guess the good thing in all this is how pathetic the Trumpeters are when it comes to this espionage game. Every day, since day one, its been there own ineptitudes that in the end will be the reason they all wind up behind bars or on death row. 

So then the Democrats got all excited about having their own memo released, arguing in Congress and everywhere possible that their’s which incidentally was approximately 10 pages long, needed to be released as well. Listening to the talking heads argue for and against this memo’s release is sadly also politically motivated. Some were using the fact that nothing in the republican memo revealed actually helped Trump’s defense, so why bother releasing another memo that might expose too much Intel? Apparently, as is the case with those voices, only Donald is allowed to break precedent. But the Democrats are having none of it, using the Republicans own talking points, the old ‘for the sake of transparency’ pitch to push the concept that the people have the right to get a clearer sense of whats really in the Intel and not some partisan memo possibly co-written in the oval office to be the only story that comes out. So on Monday, February 5, 2017, after the Democrats got step one of their wishes approved, when the Congressional members of the Intelligence committee voted unanimously to push their side of the story onto Donald’s big presidential desk, just a week after the Republicans had voted ‘no’ on a straight party line vote to releasing the Democratic memo. But after the Republican’s voted to allow their memo out, and it was unveiled to reveal what a joke they had allowed, they pretty much had no choice but to go against even themselves. Hm, seems something must of happened to make them go, maybe Donald needs to make a fool of himself on his own, without themselves joining in on the fun. 

Of course, the problem being, to get the Democrat’s side of the story out, Trump has to approve the release of their memo, which it turns out he decided not to. Thats right, the liar lied again. You see  when he was asked if he would also release the Democratic memo because he had already allowed the republican one, he said yes he would. I just wonder how many people actually believed he would release the memo at all? I kept hearing that he pretty much had to after releasing the Republican joke, but when has the orange faced bozo ever done what was expected of him? What I don’t understand in all this is even a monster named Trey Gowdy said the Republican memo doesn’t really help Trump. Seems even Trey believes going after Carter Page and the FBI for this conspiracy has nothing to do with Trump’s colluding with Russia. Donny was then given 5 days to allow its release, edit the Hell out of it and then release it, or decide not to at all. I for one didn’t think he would let it come out at least in its current form, and sadly I was right. Because it was announced early on Friday evening, February 9, 2018, that he blocked the release of the Democrats’ rebuttal to the GOP FISA memo. He wants edits in it, because the memo had too much information. The Republican talking heads argue that too many facts and truths are in it, and the Democrats knew that Donald would have to turn it down. Ironically the Trumpeters are calling the Democratic memo a stunt as opposed to their interpretation of the Intel that they came up with out of the Hellholes. Seems, they not the Republicans are playing political games. If you believe that bull, I have a bridge I can sell you.  

Currently we are on a holding pattern. According to some reports online, the Democrats actually can legally release their memo without Trump’s say so. But knowing the democrats they won’t because they don’t want to be accused of being the bad guy. No, they would rather have Donny and his minions go after them, attack them on trumped up bull, and hope it doesn’t hurt their own political futures. I also heard that if necessary the Democrats could read their memo into the record on the House floor. Knowing the talking heads, no matter what they do, somehow Trump will twist any positive into a negative. 

As we wait to see if Robert Mueller gets to finish his job, or if he gets canned by Donald before he does. We must ponder if he’s allowed to complete his mission, if it is better if he finishes before the next election or after it. Because at present it looks like the democrats will regain control of either the House, the Senate or both. If they do, its more likely that we would be seeing an Impeachment, especially if Mueller comes out with what we expect him to come out with. But if he finishes up  before election day and the Republicans are still in control, even if Mueller comes out and destroys Donald, its probably a sure bet that they would simply ignore the findings. Of course if the investigation ends and the facts clearly showcase that Donald and his minions did collude with Russia and that Trump did in fact obstruct justice, it is possible Republicans do exactly what their predecessors did during the Richard Nixon Watergate event. One would hope, they would do the right thing and help to remove him from the office he never should have been in, in the first place. But its probably safer waiting for election day anyway. Of course the longer he’s in office, the more damage he’ll be able to inflict upon our nation. Well I guess keep weathering the storm people, its got to get better right? God forbid it just keeps getting worse.     

 Just one man’s opinion
© Neil Feigeles, Neilizms, Monday, February 12, 2018 

IT TOOK THE SH*THOLE A WHOLE YEAR TO SHUT DOWN OUR GOVERNMENT… KUDOS DONALD I WAS EXPECTING LESS!

After hundreds of thousands marched against Trump, seems a year with Donald hasn’t made it better. I guess now we will see if Chuck’s gamble proves he’s the real dealmaker in Washington that Trump kept telling everybody he was.

VLADIMIR MUST BE ONE HAPPY PUPPET MASTER… seems the games he’s played to help elect Donald J. Trump is working out better than he possibly ever conceived. Putin may not have had those nasty adoption sanctions weakened… Sorry, couldn’t resist. We all know by now, that the something burger of the forgotten meetings and assorted phone calls had nothing to do with kids, and everything to do with selling our nation off to the rich pals of the President of Russia. That is unless you can’t get your head out of the Fox faux news world of alternate reality lies that they keep coming up with. 

It is really something listening to the Republicans spin their attacks on the Democrats for causing the shutdown over “illegal immigrants” as they like to call the Dreamers. How simply despicable they are, throwing bread crumbs for months that they were willing to discuss and negotiate. Giving the dreamers real hope a deal could be forged and Sir Orangeness could actually sign it into law. But of course, each time we hear about lots of talk, seemingly good vibes, and positive talking points by those political leaders involved nothing ever comes of it. In the end they always pull away, or Mitch or Paul won’t ever put it up for a vote. Trump made The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) an issue when he rescinded President Barack Obama’s executive action. The Republicans using The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) as a carrot throwing it in at the end, but still refusing to add DACA into the deal which caused the Democrats and several Republicans to vote no to keeping the lights on. 

Giving the Democrats an awful choice. Having to take a stand, and for once showcase they do have a spine or give in. Be “good”American patriots, and just go along with the charade that a few crumbs would come the Democrats and the people’s way if they just bowed down and blew the orange faced doofus in charge. Sadly whenever one of these votes or initiatives occur and the Dreamers get pushed aside, some blame the Democrats for not succeeding. When if it wasn’t for them, they wouldn’t even have a voice. I can’t blame them, we are discussing their very lives, but be careful how you attack the very people who are trying to help. Hopefully this decision to side with the children of foreign born visitors who walked the shores of the United States, won’t give Trump the thing he needed to jolt the electorate to his side of his new world order. 

For a man, Vladimir’s Donny, who only a few days back spoke of his love for these dreamers, it is really eye-opening to realize that this imposter of a President, would utter such words when in his heart he never believed a thing he said. Not that many of us thought what he was saying was nothing more than bull and all he was doing was just putting on a show for the masses. If you can describe all the months of in your face white supremacy talking points, or the badly veiled racist commentary as just asides and not proof that Trump was a bigoted douche bag. But if you consider at the same time our political leaders were trying to hammer out a budget deal, which includes immigration decisions and most importantly of course the DACA recipients, it is pretty I should say timely for Trump to have been quoted calling African countries and other foreign lands with predominately non-white citizens as sh*thouses. 

Remember that big 90 minute television reality event, when he had what 20 members of the Congress sit around him pitching ideas? The Trumpeters trying desperately to showcase Donald’s mind hadn’t completely slipped away. Remember how he agreed with any and all suggestions thrown at him? I distinctly remember our President, well not mine, responded and made a big point that he would sign off on anything that came to his desk. Even if he wasn’t happy about it, no questions asked. Sadly with Mr. Jello as Chuck has categorized his way of deal making, Donald has showcased on too many occasions that he seems to have completely forgotten his own words. But that’s okay, he’ll come up with something new tomorrow and the day after that, and the day after that. Each time the question is put to him, he keeps denying straight faced that he had ever said the words in the first place even if its on tape or on audio. Consistency isn’t his middle name.  

So the Democrats now should have a definite political talking point they can run on. Showcasing that they are the party of inclusion and democracy. That there is a difference between the party of us and the party of well, rich white people. Well I’m proud of the Democrats, my party, for once putting your foot down. It doesn’t happen too often, but when it does its always for a good thing. Unlike the republicans who shut the Government down over giving people healthcare! 

