Mc Mike
Mc Mike's JournalI think that Prez O doesn't want to go into this election with another
explosively fractured and destabilized factor in the Middle East combat maelstrom. And I know that the repugs DO want to add another explosive Mid East problem for the Dems to deal with.
I can't stand the bush family's Saudi buddies as much as anyone else can't, but where were these repug law makers, with their calls to punish the Saudi terror connection, for the last 15 fucking years? Or where were they to even investigate it, for goodness sake? They had 9 hearings about 9/11/12, and NEVER DID a thing about the real 9/11 attacks.
Psst, generals.
"The U.S. outpaces all other nations in military expenditures. World military spending totaled more than $1.6 trillion in 2015. The U.S. accounted for 37 percent of the total.
U.S. military expenditures are roughly the size of the next seven largest military budgets around the world, combined.
U.S. military spending dwarfs the budget of the #2 country – China. For every dollar China spends on its military, the U.S. spends $2.77."
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/us-military-spending-vs-world/
Backing the guy who plays footsie with Putin and wants to dismantle NATO (and the VA) probably isn't the best move, in terms of strategic military thought.
I wonder if General Schachnow has met Drump's Holocaust-denying foreign policy advisor Joe Schmitz:
http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/348059/trump-adviser-denies-firing-jews-from-top-jobs-and-denying-holocaust/
The general either doesn't know what he's talking about, at all, or he knows and is a bad person. He deserves respect and consideration for his decades long service to the US in the military, and for being someone who lived through Hitler's genocide. But he deserves zero respect for backing someone who has a ton of nazi ties, and who wants to destroy the US's alliances and rattle the saber against our southern neighbor.
Every bit of his campaign's media strategy is a calculated exercise in double thinking propaganda.
Swinish republicans like Ailes and Rove are in the background orchestrating his moves. Sure, he says stupid things off the cuff, all the time, but he went to Mexico to inoculate himself against charges that he's threatening to go to war with our southern neighbors, to play to the concerned independents who don't hate all Hispanics. Then he appears with Arpaio and Brewer in AZ to beat his chest and storm like Hitler about how all Hispanics are evil illegal alien killers. He was so quiet and respectful and presidential on the stage with Prez Nieto, then flash forward to the other side of the border, where he gives his cheering xenophobic base the red meat they desire.
Completely scripted.
I remember an interview where Michael Moore talked to a Dem congressman Jim McDermott, who was also a psychologist, about the bush Admin's Homeland Security pronounciations. They would make threatening announcements about heighthened alerts and new terror threats, and between the 'threats' would sprinkle in other official presidential pronouncements like 'Americans should live their lives, travel and visit other parts of America, go to Disneyland'. McDermott described that process as akin to telling a dog you're training two conflicting orders one after the other, which just confuses the dog.
That's what the repugnant gop brains behind trump are doing right now.
Yep. The nazis started purging their own, right away, as soon as they gained power.
And they kept doing so right up to the time when the Russians were shelling Berlin. Hitler called for the arrest and execution of General Helmuth Karl Weidling, because his front-line headquarters for the 56th Panzer Corp was out of communication with any other reich hq, due to constantly being encircled by Katukov's Tank Army. He and his troops had been fighting on the front lines in the Berlin suburbs the whole time, which was why he couldn't communicate with superiors, and the result of his bravery was a call for his execution, for desertion.
Martin Bormann engineered a situation where Hitler accused Bormann rival Hermann Goering of treason and ordered him to resign or be executed. Luckily for Goering, he wasn't in Berlin. SS Grupenfuhrer Hermann Fegelein was still in Berlin and was arrested and executed while the bombs were falling, because he was Himmler's liason officer at the Fuhrerbunker, and the nazis couldn't get their hands on Himmler himself. Himmler had been voted off the island for negotiating with the enemy for surrender. Fegelein was married to Eva Braun's sister, but it didn't help.
That's the nazi mind. Alway have to toss someone on the bonfire, even when the whole building's ablaze. They started with purges, expanded the purges, purged their 'enemies' all along, and purged right up to the time when they were being wiped out in their last stronghold.
