American officials provided a written briefing in late February to President Trump laying out their conclusion that a Russian military intelligence unit offered and paid bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill U.S. and coalition troops in Afghanistan, two officials familiar with the matter said. The investigation into the suspected Russian covert operation to incentivize such killings has focused in part on an April 2019 car bombing that killed three Marines as one such potential attack, according to multiple officials familiar with the matter. The new information emerged as the White House tried on Monday to play down the intelligence assessment that Russia sought to encourage and reward killings — including reiterating a claim that Mr. Trump was never briefed about the matter and portraying the conclusion as disputed and dubious. In either case, the insanity of these denials seems incredibly obvious unless you are Kay(LIE) McENEMY, Trump’s newest lying mouthpiece standing in front of the media. But that stance clashed with the disclosure by two officials that the intelligence was included months ago in Mr. Trump’s President’s Daily Brief document — a compilation of the government’s latest secrets and best insights about foreign policy and national security that is prepared for him to read. One of the officials said the item appeared in Mr. Trump’s brief in late February; the other cited Feb. 27, specifically. Moreover, a description of the intelligence assessment that the Russian unit had carried out the bounties plot was also seen as serious and solid enough to disseminate more broadly across the intelligence community in a May 4 article in the C.I.A.’s World Intelligence Review, a classified compendium commonly referred to as The Wire, two officials said. (This information from the NYT). The information was also considered credible enough to have been reported to British intelligence because the Russians apparently also targeted their Coalition troops in Afghanistan. The British government reused to either confirm or deny the report. I think we all know what that means. Of course Putin himself issued tweets of denial. And a Russian spokesman called the reporting “Bullshit” in an interview on NBC News yesterday. Like the British neither confirming nor denying, I think we all understand what this forceful denial from the Russian government REALLY means-GUILTY on all counts. Trump’s BFF Putin is nothing more than a murderous thug who has himself been responsible for literally thousands of deaths in his own country and abroad. Remember the chemical attack in England a while back on a former KGB agent? And Trump chooses to take his word over that of his own intelligence community, just like he did in the pathetic spectacle in Helsinki a couple of years ago. Furthermore, if the reporting is accurate, this also means Trump has continued to champion Putin’s cause, like welcoming him back into the G7, while full well knowing he has personally ordered the assassination of American troops by offering cash bounties to the Taliban. If the reporting of this story is accurate, and it will all come out in the investigation(s) which are surely to follow in Congress, we now have absolute evidence that Trump is not only beholden to Putin, there is something far more sinister at play here. Ever since the Russians aided in his election in 2016, a fact which also cannot be disputed, there has been speculation on the connection between Putin and Trump. What sway or evidence does this former KGB chief hold over our President? Is it financial fraud in his dealings with Russian oligarchs? Is it evidence of a sexual dalliance while Trump was in Moscow for the Miss Universe Pageant? Is it in return for future business considerations such as the Trump Tower in Moscow he has tried to build for years? Instead of speculation in this regard, we need the facts. We have a POTUS who is in cahoots with one of the greatest security threats to our country and his actions (or lack thereof) are now shown to have actually cost the lives of soldiers in the field in Afghanistan, the very troops he has sworn to protect and value. Our country is in grave danger as long as this man holds the office of President of the United States of America. This is NOT the Ukraine extortion plot. This is NOT the Mueller report. This is far, far more serious a threat to our national interests and security than ANYTHING else that Trump has done since he took office, and that’s saying a mouthful!!! If it proves to be true as being reported on multiple fronts, immediate measures must be undertaken to remove him as Commander In Chief. As I stated in an earlier post, I don’t believe we can survive another six months of this man who has proven time and again he holds his own interests above those of our nation. As a direct result of his failed leadership to date, we have 126,000 Americans who have DIED from Covid-19 which he has downplayed from the very beginning. Our relationship with China is at an all time low. The Russians can literally get away with murder. Kim Jung Un in N Korea continues to build his nuclear capabilities and the means to deliver them to our country while Trump sends him love letters. Likewise with Iran since he reneged on the nuclear treaty by unilaterally withdrawing from it. Reports indicate ISIS is reemerging in the Middle East since he ceded Syria to Putin. If you seriously don’t believe this once great and proud “Arsenal of Democracy” we call America is in grave danger as long as Donald Trump is in the White House, you are either not paying attention or you have your head up your ass, like the REPUBLIKAN(T)S in Congress, like "MOSCOW" Mitch who choose to remain silent while Trump sells us all out, including his own military. THE TIME FOR ACTION IS NOW!!!
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Another night of protests results in another innocent victim dying, Mr. Mayor. A twenty eight year old photographer doing his job is gunned down in cold blood in an area which YOU allowed to fester like an open wound downtown believing it was the politically correct calculation. After literally weeks of our beautiful and revitalized downtown area being looted and destroyed by the so called “peaceful” protesters, after you had repeatedly insisted our police force “stand down” in dealing with them we see the end result being murder and mayhem. And then, to top it all off, you issue an apology to these people for destroying their backpacks?!? WTF is wrong with this picture??? WTF is wrong with YOU, Mr. Mayor??? It’s time you grew a pair and actually acted like the leader of this community instead of one of the protesters!!!
