Trump fails to act on Russian military aggression

By Cynthia Clark

For the past two years, the Russian military has increased aggression against the U.S. on land, at sea and in the air. Why has President Donald Trump failed to act? And why does he continue to kowtow to Russian President Vladimir Putin?

These overt and deliberate acts by Russia have included near collisions between Russian and U.S. Naval ships, American fishermen being buzzed by Russian aircraft, Russian aircraft dangerously intercepting U.S. pilots, a collision between Russian and U.S. armored vehicles, increased Russian sub activity near the U.S., and perhaps most disturbing of all, bounties for the killing of American soldiers reportedly paid by Russian military intelligence to Taliban-linked militants.

These clear acts of aggression have been met with crickets from President Trump. In September, former Vice President Joe Biden said, "Never before has an American president played such a subservient role to a Russian leader. It's not only dangerous, it's humiliating and embarrassing for the rest of the world to see. It weakens us." Biden added, "Not even American troops can feel safer under Trump."

A timeline of aggressive actions by Russia:

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  June 2019 - A U.S. Naval vessel and Russian destroyer nearly collide in the Pacific, coming within 50-165 feet of one another in the Philippine Sea in international waters. The USS Chancellorsville had to reverse engines to avoid the collision, while Russians appear to sunbathe on the deck of their destroyer.
  
• June 2019 - Russian aircraft intercept a U.S. aircraft in international airspace over the Mediterranean Sea, coming close the the U.S. plane not once but three times in a 3-hour period, which U.S. Navy officials said was unsafe and dangerous to the pilots and crew of the U.S. military plane.
• January 2020 - Russian warships aggressively approach U.S. Navy Destroyer USS Farragut in the Arabian Sea, coming within 60 yards of the U.S. ship.
• February 2020 - Increased Russian submarine activity reported on America's East Coast, prompting U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Andrew Lewis, commander of the Navy's 2nd Fleet, to say that the East Coast of the U.S. is "no longer an automatic safe haven" for U.S. ships and subs. The Russian subs are quieter and more lethal than ever before and pose a real threat to the U.S.
• March 2020 - U.S. and Canadian aircraft intercept two Russian reconnaissance aircraft that were watching and loitering around a U.S. submarine exercise known as ICEX.
• June 2020 - The New York Times reports that Russian military intelligence is paying bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan. The Washington Post reported the program has resulted in at least one death of a U.S. soldier. All of this according to U.S. Intelligence officials.
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  June 2020 - NORAD F22 Raptor fighters intercept two formations of Russian bombers over Alaskan Air Defense Zone. The first formation also included two Su-35 fighter jets and an A-50 early warning aircraft and came within 20 nautical miles of Alaska. The second formation, also including an A-50, came within 32 nautical miles of Alaska. Both formations included a pair of Russian Tu-95 "Bear" bomber planes.
  
• August 2020 - A Russian submarine surfaces near Alaska during a Russian war game exercise, according to U.S. military officials. These drills in the Bering Sea disrupted American fishermen, who were also buzzed by Russian aircraft. Some part of our government was informed of the impending exercise, but failed to notify U.S. fishing fleets, putting them in danger.
• August 2020 - Seven U.S. military personnel were injured when a Russian armored vehicle collided with their armored vehicle in Eastern Syria, a move that was called a deliberate provocation and aggressive behavior by the Pentagon.
• September 2020 - An intelligence bulletin issued by the Department of Homeland Security warned that Russia is attempting to undermine the integrity of the 2020 elections by amplifying false claims that mail-in voting results in widespread voter fraud. This harkens back to the proven Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, denied by Trump who backed Putin's denial and undermined his own intelligence agencies in the process.

These overt acts of aggression by a foreign power are disturbing and threaten the safety and security of Americans, not just abroad but even on American soil. And our government does nothing. 

How can the most powerful country in the world fail to act when America is being actively threatened? When President Bill Clinton ordered air strikes on Iraq, he said of Saddam Hussein, "If you act recklessly, you will pay a heavy price." He followed those words with action. After giving Hussein the opportunity to comply, without success, Clinton said, "I made it equally clear that if Saddam failed to cooperate fully, we would be prepared to act without delay, diplomacy or warning." And that's exactly what happened.

President Ronald Reagan once said, "History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap." Putin must really think he's getting a bargain. The Reagan Doctrine, in his 1985 State of the Union address near the end of the Cold War, said, "We must not break faith with those who are risking their lives ... to defy Soviet-supported aggression and secure rights which have been ours from birth."

