Ya Know What, Jim? Yesterday Pissed Me Off

Jim Geraghty's dismissive post about Trump supporters being idiots and fools was snot. Pure and simple mucus that belongs wadded up in a piece of tissue at the bottom of a garbage can. And he's just the latest in a long procession of people who think and have written and said the same kinds of things.

What's infuriating is that none of these people have got the first foggiest clue about why so many people are backing Donald Trump.

Thinking about it here, on the receiving end, I got mad yesterday. Really mad because until he and his pinhead friends know what I and what people like me have lived for these past twelve years, he has no right in the world to dismiss us. Until he and the others understand how disenfranchised and disrespected millions of us feel, he would do really well to just shut the fuck up.

Sorry - I'm trying not to do that anymore because I have a bigger vocabulary than that, but that says precisely what I want to say.

Just. Shut. Up. And here's why:

I do not, I never have and I never will draw six or seven figures a year in salary. I make an honest wage, but it is a just-barely-scraping-the-sides-of-the-barrel and enough-to-barely-make-ends-meet wage. And it's not because I'm not good or smart or talented or skilled. It's because it's the best I can find in this economy.

I will never sit down in some fancy Washington or New York restaurant and scarf a portion of a $100, $200 or $1,000 dinner. Not because I don't want to, but because I can't afford it. I can't even save up for it because I don't have two pennies to scrape together at the end of a month - it all goes to pay my expenses.

I drive a twelve year old Ford station wagon with almost 150,000 on the odometer. I will make that car last just as long as I possibly can, not because I like it but because I cannot afford $200 or $300 or $500 a month in lease expenses. I can't afford to spend $8,000 or $10,000 or more on a 'new' used car, either.

I never have and I never will drive a Mercedes Benz or a BMW or anything other than a basic form of transportation. Not because I don't want to, but because I can't. I can't afford it.

I am not quite sixty years old. I have worked since I graduated from high school in 1975. Aside being mainly unemployed for sixteen months, the longest time I haven't worked was the two years I took off to stay home with my daughter, before I had to go back to work to support the family.

If I did manual labor, I'm the kind of person who would have honorable calluses on my hands. I don't have calluses, but I do get up at 4:45 every morning and leave my house by 7:00 every morning and don't get home until 6:30 every night. I have taken one day off in the past year - for the birth of my grandson.

I am, and others like me are, the backbone of this country and its economy. Unlike the pointy airhead pundits who make a living writing drivel about what goes on inside Washington.

I, and others like me, work to help produce goods and services that have meaning.

At the end of the day - who cares about opinion? What does that do for anyone? I can't eat it or drive it or wear it - so why should people who produce nothing but hot air on a computer screen think they can disrespect me and others like me who actually produce things that have real meaning?

And we are the majority who are supporting Trump.

So now, Jim, given those things, given our honest labor that pays an honest day's wages, who the hell are you to call me and others like me idiots and fools?

And I'll take it further - you don't get it, okay. Here is why I'm supporting Trump:

In the late 1990's and through 2001, our family was solid middle class. We had a mortgage on a nice house in a nice neighborhood and were doing okay financially. I had a job that paid enough that my husband could stay home and day-trade, taking care of our daughter.

We decided to sell the house we were living in - it was really too big for a family of three, so we bought another house. We used the equity we had built up over the years and bought a slightly more expensive home - not bigger, not better, just more money because prices had gone up. The mortgage on our new house was manageable.

We were just like millions of other middle class Americans. Things were fine through 2005. By then, I had been at my job for ten years. I was earning enough that I could support my husband and our daughter. We could even save a little every month.

Then, in 2006, we started seeing signs the economy was changing. The day-trading had already gone by the wayside - I was the sole support of our family and I was getting nervous.

The company I had been with had its first layoffs in its fifty year history. In the course of twenty minutes, six people were gone. The survivors, me included, took pay cuts or cuts in our hours to keep things going. Gradually it got better and then 2007 hit.

The housing bubble burst and the economy collapsed in on itself.

The millions of bad loans that Congress, George Bush and Hank Paulson, driven by the Federal Reserve and the banking industry had palmed off on people who never should have qualified for loans came home to roost. No one was repaying the balloons on the loans they had taken out in 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 after the banking laws were repealed by Congress. Together these characters, along with Newt Gingrich and Billy-Jeff and others in Washington had destroyed the fiduciary responsibility of the banks to protect their depositors' money.

