President Drumpf intiates a Fascist Dictadorship

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https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/take-trumps-threats-enemies-seriously-history-shows-wed-better/
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At this point, I’d almost prefer that Donald Trump act on at least one of his tweet-threats instead of constantly hurling his rage-gasms into the void, keeping us all perpetually in a state of awkward panic. Observing Trump’s ongoing series of thirst-traps for dictators feels like leaning too far back in your chair and almost falling over but catching yourself at the last second — that sense of adrenalized gravitational panic seems to linger more and more between presidential outbursts as time wears on.

Along those lines, there’s a quiet debate in progress about whether we should continue to pay attention to Trump’s increasingly unhinged blurts and tweets. We’re each the boss of our own social media feed, so, sure, we retain the privilege to decide what we choose to care about. That being said, no matter how deeply the brain-worms burrow into Trump’s dwindling cerebrum, and no matter how worn down we might be, he’s still the president and his words matter. Yes, it’s a trap because he needs us to pay attention. Yet it remains true that good citizenship includes vigilance. Likewise, some of us who cover politics for a living have a responsibility to author the first draft of history. I want nothing more than for history to remember all of it, every episode of treachery and every damaging shriek. So I continue to pay attention.



If you’ve decided to ignore Trump’s public statements, then you probably missed a series of tweets last weekend in which the president threatened “retribution” against “Saturday Night Live” for being mean to him, followed by another tweet in which he hinted at jailing his investigators at the Department of Justice. Then he capped off the series with two tweets describing former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe’s discussions about invoking the 25th Amendment as a “coup” and “treason.”

Sure, it’s entirely possible Trump’s merely pandering to his base. His only political asset right now is the cult-like loyalty of his Red Hat army, so he’s always force-feeding it plenty of mall steaks to keep the ranks energized. Furthermore, Trump has to know that the only thing keeping him out of federal prison right now is the office of the presidency. His declaration of a national emergency last Friday reinforces both of those goals: It gives the bigots another intravenous fix of anti-Latino racism just in time for the 2020 campaign, and it expands his executive authority as investigators circle the White House. Expanding his power, by the way, is an especially weird goal for the “limited government” conservatives who still support Trump to pursue, but that’s the least of the problems here.

Trump’s threats about incarcerating his political enemies are given new weight by the national emergency declaration, knowing the expanded powers the declaration can legally provide. The Constitution, for example, allows the president to suspend habeas corpus in the event of an invasion. What has Trump repeatedly called the alleged emergency at the border? Yeah, an invasion.

The question of the year is whether he’ll actually take that next step.




As we’ve seen with other executive actions, Trump’s strategy has been to loosen the ground through endlessly repetitive tweets and rally tantrums. Now, for the first time, Trump is repeatedly tweeting the “deep state coup” meme. For some time now, Fox News and other pro-Trump outlets have been floating this counterpoint to the various investigations into Trump’s crimes, seeking to convince voters and news media people that “coup” is an adequate explanation for why every entity linked to Trump — the Trump Organization, the White House, the Trump Foundation, the Trump campaign, the Trump family — is under intense scrutiny. It can’t possibly be that Trump’s been a professional con man for 40 years and his chickens have finally come home to roost. Instead, it has to be that the federal government, including Trump’s hand-picked “best people,” are seeing evidence that Trump broke the law on innumerable fronts.

Nevertheless, as I’ve been warning about since 2017, the “deep state coup” narrative is taking shape. It behooves Trump, both politically and legally, to feverishly climb aboard.

Once enough of us are accustomed to the idea, and once he’s bludgeoned the news media with enough fake charges against his enemies to justify arrests, whether by the military or otherwise, his next move is — well, possible, but almost unthinkable.

To repeat: I’m so exhausted with the constant threats and the Reichstag fires, I feel like Trump either needs to act upon his tweets or shut the hell up. Even if he does nothing, his threats make it easier for future leaders to pick up where he left off. It’s only a matter of time before we grow desensitized to this degree of overreach by the president. It won’t require much to take the next step. We’ve seen it elsewhere, whether in Turkey or the Philippines or, naturally, from Trump’s commanding officer, Vladimir Putin. Is it so unheard of here, with our president issuing four statements in two days accusing his enemies of retribution and coup attempts, and threatening them with jail? We used to think such threats themselves weren’t possible. Now, they’re just another part of our day.

To make matters worse, the president’s surrogates are busily trying to undermine sound and constitutional remedies for despotism, namely the 25th Amendment and Article II, Section 4 — the impeachment language. You’ve probably overheard more than a few Red Hat pundits hilariously suggesting that the 25th is unconstitutional even though it’s literally in the Constitution. And no, it’s not against the law for FBI officials to wonder out loud whether Cabinet officials would vote to invoke presidential removal under that amendment. But Trumpers want as many voters as possible to believe it’s an outrageous act, thus eliminating it as a viable political solution. The same goes for impeachment, which was written into the Constitution for a reason and not as a colonial joke.

All told, ever since Robert Mueller was appointed we’ve all wondered out loud whether Trump would get crazier and more dictatorial as investigators closed in. I think we have a clear answer to this question. The only remaining question is whether he’ll actually take the next step following the threats. I choose to rule nothing out. The best approach now is to keep our eyes open and to be proactive. Rather than waiting for Andrew McCabe to be mysteriously disappeared or for Mueller to be arrested and tried in a kangaroo court, activists need to get ahead of this while they still can.

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https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/ac...efining-trait-republican-party-wapo-reporter/





Republicans’ refusal to stand up to President Donald Trump is changing the nature of the party — and the perception of how the GOP is viewed by voters.

Robert Costa, national political reporter for The Washington Post and moderator of “Washington Week” on PBS, explained the dynamic on Saturday.



“Acquiescence to Trump is now the defining trait of the Republican Party more than two years into his presidency — overwhelming and at times erasing principles that conservatives viewed as the foundation of the party for more than a half century,” Costa concluded.

Costa cited three data points — all just from the last week — to make his case. He noted how Congressional Republicans refused to follow-up on Michael Cohen’s allegations, how they “shrugged” when Trump defended Kim Jong-un and how 184 House Republicans voted to defend Trump’s declaration of national emergency.

“Trump’s ownership of the GOP was on vivid display again Saturday, when the president appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland, an annual gathering that has transformed into a raucous celebration of Trump, featuring propaganda-style art and a speaker who declared that the president was ‘chosen by God,'” he noted.

Trump’s “unhinged” CPAC speech was widely panned.



“In interviews over the past week, Republicans on Capitol Hill offered an array of reasons for their unflinching loyalty to Trump as the 2020 campaign begins to take shape: a deep-seated fear of his pull with their supporters in primary races; fraying consensus about conservatism as nationalism takes hold of the party; and shared partisan disdain for Trump’s perceived enemies in the news media and the Democratic Party,” Costa reported.

