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When I was a kid, my dad would tell tales of his growing up during the Great Depression and World War II. He often wondered how the people of Germany could have fallen for a Hitler and his philosophy of h**e. Growing up, I always wondered that as well. How could so many people have fallen for it?
Watching what has been happening over the last few years here in the United States, I now understand how the N**i party rose to power: the German people fell for a con man who knew where to place the blame for the nation’s problems. That blame was aimed squarely at people perceived as different.
Fast forward to Make America Great Again: can you smell the r****m in that slogan? With a black man in the White House, Donald Trump could use r****m as a keystone in his campaign, and he did. Make America Great Again by electing a h**eful old white man. On the campaign trail, Trump did not hide his r****m.
JUNE 16, 2015
When Trump announced his campaign for president
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems …They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists, and some, I assume, are good people.”
DEC. 7, 2015
At a South Carolina rally five days after the San Bernardino terrorist attack
Trump called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.”
FEB. 28, 2016
CNN interview
“Well, just so you understand, I don’t know anything about David Duke, okay? I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with w***e s*******y or w***e s*********ts. So I don’t know.”
JUNE 3, 2016h
Pointing to a black man surrounded by white Trump supporters at a campaign rally in Redding
“Look at my African American over here. Look at him.”
SEPT. 22, 2016
P**********l debate with Hillary Clinton
“Our inner cities, African Americans, Hispanics are living in hell because it’s so dangerous. You walk down the street, you get shot.”
Those are just the high points (or low points) of the Trump campaign. That alone tells you that people were comfortable v****g for an openly r****t candidate.
Should it come as any surprise that the people who v**ed for Trump are okay with separating children from their parents, and blocking members of one religion from entering the country? That they are okay with the naked r****m we see every single day in this country?
Someday, the photos, and words will come back to haunt those who have supported this r****t president. They will regret their choice—but they will never admit it.
LEESBURG, VA - NOVEMBER 07: Supporters cheer for Republican p**********l nominee Donald Trump during a campaign rally at the Loudoun County Fairgrounds in the early morning hours on November 7, 2016 in Leesburg, Virginia. With less than 48 hours until E******n Day in the United States, Trump and his opponent, Democratic p**********l nominee Hillary Clinton, are campaigning in key battleground states that each must win to take the White House. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
But her e-mails...
As a kid, when my dad told me the stories of how the N**is rose to power in Germany, I wondered how it could have happened. In high school and college, I wondered if I would have been duped by a two-bit con man. Would I have followed orders? Would I have followed the pack? Today, I know the answer: no way, never in a million years. Even if Trump had run as a Democrat and agreed with me on the issues (or said he did), I would not have v**ed for him. He is a vile, r****t human being. He sold our country out to Russia for the presidency. He does not give a s**t about America, or its people. He will use and abuse whoever he can to get wh**ever he wants.
History is written by the victors, and the history books will not be kind to him. How do I know this? I will let Dan Rather answer that question:
Dan Rather
June 27 at 3:39 PM ·
For decades, Republicans have been able to have it all ways. Promise a radical reactionary rethink of American democracy to their rabid base, and hide behind a court that protected them from what would be a very unpopular set of policies with the general public. Well no longer.
Do we really want to outlaw a******n? We may soon know. Do we really believe we can attack gay rights and other rights at unprecedented levels? We may soon know. Do we really believe that our corporations should have unfettered power and workers have relatively none? Here again, the movement is already afoot.
The farce is shattered, the fig leaf has disappeared, the obfuscations have been replaced by clarity. And what is in its place is a very unpopular President stoking the flames of a massive backlash.
I do not say this to be Pollyannish. The president and his supporters have a lot of power, and tens of millions of fervent members in their base. But we have seen a growing realization from not only moderates but conservatives who still care about the constitution and recognize how perilous is the threat of the modern GOP. Look at Michael Bloomberg pledging tens of millions of dollars to elect Democrats. Look at opinion writers who have preached for the GOP in the past say now is a time to elect Democrats. Look at men and women of power and fame who are arguing that this cannot stand.
I know there is a feeling among many progressives that they have lost, that the future is a foregone conclusion. They see the forces arrayed against them on the battlefield of justice and feel the doom of certain and impending defeat. But turn to your left and right and see the long lines of fellow citizens. Look behind you and see the formidable artillery of wealth and power that is on YOUR side. Take a deep breath and feel the cool air of hope and justice in your lungs, and then march forward.
Right now, it seems as if we cannot stop Trump and his cult. But the tides will turn, and the backlash will be strong. He and his sycophants will crawl back under their rocks, and we will write the history books on him. There will be no schools, no roads, and no airports named after him. He will go down as the man who almost destroyed America from within. We are stronger than him, we outnumber his followers—and we are on the right side of history.
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"Right now, it seems as if we cannot stop Trump and his cult. But the tides will turn, and the backlash will be strong. He and his sycophants will crawl back under their rocks, and we will write the history books on him. There will be no schools, no roads, and no airports named after him. He will go down as the man who almost destroyed America from within. We are stronger than him, we outnumber his followers—and we are on the right side of history." - Geo
This happend under the Obama administration, and its Deep State operatives!!
