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TRUMP and ANTI-SEMITISM

April 17th, 2025

What is going on when a man, who is known to be racist and extremely sexist, starts a campaign against institutions and others demanding they address their anti-semitism?

Well, if the man is Donald Trump, you know he self-serves and does little else and in the case of his anti-semitic campaign – could that be because his sin-in-law (Kushner) is an Orthodox Jew? And his daughter (Ivanka) – Kushner’s wife – converted to Orthodox Judaism in 2009?

Is that what made Donald Trump able to fight anti-semitism and threaten to destroy Universities and more if they didn’t address the issue? And – at the same time strip African Americans of their jobs because of their skin color, ancestors, etc? And – at the same time work to eliminate Gay and Trans folks from any involvement in society along with Latina’s and so many more “minorities”?

It is too bad Trump’s “campaign” to eliminate anti-semitism hasn’t cleaned up his, Elon Musk’s and their circle of folks ethics, morals, etc.

One thing all of this has done for many of us is to show how slavery held on so long and how folks were able to own slaves; treated their African slaves; the dirt poor Chinese living in these United States building the structures on which the railroads ran and who lived in horrendous circumstances and still suffer to this day from being one of the American Minorities; and so many more from other parts of the world and along with those who lived on the continent we now call the United States, who suffered under the Donald Trumps and Elon Musks in the past and in the present.

These were people stealing from every one and living in the most abominal, vile, unethical ways. They and those who inherited their immorality are now in society doing everything they can to make sure only those like them thrive. They make sure only their own kind are able to exercise their talents like everyone else without the immorality of Trump supporters destroying their lives.

To have elected such an immoral man as President of these United States makes quite a statement about United States many of the United States’ voting citizens. Trump has been accused of sexually abusing many women. Elon Musk has 14 children by 4 wives most of whom know only negatives about their “father” because of the way he treats them – ignores them – and goes on making more children. Does money and the power it brings give you the right to do this?

What Trump and Elon Musk are doing today is showing the world how immoral you can be and still have people who idolize you and want to do your will because of their money and power.

Many of us have long looked at the two opposing ‘governments’ in these United States. The one with people working to maintain and grow a democracy where all people are created equal. The other pushing forward in positions of leadership those who created and continue and grow an autocratic, fascist society which uses the corporate structure to gain ever more money, power and arrogance to attempt to exercise their unethical, immoral and arrogant lifestyle.

We have seen and experienced how minorities and women with great businesses don’t get to bring all of their hard work to fruition because it is usually – with very few exceptions to disprove the rule – stolen from them when their businesses show their creations moving into great, very lucrative money wise ways.

Will it ever stop or will this be the way of this world as long as humans live on it? Will our priorities ever change to make it a necessity for humans to reach out to those who have less and work with them to bring them into enjoying the fruits of their labor?

Dear God – you promised that when two or three were gathered in your name you would be in the midst of them. Please make your presence felt during thiis time of great need in these United States as the horror of what is happening here is gradually spreading across the globe.

Trump University – responsible for the horrendousness suffered by Harvard and Columbia and Northwestern Universities with more to come?

April 12th, 2025

One of the first attacks by Donald Trump, very shortly after he took on the job of president of these United States were the attacks he made against Harvard University, Columbia University and who else?

Interesting the side issues to that – in the background – the woman who was out front, Elise Stefanik, lost her job as Ambassador to the United Nations before she got a chance to be sworn in. She was front and center trying to take down the female presidents of some of our best universities. Had to do with Trump’s gratitude to those who prostrate themselves to him?

Go back into recent history and take a look at what happened with Trump University! There are many articles which have researched this topic. One is https://www.americanprogress.org/article/trump-university-look-enduring-education-scandal/

The above article mentions Columbia Business School. It says “Columbia Business School made clear that “individual faculty” helped develop early programs but have nothing to do with the real estate program that became the heart of Trump University”. In a statement provided by the university, Don Sexton, a professor at the business school, said, “If the allegations are true, then they took something that was designed to help struggling small business owners and corrupted it.”32

That does answer some questions as to why Trump went after Columbia University.

Thousands of students paid between approximately $10,000 and $35,000 to attend this University founded by Donald Trump and from which he benefitted at a time when it looks as though he was having tough financial difficulties. Those who were trying to gain an education and better themselves paid the price for his next step up. Some of these articles claim Trump was paid a sum for each student who signed up for the very abbreviated learning they received.

The lawsuit itself resulted in a $25 million dollar settlement against Trump! It is claimed, Trump did not pay that settlement, someone else paid for him and he continued life as usual.

Trump had to do a lot of explaining during his first run for president. During this second run it was almost not mentioned and after he was installed as president and went after Columbia University and others there was barely any reporting in the media showing the relationship between what happened then and the possibility that what substantial universities are now having to deal with that Donald Trump, president is foisting on them is RETALIATION.

Read about Trump University and you will see that the schools attacked by Trump seem to have been attacked because of Trump University.

Wikipedia write: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_University

Trump University was never an actual University despite calling itself such and Donald Trump owned 93% of the LLC. The lawsuits filed claimed “racketeering” amongst other claims. New York State Department of Education forced a name change from University to whatever else. – and now Trump is trying to close down the Federal Department of Education. Does one have anything to do with the other?

Trump University was also sued by the state of Texas for engaging in false, misleading and deceptive practices.

Many of the people now involved running the United States government at the highest level are talked about as you read what happened with Trump University. Pam Bondi – currently one at the top of the U. S. Government is one of those people. She was then Florida’s Attorney General.

From 1973 through 2016 Donald Trump was involved in over 4,000 cases. Giving a different look at why he is now pressuring law firms and receiving free future legal help.

Northwestern University was involved in all of this. Trump publicly claimed that major universities supported his institution and he named Northwestern University, Stanford and Columbia. All three denied that they had any involvement. Northwestern said Trump’s claim “apparently involves a former professor here named Roger Schank. He retired from Northwestern in about 1998. We do not have any information regarding any subsequent affiliation he may have had with Trump University.”31 And so, Northwestern University was listed wherever Trump keeps his list of grievances against people and institutions and when he had the chance he did what he could to malign them and attempted to make their lives difficult.

This could go on for pages. However, if you want to know more, it is readily available on your computer, simply search for Trump University, Donald Trump, etc. and you will find enough to read that will make you need a bath at the end of your readings. It is putrid to see so much about someone who is now president of these United States. We wonder if those who voted for him don’t also feel as though they need a good cleansing.

We see where this comes from and where it is going. When you read about the latest Trump horror story where he and Elon Musk took Maya Angelou’s book out of the military libraries and left Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler in the library for our military people to read it brings back the divorce statements when Trump and Ivanka Trump divorced where she told the court Trump kept Adolf Hitler’s writings on his bedside table. Most of us keep the bible in that spot. It certainly explains Trump and Musk’s relationship and Trump’s life story. Doesn’t Musk come from a wealthy South African family?

Dear God, we are trying very hard to keep your commandments and to reach out to those being misled and walking an evil path. Don’t know if our efforts are successful, but we will keep praying, believing and walking and doing according to your will. Please look at what is happening in this world and bring about your justice, your peace, your reconciliation. So many people’s lives are being destroyed because of one man’s ambitions with the help of so many more who have let greed and power obtained on the backs of others blind them to what they are doing. Opportunities many being so seriously hurt have worked hard to achieve for themselves and their families and those opportunities are being taken away from them in the ugliest and most vicious of ways. Your hand is needed more than ever in this morass of lies, cheating, stealing, and so much more. Help us all, dear Lord.

TRUMP and Mental Illness!

April 9th, 2025

It is time for psychologists and psychiatirsts, who have noticed the mental problems Trump is showing to speak out. The United States and its future is at stake.

There are beginning to be calls for Donald J. Trump to resign as United Sates President. That is not going to happen. The United States saw what happened when Trump lost the election. His ego and arrogance and fast progressing mental illness will not allow him to resign.

There is a much more serious problem which the United States must face. By a very small majority, the citizens of these United States elected a president who was and is showing signs of mental illness; who is a convicted felon; who has been accused of and it has been proven in Court that he sexually assaulted women. From the accusations against him, it was many many women and from looking at the backbrounds and tendencies of the men he has appointed to serve in his government , his preference of people with whom he wants to work are those who engage in sexual deviancy – particularly the sexual abuse of women.

Our question has always been – what kind of people would vote for and want such a person to lead the country in which they live and raise their children. What happens to your children as they grow to maturity with such an example held up to them as the kind of person they should strive to be?

Donald Trump has led quite a stressful life, which we feel has resulted in his current mental incapacity. Everyone around him and much of the general citizenry of these United States has been trying very hard to ignore this and we are all paying the price. Not just United States citizens, but the world economic, financial and political systems.

How is this exhibited? One way – there is not an appearance Trump makes and at which he says anything that he does not trash someone and use that trashing to build himself up. This is not an occasional trashing of others and glorifying of Donald Trump. The way he does this shows he is quite far along in his mental “craziness.”. The tariffs he is now imposing on the world are a clear indication that his economic vision is impaired and is impaired in a way that clearly shows his mental illness.

