Election2020 – THE ENGLISH CODE

My Plea to Joe Biden

Dear Joe and Jill Biden,

I am writing you not because I don’t think you can win in November. I’m just not 100% sure you will win. And with 240 years of democracy on the line, four more years of Donald Trump should not be a gamble you nor anyone should be willing to take. Not even 5% of a gamble.

Quick about me. Sat in class with Donny at Penn. Knew him from AC. Saw the fake bankruptcies. Saw the money getting moled out of country. I know he’s been borrowing that stolen money back for the last 33 years. No one lends Donny without collateral. Not even Deutschebanke. He is primarily a financial criminal.

So why did Trump do virus meetings? He wanted to look like a man who is in control. He wanted to look like a man who can make hard decisions. Mainly he wants to “look like” a president without really acting like one. And he hopes looking like a president will be enough so that when he smears you ( which you can count on ) enough Americans will be turned off to the Biden brand that he squeaks by again with this messed up electoral system we have.

And never underestimate Donny’s ability to close from behind. He likes doing that. Most salesman (that’s what he and I were back in our 30’s) know the importance of closing. Hillary did not btw. She lost this while she was celebrating with Springsteen and Donny was out campaigning in the Midwest. What a bad meme that aire of celebration was for her and all of us.

So what you need to do – and need to do now – is start briefings yourself. And though you can’t talk much about the virus situation, what you can talk about is the administration you are assembling to defeat not just Trump – but Trump-ism.

DIGRESSION INTO MEMES

Trump-ism says more than just Trump. Spelling with the hyphen (Trump-ism) says both in one word. Clever. Take it. I am a published linguist who knows the meaning of words in many languages. Biden – exudes TWO (BI) HOUSES (DEN). Hence it helps you come off as a person who can work with both sides. Not sure if that is Biden’s actual source, but it comes off that way down deep. This season, the other side (not the GOP people – but the GOP in government) is so tainted I would not talk about working with them. It will sound like you are old school DC. No one has appetite for old school DC anymore.

TRUMP exudes travelling up and down. UMP words are BUMPS and HUMPS and even an umpire decides up or down with his thumbs. So let’s hope that meme plays out for him. Pardon my digression into memes – but they have power. It’s one thing me and Trump learned from our fathers. I went to that scoundrel school too. I got away, but I know how it works.

END DIGRESSION

YOU NEED A TEAM AND NOW

Joe. No one at 78 can be expected to know social media and all the techy things that work for and communicate to the young kids today. You need a team. And people need to see it now. They need to see you are working now to form that team. Not behind closed doors. Out in the open. And not just a VP. It’s going to take a team to undo what Donny (you should call him that sometimes at least, his college name. It’s sort of demeaning without being vulgar) has done to this country.

As to VP – I would announce VP, Secretary of State ( so badly needed ) and AG ( to clean house and scare the bejesus out of the Trump loyalists in Congress, so they know justice is coming for the criminally aligned – all in one fell swoop! )

Please remember you have the black vote. You don’t need (nor is it wise in this cycle) to put a black person in the VP slot – when you are 78 and people will think maybe you won’t make it. (From 70 up – no one knows they will be around in 4 years.) My own sister voted for Trump because she did not want a black person as potus. There are too many like this. Sorry to say. And having been Obama’s VP you must know this cold.

Your real choices and Liz and Amy. I like Liz better – who is more exciting. Two centrists may bore the kids. Shame too. But true. You’ll get the Bernie vote with Liz and that is substantial.

As far as a replacement for Barr, in your cabinet briefings that I am asking you to please start now, you must say that the first thing you will do is remove Bill Barr from his post. Scare him too. Barr has foreign bank accounts and has been paid off by the Don. How do I know this? Trump said it in code. At the Rose Garden. Just like Michael Cohen said, he speaks in code. I know the code having been close to him. Decent folks like you don’t operate that way. But when he said” God speed you a nice life – that was because they already spoke, probably the night before, and he swore allegiance in return for a nice life with plenty of money in foreign bank accounts, which is what Trump is primarily, a money launderer.

Here’s another brilliant taking point for a briefing. I want you to call Anthony Scaramucci and get his endorsement. Trump needs to know his darkest secrets are coming out soon. Call Trump’s accounting firm, Mazur’s and get them some business. Start operating like you are potus a bit. Just a bit. Give us reason to be hopeful. The word will get out. Good. You need Trump’s people be to abandon him before the election. It can be done.

I like Kamala for DA to be announced concurrent with the VP post! You should know why. To soften the fallout when you don’t choose a black woman as VP – which you know down deep – even if it’s right morally – is wrong in this season.