Read the full report.
 

rahu

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https://www.veteranstoday.com/2019/...-war-with-iran-congress-must-act-to-stop-him/

Trump is barreling toward war with Iran. Congress must act to stop him.

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Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) and Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) write in a Washington Post op-ed:
Sixteen years after the American invasion of Iraq, we are again barreling toward unnecessary conflict in [Iran] based on faulty and misleading logic [..] We must not repeat the mistakes of the past, and Congress must act urgently to ensure that. [..] That’s why we plan to soon re-introduce draft legislation by a bipartisan group of senators that would restrict any funds from being spent on an unconstitutional attack on Iran.
From their op-ed:


  • Our Prevention of Unconstitutional War with Iran Act would rebuke Iran while affirming congressional war powers and preventing the president from dragging us into another needless conflict. Unless we demand that Congress act immediately and decisively to block the president’s path to war, we will be doomed to repeat the mistakes of our past.


  • The Trump administration has been attempting to create a strong link between al-Qaeda and Iran– based on vague suggestions but no hard evidence. There is speculation that administration officials are considering striking Iranian territory or its proxies, using the al-Qaeda narrative to claim legal authority for military action under the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force — the same authorization used to launch the Afghanistan war, now in its 18th year.


  • While Iran is no innocent actor, the Trump administration’s policies and pronouncements have only increased tensions in the region. Ever since President Trump churlishly withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, the president has engaged in saber-rattling rhetoric meant to accelerate hostility. Today, the United States stands alone in breach of the agreement, bullying friends and foes alike with threats and sanctions. The lasting damage to our global standing has left us isolated with little opportunity to lead
 

rahu

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https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/hi...trump-tracks-since-media-insists-normalizing/

‘Losing the Constitution’: Authoritarianism expert explains why we can’t count on the media or GOP to stop Trump’s damage


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In an interview with Slate, historian Timothy Snyder said Americans have their work cut out for them if they hope to unseat President Donald Trump and stop the damage he is doing to the country.

Speaking with journalist Issac Chotnier, Snyder, who wrote “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century,” said Trump has been given a helping hand by the media which has been overwhelmed by his impulsiveness and brashness when it comes to getting what he wants.

Asked, “Are there things, either in terms of the way the Trump administration has behaved or in terms of the way people have failed to respond, that has made you think things are worse than you thought?” Snyder had mixed feelings about the nedia.

“I guess the main thing would be media normalization. On the one hand, the New York Times and the Washington Post have been sharp for the most part. They seem to recognize what the stakes are. What I find interesting about them and about a bunch of other outlets is that people call them the mainstream, but they’re totally not the mainstream anymore,” he responded. “Of course, CNN speaks in many voices. Fox does too for that matter, but in general, people who work in television media have a hard time getting out of the daily cycle and therefore their tendency is very strongly to normalize. To imagine that whatever happened today is somehow OK. That, I think, probably has to change.”

He added, “It’s more a matter of being able to think not just about today, because once you think about today, then you don’t have the distance to know that things are truly weird or truly unusual, and you’ll tend to distance. You’ll see moments on television where something very strange happens, but they just normalize. That’s probably the thing that worries me the most.”

As for stopping Trump, the historian said it requires a multi-pronged approach.



“In order for this to be stopped, there has to be unconventional activism,” he explained. “Americans have to do the kind of things they haven’t been used to doing because the system that we’re used to is now precisely in question. The Democrats also have to resist. That’s a necessary but not a sufficient condition. There has to be the conventional resistance. Then some elements of the Trump electorate have to shift. Maybe not most of it, but some of it has to realize that OK, this wasn’t just a symbolic moment.”

Snyder then warned the U.S. is in danger of seeing an autocrat overwhelm our Constitutional government.

“We may actually be losing the Constitution, which I think a number of folks who voted for Trump would actually care about,” he remarked. “I think a certain amount of the Republican Party, more than does now, has to care. I think all those things have to happen. If we wait for the Republicans on their own, that’s never going to happen. It has to be as a result of a whole lot of other things happening around the Republican Party.”

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rahu

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( what's scary here is that all fascist dictators did employ thugs beat and murder anyone that resisted them...trump is a fascist leader but no one is confronting this head on rahu)

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/co...ump-over-threats-of-violence-from-supporters/

GOP consultant destroys ‘shallow tyrant’ Trump for threatening violence from his supporters


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Trump supporters cheer on election night 2016. Image via Mandel Ngan/AFP.



On Thursday, conservative pundit Rick Wilson tweeted out his frustration and worry after President Donald Trump said that his supporters would wreak havoc on his opponents.

Trump, who values loyalty, experienced an epic defeat after 12 Republican Senators joined Democrats to vote against his national emergency declaration.


“It is true that Trump is only an aspirational authoritarian, and to date has failed to bring his most illiberal dreams to life,” a report from New York Magazinereads.

In an interview with Breitbart News Trump said that his supporters are “tough” and that it would be “very bad” for people to cross them.

“I actually think that the people on the right are tougher, but they don’t play it tougher. Okay?” Trump said. “I can tell you I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump – I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough — until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.”

Wilson explained that Trump gets closer to acting like a “tyrant” more every day.

Read his tweets below:
 
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rahu

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( and once again the trolls are trying to stop me poting about trump

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/go...white-nationalists-terrorism-nyt-contributor/


‘mainstreamed’ a conspiracy theory that is driving white nationalists to terrorism: NYT contributor



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Wajahat Ali, contributing opinion writer at the New York Times, told CNN Friday that the New Zealand mosque shooter was motivated by the “white genocide” conspiracy theory — which has been mainstreamed here in the United States by the Republican Party.

“What we’re witnessing around the world is the death rattle of white supremacy that has become the death march of white supremacy,” Ali said. “This is a globalized ideology of supremacy that believes that white people, whoever represents white people, are superior and they have a shared fear and conspiracy theory, something called the ‘white genocide’ or the ‘great replacement’, which says that Jews are the head of this cabal that are trying to weaken an trying to subordinate the white race through the savages.”



Ali said the mosque shooter wasn’t the first to use the “language of invasion”, citing prior anti-immigrant, anti-Islamic mass shootings in Norway and Quebec, and slammed the Republican Party for its role in promoting the ideology.

“This has been mainstreamed by Republican elected officials such as Congressman Steve King who have sworn by the replacement theory,” Ali said. “He’s tweeted about it, that ‘we cannot replace our civilization with their babies.’”

“Donald Trump in the midterm elections in 2018, when he’s promoting the anti-Semitic conspiracy of George Soros, the Hungarian Jewish-American billionaire, allegedly funding the caravan of rapists and criminals and Middle Eastern suspects, who are coming here to invade us, that language sounds very similar to the language used in this manifesto,” he went on.

