Biden -Ukranine - Saudi oil - Iran and Greta

Did the current Crooked US President uncover
another past  crooked President's dealings ???

I don't know where to start , I don't think I will have this up for the weekend , but I will try . Starting with the Biden - Ukraine and Trump scandal .  Accelerating calls for his impeachment,  (1)>>President Trump admitted Monday to talking to Ukraine about launching a corruption investigation into Joe Biden [ REALLY WHO CARES ], suggesting he may have attempted to pressure the nation into damaging the reputation of the former vice president. Why ? who cares cares .. Having just emerged from one scandal of foreign influence in Eastern Europe, President Trump immediately became embroiled in another – driving House Democrats to finally launch an official impeachment inquiry. It's interesting that you can find a lot about Biden and his dealings in Ukraine you just have to find it looking at the Internet . Just type the word Biden and Ukraine. Do I personally think that Trump may have violated the law by being in a conversation with another President ? , asking info on a rival. First , I often have question how many other US Presidents did the same thing  in regards to foreign policy .  Call up another world leader , so lets release their conversations.   (1.2)>>This whole subject of US involvement in Ukraine is vary troubling . Its part of a new Cold War with Russia. Americans like me should be disturbed about that the aid that we are giving Ukraine in the first place,  is military aide worth over a billion dollars. Its is supported by both Democrats and Republicans . Our nation should not even be mixed up in such a political mess in the

first place.  I hate our our American system for doing this in the first place that is the root cause of why the Trump - Russia hype started . Blame Obama and the Clinton's  "meddling " in other countries own problems. .  (2)>>The question of the mysterious wistleblower , what he or she over heard may be hyped up  . We already know enough about Biden's trips to Kiev .  In 2014, then-Vice President Joe Biden was at the forefront of American diplomatic efforts to support Ukraine’s  so called fragile democratic government as it sought to fend off the so called  Russian aggression and root out corruption. So it raised eyebrows when Biden’s son Hunter was hired by a Ukrainian gas company.The Obama White House said at the time that there was no conflict because the younger Biden was a private citizen.  What is vary noticeable is how America through Obama -Biden meddled into the affairs of Ukraine . Two years after leaving office, Joe Biden couldn’t resist the temptation last year to brag to an audience of foreign policy specialists about the time as vice president that he strong-armed Ukraine into firing its top prosecutor.In his own words, with video cameras rolling, Biden described how he threatened Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in March 2016 that the Obama administration would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees, sending the former Soviet republic toward insolvency, if it didn’t immediately fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. Get this what Biden did is should be subject to a investigation , so Trump's snooping by asking the current Ukrainian President about Biden really such a big deal ? . As a country, we now enter what the seven freshmen called “unchartered waters”, with an unprecedented political and constitutional crisis looming on the horizon. Impeachment proceedings could turn public opinion decisively against Trump, as with Richard Nixon and Watergate, perhaps leading to Trump’s premature departure from the White House. It’s also possible that impeachment could backfire on the Democrats, costing them control of the House and enabling Trump’s re-election in 2020.

Saudis blow up their oil fields to start a war with Iran.

Who would benefit that the USA would bomb Iran ? There are just two nations under the radar . The Names : Israel and Saudi Arabia . When the oil fields were attacked the accusation is that Iran shot drones or missiles into Saudi territory . Looked  like the smoking gun that the war hawks at the United States Pentagon needed, it would have been John Bolton's dream come true . America would be entering a war against Iran , finally  . Even the Israel's for example Benjamin Netanyahu was reported to have said it would be a good thing if America bombed Iran . It seems again like September 11th 2001 , were Saudi terrorists made it possible for America to enter another war. (2.1)>>What is REALLY BAFFLING is that in Saudi Arabia we have 5 US bases , several in Iraq , that none of the Iranian missiles seemed to have been tracked by radar ? Come on  , do we want to just go with the media propaganda that it was Iran ? So the Saudis are more clever then people gave them credit for?? The only reason they are still in power is their control on world oil prices. And if for some reason someone were to attack that country under the false pretense that they have WMD etc,. at least they have a switch which allows them to render their oil unusable to the aggressor nation. It's a brilliant idea, one which will keep them in power. You have to love the Saudis. The Sneaky Saudis . Well I am not one to buy into that Iran did attack Saudi territory . IF True , where is the Saudi response , where are the Saudi f-16's scrambling to bomb Iran back ??? It's been vary quiet lately . Noticed ? I think the US State Department knows the real truth . To keep the American population gas lighted with propaganda ,   Secretary of State Mike Pompeo decried the attacks on the Saudi oil industry as an “act of war” and President Trump ordered a substantial increase in sanctions against the government in Tehran.  There is not one single proof that it was Iran . Yet it amazes me how quickly our American government jumps toward a unnecessary war.

greta thunberg .

