tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89839273916331994822024-03-23T05:17:27.667-05:00The Pollard PostReports and opinions on the top news, current events, social and political happenings in the United States and around the world.D T Pollardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08833086067649465042noreply@blogger.comBlogger118125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983927391633199482.post-40407032275547009172023-07-26T08:24:00.003-05:002023-07-26T08:24:56.788-05:00Due To AI We Need A Birth Certificate & Human Copyright©️<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-7nxXuygIvc0qRfle1FPYsxG9Y56kxbjghXH9QY8DGvJEq_7sPLf43OJ84GGZy0kOqoCqZrHCDLaxxOAVv66g55BPgsahGdmP4l8hkdVrrqAAEN-08cW85VpjrluUU0HRpaST7HVQSHMMt8EPDP7M_DpY5Ogg0MaRpmKJ1HO3S5KFpSJxyx4ik1Lc6euB/s2158/IMG_0441.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2158" data-original-width="1621" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-7nxXuygIvc0qRfle1FPYsxG9Y56kxbjghXH9QY8DGvJEq_7sPLf43OJ84GGZy0kOqoCqZrHCDLaxxOAVv66g55BPgsahGdmP4l8hkdVrrqAAEN-08cW85VpjrluUU0HRpaST7HVQSHMMt8EPDP7M_DpY5Ogg0MaRpmKJ1HO3S5KFpSJxyx4ik1Lc6euB/s320/IMG_0441.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24.8px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 24.84px;">Artificial Intelligence is here and we are behind and exposed as humans. AI is not magic, but it is a combination of software and hardware with a vast array of applications that could replace millions of us in the workforce on a daily basis. We could just be reduced to feeding the machine. Most of us have heard about workers training their replacements as their jobs were shipped offshore and then automation pushed workers out of the door and took over many manual labor tasks. Now Artificial Intelligence is coming for those so called knowledge and creative workers. Analysts, actors and musicians are all at risk and governments are behind the curve on how to protect individuals from an exploding technology space. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24.8px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 24.84px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24.8px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 31.3px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 24.84px;"></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C91MNW3H/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2JKXFTDGBM5QQ&keywords=AIme+pronounced+Amy&qid=1687522834&s=digital-text&sprefix=aime+pronounced+amy%2Cdigital-text%2C271&sr=1-1" target="_blank">AIme Pronounced Amy</a><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLkRvg7fk7yHMrNzkd8BOoz89P1VKbrp254EMdfpq23hPIW6DEvnald_GEhqNCdBAbeJa06BcIuHJ0p88UdSiGxjkNib9mQFzWPKV7JcN_6IWcqsoHdSdc1unKHvRI372wDg4m01SKdOXJ6ndBLWOVtQ9LNkbCzOFk7sFGQAYoe8oUOjX4vQ9VtNdJTt0e/s1457/IMG_0302.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1457" data-original-width="1146" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLkRvg7fk7yHMrNzkd8BOoz89P1VKbrp254EMdfpq23hPIW6DEvnald_GEhqNCdBAbeJa06BcIuHJ0p88UdSiGxjkNib9mQFzWPKV7JcN_6IWcqsoHdSdc1unKHvRI372wDg4m01SKdOXJ6ndBLWOVtQ9LNkbCzOFk7sFGQAYoe8oUOjX4vQ9VtNdJTt0e/s320/IMG_0302.jpeg" width="252" /></a></div><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24.8px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 31.3px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24.8px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 24.84px;">Actors, musicians and analysts in countless industries are at risk of displacement from work as AI software systems capable of generating new music, movies and deciding what business moves to make displace a huge swath of people and their compensation. The former compensation derived by formerly highly paid employees will be converted into profit that flows upward to corporate executives and investors, but AI is a parasite that feeds off human effort, information and even likenesses. People input the data, provide the images, ideas and even voices, that is why in addition to a birth certificate we also need a human copyright that protects each individual from digital theft of their person for commercial purposes. A human copyright would prevent without negotiated compensation the use of an individual’s likeness, voice, intellectual effort or work product without contracted ongoing compensation from the user. Without something like a perpetual Human copyright we could all become digital human trafficking victims forced into unwilling and uncompensated AI servitude.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24.8px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 31.3px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 24.84px;"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>D T Pollardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08833086067649465042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983927391633199482.post-80951502711425352282023-06-30T08:55:00.000-05:002023-06-30T08:55:23.224-05:00No Affirmative Action - Become Water<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHGzYg6rEsOAkzIlKrvhMbU7KDAQ73_7O5Cmg0ceriQPFBuG3c2k4DuV-88AtPI1Ue3iaTQ_vMV7DmUI8VS0GXmMEDMxYXyS2Relkuz53OeGrxIUC82SjsYxbFqVotTf8_MERjggNkYzQqPKFGUqUe5bTJI4hy16bQQbYKVTPEU-YkpZYc1UL_i12jtCue/s960/IMG_0337.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="634" data-original-width="960" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHGzYg6rEsOAkzIlKrvhMbU7KDAQ73_7O5Cmg0ceriQPFBuG3c2k4DuV-88AtPI1Ue3iaTQ_vMV7DmUI8VS0GXmMEDMxYXyS2Relkuz53OeGrxIUC82SjsYxbFqVotTf8_MERjggNkYzQqPKFGUqUe5bTJI4hy16bQQbYKVTPEU-YkpZYc1UL_i12jtCue/s320/IMG_0337.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">On June 11, 1963 Alabama Governor George Wallace blocked the doors of the University of Alabama to keep Black students from registering and said ”segregation forever!” I was four years old and two years later attended an all Black, separate and unequal, Jim Crow elementary school in East Texas because I could not, by law, attend the all White elementary school closer to my home because I was Black. I did not understand the situation at the time because I was six years old. I studied from hand me down books, but the information was the same. Two years later The laws changed and my original school was shut down and I attended the formerly all White school closer to my home. My prior teacher prepared me well with those second hand books and I was like water. You see, water will find a way in, around or over any obstacles place in front of it. I knew what I knew. I knew what I was taught. I was not going to pretend to be less than anyone else regardless of their race, background or socioeconomic standing. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I progressed through elementary, junior high and high school and did my best, even when I was one put in, what I called a warehouse class and my friends asked me, “What are you doing in here?” They knew me and I was moved to another group. Later I realized some students were set aside and given up on by their schools, many of them minorities, but like water I went around that. After finishing high school I was recruited by an HBCU for their business school and graduated Summa Cum Laude. I didn’t have a legacy of higher education in my family, I was the last of nine children and the first to go straight to college and earn a Bachelor of Science degree, but other siblings earned even higher degrees later on in their lives because they were like water also and would not be denied. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1z2FDwZb2HwbPzHOGPoxPGAV-S1R3S0U9dwTqWPB4ka-1WYANmfF_Du4bd_e0p6_K4Ef_UQBGq4fQsQ-bOgzEdLl4LC5X04KwbhNtTqAGmSFTgNP_6tK650QQkklgyTLSt9gAHNhnWZyoKLPQN-Tx7ze8iPwRV2FH2mPWYlzzrIePAotnxE8U6LfMMyo8/s1933/IMG_0338.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1933" data-original-width="1453" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1z2FDwZb2HwbPzHOGPoxPGAV-S1R3S0U9dwTqWPB4ka-1WYANmfF_Du4bd_e0p6_K4Ef_UQBGq4fQsQ-bOgzEdLl4LC5X04KwbhNtTqAGmSFTgNP_6tK650QQkklgyTLSt9gAHNhnWZyoKLPQN-Tx7ze8iPwRV2FH2mPWYlzzrIePAotnxE8U6LfMMyo8/s320/IMG_0338.jpeg" width="241" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/One-Eighth-Man-Hate-Skin-ebook/dp/B091NFY9TZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=FAT2A4X72BIC&keywords=One+eighth+of+a+man&qid=1688131994&s=digital-text&sprefix=one+eighth+of+a+man%2Cdigital-text%2C127&sr=1-1&asin=B091NFY9TZ&revisionId=f88562a0&format=1&depth=1" target="_blank">One Eigth of a Man</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I came back to East Texas with my shiny new degree and went into business to business sales, but when I walked into establishments with my suit on, the question I got most often was not, what do you have of offer, but where are you from. The implication was that I must not have been from around there or I would have known I was out of my place walking into their business like that. I was you and newly married and thought, these people aren’t going to stop me, so I relocated, not far, but different. I was like water again and was able to utilized everything I knew and was taught to grow, provide for my family and prosper, then I came back on my terms.