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Thursday, February 8th, 2018
Thank you for the forum.
- I note how the dregs of society are coming together to take control. Casino operator Trump and his friend casino operator Wynn have been having a grand time with the power acquired from Trump becoming president. The power of Las Vegas was behind Trump. Wynn was not just a small time hood, the is the one who very powerful in the creation of Las Vegas becoming what it is today. His sexual appetite seems to be parallel to Trump’s. And this is who you want as president with all of his friends. Russia made a good choice in seeing Trump as someone who could destroy everything good about these United States. We have had many break-outs which were really awful. It is time for that to stop and U. S. Citizens to get real and lean more on the side of goodness instead of on the side of greed.
2. Isn’t it amazing how our parents had some wisdom. Mine used to caution me many times growing up “birds of a feather”. And now we are beginning to see some of those wrecking havoc in these United States. Bad enough Wynn’s work was to develop Las Vegas. Too bad he could not have used his God-given talents to a more perfect end. Just think what he could have accomplished. Something great – long lived – and beneficial to humanity. Instead he has helped keep us mired in sin, ugliness, greed and the degradation of our fellow humans. SAD!!!!
3. Loved your analysis. It is one of the more sane pieces I have read as an explanation to what is happening. It won’t garner media headlines because it is not reporting the filth we are experiencing. I have never felt so unclean as I do realizing my United States citizens, people I talk to every day are the one who elected filth to the presidency. And he has extricated from the armed forces the worst kind of filth. So many fantastic generals and people who have sacrificed much for this country. Who does he pick and elevate – John Kelly? Yuk. Who else does he have within his administration in terms of four star generals and more who are on Kelly’s level?
4. WOW! I could have written that article. Keep it up, we need such analysis. Maybe it will change our voting system. We are responsible for who we put in office. We need to carefully think through those running for office and get to know who they are and what they really stand for and maybe we will separate the good from the bad. Get out and really do a bit of research on anyone running for office. Their histories, what they believe, how they have lived their lives and more is out there – we need to find it, share it and stop trying to lie and promote someone because we see something in it for us instead of something in it for all of humanity in a good way, not in a way to promote the ugly. And, we really do have ugly at the top in Washington – President, Vice President and many in Congress. People rated Paul Ryan because of his being Mitt Romney’s pick for Vice President. That should not have happened. Look at Ryan for himself and he looks more like someone infected with greed and more only better able to put a smooth cover over it than most – but if you look close you will see the raggedy edges showing.
5. Wish you posted more often. Turn this into a newsletter or a newspaper or a media center. Your voice needs to be heard by many more people. Maybe it can help bring about change.
6. Who are you people! I used your services once and now I am in the middle of an incredible “community”. Love it, but I didn’t know you even existed before a friend paid for my stay at one of Bettina’s Hedge Schools. You must be the best kept secret around. Not even a small newspaper article which is not an advertisement. You must be quite a threat. You need more exposure. I’ve done a little research on your company and it really needs to expand greatly. Don’t know of another company anyplace doing what you are doing. This is how corporations need to be in this world. Bet you are always mired in one blockade after another. Kick them out of the way and move on.
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Monday, February 5th, 2018
You keep calling me out to tell you more – this time no small answers lets take a broad brush across all of what is happening in the United States and why!
I told you some time ago there would be a continued upswing in their stock market from Barack Obama’s economic policies until Trump’s policies began to take hold and then the stock market would tank.
That happened last week. Take a close look at the numbers. Friday the stock market went down 666 points after a week of going down substantially. What does that mean? The market is screaming for you to hear its underlying movement – take a look at the Bible. For those of you who don’t believe in such – humor me and take a look anyway.
Pick up your Sunday School lessons. For those of you who did not study scripture pick up a bible and open it to Revelations Chapter 13.
What does the number 666 mean? Try reading the Book of Revelations – Chapter 13. The number of the “beast” – the antiChrist – the devil. And that is where the stock market ended on Friday. It gave you as good an opinion of Trump and his policies and presidency as was possible for an institution which speaks in numbers, a different language from all of you. You are accustomed to looking at the stock market for indications of the health and lack of it of individual businesses and as a whole for where the economy is going six months down the road. Now, take a look at it as an institution which reflects where multi-millions of souls exercise some kind of opinion and judgment daily. In the United States Stock Market there are no secrets. Someone knows – and the movement of the market tells all of your secrets. And on Friday, after leading up to it all week, the stock market spoke as loudly as it could to reach you about this President of the United States. That was a collective comment.
Where has all of this upheaval come from – what underlies this?
The United States Congress and the President of the United States:
First the Congress:
It cost immense amounts of money to run for Congress these days. Most of a Congress persons time is spent raising money, most of which is spent on polls. Why polls? So Congress people don’t have to risk telling their truth – standing for anything – so they can have positions they espouse and on which they run and base their Congressional careers. These Congress people take a poll and whatever the poll says has the largest number of voting people in back of it, that is what they espouse. They redress the polls as though that is their opinion, their program, their – ‘je ne sais quoi’. That is one thing creating all of this ugliness. It comes down to lies, pretense and more and for what? To be elected to Congress.
To get into Congress one has to raise incredible amounts of money and it looks at though that is what has happened to the United States Congress. People are looking to side with those who can promise large sums of money for their next campaign to renew their Congressional Seat. For example, wasn’t it Paul Ryan – third in line for the presidency behind Michael Spence – who pushed for a tax cut and immediately thereafter received a $500,000 contribution towards his next Congressional Campaign? Or his next whatever he decides to do campaign? To have to raise such huge amounts of money puts the power as to what this country will be like into the hands of the billionaires who can easily buy an election. Or should I say, who have already bought several Congressional seats and some Congress people and those who want to be are falling all over themselves to show how obsequious and servile they can be if their Congressional campaign is backed with money from the few.
The phenomena of Donald Trump has brought that into clear view. And then there are the connections that people who win the presidency have and use. Some connections during the campaign, many many more after the election.
Trump’s very wealthy friend – Steve Wynn was finance chair of the RNC. That means those running for Congress could be shut out of RNC monies if they didn’t toe the line and do what Mr. Wynn – who is Mr. Trump’s very close friend – says and tells them to do. And – the president usually dictates the character, morality, values of those with money who come close to him – they usually have commonalities of character, morals, value systems and more. Didn’t I hear a rumor that Steve Wynn and Donald Trump are claimed to have sexually assaulted many? And aren’t they rumored to have other similar proclivities in common?
Didn’t you notice the bowing and scrapping that has been going on amongst Congress people. Could that money possibility for his coming campaigns be what has been motivating Devin Nunes? Bowing, scraping, foot shuffling, running around making a fool of himself for his future in the government. And everyone says they are mystified as to why he has been doing this. There is nothing mystical about it. What it is about is human greed and grab for Power and Control. For some, just the warm fuzzy feelings they get from being close to and being seen as close to and representing power.
And — you see Congress people lining up to make sure their obeisance is in tact and that it is duly noted so their campaigns will be generously funded. And you see Donald Trump’s power extended and strengthened as he lines up with people who have the money to finance Congressional and presidential campaigns. He becomes a power, just because he is president, because those wealthy and super wealthy individuals need to control the politicians so their prurient and business and personal needs and wants are satisfied and not handicapped politically and by politicians.
There are two political parties in the United States. One party takes charge and pushes the agenda of the wealthy through and the reaction against it moves and helps to grow the other party in the direction of taking over some of its people. That goes on until the parties change positions, beliefs, and things they work for and stand for. A third party has never been able to develop beyond a very small group because the two dominant parties will not allow that to happen. Until it does, and a strong third party forms, the United States will go through these charades.
