WHISKEY JOE"S BAREFOOT BEACH BAR. NEAR BRAWL. MUSCLE ACTION. CARAVAN--"A POLITICAL GIFT!" GAME SHOW TV PRESIDENT. SHELL GAME. MADE FOR TV. WITH HEALTHCARE TAKING OVER THE MID-TERM ELECTIONS ATTENTION, SOMETHING TO DISTRACT THE VOTERS NEEDED TO BE DONE! FOCUS: THE REPUBLICANS HAVE CONTROLLED BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS FOR THE LAST 8 YEARS. IMMIGRATION & NATURALIZATION ARE THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH"S RESPONSIBILITY. SO, WHO IF THIS CARAVAN IS SOMETHING OTHER THAN A POLITICAL STUNT, IS ULTIMATELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MESS AT THE BORDER CROSSING? REPUBLICANS! MS. KUMAR, AN MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR OF 10 YEARS, FOR SOME LATINO NATIONAL ORGANIZATION SAID, EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS CARAVAN IS STRANGE: (1) BORDER CROSSINGS GENERALLY TAKE PLACE BETWEEN APRIL AND ABOUT JUNE, WHEN THE WEATHER IS BETTER; (3) MIGRATION IS MORE "ORGANIC" THAN THIS, NOT SOME MASS EXODUS FROM SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRIES; (5) ONE WOMAN INTERVIEWED YESTERDAY, WAS WEARING A BLINGY "BOSS" HAT? POINT OF INFORMATION--DO YOU KNOW HOW EASY IT WOULD BE FOR MORMON CONNECTED REPUBLICANS WITH "MY" BLOGGING MONOPOLY MONEY TO ORGANIZE THIS EVENT? THERE ARE MORE HISPANIC AND LATINO MEMBERS OF THE MORMON CHURCH< THAN WHITES! EACH MORMON STAKE HOUSE BUILDING AROUND THE WORLD< HAS BACKCHANNEL COMMUNICATIONS, THAT CAN BE ISOLATED AND TARGETED TO PASS ON SECRET COMMUNICATIONS, TO AID REPUBLICANS IN THE MID-TERMS. MOST HISPANICS AND LATINOS STILL SEE AMERICA AS THEIR BEST CHANCE TO GIVE THEIR KIDS A BETTER FUTURE, SO, WHY NOT DO THIS CARAVAN AND HELP, THE MORMON BACKED, PRESIDENT, AND ALL CANDIDATES WITH A HOT TOPIC ISSUE, TO THROW THE MIDTERM IN A "SPECTACLE" SO VISUAL AND POWERFUL, WITH THE PRESIDENT BLAMING DEMOCRATS, WHO HAVEN"T HAD CONTROL OF EITHER HOUSE OF CONGRESS SINCE, 2010! THEN, DO THE OLD, VERY MORMON, "US" VS. "THEM" AND HAVE LYIN' PRESIDENT TRUMP, SAY, THE GOP WANTS TO CLOSE THE BORDERS AND THE DEMS WANT TO OPEN THEM FOR EVERYONE TO COME IN! THERE IS A CANDIDATE RUNNING IN SOME RUST BELT STATE, AGAINST REP. STEVEN KING, WHO SAID, IN HIS DISTRICT, AND I CAN'T REMEMBER HIS NAME, BUT A DEMOCRAT, THEY HAVE TWO PORK SLAUGHTERING AND PACKING PLANTS, AND THEY CAN"T GET LOCALS TO DO THE HARD WORK, SO THEY NEED IMMIGRANTS WHO WILL FILL THOSE JOBS! THAT IS THE CASE WITH MANY JOBS IN THIS COUNTRY. WE HAVE A DECLINING POPULATION, PEOPLE HAVING FEWER AND FEWER KIDS< AND HISPANICS AND LATINO ARE TAKING UP THE SLACK! IN BELLEVUE WASHINGTON, I HEARD THAT, DONALD TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDERS FOR HOSPITALITY TYPE BUSINESSES OR THE TRAVEL BAN, DOESN'T APPLY, BECAUSE AS WE SAW, HE NEEDS THEM FOR HIS RESTAURANTS AND HOUSEKEEPING! TRUMP IS FULL OF SHIT. LAST NIGHT IN HOUSTON, THE CROWDS DIDN'T RESPOND THE WAY HIS NORMAL RALLIES DO--AS I RECALL, HOUSTON IS A "SANCTUARY CITY!" LOL. HOMELAND SECURITY STATISTICS FROM HIS OWN PEOPLE, SHOW THAT< BORDER TOWNS AND CITIES ARE ACTUALLY SAFER THAN, NON_BORDER TOWNS. ONE GENTLEMAN, WAS INTERVIEWED AND HE, DIDN'T BELIEVE A WORD TRUMP SAID--PARTICULARLY ABOUT, THE CARAVAN--WHAT DID THE DONALD SAY, FILLED WITH BAD PEOPLE, GANGSTERS, AND MIDDLE EAST TERRORISTS. NO, IT IS TRUMP WHO IS THE GANGSTER AND MBS WHO IS THE MID-EAST TERRORIST! MOB VS. JOBS? NEW YORK MOBSTERS OWN TRUMP, AS TO THE RUSSIAN MOB, AND THE MORMON MAFIA AND GOD SQUAD, THOSE CHURCH PEOPLE WITH MY BLOGGING MONEY! YOU CAN TELL, CAN"T YOU, THAT THE WRITER OF THIS BLOG IS ANTI-TRUMP, RIGHT? ANOTHER CLUE ON THE "KARAVAN" . . . MY SISTER-IN-LAW, KARA SOUTHWICK SOMETHING, SHE REMARRIED, AFTER MY BROTHER, RICHARD, ALLEGEDLY DIED. CIA, 85% MORMON REPUBLICAN, "COMMUNICATIONS WITHOUT COMMUNICATING" IS USING, MORMON SYMOBLISM, TO INSIDE TRADERS! JUST LIKE THE "FISTFIGHT" WITH ASSASSINS, TRUMP COVERING FOR JAMAL KHASHOGGI"S MURDER, IT IS ALL ABOUT DEFLECTION FROM THE TRUTH. I GUESS TRUMP MADE SOME STATEMENT, THAT, DOES THE NORMAL, TRUMP "DEFLECTION" AWAY FROM WHAT AND WHO, DID THE CARAVAN, BY, MIRRORING HIS EFFORTS, AND MAKING WHATEVER HE DOES, LOOK LIKE OR BLAMES THE DEMOCRATS! IF YOU REALLY WANT TO LOOK BACK FOR A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE, REP. CHRIS CANNON OF UTAH, BACK, IN THE 90'S, ALSO A FORMER, MORMON MISSIONARY, WITH DIRECT TIES TO THE MEXICAN CONSULATE, AS MANY MISSIONARIES, HAVE, THOSE TYPE OF CONNECTIONS, PROPOSED BRINGING, THE LATINOS TO UTAH AND GIVING THEM, HEALTH CARE AND DRIVER'S LICENSES, SO THEY COULD FILL JOBS, THAT WHITES DIDN'T WANT, AND TO BUMP UP THE CONVERSION RATE FOR THE CHURCH, AND STEAL, MEMBERS FROM THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, WHO STARTED TO SET UP SHOP ACROSS THE STREETS, IN UTAH, OFFERING AMERICAN BENEFITS, FOR HISPANICS, TO TRY TO KEEP THEIR MEMBERS! LIKE IN MANY SOCIAL ISSUES, THE REPUBLICANS BROUGHT THE ALLEGED< PROBLEMS TO THE UNITED STATES, USE THE CHEAP LABOR FORCE, AND REFUSE TO CREATE AN IMMIGRATION POLICY, BECAUSE IT IS ALWAYS A HOT TOPIC POLITICALLY< THAT THEY SPIN TO THEIR ADVANTAGE, JUST LIKE THEY ARE NOW! SOME POLITICAL PUNDITS, SAY THAT, IF YOU WERE TO WRITE A SCRIPT, FOR REPUBLICANS AND TRUMP, THIS "POLITICAL GIFT" WOULD BE A DREAM GIFT! KUMAR, OF MSNBCf, SAID THE TIMING, RIGHT BEFORE THE ELECTIONS, IS, INDEED, VERY SUSPICIOUS, AND SHE CALLED FOR A THOROUGH, INVESTIGATION--BUT WITH THE MORMONS IN THE EQUATION, IT IS EASY AND ANSWERS, WHO MIGHT BE BEHIND THE CRAZY ASS STUNT, MADE FOR TV! REPUBLICAN LEMMINGS! FOLLOW TRUMP AND GOP OFF THE CLIFF TO THE WATERS BELOW! LOL. NEW ON THE "PROMISE MADE" AND NOW "PROMISE BROKEN" TO THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY, TRUMP AND THE GOP ARE TRYING TO ROLLBACK, TRANSGENDER RIGHTS, JUST LIKE THEY DID, TAKING AWAY, TRANSGENDER RIGHTS AND LATINO RIGHTS, TO SERVE IN THE MILITARY, SEARCHING FOR "SKETCHY" WAYS, TO GET RID OF BOTH! INTERESTING, ON "HARDBALL WITH CHRIS MATTHEWS" MSNBC, TRUMP WATCH, COMMENTS . . . HE HAS BEEN TALKING WITH, TEACHERS THROUGH OUT THIS CAMPAIGN AND THE LAST TWO YEARS OF TRUMP'S, INSANE PRESIDENCY, AND THEY SAID, NOW THAT TRUMP HAS DEMEANED, EVERYONE FROM LYIN' TED'S WIFE, TO THE WOMAN, STORMY DANIELS, HE PAID, NOT ONLY TO HAVE SEX WITH, BUT TO KEEP QUIET, SOME, $130,000, IN ADDITION TO OTHER WOMAN, AND IN THE HUNDREDS, WHAT DID, DANIELS, SAY, SMALL FEATURES, ON THIS PRESIDENT, IS THAT WHY HE PAYS, BUT, CALLING A VERY ATTRACTIVE BUSINESS WOMAN, "HORSEFACE" LOOKING THE "HORSE"S ASS" IN THE PROCESS, AMERICAN TEACHERS CAN"T GET THEIR KIDS TO BE NICE OR TO BEHAVE, AND THEIR ANSWER ALWAYS IS "THE PRESIDENT DOES IT!" SO WHY CAN"T WE? RIGHT. IN THE FLORIDA GOVERNOR RACE, THE OTHER NIGHT ON THE TV DEBATES, WHATEVER THE TRUMP LEMMING'S NAME IS, TRIED TO DEFLECT FROM ANSWERING IF TRUMP WAS A GOOD ROLE MODEL FOR KIDS? ANDREW GILLUM, SEIZED THE MOMENT, AND CLARIFIED THE ANSWER AS HIS OPPONENT, TRIED TO DEFLECT TO THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL, FROM TEL AVIV, TO JERUSALEM, AND, AFTER CHECKING, GILLUM, CLEARLY GAVE A RESOUNDING, "NO, TRUMP IS NOT A GOOD ROLE MODEL FOR OUR KIDS!" AMEN, BROTHER! WHAT DID, LYIN' TED, NOW BEAUTIFUL TED, OR TEXAS TED, GOOD YA ALL, CAN HAVE HIM! BUT, TED CRUZ, IN RESPONSE TO TRUMP CALLING HIS WIFE, UGLY, AND HIS FATHER, A CO-CONSPIRATOR IN THE JFK ASSASSINATION, TED CALLED, THE DONALD, "A SNIVELING COWARD!" DITTO. VOTE BETO O'ROARKE! WHAT A GREAT DEFLECTION FROM BOTH TRUMP AND CRUZ! YUCK! NEW INFORMATION, ON THE KHASHOGGI MURDER--LIKE ANYONE IS GOING TO BELIEVE, THAT A JOURNALIST IS GOING TO GET INTO A FISTFIGHT WITH 15 SAUDI CROWN, ASSASSINS . . . LIKE RIGHT? BUT, ABOUT 10 MILES FROM