These are the words of a leader. The words of Donald Trump, on the other hand, don't exist. Since finding out from our own CIA about bounties on American soldiers, Trump has done nothing but first call his own intelligence report "fake news" and then blame staffers for failing to bring it to his attention, although the assessment was in his written intelligence brief in February, though apparently he never reads his briefs.

"Putin is aggressively challenging U.S. military dominance and Trump is sitting on his hands."

Trump talked to Putin on July 23 and said nothing about the bounties on U.S. soldiers. It's October and he has still said nothing. He is either afraid of Putin or he's a Russian asset. Or, he is just incompetent. Or all three. Either way, he has to go. The United States needs a capable leader who will listen to his own intelligence community. Trump's ego overshadows his ability to lead and to protect America's best interests. In 2016, when asked on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" who he consults about foreign policy, Trump replied, "I'm speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I've said a lot of things." He continued, "... my primary consultant is myself and I have a good instinct for this stuff."

No. No, you don't. You most definitely do not. Putin is aggressively challenging U.S. military dominance and Trump is sitting on his hands. The United States needs a president who will shake off the puppet strings and start calling the shots. Someone who will restore our standing with our allies and ensure that the U.S. Military remains the greatest military power in the world. Our national security is riding on it. We must choose wisely and vote for a true commander in chief - Joe Biden.

Trump still quoting lyrics from The Snake as metaphor for immigration, comparing immigrants to snakes

This man is off his nut. Quoting a song that was sung by a black soul singer (Al Wilson) in 1969, as a metaphor for immigration. The lyrics were written by a social activist in the 1960s, Oscar Brown Jr., who would most certainly be on the opposite side of @RealDonaldTrump's ideologies if he were still alive. Brown's family has asked Trump to stop using the lyrics at his campaign rallies, yet he continues, as he did here at the CPAC conference in 2018. The song is based on a story attributed to Aesop's fables and has probably been retold in some form or another for over 2,500 years. Aesop lived in ancient Greece ... it's a fable ... an allegory about bringing an evildoer into your midst and paying the ultimate price.

People seeking asylum or a better life in America are not snakes. They are mothers, fathers, children, individuals, humans ... not snakes. They will add to the fabric of our society if given the chance. You may see an immigrant the next time you go to the doctor, or when you need a lawyer, or they may work on your car or check you out at the grocery store. You may see one of the children at your kids' recital or baseball game. You may see them at school, at church, at the car wash, at the dentist, working in factories, serving you a drink at your local bar or even sweating in the fields. Or they may be protecting our country as a valued member of the military. They want what all of us want ... to be a productive member of our society ... to be Americans.

They are not snakes. There are bad immigrants, just like there are bad cops, bad priests, bad politicians, bad parents and most definitely bad presidents. There is good and bad in everyone. Trump wants to throw out the baby with the bathwater. Trump and his base want only a white America of European descent. They abhor the thought of having to mingle with people of color. My America ... and hopefully your America ... isn't just white. It's a beautiful kaleidoscope of color that reflects our diversity.

This continued retelling is just more of Trump's propaganda campaign. He's been reciting it to his base repeatedly since the campaign began. Does anyone see the irony here? Hopefully America will see the irony and get rid of the real evildoer in our midst. #VoteBlue2018

The assault on America's resources and public lands coming from within

A continuous assault is being waged on our public lands, the environment and natural resources by members of Congress, the President and his carefully chosen cabinet of anti-whatever-they-were-appointed-to-govern henchmen.

Case in point, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who said, "Without question, our public lands are America's treasure." Clearly in Zinke's case, actions speak louder than words. I think his idea of "treasure" might be different than most of America's idea of public treasure. Zinke began a review in April 2017 after President Trump ordered the Interior Department to reconsider 27 large monument designations since 1996. The review is part of an administration-wide effort to boost energy production and expand American industries.

Monopod gas production platform in Alaska's Cook Inlet. If the Trump administration gets its way, this could be a common site off the coast of the Atlantic, Pacific and eastern Gulf coasts.

The Hill reported that Zinke and Trump have:

• Supported oil drilling in one of the last truly pristine wild areas on Earth, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
• Proposed an increase of more than 100 percent for entrance fees at some of America’s most popular national parks, which will freeze out some families with modest incomes.
• Rolled back protections for national monuments in Utah to make it easier to mine and drill in these lands.
• Opened the door to uranium mining in 1 million acres of land next to the Grand Canyon and other national parks.
• Budgeted drastic cuts for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which enables Americans in virtually every county in the United States to access public land and enjoy the outdoors.
• Allowed copper mining that likely would pollute the watershed that feeds the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the most popular wilderness area in the United States and home to the beloved Boy Scout high adventure camp, the Northern Tier.