As a very young man, Donald Trump was surrounded by and helped to move ahead financially and otherwise by a small group of gay people who surrounded Roy Cohn. They helped him move taking along his father’s money and the influence his father built over a lifetime, from Queens to New York. Unfortunately, Trump also took along his father’s bigotry, having worked with his father to keep African Americans out of their apartment buildings.

The group most influential in; most helpful to Trump’s acquiring Trump Towers and other business moves was the gay group around Roy Cohn, a man who did not deny his gayness and worked to help others even though his ethics and in the way he did this was quite questionable. The way Roy Cohn moved in his business life as an attorney was quite similar to the way Trump now moves – although Trump is moving on a much larger scale.

As a result of all of the help and sacrifices Roy Cohn and the group around him made to help Donald Trump move out of his father’s sphere of influence and into Manhattan, they and the entire gay community has been repaid by Donald Trump in the most negative of ways. By Trump moving very strongly against the gay community and characterizing them in the ugliest of ways making sure their lives today will be exponentially more difficult because Donald Trump is and was president..

We don’t believe Trump is gay. From what we have looked into, our conclusion is that Donald Trump is a sexual deviant of the worse kind and he is uplifting and spreading his sexual deviancy by the way he empowers those like him and with the same tendencies, appointing many of these to be his co-workers – many of those who have been accused of the same tendencies to sexual deviancy to high office in the United States of America..

Once upon a time there was no questioning the sexual identity of members of groups like those who planned the Krystalnacht march complete with lanterns marching down a hill. Today, the first question that we hear asked about such groups has to do with the sexual identity of the members of such groups. That questioning parallels the ascendancy of Donald J. Trump and his use and sometimes abuse of these groups.

As Trump has moved away from those groups, except to use them when he needs their help, he has not moved away from the talk and questions about his sexuality.

Today also, many of the prominent people who have worked the hardest to move Trump back into the White House are rumored to be gay. There are rumors about Vance, Trump’s choice for vice President. Mostly about why he was chosen. Vance worked for Peter Thiel, who is appaarently the only person Vance has worked for most of his life, totally admits his gayness. Was that choice (Vance as Trump’s running mate) put in front of Trump, who was not allowed to turn away from that because of what was known about Donald Trump? Like Roy Cohn, Thiel and his group have not denied their gayness having lived into it most of their lives.

During most of Donald Trump’s life indications of mental illness have been front and center. Mostly, the people around him have tried to deny that, probably because they used his mental illness to their economic and political advantage.

Today, it is time for these United States to acknowledge what is “in your face.” Donald Trump needs to be taken down as United States president because the country cannot properly function with a leader. who shows indications of a very destructive form of mental illness and has been showing suchfor quite some time. Trump has clearly shown everytime he makes a speech – even short and very brief comments – the extent of his mental illness. His being president the first time ended in this country’s first ever insurrection during which the police, White House guards and many others lost their lives because Trump lost the election for a second term in office. He is now back and mentally even worse than he was those four plus years ago. The people surrounding him who are aware of this are using it to their benefit and to the detriment of the United States.

IT IS PAST TIME TO CALL FOR – NOT THE RESIGNATION OF DONALD J. TRUMP AS PRESIDENT OF THESE UNITED STATES, BUT FOR HIS REMOVAL AS PRESIDENT BECAUSE OF MENTAL ILLNESS CAUSING A SEVERE PROBLEM FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD.

If that does not happen, things will most definitely and quickly move DOWNHILL.

The Word for Today – GASLIGHTING

April 4th, 2025

An entire world is being subject to gaslighting. The expert and top dog at the sport is Donald J. Trump. He is followed only by Elon Musk. I would put Musk first, but he didn’t have what it was to run for and become president. Instead he has taken the backseat, but not backstage positioning allowed to him by Donald J. Trump.

This is the second time around that Trump has shown off his gaslighting ability to the whole world and it is a spectacular talent.

The American stock market is the latest subject. He has gone about his job with talk, talk and more talk. None of it clear. None of it true. None of it particular to the stock market in America and – incidently – actually affected world wide stock markets. Now that is a first class gaslighter.

Elon Musk’s gas lighting ability and use of – or should I say abuse of – his talents has made me back away from wanting to become the world’s wealthiest woman or man. Maybe I should rather say the world’s wealthiest person.

Unfortunately, Donald Trump’s gaslighting has cost most of us tens – no – hundreds of thousands of dollars that we worked hard to acquire, save, invest. Those facts, however, never touch a gaslighters conscience. He/she just continues to gas light.

We wonder – just an aside – if Donald Trump’s big emphasis on fighting bigotry against Jews comes from his guilt from the way he treated his mentor – Roy Cohn.

We used to work hard to bring about change for the betterment of humanity. We don’t anymore. We understand human beings better than we did at a much younger age. The best of us can turn into the worst of us in seconds and continue on the most despicable way to live and relate you have ever encountered.

The laziest way to do that is through gaslighting and then stepping aside to enjoy the results of one’s talent. Even lazier is to combine gaslighting with lying. Now that should bring down empires.

God help me to remain centered in all that I do with my eyes, ears, heart tuned to your word and my deeds reflective of your plan for my life. It is really hard to do that, but I will keep trying.

McCarthyism’s Successor – TRUMPISM

April 3rd, 2025

What a day – what a world – what a country!

We have Elon Musk doing everything he can to turn this country into what White South Africa was like many years prior to Nelson Mandela, so Musk can be comfortable living here being the power and money behind the Trump Throne. And then, we have Donald Trump living out Joe McCarthy and Roy Cohn’s dream. Trump was well mentored by Roy Cohn for years and now he gets to fly solo putting into practice what he learned at Roy Cohn’s knee and what he added to at Vladimir Putin’s knee.

Who was at the head table for the McCarthy public/political meetings and rallies!!!! Who made up the McCarthy trinity and who has succeeded them:

  1. Joe McCarthy – with his successor who we can’t accurately name

2. Roy Cohn – who mentored Donald Trump

3. Robert Kennedy – succeeded in this political iteration by Robert Kennedy Jr.

What most amazes ue is the fact that these people were allowed and mostly elected to destroy these United States in the attempt to keep it white, male, mostly northern european, with power and money belonging only to the few.

If any of us thought these United States were becoming this beautiful country living out its constitution we have unrefutable proof that it is a country doing its best to become one of the most bigoted countries spending its energy and resources exploiting its lower to middle class citizens, while building into its structure that place for its billionaire class which would be ‘better than” all others. Slavery has just bveen redefined, it has not been eliminated.

The people who voted for Trump and Company should be on their knees begging God’s forgiveness for having violated all of God’s commandments – some vicariously through supporting and putting themselves under those who have and continue to flagrantly violate those commandments and way of being.

It is tragic to see Peter Hegseth join Donald Trump. What do they have in common? – The abuse of women? Doesn’t Donald Trump have a weakness for those who do just that. Who has he chosen for his cabinet who is not such a violator of women? It is as if the Presidential Cabinet’s job descriptions have been re-written to add abuse – sexually and otherwise – of women and if that is not your thing, then immigrants and others who are not white, not northern european ancestry, not in that group.

If you have been about the abuse of women, a short investigation will show the rest of your life has been about the abuse, disrespect, etc. etc. of many, many others.

Trump and those working with him are busy destroying the lives of those they designate as “Criminal Immigrants.” Tragically, a look into their backgrounds shows -Trump particularly – that they have ancestors and family who could be categorized as what they today call “Criminal Immigrants”. Those ancestors and family to come who have the stage set for their past and future family to carry their horribleness which they inherited from the past into future generations. And Trump’s children? Are they on the same path? We have seen their self-absorption, but where is their care and concern for others.

Well Joseph McCarthy – former United States Senator – see what you have wrought. There are no words to describe your sins. And to you Attorney Roy Cohn, may God have mercy on your soul. Robert Kennedy, former U. S. Attorney General, you moved the end of your life to a better purpose than the road on which you started your career. May your last work on this earth help to ease the burden you had to carry into your next life. Maybe the example of how you changed your course will leak into the life of your son who will feel moved to do a bit of repentance and good work instead of calling what he is now doing good work as he helps Donald Trump and Company destroy so many others to help him totally change these United States into a country which continues the slavery and awfulness of its early beginnings into today.

Unfortunately, looking at one’s life and seeing the desperate need for change and the awfulness of where you are currently does not seem to seep in when it is power you are seeking. The corruption that power and money brings into ones life blinds one to the incredible price you pay and that you force others to pay for your extreme misdeeds.

These United States have everything it needs to become a strong, caring, sharing nation. Unfortunately, every time we come close to crossing that threshold into goodness we put up blockages to make sure we don’t cross over. It is past the time for us to leave ugliness, bigotry, greed, the lust for personal power and so much more evil that you all are creating today and walk into the beautiful garden of God’s promise.

Trump, England and the Royal Family!

March 27th, 2025

Is Trump threatening the position of King Charles? Is trying to become “King Donald” what is causing his prejudices, jealousies and visions of the future? Is this all about Donald Trump trying to bring about his royal/authoritarian dream.

Is this why he started with Columbia University? – If you go back in history you will find Coluimbia University was founded in 1754. Its original name was King’s College. It was founded by a royal charter issued by King George.. It was located in the vestry room of an Episcopal/Anglican Church and its first head of the school was an Anglican priest. We have emphasized Columbia’s Anglican roots for a reason – keep reading!