Perhaps the Democrats finally learned. Especially after all the hypocrisy that we’ve been smacked in the faces with that they all pull on a never-ending daily basis. One would think that this is a slam dunk political move too, but sadly the vile trumpeting Republicans as usual have already found their attack line and the media is already reporting that apparently its working. 

The attack by the Trumpeters is that Democrats are with the illegals that kill our innocent American born children. You know all those Mexicans, all those brown sweaty ugly foreigners streaming over the border to rape, steal and kill our babies! Those are the Dems priority not us, the true Americans. There’s a new disgusting political ad by the committee to reelect Trump and Pence, that actually uses the words “Democrats who stand in our way will be complicit in every murder committed by illegal immigrants.” You can’t make this up and I so wish I was kidding. This is how the political right operate, always going to the lowest vile attack they can come up with. Always finding a way to attack others as un-American when they are the ones acting like savage racist beasts. They have no problems using racism and hatred as a way to separate Americans. 

Budget director Mick Mulvaney, spun the shutdown in the most ironic way. “The Democrats got the shutdown that they wanted on his anniversary.” Ironic in my eyes since, it was his ineptitude and disinterest in doing the job. His unbelievable outbursts and odd behavior that got us to this point not the Democrats or even the Republicans. The original woman’s march might’ve never occurred or at least have become such a phenomenon if the man with too many skeletons in his closest hadn’t become President.

On the 2nd anniversary of the woman’s march which was launched in protest to the realization that the male chauvinist pig known as Donald J. Trump had somehow beaten the most qualified candidate to ever run for President, Hillary Rodham Clinton, who just happened to be a woman. It’s really eye opening how pathetic the man has been, possibly even worse than most of us feared. Every stomp speech he spewed, every talking point that has become his mantra, he has either done the opposite of, or simply blamed everyone else for his own failures. Half the time the man sound paranoid or delusional making people ponder if our President has lost his mind like Reagan did during his Presidency. Nothing is ever his fault. Everyone but him is lying and against his wishes. He is the only one telling the truth and we should only believe him and his Trumpeters. 

Any and all of his success so far as the sitting President can be squarely put on the shoulders of his predecessors brilliant job of handling our economy. Even the supposed surge in the stock market probably has more to do with the 8 year turn around that President Barack Obama took us on and nothing to do with Donald’s power to come up with great deals. So according to his puppets his so-called tax deal which really hasn’t begun effecting anything is being used to showcase what a genius he is. For a few days after the big robbery was signed off on, we got several major corporations announcing pay raises and bonuses, which were attributed to Trump. But unnervingly we’ve gotten a lot more businesses beginning to announce more layoffs, including some who announced those bonuses and raises. So if you compare the two sides, it might turn out to be a wash. Meaning, the greedy bastards, pocketed the gift that Donald handed them, gave some people a raise, but canning others, so probably in the end their costs are actually less. 

Oh and about those raises they touted as something of huge significance, I wouldn’t be shocked if all of them had more to do with the minimum wage being lifted than the corporations suddenly growing a heart. Remember how people voted in their states to raise that states minimum wage, well those raises kicked in. None of which has anything to do with Donald or the Republicans. In fact, several Republican people in charge have cancelled or tried to lessen the minimum wage increase. Yes they are that monstrous. 

One year in, this has got to be the longest one I can ever actually remember in my lifetime. As Senator Chuck Schumer perfectly expressed, the man can’t say yes to anything, even if the very same day he already said he would just hours before. The Republicans have the audacity to come out and blame Chuck for the shutdown, but it was Mitch who refused to put up for vote a bill that the Senate had worked up in a bipartisan manner the night before they voted to shut it down, believe it or not. It was Donald who changed his mind, not the democrats on at least two deals that were agreed upon. 

It was Trump, and no one else, who decided to end President Barack Obama’s DACA Executive Decision, and It was the Republicans who decided to use the CHIP program as a bargaining tool. Imagine how God awfully inhumane you must be to use the lives of innocent children and adults for political purposes. Well sadly you don’t have to, its real, and they’ve been doing it for as long as I can remember. So now after months of teasing the Democrats with a possible deal, when the offer was on the table, instead of actually doing the right thing, they chose to shut the government down. And the carrot they are hanging over the Democrats heads is that they would come back to the table and hammer out a bill, if they end this nonsense tamper tantrum.  

Paul Ryan, I gotta ask is he trying to see if he can lie as badly as Donald does? Paul, just so you know, if no one else has told you, when you do it, when you lie,  it’s actually easier to tell you are full of … than practically anyone else. So the talking point, the words he’s memorized for this battle for his America’s soul. His coming out and spewing that the Democrats are all at fault is seriously dumb. Its not me, we love the dreamers. Its not us, its all on them. According to them, they’ve been angels trying their hardest to fix the sh*thouse that President Obama left. Its was the liberal monsters that caused the shutdown over the Dreamers, not we, we love them, we would do anything for them, accept of course vote on a measure to finally get some peace in their lives. Besides they have plenty of time, months! Plenty, so why the heck would they pull a stunt like this? Its baffling, and bewildering! It makes no sense. These are Ryan’s talking points. Disregarding the years he and his cronies tried to shut down out government over Obamacare. Oh Senator Cruz… sorry your Green Eggs and Ham filibuster isn’t something any of us will ever forget. We will try… but sadly what you pulled, shutting down the government is something that will be put on your tombstone.

Ryan keeps repeating that this wasn’t something that needed to be done today. That this shutdown wasn’t necessary, but the Democrats refused to be the good soldier and just go with the flow. Not us, we love those dreamers. After the Democrats agree, they would work on the deal, we promise. The dog and pony show we’ve seen before. I’m sorry liar, I don’t believe you and I haven’t probably since I heard you say your first words on air spouting some rant about killing off Social Security and medicare. As for plenty of time, every day people lose their DACA coverage, not in months. Theirs live hang in the balance. We all know how this goes, the republicans will kick this can down the road, till all the dreamers have to leave the country or go into hiding like their parents did for decades. 

One of the funniest things occurred as the march throughout the land began, Donald tweeted out a message to all the ladies, basically making him sound like a delusional nut job. “Beautiful weather all over our great country, a perfect day for all Women to March. Get out there now to celebrate the historic milestones and unprecedented economic success and wealth creation that has taken place over the last 12 months. Lowest female unemployment in 18 years!”  @realDonaldTrump

I gotta ask, would you describe that tweet as one written by a supposedly sane person? Did you see Dr. Jerry’s assessment of Donald’s health? Wow, talk about fake news. If I was Trump, I think I would want a second opinion. Perhaps Trump is dying and the good doc’s diagnosis was his way of covering up the truth. One day Donald will go golfing, and right after announcing he hit a hole in one, possibly his first ever, the man will kick the bucket. I mean come on people, the man looks like you could stick a pin in him and watch as he flies away like helium leaking out of a balloon.

So last night, the Dems, as some of called it, have given in. The shutdown was well, shut down, after 3 days, because Mitch supposedly made a promise with Chuck, and Chuck thought about it and went okay. Sadly too many in the Democratic party and way too many out there not into the conversation, are now attacking Chuck and the Democrats for giving up on them. I am now awaiting for the calls to remove the senior New York Senator as the Minority Leader. How could he fail all the DACA kids. Wake up people, the talking point that the democrats are bad was working. Chuck made the most logical decision, and I for one applaud the Democrat. I can actually see the truth and the genius of his deal. Simply put, this gives Mitch 3 weeks to make it so otherwise, shutdown number two of the Trump era begins. So now Mitch will at least put the vote up for the Dreamers and if they don’t when it comes to re-upping again to keep the Government running, don’t even ask Chuck to the table, he ain’t coming. When they have to vote again, for the next short term deal, Chuck will not give him the benefit of the doubt anymore. Because of Chuck’s move, now its all in the Republican hands. 

Now if Donald and his merry band of Democratic, big ‘D’ not small destroyers, pull more games, a shutdown will be all on him and them. The Democrats will rightly be looked at as the Party of the people, not the party of Illegals as Donald would like you think. And if the deal finally gets done the dreamers might finally be given legal status they all so much desire. The only question I now have, is if a deal is made on DACA, will next election day Donald be given the credit he’s gonna take on the deal? Or will the voters see the truth and vote out all the Republicans who used the negotiations to harm millions of innocent Americans as yet another way to hurt people of color? 