On Jan. 22, the Department of the Interior agreed to a land swap that would give a portion of Izembek National Wildlife Refuge to the King Cove Corporation. The swap is the first step to building a road that could endanger numerous migratory birds, brown bears and caribou while threatening to close off access to sportsmen. Nicole Whittington-Evans, Alaska regional director at The Wilderness Society, said in a statement, "This appalling move by the Trump administration is the result of a backroom deal that deprives the public of an opportunity to comment and defend the Interior Department's science-based decisions against the road."

A thin chain of land on the Bering Sea coast, Izembek National Wildlife Refuge hugs two lagoons that sustain ecosystems considered to be vital habitat for millions of birds during their annual migrations, including Steller’s eiders and 98 percent of the world’s Pacific brant (goose). Additionally, the refuge sustains the highest concentration of brown bears in the region, and a strip of land between the Izembek and Kinzarof lagoons serves as corridor for caribou traveling to and from calving grounds.

A road might soon cut through the pristine wilderness of the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska that is home to millions of migratory birds, calving caribou and brown bear thanks to a secret land swap by the Trump administration.

In another stunning development, Secretary Zinke has refused to meet with members of the U.S. National Park Service Advisory Board, which has been in existence since 1935 and is comprised of citizen advisors chartered by Congress to help the National Park Service. This lack of cooperation and indifference has resulted in the sudden resignation of 9 of the 12 board members just last month on Jan. 15. Board members cited Zinke's unwillingness to take their calls or meet with them despite their repeated attempts at communication. One board member, former Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles, told Alaska Public Radio that the Department of Interior "showed no interest in learning about or continuing to use the forward-thinking agenda of science, the effect of climate change, protections of the ecosystems, education." He also pointed out that Congress has rescinded NPS regulations of resource stewardship concerning those very things: biodiversity loss, pollution and climate change.

On its website, protectourpublicland.org published a rundown of recent legislation that puts our public lands at risk. You can read all about the assault HERE. They detail the public land heist in this statement:

"Our public lands - millions of acres of forests, mountains, rivers, and plains - are a part of who we are. Right now, powerful special interests and their political allies are waging an aggressive campaign to sell off our public lands in the west. They want to see our national lands privatized for short-term gain, at the expense of our shared American inheritance. This public land heist threatens hundreds of millions of acres of national forests, rangelands, wildlife refuges, parks, wilderness areas, and historic sites, but it also threatens the fundamental American notion that our public lands belong to everyone. They exist for the good of all, not the profit of a few."

Effective Feb. 2, 2018, cuts to Utah's Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments mining and drilling protections took effect and cleared the way for companies to stake uranium and coal claims on tracts removed from the previously protected national monuments.

One of the bills in the linked article on that website is House Bill 621, penned by Utah Tea Party Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz. In a press release for the bill, Chaffetz claimed that the 3.3 million acres of national land, maintained by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), served “no purpose for taxpayers."

But many in the 10 states that would lose federal land in the bill disagree, and public land rallies in opposition are bringing together environmentalists and sportsmen across the west. The Wilderness Society is calling it "step two" in the GOP's plan to offload federal property.

But the west won't be the only part of America to suffer. Trump's campaign of greed doesn't stop where the land ends. The Trump administration recently moved to open nearly all of America's coastal waters to offshore oil and gas drilling, giving energy companies access to more than a billion acres off the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic coasts.

Zinke announced Jan. 9 that Florida's waters were off the table after meeting with Rick Scott, Republican governor of Florida, but 10 days later a senior Interior official said Zinke's decision was not final. The reason for that turn of events is the legal implications of his quick comments, which would open up the decision to legal battles in the future due to his lack of consideration of any public comments at all .... just a hastily made about-face based on his sit-down with Scott, who is gearing up for a run for U.S. Senate. He has recently raised more than $1.1 million for a super PAC he revived and is teaming up with top consultants from his previous campaigns. His bid for Senate is aimed at taking back the Democrat-held seat and thwarting Democrats' efforts to take back the Senate next year.

