Trump can be beat in November on the economy

If you think Donald Trump can just breeze on back to the White House in November, think again. Here's a recent headline: "Trump boasts the US economy is the best it's ever been under his watch." This article continues with several charts proving this isn't true. But Columbia University economist Joseph Eugene Stiglitz, also a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, comments in Common Dreams...

"It is becoming conventional wisdom that US President Donald Trump will be tough to beat in November, because, whatever reservations about him voters may have, he has been good for the American economy. Nothing could be further from the truth."

Although corporate America raves about Trump's tax cuts that primarily benefited the rich and the current high stock prices, this no barometer of  "ordinary citizens’ living standards or anything about sustainability." Stiglitz continues...

"In fact, US economic performance over the past four years is Exhibit A in the indictment against relying on these indicators. The lion’s share of the increase in GDP is also going to those at the top."

The economist adds...

"Trump may be a good president for the top 1%—and especially for the top 0.1%—but he has not been good for everyone else. If fully implemented, the 2017 tax cut will result in tax increases for most households in the second, third, and fourth income quintiles."

It is all beginning to unravel as it becomes obvious that everything the White House does, and the Republicans behind Donald Trump, is to heap the rewards on wealthy Americans and corporate America. Read this article through to the end and you will learn how us average Americans have lost out to the upper elite.

Why Parnas and Bolton must testify

Lev Parnas and associate

Rudy Giuliani's henchman Lev Parnas has been lurking in the background of Donald Trump's impeachment for several weeks, willing to testify, but nothing happening. First the White House blocked testimony, and now Moscow Mitch is fighting against any Democrat's witnesses in the Senate trial. They know what Parnas knows as well as John Bolton and that is is why Republicans are doing everything possible to keep them away.

Parnas has also implicated Mike Pence after the vice president said he didn't even know Pence. Parnas then produced a photo of him and Mike Pence together. And the lies keep coming. AlterNet reports...

"Parnas is the reason Republicans are so scared of opening the Senate trial of Trump to witness testimony. According to Parnas, everyone was in on the Ukraine scheme. Trump himself, of course, but also Vice President Mike Pence was in on it. So was Attorney General William Barr, so was Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and so were Secretary of Energy Rick Perry and national security adviser John Bolton."

So, what we are saying here is that all these political hacks had something to do with the charges that have been verified to impeach T-rump, which would lead one to the conclusion they should give sworn testimony to their involvement. Here's more reason for Parnas' testimony...

"Parnas has letters, text messages, contemporaneous notes, travel documents and more to back up his recollections of what happened as Trump tried to muscle Ukraine into aiding his re-election campaign by announcing an investigation of Biden. Trump was obviously getting ready to pound Biden with Ukraine conspiracy allegations the same way he pounded Hillary Clinton about her emails in 2016."

There is a clear path of obstruction by Republicans of these witnesses, above, supported by Senate head, Moscow Mitch. There have been recent whimpers of softening on the issue by some in the GOP, particularly moderates. It's time to do the right thing or go down in flames with the Oval Office lunatic. 
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80% of Black America labels Trump a racist

It is disconcerting enough when the bubbas out there use the N word, but when it is the President of the United States, well, it hurts a little more. And that is the understatement of the year. But were we ever at the point where racism was actually subsiding, or have these niceties over the year just been a facade for a deep seated nationwide racism? I think the latter, and although not an expert on the issue, I grew up in the deep South and can recognize signals.

The RawStory reports the optimism among blacks when Barack Obama was elected President in 2008 , rejoicing again when he was reelected in 2012. I felt the same about Obama's election as I did when John F. Kennedy went to the White House. Kennedy was stopped by an assassin's bullet, Obama by a political assassin by the name of Moscow Mitch McConnell. Moscow Mitch is as much of a racist as is Donald Trump and both need to go.  READ MORE...

Who says nobody likes Bernie Sanders?