Just Imagine a vary cute 16 year old girl that we never heard of jumps to the worlds stage as new voice to Climate Change enter  Greta Thunberg , while her message about the Climate might be serious stuff to weigh in . I am agreeing that us humans need to take CARE OF PLANET EARTH , yes we do have polluted air , polluted water, homelessness , world hunger, proliferation of nuclear weapons. [ ←👈 things left out by Greta]  This Swedish girl started her protests by not attending her school in a walk out , holding a sign , calling on the Swedish government to do something about the climate . Take that for example , Sweden is one of the  few nations on earth that In 1972 Sweden hosted the first UN con­ference on the environment, which led to the creation of the United Nations Envi­ronment Program (UNEP), the leading global environmental authority to this day.Sweden was also one of the first na­tions to sign and ratify the international climate change treaty Kyoto Protocol, in 1998 and 2002 respectively. It makes no sense that this Swedish girl would take up protesting in a country that has a high record of enviromental and climate support . Days before her speech, kids around the world bunked school and went on strike to blame grown-ups for the “climate crisis", roaming the streets, shrieking about something few of them had any clue about. (3)>>I do not want to be harsh on Greta , yea she is right on this , but she is  also bought and paid for by the Swedish Environmentalists .  Her speech at the U.N. made history ,drew widespread ire from conservatives after delivering an impassioned speech at the United Nations General Assembly. “People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing,” she said. “We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth.” In her speech, Thunberg was soft-spoken yet straightforward, eloquent yet extremely impassioned. It’s pathetic that the utterly ridiculous “mass starvation in 10 years” statement went unchallenged. Becuase we have people right now in certain parts of the world who are starving right now , not in ten years!!!   Her speech was covered by pretty much every media outlet. The reality blame  the adults who programed her , Instead of showing adult leadership, and finding a way to make the sort of change that young activists such as Thunberg are crying out for, we have instead saddled this 16-year-old girl with the weight of the world’s problems.  The worst thing is to use a child for propaganda . She has taken literally what irresponsible adults have told her, that the planet is going to end in 11 years unless we stop using fossil fuels.Her parents and the climate industry have exploited her youthful idealism and rigid obsessions. They have frightened her out of her mind and now are exposing her to condemnation and ridicule.

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(1)>>President Trump admitted Monday to talking to Ukraine . The story of Trump pressuring the Ukrainian president to investigate Hunter Biden trickled out slowly over the past week. First, there were confusing reports about the Trump administration withholding a whistle-blower’s account from Congress, but the subject of the complaint was unclear. On Wednesday, September 18, the Washington Post reported that it concerned a “promise” Trump made to an unnamed foreign leader. A day later, several outlets reported that the complaint “centers on Ukraine.” (1.2)>>This whole subject of US involvement in Ukraine is vary troubling . That might be more explicable if what is going on in eastern Ukraine now were not the mirror image of what took place in Kiev a couple of years ago. Then, it was armed protesters in Maidan Square seizing government buildings and demanding a change of government and constitution. US and European leaders championed the "masked militants" and denounced the elected government for its crackdown, just as they now back the unelected government's use of force against rebels occupying police stations and town halls in cities such as Slavyansk and Donetsk .  "America is with you," Senator John McCain told demonstrators then, standing shoulder to shoulder with the leader of the far-right Svoboda party as the US ambassador haggled with the state department over who would make up the new Ukrainian government. When the Ukrainian president was replaced by a US-selected administration, in an entirely unconstitutional takeover, politicians such as William Hague brazenly misled parliament about the legality of what had taken place: the imposition of a pro-western government on Russia's most neuralgic and politically divided neighbour. The reality is that, after two decades of eastward Nato expansion, this crisis was triggered by the west's attempt to pull Ukraine decisively into its orbit and defence structure, via an explicitly anti-Moscow EU association agreement. Selling of American arms to Ukraine is vary problematic . The United States has meddled in other "war zones" in the name of "Democracy" shipping weapons to rebel leaders for  decades exmples like Syria's civil war .  (2)>>The question of the mysterious wistleblower. While the whistleblower complaint is based on hearsay, The whistleblower didn't have direct knowledge of the communications, an official briefed on the matter told CNN. Instead, the whistleblower's concerns came in part from learning information that was not obtained during the course of their work, and those details have played a role in the administration's determination that the complaint didn't fit the reporting requirements under the intelligence whistleblower law, the official said.    In the chilling audio of the comments published by the Los Angeles Times on Thursday, Trump can be heard saying that the person who told the whistleblower of his attempt to solicit help in his re-election campaign from a foreign country was “close to a spy”. “You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart with spies and treason, right?” Trump remarked. “We used to handle it a little differently than we do now.”   While Trump’s “spy” comments were certainly shocking, in reality, they are actually not that far off from official justice department policy when dealing with whistleblowers who go to the press with classified information .(2.1)>>What is REALLY BAFFLING is that in Saudi Arabia . It is baffling, in the light of last week’s attacks on two Saudi oil facilities, that there is so much speculation about Saudi and Iran going to war. Saudi does not “go to war”: it hires proxies, and depends on US gullibility to continue the lie that it is the regional peacekeeper, and that any threat to the country destabilises the region. The US and Saudi Arabia have repeatedly accused Iran of being behind the attacks, which were claimed by Yemen’s Houthi movement, a group aligned with Iran and fighting the Saudi-led alliance in Yemen’s civil war. The Pentagon has announced that it will be sending hundreds of US troops, in addition to air and missile defence equipment, to Saudi Arabia as a “defensive” move.  And so Saudi must continue to play on US fears about Iran, ensuring that its bodyguard is always “locked and loaded”, as Trump stated in a sabre-rattling tweet after the drone strikes.  The Saudis are too busy calculating their Oil wealth and purchasing more arms to actually use the latter. What's the point of having all that money if you have to dirty your hands in actually doing the fighting.    (3)>>I do not want to be harsh on Greta .  BUT  The speech was vary deeply disturbing. The feral rage, the doomsday sermon delivered with messianic zeal, the distressing reminders of her young age. It leads me to ask a few questions. Like I said , Let take care of the Earth , lets stop pollution , I agree no problem . Honestly with good intentions Thunberg represents a movement that wants us to revert to a pre-industrial world, with no room for innovation or progress. It's not advancing technology to save the world.   What I find also disturbing is that she is a child who is being exploited by adults who have their own agendas. She has 3 diagnosed psychological/developmental disorders including Aspergers and OCD. Catapulting her onto the world stage cannot be helping her in the long term. The stress and anxiety she is experiencing are visible. Ah, yes, teenagers, a group of people notoriously open to being told what to do by their parents. Given that young people have been protesting since, well, forever.Climate change activism is the new religion of 21st Century youth. It has its prophet, its commandments based on hope/fear as much as facts and it even has its 'end of days' drama in planetary catastrophe. Because climate-change alarmism is becoming ever stranger, borderline religious, obsessed with doomsday prophecies.I just don’t get why what a 16 year old says is of any importance? Oh wait, she’s saying what the Alarmist adults agree with, so she must be right…

