Wednesday, June 24, 2020

TRUMP SLOWING CORONAVIRUS TESTING IN AN ATTEMPT TO HIDE INCOMPETENCE

Beneath the Spin*Eric L. Wattree

EXCELLENCE IS THE KEY TO BLACK EQUALITY
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TRUMP SLOWING CORONAVIRUS TESTING IN AN ATTEMPT TO HIDE INCOMPETENCE


This is my opus to Donald Trump. It pretty much says it all about this man. It addresses his incompetent response to the pandemic, his failure to protect the lives of our troops from the Russians, his shady to outright criminal character, and how it negatively impacts the nation.  

We’ve never seen a President like this one before, and hopefully, we’ll never see one like him again. He’s selfish, incompetent, and completely willing to conspire with the Russians – or any other country - to promote his own interests. With Trump, America doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters for Trump, is Donald J. Trump himself.

I didn’t write this piece for any personal benefit or recognition; I wrote it to plant a seed, and in the hope that other writers will find something of value in it to build upon. So if you’re a writer, don’t worry about attribution, just take whatever you find of value and forge it into your own. There are some issues important enough to put our self-interests aside and work on as a group. I think this is one of them. So let’s make this a group effort, authored by us all. As writers, we have a responsibility to help the American people understand what we’re dealing with here. Let us do that, for the sake of the country, and for the sake of all those who died to preserve this great experiment. Let us spread the word, and educate the people.

I’ve always said that Donald Trump was a completely self-absorbed lunatic, and now he’s laid absolute proof of that fact at our feet. He recently said the following:
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"I think we put ourselves at a disadvantage. I told my people. I said we've gotten so good at testing - number one we have the best tests, number two we have the most tests - we catch much more than any other nation. So you hear about all these cases. So instead of doing 25 million cases, let's say we did 10 million tests we'd look like we're doing much better, cuz we'd have far fewer cases."
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Yeah, and it would also coverup the piss-poor and incompetent job you're doing in managing the crisis. Trump is known for avoiding responsibility. Now he's casually asking us to sacrifice our lives to help him cover up his own incompetence, and in spite of the fact that he's clearly stating - out in the open! - that optics is more important than American lives, a few idiots are showing up at his rallies to do just that.
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This is not just your garden variety ignorance we're talking about here - this is world-class stupidity. We're in the midst of a worldwide pandemic, and instead of being solely focused on saving lives, the President of the United States is focused on how finding out who has the disease, and how it's being spread, is making him  look bad. 
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With over 120,000 Americans dead, and the rate of deaths still climbing, no other politician would even think of slowing down the rate of testing, and even if they were so mindlessly self-absorbed that they did think about it, they certainly wouldn’t say it out loud on national television. But that’s one of Trump’s shortcomings, he can’t think without moving his lips. That’s why he can’t carryout a plan of any kind, because he can’t prevent himself from going on Twitter and telling the world about it. That's just his nature. He's so insecure, and so desperately in need of admiration that he wants the world to know that every thought that comes out of the administration comes from him. But unfortunately, most of them are stupid and have to be walked back immediately thereafter.
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In addition, every time he finds someone in his administration who is actually competent, he's so insecure that he fires them immediately, because he can't afford to have their excellence stand in contrast to his stupidity. Trump's gross insecurity causes him to see mere competence as an affront to him, because he sees it as an attempt to overshadow him. He considers simple competence in others as an attempt to mock him. Trump is a man who is in a constant struggle to hide his inadequacies. As a result, he has an administration full of idiots, and the only people who can possibly support such a man, or administration, are other idiots.
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Trump is also transparent. Whatever he accuses his opponent of doing, or whenever something is weighing heavily on his mind, you can bet your home on the fact that he's going to find away of spewing it all over Twitter. That allows us to always know exactly what he's thinking. That’s how we should have known that his health was deteriorating. When he accused Joe Biden of becoming old and feeble, that should have immediately told us that Trump was having some sort of health issue, long before it became clear that he couldn’t lift a glass of water or walk down a ramp.
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Any close observer of Trump knows that when Trump becomes fixated on an issue, he’s much too much of an idiot to prevent himself from telegraphing what’s weighing on his mind to the world. That's why when he started calling Hillary Clinton "Crooked Hillary", that should have alerted us that he was engaged in some kind of nefarious activity, and now that he's started accusing Barack Obama of treason, that tells us that he's worried about the revelations in John Bolton's book or something much more serious. So all we have to do is listen to Trump, and he'll tell us everything we need to know about he's up to.
Michael McFaul, a former ambassador to Russia and a professor of political science at Stanford University, said, “I hope the American people will be as outraged as I am over Trump’s complacency. After he knew about these Putin-ordered contracts to kill US soldiers, Trump invited Putin to the G7.”
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And John Weaver, a Republican political consultant who helped found the anti-Trump Lincoln Project group, also expressed outrage, tweeting, “Trump knew Russia was paying bounties on the lives of American servicemen in Afghanistan. He took no action against Putin. Instead, @realDonaldTrump REWARDED Putin by trying to insert Russia back into the G-7. And, [if that was] not enough, withdrawing 25,000 American troops from Germany.” 
In response to the accusation, Trump tweeted, "Nobody briefed or told me, @VP Pence, or Chief of Staff @MarkMeadows about the so-called attacks on our troops in Afghanistan by Russians, as reported through an 'anonymous source' by the Fake News @nytimes. Everybody is denying it & there have not been many attacks on us....."
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In response to Trump's tweet, the mere fact that he claims not to have been aware of something as threatening to our troops, and the nation, as that, is clear evidence of gross incompetence in itself. What else is going on in the world while he's playing golf that he doesn't know about?  On the other hand, if he did know about it and still cuddled up to Putin, it's treason, so either way, it's unacceptable. So there's no plausible way to lie his way out of this one.
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SO WHY WOULD TRUMP DO THESE THINGS?