Hillary Clinton statement "Nobody likes Bernie Sanders" backfires

Here is Newsweek's headline: "#ILIKEBERNIE TRENDS AFTER HILLARY CLINTON SAYS 'NOBODY LIKES' BERNIE SANDERS." This sent Bernie's supporters to the Internet in the thousands to show just how much they do like Bernie Sanders. And you would think someone as disliked as Clinton was in 2016, when she and Debbie Wasserman Schultz colluded to secretly give the Democratic nomination to Hillary, would keep her mouth shut. But she didn't, and now it is clear who the most liked of the two is.

Clinton even indicated the possibility that she might not support Sanders if he receives the nomination for this November's election. This at a time when Bernie is surging in the polls...

"Overall, 27% of registered voters who are Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents back Sanders, while 24% favor Biden."

It is clear moderate Democrats are hell-bound to knock Bernie Sanders out of the race simply because he is both Progressive and an Independent. It isn't working because there are 57.7 million Progressives out there and of the 137.4 million Independents, 52% are Progressive, Get used to it old line Democrats.   READ MORE...

Trump stoops low...again

Donald Trump is just...unconscionable

Once again the Oval Office lunatic takes his misinformation abroad and spews it on the folks at Davos, Switzerland. He was asked...

"about the clear discrepancy between his initial claim that no Americans had been harmed in Iran's retaliatory strikes against a US base in Iraq and reports of 11 military personnel diagnosed with concussions and an unnamed number of others also being treated in the wake of the attack."

Trump replied...

"No, I heard that they had headaches, and a couple of other things, but I would say, and I can report, it's not very serious."

He dismisses the injuries of American soldiers as if it is nothing, as much as calling anyone who complains a crybaby. This idiot is beyond comparison with any human being in my lifetime. CNN's Barbara Starr comments...

"the military has made a significant push in recent years to identify and treat traumatic brain injury associated with combat roles, making Trump's downplaying of the injuries suffered by the troops all the more problematic."

CNN reminds us that Trump was draft age for the Vietnam War but received five deferments that kept him at home; one for being a student and four more for medical reasons, the latter of which have become doutbful upon investigation. Afraid to fight but willing to question those who do. It doesn't get any worse. Or...will it?

.Richmond pro-gun rally on Martin Luther King Day

MLK was killed with a gun and gun nuts are celebrating their toys today in Richmond

Richmond at its worst

NPR reports...

"The city of Richmond, Va., is under a state of emergency Monday morning as thousands of gun ownership enthusiasts and armed militia members gather at the Virginia State Capitol for a large rally aimed at quashing new gun laws."

This is in retaliation to Virginia's Gov. Ralph Northam temporarily banning firearms from Capitol grounds and a number of gun control laws passed recently in the state. This all coincides with the fact that today is Martin Luther King's birthday and he died from gun violence, which rings alarm bells with locals it could turn into a white supremacist incident like Charlottesville. It was here anti-racism protesters left protester Heather Heyer dead and 19 others injured.

Racism and guns definitely don't mix and it is those two issues that are the number one problems in this country today,  especially fostered by the maniac in the White House.   READ MORE...

Moscow Mitch perjurer before impeachment trial starts

McConnell perjured himself taking impeachment oath

The miserable Moscow Mitch

Former President George W. Bush's ethics chief branded Moscow Mitch a perjurer after the Senator took the impeachment ethics vote knowing full well he would not be impartial in the trial. Moscow Mitch has no ethics, never has, except to himself and the Republican Party. Power is his middle name and he will do anything to achieve his goals. He is ruthless but smart after years in the upper House and with the impeachment hearings starting, many think he will be at his miserable best.

Here's the take from Aila Slisco of Newsweek...

"McConnell has explicitly indicated he has no intention of being impartial, vowing to work closely with White House counsel and Trump as the trial approached. Richard Painter, Bush's chief ethics lawyer from 2005 to 2007, denounced the senator on Twitter for contradicting himself by taking the oath."

Painter tweeted...

"This man just swore an oath saying the exact opposite. This man is a perjurer."

 As further proof, there was this NPR headline...

McConnell: 'I'm Not Impartial' About Impeachment

It is perfectly clear where Moscow Mitch is going with the Senate impeachment trial, and, of course, he has his nimrod assistant, Lindsey Graham. And folks, these are the imbeciles running our government.   READ MORE...