History Schmistory
Trump
Times February
29, 2020
Time
isn't a line. It can't be. Too often time is one step forward, two
steps back.
Or time circles back. How many things
come back to where
they've been?
Timeline. Ha.
I
just updated my United
States History Timeline pdf and jpgs. And then because Donald
Trump is special, I created a Trump
Timeline (2015-2020).
Now you know what's
already happened and will happen again, the same but different.
Time
just doesn't move in a line, or I would be in the passing lane.
Maybe
it should be a time-lane.
Music Association: Eagles - Life
In The Fast Lane
Black History Month
Bloomberg's
Stop & Frisk February
13, 2020
Former New York City mayor Mike
Bloomberg did not invent
racism
or
Stop & Frisk,
the New York City Police racial profiling practice of detaining,
questioning, and searching mostly African-Americans or Latinos aged
14–24. However as the following chart by the
New York
Civil Liberties Union shows, Stop & Frisk became a
signature of Bloomberg's time in office (2002-2013).
Mayor Mike Bloomberg's Stop
& Frisk program in NYC, targeting young African-Americans and
Latinos. (source: NYCLU)
Of
those stopped, 70% were found to be innocent. It was a public policy to
harass minorities for not being white. In 2015, Bloomberg defended Stop
& Frisk by saying:
“Ninety-five
percent of murders, murderers and murder victims, fit one M.O. You can
just take the description, Xerox it, and pass it out to all the cops.
They are male, minorities, 16-25. That’s true in New York.
That’s true in virtually every city. And that’s
where the
real crime is. You’ve got to get the guns out of the hands of
people that are getting killed. So you want to spend the money on a lot
of cops in the streets. Put those cops where the crime is, which means
in minority neighborhoods.”If
Mike... he goes by Mike now according to his commercials... if Mike
wants to run for president as a wealthier (9th richest in the U.S.,
14th richest in the world), more successful, and almost-equally racist
adversary to Donald Trump, running as a
distraction to
Donald Trump, then
bravo.
(Slow claps.) Two billion dollars well spent.
SarcasmOtherwise,
the United States doesn't need another Donald Trump. We already have
two.
Music
Association:
Dolly
Parton - Here You Come Again
Impeachment - the Sequel
Trump
Doubles Down February
7, 2020
There are many ways of defining
Donald Trump:
liar,
gaslighter,
racist,
rapist
(
multiple
allegations),
misogynist,
cursing
swearing
adulterer
(
multiple
allegations),
kompromat-compromised
traitor,
or
malignant
narcissist.
A
New
York Times opinion article by Frank Bruni talks about the
whining victim Donald Trump.
Bruni says, “
Donald
Trump obviously relishes the role of bully. But his greatest talent by
far lies in playing the victim. He’s a victim of Adam Schiff.
A
victim of Nancy Pelosi. A victim of all Democrats, really, and of his
own seedy henchmen (Michael Cohen, Lev Parnas) and of the
‘deep
state’ and of the ‘fake news media’ and
of the entire
establishment, whatever that is. He’s a victim of so many
forces
so many times over that even ‘martyr’
doesn’t do
justice to his lot... No president has ever been treated so badly.
I’m not being sarcastic. I’m taking dictation: He
has made
this exact claim — repeatedly. His victimhood is front and
center
in his defense against the articles of impeachment and in the legal
papers... so soggy with Trumpian self-pity it weeps.”
Bruni
says
columnist
Rich Lowry crowned Trump, “the most fabulous whiner in all of
American politics.” CNN anchor Chris Cuomo subsequently asked
Trump about Lowry’s words. “I am the most fabulous
whiner,” Trump conceded. “I keep whining and
whining until
I win.”Bruni misunderstands
Trump.
Donald
Trump the bully is also Donald Trump the whining, mendacious victim.
He
whines and bullys at
the same time, as both the victim and the victimizer. Both
are tools to Trump to beat down all others (Republicans,
Democrats, women, men, minorities, whites, U.S. allies, and U.S.
veterans), anyone who is not Donald Trump.
As
Stephanie
Sarkis
has said, Trump creates crises (like illegal border crossings) to solve
them. He fabricates enemies to bully and whine about.
Candidate
Trump defeated candidate Clinton to become president, succeeding
President Obama, yet he is still obsessed with Clinton and Obama.
During Trump's impeachment trial on January 17, 2020, he rolled back
Michelle Obama's
school
nutritional guidelines... on her birthday.
After
the
Special
Counsel investigation into
Russian
interference in the 2016
U.S. election and suspicious links between Trump associates
and Russian
officials (
Mueller
Report), Trump went a step further to
divert
attention from Russian
hacking to Ukraine and bribing Ukraine to announce an
investigation
involving his potential
2020 rival Joe Biden. That led to Trump's impeachment. Now
that
Trump
has been acquitted of two articles of impeachment, he will
do much more to get reelected. Trump will double down. He
always
doubles down.
When
the tariffs didn't work with China, he doubled down, increasing them on
China and involving more countries. Two months
after
negotiating a border deal with Mexico, he threatened Mexico with
tariffs to prove the China tariffs would work. When the New York Times
revealed the earlier Mexican border deal, Trump tweeted,
“They
are truly the enemy of the people!”
When
he golfs, Trump doesn't just cheat, he “
cheats
like a three-card Monte dealer. He throws it, boots it, and moves it.
He lies about his lies. He fudges and foozles and fluffs. At Winged
Foot, where Trump is a member, the caddies got so used to seeing him
kick his ball back onto the fairway they came up with a nickname for
him: ‘Pele,’”
according to Rick Reilly author of
Commander
in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump.
Trump
will double down. He will make all his other effects to get reelected
seem like a warm-up act.
And Congress may have to impeach him again, as the Constitution
mandates.
Music Association: Carly Simon -
You're So Vain
George Floyd
Covid-19
Voter
Suppression
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