A DESPERATE DONALD TRUMP MAY TRY TO INCITE INSURRECTION AFTER LOSING THE NOVEMBER ELECTION

Beneath the Spin*Eric L. Wattree

EXCELLENCE IS THE KEY TO BLACK EQUALITY

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A DESPERATE DONALD TRUMP MAY TRY TO INCITE INSURRECTION AFTER LOSING THE NOVEMBER ELECTION

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Kate J Herold Hudson posted a meme saying,

“Just know this...Trump’s ‘Liberate’ tweets and praise of protesters, is a trial run for the Riots & Chaos he’s planning for Nov. 4” 
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I’m in total agreement with Kate. In fact, the exact same notion occurred to me over a year ago. I just hope our military and intelligence community is a step ahead of Trump's treachery and is prepared to deal it.

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AMERICA'S CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS IS AT HAND

The primary danger of a man like Trump is not only that he’s so self-serving that he’s willing to test the limits of democracy to promote his own interests, but he’s also so uninformed that he doesn’t recognize that there are any limits. That’s why he’s so enamored of the world’s most brutal dictators. He not only admires them, but he envies their unfettered and absolute power. What makes that so dangerous in a man like Trump is he’s also undereducated and not very bright.  Trump’s former Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, is reported to have called him a “moron,” and the late William T. Kelley, who taught Trump at the University of Pennsylvania, said, “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had.”

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Thus, Trump is so uninformed regarding the underpinnings of America’s democratic traditions, and so self-serving, greedy, and in fear of being revealed for the weak, flawed, and cowardly individual he knows himself to be, that he’s completely untethered to the democratic principles that most of us take for granted. As a result, as we speak, he’s currently testing the limits of America’s willingness to defend our Constitution - and yes, it can happen here.
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Trump has casually announced that he intends to change by executive order the 14th Amendment of the Constitution that declares anyone born in the United States a U.S. citizen. He claims he wants to change the amendment to prevent undocumented immigrants from sneaking into the country and creating “anchor babies.” But it was also the 14th Amendment that declared citizenship for former African American slaves, so if his Republican-stacked Supreme Court allows him to tinker with the 14th Amendment, who’s next?  If he could declare all African Americans non-citizens, that would certainly solve the GOP's demographics problem, wouldn’t it?
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Any other president in United States history would immediately recognize that just the thought of trying to override the United States Constitution with an executive memo is crazy. But not Trump, and that’s exactly the problem with a dangerous demagogue like him - he’s such a blindly narcissistic and pathological sociopath that he doesn’t view reality like a normal individual. We’ve been warned about him by more than one group of professionals who are ordinarily disinclined to criticize the President of the United States in such a blunt and pronounced fashion, but Trump’s behavior is so glaringly dysfunctional that they felt compelled to speak out. In its article reviewing the book, “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” Psychology Today pointed out:
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“John Gartner, Ph.D. is the founder of ‘Duty to Warn’ , an organization intent on warning our country that we are in dire trouble due to our president’s mental instability. More than 60,000 mental health professionals have signed John’s petition, which states:
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‘We, the undersigned mental health professionals, believe in our professional judgment that Donald Trump manifests a serious mental illness that renders him psychologically incapable of competently discharging the duties of President of the United States. And we respectfully request he be removed from office, according to article 4 of the 25th amendment to the Constitution, which states that the president will be replaced if he is ‘unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.’”
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And they wrote the above before Trump suggested that America ingest Lysol as a possible remedy for the Coronavirus, or to reopen the schools and use our children as guinea pigs to test the contagion of Covid-19. After all, he is personally losing over a million dollars a day due to the national shutdown resulting from the virus, but even that, is primarily his fault.

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TRUMP'S LAZINESS AND WILLFUL IGNORANCE

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But as deadly serious as that is, that’s not the worst of it. When you combine Trump’s mental instability with his blind narcissism and fear of going to prison if he's thrown out of office, and then add to that the fact that he’s being enabled by a Republican Party that’s in a panic over the loss of power due to a rapidly changing demographic, it becomes clear that the very viability of American democracy is in severe jeopardy.