I remember when the Democratic Party was the Party of slavery, of racism, sexism and more. They were the ones keeping Africans from voting and were behind the KKK and other such groups. Then, along came a handful of people who moved their followers out of the Democratic Party into the Republican Party because it looked as though there was a vacuum and into that vacuum they could put their followers and achieve the goals they were used to achieving through the Democratic Party. In addition, the Democratic Party recruits its adherents through movements. The KKK, White Supremacists, White Citizens Councils were dying out and the Black Civil Rights Movement was becoming strong. The Democratic Party started recruiting from these groups and from the feminist organizations. as the Feminist Movement became stronger with more people joining and working to achieve its goals.
And then there is the Presidency:
For decades the office of the president of the United States has been accruing more power on a gradual ongoing basis. If the inhabitant of that office is a moral person then the office and its powers are safe. If not, and the office holder has the morals, character and soul of a Donald Trump then everything, everyone and the institution itself along with the Congress, the Legislative branch and the very Constitution of these United States are all threatened and the citizens are threatened with a move away from the Republic, which is the current government structure – not towards a democracy but towards a fascist state where moral corruption can abide and hide from public view. Lies, theft, self-aggrandizement, scape goats. All these thrive under such structures. People regress from responsible adults working so all can thrive to dependent and irresponsible children supplying the powers in the system with their needs, wants, frivolities, debaucheries and more at the expense and sacrifices of the many.
The office of the president must be changed with far fewer powers so it is in line with the other branches of government. It needs constraints – a fail safe – to make sure it doesn’t become the monster it is becoming under this current president. Clearly, we lack the ethics, morals and character to be able to trust our ‘elected leaders’ to move us in the right direction, to respect and follow the constitution, and to not bring foreign – particularly hostile foreign governments into these United States simply to increase the power, money and control of the government over which the current occupier of the office can exercise power.
Well, that’s it for now. Pay attention – stay involved – guard your soul against corruption and everyone will be fine. Don’t be afraid to speak up and speak out. When things get rough and one or the other side gets out of hand take to the streets to bring things back into some kind of equilibrium while the forces of the universe try to bring enough strength into your system for the creation of a third party.
There are so many good people in the United States. It is worth saving – so hold tight, work hard and don’t give up. Also, step up to speak truth and act out of your beliefs. In such a circumstance you die once. Shrivel, give in, give up, throw away what could be because you want a soft, smooth, effortless life – you will die a million times.
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2018
Not much to say today because everything about this has already been said. The question is, are we listening!
We are moving this society from Trump back to Hitler in a straight line and moving very quickly.
When a president of the United States can be blackmailed by a porn star, all United Sates defenses are down. We are open to some of the most agregious acts possible because we have a president who will apparently do whatever his most base physical urgings are and who feels he can do anything and he will still be supported by many. His actions take him into places where he is left open to this kind of thing and our support of him acknowledges he is like the “Teflon Don”. What does that mean for the safety and security of United States citizens – it certainly does not look as though that enhances that safety and security but opens the door wide for those who would walk right in with the U. S. President who they have compromised, possibly for doing less than he did with Ms. Stormy Daniels.
He is now trying to “cleanse” the FBI. That kind of “cleansing” needs to start with our leader, who seriously and quickly needs to be “cleansed” out of the United States government. An FBI agent with his history and actions and lifestyle would have been dismissed summarily months ago. Does the “cleansing” language sound familiar to those who were around during and shortly after Hitler? One of Hitler’s main goals was to “cleanse” Germany of Jews. And there are a few other times during Hitlers reign when the term “cleanse” was used. Interesting that Trump is using this word in his current comments and those of his workers and supporters.
So, someone who could not qualify for the FBI because of his personal leanings and evil history is going to set himself up as someone who can be the person to do and orchestrate this FBI “cleanse”? Or have it done for him by those supporting him and his lifestyle and morals and very low character? With the help of John Kelly and others? Who have shown themselves to be as prurient as their leader? And as racist? And as sexist? Believability is stretched here. Trump followed Cohn and McCarthy and learned from them. You can see in the way Trump acts through his presidency that he is channeling Roy Cohn almost exactly. Cohn was a Jew who was anti-semitic; he was also very gay and homophobic. That does something to your soul. I wonder if that is why the Evangelical Christians have given Trump a “mulligan” – because they see similarities to their own tendencies and lifestyles. It is clear Trump’s racism is right out there and huge – what is not so clear, except to those who were around at the time when Trump and Cohn were best buddies. Where you saw one you saw the other and where there were parties they usually showed up together and there were rumors and speculation about Trump’s sexual orientation. That would certainly compromise Trump – wonder if that is what Putin knows about, with video and pictures!
To outline a quick movement along that straight line we are traveling moving back in history from Trump to Hitler and the kind of society Nazism produced and Trump is apparently trying to duplicate today:
- from Roy Cohn – who was Trump’s mentor and who showed him the ropes moving him from Brooklyn to Manhattan and giving him the ethics and character he has shown readily acceptable to incorporating into his character. With a caution – Roy Cohn died sick with AIDS and broke in spite of the fact that he wielded a lot of power and money before the end.
2. From the wall erected in Germany to separate East from West and the suffering it caused; the human deaths; the separation of families and on and on we go. That wall was taken down, but it is a tool preferred by Russia and others in its sphere and now brought into the United States by Donald Trump who is causing much pain and suffering among many people. Deaths; separation of families and human suffering will only increase.
3. from Roy Cohn to Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism – a time during which many Americans suffered extremely because of the life and actions of those two men and in the background was Donald J. Trump who has picked up the line from Cohn and McCarthy and is incorporating it in the present and taking it into the future. The human suffering caused by those three is immeasurable. Add that to the wall suffering and add that to what Trump has created on his own and you have immense human misery caused by this United States president, his Chief of Staff and all of those Congress people supporting him either because of blackmail or their own convictions which they were not able to bring into play and into the public eye until they had the support of Donald Trump and on and on and on.
4. From McCarthy to Hitler – a short time line, but one directly traceable. Look at the number of Nazi’s surrounding Trump. Look at his history with bigotry. Look at what he has said he would do, not the least of which has to do with S### Hole Countries and so much more.
United States history, along such a suffering line, goes back even further when you look at the suffering and death in the establishment of labor unions; the suffragette movement, the massacre of African Americans in the 20th Century and when you add in American Indians the pictures turns even more violent.
I won’t go back further. You know or you should know that history. Just remember ” Strange Fruit” – a song composed to memorialize Africans Americans who dared to vote and were hung for the attempt and think of voter nullification and all the other ways the vote is being controlled, reflecting another stage of evil; the American Carnage during Reconstruction; the forced relocation of American Indians because “White Americanized Northern Europeans” wanted the territory on which they had lived for generations with that forced relocation happening by forcing American Indians to walk for days, weeks, months through all kinds of weather with no food, water, clothes except what thy were able to garner in the course of the Trail of Tears March – many forcibly moved from the South East to the Oklahoma territory.
And today, the threat of an America that is becoming majority brown and black being the impetus behind those supporting Donald Trump in any lie he wants to tell; any act he wants to take; any woman he wants to sexually assault; any sexual deviancy he wants to practice – for which Evangelical Christians give him a “mulligan”. Is this how low we have fallen? Have our morals and character as Americans become so irretrievably compromised that we can constantly give such an incredibly immoral, foul character as Donald Trump someone we have elected as President – our leader – that we will continue to support him and not see the evil he and his supporters have pulled out of all of us? We not only see evil – we are complicit.
#evilTrump is clearly an accurate descriptor. Hopefully, the rest of us have some modicum of self-respect that we want to act in such a way that our tomorrows are better than our yesterdays and we are still able to act out the rest of our lives with higher morals and higher character than we have displayed so far.
