Exclusive: How Trumpie Made His Difficult and Agonizing Decision to Come Out Against Racism, Nazism, White Supremacy and the KKK

Fake (But Believable) News at Its Finest

Editor’s Note:  After waiting several days Donald Trump decided that he should be against hate groups.  This is not how he made his decision, but could have been.

Washington (XPI)  August 14.  This news service has learned the process by which Trump decided to go public and denounce hate.  The President spent several days wondering if it was appropriate to condemn hate groups according to a close aide, and after weighing the pros and cons for and against hatred in America he finally determined that while it was a close call, hate and prejudice and bigotry in the nation should not exist.

“Look, I shouldn’t have this problem” Trump told Ivanka late Saturday.  “Obama even though he is a Kenyan born Muslim should have taken care of this.  Everything gets left to me as though I should have to do something about the surge or racists groups in the country.  Why me”  Ivanka apparently tried to soothe her daddy by telling him her fall line would be sold to people of all color.

The key problem Trump was having was that he agreed with his base that was virulently pro white rights, felt that they were being discriminated against and did not believe that Blacks, Jews, Hispanics, Asians, Gays  and people whose forebearers came from another country should not be allowed to say in America.  But that people around him felt he had to hide that fact.  “These are good people, I know them, I agree with them and how can I go against them just because a bunch of liberal pinko weak kneed politicians like Ted Cruz and Orrin Hatch want me to” Trump was reported as telling his friends between golf rounds.  Trump was also annoyed that his golf game had been interrupted by the events in Charlottesville.

In the end Trump decided to publicly announce Monday that maybe, just maybe racist and anti-Semitism  wrong, claim credit for being the President who did more for, as he put it, ‘black folks’ than any other person to hold the office.  There are reports he sent aides Bannon and Stephen Miller to visit white militias and tell them he didn’t mean any of his remarks, but those reports are unconfirmed.  Several leaders of the white supremacists groups when asked about that said it wasn’t necessary for Trump to tell them that, they knew it already.

But Trump could not stomach the fact that people didn't think he supported the bigors, so on Tuesay he corrected the record.

Federal Judge Bears Some Responsibility of Violence in Charlottesville

But That Does Not Exonerate the Bigots and Whose Hatred Caused the Violence

There is a lot of blame to go around for the violence and deaths in Charlottesville.  Almost all of the blame goes to the individual who drove a car into a crowd, killing one person and injuring others.  And that individual shares all of that blame with the KKK, Nazi’s and other bigoted haters who wanted to spew their hatred onto the American scene.  They showed up armed and dressed as militia.  They did not come in peace, they came to fight.

A small part of the blame goes to the people responsible for public safety.  No not the men and women on the front lines, they bravely did their duty.  But their superiors did not adequately train them in how to control a situation like the one that happened in Charlottesville.

And totally unreported by the news media is the role Federal Judge Glen Conrad played in bringing about a situation that was conducive to violence.  See, the city of Charlottesville recognized that the protests and counter protests could clash. So they wisely decided to move the protest of the removal of the statue of Robert E. Lee away from a restricted, crowded park near downtown Charlottesville to a much larger part about a mile away.  This would allow police and others to control the protesters and keep them from attacking those who wanted to peacefully counter protest.

Incredibly though, a federal judge denied the city that request.  He was of the opinion that moving the protest would violate the free speech rights of the protesters, that the city’s decision to move the protest was not to protect the public but to somehow punish the content of the protester’s speech.

“Based on the current record, the court concludes that Kessler has shown that he will likely prove that the decision to revoke his permit was based on the content of his speech. Kessler's assertion in this regard is supported by the fact that the City solely revoked his permit. . . but left in place the permits issued to counter-protestors.

The disparity in treatment between the two groups with opposing views suggests that the defendants' decision to revoke Kessler's permit was based on the content of his speech rather than other neutral factors that would be equally applicable to Kessler and those protesting against him. This conclusion is bolstered by other evidence, including communications on social media indicating that members of City Council oppose Kessler's political viewpoint. At this stage of the proceedings,· the evidence cited by Kessler supports the conclusion that the City's decision constitutes a content-based restriction of speech.”