The post of Secretary of State should be selected before the election as well. Why? We want our foreign allies to know change they can rely on is coming and soon. Myself I like Pete. But some of my fellow thinkers here in LA say – him being gay – won’t fly in places like Saudi Arabia. I say to hell with them if that won’t fly. But maybe even he does not want to do this.

What a team this would be! Unbeatable. He may be able to beat you alone, but he can’t beat this team. And what is his team? Kushner, Barr, Ivanka, Mitch, Pompeo and Lindsey? Come on. That is nauseating. I dare him to say he’s got a team that would compare with the one you can assemble.

If on the day you announce VP – which should be now – or soon and certainly before the Convention, which may not even happen, you announce this team, you will squash Trump. His allies will abandon him, and he may not even finish his term, which is the best thing that can happen for our democracy, eliminating any percentage chance that we have four more years of this insanity.

Thank you.

Josepharonesty@gmail.com

818 423 1533 – call me any time – or text – it’s a cell –

I write here: https://englishcode.wordpress.com/

America Won WW2 Because We Worked Together as a Team

We Need WW2 Teamwork Again Now

Let’s show the American people we can unite our party. Both sides will respect that. After all, if we cant unite the “left” how can we unite the country?
May 2019

We are at war in the USA. We are at war with foreign enemies that want to exploit our riches. We are at war with Trump’s GOP party that sells our rights and assets to the highest bidders. And at the same time, we are at war with each other – which will make it very difficult for any side to prevail in any effort.

I am old enough to remember first-hand the spirit of the WW2 generation. They were not the greed is good generation nor the it’s all about me generation. The greatest generation citizens resigned to do their parts to defeat German Nationalism with a spirit of teamwork and without ego. Now we have a combination of corporatism and American Nationalism to defeat.

We all know there’s an election in 2020. Trump knows exactly how long he has to completely take this government over – from the justice department installations to the election fixing with our enemies. Trump is working every day to have our democracy be gone before the 2020 election. Why? Trump knows the term that follows his presidential term may be a prison term.

I still see a way to get the current GOP Senate to vote to impeach Trump, but only after the Dems change the way they are running their campaigns . Some GOP senators are now whispering privately they want to abandon Trump. Let’s show those same GOP senators if they keep Trump as their figurehead they’ll have no shot in 2020. That’s the big idea here.

Teamwork

The viable candidates and those who really want to work to save this country should meet in a room and settle on who will be the Democratic candidates for president, vice president, chief of staff and district attorney. Then our Team America pools resources and gets to work – not only to beat Trump – but to show the American people what they can do for the citizens of the USA.

Will this surprise tactic of running for president with a VP and cabinet in place – work? How can it not work?

The optics are spectacular. Instead of 20 candidates telling undecided American voters why they are best for the top job – we present one well-prepared team, ready on day one to get the actual jobs done for all Americans.

Even MAGA people will go for that. They know they are being lied to. They just don’t know who will be there for them on our side because right now we don’t even know. They will remain tuned out to our overtures until we decide. Till next July? Really? It will be too late by then.

The big idea is to not preach to the choir and get GOP constituents in red states liking what they are seeing and hearing. Imagine a team energetic candidates all campaigning simultaneously for the ideas we need to transform this country. That's never been seen here before. It's like Trump that way - powerful out-of-the-box strategy. (You got to give him that.)

Now imagine the same-old, same-old – what we have now. More debates after-which we neither learn much nor convert voters to our common causes. More circular firing squads. And all the while, Trump team – from Kelly Anne to Bill Barr – speaks in unison. We are strategically handicapped because we play by rules, conventions and traditions while Trump does not. If we had fought WW2 this way, we’d all be speaking German here today.

I realize not every candidate will want to leave their current position to work in the 2021 cabinet that leads America into a modern future. But they can be offered posts. I sense a job for Michele Obama in Team America too.

There’s no room for it’s all about me now.

Other important posts for strategy to prevail as a democracy are below:

https://englishcode.wordpress.com/2019/03/30/dictator-map/ explains how we got here

https://englishcode.wordpress.com/2019/11/23/impeachment-2020/ a better path to impeaching – a tad of patience – not too much – but the Spring is always a better time to engage the public. Not Christmas for sure.

Joseph Aronesty is an e-commerce pioneer, online since 1996. He is a family man, published etymologist and songwriter. He lives outside Los Angeles.

He can be reached at josepharonesty@gmail.com

752 14th Street, Manhattan Beach CA 90266 818 423 1533

Notice: For Ilhan Omar and All Politicians

Dear Ilhan: I see how people who know you love you. Welcome home. I don’t want what I am about to say to be taken the wrong way, but I do wish you would allow yourself to be seen without your native hijab at least once on public television.

Why do I advise this strategy? You have become Trump’s 2020 Hillary – his scapegoat. And with one speech, you have a chance to shut Trump’s hate campaign down! I know it sounds crazy, but please follow along. You got close with your message on Thursday.

