TRUMP LIVING RAYGUN FANTASIES

I think Trump's simply the culmination of decades of conservative propaganda and brain washing.

I just noticed a post by Mark Hertsgaard at The Nation related to my contention:
Progressives Need to Build Their Own Media
"Trump would not be president today were it not for the help of Fox, Breitbart, Limbaugh, & Co."

The far right are fawning over their Donald sighing collectively, "I'm lovin' it."

But I know some on the not so far right are unhappy. Really, I personally know conservatives who are upset that a buffoon like Trump is our president. But I don't get it. How can you love Reagan and hate Trump? How different are they?

The Ronald cut taxes on the rich, fought for deregulation of banks and industry, and escalated military spending…tripling the deficit. The Donald sounds a lot like Reagan to me. Trump was spewing the same BS at CPAC a few days ago, advocating the same disastrous policies. You know CPAC, the annual heart-sickening conservative freak show.

Bannon-Trump Promise to Unleash Unfettered Capitalism

(TheRealNews.com)

I remember freaking out when Reagan made that monster James Watt U.S. Secretary of the Interior. 

Here's a good joke:

James Watt’s infamous quip about “a woman, two Jews, and a cripple”

(This Day In Quotes.com)

In a current events Watt, The Fuck or WTF moment: James Watt meet Scott Pruitt:

Scott Pruitt Vows Rapid, 'Aggressive' Attack on EPA Regulations

(Common Dreams.org)

And guys here's more shills for ya:
'Shameful Vote’: 17 Senators Draw Progressives’ Outrage for Enabling Trump
(Truth dig.com)

The only price we have to pay for conservative leadership is death and destruction to people and the environment, and decades of economic ruin. And of course the blow back from our decades long killing spree and economic exploitation of global resources for the benefit of the super wealthy. All perpetrated with help and support from the DNC.

SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE.ORG

A Socialist Strategy to Defeat Trump

(Kshama Sawant @CounterPunch.org)

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P.S.

Thom Hartmann discusses what Ronald Reagan’s economic policies have done to America’s middle class with economist Richard Wolff, author of the book “Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism.”

The Big Picture - Nov 2015: "How Reaganomics Killed America’s Middle Class"

(The Big Picture on YouTube.com)

Richard D. Wolff - Feb 2017 | "What is Capitalism & Socialism? What differentiates them from each other?

(acTVism Munich on YouTube.com)

THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THE SILVER LINING

The good news about The Trump Administration is that the facade that we had a functioning representitive government is history. We have been screwed all along, but now only the woefully, or willfully, blind fail to see it.

We should all hope our government continues its spectacular and absurd dumbshow. 

For more about this horrible good news watch Henry Giroux and Paul Jay discuss the Trump-Bannon-Pence administration, and its naked display of the 1% ruling without apologies and damn what comes tomorrow:

Be Thankful for a Dysfunctional Chaotic White House

(TheRealNews.com)

"I CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT

THIIIIIS MUCH!"

Scott Pruitt, a soulless advocate for the worst polluters on the planet, has become head of the EPA, which will now morph from being the toothless U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, to EPAC, the unapologetic Extreme Polluting Assholes Club.

Newly Released Emails Reveal Pruitt's Connections with Koch Brothers

(TheRealNews.com)

WHIPPER SNAPPERS

I'm annoyed by these loud and irreverent youngins, but I can't help thinkin' they're on to somethin'.

If only the "real" news was as insightful as this satiric bullshit.

We are subsidizing our death, net neutrality under attack, sanctuary cities on the rise

(Redacted Tonight)

REAL Reason US wants war with Iran, Standing Rock news, capitalism failing

(Redacted Tonight)

THE ACA IS BAD

CONSERVATIVES WANT TO MAKE IT WORSE

The waste and fraud perpetrated by the for-profit health care industry has to end. A robust socialized medicine system is the only sensible and sustainable solution to what has become a national disaster and humanitarian disgrace.

Here's another interview with a doctor who is fed up with corporately controlled health care.

Medicare for All with Dr. Margaret Flowers

(On Contact interview with Chris Hedges)

THE MARKET IS ALWAYS BULLSHIT

SEC nominee Mary Jo White to take hard line on Wall Street

(The Washington Post - March 2013)

That was a misleading headline unless it literally meant snorting a massive line of cocaine off the asphalt in the middle of the financial district.

The following article is probably closer to the truth. Although getting high by indulging herself on Wall Street remains a recurring theme.

A Corporate Defender at Heart, Former SEC Chair Mary Jo White Returns to Her Happy Place

(TheIntercept.com)
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P.S. White collar criminals are above the law.
Just as it seems when you kill enough people it's policy not murder, if you steal millions or billions, it's business not theft. There's simply too much evidence out there to know where to begin, but...