The answer as to why Trump would be so forgiving of Russian aggression is quite simple –
after going into bankruptcy 6 times, the Russians came to Trump's rescue when American banks wouldn't touch him, and chances are, even now he's only keeping his head above water because Russian oligarchs are using his name and businesses to launder stolen money. That explains why he's so desperate to keep his finances hidden.
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Foreign Policy Magazine (fp.com) reported, “Rep. Adam Schiff indicated that ‘We’re going to be looking at the issue of possible money laundering by the Trump Organization, and Deutsche Bank is one obvious place to start,’ he said. A 2017 report by Reuters, citing public documents, interviews and corporate records, also found that at least 63 Russians or people with Russian addresses bought nearly $100 million worth of property in seven Trump-branded Florida luxury buildings.”

In addition, Trump repeatedly lied to the American people all through the 2016 election campaign. He repeatedly claimed that, "I have no business dealings in Russia." But we now know that all while he was making that claim to the American people, he was in deep negotiations with the Russians to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. He even offered Vladimir Putin a $50 million penthouse apartment in the tower. But there was a problem - the Russian bank, VTB, that was lined up to finance the deal was under U.S. sanctions, which blocked them from taking part in the deal. Could that be why Trump has gone out of his way to remove Russian sanctions? 
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It is now clear that everything Trump does or says is designed to promote his own private interests and provide comfort to Vladimir Putin and the Russians, and Rudy Giuliani, his own attorney, knows it. That’s why when Trump’s own staff and American foreign service professionals started spilling the beans in the Congressional Impeachment Hearings, Giuliani said, “If I disappear I have an insurance policy. All of the documents on the Bidens are going to be released”. That seems to indicate that Giuliani is not only in fear of legal exposure, but for his very life, and he has good reason to be concerned.

TRUMP KNEW PUTIN PLACED BOUNTY ON THE  HEADS OF UNITED STATES TROOPS AND INVITED PUTIN TO G7

Michael McFaul, a former ambassador to Russia and a professor of political science at Stanford University, said: “I hope the American people will be as outraged as I am over Trump’s complacency. After he knew about these Putin-ordered contracts to kill US soldiers, Trump invited Putin to the G7.” 

