Donald J. Trump has “betrayed” us all. He has lived a life that violates every principle of decency and moral values—what is deemed the “American Way of Life.” He has mocked the Golden Rule: “Do unto others, as you would have them do onto you.” He has shattered the conventional business model, which implores that it’s benefactors have some form of marginal business ethics. He conducts his life with actions that would shame all our mothers, and make our fathers shake their heads in disbelief. He has turned his own charitable non-profit foundation into his private cash cow that pays for at least two life-sized portraits of himself for his private home collection. He knows no bounds of vanity or excess; he is the leader of Sodom and Gomorrah.
His betrayals are against the norms and absolute limits of a just and reasonable society:
- He has turned normal dating into a rape-a-rama. He has redefined misogyny to be a goal for business and political leaders since he is lauded for it.
- He has turned believing in a religion into a total sham to be elected President.
- His cabinet picks are not only the most unqualified, they would be enough to void a probationer’s ability to stay out of prison.
- He conducts a campaign rally like a court jester entertained the King by pointing out to the crowd the weaknesses or betrayals of the lords around him: disabled, ugly person, person of color, fat woman, complainer, and mainly that this person spoke ill of the King.
- He denied Climate Change and mocks those who care about it.
- He lies.
- He had four deferments from the military draft to Vietnam, despite his officer’s training when we were short of officers in the war (when his draft board finally gave him an exemption, he hurried of to an Intramural Game in college that he was playing in).
- He deals in the abuse of immigrants like when he imported hundreds of Polish workers to work on his building in America, then got them deported. He has even abused the legal status of his two immigrant wives.
- He has made a “joke” of our legal system by the 3,500 lawsuits he is a party to.
- In business, he threatened competitors with his “New York Mafia connections.”
- He has no stake in our country with so many foreign investments it doesn’t matter if the country sinks. He has failed to participate in local matters (like being appointed to a historic buildings advisory board) other than taking potshots and tweets from Trump Towers. He pays no taxes and will not share this information with us; and does it with no guilt. Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said the contract with the American people was to: “pay taxes to live in a civilized society.”
He ran an election like you would a tabloid newspaper—not one shred of truth. He won election by courting the Russians to rig the election. He mocked the election process by allowing the disenfranchisement of 7 million people (according to Greg Palast).
Now he sets about to ruin government for the entire country. All the principles that my father and I learned while we were in state and federal, and even local governments, are now null and void. The Federal Register, Administrative Law, policy and procedure, agency actions, nepotism laws, conflict of interest rules; all are to be bypassed and thrown onto the ash pile of history. Checks and balances be dammed.
I wrote about it before and it was really saying that Republicans had changed our country for the worst. Now it is just one deficient guy: https://williamhenrymee.wordpress.com/2015/09/26/what-happened-to-the-america-i-grew-up-in/
Any one of these substantiated charges against Trump would make you think twice about keeping a friend or a leader; yet, he is forgiven and his shocking actions are minimized by his supporters even before the charges are fully understood or judged in the public square, or at a very minimum the court of public opinion.
We have a very perverse society, when this betrayer has been held up as a model to be emulated. That so many people still align themselves with this very seriously deficient human being and worship him like you would a Satan-pretender; this may be the greatest American tragedy of all. The truly saddest thing is he has gotten away with it all.
