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?

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What on Earth is going on? Trump is a spade.

My Mother and Dad taught me never to discuss politics or religion. Keep it to yourself, they said. Your beliefs are personal, they said. Yet, here I am, spewing my guts. I'm not really setting out to break the rules, but I just can't help it when my firmly held beliefs overload my ability to keep quiet.

I break that rule every day because if I didn't I would implode. I am goaded into it by co-workers and friends, I am blinded daily by the insanity and outright lies scrolling by on my Facebook and Twitter feeds, I turn it on whenever I watch the news, I hear it on the radio. Families are divided, my friends list is dwindling, yet here I am.

I'm watching and listening. I feel as if I've just seen a two-headed monster ... or like I'm witnessing a car wreck and can't turn my head from the horror that is unfolding in front of me.

There is a total lack of human compassion, no one wants to help their fellow man, the Republican debates are debacles, rallies are worse than Friday Night Fights, and there is a great and deepening divide between Democrats and Republicans, and even between pro-Trump Republicans and anti-Trump Republicans.

They are tearing themselves apart and have really sunk to new lows ... grown men fighting like school children and getting into real-life pissing contests, actually defending the size of their schlongs on national television. I was taught that we are supposed to respect our flag, respect those leading our country whether you agree with them or not, and respect yourself by not hurling hateful insults and spewing vulgarity.

Here's the thing ... until there is no more breath in my body I will continue to speak my mind whenever I see injustice. And that's what I see. The Republican front-runner Donald Trump is either perpetrating an elaborate April Fool's joke (which I am still not completely convinced isn't true), or he is the embodiment of evil.

He is a bigot. He advocates hate, violence and torture. He speaks horribly to and about women, ugly people, fat people, he mocks handicapped people, he doesn't own up to anything. This man who wants to run our country says he doesn't know anything except what he sees on the internet whenever he is confronted with an uncomfortable fact. His tweets are ridiculous, he re-tweets bogus, completely false information (has he never heard of snopes.com?), he tries to threaten and intimidate his opponents and has anyone that's not like-minded roughed up and tossed out of his rallies.

He actually has his supporters raising their hands and pledging their allegiance to him at his rallies. Remind you of anyone?

He is supported by the KKK ... that same KKK that he really doesn't know much about ... yeah, right. Did he not take history like the rest of us? I think I learned who the KKK were in fourth grade. Who the hell doesn't know what the KKK stands for?

He hates immigrants and he even slammed the Pope. I'm not a Catholic but that was among the most offensive things I've heard. Pope Francis is the most compassionate religious figure I've seen. He actually lives what he preaches. He forgoes the finery of previous Popes, rides around in a used Renault instead of a BMW or Mercedes, he shows love and understanding to the poor and downtrodden, he speaks out against rampant capitalism, which I'm sure puts Trump on the defensive to begin with.

But for a man like Trump to say the Pope is "disgraceful" for questioning his Christianity over his constant droning about building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico ... well, that really takes the cake for me. Disgraceful? What a joke. Trump was quoted as saying he was tired of Christianity being attacked and weakened, "unlike what is happening now, with our current president." In other words, he is implying, again, that President Obama isn't a Christian, which is completely untrue. The Obamas are Christians. So Trump is being the ultimate hypocrite, as he has on too many occasions to even count.

What on earth is going on here? I have never seen a political candidate behave in this manner in all my years and actually get away with it. What that says about our society is pretty scary. Mitt Romney made one little secretly recorded comment trash talking 47% of voters (basically calling Obama supporters a bunch of welfare moochers), and it spelled doom for the rest of his campaign. Trump has openly, not secretly, bashed pretty much every segment of our society, even his own supporters, and they keep coming back for more. What about the filth and vulgarity? What about his comment about Romney? He said he could have asked Romney to drop to his knees he was so desperate for his endorsement and he would have done it. What kind of comment is that?

Of course, it's nothing compared to him saying, in essence, that he would bop his own daughter if he weren't her father. https://youtu.be/diMp241gAcw

Or what about him saying he could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue and still not lose any voters? I think even he is amazed by how staunchly his supporters will tolerate his deplorable behavior. But think about that statement for a minute. In light of all the gun violence plaguing our country, is that a statement a leader should make? He's no leader. He's a narcissistic hate monger.

I believe in the right of all Americans to exercise their right to vote for whomever they feel is qualified to lead our country.  But I'll likewise never stop exercising my right to call it as I see it ... to call a spade a spade. Trump is a spade.

Without followers, evil cannot spread