TALK ABOUT MOOD SWINGS, JUST AS TRUMP OUTS HIMSELF AS A COMMIE, THERE ARE TAPES!

In our nation’s darkest hour, finally the light at the end of the tunnel has arrived, maybe its finally time, to take the blinders off, swallow our prides, and admit we all got punked, and Vladimir is pulling the strings.

The End of Democracy © 2018 Neil Feigeles 

I GOTTA BE LOSING MY MIND, just when I’m at my lowest, as our President comes out as a communist who is selling our nation out to the Russian President, incredibly a huge ray of light finally cracks treasonous Trump’s powerful hold over the people’s mind. All the dots are beginning to connect and my latest session sounding like a conspiracist whose having a nervous breakdown gets eviscerated from out of my system. Out of left field I’m hearing Doris Day music and the birds are chirping, when only hours before I was feeling like even the people finally beginning to really rise up was just yet another nice try but no cigar moment. As you will discover, what you are about to read, from my own skewed self critical perspective is someone who is crying for help. It may seem that I’m seeking help for myself, but really its a cry to the heaven’s for people to snap out of it. To save our nation from extinction. Before its too late. This Trump world is exhausting and I am just simply one tired worried American who still hasn’t gotten over how in one night our world, okay my world was shattered, and how quickly a man covered in orange has transformed our nation and its people. Somehow our land of the free, has turned into internment camps and being attacked for simply speaking a foreign tongue. Each step of that journey has been a never ending nightmare for me. And what’s worse, as Trump’s tenure as our dictator in training continued, the citizens of this country who follow him have also transformed into pod people right out of ‘The Invasion of the Body Snatchers’. Every day as Trump destroys something, a knot in my stomach tightens a little bit more, and all hope appears to be disappearing. But just as at my lowest, or something from out of left field comes out that makes me go wait, maybe there is some hope. Perhaps the end is near, but not for our democracy but for Donald J. Trump and his legion of doom.

After the North Korean debacle, the G7 screw-up, the British Prime Minister Theresa Mary oh my God nightmare, which culminated with the Russian Summit. Not to mention Donald getting the chance to choose his next Supreme Court judge, and the fellow he decides to enshrine for at least the next 30 or 40 years as he crowed, Brett Kavanaugh, pretty much is getting the gig, because he out of every one out there is everything he wants, desires and needs. First he’s anti-abortion, he agrees with all the bible trumping zealots that want us to live by their holy book and screw that little piece of paper we call the Constitution. But most importantly, and scariest Brett’s already years ago, came out and wrote a sitting President is too busy doing his job to waste valuable time on preparing for trials of any kind. Screw whatever crimes he may or may not have committed, even if its the selling off of our nation to the biggest benefactor. Therefore all of this Russian nonsense, must take a back seat to Donald systemically taking apart our democracy, while banking billions, decimating our laws and social services and handing over the keys to the Oval office to Vladimir. One would think enough, even for his most ardent followers, but no. There are days, I just want to take that space shuttle into outer space and leave this craziness forever. But then the heaven’s open up and unbelievably there just might be an ending to this horror show that yes only could be written for the movies. Because nothing we’ve lived through could possibly actually be really happening, right? Whomever is controlling the strings here really has to be taking some strong tranquilizers, or has to have one very sick twisted sense of humor.    

The Trumpeter excuse that this whole thing is a witch hunt, because nothing has come out proving Donald was involved somehow in the crime, the stealing of Hillary Clinton’s Presidency and the fleecing of America may have to be retired. The ‘there is no collusion’ punch line that they all spew like vomit, finally might have to be put away for good. I could be grasping at straws, but it seems the last few days might be the turning point of this whole experience. The time in the plot when all hope is lost, that the screenwriters finally work their reel magic. First with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s announcement that 12 Russian intelligence officers were charged with the DNC hacking and conspiring to interfere with the 2016 presidential election, occurring right before the Russian Summit, opening many eyes to the truth, even many of the voices on Fox news. Which then was followed up by Trump’s obvious siding with the enemy on foreign land opening some more. Plus Trump’s many walk backs to his “would or wouldn’t” explanation of why he agreed with Putin and disagreed with his own national security advisors and the God damned United States CIA, FBI, CIA, and anyone who isn’t in this crime with him. Maybe the editors of our little movie we are all living under are realizing that this caper has been running a little long, and its time to bring this horror show to a satisfying and crowd pleasing ending. Because out of left field, just as the werewolf is about to take a bite out of our hero, we get the silver bullet. There is an audio tape! Oh my God yes!

The Richard Nixon curse returns! Remember a few months back when Donald whined some conspiracy nonsense about President Barack Obama having “wiretapped” the White House, which of course was debunked as trash. Well, Karma as they say is a bitch because it wasn’t our former and last American President who was pressing the record button, it was his former “fixer” who might have fixed the Trumpster forever. I definitely wasn’t expecting this, but learning that Michael Cohen actually recorded at least one meeting with Donald which the government now has finally opened enough eyes that yes, maybe we as a nation have had it. The evidence I speak of, is an audio tape of Trump discussing a payment to a Playboy model, with whom he had an affair with, and one that the National Enquirer paid off. You see they paid her for her story, and then David Pecker a personal friend of the Donald didn’t publish it. Of note this story was supposed to come out before the election and might have damaged the Trumps coolness with all of his gossip loving followers.  

One would think, so what. Just another notch on Donald’s bedpost, But, when this bit of gossip was first reported, Trump, the man himself was questioned about it, its on video, he said the whole thing never happened, and even better, that he knew nothing about it. He again called it fake news and attacked the press, trying to change the subject as usual. Amazingly this audio recording was made about two months before the 2016 election and was among the materials seized during the April FBI raid on Michael Cohen’s office, home and hotel room. The best part in all this, the audio tape isn’t in the Mueller investigation, its a different one which is actually going to trial now. Its a defamation lawsuit filed by Summer Zervos, ironically a former contestant on The Apprentice, who says Trump sexually assaulted her in 2007 and then called her a liar when she spoke out about it in 2016. Somehow this case is actually going to court, and because it is, Donald could lose everything. Whats even better, the only reason why ‘we the people’ are even learning about it is because the info was leaked, and Rudy Giuliani of all people commented about it. Pretty much waving away attorney client privilege.

So, the press then reported it out the, up to then, privileged intel. The rumor thats going around is that Rudy, the fool himself, actually was the person who leaked it out, so that he could then come out and comment about it. Why would anyone want to do that? Well when you have a client who just outed himself as a communist maybe one needs to change the subject with the press. In the time of Trump, going all illegal is simply a given, when you follow a traitor to your graves. With all the happiness expressed over that possibly silver bullet of big news of an audio tape taking down the president, that is if you can call what I just jotted down happiness. I have to ask, am I the only one who dreads the next day dawning in the time of Trump? Since we might wake up the again to yet another Earth shattering event that either makes you want to scream, shake your head, or sadly which is happening to me in a more common occurrence, that maybe I shouldn’t admit to, tear up, at the insanity that we as a nation are living through. And the worries about where this could be leading. I understand shaking up the system was Trump’s promise, but man does it have to be so not worth waking up to? Okay, before I continue, no I am not depressed or on medication, or seeking the assistance of professional help, I am just tired and emotionally spent from the day in and day out of what ever this is gonna be known as for centuries to come. That is if whats to come doesn’t bring along the end of days, as some of Trump’s most ardent followers appear to be jonesin for. Donald promised to clean up the swamp, but instead look at the dreck that he keeps putting into leadership roles. I can’t figure out which one is worse, and which monster will be the one who will cause the end of our futures.  Which is why I’m here to proclaim that I’ve never been sadder in my life, when it comes to democracy and the future of our nation, and our world. Not to mention what that would mean to all of our lives. 

Its been a very long week after a very long year, and the worst election night of my life. As I almost reach my 59th birthday, for the most part, I’m pretty happy with it, my decisions, how I got to this point and where I might possibly be going in the future. Without sounding corny, I love that I was born in America and that I am an American citizen. How lucky can you get to live in the greatest nation ever to have been put on this planet. I know its not perfect, but I thought we were headed in the right direction. But then a Trumpian event occurs and fears of what might be happening begin to seep throughout my bones, as day by day our lives get turned upside down at what we are witnessing. 

If somehow we get out of this with our democracy still intact, especially if the crimes of Trump’s presidency’s proves as treasonous as they currently appear, the rules of the game have got to get rewritten. Now that we have discovered that yes, in practice, the President of the United States can be above the law, and no that isn’t a good thing. Especially when your President might be an enemy of the people. We are witnessing, we are all living through, a period in time when in a span of a few years, one man, Donald J. Trump could take us from a free society on a course for a brighter tomorrow, into a totalitarian state with just a orange faced glance. When if ever will the ‘powers that be’ in the President’s party say no more? How much more do they need to gain and pocket before even they say, enough is enough? If they do, will it possibly be too late? 

