Month: March 2017

Petition To Move Melania Trump To White House, OR, Pay For Her Own Security…

More than 108,000 people have signed a petition urging First Lady Melania Trump to move to the White House or pay for security costs at Trump Tower herself.

The Change.org petition was started after a senior White House aide indicated the president’s wife and son, Barron, will remain in New York until the school year ends. It’ll be delivered to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren if at least 150,000 people sign.

“The U.S. taxpayer is paying an exorbitant amount of money to protect the First Lady in Trump Tower, located in New York City,” the petition reads. “As to help relieve the national debt, this expense yields no positive results for the nation and should be cut from being funded.”

Now here is one petition worth encouraging EVERYONE to sign. Trump, and his family, is NO better than any prior presidential family.

Please Sign The Petition! I just did.

Trey Gowdy All In For Nunes (and Trump)…

Rep. Trey Gowdy, another Trump surrogate, has jumped up and on board in support of Chairman Devin Nunes’ refusal to name his sources.  Sources he claims informed him the Obama administration spied on Trump’s campaign. Allegations for which no credible evidence has yet surfaced.

New Jersey’s Republican Governor Christie has casts doubts on the credibility of the allegations. Christie told Tucker Carlson on FOX News recently there seems to be no evidence of spying by the prior administration.

“There certainly doesn’t seem to be any evidence of that at this point.”

“I know from having spent seven years as a U.S. attorney that the FISA court and the way that works and foreign intelligence surveillance activities – it is very, very difficult to get that type of activity going. You have to go and convince an independent judge.”

“So I don’t see any evidence of that at this point in time. We’ll continue to listen, but I can tell you from my experience that kind of stuff is very difficult to get.” {edited for brevity}

Given Trump’s demonstrated propensity for lying whenever he deems it serves his agenda the greater likelihood is that Trump’s allegations are false and his surrogates know it.

For Trump and the present Republican party it is not about truth, America, or the best interests of the American people. It’s all about party loyalty and their reactionary agenda. One that heavily favors and benefits the very wealthy while it screws middle America.

This is nothing but a distraction from important issues facing the American people. Trump hopes that while he distracts the American people with BS they won’t be paying attention to his disastrous plan to dismantle our federal government and send it back to, well, you complete the sentence.

 

And, The Gullible Believe…

U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said on Tuesday he will not divulge – even to other members of his panel – who gave him intelligence reports that indicated President Donald Trump and his associates may have been ensnared in incidental intelligence collection.

Asked by an ABC News reporter whether he would inform the other committee members about who gave him the reports he viewed on the White House grounds last week, Nunes said: “We will never reveal those sources and methods.”

Why would you reveal sources that don’t exist? When your goal is to create conspiracy theories just drop the fabrication, repeat it often, and sooner or later gullible people will start swearing it is the truth.

Republicans and conservative have this all figured out. And, as history is demonstrating real-time, it sure as heck has worked for them. So, they’ll continue. Likely at an accelerated pace with Trump heading up the party.

 

 

Alone

From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by,
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.

Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 – 1849

Trump, Continuing His Descent, Is Now At 36% Approval…

Our pretend POTUS, always the winner according to his self proclamations, seems to be having a bit of a problem with the majority of people in our ALREADY GREAT NATION.

Before we go further this site will acknowledge that Trump does well in the more affluent suburbs and rural areas of America. Just as he does in the less educated areas of America among those who are heavily influenced by hyperbole and alternative facts.  Those who prefer not to take the time to educate themselves so they FULLY understand what is REALLY  in their own best self-interest.

Gallup has Trump’s approval rating at 36% as of this weekend. Let that sink in for a moment… … This means that 64% of Americas either disapprove of Trump’s performance after 67 days in office, or, they are at least concerned enough not to give him a positive rating.

Heretofore no modern president has garnered such dismal approval ratings this early in their administration. Given Trump’s spectacular failing on healthcare insurance reform, and the likelihood his foray into tax reform will be met with strident opposition, his approval numbers my very well experience further descent into the abyss.

Frankly, from our POV, is approval numbers are well EARNED.

From GALLUP:

President Donald Trump’s job approval rating fell to 36% for the three-day period of March 24-26, following Republican House leaders’ failed effort to pass a new healthcare bill that would have replaced the Affordable Care Act.

Trump’s three-day reading prior to Friday’s events was 41%. His previous low point was 37%, recorded March 16-18. His highest reading was 46% in the week following his Jan. 20 inauguration, and he has averaged 42% for his term to date.

Trump’s current 36% is two percentage points below Barack Obama’s low point of 38%, recorded in 2011 and 2014. Trump has also edged below Bill Clinton’s all-time low of 37%, recorded in the summer of 1993, his first year in office, as well as Gerald Ford’s 37% low point in January and March 1975. John F. Kennedy’s lowest approval rating was 56%; Dwight Eisenhower’s was 48%.

Presidents George W. Bush (lowest approval rating: 25%), George H.W. Bush (29%), Ronald Reagan (35%), Jimmy Carter (28%), Richard Nixon (24%), Lyndon Johnson (35%) and Harry Truman (22%) all had job approval ratings lower than 36% at least once during their administrations.

Presidential job approval ratings are fluid, and all presidents have seen both upward and downward swings in their ratings at various points in their administrations — a historical precedent indicating Trump’s approval could drop further or recover in the weeks and months ahead. An encouraging sign for Trump, perhaps, is that all presidents whose ratings fell below 36% — with the exception of Nixon — saw their ratings improve thereafter. Clinton provides a particularly relevant example. His approval rating dropped to 37% in June 1993 but recovered to 56% by September of that year.