#welfare #subsidy This week, the Trump administration got into hot waters about a plan they have to deny citizenship to people that have relied on public welfare. Like all things, on the surface this seems like a good thing. After all, we are America, the land of the free and self-starters. Welfare, like socialism, is a dirty-word in the American lexicon. People on welfare are undesirable. Welfare is for those who didn't try hard enough. Certainly, welfare is not for immigrants. Again, on the surface, you'd be hard-pressed...

#tentcity #trump #election2020 #southernborder #texas #dhs Conflict and war make money. They can make money for both sides, though if the conflict turns into an all-out-war, only the victor will get to enjoy it. So it should come as no surprise to learn that under the Trump Administration, a project that would have cost them $1, ended up costing them $25 million instead. According to a report by Vice News, the department of homeland security (DHS) was offered a city-owned building at the outrageous lease price of $1...

#trumpthehack #trump #election2020 Back in April, I wrote how Trump was a Hacker in the true sense of the word. I wrote that Trump had found very effective bugs in our media ecosystem that allowed him to bypass the very safeguards that were created to people like him off the medium. Hacker Trump didn't stop there, he continued to hack his way through our country's checks-and-balances. He did this through various tools and methods his predecessors had used in the past, though not all at once, and used...

#muellerreport #election2020 Robert Mueller and his band of merry men (and women), spent nearly 2 years investigating Trump, his campaign and Russia. The output of that investigation was a 450-page report. The report was broken into two volumes, volume 1 focused on conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia and volume 2 focused on obstruction of justice. On the first subject, Mueller was clear in his conclusion, there was no conspiracy between the campaign and Russia and Russia's government interfered in our election. Sure, volume 1 included a...

#iran #trump #2020election The chaos that often surrounds our current American administration has made itself evident several times, but none more so than the current diplomatic booby trap the Iranians have laid before the US and Europe. After the UK government, under direction of the US government, stopped and seized the Grace 1 cargo ship off the coast of Gibraltar in early July, tensions between Iran and the UK have raised to a boil after Iran returned the favor by seizing 2 of its oil tankers on Friday....

#era #politics #wartactics The Equal Rights Amendment, or ERA, was first introduced close to 100 years ago, in 1923. As the name states, its goal is to provide equal rights for everyone and therefore eliminate any "legal" distinction between a man and a woman. At present, there are such legal distinctions in issues such as divorce, property and marriage. In a recent episode of This Week Tonight, John Oliver discussed the Amendment and the struggle it has been to ratify it. I am all for equal rights, the...

#trump #2002 #trumppresidency #uspresidency #isthisathing In one of those "Is this really a thing?" situations that is the Presidency of Trump, the chair of the Federal Elections Commission, sent a letter informing candidates, and the American public, that it is illegal to receive or accept anything of value from a foreign national... Let me make something 100% clear to the American public and anyone running for public office: It is illegal for any person to solicit, accept, or receive anything of value from a foreign national in connection...

Guyot [Public domain] There is a famous phrase we use all of the time; "smoke and mirrors". Do you know where it came from? It came from a German charlatan named Johann Georg Schröpfer. Mr. Schröpfer lived in the 1700s and gained notoriety by claiming to be able to raise the ghosts of the dead. Of course he could not. It turned out Mr Schröpfer used a simple projection mechanism, smoke and mirrors to give the illusion of ghosts appearing in front of his victims. Since then, we've...

#trump #impeachment #2020 The talk of impeachment is heating up in congress and with some Presidential candidates (all democratic at the time of this writing). Most folks think once Trump is impeached, he'll be removed from office. What most fail to realize is that impeachment is only the first step in a long and political minefield. In the late 90s, President Clinton was impeached, yet he finished his term. Prior to the impeachment of Clinton, the only other President to have been successfully impeached was President Andrew Johnson....

We have all been at the requisite Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner where we get into a discussion with someone about a topic we disagree on. The topic can be as mundane as a cooking recipe, to something as polarizing as our elected officials. And time after time, we are there, facing the other person, in disbelief of their divergent view(s). And we seldom come to an agreement. More often than not, we push each other farther and farther away from agreement, compromise or even understanding. One of the...