THE SUADI CONSULATE IN TURKEY OR ISTANBUL, A BLACK BMW WAS FOUND PARKED IN SOME PARKING GARAGE, FOUND, OCTOBER 10, WITH JAMAL BEING KILLED, OR GOING INTO THE CONSULATE, OCTOBER 2, 2018 . . . THOSE REPORTING THE ABANDONED CAR, SAID, THE DAY THAT, JAMAL, ALLEGEDLY WENT MISSING, GOING INTO THE CONSULATE, BUT NEVER SEEN COMING OUT, THERE WAS A FLURRY OF ACTIVITY, IN THAT PARKING GARAGE. THEN, ON, OCTOBER 18, ANOTHER CAR, LOOKING ALMOST LIKE THE ABANDONED ONE, CAME INTO THE PARKING GARAGE, AND A MAN, CAME OUT, CARRYING A LARGE, GREEN BAG, A VERY HEAVY AND LARGE BAG, AND, EXCHANGED CARS, PUTTING THE GREEN BAG, LIKELY CARRYING, KHASHOGGI'S BODY, TO WHERE THE BODY IS NOW. IF THE SAUDIS, REALLY DID, JUST LET AN INTERROGATION GET OUT OF HAND, WITH A DEATH RESULTING, WHY DIDN'T THEY JUST CALL, LOCAL COPS TO REPORT THE DEATH? WHERE IS THE BODY OF KHASHOGGI NOW, IF THAT WAS THE STORY? WHY WAS TRUMP, COVERING FOR THE SAUDIS? FOR THE PRINCE? BECAUSE JARED KUSHNER, WAS WITH MBS, THE WHOLE WEEKEND BEFORE THE INCIDENT? TRUMP, NO LONGER ABLE TO COVER FOR EITHER, JARED OR HIS BUDDY, THE CROWN PRINCE, WITH KING DADDY ISSUES, AND SAID, "HE WISHED IT WAS NOT THE CROWN PRINCE OR CONNECTED TO HIM, BUT DO WE NEED TO GO BACK JUST ONE STEP FURTHER TO KUSHNER? THE ARMS DEAL IS A PROJECTED, $4 BILLION, MAYBE, AT THIS POINT. KUSHNER IS PUTTING THE SAUDIS AND THE ARMS DEAL AT THE CENTER OF HIS PLAN FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST? TO HANDLE IRAN? LOL. KIDS GETTING TOGETHER, WITH SMALL HANDS IN KUSHY JOBS, TRYING TO PLAY BIG BOYZ AND DECIDING THAT, KHASHOGGI WAS TO BE USED AS AN EXAMPLE TO JOURNALISTS, WORLDWIDE . . . BECAUSE THEY CAN? WE HAVE ONLY SOLD ARMS TO OUR ALLIES AND FRIENDS AND THOSE WHO HAVE THE SAME VALUES THAT WE DO. PRINCE SALMAN DOESN'T HAVE THOSE VALUES, NOR DOES THE PRESIDENT AND HIS SON-IN-LAW! FORMER, SUPREME COURT JUSTICE, SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR, IS RETIRING FROM PUBLIC LIFE, BUT WANTS HER MISSION TO GET PEOPLE TO STUDY CIVICS, TO CONTINUE, THROUGH HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS. WE ALL NEED TO STUDY CIVICS. THANKS FOR YEARS OF UNBIASED, DISTINGUISHED, SERVICE TO THIS GREAT COUNTRY OF OURS! ENJOY YOUR REMAINING TIME ON THIS AMAZING EARTH. EVERY SERIOUS STUDENT OF BOTH THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, CIVICS AND POLITICS, NEEDS TO READ, "EMPIRE OF ILLUSION: THE END OF LITERACY AND THE TRIUMPH OF SPECTACLE" BY PULITZER PRIZE WINNER, CHRIS HEDGES! I WISH I COULD COPY EVERY WORD, FOR MY READERS, WORLDWIDE . . . BUY THE BOOK!

