Selling Victimization

Donald Trump has made a political career out of selling victimization.  It's never fair what he goes through, it's always rigged against him, there's always some conspiracy that's stopping him.  If he were just another co-worker for nearly anyone in the country, they'd be demanding that this freeloader be fired immediately.  Since he's occupying the white house, his supporters don't view things this way.  Why?  Because he pivots from his story of victimization to a story of successes and geniusness, false as they are.  His sons have especially taken this lesson and learned it well from their father and so it's not surprising to hear Donald Trump, Jr. making claims that anyone who opposes his father must want to see Coronavirus kill millions of people.  This is the twisted narrative of someone who will do anything to create emotional pain in the population so that those who both feel the emotional pain and also believe what he's saying will have no choice but to vote for him.  Trump supporters are regularly lead into these traps by Donald Trump that they can't break free from.  There's no way for them to not vote for Trump because to do so would be to admit that they have believed falsehoods and that their emotions have been manipulated.  The potential trigger to make them understand the opposite of what they currently understand is made less likely because of the fear and intimidation that the Trump team regularly injects into the political dialogue.  Why suffer the pain of admitting that you were wrong when you know there is an equally great amount of pain that you'll experience from those who you've abandoned?  Victims they will be.  Trump and victimhood are synonymous, but as long as they remain victims together, the supporters and Trump, then they are "winning".  To abandon this collective victimization is to "lose".  It makes sense to them.

Despite all of that spin from the Trump family of victims, the truth is that there have been a number of constructive attempts to paint a picture of what is not being managed well by Donald Trump in order that he may fix his mistakes.  The Democrats are actually making it as difficult as possible for Trump to continue to make the grave mistake of ignoring Coronavirus and they're using as much power as they have to force the administration to take it seriously.  

With the continued selling of victimization from the Trump administration, it is unfortunate that we now face a situation where there really are actual victims who are fighting for life against a serious virus.  It is sad that Trump is preoccupied with expressing anger at people who are trying to help him and help fellow Americans.

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Spiral Of Silence And Trump Nazism

There is a reason for Trump’s anger.  There is a reason he encourages the exhibition of this same anger in those who surround him.  Only by creating fear and intimidation of the majority can the minority cause them to become silent.  Trump has figured this out, either on his own or with the help of a teacher.  The Spiral of Silence is the name for this theory and the name of the same book by Elizabeth Noelle-Neumann.  It seeks to explain how Hitler gained and maintained power.  In a nutshell, it is a manipulation of democracy.  It leverages extreme emotions so that democracy can’t exist because individuals become too afraid of being singled out when they support what they believe.

Trump won on the distribution of votes. He won just enough support in just enough states using online tools which facilitated this social manipulation. Of course, the Russian bots helped as well.  Trump's anger, conviction and proxy death threat towards Hillary Clinton helped him in his strategy of silencing and instilling fear in the majority.  It is what Hitler did.  It is why Trump invited the "Bikers For Trump" group to the White House.  Not for their support, as they are not large in number, but for their ability to intimidate the majority.  Perhaps what has happened to Lindsey Graham has been largely because Trump needs to create more like this.  Trump sought to trigger violence in the mid-terms in 2018 if the Republicans did not maintain control and for that reason said he thought violence would happen. He needs violent, angry support in order for his minority to maintain control.  This is why he squints, scowls and yells insults and spews hatred at every opportunity and this is why he attacks each of the democratic presidential candidates for things that should not matter in an election contest between adults.  Trump doesn't seek to appeal to adults, he seeks to appeal to the primitive hatreds of people who don't seek knowledge or personal improvement.

It is a very dangerous thing when someone with this much hatred and anger is able to cause the majority to become silent.  Although we in the majority have had good successes in forcing Trump to stop (or pretend to stop) some of his most vile and horrific actions, such as family separations, we have not done a very good job of standing up for the people who have tried to shield us from these same types of incidents.  As a result, there have been a number of resignations of people in the Trump Administration who attempted to stop or slow the Nazism marching through the White House.  Some of them we know about from Bob Woodward.