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The Republican party has clearly demonstrated that they’re just as recklessly unstable as a group as Donald Trump is as an individual, and that they're completely oblivious to  

limits as well. They’ve already broken all of the rules of democratic normality to literally SHOVE what all the credible evidence shows is a criminal felon down our throats as the newest Supreme Court justice - and when I say “felon” I’m not simply engaging in hyperbole. Newly elected Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh clearly committed several instances of perjury before the United States Senate, and beyond that, the Republican-controlled Senate literally left no stone unturned to ensure that the credible evidence of Kavanaugh’s alleged attempted rape of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford was blocked from being thoroughly investigated. So essentially, the GOP has gone to ridiculous lengths to place a criminal on the highest court of the land.
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So now all of the chips are in place. The GOP controls two branches of the government, including a reliably conservative Supreme Court to protect Trump from criminal liability. They are now in a position to validate any and all of their radical assaults on the Constitution. So now the final phase of the conservative conspiracy to take over America begins:
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Trump is already talking about an “immigrant invasion” of the United States, and he’s already predicted “there will be violence” if the Democrats win the 2018 election - which they did. So now, all the conservatives have to do is send in Trumplodytes to incite violence - which now seems to be the case, with hordes of mindless Trump supporters, armed to the teeth, converging on our streets and state houses in response to the Coronavirus shutdown instituted to protect public health. Now, any instance of violence will give Trump all the justification that he needs to declare martial law and suspend the Constitution. He then instantly becomes the Vladimir Putin of the United States - possibly for life. 

So America shouldn’t take this threat lightly. It’s time for Americans to stand up and fight this attack on our democracy with just as much passion as we fought WWII, because while the battle we currently find ourselves in is not simply against the guns and bombs of an outside invader, we’re now fighting the guns and bombs of a domestic enemy, and the threat to our way of life is just as severe. Could that be why Trump is currently disrupting the operations of Homeland Security?  Think about that for a moment.
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I've written extensively about how conservatives tend to be mindless followers, and we saw a perfect example of that during the NFL controversy. The American flag is a symbol of American values, and the freedom of expression is the very FIRST Amendment of the United States Constitution. And as a former United States Marine I can tell you for a fact that the Marines who died for this country didn’t die for either a piece of cloth, a song, or the opinion of a cowardly draft dodger like Donald Trump. They died for what that beautiful  piece of cloth represents - the right for Colin Kaepernick to do exactly what he did. Without that right both the American flag, and the National Anthem, would be totally meaningless. But many conservatives don’t possess the intellect to see that.
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As a result, Donald Trump has convinced his mindless conservative minions that it's wrong and unpatriotic to exercise the rights guaranteed under the Constitution. For them, while it's fine to brag about the rights guaranteed under the Constitution - especially the right to be armed to the teeth with assault weapons in public - it's grossly disrespectful to the flag to actually demand their rights guaranteed under the Constitution, unless those rights are fully consistent with Donald Trump's personal interests, and the blind promotion of the conservative agenda - and his mindless minions obediently follow his lead. So the fact is, those who follow Draft-Dodging Donnie and who are jumping up and down about patriotism and how the flag is being disrespected, these are the people who are actually disrespecting our flag and the troops, not Colin Kaepernick.
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These people are trivializing the very values for which our Troops gave their lives. They’re allowing a draft-dodging coward like Trump to manipulate them into promoting bigotry and stupidity in an attempt to tear this nation apart, and thereby, escape the consequences of his own criminality.  So to allow themselves to become complicit in that effort is what’s actually un-American, and it takes a complete idiot not to see that.

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With regard to the recent spate of domestic terrorism that has been overtaking the country of late, Trump claims that it's not due to his hateful rhetoric, but the unfairness of the press in asking about it. Well, ABC news did a little research into the matter, and here's what they found:

‘NO BLAME’?  ABC NEWS FINDS 36 CASES INVOKING ‘TRUMP’ INCONNECTION WITH VIOLENCE, THREATS OR ALLEGED ASSAULTS

So if all of this sounds far-fetched, according to a 1990 Vanity Fair interview, Ivana Trump once told her lawyer, Michael Kennedy, that Donald Trump kept a book of Hitler's speeches near his bed - and as we all know, Trump doesn’t like to read, yet, he found the inspiration to read Hitler. Thus, as has been repeatedly stated, when fascism comes to America it will come wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross, and considering that over 81% of White Evangelicals "Christians" support Trump's criminality, that seems to be exactly what is happening.
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So yes, it can happen here, and let there be no doubt about it, anyone who supports Donald Trump is the domestic enemy of the United States. So as a former Marine, I'm grievously insulted by any Trump supporter who calls themselves a patriot - it's a contradiction in terms on its face - and the Founding Fathers must be absolutely spinning in their graves.

Eric L. Wattree
Http://wattree.blogspot.com
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. 

