Trump is a Reactionary when A Stable Leader is Required.

And the US will suffer.

It takes about six months to a year for the economy to respond to big gesture events like a neophyte playing with trade when the neophyte has no real knowledge about "the economy".  Even a large number of "Economists" still have not wrapped their thought process around the idea that the US is not the Power in the world that it was in the 60's and 70's.

The Vietnam War and the Nixon Debacle diminished the influence dramatically and the US was set adrift with the adoption of Reaganomics or Supply Side Economics.  We are still adrift today and our Adversaries (Enemies) are well aware of it.  (Evidenced by Putin's Arm in Trumps Back).

The US is one "Crash" away from removal from World Domination and obscurity.  Sadly that "Crash" is creeping up on us, and Trump is just the man to push us off the edge.

A Good Read

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/ending-birthright-citizenship-will-make-republicans-look-like-the-party-of-dred-scott/ar-BBKZ1zj?ocid=spartanntp

Respect is given where Respect is earned

Note to Kellyanne Conway:  Respect is not just given, it has to be earned.  When the White House is run by a Rude Bully one should not look for Respect Just for the office that is being defiled.

When Donald Trump learns humility and manners maybe some that you Respect you long for will come his way.  As long as he is an uncontrolled Adult Child, only people who think it is ok to abuse others they way he does will respect him.  That does not include me.  But my mother and my father, in word and act taught me to respect people and that is what I start with, but that lasts only so long.

Respect and Donald Trump are two things I do not see being connected.

"White" Civil Rights???

I am about as white as you can get, physically.  White as in the White in White Anglo Saxon, Protestant, WASP. My Lineage Genetically is 50% British and then the rest various varieties of Irish, Scotch, and a little German.    How much more white can I be.  Yet I do not feel I am discriminated against at all.   When I walk down the street I feel free.  I am White in the USA and it does not get any better in the USA.  Or so I thought.

Apparently I am greatly discriminated against if I can not demean and Hate people who are not white and will not stay in their place or are deviants.

Ah, there is the rub, I am a deviant of sorts but I do not outwardly act upon it.

I do not understand this martyr attitude of people who feel discriminated against because they can not make sure that non-Christians and Non-whites are not made to feel inferior and suffer because they exist.

I grew up in the Church, Methodist hence the "P" in WASP.   I loved Church, and as long I was a compliant Child was loved back, but when I got older and had to face my faith in the ravages of War in Vietnam, the Church was less loving to me.  I went into the Army and served in Vietnam, just with out a gun.  My personal Faith tells be that God is the giver and taker of Life.  I refused to kill.  I got little support, not that I needed it from man.  The Discipline of the United Methodist Church says that the Church does not believe in participating in acts of war.  Not one person in clergy of that Denomination encouraged me, but rather told me I was ruining my life.

Christians talk a good game but when it comes to actually living, it is not clear at all they know what any of their Disciplines or Bibles say about life on Earth.

I have no complaint about Black people being black.  I grew up in the White South and the black experience for me is mostly from secondary sources.  In the Military I had a number of non-white friends, good friends as along as we were in the army.   Once in open society, I found I had no opportunities to befriend black people.

Civil Rights??  Maybe that should be the right to be civil to all of our citizen not just those like ourselves?  Try that on for size.

My mother was born in 1903 in Alta Loma, Texas, now known as Santa Fe, Texas, the place where one of the latest school shooting took place.  My Aunt wrote a book* about that area where our family were founding fathers and mothers.  My Grandmother was a Mid-Wife there.  My Grand-folk were the business owners and office holders there.  But it was and still is a white community.  I never went to a Public School that was not segregated.  The Black school age kids were bussed, before the  controversy of bussing White Kids, the Black Kids had to be bussed 20 miles to another city to attend their Black School.

Next month I will be 72.  I am so tired of living knowing that after all the talk in the years from 60 on about equality and freedom we still are a shallow people who can not live up to our ideals.

White Civil Rights.  There is no such thing.  It is "Civil Right"  and they are for every one.   Or at least I want it to be that way.  I cry a lot as I have gotten older.  When people ask me why I cry, I relpy, "why aren't you?"