 Just one man’s opinion
© Neil Feigeles, Neilizms, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 

HAPPY NEW YEARS TO US ALL, AS DONALD’S PRESIDENCY BEGINS IMPLODING IN A BLAZE OF FIRE AND FURY… APPARENTLY ITS AS INSANE INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE AS MOST OF US FEARED

I never thought I say this, but thank you Stephen K. Bannon. As famous break-ups go, Trump’s and his former Alt-right pal might be one for the ages, as its ramifications could lead to the ending of a Presidency 

WHAT A WAY TO BRING IN THE NEW YEAR, as Stephen Bannon, once Donald’s most trusted partner in crime, has now been suddenly transformed into a pariah by the Trumpeters. Apparently treasonous Trump hasn’t learned the oldest rule in the book, if you drop one of your former friends or throw away a henchmen, you better make sure they can’t come back to bite you in the ass. One would think someone who has spent most of his business career and life dealing with shady characters would know that. Guess not.

Just remember sir, what you’ve accomplished together or what they helped you accrue, is now fodder for their own financial gain, self preservation and most importantly getting even with you, the person who kicked them out of their seats of power. For some reason when its time for any of the Trumpeters gooses to be cooked, why do I feel each and every one of the lot will probably sing to save themselves. I’m just wondering if any will be idiotic fools to take the punishment for the old man, and spend years in prison for the crimes Donald most likely committed.

Its becoming a daily thing and I’ve lost count how many times I’ve thought that we finally found the bombshell which could be the thing that puts the Trump Presidency in our nation’s rear view mirror. There’s got to be a law of averages, right? One of these days, one of these bombshells has to be one too many for even the staunchest believer in Donald’s America to take, right? At least one can hope, well at least I can, that something happens before its too late to save our Democracy and probably our planet. Am I the only one who fears for our actual world? That Donald’s nuclear button’s hugeness or should I write his madness, causes Kim Jong-un to test Trump by actually pushing his own very tiny button and the end of life as we know it begins?

Hopefully Thursday’s big seismic event could change or should I write shorten Donald’s time in office. It seems the political world erupted in the wee hours of the morning, when the publicity departments behind a new book by Michael Wolff entitled ‘Fire and Fury’ had their dreams fulfilled. As their advance word made the cable news media talking heads and the online world explode with excitement, accusation and all manner of overzealous political intrigue. Turning the book into a number one best seller that could help take down a President, even before it was released. Of course it probably won’t and as with all the other scandals that have rocked this White House, Donald will probably somehow make this one as frivolous as all the other potential terminators of Trumps master plan to take over the world.

I awoke with a news message on my iPhone’s screen informing me that Bannon and Trump were officially off as a couple. I then turned on my television and was slammed by non-stop chatter about that days latest unbelievable news worthy announcement. Helped mightedly by Donald J. Trump’s very own tweets, as well as Sarah Huckabee Sanders tone-deaf responses during that days political briefing, which pretty much blew apart any defense that Donald Trump and his Trumpeters had come up with. Of course taking sides when we are discussing treason in the Oval Office is the last thing people should be doing, but sadly is the only thing we’ve been seeing since Donald somehow transformed into the 45th President of the United States.

Hysterically Donald’s attorneys tried and failed to shut the book down before it was even published by firing off a cease and desist letter to the publisher. So to spite the threat of legal action, the publisher announced it would be released Friday, four days earlier than it was expected to come out. “So now Bannon has lost his mind”, that is according to one of Donald J. Trump’s tweets. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. But why do I feel like I’ve heard this song before? While you serve the devil, he loves you and counts the many ways you helped him. But once you go against his royal lowness, you are immediately a nut job, called a coffee boy, a nobody, and a fool thats making everything up. As with every previous former Trumpian who has fallen in disfavor of The Donald, as soon as you are disloyal, you earn a nickname, in this case “Sloppy Steve” and the wrath of all the players in Donald’s devious plans. Not surprisingly Steven has since tried to backtrack some of the quotes in the book, explaining that what he said was misinterpreted. That he still loved his papa bear with all his heart. Sorry for the misunderstanding and please don’t put me out to pastor. What a way to kiss up and try to win back his financial backers.

The joke about the break-up and not that I’ve read the instant number one best seller, and right now I honestly am not sure if I ever will. But according to Michael Wolff, the author of the book, yes, blockbuster expose isn’t about just Bannon going off on Donald, its about everyone, and I mean everyone going off on the would be King. According to the talking heads whose craniums are exploding over this, the book is actually about everyone in the White House thinking that Donald J. Trump is a blubbering in over his head lunatic. Simply put even they think this man acts like a child whose on the cusp of having Alzheimer’s disease.

Speaking of losing your mental capacity… watching him, at least the little we see of him lately, is getting to be a game of is he losing it or has he lost it already? If the book ‘Fire and Fury’ hasn’t proven anything, who know how much of it is in fact trumped up stories and made up gossip. But the best gossip is the kind that reads and sounds real and what has been showcased in the year and a half Donald has taken over our political world. It certainly has showcased what many of us think is true about whats going on behind the scenes, and it surely goes with the many comments that have been leaked throughout 2017. Plus seeing his reactions to it, his arguments that he’s a genius, that he’s stable, that he’s been honest 100% of the time, simply make him look and sound even crazier.

Oh about that limited time that we the people get to see his majesty, what gives? As far as I figure out since Donald was sworn in, he has had one press briefing. One, in an entire year as President. The only questions he ever answers that is if he chooses to, is when he’s on stage with foreign dignitaries or when he’s signing off on another one of his decrees. Otherwise the only way we knows he’s alive and kicking are his tweets, or when we see him while he golfs on his presidential tour of Trump properties, or when he’s seen reading teleprompters of speeches which he might be reading for the first time.

So I have to ask, what’s with the ‘Big Brother’ video at Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ press event? Makes you think the puppet smackdown that Hillary Clinton hurled at him during the debate was true. Actually it reminded me more of the Star Trek episode, “The Corbomite Maneuver” when the alien in order to strike fear in his foes, presents himself as a grotesque blue-skinned humanoid. Much like in ‘The Wizard of Oz’, whats behind the curtain turns out to be a meek little man. Well in the real world the man on the video tape is probably considered closer to obese and sadly he’s probably losing his mind. But whats really scary and oh so maddening is how his buddies in power are giving it a pass.

We’re almost one year in and Donald’s trying to play President very badly has only made all my worst fears seem like little nothings. I mean before it was a reality I had an inkling how bad it could be and yes wrote many a tirade about how unprepared, ill-equipped and out of his league he would be if God forbid he won the job. My worries about Hillary which were mostly stoked by the non-stop assault by the liars out there, was that she somehow wouldn’t get the job. Worrying about her abilities, her capabilities or her mental capacity never came to mind with her. I just worried that lies and conspiracies would take her down. Sadly with whats been in the news lately I find it still so upsetting, that before election day I was worried people wouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton, possibly the most qualified person ever to run for President, because she was a woman. That part of her loss has never really been discussed or put into the explanation by seemingly any of the talking heads for the reasons she isn’t the 45th President. 

Which brings me to the #MeToo revolution that has taken over our world and hopefully leading us all to a better place. As I finish this, I’ve just sat through this years Golden Globes Awards whose famous faces all were seen wearing the #Timesup pins. As someone who never appreciated the fashion show element of the awards season, I found this years decision by the women of Hollywood, to wear black as opposed to the color of the moment, made a striking visual comment. Seeing the men as well follow their female counterparts really was a nice touch too. Listening to all the powerful women make their statements was exciting to say the least, but Oprah Winfrey’s speech made me go, should we start discussing a run for her Presidency. I mean lets talk about universal love, about someone who can really make a speech, and actually be coherent. Talk about a person whose the total opposite of the man currently called the president of these United States.

I’m sure I’m not the first person to think the #MeToo movement really had its start with Donald J. Trump’s own bad behavior. Sadly I think the sweeping changes in our society, the firings and social media uprisings that have occurred recently, might have altered the final results if the election was occurring now as opposed to when the end of our nation began on election night. At least one would hope, if the Access Hollywood tape came out today, after the Harvey Weinstein and the Kevin Spacey revelations, helped destroy their careers, and several others, that if Donald was heard on a tape today, he wouldn’t have gotten away with grabbing any ladies by their P-ssy… don’t you?