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I still say he didn’t divide us, he betrayed us:
http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/12/09/trump-says-didnt-divide-america-new-york-times-response-perfect/
http://time.com/4575780/stephen-bannon-fourth-turning/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/12/9/1609016/-Rachel-Maddow-Poll-reveals-Trump-voters-live-in-alternate-state-of-reality?detail=email&link_id=1&can_id=957a98ad23b01e070705aa66cfa57246&source=email-rachel-maddow-poll-reveals-trump-voters-live-in-alternate-state-of-reality-2&email_referrer=rachel-maddow-poll-reveals-trump-voters-live-in-alternate-state-of-reality-2&email_subject=rachel-maddow-poll-reveals-trump-voters-live-in-alternate-state-of-reality
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/22/here-are-76-of-donald-trumps-many-campaign-promises/?utm_term=.c73cd1f58bff
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/12/09/1609143/-Garrison-Keillor-Not-my-president-doesn-t-read-can-t-write-looks-like-a-1959-lounge-singer?detail=email&link_id=1&can_id=957a98ad23b01e070705aa66cfa57246&source=email-garrison-keillor-he-will-never-be-my-presidentheres-why-2&email_referrer=garrison-keillor-he-will-never-be-my-presidentheres-why-2&email_subject=garrison-keillor-he-will-never-be-my-president-heres-why
http://www.motherjones.com/contributor/2016/12/republicans-want-to-cut-social-security
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/donald-trump-violated-federal-law-by-threatening-electoral-college-members/26730/
But Thom Hartmann pointed out in the week of November 14th, 2016, that having Trump Towers all over the world will be the easiest targets for Terrorists who want to make a statement to the world. Imagine one Trump property after another blowing up one-a-day. It would be impossible for him to concentrate on Presidential duties…..
Here is some billionaire whining:
https://mediamatters.org/video/2016/12/14/cnn-contributor-its-unfair-ask-trump-divest-depriving-his-children-their-livelihood/214824
I want to post a listing of the potential “Conflicts of Interest” here:
http://www.heritage.org/constitution/#!/articles/1/essays/68/emoluments-clause
Anonymous To Trump. You need to listen to this message:
Wow!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/12/25/1614438/-RNC-Declares-Trump-New-King-In-Creepy-Christmas-Message
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/12/27/1614959/-Trump-Tweets-The-alt-right-gets-the-sadz?detail=email&link_id=1&can_id=957a98ad23b01e070705aa66cfa57246&source=email-trump-middle-fingers-the-alt-right-they-dont-like-it&email_referrer=trump-middle-fingers-the-alt-right-they-dont-like-it&email_subject=trump-middle-fingers-the-alt-right-they-dont-like-it
A lot of people say look the Stock Market is above 19,000 and may hit 20,000 and that is attributable to Donald Trump.
I believe there is a “feeding frenzy” on Wall Street to take profits before the Second Republican Great Depression (first was 1929 but don’t forget about 2008, 1894, 1874, etc.). Wall Street has expressed more private concerns about the President-Elect’s inability to govern (which all of the left has—since the markets are all based on consumer confidence I think Donald goes into this with 60% of investors against him).
Trump’s values and actions are just so much different than the majority of Americans.
He is:
1. Anti-Christian. What I am saying here is to look to the Webster’s definition of the word Christian:
A: the religion derived from Jesus Christ, based on the Bible as sacred scripture, and professed by Eastern, Roman Catholic, and Protestant bodies
B: conformity to the Christian religion
C: the practice of Christianity
But Christianity cannot be accomplished by Tweeting or swindling people through the Trump Foundation or at the Trump University.
I realized he was endorsed by the billionaire class of religious leaders: Pat Robertson, Billy & Franklin Graham, Jimmy Swaggert, Jim Bakker, etc.; who by their very wealth are ineligible to be religious leaders.
I know that many Christians voted for him in direct conflict with their faith.
2. Misogynistic. The sexual harassment and violence against women by the self-proclaimer pussy-grabber and alleged rapist and multiple adulterer. Many say look at all the women he promoted in his business—but were they just targets of future assaults or cover for past ones?
3. A failed business leader. Sure he has supposedly made a lot of money or at least spent it on himself and accumulated large debt; but leadership implies that he is trustworthy to his follower-ship. That he has ethics and moral principles, and things worthy of emulating. Hiring the Polish workforce on the Trump Towers and then deporting them when payment was due; using the Mafia to dump construction waste at sea; trying to swindle Native American tribes in possible joint casino deals; bullying the native people where he golf courses have been built; Trump Foundation and Trump University, etc.
4. A neophyte political leader without concrete and logical policy statements. “It is going to be huge, great and with the best people hired;” is all we have ever gotten the last year and a half.
5. Rude and vindictive instead of the accommodating leader we all see in a President. I believe at least 50% of what he says is a lie, exaggeration, or just plain bullshit. Does he ever have any intent of fulfilling any promise?
So how can he be President?
