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2,060 years ago 226 years ago h/t Infidel 753 As the Trump cult like base, which is predominately conservatives, Evangelicals, and republicans circle their wagons around their totally self absorbed and narcissistic leader the rest of the nation is well aware of the truth in the quotes above. America has a choice to make in 2018 and 2020. Either to recognize the threat from within and cut it off completely at the ballet box or, prepare for an America that no longer represents our founding principles and indeed will be in direct conflict with freedom and individual liberty. The choice is ours. Responsibility rests with us. The Real and True Patriotic Americans. Do we have the cojones to Take Back America from the cons whose desire is to limit liberty to conform with their myopic and religionist vision of what liberty means?

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Trump has again managed to make it all about Trump. We can only watch in hopeful anticipation that Helsinki will be the explosive seed that results in his demise. Why the American Ambassador to Russia and cabinet members have not resigned is a source of puzzlement. Perhaps the only explanation is that any sense of integrity is dead in Republican politics. Why the party he represents continues to stand behind his sorry ass is the billion dollar question. Why the legitimate American media couches their criticisms in polite language escapes logic. Trump is a cancerous abscess growing on America's heart and soul. The question we must answer for ourselves is do we have the WILL to excise this cancer. Future generations will live with the answer to this question.

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Trump intends to bring about the collapse of the liberal international order, in its commitment to open societies and its institutions. Trump is effectively changing the way America does business.  He is changing how our allies and the rest of the world perceives us. Very litle is positive. The New York Times - Some near-forgotten anniversaries are worth commemorating. One hundred years ago — Bastille Day, 1918 — Theodore Roosevelt’s youngest son, Quentin, was killed in aerial combat at the Second Battle of the Marne. Twenty-six years later, Quentin’s oldest brother, Ted, also died in France, after landing at Utah Beach on D-Day. Quentin and Ted are buried side-by-side at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer. It’s a moving sight for everyone who still believes in the cause for which they and their brothers in arms fought and died — above all, the idea, possibility and preservation of a free world, anchored and inspired by America but not sub...

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Donald J. Trump has been identified as America's worst president -- Ever. And he proves it daily. See another of his attacks on the legitimate press. Which serves to again highlight his abject ignorance and anti Americanism. President Trump’s penchant for diminishing the fourth estate didn’t wither on British soil. “Fake news,” he riffed at various points during a joint news conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May — the better to shout down all the accurate reporting about his unhinged behavior and pronouncements about the United States and its most pivotal allies in the world. Kristen Welker of NBC News asked the president if his fractious relationship with NATO allies provided the “upper hand” to Russian President Vladimir Putin for the upcoming summit in Helsinki. “See, that’s such dishonest reporting — of course it happens to be NBC, which is possibly worse than CNN,” Trump said. Then he boasted about his exploits with the NATO countries. The slight aimed at...

The following Notes on Nationalism,  pened by George Orwell, have continued significance today in the USA. Especially given the direction of our federal government in the Era of Trump  and  the Christian fundamentalism that is growing . It is doubtful those who most need to consider the wisdom expresseed in Notes on Natioanalism will read and seriously consider what Orwell is saying. Nonetheless, if his words influence even a few to become more active in fighting tghe clear and present danger of a growing nationalism in our country this effort will have been worth it. Somewhere or other Byron makes use of the French word longeur, and remarks in passing that though in England we happen not to have the word, we have the thing in considerable profusion. In the same way, there is a habit of mind which is now so widespread that it affects our thinking on nearly every subject, but which has not yet been given a name. As the nearest existing equivalent I have chosen the w...

Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, left, President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, and Vice President Pence at the Capitol on Tuesday. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News) Vice President Pence said Tuesday that while he would personally like to see the Supreme Court one day overturn its landmark 1973 ruling legalizing abortion, neither he nor President Trump has discussed the issue with Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett M. Kavanaugh Right. Given everything we know about Pence and Trump, and the Evangelical's strong influence on both, only the very naive will actually  believe the issue has not been dicussed. Conservative religionists have been dreaming of the day when they might again have the power to deny women reproductive rights and control of their own bodies. With Kavanaugh's nomination to the SCOTUS that dream is now a step closer to becoming reality. If Kavanaugh is confirmed, and this is very likely, the court shifts further right and conservative judicial...

If the lead-up to President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nomination announcement feels like reality-TV drama , it’s because that’s exactly how it was designed. But instead of a one-year contract as Trump’s errand boy, the “winner” on Monday night will likely nab a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land and a chance to reshape American law and jurisprudence for generations. The high stakes of the announcement were nevertheless preceded by a day of wild speculation and tea leaf-reading, designed, some conservatives briefed on the nomination process believe, to prevent a leak of Trump’s decision by flooding the zone with contradictory information. It’s characteristic of a president who revels in the political press spinning its wheels, and is naturally inclined to the sort of primetime TV drama that he helmed as host of NBC’s The Apprentice . “There are few people in politics, or entertainment for that matter, who have a better understanding of marketing than the p...

The state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views. Honestly consider whether Republicans and Donald J. Trump understand, support, and protect individual liberty and everyone's right to the same when you vote in 2018 and 2020. The liberty you might lose could very well be your own.

As we celebrate Independence Day 2018 focusing on the following and fighting to preserve our freedoms and civil liberties has taken on a new urgency. With the election of Donald J. Trump our cherished freedoms and civil liberties face the greatest internal threat than at anytime during our modern history. Trump and his conservative and Christian Evangelical allies wish to mold freedom and liberty to fit neatly into their belief system and world view. By legislation and conservative judicial fiat they hope to impose their world view and morals on all Americans. In short, they wish to roll a hundred and fifty plus years of social and economic progress back into the dark ages. We cannot allow an Orange Haired lying narcissistic authoritarian to facilitate such a horrendous change and reverse American progress. The following is an excerpt from and article published in The Washington Post written by Dana Milbank. Freedom from Trump’s constant attacks on women , immigrants , people of...