A few months back, when the impeachment rhetoric was loudest ('till that point), one of my colleagues wrote about how the whole process worked. In the article, Impeachment is heating up, but it is not the silver bullet folks think, Doug discussed the long and arduous process that impeachment is, and how being impeached is really just the first step. Trump and his advisers know this. They know the process is long, and riddled with opportunities for Trump and his surrogates to exploit it to their advantage. The...

#election2020 #trump #democratichopeful For all of his faults, and there are many, Trump does one thing very well, that is to make people feel as if they are part of the team. This should come as no surprise, just look at his rhetoric; America first, America against China, America against immigrants, Nationalism above globalism, us against them. Trump's opponents, myself included, often fail to appreciate the power of inclusion. I think part of it is because we are not seeking inclusion ourselves, we live it everyday, and therefore...

#strongmantactic #election2020 #trump Strongman, those politicians that cycle through time with the promise of fixing everything and anything the populous wants, just as long as they remain in power. Strongman are nothing new. For as long as humans have organized themselves into governments, there have been people presenting themselves as strongman. Man, that as long as you keep them in power, will fix any and all of your ailments. Initially, these strongman, mostly do what they said they will do, if with little concern on the long-term consequences....

#narcissist #trump #election2020 Trump may not be a lot of things; gracious, intelligent, healthy, or presidential, but predictable, he is. So why is the liberal media so blown away by Trump's behavior day after day. Trump is a narcissist. A narcissist is only concerned with themselves. And they only hear and see what they want. They see no fault in their actions and they hear no criticisms. There are countless examples; from the minute, where Trump stutters, mumbles, or generally makes no sense, to his inability to get...

#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...

Mr. Mueller was a busy man today. He spent 3 hours testifying at the House Judiciary committee in the morning, and another couple of hours testifying at the House Intelligence committee. And like in the first testimony, most of the outcome came as expected, though there were some surprises. Devin Nunes, the ranking Republican, played the role of the party's puppet. His immediate focus was on bringing up, what seemed like, conspiracy theories about the FBI's biases towards the Trump campaign and its advisors. The Republican members of...

#muellerreport #trump #election2020 Today, Robert Mueller finally testified in front of the US Congress. This is one of the only times I have ever heard him speak. The first time was when he held a press conference to talk about his non-appearance of this very appearance. The testimony progressed both, as I had expected, and with a few surprises. First, the democrats and the republicans both played their game. The game of the democrats was to point out each one of the facts in the report Mueller provided...

#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....

#2020election #trumpmotives #trump After two and a half years of a Trump presidency that has brought tears, shame, discourse and discord, polarization and an avalanche of democratic candidates, I have come to realize Trump's motives are not inherently evil, nor irrational. No, they are fully rational and always anchored in popularity and money. You can take almost any issue that has come up since his presidency began and you can categorize it into one of those two buckets; popularity, money or both. Take the following examples: North Korea...