TRUMP IS REMINISCENT OF A BRATTY CHILD

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree

TRUMP IS REMINISCENT OF A BRATTY CHILD

I pointed out in a previous article that "Trump supporters are constantly claiming that "Deep State" is out to get him. Deep State is not “out to get” Trump, they're simply trying to protect America from an idiot. That’s their job.
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Trump is his own worst enemy, and he has made it clear that he's unfit for office. Even his own staff is disgusted with him, that's why the White House is leaking like a sieve. The only people who respect Trump are a handful of bigots, and even THEY'RE beginning to see the light, because it seems that everything he does and/or says is stupid and immature. So in terms of getting the people's admiration and respect, becoming president was the very worst thing that could have ever happened to Trump, because it’s placed his immaturity, narcissism, and gross ignorance on public display. "White House aides can’t stop talking about President Trump like he’s a toddler."
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Donald Trump is reminiscent of a bratty teenage show-off who crosses the street against a red light just to show the more sensible kids that they’re wimps to show caution. He’s that kid who crashes a party and then smashes the cake just to show that he doesn’t care that he was so unpopular that he wasn’t invited. That’s his way of getting attention, by being irreverent and  foolishly macho. During the recent solar eclipse, for example, in spite of numerous medical warnings to the public, he insisted on looking at the Sun with his naked eye just to prove how fearless he is - recklessly stupid and irresponsible are better words to describe his behavior.  A sensible adult would have stopped to consider the fact that many children may follow his lead.  So the man is completely thoughtless, and as long as he's in control of the nuclear codes America is in serious peril.
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Republican Senator Bob Corker (who was on Trump’s short list for vice president) said, President Trump "has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability, nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful."  In other words, he's unstable and incompetent, or as a non-politician would say, he's both crazy and dumb.
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Trump has repeatedly demonstrated the tendency to be reckless both during the campaign, and now that he’s president as well - in fact, that’s how he became president. While the more sensible among us were distracted by political division, those who share Trump's dimwitted proclivities snuck him in through the backdoor.  That’s why everybody - including Trump himself - was so shocked when he won, and he’s been bragging about it every since, as though it was his brilliance that secured his victory.  He doesn't seem to recognize that he won by default.
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That explains the situation that we find ourselves in today. Trump never intended to actually become president, he just ran for the publicity.  He simply wanted to showboat before the American people, brag about how rich he is, and feed his insatiable need to be the center of attention.  But after he actually won, he had absolutely no plan, and he was grossly ill-prepared to carry out the awesome responsibilities of the office.  So that’s where we are today - in the midst of one of the most dangerous moments in American history, with a Republican Party that’s much more practiced in obstructionism than governance controlling all three branches of government, and a head of state who is not only immature, but has absolutely no idea what he’s doing.  So it's a matter of the blind leading the terrified. But the fact is, we brought this upon ourselves, because Trump wasn’t elected for his bold vision for moving America forward, he was elected as punishment for the previous election of Barack Obama, and that’s exactly what we’re getting - punishment.  It’s almost as if it were an act of God. But in spite of that, the majority of the evangelical right is holding tough in their support of Trump, which speaks volumes regarding their false devotion to Christianity, and their true agenda.
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These people are nothing more than common bigots that's wrapped themselves in Jesus. To paraphrase Martin Luther King in a speech he gave in 1957, they've used Christianity to embraced a philosophy that contends that God made man in his own image, and since everybody knows that God is not Black, Black people are not human.
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As I pointed out in previous articles, social conservatives, or the bigots who make up Trump's base, tend to be the mediocrity of White society, so they try to use the fact that they were born White to define themselves and to compensate for their lack of personal value. Their entire sense of self-esteem is based more upon group association than individual value and accomplishment, and their entire claim to personal significance is, "Well, at least I'm better than them."
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That's what drove radical conservatives so crazy about President Obama - he's walking, breathing, evidence that they cannot claim superiority by virtue of the color T-shirt they were born in, and that simple fact alone has caused them to suffer a severe attack of cognitive dissonance before the eyes of the entire world. That's also why they're so determined not to allow President Obama to be seen as the great president that he was, even if it means destroying the country - and international corporatists are using the social division inherent in those sentiments to lower the standard of living of the American people, and our hatred, division, and ignorance is playing right into their hands.
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MAKE AMERICA WHITE AGAIN