I spend way a lot of time trying to believe our national nightmare is just a bad dream. Way too much of that time has been preoccupied trying to figure out how so many people could’ve been so fooled? And seriously too much time wondering how people like Sean Hannity can look at themselves in the mirror and how their viewers can watch him without their heads exploding from the share garbage that he’s spewing on a nightly basis. Hopefully someday soon we can all look back when this chapter in our nation’s history is over, that is if any of us survive it, and see that in the end it was a learning experience. One of those era’s that the human race had to live through and survive to get to the next level in its development. 

After we survived Nixon and Ford by getting in Jimmy Carter I had hoped we as a nation had learned. But sadly instead Ronald Reagan came into office. I for one wasn’t a fan and was extremely happy when Bill Clinton became President and seemingly set our nation on a course to the future.  But the chad got in the way and George Walker Bush with the help of his Vice President almost destroyed our nation. But again we were saved by a Democrat, when Barack Obama rescued us from the edge of disaster. I had hoped, when Hillary Clinton was on the horizon  the people had learned the lying game the Republicans always played and wised up and finally ended the vicious cycle. But sadly no, there are still too many people out there that never learn. You would think that after the almost full year of a disaster of a Presidency, that this time the wake-up call would finally end the madness. I have to believe it will this time, but if a fool who sent us into war with the wrong nation can somehow win a second term, why shouldn’t Donald? I should add that Donald is trying to compare himself to Reagan, which honestly is a really bad comparison. Remember Ronnie’s mind went, some say during his tenure as president, seems thats exactly what is happening to him.

As the ramifications of Fire and Fury reverberate, Donald and his Trumpeters are in full force defensive mold. Most of them except Jeff Sessions are meeting in Camp David and the rest of us have to wait to see if Democracy as we know it is a thing that went out with President Barack Obama. According to a lot of informed people, by the time I finish this, Jeff Sessions could be out on his posterior. Seems one scenario is Donald fires him, picks a new Attorney General who isn’t recused from the Russian Investigation and then he ends Mueller’s current gig. That’s right all the stuff that’s been uncovered so far, you know the secret, forgotten meetings that the Trumpeters attended I guess never happened. All the FBI Intel showcasing Russian electorate shenanigans were simply nothing to waste our time on. Just disregard the person behind the curtain.

Which means Democracy’s last and only hope to end our current national nightmare is the next election. Which brings be to the news we got this week that Trump dissolved his voter fraud commission. When people first heard the news there was practically dancing in the streets, but than the second shoe dropped. Apparently he has asked the Department of Homeland Security to review the findings that the commission’s vice chairman Kris Kobach and its committee had found. Simply put, they’re gonna use the Intel to stop people from voting somehow. 

Sadly, and I wish I was joking, but the ways things are going by the next time voting occurs, I have a scary feeling that voting might just be a thing of the past. The Republicans signaled as much when it was reported that they had requested that instead of investigating one of the probable Russian collaborators like Flynn or even Vice President Mike Pence, they want to go after Christopher Steele of the infamous Steel Dossier. Why cause he reported the crime to the authorities or that he outed the treasonous traitors? Well I guess if they shut down the Mueller investigation, lets see if the people rise up like never before and put a scare into the powers that be. Lets see if the Donald and his band of treasonous monsters meekly leave the White House before they’re all dragged by the rioters into the streets in a bloody mess, or if we let the bad guys win and the end of the democratic experiment would have been lost by America but won by Donald and his buddy Vladimir.

Just one man’s opinion

© Neil Feigeles, Neilizms, Monday, January 8, 2018 

DONALD PROMISED A HUGE CHRISTMAS PRESENT, SO WHY DOES IT FEEL LIKE WE JUST HAD A CHUNK OF COAL RAMMED UP OUR COLLECTIVE ASSES?

So Christmas came early for the Democrats as Alabama rejected Roy Moore and the Trump effect, so why does Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan always turn out to be Scrooges?

SO IT TURNS OUT, DONALD IS GETTING HIS TAX WINDFALL AFTER ALL, and the deficit hawk hypocritical Republicans can now blow up the deficit to their hearts content. Apparently all these patriotic Americans, who screamed to the heavens for years that we needed to cut the debt otherwise all Hell would break lose, now are happy to destroy everything to get their backers off their backs. Point blank, our elected officials it appears were blackmailed by their investors to either give them what wanted, the tax breaks, or lose their pocketbooks and eventually their jobs. If you look at the poll numbers, they’ve already lost their constituents, they can’t afford to lose the people who keep getting them into office, their owners. And just like with the Trump White House, way too many of these political leaders pocketbooks speak with a heavy Russian accent. I mean come on, did you hear Roy Moore speak Russian, I actually got chills, and not in the good way. 

What blows my mind in all this is how do these Senators and Congressmen get so damned rich while working in political office? I seem to recall how many of them complained that their pay wasn’t big enough to afford to live in two places, their home states and in Washington D.C., why isn’t that investigated? How is it okay, that these writers of the tax bill seemingly will be the only Americans, besides the corporate bigwigs of course, that makes out like bandits from this weeks nightmare legislation? Listening to the experts on air, all we hear all day and all night, without exception is that these Republicans in the majority just wrote themselves a big fat pay day. It goes without saying that the experts I’m talking about aren’t the ones on Fox faux news, who only want to spew conspiracies and ignore reality and facts. 

The new poster child for Republican hypocrisy is also the perfect example of why no one should ever believe a thing that any of the Republicans say. Bob Corker, the United States Senator from Tennessee, who until recently was the loudest Republican voice argued that he would be saying no to the tax bill because of the debt it would create. That he would never say yes to it unless there were changes in the legislation to fix his issues with it. How funny, amazingly the debt issue wasn’t fixed, but they did add an amendment at the last minute into the tax legislation, which supposedly will earn the Senator millions. Not surprisingly, but definitely infuriating, once that amendment was in, his vote changed from nay to yes. And a hash tag was born, #CorkerKickback. As for the debt problem, magically it all appears to be forgotten. Guess we’re back to magical thinking and believing in Santa Claus. Oh, I should mention, like all hypocrites, Bob Corker, has come out and is very upset that people now think of him as a monstrous soulless sell-out. How dare any us think his vote was paid off?  Senator could you be any more pathetic, laughable or sad? 

Speaking of taxes, and the con of the century, guess who will make a butt load of money when Donald J. Trump signs his John Hancock on his first major piece of legislation in his almost year long administration? That’s right you guessed it, Donald Trump and the Trump family singers. The Trumps supposedly will earn millions initially, and with the Estate tax changes, possibly over a billion, a billion and a half. I wrote supposedly because how would anyone know? Since nobody is allowed to look over the man’s tax records.

Someone should really contact the Guinness Book of World Records, because it seems Donald is still under audit. Unbelievably but true, the orange faced liar-in-chief, according to his people is still being audited. Question, when did this audit begin if it actually is occurring at all?  Remember, there is no way of knowing if the person is actually being audited, so basically we have to “believe him” but as Hillary said brilliantly during the debates, “No Donald, I don’t believe you.” Also of note, when someone is under audit, there is nothing illegal about releasing his tax returns, or the returns of previous years not under audit. Remember all that talk about Donald’s tax returns during the campaign? How we needed to see them before he was allowed to change our tax code? Remember how people argued that he shouldn’t be allowed to even be a nominee of the Republican party, or better the Presidency without releasing his taxes? All that big talk about what was right, was forgotten in the campaign almost as fast as the Access Hollywood Bus revelation turned out to be as Donald Trump Junior would call it a nothing burger.

Seems no one else is talking about his taxes now. All those complainers before election day have gone silent. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, remember coming out on more than a few occasions, as your face turned red with anger, how this could never happen, not in America. That they if necessary would do something to prevent Trump from orchestrating a tax bill when the Congress or the American people didn’t have a clue how much the President would benefit from it. Remember the Emoluments Clause, that Donald wouldn’t be allowed to make money off of the job as President? Well? Anything? Crickets… 

Now the man has signed into law the biggest changes into our tax system in thirty years, and his taxes are simply an after-thought. We’re too busy screaming about all the other crap he’s thrown into the wind that his monumental heist isn’t even being discussed. No its more important that we push conspiracies against Robert Mueller, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, than talk about Donald’s con of the century.