The was absurd to the nth degree.  The city did not actually revoke the permit; they modified it to move the protest to a safer place.  The city did not deny Kessler and his merry band of bigots the right to speak.  They did not attempt to control what they would say.  They simply wanted to preserve the right of free speech by moving to a better place.  The fact that they let the counter protests remain where the original speech was planned supported the idea that the city was interest in keeping the peace.

Events tragically proved the city right and the judge wrong.  The deaths and injuries should forever be on his conscience.

Opioid Drug Companies Paid Doctors $46 Million Between 2013 and 2015

And Opioid Use Increased

It’s no secret that pharmaceutical companies pay out huge sums to doctors.  And now a study has determined that they have made payments in connection with prescriptions for opioids.

One in 12 doctors has received money from drug companies marketing prescription opioid medications, according to a study released Wednesday afternoon.

Researchers at Boston Medical Center found that from 2013 to 2015, 68,177 doctors received more than $46 million in payments from drug companies pushing powerful painkillers. Researchers believe it is the first study to look at the practice of pharmaceutical companies marketing opioids to physicians.

Now there are or can be legitimate reasons for drug companies to support doctors who prescribe addiction prone drugs, primarily to educate those doctors to prescribe safely.  That does not seem to be the situation here.

According to Hadland’s study, which was published in the American Journal of Public Health, about two-thirds of the payments came from speaking fees. About 700 doctors raked in nearly 83 percent of the total money spent marketing to physicians.

But really, is anyone comfortable with these numbers? 

Pres. George H. W. Bush Called Out the NRA on it Hatred – Trump Won’t Even Call Out Nazi’s and White Supremacists

First President Bushes Just Continues to Rise; Trump Continues to Head to the Gutter

There is a lot of condemnation of the refusal of Trump to criticize by name the ugly, evil bigoted racists whose actions in Charlottesville led to violence and death.  This moral failure on the part of an immoral President recalls the time when the President of the United States was a moral leader.

In 1995 the NRA attacked federal agents as being ‘jack-booted thugs’.  In response President George H. W. Bush resigned from the group.  But in resigning he also sent the group a letter that will stand forever as the paragon of justified moral outrage, and the clear signal of how an honorable person responds to promoters of hate.

HOUSTON, May 10— Following is the letter of resignation sent last week by former President George Bush to the National Rifle Association: May 3, 1995

Dear Mr. Washington,

I was outraged when, even in the wake of the Oklahoma City tragedy, Mr. Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of N.R.A., defended his attack on federal agents as "jack-booted thugs." To attack Secret Service agents or A.T.F. people or any government law enforcement people as "wearing Nazi bucket helmets and black storm trooper uniforms" wanting to "attack law abiding citizens" is a vicious slander on good people.

The former President went on the say this.

I am a gun owner and an avid hunter. Over the years I have agreed with most of N.R.A.'s objectives, particularly your educational and training efforts, and your fundamental stance in favor of owning guns.

However, your broadside against Federal agents deeply offends my own sense of decency and honor; and it offends my concept of service to country. It indirectly slanders a wide array of government law enforcement officials, who are out there, day and night, laying their lives on the line for all of us.

After Charlottesville everyone should read the entire letter.  And then think of what we have lost by putting Trump in office.

An Explanation of Why U. S. – China Relations Are Having Difficulty

And It’s An Obvious One

The NYT is reporting on the troublesome relationship between America and China over trade and North Korea.  For some odd reason the Trumpies believe that they can get China to help with containment of North Korea while at the same time attacking China on its trade policies.

While past presidents have tried at least ostensibly to keep security and economic issues on separate tracks in their dealings with China, Mr. Trump has explicitly linked the two, suggesting he would back off from a trade war against Beijing if it does more to pressure North Korea. “If China helps us, I feel a lot differently toward trade, a lot differently toward trade,” he told reporters on Thursday.

This is insulting to China, particularly when it is done in public.  And things are not going all that well.  China has apparently put forth a reasonable proposal.