As the number of "acting" positions increases in the Trump Administration, our collective vulnerability increases as a country.  We are slowly losing our firewall against Trump's most damaging desires.  We can't continue this way.  The people who know enough to protect us from the damage this man seeks to cause can't hold up indefinitely.

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Trump Taboos And The Trump Fallacy Machine

Franklin Delano Roosevelt led the USA to victory in World War II and turned around the nation's economy after Hoover led us into the great depression.  Contrast that with Trump, who 1) withdrew troops from Syria at exactly the same time when Turkey decided to cross the border into Syria and attack our allies, the Kurdish people and 2) has now announced an upcoming truce with the Taliban.

Trump has repeatedly sought to endear himself to enemies of the USA while hurting friends of the USA.  For this reason, we are in great danger as long as this man remains in power.

Roosevelt created the alphabet soup agencies because he believed a lack of (good and correct) information to be the central problem to the presidency.  He was not so arrogant as to believe that a man's instinct by itself would lead to the best decisions for the country, so he surrounded himself with experts in order to make better decisions.  Contrast that with Trump seeking to replace any member of any alphabet soup agency with someone who says what Trump wants them to say.  Information has been replaced by the great fallacy of confirmation bias.  If there is or has ever been any greatness in the vicinity of Donald Trump, then it is this great fallacy.  Of course there are numerous other fallacies that Trump commits on a regular basis, but the fallacy of confirmation bias is the angle from which he approaches anything in life.  Whatever he would like to happen or like to believe he will continue to shout, repeat and shout some more until dissenters are silenced in some way or another.

FDR didn't need to give large tax breaks to extremely wealthy individuals in order to create a great economy.  The economic boom that FDR brought about lasted so long after his death and his presidency that it stands out in the minds of investors and the common man as the impetus for the greatest economic boom the USA has ever known.  Contrast that with Trump, who inherited an economy that was on a positive trajectory for all but the very beginning of the Obama presidency.  What Trump has done to help the economy he has done by saddling the country with debt that future generations will struggle to pay down.  These ongoing Trump budget deficits are giving huge tax breaks to billionaires.  Trump has tightened the labor market by scaring away legal immigrants from coming to the USA in the first place, thereby making it extremely easy for citizens or anyone already in the USA to find a job.  Thus, the Trump economy is fueled by rigging a short-term view of the world where it's considered acceptable to hurt the long-term prosperity of the country in order to ensure that Trump's time in office is viewed as a prosperous time.

This great fallacy of confirmation bias that Trump loves so much has given him the narrative that America is great because the economy is great.  It has given him the narrative that immigrants are bad and he has the right to separate small children from their parents for months and months simply because they crossed the border without the government's permission.  Trump's confirmation bias has given him the narrative that it is smart to steal money from the Department of Defense in order to build a wall on the southern border.

Most dangerously, Trump's confirmation bias has given him the narrative that everyone around him needs to confirm everything he says...all of the time.  For that reason, his National Security Advisor acts as a disciplinarian against anyone who contradicts Trump's confirmation bias.  Trump has replaced his Director of National Intelligence with someone qualified only to enforce Trump's confirmation bias and ensure that taboos that Trump is most afraid of are never mentioned.  Anyone who contradicts Trump's confirmation bias becomes a target of his wrath.  Thus, Trump fears anyone who supports independent analysis.

FDR fixed our banking system and our economy.  These fixes served us well until the final year of the George W. Bush presidency (or the Reagan presidency, if you want to consider the Savings & Loan scandal).  We still feel the effects of the economic crash of that final year of the Bush presidency.  Perhaps it was because although it had rebounded for most of the Obama presidency, the rebound just wasn't enough and so the people elected Trump (based on the distribution of votes, not based on actual total quantity of votes nationwide, which favored Hillary Clinton).  FDR told us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, whereas Trump implies that violence may ensue when he doesn't get his way.

Donald Trump wants you to be afraid and he wants you to do as his party does and his appointees do: confirm everything that he says.  Trump will never be a Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  Nor will he ever be the Teddy Roosevelt that FDR admired so much.  With your help, he will be gone soon and we will be able to return to the motivational narrative, based on facts that Franklin Delano Roosevelt used to guide us through the devastation of the great depression and World War II.