Then comes Canada – with a very clear Anglican involvement. King Charles is the royal head of Canada whose history is totally mixed with its beginnings with the British monarchy and the Anglican Church.

Most recently the media covered Donald Trump threatening to move against the EU and CANADA to do awful things to them. Not the EU and England. He has not included England in any of his threats, so far.

Given his history and ways of functioning, does this mean he is threatening England and King Charles through all of this because he has designs on becoming Englands next monarch? Or to have the United States somehow involved in bringing back its English roots with Donald Trump being the hero of the piece if he can’t make king?

Interesting also is Trump’s family roots – didn’t his grandfather come from Germany? Isn’t that also the origins of the British Royal family?

Trump is now trying to clean up his family history so the world will not be focused on the Trump family’s CRIMINAL IMMIGRANT background? Our research turned up the grandfather coming from Germany to the United States and establishing his fortune using women as prostitutes and working his way up to owning a Bordello. For those of you who don’t know – a Bordello is a “hotel” where women prostitutes live, with the person who owns and manages the bordello benefitting extremely well financially from the “work” of the women.

Are we all suffering because of Trump’s dream of becoming “King Donald Trump”. Is he moving to bring the United States into this authoritarian mode so he can merge his Presidency into the British Royal Family or take it over ousting King Charles and establishing “King Donald”?

 

TRUMP – what a waste of life!

March 6th, 2025

All the newspapers and other media are full of Donald Trump and what he has done lately.

A couple articles struck me. Everyone wants to know where Trump is going with the tariffs, his friendship with Vladimir Putin, etc.

As I read about Trump and Putin the question that crossed my mind was what is it Trump wants from Putin? The answer came back very quickly.:

Some claim Trump has been a Russian Asset since he was a young adult. Some conjecture that the gathering when Trump was president and after an hours long meeting with only Trump and Putin in the room (highly unusual for one head of state with another), Trump appeared very stripped of everything and fearful. Many guesses about what happened in that meeting to turn Trump into a scared looking child whose father had just knocked the crap out of him, took up much media space. But then Trump recovered his composure and just started heralding Putin as a “friend”.

It seems to me – with Trump apparently unable to see anyone except in terms of what they can offer him, Putin has added much. After tha meeting, Trump may have been down for the count, but it didn’t take long for him to see what was in it for him.

Coming back as President of these United Sates, it looks as though the Russia-Ukraine war gave Trump new life. He would become U. S. President and among the other things he could do – expanding U. S. territory would be one to get his name securely in the history books. If Russia could just appear and attack Ukraine to annex more territory to Russia – wow! – Trump, as president of the United States, could annex Greenland and Canada for an even better deal. And, in the process swamp what Putin was trying to do with an all out war.

Trump saw what he could gain if the war between Russia and Ukraine settled with Russia winning and keeping Ukrainian land. What an example set out for the world to see so when Trump goes after Greenland and Canada in serious ways there is an example to follow. How much easier than just going after Greenland and Canada seemingly out of the blue. It has happened in recent history – look at Russia and Ukraine. And so it goes. Male sexism (read male superiority) is a bitch. it takes away your humanity and makes you do awful things in the process of keeping up appearances.

Is there nothing better Trump and Putin could do with their lives than to live amongst such horribleness flexing their male (better than everyone) muscles?

And then comes Elon Musk!

WHAT IS HAPPENING IN FINANCE? – What else, but NVIDIA!

February 27th, 2025

This is a stock we have followed for quite a long time and it has been amazing the way it moves.

Lately, it has run into problems. Not with the company – nor with its results which are nothing short of spectacular, but clearly someones want to see this stock stall, drop, disappear or better still, run into serious problems.

After coming out with what only can be called spectacular results for this last quarter the stock price barely moved. Same thing happened the quarter before this. Most companies with such results would have doubled within a day or so – NVIDIA went down.

You know we could not let this pass without doing some investigating.

We noticed some time ago an advertisement, which could only be called anti-NVIDIA. A man comes on, gives his credentials and warns you against buying NVIDIA stock. Then there runs in the background lists of ‘billionaires’ who are selling all of their NVIDIA stock because, according to this guy, it is going to tank. The names and other particulars of these ‘billionaires’ who are getting rid of all of their NVIDIA stock runs in the background the way credits at the end of a movie giving credit to those who created the movie would see their information running. That advertisement has been running on the business channels for quite some time. The man narrating it gives a very substantial background and seriously tells you to sell your NVIDIA stock or not to buy it in the first place because all of these very important and wealthy investors have dumped NVIDIA.

That advertisement has been running for quite awhile and is clearly geared to the everyday people who buy and sell stock especially who are buying NVIDIA. It is your warning to stay away.

One reason we like NVIDIA, besides all of the financial reasons pointing to it as a great investment is the way Jensen Huang handled the advent of DeepSeek.

When DeepSeek came along NVIDIA stock dropped like a huge rock thrown into water, as did many other stocks and the market in general. The good news is the way Jensen Huang responded. Today, there is an article out, with NVIDIA’s results and comments from Huang amongst which is the announcement that he has paired up with DeepSeek and they are going to do business together. What a great response.

The normal response for such a happening would be to begin a campaign to destroy or seriously injure NVIDIA. We have a president who sets an example on how to handle such – lie about the company, crap all over its top executives, etc. etc., do whatever underhanded and public thing you can think of to destroy the company and those who work there.

NVIDIA’s results for this quarter are nothing short of fantastic. They say to me this company has a continuing fantastic present and future.

An Amazing Sunday morning – Riverside Church in New York City

February 11th, 2025

by: Marceline Donaldson

Many years ago when I was in college at New York University I lived on Riverside Drive and walked to church at Riverside Church on Sunday mornings. It was an amazing experience.

In those days Riverside Church was mostly all white. The minister when I was there was Harry Emerson Fosdick. Riverside Church was interdenominational and quite an experience for me. It was at Riverside Church that a very strong call was made for reparations to African Americans for all that they experienced in these United States including slavery. James Forman, executive director of SNCC took over the pulpit at Riverside on May 4, 1969 and read the document created in Detroit Michigan for the National Black Economic Development Conference. The document came to be known as the Black Manifesto and was written because racist white America had exploited and still, to this day, is exploiting the resources, minds, bodies, labor of blacks who helped to build this most industrial country in the world.

Formans demand was that white churches and synagogues pay reparations for Black enslavement and continuing discrimination and oppression. It had been written by Forman and delivered by him commandeering the pulpit of Riverside Church disrupting the regular service. The Black Manifesto was first presented at a conference funded in part by the Episcopal Church and the National Counsil of Churches amongst others hoping to bring Black leaders together to discuss how to socially and economically implement Black Power. If ever there was a time to go back into history it is today as Donald Trump and Elon Musk try to bring about in these United States what even South Africa has rejected.

Given that history, through which I lived, Robert and I decided to go back to Riverside Church, knowing where it was we wanted to see where and what it is about today.

We are including for you a service from the church. Their services are recorded and you can access them; join the list of those who “go to church on the internet” on Sundays; or just to watch and listen to what has happened since the very emotional events involving Riverside Church in the 1960’s.

It is a very moving service. As you can see the church is no longer mostly White. Today, it has a black female pastor and is inclusive of many cultures and different kinds of people with a commitment which is very strong. It is a place where one could raise children in the Christian faith and they would be quite happy to be there – not many churches today can say that.

We would appreciate your feed back.

Please ignore our lack of media experience. We somehow put up two film of the same service and don’t know how to take down one leaving the other for your use.

A Reflection on Donald Trump’s run for the Presidency!

January 2nd, 2025

Marceline Donaldson

“We spent the day watching the Trump Campaign – hearing the media stories leading up to it and the Donald J. Trump rally itself at Madison Square Garden.

It was an amazing time. At the end of the day we felt as though we needed a thorough cleansing because what we saw and heard was mud slinging all over this country, the world and its people in the ugliest way.

We have a couple people who knew Trump back in New York many, many years ago. Given that and our own knowledge, to hear the claims in the rally by several participants that Trump built New York was beyond the pale.

We thought over all we heard at the rally and several things we knew before the rally started and lots dropped into place;

The first was what we heard about Trump being gay and that it was the gay community in which he was intimately involved that brought him and his business from Queens to Manhattan. We reheard about Roy Cohn with several people telling us how deeply involved Trump was with Roy Cohn. We heard a bit of that gayness from Trump when he talked about Arnold Palmer’s private parts on television. It was almost as though if confirmation of Trump’s gayness today was needed – here it was.

In that context it made sense to us that Robert Kennedy, Jr. chose to be a part of the Trump family. Robert Kennedy Sr. apparently was involved with the McCarthy happenings back in the day, before he saw the light and moved over working with the Democrats on a very different level. Jr., who came along later didn’t do that. His family’s McCarthy connections had too strong an influence on him. He went in one direction resulting in his joining the Trump campaign and the rest of his family took a different less racist, sexist, etc. route.