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THE BEGINNING OF TRUMP DICTATORSHIP

Beneath the Spin*Eric L. Wattree

EXCELLENCE IS THE KEY TO BLACK EQUALITY

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THE BEGINNING OF TRUMP DICTATORSHIP

DOJ Wants to Suspend Certain Constitutional Rights During Coronavirus Emergency
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I PREDICTED THIS A YEAR AND A HALF AGO
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Being President is the only thing keeping Trump out of prison. That's what makes him so dangerous. He'll do ANYTHING not to be put out of office - including declaring martial law. So we can just standby.

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AMERICA'S CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS IS AT HAND

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The primary danger of a man like Trump is not only that he’s so self-serving that he’s willing to test the limits of democracy to promote his own interests, but he’s also so uninformed that he doesn’t recognize that there are any limits. That’s why he’s so enamored of the world’s most brutal dictators. He not only admire them, but he envies their unfettered and absolute power. What makes that so dangerous in a man like Trump is he’s also undereducated and not very bright.  Trump’s former Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, is reported to have called him a “moron,” and the late William T. Kelley, who taught Trump at the University of Pennsylvania, said, “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had.”

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Thus, Trump is so uninformed regarding the underpinnings of America’s democratic traditions, and so self-serving, greedy, and in fear of the revelations in the Robert Mueller Report (and no, it's not over; that's why he's so desperate to stay in office) that he’s completely untethered to the democratic principles that most of us take for granted. As a result, as we speak, he’s currently testing the limits of America’s willingness to defend our Constitution - and yes, it can happen here.
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Trump has casually announced that he intends to change by executive order the 14th Amendment of the Constitution that declares anyone born in the United States a U.S. citizen. He claims he wants to change the amendment to prevent undocumented immigrants from sneaking into the country and creating “anchor babies.” But it was also the 14th Amendment that declared citizenship for former African American slaves, so if his Republican-stacked Supreme Court allows him to tinker with the 14th Amendment, who’s next?  If he could declare all African Americans non-citizens, that would certainly solve the GOP's demographics problem, wouldn’t it?
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Any other president in United States history would immediately recognize that just the thought of trying to override the United States Constitution with an executive memo is crazy. But not Trump, and that’s exactly the problem with a dangerous demagogue like him - he’s such a blindly narcissistic and pathological sociopath that he doesn’t view reality like a normal person. We’ve been warned about him by more than one group of professionals who are ordinarily disinclined to criticize the President of the United States in such a blunt and pronounced fashion, but Trump’s behavior is so glaringly dysfunctional that they felt compelled to speak out. In its article reviewing the book, “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” Psychology Today pointed out:

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“John Gartner, Ph.D. is the founder of ‘Duty to Warn’ an organization intent on warning our country that we are in dire trouble due to our president’s mental instability. More than 60,000 mental health professionals have signed John’s petition, which states:

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‘We, the undersigned mental health professionals, believe in our professional judgment that Donald Trump manifests a serious mental illness that renders him psychologically incapable of competently discharging the duties of President of the United States. And we respectfully request he be removed from office, according to article 4 of the 25th amendment to the Constitution, which states that the president will be replaced if he is ‘unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.’”

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But as deadly serious as that is, that’s not the worst of it. When you combine Trump’s mental instability with his blind narcissism and fear of going to prison if he's thrown out of office, and then add to that the fact that he’s being enabled by a Republican Party that’s in a panic over the loss of power due to a rapidly changing demographic, it becomes clear that the very viability of American democracy is in severe jeopardy.

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The Republican party has clearly demonstrated that they’re just as recklessly unstable as a group as Donald Trump is as an individual, and they have no limits. They’ve already broken all of the rules of democratic normality to literally SHOVE what all the credible evidence shows is a criminal felon down our throats as the newest Supreme Court justice - and when I say “felon” I’m not just engaging in hyperbole. Newly elected Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh clearly committed several instances of perjury before the United States Senate, and beyond that, the Republican-controlled Senate literally left no stone unturned to ensure that the credible evidence of Kavanaugh’s alleged attempted rape of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford was blocked from being thoroughly investigated - just as they did in Trump's impeachment trial. So essentially, the GOP has gone to ridiculous lengths to place a criminal on the highest court of the land.
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So now all of the chips are in place. The GOP controls two branches of the government, including a reliably conservative Supreme Court to protect Trump from the Mueller investigation. They are now in a position to validate any and all of their radical assaults on the Constitution. So now the final phase of the conservative conspiracy to take over America begins:

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Trump is already talking about an “immigrant invasion” of the United States, and he’s already predicted “there will be violence” if the Democrats win the coming election - which they did. So now, all the conservatives have to do is send in Trumplodytes to incite violence. That would give Trump all the justification that he needs to declare martial law and suspend the Constitution. He then instantly becomes the Vladimir Putin of the United States - possibly for life. 