Still, the leadership has been vexed that the Trump administration has paid scant attention to China’s proposal for a “freeze for freeze” solution to North Korea. Described many times by China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, the notion calls for North Korea to freeze its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile program at current levels in exchange for the United States drawing down military exercises off the Korean Peninsula.

Really, does the U. S. need military exercise near Korea to prepare to attack or defend against the poorest military nation in the world?  Looks like a reasonable tradeoff.

So why aren’t things going better?  Oh there is this.

Much of the diplomacy between China and the United States has been conducted between Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and the Chinese ambassador in Washington, Cui Tiankai. 

Ah yes, the Boy Wonder coming straight from his appearance on the Original Amateur Hour.

God has given Trump authority to take out Kim Jong Un,’ evangelical adviser says

Today in Crazy

Yes, that is a real headline from the Washington Post.  It is almost as if the United States has left the current planet and is now orbiting in an alternate universe.

It is not clear what religion would support an action that could result in the deaths of millions, maybe tens of millions.  Freedom of religion exists in this nation but any claim that mass killing is religious, well let’s just say that could only exist in the fantasy land of Donnie Trump and his minions.

President Trump greets Pastor Robert Jeffress on July 1, 2017, during the Celebrate Freedom Rally at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. Pool photo by Oliver Douliery/European Pressphoto Agency)

Racial Tension and Issues Are Not Solely in Charlottesville

Deteriorating Race Relations in the Age of Trump

The horrific news from Charlottesville, the death and injuries that the idea that white supremacists are still active in the nation might lead one to believe that the problem is limited to that college town in Virginia.  It is not.

First of all though what in the world were the police doing in Cville to allow the protests and counter protests to become uncontrollable.  The clashes were predictable and expected.  If Charlottesville law enforcement were unable, unwilling or too weak to handle the job they should have called for help.  What is wrong with them?  As for Trumpie, well he blamed everyone with nary a single word condemning white racists.  But then he wouldn't want to attack his most loyal supporters, would he?

And the NYT has stories of other racial issues tearing at the fabric of society.  New York Democrats are becoming divided, in part over charter schools and the racial prejudices that infect education policy in New York state.  The latest outrage came from Jeffrey Loeb, a wealthy hedge fund manager (does that profession just create assholes as a side effect?) and charter school advocate.  Mr. Loeb decided it was good strategy to invoke the KKK with respect to an African American politician.

Mr. Loeb wrote this week that “hypocrites who pay fealty to powerful union thugs and bosses do more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood,” singling out the minority leader of the State Senate, who is African-American. Mr. Loeb, a hedge fund giant and political megadonor, quickly deleted and disavowed the incendiary comment after it became public, but the damage was done.

Good grief!  And aspiring Democratic presidential candidate Gov. Andrew Cuomo is right in the middle, and rapidly losing his opportunity to be considered a serious contender for the nomination.  His handling of this issue along with neglect of the city’s transportation system should doom his presidential decisions.

Going south the Times is reporting on how Ole Miss is dealing with racial issues and it virulent racial past.  For example there is good old Lucius Lamar.

A professor at Ole Miss before and after the Civil War, he served in both chambers of Congress and as a Supreme Court justice.

Oxford’s main thoroughfare, lined with stately homes and towering oaks, is named Lamar Avenue. His home, restored as a museum, is on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1977, Ole Miss dedicated a major building as Lamar Hall.

That building will soon get a plaque more fully describing Lamar’s legacy.

Lamar drafted the state’s orders of secession, funded his own Confederate regiment and held 31 slaves. After the war, he remained a divisive figure, delivering speeches that riled up whites in a violent 1875 election that he said “involved the supremacy of the unconquered and unconquerable Saxon race,” according to one newspaper account of the day.

Somehow the concept that this racist should not be honored is alien to the good mothers and fathers in Mississippi.  How much thought does it take to condemn such a man?  Apparently more than the powers that be in Mississippi have.

At a meeting black journalists an African American Trump White House staffer got out of control.