Seasoned politicians know they must always consider how they are seen by others. They seek to create policies that support the majority of Americans because they know they are in the business of caring for Americans. Those who know and support you are more than okay with your head dress. But you must know there are some that are actually afraid of that hijab look. It’s sad, stupid, unfair, unfounded and mostly cowardly. But it’s also a reality in today’s polarized environment. Trump is using your hat, not you, as a visual to paint you as “the other”. For his uneducated supporters, it’s going to work!

100-squad-hijab Because you are never seen without the hijab, people figure you are orthodox and upholding this old school Islamic tradition. It feels like what the Amish do. They police modesty with traditional clothing. However, it’s also clear the hijab was created to stifle some part of a woman’s freedom, eve if only to dictate modesty to them. So even people who support your right to dress anyway you want, as I do – may view your hijab as a weak spot – a loyalty to something few Americans can identify with.

The more important thing to realize is that the hijab actually scares some reasonable percentage of Americans. These might view the hijab the way you might view a swastika.

And that’s why smart politicians learn to blend in. Why would they want to scare any people? And now I am going to show you how to use people’s irrational fear of your hijab to dismantle the Trump hate campaign in one press conference. But let me go on a minute more here about how you are seen by some people that are not Muslim.

People who are not orthodox, religious and atheists ( that sums to a huge percentage of all Americans these days ) are often the most tolerant, but they all have made the choice to not believe too strongly in deities. – So it’s clear you believe in something that they don’t believe in. It’s okay with them, but all people are more easily persuaded by those that they feel they know fully and trust. That’s why advertisers choose people who look like their audience to deliver messages. It’s common sense.

So if you are never seen without a hijab – regardless of your reasons – it feels like some part of you is stuck in a tradition that clearly was not born here. It’s the hijab – not you – not your darker skin tone – that Trump is attacking. And his base is sucking it up.

I also don’t think politicians should wear one’s religion on one’s sleeve, because we have a clear division of religion and government here – unlike in the Middle East. Our politicians mostly all have religions they belong to. But you can’t tell what religion they align with by the way they dress. They don’t flaunt their religions. And that is just smart.

Further, religious people first subjugate themselves to rules of men and gods created long ago by people who could not possibly know our modern world. (That’s the born-again humanist in me coming out. Please tolerate that opinion. It’s not easy for a free thinker like me to say this.) I know all American people have a right to worship a god and take part in traditions. But politicians have a primary loyalty to the people they serve and they have to be smart about things that everyday people don’t have to reckon with.

aside – about me – Though I was born Jewish, my adult-self evolved. I became a humanist. I believe in the sovereignty and goodness of well-intended thinking humans. I see these different deities primarily serve to divide us. There has never been scientific proof of one god’s existence. And we certainly need to get back to science to see the planet any more. Free thinkers believe our own eye’s and minds and can work to make the world a better place for all humans.

Look at Israel and the Middle East. How is religion in government helping that situation out? It’s not! It’s causing the tensions. If you can’t empathize with those Americans who might see you as a foreigner whose ultimate loyalty is to a god – which by definition is not the American people, how can you expect them to empathize with or for you?

What would be the cost for a temporary olive branch sent to those who see you as a foreigner? Some pride. Some principle. But nothing beyond your personal ego really. The world is bigger than any of our egos.

We now all know you are the squad member that inspired Trump to call you all foreigners. And it’s because of the hijab. You have to know that. That’s what sets you apart from the others – and all other Congresspeople.

And we can’t be about ego now. Think WW2 gen. No egos. You are in public service now and we have a crisis. That means you should be doing your best to reach all Americans – even those who are overly reactive to or afraid of foreign appearances. And Ilhan, we have them here in the USA. Further, fear of the other is a human ( and animal ) instinct. It’s a survival instinct. It’s not going away. Time to be smart.

And yes, I am sure you have got threats from that hating bunch. You should always think John Lennon or Abe Lincoln. The hate is out there. You can’t make it go away overnight. – And people of that ilk will need to learn to like you who if you are to reach them with your ideas. That can happen over time or even overnight. But sometimes you have to be the bigger person so to speak.

Trump knows that hijab is your weak spot. Certainly not your pretty face and spirit. Take the target down at least a few days. Do something they won’t expect! So important right now while the camera is on you.

So this is the strategy.

#1. ANNOUNCE A PRESS CONFERENCE – Everyone will be there. Fox too.

#2. SHOCK THE WORLD AND DO THIS SANS HIJAB. But the hijab should be there on the podium!

#3. Find your own way to say this.

I have called this press conference because I am appalled at the way Donald Trump is creating and pumping out messages of hate about duly elected, hard-working, female Congresspeople. All Americans should be appalled by his hateful words.