Trump just corrected that injustice.
July 11, 2018
Trump pardons Oregon ranchers, Dwight and Steven Hammond!
https://americanpolicy.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3af5d41d21ad9fce53c86ba9d&id=59bc9131e1&e=2fe2c931f4 It Matters How You Stand
Justice has finally been achieved as the federal government’s war against western ranchers and property owners has taken a second major hit.
First, Cliven Bundy and his sons, Ryan, Ammon, Dave and Mel, were released in January, 2018, after three trials that never found them guilty of a crime, yet they spent close to two years behind federal bars, while being physically tortured and abused by c***ting and lying Bureau of Land Management (B*M) thugs. As they were forced into solitary confinement, subjected to daily body searches, and other physical abuses, they were labeled by the government and mainstream media to be nothing more than paranoid right-wing loons.
Finally, a judge found that it was the B*M which was dangerous, guilty of perpetrating violence and spreading lies in an attempt to take control of the Bundy Nevada land that had been in the family’s possession since the 1880s. The B*M started the range war against the Bundys, claiming that Bundy cattle were a danger to the desert tortoise. And so, as the B*M openly bragged about roughing up Dave Bundy, grinding his face into the ground, they confiscated the cattle from land on which the Bundys had legal grazing rights dating back one hundred years.
Meanwhile, in Southwest Oregon, Dwight and Steven Hammond, also multi-generation cattle ranchers, were imprisoned for allowing a routine controlled-burn fire to leak onto a small portion of neighboring public grazing land. It’s a standard practice by ranchers to use the burns to keep down weeds and debris that would feed large forest fires. It also helps keep burnables away from ranch buildings. In short, its just good land management. The forest service does it too. In fact, the accidental spread of the Hammond fire onto federal land surely helped improve government land... Continue reading on our website
https://americanpolicy.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3af5d41d21ad9fce53c86ba9d&id=9e4eb859db&e=2fe2c931f4 The federal government worked to throw the book at the Hammonds, charging them with intentionally and maliciously setting fires on public lands. The Department of Justice actually charged Steven Hammond with lighting the fire to cover an illegal deer hunt on land that was managed by the B*M. It filed a civil suit that cost the Hammonds over $400,000. Meanwhile the government vigorously worked to prosecute the Hammonds to put them behind bars.
Yet the Jury acquitted them on most of the charges and U.S. District Judge Michael Hogan, considering the fact that the Hammonds were upstanding citizens, decided that the usual minimum sentence of five years was too harsh for the supposed crime. Thus, Dwight Hammond received only three months and his son Steven was sentenced to a year and a day. They served that time and returned home to their ranch in Diamond, Oregon.
The Obama Justice Department actually accused the Hammonds of terrorism and demanded more time be served, so prosecutors filed an appeal to overturn Judge Hogan’s lighter sentence. As a result the Hammonds were forced back into jail to complete the full five years.
This injustice by the federal judicial system is what forced other ranchers, including the Bundys, to travel to Burns, Oregon in January 2016 to occupy the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. The point was to expose the government’s war on ranchers, of which the Hammonds were the latest victims of this massive government overreach.
Once again, the government reacted with massive firepower. This time, as several of the protestors were on their way to a public meeting to explain their purpose and try to work out some sort of solution, federal and state agents arrested Ammon Bundy in a road block. Meanwhile, officials forced the car carrying rancher and protest leader LaVoy Finicum, off the road, into a trap. As LaVoy exited the car with his hands up in an attempt to protect the others still in the car, state police and FBI officers opened fire and k**led LaVoy Finicum as they claimed he was going for a gun. Video has proven he was not. His wife, Jannette Finicum has now filed a wrongful death lawsuit.
For decades, ranchers across the American West have endured such intimidation and lawlessness by the federal government. Finally, some of their strong, independent neighbors said enough is enough. All they desire is to live in peace as good stewards of the land. And so, against all odds, they took a stand against the powerful government forces. Frankly, the outcome seemed hopeless. How does an individual gain justice in a r****d system that controls the court rooms and the media?
But a new battle cry is being heard as more and more Americans are beginning to see through the government smokescreen of intimidation and persecution. The Bundys and the Hammonds have led a renewed battle for the very issue that built this nation’s freedom and prosperity –the right to own and control private property.
On Tuesday, July 10, 2018, President Donald Trump fully pardoned Dwight and Steven Hammond and they too are headed home. They and the Bundys endured oppression from an out of control American government unlike anything we could have imagined existed in our nation. They fought an unwavering battle for freedom. And they have won. Now the American public must honor their sacrifice by demanding a full investigation into the lawless behavior of the B*M and U.S. Forest Service. American ranchers must never again be subjected to the tyranny endured by the Bundys and the Hammonds. As LaVoy Finicum once said, “It matters how you stand!”
The Video The Feds Don't Want You To See
http://youtu.be/TwbIy5DJDFo