On one hand every talking head has come out to let us know that this tax legislation is one big con game. The rich will get richer, the middle class will get poorer, and the poor will just disappear from view. That is till society’s dead weight, all die off and poverty is gone from America for good. Praise the lord and pass the ammunition. On the other hand, we get a fairy tale version from Trump’s propaganda wing Fox news that makes the Republican trickle-down day dream sound like heaven on Earth. That disregards what actually is in the law that apparently most if not all of the Republicans who said ‘yes’ to it, haven’t even read it. Just imagine, they didn’t read a bill that will effect every single American for decades to come. Well at least they have another excuse if or when our nation implodes financially. Why bother reading the small print, what could go wrong? I mean what could the lobbyist sneak in at the last minute, Right?

So if Trump’s band of treasonous monsters don’t all wind up on death row, or at least in a prison cell, about the time the results start becoming real with this tax legislation, the electorate will get to decide if the results so far, are reasons to drop kick the lot of them outta power. Of course the more pressing matter would be pitched, the Impeachment proceedings of Donald J. Trump on account of the Russian investigation. One would think, by next election day kicking them out, might be the best campaign pitch by a Democrat ever used. Hopefully the democrats this time won’t play nice and kick the monsters down when they most deserve it.

Like everything else they do the Trumpeters always screw something up. Sometimes like with Trump’s tax package, it happens even before the ink is dry, in this case, even before he signs his name on it. Wednesday evening, Rachel Maddow had an amazing take down on whats wrong with the implementation of the tax bill on her show. I must note, today, I read otherwise, so who knows what the whole story is, but according to new reports today, the changes to the tax code actually go into effect in 2019, not on January 2018 as was discussed during an interview on her show. Perhaps her story made them fix the provisions before Donald gave himself the biggest Christmas bonus check ever. I mean why not, it was reported that they were rewriting it within hours of the vote, why shouldn’t they make a fix that actually makes sense.

But if true, according to her report, one of the things no one was discussing during the run up to this weeks voting, or seemingly at all, I mean I haven’t heard one word about it, was when the legislation would go into effect. If Rachel’s report was correct, supposedly on January 1st, 2018, everything hits the fan. It all becomes real. One big problem, nothing has been set up for the big day. So the instant payoff we keep hearing about, how the heck does that happen if the W2 or whatever new forms they’ll come up with haven’t even been designed yet or the figures on it finalized? That’s why Obamacare and every other major legislation always are given sometimes years to get fully implemented. They always build a time frame in, a cushion if your will, so the world will be ready for the changes that everyone needs to learn how to live with.  And we are talking about something that effects every one of us that pays taxes, again what could go wrong?

Simply put, its insane. Need I remind you on what when wrong with the roll out of Obamacare and it’s website. This probably more than anything helped give the Republicans the perfect attack line on one of President Barack Obama’s signature achievements. Well what will happen when our pay stubs are all screwed up or our pay checks are held back till the system is fixed. What happens when millions are kept in the dark while they wait having their electricity turned off and have to live like the millions currently suffering in Puerto Rico? What happens when those millions on the mainland, you know your followers can’t feed their families. I give we would be living in another “Let them eat cake” moment, and hm, I wonder how that turned out? 

I’m sorry, if I sound negative but I have my doubts anything he does is for the good of the nation. Please, tell me I’m wrong, please tell me one thing that Donald has done while in office that hasn’t been messed up in one way or the other. As a way to trumpet Donald’s pitch was working and that the people were gonna actually feel flush with green like the rich folk living the life of Reilly. Magically even before anything was signed into law, several large corporations including Comcast have announced that they’re giving out hundreds if not thousands of bonus checks and raising salaries, showcasing how fast the trickle-down will wash us all with sweet cash in our pockets. Hm, I’m sorry this isn’t an effect of the tax legislation, this is just a few ass kissers trying to look good for the teacher. This was certainly something Donald wanted to spread like sunshine on a dreary winter day.

I wouldn’t be surprised if these bonuses were planned and the contracts already signed when Obama was President, but Donald’s people talked the CEO’s into making it a Trump benefit. Can’t wait to see how they react to the facts, if or when most likely, the reality of the business deals come back to bite these liars in their asses. Seems to me thats Donald’s modus operandi whenever he touts his administrations successes with corporate America. He pounds his chest like a gorilla about job growth or factories moving back to our shores, and its always smoke and mirrors, and its always somebody elses doing. Well lets see how far this publicity stunt spreads and how many people really get anything from Trump’s pie in the sky tax con. 

Simply, how many people will actually get jobs when everything shakes out or how many will in reality be worse off, jobless, and living in the streets. And how many of those positions gained or kept will be higher paying? Or will most of these new jobs, simply be the ones that all the illegals can’t do anymore because they’ve all been rounded up and deported. Dragged down to what I already can see occurring in the near future. You guessed it, our new deportation center in Puerto Rico. I mean what better use of the island now that Trump’s government is letting it die as quickly as possible. Instead of trying to fix the problem, he’s causing the largest mass exodus by American citizens in possibly our nations history. On the bright side, Ivanka now has a ton of new employees she can hire to fill her new factories they’ll build in Puerto Rico to create her knock-off products. Why not simply bulldoze the whole place and start fresh, build those Trump warehouses. Let’s ‘Make The Trumps Even Richer’ be the official tag line of the Trump Administration, not the ‘Make America Great’ lie of the century talking point they keep trying to sell.

For some reason I think its gonna turn out like most of Trump’s publicity stunts, when the reality of the rewards turn out to be peanuts on the dollar. Like when he touts a major corporation is gonna add tons of jobs and actually the deals for those jobs were done a few years earlier during the Obama Administration. So in reality Donald had nothing to do with it, but man ain’t it great publicity to pitch. God willing this con game turns out to actually work, and Trump was right and most of us were wrong, boy will I be happy to have been so wrong. Really, I know I preach to high heaven that the man’s a nightmare, even worse than Adolph, but please let me be wrong on this one. Because if I am right, man is it ever going to get bad and sooner than any of us could ever fear. What happens when it all turns out to be as big a crock as most people think? How do we pay for all that infrastructure that Donald promised would come next? Which is needed according to his experts for his tax plan to actually work. What happens to Social Security and Medicare if it succeeds and worse if or when it fails? Paul Ryan is practically drooling over the thought of hurting millions upon millions of people. Maybe we should rename him Josef Mengele, the grin on his face when he gaveled the victory in the House was vomit inducing.  

Someone or something needs to give Josef, I mean the Paul Ryan a swift kick in the ass. You see after the House voted ‘yes’ and tossed it over to the Senate for their own middle of the night vote, Paul Ryan actually said “nobody knows” if the sweeping tax cuts Congress are enacting will produce enough economic growth to fend off soaring federal deficits. Excuse me, then why are we gambling our futures on it? I can’t for the life of me remember any other Republican saying anything like “nobody knows” about this, till Paul made a hypocrite of himself. All we ever got were made up talking points of how great things will be. Of course with no actual figures to prove their hypostasis, we all just had to on faith. I mean with a track record that the Republicans have, sure, why shouldn’t I believe every word they say? Anytime any financial expert was on, listening to the Trumpeters wriggle around reality was really rather painful. Whenever there was a debate between both sides, not once did you come out of it believing the Trumpeters side. Not once. 

So if the tax cuts fail or even if they don’t and the gamble works, the republicans next game is to destroy our social safety net. After all, look at that huge deficit caused by the shortfall. That was to be expected wasn’t it? Oops did we not remember to tell you that? Anytime you implement a new policy, things are bond to be bumpy at first. Of course this shortfall, this ever growing debt that might swallow our nation whole, was never discussed when they were announcing the tax scam. Just like they did before with the Post Office and Social Security, borrowing funds to pay for other things, and then oops blaming the system thats breaking down, that they helped to destroy.  

Maddeningly Donald’s prayers were answered to a great degree by Mitch McConnell. Seem’s the Majority Leader of the Senate as usual used his now patented manner of going against precedent and won yet another round. This time, Mitch McConnell did it by not swearing in the recently victorious Doug Jones, in the Alabama Senator race. Not that it turned out to be needed, but Instead of giving him his rightful vote in Trump’s tax con, Mitch decided to push back the swearing in ceremony till after the new year. Which of course will be much too late to vote for or against this latest Republican monstrosity. I should mention that the Republicans are actually trying to play games with the Alabama election, apparently one of Moore’s supporters who helped bring people to the voting centers said something that the right says show that the Doug Jones camp cheated and Moore actually won. So who knows, in a few months Moore might still get in.   

