President Donald J. Trump! How very Scary!!

It has been months since my last blog.  I guess I wanted to wait until after the election to see who won and how we all would be affected.  Well the worst possible thing has happened and Donald J. Trump is our new POTUS.  

How is it possible for the Electoral College to take the election away from the real winner of the popular vote, Hillary Clinton?  This has got to change. She won by nearly 3 million votes and really should be our president. 

Now we are stuck with this lying, bullying, bragging lout in the our White House.  He lies at every turn and yesterday, on his first full day as President of the United States, went to CIA headquarters and lied to 300 employees lied about his war with the intelligence community. His tweets and on camera statements bare this out that it was he that started this war with them and not the press!  The press merely reported what he tweeted and said on camera!

Trump wants to steal President Obama's legacy and undo everything he accomplished in his time in office.  But is not Trump that I am really worried about, but rather the Republican Congress that now have control of this legislature.  These people are truly insane, in my humble opinion!!!  If they have their way, and right now they do, they will turn back the clock to a time that was not good for this country.  A time before civil rights and women's and worker's rights as well! 

After the Women's March on Washington on January 21st, 2017, it gives me a ray of hope that these rights will not go way without a fierce fight from We The People!!  For Now Is The Time For All Good Men and Women To Protect Our Way Of Live From The Barbarians At The Gate!  

More later

The "Donald" !!

There are many people out there in this country that are Trump supporters.  Well good luck with that. He has put forth many weird ideas about things he wants to do for this country, but has yet to come up with one way to do any of them. Well except to say that he will surround himself with many good people who know how to negotiate and get things done.  He hasn't named any of those people yet as far as I know. And oh yes, Mr. Trump has "Good Words". That really makes me want to see him as the most powerful man on the face of the earth.

Mr. Trump is no idiot, far from it, but neither am I or you, most likely, but that doesn't qualify us to become a great President of the United States of  America.  But how did he just become the Republican presumptive nominee last night.  He basically promised the "world with a fence around it" to a bunch of low information and bigoted (in most cases)  voters who are really fed up with the way Washington runs. And who can blame them.  His slogan,"Make America Great Again", has captured the minds of many of his followers. Many of his supporters simply voted for him because he is a famous person that had a hit television show for many years.  That is enough for most of them, I guess.

Do any of you blog readers out there remember the movie Network? I just checked and found out that it came out in 1976.  It featured a character named Howard Beale, played to perfection by Peter Finch who was the network news anchor, Well one day he went off his rocker and went on the air ranting and raving saying " I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore"!!!  Well the network big wigs were going to pull the plug until the phone started ringing off the hook. Beale was telling America to go to their window and open them up and stick their heads out and yell at the top of their lungs that phrase, and they did.

I think that this is what happened with Trump. People really are that mad as hell and many are feeling hopeless and who can blame them.  Politics will never ever be the same "business as usual" entity any longer in this country. Thanks to the way Bernie Sanders has raised millions of dollars for his campaign month after month without taking any contributions from super packs or from large contributors, Bernie has shown us that their is a better way to get your point across and raise money from the little people in America.

I don't totally trust Hillary Clinton either, but she is still preferable to Donald Trump. I know in my heart of hearts that Mr. Trump doesn't have a clue about how to be President. There is no on the job training for that posistion. You have to be ready to lead this country from day one, and Trump just come with the tools. Plus their is the matter of who a President Trump would appoint to the Supreme Court. I shutter to think would would happen.  The high court would then be in a position of conservative power to be able to roll back the clock to a time when things were not so good in our country for women and labor unions just to mention a few items.

I still believe that Bernie Sanders should be the Democratic nominee. Most of the national polls show that he would beat Donald Trump in the general election in November by a much larger margin than Hillary would.  Can we really take the chance of Trump in the White House??  Hey I want to see major changes made too, but I think Bernie Sanders is the one to do it correctly. He hasn't wavered one iota on his talking points for over 40 years.  What you see with Bernie is what you get.  It would be a dirty shame if Bernie Sanders is not our Democratic nominee!
What do you think about all of this?? I would love to hear from you so please leave a comment.

MSNBC

When MSNBC Phil Griffin decided it was time to change the theme of this network, it has been going downhill ever since.  MSNBC was the only network the liberal and progressives could turn to for the truth and now it is rapidly eroding that coverage.  More and more, coverage of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton is being moved to the back burner in favor of covering the likes of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.  I truly hope that somewhere there is a network that will understand that there is a need for covering the progressive point of view.  After all, isn't there enough coverage of the conservative points of view on FOX??  I think that is true.  What do you think?

Below please find a poster I created to denote the first thing I thought of when I heard that Ted Cruz chose Carly Fiorina as his running mate.  I think it says it all.  Hope you enjoy it.  Please feel free to copy and share it with your friends.

Oh by the way, no offense meant to the rattlesnake community anywhere in the world!!

Entitlements???