California's [ America's ] Chronic Homelessness .

Its's 2040 AD , California Homeless crisis
spreads Nation wide .

It's interesting to hear a wealthy billionaire President called out California's homeless problem. According to a report in the Washington Post, President Donald Trump has ordered White House officials to come up with a solution to  (1)>>the visible homelessness crisis in Los Angeles and possibly other California cities. Officials from the White House, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and other agencies—including some who are meeting this week with their counterparts in Los Angeles—are weighing several possible steps, including moving homeless people into facilities administered by the federal government and razing encampments.While many people hate Donald Trump . He had a serious point , that points the finger at the Democrat state leadership. Trump went off on California , Pres. Trump continued his political attacks on Democrats during a campaign rally in Cincinnati, Ohio on Thursday night offering a critique of California's elected leaders handling of the homeless problem in the state."What they are doing to our beautiful California is a disgrace to our country," he said during the rally. "It's a shame. The world is looking at it. Look at Los Angeles with the tents and the horrible, horrible conditions. Look at San Francisco, look at some of your other cities." California is home to some of the world’s toughest environmental and public health laws, but skyrocketing homelessness has created an environmental and public health disaster.   He is right on this problem  & YES there is a lot of homelessness in California . Still, the shared diagnosis of California’s housing problem left many policymakers here in California in a deeply uncomfortable position of conceding that the Trump administration has made some fair points. Homelessness is curable , there is plenty of money in every state of the Union to get people off the streets . WELL Trump is right on this, why can't California get people off the street , place them in a shelters ???  (2)>>Maybe California needs to use that 90 billion on the so called bullet train on something more humanitarian . The question of California's homelessness raises issues how is it that it is really bad . Many people in California first of all have been swept in the current of a state that has no affordable housing , high rent . While  Homeless is a choice for some , for many people it is not . Unorthodox efforts to drive away people who are homeless have increasingly made headlines as communities grapple with escalating crises of housing shortages, drug addiction and mental health care. The situation is putting residents on edge — and, in some cases, driving them to violence. (3)>>But the Homeless are also dying in our streets , many government officials don't know what to do with a lack of funds to deal with A record number of homeless people — 918 last year alone — are dying across Los Angeles County, on bus benches, hillsides, railroad tracks and sidewalks.Deaths have jumped 76% in the past five years, outpacing the growth of the homeless population, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis of the coroner's data.Health officials and experts have not pinpointed a single cause for the sharpincrease in deaths, but they say rising substance abuse may be a major reason. The surge also reflects growth in the number of people who are chronically homeless and those who don't typically use shelters, which means more people are living longer on the streets with serious physical and behavioral health issues, they say. Nearly 53,000 people were homeless in L.A. County last year, according to a point-in-time count of homeless residents, an increase of about 39% since 2014. The majority were not living in shelters.The homeless population has also grown nationwide, but there is no national count of homeless deaths. Meanwhile  White House hopefuls crisscross the country, making big promises on issues such as college debt relief, climate change and boosting the working and middle classes, they have largely ignored an issue — the soaring number of unsheltered Americans — that has reached a crisis point in communities on the West Coast and elsewhere. 

