Wednesday, March 29, 2017

It's Official: The Race To Plunder Natural Resources Without Restrictions Is Given A Green Light

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There was a gathering of rich white men witnessing Trump disable another part of America's safety infrastructure yesterday.

With them stood six coal miners looking awkwardly on. The Plunderer-In-Chief then gave one of them an ink pen - not the one that actually signed the document.

It was a done deal. Chump trashed all regulations and made it possible for corporations to go back to impudently polluting our nation's environment in the name of "good business."

By signing another boneheaded executive order, Stump has opened the doors to a nationwide push to plunder our natural resources.

The so-called "Energy Independence" order will also reverse a ban on coal leasing on federal lands, undo rules to curb methane emissions from oil and gas production, and reduce the weight of climate change and carbon emissions in policy and infrastructure permitting decisions.

Here's the thing, an overwhelming majority of scientists believe that human use of oil and coal for energy is the main driver of climate change, causing a damaging rise in sea levels, droughts, and more frequent violent storms.

That puke Rump appointed to carry out this attack on our environment, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, claims more jobs will be provided while still "protecting the environment."

Anyone who believes that also probably believes Obama tapped Trump Tower and Senator Ted Cruz's father was in on the plot to kill JFK.

In other words, a trumpanzee.

Supporters of our environment don't plan on letting Don the Con stomp all over them. There will be resistance to this assault on our natural resources.

Industry experts say trying to make fossil fuels remain competitive in the face of a booming clean renewable power sector, with the clean air and plentiful jobs it continues to generate, is going against the flow of economics.

Solar energy has surpassed all other forms of electrical generation and employs more people according to the Energy Department.

Wind and solar are proving to be what we needed to reverse pollution and maintain liveable air quality. 

We’re already well into a new era. But many new regulators and policymakers under the Thump regime aren't acting like it.

Related:
Wind and Solar Are Our Cheapest Electricity Generation Sources: Now What Do We Do?

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Personal Bunkers Resurgence Related To Trump's America

Good Day World!

Step right up...er...right down the stairs to the bunker of your choice.

They selling like hotcakes these days.

Trump's chaotic presidency has already spurred Americans to look for shelter more secure than their homes.

A Texas businessman whose trade is in survival says the Trump administration has been a boon to his bottom line. Clyde Scott of Rising S Company in Texas says orders for survival shelters have doubled amid political uncertainty.

"The biggest complaints from my customers are — one, Trump and his administration can't deal with facts," he told NBC News. 

"Second, because of that — the travel ban — and the lack of cooperation in other countries, we're not able to get intelligence we need to protect the country. Because of those two things, potential for war has increased many fold."

I was 12-years old when the Cuban Missile Crisis (October 1962) happened. I remember going with my Dad to a supermarket to stock up on food.

People were panic shopping. Aisles were full of concerned people expecting the worst. For 13 days I waited, along with the rest of the country, to see if a nuclear war was going to happen.

Thankfully, it didn't.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying we're at the stage where a majority of Americans are worried enough to invest in bunkers.

What I am saying is that this uptick in the bunker business is the canary in the goldmine. 

Chump hasn't been in office a 100 days yet and the chaos he's created has not only shaken a lot of American's confidence, but also the world's confidence in our government. 

Of course, if you're a Trumpanzee you see this surge in the bunker business as a step towards making America Great Again!

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Monday, March 27, 2017

Trump's Pledge Pedigree: Don't Hold Your Breath for The Money

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Morning refresher: when you pledge to give money it's assumed you'll deliver on your promise.

Will someone tell that clown in the Oval Office to put up or shut up?

Last month, White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders told the website Politifact that Trump "will be giving" his salary "back to Treasury or donating." 

The site noted the White House "declined to answer several inquiries into whether Trump has gotten a paycheck already."

When they finally did admit he's collected a couple of paychecks they said he'd donate his whole salary at the end of the year.

I hope no one hold's their breath on that one.

Why do I have the feeling the American public is being conned once again?

What do you think the chances are that we'll ever know if Stump screwed us? 

Related: Trump's Broken Promise To Donate His Apprentice Salary To Charity

During the transition, Chump also unveiled a plan to "donate all profits from foreign governments' patronage of his hotels and similar businesses" to the Treasury Department. 

