The illegitimate President

The illegitimate President. What comes around
goes around....

The illegitimate President. As Donald Trump finds himself at the center of an impeachment inquiry, his backers in right-wing media have been working overtime to play defense for the embattled president.   To start with Hillary Clinton having dismissed President Trump as an “illegitimate president” and suggested that “he knows” that he stole the 2016 presidential election . May have set off a trigger . I remember that the first mention of illegitimacy came under Barack Obama’s term . So the idea of a "coup" may not be so far fetched . I think that the 2016 election was a "inside job" as FAR AS MANIPULATING the votes for Trump[ yea, I know we have been told it was the Russians ] . That SAVED us from a HILLARY PRESIDENCY . The coup is far from over , now the same tactic is after Trump . Now the idea of a  illegitimate President came as  (1.1)>>I remember how the Republicans attacked Obama ,  this marked a period of rapid-fire demands from right-wing media for the president’s [ Obama]  removal from office. It’s instructive to see how much the bar for “high crimes and misdemeanors” has shifted since then, helping gauge how seriously we should take the words of conservative pundits when the president is a member of their own party. I liken that  Hillary's remarks , as part of (1.2)>>Nancy's plan of  impeachment are both going after Trump with a vengeance , yea political vengeance  →FIRST. What Donald J Trump did  about launching a corruption investigation , by ASKING the Ukrainian President President Volodymyr Zelensky in July  (1.3)>>2019 to investigate Joe Biden , so  & I am in  agreement that it's vary skittish , it's trending on what  serious criminal wrong doing on the part of the President . What is interesting about this , is the fact that what Donald Trump was seeking out info on Biden was already freely available on the Internet . He would have just googled Joe Biden , Hunter Biden together and a whole bunch of news posts regarding how Joe Biden bribed the Ukrainian leaders into positioning Hunter to get a job , ON  the board of directors of Burisma Holdings, a  (2)>>Ukrainian energy company, on April 18, 2014. Either case yes , what Trump did in trying to get his opposition research is by asking a foreign government to investigate a political rival  is wrong .  So I am ALSO  saying this as well that Joe Biden is crooked .  What Joe Biden did  is somewhat wrong as well . So Trump's foolhardy inquiry on Biden may have indeed opened up a can of worms . The biggest worm in (2.1)>>this whole debacle is our American "meddling" in Ukraine .  In CASE you get to hear how our media spins the story around as" Trump was asking a foreign government to collude with our 2020 election " I Want to make many Americans aware that our government has been meddling in Ukraine for a long time . In 2014, the Obama administration was trying to support the new post-2014 Ukrainian revolution Yatsenyuk government in Ukraine diplomatically, and then-vice president Joe Biden was "at the forefront" of those efforts. BUT Ukraine was caught in the middle of a cold war with Russia , that has involved a civil war that has drawn America , along with billions of dollars of American tax payer money to support a secret war , which the United States is supporting the Ukrainian government with weapons , money to push back Russia out of Ukraine from joining NATO . This effort is at the root cause of many of the issues with our relations with Russia . (3)>>As far as TRUMP IS CONCERNED he  is caught right in the middle , first he wanted "better relations with Russia" , now Trump has turned around pretty much has tried to involve himself with Russia's enemies the Ukrainian government .  BUT America's direct "meddling" is not just a Republican problem , it was the Democrats that started it it , the Republican party soon jumped the bandwagon  in aligning Ukraine with American military interests .  (4)>>The Names of  American political leaders involved in Ukraine  politics and money. → Nancy Pelosi , Hillary Clinton , John Kerry, Mitchell McConnell Jr, Lindsey Olin Graham, the Late John McCain , Joe Biden . to name a few , if you want to impeach Trump , think the list of the impeach ables should grow, considering the  (4.1)>>quagmire of US involvement there. 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. Its rejection led to the Maidan protests and the installation of an anti-Russian administration – rejected by half the country – that went on to sign the EU and International Monetary Fund agreements regardless. While The president has defended his open calls for foreign governments to investigate a political rival by repeating that there was “no quid pro quo”. Text messages between US diplomats and an assistant to Zelenskiy released this week reveal that this was not the understanding of US diplomats dealing with Ukraine. The messages, made public as part of a Congressional impeachment inquiry, illustrate the lengths to which top U.S. diplomats went in pursuing their goal: extracting a public pledge from Zelenskiy to investigate whether Ukraine had interfered in the 2016 U.S. election with the aim of helping Hillary Clinton, and whether former Vice President Joe Biden had improperly hindered a Ukrainian money-laundering probe of a company where his son, Hunter, held a lucrative board seat. In a tweet on Thursday, Trump said the presidency gave him “an absolute right, perhaps even a duty, to investigate or have investigated, CORRUPTION, and that would include asking, or suggesting, other Countries to help us out!” Few congressional Republicans or commentators have spoken against Trump after the president urged two foreign governments, Ukraine and China, to investigate a political rival this week.