Now I’ve disliked many a Republican President. Must I remind you of The Nixon Years, or Reagans, or even George Walker’s. The only time that comes close to me in this horrible feeling of dread, was when President Bill Clinton was in real danger of being Impeached or of course when Vice President Gore’s seat at the big table was shall we say stolen away… but I can’t remember a time when I was scared for our country. A time where I actually believed the person sitting in the Oval office was a traitor to our nation. Who committed treason by being in bed with the leader of a foreign land. A person who has attacked our democracy and is still doing it, but he refuses to think its relevant or come out with it. The common consensus seems to be, Trump doesn’t want to believe it because that would mean his presidency is questionable. Screw that, that’s his talking point, thats his con. My feeling is he knows its real, because he either in on it or he’s under Putin’s thumb. And worse, he just did it, for the money, and made the biggest windfall in history, by selling our nation out to Vladimir.  

But I must ask, after all I’ve written, why was anyone at all surprised or stunned, the word I kept hearing to describe Trump’s practically climaxing over Vladimir Putin’s lap or his siding with Vladimir over the mountains of evidence. The outrage was so loud, that Trump came out and attempted to shutdown the noise by trying to walk back his shall we say little mess. Which he’s since of course walked back several times with ever worsening results. This has now been followed up by the announced invitation to Vladimir to visit the White House in the fall, sometime near the Midterm elections. It doesn’t sound at all like Donald is spiting at us and showcasing his utter disdain for our democracy, does it? And whats worse, as he’s agreeing and pretty much having sex with Vladimir on the world stage, he still has to rub it in the nose of Hillary Clinton, one of the few people who actually warned all of us about Trump’s connections with Putin. But not just her, he also keeps going after The FBI, all of intelligence, all our allies, the voters of the United States, all the facts, all the history, and all the truth. Oh and about that ‘does Putin have anything on Trump conspiracy’, enough! Perhaps he doesn’t and he’s just in on the scam. Perhaps Donald met him in Russia at the beauty pageant. Perhaps this is all just a deal with the worlds greatest deal maker. Or most likely Trump has sold out our nation for profit. And the sooner you see that the sooner you discover how the blind or brainwashed allowed a Con man to destroy the united States of America. Shame, shame, shame, on everyone who allowed this to happen, and to those who sit back as each day we go further and further down the rabbit hole, a pox on your house as well. What makes matters worse, the Republicans who are supposed to be a separate part of our government are acting as if they work for Donald. Nothing the Democrats propose to stop his treasonous actions are ever allowed to either be put up for a vote or are voted in. 

At least some of the talking heads on Fox and the Republicans in power are mostly saying the right things in regards to their disappointment at how Trump handled the historic meeting. I’ve lost count how many of the talking heads have come out and said what Donald should’ve done or if I was Trump, I would’ve said… but none of them still won’t come out and announce its time to get rid of him. For him to resign. The only real voices of dissent are those walking away from political office, so their words actually matter less. 

One small item, that actually could turn out to be a major screw up by the Russian President I must mention happened during the Helsinki debacle. During their joint press conference, a reporter asked Vladimir Putin if he had anything on Trump, and the Russian president made a joke about it. The look he gave the reported actually chilled me to the bone. But then the magic moment happened where I think he might have stepped in it, when with a comment he uttered that could come back to bite both of these world leaders in their collective asses. Vladimir basically said when Trump was in Russia for the Miss Universe Pageant he didn’t even know Donald was there. He knew of him as some kind of business man, builder, but had never met him or had any dealings with him. Really? Goping off on a tangant of things like, I didn’t even know who he was, and any of this talk of deal making are lies. Mind you for the last decade Donald and his sons and daughter, and son-in-law have all talked about their friendship with Vladimir and how much business that they did with the Russians. Of course all of that speak, ended when Donald announced his run for the White House. Remember all of this, did they or didn’t they, or is that would they or wouldn’t they, could be resolved once Donald J. Trump releases his Tax returns. Remember those? I presume eventually we will see something that proves Vladimir did know of Trump, and hopefully all of his illecit affairs with the Russian leader will be revealed to all. Remember Putin was and possibly still is in charge of the KGB, the man knows everything. I’m actually surprised the reporter who asked the question, if he had anything on the Trumpeters, is still breathing or wasn’t poisoned already. Has anyone checked his conditions since he dared to question the Russian monster? 

But until people like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell finally realize that yes, Donald has been lying to us all along or at least admit it in public nothing will change till and unless the Democrats win back the majority in the House and the Senate. That it is now time to take the clothespin off of our collective noses, swallow all of our prides, and admit we all got punked. Vladimir is pulling the strings, and Donald’s and/or some of his people are in it with him. How else can you explain the eight Republicans spending our Independence Day in Russia?

So I ask once more, to the powers that be, isn’t it time? Mitch, this is to you specifically, it’s time to end the charade and the crimes being committed against our nation. The only reason why I would think you wouldn’t is, you are in on the whole scam. I get the greed, but now we are talking end of our democracy. How much of a monster could you be? You got a supreme court judge already. You got your blessed tax breaks. You are a much richer man than you used to be, so now it’s time to end it before you help end our democracy. Please. Now for the rest of the Republicans in charge, we’ve got an audio tape which proves Donald Trump knew and lied about his knowledge on a cover up that helped him politically win the presidency, isn’t that the smoking gun, we were all waiting for? How much evidence do you need? For all your gains, everything that you’ve gotten since you all bowed to the decrees of the Trump. You all talk about your patriotism, maybe its finally time to put up or shut up, before we all have yo learn to speak Russian in America, and if you speak English out loud others might beat you up for now speaking a foreign tongue. So has this one finally opened peoples eyes? Or is this just a temporary blip in people’s eyes which Trumps minions will wash away as nothing in a day or so?

Just one man’s opinion.

© Neil Feigeles, Neilizms, Saturday, July 21, 2018

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LOOKS LIKE DONALD OUTSMARTED US ALL, AND WITH MITCH’S HELP ANY CHANCE TO ESCAPE OUR CURRENT NIGHTMARE JUST WENT OUT THE WINDOW

Speaking of nightmares, now we’ve got Internment Camps too. But that’s okay, according to the Trumpeters, its in the bible, so all is good in America, praise Vladimir! 

IF TRUMP GETS HIS WAY SAY GOODBYE TO DEMOCRACY. I wish I was being overly dramatic as opposed to seeing cleared eyed at the dangerous precipice our nation and our world is about to fall over. I’ve spent the last several weeks digesting the horrors that we as a nation are seeing with the despicable way our leader has been treating the refugees entering from the southern border of the United States. As usual with Donald J. Trump, whenever I’ve done this something else explodes which makes yesterdays Atomic blast seem like a distant memory. Scarily in the age of Trump, unless you can crank out commentaries on a daily basis, you pretty much have to write them and hope by the time you’ve dropped your latest, its still something that matters to those you want to spend their valuable time reading them. The abundance of non-stop insanity, which bombards us all in a daily dose of newsworthy events to write about. I must admit, the longer this current insanity continues the harder it is to get up the energy to attack another historic moment in breaking precedence, because just when you do, you sometimes have to scrap the whole thing.

I have mentioned here in the past that my commentaries come out of my seeing something online or on television or in print, that makes me either want to scream out loud or at least express my opinion on it. As the readers here have discovered, I can go on a bit especially when what I find goes so against what whoever is pulling the strings would ever find acceptable that I don’t. I have sadly learned in the age of Trump, if I wait, even a day or two, or worse a week or more, it almost feels like the events of the day are a runaway train and I simply can not catch up. But then eventually something will explode on the scene and that grip on whats right and whats wrong hits me just the right way and out comes my latest stream of consciousness. One of the main reasons Trump has gotten away with so much is because no one can spend too much time on one criminal act, or heinous comment or whatever, before the next one appears. Unnervingly the next one always tops the previous monstrous action, and that of course gets the front page. While yesterdays event, even if it was as big as blowing up the G7, gets forgotten as Junior would call them, nothing burgers. And just like clockwork Trump always sails through.

So just as I was about to write one of my long drawn out arguments of why Trump has showcased once and for all what a monster he is, by starting the age of Trump Internment camps, which horribly I know some day soon will become dutch ovens reminiscent of the Nazi Concentration camps made famous by Donald’s ancestral idol. Honestly I’m just a little bit stunned that the tents aren’t colored in gold. But before I could put my fingers on my keyboard to pound out a few insults, scream at the top of my lungs about his war crimes and try to explain why I found this so horrible, the fear factor just went to DEFCON 5! Justice Anthony McLeod Kennedy, handed in his retirement papers, and Trump gets to choose his second Supreme Court Justice now. I honestly freaked out at what the ramifications of this historic moment meant. How it could shape the future of our nation and destroy the very concept of a Democratic nation.