The plan was released by Lump's private law firm, Morgan Lewis, but no system or accounting has been released for how or when such donations will be processed or disclosed.

And don't expect one soon. Thump and cronies will be throwing out so much news flack that no one will have time to really investigate if he is pocketing that money.

The chance that the Treasury Department will ever get a dollar of Rump's money is about as slim as a snake willingly going on a starvation diet.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Sunday, March 26, 2017

No Coincidence Trump's Budget Was Released on the Anniversary of the My Lai Massacre

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Someone in the White House believes in symbolism and used it to send a message when Trump released his budget on the anniversary of the My Lai Massacre.

U.S. militarism is taken for granted, and Chump is in lock-step with the War Machine, aka the Military Industrial Complex. Motto: War is a means to make money.

Hump didn't come into office to challenge the necessity of dirty little wars and "actions" globally. He had no intention of upsetting the applecart after 40 years of no challenges to the corrupt system. 

Author, "Maya Schenwar writes at Truthout, "The way in which U.S. militarism is taken for granted mirrors the ways in which other forms of mass violence are deemed inevitable -- policing, deportation, the genocide and erasure of Indigenous peoples, the exploitative market-driven health care system, the vastly inequitable education system and disastrous environmental policies. 

The generally accepted logic tells us that these things will remain with us: The best we can hope for, according to this narrative, is modest reform amid monstrous violence.

 The corporate media grants legitimacy to state violence more by what it doesn't say than by what it does. Bombed mosques simply disappear from the news and, voila, they never happened. Liars had a global forum to promote the invasion of Iraq, while those who questioned it had to loose their outrage from street corners. "Collateral damage" is a linguistic blur, a magician's cape, hiding mass murder."

A look at Rump's proposed budget, where military spending gets a huge increase ($52 billion) at the expense of numerous domestic programs for Americans, seals the deal between him and the American War Machine.

Related: Who wins, and Who Loses in Trump's Budget Proposal?

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Saturday, March 25, 2017

Trump's Dream Wall To Be Paid For By The Arts and Seniors



“Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance.” - Suzy Kassem

                                            Good Day World!

Building a 30-foot high wall stretching for 2000 miles between Mexico and America is not only a stupid idea (I'll tell you why in a moment), but it's a racist's fever dream.

Quick anecdote: Mexican gangs are using catapults (and in some cases drones) to launch drugs into America. Think about that for a moment. 

Now think about Trump's proposed wall going across four states, and costing between $12 billion and $15 billion... according to Congressional Republicans.

Trump's 'big, beautiful wall' will require him to take big swaths of other people's land

But, according to an internal report prepared for Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, the real estimated cost of building Don the Con's wall is more like $21 billion.

Mexico Warns Firms That Building A Border Wall Is Not In Their Best Interests

Chump sent a budget proposal to Congress last week that included a $2.6 billion down payment for the wall. The real scary part is the total costs are unclear.

A cursory look at Rump's budget proposal plans on paying for the wall (and beefing up our already world class military) depends upon basically destroying our culture by defunding the arts and doing away with "needless" programs like "Meals On Wheels."

The same people chanting "build a wall" mistakenly believe Mexico is going to foot the cost. So far it hasn't dawned on them that they're going to pony up the loot.

Maybe Hump supporters haven't looked at his recent budget proposal. Maybe they can't read.

I'm willing to bet it'll cause a bigly stir when people are kicked off their land, and discover they've been conned by Donny Little Hand, who reached into their wallets while they were blindly cheering for him.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Friday, March 24, 2017

No Deal Donny! Last Ditch Effort For TrumpCare Fails!

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The Trump train was hurtling toward the abyss yesterday and only managed to stop from derailing by calling a time out.

TrumpCare wasn't going anywhere with the Republican party.

 Members savaged each other like hyenas trying to strike backdoor deals to save the rambling wreck Donny Little Hands was promoting.

But Mr. Art-Of-The Deal failed.

Even if it would have passed, TrumpCare was dead-on-arrival in the senate.

That according to Republican senators who made it clear they weren't taking a ticking time-bomb. 

Chump's hubris is off the charts

He assumed he could con enough people to pass a piece-of-shit legislation. As he's finding out, politics is another game - one in which he's failing at daily.

Selling real estate is not like selling a major health program to wary politicians.