Everybody several weeks ago stood by these protesters following the deaths of Breanna Taylor and George Floyd and the calls for racial equality and justice. Following what we have seen transpire in our city under your failed leadership I seriously doubt that is any longer true. The law abiding citizens of this community are no longer going to stand by and tolerate the outrageous behavior which you have allowed over the last month or so while you stood around holding your Johnson in your hand!!! The dismantling of the Jefferson Square campsite, which included weapons, Molotov cocktails and other items intended to destroy property or harm officers or others should have been done weeks ago. And how is it you allow individuals armed with military style assault rifles to casually walk down our city streets looking like they were going into combat??? Despite the First Amendment right to freedom of speech and expression, you openly told a group who had an opposing point of view that “they aren’t welcome in our city”. Really??? But it’s OK for thugs to roam our city streets, assault motorists and destroy public and private property with impunity??? You have lost your credibility and consequently your ability to lead in a time when leadership is desperately required to bring our community together. Instead you have completely capitulated to a vocal minority and decided to turn the keys to the city over to them at the expense of every other citizen of Louisville Metro. I live in the suburbs and I know for an absolute fact that many of the people with whom I have spoken are afraid to even go downtown anymore fearful of risking life and limb. Mr. Mayor, it’s time to stop pretending you are a protester and start acting like you are the top elected official in our city. The moral in LMPD HAS to be at an all time low. I’m told by military personnel who were actually deployed to control the rioting over the last several weeks that they had everything from M-80’s to containers of urine thrown at them while trying to maintain law and order in the Highlands, an area where YOU actually reside along with a large constituency of some of the wealthiest members of our community. It’s time to wrap this up. I heard some of the vocal minority screaming for “justice” and that they would not relent in their efforts to disrupt day to day activities downtown and elsewhere. I say it’s time to wrap this all up and to get on with the necessary changes required to afford equal justice and stop capitulating to these people who would have everybody else feel responsible for their plight. It’s my sincere belief that most people like myself have now lost whatever enthusiasm we had a few weeks ago to support their cause, because frankly we are weary of it all. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…ALL LIVES MATTER, including that of a twenty eight year old white man who was doing his job when a man who shouldn’t have even been on the streets (two prior arrests in the previous two weeks for inciting to riot among other charges!) gunned him down in cold blood and wounded another. Mayor Fischer, DO YOUR JOB and start protecting the safety and property of the overwhelming majority of your city instead of doing what you perceive to be politically expedient. Just when we believe things couldn’t get any worse, somehow with Donald Trump sitting in the Oval Office they always do. As if the raging pandemic and the economic meltdown which have essentially resulted from his malfeasance and dereliction of duty which BTW continues to this very day and the protests and demonstrations in the streets across the country over racial injustice weren’t bad enough, it has now been confirmed by two VERY credible sources, the Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times and NBC News that his BFF Vladimir Putin had agreed to pay the Taliban bounty money for any American soldier they killed in Afghanistan. Last year TWENTY Americans died there. The cease fire that was so ceremoniously touted by Trump lackey “POMPOUS” Mike Pompeo has been a farce and the war and our military presence there drags on for almost the twentieth year.
Worse yet, the White House denies that either Trump or Pence knew anything about this incredible act of blatant aggression being ordered against American troops. I don’t know which is worse, the fact that they didn’t know anything about it as claimed or they did and have done nothing about it!!! I lean toward the latter because NO intelligence report of this magnitude could EVER NOT reach his desk. Period. There can be no laying this off-Trump either saw the intelligence and chose to ignore it or he never saw it because he refuses to read the critical data and information laid in front of him every day. Information leaking from the Worst Wing indicates that Trump has known about this for months. In either case, it really doesn’t matter. We’ve known since the 2016 election that Putin has had Trump in his back pocket, although we still have yet to discover the true reason why. Is it due to financial fraud in his dealings with Russian oligarchs? Does Putin have evidence of Trump’s immoral conduct while in Russia for the Miss Universe contest he is using as leverage? Has Trump made a deal in order to enhance his future financial position, i.e. Trump Tower Moscow? We don’t know the answer, but there is definitely something amiss here. Remember Helsinki? The images of him bending a knee to Putin and accepting his word over that of his own intelligence services which squarely pinned the blame on Russia for interference in the election to Trump’s benefit confirmed the obvious. His actions since on everything from trying to withhold military aid from the Ukraine, a country at war with Russian backed separatist (who, BTW, shot down a Malaysian Airlines passenger plane killing over 250 innocent victims!) to ceding Syria and essentially our influence in the Middle East to Putin are further evidence of the collusion which is taking place between Trump and this murderous thug, the former KGB chief who plays our President like a fine tuned Stradivarius violin. Trump for whatever reason has decided that his relationship with Putin is more important than the very lives of the soldiers he claims to support who have been put in harms way with a price on their heads. If there was EVER a time for the gutless REPUBLIKAN(T) sycophants who have blindly followed this miscreant down whatever rat hole he dives into next to stand up and actually take their oath of office seriously, the defense of our country and our Constitution, “This Is It!” as Kenny Loggin's