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The Enemy of the American People (cont.) – Let’s Add to the List

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Why stop at the mainstream media (with the notable exception of Fox & Friends)?  Surely there are lots more enemies of the American people lurking out there.  Red will help Trump out on this one.  Here is Red’s list of at least 100 more EOTAP’s that must be rooted out and villified.

  1.  Democrats
  2. Independents who voted for Hillary
  3. The Undecided
  4. Union Members
  5. Artists
  6. Musicians
  7. Hollywood
  8. Jews
  9. Muslims
  10. Mormons
  11. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont)
  12. Lindsay Graham
  13. John McCain
  14. Canadians
  15. Mexicans
  16. Illegal Aliens
  17. The EU
  18. FIFA
  19. Environmentalists
  20. Any Court or Judge that rules against Trump
  21. Trial Lawyers
  22. PETA
  23. Greenpeace
  24. The Sierra Club
  25. The Wilderness Society
  26. University Professors
  27. The NEA
  28. NPR
  29. PBS
  30. John Kasich
  31. The CIA
  32. The FBI
  33. State Department Foreign Service Officers
  34. The Black Panthers
  35. Scientists
  36. Amnesty International
  37. Planned Parenthood
  38. NARAL
  39. Keith Olbermann
  40. Greg Popovitch
  41. Colin Kaepernick
  42. Librarians
  43. Coretta Scott King
  44. The ACLU
  45. The Green Party
  46. Morning Joe
  47. The Gallup Poll
  48. Real Clear Politics
  49. The Clinton Foundation
  50. Warren Buffet
  51. Anyone who sues Trump
  52. John Oliver
  53. Saturday Night Live
  54. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
  55. Fastcheck
  56. Politifact
  57. Snopes
  58. Foreignors
  59. Four Members of the Supreme Court
  60. California
  61. Charles Sykes
  62. Lesbians
  63. Gay Men
  64. Bisexuals
  65. The Transgendered
  66. The Questioning
  67. U2
  68. Peaceniks
  69. Pacifists
  70. Quakers
  71. Commies
  72. Socialists
  73. Lady Gaga
  74. Leakers
  75. Progressive Christians
  76. The Salvation Army
  77. Liberal Arts Colleges
  78. African-Americans
  79. Deadheads
  80. Dope smokers
  81. Nordstrom
  82. Abortion Providers
  83. Planned Parenthood
  84. The National Park Service
  85. Alternative Energy Providers
  86. Punk Rockers
  87. Climatologists
  88. Flag Burners
  89. Criminal Defense Lawyers
  90. The Poor
  91. Welfare Queens
  92. Vegetarians
  93. Vegans
  94. Birkenstock Wearers
  95. Old Hippies
  96. Arab-Americans
  97. Native Americans
  98. The NAACP
  99. Red from Texas
  100. And maybe you!

Notably missing from the list of Enemies of the American People are Vladimir Putin and his Russian Kleptocracy because wouldn’t it be great if we got along with a brutal dictator, murderer and his gang of criminals.

Trump and the “Fake Mess” he Inherited

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During his 77 minute press conference yesterday, Donald Trump dwelled repeatedly on the difficulties of assuming office.

“I inherited a mess. It’s a mess. At home and abroad, a mess. Jobs are pouring out of the country.”

Here are some facts about the “fake mess” that Trump inherited. He came into the White House with the following:

Dow Jones Industrial at near all-time high of  19,875 – up from 6626 when Obama took office.  What a mess!

82 straight months of private sector job growth – the longest in U.S. history.  What a mess!

11.3 million new jobs were created in the last 8 years.  What a mess!

Unemployment at 4.7% down from 10% when Obama took office.  What a mess!

No more secret and illegal black site U.S. prisons.  What a mess!

Number of uninsured adults at all time low.  What a mess!

20 million more adults with health insurance than when Obama took office. What a mess!