Chump's chances of passing any legislation are going to be an upward battle. The irony of it all is that the battle is between Republicans. 

Today the Trump train got derailed. 

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Thursday, March 23, 2017

Trump Strikes Back: Teenager Told to Shut Down Website Mocking Him

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Editor's Note: I just found out that this is a non-story. It's fake.

I should have researched sooner. I apologize to my readers.

Trumpanzees are scanning the Internet daily for anything negative about their boss.

When they discover something, like a teenager's website making fun of their orange-skinned master they respond quickly by sending out a cease and desist letter.

With all the challenges Chump faces right now, from being exposed as a liar (the now infamous Trump Tower bugging by Obama), to an open investigation on his cronies coordinating with the Russians to win the election, you'd thing he wouldn't worry about silly shit like this.

Not so. Once again he's showing the world how thin-skinned he really is.

His lawyers are going after a 17-year old girl in San Francisco because they don't think anyone should be allowed to mock the Liar-In-Chief.


The teenager in question, Lucy, created the site TrumpScratch. It allows you to use a cat to punch Trump.


Seems like harmless fun, right? Well, not according to Trump.


I was going to just let this go, but I think it’s, pardon my French, fucking outrageous that the president of the United States has his team scouring the internet for sites like mine to send out cease-and-desists and legal-action claims if we don’t shut down,” Lucy told the Observer. 

Meanwhile, he tweets about The Apprentice ratings and sends out power-drunk tweets about phone tapping. HOW ABOUT BEING THE PRESIDENT?


Good point Lucy. You're acting more like an adult than our first illegitimate president.


After getting her first warning letter Lucy changed the name of the website to KittenFeed. Didn't matter. Lump's sleazy lawyers won't be content until they shut her website down.


“It’s so sad that his administration is focused more on being liked, burying real news and taking down sites like mine as they supposedly make him look bad,” Lucy said.


On the bright side, you can still go there and punch Thump to your heart's desire. I'd advise you visit the website right away however, because this is a one-sided battle.


Time for me to walk on down the road...

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Take A Tour Of Trump Island: A Fact Free Getaway

Good Day World!

This morning I'm going to take you on a tour of Trump Island.

Located somewhere in the world's vast oceans you'll find one very exclusive island where reality is always on vacation. 

It's inhabitants live in blissful ignorance. Each one of them have bowed before the island's god - Donald J. Trump - and vowed not to let reality harsh their highs.

Every day Trump lumbers to his outdoor toilet and passes his shit around via tweeter to the faithful. His tweets of conspiracies and outright lies are the only form of social media or so-called mainstream media on the island.

It's a paradise for racists, bigots, misogynist's, white supremacists, under-educated people, right-wing Republicans, and any member of a hate group.

On any given day you can see Rex Tillerson, Jared Kushner, Jeff Sessions, Steve Bannon, Ivanka Trump. Paul Ryan, Betsy DeVoss, Kellyanne Conway, Sean Spicer, and Reince Priebus strolling along the beaches sipping orange kool-aid.

When reality does manage to sneak in on the island - like when FBI Director Comey said Trump was wrong about his claim that Obama wire-tapped Trump Tower last year - there's a mild earthquake that the residents have learned to ignore.

These castaways from reality have undue influence on our society. They've become a cancer to the Republic. Democracy is threatened daily as they try to destroy the status quo.

It's up to the rest of America, the non-kool-aid drinkers, to build a great big beautiful wall around Trump Island. Of course, the inhabitants are going to have to pay for it.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Comey Confirms Investigation Of Trump Team and Russian Connections: Wiretapping Allegation is Bullshit


                                         Good Day World!

Watching the hearing of the House Intelligence Committee yesterday was like witnessing a crudely executed ballet.

The main actor, FBI Director James Comey, tiptoed around most answers. Questions were thrown out like lighting bolts from Valhalla with no hope of being answered, but at least being put on record.

What I do know is that Comey said no one wiretapped Trump Tower. Especially not President Obama with the help of a British spy agency.

Another definitive thing I discovered was that Russia has been formally accused of interfering with our presidential election, and there's a sidebar investigation looking at connecting ties with the Trump campaign and Russia.

The rest of yesterday's theatrics came from flustered Republican's doing everything they could to discredit the information they were given.