Democratic Governor of North Carolina Roy Cooper is fighting to protect North Carolina's tourism interests and natural resources. He said this week, "If North Carolina is not exempt from offshore drilling, we will sue the federal government. Not off our coast." North Carolina tourism generated $22.9 billion in 2016.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is fighting the Trump administration's plans to open up Atlantic waters off the coast of North Carolina for oil drilling, a move that would damage the state's multi-billion-dollar tourism industry.

The Trump administration's environmental policies seem to have one goal ... to roll back Obama-era policies aimed at preventing climate change, limiting environmental pollution and cutting federal funding for science and the environment. According to The Washington Post, Trump's 2019 budget includes a 72% cut to Department of Energy funding for renewable energy and energy efficiency initiatives while he touted "beautiful clean coal" in his State of the Union address. In August last year, the Trump administration suspended a study of health risks to residents who live near mountaintop removal coal mine sites in the Appalachian Mountains.

Trump's EPA has loosened regulations on toxic air pollution, and, several government agencies including the EPA have removed or reduced web content concerning climate change as a result of the Trump administration's censorship efforts, according to a report published by the non-profit Environmental Data and Governance Initiative. The report points out that U.S. government websites have been systematically altered to cut mentions of climate change since Trump took office.

Reversing decades of precedent over 20 administrations, the new Trump administration reversed a ruling declaring accidental bird deaths as illegal and a violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA). Now, the 100-year-old law designed to save birds from overhunting and that safeguards more than 1,025 migratory bird species and their eggs, feathers and nests and which previously resulted in a $15,000 fine and up to six months in jail, is reversed under Trump. Guess who's happy about the reversal? Renewable energy and fossil-fuel groups ... what a surprise. Energy companies have been heavily penalized for incidental bird kills. After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 killed about 800,000 birds in the Gulf of Mexico, including a third of the northern Gulf's laughing gull population, the government used the MBTA to fine BP $100 million and used the money for bird conservation efforts.

One third of the Gulf's Laughing Gull population was wiped out as a result of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Do you see a pattern yet? This is just the tip of the iceberg in Trump's plan to sell off our public lands, destroy our environment for the sake of monetary gain and deny climate change at the expense of our future health and welfare.

I will continue to focus on the GOP and Trump administration's assaults on our environment, as well as repeated attacks on the fabric of our Democracy, in future posts. Please share to help spread the word.

By Cynthia Clark/Peace Love Liberals

Trump's tries to create false narrative much like Goebbels in Nazi Germany

Joseph Goebbels

“It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.”

― Joseph Goebbels

Repetitive statements by Donald Trump:

• Fake news / Dishonest media 
• Crooked Hillary 
• Lock her up 
• Lyin' Ted Cruz 
• Little Marco 
• Pocahantas (Elizabeth Warren) 
• Barack Obama's birth certificate is a fraud 
• We're going to build a wall and Mexico is going to pay for it 
• Radical Islamic terrorists 
• The election is rigged 
• Make America great again 
• Loser 
• Huge 
• Tremendous 
• Not funny (SNL) 
• Witch hunt 
• No collusion 
• No obstruction 

Obscure Alaska road project sets destructive precedent for wilderness

Obscure Alaska road project sets destructive precedent for wilderness

Donald Trump is implementing his New World Order even before he's sworn in

One of the first assaults against middle-class and low-income Americans is in the works before President-elect Donald Trump even takes office. On the campaign trail, Trump promised repeatedly that he would leave Medicare alone and said it worked in its current form. However, Trump and the Republican Congress are gearing up for drastic cuts to the program.

Social Security and Medicare
Trump's website says his administration will work to "modernize" Medicare and allow more "flexibility" for Medicaid. This is a death knell for these programs and is part of his plan to privatize and dismantle Medicare, making it voucher-based, and Medicaid's demise isn't far behind.

A news release from the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare reports that House Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX), at the end of the lame duck Congress, introduced legislation that would slash earned Social Security benefits. His Social Security Reform Act of 2016 would harm the nearly 60 million Americans who currently depend on Social Security as well as future beneficiaries, the article explained.

Johnson’s bill:

• Cuts Social Security benefits by one third. 
• Raises the retirement age from 67 to 69.
• Changes the benefit-computation formula in a way that cuts benefit amounts.
• Cuts Cost of Living Adjustments (COLAs)

The resulting benefit cuts will affect Americans of all ages, at all income levels, including the middle class and those with very low incomes.

Taxes
His tax plans include changes that will hurt middle- and low-income families. It is estimated that roughly 7.9 million families with children would pay higher taxes under his proposals. About 5.8 million are led by single parents. An additional 2.1 million are married couples. This according to Lily Batchelder, a visiting fellow at the Tax Policy Center.