People now have coverage for pre-existing conditions.  What a mess!

Rate of increase in insurance premiums has dropped.  What a mess!

Increased spending on housing and mental health care for veterans.  What a mess!

Consumer confidence rose from 37.7 to 98.1 under Obama.  What a mess!

Equal pay under the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. What a mess!

US Auto industry is booming with sales up from  10.4 million units annually to 17.5 million in the last 8 years.  What a mess!

Deficit as a percentage of the GDP dropped from 9.8% to 3.2% in the last 8 years.  What a mess!

LGBT citizens now treated like everyone else.  What a mess!

Abortion rates declining.  What a mess!

Violent crime rates at historic lows.  What a mess!

Obamacare extended the life of the Medicare insurance trust fund (currently solvent until 2030).  What a mess!

Torture banned.  What a mess!

Solar and Wind Power generation are at an all time high. What a mess!

High School Graduation rates are 83% – an all time high. What a mess!

Corporate profits up by 144% in the last 8 years.  What a mess!

U.S. has normal relations with Cuba after 55 years of failed policies.  What a mess!

U.S. reliance on foreign oil is at a 40 year low. What a mess!

US Exports up 28% in last 8 years.  What a mess!

No more foolish and pointless war in Iraq that was root cause of much of the turmoil today.  What a mess!

Osama Bin Laden and countless others like him – Dead.  What a mess!

What Trump inherited was a fortune.  What we have now is a mess.

 

The Russians are Cunning, the Russians are Cunning

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The resignation of National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn, after less than a month in office may just be the tip of the giant Russian iceberg looming in front of the Trumpian ship of state.  Flynn had to go after having lied to Vice President Mike Pence about discussing sanctions with the Russian Ambassador before Trump took office.   Flynn apparently relayed the message from Trump that Putin need not worry about Obama’s latest round of sanctions and that everyone would kiss and make up when Trump took over.  Only that seems to explain the lack of Russian retaliation.  Putin had always taken strong action in response to sanctions – until he didn’t – which alerted anyone who was paying attention that something was going down.

Clearly, Trump was behind the attempt to undermine the authority of the sitting President and conduct unauthorized diplomatic negotiations with a hostile foreign power in violation of the Logan Act.  Flynn was not flying solo on this mission.  He thought the President had his back – a perhaps fatal miscalculation in this case.

Flynn’s connections to Putin and his Kakistocracy  go much further back.  Flynn was an early Trump devotee and rah-rah man and had his own connections with the Kremlin.  Was he the main bag man between Trump and Putin?  It seems very plausible that Flynn knows more than anyone about what happened with the Russians during the campaign.  In all likelihood, Flynn was in charge of managing the  apparent quid pro quo between Putin and Trump.  If elected, Trump would kowtow to most of Putin’s demands and make kissy-face; in return Putin would not expose Trump’s Russian peccadillos and possible criminal connections.  And to sweeten the deal, Putin would unleash his squads of hackers and undermine Hillary’s campaign.  It was a win-win deal for both autocrats – the real one and the would-be one.

As it now looks more and more like Putin has the goods on Trump (the Moscow Hotel videos are probably just a teaser – the real question is whether Trump is in deep with the Russian Mob), Flynn likely had the unenviable task of selling out his country after Trump’s election.  Someone had to seal the deal made with the Russian strongman during the campaign.

Trump’s big mistake may have been not tossing Flynn overboard before taking office. But perhaps he was afraid that Flynn knew too much.  The problem is compounded now and the vultures are circling the White House already.  Look for Trump to arrange for the Russians to either pay off or otherwise take care of Flynn before he spills the borscht.  The price of treachery is always dear.

 

 

One Down – 4,999,999 to go!