Can the Impeachment Bring our Government Down ?

Nancy Pelosi ready to be President ?

President Donald Trump tweeted on Tuesday night that the Democrats’ investigation into the Ukraine scandal “is not an impeachment, it is a COUP”. Is it  REALLY TRUE ??? WelI I  have weighed in on this . This is going to be shocking to you  , but the answer is that it could be a yes. Why ? It also interesting that the Democrats impeachment inquiry includes VP Mike Pence , he's the second in line.  JUST Think if Pence is also complicit with Trump , impeachment proceeds, both are guilty , removed . This would not only bring down the government of the United States , but will elevate Nacy Pelosi to the Oval Office . JUST THINK. She will be the President of the United States . Forget Hillary , forget the November 2020 election .  The thought of Pelosi becoming president has most Twitter followers on that particular thread rather giddy.  The REIGN of MADAM PRESIDENT has begun  BY !!!Definitionally, a coup refers to the extrajudicial overthrow of a leader by other elements of the regime — typically the country’s security forces. Obviously, not so in America . You either change the votes , or silently A “legislative coup d’état” is exactly what this so-called “impeachment” really is. Pelosi and her Democrat caucus have been trying to overturn the 2016 election from the get-go, and this coup is but the latest attempt. A Twitter thread called #PresidentPelosi began picking up steam late Wednesday afternoon, and most users following and retweeting the thread seem rather excited about the prospect of Pelosi becoming the commander-in-chief. Pelosi wouldn't necessarily have to run in 2020 to become president, as she is second in line—behind Vice President Mike Pence—to take the White House  (5)>>should Trump leave office and, then subsequently, Pence leave office after assuming it. The 2020 Democratic field of candidates still continues to whittle away with each passing month, and entering the race is another option. Sure Dems hate Trump but that's not whats driving them. Whats fueling them is their hatred for revenge what the Republicans did to Obama , and the loss of the 2016 election . If the people let the democrats get away with all this insanity America is lost and will be forever.