Trump is Delusional.

The Donald is finally gone loopy.  Hard on Russia and Putin?  Outright Laughable.  Of course, Trump can't see this because he has his head so far up crevasses of Putin's body he can not see much anymore.

Mr. President do say this too loud or people will think you are really too Hard on Putin.

Beto and his Campaign Staff in Houston.

Fundamental to having supporters in a campaign is giving the voters the confidence that the Candidate has the positions on the Issues that the voter is looking for, and then the ability to get elected and get their positions enacted. 

I am sad to say that I have lost confidence in Beto for Senator.  His staff seems completely clueless.  I made a healthy donation and they do not even know I am here.  That was a month ago.  Then they seem to think everyone uses Text.  I do not.  I am 71 and a big guy.  I do not have nor will I ever have a "Smart"Phone and that is beyond the imagination of the people I was able to get to talk communicate (of a sort) with me. 

I began voting in 1970 right after getting out of the Military.  Considered my self a Democrat as I am a real Liberal.  Do not know what a "Progressive" is, and really no one else does either.  That is why the Democratic Party is now a minority Party. 

FDR and the Democratic Party got this country through a Depression and World War.  Those are days long gone.  Now we have Republicans that are scared of Trump and we are in danger of become Putins Puppets, too. 

It is a sad time for the US.  I had hoped Beto was someone I could have faith in, but you are no better than your staff, and his staff can not keep track of the donations people make to the campaign. 

I do not know why I am still here. 

Not getting correct, Trump it getting Right, Way Right.

Trump finally got something right, my favorite President did do nothing wrong. My Favorite President is a tie between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.  Both good decent men, neither anything to write home about as President.  Trump is NOT on the list.  He lies more that he doesn't and that alone disqualifies him as my favorite.  And that is just for starters.

Good and Decent will outlast just about all other character traits.  

"God Saved My Child"

No.  God did not specifically save your child.  You and your child are not the center of the Eternal Universe.  There are billions of people in is world that we know.  God does not reach out and selectively save any given child or adult.

Life happens and so does death. We do not always understand the Why and How of things. That is because we are fallible and limited in knowledge.

I like how Paul says it in 1 Corinthians 13:11-12; "When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.  For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known."

Thank God that your child is alive and then spend due sorrow that others are not.  We live but a fleeting fragile time.  Be glad that time is short for us to be back where we came from.  

Putin's Plan

Putin's Plan was getting Trump in office.  All you dead head Republicans that still support our Traitor President, just take a look at Vladimir's new toy.  A Missile system designed for attacking the EU and the US.

All he needed was a "Good Buddy" as the US President, that you are keeping in Office, to not use our much larger Nuclear Force against him.  God is not bringing ending times except maybe by bring the earth much closer to the sun.  That is a real concern.  But then is that not the prophesy, Sun of God.

Intellectuals in Drag

It seems that a gathering of Ultra Right Conservative "Intellectuals" of late drew up list of approved Court Nominees for our Supreme Court.  They met in secret and in the dress of Colonial Gentlemen penned that list and sent it to the successor to General Washington.

I would have loved to see that sight.  It is hard to believe that these men of prestige wore those colonial clothes to get in to character so they could think as prewar, that is Pre Civil War, but I guess one must do what they must.

I mean, who thinks of days when there was a British Class System still.  There were Slaves then and a whole list of amendments that had yet to be added to our Sacred Constitution, that literal Political Bible in these men's minds.  This Document must not be rewritten by Amendments and Decisions by revisionist, Judges.  That is true even though the real Writers of the Constitution wrote wording to allow Amendments and a method of deciding differences among the Judges.

Sadly this farcical episode is true.  Not Trump Truth but Real Truth.

The Truth is the Truth.

No, Donald Trump you did not miss-speak.  You said exactly what you wanted to say because your are arrogant enough to think you could get by with it.  What you did say was right in line with everything you express everyday,  Just lying about it now and then later going right back to your original Statement, like you did before is not going to work again.  Resign.  Don't make yourself get impeached.  Give yourself a Break.  Give us all a break.  Resign.