sang. It’s one thing for “MOSCOW” Mitch to refuse to consider legislation securing our electoral process from Russian interference or Lindsey Graham “CRACKER” trying to defend him, but when we are talking about the lives of American soldiers being put at risk it becomes a whole new ball game. Even though the election is but four months away, it might well be time to again consider IMPEACHMENT. Talk about collusion and dereliction of duty!!! I’m sure we have just heard the beginnings of this HUGE story. It’s hardly any wonder that Trump considers the media to be his enemy-were it not for the incredible reporting by the press on stories such as this we would never know the depths to which this man has sunk in order to either perpetuate his Presidency or protect Putin. Thank God for the NY Times, Washington Post and NBC for their diligence in pursuing this story. The very future of our nation and democracy are riding on them. You better start believing it before it’s too late for all of us. I’m watching ESPN this morning and they are heavily promoting the resumption of the NBA season, the newly announced MLB schedule, etc., etc.-all intended to boost their sagging ratings (translation revenues) in light of the raging pandemic. Already we have heard instances of players in MLB camps testing positive for Covid-19, NBA players and even a PGA player who was actually playing in a tournament when it was discovered he was positive. The NBA thinks playing “in a bubble” at Disney World is safe as the cases in Florida go through the roof as a consequence of another REPUBLIKAN(T) Governor’s refusal to accept the advice of doctors and scientist in shutting down his state??? Persons in the Texas Ranger organization are being pressured by management to report to work at the ballpark rather than work from home in another state where the Coronavirus is raging out of control as a result of their Governor’s complete failure to recognize the risks of reopening his state too soon, and now look what’s happened. The Indy 500 announced they will run August 3rd with 50% capacity allowed into the Brickyard (that folks are 250,000 people). The Kentucky Derby announced September 5th as the date for their event, again allowing approximately 50% capacity (75,000) with the wearing of masks “optional”. Clemson’s football team has reported over thirty confirmed positive test results, as have other schools like LSU and Kansas State. But Dabo plows right on, doesn’t he, like the true champion he is!!! The list is endless, but the one overriding concern in all of these ill advised decisions is plain and simple…wait for it…MONEY!!!
Then there’s the incredibly depressing news as we witnessed the good, the bad and the ugly yesterday in the first Pandemic Task Force briefing in nearly two months, yet another indication of Trump’s insane attempts to wish this pandemic away or hope that it will “magically disappear!! The good was Dr. Fauci telling America we aren’t safe, that the wearing of masks and social distancing still is essential in trying to slow the spread of this disease. The bad was V.P. Mike “I’M A LITTLE DENSE” Pence once again standing in front of America and the world and just flat out lying about everything related to the pandemic. It’s absolutely incredible that the driving force behind the death of tens of thousands of our fellow citizens is our President and his administration’s total disregard for facts in favor of political expediency and a misinformation campaign directed from the top down. The ugly, of course, is Donald Trump himself, as he brazenly disregards the health and safety of his constituents by refusing to follow his own CDC guidelines, by holding political rallies in enclosed arenas where few bother to wear masks and by having his sycophants like Pence, Kudlow and Conway bombard the media with more lies and misinformation all laser focused on one and only one issue-to get this madman reelected. I understand the economic pain and suffering this pandemic has caused across our country-forty five million plus unemployed, small businesses forced to close their doors forever and endless lines seeking unemployment benefits in state after state. It has affected all of us to some degree or another. But we now fully understand the consequences of listening to the politicians instead of our health care professionals, doctors and scientists. The current surge in Covid-19 cases around the country can be directly attributed to the complete failure of leadership from Washington, both the Trump administration AND Congress, who still can’t even agree on a second stimulus package while people go hungry. The politicians, especially REPUBLIKAN(T)S couldn’t get their states reopened fast enough to please their golden idol, and, as predicted we are now seeing the results. Already Florida and Texas have basically gone back into lock down mode trying to contain the huge surges in cases. Most of this surge is being tied directly to the reopening of bars where close contact, failure to wear masks or social distance and the consumption of alcohol make for a perfect breeding ground for the virus. Once again, behind every door is the same prize…MONEY!!! It’s too soon to do ANY of these things I’ve described above. Yes. We’ve all got cabin favor. Yes we all want life to return to ANY semblance of normalcy. But the fact is until a vaccine is developed in the future there is absolutely NO way to contain this pandemic unless the CDC Guidelines are adhered to. I urge ALL state governors and local officials to make wearing a mask MANDATORY, just like seat belts. We aren’t infringing on anybody’s rights- by refusing to protect themselves and others they are infringing on my right to live!!! Be smart. Don’t what ever you do pay heed to these harbingers of disease and death in the name of greed because they don’t give a DAMN about you or I, only their own bottom lines or reelection. Shame on all of them…lot’s of blood on their hands. And the hits just keep on coming from Donald Trump! Now, as the pandemic he called a “hoax” just a few short months ago is raging out of control as a direct result of he and his REPUBLIKAN(T) allies in Governor’s mansions choosing political and economic expediency over their constituents health and safety by reopening their states far too soon, he decides it’s time to ask the Supreme Court to strike down Obamacare!!! He has essentially ended federal funding for Covid-19 testing in states like Texas, where the REPUBLIKAN(T) Governor has admitted his stupidity by shutting down the state once again as the disease spikes to record highs daily.
