HOW CAN ANY BLACK OR POOR WHITE PERSON WITH ANY SENSE BE A CONSERVATIVE?

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE

HOW CAN ANY BLACK OR POOR WHITE PERSON WITH ANY SENSE BE A CONSERVATIVE?
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Absolute proof that any Black or poor person who identifies with conservatism is uninformed is the fact that they obviously don’t understand the English language. The word “Liberal” means that the person has a liberated point of view and is dedicated to “Progress” in our national politics – thus, they are called “Progressives”. On the other hand, the very word “Conservative” means the person is dedicated to “Conserving” past traditions, including bigotry – both racial, and economic. 

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So I purposely use the words “conservative” and “liberal” rather than political party affiliation to avoid confusion, because Republicans love to routinely point out that it was Democrats who were the Confederates, rebelled against the nation, and founded the KKK. But they fail to point out that from the Civil War until just prior to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, the Democratic Party was made up of Dixiecrats, and Dixiecrats were rabid conservatives.
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But beginning with the Franklin Roosevelt administration and his “New Deal” for the American people through the Civil Rights movement of the sixties, the Democratic and Republican parties completely changed their political polarities. During that time conservatives flooded the Republican Party, and liberals became Democrats. So, let there be no doubt about it, conservatives have ALWAYS been this nation’s bigots, regardless of what political party they were in. 

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Alexander Hamilton, one of this nation’s conservative founding fathers believed that the rich and "wellborn" should be given a permanent share in government. He said:

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“All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and wellborn, the other the mass of the people…. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in government. They will check the unsteadiness of the second, and as they cannot receive any advantage by a change, they therefore will ever maintain good government.”
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Hamilton supported a lifetime appointment of the President after being selected by congress, instead of the people. Can you just imagine that, Donald Trump FOR LIFE!!!?  But America dodged that bullet during the Federalist Convention that took place between May 14 and September 17, 1787.
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Since most of the founding fathers came to America to escape the aristocratic class system in Europe, Hamilton’s desire to preserve the class

system was resoundingly defeated in favor of an unfettered democracy, but that didn’t mean that people of Hamilton’s point of view would quietly go away. Instead, they lowered their profile and continued to pursue their agenda by using their wealth, power, and various strategies to divide the people to achieve their goal, and that’s what we see today.  That accounts for why conservatives tend to be specialists in obstructionism and division, and why the American people ALWAYS suffer under conservative governance.

REMEMBER HOW THE GOP SAID THE $1.5 TRILLION 
TAXCUT FOR THE RICH WOULD BE GOOD FOR AMERICA?

NOW THEY'RE MAKING YOU PAY FOR IT.
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TRUMP 2020 BUDGET CUTS
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$1.5 TRILLION from Medicaid
$845 BILLION from Medicare
$25 BILLION from Social Security
$207 BILLION from student loan programs
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AMERICA’S BEEN SWINDLED AGAIN.

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Our grandparent's generation - the generation that experienced the Great Depression, fought WWII, and who we refer to as "The Greatest Generation" - wouldn't let a Republican anywhere near the White House, because they had already lived through Republican governance during the Great Depression.