You have made a pact with the Devil, now live with it.

Trump and Kavanaugh: Headed in any Wrong Way they can.

Kavanaugh believes that in our Government of three Separate but Equal Branches the Executive Branch is more equal than the other two.

Dump Trump and Kavanaugh.

Pathological Liar

Pathological Liars are people who have to lie when reality is inconvenient for them.   Trump is a liar, I am not a Doctor so I can not say it is Pathological, but it sure looks like it to me.  

So if you are one of his blind followers, be careful.     You may be a Pathological liar as well.  Anyone in the USA that does not by now that Trump lies more often than he doesn't, is not playing with a full deck. 

We will be in Financial Crisis soon - always hard to tell exactly when -  but when it comes it will not be nice because there is no one running the shop.  We were caught with no real solution in 2008.  I had been telling people that the crash was coming. 

I was a manager at a Storage facility.  I saw people coming in storing all their stuff so they could move to their new house when it was ready.  I had a pretty good idea that these people did not have the money for this new house.  In conversation they told me about not being able to afford it but their bankers gave them two notes at low interest rates to so they could afford it.  I could feel that they just had to tell people so they could feel assured that this was right. 

It was not, and these people, young minorities, lost everything.  We the People who are supposed to know better, bailed out the financiers and left every one else hanging.  We are headed there again, because the Financial Guys went right back to their thieving ways. but this time it will be different.

All the fuzzy headed Evangelists will be running around looking for the Chariots from the sky and in panic start killing all the people they think are keeping God from saving them.  I hope I will be dead by then, but it looks closer and closer.  

Plan B rush

Would you not guess that Trump's "Spiritual Advisor" would be a Blond.  What Spirit is she supposed to move.  Well, the advisor says, "it is clear that just because you are a refugee, you do not have to break the law, Jesus didn't."  O, really? Which Law?  The law for Jesus was a dual thing as the Roman Empire allowed the Local Jewish Hierarchy to deal with Civil Law.  The Jewish law for forbade pretty much everything on the Sabbath and Jesus routinely broke the Jewish laws - there were a great many of those laws.

I suppose that the Evangelicals version of Jesus does not break the laws that they do not want him to break.  Jesus, was very careful not to challenge directly the Roman Empire.  It was not because he was afraid, but because Jesus was concerned about man's souls, not their political structures.

I am reminded of the song from Monty Python.  Every Sperm is Sacred every Sperm is Great.  When a Sperm is wasted God gets quite Irate.

Yeah there is that God of Wrath, but Jesus said was a God of Love.  There is no wrath in God or Jesus.  When Jesus tells us to live like Him, he did not mean to return to Rome of over 2000 years ago.

The decision about abortion is the business of the person bearing the child.  I am a single man, so I will never need an abortion for me, but at one time someone I cared about did.  I am opposed to killing human life, and a fetus is a human life, but I told this pregnant person that it was her decision. If she decided to have the child I would help her in every way I could to care for that child.

Having morals has consequences.  If you are going to deny a person an abortion because of your morals, then those caring morals should extend for the next 18 to 21 years.  Too many fundamentalist Christians have "no fault" morality.  We are a neighbors keeper and also the keeper of their children regardless how they get here.

If every sperm is sacred, then every life that is produced by that Sperm is sacred.  Yes is Life is sacred and we of Faith are required to honor that.

The US's curious Self-Loathing

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity , do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Now it seems to me that if I start a Business, I am the boss of the Business, or at least am the owner  place someone else in Charge under my guidance.  So why are not the People of the United States the Government?  The answer is quite simple the People are the Government.  

So why so I hear citizens of the US whine about how bad the Government is?  How can one call themselves "Anti-Government" in a system that the people began and is a Democracy where those very citizens choose on a regular basis, who and how, their Country is run.  It seems clear that being "Anti-Government" is a psychosis, where one hates themselves.

