This article and my point have nothing to do with political discourse within the nation, it is obviously at a low point. This article is pointing out that foreign powers are waging a campaign to misinform v**ers and build animosity against candidates very early in the e******n process. This should be of concern to every American and every one living in the free world. If Trump wanted to build his credibility with all of the nation rather than just his cult members he would loudly condemn these campaigns and go after the culprits with a blow torch and pliers. It would cost him nothing at all and do much to restore faith in our institutions. The only reason he isn’t outraged or even paying attention to this attack on our republic is obvious. He is in bed with the perpetrators.

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/02/19/morning-joe-is-appalled-that-40-of-v**ers-are-ok-with-trumps-r****m.html


“Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough on Tuesday looked at the recent statements and actions of Donald Trump and said that he is amazed that the president still still has any supporters left.
While talking about Trump’s decision to bypass congressional authority to fund his proposed border wall by declaring a national emergency, Scarborough said it was appalling that millions of Americans can look at the president and approve of the job he’s doing:

“The most frightening part of all this… it’s the people who still — two and a half years after the r****m, after the lies, after the breaching of constitutional norms, after the embrace of Putin, after the embrace of strongmen around the world, after the mocking of democratic values all over the world, after the contempt he has shown for democratically elected traditional American allies — the fact that there are so many who still support him.”

He then expressed wonderment that any human being could continue to support a person who tells blatant and easily disprovable lies every day.
“Four out of ten Americans are still okay with the lies every day, the r****m every day,” Scarborough said.

R****m Has Become the Norm for Republicans
Last fall we reported that Republican candidates were using r****m to try to win the midterm e******ns, saying:
“The GOP has met with great success when they use r****m, bigotry and fear to motivate v**ers. Because of this they have been able to sell average Americans on their programs which actually hurt average Americans economically.”

Obviously it didn’t work well for Republicans in the midterms, but that doesn’t mean they have changed their playbook.
In November, Michael Steele, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), spoke up against the r****m of his party. He said that “GOP candidates have allowed President Donald Trump’s inherent r****m to take over their messaging.”

“It’s not like Republicans don’t have a narrative they can go out into the country and talk about,” Steele said. “But no, they’ve fallen into this bucket where they feel they can peddle, or at least stay silent on inherent r****m, misogynistic language, and bad behavior.”

Joe Scarborough is correct. It is truly appalling that four out of every ten Americans support Trump despite his lies and his blatant r****m. The good news of course is that 60% of v**ers do not support Trump. It is up to us to save America from a president whose desire is to create a w***e s*********t dictatorship.

I did not see Russia in that list, nor any claim of negotiation.


The Logan Act (1 Stat. 613, 18 U.S.C. § 953, enacted January 30, 1799 ) is a United States federal law that criminalizes negotiation by unauthorized persons with foreign governments having a dispute with the United States. The intent behind the Act is to prevent unauthorized negotiations from undermining the government's position. The Act was passed following George Logan's unauthorized negotiations with France in 1798, and was signed into law by President John Adamson January 30, 1799. The Act was amended in 1994, changing the penalty for violation from "fined $5,000" to "fined under this title"; this ap…

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/02/18/maddow-trump-terrified-russian-agent.html

Rachel Maddow dismantled the arguments that Donald Trump and Republicans are making to undermine the credibility of former deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe.
On her program on Monday, the MSNBC host laid out McCabe’s credentials and explained why America should be terrified about his concerns that Trump could be a Russian agent.

Maddow noted that McCabe was “the acting director of the FBI, a registered Republican with 20-plus years of service at the FBI, the senior official with this pedigree in international organized crime and counterterrorism and national security,” and his warnings shouldn’t be taken lightly.


Just step back for a minute. It is an amazing snapshot in American history right now to be living through this. To hear the guy who was the acting director of the FBI, a registered Republican with 20-plus years of service at the FBI, the senior official with this pedigree in international organized crime and counterterrorism and national security, now trying to speak for the record, to speak for history, to make the record as clear and as stark as possible so we all as citizens know that the FBI and the Justice Department at the highest levels had reason to worry, they were worried enough about what they were seeing with regard to this president and Russia.

Literally, they were worried enough about the threat the president was an active agent of a hostile foreign country that they considered whether the vice president and half the cabinet might act to remove that president from office without going through the impeachment process, through the sort of shortcut process to the removal of an unfit president that is spelled out in the 25th amendment to the Constitution.

They considered whether the president should be surveilled as a potential foreign agent, as he would have been had this been any other investigation into a possible foreign agent infiltrating a sensitive national security position in the United States government. They had those discussions. Ultimately, they decided that what they could do at least was formally open a counterintelligence investigation into the president potentially being c*********d by a foreign power. And the decision was made at the Justice Department that they would appoint a special counsel of unimpeachable integrity to pursue those core questions. And this forever will be the time in American history that you lived through. Congratulations.

McCabe’s warning is one of many from former intel community officials

While Andrew McCabe is the latest target of Trump’s desperate mudslinging, the former acting FBI director is just one of several former high-level members of the intelligence community that believe the president could be a threat to national security.
James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper, and Peter Strzok (among others) have repeatedly echoed McCabe’s concerns. While each of these men has, in some way or another, been successfully tainted by Trump and right-wing media, their warnings shouldn’t be taken lightly.

We know Russia helped Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in 2016. There is also mounting evidence that the Trump campaign coordinated with the Kremlin in those efforts. Since taking office, we’ve watched as this president has shown a troubling and blatant allegiance toward Russia.
Trump, his GOP allies in Congress and his blind supporters may be okay with this disturbing pattern of behavior, but it should terrify the rest of the country.

LOL! President Trump will get to run against whichever of the moonbats -- and if you look at the entire field, every last one of the icons of today's Democratic Party is an arm flipping moonbat...

Reminds me of the recall e******n when California Governor Gray Davis was fired by popular v**e, and we elected Arnold.

There were thirty some-odd candidates, including Gary Coleman and an impossibly buxom porn star.

Her entire campaign platform was making lap dances tax deductible but heavily taxing breast implants "because," she explained, "mine are natural."

In 2020, I suppose they're going to bring their California Freak Show© to the national stage. Good comedy if nothing else, and probably not a good e******n day for Democrats.