WELCOME to the YEAR 2020.If this holds true, historians will look back on our era as an extraordinary moment. They will chronicle the 40-year period from 1980 to 2020 as the key years of a remarkable transformation. In the developed countries of the West, new technology will lead to big productivity increases that will cause high economic growth—actually, waves of technology will continue to roll out through the early part of the 21st century.America is in decline, the world is going to hell, and our children's lives will be worse than our own. The particulars are now familiar: Good jobs are disappearing, working people are falling into poverty, the underclass is swelling, crime is out of control. The post-Cold War world is fragmenting, and conflicts are still erupting all over the planet. Russia and China are forging alliances , becoming the "good guys" in the worlds view . While our America , that world power now is acting just the opposite of what its own ethical values as a world leader as a "peacemaker". NOW It's acting like a warmonger . BUT since September 11th 2001 , America has been at war for 20 years . This "endless" war has stretched our economic and military beyond repair . While many are blaming Trump for the "current" state of the nations affairs . The real blame was decades in the making going back to The vary first Bush , then came Bill , the second Bush { Iraq invasion and occupation} and we all thought Obama was "different", as the one who brought Hope and Change . But the [ REALITY] he was just like any Neo-Con that pushed the same polices , and read out of the same playbook. NOW the distractions that under Trump are going on . The American people are being spoon fed things . Making the average American a zombie to what ever the media spins around. SO PEOPLE WAKE UP . Well here is more (1.1)Deeper State of THINGS Part 2. The deep state is the idea that there is a government within the government. An entrenched bureaucracy of secret, powerful government figures who pull the strings and make sure foreign and domestic policies and actions that are put in place during one administration stay in place through the next. It's conspiratorial in nature. AS an
independent, and partisan politics irritate the hell out of me. Regardless of which party was which, if the Senate majority were going to coordinate the trial with the WH, there's no point in having it at all. The House wasn't a trial- and that's not a slam against the House. It's their duty to handle the grand jury portion, just to decide if there is enough reach to file charges. It's supposed to be the Senate that holds the trial where they decide guilty or not guilty- but those who would be conducting that trial have explicitly said they already intend to side with the defendant and work with the defendant to determine how to reach that verdict. If anything, I ask you to please look back at the last ten-to-twenty years of politics, and see that this is not a one-off instance; the Republican party has been consistently wearing away at the norms of American Government. (i.e. Merrick Garland, if you aren't already aware of that debacle). It's an unfortunate truth of our current political system that NOT choosing a side is saying that you don't care what happens in our government. It is broken yes, but by "both-sides"ing. "House Speaker (1.2)>>Nancy Pelosi is sitting on the Democrats’ articles of impeachment against President Trump, a move many Senate Republicans have called “reckless” and “dangerous.”After Trump was impeached in a sharply partisan vote, Pelosi said that she doesn’t know when she’ll submit the articles to the Senate, claiming she’d hold them until the GOP-controlled chamber commits to a “fair” trial. At first, it appeared they could be right. Public support for impeachment tanked while Trump’s approval ratings rose, and centrist Democrats’ positions in swing districts became even more precarious. But the situation is just as uncomfortable for (2)>>centrist Republicans in the Senate as it is for centrist Democrats in the House. I do realize why that game is necessary. Pelosi, to me, is too much of a Corporate Moderate Democrat, To add to this, McConnell handed this to Pelosi on a silver platter when he said he would not be an impartial juror, which is in direct conflict with the oath Senators must take to be impeachment jurors. Pelosi can just say, "it wouldn't be a fair trial, I can't in good faith send it over while McConnell is the Senate leader."Withholding it from them is a surefire way to keep it in the news, and potentially opens the door to passing more articles. This is basically a sealed indictment .It's also exactly what Mueller wanted to avoid by not making a determination as to whether or not he could or would indict Trump based on his actions, because now Trump is accused, and he can't be exonerated. In the context of a criminal investigation, this is unacceptable, and in the context of an impeachment, it should be avoided, but it's a direct and appropriate answer to what the Republicans have been doing. They said publicly, in no uncertain terms, that they'd rig the trial So now, if the Republicans want it to go away, all they have to do is actually hold a fair trial. Which is kind of ironic given that it's their solemn duty... Nothing can make this look bad for the Democrats, so it's pure genius lol
Beware of "fake" Poll Numbers.
The "fake news" moniker, which has become a rallying cry for Trump and his supporters, surprisingly gained popularity across partisan lines, including among Democrats. Almost everyone in the mainstream press wrongly predicted the 2016 election outcome. "Years" later, the media doesn’t seem to have learned much from its mistakes. Now comes the vary polls are designed to trick people into thinking a certain way: that Trump is a HUGE failure and people are sorry they chose him. This mistake the elites make is thinking we, the people, do not understand this. So we get suckered with how much Trump has dominated the American media networks . (3)>>Even the so called anti- Trump drama , seems to bolster Trump doing just the opposite effect . It is a way to distract you from the what is really going on . Think back when Obama was President we have had nearly 10 years of Congressional bickering's. The Obama era saw the increase of Mass shootings . Cop's gunning down innocent unarmed black men . ] The propaganda machine took tragedies , then used them . This could be called a way to spread fear in our nation via media propaganda . If they want to live a delusional life, let them. That most Americans continue to doubt the accuracy of public opinion surveys is notable considering how that most pollsters performed historically well during the November midterm elections. They will continue to be disappointed in their polling with very real losses. As Americans hopefully will wake up.
Beware of "endless wars" .