In an article in the Washington Post, Batchelder said that currently, a single parent with $75,000 in income and two children can claim a head of household deduction of $9,300, plus three personal exemptions. Those steps would reduce the household’s taxable income by $21,450, to $53,550.

Trump’s plan would more than double the standard deduction to $15,000. But that change would be outweighed by his elimination of personal exemptions and head-of-household status. So the family’s taxable income would be $60,000, and their tax bill would be $2,440 more than it is now.

A married couple with four children and income of $50,000 would absorb a tax increase of $1,090 because of their loss of personal exemptions.

Trump’s advisers deny that he will raise taxes on middle-income Americans. Stephen Miller, his top policy adviser, said Trump would provide tax-free child care savings accounts and other provisions to enable some families to reduce taxes.

But Batchelder’s analysis found that those provisions wouldn’t be enough to offset the plan’s other elements that would increase taxes for some middle income households.

The top 1 percent will get 47 percent of the benefits of Trump's policies, while the bottom 60 percent will get 10 percent. Large numbers of working-class taxpayers will see tax increases.

Women's Reproductive Rights

Trump and VP-Elect Mike Pence want to ban abortions even in the case of rape or incest. This is coming from Trump, who took five different positions on abortion in three days and said we should "punish women who get abortions," and Pence, who backed and signed an Indiana bill, now blocked by a federal court, that would have required women to hold funerals for their aborted fetuses and banned abortions sought for fetal abnormalities.

Ohio has already put forth a "heartbeat bill" that, if signed by Gov. John Kasich, would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can be as early as six weeks' gestation. For years, Kasich, leading Republican senators and Ohio Right to Life have cited its unconstitutionality as their reason for opposing the heartbeat measure. This move will block access to abortion before most women even know they are pregnant. Ohio legislators also just passed a bill that would prohibit abortions after 20 weeks, with no exceptions for rape or incest.

LGBT

In a recent article in the Huffington Post, Pence was called perhaps one of the most anti-LGBTQ evangelical Christian political crusaders to serve in Congress and as governor of a state. Long before he signed the anti-LGBTQ “religious liberty” law in Indiana last year, he supported “conversion therapy” as a member of Congress, and later, as a columnist and radio host, he gave a speech in which he said that marriage equality would lead to “societal collapse,” and called homosexuality “a choice.” Stopping gays from marrying wasn’t biased, he said, but was rather about compelling “God’s idea.”

During his campaign, Trump promised religious extremists that he would overturn marriage equality. Mike Pence, as Dominic Holden at Buzzfeed points out, has already said that he and Trump plan to withdraw federal guidance to the states issued by the Obama administration protecting transgender students.

Pretty much all of Trump's cabinet picks oppose LGBT rights. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Tom Price, pegged to head Health and Human Services ... all have opposed LGBT rights either through their votes in Congress or through funneling money to conservative groups that oppose LGBT rights.

Cabinet Picks

These are just a few examples of Trump's real promise for America ... his vision of what our America should be. The rest of Trump's incoming cabinet are a sign of the New World Order that Trump is putting into place.

DeVos is against public schools ... an education secretary that opposes public schools. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is a bigot, National Security Advisor Michael Flynn is an Islamophobe, Chief Strategist Stephen Bannon is an alt-right racist, Ben Carson as Housing and Urban Development Secretary ... a man who ran for president and then said he didn't want any part of politics. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is a close ally of the fossil fuel industry who no doubt will help Trump fulfill his promise to dismantle the agency. Then, just for fun, you have Linda McMahon, from the World Wrestling federation, for Small Business Administration, and Andrew Pudzer, Labor Secretary, who heads up the Hardee's fast food chain.

And now Rex Tillerson, Exxon CEO, who has close business ties to Russian President Vladamir Putin, is going to be Secretary of State? 

Anyone who can't see the writing on the wall needs glasses. Those who doubted that Trump was serious about his radical views during the campaign should see by now that he wasn't joking.

Donald Trump’s Continued Assault Against The Constitution

From leanleft.com

November 18, 2016 by Mark

Donald Trump gave America a double whammy today. He has tapped Jeff Sessions to be the next Attorney General and Mike Pompeo to be the next head of the CIA. About the only two names I can think of that might be worse would have been David Duke as AG and Dick Cheney as head of the CIA.

First Pompeo. He is a Tea Party wacko from Kansas. Rep Pompeo is a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, as well as the Select Committee on Benghazi.

