DONALD TRUMP HABITUAL LIAR!

Normally I would put a question mark at the end of that title. In this case there is no reason to question if Trump is a liar. I don't think he actually knows fact from lie. Mentally Trump is at about 7 years old. The media refuses to call him out on his lies. I have never seen such a week and pathetic example of media's response to him and his surrogates.

I can give example after example of his lies, but there really is no point. The people who support him won't believe them and the media refuses to do their job. I think the latest example proves my point. Trump was in Flint Michigan at a church. He started to wander off into his stump speech, and the pastor walked up to him and calmly told him that wasn't why he was there. Trump said oh, oh, okay.

Later on Fox the disinformation station he said the pastor was a nervous mess, and he knew something was up. He also is omniscient, because he is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Anyway he also said when the pastor stopped his scripted attack on Hillary Clinton the audience yelled out let him speak let him speak. People who were there said it didn't happen like that. Then a video pops up showing Trump as a flat out liar, just like always. BTW some news outlets said Trump misstated what happened. Come on a lie is a lie.

How can anyone trust this clown?

LETS MAKE AMERICAN GREAT AGAIN????

Donald Trump has a slogan that says “Make America Great Again”

My question is when people use that term when do they think America was great?

Personally I think this country has always been great. We have had a lot of times where there have been difficulties, but that doesn't mean the country wasn't great.

When you ask the question of the people who spout such nonsense to give you a time when they think it was great you get nothing.

I am sure most of these people would say during Ronald Reagan's terms as President. Of course we had interest rates about 15%, unemployment that ran in double digits for awhile. We also has a President who ran like a scared rabbit when we lost over 200 marines in Lebanon. He also was illegally selling arms to Iran. I guess maybe they wouldn't call that great if that happened today.

We can go back to the 1930's which is as far back that anyone alive today could possibly remember. We had the great depression, 25% unemployment, and I am sure since the President was a Democrat they wouldn't consider that great.

The 1940's we had the Second World War, no one in their right mind would consider that great. And besides we still had a Democratic President.

The 1950's We had a Republican President, but we also had those very same Republicans on a witch hunt for communists. I guess the people who want great would think that was just fine considering some of the things they propose today. We also had school children who learned to hide under desks in case of a nuclear attack. People lived in fear. I can't see that as a decade that was great.

The 1960's again we had a Democratic President, but he was assassinated along with Martin Luther King, and Bobby Kennedy, Republicans might think that was great, but no sane person would. We also had the Vietnam war which was a disaster that caused protests and riots.

The 1970's All I need to mention is Watergate and all the unseemly thinks Richard Nixon was doing should take the 70's out of contention for great, plus Jimmy Carter was President for 4 years, a Democrat.

The 80's I have already mentioned.

The 1990's again a Democrat President.

The 2000's a Republican President. 9/11 happened, can't call that great. The economy tanked, can't call that great.

Now we have a Democratic President who the Republicans hate. They have no real reasons to hate him, so they make stuff up. Can't call this time great.

I guess there really is no time that the Republicans can actually point to as great, but like everything else they do or say they'll lie, and after awhile they start believing their own lies.

A FEW RANDON THOUGHTS

The Republicans said at the beginning of this election cycle they had so many great candidates, I think the term they used was “deep bench”. Lets look at some of them.

Donald Trump; The establishment hates him, the moderates hate him. The only group he has in his corner are the crazies. They have flocked to him.

Jeb Bush; Not much to say other than he is an incompetent boob.

Marco Rubio; Honestly how can anyone think this guy is ready for prime time. He is a Senator who doesn't do that job, what makes anyone think he can handle being President?

Ted Cruz; This guy will do and say anything to try an win. He actually just lied about his health care coverage. Not to be trusted in anyway shape or form.

The rest of the clown car are just that clowns.

The Oscar controversy; I'm sorry but this diversity argument is BS. I keep hearing about all these old white guys who make up the academy. Aren't they the same guys who have nominated Wil Smith, Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Halle Berry, etc. Their performances warranted a nomination. If your performance or movie doesn't measure up so be it.

Facebook; If you take the time to look at peoples Facebook pages you'll find so many untrue posts. The people who post untrue things could easily find out of they're true, but since it doesn't fit the point they're trying to make they can't be bothered. Recently I saw a picture of Hillary Clinton shaking hands with Osama Bin Laden. The caption was remember this when voting. The picture was absolutely photo-shopped. In fact at one time it had Condoleeza Rice shaking Bin Ladens hand.

Planned Parenthood; The so-called videos showing PP. In a terrible light have actually been debunked, but that doesn't stop the GOP crazies.

Benghazi; The Republicans have spent millions of dollars and found nothing, but they still keep bringing it up. The reason just like the Planned Parenthood videos is to try and play to the right wing loons.