But don't worry, republicans. It will never happen to YOU. Ride that orange wave.
Here's another fan of Bircher Jones':
"The man charged with murdering three Pittsburgh police officers Saturday posted messages to a racist Web forum, considered getting a white supremacist tattoo, used racial insults online, and reportedly believed that Jews control America.
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Around the same time, Hatewatch found, he posted a message to Stormfront.org, the largest white supremacist forum in the world, with a photograph of an eagle tattoo that he has on his chest and a mention that he was thinking about adding more tattoos. “I was considering getting life runes on the outside of my calfs [sic], or just one on my penis maybe,” he said in the posting, referring to the symbol of the National Alliance, for decades America’s leading neo-Nazi group until nearly collapsing in recent years.
At the same time, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported today, Poplawski, 22, believed that the United States was run by a secret cabal of Jews, feared an attack on gun rights, thought that U.S. troops would be used against citizens, and concluded that 30 states had already declared their “sovereignty.” He also was said to be a fan of far-right websites run by antigovernment conspiracy-monger Alex Jones. Much of the Post-Gazette’s information came from Edward Perkovic, who told the paper — and numerous other media outlets — that he was Poplawski’s lifelong best friend. Perkovic said that his friend was opposed to “Zionist propaganda” and had told him that he would “defend himself” if anyone tried to take his guns away.
Perkovic appears to share those beliefs and then some. Until the MySpace profile belonging to “Eddie Perkovic” (which mentions his friend, Richard Poplawski) was scrubbed over the weekend, it contained a wealth of neo-Nazi material captured by Hatewatch. "
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2009/04/05/alleged-cop-killer-pittsburgh-linked-white-supremacist-beliefs
Her opponent has nothing but weaknesses and failures.
He knows nothing, about anything. He didn't even know that Tom Kean was the New Jersey Governor and 9/11 Commission Chairman, though he had done business in New Jersey for decades, and claimed he saw thousands of Moslems celebrating 9/11 in NJ while the attacks were occurring. That's why he got Tim Kaine confused with Tom Kean, he just didn't know Anything, even while he was running on 'trumpublican Americans were attacked on 9/11'.
She knows nearly everything, about everything. All she needs is to relax and breathe. 'Say Hi to fishbonehead1 for me, the next time yer tweeting, donnie.'
I saw Burns appear opposite Rep. Cleaver on Joy Reid.
His proof that tRump helps Black people and cares about them was that tRump met a Black woman (who's name Burns isn't going to give out while he uses her for 'proof'), who isn't from this country, who is a 'prophetess', and tRump wrote her a check for $50,000 dollars to aid in her ministries, right on the spot.
He's a typical televangelist.
Their glorious leader's coming to Pittsburgh this month (Sep), again. Lawrence Convention center.
To turn out all the righties from 3 states and 15 counties, to show 'there's something going on here.' It's funny that what's going on is he's losing, bungling every day, trying to simultaneously appeal to Minorities and nazis.
It's also funny that his rallying cry is 'look at this crowd, there's really something going on'. And at the same time, he thinks Prez O. is head of a 'Moslem take over the US' conspiracy -- about 3 high profile shootings (out of hundreds) make trump think 'there's something going on.' It's not that the Prez is weak or inept, maybe 'there's something else going on here'.
What kind of something going on is he going to use on those rubes? Build the wall, or let them stay? Is he going to tell the old white crowd with a few paid Minorities that he really cares about the poor Blacks in the Hill District, a 15 minute walk, from the Convention center, away? Will he talk about how much he loves the Blacks and say that the top cops could solve all the crime in the neighborhood if they could just be allowed a bit more leeway to ignore civil rights and legal police procedure?
I saw Chicago PD's brass on another o.p. today say 'give us your secret master crime plan, please, Mr Republican Nominee, sir.' He's pure unvarnished orange bull hockey, piled up in a blubbery snowman form.
I don't know what his motivations could be.
I'm signed up to be a election protection poll watcher again, here. I've been a poll worker, as a majority inspector of elections in my area quite a few times before, too, so I got to saw things from the inside.
