Month: July 2020

Below is presentation of what I see is a real enemy of America and our freedoms. They are the very issues that at the very least need to be considered from macro and micro level concepts as to why we are here as a nation. Also what we can do about it and our actions in moving forward and my hopes for the direction this administration continues to take us in.

In our country we have a very intelligently crafted Constitution and Bill of Rights of which our Founders formed the blueprint of our society and its governance. They created the 3 branches of government and installed subtle and yet strong ‘Checks & Balances” to ensure our Union would endure regardless of an individual’s political qualifications AND to remain absent of tyrannical ruler-ship. This has proven evident and ever more so efficient in maintaining our Union as Donald Trump, a businessman and an outsider unskilled in public governing, was elected as President and the administration continues to govern.

Some things to consider as I have become more politically aware is what incentives various news and media organizations. The main news conglomerates CNN, MSNBC, CBS, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, and Fox News are motivated by consumer ratings, advertisement dollars and the promotion of conspiracies and divisiveness. Everyone is competing in an ecosystem that is fast changing with the inventions of various social media platforms. The entity or reporter that sheds light on something first is the best and most valid. But in a climate of such great competition there seems to be a need for more sensational content and controversy. All in the name of Rating, Dollar and Controversy. And then the various social media platforms only amplify ideologies more intimately and provide more “noise” to an already overloaded environment of information.

Literally EVERYDAY regardless of anything else for three years the news conglomerates pushed a narrative that Trump colluded with the Russian government to win the presidency. The Mueller report came out and provided no substantial conclusive evidence showing that was the case. Then it was Impeachment for withholding aid to Ukraine, and then bribery and then abuse of power for political gain. On and on. Americans are tired of this as seen in several polls. Fighting has still ensued and there are no signs of it slowing down. Anything the administration sets out to achieve regardless of merit is obstructed in partisan games. Be it taxes, immigration reform or military action it is met with blind partisanship. Heck now with this current crisis, there are 3 oversight committee’s consisting of partisan and bi-partisan governance of hearings and yet one side still wants an additional oversight committee totaling four, really? come on! This is just simply exhausting, and before the dust even settles with this crisis. What about other issues that need care and legislative debate? This practice of redundant committees only adds insult and injury to a growing fracture within our country.

What has become of America’s political arena as a direct result of the above? Was the real intended goal achieved? I would argue yes, it was! The enemy of our republic has hijacked our “United” States.

The Enemy is hiding in plain sight but is camouflaged by the noise of Trumps use of hyperbole, and communication style and the Medias political and moral piety.

In watching most of the Russia and Impeachment Hearings. I saw a subtle misuse of the information and much can be said maybe in a later article. However, there is one testimony that is relevant to what is ongoing in American politics that struck a chord with me. During the impeachment hearing was the testimony of Dr. Fiona Hill. A portion of her hours long testimony shed light the underlying enemy of America. She stated that the real threat and purpose of Russia meddling with the USA was to sow distrust and cloud over whoever was president regardless of who it was. However, she goes on to present further personal partisan policy differences and stated half-truths. Ultimately when asked by the committee to raise your hand if the information they presented was impeachable she did not raise her hand. It was so paradoxical.

 

 

The Elephants in the Room

But Trump Lies and is fast and loose and takes liberties with facts and information. Trump is not “Presidential” and attacks people and the news that oppose him.

Trump communication style of being fast and loose with information when not critical is a form of honest interaction. Take for example when people ask him about North Korea and he just gives a typical political run around. He could not possibly answer comprehensively for a whole host of reasons. Yet the media ran many stories that Trump has no agreement with North Korea only to create more “Distrust” around this administration’s efforts.  Trump is not being “Presidential”. This is futile to discuss as Trump cannot fit inside any preset political or personal definition. This is what many Americans like.

The media being held in high regard throughout the past few decades has changed into many different forms and the News conglomerate have been shaken due to Trumps style and lack of political correctness. They only respond with hatred and double standards and sloppy research of various topics. For example, Climate Change and the Paris agreement. If the reporter read the content, they would see that this administration is without fault in terminating our participation’s Paris Climate Agreement. Nonetheless they choose sensationalism, fear mongering and sloppiness over steadiness and accuracy. Being aware of personal bias is only achieved with a certain level of steadiness and maturity which is abundantly absent in both sides of our political culture currently.