He has called for REDUCED testing and then claims he was being “sarcastic”; who is sarcastic about 125,000 people who have DIED from this horrible plague?!? His task force on the pandemic hasn’t been seen or heard from in weeks save for the lies and misinformation being spread daily by Mike “I’M A LITTLE DENSE” Pence. Despite the fact that doctors and scientists just stated that wearing masks could save more than 30,000 lives over the next several months, he refuses to wear one. Why…wait for it…vanity and machismo. He has held indoor rallies recently in Oklahoma and Arizona where the attendees, many of who refused, like Trump, to wear a mask, were essentially acting as Petri dishes for the spread of Coronavirus. He defends Confederate monuments and threatens to use the military (once again) to defend them. He blasts black Democratic mayors saying their cities “are like living in hell” as minorities struggle and protest for equal justice under the law. His government is so incompetent that over ONE BILLION $’s in stimulus checks were sent to people who were deceased. His Attorney General, William (DIS)Barr, who just might be as crooked as his boss, is running interference for him trying to expunge the previous history of collusion and obstruction by him and his “CABINET OF CLOWNS”. He appropriated the military to break up a peaceful demonstration by using tear gas and attack helicopters to clear his path for a photo op. He has repeatedly come down on the side of the police in the fight against their abuses against minorities and labeled the demonstrators as “thugs”. He makes a trip to Arizona, another REPUBLIKAN(T) controlled state where Covid-19 is surging out of control as a consequence of either lax or non existent enforcement of Trump’s own CDC guidelines, to again tout his absurd border wall and his inhumane immigration policies. All the while, his cowardly sycophants in Congress stand by and do or say essentially nothing as he destroys both their party and our Constitution by his hateful and divisive words and actions. And America, guess what??? This has all happened within the past ONE MONTH!!! Many people are saying we can’t survive another four years of Donald Trump as POTUS…I’m saying we might not be able to survive four more MONTHS of this unhinged and desperate man. Perhaps it’s time to once again raise the issue of IMPEACHMENT before he literally kills tens of thousands of more Americans. There is truly no telling what he might do as he slides further behind Joe Biden in the polls nearly across the board. His foreign policy is in complete disarray under the failed leadership of “POMPOUS” Mike Pompeo. Take a look around. The Russians continue to try to meddle in our electoral process on his behalf. Both N Korea and Iran are moving full speed ahead with development of their nuclear programs because of failed diplomacy and reneging on the treaty we signed in concert with our EU allies. Our relationship with China, at a time when cooperation on the pandemic is an absolute necessity is at an all time low as a result of his catastrophic trade war and his racial slurs used to depict the virus, like “Kung Flu”. The Middle East is no closer to peace than it was twenty five years ago. Our allies in Europe have been essentially abandoned. There are wars raging out of control in Afghanistan and Yemen. It is, truly, as one historian bluntly put it “a world in disarray!!!” I realize that impeachment is never going to happen now. It should have happened back in January when the Senate REPUBLIKANT(S) under the direction of Trump’s tool “MOSCOW" Mitch McConnell, refused to honor either their oaths of office or Constitutional duties and gave him a “get out of jail card” over the Ukrainian extortion episode. Just think where we would be today had they done their sacred duty instead of being complicit and marching in “lock step” with Trump as “MOSCOW” Mitch proudly proclaimed BEFORE the trial even got started. They refused to consider witness testimony from key people like John Bolton, whose recent book revealed what we already knew, that Trump is unfit to serve as president either mentally or intellectually. As pathetic as Mike “I’M A LITTLE DENSE” Pence is, his previous governmental experience would have been far better suited to handling the pandemic then his boss’s complete lack of experience and incompetence. Literally tens of thousands of our fellow citizens might still be alive today had the Senate done their job instead of opting for political expediency. So what is the answer? The answer is voting this charlatan and ALL of his complicit REPUBLIKAN(T) weasels out of office in November. He has already begun to question the legitimacy of the November election on the basis of “rampant fraud” in the mail in ballot system because he realizes he has virtually no chance of winning reelection. He is using his 2016 script to fire up his so called “base”, the left over corned beef hash with ingredients such as immigration, law and order and other hits from long ago without making ANY attempt to appeal to the 60% who will absolutely not vote for him under any circumstances. It isn’t working anymore, and he continues to slide further behind in almost every poll. (BTW…WTF is wrong with “non college educated white America” in their seemingly blind support for this would be despot???). AMERICA, I’ve been sounding the alarm bells about this lunatic since the day he took office, and I have been on point nearly across the board. Let’s make sure we don’t have to survive another four years of this race baiting, immoral and incompetent buffoon and hope we can indeed survive the next four months!!! I’m not writing this post for the sake of appealing to the apparent half of the country who would vote, like me, for ANYBODY the Democrats nominate in order to rid ourselves of the most incompetent and corrupt POTUS to ever hold the office. I’m not writing it to the twenty per cent or so who are “undecided” (are you freakin kidding me???) as to their electoral presidential choice. No sir, I’m writing to the thirty per cent or so of Trump supporters who would vote for him if he shot Joe Biden (which I’m sure he would love to do!), who follow him blindly down whatever dark deprived rabbit hole he descends, who risk life and limb to see him at person at a political rally in the midst of a raging pandemic which has already killed 120,000 of their fellow citizens and who are going to be really pissed when he LOSES in November. To those individuals, I have a suggestion that will take you AND the lame ass in the White House off the hook, to avoid the humiliation of a staggering political defeat which is the consequence of four years of utter and complete failure of Trump and his administration and policies. The solution is simple-Donald Trump should announce, like LBJ did in ’68 while the country was torn asunder by the Vietnam conflict that “he will not seek, nor cannot accept" the REPUBLIKAN(T) nomination for President in the upcoming election.