John Weaver, a Republican political consultant who helped found the anti-Trump Lincoln Project group, also expressed outrage, tweeting, “Trump knew Russia was paying bounties on the lives of American servicemen in Afghanistan. He took no action against Putin. Instead, @realDonaldTrump REWARDED Putin by trying to insert Russia back into the G-7. And, not enough, withdrawing 25,000 American troops from Germany.” Donald Trump doesn't care anything about our troops. He's just using our troops as props just like he used the Bible in front of the church. If Trump cared anything about either our troops, or the military, he wouldn't have dodged the draft when he had a chance to serve. Dodging the military is a Trump family tradition. 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/27/russia-offered-bounties-afghanistan-militants-killing-us-soldiers-report-outrage
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Donald's problem dates back to the way he was raised. As the son of a multi-millionaire he was always given everything, and he never had to struggle to maintain his place in line. As a result, it was never necessary for Donald to have to develop any character or intellect like most of us. In order for the average person to survive they have to cultivate their character which enables them to get along with others, and also develop their intellectual resources which allows them to survive in a competitive world. But not Trump. Since Donald was given everything, he never had to develop those resources, and as a result, he’s become a geriatric child with the inner resources of an 8-year-old.
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So the knowledge that most of us take for granted - or what most of us refer to as common sense - is completely foreign to Trump. That’s why we don’t understand him. Many of us  assume that he’s different due to some esoteric billionaire's knowledge that he possesses that the rest of us are not privy to. But that’s not it at all. He’s just stupid, and he's very easy to understand. All you have to do to understand Donald's behavior is to assess his actions like you would the behavior of an 8-year-old. If you do that, his motivations become crystal clear.
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Vox.com reported Yuval Levin, director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, as saying of Donald Trump that “Governing has been so little on the mind of this administration from the very beginning that it’s created a bizarre, extraordinary situation. The president thinks so much about what he’s doing in terms of the show he’s putting on that there’s been very little attention paid to how the government is functioning.”
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And Vox goes on to point out that "
Trump has spent the past three years and 158 days playing president on TV and social media. But he has not spent that time doing the job of the president. A strong economy that carried over from Barack Obama’s presidency hid Trump’s dereliction of duties. But then a crisis came, and presidential leadership was needed, and the American people saw there was no plan, and functionally no president."
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Take the comment Trump made concerning the Coronavirus testing, for example. Based on his thinking, if we stop testing for the virus we won’t have as many cases – thus, out of sight, out of mind. That’s the simplistic thinking of a child. He’s not considering the consequences of allowing the virus to roar through the population unchecked, all he’s thinking about is the solution that suits his purpose for the moment – and Trump only lives from moment to moment, so he never considers consequences. It is exactly ignorance, cluelessness, and his total irresponsibility that makes Trump the most dangerous man who has ever stepped into the White House.
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And further, Trump doesn’t give a damn about either America, democracy, or the American people, as he’s clearly demonstrating by placing his re-election above thousands of American lives. In fact, he’s placing his bet on the fact that his base is more bigoted than they are patriotic. The fact is, it's only their bigotry and hatred that makes them of value to him. That's why he's constantly stirring them up. But with the exception of their bigotry, trump doesn't share any of their political ideals. The fact is, he detests his undereducated base. He thinks of them as the great unwashed, as ignorant trailer trash - it's just that they're useful trailer trash.
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Trump’s only political philosophy is helping Trump. He cares more about Russia than he does his supporters, because Russia can do more for him. He’s just using his supporters to give himself a political power base, because that's what he does, use people. That's what allows him to turn on his former allies on a dime the minute they're no longer useful to him.
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 According to Wikipedia, “Trump registered as a Republican in Manhattan in 1987 and since that time has changed his party affiliation five times. In 1999, Trump changed his party affiliation to the Independence Party of New York. In August 2001, Trump changed his party affiliation to Democratic. In September 2009, Trump changed his party affiliation back to the Republican Party. In December 2011, Trump changed to "no party affiliation" (independent). In April 2012, Trump again returned to the Republican Party.” 
So the bottom line is, Trump is willing to align himself with anyone who's of use to him, and at this point that means ANYONE, including the Russians.
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Trump is losing over a million dollars a day in his personal businesses due to the national shutdown, and the shutdown is also having a negative impact on the overall economy, which he was depending on for re-election in November. And since being President is the only thing keeping him out of prison, Trump doesn't give not one bit of a damn about America. All he’s concerned about is opening the country back up, regardless of how many people have to die.

Trump is proving with his every act that he's only concerned about one thing - what he’s always been concerned about – Donald Trump. That’s why he’s so desperate that he’s trying to get America to ingest Lysol. That alone represents the desperation of an absolute lunatic. But Trump's willingness to do ANYTHING to improve his personal situation, including killing a few thousand American citizens, makes him a very dangerous man. And clear evidence that those are the facts was made clear when - even though he was a  draft dodger - he made the disgustingly self-serving decision to place the lives of West Point graduates in needless jeopardy just so he could give a speech and get a photo op with the military. 
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But just as horrifying as the acts themselves is the fact that he seems to have lost the simple judgment to even try to hide his blatant hypocrisy and lack of concern for the American people. That speaks directly to his mental stability. What might he do in desperation if he loses the November election? I just hope our military and intelligence services have a contingency plan in place to handle such an eventuality.