Ms. Manigault-Newman is the director of communications for the White House Office of Public Liaison. She also noted that in her role, she is often the “only African-American representative” in the White House and frequently tries to be an advocate on behalf of black people.

But the discussion quickly worsened from there. It became a 25-minute argument during which Ms. Manigault-Newman called Mr. Gordon “aggressive,” with Mr. Gordon pointedly asking what effect Ms. Manigault-Newman had made on the president.

In one heated exchange, Mr. Gordon recounted Mr. Trump’s comments last month on Long Island that suggested police officers should rough up suspects while taking them into custody. Ms. Manigault-Newman interjected, “Are you suggesting that I just walk away?”

Gosh, the sole African American in the White House.  And how did she get the job, how is it that Trump even knew and African American woman?

Heading into the forum, many of the conference attendees said they were steeling themselves for the appearance of Ms. Manigault-Newman, who became famous on “The Apprentice” and has had several fiery exchanges with journalists.

Oh right. 

And of course they must have been some killing of unarmed African American by policy recently.  But that is now too common to be considered news.

The Opiod Crisis is Real – Trump’s Response is From Outer Space

Clueless  On Vacation

It is impossible to deny that addiction to opiods is serious.  A task force has recommended it be termed a national emergency.  Here’s Trumpie’s response to that. 

He said the “best way to prevent drug addiction and overdose is to prevent people from abusing drugs in the first place.”

“If they don’t start, they won’t have a problem. If they do start, it’s awfully tough to get off,” Trump told reporters at the clubhouse at his private golf club. “So if we can keep them from going on — and maybe by talking to youth and telling them: ‘No good, really bad for you in every way.’ But if they don’t start, it will never be a problem.”

 Yes, this is the man whose finger is on the nuclear trigger. OMG

How did that work out?

Lindsey Graham is Betting the Farm on Nuclear War

Lindsey Needs to Do the Same Thing Donnie Needs to Do - Shut Up

Here from Taegan Goddard's wonder political forum is some really scary reporting.

Graham Says Trump Is Willing to Strike North Korea

August 10, 2017 at 4:43 pm EDTBy Taegan Goddard222 Comments

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told radio host Hugh Hewitt that while President Trump said he would try to negotiate with North Korea, he is very “willing to abandon strategic patience and use preemption. I think he’s there mentally. He has told me this.”

Said Graham: “I wish a Democrat would take their hatred of Donald Trump and park it…because of everyone else’s failure, he’s run out of the ability to kick the can down the road.”

Now the problem of this is that if this is strategy to make North Korea reconsider its threatening talk, this could backfire badly.  One assumes that Graham with the connivance of the White House went to a Trump friendly media midget to say things that they expect would make the North Koreans back down on their threats. And that might work.

But it might not.  If North Korea interprets this and other incendiary talk as meaning the U. S. will conduct a pre-emptive strike against the North Koreans then they may well react by making their own unprovoked attack.  This would lead to an all out assault on the NK's as well it should, but the result would be casualties in the hundreds of thousand, or more likely in the millions.  It's a high stakes bet, and maybe, just maybe too high stakes for Graham and Trump to play the game.  The loss of life will not be their's but if there is a holocaust they will be condemned by history and morality for all eternity.

On Trump vs McConnell This Forum Sides with Trump

Because Even Donnie Cannot be Wrong All the Time

The Prez is highly critical of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R, Ky) over his failure to pass any repeal of ACA. 

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday sharply escalated his criticism of the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, raising the possibility that Mr. McConnell should perhaps relinquish his position if he cannot deliver on signature legislative priorities.

For days, Mr. Trump has trained his fire on Mr. McConnell, venting on Twitter about the Senate’s inability to pass a health care repeal bill before lawmakers left for the August recess.

Speaking to reporters on Thursday afternoon outside his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., Mr. Trump was asked if Mr. McConnell should consider stepping down.

“I’ll tell you what,” Mr. Trump began, “if he doesn’t get repeal and replace done and if he doesn’t get taxes done, meaning cuts and reform, and if he doesn’t get a very easy one to get done, infrastructure, if he doesn’t get them done, then you can ask me that question.”