We can have prosperity, national unity, optimism and a long-term view all at the same time, but we can't have those things under a president who seeks to stimulate hatred among his own people.  We can't have those things under a president who seeks to stimulate hatred between us and our allies abroad.  We can't have those things under a president who seeks to stimulate hatred between those of us who were born here and those of us who immigrated here.  We must replace Donald Trump in order to have peace and prosperity be something long-term and in order to do so in a way that doesn't cause so much pain, suffering and pessimism in the USA and in the rest of the world.

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Frisky Trump

Although Michael Bloomberg has been criticized quite a bit recently for his stop and frisk policies during his time as mayor of New York City, not enough attention has been given to another 2020 presidential candidate who supported and defended the same policy on a number of occasions.  Who is that candidate?  Donald Trump.  Here's a reminder from when he was a presidential candidate in 2016.

And more recently, here's what he had to say.

We have enough evidence to know that Trump has supported and advocated for Stop and Frisk policies for at least the entirety of his presidency and during his candidacy of 2016.  Trump's position on Stop and Frisk is consistent with the extreme positions he has taken with respect to gun control, opposing it while talking out of both sides of his mouth and supporting the NRA's position that arming the entire US population tooth and nail is the only way to stop bad actors.  It's little wonder why shootings across the country have continued such a long streak in the news headlines throughout the Trump presidency.  We have seen shootings at Wal-Mart, several churches of all faiths, shopping malls, etc.  The best way to end the nonsense of the Trump presidency is for voters not to stop and frisk Mr. Frisky Donald Trump, but to make him irrelevant by voting for the Democrat in 2020.  Only then will we have a chance at meaningful gun control and peace across the country.

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Remembering Trump's Cowardice During Armistice Day

With movies like 1917 having recently won at the Oscars on the footsteps of Peter Jackson's restoration of WWI footage in They Shall Not Grow Old, it is important to remember Trump's cowardice on the 100th anniversary of Armistice.  It's been over a year since this commemoration of the end of World War I, but it's important to not forget how the President failed to represent his nation.

Why is Trump constantly hiding in his golf resorts?  When he has the chance to get outside and take a walk with other world leaders, he can't seem to show up.  Is this related to his heavy inhaling (i.e. during the 2016 presidential debates) and constant shifting side-to-side every time he gives a speech?  Is Trump so nervous that he needs alignment of some rare circumstances to relax?  Or does he need to be in some infrequent (normal, for the rest of us) state of mind in order to calm himself enough to mingle with people who aren't obligated to obey his orders?  

We know that "Doctor" Ronnie Jackson was a bit dishonest about Trump's health (to say the least) but what is really wrong with Donald?  There is some social anxiety that's quite evident.  Here are a few examples that will illustrate the point.

Even the dictators Trump praises are not immune from Trump's desire to go home and crawl under the covers.

When world leaders are present at anywhere that's not a Trump resort, Trump gets scared.  It's just extra shameful that he chose to stay away from the 100th Anniversary commemoration of Armistice Day while blaming the rain.  Our fallen soldiers and our nation deserve better representation than this.  Remember this when you're watching 1917.

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Criticism Of Trump's Tweets As A Defense

Attorney General William Barr has decided to defend his own role as lead defender of Donald Trump's criminal actions by saying that Trump's tweets make it impossible for him to do his job.  That's quite an exaggeration considering that all Mr. Barr had to do in order to do his job was to avoid interfering in the normal day-to-day operations of the Department of Justice.  William Barr is working for a mob boss and he's filling the role just the way you would expect from a mob boss underling.  He's completely afraid, knowing full well that he's done something not only illegal, but also uniquely in opposition to the democracy that we have created and championed around the world for so long.  He knows that if he lets that fear show then everyone who he has allied himself with will destroy him.  Barr is just trying to stay alive in the Trump world where everyone below you and everyone above you is waiting for the opportunity to attack you as soon as you fail to distort the truth enough to defend Trump.  Trumpism writes pre-emptive obituaries each and every day for all of Trump's loyalists, knowing that at some point all Trump loyalists will be inclined to either do the right thing and speak out against Trump or be forced to resign.  Barr's statements are a weak defense and he knows very well that he has done something wrong and something for which he could be tried and found guilty in court.  