At first all I thought of was the obvious target, abortions, women’s rights, but then my mind exploded. Besides the fear that those woman’s rights and many others would be striped, and gay rights and possibly their ability to marry might be taken away, our very democracy might be in danger. But then the real horror of what was possibly gonna occur dawned on me and I actually screamed out loud for someone to save us all. Am I the only one? Just listen to the insanity of what could happen if Donald gets to pick a Justice before the next big Election day. If Trump gets his wish and chooses one within weeks, and the Congress has its hearing and its voted on, without a Democratic majority in Congress, Donald gets free range to pick any nominee he wants now. If recent history is any indication, his choices all have  been one dismal failure after the other. So if Trump gets to choose his nominee before the November mid-term elections, and the Republican Congress votes them in, if and when Mueller’s investigation winds up in front of the Supreme Court, Donald can become king of the world. They could help decide to save his presidency. They could give him absolute power. They gave the Presidency to George Walker Bush, remember? Could you imagine if he gets to choose a judge who could be a puppet for his wishes, and his wishes are for Mueller’s investigation to go away and any Impeachment hearing to be decided in his favor? Could you? Obviously I can.

I guess I must suggest that during the questions on the hill, should a litmus test be given? Does his pick have to recuse themselves from any Impeachment vote? Of course then we’ll get the non-stop Trump tweets about how unfair that is. Mitch McConnell performed the heist of the century with his Supreme Court delay’s, that is besides Vladimir’s assistance with Trump’s ascension. He has already come out and announced unlike Obama’s last nominee which he helped stop from getting in, this time there was no need to wait til after the election. I mean its totally different according to the Trumpeters, the last time was for the presidency, this times just the midterms. Its no big deal, the Democrats are just upset they lost the election. And if Mitch gets his way again, the dream of possibly removing Donald from office for his crimes, probably will go out the window for good.   

To make matters worse, there is talk that Justice Kennedy’s son might have been in Trump’s pocket. According to a report by The New York Times reported that ‘The son of the Supreme Court Justice was leading a real-estate division of Deutsche Bank which gave Donald Trump over $1 billion in loans to finance his real-estate projects when other banks wouldn’t,’ The Times article describes an unusually close relationship between Kennedy and Trump and discusses a “quiet campaign” from the White House to encourage Kennedy to retire’. In other words they worked their mojo on Kennedy or worse, the retiring Justice was in on Trumps stealing of our Democracy. As others has mentioned, me thinks someone needs to investigate this possible treasonous act. And if true, should at least delay the Congresses vote on the matter. There is one hope with any of Donald's choices, like with most, sometimes they don’t do exactly what Donald wants them to do. Sessions with his recusal, Rosenstein launching the Robert Mueller investigation when he discovered he was duped. Perhaps our only hope now is whomever Trump picks, maybe when they get in and see all the evidence, see the big picture and disregard the trumped up conspiracies in the matter and they convict him anyway.

Only our glorious leader could be so damned ironic as to announce to the world that he’ll be spending the July 4th holidays, you know America’s celebration of our independence from the Empirical Rule of the British Monarchy, deciding which of the 25 candidates he’s supposedly choosing to be his next Supreme Court Justice. Who among the chosen few will be the person that might cast the deciding vote to throw out any possible eventual Impeachment hearings against him. Lets discount whatever crimes Trump or anyone else actually did. Pretty much stripping away any real hope of removing Donald from office, possibly ever. Unless of course the American people actually do rise up in masses, in numbers never seen before demanding his removal. That is of course if he doesn’t send his now goon squad of White Nationalist hooligans to use our nation’s military force to kill off any resistance. So Donald’s question of ‘what do we have to lose?,’ my guess is, it will be answered very shortly. If it hasn’t been answered already. 

What gets me is how little this nightmare scenario is being talked about. I understand it sounds crazy, or at least a little farfetched, but really how far of a stretch is it? I’m talking about Donald making himself king. The crazies on the right keep talking how there could be a second civil war, if the libtards get their way and remove Trump. Well the way I see it, that as usual the facts are being turned on its head by the monsters in our midst. How ironic is it, apparently millions of nimrods who follow Donald J. Trump like the second coming, would go to war to save a leader who cheated and lied his way in. Who if removed would be so because he was found that he did indeed perform treasonous acts. What then will they do? Continue their bogus civil war, the whole thing probably originally conceived in Russia, and being rounded up like traitors as well. Like the former Confederate Soldiers who refused to give up the ghosts of slavery. Sadly why do I feel that too many of Trump’s minions probably wish that slavery had never been outlawed. See what I just did, I went on a tangent that probably blew it, I went all conspiracy. So let me step back a bit and simply write, that if Trump gets to pick the judge, all rule of law as we know it in the streets of America is on the chomping block. 

Look at what he’s done with the refugee crisis which seemingly has arisen out of nowhere. Use this as a perfect example of whats wrong and why we should all worry. It is maddening with Donald Trump that whenever something he implements goes awry, if there is any really bad press put out there, like putting children in cages or separating them from their parents, it’s always the Democrats fault, in this case it’s a democratic Law he’s blaming for him doing it. We’re just using what the Democrats gave us, its not me, its everyone else. I love the children, this is all wrong. Disregard that I’m the person pulling the strings.

Such a hypocrite, surrounded by a basket full of them, followed like a God by millions of brainwashed sad brain dead sheep. This is the drill. He watches Fox News, oh excuse me, Fox faux news, and one of their hired conspiracist spew nonsense on something. He talks about it. Or the other way around, or even sometimes seemingly at the same time. In this case he and his minions hinted at it for months, he spewed it on twitter. His attorney general implemented it. It gets activated and turns out to be a shit show, so who’s fault is it? Obama’s! The Democrats! Or anyone but those who actually did the crime. Himself! Then their minions come out and lie and make up bull and again your sheep believe. And then whats worse, the so called mainstream media’s way of handling it is bringing on a circus car full of clowns and trying to argue any sense into the inbreds. Of course never succeeding, except for the killing of airtime which should be used to showcase what they’re are doing is wrong. Proving the nonsense they are pitching is all shade camouflaging what the Trumpeters are really doing to our nation. You don’t need to put them on to do that. By putting them on, you are helping their cause and hurting the very thing your channels were created to do, help the American people. 

Yes I am now discussing Trump’s heinous treatment of human beings coming in from other countries. I’m not so sure how smooth my transition was from one monstrous possibility to another real act of monstrous proportions. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see right through their hypocrisy as they come out lying that their kidnapping of children as blackmail to get Trump’s wall funded is in the Bible. Obviously signaling to all their sanctimonious bible thumping fans that it’s a good thing caging babies. I mean at least they aren’t white and they can’t speak English, right? Scream! Apparently if you listen to the monsters, it’s a good thing to cage little boys and little girls, heck for some its the best place they’ve ever lived. Separating them from their families, possibly forever, will build character, make them all true blue patriots. Such American values the trumpeters showcase on a daily basis with their racism and hatred spewing out of every pore. So now we’ve got Internments camps within the borders of these United States, in the year 2018. And worse, we’ve got Trump’s propaganda network Fox news spewing that this all a great thing. Could you be more obnoxious? Could you be more disgusting? You POS, drop dead Nazi scums! Yes I said Nazi! And yes I went there! When I heard Jeff Sessions and Sarah Huckabee Sanders use the God excuse, I wanted to punch both their lights out. But these two aren’t worth a prison sentence, and I’m pretty sure, that each will receive the proper punishment when their time is due. But Jesus, could you imagine? And their flock of sheep that follow deaf, dumb and blind from the truth, believe every lie in the book and disregard any dissenting voices 

I guess the term fiscally conservative Republicans can finally be thrown out the window and the dictionary. I mean besides a tax cut that has already ballooned our deficit to over a trillion dollars, this camp for children and this insane refugee solution, concocted by the Trumpeters are costing millions of unnecessary dollars. I should mention, I keep reading that Donald wants a second tax cut, on top of the first. I know I screamed out loud again. Does this sound familiar? Donald took a problem that actually has a solution that was working, and then blew it all up trying to fix it. Some how with everything Trump, they find a loophole in the system that they could use to upend everything. He may have the worse handlers, but man they do know how to find the needle in the haystack for every problem that faces them. Even if its made up nonsense, somehow it comes out sounding like it was written on one of Moses tablets. Sadly Trump’s solution to the refugee boondoggle takes a page from our not too distant past. A disgusting blemish in the history of our nation, something that has been considered a war crime, the horrific Japanese Internment Camps. Unlike water torture which so far Donald hasn’t been allowed to bring back into use, Trump’s love of using his powers as President has allowed him to make a bigger statement of his hatred for humans and others who don’t follow by the Trump rule of law. Only I can break the law and get away with it, all others much bow to me or get the hell out of my country, and I mean my country.

So Donald has the power, and used it  by creating Internment camps and causing an international nightmare. How long does it take before people wake up and realize whats happening right in front of our eyes? He’s practically playing by the Nazi play book or at least following Vladimir’s example. He comes out one day and says the children are animals, vermin. Then they come out, and only when the shit hits the fan, they say they hate this policy and its other people’s fault. I love the little children Donald whined. They’re caging human beings! Separating families, possibly forever and this dip shit is whining that its not his fault he has to do such terrible things, its that evil man who I replaced. We don’t like seeing animals in cages, but Trump’s minion Jeff Sessions put it into action on his decrees. Trump is such a freaking coward. If you’re gonna be a bastard, do it with pride. You’re the President for God sake, you can do anything and have, and you’re such a egomaniac that you still need to lie about it? What a whiney little bitch, as Bill Maher loves to say, and I love to hear. But this is on you. You demanded it. You signed that crazy signature of yours and Sessions implemented your heinous request. What did you call it? Oh yes, “zero tolerance”  More like zero intelligence and zero human compassion or heart. Much like most things Donald has decreed, something went wrong, apparently none of Trump’s actions are talked over or discussed, and who knows how much of it is winged or on a whim. But somehow its always a shit show and we the American people get screwed. And he and his minions smile as their bank accounts prospers and their souls turn to  black coal.

These Trumpeters are mad geniuses, somehow even turning the most vile of acts, that only tyrants would praise, into something that was found in the bible. Disregarding that that doesn’t make it right, in fact if it was in that sacred book, perhaps it was a teaching moment to showcase what was wrong with it. Like the Tower of Babel. Like when they talk about murder and sin, but the good book is not telling its readers to go out and do the crimes, its teaching them not to. That said, bringing up the good book as an excuse, as evidence that their hatred and vile acts are a good thing, pretty much condemns all of them to eternal damnation. Keep up the good work charlatans, but don’t be surprised when you arrive at The Pearly Gates, they aren’t so pearly and you ain’t entering Heaven. Lets just say, your confessions won’t be helping you this time. Yes, as the Trumpeters explain, there was existing laws on the books, both by George W. Bush, and continued through the early Obama administration, but neither President took this action or interpreted the laws in your inhumane manner. It was only the barbaric brains behind this White House that could have even conceived of the rules the way they did. 

As our democracy apparently begins to take its last gasps of breath, it is rather scary going on social media and seeing the comments by those who follow the Trumpeter spin. Not to mention the bots that are currently in full force these days spewing lies worse than before the last election. Whatever draining the swamp that twitter and facebook had done, seems to have failed miserably. I guess the enemies of the state, are getting the engine running smoothly enough before this coming November’s now most important election is our country’s history. Hillary was right, and so was Donald, the 2016 was this nations most important. Sadly too many people fell for the lies and the bull shit, and Trump got the seat at the table, Hillary unfortunately got the shaft, and our nation got fucked. But that said, because of the ramifications of Trump’s Electoral College win and what he’s been able to accomplish so far, our next election in November is now the most important in history. Simply put, either Democracy might be saved if the Democrats prevail, or it will be taps for us all, if the Trumpeters do. Because King Drumpf is on the horizon.

And what makes it the most scary, in the age when polls seems to be more wrong than right, are what can be found on social media. Why is it that every Trump fan or bot has thousands if not hundreds of thousands of followers, and the voices of the resistance only have a few hundred or so if that many? I only bring this into the conversation because that is what is driving the conversation on social media. As I’ve already mentioned here the problem with the media is that they keep giving a stage to the monsters. Their excuses are always, its better to let them  be seen and heard and shown as the fools that they be, then keep them hidden away, gestating in the shadows before erupting into a full blown uprising, like the Tea Party was and the Trumpeters are. Of course I would be a hypocrite if I didn’t also mention those on the left who sometimes come off sounding like crazed 1950 socialists dreaming of a new world order. These two heart stopping events, trump choosing yet another Supreme Court Judge and the Trump Interment Tent cities, are just the latest in a string of wrong headed moves by a man setting our nation on a cross for destruction. You wanna talk the Korean earthquake or the Puerto Rican failure  or the $1 trillion dollar deficit, when does the powers that be say enough is enough?

Its like they’ve all drunk the Kool-Aid, and afterwards if there is a God, they’ll all get what they deserve, while the rest of us suffer possibly forever trying to clean up the rubble he’s caused. If its even possible this time. I guess my final question today is, if Trump does try to take over as I fear, will his minions finally say no or will they continue to fall under his spell? If he doesn’t, and actually acts like a President and leaves without a fight, what will our nation look like on the day he escorted out? Will his replacement be a Trumpeter or will it be whomever the Gods have come up with this time to save us from yet another Republican mess. And if history again repeats itself, till the sheep once again rise up and vote in yet another liar to destroy all the good the Democrats have done once more. And the vicious circle will continue till our great nation eats itself whole or survives and somehow arrives at the next stage in the democratic experiment that is known as the United States of America. 

Just one man’s opinion.

© Neil Feigeles, Neilizms, Thursday, July 4, 2018

WHO NEEDS VERIFICATION, WE GOT TRUMP’S MEMORY TO KEEP US SAFE… WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! 

Speaking of video tapes, have you seen the propaganda video showcasing what will happen to North Korea if they don’t agree with der Führer, the one that was so bizarre, they actually credited somebody else for making it!

SO THIS WAS WORTH BLOWING UP THE G7? Donald J. Trump once again showcased why the wrecker-in-chief is exactly what our worst predictions imagined. Not that anyone of us should be surprised, but every day he simply out does himself. On most occasions the resistance, as we like to be called, come out screaming at the top of our lungs that enough is enough. Here it is, the same reasons be it real or fabricated the Republicans demanded they remove Barack Obama or jail Hillary Clinton, or impeach Bill Clinton, but with Trump those crimes against the state receives silence or worse praise. Amazingly and not surprisingly, and utterly mind-blowingly scary as Hell, on the other side nothing he does, or tweets, or says matters. In fact everything is taken as the work of God, and Donald was chosen to bring back good old fashioned American values. Including the caging and removing of hundreds if not thousands of children, separating them from their parents for the audacity of being an “illegal” immigrant. 

I’ve been saying for a while now, Donald has a thing for Adolph, which is why he so loves and praises people like Vladimir Putin and his new love, Kim Jong Un. Listen to him talk about dictators with such praise, admiration and shall we call it envy, and then listen to how he describes the leaders of other Democratic nations. Its striking to me how he seems to consider the elected leaders to be weak and pathetic. The story that came out in the 1990s, be it real or gossip, that Trump liked to keep ‘My New Order’ a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, or worse, ‘Mein Kampf’ by his bed to read at night, didn’t hurt the idea from stewing in the back of my head for decades. Reading that he liked the Nazi’s leadership abilities for some reason sort of bothered me, and when he announced he was running, they came back to me in waves. And as is his lot with every tyrannical head of state, always disregarding what the monstrous actions they did to achieve their world conquering goals. All Trump’s talk about the North Korean leader and his love of his people seriously making me want to blow chunks. I understand he doesn’t like to read or research, but the estimated 100,000 or more political prisoners in North Korea’s gulag-like penal system probably wouldn’t agree with Donald and his propaganda lies.  

What I found interesting and most frightening with the entire historic meeting between what constitutes as world leaders in 2018, was the one-on-one with only Donald and Kim, plus the two translators. The pow wow between the two was unprecedented to say the least, and not just because of whom was involved in it. Unnervingly this meeting of the minds, between Trump and Un occurred with no recording or documentation, and no advisors in the room with them. No Secretary of State, no Vice President, no one, except two people who none of know anything about. Am I the only one who ponders why? I guess we’ve got the transcripts of the notes that the translators wrote, that is if any of us will ever be privy to them. Since we’ll never know, unless the meeting was recorded by one of the two leaders people without the other knowing. Or perhaps neither knew and there’s another player on the world stage who now has got the dirt and the real details that they can use for their own devices. That one I can believe over all others? Or perhaps someone in that room or else where already created a record before the meeting even took place, and that will be the thing that we get to see.  

When I heard about the first meeting between the now best friends, I thought okay, makes sense about translators. At least they will be able to understand each other, or better yet not misconstrue something one of them might have said since English isn’t the North Korean leaders language. But during the historic event the media and their viewers got to hear the North Korean leader speak for possibly the first time, and we discovered surprisingly that Kim Jong Un actually understands and can communicate in English. So why did we need the two translators in the first place? And most importantly, why was no recordings or videos of the historic moment taken? Isn’t there some kind of rule? We’ve got the world’s two biggest liars in the room, discussing real world events and all we have are the words of either. Trump’s favorite campaign mantra was “Believe me”, but how could any person with any intelligence or recollection of the last couple of years believe anything that comes out of his mouth is the truth. Remember we are discussing nuclear weapons not simply old school fistacuffs. If Trump plays this the wrong way he could send us all into big cloud of radioactive dust. Not surprisingly his diplomacy has already sprung a few leaks, as reports have been coming out of North Korea already explaining that either Trump had agreed to a lot more in the deal then was announced. So since we haven’t a clue what really transpired during than alone time, either Kim is as big a liar as one of the Trump family singers or Donald is the worse liar on Earth. 