“That’s why there’s a link here. There’s a reason why the number one domestic terror threat in America, according to the FBI are these white supremacists,” Ali continued. “It’s the number one domestic terror threat in the number of plots and we have to call it what it is: an act of domestic terrorism making all our communities unsafe.”




 
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rahu

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( HEIL TRUMP,HEIL TRUMP rahu)

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/robert-muellers-finding-might-be-edited-by-the-white-house-cnn/


CNN issues an ominous warning about the Mueller report


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On Monday, CNN reporter Pamela Brown detailed that President Donald Trump might have the opportunity to “edit” special counsel Robert Mueller’s report before it reaches the public.

“The attorneys want the White House to have an opportunity to claim executive privilege over information drawn from documents and interviews with White House officials,” a source said according to CNN.


“There’s always tension between what looks best politically and what represents the interests of the institution — the office of the presidency,” a source close to the White House told CNN. “Preserving executive privilege trumps political optics.”
 
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  • https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/cl...cking-parallels-trump-historys-worst-tyrants/

    Clinical psychologist draws shocking parallels between Trump and some of history’s worst tyrants


    On Wednesday, President Donald Trump launched his attacks on Obamacare anew, claiming the Republican plan would be “far better” than the Affordable Care Act.

    But whether the GOP has a concrete plan to replace the ACA remains to be seen. Raw Story spoke with clinical psychologist Eliza Mika about Trump’s reaction to the seeming conclusion of the Russia probe and the President’s singular obsession for undercutting former President Barack Obama’s main policy achievement.


    Mika is a clinical psychologist originally from Poland. She specializes in assessment and counseling of gifted children and adults and is an expert on creativity and mental health, different learning styles, and emotional and moral development. She contributed her understanding of pathocracy and the rule of pathological personalities to “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Professionals Assess a President,” edited by Bandy X. Lee, released in an expanded edition last Tuesday, alongside a major, interdisciplinary conference in Washington, DC (dangerouscase.org).

    Raw Story: On Tuesday, during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump accused critics of treason. “There are a lot of people out there that have done some very, very evil things, some bad things, I would say some treasonous things against our country,” he said. “And hopefully people that have done such harm to our country — we’ve gone through a period of really bad things happening — those people will certainly be looked at.”

    Not the most traditionally Presidential way of discussing your critics. Can you discuss Trump’s response to the Mueller probe?

    Elizabeth Mika: It was certain that Donald Trump would interpret the report findings to his advantage, even if such an interpretation flew against facts – and especially then. He and his sycophants now claim full exoneration despite the report being very explicit that this is not the case.


    His extreme narcissism makes him impervious to reality, as we can see daily, and he is incapable of taking responsibility for his actions. We can observe this pattern of behavior, obvious already prior to his presidency, when Donald Trump is being taken to task for some questionable action.

    The pattern is to deny, deny, deny; claim his greatness; push the narrative of wounded innocence, presenting himself as the victim; and deflect attention by repeatedly attacking his perceived enemies, often accusing them, via projection of his own sins, and advocating their punishment, such as Hillary Clinton.

    We have examples of modern tyrants facing the wrath of their society — Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, the Ceausescus — who, to the very moment of their executions, believed and claimed that they were the beloved saviors of their people. In their own eyes, they were always the innocent greats.

    Pathological narcissism distorts the truth to protect the narcissistic leader from it, and unfortunately his sycophants function as enforcers of this dangerous distortion. If anything, Donald Trump’s behavior is predictable. His responses to everything are about just one thing: protecting his delusions of grandeur and his sense of aggrieved entitlement.

    That kind of rigidly self-referential thinking is known as solipsism and is characteristic of various forms of psychopathology. It is particularly apparent in people with severely impaired conscience, whose character defect makes them incapable of empathy, of understanding other people and their experience, and, most importantly, of grasping higher human values.

    Raw Story: With the Mueller report seemingly behind him (though the full report has yet to be released) Trump still faces multiple investigations in the Southern District of New York. How do you expect him to react to these?

    Elizabeth Mika: The same way he’s reacted in the past: with denials of any wrongdoing, shifting blame on others, discrediting the findings and their authors — and likely inciting violence against them — and upping his delusions of grandeur and omnipotence. He has not veered from that behavioral script yet, and we can expect it to continue.

    Raw Story: The latest fight appears to be over healthcare. President Trump seems obsessed with dismantling the Affordable Care Act. The ACA has flaws, but President Trump seems set on demolishing one of his predecessors’ key achievements rather than improving it. Why do you think he wants to kill Obamacare?

    There are several likely motives at play, but the most prominent one seems to be the fact that Obamacare was Obama’s greatest achievement. Trump appears obsessed with undoing Obama’s legacy, and this reflects his trademark desire for revenge on anyone who represents strengths and virtues that he does not possess. Trump does not understand health care, or human pain and suffering, nor is he willing or able to learn anything about them. He is apparently more than willing to endanger millions of Americans’ lives to satisfy his need for self-aggrandizement and revenge.

    Raw Story: How do you predict this playing out, given what you’ve observed regarding President Trump’s patterns of behavior?

    Elizabeth Mika: Donald Trump’s reign of disorder is likely to proceed unabated, while he continues to grow more grandiose, more distrustful, and more demanding of adulation and subservience from others. We have seen the pattern before in other leaders with similar character problems and the coterie of sycophants and supporters.

    History teaches us about the inevitable progression of governance by such leaders, leading to destruction of a society over which they preside. This is accomplished through the dismantling of facts — truth — and values, and replacing them with their distorted, inverted versions that reflect the narcissistic needs of the leader and his psychologically similar supporters.

    Such a society then becomes a full blown pathocracy — a system based on an oppressive rule of conscience-deficient personalities whose quest for power and glory obliterates higher human values.

    This is a predictable process, described already in antiquity. We repeat the pattern because we don’t learn — or rather we learn slowly. Our own narcissism makes us believe that “it can’t happen here,” as if we were exempt from these universal human phenomena.

    There is hope, however. There are deeper forces at work here, and the destructive trends we are experiencing now could ultimately lead to positive outcomes. The triumph of American narcissism manifested in Donald Trump is a much needed confrontation with our shadow, the part of our individual and collective psyche that contains our repressed traits and tendencies.

    This confrontation makes our denial of reality no longer possible — we must acknowledge that we have lived our lives, individually and collectively, in a narcissistic lie about our superiority and omnipotence, a lie that has caused much suffering to others and ourselves, and prevented meaningful growth and change.

    The name for this process of development is positive disintegration. It applies to individuals as well as to human society as a whole, although the societal time scale of development is different.

    We are now seeing signs of positive disintegration in the moral and spiritual awakening that is taking place in America, as a result of the confrontation with our shadow embodied in Donald Trump.




