Mike “I’M A LITTLE DENSE” Pence has been the total sycophant under Trump, a cardboard effigy who spreads lies and misinformation as routinely as his boss. His policy positions on issues from immigration to foreign policy are identical to Trump’s. But unlike Trump, Pence is a career politician who understands that absolute necessity of expanding the REPUBLIKAN(T) voter base from the thirty five per cent of ardent Trump supporters, the need to reach out to minorities, women and the independent or undecided voters out there. This would make him a more appealing candidate than Trump and he would have the benefit of doing like the Democrats and naming a woman or a minority as his running mate. As for Trump, the photo of him departing Marine One following the catastrophic campaign rally in Tulsa says it all!!! He looked like a broken man, a defeated man. His dreams of serving a second term died along with 120,000 of his constituents as a direct result of his failure of leadership, the incompetent response to the pandemic. He knows it. Ivanka and Jared know it. Kellyanne “C” Word knows it. If the rest of the REPUBLIKAN(T)s don’t see it, they are just as blind to reality as he is. It doesn’t matter how many miles of wall he builds, how many bans on immigration he announces, how many race baiting speeches he makes or how many outrageous tweets or comments he makes, IT’S OVER!!! He claims that the media has been unfair to him since the day he took office and has been at war with the mainstream media over their coverage ever since. The fact that he has LIED 19,000 plus times to the American people beginning with the size of the inauguration crowd up until now doesn’t seem to be something he comprehends, like so many other things. (Is Finland part of Russia? The Brits have nukes?!?) The adoring throngs he so desperately craves have been reduced to a fraction of those who turned out in 2016 to cheer his candidacy on, partly because of the pandemic but mostly due to his failed leadership and where it has left the majority of Americans, wondering what catastrophe will befall us next. His approval ratings are in the toilet. All signs point to a devastating loss in November, something they say he hates worse than anything…LOSING. So I say to you, Mr. President, why put yourself through this ringer for four more years? You certainly don’t need the income because you have been so corrupt as to leverage your presidency into millions of dollars in the family interests with the Russians, Saudis, Turks and others. You don’t want the press to continuing to expose your every foolish comment or tweet or the gross incompetence and negligence of your Cabinet and your failed policies. You had NO idea as you grandly strolled down the escalator at Trump Tower five years ago of what you were getting yourself into and apparently you still don’t. You wanted the limelight but not like this. Also, it’s possible, like “TRICKY” Dick Nixon that if you were to go quietly into the night you won’t end up in an orange jump suit where you and your cronies might end up when you leave office and the innumerable transgressions you have been guilty of are further revealed. Think about your BFF’s Michael Flynn, Michael Cohen, Roger Stone, Jeffrey Epstein and Roger Ailes, all outfitted for jail clothing at one time or another. For once in your sad pathetic life, Mr. President, why don’t you do the right thing? Announce you will not seek a second term and go back to Trump Tower or wherever else (preferably further away) you may run and hide and count your money. You are NOT fit to be POTUS and Mike Pence or any other stooge your party puts in your stead will do far better at the polls come November. More importantly, the country can begin to move on from a chapter in our history that will forever be remembered as some of our darkest days. Wishful thinking? Perhaps. Either way, those of us on the opposite side of the aisle win. If Trump runs, which he most certainly will, Democrats will not only win back the White House but have a real opportunity to flip the Senate and rid ourselves of another scourge to our democracy, MOSCOW Mitch McConnell and his yellow bellied cohorts in the Congress. If he doesn’t run again, no matter who assumes the Oval Office our country will be better off. That’s the bottom line, Mr. Trump. The latest judicial outrage committed by the Attorney General William Barr, the forced removal of the Prosecuting Attorney of the Southern District of NY after he refused to resign, is in and of itself grounds for his impeachment. Since Donald Trump appointed Barr, he has acted as Trump’s personal hit man attempting to lead interference for him in his reelection campaign by systematically removing any possible roadblocks and abusing his powers as the chief law enforcement officer in the United States. Starting with his complete whitewash of Robert Mueller’s report, lying to the American people and also Congress about it and its true content. He then was involved in the Ukrainian scandal by assisting in Rudy Giuliani’s inept attempt to strong arm the new government there into investigating Trump’s political opponent Joe Biden. He has openly interfered in the sentencing of former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and his associate Roger Stone, both convicted of felony offenses and sentenced to prison. Then he strode across Lafayette Square like a little Napoleon with his boss after ordering that the peaceful protesters there be dispersed by riot police and military troops using tear gas and other Gestapo like tactics so his boss could pose for a photo op. Last week he had the DOJ file suit to prevent the release of John