Since when is it an "entitlement" when you pay for something your entire working life? Oh how I hate it when I hear that word the way the Republicans use it.  They say it like we seniors are all freeloaders!  We are "entitled" to this money as we have paid into this fund all of our working lives.  The Republicans want to privatize Social Security, meaning that the funds in this account would be given to Wall St. and let them gamble with the money.  BAD IDEA??? Remember the crash of 2007! That's just one example of how Wall St. can screw things up!  The Republicans also want to raise the retirement age to 68 years old. That's easy for them to say because they don't do physical labor for a living.  I believe they wouldn't like that if they were working construction jobs or a job where you have to be on your feet all day long when you are 68 years old. I am only 65 years old and I wouldn't be able to do that sort of work at this age if my life depended  on it. 

Same way with Medicare. The Republicans want to get rid of Medicare and Medicaid. Apparently we need to be punished for living longer than they expected.  Instead of being in a constant state of war, take those billions of dollars and do something for our seniors and the poor in this country. Social Security payments should be at least doubled for our seniors and then give us annual cost of living adjustments to boot.  There are many of us in this generation that don't have fat pensions to supplement our Social Security like our parents had.  The Republicans always say that there is no money for this, but they always find money to go to war. There is no limit there because weapons of war are produced by their billionaire campaign contributors and we all know that war is good business for them.

If more money is needed to keep these programs solvent far into the future, why not raise the cap on Social Security?  Then the rich would have to pay on their entire income for the year like people in our tax bracket do.  This would add billions of dollars per year into Social Security. 

It seems to me that if the wealthy and the big corporations in this country were made to pay their fare share of income tax there would be enough money to fund these programs for a very long time.  What do you think?

Watching Chris Matthews!

Last evening I tuned in to watch Chris Matthews interview Berne Sanders.  It turned out the Mr. Matthews "grilling" Senator Sanders and not interview him.  Many of us watching, I'm sure, were wondering if Matthews was working for Fox (almost news) instead of MSNBC. 
Now, I realize that MSNBC has become more conservative lately, but this was ridiculous to say the least. I wanted to ask Chris Matthews who's side are you on?  GEEZE!  Tonight Matthews admitted that he was a bit rough on Sanders, but said that "it's my job".  Well you can ask anything you want to ask, but at least let Bernie answer without interruption.  Though Matthews loves to interrupt people almost continually on his show. He will ask a question of a guest and then interrupt his guests before they can even get started answering his question.  I guess he thinks he always needs to elaborate on his question or starts answering his own questions first. So then why ask a question in the first place?  Why have any guests on your show at all?  Just spend the entire hour editorializing and listening to yourself talk. 

Now don't get me wrong, I like to watch Hardball with Chris Matthews and I watch nearly every single night and I will continue to do so, but Matthews needs to reel it in a bit when he interviews Bernie.  It is so obvious that Matthews is a huge fan of Hillary Clinton's and it showed big time last night.  I think Matthews needs to try to be more impartial and give equal treatment to each candidate.  What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Right?

He kept hitting Bernie on how all of his plans need to be approved in Congress, like everything Hillary wants to do doesn't.  Bernie kept trying to tell Matthews that he, Matthews, is thinking from inside the beltway, meaning the Washington D.C. political arena.  Bernie said that he wants to change the way our government works and get it back to one vote for one person. Get it back from the way it is now where the big banks, Wall Street and the huge corporations can buy elections now thanks to the Citizen United decision by the conservative leaning US Supreme Court in 2010.  The worst decision ever made in modern times by the Supreme Court!  It is disastrous for our democracy.

I agree with Bernie Sanders.  Nothing will change in our election system unless someone stands up to change the way things are done.  Bernie Sanders stands up for us, the working class  and the underprivileged in our country, each and every day. He wants to start a political revolution to unseat the politicians who are bought and paid for by the big money entities currently in power. 
Like Bernie said, nothing worthwhile every changed without revolution and the average citizens of this county standing up and making one hell of a noise to make their point. Bernie knows that he can't get anything done unless he gets the support of Congress, and neither can Hillary Clinton or any other president.  So he is asking us to not stop by electing him or Hillary president, but to get out the vote every two years when Congressional seats are up for election.  We need to have control of the Congress to help our president make the changes we need to make life better for all Americans.  The upper 1% in this country has had it their way for the last 35 years since the time of Ronald Regan. Isn't it time that the pendulum swings back the other way for a change?

What do you think?

Republicans in Las Vegas!

How very appropriate that the Republican caucus is taking place tonight in Nevada.  Because if one of these clown candidates somehow get elected, we will certainly be gambling with our future as a country.  Trump is an egotistical maniac, Cruz is a religious zealot who confessed in and interview years ago that his goal in life is world domination,  and Rubio is a programmed robot who can't function without memorized talking points and is a definitive war hawk. If either he or Cruz gets elected, our country will continue to be in a constant state of war.