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    President Donald Trump is reportedly figuring out ways to circumvent Congress — and is doing so with the help of his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney.

    Axios reported that Trump and Mulvaney “have realized they’re passing no major legislation through this divided Congress.”




    News of the president and his acting chief of staff’s maneuvering comes after reports from a Trump administration insider revealed that it was Mulvaney, and not Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, that pushed to eliminate the Special Olympics from the department’s upcoming budget.

    On Friday night, CNN reported that an Education Department official said the agency’s attempts to put the program in the budget were repeatedly rebuffed by the Office of Management and Budget, which Mulvaney leads alongside his role as acting White House chief of staff.

    Axios’ Jonathan Swan predicted that as the president and Mulvaney move forward to act unilaterally in the face of Congress, Americans can expect “more executive orders, more foreign deals sealed by a presidential signature rather than congressional approval, and more creative applications of the law — for example, declaring a national emergency to build the wall — to get Trump what he wants.”
 

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https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/trump-threatens-get-rid-judges-oval-office-immigration-rant/


Trump threatens to ‘get rid of judges’ in Oval Office immigration rant


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President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested that the solution to the so-called border crisis was to “get rid of judges.”

While speaking in the Oval Office, Trump was asked if he would move forward with his plan to close the Mexico border.

“Well I haven’t made that intention known and I’m ready to close it if I have to close it,” Trump said. “Mexico has the strongest immigration laws in the world. Nobody has stronger. I guess some have the same but you can’t get any stronger than what Mexico has and we don’t want people coming up on this dangerous journey and coming in.”

Trump argued that the U.S. immigration system “is absolutely maxed out.”

“And what we have to do is Congress has to meet quickly and make a deal,” the president insisted. “I could do it in 45 minutes. We need to get rid of chain migration, we need to get rid of catch and release and visa lottery and we have to do something about asylum and to be honest with you, I have to get rid of judges.”

Trump did not explain how it intends to “get rid of judges.”
 

rahu

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(do we need anymore evidence that totalitarian dictators are insane , alarmingly,even as his mental deficiencies become obvious nothing will be done about it because he is, even in this incapacitated mental state, he is doing the wishes of the Rothschilds...creating chaos while Netanyahu continues their path of genocide. keep in mind that last years,trump sent his thugs to steal is medical record form HIS doctors office. this was a violation of new York law but nothing was done and subsequently, trump wrote his own medical evaluation and submitted it t congress, nothing done. truly as trump has boasted he could walk down fifth avenue and shoot someone and nothing would be done to him. as long as AIPAC and Rothschild's hold the reigns of our country, trump will be untouchable.rahu)





https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-pa...110000099.html

Trump's 'pattern of cognitive decline' alarms psychiatrists

Call him “Patient 1”: An individual in Washington, D.C., who presents with symptoms of mental decline, including a bizarre inability to remember where his own father was born.
Bandy Lee, a psychiatrist on the faculty at the Yale School of Medicine, has some insights to share, which we will get to in a moment.
On Tuesday, at a meeting with the secretary-general of NATO, President Trump launched into an impromptu riff on one of his favorite topics, the reluctance of America’s wealthy European allies to pay more toward their own defense. Then, in what might have been a clumsy effort to show no hard feelings, he expressed his love for Germany, the ancestral home of the Trump (or, originally, Drumpf) family:
“My father is German, right? Was German. And born in a very wonderful place in Germany, so I have a great feeling for Germany.”
Trump’s father, Frederick, was born in 1905 in the Bronx, approximately 4,000 miles from Germany, as the accompanying map shows. Trump’s grandfather was born in Germany, but was living in the United States with his wife when Frederick was born.
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Frederick Trump's birth certificate from the state of New York, borough of the Bronx. Of all Trump’s many misstatements, exaggerations, empty boasts and slips of the tongue, this one — which Trump has made at least twice before — stands out for its sheer inexplicability. Ordinarily, when Trump says something ridiculous, it’s for an obvious purpose. He has been on an unhinged rant recently about windmills, whose function in the electrical grid he misunderstands and whose sound he says causes cancer. That is an assertion for which the White House was unable to provide any support, because he unquestionably made it up. But at least it’s consistent with his general disdain for environmentalism, and explainable by his self-interest in fighting to stop an offshore wind farm that he believes will ruin the views from one of his golf resortsin Scotland. And it is, strictly speaking, unfalsifiable; the carcinogenic effect of windmill noise, like a lot of other nonsensical beliefs, hasn’t been scientifically studied, so all you can say is that there’s no evidence for it.
But there’s a New York birth certificate that contradicts Trump’s claim about his father, and no obvious advantage for him to make up a story about it. To the contrary, Trump early in his career disguised his German ancestry, claiming his family was actually from Sweden, a lie that apparently was intended to make it easier to do business in a city with the largest Jewish population in the world. And in his first memoir, “The Art of the Deal,” he wrote that his father’s “classic Horatio Alger” story began with his birth “in New Jersey in 1905.” The Bronx is only just across the Hudson River from New Jersey, but it is in a whole different state.
Trump is disdainful of psychiatry, but one can imagine Freudian explanations for this peculiar assertion, or at least I can. Mistakes, Sigmund Freud theorized, are often the key to hidden feelings and memories. Is it just a coincidence that Trump, who got his start in national politics by peddling a conspiracy theory about his predecessor’s family and birthplace, and who constantly measures himself against him, repeatedly makes the same bizarre gaffe about where his own father was born? Is it resentment toward his overbearing father, who made a fortune building apartment houses in the outer boroughs, and reportedly never quite trusted his son’s foray into glamorous Manhattan real estate? Someone I know who worked closely with Trump in the early 1990s, when his casino empire was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, recalls him saying dolefully at the time, “I should have listened to my father and stuck with Brooklyn. My father is going to say, ‘Itold you so.’”
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Of course, I’m no psychiatrist. But that holds the advantage that I am not bound by the American Psychiatric Association’s “Goldwater Rule,” which forbids members to offer opinions at a distance on the mental health of public figures. The provision was added to the profession’s code of ethics after a number of psychiatrists publicly speculated on the fitness and stability of 1964 Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater. He, of course, never became president, but Trump’s ascendance has prompted a number of prominent psychiatrists to declare an overriding emergency. Organized as the World Mental Health Coalition, they held a conference in Washington last month on “The Dangerous State of the World and the Need for Fit Leadership.”
“We are talking about the profound danger of the mentally unstable individual who holds the highest office in this country, and most powerful single office in the entire world,” said one of the speakers, Jeffrey Sachs, a Columbia University economist.
“He is rapidly declining,” Lee, the group’s president, said of Trump in an interview. “His rallies have been increasingly less coherent, with greater signs of paranoid responses, increasing attraction to violence, increasing espousal of conspiracy theories. A few weeks ago, there was the ‘Tim Apple’ episode, and the other day he referred to Venezuela as a company, while recently he confused his father’s birthplace with his grandfather’s.
“His mistakes are growing more and more bizarre,” Lee said. “If we match the pattern of his deterioration against pathology, what disease states look like, we can say he is not well.
“Continually we have been seeing that his erratic thoughts and behavior are more consistent with mental pathology than strategy. Now we are seeing a pattern of cognitive decline.”
Shortly after Trump took office, Lee edited a book called “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” a collection of essays by mental health professionals, which recently appeared in a second edition. “What we said then was that he was worse than he appeared in public and would grow more dangerous over time. That his mental pathology would spread into his administration and the population.” She referenced a phenomenon called “shared psychosis,” in which delusions spread from one family member to his or her relatives.
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“In terms of the presidency,” she said, “the nation is the family. That is what we’re seeing now. One of the first things you lose is the ability to recognize that something is not right and to get help. An increasing proportion of the population is unable to recognize that something is not right. What you do in such a situation is contain the person, remove them from access to weapons and do an urgent evaluation. Then you manage the person in the least restrictive manner according to the results of the evaluation.”
Lee said her organization was “in the process of forming an expert panel that can test fitness for duty” by presidential candidates, pointing out that military officers in control of nuclear weapons undergo regular psychological evaluations. The exam she has in mind tests for such things as the ability to consider the consequences of decisions, to follow a logical train of thought, and to understand and explain back a story or scenario.
I think that would be a good thing to do for Trump, and for any of his would-be successors.
But if I were administering the test, I’d start with one simple question:
“Do you know where your father was born?”
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Beto O’Rourke is correct: Trump’s rhetoric is straight out of the Third Reich