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Sixty years after George Wallace blocked the doors to the University of Alabama the Supreme Court of the United States of America essentially overturned Affirmative Action in the ability of colleges to use race as a factor in deciding who is admitted to their schools. You see, I’m the same person who could not attend a nearby elementary school because I was Black and in my same lifetime the SCOTUS said it is all even now. On June 29, 2023, 60 years after George Wallace blocked a university’s doors to keep Black students out, the Supreme Court determined everything was even. Slavery began 400 years ago and in 1966 I was legally barred from attending elementary school with White children, so now the SCOTUS has determined the weight of that oppression has been lifted. Native Americans were forced from the lands onto reservations and it is like a mulligan in a golf game and all even. Hispanic Americans relegated to the underclass for years laboring in fields, domestic work and exploited and it’s all equal now. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Do not allow that Supreme Court ruling on Affirmative Action stop you from achieving your dreams. Behave like water and go around, through and over obstacles place in your path. Those before you did it and you can too!</p>D T Pollardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08833086067649465042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983927391633199482.post-86186424821949884372021-01-07T11:37:00.005-06:002021-01-07T12:37:09.382-06:00Trump Enablers - "No Deathbed Coversions!"<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgft818CuCqiTRZWtmW-awcNSFSLzKiaHjwZzcKJeHzQej-3pFU31EFDuwqyGH9_KHLbVxNOVaYU8pH3o7fMWhnwGGPXlSiv1A9tUPll_m9SwkTLoR6prIV1zkNp1-1cRbTpbzhhdXt6hnT/s1000/Donald_Trump_official_portrait.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgft818CuCqiTRZWtmW-awcNSFSLzKiaHjwZzcKJeHzQej-3pFU31EFDuwqyGH9_KHLbVxNOVaYU8pH3o7fMWhnwGGPXlSiv1A9tUPll_m9SwkTLoR6prIV1zkNp1-1cRbTpbzhhdXt6hnT/s320/Donald_Trump_official_portrait.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">On Wednesday January 6, 2020 U S President Donald J Trump sent a mob of his supporters marching to the Capitol building of the United States of America and they created havoc. Fueled by 4 years of lies and living in a world of alternative facts those goons broke windows, scaled walls and took over the Capitol building of the United States sending elected lawmakers running for cover while they were in the middle of conducting the people's business of accepting the results of the recent Presidential election.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> <br />In a scene resembling those from numerous coups and government overthrows around the world over hundred of years the American public watched as security forces were overrun by onrushing civilians, many of them wearing symbols of a defeated President. One woman was shot and killed inside the Capitol building and 3 others died of health related causes. Calls came from many to Trump to tell his supporters to end the siege and go home and that is where this goes off the rails.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br />These rampaging Trump supporters were filled with fuel from years of lies and misinformation. The match that sent them exploding into a rage was the often repeated and baseless claim that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump. Trump lost in the electoral college and popular vote by wide margins. The same people that helped create the Trump Matrix his supporters live in were then calling on him to call the dogs off that they helped to create. Individuals like Kellyanne Conway tweeted for the mob to stop. The first lady's chief of staff and former White House communications director Stephanie Grisham resigned. Former acting acting chief of staff and special envoy to Northern Ireland, Mick Mulvaney resigned. Sorry, with two weeks before Trump leaves office, it's too late to return to reality, sanity and the real world. Trump era deathbed conversions not allowed for those who were major architects of Trumpworld. Those who could stare straight into a television camera and lie to the American people and talk about alternate facts don't get a reprieve. The Trumptanic is sinking and those who helped steer it into an iceberg want to be first into a lifeboat, no dice wear that MAGA brand for life.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFo0hl3RKQC0V8HySFJGtiloeLlPb6wZ1rwbqMwz1mPtYuLD8GR6Mg6yNxgDb84Fx-xaJ9zQNLhbeZfy3Tv_OHmW-lUTDUWZqaI5Dj9au9LgVV30HcXN4yK9liIOg213lN4OZcqPP3iibu/s1056/White+reparations+camp.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="816" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFo0hl3RKQC0V8HySFJGtiloeLlPb6wZ1rwbqMwz1mPtYuLD8GR6Mg6yNxgDb84Fx-xaJ9zQNLhbeZfy3Tv_OHmW-lUTDUWZqaI5Dj9au9LgVV30HcXN4yK9liIOg213lN4OZcqPP3iibu/w154-h200/White+reparations+camp.jpg" width="154" /></a></div> <a href=" https://amzn.to/3pYfJjr" target="_blank"> Available on Amazon</a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"> <br />Social media companies suddenly got religion and locked Trump's accounts after death and destruction struck, where were you before? Multiple years of being Trump's unfiltered megaphone makes it too late to act like you give a damn about what he tweets or posts now, it's too late and no deathbed conversions for you. Weak in the knees news media, it's too late. After years of being too corporate and ratings hungry to call treasonous behavior for what it was, treasonous behavior, or traitors for what they were, traitors, now you are outraged, bullshit, no deathbed conversions for you.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> <br />Now for the largest group, complicit Republicans in and out of office. Many of you profited, won elections and advanced your personal interests while you knew Trumpworld was a load of crap, but now it blew up in your face and some of you want to back away slowly. No! Stay right where you were, no deathbed conversions, you are a Trumper for life.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> <br />The last group deserve a metal. Maybe your dear leader Trump will give you a metal of honor. Some in Trumpworld, including elected politicians, suggested the next day that the rioters that stormed the US Capital were not Trump loyalists, but were Antifa members posing as Trumpers so they would get the blame. No deathbed conversions needed for this group because they will go straight to Trumps hot Heaven. <br /></p>D T Pollardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08833086067649465042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983927391633199482.post-1311245264452321162020-03-24T13:58:00.002-05:002020-03-24T13:58:33.445-05:00Wartime President Trump Signals Surrender to COVID-19<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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third world war is in progress with all nations aligned against a common enemy,
COVID-19, also known the novel coronavirus. The attack from this viral enemy from
another world was swift and started in China and quickly spread around the
globe. It appears COVID-19 may have come for the animal kingdom and made the
jump to humans who had no immunity, vaccination or therapeutic treatments to
battle the respiratory disease. With an infection and mortality rate higher than
influenza it appeared the best way to battle the spread of the novel
coronavirus was to keep people separated from each other, so nation after
nation reluctantly instituted policies that effectively shut down their
economies to slow the infection rated of COVID-19. Individuals were ordered to
stay at home and most business closed down to fight the march of COVID-19.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
novel coronavirus came to the United States on a flight with a United States
citizen who had visited relatives in China. Despite alerts that COVID-19 was coming;
President Trump seemed to blow it off and called it a Democratic hoax, said it
would go away or not be that bad. While the President was the denier in chief
other nations like Italy and Spain were crippled by COVID-19 with infections
and deaths mounting while their healthcare systems were overwhelmed. As the
World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic, Trump
reluctantly imposed social distancing restrictions that largely shut down many
businesses across the nation, but he did not impose a national stay at home order
to keep people apart so governors and local official across the country did so
on their own. The United States ended up with a patchwork of regulations in
some areas and no regulations in other areas to keep people away from each
other. The stock market crashed. Medical professionals indicted the worst was
yet to come and due to the late start the United States got in fighting the
virus the peak of infections was not known. Trump stated he saw himself as a
wartime President, but this enemy has no soul, no political agenda and can’t be
spun with political rhetoric or deceived with lies. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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like less than two weeks of war against COVID-13 with pleas for medial masks,
ventilators and more hospital beds than could be mustered, Trump appeared to be
weary of the battle. The novel coronavirus had an ally in the failing economy
that worked on Trump’s psyche and possibly generated visions of his reelection slipping
away. Against the advice of almost every scientist and medical professional
around, President Trump began talking about reopening the United States for
business within a few weeks by saying the cure could be worse than the disease,
in short, Trump was signaling surrender. POTUS Donald J Trump alarmed many by
stating he may be willing to sacrifice and untold number of soldiers on the
battlefield to get the economy running again. Let us not forget that we, all American