We've strayed quite a distance from Barr's confirmation testimony in front of the Senate and this is not the first time.  

These are the statements of a man who knows the law enough to know what he needs to say in order to maintain the illusion of justice while completely ignoring the vast foundation of laws and guidelines that our real system of justice are based upon.  

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Pivoting and Re-Pivoting Towards Trump's Hatred

Donald Trump will include his enemies in shared attacks against other enemies.  Everyone is Donald Trump's enemy at some point or another, his supporters included.  Many of them do not realize this.  When he attacks China, he does everything possible to ensure Democrats are with him.  When he attacks European imports, he does everything possible to ensure the entirety of the blue collar domestic manufacturing workers are with him.  When he attacks immigrants, he does everything possible to ensure that minorities amongst the citizenry are with him.  He wants you to forget that at any moment he could decide to pivot to attacking a group which you make up.  You are a part of some group.  Some group he doesn't like.  Some group he despises for something.  He will eventually work his way around to attacking that group publicly and you will be forced into silence, shocked by what you are hearing and perhaps even in denial about it.  You may at first apologize for him for attacking you.  "He didn't really mean it", you think to yourself.  You have been trained to want to love him, because that's what one does at his rallies.  He will love you back if you love him, you tell yourself, and that's what you want and need.  It is always temporary and always based around how he can paint a more perfect image of himself as the idol of humanity's dreams.  You, the Trump rally attendee, will eventually begin to wonder what you have done.  Will it be the next time Trump attacks a woman and the ensuing argument between him and that woman inspires him to attack the entire gender?  Perhaps with some comment about "blood coming out of her...wherever".  Will it be the next time Trump attacks athletes who speak out in protest and the argument inspires him to label them "sons of bitches"?  He claims to do this in defense of the flag, but he has attacked so many of our soldiers, veterans and law enforcement officials who defend it.  You are not free from attack by Trump.  Not if you shake his hand, not if you tell him you have loved him for 20 years as a fan of his television show and not if you tell him how much you love some policy of his or even all of his policies.  The time will come when it is to his advantage to include you in a group that he needs to attack in order to prove his greatness.  When you become advantageous to demean, he will forget any shared bond which either of you may have felt at some point in time.  Your loyalty to him will go unrewarded.  Tim Cook found a way to exclude Apple products from tariffs and he may have thought he had endeared himself to Trump.  Now, we know the FTC is reviewing all past company acquisitions of Apple and other large companies in Trump's quest to attack big tech companies for not being favorable enough towards him as a candidate.


Just before the midterm elections of 2018, Chris Cuomo told us what Trump was doing to maintain enough support to continue.  He was using a common enemy to motivate his supporters.  

The common enemy is always changing.  It may be "deep state" today if some part of the government has found new illegal activity in one of Trump's businesses or family members.  You, the Trump supporter, will cheer his criticisms of your government.  This government which has evolved over nearly 250 years and grown increasingly more specialized to deal with increasingly complex problems in an increasingly complex world.  Trump is not only removing these specialized abilities that we have developed over time to deal with our problems, but he is removing even the less specialized and more basic, primitive capabilities that we expect to allow us to survive.  You cheer his criticisms of deep state, but you drink water with chemicals that were just invented a few years ago and were banned under EPA regulations, but now are permitted again.  You may not suffer the consequences of having these new chemicals in your body, but at some point in the future, your offspring will be affected.  Our laws, our system of government and all the protections that it has afforded us from people and things that could cause us harm, it is all disintegrating as you cheer.  It is popular now to promote voting rights for formerly incarcerated people and Trump will claim them as his loyal followers, which they may accept and be swayed into this implicit adoption of their minds and beliefs from the person who they view as having given them this right.  They too will be attacked by him when the time comes for him to defend himself.  Our veterans who have protected us in the armed forces have been criticized by Trump for every imaginable detail that Trump can find.  We've seen that a soldier can be criticized for having been captured and taken prisoner by a hostile country, as in the case of John McCain, whose family tree had a long and distinguished history of military service.  We've seen that even when Trump agrees with something that has happened, he has found that he can still make himself better than that thing and all who were a part of it by saying that it should have happened sooner and faster.  So, when you are on the same side as Trump he will tell you that you will never be able to do something as good as he can.  You will have to suffer small criticisms when they come and be thankful that they are not larger criticisms.  You, the Trump supporter may not realize that you too are afraid of him. You too are afraid of being attacked by him.  You may tell yourself that this fear isn't why you support him, but you're not completely sure how true this conviction is.  You are allowed to cheer in support of him until you don't look as enthusiastic as you should and then you are demonized.  You will cheer louder and wilder than anyone else to avoid being demonized.  Do you remember seeing how an attendee at a Trump rally was removed from his seat behind the president?  You may want to forget, but it did happen.