So this entire nation, the future of our children - in fact, the future of all of humanity - is being threatened by the desperate attempt of a handful of insecure bigots trying to maintain their delusions of superiority, and as far as they’re concerned, if the country has to be sacrificed for that cause, so be it . . . thus, Donald Trump.
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So Trump's call to "Make America Great Again" is actually racist code for taking America back to when bigotry was the law of the land, ignorant and undereducated White boys were honored and looked up to, and women were kept barefoot and pregnant. Thus, what we're Currently witnessing in America is not the GOP's attempt to improve the lives of the American people, but the GOP'S desperate attempt to erase Barack Obama from history (by any means necessary), and an effort to resuscitate Jim Crow from the final vestiges of his dying gasp. 
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I'm sorry to have to keep repeating myself, but I learned that technique from the GOP.  If they can get America to embrace a lie by constantly repeating it, surly I should be able to do the same with the truth.  And please don't be fooled by the GOP's staged political outrage and wailing condemnation of Trump over his racist remarks in response to the atrocities that took place in Charlottesville.  Most of them fully agree with every syllable he uttered. The problem they have with Trump is he doesn't have sense enough to keep those beliefs to himself.
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CONFEDERATE MITCH

USA Today reported, "There was a reason why it took Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell an entire night to respond to President Trump's chaotic news conference equating counter protesters with the Nazis they came to resist. He was livid. Two sources close to the senator, speaking under condition of anonymity to describe private conversations, said the pro-civil rights Republican who lived through the 1960s in Kentucky closely deliberated on the best way forward."
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Yeah, Mitch was livid alright, but not because Trump is a racist - he's livid over the fact that Trump blabbed their conservative "secret" out loud.  McConnell is livid because Trump doesn't have sense enough to realize that bigotry is a quiet art that has to be kept undercover to be effective. Most conservatives have always been racist, regardless of party - although, ironically, many of them don't even realize it.  But that's what the word "conservative" means, to "conserve" the racist values of the past. Most conservatives understand that, so the GOP simply cannot have the leader of their party running around telling the truth about their fascist proclivities out loud, because it's not good for business - especially before a midterm election. Nevertheless, to have Mitch McConnell going around complaining about racism is laughable.
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But just to show you how predictably irresponsible Trump is, he will be holding a rally in Arizona tonight.  I predict that tomorrow the GOP will be facing problems, because he's sure to reveal his fascist disposition. Mark my words.
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Eric L. Wattree
http://wattree.blogspot.com/
Ewattree@Gmail.com
Citizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse (CARMA)
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Religious bigotry: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does.

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So What Do Progressives Do Now, In Response To The 2014 Midterm Disaster?

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree  

So What Do Progressives Do Now, In Response To The 2014 Midterm Disaster?

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There’s an old axiom that says, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." I would like to modify that to say, "When the going gets tough, the tough get tougher," and that’s exactly what must happen now that the Corporate/GOP Alliance has taken over congress if we’re going to save America.