God forgive us! We have truly sunk far into the morass of evil which is being served to us with the promise of money, power and supremacy over those not like us on whom we can dump our sins expecting ‘mulligans’ from those we look to for moral guidance, where we have caused human suffering and death. Amen – and Amen!
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Sunday, January 21st, 2018
Since we had several responses to the same blog – we thought we would combine them as best we can to let you know what members of Bettina Network’s Lifestyle Community are thinking about and responding to. These are not direct quotes as we have tried to condense some, which were very long, and write the essence of others. We do think we have kept a faithful reporting of the comments we received. The emotion against Trump is amazingly strong. We think, at some point, something has to give before this society explodes.
- Overtime as I read or hear about Donald Trump and his machinations, I think KARMA and how it acts in the universe. I also think about and am appreciative of your making the strong statement that mental illness and evil are not the same. How many people claim Hitler was mentally ill? Stalin? and all the rest? There is a difference. And, since the world is moving away from religions of all kind, no one wants to admit that evil exists. We have seen it in human nature and it comes out, no matter how hard we work to suppress it. You have to name something before you can conquer and move it out. I am going to be one of those joining the #evilTrump group and put that hashtag on my postings that I feel show Trump’s evil.
2. It is interesting to me that once upon a time I used to love reading about the social goings on in Washington, D. C., particularly those around the president and his cabinet. None of that seems to exist today. I have yet to read about Trump and his wife going to social events in Washington. I also don’t see anything about the “Washington establishment” having social events and inviting the president and his family. Have I missed something or does Washington society see in this family the same thing the rest of us sees and doesn’t want to spend an evening mired in Bull Crap.
3. Closing down the United States’ financial arm of the government by refusing to fund it on the anniversary of Trump’s inauguration. What a way to mark that day. We have decided to wear black arm bands until Trump is removed from office. We can’t walk around in pink hats, but we can keep our hats in our pocket books for times when we can put them on. I think the import of those arm bands say clearly the kind of grief we are experiencing with this man as president.
4. When I heard the president prevaricating on which the day the government would be shut down and. which day he would announce his “Fake News Awards” – I was not surprised that he threatened a lot, but didn’t deliver until 1/20/2018. That is the day of his big celebration planned at Mar a Lago. I wondered when I first heard of the celebration who would attend. At $250,000 per couple that is more money to join the disappeared and unaccounted for and unreported disposition of money from the Trump inauguration. People must now have a clue as to where their money is going. My thought when the shut down loomed imminent was whether Trump would attend, because of the possibly low numbers of people who subscribed and would be attending? There has been almost no coverage of the event and the press has been very carefully kept away. That event shrouded in silence given what is happening all around and given what attendance or lack of it means to what is happening elsewhere it is quite suspicious that it was almost totally not covered by the press.
Everyone seems mystified as to why Trump has acted so unbelievably wild given this huge event on the horizon. One would think his normal way of being would be to do what he could to attend and bask in the glow of people idolizing him. If that was not to happen and it began to be clear as the day came nearer – how to get over what would be a very revealing lack of support by his big contributors and save face was an issue. Doing what he could to not fund the government was one way to glossing over this possible lack of participation by his big supporters.
I can’t believe people who are careful about their money would have made reservations to pay that kind of money to attend this “celebration” given the history of money disappearing and not being accounted for by the Trump group. That seems to me to be what is behind this government shut-down. A cover-up for a possibly failed “event”? It would certainly have been majorly covered by the press if Trump were in attendance, but given that he was not there it seems that press coverage was elsewhere so we have next to no information as to what happened. Have to get on the telephone to friends to see who knows about this – I am sure someone will talk about Saturday at the Trumps’
5. I have taken a flying leap into wishful thinking as to why I think Trump worked so hard to see that the Government was shut down on Saturday 1/20/2018. Mueller was ready to indict and arrest – Trump, Pence, Kelly and all the rest, but shutting down the government meant those about to be indicted would not be arrested during this event? maybe that will happen next week. Just a thought. I also thought the “Fake News” awards were meant to cover-up something. Especially since the date of release of that “award” kept changing. Wonder if those changes had to do with the Mueller investigation? One can only hope. Especially strange that Pence was not at the Mar a Lago party – they sent him out of the country during the party. Hope another book is coming out to explain all of these things. Can’t wait to read the reality so I can stop guessing.
6. Oh, the news leaking out about Russia infiltrating the Conservative movement. Do you think “Karma”, which lots of people are beginning to talk about, had anything to do with it? My dream is that those “Russian” and others infiltrating the Conservative movement would actually be converted in the process. Anything is possible, right? I wondered why there were these pictures around of so many of the loudest Conservatives and Evangelicals turning up in Russia! Whatever being a Conservative used to mean, today it seems to mean you are cavorting with those who want to take down the United States Government and their way of contributing to that is by being an undercover part of the Conservative – especially Evangelical group. How things change. There was a day when Russia was the “evil empire” and we were taking down the wall – Ronald Reagan famously went to Germany to say “Mr. President, take down this wall.” One would think that experience would make us very wary of building walls, especially for such evil reasons.
The Conservatives and Evangelicals are intransigent in their support of Trump, no matter what he does, and I can’t believe true Evangelicals would take that position. When I hear people like Franklin Graham supporting a man who is an adultery, sexual pervert, pathological liar, sexual abuser, see no reason to ask for forgiveness because he has done nothing wrong etc. etc. and sees him as a role model for our children, I wonder how much money Russia and its allies have contributed to Franklin’s group. Hearing about the infiltration of the NRA, a group I used to wonder how they became so powerful and with so much money so quickly, it certainly makes one think that others must have followed suit.
Editors Note:
That ends our trying to put out what we received from several people. We combined two or three comments into one and did our best to accurately give to you what was given to us. When someone like Donald Trump is doing his best to undermine and destroy all of us so we become too exhausted to fight back and he can just move along swiftly with his program with diminishing push back, one good way of fighting back is to openly and publicly vent to let all of that ugly out of our systems.
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Friday, January 12th, 2018
by: Marceline Donaldson
When one looks at minority groups, the most mystifying problem turns into a question. Why are so many women against feminism and equal rights for women? Why are so many African Americans against other African Americans putting the entire group down? Why are so many LGBT people against their own making the loudest, ugliest and longest “jokes”. Maybe, just maybe Donald Trump has given us the answer.
Trump has been anti-immigrant for a very long time. He ran for office on an anti-immigrant platform.
BUT, Trump comes from an immigrant family and not one that has deep ties into the United States. Trump’s immigrant family recently came to this country. His current wife – Melania arrives only after she became an adult and from an Eastern European country. She is first generation immigrant. Trump’s grandfather came when he was about 16 years old, no education, no money, no family – just here to make his fortune where it was believed that the streets were paved with gold.
And so, it becomes rather obvious that the Trump family has seen through the lens of their own family what happens when you let people immigrate to the United States. Given their extreme racism, it is clear the conclusions this family would draw. They are conclusions that say – if our family made contributions to these United States which have brought this country down low instead of raising it up high then goodness, what will “they” – those others do if allowed into these United States.
What have the immigrants in the Trump family contributed since they immigrated to the United States:
Let’s start with the earliest Trump into these United States. Grandfather Trump.
He started the rest of the males in the family on the construction/hotel/mafiaconnected/casino road they have taken. He built and ran a hotel. And so the rest of the generations of his family followed suit. His hotel was rumored to also be a brothel. A rumor so strong it still exists to this day. So the Trump family of immigrants started their fortune probably tied in some way to whatever mafia existed in those days in Grandfather Trump’s location.
And then comes the father of Donald Trump, who continues in the family business by continuing the construction work. Question is, did he also continue the shady side to be able to fund his construction? Did the money invested have mafia ties – maybe conditioned upon the other side of the Trump family business like Grandfather Trump’s is rumored to be?