Bolton’s damning book about his time in the WH as Trump’s National Security Advisor, a move that a federal judge immediately refused to consider. Now this. He is directly involved in the removal of a DOJ Trump appointed Special Prosecutor for the various investigations into numerous allegations of Trump wrongdoing, from Rudy Giuliani to the Trump Foundation. As Joe Scarborough has repeatedly called him, Barr is NOT the chief law enforcement officer of the U.S.; he is Trump’s new Roy Cohn, the shady attorney who ran interference for Trump while he was pillaging NY under the fraudulent guise of a legitimate real estate developer. Cohn was at least the first of two personal lawyers for Trump to be disbarred. The second was Trump’s more recent attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, who gave porn star Stormy Daniels hush money to keep her quiet about an alleged sexual tryst with Trump who has also served time in prison
Barr needs to be removed from his office ASAP by actions of Congress, namely impeachment. His continued attempts to sabotage the Constitution in order to protect the most corrupt President in our nation’s history and his interference in the political process are causing irreparable damage to our system of checks and balances. Without a judicial system to keep his worst instincts in check, there’s no telling what further damage Trump can do, much like the wild animal that’s trapped in a corner. Here are the words of Senator Mark Warner, top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee "There seems to be a pattern in this administration that the president and his henchmen, Mr. Barr, are willing to get rid of anyone that’s investigating people who get close to Donald Trump," he said. “This is one more example of why Bill Barr has repeatedly demonstrated that he’s far more interested in being Donald trump’s personal lawyer than he is in being the attorney for the United States of America,” Warner added, noting recent reports that Berman was investigating Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. More than 1,100 former federal prosecutors and Justice Department officials called on Attorney General William P. Barr on Sunday to step down after he intervened last week to lower the Justice Department's sentencing recommendation for President Trump's longtime friend Roger J. Stone Jr. In their joint statement, with signatories from Democratic and REPUBLIKAN(T) administrations, the former DOJ lawyers explained, "Governments that use the enormous power of law enforcement to punish their enemies and reward their allies are not constitutional republics; they are autocracies." They added that the attorney general's actions "damage they have done to the Department of Justice's reputation for integrity and the rule of law," as such, Barr must resign. Of course we all understand Bill Barr will never resign and that Trump desperately needs to him to fend off all of these potentially damning scandals until after the November elections. Unfortunately for Trump, that ship sailed a long time ago. His actions and those of the most crooked AG in history have done nothing more than to further erode public confidence in the entire government from the top down as well as our system of criminal justice. Before this little tyrant (Barr) can do further damage, I urge House Democrats to immediately launch an impeachment inquiry into Barr and to bring to light the untold destruction he has already caused to the DOJ. Moral in the department is at an all time low. Our founding fathers probably never imagined a scenario where a President intent on abusing his powers would have nearly every single supposed guardrail in his back pocket, from the gutless REPUBLIKAN(T)S in Congress to William Barr and the DOJ; it’s almost a perfect storm except for the House of Representatives, controlled by Democrats, the same body that launched the impeachment inquiry into Trump himself for the Ukraine debacle. It’s once again time for them to do their duty and impeach William Barr. The sooner the better before he and his boss can do further damage to this great country through their undermining of our Constitution and everything it stands for. For those who don’t believe that Donald Trump is unhinged and unfit to be POTUS, I will simply point to tonight’s scheduled “political rally” he has scheduled for Tulsa, Oklahoma. In the midst of a huge spike in Covis-19 cases in Oklahoma, another state run by a REPUBLIKAN(T) stooge who puts political expediency ahead of the health and welfare of his own constituents (just like Trump!), our ignorant President decides that his political future is more important than the lives of more Americans, including the nearly 120,000 who have died so far as a result of his dereliction of duty and denial of the pandemic for weeks. Now he decides to hold an indoor rally, fails to meet his own CDC guidelines for the wearing of masks, social distancing and prolonged exposure in confined spaces. In addition, there will undoubtedly be literally thousands of others who cram into a several block area, including both his foolish supporters AND protesters. The recipe is there for a major spread of the coronavirus in a city and state that has already seen its cases and hospitalizations rise sharply as a result of the lax enforcement of CDC guidelines, which the sycophant Governor left up to individual jurisdictions. Two weeks from now, just around the Fourth of July holiday, we will witness the result of Trump’s insanity. And he is planning another such rally in Arizona, another Republikan(t) controlled state where Covid-19 is raging out of control within the next couple of weeks.