residents, are the solders that will be put in the line of fire. We don’t fight
COVID-19 with a shiny new gun, but by staying away from it and starving it of a
fresh host to spread it to someone else. If Trump reopens business prematurely
it will be a tragic trade-off of lives for commerce and one of the most tragic
chapters in the history of the United States.</span>D T Pollardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08833086067649465042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983927391633199482.post-53831545509329349352020-01-31T10:29:00.000-06:002020-01-31T10:29:31.325-06:00GUILTY! You're Free To Go!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Guilty! You're Free To Go!</div>
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Retiring Republican Senator Lamar Alexander released a statement stating the Democrat House Managers proved the Donald Trump froze aid to pressure Ukraine to investigate the Bidens, but he would vote no on hearing from witnesses because Trump's actions were improper and did not merit removal from office. In effect Alexander said to Trump, you're guilty and free to go. </div>
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How a President getting caught withholding Congressionally approved defense assistance funds to a foreign ally to strong-arm them into announcing a false investigation into a political rival who was beating him in election polls is not impeachable is beyond me. What would Trump have to do to get impeached and removed from office by a Republican controlled Senate, give Alaska to Russia? The real problem with what Republicans are doing with Trump is that he is getting treatment the average citizen, including rabid Trump supporters, would never get in court, which is no consequence after being deemed guilty. Let that sink in, Trump won't get probation community service or have to pay restitution after being deemed guilty. Tell that to those rotting in prison for minor drug possession and other offenses far less than coercing a foreign power to interfere in United States elections.</div>
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The complete statement from Senator Lamar Alexander is below:</div>
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<b><i>“I worked with other senators to make sure
that we have the right to ask for more documents and witnesses, but
there is no need for more evidence to prove something that has already
been proven and that does not meet the United States Constitution’s high
bar for an impeachable offense. …The Constitution does not give the
Senate the power to remove the president from office and ban him from
this year’s ballot simply for actions that are inappropriate.</i></b><b><i> </i></b></div>
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<b><i>“The question then is not whether the president
did it, but whether the United States Senate or the American people
should decide what to do about what he did. I believe that the
Constitution provides that the people should make that decision in the
presidential election that begins in Iowa on Monday. …</i></b><b><i>Our
founding documents provide for duly elected presidents who serve with
‘the consent of the governed,’ not at the pleasure of the United States
Congress. Let the people decide.” – Senator Lamar Alexander</i></b></div>
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<b>Washington, D.C., January 30, 2020 -- </b>United States Senator
Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today released the following statement on his
vote regarding additional evidence in the impeachment proceedings:<br />
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“I worked with other senators to make sure that we have the right to
ask for more documents and witnesses, but there is no need for more
evidence to prove something that has already been proven and that does
not meet the United States Constitution’s high bar for an impeachable
offense.<br />
“There is no need for more evidence to prove that the president asked
Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter; he said this on
television on October 3, 2019, and during his July 25, 2019, telephone
call with the president of Ukraine. There is no need for more evidence
to conclude that the president withheld United States aid, at least in
part, to pressure Ukraine to investigate the Bidens; the House managers
have proved this with what they call a ‘mountain of overwhelming
evidence.’ There is no need to consider further the frivolous second
article of impeachment that would remove the president for asserting his
constitutional prerogative to protect confidential conversations with
his close advisers.<br />
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“It was inappropriate for the president to ask a foreign leader to
investigate his political opponent and to withhold United States aid to
encourage that investigation. When elected officials inappropriately
interfere with such investigations, it undermines the principle of equal
justice under the law. But the Constitution does not give the Senate
the power to remove the president from office and ban him from this
year’s ballot simply for actions that are inappropriate.<br />
<br />
“The question then is not whether the president did it, but whether
the United States Senate or the American people should decide what to do
about what he did. I believe that the Constitution provides that the
people should make that decision in the presidential election that
begins in Iowa on Monday.<br />
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“The Senate has spent nine long days considering this ‘mountain’ of
evidence, the arguments of the House managers and the president’s
lawyers, their answers to senators’ questions and the House record. Even
if the House charges were true, they do not meet the Constitution’s
‘treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors’ standard for
an impeachable offense.<br />
<br />
“The framers believed that there should never, ever be a partisan
impeachment. That is why the Constitution requires a 2/3 vote of the
Senate for conviction. Yet not one House Republican voted for these
articles. If this shallow, hurried and wholly partisan impeachment were
to succeed, it would rip the country apart, pouring gasoline on the fire
of cultural divisions that already exist. It would create the weapon of
perpetual impeachment to be used against future presidents whenever the
House of Representatives is of a different political party.<br />
<br />
“Our founding documents provide for duly elected presidents who serve
with ‘the consent of the governed,’ not at the pleasure of the United
States Congress. Let the people decide.” </div>
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As Trump's impeachment trial, or lack there of, looms in the Senate, Republican Senators who will take an oath to be impartial jurors play their roles as one of Donald Trump's Three Wise Monkeys. The Three Wise Monkeys saw no evil, heard no evil and spoke no evil because they had their hands covering their ears, mouth and eyes. The principles behind the Three Wise Monkeys may date back to hundreds of years BC before taking its final form in Japan. The framers of the U.S Constitution never thought a co-equal branch of government created to be a check on an out of control Executive Branch would be controlled by Three Wise Monkeys and become subservient to the Executive Branch to the point of being jointly complicit in covering up and enabling constitutional breaches including inviting foreign interference in our elections to advantage a sitting President. </div>
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As the fourth estate of the press revealed that Trump rolled over his top advisors after they advised him not to withhold congressionally approved aid to Ukraine the truth is sitting in front of their faces to see, read and hear. Trump asked the President of Ukraine to, "do him a favor though" in order to get aid and that favor was to announce an investigation into his rival Joe Biden and his son. If this impeachment trial is like the Brett Kavanaugh FBI investigation for his confirmation to the Supreme Court when people called and went to the FBI with information that was ignored because it was outside the very narrow scope defined by the White House, then we no longer have three co-equal branches of government. If the Senate conducts a rigged sham impeachment trial and clears Donald Trump summarily then we no longer have a President, but an unchecked and untouchable head of state who could wreak havoc for the rest of his current term and do untold damage if reelected with no risk of constitutional restraint or reelection. </div>
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In the Constitution Congress has the sole power to declare war. In recent years, Presidents have entered the United States in multiple wars without Congressional declarations of war. When the United States enters a war the expectation is for those in military service to fight in those conflicts and if required, to give their lives in combat. Military members, members of Congress and the President take an oath that all contain these words, "<span class="ILfuVd"><span class="e24Kjd">protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."</span></span> </div>
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Congress and Presidents have sent Americans to face deaths
in wars foreign and domestic to maintain our republic! The least they
can do is face the truth, witnesses and voters to make sure we protect
our republic from foreign powers being invited to interfere in our