I understand many Americans dislike Trumps Brashness and bluntness in the moment style of communicating. However, that is not justification for calling Trump a reckless, incompetent, or racist, and xenophobe as Bernie Sanders and many networks like to promote. His policies show the contrary. The Media aggressively paints Trump as reckless and refuses to report anything good that this administration has organized through its governance. Thus the sides become more defining and the RESULT is the division is evermore clear.

After presenting to you the above information, I ask you now not who but what is the real enemy of the United States. From my view it is much deeper than a personality, agenda, or party propaganda (whatever the flavor). It is this division or as Dr. Hill put it any means to place a “cloud over any presidency”.

I pose that this form of public chaos ultimately is good for our growth as a nation. It is a positive in that it causes us to our own research to gain stability. Like a child going through puberty. One becomes more aware of the environment resulting from new externally forces being imposed. It naturally causes us to then make more informed decisions for ourselves and our country. We can develop convictions as to what our place is as an American. In a world getting smaller by the day through globalization this understanding is absolutely required if we want to remain a free and prosperous society. Globalization is not a negative, but we need to slowly and collectively as a species and as Americans what those values will be. (More on this at another time).

 

As the dust begins to settle with the Russia and Ukraine investigations, new information is coming to light. Information devoid of the hyper partisan zeal. As I said in my first Blog post “The truth is in the middle of two extremes.” The information we are presented with from the IG report has displayed gross bureaucratic negligence, FISA abuses, and extreme biases from people inside these investigations who were shown to be acting above the law. At this moment in time there are still ongoing investigations going on with Durham so until we have more information, I will refrain from going deeper. This shows only more of the inner workings of the bias and the double standards within the media has promoted Trump with more voter support.

Moving forward

“A house divided against itself, cannot stand.”

I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South.  –  President Abraham Lincoln

We won’t be divided forever and the above statement was made with confidence from Lincoln. This is a testament to the “Checks & Balances” and in our current ideological Modern Civil War a warning to be aware of our responsibility as in determining who and what we stand for as nation.

Which side are we on?

Many more Americans are defining what it is to be an American to them and we have become more politically engaged than ever before. This is a good thing and something the enemies of the USA are hoping we do not awake to. I believe our Nation had indeed started to lose its way. Complacency had gotten the best of us. The previous Administration had lost its convictions of how to change D.C. due to their beliefs of political correctness and liberal form of governance. This produced a greater divide in American prosperity and freedom. Trump is the American People choice for a new type of leadership and the results speak for themselves

Trump will always be Trump and fight back and 10x harder and say more outrageous things. He is not politically correct and that is what I and many Americans like. We elected a fighter for the American Dream and there is no one more prepared for the fight as Trump has already achieved a measure of the American Dream.

Before Trump was elected Washington could be likened to a kitchen’s “junk drawer”, And the Administration is the owner of that Drawer about to clean it. How is it done most effective? You take the draw out and dump everything out in a pile. You than determine what you want and do not want in it. It is rough and things will never be returned to the drawer. However, after it the cleaning process has been completed the junk drawer is renewed to its former glory. Our you can go the politically correct and slow way of organizing and possibly lose sight due to time constraints (term limits) and nothing really changes.

For Americans, Trump has up ended the Washington’s way of doing business in darkness and that “Drawer” is being returned to its former glory, but to those that fight for political correctness and a global agenda it will be a rough ride. However, Canada and Mexico our are neighbors who would surely take you in.

 

I love this country. We enjoy and take for granted many freedoms and opportunities that do not exist in many places of the world. As an American I wake up, work hard and with adequate time and perseverance achieve whatever I set before me. We can achieve our dreams and I am grateful for this country. There is much to be grateful and supportive for, however when I listen to President Trump at a press conference, I see a stance and tone of debate. I see the Media and the left painting America as bullies of the world but not providing adequate context and that America is not a great country. Positions taken are often then amplified on Opinion Segments within the news networks. Trump is painted as an offender of Freedom and democracy in American politics.

Politics is a dirty business; nothing is black and white the divisions within the political systems in governments here at home and abroad thrive in this environment. There’s a lot of noise and mud in the political arena.  I for this reason don’t like to invest much time in discussing much with others this aspect of life. However, the author of this website aka. my Uncle Jimmy and I were discussing President Trump and debating on how the current administration is running the country. Shots were fired and bets were placed. Some terms and conditions were established and I will bring to light my reasons and thoughts here in this Blog for my support of Donald Trump.

I wish to also say this that these are my views subject to my thinking processes and upbringing. Where I see compassion and strength others may see hatred and weakness. The truth though I have found is always in the middle between the extremes.