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Donald Trump’s claim that he would have won the popular vote but for the millions of people who voted illegally finally got some legs last week.  Yep, Texas found someone who voted illegally – but not in 2016. Rosa Maria Ortega was convicted in Fort Worth last week on two felony counts of illegal voting over allegations that she improperly cast a ballot five times between 2005 and 2014. Ortega was a legal permanent resident who was brought to the U.S. as a baby and mistakenly thought she was eligible to vote.  And she foolishly voted Republican, including for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, whose office helped prosecute her.  That’s gratitude for you.

Ortega received a harsh sentence of 8 years – likely due to the hubbub caused by Trump with his claims of widespread voter fraud.  Ortega has been in the U.S. since infancy and has four teenage children.  Since this is a felony conviction, Ortega will likely be deported after serving her sentence.  Another example of the pro-family policies of the GOP.

Red is just waiting for the 4,999,999 other cases of illegal voting that would establish Trump could have easily won the popular vote – but he is not holding his breath.

The Coming War with Iran

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It is becoming very clear that Trump wants a war.  As he said during the campaign, “I love war, in a certain way” and clearly pointed out that nuclear weapons were “very important to me.” Red takes Trump at his word.  His already flagging approval rating is merely the latest warning sign.

There are two sure ways to temporarily boost your popularity in the White House – 1) do things that are actually popular and improve the country, or 2) start a war.  The first way is hard and Trump seems incapable of doing anything likely to get a majority of the country behind him (and remember readers – Red fully supports complete implementation of the Trump/GOP agenda starting with locking up Hillary and deporting 12 million illegal aliens and building a wall at Mexico’s expense).  But all he has been able to do so far is make some weak moves on immigration that are getting tied up in the courts and pay some lip service to unleashing Wall Street to deservedly feast on the unwary – yet again.  It isn’t working.  We are only 2.5 weeks in and Trump is already  stalking the corridors of the White House late at night when the cable news outlets go into repeat mode.  That usually doesn’t happen until deep in a second term.

So what’s a poor billionaire to do when faced with an increasingly disapproving public and the “dishonest media.”

Red has an idea! Drum up a war.  And who can most of America agree to hate – that’s right IRAN.  It’s only been 36 years since the hostage crisis and the aged clerics are bound to screw something up that will provide at least a thin veneer of an excuse for unleashing hell.  And a thin veneer will suffice for Trump and likely for a good number of Americans.

Which brings us to the coddling of Russia.  Trump is smart enough to know that a war against Iran will be much easier if Putin throws in with us.  They are right there after all and we can stage operations from Mother Russia much more easily than from say – Iraq.  The question is – what is the price of Russian cooperation.  Is it the Ukraine?  The Baltics?  All of Central Europe?  Whatever it is, Trump may be willing to pay if he thinks that a US-Iran conflict will deliver him the ratings and favorable poll numbers that he so greatly desires.  And if we have to lose a few thousand men and women and spend trillions of dollars, well that is a small price to pay to have your ego stroked.

Yes, there is that small problem of  the Constitution and Congress and a declaration of war, but that hasn’t really stopped any president in a long time.  If war is what Trump wants, Congress is likely to give him one.

So those of you out there with teenage boys and girls, like Red, take heed.  Do you want your son or daughter sacrificed on the altar of Trump’s vanity?  We fought a failed war in Iraq without a draft, but  a war against a much larger, much richer opponent may just require reinstitution of compulsory service.  No more fighting wars on the cheap.  The price is blood and Red thinks there will be many payments made before Trump is sated.

 

 

 

Who are you going to believe – Trump or your lying eyes?

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Trump and his press secretary Sean Spicer both made claims that Friday’s  inauguration was attended and viewed by more folks than any event since – well any event ever.  Red for one believes them.  Those vast empty spaces in the aerial shots from the Trump Washington Monument of the Trump National Mall (bordered by Trump Ave North and Trump Ave South) looking towards the Trump Capitol Building were clearly fabricated by the dishonest members of the disgusting national media (or disgusting members of the dishonest national media if you favor that iteration) who are hell bent on destroying the Trump administration before it self-implodes.