The Future .

It's 2040 if we allow the current trends regarding affordable housing shortages , sky rocking rent there could be seeing a pandemic . As the 2020 presidential election heats up, the numerous candidates are tackling the issues at hand, and while it may seem like affordable housing and housing in general have been on the back burner for most candidates so far, that doesn't mean that they've all been silent about housing to this point. In California , using the Bay Area for example a home price now is between 900,000 and 5 million [ that is  market value ] now in 2019 . Think 30 years into the future,  those prices are going to price people out of housing , forcing more people into the streets .  The current rate of wages will not keep up with the rising cost of living . If WE EVEN RAISE the MINIMUM WAGE to 15$,  (4)>>it would not keep up with inflation . The lack of affordable housing is an increasing problem in many places—particularly those that are walkable and have transit service. The demand for walkable places continues to increase, but too much of what our zoning allows and what the market has traditionally built is sprawl. This has created a classic supply/demand issue, where the demand for housing in our cities and walkable neighborhoods is high but supply is low, leading to rising prices, gentrification, and housing crises across the country. But this is a crisis long in the making. Cuts by the federal government to affordable housing programmes and mental health facilities in the last few decades helped send many to the streets nationwide, officials and service providers said, as local authorities were unable to fill the gaps. The current affordability problem is now adding to it.

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(1)>>the visible homelessness crisis . How did things get so bad in California? The state has long prided itself on being humanistic and innovative. It is home to some of the world’s largest public health philanthropies, best hospitals, and most progressive policies on mental health and drug addiction. The Democrats have a supermajority. What went wrong?   During his recent push for a ‘right to shelter’ law, Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg made eye-opening claims about the share of unsheltered homeless people in California compared with New York City — and on the soaring rate of homeless deaths in two major cities in the state. Steinberg co-chairs the state’s Commission on Homelessness and Supportive Housing. He was elected Sacramento mayor in 2016. Before that, he served in the Legislature from 1998 to 2014, serving as state Senate President for his final six years.  For the next part of the claim, the mayor’s office cited data from The 2018 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress, compiled by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.It shows approximately 95 percent of New York State’s 92,000 homeless people were sheltered in 2018, meaning they slept indoors at a temporary facility. By contrast, it found nearly 69 percent of California’s 130,000 homeless individuals were unsheltered, meaning they slept on the streets, in cars or abandoned buildings. It also found California had the highest rate of unsheltered people in the nation.   (2)>>Maybe California needs to use that 90 billion on the so called bullet train on something more humanitarian .   Homelessness is a huge issue in California. Twenty-five percent of the national homeless population resides in the state even though it makes up only twelve percent of the USA's population.  California is the country’s wealthiest and most highly taxed state, but its politicians have utterly failed to tackle the state’s most basic problem: homelessness. Estimates place California's homeless population at close to 130,000. To grasp the magnitude of that figure, imagine the entire population of New Haven, Connecticut or Charleston, South Carolina living on the streets.(3)>>But the Homeless are also dying in our streets , many government officials don't know what to do with a lack of funds to deal with A record number of homeless people .  Not that voters are uninterested. In California, for instance, a sizable majority of likely voters — Democratic, Republican and independent — consider homelessness a big problem, according to a recent survey by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California. However before Obama left office there was a "plan" called Open Doors  plan proposed to end youth and family homelessness by 2020, the final year of the Obama administration and just four years before the deadline to end family homelessness—that HUD’s budget called for any focused effort on family homelessness. This came in the form of an $11 billion request in mandatory funding over ten years for housing assistance (mostly Housing Choice Vouchers, plus new funding for rapid re-housing) for families who meet HUD’s limited definition of homelessness.(4)>>it would not keep up with inflation . How bad will it get by 2034 AD ?  Let's take anyone that makes between 100, 000 to 200,000 $ a year [ combined incomes of spouse's ] In that "year' if we are lucky that the Market has not crashed in 2020 AD , the people that make CEO and CBO salaries will not be able to afford anything , even a home or apartment in California . By the 2030s that only way a person could live a decent life in certain parts of America is to earn close to 1 to 5 million a year . So take heed! You will not be able to have children , or feed them . The data for 2018 on homelessness says  ,  recent Zillow study — which estimated the number of homeless people in America to be closer to 661,000 — found a specific correlation between rent affordability and the rate of homelessness at a certain threshold: “Communities where people spend more than 32 percent of their income on rent can expect a more rapid increase in homelessness.” By the 2030s , you add by population of immigrants [ both legal and illegal] , the homeless population will increase by 2 million nation wide , but the rest of the 300 million Americans might face harsh economic conditions , unless things change with the government .

on gaslighting of the american mind.

on gaslighting of the American mind.