Mitch played the same game with his filibuster against President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court appointee, and eventually won when Trump picked the newest member of the court once he became President. At the same time he was stopping Merrick Garland from being voted into the Supreme Court, he also was somehow forcing President Barack Obama from letting the American people learn the complete facts on Russia playing games with our democracy during the campaign. Seems if he had, Hillary’s accusation against Trump during the debates would have been believed as real and not just a campaign pitch. And our current political upheaval might just be the stuff of nightmares as opposed to our current reality.

Ray Moore’s defeat in Alabama is being looked at as a beginning of the end of Republican majority rule in the House and maybe even the Senate. That with those victories in less than a year, believe it or not, the people could vote in a new Democratic majority. They could actually vote out all the monsters and restore America to the greatness that President Barack Obama was taking us towards. Lets hope this week’s Republican declared tax victory, adds fuel to the fire that’s been lit under the rumps of the democrats in our nation. 

Almost a year in, and I still walk around dumbstruck that Trump is our sworn in leader and Hillary  is still more often attacked for not disappearing or worse for actually breathing. Everyday something new occurs that makes me ponder if this is all one of those bad dreams you can’t wake up from. But even if that happy notion was true, the way things have been going lately, when you finally think you’re awake at the end, sadly in our story line, the boogie man kills you dead just as the credits role or who get to relive the nightmare over and over again. Well I for one hope by this time next year, this current national nightmare is over. That somehow we as a nation can get over whatever hump Donald and his minions have constructed. And whomever is President when it all shakes out, actually once again makes me proud to be an American and not embarrassed to be living in a nation that somehow put such a person in charge. Sorry, the jokes still not funny.

Just one man’s opinion

© Neil Feigeles, Neilizms, Friday, December 22, 2017 

KUDOS DONALD, YOU WON! THIS WHITE HOUSE IS OFFICIALLY ON PAR WITH RICHARD NIXON’S AND ON COURSE TO BE WORSE THAN GEORGE W. BUSH’S! 

As the Republicans tax scheme is this much closer to reality, and now that Michael Flynn has pled guilty, the question becomes does Donald’s presidency actually even last to the end of this year?

LOCK HER UP? Really? I guess not. More like, I think its time that they think about how they can apologize to Hillary Clinton and give her her proper due, if not her rightful position. Maybe now those lies that these traitors threw at her, which millions believed, that turned her into a pariah for too many citizens, which caused many of them to vote for Donald, will be seen to the world for what they really were, slanderous lies. People believed and still believe the lies told by a pack of con men who spread conspiracies and nonsense, instead of facts and real evidence that showcased what a pile of manure they were continuously spewing on a never-ending loop. The “Believe me” future President has lied his ass off, and unfortunately people believed his lies and sadly helped to elect a possible traitor that looks more and more like the monster that all the news reports showcase he apparently is.

Who’s the puppet? Well apparently the American people were. So Trump, the whole thing is fake news, hm, I think not. I’m not gonna say I told you so, but apparently the conspiracy, that the Russian’s had involvement with our election actually is real. No matter how many times Donald tells us to believe him that it isn’t. Today’s announcement proves or at least puts an end to the lie that no one in the White House had any involvement with colluding with the enemy. That the Trump campaign and worse his administration had been and still could be secretly working with Russia. Which might explain why he and his cabinet seem to be systematically destroying the infrastructure of our government. Maybe this was part of the deal Vladimir requested to assist the Trumpeters into getting into office. Unlike Hillary’s emails or her handling of Benghazi, or even the ridiculous Uranium accusations, this scandal I think can officially be called bigger than Nixon’s Watergate!  

After Al Franken’s shocking USO accusations of misbehavior exploded on the air waves, I began working on a column about all the powerful and mighty being taken down by their criminally sexist behavior. Something I honestly didn’t want to get into, but sadly it turned out that the ugly side of human nature happens to be a big part not only with our political leaders, its also effecting the giants in the world of entertainment as well. By the time Charlie Rose’s and Matt Lauer’s career was over in an afternoon I had had enough, and was finishing up my long winded argument to save Al Franken’s political future, even as a now fifth woman has reportedly come out against him, while agreeing with all the other beheadings why was I siding with Al? Why him, why save him, if everyone else has to go? Why should he be given a chance to stay, until the accusations against him are proven true or false or actually of criminal worthy punishment? That is besides of course the embarrassment of being called out for actually acting like a jerk and having to sit back and ponder if anything else in your past could also be misconstrued as a heinous act worthy of being erased out of existence. 

Well to those out there who want to lump the Senator in with even the worst pedophile, my response is, if he needs to go than all the others including our sitting President have to. Less we forget, Donald currently has 16 women accusing him of acts that shall we say aren’t presidential. That ‘Access Hollywood’ video, which he now is jokingly trying to make us believe the audio inside the bus wasn’t actually him, alone could make him force to end his administration. I ponder what’s his tipping point? So far his accusers have been mostly ignored by the media and those in power who could force his resignation. Roy Moore who's running for the Alabama Senate seat has been accused of child molestation, but sadly the inbreds in Alabama have no problems with those issues either. I guess better a child molester than a democrat. 

It is heartbreaking to ponder, who can you trust when your inspirations and role models actually turn out to be closeted gropers, rapists and worse. Now it feels like practically every man in power uses theirs to abuse people because they can. And whats worse are the numbers of victims who have come out exposing the ugly truth about people in power taking advantage of others. At least the good thing in all this if there can be anything good from such heinous acts. The pendulum has turned. Think about how many years it took for Bill Cosby’s accusers to be believed and most still don’t. Lastly on this subject, for those like Chuck Todd, who want to bring up Bill Clinton and ponder if we should look back at his Presidency because of the sexist awful things he did or was alleged to do. That if it happened now, he would have been forced to resign. Really? You want to compare events with pedophiles and rapists with a consensual relationship. Must I remind you, that Monica, if I can be so bold was an adult woman and she was in on it, she wasn’t being molested or abused. Granted the woman worked under the President as an intern, and yes he lied when he said he did not have sex with that woman. But to discuss drop kicking a former President for that crime as opposed to all the others, that all the others have done that was far worse, is simply a way to kill valuable airtime and frankly change the subject. 

So just when I was about to bang my head against the wall over the growing list of the famous and powerful, who have been outed as sexual deviants the powers-that-be have sent us all a ray of sunshine. Simply put, Michael Flynn has flipped! The end is possibly nearer for the Trump Presidency than any of us could have ever imagined. And yes, Joy Behar is right, this is a moment to jump for joy and dance with glee. Because the clock has just begun ticking on when Donald resigns or is removed from the office of President of the United States. My best guest right now is our Commander-in-chief might be out by New Years Day. 

You see the “Lock Her Up” former member of Trump’s inner circle, shook the White House to its core and probably turned the President’s face the color of pink grapefruit, when he pled guilty to one count of lying to the FBI. But before you get upset like I was while listening to the announcement that he had pled guilty to one measly charge, simply take a deep breath and let out the negativity. You see, according to the talking heads, the reason for the very low charges is because the man has cut a deal and will be spilling all of the beans he’s got on all the deplorable members of Trump’s inner circle. Of course getting just 5 years in prison as opposed to possibly decades or worse, or caving in to save his own son’s criminality might also have been good incentive for Flynn to flip. 

With his plea deal, Michael Flynn became the forth member of Donald’s inner circle to be charged in the ever growing Russian investigation. The now possible early exit of Trump from the White House began a few months back when Paul Manafort, Rick Gates and George Papadopoulous were dragged across our television’s and revealed as people who had lied to us about their involvement with Russian operatives during the Trump campaign. Each time the next traitor came out, Trump’s ‘believe me’ speech sounded more and more like a puppet reciting lines. He or some, or all of his associates are possible actors in the crime of the century, the stealing of  America’s Democracy by a foreign nation on behalf of wannabee dictator or is that king?