So America shouldn’t take this threat lightly. It’s time for Americans to stand up and fight this attack on our democracy with just as much passion as we fought WWII, because while the battle we currently find ourselves in is not against the guns and bombs of an outside invader, we’re now fighting the guns and bombs of a domestic enemy, and the threat to our way of life is just as severe. Could that be why Trump is currently disrupting the operations of Homeland Security?  Think about that for a moment.
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I've written extensively about how conservatives tend to be mindless followers, and we saw a perfect example of that in the NFL controversy. The American flag is a symbol of American values, and the freedom of expression is the very FIRST Amendment of the United States Constitution. And as a former United States Marine I can tell you for a fact that the Marines who died for this country didn’t die for either a piece of cloth, a song, or the opinion of a cowardly draft dodger like Donald Trump. They died for what that beautiful  piece of cloth represents - the right for Colin Kaepernick to do exactly what he did. Without that right both the American flag, and the National Anthem, would be totally meaningless. But most conservatives don’t possess the intellect to see that.

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As a result, Donald Trump has convinced his mindless conservative minions that it's wrong and unpatriotic to exercise the rights guaranteed under the Constitution - it's fine to brag about them, but it's grossly disrespectful to actually act upon them - and his mindless minions obediently follow his lead.  But the fact is, those who follow Draft-Dodging Donnie and who are jumping up and down about patriotism and how the flag is being disrespected, these are the people who are actually disrespecting our flag and the troops, not Colin Kaepernick. These people are trivializing the very values for which our Troops gave their lives. They’re allowing a dummy like Trump to manipulate them into promoting bigotry and stupidity in an attempt to tear this nation apart, and thereby, escape the consequences of his own criminality.  So to allow themselves to become complicit in that effort is what’s actually un-American, and it takes a complete idiot not to see that.

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With regard to the recent spate of domestic terrorism that has been overtaking the country of late, Trump claims that it's not due to his hateful rhetoric, but the unfairness of the press in asking about it. Well, ABC news did a little research into the matter, and here's what they found:

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 ‘NO BLAME’?  ABC NEWS FINDS 17 CASES INVOKING ‘TRUMP’ IN CONNECTION WITH VIOLENCE, THREATS OR ALLEGED ASSAULTS
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So if all of this sounds far-fetched, according to a 1990 Vanity Fair interview, Ivana Trump once told her lawyer, Michael Kennedy, that Donald Trump kept a book of Hitler's speeches near his bed - and as we all know, Trump doesn’t ordinarily like to read, but he's finding both the energy and time to read Hitler.  Thus, as has been repeatedly stated, when fascism comes to America it will come wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross, and considering that over 81% of White Evangelicals "Christians" support Trump's criminality, that seems to be exactly what is happening.  So yes, it can happen here, and let there be no doubt about it, anyone who supports Donald Trump is the domestic enemy of the United States, regardless to how much they claim to love Jesus.

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Eric L. Wattree
Http://wattree.blogspot.com
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. 

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AMERICA'S CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS IS AT HAND

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree

AMERICA'S CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS IS AT HAND
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The primary danger of a man like Trump is not only that he’s so self-serving that he’s willing to test the limits of democracy to promote his own interests, but he’s also so uninformed that he doesn’t recognize that there are any limits. That’s why he’s so enamored of the world’s most brutal dictators. He not only admire them, but he envies their unfettered and absolute power. What makes that so dangerous in a man like Trump is he’s also so undereducated that he doesn't realize that, that kind of power is incompatible with both the American ideal, and our form of government.  For Trump, desire, delusion, and reality are one and the same. That's why he thinks he can re-write the Constitution with an executive memo.
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Trump has always been the victim  of a combination of ignorance and delusion, and those who have spent any amount of time around him immediately recognizes it. Trump's former Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, is reported to have called him a “moron,” and the late William T. Kelley, who taught Trump at the University of Pennsylvania, said, “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had.”
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Thus, Trump is so uninformed regarding the underpinnings of America’s democratic traditions, and so self-serving, greedy, and still in such fear of the revelations yet to come out regarding his Russian connection that didn't come out in the Robert Mueller Report, that he’s completely untethered to the democratic principles that most of us take for granted. As a result, as we speak, he’s currently testing the limits of America’s willingness to defend our Constitution - and by the way, yes, despotism can happen here.