We know the father of Donald Trump contributed to the continuation of the racism in this country which others were working mightily to eliminate because, among other things and of all people – Richard Nixon and his administration sued the Trump’s for racism because they would not allow African Americans and probably other minorities to rent in their buildings. Barely out of the old country – lying about which country they came from because of the negative connotation their German ancestry would have brought onto them at that point in history – they claimed to be from Switzerland. So they were very conscious of what they were doing; how they were violating the laws and constitution of these United States, but continued and did their best to cast themselves in the best light possible, given their ‘immigrant’ background. And the child Donald Trump learned his lying at his father’s knee.
Why did they move away from their German background? That was the time of Hitler’s Germany, after all. The man who Trump seems to be most copying as he moves about his presidency. In its early stages he clearly is moving in the direction Hitler moved in after he became head of Germany. Quickly changing the judiciary so it grovels in front of him instead of doing the job of following the Constitution of the United States and that will worsen as he continues very quickly to make those changes – and Trump, the son, is very aware of that.
Instead of getting rid of the Jews,a la Hitler, who were succeeding and moving out of the Jewish Ghettos to which they had been consigned for quite a long time – Trump, the son, is doing his best to get rid of non-whites and non-‘Christians’ as he moves about his purge of these United States and sees the gains minorities have made in this country. However, he has not gotten over the family’s anti-Semitism because we see it peeping out and becoming a deluge as Trump shows his partiality to Zionism and is clearly trying to bring Israel into being as a Christian country. A dream of the KKK, White Supremacist and especially the ‘Christian’ evangelists. By the time he finishes with his divisiveness in Israel – well, I really don’t need to spell that out.
the father of Donald Trump saw a like mind and belief with groups in this country like the KKK and that is where he gravitated. When the huge march on Washington, down the Washington Mall of the klan in their white sheets and pointy hats happened way back when, the father of Donald Trump was one of the group he was one arrested, but he apparently not before he had his moment of glory expressing his beliefs publicly.
Donald Trump showed how closely he held those beliefs when he had his followers re-enact “Krystal Nacht” in Charlottesville in the not so distant past and came out publicly to make sure everyone knew this was not being done against him, but with his blessings. His father would have been proud.
The Trump’s under Father Trump must have been violating the Constitution big time when it is Nixon who hauls them into court for violating the anti-racism housing laws.
And then comes the “Don”. Donald Trump, who has been accused of everything from being a mafia ‘don’ or at the very least a part of and blessed by the mafia (although at this point one would think that at least the Italian mafia would be a bit too American to have anything to do with the “Don”, but nevertheless…) to treason to being a pathological liar, to being one who assaults women and brags about it, to being someone who launders for the mafia – or is it for the Oligarch’s who seem to have made the traditional mafia second class citizens in their reach …and on and on goes the list.
This is the president of the United States. This is someone from a recent immigrant family. But this is a white immigrant family. Maybe Donald Trump has it wrong. His own involvement has probably clouded his judgment, he should be closing the borders to those from “white” countries who seem to be doing most damage to these United States. Hmmmm! Maybe I should scratch that out – is that racist? Or can such a statement be called racist.
And lets not forget his current wife, Melanie who has left a permanent image for young girls and women to follow of posing nude in nothing but handcuffs hooked to bed posts and high heel shoes along with being practically nude in many outfits on an airplane to posing next to an airplane, which we assume is a Trump plane in black boots and very little else. Being the First Lady has never had such ugly images connected to the job and they will all be left for posterity. The young girls in these United States now have a First Lady role model to imitate to follow who has shown them how to go from immigrant with very little money to millionaires in her own right, married to a claimed billionaire, and being lauded as First Lady of these United States with a wardrobe which includes a $54,000 coat while others starve and suffer from no shelter in below zero cold on the street
With that kind of family I am not surprised that Donald Trump is so anti-immigrant. If this is what his immigrant family has ‘achieved’ since it arrived on these shores goodness knows what others will do to continue to drag down these United States. He can’t let that happen – he must act.
No United States President has ever been rejected as a state visitor to England – what used to be a close ally. Trump has changed all of that and had to cancel his state visit to England – we assume because he was advised that he was not welcome there.
So hopefully, you now understand why Trump is so anti-immigrant. I am sure he is only trying to protect these United States from those he thinks will bring the kind of harm he and his family have brought to these United States and wants to do whatever he can do to prevent such from happening. I am sure you also know why he has zeroed in on non-white immigrants. If white Immigrants can bring down the worst judgments on other immigrants, no matter which country they have come from what will the non-white immigrants do. Trump can’t let that stand or take that chance. He has, after all, this first hand experience.
And now you have the answer to all of it – most specifically, why would a fairly recent immigrant to these United States be so anti-immigrant in his policies when he gets the chance to make some.
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Friday, December 22nd, 2017
Don’t want to lose my job. But if this keeps on the way it has I will be out there on the front lines – dam the job – I will join the homeless if that is necessary to bring about change.
I noticed a couple of Marceline’s Facebook posts. One included something – in answer to a ‘friend’ about black teachers. She was too nice to say many black teachers stepped away from the Black Civil Rights Movement in the 1960’s because they saw that as the road to losing their jobs to white teachers and didn’t want that to happen. They were a part of the Black Bourgeoisie and enjoyed a position in black society they did not want to lose. I don’t know the person she was answering and commenting in her Facebook page so I didn’t add my say so – it seemed intrusive. Everything goes on this blog so I am answering here.
That said – I really need to respond to your post on Trump and the very ugly picture of the Republicans assembled on the steps of the White House in celebration of their vote on the tax cut.
I lived through Nixon and I didn’t expect to have to live through another such carnage. And carnage is what this is. An American President elected – or rather put into office by Russia and the fascists, and I really believe that. Not from the media or anything else, but from my life experience in the world. Trump makes Nixon look like a saint. Nixon covered up a breaking, but Trump is well into treason.
I loved your little comment on the White House built by slaves.
I believe many of the Republican Congress people are being blackmailed. We have a president who is a bully – ugly and evil bully – who has bullied all of his life and is now president and bullying on a world wide stage.
Why have we tolerated such? Why hasn’t he been removed? Why has his sexual assault not been addressed? Why isn’t he in jail?
He clearly has surrounded himself with people who are as much able to bully as he – like Nikki Haley. I had great hopes for her and was wondering if she was someone I could support. After the way she bullied at the U. N. she clearly was chosen by Trump to be a part of his government because he saw this in her and that is what he wants in his administration. Either bully or grovel. Push people and governments around in Trump’s name or grovel to show what seems to be Trump support, but in reality the most dangerous people one can have in your circle are those you have blackmailed and forced to do and react in ways they would not otherwise.
Hopefully, they have been blackmailed. If this is who they have been all these years – I am thinking particularly of Orrin Hatch – then we have been very short sighted to have re-elected them. It is time for all of them to go. There must be a way to immediately remove Trump and his administration. I am sure you folks will think of something – but make it quick.
My response will be following Marceline out of the Republican Party. I stayed too long, but better late than never. I remember her when she was precinct chair in Wayzata, Minnesota. Wondered then how she could be precinct chair in the Republican Party and on the National Board of the National Organization of Women – or is that ‘for’ women? She stood strong for what she believed. I didn’t like her much then – thought she was too “pushy”. I did respect her, however. I watched her being trashed in some really crude ways, but she didn’t step down, didn’t step away and I don’t think she even blinked. Having a family to raise that took a lot of guts and she must have been through a lot of pain in the process.
Not been involved in civil rights and these other activities very long, but I am all in now. And whether that is good or bad we have Donald Trump to thank or blame for my conversion. From a sort of racist and sexist to somehow trying to walk a different path and make up for a life not always well led or behaved. Hope you all forgive me. I was busy trying to make lots of money – but that’s all over. Getting old changes your values and priorities.
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Tuesday, December 5th, 2017
Isn’t it amazing what it takes for the experiences of your life to come together.
What is it you have wanted more than anything else in life?
For me – since I was little – it was wisdom and understanding.
Funny thing about that – it is exactly what I have received from life. Not money – success – fame – all of that started to break in at different points along the way, but just as quickly as that breaking in started, all of those things – money, success, fame – were killed. How and by who I will probably never know. But wherever there were lessons to be learned I was there and the world seemed to open up to give me its ultimate secrets. The biggest and most guarded secret is the one which showed me if the world defined money, success, fame had broken in, the wisdom and understanding would have stopped and that which had already broken in would be gone in a very short period of time.
Things that seemed obvious to me were a blank to many of my friends. If that is not true, they were magnificent in hiding what they saw and understood. And what I understood was what one fears and that which keeps one from stepping out on faith is really who you are. The fear is of losing those things the world has provided and putting you in a position of want – that seems to be our greatest fear.
So many things come to us for learning and almost all of them we ignore as we look and walk in the opposite direction. We live on assumptions. The assumptions we have put into our minds and hearts because that is what we want to believe about life and that is what we want to believe about those around us and that is what we want to believe about the world in which we live.
One grand truth, being presented on a world-wide stage these days is the moral structure needed for the world to maintain its racism, sexism and all the rest. That moral structure is deep within our souls today and we live by that structure without ever thinking about what that has done to us spiritually. The sacrifices we have made as human beings over the generations to satisfy our most base needs are horrifying when looked at on a world-wide scale.
How many lies do you have to tell yourself to believe and act and create your world around the incredible belief that you and those like you are “better than” everyone else. What lies have Alabamians had to tell themselves to support and vote for Roy Moore. We are living out a morality play each day and it is stark. There is nothing romanticizing what is being played out on the U. S. Government’s stage. It is and has drowned out and is quickly removing every good thing we have ever been about – and that is no exaggeration. How did the ovens in Germany come about? They were created by those who were born, raised, lived and died in a society which was full of normal human beings trying to survive but gradually taking that need to survive and that fear of failure to incredible heights. They were not evil people, they were just like us. They became evil as they became more and more entrenched in the opportunities to achieve untold wealth, great fame, etc. etc.
As human beings we seem to have been born with the need to group together with like minded, like looking, like acting human beings. We have had our tribes which insured our continued existence. There is nothing wrong with tribalism, until the day comes when that tribalism slides into “my tribe is better than your tribe and your tribe must serve my tribe so my tribe can have more of what it wants in this life at the expense of your life and times.”
What do these rummaging have to do with today? It brings to mind and heart all of the huge sacrifices we have made to create a country in which some are better than others; to have created that country on the backs of slaves who were demeaned and considered less than human; to have used the marriage laws to enslave others; and to have used women in various states to satisfy the most prurient needs of humans – which once satisfied become progressively more enslaving and violent and demeaning.
What price have we paid for that to have happened? We live in and have created a society in which we have split the human race into sub-races, all described with some inhuman traits and all claimed as less than. The price for that has been our honor – our integrity – our beauty – our grace – our loveliness – our ability to love one another “as I have loved you.”
These times with Donald Trump have been times which have surfaced and brought front and center the sacrifices these United States have made to maintain as “better than”. We have built what we call a “great country.” We have built a country we consider better than all others and have never seen the sins we have put into that country’s structure. We have built a country on a huge flaw and that flaw is today creating a huge earthquake. What remains when the shaking and spewing up of stuff from the center of the earth stops is anybody’s guess. We have built a country by condemning Jesus to death and then calling for a bowl of soap and water and a towel with which to wash our hands of the carnage that followed. We have build a country and then divorced ourselves from its history. We have built a country and taken no responsibility for the price we demanded others pay for its creation, its wealth, and its continuation in the same vein which caused many generations to take on a system of moral values which they practice and deny at the same time thinking that others can’t see the lie!
Slavery – the Trail of Tears – the opening our doors to immigrants from all countries and then labelling them as “less than” by those deemed on top of the heap – all have prices to pay and today we are paying those prices.
Our value system was shown as bereft when we killed African slaves who ran away, when we lynched Africans who dared to vote. It didn’t matter whether they were 100% or 5% African, they were not on the same high level as others who were redesigned as – not human and a part of the human race – but “White” and better than those who were not white. The north ignored the lynchings and claimed the moral high ground. They had psychic ways to deal with such people. It was a slow painful death they put out. The south engaged in incredible violence and so Billie Holiday sang “Strange Fruit” and everyone knew what that meant the lynchings were so wide spread.
For years the “flowers of the South”, the “Southern Ladies”, had a stereotype and pictures which showed them as “beautifully” adorned and having their place on top of the pedestal, that very high mythical column. They were blinded by the compliments, the supposed lifting them up above ordinary humans, the opening the doors for them by others so their gloved hands didn’t have to touch that which many mortals touched before them. And so much more. We bought our own horribleness because it flattered our egos and built up our vanity. The truth of the degradation, demeaning, violence against were all denied by even – or should I say especially by – the women against whom it was thrown.
Today that has been exposed and is continuing to be exposed on all of its levels. It has been like peeling the onion. We are almost down to the core so the fighting and brutalizing has become blinding in its attempt to maintain what has been and move it even further by making it function in spite of the fact that the cover has been removed and we can see all of this in its stark truth. We have become that corrupt?
Alabama is symbolic of these United States and its historic degradation of those in power. Drunk with its own strength against others “not like them” it is almost as if retribution is at its door step.
We thought the bottom was reached with the carnage on the Petus Bridge, but that was just a way station on the way to greater evil.
To have seen yourself involved in that kind of sin and to move on to ever greater sin and to then claim god on your side, behind what you do, pushing you to ever larger acts of evil – it is mind-blowing how anyone can see you and not recoil from the evil coming from your very pores.
Today, it is not about African Americans on the Petus bridge – it is about the right of males to brutalize, sexually abuse, tear down, misuse and lots of other adjectives – women. What will it be about tomorrow. The same souls are calling the future.
Women in corporations were brought in to serve the men and that happened because the women had been trained to acquiesce and to demean themselves. It becomes understandable how that could have happened when you own a small corporation where you do a lot of the work and see how you can get behind because you become overwhelmed with only 24 hours of the day. And you then see how easy it would be to bring in people who have been labeled “less than”, “not as bright as”, not meant for the higher things in life – especially the exercise of power,” to have them do all of the grunt work and most of the real work while you prance around like a terminally ill peacock taking credit, money, power, success.
The campaign of Roy Moore is a Calling. It is Roy Moore set up as the bait to call folks to maintain a society which allows women to be used as sex objects and then discarded. He is bait to call folks to lie, cheat, steal, and yes – murder – because women have been murdered in the name of preserving and passing down to our children a society which has institutionalized and wants to continue in the way it has been going for hundreds of years. He is bait to have some folks turn away and try to set up the same structure, but less transparent. For these United States to be racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and all the rest means these United States has transgressed in gross ways against its citizens and against others around the world needed to maintain a “better than” society where the hard and dirty work is done by those scraping and scratching 24/7 just to put food on the table and a roof over their heads. It is a society with trap doors for those who go too far and are not among the group designated as “better than”. Why else would a man become Secretary of the Treasury who has had tens of thousands of people thrown out of their homes onto the street and who lives in a mansion which could house many more than just himself and his wife? Why else would we have laws to prevent any other than those selected by that society to succeed with enormous road blocks to trip, fell and kill those who are able to get around those road blocks? but we have standards which are necessary to continue the denial – we have those few to disprove the rule and maintain them vigorously. Even the KKK had to have a few blacks to maintain their superiority and proclaim their high morality because they accepted those few – the others were not worthy, not human, not equal to.
Amazingly, my life has escaped the anger that should come from living in such a place, but it has. Why? Because that anger is generated in those who share the moral values of those doing the bigotry. To see how far we have gone off the road is to understand the story of Adam and Eve on a level most ignore and just quote the Bible as a very literal book. To demand the you read and understand the Christian and Jewish Scriptures literally is to totally miss what it is saying. The story of Adam and Eve is the story of what could have been. Where we started from and how far into sin, degradation and evil we have fallen. Adam and Eve turned their naked bodies into horrible sinfulness and ugliness they had to hide. Evil crept into their lives, which they cultivated and still today cultivate.
Many of us hoped and thought the horribleness in Alabama would give way to something more beautiful. After witnessing that period of American history in Alabama and in other places around these United States – that example should have brought many to their knees asking forgiveness. Instead it seems to have generated a hard hearted response – a determination to continue on the path of violence towards women as not only justified but able to give one entry into the hallowed halls of government.
So much more could be said – however – the one relevant thing is “How long, O Lord, how long!”
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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017
I read all of your articles.
My response to your latest and all of the others follows:
The largest and I think earliest investor in Facebook was Peter Thiel. – the Facebook which is in the news for being very much involved with the Russian interference in this last presidential election. The same Facebook which had those FAKE NEWS articles all over and you know the story.
One of a very small number of people who made large contributions to the Trump campaign – and early on – was Peter Thiel.
The person who organized and used his influence, friendship and business connections to put on that meeting of top IT people in this country right after Trump was inaugurated which showcased Trump – all of the Google, Facebook, etc. top executives together around Trump’s table and also showcased Trump’s children as professionals involved with his governance – was Peter Thiel.
What are Peter Thiel’s Russian connections?
Isn’t Peter Thiel the person most responsible for keeping Blacks and Women, who were working hard to bring about their new ideas, out of the business community as they were scooped – and not accidentally scooped, but had their ideas brazenly stolen – by other white males with Northern European ancestry who turn up with the ideas, business plans and much more of those same Blacks and Women with the money to bring them to fruition and with a great deal of that money put in place by Peter Thiel and lets not ignore or leave out his friends?
Is there a common thread here?
Especially since the racist and sexist structures of these newly stolen businesses would put this last generation of business entrepreneurs to shame in the way they have totally excluded minorities and women – as customers of these new businesses as well as owners, etc. except, well, the one or two included to disprove the rule are always included. This next generation of business entrepreneurs makes the hearts of the KKK, the white supremacists, the Neo-Nazi’s and others palpitate with excitement as they see this helping to make real their hateful world view.
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Sunday, November 19th, 2017
You’ve done it again. I did not make the connection between what is happening today in Alabama with what happened all those years ago in Alabama against African Americans. This is sick!
I saw the people at the press conference of evangelicals raving and screaming in favor of Roy Moore. What struck me during that time was how low Roy Moore brought his wife by having her out front defending him against his sexual abuse against other women. It was incredible psychic sexual abuse against his own wife. She must know the truth of his penchant for teenage girls – too many others know it for her to be in ignorance. How that must hurt to be the one on that stage.
It also struck me as to how scared the men were who were talking – raving actually – about god and Roy Moore. I wondered if they were so fearful because they have to put the women down as brutally as possible who are telling their stories about Roy Moore’s sexual abuse because women will be out there telling their stories about the men raving on that stage.
I also noticed color doesn’t make a bit of difference – the men were white, black, brown. All united trying to keep their claimed ‘superiority’, which would be taken away from them if they don’t destroy the women speaking out. But the curtains have been raised and we can all see what this is about and guess what is still hidden.
Thanks for this article. It was quite eye opening. Keep telling these truths – we are listening. How about more comments from “Bettina Network’s Oracle”? The last one was right on and you folks were the first to make the connection between Trump – the mafia and what is looking like treason by the president of these United States. That is all just now being unveiled for the rest of us to see. Would like to know where we are going next.
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Saturday, November 18th, 2017
by Marceline Donaldson
Something is oddly familiar in this “stand-off: now going on amongst our government officials, politicians, hopefuls and a very oppressed group which Alabama and others are trying desperately to contain and keep in their oppressed state. Even the current Governor of Alabama has come public and done a modernized version of Governor George Wallace’s stand to keep African Americans from voting and therefore from their civil rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution.
When I heard Governor Kay Ivey on television taking her incredibly historical stance, I could not see her face for the imposition of George Wallace’s face over her face and figure on television.
Nothing hurts more than one of your own, standing up in the most self-righteous and arrogant way, selling you into slavery and she did that beautifully. She did not lose her very southern lady-like composure in the process of spouting and spewing evil. Clearly, the Republican Party has maintained its position as “Keepers of the Bigotry” which has long characterized Alabama. Have you thought about or read the story of what happened on the Edmund Petus Bridge? Do you see the parallels? We’ve had the slaughter of the women. It should now be time for the healing oil and who will do the pouring of that oil to heal our sins?
True – other states and areas do the same, but somehow the theatrics in Alabama and its connecting its maintenance of bigotry to a religion with its own theology is unique. We know well this heretical religion. The one which has been developing since slavery and which was used to justify and maintain slavery. We have lived with it in many places across these United States and still are living with its remnants. You know the religion. The one where you went into one of its churches and found you could only sit in the back pews, if you were African American – or you could only sit in the balcony – or you were taken out of the church by the ushers if you were African American because you were not allowed into those particular churches.
They still exist today and you can tell them almost upon entering into their ‘holy’ places. You look on their altar and you see those officiating are almost uniformly white. Maybe a child of color or two, but the adults of color are missing. You hear their sermons and they lack that something you hear in other churches. Their ‘leaders’ are ‘leading’ to gain a foot up in their jobs or chosen vocations. They are doing everything they can to help those like them maintain their facade of being ‘better than’. Those more enlightened heretical churches are doing some of the most foolish things you can imagine, but as you watch, they call those things their ‘holy rituals.’ And it becomes clear after a short time that they are keeping the bigotry and maintaining the image of superiority of the white males of Northern European ancestry – those in their midst and the others spread around the globe. You have to leave that space because what you also see and experience is their meanness when pushed to see and remove the bigotry and heresy they practice. It is time, however, for them and us to do just that!
The blanket has been ripped off. The psychic violence and physical and emotional destructive confrontation on the Edmund Petus Bridge has happened as the current Governor has let the rest of us see and hear her ‘religious’ beliefs, which are indicative of the many in Alabama who she represents – male, female of all stripes and colors. She has made a very clear statement that she prefers her political party with all of its shame and sin to anything else because she knows they will continue in the ways of the vile past and they will continue holding her and others like her up in their belief that they are ‘better than’ everyone in the world not like them. Her very words, however, show clearly that she is not free and equal, she is the governor, but she clearly neither respects her gender nor others around her who are neither white nor of Northern European ancestry.
Governor Ivey today – as did Governor Wallace in yesteryear – has given the green light to the worst kind of evil. She has called her state to shame themselves. She has declared her bigotry and the fact that she is conscious of her bigotry and will continue to practice it because that is what she sees her position as governor calling her to do. She has called her state to let the world know that the citizens of Alabama prefer their bigotry and will maintain it defending themselves against positive change even while exposing their children to the sin of pedophilia, psychic and physical sexual abuse, lying, cheating, which she has depicted as just fine and good and righteous choices if made defending their ‘white is better than’ status and their declared right to dishonor – disrespect – and so much more – those with whom they share this earth if those people are neither ‘white’ nor ‘male with Northern European ancestry’. What lessons those children are learning from their parents.