Since becoming President, Trump has been all bluster with no substance. More and more he has proven what an absolutely horrendous deal maker he is. My feeling now is the only way Trump has succeeded is by playing dirty and getting away with murder. Of course being the President of the United States now, Trump’s dirty deals have much bigger consequences with human lives in the cross hairs. How many times has he gone through bankruptcy, how many people have sued him? Somehow everything Kim wanted he got, and nothing Trump said he was gonna get, he got. His biggest pitch was that he was gonna get North Korea to end their Nuclear program, and remove all the damaging WMDs within their borders. Well all we got was something every other President has gotten over the years, except an agreement to verify their clean-up. Donald, as usual pulled his ‘Mission Accomplished’ routine, and this time came out and told us that he believed that North Korea was “no longer a nuclear threat” because of assurances of his new best buddy. So everyone you can now sleep at night once more, Uncle Drumpf has saved the day.

After his big get together, for only the second time since he became President, Donald had a press conference, that I actually accidentally discovered was on at 5 am. I had woken early to go to a gig and turned on my television, to help me wake up and to see what was new, how the weather was and what the day might be bringing me. Sadly Trump was on, all chest out with pride, almost sounding healthier and happier as President since the day he swore to uphold our constitution. Unfortunately for me he was on every news channel live, answering questions from the press. So I sat back for a few, while I ate my breakfast until I couldn’t take it anymore and shut the set off. It took only a few moments to realize the man was as usual making stuff up or simply playing games with everyone’s heads. First I’ve never seen anyone praise another leader as Donald praised Kim, something the North Korean leader has not reciprocated in any way. Donald made Un sound like the second coming of Gandhi with his love of his people and most importantly to Donald, the greatest negotiator that ever walked this Earth. Possibly even better than himself. The very first question he was asked was to do with the North Korean leaders horrible treatment of his people. How could he like him so much? So Donald spouted about how great he has to be to have taken over his country at such a young age,…. He said. “He’s a tough guy. Hey, when you take over a country, tough country, tough people, and you take it over at 27-years old, I mean, that’s a 1 in 10,000 that could do that. He’s a very smart guy, he’s a great negotiator, but I think we understand each other.” That was his defense for the horrendous way he treats his countries citizens. Completely disregarding the fact that he’s killed off family members, and everyone thats been at all against him, to enshrine himself as Supreme Leader of North Korea. 

Oh one last thing about not having a record of the historic meeting. A reporter asked Donald if he had notes to verify details after the meeting in Singapore, Trump pretty much said he didn’t need to when he explained “We had a great conversation, it was a very heartfelt conversation... I don’t have to verify because I have one of the great memories of all time.” This from a man who doesn’t remember what he said 5 minutes ago, let alone a meeting with a nut job who has the ability to blow us all up. But remember, chill everybody, America and the world can “sleep well tonight,” Trump let us all know that all our worries are now over with North Korea thanks to him, cause he and his best pal made a deal and as we know when he makes a deal the heavens open up and the God’s sing their praises for our great leader… not! This was when I had had enough and shut my television off. I discovered later I had missed the big stunner of the entire event. Trump’s announcement that he was halting the annual US-South Korean military drills, was to put it simply Earth shaking. According to everyone in the know on television, nobody knew about this decision in advance. Don’t you think that he should have discussed this with South Korea or at least his military advisors, before announcing such a major change in our military strategy? Seems currently they are already setting up the next war exercise and those in power hadn’t been given notice either.

He also suggested that this could some day lead to the United States eventually removing all their military in the region. “I want to get our soldiers out. I want to bring our soldiers back home,” Trump said. “But that’s not part of the equation right now. I hope it will be eventually.” Something that he’s been pitched way back during the campaign. But as has been explained by a lot smarter people then I am, that the reason that the US does this exercise every year is because of the other world leaders who might want to take control of the region. Take advantage of the absence of United States military strength. The idea of removing US troops who have been stationed since the 1950s, thats over 70 years, will likely cause grave concerns in Tokyo and Seoul. But in other circles could be exactly what they’ve been dreaming of for years. 

In fact on Rachel Maddow’s show the day after the big get together, she had a segment discussing why Russia and China possibly were drooling at the notion of the United States pulling up stakes. From how I understood her assessment of the situation, she sort of inferred that the leaders of those nations might have come up with the idea or perhaps were working together with Donald on this historic shift in world affairs. How scary is that? Its not as if the Russian Federation hadn’t annexed Crimea just a few years back.  

Donald’s off the cuff comment on ending the war exercise was immediately attacked by his critics. From what little we know about Trump and Kim’s brilliant plan, North Korea haven’t given us anything in return, not even their assurances that they would actually in fact start to denuclearize. Something they have promised to do and signed off on several times in the past, but as history shows never fulfilled their side of the deal. But this time will be different, because of Trump’s great friendship with Un.

The White House realizing how Trump’s decree has upset so many people in the Republican party, let alone everybody else, is now saying that the ending of the war games, would only happen as long as North Korea follows the deal that will eventually be hammered out. Of course one has to wonder how long it will take to iron out the kinks of this deal, and how many years they will eventually get to fulfill their side of the bargain?  After the dust settles, that is if the dust isn’t nuclear fall out with our ashes in it, it would be interesting to compare the Iran nuclear deal, which President Barack Obama helped put together with Trump’s cross your fingers decree. You know the one that apparently was working, which actually talked Iran into ending and dismantling their Nuclear program. That most people in the free world were happy that yes, it was accomplishing what it had set out to do. Unfortunately President Barack Obama’s enemy’s, of which Trump was one of, attacked it from its earliest stages of discussion to the day Trump pretty much tried to destroy it. Happily so far, the other nations who signed off on it are still supposedly operating under it. Perhaps hoping to bide their time till another leader is sitting in our nation’s highest office. As Trump keeps forgetting with each of these deals other nations had agreed upon before he got into power, especially the ones that his predecessor had signed off on, aren’t just deals he can tear up and rewrite whenever he decrees it. 

The Iran Deal wasn’t just Donald on the crapper watching Fox and Friends, deciding on a whim to blow up everything. The Iran nuclear deal was an international endeavor that many nations including China, France, Germany, the European Union, Iran, Russia, United Kingdom, and  the United States took part in. Trump keeps forgetting that many people worked long and hard to accomplish this historic agreement together, they can’t all be wrong. Or maybe he doesn’t want to remember, as with everything he’s been doing, as he tries to fix what he thinks is wrong, shaping our world into whatever dystopia he is envisioning. Who needs a room filled of aides or at least one of two of his minions when Donald can do it all by himself. Who needs the generals?!?! But if what you know best, turns out to have been delusions of a madman, and the people who are supposed to keep him in check, sit back and in most cases assist him in whatever his desires are? What do you do? 

But if you believe Donald his day long love fest with Kim, which was cemented by a 4 page document, is yet another showcase of what a great deal maker he is. As usual with any Trump doctrine, we get an outline of ideas or talking points with no real explanation or detail on how any of the deal works. Its more like a good faith hand shake kind of deal. You know the one where you spit on your palms before shaking off on the deal. For some reason, I can imagine, the two best buds, locking lips for a sec to seal the deal, in a lovers embrace, that would make the Godfather proud. I’m sure that video tape would sell like gang busters. But what is most striking about Trumps deal, is as opposed to all the previous deals between the US and North Korea, there is no mention of how, or if, or when, their would be any verifications. Something that was written in stone with the Iran Deal and with any other country in the past that we had a similar issue with. Remember WMDs? 

What preceded the historic meetings between the two instant best friends, was the polar opposite. Look at how Trump acted at the G7 Summit. The way he showed up late, left early, embarrassed our nation and insulted what used to be our friends across the globe. A truly horrible display by any world leader, showcasing diplomacy is not Donald’s best trait. Watching our President act like a petulant child who isn’t liked by anyone was simply sad. It was however great seeing how the other leaders of the summit didn’t take any crap from him. In the age when an American President is behaving more and more like a certain Nazi leader, it is honestly thrilling watching Angela Merkel the current German Chancellor act the part of the perfect leader of a Democratic nation. What could have been if Hillary Clinton had attended the Summit instead, but those visions, only make what we witnessed seem worse.

The apex of the entire G7 Summit was Donald’s assault on the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, which felt like a scene right out the movies. My mouth dropped open when I went onto Huffington Post the next day and discovered my feelings were felt by others. An article by Ed Mazza, entitled ‘People Think Trump And Trudeau Just Had Their ‘Love Actually’ Moment’ made me sit up and go ‘yes’ or should I write ‘Oh, dear’? Seems the scenes between Hugh Grant, the Prime Minister of Britain in the film, and the U.S. president played by Billy Bob Thornton were playing out in the real world. And just like in the film, the people’s of the world, including American’s are rooting for the foreign leader. All I can say right now is, I wouldn’t want to be in South Korea’s shoes, and I’m wondering if that first class ticket to Mars is still available, since living in ours right now is so damned scary. 