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Trump has casually announced that he intends to change by executive order the 14th Amendment of the Constitution that declares anyone born in the United States a U.S. citizen. He claims he wants to change the amendment to prevent undocumented immigrants from sneaking into the country and creating “anchor babies.” But it was also the 14th Amendment that declared citizenship for former African American slaves, so if his Republican-stacked Supreme Court allows him to tinker with the 14th Amendment, who’s next?  If he could declare all African Americans non-citizens, that would certainly solve the GOP's demographics problem, wouldn’t it?

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Any other president in United States history would immediately recognize that just the thought of trying to override the United States Constitution with an executive memo is crazy. But not Trump, and that’s exactly the problem with a dangerous demagogue like him - he’s such a blindly narcissistic and pathological sociopath that he doesn’t view reality like a normal person. We’ve been warned about him by more than one group of professionals who are ordinarily disinclined to criticize the President of the United States in such a blunt and pronounced fashion, but Trump’s behavior is so glaringly dysfunctional that they felt compelled to speak out. In its article reviewing the book, “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” Psychology Today pointed out:

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“John Gartner, Ph.D. is the founder of ‘Duty to Warn’ an organization intent on warning our country that we are in dire trouble due to our president’s mental instability. More than 60,000 mental health professionals have signed John’s petition, which states:
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‘We, the undersigned mental health professionals, believe in our professional judgment that Donald Trump manifests a serious mental illness that renders him psychologically incapable of competently discharging the duties of President of the United States. And we respectfully request he be removed from office, according to article 4 of the 25th amendment to the Constitution, which states that the president will be replaced if he is ‘unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.’”
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But as deadly serious as that is, that’s not the worst of it. When you combine Trump’s mental instability with his blind narcissism and fear of going to prison if he's thrown out of office, and then add to that the fact that he’s being enabled by a Republican Party that’s in a panic over the loss of power due to a rapidly changing demographic, it becomes clear that the very viability of American democracy is in severe jeopardy.

.

The Republican party has clearly demonstrated that they’re just as recklessly unstable as a group as Donald Trump is as an individual, and they have no limits. They’ve already broken all of the rules of democratic normality to literally SHOVE what all the credible evidence shows is a criminal felon down our throats as the newest Supreme Court justice - and when I say “felon” I’m not just engaging in hyperbole. Newly elected Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh clearly committed several instances of perjury before the United States Senate, and beyond that, the Republican-controlled Senate literally left no stone unturned to ensure that the credible evidence of Kavanaugh’s alleged attempted rape of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford was blocked from being thoroughly investigated. So essentially, the GOP has gone to ridiculous lengths to place a criminal on the highest court of the land.

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So now all of the chips are in place. The GOP controls two branches of the government, including a reliably conservative Supreme Court to protect Trump from the Mueller investigation. They are now in a position to validate any and all of their radical assaults on the Constitution. So now the final phase of the conservative conspiracy to take over America begins:
.

Trump is already talking about an “immigrant invasion” of the United States, and he’s already predicted “there will be violence” if the Democrats win the coming election - which they did. So now, all the conservatives have to do is send in Trumplodytes to incite violence. That would give Trump all the justification that he needs to declare martial law and suspend the Constitution. He then instantly becomes the Vladimir Putin of the United States - possibly for life. 

So America shouldn’t take this threat lightly. It’s time for Americans to stand up and fight this attack on our democracy with just as much passion as we fought WWII, because while the battle we currently find ourselves in is not against the guns and bombs of an outside invader, we’re now fighting the guns and bombs of a domestic enemy, and the threat to our way of life is just as severe. Could that be why Trump is currently disrupting the operations of Homeland Security?  Think about that for a moment. 