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(1.1)>>I remember how the Republicans attacked Obama. Less than two months after Obama took office, right-wing radio host Michael Savagedeclared, “I think it is time to start talking about impeachment.” He was angry about Obama’s use of executive actions, and he called the American people “a bunch of schmucks” for sitting idly as they were “watching a dictatorship emerge in front of their eyes.” Despite occasional criticism, Savage has been largely supportive of Trump and recently accused Nancy Pelosi of being an “illegitimate speaker” of the House intent on destroying the Constitution by opening a Trump impeachment inquiry. (1.2)>>Nancy's plan of  impeachment are both going after Trump with a vengeance , yea political vengeance . Trump may have been jinxed by the same political theories of   The illegitimate President that haunted Obama . It's not the birther problem , but that Trump was elected by Russian help .  I wonder sometime if it is the same people doing this ? It's fishy thatDemocratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives, with vocal support from 2020 presidential candidates and Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, along with others, are organizing their efforts toward an official impeachment inquiry. As the issue came to a head in Pelosi’s speech, we’re taking a look at all of the past offenses that almost resulted in Trump’s impeachment.   If YOU ALL RECALL → “By November 10, 2016 — just two days after the election! — television talking heads were already conjuring up theoretical scenarios in which Donald Trump could be removed from office,” MRC’s NewsBusters reports. “Since then, TV journalists have amassed quite a repertoire of possible causes for a premature end to the Trump White House, including (but not limited to): his tax returns; his family’s business dealings, both home and abroad; his firing of various cabinet officials; and of course, his tweets.”  (1.3)>>2019 to investigate Joe Biden.  Remember  the DNC nomination is rigged as I believe .  Joe Biden is already picked . I think Trump may have found out about the DNC choice , his move to investigate Biden  over the other  Democrat hopefuls is a obvious sign .The obvious leader in the polls is former Vice President Joe Biden, who has remained largely popular not just from his base but within the Rust Belt. He has a very real shot at unseating Trump, but that requires him to prove that intersectionality and ideological extremism don't dominate Democratic politics. Meanwhile, the US and its European allies impose sanctions and dictate terms to Russia and its proteges in Kiev, encouraging the military crackdown on protesters after visits from Joe Biden and the CIA director, John Brennan. But by what right is the US involved at all, incorporating under its strategic umbrella a state that has never been a member of Nato, and whose last elected government came to power on a platform of explicit neutrality? It has none, of course – which is why the Ukraine crisis is seen in such a different light across most of the world. There may be few global takers for Putin's oligarchic conservatism and nationalism, but Russia's counterweight to US imperial expansion .  (2)>>Ukrainian energy company.    Department of Energy's Office of International Affairs has had a leading role in supporting efforts by the Government of Ukraine to strengthen its energy planning capabilities, introduce critical reforms and enhance the country’s energy security.Since 2014, the Department of Energy has provided technical expertise to Ukraine through the development of a series of “winter action plans,” comprehensive road maps which designed to prepare the country for possible disruptions during each winter season in the electricity, natural gas, and district heating sectors.  Energy Secretary Rick Perry urged Ukraine's president to root out corruption and pushed the new government for changes at its state-run oil and gas company, people familiar with his work said Friday — indications that he was more deeply involved than previously known in President Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure officials in Kiev.The people said they have no indication that Perry explicitly called on Ukrainian officials to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, the issue that has spawned a House impeachment inquiry into Trump. But at the very least, they said, Perry played an active role in the Trump administration's efforts to shape decisions by the newly elected government of President Volodymyr Zelensky.(2.1)>>this whole debacle is our American "meddling" in Ukraine .  