The Flint water crisis; The Governor and his ilk denied it, then they said it wasn't as bad as it was made out to be, then they tried to blame the Flint City Council who actually had no power since the state take over. Now Governor Snyder is trying to blame it on a couple of civil service employees. He also wants the Federal Government to pay for everything, Typical Republican blame everyone and everything. I always thought the Republicans were the party of personal responsibility?

Let’s get back to ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’

Most conservatives believe in the free market, saying it’s better than the government butting in. I have a different take as a Depression-era youngster when FDR was president. The free market gradually was set aside then, and government gradually took on practices that better fit the words, “of the people, by the people and for the people.”
Author and journalist Paul Roberts said it more frankly: “Free market is a cover story for the horror of an extractive, asset-stripping operation by publicly supported banks and the governments that they control that impoverishes people and the environment.”
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt knew that capitalism, under financial tycoons like John D. Rockefeller, had cornered the majority of the nation’s wealth, something that has now happened again. Democracy still was claimed but actually had been set aside. Roosevelt very gradually brought it back.
As only one example, infrastructure needed to be repaired, as is the case today. A change is necessary, and we should not set it aside further.
Today the same conditions exist as occurred during the Depression years. Wealth has been and is steadily being shifted to the upper financial class; and our highways, water lines, bridges, etc., are in need of repair. The very top tycoons keep gaining financially, paying less in taxes and bribing congressmen (via campaign contributions) for favors. Meanwhile, the lower-income folks are receiving increasingly less.
That doesn’t seem moral and democratic to me.
Why does this consistently worsen? One aspect was the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, which allows unlimited contributions by the wealthy elite to control elections. Bribery is a crude term in the minds of many people, but folks in my Depression youth would have said, “Let’s call a spade a spade.”
Undemocratic things are being done in several ways. Government officials are influenced by money as are the tycoons who have cornered so much of it. Money is persuasive. And so our government now is, without shame, favoring the upper crust. Taxes are lowered, subsidies are increased and taxes are altered; folks with sufficient money can study the laws carefully, or hire those who can, and can take advantage. A simple classification of laws has become a complex puzzle that requires much study — and that can be rigged by folks with money.
Let’s stop that. As a starting point, more citizens must vote.
We also need to gradually, as FDR did, move in the opposite direction, acting so “of the people, by the people and for the people” actually guides us.
The Revolutionary War freed us from the control of royalty. But now we have brought about a royalty of our own making. Corporations have that power. Each corporate board is charged by its major stockholders with increasing profit, market share, growth and stock price. They have succeeded immensely, and we need to shift this movement that is burying our democracy.

This was written by retired professor Bernie Hughes from the University of Wisconsin Superior.  I think he hits the nail on the head.

THE TRUTH WON'T SET YOU FREE

 

        

                      

Since  Bill O'Reilly and Brian Williams have been in the news lately about how they lied about their experiences for which Williams has stepped down at least temporarily, and the blowhard O'Reilly is still on the air denying he did anything wrong.

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 I thought I would give my take on why O'Reilly is still on the air.  Instead of just looking at O'Reilly's lies lets look at what has happened in the country in the last 50 years.  The Republicans decided long ago that the American people are stupid.  I don't necessarily believe that, but things that have been worked and fought for are taken for granted now days.  Civil rights is the most obvious. If you look at what has happened with voting rights you know what I mean.  The Supreme Court says everything is fine now.  We all know that is wrong, but the Republicans embrace it. Is it because they are all racists or do they see the advantage of keeping minorities from voting? The answer is a combination of both.
 They have bought into the theory that white people are being oppressed.  Take the fraternity in Oklahoma that was singing their racist song.  These students in this fraternity have probably been singing this song for awhile and probably a lot of other people knew it. As far as I know no one did anything, they just tolerated it and gave those students a pass, all that does is embolden those students and people like them.
The dismantling of the labor movement is happening for the same reason.  People think that there are laws on the books that will protect them.  They are living in a fantasy world.  If they have been paying attention they should know that the Republicans have been trying to dismantle (OSHA) the Occupation Safety Health  Administration. They have also tried do away with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) both organizations that look out for working people.  Unions are just another group that has to go because they look out for working people, especially when it comes to health and welfare. It's almost like we're going back to the 1800's when business ran everything and workers had no say what so ever. The Republican Senators especially, are almost totally bought and paid for by big business   I don't give the national Democratic party a pass on this.  They seem to have been if not complicit at least passive a lot of times. Back when Governor Scott Walker first went after public sector labor unions, I don't remember any Washington D.C. Democrats showing up to lend support to the unions.  Again, all they do is embolden these people.
We have the global warming deniers who parrot the fringe element and when pressed will say that all the people who say global warming is real are making it up or fiddling with the data. They have gone so far as the Governor of Florida who wants all the officials in that state not to use the term global warming.  If you don't say it it can't be real. It's called the ostrich's head in the sand defense. I don't think the majority of the people actually believe these crazy things, but they don't protest, they don't vote. They think that their lives are fine so they don't take things seriously.
This brings me back to O'Reilly.  I know he is a liar and for my money always has been. But the people who support and watch him and his phony news channel don't think he has lied.  They buy everything he says because he has made them believe that they are the victim. Is it because a lot of these people are so-called Christians who won't believe in anything that they can't justify in the Bible?  Global Warming, union rights and voting rights are not mentioned in the Bible so they can't be very important.
I realize that most of he people here are involved, and take part, but there is a huge sector of society that doesn't who actually believe in the same things we do.  There has to be a bigger focus in showing these people what is happening to our country and eventually to them.