The Washington insiders, the Federal Reserve and Wall Street had colluded together to create a devastating housing bubble. Those people who should never, ever, ever have received loans had received loans - often for the full value of the property they were buying. No job? No problem! Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were there to provide the money needed - just ignore the fact that those institutions were, at the bottom line, publicly funded by other homeowners and workers like me.

In 2007 we elected a first term Senator from Illinois. This man had never run a company. He had never managed a company. He had never, to the best of anyone's knowledge, ever balanced a checkbook - but he was elected to the office of the President.

Immediately, he started blaming Bush for everything that was wrong - and that has not changed eight years later. He did nothing, materially, to change things, to make them better. He didn't consult with business people to figure out what they needed to make their companies stronger and more vibrant. He didn't do his job and work with Congress to re-institute Glass-Steagall and put in place laws that would hold the banks and investment companies accountable.

No! He bailed them out. He took whatever was left of our hard-earned money and handed it over to the too-big-to-fails that had created this mess - paying no attention whatsoever to the devastation that was taking place in the real world outside of Washington and New York. Oh, sure, he gave it lip service - but lip service doesn't keep a roof over a families head. It doesn't put clothes on their back, shoes on their feet and food on their table.

The economy continued to fall apart through 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 - more layoffs, unemployment soared, companies by the hundreds of thousands down-sized or just closed their doors. There were no new jobs for the people unemployed by the malfeasance of George Bush, Hank Paulson, Congress and the continuation of bad policy by the new administration.

But who cares! Let's get Obamacare going - never mind that it will destroy whatever small companies might be left in America. Who cares about the employers of millions of people or the millions of people who will lose their jobs because of the onerous requirements? I don't because it's my legacy!

Never mind that start to finish the vast majority of the American people screamed that we didn't want it - but it was shoved down our throats anyway - to the detriment of families and businesses and the medical care providers.

The company I worked for had more wage freezes and layoffs - 2008, 2010 and 2012. In the last, I was caught up. Eight people - almost the last of the non-partners / owners - were included in that layoff. I had been there for seventeen years. Some had been there more than twenty and twenty-five years. They had been looking forward to retiring in a few years and... wham! Unemployment, the potential of losing their homes, evisceration of their 401ks.

In eight years since that first term Senator took office, this economy hasn't even begun to recover. Regardless of what anyone inside Washington and the nattering class says - this economy has not recovered.

Unemployment, if you dig through the piles of manure the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the government cover it with every month, is horrible.

Do you realize that under current employment counting rules if a professional who is on unemployment works just one hour - just sixty minutes - in a week and is paid just $20 - the BLS counts him or her as employed for that week?

If someone works as a temporary employee - at one-half or one-quarter of their former wage - for just an hour in a week, they are counted as 'employed'.

How does that work? Come on! That's not a sustainable wage. That won't buy lunch in a lot of places in this country, so how can those people be called 'employed'? Yet they are.

For me, after losing my job in 2012, it took me more than two months to find even a $14 hour temporary job - less than half of what I had been earning, with no benefits - for two days.

And that wasn't because I wasn't trying. The day after I was told I no longer had a job, I put together my resume. I called the employment agencies - seven of them - and made appointments. That week after losing my job, I was in front of agency people, selling them on my skills, yet it took two months for me to find even a $14 per hour job.

I did well there. I did well enough there that that company specifically asked for me when they needed coverage the next several times. I had the same thing happen with other employers so by November, I was working fairly regularly.

Then I got lucky - so I thought. I got an offer - but they were going through an internal restructuring so it would 'be a few weeks' but I shouldn't accept any temp work because 'they might need' me right away. Eight weeks went by with me supporting my family on $11.50 per hour unemployment while waiting for this job that paid almost what I had been making at my last job. To me, given the economy, it was a good wait.

Finally, in January 2013 I started work and I worked until... sequestration. March 2013 began the government intervention that cost millions of government and government contractors their jobs - me included.

May 1st saw me back on unemployment, back to knocking on doors, calling the temporary agencies two and three times a week, spending hours every week cruising Monster and Craig's List and Indeed and company websites searching for anything that would pay even a little more than the unemployment benefits I was receiving.

In the meantime, the siding on our house began to rot - we couldn't afford to paint or fix it. Our bedroom window broke - we can't afford to replace it. The roof is on its last legs - not quite leaking but it will be in a year or two or three.

In October 2014 I became a criminal thanks to my federal government. Obamacare kicked in but I make too much to qualify for subsidies and too little to afford almost $900 per month in premiums plus the $6,000 deductible for my husband and me. This year, in my taxes, I "get" to pay a penalty for being uninsured. 

For nearly three years I lay awake at night, worrying - how am I going to pay the bills? Will I be able to keep this job or will I be let go? Will I ever find another job? How are we going to make it?

Now I have a job - it's a regular job but I am making thirty percent less than I made just four years ago. I still cannot afford those insurance premiums. I am still a criminal. I cannot afford to save. I cannot afford even basic repairs to my house. The value on the biggest asset that I own that is finally starting to look like it might go back to where we bought it twelve years ago but at this point, the only way I might realize that potential is if I throw about $60,000 that I no longer can afford into it for the repairs that have gone wanting for so long - $30,000 for new siding, $20,000 for a new roof, new paint and new carpet.

In the years since I lost my job in 2012 we have gone, as so many others have gone in this past decade, from comfortable middle class to barely making it. Even now, because I don't earn enough to be comfortable, we unplug appliances when we're not using them. We have taken light bulbs out of fixtures to save money. We don't run the heat until the house gets below sixty degrees. We don't run the air conditioner unless it's over 100 degrees outside. We don't drive unless we absolutely have to, because we can't afford it, even though gas is now at a reasonable price.

Before this mess began in 2006 / 2007, we could go out to dinner occasionally. Nothing big, nothing expensive, but we could. Now we can't. I honestly cannot remember the last time we ate out - and that last time was Jack In The Box. Not because we wanted to, but because it was all we could afford.

So before these erudite airheads tell me that I'm an "idiot" for voting for someone outside the norm, they should sit down and talk to people like me. They should walk the walk of a life like mine before opining on how "wrong" I am.

I am voting for Donald Trump because the same-old, same-old of Washington politicians and a one term Senator have not been good for me, for people like me, or for this country. I am desperate to try something - anything new and another one term Senator is not an option.

So take my advice, Jim - and pass the word to your buds: just shut up until you know what you're talking about.

Best~
Philippa

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The Washington Elites Haven't Got A Clue

The asphyxiated pinheads in the bodies of Rich Lowry & Co., George Will, Bill Kristol, Erick Erickson et al. need to do at least a little fact finding before they thrust a stake in the ground and tie themselves to it. They've done this again and again by declaring that 'Donald Trump is not a conservative'.

Every week when he appears on Fox News Sunday, George Will pounds that drum - and today, he made it abundantly clear that he is a pinhead without the courage of his convictions.

When Chris Wallace asked in a round-about way if Will would vote for the Republican nominee even if it is Trump, Will said he would. Yet just a second before he said that nominating Trump at the convention would destroy the party.

Pick one side or the other George. Don't try to navigate the middle because there is no middle to find. This is a straight up-or-down, either-or choice. It is either another party cog - interchangeable with any other bought and paid for party cog and the 'R' or the 'D' after their name makes zero difference in the end - or an outsider who is speaking up for a lot of regular Americans.

In the past months - since expanding his political message beyond The Wall - Trump has talked about fair trade, getting deals in place between the US and our trading partners that work equally well for both parties. Well guess what - this is not a new position for him. He was saying the exact same thing twenty-seven years ago:

This doesn't sound like a 'liberal' to me. And don't take my take on it. How about Mary Alice Williams, a CNN political pundit at the 1988 RNC Convention who specifically said that Donald Trump is 'conservative'. A couple of minutes later, during this interview, Larry King described him as a 'Rockefeller Republican'.

So what is this lie being spread by the money men and their shills? (Yes, Rich and Bill and Erick and George, I am calling you and your talking pinhead buddies shills.)

The lie is being spread by the asphyxiated pinheads because Donald Trump scares the hell out of the Establishment.

If he does even half of what he says he'll do, that's going to strip power from the powerful and divert a whole lot of money away from Washington.