To those individuals who have decided to attend these rallies without benefit of a face mask or any consideration whatsoever for social distancing, I have only one comment: stupid is as stupid does. No matter what your political beliefs, and I heard a number of these fools being interviewed while waiting in line or camping out for the privilege of getting deathly ill and their comments were as ignorant as their support for the most corrupt and incompetent buffoon to EVER occupy the White House. Four more years of Trump and there won’t be a country left. I’ve said this on numerous occasions and I’ll say it once more-Donald Trump does NOT care one iota about the health and well being of ANYBODY, including his own supporters. His reelection is in such serious jeopardy as a result of his corruption and incompetence in dealing with the pandemic, the racial protests resulting from police brutality and the ongoing investigations into corruption at every level of his government from the crooked Attorney General to the “CABINET OF CLOWNS” and the other morons he has appointed. In the book about to be released by former National Security Advisor John Bolton (himself an opportunistic coward who failed to do his duty and uphold his oath of office when it mattered most!) he details numerous incidences of Trump’s callousness and incompetence, stating emphatically he is “unfit to be president”. And to make matters worse for Tulsa, Trump has all but dared protesters to show up, threatening them with further police brutality should they dare demonstrate in the streets around the arena. This foolish bravado, so typical of the man who himself is a draft dodging coward who refuses to confront his opponents face to face but opts for assassination via tweet is almost certain to achieve just the opposite. The entire staging of this event, originally planned for yesterday (Juneteenth) in a direct slap in the face to all people of color, has the makings of a major catastrophe on so many levels it almost defies description. But that doesn’t matter to Trump, as long as he can satisfy his own ego and hear the adulation of the adoring throngs who are risking their very lives to hear him spew forth more hate and divisiveness live and in person. The one certainty in this entire fiasco is that there will almost certainly be fewer voters to support him come November. Mark my words and those of the doctors and scientists who are tracking this horrible disease. And to those who steadfastly refuse to believe this and say it’s nothing more than a seasonal flu, I wish you all the best. If you contract Covid-19 you’re gonna need all the help you can get. Good luck to you. BTW for those who are wondering, Oklahoma is worth a whopping SEVEN electoral votes. That’s right, seven. This lunatic is risking the lives of literally thousands of individuals in order to secure SEVEN electoral votes. Think about that. And Arizona? A staggering ELEVEN. A grand total of EIGHTEEN electoral votes. Illinois alone is worth twenty, New York twenty nine and California fifty-five. Do the math. Trump’s rallies in Oklahoma and Arizona, putting the health and safety of tens of thousands at risk are being held in hopes of garnering fewer electoral votes combined than a number of other key states like Illinois. And the true definition of insanity?!? You are bearing witness to it every single day that this lunatic occupies 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. The good news is at this point he is so far upside down in the polls that even he must realize his chances at reelection are slipping away as fast as he wishes the pandemic would “magically disappear” or that our economy is coming back so he can tout his incredible accomplishments. November can’t come fast enough to remove this disease from our midst, and I’m NOT talking about Covid-19. He has done more damage to this great nation than ANY of his predecessors put together. And he isn’t done yet. After nearly a month of non stop protests since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis it was inevitable that what was once a movement supported by the vast majority of whites has now evolved into something else, much like was the case with the #metoo movement following the revelations of the insidious behavior of people like Harvey Weinstein and Roger Ailes. Remember Senator Al Franken? Remember Brett Kavanaugh? What it has evolved into is now something that in many ways has nothing to do with the principles of equal justice for all but rather the agendas of others who promote violence, divisiveness and disregard the rules of law that were established to maintain order in our society. It has also become the “BAND-AID” of corporate Amerika in their pathetic attempts to pretend they are truly concerned about the plight of blacks with such absurdities being offered as eliminating Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben from circulation because they represent racism. Public monuments are being vandalized and destroyed. Private businesses are being burned and looted. The sports world is deeply torn between a genuine concern for solving the racial inequality issues and unadulterated greed from both owners and players on the professional level and the need to feed the financial beast that is the world of collegiate sports at the expense of the welfare and safety of the so called student athletes who participate. In the meanwhile, a young black man in Atlanta is shot and killed by police following a scuffle whereby he stole an officers taser and fired it at him while fleeing. He was passed out drunk in the drive through lane at a Wendy’s and had resisted arrest following a failed field sobriety test which led to the scuffle and the shooting which resulted in his death. Completely different circumstances than those in Minneapolis and yet the officer involved is also being charged with murder. It is worth noting that the D.A. who charged the arresting officers is black, as is the mayor of Atlanta. Of course lawyers representing Rayshard Brooks’ family immediately seized upon the tragic circumstances surrounding his death to further stoke the flames of violence and unrest in Atlanta and elsewhere, and the main stream media continues to portray Brooks as an innocent victim. He wasn’t. He was drunk and stupid. It cost him his life. Here in Louisville, my hometown, we had another tragic circumstance a couple of months ago which led to an innocent black woman, an Emergency Medical Technician, Breanna Taylor being killed by police in a late night raid on her home. The circumstances of that incident are also very sketchy in terms of the actions of the officers involved and it has evoked the same type of outrage and protests as the George Floyd murder in our downtown area. Another black man was apparently shot by National Guard troops during one late night incident in West Louisville where a large crowd had gathered despite a curfew being in place. Within the last couple of days these so called protesters have turned into thugs, blocking intersections and in one case hurling a chunk of concrete through a reporter’s windshield. Meanwhile our mayor essentially told the police charged with maintaining order to “stand down”, giving a green light to further mayhem and destruction. If this type of behavior continues to go on night after night unabated or moves away from the downtown area toward suburban areas I sincerely fear we will see a REAL outbreak of chaos. Look at Seattle where an entire section of the city has been “taken over” by these so called protesters while the Mayor stands by doing NOTHING. Complete anarchy. Politicians have also jumped on the bandwagon. Military bases named after Confederate officers of the Civil War are being renamed. They can’t write legislation fast enough to show how deeply concerned they are, which is almost as fraudulent as the “Executive Order” signed by Trump yesterday in another photo op, this time with law enforcement instead of the military being used as a background prop. The bottom line is this…I’m already weary of it all. I’m sure I’m not the only American who feels this way. I refuse to make excuses for being born a white man. I believe that EVERYBODY is entitled to equal rights and protections under the law, be they black, brown, red, yellow or white; gay lesbian, transsexual, bi sexual-WHATEVER!!! I understand the BLM movement is an important one in making sure that the abuses we have seen in the past are addressed on all levels and that the legitimate protests served a very real purpose and have spurred action on multiple fronts to facilitate real change. But please don’t keep beating me over the head with it until I reach the point of overload, which I’m close to now as I’m sure a great many other Americans are too!!! As a point in fact, I tweeted about this issue this morning calling the Atlanta D.A.’s decision outrageous and politically motivated. Out of 75 responses, 45 were positive, 30 negative. Just saying….. In the middle of a huge surge in the number of Covid-19 cases being reported in a number of states, especially those with REPUBLIKAN(T) governors who chose to disregard their own health officials and reopen their states for purposes of political expediency such as FL, TX, AL and AZ, we have V.P. and STOOGE in Chief Mike Pence telling America that there is no second wave and that this is all behind us thanks to the incredible job Donald Trump has done in handling the pandemic in an op-ed piece published this morning in the WSJ (by the way, what has happened to this once proud publication?!?). He then went further by accusing the media of “fear mongering” in reporting the surge in cases. Earlier this week he told the governors in a conference call to LIE to their constituency about the increase in cases by attributing it to increased testing capacity rather than in actual new cases. Pence is supposed to be in charge of the Task Force dealing with this national calamity which has already killed nearly 120,000 of our fellow citizens and yet here he is acting as a cheerleader for his boss instead. Dr. Anthony Fauci hasn’t spoken with the President in over two weeks, another indication that Trump and Pence want America to believe “all is well” and put this outbreak in the rear view mirror so they can focus on the only thing that matters to Donald Trump-getting reelected.