Just one man’s opinion

© Neil Feigeles, Neilizms, Thursday, June 14, 2018

SINCE THE DOJ BOWED TO TRUMP’S DEMANDS, I HAVE TO WONDER WHETHER DONNY’S PRESIDENCY OR OUR VERY DEMOCRACY IS ON BURROWED TIME?

I was sitting awaiting a hair cut and spent the entire time trying not to punch in a wall or scream my lungs out… there is no collusion… It’s been over year… Have you been in a cave sir?

YES ITS GOTTEN THIS BAD, Donald J. Trump pulls a rabbit out of his ass, concocts a conspiracy, and the Department of Justice now bows done and investigates the charges. Am I the only one who finds this latest lowering of the bar a bit frightening? Somehow the DOJ is now his personal play thing? We’ve gone from President Barack Obama supposedly wiretapping, to Trump accusing Obama of now infiltrating his campaign with not one “spy” but many. Somehow no matter what insanity Donald comes up with or whatever talking points he’s learned from his morning ritual of Fox and Friends or where ever, can now be investigated with just simply a twitter spasm in the morning, evidence be damned.  

The annoyance in all this of course is that the man and seemingly all of his associates are under investigation for numerous crimes. And all we hear as a defense are excuses for why the investigation should never have happened in the first place, not about the possible criminal or worse treasonous acts that they might have done or might still be doing. That part of the conversation is never on their lips. All they do is whine that its “fake” news and that the investigation is taking so long. Not that any of the connected dots could be real, but how much money that they are spending on it. Forgetting the millions they wasted on Hillary Clinton and the many other bogus conspiracies. Not once do we even get believable explanations as to why under every speck of dust a Russian is hiding, or now we’ve learned other foreign dignitaries are slithering. Not to mention, why is every member of the deplorable basket of losers all striking deals that will benefit only themselves, and too many of them are living like kings on the peoples dime. That’s right, who gets to pay the price, we the citizens of what was once known as The United States of America, or as it should now be called Trumpland. All those weekend getaways, the meetings taking place in Mar-a-Lago, or as they call it the Southern White house, that’s right, Donald doesn’t pay, we do, he just pockets the fees. Somehow all this canoodling with all these foreigners before he was elected has nothing to do with helping Trump get into office, and none of the meetings afterwards has anything to do with Donald and his minions pocketing millions for themselves. 

So Trump drums up a conspiracy, by alleging that there was a “spy” or several in his campaign, that were put in place by either Hillary, Barack, those damned crooked Democrats, or the FBI themselves. Perhaps that 500 lb., fatso that Trump outed as the real hacker was the James Bond in Trump’s inner circle? Except if he was so fat, how come nobody saw him? So Donny tweets, goes off on a tangent about spies in his midst, if true as he explains, this too will be yet another crime larger than Watergate perpetuated by others against his greatness. Doesn’t it get old, this never ending stream of ever growing conspiracies? Somehow each new threat on him, comes out conveniently after something on him or his minions is reported that should be the final nail in his coffin. Just like before the election with WikiLeaks, the man is magical with his timing, just as something bad on him comes out, boom. The problem we face is, he is our President now, and each time he comes out with a new one, the bar gets lowered that much further. How many more steps does it take before we have to start goose stepping on the streets of America?

So this time, the DOJ bowed a little, just wondering how far Donald has to go before the DOJ actually puts their foot down and says no, that’s one step too far. And if horrible that day occurs, I tremble at the fear of how Donald would react to it. Will that day be the day, he transforms from a President into the full blown tyrant I fear he so craves to become. Sounds paranoid huh? But as the attacks against the investigation spreads farther, the fear in me that he will overthrow our government grows louder. I mean, now that he can get the Department of Justice to jump at one of his twitter decrees, I’m wondering how soon will talk by him of halting the vote begin?  

Of course if the man was innocent as he keeps telling us all to believe, one would think that he would spend less time behaving like a guilty man and more time trying to prove to everyone why they should be happy he’s now our President. I guess I can understand why it might upset him, that there’s this cloud above my head, if I was innocent. But instead of behaving like well a President Barack Obama or even a George Walker Bush, let alone a Richard Nixon and at least act presidential, all we get is a man who insults the very meaning of being the leader of the free world. 

Whats troubling to me is that all this witch hunt garbage might be working. As I discovered while waiting for a hair cut the other day. Listening to, to put it nicely a fool, who was receiving his trim, made me want to punch the wall in front of me in. As I pretended the birds were chirping and the sun was shining, inside I was having what I guess could be called road rage. I tried not to listen to him spout off on how long the investigation has been going, how they haven’t found anything, that it was all fake, was to put it nicely unnerving. But what was worse was the way he was describing the investigation as a witch hunt, using words uttered on Fox or by Trump’s sheep’s social media posts. So Trump’s madness might have a method to it that works. The longer the investigation goes on, the more time Trump and his cronies can attempt to make it look bogus. I mean there was something, wouldn’t they have come out with something by now? And it went on for minutes, as I stewed inside trying not to go all Mueller on his sheep droppings.

How difficult is it to remember that the only ones not coming out to talk about the investigation are the people doing the investigation, that when they finish, if they finish, then we will find out what they have on him. So, so far we’ve gotten nothing from them, at least some people are doing their jobs and not spending all their time on television pitching whatever they can to try to sway public opinion, if not the rule of law. So instead we get people who are leaking Intel for and against Trump. Of course, as we’ve learned so far, with Trump’s concocted witch hunt, in the real world, real criminals are being named by the droves. Mueller’s team has already gotten 5 or 6 convictions, 15 individual indictments and 3 corporate indictments so far. 

Sadly according to the talking heads, the poll numbers for Donald and the Republicans running for office somehow are actually getting better. Beats me why. Unfortunately, the masses are getting used to Donald’s shenanigans, I guess. Listening to the fool getting a trimming, proved its working for some. Somehow all the nuttiness and horrors we’ve been living through has magically disappeared into a fake news world, and all the brain dead  sheep out there, all they want is to discuss how good the economy is supposedly doing.

It reminds me of after Barack Obama became President, and the same monsters that got us into the mess that were the reason he got elected in the first place, were now the so-called experts all over television being listened to as geniuses. Seriously, the fools that destroyed our economy and got us into a now never-ending war, were now the all seeing Gods we were all supposed to agree with. I’m still shaking my head at how many instantly fell in line with their lies. 

So what do we do now? Just lie back and take the pain till we somehow survive Trump’s tenure as President? That is if any of us do. Should we allow the monsters to win cause its getting pretty exhaustive just arguing the facts to the sheep? Should we actually forget all their treasonous acts that he and his associates might have done to become President? Or the multitude of criminal acts that he, his family and his associates might have done since entering the White House that are being revealed while the investigation is on going. With all the chatter on criminal actions, from what one see’s and listens to, apparently no matter what happens or whats revealed, Trump will probably last out his first term, if not his second. That is if he ever leaves the White House. Why do I have a bad feeling in my gut that the only way Donald is actually gonna be escorted out, is when he decides he’s had enough. Watching Donald Trump and his minions, bend the rules on a daily basis to work in their favor, I wouldn’t be too surprised if he remains President for life. Yes I wrote for life. Ironically half his pitch to the masses near the end of the campaign, was, God forbid Hillary wins, she’s gonna spend her presidency under investigation and impeachment trials, how could our nation survive that ordeal? Seems, he was right about half of the equation. Even if the true smoking gun is revealed in this saga I’m afraid nothing will stop Donald from having a crown placed upon his head before this sad time has turned into history.  

After George Walker Bush won his reelection, after taking us into a false war, I pretty much gave into the negatives. But I never was scared our democracy was in danger of disappearing. Even when Donald won his Presidency I still had hope. 8 years of the positives with Barack Obama as President can do a lot for your psyche. Unfortunately since Trump’s win, all of my worst fears have come true. As our nation has been smacked daily by a never ending stream of lies, hypocrisy, and grift by the man in charge and possibly all of his minions, this mayhem has taken me back to being the Debbie Downer I was for the eight long years of George Walker Bush’s false presidency. Need I remind you about that hanging Chad debacle.   

Now that the Republicans have all three branches of the government, all we hear from Trump is that whatever isn’t accomplished is the Democrats fault. Forgetting of course that they have all the power and the Democrats are currently like the step children sitting in the next room eating scraps. Unnervingly this week Donald was blaming the Democrats for the missing 1,500 immigrant children that ICE separated from their parents. Somehow his Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, who implemented this heinous procedure isn’t to blame, but President Barack Obama is. 