AMERICA'S CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS IS AT HAND

Trump is losing it. He’s threatening to unleash violence against peaceful demonstrators. He knows that he’s losing the country, so he’s resorting to his natural tendency to be nasty, petty, and vindictive. He’s angry because he thought America belonged to him. He’s finding out the hard way that it doesn’t, and it’s humiliating his fragile and immature ego.

http://wattree.blogspot.com/2018/11/americas-constitutional-crisis-is-at.html

And just in case some of you think this is exaggeration or an exercise in hyperbole, here’s what Trump had to say in a private conference call with the nation's governors:
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Trump told the nation’s governors during a recent teleconference that they should ‘seriously consider’ reopening their schools and CONFIRM his suggestion at the evening news conference, noting the virus doesn't impact young people as badly. . . “I think it would be a good thing. Because as you see coming in terms of what this vicious virus goes after, young people seem to do very well. Young people seem to do very well. So, I know that there are some governors that aren't necessarily ready to open up states, but they may be ready to open up school systems."
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IN OTHER WORDS, HE WANTS TO USE OUR CHILDREN AS GUINEA PIGS!!!
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The bottom line is, Donald Trump is one of the gravest threats this nation has ever faced, so we need to wake up and treat him as such. He’s not just eccentric, he’s dumb, greedy, and a raving lunatic.
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Eric L. Wattree
Ewattree@Gmail.com
BLACK WRITERS, INTELLECTUALS, AND INDEPENDENT THINKERS
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Religion: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does. 

Monday, June 22, 2020

TO CJ GOODE III AND ALL THE OTHER BIGOT-HUGGIN’ SUCK-UPS OUT THERE

Beneath the Spin*Eric L. Wattree

EXCELLENCE IS THE KEY TO BLACK EQUALITY
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TO CJ GOODE III AND ALL THE OTHER BIGOT-HUGGIN’ 
SUCK-UPS OUT THERE

CJ, you criticized me because a writer's readability program assessed my writing at a 9th grade level, which is exactly the level that the program suggests that all writers seek to communicate on. The program - THAT YOU PROVIDED - indicated that we should all seek to communicate in writing on an 8th grade level. All serious writers know that, and there's a perfect reason for it - because that's the level of writing that's most clear to the greatest number of people. If you doubt that, simply compare your writing to mine. But it's not surprising that comes as news to you, because that places it right in sync with your gross ignorance on most other subjects. What makes a writer's writing powerful is not simply his or her level of readability, but the level in which they're capable of articulating complexed concepts. Thus, clarity is simply a useful tool. What makes a good writer is the ability to think clearly, and efficiently. Yet, your all-consuming fixation on readability score alone suggests that you've missed that important point altogether.  
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But that's understandable, because you're clearly a non-thinking, and thoroughly brainwashed individual. In spite of the fact that you're Black, you look at life from an uneducated bigot's perspective, and you even use a bigot’s dumb-ass arguments in casual conversations.
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After all the shit Black people have gone through, for example, you sit there licking the White man's ass and complaining about goddamn Marxism. How many Marxists do you know that have lynched, murdered, and raped Black people?  So I can’t, for the life of me, figure out what kind of fool it takes to buy into that bullshit!!!? While, admittedly, I don’t know much about Marxists, I do know that they can’t be any worse than the Klan, yet, I don’t hear you saying a word about the Klan. Why not? It is my understanding that the only reason the White man hates Marxists is because they advocate equality, and for the White elite to share the wealth of the nation with the average citizen. They called Martin Luther King a Marxist, so was he evil too?
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So I just can’t figure out how the powers that be managed to create such a weak-minded, kool-aid-drinking idiot like you!!!? Your ignorant ass is so sick that you're too goddamn dumb to see what's right before your eyes. How do they do it!!!?
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And the truly ironic part of it is, the bigots you serve laugh at your dumb ass as soon as you leave the room. They say, "Now there's a jiggaboo who knows his place", and they all fallout laughin' at your dumb ass. Idiots like you make ALL Black people look bad. That's why we hate your silly asses so passionately. Yet, you sit there smirkin’ and pinchin' your silly-ass chin. You're a goddamn fool.
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ADVICE TO CJ ON DOING SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE FOR THE BLACK COMMUNITY
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CJ, you should do yourself a favor - give that dumb-ass quantum shit a rest and take the time to learn what a subject, predicate, and object is in a traditional English sentence. In all seriousness, you really need to do that. A little thing as simple as that could be the source of your entire problem. Maybe you just don't have have the intellectual tools to connect the dots properly. And further, if you want to try to present yourself as an intellectual, you should, at the very least, learn how to punctuate and how to conjugate a verb. When you can't do those simple little things that every child is supposed to learn by 3rd or 4th grade, it makes you look like a goddamn fool - and any educated person that you get into a discussion with is going to recognize it immediately.
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Another reason I suggest that you educate yourself is so you won't continue to go around embarrassing Black people. It's people like you that cause others to take Black people less than seriously, and you also contribute to high unemployment in the Black community.
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A young Black college graduate – who might be sharp as a tack and completely qualified - can go in and apply for a job, but if the H.R. manager has ever come into contact with you, anyone like you, or read anything you've ever written online, he's going to run that Black applicant out of his office, because chances are, he’s generalize what he’s perceived as your ignorance to all Black people. In short, people like yourself cause Black people to be broad-brushed, or profiled as ignorant. I've met well-meaning White people who were literally shocked that I could walk and chew gum at the same time.  That's because of people like you.
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I saw one of your videos where you were out on the street thanking right-wing White folks for standing up for gun rights. They were looking at you like you were a goddamn fool. A person could actually read what they were thinking. Their expressions said, "Doesn't this idiot know the reason I want to keep my guns is so I can blow his goddamn brains out?" But your dumb ass didn't recognize that fact for a minute. You actually thought you were a part of the gang.  
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So the bottom line is, while you've made criticizing Black people a way of life, people like you contribute to many of the problems we have in the Black community. So, please, give us a break and stop talking shit long enough to educate yourself and become a positive reflection on the Black community. And while you’re at it, you need to bring all that "niggrah" shit to a halt as well. The White man might grin in your face and pat you on the back when you say it, but it doesn't contribute to a positive image of the Black community. But of course, you probably don't care about that, because all you're interested in is impressing the White man. But it's something for you to think about, nevertheless.
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And finally, I knew talking about Trump would set you off. I can talk about your dumb ass like a dog and you won't say a word, but the minute I say anything the least bit disrespectful about YO White man, all hell breaks loose. You've been trained like an attack dog when it comes to defending White folks.
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Being from Los Angeles, I used to hear about people like you, but I thought the rumors were a myth, much like the stuff they made up for television. But then, when I found out that there really were people who thought like you, I assumed the last one died in the 1800s. So I'm getting a valuable education here on the internet. While I knew there were Uncle Toms, like Clarence Thomas and Uncle Ben Carson still among us, you're a breed that makes mere Uncle Toms look like the revolutionary guard. They need to put a picture of your dumb ass on a box of rice. 