American commentators struggled to say exactly how a brain might be washed or whether the spin cycle could be reversed.  (1)>>To "gaslight" someone isn't just to lie to them or to manipulate their emotions. It is a deliberate attempt to deceive someone into questioning their own perception of reality. WE should be full awake that our Government has been doing this since the digital age . But it wasn't until 10 or 15 years ago that the term itself became popular, popping up frequently in advice columns or news stories about domestic violence.   The idea that we Americans are being "Gaslighted" has turned up in a common theme with the election of Donald J Trump .  (1.2)>>Gaslighting America is a non-fiction book Amanda Carpenter for example which tares into the notion of Trump's social media "lies". In reality Trump is a symptom of a decades long downward spiral of the American political system .  I think from September 11th 2001 on ward that subject  is becoming all to real . 9/11 was the turning point to the ruin of the American system , the loss of American military dominance in the world following the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan . In 2008 we saw the election of Barack Obama and The Recession of 2008.  Five million of the 8 million jobs lost did not return - despite an increase in population of 10 million over the same span of time covering President Barack Obama's first term .  Even during the Obama years there was so much gas lighting by the same political elites who crossed over from the Bush era . These elites know how to work the system on both sides of the political left and right [ Democrats and Republicans ] . These elites are still with us from both parties fogging our minds .   The 2016 election of Donald J Trump is another obvious twist . While Obama was a leftist who wanted to pour money into the nation as part of a economic stimulus package,was estimated to be $787 billion at the time of passage, later revised to $831 billion between 2009 and 2019. ... Not a single Republican member of the House voted for the stimulus. None of this money helped any average American , it served only to bail out and save the Banking System , Wall Street .While the nation went from extreme to another the Trump economy has made an rebound. The Left's  gaslighting of the Trump economy has commenced and  (2)>>it will continue through the 2020 elections. Every bit of good news will be met with spin as to why it is bad news.  Remember both political parties have been doing this . Republicans did it to Obama , now the Democrats are doing it to Trump.  With Our two party system is no longer working . Congress has its hands shackled by "special interests" , soft money from   lobbyists . Our two party system is eroding . Democrat or Republican is useless to the American . They will never get anything done . Example has been the recent Democratic debates , the biggest argument is healthcare . The health-care segment of the debate also hinged on questions of trust. Reminding the Democrats that we still have Obama-care. That exchange, like several others on Thursday, was largely about how radical, or just how ambitious, the Party is prepared to be. Is sweeping, structural reform the best way to effect change, or is Obamacare worth building on? (Some factions in the Party have been busy rejecting parts of Barack Obama’s legacy—in the area of immigration, for example.) The Democrats rejecting Obama is pretty much how the party shifted since Trump took office.

on Saying Goodbye to John Bolton .

Bolton had his "eye" on war . War with Iran , a
secret invasion of Venezuela . Oh yeas
bombing North Korea too!

President Donald Trump finally freed himself from the clutches of evil . The resignation   [firing by Trump 😂] of John Bolton will change [ hopefully] end many of the major conflicts that the United States is involved in [ with attention to Iran , (2.1.1)>>North Korea , Venezuela] How unstable is President Donald Trump’s White House? In two years he has so many major ousters.  Trump's BIG PROBLEM is that he surrounds himself with so many unqualified people that rock his boat , some of them have turned traitor , turning against him . Causing his ship to go in circles.   A look at just one vitally important post — (2.1)>>national-security adviser — Adios Bolton . He picked a Bush era old guard who's policy was bomb first and ask questions later . From the looks of it Bolton had a few problems . (2.2)>>Starting with Venezuela, he was pushing Trump to overthrow Maduro , replace that dictator with a CIA trained puppet  .And Bolton’s departure prompted the U.S. special envoy for Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, to announce that the U.S. government is not “closer” to a military intervention in Venezuela. It vary OBVIOUS that Trump was not a war person . He stopped the bombing against Syria, he wants to pull troops out of Afghanistan . This was not good for Bolton. Remember that  Bolton has been an advocate of regime change in Iran for years, and wrote in a 2015 New York Times op-ed that the U.S. had to bomb Iran because that nation "will not negotiate away its nuclear program."   With the ouster on Tuesday of John Bolton   and the appointment of Charlie Kupperman as acting national-security adviser, Trump is now on his fifth guy. Instability, uncertainty, lack of coherence and lack of clarity are not conducive to keeping the nation safe. The Middle East is a barrel of gun powder right now . Its OIL , there are so many fractions like Israel , Saudi Arabia and Iran .  The Saudi oil fields are easy pickings for terrorists . As Common Dreams reported , the recent escalation between Iran and the U.S. was sparked by the Trump administration's belligerent threats and naval activity in the Persian Gulf. This vamping up of the American military in the Persian Gulf is right out of Bolton's page book.  Scapegoating Iran is easy . Our own American news media is filled with anti- Iranian news propaganda [ another form of gas lighting us ]  trying to sell a war with Iran to the American public . While the oil fields burn in the Saudi kingdom , this escalation is likely the end result of American support for the Saudi war against the Yemeni rebels . As I SUSPECT , (3)>>with Bolton's departure with hope that simple diplomatic  talks  should start with Iran first again.  Trump’s more conciliatory tone towards Iran in recent months should have been the clue that Bolton, always a bad fit for this administration, was beginning to sour Trump. With Bolton gone there exist a hope that a new deal may be reached with Iran that might end decades long hostilities .