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I've written extensively about how conservatives tend to be mindless followers, and we saw a perfect example of that in the NFL controversy. The American flag is a symbol of American values, and the freedom of expression is the very FIRST Amendment of the United States Constitution. And as a former United States Marine I can tell you for a fact that the Marines who died for this country didn’t die for either a piece of cloth, a song, or the opinion of a cowardly draft dodger like Donald Trump. They died for what that beautiful  piece of cloth represents - the right for Colin Kaepernick to do exactly what he did. Without that right both the American flag, and the National Anthem, would be totally meaningless. But most conservatives don’t possess the intellect to see that.
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As a result, Donald Trump has convinced his mindless conservative minions that it's wrong and unpatriotic to exercise the rights guaranteed under the Constitution - it's fine to brag about them, but it's grossly disrespectful to actually act upon them - and his mindless minions obediently follow his lead.  But the fact is, those who follow Draft-Dodging Donnie and who are jumping up and down about patriotism and how the flag is being disrespected, these are the people who are actually disrespecting our flag and the troops, not Colin Kaepernick. These people are trivializing the very values for which our Troops gave their lives. They’re allowing a dummy like Trump to manipulate them into promoting bigotry and stupidity in an attempt to tear this nation apart, and thereby, escape the consequences of his own criminality.  So to allow themselves to become complicit in that effort is what’s actually un-American, and it takes a complete idiot not to see that.

.

With regard to the recent spate of domestic terrorism that has been overtaking the country of late, Trump claims that it's not due to his hateful rhetoric, but the unfairness of the press in asking about it. Well, ABC news did a little research into the matter, and here's what they found:

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 ‘NO BLAME’?  ABC NEWS FINDS 17 CASES INVOKING ‘TRUMP’ IN CONNECTION WITH VIOLENCE, THREATS OR ALLEGED ASSAULTS

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So if all of this sounds far-fetched, according to a 1990 Vanity Fair interview, Ivana Trump once told her lawyer, Michael Kennedy, that Donald Trump kept a book of Hitler's speeches near his bed - and as we all know, Trump doesn’t like to read.  Thus, as has been repeatedly stated, when fascism comes to America it will come wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross, and considering that over 81% of White Evangelicals "Christians" support Trump's criminality, that seems to be exactly what is happening.  So yes, it can happen here, and let there be no doubt about it, anyone who supports Donald Trump is the domestic enemy of the United States.

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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DON’T GET TOO COMFORTABLE, KAVANAUGH, BECAUSE WE’LL BE BACK - AND THIS TIME WITH A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION

Beneath the Spin*Eric L. Wattree

DON’T GET TOO COMFORTABLE, KAVANAUGH, BECAUSE WE’LL 
BE BACK -
AND THIS TIME WITH A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION

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NO HELPLESS WOMAN SHOULD EVER 

HAVE TO LOOK UP AT THIS BRUTAL FACE

I placed a comment online reflecting the title of this article, “Don’t get comfortable, Kavanaugh.  We’ll be back - and this time with a criminal investigation.”  In response, a gentleman online said, “Sadly, the whole point of this was about political power not rape. They aren't returning for him. It'll go away with time until the next political run.”
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I beg to differ with that response. The Kavanaugh episode represents a unique moment in American history for several reasons. The first is because of the nature of women. The women of this country are mad as hell, and that’s bad news for the clueless GOP.  As a widower who was married for 34 years, I know for a fact, that women don't forget. My sweet and loving wife, Val, made me pay, in my late forties, for stunts I pulled when we were teenagers.  She’d say,  "Do you remember the time when . . .?”  Due to my masculine arrogance, in many cases the incident was so insignificant to me at the time that I didn’t remember - that is, until she brought down the hammer to jog my memory. And in every case, I paid dearly because she remembered every detail, and with the clarity of an incident that might have happened the day before. 
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While men tend to condescendingly refer to women as “the gentler sex,” that’s a myth. It’s a delusion manufactured to accommodate our masculine arrogance. As men, we tend to purposely ignore the fact that all of the “great men” of history (including Jesus), were raised by women, and that’s where their thoughts and philosophies originated. While their fathers were out trying to be masculine and great, it was their mothers who groomed their minds. So in a very real sense, it’s women who control this world. 

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THIS IS A CONSERVATIVE'S VIEW
OF A WOMAN'S PLACE 

Our human society is structured much like a colony of bees. Males are simply the labor force, while it is women who are the queens.  But Women have the innate common sense to allow men to massage our childish egos by strutting around like peacocks taking credit for all of human progress, while women quietly go about the business of keeping humanity in tact. They have the good sense to give men the bragging rights, while they consume the honey of our labor and keep humanity moving forward.  But the fact is, everything a man does, from strutting around on the football field in  skin-tight pants, to flying to the Moon, he does to impress women, the queens of humanity. That's why we try to limit them.
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We don't want women flying jets, or in competition with us and diminishing our accomplishments. We want them standing on the sidelines applauding us in awe as they watch us soar over head. But women are simply allowing us to indulge our delusions.  A perfect example of the power of a woman's mind is the fact that when Barack Obama graduated from college, it was Michelle who groomed and mentored him. The Washington Post reported in its article, When Michelle Met Barack, “The fact that she was Obama's mentor made her feel self-conscious. She often recounts how she resisted when Barack asked her out . . .”  