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So there you have it. Not bad for an 8th grade mind, uh? I'll be waiting nervously to be blown out of the water by your powerful intellectual response. But in the meantime, below is an example of one of your "soul mates" at work. Maybe it'll serve as a look in the mirror. But as one final thought, I don't see how your wife can stand living in the same house with ignorant ass. She must be a strong and loving sister. My hat is off to her. 
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https://twitter.com/i/status/1232694291685789696
Eric L. Wattree
Ewattree@Gmail.com
BLACK WRITERS, INTELLECTUALS, AND INDEPENDENT THINKERS
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Religion: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does. 


Sunday, June 21, 2020

A MESSAGE TO EUVONNE ON THE POWER OF HATRED

Beneath the Spin*Eric L. Wattree
EXCELLENCE IS THE KEY TO BLACK EQUALITY
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A MESSAGE TO EUVONNE ON THE POWER OF HATRED
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I never thought I could hate a person like I hate Donald Trump. I'm literally LIVING on my hatred of him. I'm obsessed with it. He doesn’t care that the people who are about to come to his rally may catch a deadly disease and take it home to their family and friends, all he cares about is what’s in the interest of Donald Trump.
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Due to his all-consuming  selfishness, I can’t stand even hearing his voice.  I go to bed every night thinking about how much I hate him, and I wake up every morning anxious to see if any bad news has befallen him. But in spite of that, I don’t want anybody to physically harm him, because that would deprive me of seeing him rotting in prison in total humiliation. That’s the way I want to see him – broke, hopeless, and totally humiliated.
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But now I hear from Euvonne with her well-worn message of “always keeping love in your heart”. Lady, I don't want to hear that flower-child bullshit. I hate Trump's ass, and there ain't nothing I love more than wallowing in it. That philosophy you're espousing is why they have their foot in our ass in the first place. And besides, your opinion is merely your opinion. Everyone doesn't think like you. I'm me, not you, and I believe in facing reality and following truth wherever it leads - and that reality leads directly to my hatred of Donald Trump. So to try to deny it would be trying to lie to myself, and why would I want to lie about hating Trump, especially, since it feels so good?
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I’ve always found intense hatred to be a powerful motivator; it contributes to my personal development, and actually, it brings me a certain kind of joy in anticipation of its outcome. In fact, the primary reason I'm an educated adult today is due to my hatred of the people who looked down their nose at me when I was a teenager. I hated their asses, because they were in a position of authority and thought they could look down on me and treat me with condescension because of who I was, and not because I was simply poorly educated. So I set out on a journey to show their asses who I really was. As a result of that journey, now they have to look down at their feet when they talk to me, instead of the reverse. I love that, and it's all due to my constructive response to intense hatred.
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So my experience in life clearly demonstrates that hatred doesn't have to be a negative force. If we relegate nonsense like demons and talking snakes to the trash heap where they belong, it becomes clear that God created hatred just like he did love, and they both serve a useful purpose. Hatred is not stimulated by demons. There's no such thing as demons. What we refer to as "evil" is simply ignorance, and what hatred is, is a God-created, natural response to adversity. So we shouldn't fight it. We should embrace it. 
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Hatred can be a powerful force - even more powerful than love - if used in a proper and constructive manner. But it's such a passionate force that the first thing we must learned in pursuit of the constructive use of hatred is to keep it under strict control by remaining focused, keeping your primary objective in mind, and not expecting everyone to think and act like we do. A failure in that regard can lead to misguided aggression. The second thing we must learn is, no one corners the market on either knowledge, wisdom, or intellect, so just because we connect the dots in a given way doesn't necessarily mean that's the ONLY way the dots can be connected. So, we must learned to always respect the thought processes of other serious thinkers (unless they're obviously ridiculous, of course). Intellectuals are not in competition. They are a fellow travelers in pursuit of uncommon knowledge, so what one doesn't know, the other might. So it's important that we educate one another in order to help each another achieve our various objectives.
