15-06-2017, 06:34 PM
All I can say is everything I and others feared would happen if Trump became President have been proven correct. Nothing yet has come as a surprise. The Emolument Clause violation was talked about well before he won, and during the period between 'winning' and inauguration. He has proven to be exactly the same person and hold the same beliefs he had when campaigning - full of hate, prejudice, disregard for the law, focused more on himself than on the Country, uninformed, hot-headed, misogynist, and Oligarch, supporting the Rich to be richer at the expense of the Poor and Middle-class, anti-Muslim and most all other ethnic groups, a racist, an opportunist, a circus tout selling snake oil of all kinds.....
IMO, the ONLY positive plank of his platform was improved relations with Russia....although I think he wanted this not for geopolitical and ethical reasons, but for 'business' reasons related to his own [and his friends] business ventures and financing. If the Russians thought to or tried to tamper with US elections [I have not yet seen such proof, but am open to it], they should be condemned - as should the USA, which has been known to have tampered with many nations elections from WW2 to present! What would be nice, but I don't expect it, would be everyone held fully accountable for what actually was or is being done wrong/illegally/immorally - without all the hype, propaganda and political overtones/nationalistic overtones.
US Citizens had best realize they were faced with a horrible 'set' of choices this past election...and should never let it happen again - this would mean the wholesale abandonment of the two 'main' parties and forming/backing/voting for lots of new or smaller parties [and making them viable]. If not, the Nation is lost forever and history will record this much the way the last Emperors of Rome were...as these are our last Presidencies as the Empire crumbles!
IMO, the ONLY positive plank of his platform was improved relations with Russia....although I think he wanted this not for geopolitical and ethical reasons, but for 'business' reasons related to his own [and his friends] business ventures and financing. If the Russians thought to or tried to tamper with US elections [I have not yet seen such proof, but am open to it], they should be condemned - as should the USA, which has been known to have tampered with many nations elections from WW2 to present! What would be nice, but I don't expect it, would be everyone held fully accountable for what actually was or is being done wrong/illegally/immorally - without all the hype, propaganda and political overtones/nationalistic overtones.
US Citizens had best realize they were faced with a horrible 'set' of choices this past election...and should never let it happen again - this would mean the wholesale abandonment of the two 'main' parties and forming/backing/voting for lots of new or smaller parties [and making them viable]. If not, the Nation is lost forever and history will record this much the way the last Emperors of Rome were...as these are our last Presidencies as the Empire crumbles!
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass