Republicans Are Trump's Three Wise Monkeys

Three Wise Moneys - Republicans On Trump Impeachment

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. 

 

 

Living in The Age of White Reparations 

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.

 

 

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Impeachment: If Soldiers Face Death, Senators Can Face Witnesses To Preserve America

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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, "protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."  

Trump: Nixon on Steroids

 

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.

 

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.   

Trump's War Against The America Dream

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.

 

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 more voters nationally than voted for him.

 Trump - Nixon on Steroids

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."

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 there."

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.

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 foreign and domestic.

If 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.

Republicans Will Crash America Before Raising Taxes On Rich

Republican John Boehner - Speaker of the House

Let me get this right, the Republican leadership seems ready to see the United States default on its debt obligations before they would raise taxes on the rich to help bring the deficit down. If you listen to the Republican leadership carefully, they are saying that they can't get a tax increase on the rich passed because they don't have the votes.

This means that the pledge signers and tea party faction has the ability to ruin the economy even more because of their loyalty to a position over what seems to be logical, increasing revenues. I think their stance is starting to really sound odd to the public at large. The response that come from Republican House of Representatives and Senate leaders to any suggestion of raising taxes on the wealthiest among us makes it seem like the suggestion of such a thing is a mortal sin.

Has there been an explosion in the number of millionaires and billionaires in the middle of this economic downturn? That must be the situation. If the wealthy are suddenly the majority voting block then maybe the way Republicans are throwing their bodies in front any effort to increase taxes on the rich could be rationalized, but that is not the case. The bold and brazen calls by elected Republicans to make cuts in Medicare, Medicaid and increase the Social Security eligibility age while refusing to even consider tax increased on the wealthy are shameless. What is really going on here?

It seems that even many of the people that voted the Republicans into office are starting to question a group that came up with a plan to end Medicare as we know it while also saying that higher taxes on the wealthy is unthinkable.

As the clock ticks it seems that special interests have won a crucial victory. The new GOP battle cry is not keep you government hands off of my Medicare, but keep your government tax increases away from my rich friends.

Nancy Pelosi Hospitalized While In Rome

U S House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi

U S House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi was hospitalized while leading a Congressional delegation there to celebrate the 150 year anniversary of the nation. Pelosi was reported to have checked into an emergency room for a two hour period and later returned to her hotel room. Reported the former Speaker of the House suffered what was described as “fainting spells.”

This trip to Rome followed a stop in Afghanistan to meet with President Harmid Karzai and U.S. military personnel.

An article titled by ABC News details the incident.