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THE GREAT DEPRESSION

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In 1921 -- eight years before the great depression -- Republicans took over the helm of this nation for 12 years. During that time there were three Republican administrations, the first of which was the administration of Warren G. Harding. History remembers Harding's administration for one thing more than any other -- scandal. It was during Harding's presidency that the Teapot Dome Scandal erupted. His administration was considered the most corrupt administration in the history of the United States -- until Nixon's (Watergate), then Reagan's (Iran\Contra), and finally Bush's (Iraqi War).
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Next, in 1923, came Calvin Coolidge, the president that Ronald Reagan is said to have most admired. Coolidge's policies of large tax cuts, allowing business a free-rein, and his encouragement of stock speculation contributed greatly to the impending stock market crash and the great depression that was to follow.
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In 1929 during Republican, Herbert Hoover’s administration, the stock market crashed - much like under the Bush Administration - starting the Great Depression, but back then there was no Barack Obama to come to the rescue or mitigate the damage early on. So in spite of the fact that by 1933 the unemployment rate was at 33.3% with 16 million people out of work, the Republican, Herbert Hoover, just sat, thinking that the economy would eventually rejuvenate itself. Much like Republicans of today, Hoover and his Republican Party had absolutely no compassion for either the plight of the American people, or America’s veterans who had put their lives on the line for this country.
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During Hoover's administration, 15,000 WWI veterans marched on Washington demanding that they be paid what they were owed by the government. Hoover responded by calling in federal troops to throw these ex-servicemen off government property.
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The conditions were horrific. During the Great Depression there was no such thing as Social Security, so when a person became too old or weak to work they had no income, so they had to depend on their children for support. That meant instead of a husband and wife only having to support themselves and their children, which was tough enough during those times, they also had to support their parents. So three generations of a family could be living in one household - and in many cases, the parents of both the husband, and the wife lived with the family.
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In addition, there was no such thing as Medicare or Medicaid, so when one of grandparents became ill the medical costs would devastate the entire family. These conditions kept lower and middle-class families in such dire need of funds that they had to accept whatever crumbs the business community chose to throw at them - and remember, at that time there was no Fair Labor Standards Act or unions to protect a worker’s rights, or a minimum wage, so businesses could treat the worker anyway they wanted, and pay them whatever they wanted.
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They could work you 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, with no overtime, and no paid vacation. In addition, since there was no child labor laws, if your boss didn’t think you were being productive enough, he could insist that you bring your children in (as young as 9 years old) to assist you if you wanted to keep your job. Then if you protested, he could fire you on the spot, in which case, your entire family - sick grandparents and all - would be thrown out on the street, because there was no such thing as unemployment insurance.
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As a result, in many cases the entire family, including the children, had to work long, hard hours under sweatshop-like conditions in coal minds and the like, which in many cases led to the death and/or maiming of young children. So in a very real sense, Great Depression era workers lived under a form of slavery - the one difference was, they had to go out and find their own housing.
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Think back to the "Little Rascals" we use to watch as kids, and how ragged they were, or the cartoons we use to watch, where a landlord would come to the door (always portrayed in a black suit) and tell a begging and crying mother that she had one more day to come up with the rent or she and her family would be thrown out into the snow. That was an accurate portrayal of the way people lived in those days, and those are the conditions that the conservative Republican agenda would restore in America today.
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During their era, Democrat, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to office four times, and finally died in office on April 12, 1945. The Republicans had to promote the Twenty-Second Amendment to the Constitution limiting the president to two terms in office just to have even a remote chance of

getting into office. But finally in 1953 they managed to elect the hero of WWII, Republican, Ike Eisenhower to office, but even he was a Republican in name only. In 1957 he sent troops into Little Rock, Arkansas to integrate a segregated school after Gov. Orval Faubus tried to prevent Black students from entering, and as his final act in office he warned America about the Military-Industrial Complex, the very people that Donald Trump and the Republican Party represent today. If Ike Eisenhower was still President he would summarily execute a lying, traitorous draft dodger like Donald Trump. Trump wouldn't have even been able to get a pass to visit the White House.
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The Republican party has long been a party that is irresponsible, self-serving, reckless, and dangerous to American democracy. The leaders even look like mindless, pig foot-eatin' bigots. So, the American people need to wake up, because with every day that passes, Donald Trump is continuing to fill our government with more ignorantly corrupt and self-serving people just like himself. Even as we speak, Mitch McConnell has invoked the "nuclear option" to flood our courts with ideological fanatics that will ensure the corruption of justice for another generation.

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So, the bottom line is, history clearly demonstrates that any Black or poor White person who identifies with conservatism has to be a self-hating and unpatriotic wannabe by definition. They've given priority to their need to either identify with the wealthy, or cater to their bigoted attitudes toward others over what's in the best interest of the country as a whole. That, in turn, suggests that they're also selfish, mindless, and uninformed. The entire conservative philosophy is in direct opposition to the founding fathers' proposition that good government is "of the people, by the people, and for the people", while conservatives contend that a government based on those principles is a form of "socialism", and advocate the alternative philosophy that good government is "of the greedy, by the rich, and for the bigoted,"
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That's the primary reason that conservatives have mounted a brutal assault on public education and promote anti-intellectualism as something to be desired. Due to the fact that conservatism is based solely on the further enrichment of the rich, they cannot survive among people who are educated in the conservative atrocities of the past, know the difference between working together for the betterment of all as oppose to a socialist autocracy, and who have the intellect not to work against their own interests - and that's not merely a political opinion, it's a political fact.
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So the Trump administration may inadvertently be serving a useful purpose; it's revealing the dark underbelly of both conservatism and the true malevolence of the religious right, and that is indeed a valuable public service.