There is a general narrative that Trump is an impulsive failed businessman, a racist, a xenophobe even more so an incompetent president bringing this country down with him. The other Narrative I see is one that President Trump is resetting politics as usual, reducing big government’s role and using his skills that he has honed over the years as a successful businessman to spur economic growth by his economic and foreign policies. I see a man with a mission to unleash American abundance & creativity within the daily life of every American. Thereby expanding the essence of America and what it means throughout the world. Both of those narratives will be explored, clarified and judged as this blog progresses.

Trump as a candidate made many promises. In substance they were in accordance with his message for many years as a private citizen. These interviews and perspectives he has performed are available to all who choose to do their own independent explorations of Trump.

I am voting for Trump because of his results he delivered regarding his promises. I am voting for Trump because of his strength, focus, and compassion for America first.  I am voting for President Trump because he has displayed a high level of focus and intent to get his agenda of America First into the lives of every American citizen. He has remained strong though all the lies and attacks the Media has pushed. Trumps, hard nose, don’t let them see you sweat, strong man façade inflames controversy. This style has a result of pushing things out of context which then defines differences of views and later stroked and cuddled by media Opinion segments. People then only see the media and President Trumps Style. They are distracted and don’t talk about the substance, context or result of actions taken by this administration.

This is my first blog post, there is a lot to unpack, so I think it is best to keep things simple and short. I will explore each of the follow reasons below in a separate blog post in support of my decision to support Donald Trump in this next 2020 presidential election.

In the Three+ years as President Donald Trump has:

Economic

He has drawn a line in the sand regarding trade deals with various countries. He has demonstrated thorough various actions he will always put American in the best position possible to capitalize in trade and foreign policies that improve the lives of Americans and Americas as a whole.

Reduced taxes for everyday American workers. Resulting in unprecedented GDP and job growth.

Through various forms of deregulating the government’s role across all federal agencies taking back control of the powers given to the Bureaucrats by incompetent leadership back into the hands of elected officials.

Continues to push a commonsense approach to working in correcting climate change.

Immigration

Has not backed down in keeping America in a position of strength by safeguarding our immigration systems.

Continues to push for immigration Reform

Foreign Policy

By country and various alliance and coalitions he is correcting Foreign policies that have hurt America in the past.

Military

Operates in a way that puts terrorists and proxies on notice.

Actively pursues options to stop America being “Police force” for the world

Continues to push a balance approach to military action. “Peace Through Strength”

As brought back fairness within NATO alliances

Donald Trump as President has accomplished much more, and I do believe him when he says he is just beginning. He has been gaining more Republican AND Democrat support as seen from his rallies. In addition, I found a movement at Go to( #Walkaway Campaign)  to exist to be a real force for democrats waking up as a result of the medias lies in a world of information overload. The Media’s Relationship with the President is dirty and complicated. I will present to you my perspective on The Media in a future post.

By Rattling the ‘Deep State” and “Big Corporate Media” Trumps Victory is sealed, and he will win Bigly and most likely turn a few blue states red. Trump has not lost his fire and is not slowing down. The enthusiasm for Trump’s America is growing.

For that matter, Donald J. Trump is realizing allot of things lately. Yesterday, the most ignorant president to actually hold the office finally realized that his so-called convention that was moved from North Carolina to Florida, in defiance of all of his advisors, doctors, and state officials, will not take place. It was interesting to see this failed president make that statement during a press conference. Yet, he now wants to move it back to North Carolina, but he must know that he’s not going to get any OK from the state to hold the convention in a closed public place. But Trump doesn’t care, as he only cares for himself.  The only option he has will be to have a virtual convention, or speeches aired that would have been stated at the convention, in order to hold and regain some of the Trump supporters that he has lost. He only has one month for his so-called convention, and then he has 3 debates to contend with Joe Biden. We will see who’s smarter.

The facts are getting really clear, now just about 100 days from election day. Donald Trump is loosing big in the south, especially in Florida, and Georgia. But Joe Biden is running away with the support in those states including California. Trump is loosing in Michigan, and is even down in the polls in just a point or two in Texas. Yes, TEXAS!.

By Trumps policies, he is even digging himself a larger hole to fall in. If he completely falls in the hole, I’m afraid he doesn’t have a tall enough ladder or life line to escape the burial he will receive when he looses the election with Biden. After the election, Trump faces several lawsuits that he will not be able to hide from, including prosecution from New York. Donald Trump has created his own future which tends to be bleak.

