Green Eagle

Ha ha, just kidding.  In the wake of discovering that he is building concentration camps for children, Gallup reports that Republican support for Trump has fallen from 90% to 87%.  This is an openly, proudly Fascist party, people, and anyone who can't see that at the present time is deeply defective, morally and intellectually.  I am always amused when I see people criticize someone on Mueller's staff or at the FBI as illegitimate to work on any Trump investigation, because they have made public statements indicating that they are opposed to Trump.  Any person who is not opposed to Trump is a vicious, hateful human being, and a traitor to this country in the bargain.  If you are not opposed to what Trump and the Republican party are doing to this country, you have no right to take part in its government, or to be considered anything but a moral degenerate.  And that includes the 87% of Republicans who will side with him in public, as well as the majority ...

The lead story from the Washington Post today!  The lead story! "Liberal hostility toward Trump aides could galvanize the GOP base... Recent displays of anger directed toward members of the Trump administration — such as the White House press secretary being asked to leave a Va. restaurant and a speech by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) — could play into the president’s hands." Do you ever remember any of the mainstream media truly concerned that the avalanche of hatred directed nonstop by Republicans toward Democrats for decades could galvanize the Democratic base?  Never.  Because, in fact this headline article is not a kindly meant warning to the Democratic party that a howling mob of millions of Republicans might attack them because some pathological Republican liar is kicked out of a restaurant.  No, it is in fact a barely veiled threat that if Democrats do not shut up and take a few more decades of that abuse, the mainstream press, even its most allegedly r...

I cribbed the following picture from Digby's blog this morning: Digby assumed, as I am sure most people would, that this is a picture of Trump being hugged by Jesus- apparently a Jesus who is about 6'-10, but to me that doesn't really look like Jesus at all.  It looks more like this guy: Just wondering if that is not what they really meant.

Here's something I heard Brian Williams, on the "liberal" MSNBC just say about the refusal of the Republican Congressional majority to take a stand against the malignant Trump immigration policies: "I guess when they hand out the profiles in courage awards at the Kennedy Center this year, there will be none for Schumer, Pelosi, McConnell and Ryan" And that is why our country is going straight to hell.

I am ashamed to admit that, in the past, I have defended Melania Trump as someone who was trapped in her position, and not responsible for the monstrous behavior of her husband. Well, you have probably all seen this, but here is Melania in a jacket she wore to take a trip to see some of the migrant children who her husband stole from their parents: This is the act of the lowest kind of scum.  I was fooled by her, but no more.  She is every bit as big a monster as her husband.

Okay, I don't want to beat this to death, but the social and economic dysfunction of the countries in Central America is in very large part our fault.  The United States has spent a century deposing their legitimate governments in order to replace them with brutal dictators, in order to advance the interests of US corporations.  Here, from an article in the Harvard Review of  Latin America is at least a partial list: U.S. DIRECT INTERVENTIONS  Military/CIA activity that changed governments COUNTRY YEAR EVENT SUMMARY Cuba 1898-1902 Spanish-American War           1906-09 Ousts elected Pres. Palma; occupation regime           1917-23 U.S. reoccupation, gradual withdrawal Dominican Rep 1916-24 U.S. occupation           1961 Assassination of Pres. Trujillo           1965 U.S. Armed Forces occupy Sto Domingo Grenada        ...

Well, the Children in Concentration Camps issue cerainly seems to have taken off, even if not many people with a real voice dare express it as starkly as I do.  Anyway, everybody wants to talk about it, but as far as I am concerned, not a single comment I have heard is willing to get to the real point of Trump's inhumanity toward immigrant children. Yes, of course, this is part of a systematic stirring up of race hatred and a lust for violence in his base, to hopefully get them out on election day and keep the Republican party in charge.  That in itself is one of the most miserable things that has ever happened in the history of our country, at least since the days of slavery and beating down the Indians.  But as malignant as it is, I believe it is only secondary to another purpose of this behavior, which up to this point, no one, from whatever end of the political spectrum, has been able to face. For, I believe, the main purpose of this behavior is to make it clear t...