Sadly even as the evidence of Trump’s crimes grow, his Republican friends in the Congress have been either ignoring the obvious, perhaps in on it themselves, or actually trying to stop or slow down the investigation long enough to get as much of their agenda passed until the bottom drops off. And as fate would have it, on the same day the lid might have been opened on discovering how high this crime takes us, the hypocrites in the Senate approved the Mitch McConnell led ramming through of Trumps tax scam. There were no hearings. There wasn't even time to read the bill for most. And get this, Lobbyists, not the Senators, were actually making changes in it up until the last minute. The democrats probably were just happy to be allowed in the room to cast their votes against it. 

At the last minute, the Democrats requested the weekend to get a chance to at least read it and decide if in fact it was a good bill like the republicans claimed. Of course the monsters in charge refused to allow it. Heinous. So now that stage two is complete, all they have to do is mesh the House and the Senates bills together, and come up with something they can pass on a straight party line vote. Hopefully for the good of our nation, that won’t be as easy as it was too jam it down the throats of the Democratic members of the Senate. Whats worse, according to what I’ve heard, and I guess now we’ll see whats actually in the final draft that was approved, there are provisions in the bill that reveal to the American people what monsters these Republicans are who voted yes after the stroke of midnight as late Friday, December 1st. turned into very early Saturday December 2nd. And once they learn the truth, and discover several provisions in it that would kill Obamacare, that would give personhood to fetuses and that would ban certain second term abortions, that had been slipped into the bill, me thinks the masses won't be quiet. At least the hope if any of this get signed into law, some of these under-handed provisions would be stricken out of the language before they actually vote for the bill that Trump eventually signs into law.  

The only good thing I see coming out of any of this is, if Trump actually has his Christmas wishes answered and signs into law his dream tax con, right afterwards the Republicans in power will wash their hands of him. Immediately they would call for his impeachment, because suddenly Trump’s Russian colluding will have too much damning evidence for even them to disbelieve. I’m hoping none of that scenario needs to happen. That with Michael Flynn’s plea deal, his departure actually occurs before the Republicans have a chance to hand him his one and only legislative victory. But even if that fantasy doesn’t occur and the bill does pass, nothing is gonna stop his one-way ticket out of the Oval Office. Donald and his minions believe in their hearts that all they need is a victory, any real achievement and everything else will disappear. That all would be forgotten in the glory of winning something… I mean anything. I can’t even remember a day now, when that dream wasn’t talked about on air as Trump’s last ditch effort to save his administration. And the way things have been looking lately that probably would be the logical next step. But I’m beginning to believe that happy ending for Trump ain’t in his future. My feelings of Trump’s departure happening sooner than any of us could have ever imagined isn’t only mine. I’ve already heard several voices on television express similar notions. Seems they agree with me, apparently once they get Trump to sign off on this legislation, all bets are off when Donald's future ends in the White House. 

In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if right after he signs it, the man steps down. Donald in the end really got what he was after anyway. The biggest score in history, except for perhaps what Putin is pulling in Moscow. As for his criminal charges and treasonous actions, as soon as he steps down for ‘whats best for our nation’, his replacement Mike Pence will last long enough in office to pardon him and rescind Gay marriage. Afterwards he will resign himself for his own lies about Mike Flynn, before being pardoned by future President Paul Ryan. That is unless once in power Paul Ryan fully reveals his stripes and scarily Donald would suddenly look acceptable as Ryan begins destroying what ever remains of Social Security and Medicare. 

Of course, I wouldn’t be surprised if sometime between now and February, instead of Trump getting the heave-ho first, its actually his god-awful Vice President. Mike Pence, the fool from Indiana, who isn’t allowed to be in the company of women because I guess either they can’t control themselves or he can’t when a woman is near, could be the next fish to fry. Pence could be the next target on the food chain, and resign or make his own plea deal, because of all of own lies in connection with Michael Flynn or possibly Jared Kushner or even Jeff Sessions’ crimes. If that happens, the question is, who gets the gig of Trump’s second Vice President. Presumedly, if we use history as the rule after former Vice President Spiro Agnew Nixon’s number two, pled no contest to a single felony charge of tax evasion, and resigned his office, he was replaced by the then House Minority Leader Gerald Ford. So if Pence resigns first,  if history repeats itself again, Paul Ryan would become Vice President, and if Trump gets impeached or resigns, whomever is Paul Ryan’s replacement as Majority leader would become his Vice President.   

George Papadopoulous was the first traitor who worked for Trump who pled guilty to crimes in connection to the Russian investigation. Michael Flynn's plea deal made him the second member of Trump’s inner circle to also plead guilty. Ironically this explosive revelation only came out after Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation was launched because Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey. Comey was reportedly canned by Trump because he wanted him to end his investigation of then National-Security Adviser Mike Flynn. Oh, I also should mention Donald’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is reportedly the person who suggested Comey needed to get fired.    

Now not only did mister high and mighty admit that he lied to the FBI about his meetings with Russians, he also lied about his meetings with them and the Israelis on behalf of their problems with the Palestinians.  The best part for the investigation and the worst part for the Trumpeters is, it seems Flynn was taking these meetings on behalf of someone in the Trump White House during its transition into power. And that person was later revealed as the world was still reverberating from the days big announcement to be Jared Kushner of all people! Sadly for Jared, he’s already been asked under oath about these events and has swore that he never had anything to do with any of this. So apparently his crimes start with perjury just as Flynn’s were. But lets add his second criminal act. Jared Kushner has also broken what they call the Logan Act. Apparently its illegal for unauthorized citizens to negotiate with foreign governments, who have a dispute with the United States. 

Well Jared while working for daddy-in-law, was doing just that as he tried to go around the policies of the Obama Presidency, attempting to under cut its agenda. Sorry thats a no no and a criminal act. Luckily for him all the experts say Mueller would never use The Logan Act to go after him. But unhappily for him that criminal action is the least of his worries. Remember, just like Flynn, Jared has now been caught lying to the FBI. So his deal will be on the table soon, that is if it already hasn’t been offered and agreed upon. 

One last thing, ABC had reported, but than walked back part of its report, that in Mike Flynn’s plea deal he agreed to testify under oath that Donald J. Trump had directed him to meet with Russian operatives. Several news agencies afterwards, came out and said that part of the plea deal hasn’t been verified. So that could be wishful thinking or as Donald would call it fake news. But if it is true, than the end of our national nightmare could be at hand within days. If its not, get ready for riots to start occurring in the streets as the tax scam gets revealed and as the truth of the trumpeters colluding with Moscow becomes more and more a likeable impeachable offense. And unless the rights of millions more lose their constitutional rights to vote, which it seems a lot of them did during our last Presidential election, get ready for the biggest landslide in Congressional history. If that occurs and we get the return of democratic control in Congress, the swift removal of the man himself would begin, as well as anything Donald has enacted, rescinded, and done to ruin everything that made America great in the first place.

Just one man’s opinion
© Neil Feigeles, Neilizms, Sunday, December 2, 2017

AS DONNA BRAZILE SELLS OUT, I GUESS I MUST ASK, WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE, WHO NEEDS ENEMIES? 

So you want to sell books, just give us your soul and say goodbye to your reputation. In one big swoop Donna Brazile lost everything… accept the love of everyone who hated Hillary and wants Donald’s fleecing of America to continue.

WOW, DONNA BRAZILE, how disappointed in you am I. I wish I was in that corporate meeting, when your publishers said we need something juicy to sell your book, cause that’s the only reason I can think of for why she would come out and say that Hillary rigged the democratic primary. Seems replacing Debbie Wasserman Schultz during the Democratic National Convention wasn’t enough to sell books or get a book deal. Being a well respected voice for years in the party couldn't do it either, so Donna Brazile needed buzz to get her book the desired push to get her sales to soar and it looks like its worked.  

So Donna created a conspiracy about Hillary and most of the media is lapping it up. Chuck Todd was practically foaming at the mouth over this yesterday. As for social media, Facebook was inundated with countless number of attacks against Hillary Clinton and the DNC. I shouldn’t have been, but as usual, again, I couldn’t believe how many posts from overseas trolls I had to report and block with comments referring to something that had erupted in the same morning just hours before. It was as if the whole thing had been set up ahead of time. Hm, wonder if we need to have a congressional hearing on this too? 