elections going forward! Impeachment is not a political party exercise,
but an emergency button to be pushed if a President, of any political
party, is violating his oath of office and placing our republic in
peril. We expect military men and women to sacrifice their lives in order to protect our freedoms, among those, to have free and fair elections free from foreign influence. The United States was born because it broke away from foreign rule through a bloody war and it should be obvious why an invitation by a sitting U.S. President, elected under a cloud of election interference by Russia, to the President of another country to assist him in an upcoming election by smearing his political opponent.</div>
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If Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refuses to hear key fact witnesses before acquitting President Donald Trump of the articles of impeachment drawn against him, then the Senate has lost its moral authority to send brave Americans to their deaths in defense of their right to display such moral cowardice in a free country. </div>
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I recall marching on the state capital in Tallahassee, Fl
when I was a student at Florida A&M University 39 years ago after a
group of police officers were acquitted in the death of Black ex-Marine
and salesman Arthur McDuffie, who they chased as he rode a motorcycle
through the streets of Miami, Fl. It was December 1979 when McDuffie
died from what the police said were injuries from a motorcycle crash.</div>
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During
a trial that was moved to Tampa, Fl, a cop at the scene stated McDuffie
was beaten to death with flashlights, fists and police batons by the
officers that were chasing him. Testimony from a cooperating officer
stated McDuffie’s motorcycle was ran over by a squad car to damage it so
it appeared to have been in a crash. An all-White jury in Tampa
acquitted the officers of all charges related to McDuffie’s death on May
17, 1980 and Miami exploded into riots that resulted in 18 deaths,
hundreds of injuries and arrests. Over $100 million of damage occurred
in Miami.</div>
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Tallahassee,
Fl is 483 miles and 0 miles from Miami, Fl because many students
attending Florida A&M were from Miami. After the acquittal verdicts
the campus and Black community was wound tight as a drum and ready to
explode. Someone ran to each apartment door where I lived off-campus and
knocked to let everyone know that the police officers got away with
killing a Black man and a March on the capital was scheduled.</div>
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A&M was a powder keg with a lit fuse. Bob Graham, the then Governor
of Florida, came and gave a speech at Lee Hall, but was almost booed
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cooled down with time and I left Florida A&M in December of 1980
having completed my 4 years course of study in Marketing. Some 39 years
later I got to witness Amber Guyger, a White female police officer get
convicted of murder for killing her neighbor while he sat in his
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Has everything changed since the Miami riots, no, but Guyger is going to prison for what she did to Botham Jean.</div>
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White off-duty Dallas, TX policewoman, Amber Guyger, walked to an apartment door in the building where she lived, opened that door and shot a Black man, Botham Jean, who was the resident of the rental unit. Guyger said she thought she was at her own apartment and perceived Botham Jean as an intruder inside her home.</div>
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<br />Black on-duty Minneapolis, MN policeman, Mohammed Noor, was sitting in his police cruiser with his partner while responding to a report of a possible sexual assault turned in by Justine Ruszczyk Damond, a White woman. Noor stated a loud noise startled him and his partner just before Damond approached the car window. Noor stated he saw Damond raise her arms, perceived her as a threat and shot her through the window of the car and killed her. Damond died outside her home.</div>
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<br />The tale of two cops, one male and Black, and the other, female and White, come about as close as you can get to answering the question of would a Black male policeman killing an innocent White woman in her home get as light of a sentence as the 10 years Amber Guyger got for killing Botham Jean in his apartment while he was eating ice cream and watching a football game. Think about the contrast. Botham Jean was obviously shaken when someone stepped into his apartment unexpectedly and shot him shortly thereafter. Now imagine that you called the police about a possible sexual assault and walked out to meet your possible rescuers and one of them shot you through the squad car window. Two innocent civilians ended up dead at the hands of people sworn to protect and serve them. Race was a flashpoint in the trials of both Noor and Guyger, but from opposite ends of the racial spectrum. White outrage demanded Noor be held accountable for killing Damond and Black outrage and frustration demanded Guyger not get what was perceived as White privilege treatment in whatever conviction and sentence she ultimately received.</div>
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Both Noor and Guyger were found guilty of murder. Many Blacks felt Noor was found guilty due to his race as many White officers charged with unwarranted deaths of Blacks walked free. Many of all races were shocked that Guyger was found guilty of murder in-spite of her race and some Blacks felt a kind of vindication for all those times White police officers did not serve time after killing minorities even when it was caught on camera. Rejoicing over Guyger's murder conviction turned to rage in the Black community when the jury gave her a 10 year prison sentence and cries of White privilege rang out. Anger ensued when the judge in Noor's trial gave him a 12.5 year sentence that some in Black community thought was too harsh.</div>
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<br />For those asking if a Black male police officer would have received a similar sentence as Amber Guyger need to take the case of Mohammed Noor into consideration. Noor received 2.5 years more in prison for killing a White woman who he was dispatched to protect and Amber Guyger got 10 years for killing her Black male neighbor that she said was a mistake due to thinking she was at her own apartment.</div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Fear and loathing of a fully realized version of the United States where
the words of both Thomas Jefferson and Martin Luther King Jr. come into full
fruition drove frightened voters to seek refuge in a retrograde vision of
America from a morally bankrupt racist and elevate him to be President of the
United States.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Thomas Jefferson wrote as part of the Declaration of Independence, "We
hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these
are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Martin Luther King Jr.
said he dreamed of a day when people would not be judged by the color of their
skin, but the content of their character. The 45th President of the United
States, Donald John Trump, is fighting against the realization of Jefferson's
and King's words and used the fear of the day that is coming where more
minorities will be counted as Americans than Whites. Using words and tactics
that stoked fear of a darker America among the insecure, Trump drew out the
darkness to gain enough votes in areas left behind by a changing economy to
secure a victory in the electoral college while being rejected by three million
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Since taking the oath of office Trump has constantly sought to divide and
pit Americans against each other on the basis of race, religion, ideology,
sexual orientation and political party. Trump has called some immigrants vermin
and infestations. Trump has described some countries certain immigrants came
from as shitholes. Trump characterized predominantly Black athletes who knelt
to protest police brutality against Blacks as sons of bitches while saying
White Supremacists involved in violence in Charlottesville, NC were fine
people. Trump tweeted about four minority first year Democrat Congresswomen and
said, "Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken crime
infested places from which they came." </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Trump continually seeks new lows and a twitter attack against Black
Congressman Elijah Cummings took him there. Trump tweeted, "Cumming
District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time
in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy
place." Later Trump stated ""no human being would want to live
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Over two and one half years since becoming President Trump has never
presented he was even pretending to represent the entire country, but he is
stoking more racial, cultural and economic division than ever while throwing
toxic red meat to his base.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">In truth Trump wants the American dream to the reserved for those he deems
deserve it, and it's not his lower income White supporters that shout and chant
at his rallies and survive on a steady diet of FOX News. Trump abhors Dr.