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So, Euvonne, in my opinion you would benefit greatly from learning the lessons immediately above, because one of the most tenacious problems we have in the world today is reflected in your attitude. You seem to think that there's something fundamentally dysfunctional about anyone who doesn't look, think, and act like yourself. That's exactly what I hate about the mindset of many conservatives. It's called closed-mindedness. While I'm sure you might say that my refusal to listen to your advice is also closed-minded, there are two problems with that argument - your advice was philosophical in nature, and it was unsolicited. If I thought I required your philosophy of life I would have asked you for it. So I suggest you learn to mind your own goddamn business and let others worry about what "consumes their heart".
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You later told me you were done, but that wasn't the problem. The problem was, you should never have gotten started in the first place.
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Eric L. Wattree

Ewattree@Gmail.com
BLACK WRITERS, INTELLECTUALS, AND INDEPENDENT THINKERS
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Religion: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does. 



Friday, June 12, 2020

RELIGIOUS SELFISHNESS AND DELUSION

Beneath the Spin*Eric L. Wattree
EXCELLENCE IS THE KEY TO BLACK EQUALITY

RELIGIOUS SELFISHNESS AND DELUSION
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White Evangelicals are using a fraudulent morality to justify their evil bigotry, hatred, and gross immorality.

Christians live in a delusion. There are innocent children dying of starvation all over the world this very second, yet, many Christians are on their knees begging God to help them pay for their Range Rovers. That’s flat-out selfishness. What makes them think they're so special? Think about that. They’re just being told they’re special in order to keep the money rollin’ in every Sunday morning, and God is sitting there watching them make lying, self-serving fools of themselves. Because God knows the truth - he knows that if they actually loved him over themselves they’d simply live a Godly life instead of always running around flappin’ their lips about it to anybody who's crazy enough to listen. Who are they trying to convince?

Your Bible says the following:

“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen.”- MATTHEW 6

I was raised a Christian and baptized by Black conservative evangelist, Rev. E.V, Hill, Sr. But I left the church after becoming so fed-up with listening to all the lying hypocrites that I had to either get out of there or throw up all over the pulpit. I had to make a decision, to either accept man’s lunacy about walking dead men and talking snakes, or to follow the common sense that God gave me. Well, I chose God, and then I walked out of that church never to returned.

I wanted to believe that nonsense, because everyone I loved believed it, but I just couldn’t - God had blessed me with far too much common sense. So again, as I said – I had a choice of rather to have "faith" in the lying word of man, and live my life trying to tell God a lie he hadn't already heard to try to get myself into Heaven, or listen to the mind bestowed upon me by God himself. So I chose God over man, and I walked out of the church a free man. I no longer had to pretend to believe in Voodooistic nonsense. The truth had set me free.

Since that time, I've done a lot of thinking about religion, and I've come to the conclusion that the world would be a lot better off if everybody would just live their beliefs and mind their own business. There are over 4200 different religions on Earth. So who's to say which one is right? I say none of them are. People simply believe what they were raised to believe, and then they spend their entire lives trying to shove their beliefs down everybody else's throat. That's why there is so much hatred in the world. Religion is the source of 99% of all the murder, hatred, and mayhem in the world today. Look at what's going on in the Middle East.