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DO RACISM, CONSERVATISM, AND LOW IQ GO 

HAND IN HAND?

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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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HAS DONALD TRUMP COMMITTED TREASON?

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE

HAS DONALD TRUMP COMMITTED TREASON?

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If the United States expects to survive, we must learn to put the rule of law above the conservative politics of selfishness, hatred and greed.

When Donald Trump took sides with Putin over our own intelligence community in order to help the Russians avoid sanctions in the united states, he committed treason. He placed his own interests and the interest of the Russian government above those of the United States. And if anyone should know how easy it is to commit treason it would be Donald Trump, because he accused the Democrats of committing treason for failing to applaud him during a speech before congress.
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But in spite of that, during the 2016 campaign Trump repeatedly lied to the American people about not having any business interests in Russia while he was actively pursuing a deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Even after the Russians mounted a vicious attack against American democracy during the 2016 election, he fought our own congress over placing sanctions on Russian interests in the United States.
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So why did he do that? The answer is very simple – The Trump Moscow Tower was being financed by VTB Bank, which, according to NYMag.com, “was then under U.S. sanctions, but switched sources on New Year’s Day to GenBank, also under U.S. sanctions.” So, in order for Trump to do business with the Russian bank – which, due to his 6 bankruptcies was one of the few banks in the world that was still willing to do business with him - U.S. sanctions had to be lifted from VTB Bank. And according to BuzzFeed News, the Trump organization also agreed to give Vladimir Putin a $50 million penthouse suite as part of the deal.
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New York Magazine reported that “For at least three decades, Donald Trump has dreamed of a hotel stamped with his gilded name near Moscow’s Red Square. As early as 1987, in The Art of the Deal, Trump imagined “a large luxury hotel across the street from the Kremlin in partnership with the Soviet government.
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“Twenty years — and a few failed Russian hotel bids — later, he made a promise in a 2007 court deposition: ‘We will be in Moscow at some point.’ Now, that dream of Russian hospitality is turning nightmarish, as Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen stated in federal court on Thursday that he had engaged in talks to license a tower in Moscow deep into the 2016 campaign, potentially exposing the president to charges of perjury.”
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But treason is nothing new among conservative politicians, it goes all the way back to the very founding of this nation. In spite of the conservative tendency to wrap themselves in the flag, they’ve always been against true democracy. They brought an aristocratic mindset to America from Europe, and they’ve always believed that the average American’s role in society should be as servants of the rich and powerful. The Civil War, the most brutal war this nation has ever fought, was a direct result of that conservative mindset.
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I’m purposely using the term “conservative” rather than political party affiliation to avoid confusion, because Republicans love to routinely point out that it was Democrats who were the Confederates and rebelled against the nation and founded the KKK. But they fail to point out that from the Civil War through the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, the Democratic Party was made up of Dixiecrats, and Dixiecrats were rabid conservatives.
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But beginning with the Franklin Roosevelt administration and his “New

Deal” for the American people, through the Civil Rights movement of the sixties, the Democratic and Republican parties completely changed their political polarities. During that time conservatives flooded the Republican Party, and liberals became Democrats. So let there be no doubt about it, conservatives have ALWAYS been this nation’s bigots, regardless of what political party they were in. The very word “Conservative” means to “Conserve” past traditions, including bigotry – both racial, and economic.
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Alexander Hamilton, was one of this nation's conservative founding fathers. He believed that only those who owned property should even be allowed to vote. He also said:
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"All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and wellborn, the other the mass of the people.... The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in government. They will check the unsteadiness of the second, and as they cannot receive any advantage by a change, they therefore will ever maintain good government." Debates of the Federalist Convention (May 14-September 17, 1787).
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But the founding fathers who believed in true democracy voted Hamilton’s philosophy down. That didn’t cause conservatives to quietly walk away, however.  Instead, they began to use their wealth, power, and influence to divide the people, and they’ve been using that tactic ever since. They had to, because their political philosophy is so hostile to democracy that they’re forced to use subterfuge just to survive – and two of their primary tactics involve the manipulation of the undereducated to stir fear, hatred and greed, and treason, which they never hesitate to use against the American people.