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Thus, while women may not be as physically strong as men, when nature gives one living organism an advantage over another, it gives the other the means to compensate for it, and more often than not, quite effectively.  In the case of women, nature’s balancing act involves their strength of character and intellect, and that balancing mechanism was clearly on display in the Kavanaugh hearings. While Brett Kavanaugh was alternately roaring and beating his chest like an angry beast one minute, and then blubbering like a wounded child the next, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford simply stepped forward and quietly asked, “Would you pass me some caffeine, please?” Thereafter, she proceeded to drag Brett through the mud like the immature and bratty child that he was, and his immature response demonstrated that he continues to be.
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When Dr. Ford was done with Kavanaugh, his public persona was in tatters. She quietly, and quite methodically, completely demolished the image that he had carefully cultivated over his entire career.  If he lives to be ninety years old he'll never be looked upon in the same way again. Before our eyes the myth of a solemn, dignified, and respected jurist was ripped apart and replaced with the image of a childishly irresponsible, and recklessly narcissistic individual on the order of a Donald Trump (in fact, he actually seemed to channel Trump during the hearings) - and that was no small feat by Dr. Ford for just one morning of testimony, and she never raised her voice above a whisper. Then, instead of Kavanaugh having the simple common sense to try to salvage what was left of his completely demolished judicial image, his testimony only served to ratified Dr. Ford’s allegation of his inclination toward brutish and childish behavior. The only thing missing from Kavanaugh’s testimony was a slurring voice and a bottle of beer. It left one forced to ask, is this nomination a joke? What kind of judgment and judicial temperament is this!!!?
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Kavanaugh’s behavior before the entire world just screamed that this man lacked the judicial caliber and temperament to be elevated to a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land.  So Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court not only tarnishes the court, but further tarnishes our entire government with the roguish criminality of Donald Trump. Because it is abundantly clear that if it were not for the irresponsible self-service of Donald Trump, along with the GOP’s collusion in trying to help Trump escape the consequences of the Mueller probe, this nomination would never have gone forward. Any president with clean hands and common sense would have immediately withdrawn Kavanaugh's nomination. But not Trump. His need to protect his own self-interest far outweighs even a fleeting concern for the nation, so one could all but hear him asking the power-hungry Kavanaugh, “Do I have your loyalty?” It was an absolute atrocity, and based on the public’s response to Kavanaugh’s testimony, the vast majority of Americans agree with that assessment. 
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THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES

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In spite of the fact that Donald Trump was supported by 81% of White Evangelicals, The National Council of Churches, an organization which represents over 100,000 congregations and 40 million churchgoers issued the following statement:
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The National Council of Churches (NCC) calls for the withdrawal of the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court of the United States. We believe he has disqualified himself from this lifetime appointment and must step aside immediately.

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We note several reasons. During his appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Judge Kavanaugh exhibited extreme partisan bias and disrespect towards certain members of the committee and thereby demonstrated that he possesses neither the temperament nor the character essential for a member of the highest court in our nation. We are deeply disturbed by the multiple allegations of sexual assault and call for a full and unhindered investigation of these accusations.
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In addition, his testimony before the Judiciary Committee included several misstatements and some outright falsehoods. All citizens must be expected to speak truthfully when under oath, however, this is especially true for anyone who seeks a seat on the Supreme Court.
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Moreover, Judge Kavanaugh’s extensive judicial and political record is troubling with regard to issues of voting rights, racial and gender justice, health care, the rights of people with disabilities, and environmental protections. This leads us to believe that he cannot be an impartial justice in cases that are sure to come before him at the Court.
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Therefore the National Council of Churches calls for the withdrawal of Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court immediately.
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In addition to the Protestant Church, America, the primary Jesuit publication within the Catholic Church has withdrawn it’s support for Kavanaugh as well, saying, “While we previously endorsed the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh on the basis of his legal credentials and his reputation as a committed textualist, it is now clear that the nomination should be withdrawn.”
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THE GROSS VIOLATION OF POLITICAL NORMS
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THE GOP VS WOMEN
BAD MOVE, FELLAS

