Former White House Photographer Warns About Trump

 

Former White House photographer Pete Souza served under Democratic and Republican administrations — and now he’s sounding alarms about Pres. Trump.

America Elects A Demagogue : Donald Trump

In a complete repudiation of good governance and what can only be seen as a longing for an authoritarian ruler  American voters elected Donald Trump President.

Here's a person who's embolden racists, isolationists and bigots of all stripes.  A man who has no understanding of how the American government works or how policy is implemented.  A man who doesn't understand or want to know any of the basic concepts affecting domestic and foreign policy.  In the area of domestic policy Donald Trump has advocated for the deportation of all 11 million people living in America who are undocumented  and for building a wall along America's southern border.  (The Berlin Wall lives.)  In the area of foreign policy he has on several occasions stated that America's military wouldn't just go after the world's terrorists but their families as well, stating they should also be killed. (That's a war crime.)  As for America's military alliances? Well, you'd better pay up.   He once pronounced NATO as obsolete and that America's continued involvement would be predicated upon member states paying fees to America.  Can a like a protection racket.   Donald Trump thinks that South Korea and Japan should have their own nuclear arsenals even though neither country wants them. He also wonders why America can't  just use its nuclear weapons simply because the U.S. has them.


During the second Presidential debate Donald Trump stated that if elected he would arrest and imprison Hillary Clinton even though she's never been charged with any criminal offense.  Authoritarian rulers do that not American President's unless you're  Donald Trump.

He's called America's press liars and claimed they were biased against him.  During the campaign Donald Trump has advocated going after those media outlets he believes have broadcast or printed unfavourable stories about him.  Will he go the way of Turkey's Erdogan and start shutting down opposition media  outlets and arresting and imprisoning journalists?  To say that he won't would be a fool's errand.  

Donald Trump has no business leading America or the world.  He's incapable of doing so because he's thin skinned,  can't handle criticism, views any slight as a personal attack and if wronged has the extremely bad habit of wanting revenge and won't stop until he has it.

Welcome To Donald Trump's America.

This Is A Sitting United States Senator

Imagine if this person was campaigning for the highest elected office in your country.  This is U.S. Senator Ted Cruz Republican from Texas and he's hoping to be the next President of the United States.  He should really be fighting to be the leader of some prison gang.

The good senator is selling these posters as you can see for $50.00.

It is our indignation, not that of the Arab world, that torturers fear. We are the bad guys too

ROBERT FISK
Wednesday 10 December 2014

The Muslim world has been enraged about these crimes for years

Up to the end, they wanted to keep it secret.

And the vicious psychopaths and sadists that ran the CIA’s torture centres “on our behalf” must be protected, even praised by the Bushies for keeping our civilisation safe. Their lies – to us as well as their victims – were all in the cause of freedom, so let’s have no more talk of Muslims standing on broken feet, bubbling through the mouth after 82 rounds of waterboarding or being fed hummus through the rectum.

And the Republicans and Bushies, sniffing how badly they come out of all this – of course the release of these vile tortures is “ideologically motivated”, just as they claim – now respond with an excuse that almost parallels the weapons-of-mass-destruction-al-Qaeda-links-to-Saddam-Niger-tubes tosh we were fed before we embarked on our slaughter in Iraq 11 years ago. In fact, it’s the same old rubbish they churned out before the obscene Abu Ghraib photos were published. “It will significantly endanger Americans around the world,” the Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told us.

So we’ve locked up our embassies and put our people on red alert or purple alert or whatever infantile coding suffices to terrorise Americans and their friends, and we’ve concocted the lie – perhaps as poisonous as all the other CIA lies – that the Arab Muslim world will be really, really angry when they learn about the atrocities our chaps committed in the cause of freedom, liberty and the West. That’s what they said about the Abu Ghraib snapshots – these Arab chappies are going to be awfully upset when they see the snapshots of piled human torsos and the guy in the hood strung up with electric wires. And they might be so angry that they might turn violent. Now, it’s the same again with the CIA report.

This Is What Happens When People Are Too Discouraged To Vote

The U.S. just completed its 2014 midterm elections with the Republicans retaining control of the House and gaining control of the Senate.  What this means,  Republicans now have the ability to endlessly investigate President Obama over the most trivial of matters.  That in all the other investigations by the House Government and Oversight Committee, Intelligence Committee, investigations into the misuse of the IRS and ATF program called Fast and Furious began during the Presidency of George W. Bush  absolutely no wrongdoing was found to have taken place.        


Republicans have over the last several days sensing victory have floated the idea of impeachment once again even though there is clear evidence that President Obama has broken no laws.  One might conclude that impeachment could become a reality once the new Congress is seated in January 2015.

Conservatives have long sought to cease funding these departments: Education, Commerce, Energy, and especially the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as they have statutory authority to issue environmental regulations without the consent of Congress.  The more extreme of their number want to close the Federal Reserve Bank and the IRS.

American conservatives are climate change deniers. Having gained a majority in the Senate Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma who has stated climate change is the largest hoax in history is set to become Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works. In that position Sen. Inhofe could do considerable damage to U.S. environmental policy.          


American voters learned long ago that their voice in the governance is near zero given the dynamics of campaign funding which gives disporinal weight to corporations who, along with their lobbyists are some the few which are able to fund reelection efforts. That's why people in America don't vote. As a rather simplified explanation.  

Mike Huckabee American Politician Just Adores Freedom Loving North Korea

Mike Huckabee is the former Republican governor of the American state of Arkansas and Presidential candidate who during a speech at a conservative conference made the following statement:

   Huckabee: "I'm beginning to think theres more freedom in North Korea sometimes than there is in the United States." Cites TSA patdowns.