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What we saw in the last election was the victory of ignorance over knowledge. That should never happen, and the only reason it did was because the knowledgeable didn’t assert themselves forcefully enough. One of the biggest problems that knowledgeable people often have is making the assumption that everyone can see what they can see. But that’s far from true. I warned my son and daughter about it as teenagers - NEVER assume that everybody can see what you see. The reason for that is, the knowledgeable are only knowledgeable due to their intellectual predisposition. They base their perception of reality ON reality, by giving truth, facts, and logic priority over what makes them feel most comfortable.
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But there are many people in this world who don’t base their perception of reality on truth, facts, and logic. These people tend to be FEELERS, rather than thinkers, so they invariably give ideology priority over truth. When such people are faced with an inconvenient fact, instead of accepting that fact and using it to modify their perception, they’ll do whatever they have to do to contort truth into a configuration that fits comfortably into what they WANT to believe (Yale Study Shows that Many, Particularly Conservatives, Give Ideology Priority Over Truth). We can see that tendency at work in the conservative claim that, "President Obama is un-American - he’s engaged in a socialist plot to insure my family against catastrophic illness." That assertion sounds ridiculously funny to most of us, but to FEELERS who feel a desperate need to hate Obama, it represents perfectly sound logic, and the failure of progressives to recognize that fact, and act on it, is what led to the 2014 midterm disaster.
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In my article, "The 2014 Midterm Election - A Towering Testament To Monumental Stupidity,", I allude to a letter that I sent to President Obama back in February in an attempt to avert this midterm disaster. In the letter I point out the following:
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"So while I think you, personally, should continue in the mode that you’ve established, at the same time, you should create a staff - housed right next door to the Oval Office - whose sole purpose is to debunk Republican disinformation. Then, whenever any Republican appears on the news to distort reality, he or she should be able to look forward to the next day’s news cycle being flooded with information not only debunking his or her words, but also, examining every action that he or she has engaged in during their career that tends to be in conflict with their current position. In short, you should parade their hypocrisy before the American people.
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"If you would take that simple action, Mr. President, you would not only drive home to the people the GOP’s hypocrisy, but you would cause individual Republicans to run away from the cameras instead of stumbling all over one another to be the first one to present the latest Republican assault on reality. In addition, it would appease the thirst for blood among the people in your base, provide writers like myself with grist for our mill, and also give us an indication of what areas of investigation would bear the most fruit."
.I go on to point out that "Since much of the GOP’s popularity and success is based upon the complete ignorance of a sizable percentage of the American electorate, I’m convinced that if the President would have followed my advice and educated the American people to what they’re actually dealing with in the GOP, he could have done an end run around what we witnessed last night."
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But the President didn’t choose to take my advice, and since, for some reason, our Democratic politicians don’t see fit to confront GOP lies and disinformation, as progressives, WE’VE got to become the staff that I spoke to the President about establishing. WE can use the internet to do the research, and WE can, and MUST, go on a single-minded mission to debunk GOP lies, and push TRUTH down America’s throat. If we don’t, the Corporate/GOP Alliance is going to attack, and try to reverse Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, unemployment insurance, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the minimum wage, the Voting Rights Act, and everything that’s been put into place to protect the poor and middle class America since the New Deal. That, is their agenda - to enslave the American people by leaving us totally dependent upon Corporate America.
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Please start your research with the issues presented in the articles below. The information therein represents many hours of research, and provides posters that makes the information easily digestible. They'll give you much perspective, and will allow you to hit the ground running. Providing sound and irrefutable facts and knowledge is the key to getting America to open its eyes - and this may be our last chance to do that. Consider this. If the Corporate/GOP Alliance wins both the presidency and both houses of congress in the next election, the American experiment in democracy, is over.

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Eric L. Wattree
http://wattree.blogspot.com/
Ewattree@Gmail.com
Citizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse (CARMA)
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Religious bigotry: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does. 

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The GOP: A DEMON’S DELIGHT

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE

The GOP:
A DEMON’S DELIGHT

Satan is busy preparing a special place
in Hell for his children.
Paul Ryan, Pat Robertson, the GOP,
his children all, 
and they’ve spread his dominion
across the Earth.
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Yes, Lucifer is dancing on searing,

and red-hot embers as he watch

his loyal children corrupting
the name of the Lord,
and turning his words
of love into instruments of hate.
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Listen carefully
and you can hear the dark moans
of erotic ecstasy as Satan looks upon
his children sitting in church, and
impersonating angels of God,
while faithfully harboring Satan's
spirit of hatred, hubris, and greed.
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Yes, these are his children, all -
the children of Hell,
and they’ve done their job well;
they’ve starved the homeless,
slaughtered the weak, in the millions,
and demonized the good.
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Yes indeed, they’ve served 
their father well,
and they’ve brought him
many grandchildren.
So like any proud father,
Beelzebub just can’t wait
to welcome them home.
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. . . and I can't wait for the
reunion.




Eric L. Wattree

Http://wattree.blogspot.com
Ewattree@Gmail.com
Citizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse (CARMA)

Religious bigotry:
It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me -

it's just that God does.

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