The Democrats had a pretty good time going after everyone from Trump to Rex Tillerson, Jeff Sessions, and Mike Flynn. It was open season.

Political historian Matthew Dallek, a professor at George Washington University, told reporters, "The charges involved are more serious than anything we've seen in recent decades."

and
"While we obviously don’t know what evidence the FBI has assembled and whether anybody will ever be charged with a crime, the scope of the investigation appears to encompass at least several of Trump’s chief advisers and perhaps Trump himself."

History is being made. Americans are fighting back against Russia's intrusions and an illegitimate president. No amount of lies will clear these new clouds over Chump's corrupt administration.

His deflections are getting more desperate. His last attempt - claiming Obama wiretapped him - was declared false (okay, Comey said he could find no evidence it happened). Every intel agency in the country agrees.

A big target has been drawn on The Donald's toupee (and his minions) and there will be hell to pay!

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Monday, March 20, 2017

Weekend Getaways to Mar-A-Lago Cost Taxpayers Millions and Enriches Trump At The Same Time

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The news today is coming to you from the White House Mar-A-Lago...

It's slowly dawning on people that another one of Trump's campaign promises is nothing more than a pile of dogshit.

Remember Stump calling out Obama on travel expenses during the elections? He claimed he wouldn't have time to leave the White House on weekends because he would be too busy.

Consider this; the Obama administration averaged $8 million a year in travel. In Chump's first 30 days he exceeded that amount to the tune of $12 million.

And it's only going up.

Every time Stump decides to spend a weekend at his "Winter White House" taxpayers are dinged $3 million bucks and additional local costs that are hurting the local economy (conservative estimate).

The costs keep mounting. Hump's weekend getaways are pissing off residents in Palm Beach. For good reason.

Dave Kerner, a county commissioner for Palm Beach's third district, is asking the county’s attorney office to explore making Mar-a-Lago’s owner (Trump) reimburse the county for “special benefits” given to the resort.

The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office says that the county has spent $570,000 to help security and other measures to protect Trump during his presidency, and that doesn't include overtime pay. 

Altogether, the bill comes to well over $1 million in Trump-related costs incurred by the county over the past few months.

Here's the kicker...Trump/Feds won't reimburse the county.

As a result, Kerner says he has no choice but to find another avenue to seek reimbursement, and charging Mar-a-Lago looks like the best option.

Palm County is currently $40 million in debt and is fighting a devastating heroin epidemic. Talk about sad. 

It's bad enough that he's draining the treasury with his weekend romps (seven out of nine weeks) but that's only part of this story.

Dump is making bank on his resort.

Can you say emoluments? 

He's doubled membership fees for Mar-A-Lago to $200,000 a year, and is in the process of making it a must destination for anyone seeking political or foreign influence and connections.

It's a financial boon to Lump because - as we all know - he still owns it and is involved with his business empire despite the dog-an-pony show his lawyer gave to the contrary two months ago.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Sunday, March 19, 2017

Trump's Secret Plan To Destroy ISIS Will Stun You!


                                          Good Day World!

It's been revealed.

Now the bad guys better watch out.

Our first illegitimate president's secret plan to destroy ISIS looks an awful lot like...wait for it... President Obama's!

The Pentagon rolled out Chump's so-called secret plan the other day, but ... low and behold...it's just more of the same slow and steady approach that Obama took. 

Remember when Lump was campaigning and claimed that he had a "secret plan" to get rid of ISIS? As is the case with him so often he lied.

He told us he that was smarter than the generals. Yet, here we are. Obama 2.0. Plan in hand. 

The irony of the similarities between Obama's plan and Dump's is that as a candidate, he called Obama's ISIS's strategy a failure.

Apparently it's looking pretty good these days. Few changes were made. A sudden speeding up of the process is the new goal.

One thing is for sure, the generals say it's going to take a long time to defeat ISIS. It isn't going to be a sudden victory as promised by Dump. 

Unless the U.S. and it's partners deal with the conditions that created ISIS in the first place - grievances among Sunni Muslims who live in Iraq and Syria, where the governments are controlled by non-Sunnies - another version of ISIS will rise from the ashes.

Time for me to walk on down the road...

Trump's Lowest Grift Ever Saved for Holy Week

This is a story about how the devil's puppet, aka Donald Trump, mocked Christianity by selling a book combining the Bible, the Constitu...