Beto O'Rourke, the Democratic former Texas congressman, addresses supporters before an anti-Trump march in El Paso, Texas, U.S., February 11, 2019. REUTERS/Loren Elliott

Beto O’Rourke is correct. While speaking last Thursday to a reporter from the Associated Press, the former Texas congressman had this to say about Donald Trump’s racism and nativism:
Well, I compared the rhetoric that the president has employed to rhetoric that you might have heard during the Third Reich. Calling human beings an infestation is something that we might’ve expected to hear in Nazi Germany. Describing immigrants — who have a track record of committing violent crimes at a lower rate than native-born Americans — as rapists and criminals. Seeking to ban all Muslims — all people of one religion — what other country on the face of the planet does that kind of thing? Or in our human history or in the history of the Western world?




Putting kids in cages? Saying that neo-Nazis and Klansmen and white supremacists are very fine people? You draw your own conclusions, but this is not something that I expected to hear a president of the United States of America ever say.

The evidence is overwhelming.

Donald Trump has repeatedly called Latino immigrants and refugees an “infestation” of “invaders,” a race of rapists and criminals who are coming to America to reproduce, and by implication to “replace” white Americans. Trump has said, “These aren’t people. These are animals.” He was not speaking of migrants in general when he said that, but the rhetorical strategy at work here is to conflate gang members and other criminals with Latinos as a group.

As a standard talking point, Donald Trump and his allies in the Republican Party and right-wing media also describe nonwhite immigrants, refugees, and migrants as being a “burden” to American society, which is inferred to be “white.”

Donald Trump has even told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that “illegal migrants” at the U.S.-Mexico border could be shot and killed.

This is eliminationist rhetoric ,designed to encourage or condone large-scale violence against a group of people that Donald Trump and his right-wing movement have identified as a racial enemy. Dehumanization and cruelty are central to this process.

Trump’s attitudes and values are echoed across his administration.

It is the stated policy of Donald Trump as outlined by Stephen Miller — a person can reasonably be described as a white supremacist — to inflict as much cruelty and harm on the families of Latino immigrants and refugees as is “legally” possible in order to deter them from coming to America. This has included putting babies and children in concentration camps.

During a House Judiciary Committee hearing last December, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen did not even know how many people had died in the custody of the department she supposedly led. (This weekend, Trump reportedly forced Nielsen to resign.) That was not professional incompetence. It was indifference. The Trump administration has admitted that it has “lost” more than 1,400 children who were taken from their families.

Hundreds of refugees from Central America were temporarily held under a bridge in El Paso, Texas, with little shelter or care, in what may have been a massive photo-op aimed at the Fox News audience.

There have been numerous reports of physical, sexual, psychological and other abuse by the Department of Homeland Security, the Border Patrol and other government agents against refugee, migrant and immigrant women and children at the U.S.-Mexico border and elsewhere.

As reported by Harper’s Bazaar, young women and girls who have been imprisoned in Trump’s detention centers have routinely been denied reproductive health services. An actual calendar of their menstrual cycles was kept as a means of tracking pregnancies and denying these women and girls the right to an abortion.

Refugees are facing mortal danger by being deported back to their home countries without due process.

Trumpism is a social pathology that has infected a large swath of the American public. The president sets an example for the public’s behavior, and during Trump’s time in office there has been a significant increase in hate crimes and other political violence against nonwhites and other groups deemed as “un-American” by Trump and his allies.






Counties which hosted Trump rallies in 2016 subsequently experienced a 200 percent increase in hate crimes. Trump-inspired political violence includes such horrific incidents as the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre, the New Zealand mosque attacks and the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida. A Trump admirer threatened to kill prominent Democrats and members of the news media with mail bombs. A 55-year-old New York man was recently arrested for planning to assassinate Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., because he “hates radical Muslims in our government”. A Coast Guard officer was arrested with a huge cache of weapons. His apparent goal was to wage a “race war” and kill journalists and Democrats in order to protect Trump from impeachment.

Donald Trump and his movement’s eliminationist rhetoric, impulses, and behavior are nothing new.

In its primer “The 8 Stages of Genocide,” the human rights group Genocide Watch offers the following warnings and guidance. “Genocide is a process that develops in eight stages that are predictable but not inexorable. At each stage, preventive measures can stop it. The process is not linear. Logically, later stages must be preceded by earlier stages. But all stages continue to operate throughout the process.”