I saw a man from the ACLU being interviewed on some national tv show(Rachel or Joy, can't remember which, sorry), and he said that every voter has a right to a provisional ballot, at minimum. But that option should be a last ditch one, because they threw a ton of those out in past elections. A determined voter can and should follow that provisional ballot up all the way, doggedly, if they get denied a regular ballot.
The League of Women Voters Vote411 site would be a good resource for anyone who is worried they might not be on the eligible voter list, and the 866 OUR VOTE (PFAW, NAACP, etc.) and the 866 MY VOTE 1 (Urban League) numbers should be given to any voter who might need protection, beforehand. In my opinion, it is a key get out the vote mobilizing tool. If you tell people their legal right to vote might be stolen or denied, it makes them more determined to vote. And the more people who are talking about voter protection and voter's rights, the more the bad guys are going to be afraid to steal it. They'll replay in their heads past footage they remember of crooked repug elections officials being perp walked.
Big turnout is key to keeping them from stealing it, but big turnout won't help if there are hours long lines to vote. Big turnouts are only good if the turned out people actually get to vote. Campaigning by giving people those numbers is a way to get them energized, mobilized, and prepared to do something about republican trump rove sproul skulduggery. I'd inform people of Vote411, OURVOTE and MYVOTE1 and tell them to contact all 3 if they have problems.
The Nation magazine was engaged in some voter protection efforts with Color of Change in '12, they just sent me an online article via e-mail on tRump's poll 'watcher' threats:
https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trump-is-encouraging-intimidation-and-racial-profiling-at-the-polls/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign&utm_term=daily
There are 2 good links in the article, one is about the '82 Consent Decree, forbidding any republican party officials, organizations, or agents or servants of the same, from engaging in any kind of ballot security or ballot integrity efforts, without prior court consent, especially in any areas where racial or ethnic makeup could be considered a reason for the activities. That's nationwide. The '82 consent decree:
http://electionlawblog.org/?p=85289
The other one is PA specific, because dRump said that he was going to send the police in to watch the polling places in those (dog whistle) areas where people are voting too many times. He wants to send racist rightwing trump supporting cops to watch Black and Hispanic polls. PA Title 25, Sec 3047 specifically states that the uniformed or plainclothes police aren't allowed within 100' of a polling place, unless voting, or called to preserve the peace. In no event are they to prevent any elector from voting or influence or overawe them or restrain their freedom of choice. PA election law against polling place 'policing':
https://govt.westlaw.com/pac/Document/NB1EA7150D0A011DEA63ECFA39685C638?viewType=FullText&originationContext=documenttoc&transitionType=CategoryPageItem&contextData=(sc.Default)
I had a young Black guy at one of my east city polls in 2012 come in and say that the machines were rigged, he had just got an election day phone text info blast that said 'Don't vote straight ticket, only vote for the President, if you vote straight ticket, the vote for the President won't show up.' I told him that in past elections, voting straight ticket HAD in some cases caused an inexplicable absence of the top Democratic candidate, and a bunch of unfunded downballot races wound up having a higher vote total than the well-funded top ticket Dem did. But the way around it was to vote each race one at a time, choosing the candidate from whichever party you like one at a time. It doesn't take a lot of time, even if you have a 5-6 page ballot like we have sometimes. And we have a review screen at the end before you push the final 'vote' button. I reported the sudden (Rove induced, in my opinion) rumor to the higher ups in election protection. The young guy seemed honest and outraged, but the rumor was very sudden and just would have depressed turnout for down ballot races, that the Prez wanted to go Democratic, too.
They're going to try to cheat, suppress, and steal, however they can, because their candidate is such a nauseatingly unappealing and nazified pile of droppings. So we have to be on our toes, like usual.
Nazi dead-enders. They attacked Julia Ioffe from GQ, Andrew Weinstein, Leslie Jones.
Simultaneously trying to hide from sight and brag about how famous Hillary made them.
Dipsos. Im sorry to hear they got onto you, personally.
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