You see me here today for the first time without wearing my traditional hijab. i am not doing this for my supporters and constituents. They are okay with me for who I am.

I have taken the hijab off today for the people who are receptive to Trump’s messages of hate. I want you to see that I am just like any other American woman – or American black woman. In fact, I believe that we are all the same – regardless of race religion or age. We all want the same things. We all want a productive life filled with love, family friends and accomplishments. We want to stay in good health for as long as we can – and when we are not well – we want good care. We want access to good education. We want to enjoy healthy clean water and food.

I take this hijab off today because I sincerely believe some Trump supporters are literally afraid of this hat. Well here it is. The hijab is just a tradition to remind women that modesty is a proper way of being. That is something Donald Trump never learned growing up as a privileged spoiled child in the Bronx. Trump embodies the opposite of modesty. The Amish people also have such a tradition and dress “plain” for that reason. Are you afraid of Amish people?

Then go on to round out your statement. The idea is to call Trump and his followers cowards – without using that word. So it’s more of a “what are you afraid of” statement you want to make. State your weight if need be. You are not anything to be afraid of. Make them love you for that moment.

After this you can go back to hijab – but this press conference will embarrass Trump supporters so deeply you may reach them. You want them to see you and say to themselves – why is Trump making us hate this woman who has so much good inside her?

When you get that message across – without a hijab – they will hear you – and it will penetrate. Then Trump won’t be able to SELL HIS SUPPORTERS on MESSAGES OF HATE again. You will have shut it all down. It’s a King’s New Clothes moment. You will have exposed his tactic. And even MAGA people won’t like looking like they are afraid of a young woman with a soft voice and non-threatening appearance.

You alone can do this now! But before Mueller speaks. Then the news cycle changes.

I am Jewish. The women sometimes wear wigs for the same reason. These cover-up traditions were likely created by men who want to control their women. Telling a woman what to wear – is by its nature not progressive right there. It’s darn close to telling a women she can’t have an abortion too. It’s reminiscent of Sharia law as well. It’s not helping your ability to be an effective public service.

Well, you are bigger than that now if you want to be. Tell me how you feel about this. joe@wigsalon.com – email me. Or text 818 423 1533.

I am 71 now. Seen a lot. Learned a lot. Even went to school with Trump ( Penn ) who paid for his homework BTW. Read some of my posts here. https://englishcode.wordpress.com/

I am on the side of this democracy. i write about it. I write songs about it too. Listen a bit -links at the top. I’m a bit Messianic. It’s why I am reaching out to you.

We need all of you Ilhan. Your hijab is the source of Trump’s you hate America meme and the send them back meme. You need to realize that and then decide to do something about it.

Think of you not wearing a hijab for 10 minutes as a man putting on a tie occasionally to fit in. Look on TV. Every news caster, every politician – is a bit in costume. You stick out. You want to stick your for your voice – not your foreign looks. The other SQUAD members are POC but look like Americans.

Your name – OMAR – means “word” in Hebrew. I imagine it means word in Somali too. I wrote a book on etymology – Deciphering the English Code. I see how all languages connect to a more basic physical language that we used before we learned to speak about 100,000 years ago – in Africa! Yes, English began in Africa – but the English quashed that knowledge 1000 years ago in the Crusades – a “religious” war. I see how we are all the same. Religions that separate us really bug me because we have to get past this to survive as a species.

OMAR. Break it apart to O + MAR. The MAR is the same as in MAR-A-LAGO and MARINE. At first it appears to be about water. But think also MIRAGE, MIRROR and ADMIRE. The MR sound is linked to WATER and VISION. Now look at this. SEA and SEE. ( water and vision ) OCEAN and OCULAR. ( water and vision ) WATCH and WATER. DRAW and DRINK.

How are water and vision connected? Well before MIRRORS we had to look in water to see our own faces. Imagine that! It has been the reality of mankind for 100,000 years.
The O in OMAR represents just what it does in your mouth – roundness – fullness. Words were thought as as fuller vision. And they are.

There is also a connection between words and light. That’s why it’s LI-brary and LITE-rature. It’s why ORAL sounds like AURA. I really like my book. I’d like to send you one upon request.

So OMAR, we need to hear your words coming form your mind – and not distracted by the appearance of traditional religious thinking. You are young still. You may evolve yourself in time to become a humanist. But right now, letting go of that crutch ( as I see it ) or your religious freedom ( as you see it ) – for 10 minutes – just so people can see you are capable doing this for the good of the country – would help the cause of the SQUAD and the American people you serve – quite a bit.

You are becoming the thing the haters will vote against. You are becoming Trump’s 2020 Hillary. We don’t need that. I hope you see that. And that is endangering our democracy and the planet.

Sent with love.

Joseph Aronesty

EnglishCode.wordpress.com

josepharonesty@gmail.com