You, the Trump supporter know this can happen to you at any moment.  Why do you support this?  We are all Americans, both Democrats and Republicans.  We all want a strong and prosperous nation.  We all need to be friends.  Don't buy into Trump's hatred.  You are not immune to becoming a target of his hatred and it does not benefit you in the long run to continue supporting him.  America can't be something that people are coerced into believing in, like at a Trump rally.  Let's get back to normal.

Recently, a lawyer in the Department of Justice was nominated to another position by Donald Trump.  This nomination was withdrawn when the lawyer removed himself from the case against Roger Stone because Trump's attorney general overruled the sentencing recommendation.  The attorney was smart enough to know that the attorney general overruled his sentencing recommendation in order to protect a Trump associate who remained silent instead of testifying against Trump.  The original sentencing recommendation was based on Department of Justice guidelines that have been in place for a long time.

Roger Stone is safe until Roger Stone does something that Trump doesn't like and then he will be made to suffer by Trump.  Same as you and me.  Fail to cheer for Trump and you will be removed.  Fail to protect Trump and you will be attacked and Trump will suggest that some people might want to kill you.  Someone like Cesar Sayok will obey, as Trump knows.

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Graham Cracker Crumbles

One can tell that it was not easy for retired Brigadier General Peter Zwack to criticize Senator Lindsey Graham, but it was the right thing to do.  Trump and his defenders are the largest threat to national security since the Cold War.  Brigadier General Zwack, please continue speaking out.  You have a lot of company in the military and amongst civilians who support you for doing the right thing.  Most notably, Admiral William McRaven, commander of the Bin Laden raid, has warned us how Trump and Trumpism is destroying the USA internally.

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Justice Requires That Trump Be Indicted

Justice requires that Donald Trump be indicted for his crimes.  He should not have been allowed to continue as a presidential candidate after he implied in 2016 that his supporters might want to assassinate his opponent.  That should have resulted in federal charges immediately.  He was given an immunity as a candidate that he should not have been given.  

He painted a background to build up hatred of Hillary Clinton by claiming that she wanted to abolish the 2nd amendment.  This claim gave him the shared hatred that he needed to be able to make the statement that there was something that the 2nd amendment people could do.  This was a death threat and Trump should have been hauled away immediately.  It was obvious at this point in time that he wasn't going to promote a peaceful democracy in the USA.  He was going to continue promoting the idea of violence towards anyone who opposed him in anything he did.  That is largely why he was pardoned by the Senate in his impeachment trial.  He created the fear that he needed in order to maintain power.  Needless to say, this is not how the USA has historically operated.  We would not have the relatively peaceful history that we have if we had operated like this.  This implicit death threat is the first reason Trump should be indicted after leaving office.

The second reason to indict him is for violating the emoluments clause.  Trump has continued to steer national and international politicians, along with their friends, family and large security details, to become clients at his own properties.  The Trump name has had limited appeal, historically.  He has gone bankrupt numerous times and was likely nearing another bankruptcy when he was a presidential candidate in 2016.  Winning the support of the electoral college in 2016 has saved Trump from another embarrassment of yet another failed business.  He has been able to make millions of dollars from politics that he would not have otherwise made.  For this, he should be indicted.  Richard Painter, former ethics official under President George W. Bush, reminds us of the ethical free-fall in which the federal government has descended under Donald Trump.