“When I go to the airport, I have to get in the surrender position, people put hands all over me, and I have to provide photo ID and a couple of different forms and prove that I really am not going to terrorize the airplane – but if I want to go vote I don’t need a thing," he continued, according to MSNBC.

 TSA is the Transportation Security Administration which provides security at American airports came into being following the attacks of 11 September 2001 is what Mike Huckabee is referencing whilst trying to prove rampant voter fraud exists due to a complete lack of security.  What he really means is that minorities are allowed to vote and they shouldn't have that privilege.

So,  Mike Huckabee equates these polar opposite situations with the lost of personal freedom and  declares that North Korea one of, if not the most repressive government in world allows its citizens more freedoms than exists in America.  Don't be shocked or surprised American conservatives seem to have a certain infatuation with authoritarian leaders like Vladimir Putin.         

America's Republican's love war

Republican President candidate Mitt Romney has like Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush before him has fully embarrassed their love of armed conflict to solve the worlds problems rather than using the more boring and completely long term use of diplomacy.

 

Mitt Romney: arm the Syrian rebels

Mitt Romney will call for an escalation of the conflict in Syria by arming rebels with the heavy weapons needed to confront president Bashar al-Assad's tanks, helicopters and fighter jets.
Romney is to make the proposal on Monday in what his campaign team has billed as a major foreign policy speech in Lexington, Virginia.
In extracts published in advance, he opened up the prospect, if he becomes president, of a US-Iranian proxy war being fought in Syria.
"Iran is sending arms to Assad because they know his downfall would be a strategic defeat for them. We should be working no less vigorously with our international partners to support the many Syrians who would deliver that defeat to Iran – rather than sitting on the sidelines," he said.

During the 1980's Ronald Reagan being the super anticommunist that he believed himself to be decided to fight the Red Tide in America's backyard.  Thus was born the Iran Contra affair.

BackgroundContra militants based in Honduras waged a guerilla war to topple the then-Marxist government of Nicaragua.^[15][16] The Contras' form of warfare was "one of consistent and bloody abuse of human rights, of murder, torture, mutilation, rape, arson, destruction and kidnapping."^[17][18] The "Contras systematically engage in violent abuses... so prevalent that these may be said to be their principal means of waging war."^[19] A Human Rights Watch report found that the Contras were guilty of targeting health care clinics and health care workers for assassination; kidnapping civilians; torturing and executing civilians, including children, who were captured in combat; raping women; indiscriminately attacking civilians and civilian homes; seizing civilian property; and burning civilian houses in captured towns.^[20]Direct funding of the Contras insurgency had been made illegal through the Boland Amendment,^[7] the name given to three U.S. legislative amendments between 1982 and 1984 aimed at limiting US government assistance to the Contras militants. In violation of the Boland Amendment, senior officials of the Reagan administration continued to secretly arm and train the Contras and provide arms to Iran, an operation they called "the Enterprise"
Arms sales to Iran
Michael Ledeen, a consultant of National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, requested assistance from Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres for help in the sale of arms to Iran.^[22][23] Having been designated a State Sponsor of Terrorism since January 1984;^[24] Iran was in the midst of the Iran–Iraq War and could find few Western nations willing to supply it with weapons.^[25] The idea behind the plan was for Israel to ship weapons through an intermediary (identified as Manucher Ghorbanifar)^[2] to the Islamic republic as a way of aiding a supposedly moderate, politically influential faction within the regime of Ayatollah Khomeni who were believed to be seeking a rapprochement with the United States;^[26] after the transaction, the U.S. would reimburse Israel with the same weapons, while receiving monetary benefits. The Israeli government required that the sale of arms meet high level approval from the United States government, and when McFarlane convinced them that the U.S. government approved the sale, Israel obliged by agreeing to sell the arms.

This intervention didn't lead to the overthrow of the Sandinista government of Nicaragua.  At one point  President Reagan giving a speech in Texas near the U.S. Mexican border stated that the Sandinista's would invade the U.S. using the advanced military vehicle known as the family sedan.

 One can never forget the second Iraq war which according to the George W. Bush administration had developed a massive amount of weapons of mass destruction thanks to an informant known as Curve Ball who was nothing more than delusional and a very good liar.

The Iraq War was a conflict triggered by an invasion of Iraq by the United States^[41][42] and the United Kingdom from March 20, 2003^[43][44] to December 18, 2011,^[45][46] though sectarian violence continues and has caused thousands of fatalities.
Prior to the war, the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom claimed that Iraq's alleged possession ofweapons of mass destruction (WMD) posed a threat to their security and that of their coalition/regional allies.^[47][48][49] In 2002, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1441 which called for Iraq to completely cooperate with UN weapon inspectors to verify that Iraq was not in possession of WMD and cruise missiles. Prior to the attack, the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) found no evidence of WMD, but could not yet verify the accuracy of Iraq's declarations regarding what weapons it possessed, as their work was still unfinished. The leader of the inspectors Hans Blix estimated the time remaining for disarmament being verified through inspections to be "months".^{[50][51][52][53][54]}After investigation following the invasion, the U.S.‑led Iraq Survey Group concluded that Iraq had ended its nuclear, chemical and biological programs in 1991 and had no active programs at the time of the invasion, but that they intended to resume production if the Iraq sanctions were lifted.^[55] Although some degraded remnants of misplaced or abandoned chemical weapons from before 1991 were found, they were not the weapons which had been the one of the main arguments for the invasion.^[56]

 Naturally there were no weapons of mass destruction and there hadn't been any since the first Gulf War in 1991.

What does Mitt Romney hope to gain by intervening in Syria other than causing more death and destruction followed by complete failure.   I'm sure Mitt "I know I'am George Patton" Romney will convince himself that none of that matters just as long as looks like a complete bullying ass.

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