Someone was saying that they liked Gwen Ifill of PBS’s Washington Week until she backed HRC and dissed Bernie Sanders every chance she got.
I liked Gwen and I think she fell into the trap that so many women fell into this year: “a person like me is running for office the first time.” It happened with Blacks and Obama in 2008. The presidency has just become so out of touch for Americans with the excessive money and GOP/DNC processes involved. I was born in 1958 and I was taught that someday I could be president. That was reinforced by JFK the youngest ever President. But it got dashed away with the oldest President Reagan who really betrayed his roots (poor, Hollywood, Union organizer), and went whole hog for the ruling class. Then I was like: “there is never any chance that myself or someone similar to me could ever be President.” Then Bernie ran and the dream started coming back. In some perverse way, it also held true for Trump—that a person who had ever major flaw in their personality, their background, and their morals and values could also become President.
I am currently studying Catholicism and Christianity. No where in these teachings shows that support, other than serious intervention, should be given to a man who ran his campaign the way he did or lived his life as he has.
http://www.npr.org/2017/01/13/509558608/with-his-choice-of-inauguration-prayer-leaders-trump-shows-his-values?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social
More attacks on the press:
http://happy-foxie.com/the-many-scandals-of-donald-trump-a-cheat-sheet/
Arguing with a Trump supporter they say that the accusations against Trump are 100% Fake News and the accusations against Hillary are 100% real news. The odds of this are really billions to one, it is so illogical that it defies human reasoning. Well, then, there is no reasoning on the other side….
Some lady named Lily an 84 year old Black woman just called the Norman Goldman radio show on May 24, 2017 and said that White Rich Privilege is the only way Donnie Trump gets away with what he has done over his life. If Obama had done the same he would have gone to prison the first P-grabbing or non-payment of a contractor.
http://www.bluedotdaily.com/if-you-still-support-trump-i-instantly-know-7-things-about-you/
They stopped counting at 100 days and 492 lies: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims/?utm_term=.bd644892dcda
The 337 People, Places and Things Donald
Trump Has Insulted on Twitter: A Complete List: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/28/upshot/donald-trump-twitter-insults.html?em_pos=medium&emc=edit_up_20170630&nl=upshot&nl_art=6&nlid=61031639&ref=headline&te=1
Trump’s 3,500 lawsuits:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/01/donald-trump-lawsuits-legal-battles/84995854/
Here he is in 1993 ragging on Native Americans: https://www.facebook.com/NowThisPolitics/videos/1803741446324004/
We know that this is really the person Trump is: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/opinion/psychiatrists-trump.html?mwrsm=Facebook. He is not Presidential material and therefore will fail. The sooner we cut bait, the sooner we will not fail as a nation.
The Salacious Ammo Even Donald Trump Won’t Use in a Fight Against Hillary Clinton. Jeff Epstein’s Sex Slave Island when Trump went:
https://news.vice.com/article/the-salacious-ammo-even-donald-trump-wont-use-in-a-fight-against-hillary-clinton-bill-clinton
When Trump heard Macy’s wanted to drop his line of ties because they weren’t selling, he hired a couple of Mafia types to threaten the Macy’s management. This is who he is and always has been. Like his father and grandfather who were bullies and got everything they wanted that way. That’s why they hired attorney Roy Cohn to apprentice Trump.
When the 100 preachers went to the Oval Office and laid hands on Trump and professed that he was redeemed—it is a bogus event, if the subject is the Anti-Christ himself. My wife said this is crazy talk and doesn’t believe it happened. Maybe if this was publicized and people like Rev. Jim Wallis and John Pavolitz can dispute the notion that an Instrument of the Devil can be turned into an Instrument of God—the Christian supporters of trump will leave him. The always must be polar opposites or the world is thrown off its moral compass. Apologies to theologians.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/07/12/photo-surfaces-of-evangelical-pastors-laying-hands-on-trump-in-the-oval-office/
Even a devout Catholic like Biden did not let this occur as a homage to the Separation of Church and State. It is just a very bad precedence. The underlying fact is that these preachers felt that Trump was a very corrupt and immoral man and needed purification.