King's vision of America and rejects Thomas Jefferson's view of equality, but
he wants Jefferson's America when wealthy White men ruled unchallenged. Voting
with a foreboding of an inevitably different America pushing them aside caused
a corrupt man to be entrusted with unchecked power and shielded from criminal repercussions
due to the office he held. Trump is now attempting to destroy the United States
as it exists to serve the needs of his greed, ego and powerful enablers, both
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Trump and his enablers get what they want and the United States is left in
tatters in their wake, in their view, it is a small price to pay.</span></span>D T Pollardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08833086067649465042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983927391633199482.post-43571962389161905082018-11-11T13:11:00.000-06:002018-11-11T13:11:43.777-06:00Dishonorable Discharge, Please!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Some things make make me feel a certain kind of way and the disrespect Trump demonstrated to our veterans was one of them. Our military members take an oath to make the ultimate
sacrifice if required to defend this nation. Over the history of the
United States lives have been lost in defense of the country in swamps,
deserts and on the shores of foreign lands worldwide. Lives were even
lost on our own soil to preserve the very existence of America. Fighting
through poisonous gas, dangerous chemicals and IEDs is part of the job
description as many gave their last measure in defense of this country and our freedoms. </div>
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It is disheartening to
realize our proud military members answer to a man, that they pledge to
obey the orders of his office that could send them to their deaths, who
would not endure a little rain to honor their sacrifice. Those
supporting Trump with his bigotry, misogyny, vulgarities, lying, antics, laziness and corruption need to have a real gut check on their
motivations. The Constitution apparently is just a piece of paper that
Trump feels free to wipe his feet and who knows what else on. We are on
the road to a dark place because there is a cult voting mentality at
play than has millions supporting the destruction of their own futures
by voting for leaders that have openly tried to take away their
healthcare coverage for pre-existing conditions and stated intentions to
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So why are millions of otherwise rational citizens supporting a man and political party with the demonstrated knowledge that they are voting for their own future detriment. No one can honestly answer the question of what drives an almost suicide voter mentality except the people engaged in the practice. Whipped into a hateful paranoia by warnings of the coming immigrant, Black and Brown people takeover of America some feel it is better to make their own brand of ultimate sacrifice by voting away their futures to stop the other. The big miscalculation Trump supporters have made is the the change they are trying to stop can't be halted because it is inevitable. One day former Trump supporters will look around and the United States they were trying to stop will be reality, but they will be less financially sound, less healthy and angry that they allowed themselves to be robbed blind out of fear of social and cultural change. </div>
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D T Pollardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08833086067649465042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983927391633199482.post-15997735438199656942018-08-05T11:41:00.000-05:002018-08-05T11:41:41.086-05:00Trump, Lebron James and Fear Of A Brown Planet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In typical fashion the 45th President of the United States denigrated successful persons of color when he attacked Lebron James and Don Lemon of CNN in reference to an interview James did with Lemon. James was discussing the new school for disadvantaged youth he opened in Akron, Ohio. James was asked about Trump and he responded that he was using sports to divide people. Trump, who has skin so thin that it is translucent, responded by insulting the intelligence of Lemon and James. Trump then attempted to drag basketball legend Michael Jordan into the fray by stating that he liked Mike. Jordan responded by stating he supported Lebron James. Trump's own wife, Melania, stated she thought Lebron was trying to do good. </div>
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Trump has a pattern of attacking positive figures in the Black community in order to gin up support among his solid 33% or so base. Trump attacked President Obama, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Black NFL players and Congressman John Lewis. Combined with Trump's attacks on the gold star Khan family, immigrants from south of the U.S. border and labeling some people from majority Black or brown population nations as residents of shit hole countries it is clear that he is stoking fears of a brown nation and world, but that train has left the station. Projections are that the United States will be a majority minority country by 2044. Trump can fan all the racial fear, social anxiety and hate he wants, but the tsunami wave of demographic change is coming and there is little he can do to stop the United States from becoming the melting pot it was destined to become.</div>
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The idea that a President of the United States is actively the leader of a racial and social division campaign in America should chill the souls of all of citizens he is supposed to be serving. It is one matter to feel there may be an issue with local officials in regards to race relations, but to feel that way about the POTUS is frightening. All of our taxes support the house Trump lives in, the aircraft that transports him and the secret service that protects him, so Trump should understand he works for all of us and when an employee is insubordinate they should expect to hear the words, "You're fired!" </div>
<br />D T Pollardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08833086067649465042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983927391633199482.post-39595367802099829152018-07-14T10:10:00.000-05:002018-07-14T13:21:33.598-05:00Hello 911! I'm Reporting A Stolen Presidency<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello 911! This is the American public. We would like to report a stolen United States Presidential election. The crime occurred primarily during the year 2016. Do we have a prime suspect? Yes we do. He is a White man about 6 feet 3 inches tall, well over 200 pounds. He has an orangish complexion and thinning hair he wears in a comb-over. His age? About 73. His name? Donald J. Trump. Yes. The President of the United States! That's him! Why do We think he stole the election? He was standing there in front of national television television cameras, reporters and millions of people watching asking for Russia to help him destroy his opponent and they did what he asked. How do I know that?. Special counsel Mueller just indicted Russian government agents for stealing emails from Democrats and it started the same day Trump asked them to on television. Yes I know Meuller is working on the case, but I want to report what was stolen to get it on the record. Do you have a pad to write this down?</div>
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Okay, Trump stole the Presidency, at least two Supreme Court Justices, a lot of federal court justices and what could amount to almost $1.5 trillion dollars of taxpayer money with his new tax plan. Yeah, that's a lot of money. So if he's caught how do we get all this back? I mean I want a new election or at least to have this crook and all the people he brought in with them thrown out. I mean he ruined our reputation as a country and where do we go to get our good name back. Okay, I'm ready for the police report number. </div>
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retiring from the Supreme Court and Trump will get to place another Justice on
the bench of the highest court in the land. A lot of people were not excited
about Clinton and did not vote or voted third party and Trump won. The entire
episode of Trump winning by about 70,000 votes in three states has changed the
direction, character and standing of the United States in the world. Trump will
select the most right wing judge possible that can get confirmed. Many of the
protections we take for granted will be at risk like Roe versus Wade on
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Trump Supreme Court pick since the rules only require a simple majority to
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if increased profits from companies paying lower taxes didn’t go to workers in
the form of higher wages, where did that extra money go. Large public companies
use their additional profits to buy their own stock back and pay dividends to
their shareholders. As warned by many, the trickle down of trickle-down
economics never happened, but according to the Congressional Budget Office the
tax plan is pushing the United States towards a debt disaster:</span></div>
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78 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), federal debt held by the public is
now at its highest level since shortly after World War II. If current laws
generally remained unchanged, CBO projects, growing budget deficits would boost
that debt sharply over the next 30 years; it would approach 100 percent of GDP
by the end of the next decade and 152 percent by 2048. That amount would be the
highest in the nation’s history by far. Moreover, if lawmakers changed current
law to maintain certain policies now in place—preventing a significant increase
in individual income taxes in 2026, for example—the result would be even larger
increases in debt. The prospect of large and growing debt poses substantial
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economic crisis inducing policies, so where is the pushback from those of means
with platforms? The current tax plan is structured to pump a lot of money into
the bank accounts of those at the top of the economic ladder and has bought
their silence. As for the rest who will shoulder the debt, get no pay raises
and possibly have their Medicare and Social Security cut to lower the
self-inflicted deficit, the message is like Trump said about his meal with
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Hate baiting is Trumpism's answer to race baiting. Tell them they are just hate baiting when a Trump supporter goes hateful with words that really don't matter.</div>
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Liberals and progressives have long been subject to getting a knee jerk response of race baiting whenever issues around racial discrimination or racial injustice were raised in order to take the legitimacy out of whatever the underlying argument was about. It did not matter if the issues were concerning African American deaths at the hands of police or harsh treatment of migrants from nations south of the United States border, the instant the color of the individuals involved were mentioned the reply from those unwilling to entertain race as a factor in the negative outcome was that race baiting was involved to cloud the discussion. We have now entered a new era under President Donald Trump when so-called race baiting on one side should be replaced by hate baiting on the other.</div>