These stages are:


  1. CLASSIFICATION: All cultures have categories to distinguish people into “us and them” by ethnicity, race, religion, or nationality: German and Jew, Hutu and Tutsi. …
  2. SYMBOLIZATION: We give names or other symbols to the classifications. We name people “Jews” or “Gypsies,” or distinguish them by colors or dress; and apply the symbols to members of groups. Classification and symbolization are universally human and do not necessarily result in genocide unless they lead to the next stage, dehumanization. …
  3. DEHUMANIZATION: One group denies the humanity of the other group. Members of it are equated with animals, vermin, insects or diseases. Dehumanization overcomes the normal human revulsion against murder. At this stage, hate propaganda in print and on hate radios is used to vilify the victim group. In combating this dehumanization, incitement to genocide should not be confused with protected speech. Genocidal societies lack constitutional protection for countervailing speech, and should be treated differently than democracies. Local and international leaders should condemn the use of hate speech and make it culturally unacceptable. Leaders who incite genocide should be banned from international travel and have their foreign finances frozen. Hate radio stations should be shut down, and hate propaganda banned. Hate crimes and atrocities should be promptly punished.
  4. ORGANIZATION: Genocide is always organized, usually by the state, often using militias to provide deniability of state responsibility. …
  5. POLARIZATION: Extremists drive the groups apart. Hate groups broadcast polarizing propaganda. Laws may forbid intermarriage or social interaction. Extremist terrorism targets moderates, intimidating and silencing the center. Moderates from the perpetrators’ own group are most able to stop genocide, so are the first to be arrested and killed. …
  6. PREPARATION: Victims are identified and separated out because of their ethnic or religious identity. Death lists are drawn up. Members of victim groups are forced to wear identifying symbols. Their property is expropriated. They are often segregated into ghettoes, deported into concentration camps, or confined to a famine-struck region and starved. …
  7. EXTERMINATION begins, and quickly becomes the mass killing legally called “genocide.” It is “extermination” to the killers because they do not believe their victims to be fully human. …
  8. DENIAL is the eighth stage that always follows a genocide. It is among the surest indicators of further genocidal massacres. …
As with Donald Trump’s pseudo-fascist rise to power, Genocide Watch’s model of eliminationist violence will continue adapt itself to America’s particular social and political culture.

Trump and his administration’s physical and psychological warfare against nonwhite immigrants, migrants, and refugees is a combination of philosopher Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil” mixed with craven greed and raw, unadulterated right-wing ideology.

Many Americans have succumbed to outrage fatigue. Others, including white Christian conservatives, enthusiastically support Trump’s campaign of cruelty against brown and black people. Some Americans are actively resisting Trumpism and the threat it represents to our democracy, but most Americans are too exhausted, overwhelmed or distracted, and have surrendered to learned helplessness.

These are explanations and not excuses, a diagnosis for passivity when confronted by evil. The American people would be wise to heed the words of Beto O’Rourke: “These are the consequences of our silence. Silence is complicity in what this administration is doing.”

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  • ‘First step toward a dictatorship’: Trump biographer sounds the alarm on president’s refusal to release taxes





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    “The law is clear,” he said. “It says the Treasury secretary or IRS shall turn these over. Congress has been doing this for 80 years. There’s never been a case where they didn’t turn it over. It is not for public consumption, it’s turned over to the chairman for the use of the committee in closed-door session.”

    He then argued that if Trump could get away with defying Congress’s request, it would mean that he is completely invulnerable to basic oversight.

    “This argument that [acting chief of staff] Mick Mulvaney put forward boils down to one thing,” he said. “This is the first step to a Trump dictatorship by asserting the president is above the law.”

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Trump wants to put a former hate group leader in charge of Citizenship and Immigration Services: report


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On Wednesday, Politico reported that President Donald Trump wants to name Julie Kirchner to lead the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency in charge of processing immigration and naturalization.

Kirchner, who currently serves as ombudsman to the agency, is the former leader of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). The Southern Poverty Law Center lists FAIR as a hate group “because it promotes hatred of immigrants, especially non-white ones.”


FAIR was founded in 1979 by John Tanton, a white supremacist and eugenicist who has said U.S. immigration policy must preserve “an ethnic white majority.” The group has also received support from the Pioneer Fund, a group that advocates “race betterment” by protecting the genes of people “deemed to be descended predominantly from white persons who settled in the original thirteen states prior to the adoption of the Constitution.”

USCIS is currently run by Francis Cissna, who is expected to be ousted this week. Kirchner is reportedly only one contender to replace him and no final decision has been made.

The president has pursued a massive shakeup of leadership at the Department of Homeland Security, pushing out many top-level officials including Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
 
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Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson warned that Americans should stop pretending that President Donald Trump is a normal leader and call him out for un-American behavior.

“Do you support the impeachment of President Trump? What is your reasoning and if I could clarify that we as DC residents can’t go to congressional representation that will vote on this issue?” asked DC resident Dennis Jaffe.



She agreed to impeachment, saying that his offenses do qualify as impeachable.

“I think this president clearly has fascist leanings and we need to stop pretending this isn’t true,” she told the CNN audience Sunday. “There are things about his behavior I would consider impeachable offenses. That’s a different question whether or not he should be give impeached, the Republicans as long as they are in charge of the Senate, they wouldn’t remove him anyway. I leave that to Nancy Pelosi. I’m sure she understands the quandary very well. In terms of D.C., you should have representation. I don’t think the Founders would foresee a time when a population in D.C. Would exist as it does”
Williamson is a Texas native, who writes self-help books that have been featured on Oprah. According to her website, “in 1989, she founded Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program that serves homebound people with AIDS in the Los Angeles area. To date, Project Angel Food has served over 11 million meals. Marianne also co-founded the Peace Alliance.”
Williamson announced her candidacy earlier this year, saying Americans need a “moral and a spiritual awakening in the country, and nothing short of that is adequate to fundamentally change the patterns of our political dysfunction.”
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Trump thinks that he really is above the law — expect more assaults on democracy



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Welcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?, Raw Story’s roundup of news items that might have become controversies under another regime, but got buried – or were at least under-appreciated – due to the daily firehose of political pratfalls, unhinged tweet storms and other sundry embarrassments coming out of the current White House.

The Founders worried about a shrewd, popular Machiavellian leader consolidating power and turning their experiment in self-governance into a tyranny. They saw the separation of powers as a bulwark against such a scenario coming to pass. The legislature and the judiciary would be the executive branch’s equals, and the three would keep each other in check. (Fans of School House Rock know this, even if the President* of the United States does not.)



They also worried about a future president disregarding the laws when it suited him. So they wrote the Take Care Clause into the Constitution. Article II, Section 3 reads in part, that the president “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed….” In a 1792 letter to Alexander Hamilton, George Washington wrote, “it is my duty to see the Laws executed: to permit them to be trampled upon with impunity would be repugnant to it; nor can the Government longer remain a passive spectator of the contempt with which they are treated.”​

Some were concerned about the rise of “factions,” which we call parties today. But the Founders probably couldn’t envision the members of a future Congress feeling a greater sense of loyalty to their faction than to the country and the Constitution they drafted.​

#That’s precisely where we have been for the past 26 months. For the first two years of his presidency, Donald Trump enjoyed impunity-by-Congressional majority. Now he sees that House Democrats won’t impeach him as long as the Republican-controlled Senate wouldn’t convict him, and that means that, regardless of what anyone says, he is effectively above the law.