In addition, Trump seems absolutely determined to kill more people by holding a political rally Saturday night in an enclosed arena in Tulsa, Oklahoma, another state run by a REPUBLIKAN(T) Governor who refused to follow CDC guidelines for safely reopening the state’s economy. Local health officials have literally begged him to postpone the event, which was originally and callously scheduled for Friday or Juneteenth, a holiday in celebration of black liberation from the bonds of slavery in a city that was the site of one of the worst white on black racial massacres in our nation’s history. Trump has ignored any such advice and seems determined to move full speed ahead with his reelection campaign regardless of how many people get sick or die as a result. His reelection committee is making participants sign waivers exempting them or Trump of any liability when people do in fact get sick from attending. Doctors have told us repeatedly that the indoor enclosed environment such as the arena is the perfect breeding ground for the virus to be transmitted. They will be handing out masks (the President refuses himself to wear one) and hand sanitizers which many in attendance will refuse in order to appear as macho as their fearless leader. Trump himself continues to raise false hopes for a quick fix through his absurd narrative, like suggesting bleach, U.V. lights, hydroxychloroquin were ways of dealing with the disease. Now he tells us all a vaccine is coming in the fall (right around election time) that will miraculously end the sickness and death we see every day as a result of this pandemic. Instead of giving us “just the facts, ma’am” he and his ignorant sycophant stooges like Pence continue to spew lies and misinformation. All with only ONE ultimate objective-to get this ignorant charlatan and ex game show host reelected for a second term. Does ANYBODY truly believe that Donald Trump gives a flying FU*K about America’s health and welfare?!? If you do, you are one of the 30% of our fellow citizens who refuse to accept scientific facts, refuse to believe the pandemic is real and deadly and would essentially believe Trump or Pence no matter what nonsense they spew forth. Take a hard look around America. This pandemic is NOT going to be willed away by political expediency. It will not disappear because Mike Pence, Larry Kudlow, Steve Mnuchin or Kellyanne Conway say it will or deny the facts. It doesn’t care if you are a REPUBLIKAN(T) or a Democrat, liberal or conservative, black or white. The curve in the United States is NOT flattening out as it is in other countries because the leaders here have not only failed to act in a competent manner in dealing with it, they have been lying to the American people about it from the very beginning!!! People actually believe that all is well from listening to these buffoons or Trump’s propaganda outlets like FAUX NEWS or ONE AMERICA NONSENSE NETWORK. I’ve said it numerous times and I’ll keep saying it-do what is right America for yourself and your family and loved ones. Wear a mask when in public places. Practice social distancing. Be smart. It sounds simple and is, and yet half of Americans do not believe it is important to wear a mask despite doctors telling us it is a very effective means of limiting the transmission of this virus. Just last night the Montgomery, AL city leaders REFUSED to pass an ordinance requiring wearing of masks in public despite the testimony of numerous doctors and the fact that the city is being overwhelmed with new cases of infection. Once again, the direct result of failed leadership at the top. Mike Pence should know better, but along with so many others who have been infected by the insidious disease that is Donald Trump he has chosen to sell his soul to him in exchange for the intoxicant called power. He has been the absolute perfect foil for his boss, stumbling blindly behind with that stupid shit eating grin on his face and doing whatever bidding he is told, like lying to the governors and the American people on a regular basis. Shame on you, Mike Pence. You’re not just DENSE, you are complicit in causing the unnecessary death of tens of thousands of the very people you are supposed to be representing. History will be your judge and it will NOT be kind. You have blood on your hands, just like when you failed to deal with the HIV outbreak in your home state of IN when you were governor. |
About Mike ColeBorn in Hamilton, OH but a proud Kentuckian since age two. One brother and three sisters. Suburban, Catholic middle-class upbringing. Attended Jefferson Community College and Pasadena Community College. Proud father of four and grandfather to seven, and most of all, a concerned American citizen! Are you??? Categories |