Donald comes out on a regular basis, almost like clockwork with a conspiracy, an attack, utter nonsense, the craziest idea you have ever heard, and whatever he says, tweets, decrees is taken as fact. Throw away all common sense and evidence, and just ruin the lives of whomever you like to get your agenda accomplished. Anything to save himself. So we get to this week’s absurdity, the FBI had a spy imbedded into Trump’s campaign, working for Hillary, the FBI, Barack Obama, or was it the DNC? A few weeks back this was a conspiracy that crazy people uttered, now we have a President demanding the Department of Justice investigate this week’s “worse than Watergate” scandal. Or as the man himself tweeted ‘‘This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!’

This latest Trump fiction of course took precedent for all the talking heads. Much like Hillary’s emails and the Benghazi waste of air time that swept away any questions on Trumps taxes, even on his health, let alone what he would actually do if elected president. Best to keep everyone on their toes. That is until we the people have had our democracy taken away out from under us, without even knowing it till its too late. The scary part in all this is I wonder whats next? I would think if I was innocent, I would want my named cleared. Not to mention his children’s. 

So now we had “Spygate” as he called it. I just shiver wondering whats to come. We went from wiretapping to having a spy imbedded into his campaign. In an instant, like most of Donald’s other accusations, this week’s came out just as another pile of crap has been reported that could upend his presidency, that is if and when the investigation is ever allowed to be completed. Well I’m happy to report, sadly for Donald, apparently his ‘spy’ conspiracy has turned into a bust, there was no spy there. And so instead we now have Trumpeters arguing what a spy is, they actually have people on air explaining what the definition of spying is, to try to make the now debunked crime, still a talking point in Donald’s favor. So Mr. Trump, if I was you, I’d sit back and relax. You should be happy that all your fears were washed away. That again, as the most paranoid President since Nixon, remember you were wrong, no one is out to get him. Whoops, I’m afraid thats incorrect, there is one person out to get Donald, and thats his own guilty conscious.

Just one man’s opinion

© Neil Feigeles, Neilizms, Wednesday, May 30, 2018

CAMPAIGN PROMISE FULFILLED, CONSEQUENCES BE DAMNED, AND NOW HE WANTS TO BE KING!

As always with Trump, its what I want blinders on, no thought how the ramifications could hurt others. So now its a new embassy in Israel, and already 52 people are dead! Donald, those deaths are on your head sir.

THAT DIDN’T TAKE LONG… so Trump decided to move the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, what could go wrong? Or in his own words, what do you have to lose?  Go wrong! Not that I needed to tell him, but people died! Unbelievable as with everything else, whatever Donald does, he always steps in it, and sadly each time he does, people’s lives are hurt, worsened or ended. That’s what happens when you hire a man with no experience, no common sense, no compassion or heart, with a bit of insanity thrown in the mix. Oh, and I shouldn’t forget to add to the list the bad feeling that keeps growing in me, that we have a President whose toying with becoming a dictator out loud. Now I have to ponder if his possible removal from office will occur before Trump has the chance to turn our little nation into his kingdom. 

By now, it should be obvious whenever Trump says anything, it always has some hidden agenda in it. Or its his subconscious letting us know whats coming soon that we should all worry about, and of course attacking others for crimes that he himself has been committing. Not to mention when he sends out a decree on twitter and somehow that tweet becomes law. Tell me again how your one vote doesn’t matter? Again, as Trump asked, what do you have to lose? Just life as we’ve known if since we the colony’s became what is still called the United States of America. So during his comments in a rally in Elkhart, Ind., if even said in jest while talking about his triumph of the embassy opening, what he said has to concern any person who wishes our democracy remains one. No seriously! Unbelievably, during his commentary on the stomp, while reveling in his own greatness, I’m not sure if it was scripted or off the cuff, but Trump I guess joked that “The new embassy, I said ‘when is it going to be open.’ They said ‘anywhere from five to 10 years,’ “So, I said, ‘unless they give me an extension for the presidency, which I don’t think the fake news media would be too happy about. Actually they would be happy, because when I’m not here, their ratings are going to sink. So they’ll probably be very happy,” I know I may be grasping at straws, but when I heard it, I freaked out just a little. And if past is prologue it should freak you out to. He joked about extending his residency in the White House. You know like his friends, led by Vladimir have done. As the sheep in the Republican Party follow along like brainwashed minions, and one by one his decrees take away everything that actually makes America great, why is it far-fetched that the next step is King. Why not? He already has his state run television running smoothly.  

As for the opening, did they not realize what they were pulling by moving the embassy, how it would cause protests, and wide-spread clashes on the Gaza-Israel border? Did the fool not think that people would get hurt, injured, and killed, or did he not care? Considering most of the victims in all this, the people living there weren’t white, yes I’m going there, I guess they were expendable? Okay I shouldn’t be so mean, it had nothing to do with their color or their faith, maybe it had everything to do with Trump’s putting his stamp on the globe and history. Look something nobody else has ever done, screw the consequences. I’m Donald J. Trump world builder! Kneel before Drumpf!

In his quest for world dominion, I think Donald thinks this is all a game, a reality show and his moves are like the plays in a board game. He doesn’t seem to realize that his whims, have real world repercussions. Trump only see’s his view, and never considers others. In a crazy way, he’s kind of like Thanos, the big bad in the Marvel Universe. His mission to kill off 50% of the population, to save the universe. Living though another one of Trump’s plans in an odd way, feels like just another one of Thanos’ steam rolling over other worlds. Perhaps Donald doesn’t even care about anyone but himself? Look at his lack of humanity with any of the tragedies that have happened under his watch. Remember the people in Puerto Rico, he seems to have completely forgotten them. How about the victims of gun violence, silence. Anything Donald? I think Donald expected the bloodshed, but only as if it happened on his television screen. Which is why he wasn’t about to show up, and so he sent a video instead. Just like Big Brother would have done. Trump may be crazy but he’s not stupid,  he might sound nuts, but scarily I think there is some kind of plan he or someone else devised that he is following. Even the way he attacks the Mueller investigation at every turn, like with everything else, his attacks have a method, and sadly we are living in whatever game this monster is playing. If that wasn’t the reason, and I’m sticking by it, perhaps instead he was simply too cowardly to make an appearance. I mean the man faked bone spurs to get out of going off to war, you think he’s ever gonna get into a real fight or put himself into a cross hairs of real trouble? He might try to sound tough, but my feeling is if he was ever a prisoner of war, the man would crumble before the first slap was thrown.

Instead of going and crowing in the Holy land, Donald was probably too busy watching Fox and Friends, playing golf or tweeting out lies and well other lies to jet off with the family for a little vacation overseas. So he sent his daughter, and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, who supposedly is the real brains in this historical whim, with his closeness to the Israel leader helping to broker this scheme. Not surprising, the person who probably said the biggest tone deaf comment of the entire day was Jared Kushner who said Palestinians participating in Gaza border protests are ‘part of the problem and not part of the solution.’ How do I say this Junior, look in the mirror? You guys are causing the problems, not solving it. And of course his pet Jew, Steven Mnuchin, and yes I went there. Who smiled at this very unnecessary and sadly war inducing event as if he was the cat who ate the canary.

Oh, speaking of religion, turns out that the religious leader that was invited to make the big prayer during the opening ceremony in Jerusalem for an event that never needed to be done in the first place, was as usual with Trump selections, wrong for the job. Mitt Romney, actually tweeted out a comment, that probably says it all. ‘Robert Jeffress says “you can’t be saved by being a Jew,“ and “Mormonism is a heresy from the pit of hell.”  He’s said the same about Islam. Such a religious bigot should not be giving the prayer that opens the United States Embassy in Jerusalem.’

So another Trump pick turns out to be a white racist douche bag, talk about something getting old. How much money do you want to bet that he also has a few Russian pals in his congregation who are in bed with Vladimir. What is that God, Vlad’s a good guy and the Democrats are the devil? Or was that lets pray and pray, that the big guy upstairs listens to confessions, and forgives as opposed to turning us sinners into pillars of salt, cause otherwise I be going to hell, Robert Jeffress. 

I must add that moving the embassy to Jerusalem, isn’t something everyone is against. In fact the senior Senator of New York, and the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer just released this statement which stated “In a long overdue move, we have moved our embassy to Jerusalem. Every nation should have the right to choose its capital. I sponsored legislation to do this two decades ago, and I applaud President Trump for doing it.”.  Now I am no expert in Middle East politics, but witnessing what is occurring right now surely looks like an end run on the Palestines and the end of their power in the region. Which mean get ready for a fight, because, they won’t go down quietly. 

So I’m just trying to figure out what part of this embassy move has to do with President Barack Obama’s actions. I mean isn’t that what Donny does? Whatever his predecessor did, or wouldn’t have done, because he looked at what the ramifications of actions could cause, as opposed to conspiracy talkers online on late night cable shows that spew uneducated theories, that right now thanks to our 45th President, his whims might send the middle east into yet another war. Oh, now I get it. There you go, its because President Barack Obama wouldn’t have done this in a million years, that he decided to do it. Question answered.