Here we go again. ....Donald J Trump once tweeted : I was elected on getting out of these ridiculous endless wars, where our great Military functions as a policing operation to the benefit of people who don’t even like the USA. The two most unhappy countries at this move are Russia & China, because they love seeing us bogged down, watching over a quagmire, & spending big dollars to do so. When I took over, our Military was totally depleted. Now it is stronger than ever before. The endless and ridiculous wars are ENDING! We will be focused on the big picture, knowing we can always go back & BLAST! Assassinating a high ranking foreign military officer in a sovereign nation without consent is doing a little bit more than "jeopardizing vow to stop endless wars." Same lies fostered on us , by now all of you should be Awake , take the wool off your eyes . When you study how the U.S. goes to war, there is a prevalent though not perfect pattern. Reminder that typically when Trump does something incredibly dramatic that risks the safety of our country, there's almost always another headline that ends up not making the headlines. (4)>>The triggering event is often a sudden crisis that galvanizes popular opinion and becomes the immediate occasion for military intervention but subsequently is exposed as a misguided perception or outright fabrication. Sure, American military/intelligence has been clamoring for war with Iran for decades. If they had their way there would be wars all the time. If the only tool you have is a hammer, than it is natural to treat everything as if it were a nail. The Trump administration has been making the case “in public and private” that no new congressional authorization would be necessary to go to war with Iran. They could simply rely on the 2001 authorization against Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks on American soil. [ Thanks to the Bushy's 1 &2 ] Readers with long memories will surely note that David Frum wrote President George W. Bush's infamous "Axis of Evil" State of the Union Address in January 2002, linking Iran, North Korea, and especially Iraq in a rhetorical if not quite actual network of bad-guy regimes threatening to do the U.S. harm. "I was to provide a justification for war." The thing is, the ones that lead us into war get to retire and take up painting. They never really suffer the consequences of their actions. But so many people suffer when we try to take out the bad guy(s). And they suffer long after the bombs have stopped falling. And an additional 14,000 U.S. troops have been deployed to the Gulf region since May in response to concerns over Iranian aggression. The airstrike that killed Soleimani, a commander of Iran's military forces in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere throughout the Middle East, has already heightened tensions between the U.S and Iran. Unfortunately, Trump’s rhetoric doesn’t match reality. He is a slave to the Neo Con War hawks , they got him . The American people were given an extreme case of deja-vu over the last three years . Trump announced that U.S. troops would be sent to the Middle -East . And yet again, the wolves showed their teeth. In other words, it is difficult to end the endless wars in the Middle East when you keep starting wars in the Middle East.
NOTES AND COMMENTS
(1.1)Deeper State of THINGS Part 2.The concept of a deep state in America is not some kind of wacko conspiracy theory. It doesn’t refer to some cloaked cabal of Jewish elites who meet in the forest to sacrifice children and greet each other with esoteric handshakes as in the straw man that so many corporate media outlets are fond of attacking, but refers rather to the self-evident fact that unelected power structures exist in America, and power structures tend to form alliances. The donor class, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, big oil, the military-industrial complex, various aspects of the intelligence community, the corporate media, national security officials; all of these overlapping and interconnected groups undeniably exist, undeniably wield immense power, and are undeniably not elected by the American people. There is no factual basis on which to deny any of these things; the only thing that can rationally be debated is how they behave. The term “deep state” exists for use in that dialogue. (1.2)>>Nancy Pelosi is sitting on the Democrats’ articles of impeachment against President Trump. If the Articles never get sent to the Senate (unlikely), then the charges go uncontested. The president will have been impeached (not removed), and that will be that. It will hang over him through 2020 and beyond. His allies will have to defend those actions on the campaign trail. Theoretically, the stakes are highest for President Trump, though there is little chance that two-thirds of the Senate will vote to remove him from office. Instead, in many ways, it is Pelosi who faces the highest political stakes. Last year, Pelosi took control of the House after a sweeping Democratic victory in the 2018 midterm elections. With a clear mandate to counter Trump, she launched a half-dozen investigations of the Administration and issued hundreds of subpoenas for witnesses and documents. When the Trump White House took the unprecedented step of flouting every House subpoena, she took it to court. (2)>>centrist Republicans in the Senate. The longer Pelosi’s delay continues, the more attention these centrists will face. The Democrats believe Murkowski, Collins, and Romney are pivotal votes, and, thus, the questions will continue and the pressure will mount on them.Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) delay in sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate showed that Democrats “are in a total panic.” WITH No, the real explanation for Pelosi’s sudden flip is that those in the know — in the intelligence community, on congressional committees, and even in the Democratic mouthpiece media with their Deep State sources — warned her in early September of the potential political catastrophe that would ensue as a result of the devastating revelations in both the Inspector General’s report on the FBI’s abuse of the FISA process and U.S. Attorney John Durham’s more comprehensive investigation into the origins and perpetuation of the bogus “Russian collusion” narrative. (3)>>Even the so called anti- Trump drama , seems to bolster Trump doing just the opposite effect . However many pollsters have disputed this claim. A 2016 poll conducted by Morning Consult showed that Trump performed better in general election polls regardless of whether the poll was conducted online or by live interviewer over the phone. This finding led Morning Consult's chief research officer to conclude that there was little evidence that poll respondents were feeling pressured to downplay their true general election preferences. From a historical perspective, it is worth considering, too, that increased news media focus on negative advertising itself has helped accelerate this trend, creating a vicious cycle of attack politics driven by political consultants and journalists. (4)>> The triggering event is often a sudden crisis that galvanizes popular opinion and becomes the immediate occasion for military intervention. The truth is that Soleimani was not all that different from any of about five dozen current and former American politicians and bureaucrats — if anything, he was considerably more restrained about the use of force. Yes, he was involved in a lot of bloody wars — but so was every American president since 2000, and besides half the wars he fought in were started or fueled by the United States. It's just another instance of America's gigantic hypocrisy when it comes to war.