Next, he should be indicted for bribery and extortion.  Although we have several examples of Trump committing bribery, the most severe case involved both bribery and extortion of the president of Ukraine.  Congress authorized funds to assist Ukraine in its war with Russia.  The reason the USA needs to continue supporting Ukraine is that if Russia were to take Ukrainian territory by force, they will be emboldened to continue along that path and take other European nations by force, resulting in World War III.  Trump's bribery and extortion of Ukraine thus increased the odds of a World War III scenario.  Had it not been reported by the patriot in the intelligence community, we would currently be on a dangerous trajectory requiring increased US involvement in order to stop Russia's aggression.  The expert witnesses who testified in the House of Representatives clarify things for us.

Finally, the fourth reason to indict Donald Trump is for human rights violations.  Specifically, the actions Trump has taken against immigrants, asylum seekers, Hispanics and Muslims are reason to indict him.  He has promoted discrimination any time he felt he could get away with it.  Largely, he has gotten away with it.  He has been limited by judges and by protests, which have scaled back his strategy of promoting hatred, but it hasn't stopped him.  Trump took small children and babies from their mothers.  He didn't track who he was taking away from who, so reuniting families has taken months and months.  The harm done to the children who were taken from their parents is forever.  They will need psychological therapy in order to deal with that trauma.  Immigrants who are fleeing violence are currently not allowed to enter the USA under Trump--they're forced to remain in Mexico, where violence is outrageously high and these immigrants are being mugged, raped and abused on a daily basis.  Trump has instilled a hatred within the rank-and-file of CBP that has led to several cases of rape from the people who are supposed to be enforcing the law.  Trump has consistently acted in imitation of the authoritarian human rights abusers that the USA has historically fought to remove from power in other countries around the world.  The right thing to do is to indict him.

It is painful to be at this point in US history.  We don't typically indict former presidents, but we don't typically have presidents who behave with reckless disregard for societal norms, political norms and legal norms.  Although presidents are allowed to disclose classified information at their own will, should they really be allowed to disclose classified information to the ambassador of a rival nation without cause for doing so?  Should Trump really be allowed to get away with having told Russia's Sergei Lavrov  and Sergei Kisliak about intelligence that the US received from Israel even though telling Lavrov and Kisliak served no purpose?  We are in danger if Trump is allowed to remain free after leaving office.  He is likely to disclose a number of other things to Russian officials if given the opportunity.  Indicting him and imprisoning him is the only way to protect state secrets from becoming known by Russia.

Again, let's emphasize the degree to which Trump would rather help Russia than help the USA.  Do you remember what he said in Helsinki?  Here's a reminder.

Later, Trump tried to frame this as a language error on his own part.  If the president has this much trouble with language, prison is the only safe place to keep him when he leaves office.  Imprison him for his crimes.  Appreciate that it is the right thing to do for his treasonous comments.  It is the only option.

Racism In Trump's Doxing Decisions

Trump's racism can be seen in overt ways.  When he calls African American protesters "sons of bitches", that is racism.  There are, however, less obvious ways in which Trump practices racism.  Consider doxing.

The patriot who blew the whistle on Trump's withholding of congressionally authorized funds for Ukraine came forward sometime after the July 25th, 2019 phone call between Trump and the president of Ukraine.  Trump doxed this patriot on December 27th, 2019 on Twitter.  So, less than 5 months had elapsed when Trump sought vengeance through doxing.

Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzalez was assassinated by an agent of the US Customs and Border Patrol on May 23rd, 2018.  Over 1 year and 8 months have now passed at the time of this writing and Trump has not only refused to dox the assassin, but his administration has not filed charges against this person either.  What's more, they haven't disclosed any punishment for the assassin, who seems to be safe in their job, protected by Trump.