He is a huge supporter of the NSA’s sweeping domestic surveillance programs. After Snowden blew the lid off of it, Pompeo wrote: “I am convinced that [NSA’s] intelligence collection actions are not only lawful and constitutional, but also consistent with the critical mission of defeating radical Islamic terrorism.”

He seems to think that we should all allow the NSA to snoop into our private lives just because. He doesn’t care if you did anything or not, you need to be watched in case you decide to do something or decide not to do something. Warrants be damned.

He is a lover of “enhanced interrogation” or torture. He seems to think that torture is an acceptable form in interrogation, as long as we are the ones using it. He even criticized the President for rejecting the use of torture as an interrogation method.

This is the man who Donald Trump has deemed good enough to head up our largest spy organization. Trump doesn’t believe, nor does Pompeo, that using torture against our “enemies” places our own military personnel in jeopardy of the same types of “interrogation”.

Pompeo is all in favor of Trump’s plan to ban Muslims from immigrating to our country. He also said some really objectionable things after the Boston Marathon bombing about leaders in the Muslim community.

“When the most devastating terrorist attacks on America in the last 20 years come overwhelmingly from people of a single faith, and are performed in the name of that faith, a special obligation falls on those that are the leaders of that faith,” Pompeo said in a speech on the House floor in 2013. “Instead of responding, silence has made these Islamic leaders across America potentially complicit in these acts, and more importantly still, in those that may well follow.”

I would ask Mr. Pompeo if he is aware of the simple statistic that says that more U.S. citizens have been killed in this country by “Christian terrorists” than any other group? Does he believe that Christian Leaders are also complicit in those attacks and any that may well follow? I bet he doesn’t.

By charter, the CIA is only supposed to operate overseas. They are not allowed to “spy” inside our country. Considering Pompeo’s views on things, I would not be surprised if he ignores that charter and breaks the law by spying on our citizens. That is what Trump has picked to lead our CIA.

Trump’s second whammy is naming Jeff Sessions to become the Attorney General. One of the major functions of the Attorney General is to ensure that minorities civil rights are protected. Voting rights, same-sex marriage equality, disability rights, all fall under the jurisprudence of the Attorney General. Or, at least up till Sessions takes over.

Jeff Sessions is an open racist. He once said that he “thought the KKK was okay until I found out some of them smoked pot after one of their meetings”. As a U.S. Attorney in Alabama, he said the NCAAP and the CLU were un-American and “communist influenced.”

He claimed that both groups were trying to “force civil rights down peoples’ throats.” Hmmm. I thought civil rights were part of our Constitution. He also said that a white lawyer who was bringing suits against voter suppression was “a traitor to his race”.

Besides being against marriage equality, he is also against hate crime protections and gays and transgenders openly serving in the military. He opposes all forms of immigration reform. He is in favor of rounding up and deporting all undocumented immigrants. And, he favors Trump’s Muslim registry. He even says that if a man grabs a woman’s genitals without her consent, it isn’t sexual assault.

Finally, don’t forget that Jeff Sessions was denied a position as a Federal Judge because of these statements. Now we are supposed to allow him to be Attorney General.

If this moron gets confirmed by a spineless Republican controlled Senate, we can kiss our civil rights good-bye. Everything that has been achieved in the last 100 years will go by the wayside. You will see more and more voter suppression laws because the states will know that the DOJ will do nothing about them.

If you think I am wrong, here is something that proves my point.

Andrew Anglin, editor of the neo-Nazi site The Daily Stormer, wrote that Sessions’ nomination, along with the appointment of retired Gen. Mike Flynn as national security adviser and Steve Bannon as Trump’s chief strategist, is “like Christmas.”

“Of course, I was thinking of Sessions for either Secretary of State or Defense, but I think Trump is making a point by putting an aggressive anti-Black racist in as AG,” Anglin wrote. “It’s a corrective measure, after Obama turned the Justice Department into the Black Panthers.”

But even Anglin thinks that things could get touchy getting Sessions confirmed. He wrote: “The reason he might face trouble? Because he’s a racist and most of these RINOs (Republican in Name Only) in Congress are filthy cuck traitors to the White race and the GOP.”

All I can say to those wonderful Constitution loving, arm-chair patriots who voted for the moron Donald Trump to be President is you too should be very very afraid. That is unless you really don’t love the Constitution or are even an arm-chair patriot.

The racists have spoken about these appointments. What more need I say?