McConnell took ownership of the ACA repeal and replace.  He decided the strategy and he was the leader of the process.  He is at the place where the buck stops.

Of course McConnell cannot take any blame, like Trumpie nothing that fails is his fault.  But regardless of what he thinks about not being the culprit here, this whiny little man is the one Trump should blame.  And good for him for doing it.

Why the Stock Market Ignores Trumpie and Other Observations

Insight Into the Rational World

Here’s the scoop.

1.      The stock market should have plummeted when Trump gave out his threat of nuclear war against North Korea.  It didn’t.  Why not?  No one takes Trump seriously, no one believes what he says, and other than news organizations which have to fill space no one seems to care.

2.      A pre-dawn FBI raid on Paul Manafort, ex Trump campaign head should make some people named Trump very nervous. 

3.      After saying the Senate would stay in session for at least the first two weeks of August Senate Leader Mitch McConnell sent them crawling  home after a week.  Mitch himself slunk out of D. C. with his prehensile tail between his legs.  Then like a true stalwart he blamed everyone else for his problems, like Trump.

4.      House Speaker Paul Ryan is a quick learner and hence that is the reason he is keeping his mouth closed. 

5.      Another entry in the “How Low Can You Go” contest the Republicans appear to have Sen. Ron Johnson (R, Wi) blamed John McCain’s no vote on health care on McCain’s brain cancer.  Good Grief!

6.      Democrats are leading in the polls and will continue to do so until they have to nominate actual candidates and run races.

7.      In Alabama’s special senate race Trump has endorsed Sen. Strange (no we are not making up that name) in the Republican primary.  If Strange finishes third and out of the money expect Trump to argue that without his endorsement Strange would have finished fourth in a three person race.

8.      Rachel Maddow came back from vacation and the layoff did not hinder her ability to take an interesting story and make it boring.

How Uneconomic and Polluting Is Coal? W.Va. Gov Wants Feds to Pay Utilities to Use It

So Much for Market Based Solutions

It was no surprise when the West Virginia Governor changed from Democratic to Republican.  The individual had been a Republican in his policy and changing parties only confirmed what everyone knew.  And of course he is a champion of coal.

But one thing that unites Republicans is their belief in the market, that free markets rather than government intervention is the right policy.  But beliefs for conservatives are kinda fluid, they change when their interests call upon them to change.  So it should not shock anyone when the policy proposed is for government to bribe utilities to use coal.

“The federal government would pay our power plants for every ton of coal that they buy that’s a Central (Appalachian) ton or Northern (Appalachian) ton of coal in order to preserve our eastern coalfields,” Justice said.

According to Justice, West Virginia and surrounding states with their three-foot high coal seams are having problems competing with higher seam coal mined in Illinois and western states that’s produced at a lower price. He said the more eastern utilities depend on western coal and natural gas the more the eastern power grid is vulnerable in case of a national security issue in the western part of the country.

See, it’s not about politics and regional interests, it’s about national security.  And a state wants the feds to pay up, not the state.  Yeah, right.

Contrasts in Style Between Trump’s Secretary of Treasury and Obama’s Partly Explains the Failing Trump Administration

Seeking Good Policy vs Seeking Personal Aggrandizement

The new Secretary of the Treasury must get the Republicans to raise the debt ceiling.  Now the debt ceiling is one of the dumbest laws in a nation of dumb laws, but it is the law.  In charge of the campaign  is Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin.

The previous Secretary was Jack Lew, a serious and experienced government fiscal operative.  Mnuchin has never had government policy experience.  And he seems to be as much interested in enjoying the perks as he does formulating policy.

To be sure, Mnuchin appears to be enjoying the trappings of being a cabinet secretary. He meets weekly with Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet L. Yellen, often for breakfast or lunch, to discuss a variety of financial market issues.

His wife, actress Louise Linton, has accompanied him to at least two congressional hearings, an unusual occurrence.

