The President of Mexico
canceled his meeting with Trump next week. He said
it was because Trump yesterday said that he was building the border wall and he
would charge Mexico for the cost. Mexico
understandably thought this was preposterous. However the WH press secretary is talking
about a new twenty percent terrif to help pay for the wall. Trump counters that the United States must be
treated with respect or he has no choice but to torpedo relations. This “fence”
was proposed by congress in 2006 and Paul Ryan says “Now we are just implementing
it”. It’s going to cost at least twelve
billion dollars, but we should expect cost overruns. But no one has explained what’s to stop
Mexico from just blowing a big hole in the wall with explosives? I've heard people were now moving out of Trump's hotels because of growing security concerns.
There is a movement
this week for California secession and it’s gaining traction after the events
of this past week. Personally I’m
evolving on this issue but I’m coming around to being in favor of it because we
in California haven’t gotten as much money back from the government as we put
in, in a long time. Culturally we have become a different place from the now majority of America. It's hard to find a person who actually likes Donald Trump out here. “Tronald Dump” is a
nick name as is “Boss Tweet” referring to the old New York boss of the late
1800’s of “boss Tweed”. And another nick
name for Donald Trump is “King of the Swamp”.
A lot of people in the
State department are leaving but James Comey of the FBI has been invited to
stay on with the Trump administration.
Don’t tell me that isn’t a political pay-off for a job well done. They say it’s unusual for so many high
ranking officials to quit all at once, even with a change of administration
because “they are professionals” and have been there a long time. Norman Goldman is referring to it as a “brain
drain”, which sounds bad. Norman is
asking “Well I assume Trump has people lined up to replace them”, when the word
is that he doesn’t. Norman says “I’m
going to keep track of how long these posts remain empty”. The three people confirmed by the Senate so
far are Mike Pompeo at the CIA and Kelly of the department of homeland security
and of course Tillerson for Secretary of State.
I have areas of
disagreement with the following material but I’ll repeat it for what it’s
worth. The thing is that Donald Trump is qualitatively and quantitively worse than Obama in so many ways. Thom Hartman points out that in the early months of Adolph Hitler there WERE protests but they were soon quelched due to a government led media blitz on the consciousness of the German people. I suggest every American read the 14 points of Fascism and believe me I think we have gone beyond those points today into something worse. "If they had known the end from the beginning they would have protested at the start but they kept silent and as the propaganda continued it became harder and harder to rationalize "stepping out of line" or rocking the boat. I also disagree with the portion of this about Ukraine. Here we go - - -The election of Donald Trump
has sent millions of people pouring out onto the streets to protest a man they
think is a racist, misogynist, xenophobic bully who will destroy US democracy
in his quest to establish himself as supreme fascist ruler of the country. Maybe they’re right. Maybe Trump is a fascist
who will destroy America. But where were these people when Obama was bombing
wedding parties in Kandahar, or training jihadist militants to fight in Syria,
or abetting NATO’s destructive onslaught on Libya, or plunging Ukraine into
fratricidal warfare, or collecting the phone records of innocent Americans, or
deporting hundreds of thousands of undocumented workers, or force-feeding
prisoners at Gitmo, or providing bombs and aircraft to the Saudis to continue
their genocidal war against Yemen? Where
were they? They were asleep, weren’t they? Because liberals always sleep when
their man is in office, particularly if their man is a smooth-talking
cosmopolitan snake-charmer like Obama who croons about personal freedom and
democracy while unleashing the most unspeakable violence on civilians across
the Middle East and Central Asia. The
United States has been at war for eight straight years under Obama, and during
that time, there hasn’t been one sizable antiwar march, demonstration or
protest. Nothing. No one seems to care when an articulate bi-racial mandarin
kills mostly people of color, but when a brash and outspoken real estate
magnate takes over the reigns of power, then ‘watch out’ because here come the
protestors, all three million of them!
BLITZKRIG NOW! rel January 26th, 2017
Blitzkrig Bop (The Ramones)
Trump's Inaugural Address (about 20 minutes) January 20, 2016
Dogs (Pink Floud) about 18 minutes
Two Heads (Jefferson Airplane)
Vira Gemini (Blue Oyster Cult)
Turtle Blues (Big Brother & the HC)
Rice Pudding (Jeff Beck)
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