The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry
By William K. Black
(book)
(video discussion)

The New Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins
(book)
(video discussion)

WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR SOME: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
by Glenn Greenwald
(book)
(video discussion)

Black Edge: INSIDE INFORMATION, DIRTY MONEY, AND THE QUEST TO BRING DOWN THE MOST WANTED MAN ON WALL STREET
By SHEELAH KOLHATKAR
(book)
(video discussion)

Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room
Director: Alex Gibney
(documentary)

Q: WHY ARE SPIES POKING THE BEAR?

A: PEOPLE PAY TO SEE BEAR BAITING

We all should be wary not afraid of the new Red Scare.

War profiteers love military escalation. Period. Peace is the last thing the Military and Intelligence Industrial Complex desires. The bloated DoD and its black ops brethren in the surveillance state departments are a grotesque Ponzi Scheme sold to U.S. citizens through propaganda, so they willingly pour more and more money into it. War industries make HUGE profits for supplying grief and destruction, when they are not being overpaid to provide nothing. What an amazing scam and a horrible waste of resources.

"Bipartisan allegations that Trump is a 'puppet' of or 'compromised' by the Kremlin have grown into latter-day McCarthyism with grave threats to America and the world.

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Meanwhile, Cohen can find no facts or logic to support the following six related allegations leveled against Trump as having been (implicitly) treasonously “compromised” by Putin’s Kremlin..."

Kremlin-Baiting President Trump (Without Facts) Must Stop

(Stephen F. Cohen @ The Nation.com)

"It’s hard to put into words how strange it is to watch the very same people — from both parties, across the ideological spectrum — who called for the heads of Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, Tom Drake, and so many other Obama-era leakers today heap praise on those who leaked the highly sensitive, classified SIGINT information that brought down Gen. Flynn."

The Leakers Who Exposed Gen. Flynn’s Lie Committed Serious — and Wholly Justified — Felonies

(Glenn Greenwald @ The Intercept.com)

"The American people have to know that there's a game going on inside the intelligence community where there are those who want to separate the U.S. from Russia in a way that would reignite the Cold War," Kucinich said. "That's what's at the bottom of all this. It's early in the morning, it's Valentine's Day, but wake up America!"

'Wake Up!': Kucinich Says Intel Community Making 'Unprecedented' Effort to Upend Trump

(Dennis Kucinich on Fox News)

We should be waging peace!

Waging Peace/Tax Havens

(RalphNaderRadioHour.com)
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P.S.

Greenwald discussing leak hypocrisy and political insanity
on Democracy Now!
(DemocracyNow.com February 16, 2017 show)

"Former FBI agent and whistleblower Coleen Rowley says there's a difference between leaking and whistleblowing, and it's likely that the former took place in the ongoing power struggle between the deep state and the executive branch of government."
Did the Deep State Facilitate Flynn's Resignation?
(The RealNews.com)

DEVOS = DEBACLE

Her appointment is a travesty.

Here's an excellent summing up by Diane Ravitch, former Assistant Secretary of Education.

Ravitch: Democrats Helped Pave the Way for Privatization Crusader Betsy DeVos

(TheRealNews.com interview)

TRUE FICTION

Civilization has always been a little dystopian, it just seems more in your face these days.

Rethinking Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World in Trump’s America

(Henry A. Giroux commentary at Ragazine)

ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL

President Trump’s “Great Wall” ignores a key reason why desperate Mexicans and Central Americans flee north – the history of U.S. military and economic intervention that has created poverty and repression, notes William Blum.

What Trump's 'Great Wall' Misses

(Consortiumnews.com)

BACK IN THE SADDLE

If you're rooting for the Democrats, you should know they're mostly just Republicans who are lying to you.

Aggressive Progressives
on the weakness of Democrat resistance

(Youtube.com)

Tom Perez Apologizes for Telling the Truth, Showing Why Democrats’ Flaws Urgently Need Attention
(Glenn Greenwald @ TheIntercept.com)

PRESIDENT

Matt Taibbi talks to Chris Hedges about his new book and

The Election Show.

"Insane Clown President"

(On Contact video interview)

It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's The Donald in the News!
Crimes of the Trump Era (a Preview)
The 25/8 News Cycle Is Already Rolling, 
But the Looting of America Hasn’t Really Begun
(Tomgram: TomDispatch.com)

I FEEL HAPPY

I'm seeing everything pretty clearly now. Trump's plans to empower and protect the little people who supported him start with giving more power to billionaires and cronies. That's never worked before, but our new president seems special.

p.s. Now where did I leave those pesky meds?