Whereas Lew seemed to eschew all the security and publicity — he once stood alone at night in Union Station waiting for his wife to get off a train — Mnuchin travels differently. He was recently seen leaving a Washington custom tailor shop in the middle of a workday with a group of Secret Service agents. His wife gave an interview to Town & Country magazine detailing all the types of diamonds and pearls she would wear at their June wedding.

It used to be that wealthy people served in government out of a sense of duty.  Mnuchin is one of a large group of folks who serve out of a sense of entitlement.

Alan Dershowitz Shows His Racist Side

Says Grand Jury Composed of African Americans Cannot be Fair

Bigotry From a Man Whose Religion Has Been Subjected to It

One would think that a Professor Emeritus of Harvard Law would be free of prejudice and racital stereotyping.  In the case of self promoting Alan Dershowitz one would be wrong.

In an interview with WABC Radio host Rita Cosby, Dershowitz said Washington has always been solidly Democratic and “has an ethnic and racial composition that might be very unfavorable to the Trump administration.” Mueller has reportedly impaneled grand juries in Washington and Northern Virginia as part of his ongoing investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.

One imagines Dershowitz longs for the days when he could practice law in the south and keep African Americans off of juries because, well, you know, those people are just not as good as the white folks.

McConnell Blames Democrats For Every Bad Thing That Ever Happened in the Last 10,000 Years

“It’s Their Fault Because They Allowed Us to Take Control of Government” He Did Not Say

Senate leader Mitch McConnell has decided that his strategy on the health care debacle was great and that it was just Democrats who caused it to fail.  “Refusing to take any blame or responsibility is what Paul Ryan and I do.  It's hard to deny health care to tens of millions by ourselves” he told the Press or would have if he could have.  So here is some insight into his other thinking that has not occurred yet.

Washington (Fake NN)  Senate leader Mitch McConnell today not only blasted Democrats for refusing to vote to repeal their party’s monumental accomplishment on health care now beloved by a majority of the population, he also went on to fault Dems for a variety of other things.

“I want everybody to notice that the Democratic party did not nominate a single Republican in the last election. None.  Zero.  They filled their candidate roster with al Democrats.  How can anyone expect us to do our job to dismantle Democratic achievements that the public supports if no Democrats are on board” he said in a news conference that did not occur. 

McConnell went on to say the Democrats were responsible for the sinking of the Maine that caused the Spanish American War, the rise of Hitler, the Johnstown Flood, the tsunami that recently struck Japan and the failure of United Airlines to have non-stop service from D. C. to Hazzard county Kentucky.  

Need Evidence It is Getting Hotter - Look to AC

That's Air Conditioning, no Alternating Current

Fifty years ago any area outside of the south was not likely to have residential air conditioning.  That has changed and now even the formerly cool west is building homes with central air.

But of course there is no global warming, the summers are not getting hotter, this is all a hoax  by scientists who want to enslave the economy and by air conditioning sales folks.

All New Houses in the South Today Are Built With Central Air

Share of new single-family homes that have central air-conditioning.

100

80

60

40

20

Total

Northeast

Midwest

South

West

1975

1980

1985

1990

1995

2000

2005

2010

2015

Source: U.S. Census Survey of Construction

News Media - You Have to Stop Giving Kellyanne Air Time - She's Just Using You

Yes, We're Talking to You ABC

Kellyanne Conway, the lying sack of doo-doo crawled out from wherever she goes to hibernate and went on ABC news Sunday to lie and distort for Donnie.

This is ABC''s fault.  First MSBC realized what she was and stopped allowing her to pollute the airways.  Recently she had been staple on CNN spouting lies and nonsense, but it seems like they have finally caught on.  So no ABC putting Kellyanne on TV is not reporting the news, it is allowing a propagandist to paint an inaccurate portrait of Donnie and his administration.

So cut it out ABC, you're embarrassing yourselves!!