And he knows it. Last week, Trump ordered his Treasury Secretary, Steve Mnuchin, to violate a 1924 anti-corruption law that says quite clearly that the IRS shall turn over any tax return upon request by one of the relevant Congressional committees. And this week, CNN reported that he told another cabinet member, acting DHS Commissioner Kevin McAleenan, to order Border Patrol agents to “block asylum seekers from entering the US in defiance of US law,” and promised to pardon him if he were ever held accountable for doing so. This comes after he’s spent the past two years exuberantly violating the Emoluments Clause and making a small fortune off of his presidency, and as he promises to weaponize a law enforcement agency to wield against his political foes.
It’s possible, or even likely, that Trump thinks impeachment would be the ultimate tool for firing up his cultish base. If so, we can expect him to continue to disregard the law–and, as his mendacious and bigoted attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar just a week after one of his deranged supporters was arrested for threatening to put a bullet into her skull suggests, the bounds of decency–for the remainder of his presidency. In his eyes, it’s a win-win situation. And it just confirms that impunity always breeds more lawlessness.
And with that happy thought, here are some of the lesser outrages you may have missed this week.
Speaking of lawlessness, in its more severe forms, this is widely considered to be a form of torture

Keep in mind that most of these people haven’t violated the law, or are accused of committing a misdemeanor offense.

And The Houston Chronicle reported this week that a mother and her two daughters, who had fled El Salvador, applied for asylum in the US and “since then have complied with court orders and appearance dates.” They were then shocked to learn that a judge had ordered one of the children, an 11-year-old girl, top be deported without her family. That isn’t policy. Or at least not yet.

Immigration authorities said it was the family’s fault for missing a court appearance, but an attorney representing the girl “blamed the Executive Office for Immigration Review, a branch of the Justice Department overseeing immigration courts, for the error resulting in the 11-year-old’s deportation.”


Meanwhile, The NYT reported that Trump “wants to issue more visas for foreign workers to take temporary jobs in housekeeping, landscaping and other fields — even as [he] seeks to seal off the border with Mexico, where most of those workers come from.”

Last year, Vox reported that “several of [Trump’s] golf clubs hire workers on the H-2B visa program. Hiring records seem to show that Trump clubs don’t try too hard to find US workers in the high season, and the company’s recruiters usually say that no Americans even apply for them.”

It should go without saying that #MAGA Nation doesn’t care.



Last week, we mentioned that Trump’s pick to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, AccuWeather CEO Barry Myers, had such blatant conflicts of interest that he makes the rest of the regime look like they have some integrity by comparison.

This week, The WaPo reported that he also ran the joint like a frat house that really needs to be suspended from campus. “A federal workplace investigation found rampant sexual harassment and retaliation at AccuWeather, a federal contractor, including groping, touching and kissing of subordinates without consent.”

“Over two dozen witnesses spanning many different departments and in positions ranging from administrative support to senior management described unlawful sexual harassment that occurred at the company,” the report says. “This sexual harassment was so severe and pervasive, that some female employees resigned.”

The investigation, which began in March 2017, also found that AccuWeather was “aware” of the sexual harassment but took no action to correct it, despite the company’s claims that it was not privy to any harassing activity.

This move is kind of inexplicable. Via Thompson-Reuters
A decision by the U.S. Department of Justice not to fight to defend a federal law banning female genital mutilation (FGM) sends a “damaging message” to those working to end the practice, advocates said on Friday.


Government lawyers said on Wednesday they would not appeal a decision by a Michigan federal judge who dismissed charges involving FGM as unconstitutional, ruling it was a state issue.

Congress in 1996 outlawed FGM, a ritual that involves partial or total removal of external genitalia, which the World Health Organization has called “a grave violation of the human rights of girls and women.”


According to Pulitzer Prize-0winning tax journalist David Cay Johnston, only a handful of Americans would have to file tax returns if the government simply used the data it already collects to determine people’s tax bill. The only reason that kind of system hasn’t been set up is lobbying by tax preparation companies like H&R Block and Turbotax.
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Speaking of perfectly legal corruption, Buzzfeed News reported this week that “House Republicans are warning drug companies against complying with a House investigation into drug prices.”
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Republicans on the House Oversight Committee sent letters to a dozen CEOs of major drug companies warning that information they provide to the committee could be leaked to the public by Democratic chair Elijah Cummings in an effort to tank their stock prices.
And we shouldn’t forget that as the regime moves to cut off all disaster relief to Puerto Rico, the impact of Hurricane Maria continues to pain the US territory.
#The New York Times reported that the only delivery room on the “ravaged island of Vieques” remains shuttered 18 months after the storm made landfall there, “forcing expectant mothers to travel, usually by sea, to the big island eight miles away to have their babies.”
The original hospital remains a shuttered wreck of rust and mold, home to the occasional rooster and a band of wild horses whose droppings litter the empty parking lot and ambulance bay…

There wasn’t much in the way of good news this week. But a federal judge in California agreed with the ACLU and “blocked the Trump administration from requiring asylum-seekers to return to Mexico as they await court hearings in the U.S.” NPR you see. Get more stories like this in your inbox, every day.






 

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  • MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough denounced the “Orwellian” lies told by President Donald Trump and his top officials as “the work of dictators.”
    The “Morning Joe” host ran down obvious lies publicly told this week alone by Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Attorney General William Barr, and said their behavior was an ominous sign.




    “They’re just bad liars,” he said. “William Barr lied, he got caught lying to (Sen.) Charlie Crist, he committed a crime in front of the entire nation and now he’s claiming he didn’t do so.”
    “Mike Pence lied to the American people, said that Donald Trump was the greatest protector of religious freedoms ever,” Scarborough added. “That’s a lie as hostile towards people of faith than Donald Trump, given what he said in December of 2015.”

    Scarborough said the secretary of state lied on Fox News, which deceptively edited hypothetical comments made by Hillary Clinton about China hacking Trump’s tax records.
    “Oh my god, first of all, of course, they chopped up Hillary Clinton’s interview and made it seem like that’s what she was proposing when all she was doing was saying this is what Donald Trump did,” Scarborough said. “What would Republicans think if we did this. But then Pompeo lies to the American people clearly, knowing that he’s lying, everybody knowing.”


    “How do we sort through all of this?” he added. “Three of the most powerful people in the United States of America are liars, have lied to the American people and they know that the American people know that they’re lying?”
    The situation was clearly alarming, and echoed the warnings against totalitarianism by author George Orwell.
    “We’ve had the word Orwellian thrown around a lot through the years, but it is Orwellian,” Scarborough said. “It is the work of dictators to lie openly to their people when their people know that they’re lying and they’re trying to lie enough that the lie becomes truth.”
    “You look at Pompeo — he knew he was lying, the person listening to him knew he was lying, the viewers knew he was lying,” Scarborough said, “but he didn’t care. He was trying to turn that lie into a truth. Mike Pence knew he was lying, he remembered the Muslim ban, Donald Trump’s proposed Muslim ban.”
    “Just like Barr,” he concluded. “Barr lied for the past several days, knew he was lying, he lied to Charlie Crist, he lied to the House, he lied to (Sen. Chris) Van Hollen, he lied to the Senate, committed a crime. They just don’t care. I’m not saying they’re totalitarian, I’m saying this is how totalitarian leaders work.”
 