That view says a whole lot about the US and why we are in the sad shape we are in.  

The Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond seem to be good examples of this self-inflicted psychosis.  This merges right into the tensions about the Supreme Court and the ill informed opinion that the Constitution is not a Living Document.   For the Founders the Constitution was the first Draft of a form of Self Governing.

We began in the mid 1770's demanding that is was our God Given right to rule ourselves and not by Some King or some wanna be King.  Today we hand off our responsibilities and then moan and groan about how bad we treat each other.  If that is too strong, then Pardon me. 

Post Birth Abortions

I was born on August 14, 1946.  Or so I am told.  I was one of those pregnancies, you know, unwanted.  While the Right-winger, Evangelicals, and other people that do not think abortion is a good thing, giving the new born a chance at a good life is not the High Minded Moralists is not their concern,

For these hypocrites, the answer is, as it was in Charles Dickens' day: Are there no work houses!

I was given up for adoption. The my maternal grandmother, pushed her daughter to try to raise me and I was cruelly taken to satisfy someone else's morality.  That lasted about a year and an one half and then I was taken away by the Welfare Department and then was immediately adopted (as immediate as the state can ever move) and delivered to a wonderful couple in their Mid-Forties.

This was great, but the damage, permanent damage, had already been done.  With my real mother I had been neglected and pretty much abused.

I tell you this because were it not for the magnitude of the Love and caring  of these two people who became my parents who knows what would have happened to me.

Things like life and death of fetuses is not as clear as it may seem. When there is no help for those tasked with raising an unwanted child bad things happen.  It is a very sad thing to see, when people of faith put a wall around their Love.  Love is given to those who seek it, free and freely by God.

Krugman is not the Problem

Krugman is what he is, an economist that has a better understanding of the US economy than most other economists. He is schooled in Economics and still managed to keep a pretty objective view of things. So what do his detractors have to contribute?

The Average American has no idea of how our economy works and as a result we are herded like sheep to the slaughter. The Democratic Party has become a Corporate Party. Clinton in the 1990's as an outsider President could not get Democrats to work with him to get things done so he turned to the Republicans and got what he could. It is not help that he was married to a former Republican that still has Corporate Leanings.

What good is it to have two parties when they are the same. We need a Conservative and Liberal Party, or even better several of each. We need to pull out of the cowering mode that Democrats have been in ever since Reagan ridicules them and Liberals, using the "L" word classification to ridicule the Political Philosophy of FDR. I do not know what a Progressive is, except it is not Liberal. At best Progressives are moving, but it not clear the direction they are moving or at what speed.

To fight Trump we need people in office who know where they are going and can articulate that with a passion that will get the Liberal Voter out to the polls. In short Democrats need to quit being victims. We have the right issues and in the past when we sold them we won. We do not have Abortion Rights and Gay Rights because we were victims, but because we sold the Idea that these rights were Human Rights and positive for the Country.

We are in a back lash era with Trump, but do not mistake our adversaries. If Democrats do what other winning liberal candidates have done and articulated the strength of these basic rights, we can stem the Trump Tide. (not really a tide, but more like back wash.

"Exposing" the Trump as Hitler mime.

Allan Richarz, opinion contributor for "The Hill" is displayed on the MSN site as saying how Trump is being unfairly portrayed as a "Hitler".  Please Allan, what am I missing?

He came away from the "Communist" Block Countries literally Gushing about how orderly their countries are and how much their people show their leaders respect.  He wants big military parades where the people can gather in huge throngs to worship their Leader - Trump.

Good God what have they been teaching in our schools since I graduated in 1964.   We were taught how to tell propaganda because our adults then were more likely to think that Communists where around every corner.  Now the people where I lived in 1964 think that Putin is so much better than that Black man who was a "dictator" to them.

How has our country gone so far adrift?  That comes from affluence fed by a corporate media that views our duty as the consumption of junk at exorbitant prices.  Gee, am I being too harsh?  No, I do not think so. Trump as Hitler?  No.  Just put "Wanna Be"  before "Hitler"  then you are right on target.

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.