Excited About that Big Foxconn investment in Wisconsin to Create All Those Jobs

Well Take a Look at the Fine Print and See How Much Republicans Are Giving Away

Trying to fulfill his pledge to bring manufacturing jobs back to America, Trumpie hailed the decision of electronics manufacturer Foxconn to build a giant plant in Wisconsin.  It could ultimately result in $10 billion in investment and thousands of jobs.  But like everything that Trump and the conservatives touch, there’s the details.  In this case it’s the huge money taxpayers are coming up with to subsidize the deal.

As long as Foxconn keeps hiring  U.S. workers at the new flat-screen manufacturing facility, Wisconsin would cut the company $200 million to $250 million a year for up to 15 years.

That works out to a rough cost to the state of about $230,700 per worker, assuming the factory goes on to generate 13,000 jobs.

So for the first four or five years Wisconsin, not Foxconn is paying the workers salaries.

And Foxconn doesn’t exactly have a good reputation here, a lot of talk, not much action.

The company caught a reputation in the past for abandoning plans. Four years ago, Foxconn unveiled a plan to build a new $30 million plant in Pennsylvania, and the state’s governor praised the move.

But after the political attention faded, Foxconn never built that factory.

A bunch of people who go back on their word, no wonder Trump likes the company.

Is Ohio Gov. John Kasich The Most Delusional Person on the Planet?

At Least in the Top 10

The NYT has a story about people who would like to challenge Donnie in 2020.  Now that is not news, what is news is that those people are Republicans.  And one of the potential challengers is a man who ran in 2016, John Kasich.

Mr. Kasich has been more defiant: The Ohio governor, who ran unsuccessfully in 2016, has declined to rule out a 2020 campaign in multiple television interviews, and has indicated to associates that he may run again, even if Mr. Trump seeks another term.

Kasich did not do well in 2016.  He won only one state and no major Republicans, not a single one thought he should have won the nomination.  The thought in his head that he should run in 2020 shows just how horrible a disease of Presidentialitis he has. He is living in an alternate universe.  While he claims to be happily married he is divorced from reality.  He needs help.

Gosh he looks normal,but looks can be deceiving can't they

Mark Wilson/Getty Images

J. J. Hansen Wants You to Have an Excruciatingly Painful Humiliating Death – He Chooses How You Live and Die – Not You

A Cruel and Twisted Look at Assisted Suicide

A person named J. J. Hansen has an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal about the right to die a natural, pain free, comfortable death.  Apparently he thinks he is best suited to tell every American how they should react to a fatal illness.  He doesn’t want you to have the option of death with dignity.

Mr. Hansen was diagnosed with brain cancer and given a short time to live.  Fortunately for him and his family he has survived for several years.  But because he at one time thought of suicide he has concluded that not only was it not right for him, it is not right for everyone and he is leading a charge to keep millions of people he doesn’t know from having a choice.

Legislation being pushed throughout the country promotes assisted suicide for cases like mine. Instead of providing support and working to make life more comfortable, this legislation would encourage victims to choose the least expensive option—death. We cannot trust insurance companies, which are profit-driven businesses, to continue offering quality care to terminally ill patients. They will choose the cheaper option every time.

I’ve seen the danger of assisted suicide, and that is what moved me to dedicate the last year and a half to fighting assisted-suicide legislation across the country with the Patients Rights Action Fund. If suicide becomes a normal medical treatment for terminally ill patients, lives will be tragically shortened, as patients who might have outlived their prognoses by months or even years kill themselves prematurely.

Like almost every opinion piece in the ultra conservative WSJ the article does not even acknowledge the opposition to his radical proposal that government should interfere in a person’s decision to end their life if they have a horrific fatal disease.  He doesn’t mention the protections in place, or the fact that states that allow assisted suicide have had no problems or complaints.  He implies there is no support for the terminally ill, ignoring organizations like Hospice and other patient support groups that do a fantastic job in giving support to terminally ill people.

But with his ignorance and arrogance what he really does is set himself up as the arbiter of other people’s lives.  And he wants government to enforce his opinion on everyone else.  One would think that this position, the exact opposite of principled conservatism would not be found in the WSJ, or at least would have a rebuttal.  But that assumes current conservatives like those who run the WSJ are principled.