WISCONSIN REPUBLICANS IGNORANT OR JUST CRAZY?

People wonder why Wisconsin has gone to hell.  We all know about Scott Walker and Paul Ryan, but the real crazy guy is Glenn Grothman.

This guy is an elected  Republican Congressman from the 6th district.  He wants people to spy on people who are using any form of food stamps.  Does this sound familiar, spy on your neighbor turn them in if they are doing or saying anything that doesn't comport to the party line?  Grothman has a history of saying some of the most stupid things even before he was elected to congress.  He used to be Republican state senator who said many stupid and bigoted things.  If you protest against the Republicans in any form you are

“a bunch of slobs”

or when he said days off from work are

“a little ridiculous”

He said that Planned Parenthood has a pattern of

“not liking people who are not white.”

He also said that the federal and Wisconsin governments are

“working to encourage single motherhood and discouraging children in two-parent families.”

that giving benefits to single parents is

“in essence a bribe not to work that hard or a bribe not to marry somebody with a full-time job.”

I know this guy is a whack job, and so does everyone else. A Republican operative tweeted when he won his primary,

“Gee, so glad we nominated the guy w/a reputation of being a misogynist.”

So the real question is what's in the water that makes the people of Wisconsin keep electing these kind of goof-balls?  Is it that no one actually pays any attention to whom they are voting for, or are the people so brainwashed in their hatred for President Obama that they will vote for anyone that is against him? The district has been dominated by Republicans for most of Wisconsin's history, but does that mean that the people can't see past that. The district is predominately white, and white collar, does that mean these people are actually living in a bubble and don't see what is happening in the real world? Is the local media complicit, do they report the shortcomings of these people, or like the Minneapolis TV station in the last election decided not to show certain campaign commercials by the Democratic candidate because they decided arbitrarily that the ads were not factual?
Whatever it is it's a disgrace to Wisconsin that these fools are representing us.

 

 

REPUBLICANS ATTACKING WORKING PEOPLE AGAIN

  

You think you have the cockroaches on the run, and then they come slinking out of the woodwork.  That is what is happening in Wisconsin and Minnesota.  I do have to say that the roaches in Wisconsin haven't been lurking they are in the open, and have been for quite awhile.
Wisconsin is trying to enact a right to work law.  For a state whose economy isn't on a level with it's neighbor Minnesota I guess they will try anything, but then again, these people in charge in Wisconsin only answer to the American Legislative Exchange Council better know as ALEC, the Koch brothers or the Chamber of Commerce. They write the laws they want passed, and a lot of the times the legislatures voting on those bills haven't even read them.  They have no concern what so ever for the working people of Wisconsin.
The thing that really bothers me about the right to work law is that it would allow people who are not part of the union the same rights as the people who are in the union.  The hypocrisy of the Republicans who have been decrying the fact that any kind of assistance to needy people is only making the problems worse in this country, for them to say it's okay for the non-union people to get the same wages and benefits that the union negotiates is worse. These people unlike most of the people who get welfare for lack of a better term are deliberate deadbeats who do nothing and get the benefits.  We all know the truth why Republicans are doing what their doing concerning unions. They want to dismantle and destroy all unions, because unions have a little power when it comes to elections.   The power of unions has diminished, but the Republicans aren't going to stop until there are no more unions. The people will hopefully see the light eventually but it might be too late.
Minnesota passed a minimum wage increase last year.  Minnesota has one of the best economies in the country. Now that the Republicans have taken control of one part of state government they have decided to try and change that law.   They want to allow companies to pay tipped employee's less than minimum. This mostly affects the hospitality industry. My question is why.  Do these people deserve less because they get tipped.  Isn't tipping predicated on how well you think the service has been? That shouldn't have anything to do with your base pay.  The Republicans again have no problem keeping people down, and why do they do it? They do it at the behest of the Chamber of Commerce, and ALEC. The hell with the people.  Most voters don't take these things in to account when voting for their representatives.  I don't blame the people who get elected, I blame the people who don't take the time to actually see what these people are actually for, and who are their real masters.