The Impeachment Game .

Another problem is how the Democratic Party is  that they are gas lighting themselves . It's really amazing how they are going after Trump with one investigation after another . AS REALITY soon TAKES HOLD  [endless investigations going nowhere ] Trump is not going to be impeached so easily  . Here is what is going on now with the Democrat's attempt .   The filing comes a day after the committee approved a set of technical procedures for its impeachment investigation, the most significant legislative move yet in Democrats’ potential effort to oust the president  But the Justice Department rebuffed that claim on this Friday, citing inconsistent statements from senior Democratic leaders — as well as their own claims that the ongoing investigation might lead to innumerable outcomes other than an impeachment vote. Senior Democrats expressed concern this week that the lack of a unified message on impeachment could hurt their prospects in court, as they seek access to Mueller’s secret files and testimony from his key witnesses, which they say is necessary in order to determine whether Trump should be impeached. Republicans on the committee have highlighted the lack of a committee-passed resolution approving a probe into whether the panel should consider articles of impeachment, therefore arguing that Democrats' claims of ongoing impeachment inquiry is nullified.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats in Congress still dragging their feet on starting an impeachment inquiry on Donald Trump. — even as the mainstream media feigned confusion — that he had assembled the evidence and it was time for Congress to act. Pelosi herself has been clear enough about what she believes, saying that Trump is "engaged in a cover-up" that "could be an impeachable offense." Yet the speaker appears to be digging in her heels. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler(D-N.Y.) has increasingly framed his investigations in the context of impeachment, without staging votes to launch a formal inquiry. Almost 140 House Democrats are on record endorsing the impeachment of President Trump in some form. But Pelosi and her top lieutenants have resisted that route, citing a lack of support from both the public and Republicans on Capitol Hill. Pelosi is also fighting to protect vulnerable moderate Democrats in 2020 — lawmakers who could face a backlash if Democrats launch a full-throated impeachment effort before more voters jump on board. But Pelosi has downplayed the possibility of pursuing impeachment, hinting that such a move would hurt Democrats electorally. Put simply, the impeachment of Bill Clinton hangs over everything — Republicans impeached Clinton in 1998, and voters rallied to his defense. Pelosi and other senior Democrats probably fear a similar backlash.

