Tag: 2018

Trump Trolls For Allegiance. Finds Resistance. Bronx Tale Lesson.

The “don” must have allegiance above all else.

James Comey and NY Attorney General Breet Bhahara both got several Trump “trolling for allegiance” calls.  When this behavior is probed, it will come out that everyone in his inner circle has gone through this Trump ritual at one time or another. That is because a “don” must have allegiance above all else. If all inner circle members share some culpable dirt, then the don has a balance of power – because he can use their dirt against them as easily as they can use their dirt on him.

How is this allegiance pledge approached? Basically, Trump tries to get you alone, and
share some small transgressions. Once one does that, Trump gets to call that moment “that thing you know”.  It’s a veiled threat. 

Trump to Comey: We had that thing, you know.

bronx-taleIt’s Bronx Tale 101.  This is the way a mafia don stays in power. The don can’t afford the luxury of staying in power via the avenue of love. He must be feared. Trump figures everyone has some dirt on them. And once you give him your dirt, you know he can and will use it against you. Then you have something to fear from Trump. So your loyalty is reinforced by that fear. It’s how he operates and how he has always operated. It’s how the Russians operated too. Because they have all the dirt on Trump owing to 30 years of financing his projects and criminal activities. 

But FBI members, well … they don’t respond to these trolling techniques. Maybe it’s because this is the exact type of behavior they risk their lives defending us from on a daily basis. Same with the AG of NYC. Trump is just not used to running into such good, honorable and patriotic people. He has no use for people with honor. He has led his entire adult life skirting the law, avoiding taxes by cooperation with international criminals who all have dirt on them. He knows how to live and prey in that swamp. 

That’s also why he won’t show his taxes without a subpoena. This is not rocket science. It’s common sense. And what we must do is common sense too.

2018 is coming. And the temporary insanity during of his supporters during the 2016 election season is not a permanent condition. For many of them, the blinders are coming off. Stay vocal. This is how we really take our government back.

In 2018, we vote out all Republicans who stand with this  impostor of an American president.  And then it’s all done.

Then we get the agenda we want and need, one that cares for Americans – not Russians and billionaires. 

 

The Argument Not to Talk Impeachment Until The Summer of 2018

Why the GOP majority must end in 2018, or American democracy is dead.

James Comey spoke today. Then Trump’s lawyer made his statement. The battle lines are drawn. This is my takeaway.

comboverDonald Trump has been skirting the law with lawyers for over 30 years. He is used to winning. He will do anything to win. Let me clarify, this does NOT mean winning for Americans. This means winning for him. And by anything, he means anything: killers, collusion, hiring Russian allies, selling out America. It’s just a game to this sick man/child president.

But I am no longer sure there will be a successful case against Donald Trump with a GOP majority in Congress. And we should also suspect the Russians won’t stop meddling in our elections. The president can’t advocate for fair, clean elections, as he was the benefactor in the Russian meddling.  So our 250 year old democracy is under a very real threat. But this should also be clear:

The Strategy To Save American Democracy

The court of popular opinion still gets to speak here in the USA every two years. 2018 is 16 months away. Right now, the president’s approval rating is about 1/3 Americans. The GOP’s healthcare bill is extremely unpopular and they have never been champions for the average American. And I don’t see that healthcare bill morphing into something that most Americans will love.

The unpopularity of this president and the GOP’s healthcare unpopular bill will be both present in the atmosphere of the 2018 election. And what we need more than getting the president out of office, is undoing the GOP majority in both houses. Their entire party has sold out middle-class Americans. Trump is just the figurehead of the real problem in America – a GOP majority that does not care about average Americans because they have been bought by the billionaires. And yes, Bernie had that right.

Absent of more election meddling, I see no way the GOP should honestly hold on to the majorities in the house and senate in 2018. There will be more impetus to VOTE THEM ALL OUT if Trump is still president, because it will become abundantly clear the only way to impeach Trump is to end the GOP majority in the house and senate.

I don’t even say it must be Democrats that get the majority. I’d love to see a great number of new independents running for office in 2018. I sort of think the two-party system is part of the problem here in the USA. Political parties are just too easy to corrupt. But regardless, the GOP majority must end in 2018 or American democracy is dead.

… the GOP majority must end in 2018, or American democracy is dead.

So, I say, continue to push for the truth, of course. Leakers – depending on what you leak – you are heroes. Keep it up. We are fighting a determined enemy in the White House and the GOP – and now it seems they have aligned with our arch-enemy Vladimir Putin. And Dems – continue block as much as you can of the GOP agenda. 

But lay low on the impeachment talk. The last thing we need in a president Pence or Ryan to try and smooth this over. We need the public outrage against our elected representatives to be as high as possible in 2018. And it will be, as long as Trump is still in office.

Stay focused and vocal. There is a game clock in the sport we are playing here and it is set to run out on the second Tuesday in November 2018. About 500 days.

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