Listening to the people who came to the podium to give their testimonial speech and to knock Kamala Harris was also amazing. I felt, after all of that, seriously in need of a really good cleansing bath. The foul language, the lies made each person who took the podium a little lower in our esteem than they were prior to their talk..

One strong thing that came out of the time spent watching all of this was a clearer understanding of why racism, sexism, homophobia and all the rest of the bigotry which has pervaded this nation almost from its beginnings has been practically impossible to get out of the structures of this country – the political, family and religious structures inclusively.

To support Donald Trump and his vice presidential choice (Vance) one has to be a real, true bigot whose ethics are in the dumpster. There have been many excuses made as to why people support this vile bigotry and dumpster ethics, because you can’t support people who clearly have horrible, vicious, ugly, vile and illegal ways of being who are running for office without your vote being cast giving them positive back-up for who they are – how they are – and permission to bring all of that up front into this country, its political system, its corporate structures, into the lives of the individual families and into its religious beliefs and structures.

We are talking, not just about Donald Trump. We are talking about tens of millions of people who have spent their lives destroying the lives, the quality of life, the future of others causing many deaths in the process.

When one looks back at just Donald Trump you see a man who is and has been gay from at least his young adult years who has no problems acting in a horrendous way against other gays, making their lives as difficult as possible because it suits Donald Trumps need to move ahead in this society denying and denigrating others with his same sexual proclivities because it helps him financially and otherwise without a thought to those he is seriously hurting.

One sees in Trump a man who had no problem ripping off people trying to get an education at great cost to themselves and their family looking forward to a better future only to discover they were doing it through Trump University which has been shown to be a place ripping them off for the millions of dollars it put into Donald Trump and his cohorts pockets.

All through Donald Trump’s life there have been incidents like Trump University. Some not so big and ugly – some which have made what happened at Trump University look like just a beginning to what has escalated now to a country-wide horror and if Trump wins the presidency, soon to a world wide dumpster fire

We don’t have to go back through each incident, I am sure they are well known to you making you not notice the little bits which just slide through, but which are strong parts of the Institutional Racism and other institutionalized bigotry making it hard to impossible for others. Something as small as media referring to Trump by his last name and to Kamala Harris only by her first name – sort of in the style which prevailed during slavery. The master referred to by his last name, the slave or servant only by their first name and even that didn’t happen often – just like with Trump and a description of what is being talked about acknowledging the other person at times without any name being mentioned.

Trump’s immigrant stance with his threats as to how awful immigrants are and what he is going to do to stop most from entering this country and according to Trump – turning it into a garbage dump. That is the most telling of all his lies. Trump himself came from a German immigrant family. Their money came from Trump’s grandfather who made his living once he was in this country by using women as prostitutes and eventually built a hotel -a bordello – where women lived and entertained men sexually for money. None of that, along with the abuse of the women has ever made the media although it should be very relevant given Trump’s anti-immigrant stance.

His anti-immigrant stance continues when you notice that his first wife was an immigrant and so is his current wife. To look at their lives, what have they contributed to this country as immigrants – other than marrying Donald Trump and becoming citizens? His current wife was a nude model and in pictures is nude on a bear rug in the ugliest way along with pictures which are practically nude standing next to a Trump plane or inside the plane with a case full of jewels in a mostly nude pose. That clearly carries a message – especially to the young people who see such pictures and then connect the picture with someone who was the wife of the president of the United States who is now running to be president once again. The rewards of such behavior?

We could go on for pages, but I think the message we want to put out is clear. Until the citizens of this country get their ethical lives together and live good, caring, positive lives without needing to be better than; without needing to lie, cheat, steal and more; without needing to abuse and prostitute women to achieve their financial goals for themselves we will always be in a spot like the one we are in today. We can’t really talk issues, policies, how to move ahead making sure that all of our citizens are whole and able to live good, caring, substantial lives until we stop supporting the likes of Donald Trump because we are caught up in his money, etc. That brings us to the spot we are in today where the billionaire class is taking over and using the rest of us to earn more billions in crude and unethical ways.

The latest influence Trump has is to cheat trying to be president by bringing pressure on newspapers not to endorse Kamala Harris or not to endorse at all if they are not going to endorse Trump. IS IT TIME TO BOYCOTT THE WASHINGTON POST, THE LA TIMES AND AMAZON to get their billionaire owners to stop playing lets pretend they are good and whole people and when the chips are down who they really are surfaces? Don’t we deserve better than that?

Help us, Dear God, to live lives of caring, of truthfulness, to acknowledge our sins and work to correct them, to do what we can to remove evil from who we are and from this world we did not create, but in which we now live. Help us to live with concern and caring for those traveling with us on this journey and remove the likes of Donald Trump, his followers and those who support him in his evil ways hurting whoever gets in the way or does not cooperate or who wants to make billions at the expense of others or who have made billions and that money has only served to awaken and accelerate the evil ways they live their lives. We have so much and we give so little and we justify the evil we do without conscience keeping us back. Keep in front of us the lives of those who are good and just and have managed to move ahead doing good, not evil. Lift us up as we try to lift others through this coming election in these United States. Help us to create a beautiful, just and giving country no matter our status. Amen!”

White Nationalist Convicted Felon elected president of these United States

November 8th, 2024

What a headline!! What an incredible end to the presidential election in the United States.

This is one of the few places where you will see such a headline from people who live under, accept and think this capitalistic democracy has something to offer the world – just not this bit of horribleness.

How that happened can be seen in all the people who now will spend lots of time and money sucking up to Donald Trump – the one who now has power and that power will deliver much money into his coffers. Those sucking up to him are those who want a small piece of that money and power to flow to them and they are willing to pay whatever price is asked for that to happen. Sit back and watch, America. You will see where many of those moving up in this administration have had their ethics, lifestyle and beliefs compromised way back when.

The United States has been a racist/sexist/misogynist country almost from its beginnings. We thought, this time, things would be different. Change would happen. Equality would flow into all the lives in this country, especially those who have had to live without experiencing such.

We saw many areas over the past several years where racism/sexism and all the other isms were having a time when those very bigoted areas were being pushed back and on the horizon was a more equal America. It shone brightly for all to see – or so we thought.

We thought we saw America becoming the country it claims to be. We thought we saw an America coming into being which actually respected every man and woman as equal – no matter their financial background – their racial background – their sex – their sexual orientation – their religious beliefs – and no matter the country from which they and/or their parents immigrated to these United States. We thought we saw mutual respect one for another. We thought all of the past ugliness was fading in the way we thought we saw Kamala Harris’ acceptance as vice-president and as a presidential candidate.

How wrong we were. Our dreams were interfering with reality. Donald Trump and his surrogates were, instead, re-enforcing the negative racist stereotype of black women; they were doing everything they could to portray Latina’s in negative ways; they took every such group and denigrated them as much as they possibly could so a White Nationalist who is also a Convicted Felon could emerge and rule this nation/this country in ways to bring it into alignment with Hitler’s Germany. “Hitler speak” was all over the Trump campaign. It was recognized and talked about by all, but those backing Trump were those referred to as “less than” under Adolph Hitler so why would they notice; be worried, or see anything other than – “this could possibly be the way to re-elect Donald Trump.”

The clearest example of how this bigotry works is shown in the life of the woman Trump has chosen to be his number one representative. We all know the most effective African Americans to keep down other African Americans are those who are imbued with the same racism as their White Racist brothers and sisters. Here we have an example of a White Woman, imbued with the sexism which the man who chose her has in his DNA. She spent lots of time, energy, and more getting him elected in spite of the way he has publicly treated, talked about, joked about, put down women of all colors, complexions and sexual orientation. In spite of knowing the history of the man she was promoting and working extremely hard to get elected as president of these United States she persevered and her reward has been to be appointed Trump’s Chief of Staff and I am sure in coming days she will be acclaimed as a fantastic example of Trump’s ability to ignore the sexism in which he is steeped. Her example of the future where white women will be so honored, who are the counter part the African Americans who can only see themselves as moving ahead and up is to knuckle under accepting and promoting the inferiority of their own group while the rest of society “exceptionalities” them.

We go over the same things from one generation to the next and here is an example of how we maintain the sexism is which we and our ancestors have lived for generations.

CONGRATULATIONS AMERICA! You have managed once again to maintain white northern european type males as superior to everyone else and to make sure the top of the ticket remains in their hands. One day there will be a reckoning – God’s reckoning for which we pray every day all day for it to come soon.

Trump as President? And Kamala…..

November 6th, 2024

Having watched the returns come in and listened to the people commenting, I heard everything except what really spoke to this election – and probably others as well.

The United States is a racist, sexist, anti- minority country. Trump’s election says it will be continue to be so for quite some time. This country started out using Africans to do the work of building, cleaning, and doing everything else while those who called themselves “citizens” did very little of that kind of work – or any kind of work except building a culture and society which denigrates those considered to be “less than.” Africans were stolen and held in bondage being forced to work free. We are a country which had its beginnings and growth using slaves. Human Beings we stole from Africa and forced to live out their lives in the most horrible of circumstances.

Over the decades, things changed and gradually Africans became African Americans – others joined that ‘minority group’ and continued to work for very little. Their lives and talents were controlled on many levels to keep these second, third and fourth class citizen building this country and receiving little in return.

After many generations of this, we put up the lie to which all were forced to subscribe, that we were actually a country of “separate, but equal” citizens.

Today, many thought this election was going to turn things around – finally – and we would have a more equal country with the structural/institutional racism and all the other -isms which pervades everything we have/do/think would gradually fade away and equality would be Americas gift to the world.

However, some things about this election bothered us even while we tried to put them to rest. We would like to share them:

Donald Trump has been elected the 47th president of these United States in spite of his ethics and way he has lived and acquired his assets. What does that say about the people who elected him – who voted for him to be their president? His is and has been a life lived destroying others, threatening even more, taking what he wanted from those who had less than and generally moving ahead living on and taking from whoever whatever he could rip off.

One example is Trump University, which destroyed the dreams of a college education for many and took the money of people who saw their dream of a college education go up in smoke. He took their money – gave back nothing – and added their money and wrecked dreams to his coffers and his history. This was only one of many such schemes and they continue to this day. His treatment of women is abominable and he has destroyed the lives of many women through sexual assault, rape, and so much more – this now 47th President of these United States.

We could go through his life and list his sins, but you know them as well as we do and yet many of you even knowing all of that still voted to make him president of these United States. What does that say about your lives, ethics, ways of being?

Many of us thought the institutional bigotry woven tightly into this society was lessening and losing its grip as a more equal society was coming to be – BuT some things about Trump’s ‘ascendency’ still bothered us and as we see this election, our concerns were well founded.

Did you ask yourselves why the person running against Trump was always a woman? Once – when Hillary Clinton was his adversary we could push that off and look at it as just something that happened in the normal progression of our lives in these United States. But, when Trump ran again and he was running again against a woman – this time an African American-Asian woman with a Jewish husband – that was a bit much and today, the covers have dropped from our eyes so we can see clearer. – if only we will look and see and act in our lives with the knowledge of that which is in front of us.

Kamala Harris arrived on the scene of presidential hopefuls when Joe Biden clearly was losing the race. And then much upheaval around that and Joe Biden is removed and Kamala Harris is in his place. What did that do – rock bottom? It kept a white male from suffering the humility of running against someone like Donald Trump and losing. Let that role be taken up by a woman – and it was at a time when Trump and his followers felt he was winning easily. So maybe Trump isn’t the only one trying to preserve this racist/sexist society’s ways.

So the Institutional structure of bigotry against African Americans, Women, Jews, Latina’s, Gays, American Indians and so many more could be kept in place and the white male northern european ancestry people could maintain their position as “better than” for much longer because clearly Trump and his followers are going to put bigotry solidly back into this country’s structure so it remains for several more generations. Trump’s campaign and campaigners did much to restore and renovate the structural bigotry under which many live and made clear what the future will be like letting everyone know where they stood as far as the “better than” structure goes and as far as taking down those considered less than in as crude and vicious a way as possible. Remember the island of garbage – didn’t they call that Puerto Rico? And if you have any doubts as to how Trump’s time as president will go as far as bigotry is concerned, when he took to the stage and made his talk about accepting this presidency there were no blacks to be seen anyplace on that stage and no one noticed or cared. The first salvo in “cleaning up” the society that others have contaminated by including minorities as equals.

One of our hopes that minorities would be able to build multi-billion dollar corporations is now gone. We experienced the destruction of that hope when the City of Cambridge set up the Capital Network as its venture capital arm and sent the three guys who took everything they could from us and who sent others to take what they could not take at the time to destroy one black-owned company with an original idea in which other venture capitalists wanted to invest. They did invest, when Bettina Network, owned by African Americans was handicapped as much as possible and Airb&b was established by three white males, taking everything including the business plan of our owner to raise the money they needed and so, the work to destroy Bettina Network, inc. went into high gear. And this was not the only company. Three generations ago Marceline Donaldson’s family was involved in the establishment and growth of United Fruit – now United Brands and received nothing for their work, ideas, etc. And take a look at My Chart just recently. A company whose original idea was brought forward and worked on for several years by 10 Nigerians who came up with the idea; did the programming and hard work of the beginnings of a company which has revolutionized one part of health care and they received nothing for their years of hard work, but the ability to watch as their work was stolen, their company was destroyed and they were pushed aside in very ugly ways by venture capitalists who thought those were great ideas and wanted to invest, but not in companies started and owned by black folks – especially Africans. Those companies – and many others, where the ideas were original to the minority founders and the companies were turned into companies supposedly put in place by white males even though the work and ideas were put in place and were originally the work and ideas of minorities – stolen – outright stolen. And I could go on describing such thievery for pages.

The continuation of such is what you voted for when you voted to make Trump your next president.

Trump used his pulpit as he held one rally after another to create around Kamala Harris a negative black image with all of the negative and ugly stereotypes this society has created and kept around black women, while all of the vile, illegal, vicious and ugly things he has done in his life are held up for society to cover their racism and raise him up to president of these United States.

His first time as president was bad enough. His campaign brought out the ugliest parts of this society. His presidency made clear there was no mistake in who he was and there was no change in Trump to a nicer man who moved his past ways on the side and took on a better way of being. The power of the presidency only made him worse. We saw what he would do as president and today all through his campaign, he and his supporters told us who he would be as the 47th president of these United States and we voted to say YES, that is how we want this country to be and YeS all of the ugly that we saw we want continued and YES his breaking of laws and threatening to destroy these United States as we know it and how we think we want it is going to happen under this man. A man who -according to court records in his first divorce – kept Adolph Hitler’s Mein Kampf on his bedside table and read it nightly. We claim to be a society which keeps the Bible on our bedside table to read to keep us walking that straight and narrow path. This has shown that to be a lie.

This time Trump has experience. This time he is surrounded by people who clearly have no problems destroying a few hundred years of building a democracy. This time he has laid out in advance exactly who he is and what he is going to do. And this time the people who voted to make him president did so knowing exactly who he is and what he is about. Saddest of all they are willing to tell the most outrageous lies to the rest of us to get what they want. One of the worset they told during Trump’s candidacy was that he built New York.

God forgive!

Donald Trump – a summary from decades of experience!

October 30th, 2024

“We spent the day watching the Trump Campaign – hearing the media stories leading up to it and the Donald J. Trump rally itself at Madison Square Garden.

It was an amazing time. At the end of the day we felt as though we needed a thorough cleansing because what we saw and heard was mud slinging all over this country, the world and its people in the ugliest way. We knew the Trump people and Trump himself were not worried at the lies being told, because when called to account DENIAL would be the order of the day.

We have a couple people who knew Trump back in New York many, many years ago. Given that and our own knowledge, to hear the claims in the rally by several participants that Trump built New York was beyond lying without any care that most people knew that was a lie. Trump and his people told the lie anyway – in the hopes it would get some innocents to vote for him thinking he really did something other than disrupt much in New York in a very negative way?

We thought over all we heard at the rally and several things we knew before the rally started and lots dropped into place:

The first was what we heard about Trump being gay and that it was the gay community in which he was then intimately involved that brought him and his business from Queens to Manhattan. We reheard about Roy Cohn with several people telling us how deeply involved Trump was with Roy Cohn. We heard a bit of that gayness from Trump when he talked about Arnold Palmer’s private parts on television just days ago. It was almost as though if confirmation of Trump’s gayness today was needed – here it was. What is wrong with that? The same thing wrong with African Americans spewing hatred of other African Americans and trying to hide their identity as such. Trump is totally anti-gay and has dumped all over the gay community. It is time someoone “outed” him.

In that context it made sense to us that Robert Kennedy, Jr. chose to be a part of the Trump campaign. Robert Kennedy Sr. apparently was involved with the McCarthy happenings back in the day, before he saw the light and moved over working with the Democrats on a very different level. Jr., who came along later didn’t do that. His family’s McCarthy connections had too strong an influence on him. He went in one direction resulting in his joining the Trump campaign and the rest of his family took a different less racist, sexist, etc. route.

Listening to the people who came to the podium to give their testimonial speech and to knock Kamala Harris was also amazing. I felt, after all of that, seriously in need of a really good cleansing bath. The foul language, the lies made each person who took the podium a little lower in our esteem than they were prior to their talk. Some were so low, in our esteem, they were wallowing in the mud with the snakes and others like them.

One strong thing that came out of the time spent watching all of this was a clearer understanding of why racism, sexism, homophobia and all the rest of the bigotry which has pervaded this nation almost from its beginnings has been practically impossible to get out of the structures of this country – the political, family and religious structures inclusively.

To support Donald Trump and his vice presidential choice (Vance) one has to be a real, true bigot whose ethics are in the dumpster. To be able to support someone for any office, let alone that of president of the United States who has shown themselves to be so thoroughly corrupt as Donald Trump is one has to have similar ethics and beliefs. One has to have lived a life lying, cheating, stealing from others; attempting to destroy others to take what they have; creating businesses which cheat its consumers; hate and actively attempt to destroy Blacks, Native Americans, Gays, Women, Latina Americans and all the others they have attempted to destroy who are not white male northern european types.

There have been many excuses made as to why people support this vile bigotry and dumpster ethics, because you can’t support people who clearly have horrible, vicious, ugly, vile and illegal ways of being who are running for office without your vote being cast giving them positive back-up for who they are – how they are – and permission to bring all of that up front into this country, its political system, its corporate structures, into the lives of the individual families and into its religious beliefs and structures.

We are talking, not just about Donald Trump. We are talking about tens of millions of people who have spent their lives destroying the lives, the quality of life, the future of others causing many deaths in the process.

When one looks back at just Donald Trump you see a man who is and has been gay from at least his young adult years yet has no problems acting in a horrendous way against other gays, making their lives as difficult as possible because it suits Donald Trumps need to move ahead in this society denying and denigrating others who have his same sexual proclivities because it helps him financially and otherwise without a thought to those he is seriously hurting.

One sees in Trump a man who had no problem ripping off people trying to get an education at great cost to themselves and their family looking forward to a better future only to discover they were doing it through Trump University which has been shown to be a place ripping them off for the millions of dollars it put into Donald Trump and his cohorts pockets.

All through Donald Trump’s life there have been incidents like Trump University. Some not so big and ugly – some which have made what happened at Trump University look like just a beginning to what has escalated now to a country-wide horror and if Trump wins the presidency, soon to a world wide dumpster fire

We don’t have to go back through each incident, I am sure they are well known to you making you not notice the little bits which just slide through, but which are strong parts of the Institutional Racism and other institutionalized bigotry making it hard to impossible for others. Something as small as media referring to Trump by his last name and to Kamala Harris only by her first name – sort of in the style which prevailed during slavery. The master referred to by his last name, the slave or servant only by their first name and even that didn’t happen often – just like with Trump and a description of what is being talked about acknowledging the other person at times without any name being mentioned.

Trump’s immigrant stance with his threats as to how awful immigrants are and what he is going to do to stop most from entering this country and according to Trump – turning it into a garbage dump. That is the most telling of all his lies. Trump himself came from a German immigrant family. Their money came from Trump’s grandfather who made his living once he was in this country by using women as prostitutes and eventually built a hotel -a bordello – where women lived and entertained men sexually for money. None of that, along with the abuse of the women has ever made the media although it should be very relevant given Trump’s anti-immigrant stance.

His anti-immigrant stance continues when you notice that his first wife was an immigrant and so is his current wife. To look at their lives, what have they contributed to this country as immigrants – other than marrying Donald Trump and becoming citizens? His current wife was a nude model and in pictures is nude on a bear rug in the ugliest way along with pictures which are practically nude standing next to a Trump plane or inside the plane with a case full of jewels in a mostly nude pose. That clearly carries a message – especially to the young people who see such pictures and then connect the picture with someone who was the wife of the president of the United States who is now running to be president once again. The rewards of such behavior?

We could go on for pages, but I think the message we want to put out is clear. Until the citizens of this country get their ethical lives together and live good, caring, positive lives without needing to be better than; without needing to lie, cheat, steal and more; without needing to abuse and prostitute women to achieve their financial goals for themselves we will always be in a spot like the one we are in today. We can’t really talk issues, policies, how to move ahead making sure that all of our citizens are whole and able to live good, caring, substantial lives until we stop supporting the likes of Donald Trump because we are caught up in his money, etc. That brings us to the spot we are in today where the billionaire class is taking over and using the rest of us to earn more billions in crude and unethical ways.

The latest influence Trump has is to cheat trying to be president by bringing pressure on newspapers not to endorse Kamala Harris or not to endorse at all if they are not going to endorse Trump. IS IT TIME TO BOYCOTT THE WASHINGTON POST, THE LA TIMES AND AMAZON to get their billionaire owners to stop playing lets pretend they are good and whole people and when the chips are down who they really are surfaces? Don’t we deserve better than that?

Help us, Dear God, to live lives of caring, of truthfulness, to acknowledge our sins and work to correct them, to do what we can to remove evil from who we are and from this world we did not create, but in which we now live. Help us to live with concern and caring for those traveling with us on this journey and remove the likes of Donald Trump, his followers and those who support him in his evil ways hurting whoever gets in the way or does not cooperate or who wants to make billions at the expense of others or who have made billions and that money has only served to awaken and accelerate the evil ways they live their lives. We have so much and we give so little and we justify the evil we do without conscience keeping us back. Keep in front of us the lives of those who are good and just and have managed to move ahead doing good, not evil. Lift us up as we try to lift others through this coming election in these United States. Help us to create a beautiful, just and giving country no matter our status. Amen!”

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Reviews on the Financial Channel – CNBC

October 14th, 2024

A morning review from Wolfe Research was unbelievable. Mostly, however, we take such reviews as people having credibility because the company for which they work does such hard work to come up with the results.

This morning, the reviewer talking about what he sees in the coming U. S. presidential election. He talked about what each one had to offer and where they were standing.

We put his comments in the trash because he talked about polling errors in Trump’s favor or polling error “in the other person’s favor.” So he started out showing his bias. Trump was named – Kamala Harris was called “the other person.” He went on to talk about what his research company thought each person had to offer. We tuned him off because his bias was clear and shared by many people on the financial channel as well as other places.

Don’t pass over such small shockingly racist and sexist comments which are so structurally in the system that we assume there is nothing to it and if you point these things out – you are just “picking” unnecessarily. This is institutional racism and how it is maintained. It gives to you the unsaid impression that “the other person” is not really on a par with the person talked about with his full name mentioned.

What is this Migrant/Immigrant thing about – complete/ with conspiracy theories and lies?

October 8th, 2024

Every place you go where you see or hear anything about this 2024 presidential race one hears negatives about immigrants. Where is this coming from?

Listening to all of the media and the people involved it is coming from Donald Trump and his supporters and the leaders of this MAGA movement. Why?

Whenever you have a group of the same kind of people you have evil. That is a strong lesson that is learned the hard way.

Where does Donald Trump get the ideas he is promoting, pushing, demanding that his followers adhere to? There are several places and people and they were all on display over the past week.

Our question has been – who is that standing behind Trump? Jesus Christ it is Elon Musk.

How did that happen?

Take a look at Donald Trump’s background. He comes from an immigrant family. So what is this about as he trashes immigrant families? The first of his family to come to this country was his grandfather. Who was his grandfather and how did he survive and make his fortune in these United States? By using evil – he survived and thrived on the backs of women. The first thing he did to survive was to push women into prostitution from which he – not they – benefitted. When that was successful, he went the next step and bought or built a hotel which he used as a House of Prostitution. And with that money the fortunes of the Trump family were made, but they will never be able to wash off the filth with which that money was made as can be seen by what happened with the next generation of Trumps. On down the line they stayed in Court trying to justify their “better than” attitude. Their closing their apartments to any except those like them and trying to defend their right to do that in a democratic nation fighting for the rights of all and to get rid of the racism the Trump family was promoting and forcing into being in Queens, New York – among other places.

Having that family beginning in these United States it is no wonder Donald Trump thinks all immigrants are negatively tainted, immoral and evil. Some of his family escaped their history. Trump was not able to do so.

One of the main reasons seems to be what my grandmother used to say “show me your friends and I will show you who you are.”

Recently, we were able to see Donald Trump on stage with his main supporter and the man who has given substantial amounts of money to the Republican Party over the years to bring about what he sees himself as now being just a few votes from achieving – Elon Musk.

Discovering this was devastating to me. The first thing I did was to sell my Tesla stock – all of it. Unfortunately it was at the time whenn the market took a large dip and selling that stock during that time my stock account took a large dip. However, God is good. My stock account has recovered its losses and we are moving on,. That is not true of Trump and those who follow him.

During his most recent political gathering, whose purpose it was to elect Trump president, the image presented was Trump at the microphone saying incredible negative things along with the devil incarnate – in the form of Elon Musk – doing his devils dance in back of Trump. If ever I have seen images from prior past history come alive, that image of Elon Musk jumping, dancing, waving his arms, showing his naked middle while shouting his happiness to finally be public in his being the power behind the throne, those minutes showed that clearly.

Trump became who he is financially through the guidance and support of Roy Cohn. Many wondered what would happen to Trump when Cohn died. It didn’t take long to get an answer. Trump was first trained via a television show to smile on cue, with pages to read and act out a show that totally took down the capitalistic system and showed how people like Trump are shaped and how they will give up their very being for the success of the show. Trump took all of that history into his first run for president and afterwards .

After that time, it didn’t take much for Elon Musk to step into the role of Roy Cohn. Only a hand full of people knew what was happening, but there it was – the return of Roy Cohn in the form of Elon Musk – only Musk was many steps further down the road towards evil than was Cohn.

That also explained why Vance was chosen Vice Presidential candidate and the attempted assassination of Donald J. Trump. Trump blamed that attempt on the political forces aligned against him. He mistook those forces for the Democrats. He totally missed the future – with Trump assassinated and Vance taking his place as the puppet president that billionaire group has envisaged for quite a few years.

Vance is a man accustomed to bowing to people like Musk to move ahead and gain wealth. His entire vocational life has been led bowing to Thiel. He has been well prepared for what just may happen – so ask yourselves – are you ready for a Vance presidency?

Was that assassination attempt one planned to put Vance in office as president – after the killing of Trump, the funeral processions, etc., Vance being put in Trump’s place as presidential candidate without time for the United States voting citizens to get a chance to see what he is really like? And the end of the United States as we know it with the billionaire group slipping into the places of leadership and authority. with their minions pulling up the rear and closing the door to anyone else has been accomplished.

We are seeing in Cambridge Harvard Square what happens under those circumstances with historic housing covenants pushed aside and homes being “updated” to prepare for a place for the billionaire group to move into with influence on Harvard and other nearby Universities to shape young people in the image of those who are needed to serve them and take on working to bring about the billionaires image of the world put in place as a reality. Take a look at houses sold for $4 million dollars being put back onto the market within the year at $9 million. Houses being sold at $7 million back onto the market in less than a year at $18 million.

So – is this all fiction? or is this the future given the possibility of a brief Trump presidency followed by his successor within six months of the beginnings of a Trump presidency.

Dear God, forgive us our evil ways and bring us into a world full of love, caring, grace and so much more where we value each other for our shared humanity and move behind us and out of reach the evil we tend to favor when we are tempted by the reincarnation of the devil and evil with his money, power and harshness he promotes us to use to reach and teach each other.

Attacks on Trump – Really?

September 16th, 2024

Another claimed assassination attempt on Donald Trump just happened while he was playing golf at his golf course. The calls have started for more security. We expect much more will surface as we suffer through yet another preventable horribleness.

We hope you realize if you join in the conversation with demands for more security to prevent another such happening, the funds for that will come out of your pocketbook.

No, we don’t want to see Trump assassinated. We do want to see him acting more responsibly so the rest of us don’t have to lose information from the media on whats going on in the world because his news has taken over everything.

It is time for us to make demands of Donald Trump.

We happen to be one of the groups his people are targeting and our lives are disrupted because of the attacks we have had to fend off for years and endure and still, we have more fighting to do to keep his people from totally destroying our life, health, finances.

No, we do not need to increase the funding or secret service people “protecting” him.

The first assassination attempt should have made Trump and his people much more cautious than they are today. If he wants to play golf – we all know golf courses are impossible to protect and an ex-president like Trump needs to take that into consideration and act responsibly.

As an ex-president he could golf at federal golf courses which are almost 100% safe. If he wants to continue golfing at Trump owned-golf courses he could close the course to the public during the times he wants to golf making it just about impossible for an assassination attempt to happen. These are only a couple things he could do to avoid such trauma. There are many more.

Will he do that? Probably not. The money he would lose doing that is not something Trump could countenance. He prefers the taxpayers spend their money to increase the security around him. He is not about do do anything to secure his own environment so his life is not threatened.

It is interesting how this attempt on his life attracts 100% of the media’s attention and this attempt could be the means by which he has a badly needed change in the presidential campaign he is trying to run so he can become president – AGAIN! Close out the competition with this assassination attempt and on and on and on.

Really tired of Donald Trump. The only thing he has done for those who follow him is to show clearly why racism has been around so long and is so hard to get rid of. Trump has “outed” many if not most of the racists, sexists, etc. in the society. He has appealed to the worst in human nature and spent a good deal of his adult life reading and learning about the lives of people like Hitler and how they reached their leadership positions. He did not go far enough to see how they ended.

To be a follower of Trump means – by definition – you are racist, sexist, homophobic and more. It also means your ethics are totally questionable and you are the down slide into the muck and mud of being able to destroy your neighbor because you have something to gain.

It is not possible to support someone with Trump’s lack of ethics without being someone with the same unethical and immoral life structure as Donald Trump. To support him for president or anything else when he clearly is immoral; abuses women and assumes that is his right; assumes the mantel of enforcing racism, sexism and all the other ‘isms as well” – this clearly comes under the category of sin.

Dear God – open the eyes of those who claim to be your followers, but who really give lip service to that because they need a cover to not acknowledge nor do the hard work of living a reputable, moral, ethical life which does not demand the right to destroy and threaten others. Open their eyes to see the filth in which they wallow when they follow a person who lies, cheats, destroys others for his own gain. Help them to totally reorganize their lives to the glory of your name. Amen!

FROM: Bettina Network, inc. Finance Area

August 5th, 2024

The U. S. Stock Market has been giving signals over the past few days and this morning it actually looks as though it is tanking.

Some things are too coincidental about this “tanking” to ignore:

  1. The person showing outstanding for winning the Presidential Election in 2024 is Kamala Harrisl.

2. It has been crystal clear that large corporate interests have thrown their weight behind Donald Trump who looks close to a babbling idio when he appears.

3. In spite of that, the corporate/moneyed interests are still showing behind Trump. How do they help him win this election? They use the only thing they can and that is the stock market and today shows their hard work.

4. The coincidence is this pressure is put on VP Harris over the time period she is choosing her VP running mate. If they can’t have it all – is this a statement that she better choose their person?

We could be wrong, but when you put culture, politics, finance together this downturn looks clearly the result of the finance folks exercising their strength to put pressure on the U. S. voting public for their choice. Today won’t show this, but the comments from finance commentators will begin to bring out how much better one side is over the other…..because………………..

Please God – give us the strength to overcome this bit of evil!

The Presidential Race and the Maintenance or Destruction of Bigotry!

July 17th, 2024

Totally at stake, as the race for president of the United States moves ahead, is the continuation, renewal, intensifying, creation of a more intense and practically indestructible form of bigotry. That becomes clearer as the race moves along.

As we look at the Republican National Conference, we see the “circling of the wagons”; the pulling out of any power anyone in that group has to promote Trump and erase any negatives he has created in his life that might keep John and Jane Q Public from voting for him.

If you believe in these United States and if you are really and truly a “Christian” as many of Trump’s supporters claim to be, you would not be able to even stomach the fact that someone like Donald Trump is not only running for president, but all of his “Christian sins” are being removed, submerged, cleaned up, hidden from sight by his friends and supporters and who is being solidly supported by the billionaire/venture capital group; a man who violates the law as easily as he breathes; who has not only been accused of abusing, raping and attempting to destroy women, but who has bragged about it while knowingly being recorded and who not only keeps going, but is being endorsed by many who call themselves “Christian”.

As you look at this campaign progressing, most of the media has already crowned him “president”. Before one vote is counted they have announced to all that Trump has won the presidency.

Why are some folks so excited by that prospect? Much has been tried to maintain the extreme racism, sexism, bigotry that has existed in this society practically from its beginnings. It was beginning to wane and move aside. Also tried and sometimes very successfully has been the misuse and abuse of those “different from” trying to acquire wealth by those who need to maintain their existence as ‘better than’.

The people most excited about the Trump presidential campaign and his chances to become president once again are the billionaire group – mainly the Venture Capitalists. Why? Because their identity as “better than” is at stake. Trump’s clear racism and sexism – his abuse of women – his ignoring of the laws, ethics and more and moving along his objectives pushing aside those kinds of possible blockages against what he wants to do for his own financial aggrandisement is simply a reflection in the mirror of what many, if not most, venture capitalists are also about.

It is no accident that only some 2-3% of money invested in new, substantial business ideas and structures goes to minorities and women. The rest goes to white male northern european types. The claim that “there are none qualified and producing” is not true. In fact it is an outright lie. That comes from the lack of integrity, character, honesty of those in or moving into that billionaire/venture capital group. Many have stolen the ideas, businesses and much more from minorities and women while claiming the originality of their ideas to themselves.

We know that from personal/business experience and from what we have uncovered through our research as we saw what was happening to others followed the same pattern of what happened to us.

The bigotry of Trump and his followers; their lack of integrity/ethics/character is and has been clear.

As those who follow us knows Bettina Network, inc. was created as a national and continued into becoming an international network of private homes for whom Bettina Network made reservations, advertised, marketed, etc. and they did this in a growing national/international way. How did Brian Cheske and his buddies discover the idea? They were sent to one of the homes in the Bettina Network, inc. to stay and to discover what that Network was all about. Who sent them? The Venture Capital arm of the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts and Cheske and his two friends did the job they were sent to do. They stole everything and used what they stole to found Airbnb – and said at the time of the stealing – they had no idea private homes could be put together in such a way and they walked away with the business plan and so much more from Marceline Donaldson, in particular. Let me remind you that Bettina Network, inc. was conceived, founded and structured by African Americans assisted by many minorities and women. There were even some white northern european men who helped – none of whom would have been taken up by that Venture Capital billionaire group.

Most striking, is the fact that Bettina Network, inc. was not able to even get a telephone call returned from the Venture Capitalists who work with such innovative and growing companies – especially those moving ahead with a new idea which was considered astounding and their business amazing.

AND – lets be very clear – they were not the only minority conceived and grown companies which were not only actively ignored by the Venture Capitalist group, but whose ideas, structure, etc. were stolen by those sent by that group. WHY? From looking at the history, they wanted the idea and the business, but wanted it grown and structured by White Male Northern European-type males with the total elimination of those who originated, grew and demonstrated that such a company was possible and would move into the billionaire group.

We met and spent time with young white males who were all over MIT looking for those unique companies, founded and led by minorities or women that they could take back to their leaders to be refounded and funded as though white males had the original idea, designed the structure and moved the company ahead with substantial funding by the billionaire/venture capital class.

With Trump as president there is a green light shining for those to go ahead and make sure minorities and women dont’ get a foot hold.