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 (1)>>To "gaslight" someone isn't just to lie to them or to manipulate their emotions. First, those doing the gaslighting must display confidence and audacity in pushing their view of reality and must persevere boldly in the face of evidence that contradicts their claim. Second, the target must be psychologically isolated and denied validation by others who see the same reality. The left’s dominance in the cultural institutions of education, news, and entertainment has given them both elements.(1.2)>>Gaslighting America. Until recently, it was rare to see the word used in a political context - though in a 1995 New York Times column, Maureen Dowd argued the Clinton administration was "gaslighting" then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich by needling him with minor slights."As is common with people who mistreat others," Washington Post advice columnist Carolyn Haxtold a troubled reader in 2013, "your partner responded by blaming you and apparently gaslighting you off to therapy." Post-2016 election, American voters were gaslighted by a severely anti-Trump cohort:  top bureaucrats, the Democratic and media establishments including CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post, The New York Times, etc For over two years, the country was divided into two alternative realities. Liberals fervently believed that Trump was a Russian agent-and-colluder and that Robert Mueller would deliver the goods on Trump to them.(2)>>it will continue through the 2020 elections.  Trump was and is a perverse gift to the mainstream, establishment media, They LOVED HIM . Did that dynamic help elect him? There’s no definitive answer. But we gave him an extraordinary bounty of coverage, depriving his rivals of commensurate oxygen and agency. And while our coverage of him had turned overwhelmingly negative by the final months of the 2016 campaign, it by no means started out that way. Donald Trump was popular way before 2016 , that is not going to change anything. While all the negative reports on Trump running through the media , it giving the gift of free air time. (2.1.1)>>North Korea .Bolton had also taken a hard-line position on North Korea, writing in a Wall Street Journal op-ed shortly before coming to the White House that a pre-emptive strike by the U.S. would be “perfectly legitimate.” He was sent to Mongolia on a mysterious errand while Trump became the first sitting president to set foot inside North Korea.   (2.1)>>national-security adviser . Five security advisers in 32 months — months. Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton had seven in 24 years. Combined. Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush combined had four in 16 years. And, again, that’s one key job. (2.2)>>Starting with Venezuela .True, it seems that Bolton promised the president that change would be easy in Venezuela, with a few targeted tactics, like accepting Guaidó as the country’s legitimate president. Another strategy included offering human aid at the border between Colombia and Venezuela, aid that was set on fire by Maduro’s troops. Still another tactic resulted in failure, the belief that the Venezuelan military would succeed in a revolt against Maduro.Despite these results, devastating to hopeful Venezuelans, one official cautioned against assuming that, with Bolton gone, the administration will make any sudden policy shifts. Let’s hope that’s true.(3)>>with Bolton's departure. President Donald Trump suggested he might lift some U.S. sanctions on Iran as an incentive for Tehran to come to the negotiating table, according to a person close to Bolton. Trump raised the idea of lifting sanctions during a discussion with Bolton in the Oval Office. Bolton made clear to the president that he strongly disagreed with the idea. 

Boris and Brexit

Can Boris Johnson lead the UK with
a clean Brexit deal . He has to
do this vary carefully .

Brexit is going to happen and the rest of Parliament has to fuss up to it . In 2016 the UK people voted 51.9 to 48.1 to leave [see shorturl.at/cktCK ] Opposition lawmakers have so far blocked Prime Minister Boris (1)>>Johnson’s plan for a mid-October election, but the government said on Thursday that it would hold another parliamentary vote on an early election on Monday.That set up a significant clash over when British voters will get to decide who should handle Britain’s departure from the European Union, with (2)>>opposition Labour lawmakers haggling over what stage of the Brexit process gives them the best chance of wrenching control from Mr. Johnson’s enfeebled government.Mr. Johnson sees an election as the only way to create a stable majority for his Conservative Party in Parliament and secure a mandate for pulling (2.1)>>Britain out of the European Union by Oct. 31, with or without a deal governing future relations. In a  short statement outside Downing Street on September 2, Johnson threw down the gauntlet: He pledged not to request a Brexit extension from the EU “under any circumstances” and implicitly threatened elections if rebels forced his hand. Parliament responded when it returned from its summer recess on September 3, with a cross-party group of MPs introducing an emergency debate motion—which Speaker John Bercow allowed in an  unprecedented decision—to seize control of the agenda and fast-track a private member’s bill blocking a no-deal Brexit. It passed in a 328-301 vote.In response, Johnson expelled  21 Conservative MPs from the party for defying the government—including eight former ministers and Winston Churchill’s grandson. The rebels were lauded by supporters for placing country before party and personal ambition, with some serving  cabinet ministers reportedly calling for these MPs to be reinstated. The prime minister would like to go to the country on 15 October. But an early election is not in Mr Johnson’s gift. Under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, it would require the support of two-thirds of all MPs. Britain voted to leave the European Union— an option dubbed "Brexit."  Remember Almost 52 percent of Britons voted in favor of leaving.Although the "leave" campaign often focused on emotional arguments about immigration, there are in fact many reasons those in favor of leaving believed it would benefit the UK. They came from across the political spectrum, and some of the arguments even contradict others. Here are seven of the most significant.  (3)>>Parliament is not representing the people . The real reason why the UK needs out of the EU.Examples like over the past few decades, a series of EU treaties have shifted a growing amount of power from individual member states to the central EU bureaucracy in Brussels. On subjects where the EU has been granted authority — like competition policy, agriculture, and copyright and patent law — EU rules override national laws. Politics is polarised remainer and leaver since leavers refused to accept the 2016 referendum result and refused to implement their manifesto pledges. The UK has so few votes that  can’t block EU laws. We can only rely on having 8 per cent of votes in the Council of Ministers and have less than 10 per cent of the votes in the European Parliament. Politicians have surrendered the UK’s power to veto laws we disagree with , so if the EU decides to introduce a law that will be bad for Britain there is nothing we can do to stop it. By contrast, the nineteen Eurozone countries have an in-built majority in these key bodies. It now doesn’t matter which way the UK votes, the Eurozone countries will decide which laws the UK has to introduce. Studies have shown that since 1993, over half of the new laws introduced in the UK now come from the EU. It seems that the EU may have taken certain rights of the sovereignty of the UK away .  The real issue is why did not England take the lead in the EU as a member state ?   Boris Johnson has to make a "deal" with the EU if the exit has to be made smoothly, some aspects of being a member in the EU sound inviting , some traties have to be rewritten , re negotiated .   The other negotiation will be to secure an agreement on the future UK-EU relationship – the (4)>>“new deal” – or some framework for that relationship. The Government says it intends to pursue a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the EU. As we have explained, this is likely to take longer than two years, so the new deal on the table in 2019 is likely to be a more skeletal agreement. But the EU officials remain concerned that the UK has so far presented no concrete proposals for replacing the backstop – the insurance policy for avoiding a hard border in Ireland, which Johnson has described as undemocratic. Johnson hopes to strike a deal at a key meeting of the European council on 17 October, and will then give MPs the chance to vote on it the following week, just days before the Halloween Brexit deadline. He insisted they would have “a lot of time” to debate the issues. “We’re coming up to the last period before we leave on 31 October, and in that period, parliament is going to have a lot of time, still – and they’ve spent three years debating Brexit by the way, without actually getting it over the line,” Johnson said.“They’re going to have a lot of time for consideration, and what I want to do now, which I think is what most people in the country want the government to do, is get on and try and get an agreement, but if we can’t get an agreement, get ready to come out anyway.”