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There are several examples of conservative treason in just recent history. In 1968 when President Lyndon Johnson was attempting to negotiate a peace agreement in Vietnam to save American lives, the New York Times reported the following:
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 Conservative, “Richard M. Nixon told an aide that they should find a way to secretly “monkey wrench” peace talks in Vietnam in the waning days of the 1968 campaign for fear that progress toward ending the war would hurt his chances for the presidency, according to newly discovered notes.

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“In a telephone conversation with H. R. Haldeman, who would go on to become White House chief of staff, Nixon gave instructions that a friendly intermediary should keep “working on” South Vietnamese leaders to persuade them not to agree to a deal before the election, according to the notes, taken by Mr. Haldeman.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/us/politics/nixon-tried-to-spoil-johnsons-vietnam-peace-talks-in-68-notes-show.html

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In addition, an article in Wikipedia pointed out that “In 1979, One of the leading national issues during that year was the release of 52 Americans being held hostage in Iran since November 4, 1979. Reagan won the election. On the day of his inauguration—in fact, 20 minutes after he concluded his inaugural address—the Islamic Republic of Iran announced the release of the hostages. The timing gave rise to an allegation that representatives of Reagan's presidential campaign had conspired with Iran to delay the release until after the election to thwart President Carter from pulling off an "October surprise".  So, let’s get this straight. Ronald Reagan colluded with Iran to continue to hold American citizens hostage until after an election.
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The article goes on to say, “After twelve years of mixed media attention, both houses of the US Congress held separate inquiries and concluded that the allegations lacked supporting documentation. Nevertheless, several individuals—most notably former Iranian President Abulhassan Banisadr, former naval intelligence officer and U.S. National Security Council member Gary Sick, and former Reagan/Bush campaign staffer and White House analyst Barbara Honegger—have stood by the allegation.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Surprise_conspiracy_theory

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For the sake of brevity, I’ll just mention in passing how Ronald Reagan flooded the inner cities with crack cocaine to fund his private war in Nicaragua, and how 47 GOP senators tried to sabotage President Obama’s efforts to negotiate a nuclear arms agreement with Iran.  PBS reported:
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“Monday’s open letter from 47 GOP senators marked an unusually public and aggressive attempt to undermine Obama and five world powers as negotiators try to strike an initial deal by the end of March to limit Iran’s nuclear programs.”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/gop-senators-send-open-letter-iran-undermining-white-house-nuke-negotiations

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So, while conservatives have a tendency to strut around with flag pins in their lapels, wrap themselves in the American flag, and claim to be such super-patriots, they are none of these things – in fact, for the most part they are irresponsible, self-serving, and cowardly traitors.
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When this country called upon Donald Trump to serve during the Vietnam War, in spite of being an athlete in both high school and college, he went limping into the draft board with a note from a doctor claiming his feet hurt. The doctor in question was a tenant in one of his father's buildings. Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh did a variation of the same thing - Limbaugh claiming to have had a boil on his fat ass. So, you see, as far as they were concerned, dying for your country was the job of the little people - "the losers." But interesting enough, now that these rabid conservatives don’t have to placed their own lives on the line for the country, all of a sudden they’ve morphed into “Love-it-or-leave-it” super-patriots. It’s the kind of gross hypocrisy that's a sickening thing to watch. But their conservative followers completely ignore their cowardly hypocrisy and false patriotism, because these men cater exclusively to their supporter's hatred, fear and greed.
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And Donald Trump is the worst of them all. He’s not only a hypocrite and a coward, but he’s protecting, and passionately embracing some of our most aggressive adversaries, while calling the men and women who have dedicated their lives to protecting this country “the enemy of the people.”
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Trump appeals to the very worst in this country's nature - ignorance, selfishness, hypocrisy, and bigotry - so, anyone who supports him is un-American by definition, regardless to how they try to justify it.

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18 U.S. Code § 2381.Treason

"Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States."