Life could really be simple. If you love God, just keep your mouth shut and live like it. I don't see what's so hard about that. I don't want nobody teaching my kids what to think about God while they’re at school, for example. When I was coming up, the very people who were running around talking about "Praise the Lord" were the exact same people who were lynching Black people - and the so-called "good Christians" weren't saying a word. And they’re doing the exact same thing today, letting people starve to death on the street, and putting children in cages, while they're buying preachers big houses and expensive cars in order to try to bribe their way into Heaven. I have no time for that nonsense. Such people are living in a delusion, and using the name of God to justify their selfishness. It’s a disgusting thing to watch.

The primary reason that so many so-called Christians can tolerate Trump’s many flaws is because they’re not really Christians at all. Yes, they're religious, but they worship selfishness and greed, not God. They merely use religion as an insurance policy. These people are afraid of death, so they try to hire God as a bodyguard. Thereafter, they try to bribe him into giving them a long and happy life by buying their preacher a big house and a new Cadillac, and in return they try to use God as an entity they can beg to provide for their needs, and who they can pray to for forgiveness of their many sins. That allows them to commit as many atrocities as they like and then simply ask for forgiveness thereafter – what great deal!

So their so-called “religion” has nothing to do with either morals, benevolence, or Christ. Jesus is just mentioned in passing in an attempt to keep deluding themselves into believing they have a so-called deal with God. But their true religion is based on selfishness, greed, and fear, and it’s actually a deal with the Devil.

That explains how Christians found a way to overlook slavery, managed the wholesale slaughter of ten generations of Native Americans, and found a way to justify the commission of any and all forms of evil that happened to be convenient to provide for their comfort. They’ve currently deemed it acceptable to demonstrate in the street to defend their right to be armed to the teeth with some of the most deadly weapons on Earth, and overrun state houses demanding the right to pass on a deadly disease to their neighbors, for example. Yet when a lying and self-serving demagogue takes children away from their parents and lock them in cages, all we hear from these precious children of God are crickets.

There’s a simple reason why these so-called “God-fearing children of God” can justify all of these ungodly acts - because their religious beliefs are based on pure bullshit, and if they’re right about the hereafter, they’re in for a huge surprise. It’s no accident that that Evangelical Christians are some of Donald Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters – because they’re among the most Godless people in America, and in the end they’re gonna be slammed into Hell so hard they’re gonna be bouncing off the walls.

I’ve always understood that fact. When I was raising my kids I had to tell my extended family not to bring that nonsense into our presence, because I didn't want them polluting the minds of my children with that Voodoo-inspired ignorance. As a result, I now have a daughter, a son, and 5 grandchildren who are ethical, and completely efficient and logical thinkers. Their lives are completely free of all manner of demons, goblins and "evil spirits". They see evil for what it is - ignorance. If you go up to any one of my kids or grandchildren talking about talking snakes and walking dead men, they'd look at you like you’re wearing a Voodoo doll around your neck, and I’m more proud of that than I am anything else I’ve accomplished in my life.

They were raised to believe that you do what's right because it's right to do what's right, not to try to get into Heaven or be rewarded in some kind of way. Living to try to "go to Heaven" doesn't make you a good person, it makes them selfish person; and that’s not loving God, that’s trying to get something for yourself. That’s what makes these people so easy to spot - they’re always either begging God to do something for them, or bragging about what he's already done for them as a reward for being so wonderful, as they applaud Trump for putting more children in cages. I mean, what people are  these who can’t see evil staring them in the face? Do they really think God is going to bless their hypocrisy!!!?  Oh, yes! These people are deluded.

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Eric L. Wattree
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Religion: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does. 