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Trump is the new Hitler and the US is a Fascist state

By Ian Greenhalgh on February 3, 2017

Trump is the new Hitler – a figurehead with a good line in charismatic public speaking, some populist rhetoric and a penchant for mistreating women. The similarities don’t end there however and the key one to draw is that both lead their countries into becoming fascist police states – already, after a couple of weeks in office Trump has threatened to crush peaceful protesters with tanks and has enacted new legislation that violates basic human rights.
Trump and Hitler were both elected into power, Hitler then used a false flag (the burning of the Reichstag) to suspend the constitution and impose a single party totalitarian dictatorship. Many are expecting a major false flag on the 9-11 scale or worse, to occur in the near future in order to empower Trump’s nefarious agenda, probably to give cassus belli for yet another war.
Already we are seeing Trump return to the Bush-era policy of using the US military as mercenaries to fight the battles of ‘allies’ like Saudi Arabia and Israel, a suitable false flag would enable Trump to repeat the Bush-era military adventurism and by suitable

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Scholars echo Pelosi’s concerns: Trump will not step down in 2020 if he loses re-election



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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi predicted this weekend that President Donald Trump may not step down from power if he is defeated in the 2020 election.

“We have to inoculate against that. We have to be prepared for that,” Pelosi told The New York Times on Wednesday after cautioning that unless Democrats defeat Trump by a margin “so big” that the legitimacy of the election is beyond dispute, the president could challenge the outcome.


After discussing how she felt the Democrats could best run up a large margin against Trump — by running a center-left campaign and avoiding impeachment, which she believes would hit a dead end due to Republicans controlling the Senate — the House speaker described her fears during the 2018 midterm elections that Trump would challenge individual House races where Democrats won unless the party prevailed by a large margin.

“If we win by four seats by a thousand votes each, he’s not going to respect the election,” Pelosi recalled thinking. “He would poison the public mind. He would challenge each of the races; he would say you can’t seat these people. We had to win. Imagine if we hadn’t won — oh, don’t even imagine. So, as we go forward, we have to have the same approach.”

As the Times added:
In recent weeks, Ms. Pelosi has told associates that she does not automatically trust the president to respect the results of any election short of an overwhelming defeat. That view, fed by Mr. Trump’s repeated and unsubstantiated claims of Democratic voter fraud, is one of the reasons she says it is imperative not to play into the president’s hands, especially on impeachment.

Allan Lichtman, a distinguished professor of history at American University, reiterated Pelosi’s worries, telling Salon, “I think Trump will do everything he possibly can to hold on to his power.”
“Remember Trump cannot be embarrassed— cannot be shamed. You can’t appeal to morality, because he has none. You can’t appeal to compassion, he has none. You can’t appeal to the law, he doesn’t care,” Lichtman added. “And if he thinks he can get away with it — absolutely, he will do anything.

Lichtman’s concerns were also echoed by Laurence H. Tribe, the Carl M. Loeb university professor and professor of constitutional law at Harvard University.

“President Trump has sent troubling signals that he might well contest the results of any presidential election he fails to win — and any House or Senate election his preferred candidate fails to win,” Tribe told Salon by email. “Trump has even retweeted his agreement with the absurd and indeed radically anti-constitutional claim by Jerry Falwell Jr. that Trump’s first two years as president were ‘stolen’ from him by the supposedly illegitimate Mueller probe into Russia’s attack on the 2016 election. The ‘argument,’ though I hesitate to call it that, claims that Trump is ‘owed’ an extra two years as ‘reparations’ for the distraction of the investigations into what went awry in 2016.”

Tribe added: “History teaches that would-be dictators should be taken at their word when they declare an intent to remain in power regardless of election results. That’s a strong reason for patriotic citizens of all political persuasions to work toward an electoral landslide that would minimize Trump’s opportunity to cling to power. But nothing could reduce the probability of that abnormal behavior on Trump’s part to zero. If Trump refuses to leave, even judges appointed by him could well align with the legitimate winner’s predictable request for an emergency injunction to pry him from his lair in the White House. If Trump defies judicial orders to give up power — including the nuclear codes — there could well be a military coup, backed by tens of millions of citizens taking to the streets, leading to Trump’s forcible ouster. Failing that, there might be a massive popular uprising, backed by Fox along with the other cable networks and social media platforms, that could well erupt in terrible bloodshed. However, one defines a ‘constitutional crisis’ — a much-overused term — Trump’s refusal to abide by the electoral outcome would certainly qualify as such a crisis.”

Lichtman also told Salon he questions the wisdom of Pelosi’s approach of not wanting to impeach the president.
“Nancy Pelosi seems to think history celebrates not Catherine the Great, but Catherine the Faint-Hearted. She is leading the Democrats down the fool’s path of playing not to lose and of being afraid — a path that has always caused Democrats to lose. This is a truly turning point — historic moment in the history of the United States. We have a rogue president. She’s absolutely right about that, but we have a rogue president who cannot be checked by what Nancy Pelosi is proposing,” Lichtman said. “The only way to check this president is to hold him accountable, to strike at his power and his brand — and that can only be done by beginning an impeachment investigation. The argument that the House should not impeach because the Senate might not convict is constitutionally unsound, politically unsound and morally bankrupt. It is not the responsibility of the U.S. House to look into a crystal ball and figure out what the Senate may or may not do.”


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‘Dictator envy’: Scholar explains what Trump’s latest Twitter meltdown says about his authoritarian instincts






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Washington Post columnist Brian Paul Klaas took a shot at President Donald Trump’s obsession with some of the world’s worst dictators. During a Monday appearance with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, Klass painted it as a kind of envy of the men he deems “strong” and “powerful.”

O’Donnell played a clip of Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) citing leaders from Saudi Arabia, Brazil, North Korea, Russia and the Philippines as those Trump holds in the highest of esteem.



“Well he’d have a serious case of dictator envy, I’d say,” Klaas joked. “He admires dictators, wants to emulate them. Wishes he was free of democratic constraints.”

Klass noted that he was doing it all while Republicans in Congress were driving the getaway car.

“Trump injects toxins of authoritarianism into the American bloodstream,” he said, noting that Trump is forcing the country to accept authoritarian-style politics to inoculate them from long-held American values and principles.

“That’s where it can do some serious damage,” Klass said.
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