We are back on the Edmund Petus Bridge. Because of the lessons this current generation learned, while children watching their parents as they cheered for George Wallace and his friends on the bridge using it as their bully pulpit. They watched as some of their adult neighbors brutalized, beat and tried to slaughter African Americans and those supporting them on that Edmund Petus Bridge.
The children were present and silently watching that entire drama and so today we have that generation, all grown up, doing their best to follow in the footsteps of their parents, their friends, their government figures, their politicians. They are going where this evil is leading and, in the end, they will pay the price.
Many of those children have adopted the religion of their parents – who themselves adopted and adapted the religion of the slaveholders and slave owners before them. They have seen their parents and grandparents erect memorials to those who did their best to keep human beings enslaved because they wanted ‘free’ labor and wanted that ‘better than’, ‘white is superior’, white supremacy identity. They saw the KKK in their white sheets and pointy caps circling those lit crosses. They saw African Americans turned away at their city halls in brutal ways when they tried to vote; these children knew the U. S. Constitution was being violated in the process; and they were present in the home where their mothers and aunts and female cousins were treated as second class citizens; they were present in the rest of society to see those same relatives, all dressed up and play acting to avoid their reality as they were treated as the household servants. They understood who they were and the positions they would take before they reached voting age and they are now taking those positions.
When you sow the wind – you reap the whirlwind.
Alabama is and has been reaping the beginnings of that whirlwind when you look closely and you see it is one of the poorest states in the Union; when you see jobs scarce; when you see children going without; when you see the low level of education throughout the state; when you see the priorities of the politicians and government officials who are absorbed in maintaining their ‘better than’ status at a very high cost to everyone in the state; when you see the corruption overlooked because the ‘official’ is guarding your ‘better than’ identity; when you see all that has been wrought against Alabamians through their keeping their slaveowners religion above all else and crafting a political party which does the actual work the theology of that religion leads them to do.
It is one of the great tragedies of these United States. AND – not to be overlooked is the fact that our current president – Donald J. Trump – is very popular in this state which condones and gives him positive feedback on all of his evil deeds. When you see this state raising up politicians who follow his footsteps as he has followed in the footsteps of Roy Cohn, Joseph McCarthy, Adolph Hitler, Stalin and today Vladimir Putin, as well as the leaders of the mafia organizations around the world.
Sieg Heil Kay Ivey! There were also Jews who sold out other Jews in Nazi Germany and even today there are African Americans selling out other African Americans for what they think will raise them up to the status of ‘almost, but not quite equal to’ – ‘at least not like them’ – ‘different from those others’ – etc.
“Man’s inhumanity to man” – needs a political correctness overlay “We all die and move on out of this earthly sphere – yet we act as though some are better than and their human bodies will not rot. The color of their skin and the kind of genitals they have will preserve them”. Folly of follies are these humans, especially when they try to be ‘better than’. – At that point, the evil starts pouring out of them and their actions conform and are uniformly sinful no matter their money, status, history, education…….
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Thursday, November 16th, 2017
We are calling for the world to condemn the sexual abuse going on against women in this world, currently being acted out in the most vicious way against women in the United States. We have been totally self-righteous and have claimed for generations that we are better than the rest of the world. That better than is the theme of today’s governmental figures. If you don’t quote the rhetoric you don’t get the job in government.
We also ask that you acknowledge that sexual abuse is not just physical. It is psychic as well and that which has kept women down for centuries. It is enough!
Want to see real fear? Take a look at the men trying to stomp on Hillary Clinton. The fear shines through them as their fear that their wives, mothers and children will follow her example and be independent people contributing from their own lives, their own souls, their own character to this world in which they live.
The religion which masquerades as Christianity, which I call christianity, is a farce – a heresy – and needs to be exposed for what it is – the biggest lie ever told.
Christianity in places like Alabama has been reduced to having its capital “C” traded in for a small “c”. It is the religions of the KKK, the Neo-Nazi’s the White Supremacists and more like them. It is a religion which puts itself and its adherents on a level with God. It is a religion in which the people can lie, cheat, steal and destroy one another in the name of being better than. It is the religion which partnered with the slaveholders in the United States as well as in other parts of the world. It is the left hand of the Confederate memorials which many can’t live without because it reflects and gives them some kind of “truth” to their claim of superiority. If Germany kept such memorials to Hitler and his war the world would rise up in horror. What happens in places like Alabama and the rest of the country is the exact same thing. Memorials to slavery – to the Confederate war which as about the maintenance of slavery and a harkening back to romanticizing that time in our history. All of that is necessary to keep that time alive and something for its adherents to struggle to get back to. Isn’t that what “Make America Great Again” means? Bring back those times when we put out the lie that Africans were inferior and meant to serve the whites of the world? Isn’t that the history Trump and his followers want to get back to? Isn’t that why Roy Moore has supporters and why people voted for Trump? They didn’t care about ethics, character, truth, love, caring, grace – they cared about having someone in control calling the shots who recognized and would fight to maintain white better than everything else.
If you support them and voted for people like Trump that was your motivation whether you admit it or not. All of your excuses are crap and lies to justify your claimed superiority so you can live without contributing but taking from others.
christianity – with a small “c” – is the religion which created white as a superior race in violation of everything we know to the contrary. To join this religion and this race you must give up your identity and take on the identity of white. Did your ancestors come to the United States from France? They are white in the United States. Did they come from England? They are white in the United States. All you had to do was to take on that white identity and acknowledge that you and yours believe you are better than, prettier than, more educated than, more everything than those others. It is the religion Roy Moore has espoused for decades. It is the religion of the evangelicals who have given up Evangelism because they prefer to be better than . To simply be one of God’s children is not enough. They must worship god; they must devalue – depose – get rid of God, Jesus, Christ. They must take the Scriptures and rearrange them so the message fits their heresy.
Especially, it is time for all of us to call out and condemn the sexual abuse Donald Trump has visited against Hillary Clinton from his campaign time – calling for her to be “locked up” through today when he calls up Hillary to visit this sexual abuse against because he needs a shield and has decided she will be that shield.
These calls for a special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton is nothing more than another segway of the sexual abuse he has carried out from calling for her to be “locked up” for being what – a better candidate? A better person? A better president? one who has lived her life giving to others? Hillary Clinton’s very existence is a threat to Donald Trump because he can only abide women who he can reduce to being less than Donald Trump and every other man. So to keep the rest of us in his cloud of denial and abuse he pulls in Hillary’s name for more abuse each time he needs a distraction. Where are the many, many voice loudly condemning him? Where are the many many voices removing this turd from office? Where are the many many voices sending Donald Trump back under the rock from which he crawled to be blinded by the sun. Does fear stop you? Take a look inside to make sure it is fear you have to remove and not the remnants of Donald Trump’s character that you share!
These United States have been racist, sexist, homophobic, and more almost from its beginnings. It was founded on the backs of slaves. It was founded on the backs of women. It has not acknowledged and repaid either debt it has only becomes increasingly more sophisticated in using the rest of the world to continue its claimed superiority. It is time for this to stop.
If these paragraphs sound angry – they are. WAKE UP AMERICA! WAKE UP WORLD! THIS MAN IS VILE – EVIL – AND SPREADING HIS EVIL TRYING TO INFECT EVERYONE WHO SEES HIM AND/OR HEARS HIS VOICE.
We call for Donald Trump to stop this sexual abuse for which he has set an example for the rest of the world to follow. He has some 17 plus accusations of physical sexual abuse against women. He has law suits against him by women who claim he sexually abused them. Every other word out of his mouth is bullying – abusive against women – or self-aggrandizement. IT IS ENOUGH!
Trump chose Pence for his Vice President as an act of genius. He knew he needed someone to keep him in office and just as he predicted Pence keeps him in office because we are afraid of exchanging the devil for the devil’s right hand. It is time to step out and correct this. Trump has simply made it right for all of the sexual abusers to carry on, ignoring the wrong of what they are doing and continuing to step on women.