THE ILLUSION OF AMERICA

     In his book, Democracy Incorporated, Wolin, who taught political philosophy at Berkeley and Princeton, uses the phrase inverted totalitarianism to describe our system of power.  Inverted totalitarianism, unlike, classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader.  It finds expression in the anonymity of the corporate state.  It purports to cherish democracy, patriotism, and the Constitution while manipulating internal levers to subvert and thwart democratic institutions.  Political candidates are elected in popular votes by citizens, but candidates must raise staggering amounts of corporate funds to compete.  They are beholden to armies of corporate lobbyists in Washington or state capitals who author the legislation and get the legislatures to pass it.k  Corporate media controls nearly everything we read, watch, or hear.  If imposes a bland uniformity of opinion.  It diverts us with trivia and celebrity gossip.  In classical totalitarian regimes, such as Nazi fascism or Soviet Communism, economics was subordinated to politics.  "under inverted totalitarianism the reverse is trump," Wolin write, " the Economics dominates politics--and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness."

     "In order to cope with the imperial contingencies of foreign wars and occupation, " according to Wolin, democracy will alter its character, not only by assuming new behaviors abroad (e.g., ruthlessness, indifference to suffering, disregard of local norms, the inequalities in ruling a subject population) but also by operating on revised, power-expansive assumptions at home.  It will, more often than not, try to manipulate the public rather than engage its members in deliberation.  I t will demand greater powers and broader discretion in their use ("state secrets"), a tighter control over society's resources, more summary methods of justice, and less patience for legalities, opposition, and clamour for socioeconomic reforms.

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     "The Big Lies are not the pledge of tax cuts, universal health care, family values restored, or a world rendered peaceful through forceful demonstrations of American leadership," Bacevaich wrote in The Limits of Power: "THE Big Lies are the truths that remain unspoken: that freedom has an underside; that nations, like households, must ultimately live within their means; that history's purpose, the subject of so many confident pronouncements, remains inscrutable.  Above all, these is this: Power is finite.  Politicians pass over matters which as these in silence.  As a consequence, the absence of self-awareness that forms such an enduring element of the American character persists.

     The problems we face are structural.  The old America is not coming back.  Our financial system was taken hostage and looted by bankers, brokers, and speculators who told us that the old means of making capital by producing and manufacturing were outdated.  They assured us money could be made out of money.k  They insisted that financial markets could be self-regulation.  Like all financial markets throughout history that have thrown off oversight and regulation, ours has collapsed.  Speculators in the seventeenth century were hanged.  Today they received billions in taxpayer dollars and huge bonuses.

Many of your, democratic candidates, like Beto O'Roarke, and Andrew Gillum, are avoiding corporate money, and taking in, as President Obama did, small donations to fund their campaigns!  They will be more free of the "corporate state" that controls and owns, your more, big business mentality of the GOP.

IN the last speech, President Obama, gave as president, he, said, if you don't like the way things are going in this country, get out a clip board and, go get signatures, and run for office . . . guess what, 60 candidates took their former boss's advice, and are doing just that, running for office, and many free of corporate sponsorship!

We have a President, who, is controlled, not only by, domestic corporations, but by foreign powers, as well . . . just yesterday, Secretary of Defense, John Bolton, said, that the Russians didn't meddle or if they did, their impact was very small if not non-existent?  He is going to meet with Russian's Putin, to CANCEL the AMERICAN/RUSSIAN ARMS DEAL? OR NUKE DEAL . . . PUTIN'S PUPPETS . . . Vladamere has wanted this gone for a long, long time!  From NATO, to Climate Agreements, to Military Drills with South Korea, to the Iran Nuke Deal, now the Russian Deal . . . TRUMP HAS TAKEN HIS ORDERS FROM RUSSIA, NOT HIS AMERICAN ADVISERS AND SECRETARIES OR CABINET MEMBERS!

The CEO of REDDIT, said, as of his staff's, last count, there were 997 Russian bots, to sway this election, with no word form Trump nor his administration about stopping Russian meddling???????  REDDIT  has a team to look at "fake" news, to try to stop it, but, seriously, he said, they are just trying to make, all the debates fair, because to catch them all, that is nearly impossible!

LIKE THINGS LIKE THE "CARAVAN" THAT SEEMS TO BE JUST TOO TIMELY, FOR TRUMP AND THE GOP, THAT DEFIES REASON AND LOGIC . . . QUESTION IT!

IF SOMETHING DOESN'T PASS THE SMELL TEST WITH YOU, DON'T BUY IT!

WHY WOULD TRUMP TURN TO RUSSIA FOR HELP . . . AH, BECAUSE YOU NEEDED THEM AND STILL DO!

COLLEGE CAMPUSES ARE ROCKIN' THE VOTE . . . REPUBLICANS ARE VOTING IN EARLY ELECTIONS, MORE, AS THEY ALWAYS TO . . . BECAUSE, THE DEMOCRATS, DON'T "SUPPRESS THEIR VOTES!"

SO OBVIOUS.