It makes for a good life when one can ignore what is all around. However, there comes a time when one must look with eyes and mind opened for there is no longer any hiding. While it has been obvious that I am rooting for Hillary Clinton as I believe her to be the best choice, as I believe this is the proper time to rid our government of Tea Party remnants and return us to a functioning and useful government, there are issues that must be addressed.
Yesterday I spoke with several people and all had the same fear: what happens should the worst happen? The answer? I truly do not know, but the images do keep me up at night. Where would we be two years later on? Ashes, folks, ashes, either literal or figurative as this man has no interest in democracy, in the continuing functioning of the country as it was set up to do and be. He is a cynical, selfish predator and all one has to do is open the eyes and look, whether one likes Clinton or not.
Let's take his taxes. He claimed that he was taking a legally allowed break. Well, think again. Besides the fact that legal is not always moral, here is another twist and one reason why he does not want to expose his tax returns. Here is a quote from today's paper. "Donald J. Trump avoided reporting hundreds of millions in taxable income with a tactic so legally dubious that his lawyers said an I.R.S. audit would most likely find it improper." And another. "Tax experts who reviewed documents for The Times said Mr. Trump trampled a core tax policy tenet by receiving tax benefits for losing vast amounts of other people’s money."
As president that would be our money - yours and mine. Is that who should be running the country - right into the ground!! Is that the role model for our young - or even for us - as we do our taxes, plan our lives? so there we have awful fact number .....I have lost count already. There are so many.
We have a man who suborns misdeeds. James Comey, in one fell swoop has returned us to the politicized FBI of J. Edgar Hoover, when the man had files on everyone probably including G-d! And used those files to get what he wanted. Now we have a Republican violating the Hatch Act, a piece of legislation made to avoid just this - political interference by a governmental agency and figure in the election process. We have a hoohah over something which may or may not be pertinent and as yet had not even been seen by Comey so basically this was a shot in the dark by this figure who violated the trust of the electorate, of the country and who encouraged this? Your guess? Your choice. I have mine.
And yet, the absolute tampering of the Russian government and its various arms into our election process has been kept under wraps with the excuse that it is political. Damn right it is and scary too, a threat to our very being, our very continued existence and eerily similar in purpose to the Manchurian Candidate. So who is Trump representing? His bank contacts and loans at a Russian bank? His close aide involved up to his neck in the Ukrainian mess? Or is Putin simply gloating away there in the Kremlin at the thought that his bloodless coup, actually coopting his main enemy, is actually coming to fruition?
"Russian regime has been cultivating, supporting and assisting Trump for at least five years," a memo he sent to FBI then says.
"Aim, endorsed by [Russian leader Vladimir] Putin, has been to encourage splits and divisions in Western alliance," the message adds.
"[Trump] and his inner circle have accepted a regular flow of intelligence from the Kremlin, including on his Democratic and other political rivals."
Just read that maybe five minutes ago. Scary beyond words. This is from a spy, a friendly spy.
And then of course we have the Orange Man who has been screaming about emails. So what about his own emails? Let's see...Over the course of decades, Donald Trump’s companies have systematically destroyed or hidden thousands of emails, digital records and paper documents demanded in official proceedings, often in defiance of court orders. These tactics—exposed by a Newsweek review of thousands of pages of court filings, judicial orders and affidavits from an array of court cases—have enraged judges, prosecutors, opposing lawyers and the many ordinary citizens entangled in litigation with Trump. In each instance, Trump and entities he controlled also erected numerous hurdles that made lawsuits drag on for years, forcing courtroom opponents to spend huge sums of money in legal fees as they struggled—sometimes in vain—to obtain records.The Trump strategy was simple: deny, impede and delay, while destroying documents the court had ordered them to hand over.
Over the course of decades, he and his companies have shredded, thrown out and otherwise destroyed millions of emails and other documents that have been requested in various law suits, particularly the one with the Federal government re his racist doings with rental units and the blocking of African Americans from renting at all. He did this time and time again so ahem, emails, pot calling the kettle, lies and lies and lies and this is who some people insist on voting for?
We have come down a long road, a bad road. Many people are scared and so they look to someone they perceive to be a strong person who will protect them. Well, Trump ain't it!! He lies, he cheats, he is a misogynist, a despiser of people in his own words as he stated that they are not worthy of any respect at all, a man with no brakes and no experience, a man who never heard the word tact and who could care less about the details - just rants on and on, like Hitler, like Hussein, like all the other dictators of history.
So where are we going from here, people. Do not fall into the wrong hands for it is far more difficult to get out of those hands than one can imagine. Stand up, be proud and know that we can do it all, solve our problems over time - as long as we have the details, the hope and the trust. Do not believe in the lies of others. Open the eyes and take a look. Willful blindness is not the answer but rather a major factor in the problem. Time is running out. This man is not our friend. He is the "stranger danger" of our country, the man who can reduce us to ashes and look ahead two years with the possibility of this man at the helm. Like the view? I do not, not at all. Frightening beyond belief.
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