I am by no means a  supporter of Donald Trump, but if I had to choose between him, Cruz or Rubio, I would rather see Trump in office.  Why? Because I think that the Donald has some  Democratic  ideas and is more progressive than conservative than the other two leading candidates.  But I don't think we will have to worry about that happening because I think that American voters are, in most cases, smarter than that.

But it is starting to look like Trump is the likely Republican nominee. If he wins Nevada tonight, the pundits and talking heads say he will be unstoppable.  That doesn't mean that Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton wouldn't crush him in the general election this coming November. God help us if they can't! He has been getting about 35% of the votes so far in the Republican caucuses and primary elections so far.  The Democratic candidates are receiving around 50% each of the votes.  That is a huge margin in favor of the Democrats, and isn't that wonderful?  Well it is for me.
Anyway, it will be the most interesting presidential election to watch in decades. I am 65 years old as of this post, and I can't remember any previous election that has been more interesting in my lifetime. I think that if Trump is the Republican nominee, many of the establishment Republican voters may cross over to the Democratic side because they just couldn't stomach Trump as POTUS!

The great thing about all of this being so interesting is that it seems to be getting the attention of many new and young voters. Especially thanks to the campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Donald J. Trump, the anti-establishment candidates in this election cycle.  Now that we have garnered the attention of these new voters, we can only hope that they educate themselves by listening to the issues being discussed by the various candidates before going to the polls in November.  Vote for whoever you want, but by all means, show up and VOTE!

What do you think? Your comments are welcome!

After Nevada Caucases!

What really drives me crazy is how Cruz and Rubio keep giving victory speeches after amazing losses to Trump. Since when did losing become a win???  I am no fan of Trump, but he should be given his due  A win is a win after all!  In my opinion, all these Republicans are morons and egotistical maniacs.  Enough said about that!!

I have said that I am a Bernie supporter and I still am.  He did well in Nevada last night but came up a little short against Hillary in a state that she had pretty well wrapped up, but still only lost by 5 points. He was down by 25 points in Nevada at the beginning of his campaign, so that ain't bad!  As Bernie stated this morning on MTP, Hillary was in Nevada in 2008 and had a head start there.  She is also way ahead in South Carolina, but that state has a large black population who have heavily supported the Clintons in the past. 

I think that Bernie will do well on  super Tuesday on March 1st. The pundits give Bernie a very good chance of evening the playing field on that date and on March 15th when there is another multi-state primary race. GO BERNIE!!!

For you Hillary supporters out there, please remember that she has been pushed way to the left of center because of Bernie Sanders and his positions in this race.  She is even using parts of his talking points, points that he has been making for the last 40 years.  That means she is basically flip flopping on these important issues, not "evolving" as she spins it. Her change of policy on gay marriage to site just one. First she was against it, and now she is for it.  FLIPFLOP!!! She is just saying what we want to hear and hoping no one calls her out on it. I just do not trust Hillary when it comes to the Wall Street and big banks pouring money into her campaign.

She won't release the transcripts of her speeches she made for Goldman Saks totaling 675,000.00 alone. What is she hiding? I just did a little research and found that Hillary was made $2.95 million dollars between 2013 to 2015 from Wall street and the big banks. That is way more money than most people earn in a lifetime and she made it in only two years!  I believe that she won't release the transcripts because of what she said  in them.  After all, is she going to give speeches telling these establishment institutions that she is going to break up the banks and tighten regulations on Wall Street while they are paying her these huge speaking fees?  I don't think so!  Instead it would make sense that she was promising to at the least maintain the status quo, not to seek any legislation that they wouldn't like if she is elected.  

I heard Hillary say in a recent Democratic town hall meeting that when she accepted those speaking fees, that she wasn't sure if she was going to be running for POTUS.  I find that very hard to believe and I'm quite sure I am not alone on that.  She quit her job as Secretary of State after only four years so she could get ready for her run. Every one who follows politics knows that. The Clintons don't do anything on a whim.  They plan things out years in advance, as they should if they want to be successful. I have to give them that.  But then don't expect us to believe the opposite.  Again, I just don't trust Hillary! 

I am very disappointed that Bernie Sanders doesn't get more coverage on MSNBC, CNN and FOX almost news. It is still very early in the primary contests through out the country and way too early to call a definitive winner.  I think that Bernie has an up hill fight, but that is how it was when he started when he announced his candidacy and he is doing still above all expectations.  I have to also note  that the personalities on MSNBC, which used to be much more progressive, have been obvious about the fact that they are in favor of Hillary.  I guess that they are only human and it is hard to remain neutral.  But maybe they should try harder to be more balanced in their comments.

When all is said and done,  I will support either Bernie or Hillary whoever wins the nomination at the Democratic National Convention this July in Philadelphia.  I think both of them would make a great POTUS and we cannot afford to let the White House fall into the hands of these moronic and egotistical Republican candidates!

What's on your mind?