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It should be clear that the type of insulting, vitriolic and often racist language coming from Trump and his supporters should have a label, hate baiting. Hate baiting is using intentionally toxic language such as calling Black athletes kneeling to protest police violence against African Americans sons-of-bitches, said migrants were infesting America and called the press the enemy of the people. Hate baiting has gone from words to actions with migrant children separated from their parents. Hate baiting by Trump and his supporters is designed to provoke a like response from opponents that will allow a coordinated attack by Trump supporters citing a lack of civility. Hate baiting includes flaunting demeaning acts such as former Trump campaign manager <span>Corey R. Lewandowski when on a televised news interview made a dismissive, womp womp, sound when another guest mentioned a migrant child with downs syndrome child separated from his parents at the border. Lewandowsky was vilified by the left for his remarks, but lauded by Trump supporters. President Trump rewarded Lewandowsky with a seat on Air Force One as he flew to a campaign rally where he was applauded by the crowd in attendance. Hate baiting is a strategy and responding in kind is a trap for Trump policy opponents, but it is understandable when turning the other cheek just gets you another slap on your face. Congresswoman Maxine Waters fell into the hate baiting trap and was attacked on all sides, but I guess she was tired of getting slapped in her face.</span></div>
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<span>Next time Trump or his his supporters say something in the most hateful way possible, take their power and tell them they are just hate baiting. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Public school teachers have
staged walkouts in multiple states in protest for higher pay and more funding
for public schools. When watching some of these teachers being interviewed, it
is difficult to reconcile that individuals in our society with some of the
highest education levels among us have to work side jobs and still not be able
to make ends meet. One teacher said he could not afford to enroll his wife in
the health insurance plan provided for him as a teacher. When reviewing a
national list of average teacher pay it was eye opening. Starting salaries
ranged from the low $30,000 range to the mid $40,000 range. After years of
experience the top pay was still under $80,000. Don't look at the higher
end salaries in a vacuum because they are often in very high cost of living
areas. Let us be reminded that these are people with college degrees and some
have multiple Master's degrees. With college degrees come student loans and
debt. Many of these teachers are still paying off their own student loans and now
their children are ready for college. Almost all of these teachers did into
their own pockets to pay for supplies for the their classrooms and students.
Why have we allowed teachers and our public education system to be starved for
resources the way they are. Our public schools and the people that keep them
going seem to have become and afterthought, just like the American
infrastructure.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Our public schools have become
the place children go to five days per week while their parents are working.
The kids are dropped off, picked up by a bus, drive or walk to school five days
a week and show up back home later in the day. What happens during that school
day is not top-of-mind to the vast majority of Americans, but not to the
teachers and students. Teachers deal with the issues, attitudes and behaviors
students bring with them on a daily basis. Teachers deal with the lack of
resources provided to them with undiminished expectations when it comes to
performance and student test scores whether they can pay their bills or not.
Being a teacher may be a calling, but it should not be a sacrifice through
hardship and economic deprivation. We must think of our public education system
as part of our national infrastructure and if it is not invested in, it will
crumble just like our highways. Funneling money into the pockets of the wealthy
at the cost of everything else is a recipe for disaster. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Thus far the walkouts have been
in states that solidly supported Donald Trump in the prior Presidential
election. There are dots to be connected that can not be ignored. Funding of
public schools is a function of federal, state and local governments. President
Trump appointed an anti-public school advocate as Secretary of Education, Betsy
DeVos. DeVos is a supporter of moving public schools funds to private and
religious schools. Teachers and those supporting them need to connect the dots
and make sure they are voting in their best interests in the future. Teacher
need to be thanked, appreciated and PAID! </span></div>
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Donald Trump is destroying the office of the President of the United States from the inside out due to his inability to rise above high school levels of pettiness and skin thinner than an onion's. With everything going on in the world from North Korea, ISIS and health care bill debate, Trump decided to launch a sexist personal attack against MSNBC news personality Mika Brzezinski. Trump didn't like the criticism that came his way on the show Morning Joe and tweeted the below:<br /><br />- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2017 <br /> I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came..<br /><br />- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2017 <br /> ...to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!<br /><br />When he gets attacked "he will punch back 10 times harder," response from First Lady Melania Trump defending Donald Trump's twitter attack on a cable news anchor. <br /><br />Donald Trump is not some teenager trading insults with another teenager. Donald Trump is President ofthe United States, except he does not understand what that means. This is what a minority of voters forced upon us as President of the United States due to the quirk of the Electoral College. Trump is a seventy one year old engaging in serial lying and bullying from the lofty perch of the office of President of the United States. Donald Trump is systematically destroying the prestige and credibility of the office of President of the United States from the inside out like worm destroys the fruit in inhabits until it is just a hollow shell.</div>
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<br />Trump does not rise to the level to be call POTUS, but he is the first President to be the BOTUS, Bully Of The United States. Will this national nightmare ever end?</div>
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D T Pollardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08833086067649465042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983927391633199482.post-76276999450366668942017-06-24T14:52:00.002-05:002017-06-24T14:53:28.543-05:00My Obamacare Experience and Myth of The Healthcare Queen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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While writhing in pain, I watched the United States Senate roll out their secretly created Obamacare replacement plan was really no different that the hated House of Representatives plan that cut $800 billion from Medicaid and redistributed it to the wealthy as a tax cut. The Senate changed the timing of some changes and attempted to hide takeaways by placing them in opt out options for states. As I sat there listening the “slight of word” doublespeak from one Senator after another the thought in my mind were that you people don’t give a dams about people out here suffering though a sudden medical emergency or dealing with a chronic medical condition.</div>
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You see, I am a throwaway line in the healthcare debate. I purchased my insurance through a national exchange provider in a non-Medicaid expansion state and pay 100% of my premiums for my family with $0 subsidies and have done so for years. I’m self-employed. I was watching the Senate Republicans introduce their healthcare dollars redistribution tax cut for the rich disguised as a healthcare plan in utter disgust punctuated by pain. You must understand that my pain had an expiration date and that would be the day I walked in a medical facility for an outpatient procedure to end it. I was trapped between my diagnosis and cure by scheduling dates and access to Dr. and facility, not lack of coverage or money, etc, but all are not so positioned and that was what was pissing me off so much by this new Senate plan.</div>
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I have been blessed to be in a position to handle my own business, but the Affordable Care Act allowed millions of people like me to obtain health insurance, period, in spite of some previous diagnosis like high blood pressure or diabetes without being destroyed by premiums higher than those without preexisting ailments. That is the premise of insurance, large payment pool, shared risk with a percentage of use that ensures viability of the overall plan. The Senate bill will eliminate the individual mandate requiring all to purchase insurance or pay a fine, they call it free choice, I call it gutting the premise of insurance period. That mandate increases the pool that supports the plan. Senate Republicans are telling younger, healthier people to be free riders and access healthcare through emergency rooms or doc in the boxes in retail strip shopping centers, guess what; once they access that treatment many of them will have a pre-existing condition. Those healthy young people will not always be that way.<br />
Why do they want to gut Medicaid and what is Medicaid anyway? The following is from the <a href="https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/eligibility/index.html">https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/eligibility/index.html</a> website:</div>
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Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that, together with the Children’s Health Insurance Program, provides health coverage to over 72.5 million Americans, including children, pregnant women, parents, seniors and individuals with disabilities. Medicaid is the single largest source of health coverage in the United States. <br />
In order to participate in Medicaid, federal law requires states to cover certain groups of individuals. Low income families, qualified pregnant women and children, and individuals receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) are examples of mandatory eligibility groups. States have additional options for coverage and may choose to cover other groups, such as individuals receiving home and community based services and children in foster care who are not otherwise eligible. <br />