Thursday, June 04, 2020

THE TRUTH ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE


Beneath the Spin*Eric L. Wattree

EXCELLENCE IS THE KEY TO BLACK EQUALITY

THE TRUTH ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE
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Many Black people are more interested in embracing the myths of Fantasyland than facing reality. They like the idea of the fearless Black warrior willing to fight to the death for what they believe. But that’s clearly just a myth, if it weren’t we’d either be free, or dead by now. I recognized that fact as a teenager, so I set about the task of educating myself so I could come up with another way of seeking  liberation – one that didn’t involve attacking tanks with a slingshot.
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Black people are thinkers not warriors, and there’s nothing wrong with that. It simply means that we’ve evolved to the next level into the people of the future. Because the simple fact is, God made birds to fly, fish to swim, and man to think. That’s why even though man isn’t as ferocious as a lion, or as powerful as the elephant, his intellect has allowed him to maintain dominion over the other animals nevertheless, and that’s exactly what we’re going to have to do with the ignorant two-legged Neanderthals left here among us.
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Think about it – the myth about the “Black warrior” is a relic of another time. If the myth were even the least bit true, would George Zimmerman be able to walk around in complete comfort for all these years after brutally murdering one of our children? Absolutely not. So the fact is, while Black people like to go for bad, we’re not warriors – we have too much sense to want to put our lives on the line. While we haven’t gone about figuring out the details, we know instinctively that our problems can be overcome through more efficient means. Well, I’m giving you the details, and they’re very simple – we’ve simply got to make ourselves so knowledgeable that the powers that be can’t function without us. In short, we’ve got to make knowledge the new “soul”.
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Black people are thinkers by nature, and what we call “soul” is nothing less than intellectual creativity trying to be unleashed.  That’s why we like to showboat and engage in creativity as a way of life. While we call it “soul”, it’s actually brilliance wiggling around inside of us because we’re not giving it anything else to do. So we need to start giving it something to do, by developing our intellect instead of trying to Twerk it out and fantasizing about being something we’re not. Black people are much too smart to be John Wayne.
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Utilizing our creativity and ability to think is the only thing that’s going to move us forward. Going to war just ain’t what we’re about, because in our hearts we know that there ain’t nothing the least bit soulful about bein’ a dead hero. It’s a simple matter of common sense.
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It was a combination of intelligence, the simple insight of a 17-year-old Black girl, and the recognition of the value of Black creativity that have people around the world demonstrating over the death of one Black man. That’s a resource that shouldn’t be squandered away through stupidity.




Eric L. Wattree
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BLACK WRITERS, INTELLECTUALS, AND INDEPENDENT THINKERS
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Religion: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does. 


Monday, June 01, 2020

A CONSERVATIVE WHITE BOY JUST CALLED ME A RACIST


Beneath the Spin*Eric L. Wattree

EXCELLENCE IS THE KEY TO BLACK EQUALITY
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A CONSERVATIVE WHITE BOY JUST CALLED ME A RACIST
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I recently wrote a piece on Donald Trump’s frustration over not being able to live up to Barack Obama’s legacy. It was just a routine piece on what I had assumed was common knowledge. I pointed out in the piece that Trump is fixated on Obama because he wants to be looked upon with the same kind of respect that Obama commands, but since he lacks Obama's knowledge, intellect, and class, he’s fighting a losing battle. Then I got a post on my wall from a guy by the name of Michael Bowman. He just had one thing to say – “You’re the most racist Black man on the internet”. He never substantiated his claim that what I said was racist as oppose to mere fact, so I’m sending him the following in response:
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Michael, you can't insult a Black man by calling him a racist, because our attitude on race - regardless to what it is - can be fully justified. But in my case, while I admit to being a virulent bigot, I’m not the least bit racist. You have to be stupid to be a racist, and let me assure you, I'm far from stupid.
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Human beings only come in one species – human. The superficial differences in people are merely a result of an adaptation to their environmental surroundings. The melanin that causes a Black person’s skin to be dark, for example, allows us to be more resistant to the Sun’s UV rays in the area of the world in which we originated. That’s why we don’t have to drench ourselves in sunscreen to take a walk on the beach. But other than that, there’s absolutely no difference between one group of people and another.
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Well, maybe I should take that back. Culture also plays a role in our development, and our cultural development plays a significant role in who we become. As a result, there are basically two types of people in this world - the enlightened, and those who are stupid enough to be racist in the first place. Only idiots fail to understand that people think with their minds and not with their skin, and you seem to fall into that category. It is for exactly that reason that we’d never be able to see eye-to-eye, because when it comes to ignorance, I’m the most virulent bigot on the planet Earth. I can’t stand stupidity, and I’m always on the look-out for my enemies.
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You see, there was a reason you called me a racist, and it speaks volumes regarding your intellectual development. You’ve been culturally groomed to believe that you’re naturally superior to Black people, and you feel threatened by anything that causes you to doubt that programming. So you've obviously read something that I’ve written that’s challenged your feelings of superior, and being the "superior" person you assume yourself to be, you can't believe that it could possibly be due to your intellectual inferiority, so the flaw obviously resides in my arrogance. Thus, you’ve come to the conclusion that I’m just an “uppity” Black man who’s prone to hating my intellectual superiors.
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Sure, that’s the problem! It’s not that I’m simply smarter than you are, it’s just that I’m a racist Black man who THINKS I’m smarter than you are.
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That’s much easier to live with, isn’t it, White boy?
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Eric L. Wattree

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BLACK WRITERS, INTELLECTUALS, AND INDEPENDENT THINKERS
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Religion: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does.