Not only was the crowd enormous, the TV numbers clearly do not reflect the vast numbers of folks  who belatedly switched over from Hogan’s Heroes reruns to catch Trump deliver his moving and spirited inaugural address accurately describing the United States as an utter and total hellhole to be saved only by the magic elixir of trade wars, military spending and continual patriotic repetition of the Trump Pledge of Allegiance (formerly to the flag).

Trump clarified the mendacity of the malignant and cancerous media during his speech at the Trump CIA Headquarters in Langley, VA on Saturday.  In front of the Trump Memorial Wall of CIA Heroes, the new chief executive pointed directly at the leprous media members in the back of the room while excoriating them for underreporting the size of the crowd at his inauguration.  The crowd which Trump advisors estimate to have numbered about 17,535,000 was woefully underreported as being no more than maybe 400,000 by the aforementioned smelly and rat-infested national media.  Members of the Trump CIA in the audience cheered, stormed the dais and carried Trump off on their shoulders in triumph.

Back at the Trump White House Plaza Suites (Deluxe Trump Lincoln Bedroom Suite now available for a mere $275,000 per night – two night minimum  with continental breakfast included), press secretary Sean Spicer came out for an extended period of two minutes to excoriate (get used to lots of excoriation) the sinful and unrepentant Trump White House press corps for their vicious lies about the size of the inaugural crowd in attendance.  According to Spicer, the crowd was bigger than any crowd ever attending any inaugural and its TV ratings dwarfed the Superb Owl.  Wisely refusing to take any questions from the correspondents present (all with oozing open sores), Spicer quickly retreated.

That was followed  on Sunday morning by Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway, who when confronted with an allegation from escaped convict Chuck Todd of NBC, told him off with a quick “Neener Neener” and pointed out that S. Spicer had not in fact lied but was merely presenting “alternative facts.”   Ms. Conway set the stage for the Trump playbook for dealing with the rapists and serial killers comprising the vast majority of the mainstream media (Fox News excepted of course). If your regular facts just aren’t standing up to mild scrutiny, then whip out your aerosol can of “alternative facts”, spray liberally on the lice-infested and vile national media members and watch those “alternative facts” go to work.  Red for one digs that scrubbing action.

Trump’s “Landslide”

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As readers know, Red fully supports the full implementation of the Trump/GOP agenda – beginning with putting Hillary in jail – because Red believes that the people should get the government they deserve.  And in this case the people deserve to get screwed by Trump, something that he has distinctly mastered in his business career.

But Red’s full-throated support for –  building the wall (at Mexico’s expense), deporting 11 million aliens, jailing (or if you really believe abortion is murder giving the death penalty or life without parole) to women who get abortions and the doctors who perform them, eviscerating environmental regulations, making the wealthy wealthier and letting Vlad Putin rebuild the Evil Empire, –  does not and will not get in the way of Red calling “Bullshit” where he sees it.

The number one piece of bullshit being touted by the Trumpistas right now is that Trump won in a landslide.  It’s  always TRUMP WON IN AN electoral college LANDSLIDE!!!  In typical Trump fashion, the belief apparently is that if you repeat Bullshit often enough, people will come to believe it.  Well Bullshit is Bullshit and this landslide talk is utter Bullshit.

We all know Trump lost the popular vote by a wide margin.  He got a smaller percentage of the popular vote than Romney, McCain and Kerry – the last 3 losers.  He did win the Electoral College – but hardly in a landslide.  He will be president because he won Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.  Let’s break it down.

Michigan – Trump wins by 11,000 votes out of over 2.5 million votes cast

Pennsylvania – Trump wins by 45,000 votes out of almost 6 million votes cast

Wisconsin – Trump wins by 23,000 votes out of about 2.8 million votes cast

That is 79,000 votes that swung 46 Electoral College votes to Trump –  which is more than his “Landslide” margin of victory in the EC.  To put it in perspective that is about like Beaumont deciding the presidential election.

