The Schmoozmeister

Donald J. Trump used "bombast" and "simple language" to his base voters along the campaign trail for all of 2016. He yelled, articulated, turned complex problems into bumper sticker rhetoric, and attacked any and all people who opposed him. He concentrated his attacks on his principal rivals, like Jeb Bush, (and later of course Hillary Clinton) mostly using "ad hominem" attacks and physical descriptions to demean them.

He was an autocratic, narcissistic cheerleader for those "left behind" economically -- thanks to technology, and labor/cost advantages, and just plain "change." And the crowds believed him, and all the invective and lies he told, and pinned their hopes on him with their votes.

And now the Trump Train in moving -- but not to answer the problems listed during the campaign; but rather to shore up the faded and outmoded "trickle down" fiscal policies of the right-wing conservatives. Will the "fly over states" profit from any of Trump Train's programs --- the first answer is NO! Why? These problems are not connected to those problems brought up in the campaign. And we will not become "great again" -- Obama left us in the greatest positions we could have possible achieved, given the stumbling of Dubya Bush and eight years of the Neo-Cons.

Will "coal jobs" come back? NO. Will basic manufacturing "boom" in the US once again? Not unless we all are willing to work for three cents an hour. Will we be "proud of our winning" -- not if we follow the morally challenged thinking of Donald J., the engineer of Trump's Train.

Hear the Truth; Oppose the Lies

"Spin" is the political equivalent of lying. It tries to make any statement, no matter how absurd or outlandish, into a living breathing "momentary truth" until the recycling element known as the "press cycle" spins it again, into some other meaning.  Trump's White House is not just "lying" to begin with; it then attempts to "spin" that lie into a "momentary truth" by claiming confusion, misunderstanding, or some other minor mistake. Then during the next "news cycle" it may revisit the lie (now a half-truth, corrected lie) and by sheer repetition attempt to create the post-text of a dispute truth.

Americans and people all over the world must resist the continuing lies and unheralded reinterpretations of the Trump administration. Communication cannot be dulled into labeling and false marketing. We must protest by using the truth, always. For it is the "truth that sets us free!"

Alternate Facts are Lies

Point of view -- how I see it as opposed to how others see it, is not a matter of truth or lies -- it is a matter of opinion. But nowadays people use their "points of view" as  unflappable truths, immune to their own dilution or elimination by actual facts. The fundamental Greek concept of "ethos" is in question; the more basic Greek concept of "logos" is openly violated.

The Trump administration, as a whole, lies without conviction; lies without purpose; lies without meaning. Why? Perhaps it is the "campaign idea" of the "big lie" -- used so successfully by the GOP time and time again to diminish an opponent. Barack Obama is a Muslim (born in Nigeria) and therefore can't be President. Hillary Clinton is a "liar" (irony of ironies) and therefore can't be President. Jeb Bush is somnambulist, and therefore can't be President. Ivanka is a beautiful woman, (not just a daughter) and therefore is "datable" by her own father. Any and every moral restriction used by a civilized and moral world can thus be violated by "point of view" (alternate facts).

If "nuclear weapons" could stop the "carnage" in the Middle East, why not use them (so what if we lay waste to that area for a thousand years). What about those pesky protesters in Ohio (another Kent State, hell; how about another Hiroshima)? Would Donald Trump use nuclear weapons, without conscience, in the modern world -- you decide --- and then YOU RESIST!

Women Who Lie

Prevarication is no different for women than it is for men. But men are likely to lie to protect themselves from accusations, the truth of their own guilt about something, or just to "enhance" what people may say about them.  But in my life (being male) I have been confronted by elaborate schemes, continued and ongoing deceptions, and a rewriting of past events --- all invented by and deviously applied by women who love to deceive.

Perhaps it is the "love of drama" that drives such elaborate schemes --- or maybe the thoughts that some people have that they are just "cleverer" than the people around them. For whatever reason women's lies are like webs -- filled with intrigue, innuendo, and a flair for the exotic.  This kind of "fake drama" poses as "real life" for some women, and completely erases their reliability as human beings. If they are willing to fabricate in one corner of their life, they are willing to fabricate everywhere.

My weakness as a male is that I don't cope well with liars. I never know, once they have lied with gusto and conviction, if they are even capable of telling the truth the next time.  And no matter what the Trump blitz likes to portray in their communications, we are not living in an age of alternate facts -- only in an age of liars.  

Trump's Cabinet

The shape of the "support system" for Donald Trump is now becoming clear. We have a former avowed racist as Attorney General of the United States; a Secretary of Education who doesn't believe in public schools and wants "school choice" (private schools, vouchers, charter schools) to be the new normal;  a HUD director who knows nothing about poverty or public housing; a Secretary of Energy who didn't know what his job was til he looked it up; an Chief Advisor and Strategist on the National Security Council who thinks that war and the apocalypse are "at hand."

Obviously Donald Trump has paid off political debts and shaped the future of our country in his own dystopian, crypto-fascist, autocratic, oligarchic terms. And "the Donald" isn't through yet.

The Pain of Trump

There it is: something in the world is "almost the truth" but then lapses into prevarication. A situation cries out for action -- but then the action applied is a massive over-reach with horrible side effects.

The Trump "non-administration" is saddled with many such instances, the immigration travel ban being an early example.

There are poor, near-governmentless countries (with Muslim majorities) incapable of doing much of anything but fomenting hatred for America -- and Trump further alienates them and isolates their evil by placing an unfair and uneven travel pain on the passage of their citizens into the US --- for ANY reason. So we cannot travel there -- and they cannot come here.  All commerce stops; all aid stops; all change stops. Hatred grows in the vacuum left behind.

Thank you Donald Trump, for your lack of planning, foresight, and just plain thinking.

For Most Americans...

For most Americans their day-to-day world is calm and easy. And their children don't worry about things like: food, shelter, school-or-no-school, injury, death, or deprivation of any kind. These everyday Americans however now reside in the world of "Trump."

And that means all the things Americans as a whole cherish and expect from their everyday lives, can change in an instant. "Trump" is capable of anything -- putting himself and his interests above those of the people --- DONE; declaring himself to be a supreme source of knowledge---DONE; profiting from the chaos he inspires while the rest of us "worry" and "empathize" for the many people affected---DONE!  This truly is an intolerable situation.