The Affordable Care Act of 2010 created the opportunity for states to expand Medicaid to cover nearly all low-income Americans under age 65. Eligibility for children was extended to at least 133 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) in every state (most states cover children to higher income levels) and states were given the option to extend eligibility to adults with income at or below 133 percent of the FPL. The majority of states have chosen to expand coverage to adults, and those that have not yet expanded may choose to do so at any time.<br />
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Why cut Medicaid? Medicaid covers the most vulnerable among us, Low income families, qualified pregnant women and children, and individuals receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) as examples. Obamacare gave states the option to expand Medicaid to cover nearly all low-income Americans under 65 and that is why these Senators want so take $800 billion from Medicaid and give it to the wealthy. Republicans have traded in the term Welfare Queen for a new label Healthcare Queen as a scare tactic. The latest dog whistle of Republicans is tax fairness, basically stoking resentment that those paying taxes are paying for others getting benefits of free healthcare. <br />
Mick Mulvaney, White House Director of management and Budget wrote said in an <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article152074727.html" target="_blank">article</a> published in the Miami Herald, that many social program users were stealing from taxpayers footing the bills because they didn't intent to pay it back. Mulvaney's attitude is a throwback to the era of the welfare queen talk of years gone by except the word welfare was exchanged for healthcare.</div>
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There is only one problem with the tax fairness argument and it not something they can get away with, because most people know someone in their family that are on, have used or will use Medicaid in the future and they are not all in some distant urban ghetto. We are talking about voters’ parents, disabled children or themselves having the rug pulled from under them. I have watched loved ones and friends getting long term nursing home care take their last breaths in nursing homes and did not understand at the time that their financial support for healthcare came from Medicaid. Obamacare's Medicaid expansion pays subsidies so those that financialy qualify now have health insurance, so this is where we are.</div>
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Before I could proceed to getting that supremely painful kidney stone laser blasted from by body, I had to settle up financially with the hospital for my portion and did so. A question was asked about what would happen if I didn’t have the money available. It was explained that people without the means to pay would need to appeal to the hospital board and various factors would be considered. I wanted the pain to end that was unrelenting and could not imagine having to suffer longer for financial or lack of insurance coverage reasons.<br />
Finally the moment of truth arrived. After being poked, having blood taken and hooked up to and electrocardiogram machine, the anesthesiologist came in and spoke to me. I signed some consent forms. He inserted a syringe into my IV connection and I recall being wheeled through the day surgery doors and watching my wife make the turn to go to the waiting room. The next thing I recalled was a nurse saying something to me in the same room I was in before the procedure. I opened my eyes and there was no pain. I was told the procedure went flawlessly. I left the hospital with several thoughts. My medical emergency that was not on my radar screen three weeks ago was over. The pain was gone. I was still financially viable in spite of this ordeal due to Obamacare, because my deductible was now met for the year and I was able to get a policy in spite of having a pre-exisiting condition in the first place that was not denied or priced multiple times a healthy individual’s rate.</div>
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The primary thought I had was would I transfer to pain I suffered to someone else to suffer longer or get a couple hundred dollar tax cut for myself or for millions of thousands in tax cuts for wealthy individuals just because they were poor, aged or disabled? The answer is no. Healthcare should be like highways that we all pay for and can use. If someone wants extra then that should be what for profit insurance companies are for just like toll roads. We must remember that health insurance companies are middlemen that pay for healthcare service from actual providers. Medicare does the same thing and pays healthcare bills without a profit added on top. Sure, your plan premiums can be lowered if fewer services are required to be covered, just don’t get sick, old or became disabled. The Republican healthcare plan can lower premiums by allowing states to opt out of certain essential benefits coverage, but that would be like driving on a highway with planned potholes in certain lanes. <br />
These politicians are treating people like property. I am familiar with property insurance and if your home is damaged to the point where it not livable by a covered loss most policies will provide for additional living expense for temporary housing until your home is repaired. If you have rental car coverage on an automobile insurance policy you can get a rental car to use until your car is repaired from a covered loss. If you are struck by an illness or ailment you cannot rent, move into or live in a relative’s body until your body is healed enough for you to move back into like a property insurance claim. The last time people were treated like property in this nation was during slavery.</div>
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Health care is personal, intimate and deeply tied to individual self esteem. The sad truth is our lawmakers’ zeal to throw the most vulnerable citizens into a healthcare wasteland for the sake of their wealthy donors show how low we have sunk. Unfortunately profit is the problem, profit from sickness. I know this is a capitalistic society, but like getting on a public highway is the way healthcare should be because it is basic like travel. We would not get very far if the roads were good only in the rich parts of the country. </div>
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Bottom line is that healthcare should be a human right in the United States because I would not wish for anyone else to suffer pain like I had longer than I did due to a lack of money or health insurance coverage to give more money to the wealthiest among us.</div>
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President Donald Trump</h3>
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George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy were all United States Presidents that were among the greatest in the 241 year history of this nation. These men and others that served in the highest office in the land led the United States from its infancy to the highest heights on the world stage. Over time the holder of the title of President of the United States was considered leader of the free world, until the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, took office.<br />
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It took 241 years for the United States to become the nation and society we took for granted in today's world. Americans have always thought of themselves as privileged among citizens of the world. We enjoyed freedoms and opportunities that many citizens of other nations could only dream about.<br />
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George Washington commanded the army that fought for the independence of the country and became the first President of a new nation. Abraham Lincoln led the United States through its most painful period of division during the Civil War and put the United States back together as one country and ended slavery. Franklin Roosevelt led the United States out of the Great Depression, led the world into the nuclear weapon age and brought the country into NATO as a member. John F. Kennedy caused us to reach for the moon and faced down the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis.Other Presidents left their marks on the history of the United States. Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act and conducted the War on Poverty with programs like food stamps and Head Start. George W. Bush ushered the United States through recovery after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Barack Obama led the United States out of the Great Recession, delivered the first national health care program and killed Osama Bin Laden who led the group that attacked the country on 9-11-2001.<br />
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Throughout the 241 years of history of this great nation, each President built upon the foundation of those that came before them. Despite his humiliating ending with Watergate, Richard Nixon opened relationship with China, announced the EPA and signed the Clean Air Act, but now we have President Donald Trump.<br />
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President Trump witnessed the Russians attack the United States using cyber warfare and, unlike Kennedy making them back down, Trump invited them attack us on live television. Unlike Roosevelt and Johnson who strengthened social safety nets for the poor and vulnerable, Trump wants to rip the bottom out of them with tax cuts for the rich. Where Nixon signed environmental protection measures into law, Trump wants to rip the guts out of them in the name of business profits. Trump has been a rolling boulder destroying Presidential achievements like a bowling ball knocking down pins at a bowling alley. Nothing is safe or sacred with Trump in office.<br />
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The United States of American, the nation long looked to by free societies worldwide as a beacon of light, strength and protection is being withdrawn in to a giant turtle shell by it's 45th President. Donald Trump has been a growing catastrophe taking a sledgehammer to the legacy of out beloved country. Roosevelt brought us into NATO, but Trump insults them and has a hostile attitude toward our closest allies. With regards to our longest standing geopolitical adversary, Russia, Trump is involved in an unexplained appeasement with a country that just attacked the United States by meddling in our Presidential election.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Trump's team is under continuing investigation and he fired the director of the FBI while he was leading the probe into Trump's ties to Russian hacking into the United States election and if there was collusion with Trump aligned individuals. While the 241 years reputation of the United States earned with blood, sweat and tears is being burned to the ground by Donald Trump, a group of political cowards in what is supposed to be a check on an rampaging Executive Branch, Congress, sit by and play their fiddles as Trump continues to destroy us from the inside out. Putin's puppet is trying to fulfill the words of an earlier Russian Vladimir with a last name of Lenin who said:</span><br />