So stop with the “Landslide” nonsense.  Here is what a real Electoral College Landslide looks like.

Sorry Jimmy, but Ronnie put a butt-whipping on you in 1980.

 

 

Trump’s Broken Promises

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In the first of what likely will be a long line of broken promises from the Trump administration, comes news that Mexico will not be paying for the “beautiful wall” after all.  Instead, Trump and his feckless Republican allies will rely on a previous authorization from the W. Bush era which provided for construction of a fence – not a wall.  The GOP will seek to add funding for the fence to an omnibus budget bill to lessen the chance of opposition.

Now as you know, Red fully supports the Trump/GOP agenda under the theory that America voted for these clowns and deserves to get the just desserts of its choice.  Which means that Red fully supports a beautiful wall  (not a fence) paid for by our good amigos in Mexico.  After all, what were the two most prominent items that DJ Trump kept promising over and over at his massive rallies?  It’s seems so long ago, but Red vaguely remembers that Hillary was going to prison and that Mexico was paying for the wall.  Remember “Lock her up!” and “Who’s going to pay for it?”  Guess what saps?  Hillary is going nowhere and you are paying for the wall.

 

 

Trump Backs Off Deportation Stance

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Not even 5 days into our new Trump era and Red is already having his first WTF moment. DT promised Red that the 12-15 million ILLEGAL ALIENS in the US would be shown the door, escorted out, given the boot, kicked out, frog marched to the border and otherwise told don’t let it hit you in the ass on the way out. Now, Red is being told that only 2-3 million of the worst of the worst are going to be on that greased skid back to the land of tortillas and tacos. That is not what Red was promised and he is mighty PO’d already.

Red don’t care if you were brought here the day after you born, don’t speak a lick of Mexican, are the All District quarterback, valedictorian and were voted most likely to own your own taco truck. Red don’t care if you couldn’t spell Gwadellahara, Guadellahoorah, Guadelihurra, Guadalajara (there we go) if your life depended on it. You need to get the hell out! And that’s what Red was promised. You’re taking our jobs, you’re filling up the airwaves with that Mexican yak and songs about tu Corazon, and you’re ruining Tex-Mex food. All the Mexicans need to go. That includes the Guatemalan Mexicans, the Salvadoran Mexicans, the Honduran Mexicans and any other type of Mexicans. Hell, Red even met some Peruvian Mexicans the other day – they was real nice people, but they need to go too. So President-Elect Trump, you need to stop appeasing the people that didn’t vote for you. They aint never going to like you anyway. Red don’t care what old weak-kneed Paul Ryan says about no “Deportation Force” – there needs to be some deporting and lots of it.

A Salute to Our Veterans

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Red salutes our brave men and women who have served this country in times of peace and war.  But mostly war.  Because that is what we voted for on Tuesday and Red supports the will of the American people.  As Donald Trump said,  “I’m really good at war, I love war, in a certain way.”     We voted for war, so bring it  on, baby.   Let’s get to warring.

Red thinks Iran is good first step.  We need to bomb the ever-loving shit out of those bastards.  As DT said about his love of war  “—including with nukes. Yes, including with nukes.”   What are we sitting on all these dang nuclear bombs for if we aint gonna use them?  Probably only need a dozen or so to turn most of Iran into glass, rubble and vaporized body parts.  Red can smell the burning flesh from here and its only just a little bit sickly sweet.  But that’s just a good start.

Next step ISIS and Mosul.  Red says put about 50,000 troops on the ground,  kick their asses back to the Stone Age, take the oil and their Korans and let someone else worry about the rest of the mess.

So let’s make some more veterans and give them a chance to fight in a Donald Trump war – it will be a beautiful war with lots of winning.  In fact, you’ll get sick of winning and lose a battle or two just to break up the monotony of victory.