Another reason that the American people must revisit this Kavanaugh atrocity is that Trump and the GOP have upset far too many political norms in order to shove Kavanaugh down our throats. Clear thinking and fair-minded Americans simply can’t allow the GOP to get away with this gross assault on our democracy.
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Even the conservative Weekly Standard pointed out that Robert Carlson, President of the American Bar Association, asked senators Grassley and Feinstein in a letter on September 27 to withhold the vote on Kavanaugh until the FBI could investigate, citing “the ABA's respect for the rule of law and due process under law.” In addition, the dean of Yale Law School released a statement the following day that called for “a careful examination of the accusations and facts by the FBI.”  Robert Carlson, representing the ABA went on to say, “Deciding to proceed without conducting additional investigation would not only have a lasting impact on the Senate's reputation, but it will also negatively affect the great trust necessary for the American people to have in the Supreme Court.”
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Yet, in spite of all of these reasonable and common-sense appeals for simple fairness and adherence to democratic due process, Trump and his GOP cohorts steamrolled right over all appeals for fairness and common decency to shove Kavanaugh down America’s throat, whether we liked it or not - and then, in a historic display of gross hypocrisy and deceit, accused the Democrats of obstructionism! Thus, this one episode has completely outed the GOP. It has clearly demonstrated that the GOP has absolutely no respect for the intelligence of the American people, or for the principles of democracy.  It also shows that the GOP will ALWAYS give the conservative agenda priority over what is in the best interest of America.
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Clear evidence of that fact is, first, the GOP withheld 90% of the background documents on Kavanaugh’s career, which is clear evidence that they had plenty to hide. Then in spite of the fact that Mitch McConnell denied President Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, even an interview, and held the seat hostage for well over a year, all of a sudden the GOP became so frantic to rush Kavanaugh through that they attempted to deny the FBI the time to do any investigation at all. Then when they were FORCE to allow the FBI to do an investigation, they placed such severe restrictions and time limitations on it that what they called a supplemental investigation turned out to be nothing more than a transparent farce designed to give senators cover for the atrocity that they had every intention of carrying out regardless of the results.  
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Donald Trump flat-out lied to the American people when he said the FBI was given free-rein to interview anyone connected to the Kavanaugh case. The secret results had barely come in before NBC reported that the “FBI has not contacted dozens of potential sources in Kavanaugh investigation," and that literally dozens of witnesses were not interviewed. NBC went on to report that "With the investigation winding down, multiple individuals who have tried to contact the bureau have not heard back.” The FBI was not allowed to interview many witnesses who were clamoring to be heard, and that’s in spite of the fact that there is solid evidence that Kavanaugh perjured himself before the senate.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/dozens-potential-sources-information-have-not-been-contacted-fbi-kavanaugh-n916146

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KAVANAUGH COMMITTED PERJURY DURING SENATE TESTIMONY
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Kavanaugh testified during his testimony that he first heard of Deborah Ramirez’s allegation that he exposed himself before her when it came out in the New Yorker article in September, but text messages show that he was communicating with friends about the allegation in July.

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“In the days leading up to a public allegation that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh exposed himself to a college classmate, the judge and his team were communicating behind the scenes with friends to refute the claim, according to text messages obtained by NBC News:
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“The texts between Berchem and Karen Yarasavage, both friends of Kavanaugh, suggest that the nominee was personally talking with former classmates about Ramirez’s story in advance of the New Yorker article that made her allegation public. In one message, Yarasavage said Kavanaugh asked her to go on the record in his defense. Two other messages show communication between Kavanaugh's team and former classmates in advance of the story.”
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/mutual-friend-ramirez-kavanaugh-anxious-come-forward-evidence-n915566
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And finally, even after the GOP limited the FBI investigation to a mere farce, once the “investigation” was completed it was kept secret from the American people. The senators weren’t even given a copy of the completed investigation. Senators were forced to go to a special room just to read it. So the question is, who do these Republican politicians think they are to tell the American people what they can and cannot see!!!?  We paid for that investigation, and, we pay their salaries! - and far too much, I might add.
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What this sad episode in our history clearly demonstrates is that the Republican Party has become so arrogant in their newfound power that they’ve forgotten their place, and it’s time for the American people to remind them of it. What these politicians fail to realize is that they are not our masters, they’re our EMPLOYEES, so the American people would be absolutely remiss not to DEMAND to revisit this issue and point that fact out.  
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So once again, Brett (or maybe I should say, Bart), don’t get too comfortable because we’ll be back - and this time with a CRIMINAL investigation.

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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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