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

(1)>>Johnson’s plan for a mid-October election.  Prime Minister Boris Johnson went nuclear with the great Brexit debate, announcing Wednesday he will suspend Parliament for more than a month from Sept. 10 until Oct. 14. The stated purpose of shutting down the legislature—a process formally known as proroguing—is to deliver a so-called Queen’s Speech, which is essentially the outlining of the government’s legislative agenda. The real purpose of the shutdown, of course, to anyone who’s being honest with themselves, is to disrupt parliamentary opposition to the country’s “no-deal” departure from the European Union that’s currently set to take place on Oct. 31. (2)>>opposition Labour lawmakers haggling over what stage of the Brexit process. Although the Labour party would obviously be the largest party in that government, Corbyn would not be suitable for the position of interim PM as he is seen as to divisive.To make this acceptable to the rank and file of the Labour party a fixed date for new elections would have to be agreed before then. In addition, senior ministerial roles would have to be allocated to Labour MP's.Jeremy Corbyn could be appointed Deputy PM.The UK could then request for a Brexit delay of at least 3 months after the date of the new elections so that a new government would then have sufficient time to negotiate a sensible deal with the EU (hopefully involving remaining in the Single Market).After the debacle inflicted by Johnson/Cummings duo hopefully common sense will start to prevail in the Conservative Party.The hard Brexiteers will not disappear in the Conservative Party but their wings will be clipped.  (2.1)>>Britain out of the European Union by Oct. 31. The EU is beset with problems. From systemic issues with the Euro, to the migrant crisis, and rising Euroscepticism, the supranational project is at breaking point.Whilst Eurocrats try to force Europe’s nations into a ‘Federal Superstate’, 90% of future global growth is set to take place in the rest of the world. Leaving the EU will allow us to take advantage of these opportunitiesThe EU’s Common External Tariff keeps prices on food, clothing and footwear artificially high. This affects the poorest in our society. Removing these tariffs will allow us to pursue more just and fair economic policy.    (3)>>Parliament is not representing the people .   They can see what is going on. Sooner or later, probably sooner, there will have to be a general election. The Conservatives have, in effect, deselected 21 of their MPs, including several former ministers, for voting with Labour to prevent Brexit. Although that purge has horrified commentators, most of whom are in awe of the Europhile grandees, it is a necessary prelude to an election campaign that will turn on Brexit. The Tories could hardly fight an election promising to leave the EU while several of their candidates refused to accept that policy. Though the pundits are fainting like affronted matrons, voters appreciate Johnson’s strength of purpose. (4)>>“new deal”. There are three ways to avoid this happening on 31 October: MPs could pass a deal, postpone the date of exit, or cancel Brexit altogether.But unless a new plan is agreed, Mr Johnson does not need to do anything for a no-deal Brexit to happen.This is because the UK's departure on 31 October is already written into law. He could just run the clock down.However, it's not as simple as that.Most MPs in the UK Parliament are against leaving without a deal. And they could try to stop it from happening.The terms of the UK’s exit have riven British politics, with elected officials there unable to come to a consensus on how to make an orderly transition. The EU recently extended the Brexit deadline to Oct. 31.  Johnson, who helped launch the “Brexit” movement, previously said the chances of the UK leaving the EU without a deal were “a million to one.”