Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Blame the victim

The late Joe Paterno had his statue melted down and used for the Rodney Erickson Penn State Food Science Building sign. It will take some time but Representative Jodan will go by the way of Joe Paterno.

A leader should take responsibility and do the right thing. Jim Jordan had young men sexually abused on his watch. He is responsible.

It is no different than the 51 US Senators that stacked the deck in favor of Donald Trump and Russia in the Sessions Justice Department. Brian Benczkowski will haunt the 51 US Senators that today compromised the sovereignty of the United States of America. Those 51 Senators may as well have put Putin in the office of the DOJ because the information Benczkowski will harvest from DOJ records will find their way to Alpha Bank, the Trump Organization, the Oval Office and every member of the Duma and the offices in Moscow and terrible leaks will be blamed for it and Trump will assign a poorly funded staffer to find the leaker.

Obstruction of justice

It is my opinion the HHS Secretary is working around the clock to find children that have parents because he is afraid of a judge that might throw him in jail if his agency doesn’t comply because funding has been cut for his agency as well as the DOJ where necessary background checks are conducted. If he is at least demonstrating and documenting his efforts the judge might have an insightful moment to realize Donald Trump is exclusively responsible for all of the mess including obstruction of justice due lack of funding.
The US military should be on it’s toes during the Trump-Putin Summit. Trump has the nuclear codes wherever he goes. I would assume the worst. The safest place in the world tomorrow is probably Putin’s office. We know where Melanie is, but, where is everyone else? If the answer is down a rabbit hole or in China we might have a real problem.

Ukraine is worried that Trump May formally recognize Crimea as a Russian possession. It can’t be any worse than when Rand-McNally changed their maps. The reason Ukraine is worried is because Trump stayed that could be a possibility on June 29th. My guess is that he will do exactly that. It means nothing because it takes an act of Congress to carry out such geographical changes. 

Trump is a fool for Putin. I wish Trump hadn’t borrowed all that money. It is a hell of a thing to realize the President of the United States would first bankrupt the USA Treasury before selling out entirely to Russia for Trump Organization debt forgiveness.

I was reading where the Trump Organization phone calls to Russia after the sanctions were in place weren’t clandestine, according to the FBI. Of course they weren’t, they were for loan approval. That doesn’t make them any less dangerous!

Keeping up with the Joneses.

The Washington Post is reporting from a source within the White House that Trump’s nominee Cavanaugh has a problem with extravagant spending for National tickets. His current personal balance sheet is less than $70,000. At times in his life as a judge his debt was greater than his assets. That places him as a risk as a Supreme Court Judge and his inability to place his financial well being ahead of sports tickets.

It is a character issue.

Come to think of it, sort of sounds similar to Trump’s character issues, except, Trump declared bankruptcy several times.

Has Trump ever declared bankruptcy in Russia? He might have to if his plans for bankrupting the US Treasury doesn’t work out. Do they have bankruptcy in Russia? I think it is just labor in Siberia, right? You know who might know? Manafort. I betcha he knows all that kinda stuff.

While on the subject of strange habits of the CORRUPT, you know how Zinke flys his personal sovereignty flag over the Interior Department when he is in the office; the UK allies should fly the baby Trump blimp over the White House whenever he is not there. As a matter of fact the UK πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ allies should sell Trump Baby Blimps so demonstrators everywhere can fly them anywhere in the world.

Trump is such a jerk.

President Trump has to apologize to Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Russia has been selling natural gas to Germany for a long time. There was a time when Russia no longer invaded helpless countries, was a trading partner with The West and was a member of the G8. That all changed when Russia took up it’s old ways and invaded Ukraine casting the country into a war it did not want or was prepared for. Never, at any time, had Germany acted as a puppet to Russia as Trump does today. Germany stood with the USA and Ukraine appalled at Russian aggression and the violation of a decades long treaty.