Just one man’s opinion

© Neil Feigeles, Neilizms, Monday, May 14, 2018

QUIT KILLING THE MESSENGER, MICHELLE WOLF ISN’T THE PROBLEM

What hypocrisy, the White House and the media simply can’t take a joke, or handle the truth. Apparently the monsters trying to destroy our democracy and those who are profiting over it aren't the problem, the comedian is.  

WHY THE SUDDEN OUTRAGE OVER A FEW JOKES? It seems throwing the truth into the faces of liars and those profiting from it in a comedic act is now a crime worth destroying a persons career over. Without sounding like I’m begging, but lets not allow people’s misinterpretations of Michelle Wolf’s comedic jabs by snowflakes, hypocrites and losers, destroy her comedic voice of truth and sarcasm. It wasn’t that long a go they tried and pretty much succeeded in destroying Kathy Griffin’s career, at least for a while, when she had the audacity to make a political statement that insulted The Donald. Look at what they did to her for a photo, and lets not forget she apologized for it. But for the fans of Trump too bad, for them she went too far. Seems in the Kingdom run by Donald Drumpf, all those who dare to make fun of Heir Trump must pay with their livelihoods. Why is he allowed to attack and accuse all he wants to and never gets hurt, while everyone else gets attacked, for words or deeds that never ever get close to the crap he pulls?

Listening to the fallout over a comedic bit, as the snowflakes out there shout loudly at the outrage over jokes, which are being misinterpreted is maddening. In the age of Donald J. Trump, the fact that he and his minions, can distort reality with conspiracies and lies, and instead of being called out on it, kicked off air and drummed outta office, they get invited back for more. But the voices of resistance, reason, and humor get accused of practically every crime in the book. I must admit, when I first watched Michelle Wolf’s roast of the powers that be, I didn’t see the entire set of jokes on Trump, his minions and the media, but I witnessed most of it, about 12 minutes out of the 16. I was walking home late Saturday night and watched it on my iPhone on Youtube, and it definitely made the journey a much more interesting experience. While I can understand why some jokes offended people, and how others might find her delivery a little jarring, with a voice reminiscent of a young Roseanne Barr or Fran Drescher in The Nanny. But nothing she said was outta bounds, and every one of her targets deserved what she dealt out, especially Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump’s White House Press Secretary.

I do get why some might have thought her comedy set at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ dinner weren’t funny or worse, but what I don’t get is the onslaught of righteous anger? Have none of these idiots ever heard of this event before? Ever seen any of the jokes told by some of todays biggest political comedians. Every year there is outrage over a joke or ten that hits too close to home, but this year somehow seems different. The attacks on the comedic host more biting and point blank threatening. Last year, Hasan Minhaj hosted, another The Daily Show alumni, and the year before there was Larry Wilmore, and their jokes were just as biting as her’s were last night. But she’s a woman, and most importantly this time the people getting smacked for their hypocrisy happen to side with Donald. The insanity of this is we are talking about jokes which at no time ever reach the levels of vile, filth, and disgust that Trump has spewed at any number of events, sometimes on a daily pace. Half of his tweets go farther than anything she said in her routine. Plus nothing she said was a lie, unlike practically everybody associated with the Trump family singers, which are led by Sarah Huckabee Sanders. You know the one with the *perfect* smoky eye. I must admit the first time I head the joke, I mistook what she said as ‘fat’ and not ‘facts’ but I instantly rewound the video to make sure I got the joke right, and thought it was a home run. This is the joke she said that has now made her a target for the sheep, “I actually really like Sarah. I think she’s very resourceful. She burns facts, and then she uses the ash to create a perfect smoky eye. Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s lies. It’s probably lies.” Now in my opinion that commentary is a perfect take down on the lying voice box of the so-called President. So Michelle Wolf, I presume trying to stem the tide trying to wash over her, came out in a tweet about it by responding to another tweet by Mika Brzezinski, who I guess misinterpreted the joke in a similar fashion that I had initially had. “Why are you guys making this about Sarah’s looks? I said she burns facts and uses the ash to create a *perfect* smoky eye. I complimented her eye makeup and her ingenuity of materials.”

The worse insult in all of this is that the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, the person who hired her, Margaret Talev, actually released a statement criticizing Michelle Wolf’s performance. Instead of siding with her rights to speak her mind, she sided with her detractors. Ironically the annual dinner is “billed as a celebration of freedom of the press and the First Amendment” and the idiot running it bends over to pressure from Trump who has suggested killing the annual event off for good. Seems in the age of Trump, if you speak ill of him and his minions, you need to be offed, imprisoned or more appropriately disappeared. Its like we are living in Russia, as Vladimir’s detractors and foes one by one get poisoned and killed off. 

Now to put this into perspective of what wrong with this hypocrisy, right now Sean Hannity still is seen nightly spewing the same lies and conspiracies that our President does on a daily basis. Every attack on the FBI and the Mueller investigation parroted. Still on the air only weeks after the nation was stunned of learning Michael Cohen wasn’t just Trump’s attorney but also Hannity’s. At present, there is a real possibility at least in my mind, that Sean and Donald and Michael have all been working together for years. Their verbal assaults possibly coordinated in Vladimir’s office. So why is Sean allowed to continue on air? Shouldn’t they give him a needed vacation as they investigate the possible illegalities? I mean after pretty much lying by omission by not telling his audience that he’s in bed with Michael Cohen, how on Earth can a so-called news station allow this criminal his coveted spot? Millions of people’s perceptions have been tainted by his not letting them in on who his legal counsel is. I personally know of several seemingly normal people who spout off practically word for word the bull that they have seen on his program. I understand that Fox News now claims that his show is really entertainment and not news, but his audience doesn’t seem to know it, and they don’t appear to want to trumpet the reality of the cable channels hypocrisy. So why is the joke on air named Hannity allowed to fester but Michelle Wolf telling a few jokes that some find offensive is grounds to attack her and to actually threaten to end the annual event? Seems his saying “pussy” and other vulgarities are now nothing. But anyone else’s is grounds to call for yet another comedian’s head.

Donald’s year and a half in power has started to destroy whatever common decency was left in our world, because apparently Trump can get away with anything. As he said “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters,” perhaps we was right? Because in this backward world we are living in, anyone else who dares to attack him or his minions gets the worse possible punishments. Look at how they attacked Hillary Clinton, look at his lies about President Barack Obama, and how he attacked pretty much everyone with insults and accusations, and nothing is ever too far for him with his fans. One hopes that one of these days the world will go back to normal again before it cracks into a million or so pieces. At least I hope people would begin to find his nonstop lies and daily insanity to be getting a bit old and repetitive, but as of now the party in power ain’t doing anything to rid themselves of their deal maker. But with the Fox News world continuing to pitch entertainment programming as if they were state run television, sadly too many sheep out there will continue to believe whatever conspiracies or lies they report as fact. 

Until Trump’s ugliness is revealed in such a way as to take away whatever spell has his minions in rapture, apparently no matter what he says or does will remove him from office. Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, keeps coming out to argue the case that we shouldn’t talk Impeachment, even as the clamor for it grows daily, because right now its just a pipe dream. Obviously until the Democrats get the majority in the Congress, nothing the Democrats do has any weight to it. But even if the Democrats do win back the majority, and somehow Trump does get impeached in the House, removing Donald is still just a fantasy to those who are suffering under his leadership. So if they somehow get past act one of the legal removal of a President, the second act in the impeachment proceedings then goes to the Senate, where a two-thirds majority vote is needed to convict a President and remove him from office. But even if the Democrats win the majority there too, getting the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster is a hard number to reach. And until something comes out that will shut up the liars and doubting Thomases the Republicans probably will never jump ship. That is until enough evidence of collusion or other crimes against the state come out and unless enough political leaders in power see the light, even if Trump gets impeached, his removal is still a long shot. We can hope that Trump makes some kind of deal with Mueller or the Congress to step down if eventually he realizes his now revealed crimes will eventually find him in prison stripes or worse on death row, depending whatever criminal acts turn out to be the ones he actually did.  

A year ago or so, Kathy Griffin sent out her fateful tweet, and was turned into a pariah in the eyes of too many, and over night went from the D-List star to Persona non grata. She and others talked about the fear that comedians now had with the current political landscape. How some had to now self-censor themselves in fear that their careers might be ruined as Kathy’s seemingly was for a while. Hopefully this tsunami against Michelle Wolf will blow over as quickly as every one of Trump’s own daily outbursts do, and the talking heads will go on to their next victim and leave her alone, and her now ascending career continues its trajectory.

Just one man’s opinion

© Neil Feigeles, Neilizms, Tuesday, May 1, 2018