In any case, the U.S. diplomats are big losers in the whole fiasco. They failed in their effort to please their impetuous president, and they’ve been caught trying to get a foreign leader to do something improper, showing no concern for the local political consequences.It’s not the first time that meddling in Ukraine has backfired on U.S. officials. In early 2014, Victoria Nuland, a senior official in the Obama-era State Department, was caught on tape plotting personnel changes in the Ukrainian government, still under beleaguered President Viktor Yanukovych. The plan didn’t work out, but the recording — in which Nuland was heard making a deeply embarrassing profane comment about the European Union — ended up on YouTube, almost certainly with the help of Russian interests. Nuland was forced to apologize to the Europeans.Biden, too, did his share of incompetent meddling when he was vice president under Obama and in charge of the Ukraine portfolio. The Shokin firing is just one example. Biden’s stated goal was to remove a prosecutor equally hated by Ukrainian anti-corruption activists and Ukraine’s European allies, but Poroshenko replaced Shokin with his close ally Yury Lutsenko, who made political meddling in investigations even easier for the president and his allies.All this sordid history should tell American diplomats something: It’s none of their business who gets appointed to what job in Kyiv and it’s not for them to decide what a Ukrainian president should say (even if it would look great in a campaign ad). The country can be a valuable ally for the U.S. in a complex region, one that has proven its ability to stand up to Russian pressure in tough situations. But the relationship can benefit both only if Americans practice what they preach — the rule of law, for example, and the primacy of the public good over political gain.(3)>>As far as TRUMP IS CONCERNED he  is caught right in the middle , first he wanted "better relations with Russia".  When it came to Donald Trump, here you had a guy who kept saying, “We should have better relations with Russia in a broad sense.” Of course, why wouldn’t the Russians welcome that? Interestingly, I found that RT had sent a reporter to a Trump press conference, got called on somehow—to this day, I'm not sure whether that was random or not—and asked Trump a question about U.S.-Russia relations. And at this press conference, which was at the Trump Hotel, which was just opening at the time, Trump gave his spiel about, “We can get along great with Russia; I can get along great with Putin; we should work together.” RT[ Russian News ]  quickly turned around a segment that they aired that night: “Trump says better relations with Russia,” and gave it big, warm, glowing treatment. I thought that was very significant. That sort of happened at the end of my reporting. As I say, I was starting to see more of that theme come through. Now its 2019 , Trump took a drastic turn that has brought relations with Russia to cold war lows . He pulled out of a Reagan - Gorbachev  era treaty for the reduction of Nuclear Weapons [ INF TREATY] . The downward spiral , Trump's sudden jump to get cozy with Ukraine , supplying Ukraine with anti- tank shoulder missiles is vary much at odds with the man who once thought of getting along with Russia.(4)>>The Names of  American political leaders involved in Ukraine . Such umbrage might be more credible if the United States refrained from engaging in similar conduct. But the historical record shows that Washington has meddled in the political affairs of dozens of countries—including many democracies. An egregious example occurred in Ukraine during the Euromaidan Revolution of 2014. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, went to Kiev to show solidarity with the Euromaidan activists. McCain dined with opposition leaders, including members of the ultra right-wing Svoboda Party. The extent of the Obama administration’s meddling in Ukraine’s politics was breathtaking. Russian intelligence intercepted and leaked to the international media a Nuland telephone call in which she and U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Geoffey Pyatt discussed in detail their preferences for specific personnel in a post-Yanukovych government. The U.S-favored candidates. Washington’s conduct not only constituted meddling, it bordered on micromanagement. Washington’s conduct not only constituted meddling, it bordered on micromanagement. (4.1)>>quagmire of US involvement there.  We all might take a momet to READ former President Obama's statement on Ukriane . ALL the Key players are mentioned , from 2014 : https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/02/28/statement-president-ukraine    The U.S. has committed more than $1.5 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since 2014, when Russian-backed separatists began driving tanks through eastern Ukraine. Since then the US has spent over 5 billion in Ukraine of American Tax payer money that has since not been accounted for .[ Saying its been lost ] The latest equipment was largely more of the same aid the U.S. previously supplied, aimed at helping Ukraine monitor and secure its borders, deploy its forces more safely and effectively, and make progress toward NATO interoperability. If what Biden did is okay, how did Trump overstep? And conversely, if everything Trump did was on the up-and-up, how can the president claim that “if a Republican ever did what Joe Biden did ... they’d be getting the electric chair by right now”?   (5)>>should Trump leave office.  Trump’s problems are self-inflicted. WE all know that . Hence, though impeachment is a constitutional provision, it is also a political campaign. That campaign began in earnest this week when Nancy Pelosi directed her Democratic colleagues in the House to begin impeachment hearings into President Donald Trump. This will not necessarily lead to impeachment. In the past, though, impeachment hearings have generated a momentum of their own. The process is fraught with risks on both sides. One thing seems certain: the process will further divide a country that is already set against itself.

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 .