Trump continues to push to have schools re-open in the fall, even during the flu season, that will ultimately assist in claiming more lives from virus patients acquiring the simple flu. He doesn’t care about the children that will be at risk. He doesn’t care about their families, especially the elderly that can and most likely will catch the virus from the young ones.

Trump doesn’t realize that everything that he’s done in the past in his first term is now m-e-a-n-i-n-g-l-e-s-s. All the good he may have done by some accounts has been erased away from his terrible job with the pandemic, when Trump now holds an approval rating of the mid-30% range. You don’t have to take my word for it. Go to F0xNews and check their polls. They just came out and they are damning for Trump. Trump is putting the final touches as he is personally nailing his coffin, as he forces non-identifiable police officers in war fatigues and unmarked cars to arrest demonstrators that are in the streets in democratically controlled cities. Doesn’t he realize that he needs these voters if he wants to win. He needs every vote that he can get.

My nephew Dominic is consistent in his belief to support Trump, even though these facts exist. He contacted me recently, and wants to publish a few articles in support of Trump or his policies on this website. I told him previously that I would allow him to publish without moderation from me. He would have complete control on what is published. Since then as he didn’t publish his articles in a timely manner, he temporarily lost his ability to publish here. But I have thought things through and I’m going to let him write again. This time, I will publish all the comments from readers, as I must admit, were suppressed by me when Dominic wrote his first article, incidentally that will be republished when Dominic comes up with his next articles.  I encourage all readers to comment on anything that Dominic or I write. This time, the articles must be good enough to convince me that he even has a chance to win a $100,000 bet that he wants to make with me, that Donald Trump will win election.  I am not stupid. I base my decisions on facts, and I’m only willing to go through with the bet if he can prove with his articles that Trump can win because of them. Is there any solid ground that Dominic and Trump can stand on at the moment? Trump governs through division.

The country is tired of it. And, there are two more things that will happen when he publishes the articles.

First, I will refute the lies that he makes in Trump’s name. I will refute the inaccuracies as he states them. Second,  every line that he writes will be subject to criticism by me and the readers, and all criticism will be published.

To get back to Trump, everything he has done so far in the past in his first term is a thing of the past. None of that counts in this moment of time. What matters is for voters to have the right to vote in a manner that they want too. What counts is what needs to be done to stop the Coronavirus from spreading. What is important is for him to fully accept the claims of  ‘Black lives Matter’. He needs to accept that the U.S. Congress has voted to remove all of the Confederate statues throughout the country.  He needs to understand that his method of protecting these monuments of hate in the past are going to be gone, and he shouldn’t fight it, denying citizens their first amendment rites to protest.  He needs to go with the governing body in this case because even if he vetos the bill that passed overwhelmingly by both houses in Congress, which I fully expect that he would, that the U.S. Congress, to include the Republican led Senate will over-ride his veto. After all, Donald Trump votes by mail, so why can’t voters vote by mail. They would not be subject to the Coronavirus by staying at home. Donald Trump claims he doesn’t want to risk people in close proximity catching the virus at a convention, but it’s OK for children to be in close proximity in a closed classroom. It’s OK for people to have to exercise their right to vote in person but he doesn’t have to. It is known that the lines will be exceptionally long, especially in minority precincts, as the Republicans have reduced the number of polling places in these precincts in a direct attempt to prevent many people who most likely will vote against him, the right to vote, while continuing to provide more than ample voting places in precincts that would vote Republican and vote for him.

The bottom line, Trump cannot win a fair fight. It is fully expected that when he looses the election, he will confuse to concede. But what Trump doesn’t know even if he doesn’t concede is that he will be physically removed if he tries to stay. He can cause havoc between the election and the final 90 days before Biden assumes the presidency in January, but if he tries anything stupid, he will be impeached again and removed from office faster than anyone could ever imagine.

Even on another front, he is loosing in his words “biggly” which is not even a real word. His niece wrote a very damning book that cannot win him any votes in November.  John Bolton, who used to work in the Whitehouse also has a book that is published now, and another to come that is promised to surface before the election by his own personal attorney who went to jail named Michael Cohen. Three books and more to come. Trumps taxes will surely become known to everyone eventually after he leaves office.

On January 3rd, sweeping reform to include all of  Trump’s executive orders will be reversed. Our democracy will survive without him. Many of Trumps supporters will now vote for Joe Biden. As the saying goes, Donald Trump’s goose is cooked.