Programs sent back to the states where they belong will affect Energy and Education, Housing and Healthcare and that is as it should be. The Citizens of this country should wield the power over our own lives. We should not be the subjects of the politicians and lobbyists, the money men and their shills. We should not be satisfied with having them dictate to us how we should live our lives.

That is the movement behind Donald Trump. The idea that there is more, or that there should be more for those of us who are willing to work for it.

After all, just like millions of other Americans, I get up every morning and head out to work. I drive two hours per day to and from my job. I work my tail off when I'm there, and I haven't had a pay increase in years.

Instead, when I was laid off in 2012, in five minutes I went from making $30 per hour before benefits plus four weeks of paid time off, fully paid health and dental care - to living on $11.50 per hour in unemployment benefits. For five months after the watershed day of being told I was being let go after seventeen years, I took whatever temporary jobs came my way. Most paid just $14 and $15 an hour - and I counted myself lucky to get those because the competition for those jobs was so stiff.

Here I am four years later and, after working as a temporary employee for fifteen months, I was hired. I'm making 27% per hour less than I made before, with no employer paid healthcare and only two weeks of vacation. My life isn't better now than it was four years ago and my story is not at all unusual. I count myself lucky for finding a job - one for which I drive nearly eighty miles per day which costs me a lot of money in gas and wear and tear on my car.

I have been watching Trump since the fall. At first I wasn't thinking about who I would vote for. I just knew I wouldn't be voting for Hilliary. But listening to his message about illegal immigration and the wall, I began to pay attention. I began to feel hope - just a little - that this man might be the one to turn this country around.

This is why I like Donald Trump - what he's saying and what I think he'll do. I have hope when I listen to his message. It's hope that I haven't felt in more than two decades.

If American workers have good jobs with good companies that pay decent wages, we will all benefit.

If American workers aren't competing against low-wage illegals for jobs, if the wages go up for American workers, we all benefit. We'll have a stronger economy with more disposable income. If I had any disposable income - which I do not have at this time since every penny I bring home with me is allocated to paying my bills - I could go out for dinner occasionally. I could afford to buy new clothes occasionally. Maybe I could even afford a vacation - something I haven't had in nearly twenty years.

Yes, there are still a lot of brain-dead ninnies out here in the hinterlands. There are plenty of sheeple who like having things given to them. Sheeple who are willing to sit on their butts in some shabby little apartment because it's free or cheap instead of looking up and wanting more. But there are a lot of us who do want something more than we have, more than the government is willing to give to us.

That is what I want and what I think Trump can help be work for. Cruz won't. Cruz will be 100% interchangeable with Hilliary because he is owned by the lobbyists just as Hilliary is owned. Look for yourself. Here is what Ted has done - and look at the amount that has come from 'Super PACs and Others' - almost half of his money has come from lobbyists and special interests:

 Yet here is what Trump has done:

Only 7% has been raised from 'Super PACs and Other Groups' - and those other groups are not lobbying groups.

Based on this, which of these candidates do you suppose is beholden to the special interests?

Even Hilliary hasn't raised as much from the Super PACs and lobbyists as Cruz has:

What does that say about Cruz's independence if he's elected?

As far as the trade deals The Donald has been talking about for nearly thirty years, his position is one that sounds like a pretty good position to take. After all, why should two parties in a deal have two different standards to meet? Shouldn't both have the same standards and requirements? Shouldn't both reap the same benefits? If not, if one party has an advantage over the other, gains extra benefits at the expense of the other party, how is that fair? Shouldn't America's politicians who have responsibility for making these deals try to strike the very best deal for us? They haven't. Not once and that is neither fair nor right.

That is what Trump is saying he wants for America and that is what I want for America.


So George and Bill and Rich and Erick - get over it. You don't run us. You don't own us, and neither do the money class who own you to the last hair on your head. We are not listening to you any more because what you're telling us is good for us, isn't and we're waking up to that little fact.

Other than that, I hope your day is wonderful.

Best~
Philippa

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Bilderbergers, Romney and the Establishment

If you don't know who or what the Bilderbergers are and how they relate to our Presidential election, Mitt Romney, the National Review (Rich Lowry & Co.) and world politics, here's a brief primer. Before I start, I will say this is a snapshot view. I haven't studied them in depth. I've heard about them for years but have never dug into the group until today. There is plenty of solid information out there - non-conspiracy theorist sources - on the 'net if you choose to delve more deeply.