I apologize to Chancellor Merkel for the childish and embarrassing behavior of Donald Trump, sadly the President of the USA at the hand of Russia.He loves Russia and Vladimir Putin more than he loves the United States of America, this time demonstrated by his lack of knowledge regarding Germany and it’s magnificent leaders and his outrageous statements about suspicions of Germany and gas purchases from Russia.

Over decades of time Germany has faced difficulties with Russia in continuing consistent supplies of Russian gas, sometimes during the coldest of winters even when relations were good. I believe price was an issue from time to time.

Germany is a very valuable ally to the USA and a loyal ally within NATO. Most of the people of the USA do not agree with Mr. Trump. It is unfortunate the delegation accompanying him are to timid to speak up and set the record straight.
President Trump is making ridiculous demands  of our NATO partners in comparison to the tax cuts the USA Republican Congress passed that was based in greed and not need. It’s outrageous that he is laying the USA debt at the feet of NATO in demanding doubling Europe partner spending, Trump needs to get his priorities straight.

2024 is the agreed upon date for the 2 percent goal. I think the military has to. Illustrate exactly what NATO is suppose to look like as far as troops and jets, tanks, etc. by 2024 should. If the 2024 picture is insufficient to NATO’s purpose then the 2024 demands needs to be amended to 3 percent. 

I think NATO is an impressive alliance for it’s longevity, purpose and strength. This meeting is a reminder of who the USA is to very important people of Europe. Europe is a trading partner as well. Europe is important to the people of the USA. 

If President Trump is disgruntled that more of the wealth of Europe isn’t in his pocket; too bad. He should’ve been more appropriate in the change in the tax code. When Trump states NATO needs to increase it’s spending to 4 % immediately, he needs to back it up with facts.

It is an annoyance that Russian oil and gas are coming to Europe and it has had it’s problems. Trump would like to get more of Europe’s Euros into the USA GDP through sales of USA LNG. Europe has never been dependent on USA liquid natural gas. They don’t know if a US product is any more trouble free than Russia’s gas. I would think Europe would transition over time for such changes. But, Europe is also transitioning to solar and wind, so the need for natural gas is decreasing every year. It may be Europe is looking to end any need for natural gas at all.

President Trump in making such insulting statements shows how much he doesn’t know rather than what he does know. I think his willingness to seek to be publicly angry with Europe is laziness. He is trying to use political pressure to achieve his goal rather than having done his research and come up with facts and figures and AN ACTUAL PLAN that proves to be an actual deal, good idea and asset to Europe in relying on the USA rather than Russia.

The First Lady looks lovely. She has some of the most unique fashion of current trends.

Just for the record...

...the Federalist Society is a bunch of wealthy people, many of them lawyers. There are chapters spread throughout the country. Bork was the first lawyer/judge the Federalists tried to put on the US Supreme Court. Scalia was the second. Anyone can understand the attraction by lawyers and judges that want to advance their career; the Federalist Society helped. They more than helped they set up a political machine with an agenda.

One should ask why Republicans depend on a society of wealthy people to fill judge seats. These judges carry the Republican agenda forward. While, the judges take all the regular oaths to uphold the US Constitution, it is not a sincere promise. The Federalist Society prides itself on ideas. Most of these ideas are based in wealth. The Democrats sort of missed the wealth train when their donors are measured against the Federalists. 

The Federalists call themselves “Originalists” because the origin of the USA happened before the presidency of FDR. The Federalists value their ideas over the US Constitution. They use the Constitution as a springboard for their ideas. Basically the are Anti-American, but, they like the wealth and the military. They have no patience for the poor and hide behind the Bible, or at their ideology derived from it.

I think they are dangerous to our country and don’t make good decisions. Of the current Justices four are members of the Federalist Society; Roberts, Alito, Thomas and Gorsuch. With what’s his name, Cavanaugh a nominee it is easy to predict that all Republican choices will be corrupted by Federalist money and agenda. What if a great judge is not from the Federalists? They automatically get passed over.

I believe they are Anti-American and don’t accept sound principles of scientists, public health workers and other standards of US governance. They are cookie cutter judges and that is exactly why the Republicans like them.