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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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LET’S TALK ABOUT MAN, GOD, AND THE UNIVERSE

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree

LET’S TALK ABOUT MAN, GOD, AND THE UNIVERSE

Let me start off by telling you right off the bat that man doesn’t know a damn thing about God. That’s why we speak of “having faith”. We don’t have to have “faith” in God. We have an entire universe to attest to God's existence. So when we speak of faith, we’re not talking about having faith in God, but having faith in what some delusional lunatic is TELLING us about God. God gave us a mind. It was man who gave us the Bible.
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I was raised in the church, and I’m a firm believer in God. I pray before every meal, and every night before I go to bed. But I do that for ME, and the comfort that it brings ME, not because God demands it. So I’ve got to be honest – I can’t stand preachers. The reason for that is simple - I consider preachers to be arrogant, self-absorbed lunatics who have deluded themselves into thinking they’re superior to others.
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Their attitude is, you’re not good enough for God to speak to directly, "so he anointed me to tell you what’s on his mind." But I have a number of immediate problems with that. First, there are over 4200 different religions on Earth, so why is God telling everyone something different? Secondly, a loving God would never curse man with anything that is at the very root of all the hatred, bigotry, murder, and mayhem on Earth. Third, if God had anything to do with man’s religion, there’d only be one.
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In addition, the mere fact that over 81% of all White Evangelicals support the evil machinations of the corrupt, ignorant, and inept Donald Trump is clear evidence that their "God" only tells them what they want to hear - and more often than not, what they want to hear is why they should hate other men who don't look, think, and act like themselves. Yeah, they're TOLD that they should love thy neighbor, but the underlying message is always about why their neighbor is evil, and not approved of by God. Think about that, and also the fact that the Nazis were "Christians".

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So people really need to wake up. God communicates with man through common sense, not by trying to convince us to believe in walking dead men and talking snakes. God has shown us through what he has DONE that snakes don't talk and dead men don't walk. So what we call "faith" is faith in MAN, and in what man TELLS us, not faith in God, and what he has SHOWN us.
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God doesn't do magic tricks for man. You either believe in him or you don't. God doesn't care what you believe. Why should he? God doesn't need it. The need for praise is a shallow-minded ego trip that smacks of the manipulation of man. God doesn't have anything to gain by what you believe, but man does. Only weak-minded Trumplodyte-like men crave your worship, not God. Would you tap dance in front of your toilet to try to impress the germs under your toilet seat to worship you? Of course not. That would be stupid, and God's not stupid. It's only MAN who has an interest in influencing our thinking through putting on a magic show, because that’s the only way he can manipulate us, by convincing idiots that he speaks for God. So man's not trying to get you to worship God, he's actually trying to get you to worship HIM. That's how he manages to control other human beings to promote his interest.

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So for exactly those reasons I have a very simple response to these self-proclaimed Godologists, and that's, “Who the hell do you think you are, you delusional lunatic?” Then, in spite of all the Hell and brimstone they preach from the pulpit, my response renders them completely speechless, because I strip them of all of their "Godly" vestments and holy pretenses. Then I go on to repeat my question again. "Who the hell are you!!!? - and how did God choose you to be of such superior character that he needs you to communicate for him? It certainly couldn't be due to your intelligence, because if you think I'm a big enough fool to believe you speak for God, you don't have any. And one other thing - why can’t God speak to me directly like he’s supposedly speaking to you? You can't answer that, can you? Well, I can. He does speak to me. He gave me a conscience, so whenever I decide to do anything un-Godly, he tells me immediately.
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So I don't have any more need for a book written by man to tell me how to live my life than a bird needs a calendar and a compass to know when to fly South in the winter. What man so solemnly refer to as "The Holy Scriptures", are nothing more than the superstitious rantings of 3000-year-old dead men. They were written by the Pat Robertsons and T.D. Jakes of their time. So, get your mindless, Voodoo-worshiping ass out of my face - and the next time you have lunch with God, you tell him what I told you." 