In a nutshell, the Bilderberg group was most recently established in 1954. One journalist (Daniel Estulin) claims that it goes back centuries, to the 'Black Monks of Venice'. I haven't delved that deeply but there's a book by him that's available from Amazon and a fairly brief RT News interview with him available on YouTube.

It is a group that has been, for the most part, highly secretive. They hold annual meetings in places that can be locked down and heavily guarded without too much trouble.

Members include bankers, industry leaders, including computer and internet industry leaders, and politicians from around the world. The list is impressive and represents almost every single country with a dime on the planet. These are the richest of the rich, the most powerful of the powerful and I have little doubt that they like the drug of power and wouldn't mind more.

In any case, back to current day and current events.

According to the Guardian newspaper, Romney attended the 2012 Bilderberg meeting when he was running for president.

Obama attended Bilderberg meetings. So did the Bush father (who is a member) and son and, if Bush III had gotten the RNC nod this summer, he would have gone to worship at the feet of these people.

This is a group of people who, based on every opinion I have found across the web - conspiracy theorists to journalists - for all intents and purposes want to control the world. Not necessary rule the world, but at least control it.

This list from Wikipedia is, I suspect, incomplete, but it makes for interesting reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bilderberg_participants

They pick our political leaders - Romney was run by the Bilderbergers in 2012. In 2008 it was Hilliary Clinton. Too bad for the Bilderbergers, but her run was subverted by the damned sheeple who decided to go for the 'good-looking articulate black guy' (Joe Biden's words, not mine, thank you). So Hilliary is back now and it's looking like she's a shoo-in for the Democrat nomination no matter what the sheeple want in Bernie.

Aside: Bernie doesn't look or sound all that interested, anyway. Otherwise, why isn't he hitting Hilliary loud and hard on her e-mail mess? Could it be that the non-lovefest meeting between Obie-One and Berns a few weeks ago was a hard and fast warning from a Bilderberg attendee to a wannabe? I suspect that might have been part of it.

This year, the Bilderbergers have got their panties in an historic twist over Trump's insurgency over Bush III. They kicked Bush III to the curb when he couldn't gain traction, and he dropped out of the race. Now they're backing Marco Rubio - the milquetoast little boy with whom they met in 2012.

So what is the interest of these people, this cabal, in US politics? After all, looking at that list, most are from Europe and Asia, right?

Well - as America goes, so goes the world. A while back, we gave the Bilderbergers a glimmer of an idea when they looked at our Constitutional republic.

We have a collection of states which, according to the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, have some autonomy - much like the European states. There's an inter-dependency and an independence side-by-side in both places.

What if they could unify the world countries into a single entity? Heck - it was working in America, what if they tried to unify another region in similar fashion? Could it work there?

The EU was the litmus test. Individual laws and constitutions, currencies, politics, and everything else suddenly went by the wayside. They became a union with a new constitution, new laws and legal processes and a new currency. It was a litmus test - could it be done and could it work on a larger scale?

Signs have been more positive than negative that it could work. Except for Greece. That was a wart they missed. But, they pulled out the stops and funded Greece and it's back up on tottery feet. A strong economic wind and it will collapse again but for now, it's standing.

Now the US Treasury - sitting deep in the pockets of the Bilderbergers - is floating the idea of eliminating the $100 bill. They say it's to limit counterfeiting - which is utter nonsense. Nonsense to the point of stinking to high Heaven since anyone who knows even the first thing about counterfeiting knows that the $20 is both the most highly circulated bill and the one most likely to be counterfeited.

The dark side to that proposal is to phase out physical currency. No more bucks or fivers or ten-spots or Benjamins (the $100) that can be folded inside a wallet. Instead, it would all be credit - digits on a computer.

I suspect that Bitcoin was the first attempt at this, but it never caught on. I don't know what other people thought of it, but I hated the idea of giving up my control for supposed convenience. I also wondered about hacking and suspected that it would be far too easy for those who held my money to abscond with it - so I never even looked into it.

Now they're pushing the idea of getting rid of physical money - the cash transactions many of us participate in every day.

Debit cards are one step. Credit cards are another. If they can wrest the physical money from our hands, guess what? They suddenly have absolute control over us.

First, if we want to buy anything, we have to have a piece of plastic to access the money that's in the banks controlled by the Bilderberg group (take a look at the list - all of the world's major banks are represented). What if they don't like us? What if they don't like the way we think or write or talk or vote? What if they don't like us enough that they decline to provide us with that piece of plastic? What would you do if you had money in the bank but no way to get to it?

Second, if they have control of all the money, they can decide what limits to impose on our access to it.

US banks already impose limits on how much you can withdraw at any single time without them filing a report to the Treasury Department. Allegedly, it's to prevent money laundering and drug trafficking, but what if you have a big cash transaction to make - maybe you want to buy a car with cash, or you have something that costs a lot but comes with a deep discount for cash payment. Do you really want the private details of your withdrawal sent to the government? Well, too bad, so sad, that's how it is.

Third, if they have all of the money in digits on a computer someplace, how hard would it be for them to impose negative interest rates? To charge us a percentage rate - that can be changed anytime at their whim - for keeping our money in their bank? It's already being talked about. It's already a law on the books - quietly passed at the G20 meeting a couple of years back when Cypress implemented bail-ins - the confiscation of depositor's money to stabilize the Cyprian economy.

Fourth, how about those bail-ins? Let's say you have worked and saved and penny-pinched your entire life. You're looking forward to retirement and think you have enough put away to do so in reasonable comfort. Suddenly you learn through a notification or sudden shock of showing up to make a withdrawal that the balance you thought you had no longer exists. The bank 'needed' it more than they deemed you do. They bailed it in to pay off debt or cover losses or something else.

Who cares that it was your money? Who cares that you scrimped and saved and lived on pork and beans for forty-plus years so you could retire with peace of mind, travel and do what you want to do. Who cares? The bank doesn't. It's not going to say, 'whoops, sorry. We'll put that back right now... there you go!' That money will be gone. Gone for good just as it was in Cypress when they implemented bail-ins.

So that's the dark side of the Bilderberg group - and Romney with his nasty little-man speech the other day, and the Washington Establishment in the forms of the National Review and the Weekly Standard want to perpetuate the Bilderberger's power. After all, one of the items on the agenda for their 2015 meeting was, surprise surprise, US Elections.

And, here's a tie-in for you: The National Review came out with their despicable hit-pieces against Donald Trump's candidacy. Well, guess what. The founder of the National Review, William F. Buckley, Jr. was a member of the Bilderberg group as reported in the Hamilton Spectator (Ontario, Canada) in June, 1996. Here we are, twenty years later, and the Bilderbergers are back with Romney, Rich Lowry & Co. and other Elitists all coming out against Donald Trump.

It all ties and it's all scary because they're out in the open now, and while they're backing candidates and political rags (National Review, et al.) protesting through front men and women that it's for 'our' good, I think most of us know that 'our' good comes a far distant last place to their good. Bear that in mind when you hit the polls this year - Bernie or Donald who are truly independent. Not Hilliary or Rubio who are in the pockets of these Elitist Elites.

Think about it, do some reading, and have a wonderful day.

Best~
Philippa

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Rich Lowry & Co. - A Study in Bloated Arrogance

Will Rich Lowry (editor of the National Review) and his cronies blow up what remains of the Political Right in this country? They're working hard on doing just that. Based on all that I've seen and heard in the past months, particularly in recent weeks, it looks like it. Particularly now that Mitt Romney - a sock puppet of the Republican Establishment - is going to come out and make some sort of speech no one cares about and no one but the media will listen to.

They have their noses so firmly planted against the tree trunk of their ideology, they don't see the rest of the forest is on fire.

First, they banded together and wrote a bunch of hit pieces in their political magazine - dedicated an entire edition to them. Twenty or so pointy headed arrogant wannabe despots wrote scathing articles about someone just because he threatens their position in the World of Washington. They're afraid, and rightly so, that their moneyed influence will go straight through the U-bend of life because they won't have a grip on this person. He will not be malleable to their way of thinking.

After that, and after having their front men and women talking about it around the networks (which they drive, too), they fussed and fussed about the fact that we American people are still too stupid to recognize that they know what's good for us better than we do. We're not falling in line. The sheep aren't paying attention to the shepherd or his sheepdogs. We're going our own direction and it's infuriating the shepherds.

Jeb Bush, the marionette they picked to be our president flamed out in spectacular fashion after just a few weeks.