Because of this promotional tour to sell her books, I wondered if Hachette, the publishing company that is printing this tale of lies was in bed with the Trumps or with Putin’s regime. Maybe the publicity director is related somehow or at least a fan of Bernie’s or the Donald’s or even Russian vodka? So I google searched the book publisher to see if any connections came up. You know like an ownership stake or something else that might throw up a red flag and a big uh-oh. But all I could find was that they’ve published numerous books on both, so at least in my fifteen minute research inquiry, nothing made me want to scream I told you so.  

I must mention I used to work at Hachette Filipacchi Médias in their magazine division decades ago, the late 1990’s and I never saw or heard of anything that would have made me get suspicious. That said, Trump Style, Donald Trump’s custom-published quarterly magazine, was distributed there in 1997 while I was doing promotional art direction for them. And yes I did create and work on a number of promotional items pitching the self congratulatory propaganda publication.  

Of course with every accusation against Hillary Clinton, it seems most can be explained away with facts and logic. Sadly this never stopped the lies from continuing, might as well just add it to the pile of conspiracies to use the next time someone wants to insult the former First Lady, New York Senator, and Secretary of State. Like all the other attacks this was no exception, as within hours of Donna Brazile’s book pitch, it turned out that the entire accusation was either her misunderstanding of what occurred or her making up events. Seems in reality, instead of buying the DNC off, taking command and demanding power, as Donna spewed, Hillary saved them. President Barach Obama, had pretty much left the DNC bankrupt and in debt to the tune of millions of dollars, and Hillary’s fund raising was what saved it from going under. 

After her bombshell was etched in the minds of everyone, the second explosion occurred making Donna Brazile sound a little like she had gotten a taste of power when taking over the DNC, and was itching to use it. Absolute power they say corrupts absolutely, well now as Donna’s book supposedly explains when Hillary was under the weather, remember she fainted, well it turns out Donna was actually contemplating replacing Hillary with Vice President Joe Biden. 

Interesting that this is the first we are hearing about it. Perhaps we should request to see Donna’s emails, lets see who she’s been saying hello to, perhaps Bernie or Donald have ben recent pen pals  Could you imagine how not only the Berniebots but the fans of Hillary would’ve reacted if this actually took place then? Well I would have been pretty pissed. 

Talk about blowing up the entire party, which seemingly it looks like she is trying to pull. I have to feel that she’s working with anyone who isn’t in the Democratic party, because the damage that it could be causing might keep Donald in the White House, even if a video of him literary in bed with Vladimir was leaked.

After spreading her tale of Hillary Clinton, the DNC, and bad behavior, which got the Berniebots upset, the Hillary’s fans angry, and the Trumpeters on cloud nine, which she hopes will turn her gossip conspiracies into a New York Times number one best seller, Donna is now talking on shows saying its her right to pitch her side of the story. I mean if Hillary can come out and pitch her side of the story, she explained, why can’t I? Lady you can pitch all you want, whatever you want, just tell the truth. Not your version of it. Especially after the contracts were shared showcasing that your interpretation of events occurred is wrong. But like General John Kelly, now a days, liars never say they misspoke, and apologize or at least set the record straight. No they just pound the table, look angry, that others dare to catch them in a lie, and still argue they are correct. 

It seems the entire Trumpeter parade of liars, keep making themselves look like fools when they constantly argue there is no evidence of Russian collusion anywhere. That the entire investigation should be scrapped, even after the first indictments have been sent out. Even after George Papadopoulos, one of their own is now wearing wires for Mueller’s investigation after he admitted his guilt in conjunction with that treasonous activity, that they all said and still say never occurred. Seems Donna stepped into a nightmare of her own making, much like the Trumpeters. The only question is, how much damage will this cause and who is gonna be the one that pays for it in the end.  

So I guess according Donna Brazile, she herself was the party’s savior and not Hillary’s fund raising. Sadly for her accusations according to the facts, without Hillary, they probably would’ve held their big DNC love fest inside the Port Authority or some other public space, they were that broke. As far I can tell, Bernie wasn’t offering anything of financial assistance except for his demands on changing the party to what he perceives is Democratic. Lady you can be as indignant as you want, just like our current commander-in-chief, but when the facts prove you’re making stuff up, its time to admit the truth as opposed to the man whose currently getting set up on his one-way ticket to a maximum security prison cell.

Apparently the years of brainwashing on the citizens of the United States by the vast right wing conspiracy and of course Fox faux news, against Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton worked. Sadly for a couple who have spent their entire adult lives doing nothing but trying to make other people’s lives better, it seems all of that great work, has been forgotten and replaced by conspiracies and lies. Like the libelous accusations thrown against the Clinton Foundation during the campaign. No matter what proof was showcased that all the accusations were political hit jobs, the Foundation were tarred and feathered. That is until the election was over, than it was never mind, go about doing your good work, we’ll go after you again when its politically necessary.   

After Donna Brazile accused Hillary Clinton of basically attempting a coup with the DNC yesterday to help pitch her book, an open letter signed by more than 100 people involved in Clinton’s White House bid was released, including chairman John Podesta and vice chairwoman Huma Abedin, who said the staffers "do not recognize the campaign" that Brazile "portrays in the book.” They were also "shocked" by her contemplating replacing Hillary Clinton. Seems Donna was drinking the kool-Aid that Trump and the Kremlin's trolls were offering,

Every time the walls start closing in on Donald, another accusation against Hillary gets thrown out. Trump’s still doing it and now it seems its the attack needed by others to sell their books. Like everything else if they throw it out against Hillary, no matter how insane, it became that days top news story. And not just on Fox faux news. Its also happens on MSNBC to a degree, and of course CNN which specializes in having the same guests on time after time who live to spread lies on behalf of a treasonous bunch of deplorable hypocrites. 

So now the former head of the DNC, has come out and is pitching a book and immediately Clinton is guilty, no questions asked. The book doesn’t even have to see print and Hillary has already been convicted of the crimes teased about in the publicity campaign. Just the teaser and people are going insane. The Trumpeters are already calling for more investigations and prison time, the Berniebots are screaming to high heaven, see they were robbed, and the television talking heads are drooling over anything that smells of a different stink than Donald’s sewage. 

As is the case with all accusations thrown at Hillary, as soon as even one tease comes out, she’s guilty until proven innocent. And even if proven innocent, the accusations stick to her as yet further proof how dirty she is. The old innocent until proven guilty, doesn’t apply for our should be President, as it seems to apply to our soon to be ex liar-in-chief. So the lovely Donna has thrown out crumbs, or crap if you prefer, for the world to eat up, and now lots of people are discussing how its not the Republicans who are in the middle of a civil war, but its actually the Democrats. 

This is happening even after Donna’s accusation had already been debunked just hours after she initially spewed it out, by the release of the contracts that Hillary Clinton’s campaign signed with the DNC in 2015. The same contract, Bernie eventually signed. The same contract that had been used for at least the last 15 years. So as usual, the media and the people are being fooled by nonsense, by conspiracy, by gossip. At the same time the Russian investigation seems to actually be getting good and juicy, while the Republicans keeping pushing that there is nothing there. 

So what are the Trumpeters and Fox reporting on, not their President, or his problems, no need to defend him when we’ve got a new Hillary scandal to pile on to the other ones that they keep trotting out. Even after it was already debunked almost immediately, lets disregard the fact and spin it for all its worth. See it worked with Benghazi. See it worked with Hillary's damned emails. Well I for one am not gonna be blinded by lies. 

Every time something comes out, and I am talking decades now, that makes Hillary look bad, my heart sinks. Perhaps the lies against her aren’t lies but facts this time, and Hillary is who they describe her to be. I have to be honest, sometimes my faith in her gets shaken. But every time, and I mean every time, those lies always turn out to be just that, lies. Usually easily explained away, like the current uranium accusations. Somehow all of these lies, helped to taint a great human being. Helped make Donald Trump our President. And still the media, buys into the lies. Even as most are reporting on the walls closing in on Donald, they still believe the lies on Hillary. Even after what we've just lived through, how sad. Apparently the media heads haven't learned the lessons that they need to learn. One would think having the Presidency stolen, by traitors and a foreign government, would be enough to finally end the never ending attacks on Hillary Clinton. But no, seems, no matter what, she's going to be used as a pawn in some evil game. I just hope in the end, all those who have tried to destroy her, get what they deserve, and that  even goes for a former associate of the Democratic Presidential nominee.

Just one man’s opinion
© Neil Feigeles, Neilizms, Sunday, November 5, 2017