Claudia was a 15-year-old indigenous girl from Guatemala who knew that she couldn't help her family living impoverished in Guatemala since she couldn't even find a job there.  She came to the USA to work and work hard in order to help her family.  The assassin is being protected by the Trump administration because Trump himself has spoken in favor of extra-judicial, ad-hoc punishments on numerous occasions and Claudia is not white.

Claudia Patricia Gómez González

If Trump's doxing decisions aren't enough to convince you that Trump is a racist, consider his decoration decisions.  Trump has recently chosen to decorate Rush Limbaugh with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.  Rush's greatest contribution to American culture has been hatred.  Hatred has not historically been a qualification for receiving this prestigious award and it would be an immediate disqualifier for any president who maintains even the tiniest amount of decency.  But not in Trump's view.

Please do not accept this.  This is not what America is about.  Vote for the Democrat in the 2020 presidential election on November 3rd, 2020.  If you're not registered to vote, you can register here.

Basketball Versus Trump

What does Air Force Academy graduate and head coach of the NBA's San Antonio Spurs think of Trump?  Well, it's no secret that he recognizes that Trump is not as patriotic as he pretends to be.

Is this the only high-profile NBA figure who thinks negatively of Donald Trump?  No, of course not.  You don't even have to look to another state to find another who shares the same opinion.  Billionaire entrepreneur, "Shark" and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban, has been highly critical of Trump's poor temperament and bad behavior.  He has said that Trump has conjured the image of a billionaire and that he's actually not that wealthy.  Unfortunately for the USA, Trump has used the power of the presidency to enrich himself and his family at the expense of the country.

Ok, so what about another state?  Well, California's Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr also has a few negative things to say about Donald Trump.

There are plenty of others in the NBA who have also criticized Trump.  There are also numerous figures in other sports, such as the NFL, who have criticized Trump.  This post is a small reminder of how Trump has damaged normal life in the USA.  We'll loop back to cover other sports figures later.

There Is No Bravery In Trump

Donald Trump would never in his life have found the courage to place himself in the situations that reporter Jorge Ramos has placed himself.  Why?  Because Trump is a coward and he doesn't care about facts.  Jorge Ramos displays bravery on each assignment he has ever reported on from the field, even when his life was in danger.  With appreciation for that bravery, we offer some of his thoughts here.

"I have been asking if I'm an activist or a journalist. And my answer is very simple. I'm just a journalist who asks questions. The difference is that I'm completely convinced that there are few moments, important moments, in which you have to take a stand as a journalist. When it comes to racism, discrimination, corruption, public lies, dictatorships and human rights, you have to take a stand as a reporter because I think our responsibility as journalists is to confront those who are abusing power. You know, I've been reading a lot about neutrality. Elie Wiesel, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, he says, we must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. In other words, as journalist, I'm completely convinced we have to take a stand sometimes."
  --Jorge Ramos

"When journalists forget that our job is to question and annoy those in power, there can be huge consequences."

  --Jorge Ramos

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Need To Vote

Fact:  Donald Trump did not win the popular vote in 2016.  Why not?  Because the majority of citizens of the USA do not want him to be president.  He won based on the distribution of votes.  Yes, that's right, our system of government allows a person to win simply based on how the votes are spread out across the 50 states.  The distribution gave him the number of delegates in the electoral college and he was given the presidency by those electoral college delegates.  This is not the way presidents normally win, but it is the only way that such an unpopular man could assume the presidency  We have to live with these results for a short while longer.  We need you to vote on November 3, 2020 so that we can remove Trump from power.  DON'T LET HIM WIN!!!  THE ONLY CHANCE TRUMP HAS TO WIN IS BASED ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF VOTES!!!  GO VOTE!!! AND VOTE FOR THE DEMOCRAT!!!  OUR WAY OF LIFE IS AT STAKE THIS YEAR!!!  WE ARE LOSING VALUABLE ALLIES EACH AND EVERY DAY!!!  Trump's supporters are trying to make you afraid to vote for anyone else or to even speak out in favor of anyone else.  DON'T BE INTIMIDATED!!!  DON'T BE AFRAID TO VOTE ON NOVEMBER 3rd!!!

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