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You see, I feel perfectly free to challenge organized religion in complete comfort, because I'm not challenging God, I’m challenging the silliness of man. So when he asks me, “Where’s your faith?”, my response is, I’m not required to have faith in one word you say. Because again, it all boils down to what you say, as opposed to What God's done - and what God has DONE, is blessed me with a mind for the expressed purpose of challenging your silliness.
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When we place the universe in perspective, and think of the actual enormity of God, it shows us just how silly man's little provincial beliefs really are. Our galaxy alone has over 200 billion stars, and the Sun is only one of them. It takes the Sun, along with Earth, and it’s other 8 hitchhikers, traveling at 828,000 mph 230 million years to orbit around our galaxy just one time.  Yet, our solar system, with its 9 planets, is only a microscopic dust particle in our galaxy, and our galaxy itself, in terms of the universe, is nothing more than a microscopic dust particle in space.

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To make sense of the distances we’re talking about, on January 19, 2006 we launched the space probe, New Horizon, for the planet Pluto in our own solar system. It was the Fastest man-made object ever launched from Earth.  It sped through space at 36,400 mph. That’s 24 times faster than an AK 47 military rifle bullet. Yet it took New Horizon until July 14, 2015 (9 years, 6 months) to reach Pluto.
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Thus, if the Earth was your house in Los Angeles, Pluto would be a flea in San Diego, and Alpha Centauri, the closest neighboring star to the Sun, would be an elephant in China - and that's just within our galaxy. There are over 200 billion stars, equally as far away from one another, in just our galaxy alone, and there are more galaxies in the universe than there are grains of sand on every beach, every desert, and every ocean floor on the planet Earth – and that’s just in the observable universe that's still expanding in every direction at the speed of light (186,282 miles per second). Yet, man thinks he can tell other men about God!!!?
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Man is way too full of himself.  In terms of the universe, man is trillions of times less significant than a colony of germs under a toilet seat in Uzbekistan. It’s only man’s incredible arrogance that causes him to think that we’re important enough for God to even remember who we are. After all, does God remember every germ that he created?  So every time I hear a preacher preaching “the gospel” I have to laugh. I ask myself, "Will you listen to this fool! I wonder does he actually believe this nonsense!!!?"

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Do you believe that God sent Jesus to all the hundreds of trillions of worlds in the universe? Or do you believe that we're so special that we're the

OUMUAMUA: WHAT IS IT?

only speck of dust in the universe with life on it? Both assumptions are ridiculous. It may seem like we're alone, but the only reason we don’t see other beings is because even if they lived right next door to us (which they do), even traveling at the speed of light, it would take them 137 thousand years to get here, because the next closest star to the Sun, Alpha Centauri, is over 24 trillion miles away.  So, think about that – in order to just drop in for a cup of coffee they would have had to leave home 135 thousand years before Jesus was born, and they won't get here for another 133 thousand years - and again, that’s just our closest neighbor!
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So, whenever I think about the universe that God has created, it helps me to place the concept of God in perspective. The limited intellect of man is much too puny to even conceive of the nature of God, and much less, know what's on his mind - that explains atheism. But that alone gives me more than enough reason to worship him. I worship God for what he’s done, and what I can see, not because of the superstitious rantings of 3000-year-old dead men - and that's exactly who wrote the so-called "Scriptures". They were no closer to God than we are today. They were the Pat Robertsons of their time, and just as clueless. These same men claimed that the universe revolved around the Earth until Galileo proved them wrong - and then they placed him under arrest for educating them.
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Thus, for exactly that reason, I feel absolutely no obligation to force myself to believe in walking dead men or talking snakes, nor do I feel any obligation to get all dressed up every Sunday morning and pay to be screamed at for two hours. And there's another important benefit - I don't have to be bothered with Bible-thumping lunatics. 
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So, whenever I want to commune with God – and I do quite regularly - I simply pour myself a drink, sit out in my backyard, and gaze out at the night sky – and I can do that for free, except for the price of a shot of gin.
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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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WHY IS THE MUELLER INVESTIGATION INCOMPLETE?

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree

WHY IS THE MUELLER INVESTIGATION INCOMPLETE?