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D T Pollardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08833086067649465042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8983927391633199482.post-57037433726597925592017-05-24T10:16:00.000-05:002017-05-24T22:07:04.049-05:00Trump Budget Punches Poor, Sick, Children & Trump Supporters In The Throat<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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While President Donald Trump was traveling abroad his 2018 Federal budget was released. Straight from the White House website it is titled:</div>
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President Trump's first proposed budget shows respect for the people who
pay the bills. The administration's proposal reverses the damaging
trends from previous administrations by putting our nation's budget back
into balance and reducing our debt through fiscally conservative
principles, all the while delivering on President Trump's campaign
promise not to cut Social Security retirement or Medicare. The budget's
combination of regulatory, tax, and welfare reforms will provide
opportunities for economic growth and creation." source : <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/taxpayers-first" target="_blank">https://www.whitehouse.gov/taxpayers-first </a></div>
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The above is not a joke, it is directly from the White House website. A simple translation of that title and subtext is that rich people are paying the bills and deserve the spoils. Some budget bullet points:</div>
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<li>$3.6 trillion in cuts over 10 years</li>
<li>Repeal and replace Obamacare - $250 Billion saving (Medicaid cut)</li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Budget proposes a series of reforms to SNAP (food stamps) that close eligibility loopholes, target benefits to the neediest households, and require able-bodied adults to work. Increase state benefit match to 23% by 2023.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Reform Disability Programs. The Budget proposes to reform disability insurance programs to promote greater LFP(Labor Force Participation). (translation - Kick people off Social Security Disability Insurance) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Reform Federal Employees Retirement Benefits - increasing employee payments to the defined benefit Federal Employee Retirement System pension and reducing or eliminating cost-of-living adjustments for existing and future retirees</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Extend the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) - extended through 2019 with higher state matching in future.</span></li>
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Do you remember the shrill screams about death panels deciding who would get access to healthcare before the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, was passed into law? It did not happen. Well fast forward to 2017 and the same political party that was railing against the passage of Obamacare using the death panel scare tactic is in control of both the Legislative and Executive branches of the United States government. Guess what, they are voting to change health care by ushering in a real death panel or more precisely, death pools.<br />
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The aforementioned is not hyperbole. This is how it works. States can set up high risk pools for those with preexisting medical conditions, you know, those people that have not lived "good lives" as one Republican Congressman said who deserved to get cheaper health insurance. I guess living a bad life includes having high blood pressure, Cancer, asthma or severe allergies. It's is like their creating modern day medical leper colonies. The party line is that states will have to apply for a waiver and set up high risk pools to opt out of the community rating provision currently in the Affordable Care Act. Fast forward two years when the Medicaid expansion that supports many of the subsidies that are used to create parity in health cost for everyone without regard to preexisting medical conditions changes and states will be force to create high risk health pools. Yes, there will be access to health care for all, but we are back to at what price. Many with obviously higher medical care costs will be priced out of the market and therein lies the death pool.<br />
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As I sit here on the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Holiday January 16, 2017 with the knowledge that four days later on January 20, 2017 Donald J. Trump will be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America. There is a wide emotional swing that is taking place in my mind as a day celebrating the life of a man that sought equality for all will be swiftly followed by the elevation of man that said he would ban an entire religion from entering the country and boasted how his fame allowed him to have his way with women with or without their consent. We live in curious times indeed, but we had an election, as tainted as it was with Russian and other interference, that elected this man to be the leader of the free world. Despite losing the popular vote by almost three million votes to his major political party opponent, Donald J. Trump will be sworn in as President of the United States. I await his assistance.<br />
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As I sit here in the crime infested inner city ghetto that I must surely live in as a Black American, I'm asking for your help in getting out, not. You see, what I have learned in the transition period between President Barak Obama and Donald Trump is that Trump views the United States through some type of stereotypical lens that has shaped his world view. Blacks have their place, in the ghetto. Immigrants have their place, out of the country. And women have their place, there for his pleasure, if they are a 10 on his scale, of course.<br />
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So now we are about to take a voyage on the USS - Ununited States of America, captained by President Donald J. Trump. Passengers please put on your life vests and be prepared to evacuate to your personal survival pods at a moment's notice. Godspeed.<br />
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Sometimes a
man with a soft, quiet voice cuts through the smoke and noise of an issue that
others are too afraid to touch because it is too hot or too potentially
damaging to their future prospects. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
man, Congressman John Lewis, whose actions were written in blood due to blows
from many during his time fighting for civil rights in concert with Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. and many others spoke what he saw as truth and was attacked as
all talk and no action by President elect Donald J. Trump. Congressman John Lewis said he did note view President elect Donald J. Trump as a legitimate President of the United States due to Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential campaign. John Lewis was
beaten by Alabama State Troopers with night sticks in Selma Alabama and had his
skull fractured. John Lewis was beaten as a Freedom Rider. John Lewis was
beaten by Ku Klux Klansmen. John Lewis' action was written in blood for what,
equal rights for all Americans and the right to vote without discrimination.</div>
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The Presidential election of 2016 was tainted by open interference from a
foreign power, Russia, which the United States intelligence agencies determined
stole emails from the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman
John Podesta. The stolen emails were released through Wikileaks and used by the
Trump campaign like it was operation research gathered by their own team. Trump
said proudly during the campaign that he loved Wikileaks and during a press
conference asked Russia to find Hillary Clinton’s 30,000 emails.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mention crime infested) rather
than falsely complaining about the election results. All talk, talk, talk - no
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Trump defenders point out that Trump won fair and square through the
Electoral College and the actual vote or voting machines which is true, but
Congressman John Lewis said what others know, but are afraid to say. Russia did
not need to hack the voting machines when the hacked the mind of the voters
before they went to the polls. Voters make voting decisions based upon the
information placed before them and Russia placed damaging stolen information in
front of voters that they otherwise would not have had on one candidate they despised
in order to help their preferred candidate to become President of the United
States. Congressman John Lewis almost died for the right to decide on whom to
vote for and to be able to vote fairly, but that was tampered with by a foreign
enemy. The voters were hacked, not the vote and that is what civil rights
legend Congressman John Lewis knows, Trump supporters knows that and President Elect
Donald Trump knows it in his heart and it hurts.</div>
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<a href="http://amzn.to/2hPx0sT" target="_blank">Trump - Plutocracy and Apartheid USA - available on Amazon.com</a> </div>
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Donald Trump’s supporters wanted it more and they got it.
Anyone upset about the outcome of the 2016 Presidential election that didn’t
vote for a different outcome or didn’t vote at all need to check their anger at
the door. If you voted, period, congratulations! Those that were too busy, too
distracted, didn’t care, thought it was going a certain way or thought their
vote didn’t count, congratulations, because you got the result you deserved. In
the words of President Barack Obama, don’t boo, vote, but it’s too late now!
How many people watched the election returns come in and wished they could turn
back the clock so they could walk a few blocks and vote, but it’s too late.</div>
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I hope that all those ready to march in the streets after
the election marched to voting booth during the election. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bottom line is that Trump supporters
understood one person, one vote only counts when everyone votes for what they
want or in this case what they didn't want. If someone didn’t vote because they
didn’t get their desired results during the primaries, congratulations, look at
the result you have to live with!</div>
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