They looked around, discarded the other governor in the race - Kasich - and decided to rally behind a new guy - Marco. He looks like a nice guy. I used to think he's a nice guy, but he's a guy who looks like the perfect candidate for a Good Humor ice cream ad. In the days since the last debate, he's been routinely embarrassing himself, showing that he has the temperament of a petulant four-year old. His donors, no doubt the same people who are staring at the ideological tree trunk, pushed him to attack the front runner. Well, guess what? Those attacks make him look and sound like a spoiled brat.

He's ridiculing the Alpha candidate. He's not attacking the Alpha candidate's platform or policies. He's talking about physical aspects and the spray-on tan. It's embarrassing to have this man running around saying he wants to be president.

As rough-around-the-edges as the Alpha male in this fight might be, at least he has the capacity to act like a reasonable adult. He showed that in South Carolina and on Super Tuesday when he held press conferences. Not only did he act like a reasonable adult, even detractors in the media said he looked and sounded presidential.

Still, these arrogant ideologues are foisting their choice on America through well-funded Super PACs.

Rubio's super PAC is Conservative Solutions led by J. Warren Tompkins. He and his buddy Chris Mottola brought us two versions of the Bush family, ending with Hank Paulson and the economic debacle of the mid-2000s. Thanks a lot, guys.

Then they offered up the milquetoast of John McCain for president in 2008, against Barack Obama. That was an embarrassment. Whatever fire McCain once had has been sublimated by immersion in the Washington cesspit.

And now they're working hard to undermine Trump's candidacy so they can bring us more of the same.

The super PACs are out there spreading outright lies and half-truths - like the one about Trump banning disabled vets from Trump Tower. Not true, folks.

Trump asked the city to move street vendors, some of whom had disabled vet permits, from the sidewalk in front of his property. Instead, the ad makes it sound as if Trump barred the doors and prevented disabled vets from the building itself.

There are other lies, but the volume of the hate-filled ads shows the desperation of the Right-wing establishment. Now they're trotting Mitt Romney out of the closet to blast Trump in another hate-filled dissertation. To me, it looks like desperation.

What's astonishing to me, and to others who are paying attention to this, is that these self-righteous arrogant bloated egos don't see what they're doing.

The American people are the ones who are called out in the Founding documents. We The People, as I've said before, isn't just an idea or words on a piece of parchment. It's bigger than an idea - it's an ideal, and it's what the Founders promised: a government of, for and by the people.

Rich Lowry, George Will, Erick Erickson and all the other arrogant pinheads give lip service to the Founders but their actions shout that it isn't about the Founders or the dream the Founders had for a United States of America. Instead, it's all and only about them, about power.

As I see it, one of three things can come of this:

1) The Republican party will shatter like a mirror dropped from the top floor of Trump Tower. It will break along factional lines - The People who support Trump and those who don't.

Rich Lowry & Co., and by that it's all inclusive of everyone who is bucking what the people want for themselves, will hold their control of our government. They will put a person into the White House who is a puppet - an empty suit, just as George Bush I and George Bush II were empty suits and just as Barack Obama is an empty suit, owned by George Soros, Warren Buffet and the left.

2) The American people will rise up and push Trump into the White House. The Republican Establishment will have apoplexy and implode (God! Do I hope that happens!!!). We'll have four years of a real representative democracy - as the Founders intended.

If that first four years is successful - if Trump does at least some of what he's said he'll do - we could get eight years and a lot of forward movement toward what this country should be but isn't because of policies pushed and enacted through puppetry.

3) Rich Lowry & Co. will, by virtue of their resistance, turn off the people they need to get a right-wing candidate into the White House and we'll end up with at least four-years of George Soros and Warren Buffet fronted by Hilliary Clinton.

I'll say it right here and right now: If Trump is not the nominee of the Republican party come summer, I will not vote in November. There won't be any point in voting in November and I am genuinely willing to wager my life that a lot of other people will feel the same and will stay home, giving the left a de facto win because I will NOT vote for someone I don't believe in.

If Rich Lowry & Co. want to destroy the United States of America, they are on the right path. They are doing a fine job of it with Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush and the other sock puppets.

I believe in Donald Trump. I do not think he's perfect. I do not think he's as self-serving as he's being made out. I do think that he's honest and that he does want to make America Great again.