It is unclear whether Robert Mueller’s reputation for competence and credibility has been greatly overblown, or if there’s much more to his report than is being publicly revealed, but as it stands, the report clearly opens up many more questions than it answers. I could go into this matter in great detail, but that would require a book, so I've decided to provide just a snapshot of what Barr, Trump, and the GOP expect us to accept.
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They obviously think the American people are complete idiots. In spite of all of the smoke emanating from Trump's corruption, Attorney General Barr is trying to tell us, "Aw, it wasn't nothing. Trump's been completely vindicated. While I can't show you the entire report, just take my word for it." He must think we're crazy. 
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Even at first glance it looks like the American people are being hoodwinked. While Mueller was preceded by an admirable reputation, he is a lifelong Republican, and the entire Republican Party is now being threatened by Donald Trump’s corruption. So flawless reputation or not, Robert Mueller’s failure to resolve the matters below leaves the unmistakable smell of funk in the air.
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The investigation not only seems to have been prematurely truncated, but grand jury issues and trials have been left completely unresolved. It almost seems as though someone told Mueller, "Okay, that's it. You're out of here." How can Mueller abruptly declare that there has been no collusion before the connection between Russian agent Maria Butina, the NRA, and the GOP have been resolved, for example? Something is very wrong here.
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Here are just a few other examples of the issues that have been left dangling in mid air:
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Collusion:

          1). Why wasn’t there a sealed indictment against Donald Trump, or any member of his family based on the following?

                   a. The Trump Tower meeting.

                   b. Trump Jr lying before congress. 

                   c. The Trump connection with Manafort and Russia.

                   d. Trump’s public request for Russia to reveal Clinton email.

                   e. Russian sanction quid pro quo.

                   f. Trump Moscow Tower discussions during the campaign.

                   g. The NRA connection between Trump, Russia, and the GOP.

                   h. The significance of so many Russians attending Trump’s inauguration.

                    i. Erik Prince's attempt to back-channel Russia.

                   j. Jared Kushner's attempt to back-channel Russia.

                   k. Erik Prince lying to congress.

                   l. What did Pence know about Michael Flynn?

                   m. Where did all of the inauguration money come from, and where did it go?

Obstruction:

          1).The Comey firing.

                   a. Trump's seeming attempt to obstruct Flynn investigation.

                   b. Trump's comment to Russians in Oval office that firing of Comey was Russia related.

                   c. Trump's comment on national television that firing of Comey was Russia related. 

                    d. Trump's threat to congress during his State of the Union address.

                   e. The Attorney General shuffle.

                   f. Trump's attempt to intervene in New York DOJ personnel assignments.

          2). Witness tampering

                   a. Trump's comments about Michael Cohen on Twitter.

                   b. Trump's comments about Manafort on Twitter.

                   c. Pardon dangling.

          3). Jeff Sessions firing.

While I'm not happy about having to cast suspicion upon an honorable public servant like Robert Mueller, under the circumstances, unless one is a complete idiot we have no choice. Mueller's flawless reputation is not only based on his credibility, but also for being thorough, but what's being presented here by Attorney General Barr as Mueller's findings can be called many things, but thorough is not among them. So, again, something is terribly wrong here.
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Maybe Mueller's intent was to approach this investigation with complete integrity, but one of his many virtues is his tendency to be a team player. In such a case, his flawless reputation would make him the perfect Republican for the party's intent to perpetrate a snow job. But we should reserve judgment on this matter until we can see the document in it's entirety. That's what makes seeing the Mueller document in its entirety an absolute must, because we'd foolhardy to forget that Attorney General Barr literally auditioned for his job, which speaks volumes regarding Trump's intent to obstruct.
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So the Republicans are undoubtedly going to accuse the Democrats of trying to move the goal posts, but the goal was to have a thorough and exhaustive investigation, and that's certainly not the case here. Thus, they can say what they will, but the questions above need to be answered, and until they are, this investigation is far from over, Mueller or no Mueller. We simply cannot allow the Republicans to "Kavenaugh" this investigation (which is another issue that needs to be revisited), because the current circumstance clearly demonstrates that matters such as these are far too important.

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But with respect to Robert Mueller, there's always the possibility that President Richard Nixon's White House counselor, John Dean, was right when he tweeted the following:
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“Trump and his minions think they dodged a bullet. I have a notion — only recurring though — that Mueller delivered a bomb to AG Barr, who is now trying to figure out how to tell Trump in a way that doesn’t cause him to start World War III.  Barr knows he works for a psycho.”

THE AMERICAN FASCIST
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