Our second favorite example is “My Chart”. An idea, structure, hard work to give birth and bring to fruition this hospital aligned corporation which no one has any idea that the original idea, work, sacrifice to test, grow and take out the kinks was done by Nigerians. They were invited to Silicon Valley and stripped of everything they worked hard to bring about over the previous 10 years.

There have been many such companies in American History. Marceline Donaldson can trace her roots back to a great-grandfather who was instrumental in the founding of United Fruit – now United Brands – so the pattern for eliminating those who worked hard to help found and bring along a billionaire company is not new. It is a part of the institutional racist structure of these United States and that structure is being reinforced and cemented into place by Donald Trump and his presidential campaign with its followers who see what he has to offer in this area and are totally supporting the structure.

When you support that group you are supporting the institutionalizing of the separate and unequal structure which has plagued this country almost from its beginnings when slavery was growing all over this country and which created the wealth of the United Kingdom’s Royal House.

The only way you can support such is if your ethics, character, integrity, honesty parallel those of Donald J. Trump. Maybe it is time to find your way to your knees to ask God’s forgiveness and direction into a different more God-like way of living, learning, making a living, and so much more.

The Trump/Biden Debate exposing everyone!

June 30th, 2024

It was quite unbelievable. No – not the debate, but the aftermath and all of the talking heads showing their lack of decent ethics, understanding and etc. and etc.

Joe Biden took on this debate in spite of having a cold. I have not heard anyone talk about that. It is a miserable time dealing with someone who is lying constantly, misrepresenting, and so much more negative stuff when you don’t feel great. It is even worse to see the fall out from a lifetime of hard work for these United States and your one night’s debate performance get such crude responses.

That is no different from the acceptance and actual talk about Donald Trump being the next president after a one sort of bad night for Biden – (sort of bad night because most of his responses were pretty good). What was especially good about his debate performance was the contrast – truth versus lies; horribleness and threats versus goodness and truth; one person with a history of working hard for this country on the right track versus the other person working for himself immersed in so many falsehoods there were back to back discrepancies in what he talked about. One minute he said one thing, the next he contradicted himself and lied.

My life has been horrendous given the fact that I am Black/Female/accomplished. Every time I threatened to break through there was something blocking. What was blocking? – The institutional structure of this country which prevents blacks, women and other minorities from achieving to the top of their talent, intellect and possibilities. The only minorities and women I see moving on up are those who have been put in place in a higher place than they can handle and clearly being there to disprove the rule.

The rule that took down a black female president of Harvard University who had only been in her position for a very few months. Why was she taken down? Certainly not because she wasn’t qualified. The claim was one to attempt to destroy her credibility whatever else she might try to do. Having gone up the ladder at Harvard – one is investigated thoroughly each step of the way. She passed on to her next step higher with no problems. However, the higher she reached and the closer she came to that pinnacle many were horrified. How could such a person represent Harvard University? The people who put her there must have been a bit crazy. So Congress called her and a couple others to “testify”, but was that really done to take them down and put them in their places using the attorneys working with them to make sure they didn’t stay on those high pedestals and were taken down? They were all women!

Harvard is now safely in the hands of a proper white male.

That debate showed starkly why my life has been so difficult. Donald Trump is the embodiment of structural, institutional racism, sexism and all the other isms. His history brings together some horrendous “coincidences”. He is a man who has been horrible about gay folks – who was strongly showing his own gayness as a young man in New York. Once he was able to move beyond his reputation and began to show signs of success he became the gay community’s nightmare in the way he has done everything he could to block their lives, limit their opportunities and throw up images which keeps as many down as possible.

He showed his ugly and very foul ethics from the time he was quite young. This was also clear in New York when he was a young man. It became uglier as he got older. Lies are something which Donald Trump puts out whenever it suits him and always has. It is amazing that knowing he was trained at the feet of Roy Cohn, Joe McCarthy and yes, even a Kennedy. All three sat at the head of the table promoting McCarthyism – destroying the lives of many who did not conform to their horrendous political positions. Who was the Kennedy? – The father of the Kennedy now involved in this campaign clearly working for the betterment of Donald Trump’s campaign.

The campaign’s ethics showed in the way they put a campaign sign on my property without my knowledge or consent.

Lies are what Trump told the American public during the debate. Do you want someone who constantly and viciously lies to you about everything or someone who has a short downturn because he has taken on debating such a person feeling pretty bad with a cold?

My other question is why has the media ignored that fact? Isn’t it the media’s constant coverage of Donald Trump during his run for president against Hillary Clinton that helped move him into that position? He did not win that presidency that he served, but he came close enough to push his way into office with the acquiescence of the many, helped by the same media that is ignoring Trump’s lies and other uglinesses during that campaign and dumping all over Joe Biden ignoring and not mentioning his cold.

I remember when I couldn’t turn on the television or read the newspapers without something about Trump? Where was mention of Hillary Clinton – his opponent? Not many places. Certainly not nearly the kind of coverage the media gave Trump. As that was happening, I remembered my grandfather – who was a journalist in his day, amongst other vocations – telling me – whatever they want to say about me, positive or negative is fine as long as they spell my name right. Lots of negative coverage can get someone elected as much as, if not more than, lots of positive coverage. Isn’t that what happened to that election that Donald Trump actually lost, but millions of people still voted for him?

As voting Americans, many voted for someone who assaulted women, bragged about that himself, was accused of raping women, saw women in “their places” and not at the table with white northern european men and so much more?

With his television series which vaulted him to fame and helped put him in the place of running for president, I remember when he talked about having a “black” program like the one he was doing. It would be only for blacks and that, he thought, would be a great improvement in bringing about equality. He apparently also thought that would relieve the burden from his shoulders from the people who were beginning to talk about the racism – the lack of a black/minority/female presence showing up in his television show. Separate and “unequal” – what we spent much to remove brought back by Donald Trump to the cheers of his supporters.

What this Trump-Time has shown me is the extreme racism and sexism structured into the institutions of this country. The kind of ethics one must have to live, breathe and grow a country whose institutions reflect that bigotry is the kind of ethics Trump has and is showing along with the millions of people in the country following him and working to make sure he is the winner and on top. It is a safe bet that he will continue and make that bigotry more entrenched so millions feel safe that they will be “better than” for as long as Trump is around.

We are supporting, by the millions, those whose horribleness is showing in their very negative sense of humanity, equality, truth. We are supporting, still, the racists, sexists, perverts, liars, filth spreading people like Donald Trump for president and using the fact that Joe Biden had a cold which put him in a bad place for one few minutes after a lifetime of hard work for America and all of the American people and we turn on him demanding he step down and someone “more qualified” than that ‘old man’ take over.

This should be unbelievable, but my life experience tells me that is America. That is especially the American media.

An Interpretation of the Stock Market for today!

May 31st, 2024

Special to Bettina Network Journal, inc.– May 31, 2024

It is amazing to “trade the market.” If you are an investor you have reached the wrong place. We are traders and probably don’t know what we are doing, but as long as we increase our money – what difference does it make? The bottom line is what counts. Our great leader thinks we are crazy, but then it won’t be the first time we accrued that reputation.

It is hard to make money if you don’t go the way of AI (Artificial Intelligence) – so here we go.

Today we bought Dell Technologies! Its identifier is DELL if you want to look it up.

Day before Yesterday, it was selling for about $168-$173 and as we sat and looked at the trades we read a bit and discovered it was the day its earnings were going to hit and everyone was expecting DELL to go up and have a bit of a rally. That didn’t sit well with us because we thought – “NVIDIA isn’t going to want that kind of competition.” And, while DELL is important in the AI world with all of the upgoing that was happening, this one would tank. And yesterday, tank it did. From about $173 to $139 in practically minutes. My god what happened to those who lost all of that money so fast.

One thing we discovered in the market. You can’t think of money as being important. Today you are flush tomorrow you are broke and you have to be able to go your way and keep your life going. Forget the urge to vomit once you’ve lost that kind of money so fast.

We didn’t puke, we decided to wait and buy at what we think is the bottom of this move so buying at $140 with 100 shares and then 1,000 shares we will start a phone bank and call friends to tell them to buy DELL.

Well, our leader interjected, maybe that is not such a great idea. Maybe you should think that over.

Thinking is not one of our strong suits. We will just sit here and dream about all the things we are going to spend the money on when DELL makes it move up as furiously as it made that move down. We thought about praying, but we don’t want to get God involved in this bit of greed. We will just THINK DELL’s move up.

Maybe you can help by doing a bit of research to see if this is a good idea or not. We discovered DELL was founded in Round Rock, Texas! Anything which was seeded in Texas has got to be good and move to make the Texas cowboy predecessors proud. Isn’t that one reason why ELON MUSK is moving Tesla’s headquarters to Texas?

DELL is rumored to be a company through which AI chips must pass. We don’t know what that means, but it sounds good.

Let us know what you find about DELL. We can still buy after the official close of the stock market so we are going to pull out all of our money and put it into DELL. If we go completely broke, we hope you will drop dimes into the cup you see us holding as we stand on the corner where the red light makes cars stop.

More to come!

Everything in the market today is about AI – WHY! WHY! Aren’t typewriters good enough for you people!


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