For what it's worth, that's my take on it this morning.

Have a wonderful day.

Best~
Philippa

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Pinheads On Parade – What is the National Review up to?

Good grief, what a joke and what a lot of fuss about nothing. How many ‘real’ people really read the National Review, anyway? It’s for political junkies and their ilk and I can’t remember the last time, except on television recently since it’s in the news, that I’ve even seen a copy of it anywhere.

They wrote a hit piece about Donald Trump. They got a lot of press and publicity, and a lot of people like me are offended by just what I’ve heard about it.

I haven’t read it. I won’t read it because I know all it will do is make me want to do something bad to this group of arrogant pinheads.

What they don’t ‘get’ is that Trump is speaking to the American people in a way that’s got a lot of us sitting up and listening to what he has to say.

Our household is paying closer attention to the news – and not just one channel or two, but we’re even watching MSNBC which is disgusting television on its best night. Hell, every time I see Chris Matthews (he of the ‘thrill up my leg’) he looks like an escapee from a lunatic asylum, and Rachel Maddow (Madcow in our household) is a flagrant, unapologetic socialist fishwife of the worst sort. Nonetheless, we scan all of the channels because we’re interested in ‘what did he say today.’

Before this election cycle, I never looked for or watched videos of political rallies on YouTube. We’ve already done it several times this election cycle.

Never before have I looked forward to watching political debates.

I am doing all of these things now and it’s solely because of what Donald Trump is speaking to in me.

Even hubby, who swears there is no political solution to anything in this country, and who hasn’t voted in I can’t remember how long is sounding hopeful again.

In the past six months Trump has been leading in virtually all of the various polls all of the various polling organizations take. It’s unheard of for one candidate to get the lead, take the lead, stay in the lead and expand on the lead, but he’s done it because he has got at least grudging interest from a wide spectrum of possible voters.

Now, though, the pointy-pinheads from inside the Washington Beltway have their knickers not just bunched or twisted or wadded. They have them so tightly wound that the wearers of them are squeaking in an undignified manner. Case in point, the National Review, an allegedly conservative newsmagazine, is scared stiff that someone from outside the Beltway might win the day. Gathering together, these oligarchs have put together a hit piece to try to slow if not derail Trump’s momentum.

Apparently they know better than we the people know what we want and what’s good for us.  That, at least, is what I gather is the tone of their hit piece. Seems they would far rather apply insanity again with Ted Cruz or Jeb Bush or another political insider rather than try to strike a new course.

What is the word for arrogance beyond arrogance?

Who on Earth are these people to have the temerity to tell me and others like me how we’re supposed to think and what values we should hold dear?

Who the hell are these people to tell me and others like me who we should or should not vote for?

Didn’t this kind of political posturing and mind-bending go out of style in the 1980's with Pravda's make-over under Gorby?

In all the years I’ve watched politics, a prominent conservative newsmagazine has never before, in my memory, come out and attacked the front-running candidate on the right side. They’ve gone hard against the left-wing candidate, but they’ve either supported or kept silent about the right-wing guy.

Not this time, though.

OMG!! The man changed his mind! He used to agree with things when he was younger, but then he matured, gained more life experience and realized those things weren’t necessarily good.

Newsflash, Rich Lowry, et al! People grow up, they learn, they see life and living and they change their view of things. It isn’t unusual. A lot of smart people grow up and change their minds, why can’t Trump? Personally, I think the ability to think outside the box, to consider one’s position on a subject, learn and decide to change position is a good thing.

It seems, listening to these pinheads, Ted Cruz has changed his underwear but not his mind, same with Hilliary and Berns. Does this rigidity in thought make them a better candidate? I don’t think so.

In order to lead successfully you have to be able to adapt to changing situations. World politics is highly fluid and we have been stuck in one gear for the past fifteen years. Look how well that’s done for us and for our standing in the world.

Or… could it be that they built this hit piece to deliberately make Trump seem more palatable to the undecided middle-of-the-road voters? Could it be that they’re laying down a scent trail of “Hey, if the Washington Elites don’t like him, maybe he’s not such a bad guy after all…”? Is it possible?

Yeah. After all, in that Doritos ad out there, a pig flew.

I think I'm going to look for another Trump rally on YouTube. I suggest you make up your own mind and do as you see fit when the time comes.

Best~

Philippa

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