He has emboldened people like Roy Moore who needs to crawl back under that rock with Trump. All across this country Trump has brought men who should be shamed by what they do every day and have done for most of their adult lives into the light and dusted them off sending them out to wreck havoc on the world. Every single God loving and God fearing person should be standing up, calling him out and also calling out all of those like him to clear away the trash that is cluttering the United States government as well as the rest of the world.
Change your lifestyle. Comfort at someone else’s expense is not an option. Where you do not take responsibility for your life as an independent, loving, caring person you are throwing a burden on someone else.
Take a look at the billionaires of the world. Not one has acquired their billions without lying, cheating and stealing from someone else. It is no accident that homelessness and our billionaire group arose at the same time. One is totally connected to the other. STOP. THIS. INSANITY and this EVIL!
Do you love Hitler and the evil he brought and nurtured? Do you want to see the dictators of this world continue to survive at the expense of and on the backs of the rest of us? Are you so in love with one man that you want him to be god over you and you this mangod’s servant? Are you so foolish to think that this man will do anything except destroy you and everything you hold dear? What is wrong with you Trump followers? Are you so anxiety ridden, so weak in your identity, so needy that you will accept this happening before your very eyes because it is preferable to rocking the boat? Don’t you realize your children are watching? Wake up before it is too late. All of these dictators need to be removed, but none so urgently as Donald J. Trump.
We have revolutions happening all over this world. All led by someone like Trump and his crowd. If they win this world changes and not for the better. Your encouraging Trump and keeping him in control emboldens the ugliness all around the world. It helps to justify their existence and finally moves them to come together for world control. It is time to move out of this hole we are digging for ourselves. Wake UP and ACT!
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Thursday, November 2nd, 2017
Thank you for the article on “The Personification of Evil”. It was powerful and awesome – especially because of the references you included both on Melania Trump and Joseph McCarthy. I hadn’t thought about McCarthyism as the genesis of this Trump era, but it makes a lot of sense and clears up much for me. I knew about Roy Cohn, but this is like weaving – gradually you come up with a beautiful product.
Maybe because I was reading that article when I also noticed news about the truck killing all of those people in New York City that my paranoia started coming out of its closet, but what a distraction away from the Mueller convictions. It gave Trump a bit of a distraction that he may have hoped would continue and wipe the Mueller headlines out of the media reporting.
My first thought was – Trump’s direct attempts at distractions didn’t do the job so he got help and his ‘help’ was far more successful. The New York tragedy certainly wiped Trump off the front pages for a brief time. Instead of wiping out an immigration program that has had one problem in over 1 million immigrants coming into this country through that program, maybe we need to start a program which sends Trump followers to another country where they can be retrained with exams to pass before they are allowed back into these United States. Move the prisoners someplace else and take over Rikers Island for that purpose?
Trump set the pattern as he has constantly provided distractions from things happening around his problems so reporters and your average citizen would be distracted – and he has been very good at doing that – which is probably what started my thinking that maybe he was behind this tragedy. You can’t feel empathy for people if you caused the problem with intent to destroy.
There had to be something very strong to take attention away from the indictments and the Papadopoulos pleading guilty – the truck killings certainly provided that distraction.
Like I said – I am probably very paranoid from all of this Trump business. I never would have begun to have such thoughts before Trump’s appearance as a presidential candidate and then president. His ‘reign’ has caused me to think differently about what I read and how I put things together.
Before Trump became president and before his campaign showed itself to be so ugly this is not something I would have thought about nor connections I would have made.
You probably won’t publish this, but I needed to get it said and out of me because it really seems like a serious possibility.
It might not come up to the level of Trump’s “birtherism”, but it is a start. Maybe I can become a celebrity through such conjectures.
Have we all been made a bit “off” by this president?
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Tuesday, October 31st, 2017
BY: Marceline Donaldson
I heard a sermon a few weeks ago preached by a person who could be called a politician. He tried to recast these current political events as purely political and not evil. I should have been amazed, but I simply wondered why I had chosen that church on that particular day to hear such a message. It was christianity being preached with a small “c”. The kind most of us practice, which allows us to keep silent when we need to speak the truth. to no longer even know what is truth and to obfuscate when we need to speak and act out of the clarity of our convictions. To go along to get along because our sense of moral outrage and correctness has been numbed by our need for that which will not satisfy who we really are……
My biggest disappointments in life have been those times when a clear lack of a clear and sure moral compass, when it was most needed, has been displayed by the society in which I live; those times when I have been taken back to a parallel time – like now – to the times of McCarthyism – which shows we have learned negative lessons from history. We interpret what we see “through a glass darkly”and think we are seeing the new heaven. We seem to need to be “important”; to be “accepted”; to not be pushed out of our position in life that we have achieved by our “striving” and for which we have paid a heavy price. We will sacrifice the very ground on which we stand for those goals.
Remember Joseph McCarthy – remember the Rosenberg’s – remember all of the people whose lives were sacrificed at the same altar that those historical times are now bringing back to us via those who inherited the tools of evil that existed then and are using them today.
I have not been surrounded, most of my life by those society calls murderers, thieves, rapists, liars. I have been surrounded by “strivers”. And now, with Donald Trump as president, it is clear this country is full of such “strivers”. How few have come out to speak truth. How even fewer have called out the evil being constantly pumped into this society. How many could withstand the onslaught that comes from being cut loose from your moorings because you took that one brave moment and spoke truth, -yet some still do. Why would speaking truth cut you off and cause a huge upheaval in your life? Why would it not bring you the status of hero? What it does bring to those with that strong moral compass is very indicative of the moral health of the society in which we live.
When and if you do take a stand in this current society, those who connect to you, who take some of their identity from being your friend, who see you as a part of their group and therefore as a part of them become threatened by you and can only recoup by trying to sink you to show how unlike you they are and how unchanged they are and how they are still willing to lie, cheat, steal, oppress in the name of whoever is in power – and that can even includes members of your family.
Now – today – you have the chance to reform. It is time to come out and condemn bullying – lying – cheating – stealing – oppressing others for your own advantage – in other words, you have a chance today to speak the truth about these United States and about the world in which we live. If you don’t, that world will be changed and not for the better.
We elected a man as president of these United States who is a bully. A man who lies, cheats, steals, and who will use whatever he can to be the most powerful person in the world. And when I say “we” – Russia may have manipulated for him to gain more votes and put their strength behind helping him become president of these United States, but millions of plain, ordinary Americans voted for him. And why? Because he promised he would single you out and make you and your kind “better than”? That he would maintain and increase the racism, sexism, homophobia, and all the rest that has existed in these United States for generations? And in return you would turn a blind eye to his robbing you blind because you need that “better than” status more than you need a fair and equitable country in which to live? Because you need to know that the brown-skinned person across the street is less than you? Because you can brag about living in a country which excludes and diminishes those whose religion is different from yours? And on and on and on because that is the only thing Trump has promised you and the only thing he has delivered to you and will continue to deliver to you as long as he is president. He has promised to deliver evil! He has promised to accept you and your contribution to his administration if you engage in evil for his sake! He has made all kinds of promises which all come down to increasing the wealth of the wealthy; increasing the power of the powerful; …………………..(.add your own comments to finish this sentence.)
I was totally appalled at the progress of a part of his entourage. There was the ‘First Lady’, Melania, at a school talking to young impressionable children about “bullying”. And what were they doing? Looking in their laps at pictures of this First Lady – nude and half nude – https://www.bettina-network.com/blog/archives/2572 – prancing around airplanes in practically nothing – lounging on beds in pictures that some sex magazines would not print without blurred spots? I am sure you know the scenario. If you don’t, take a look at the pictures in the above link which were out in public view long before Trump ran for president and which circulated the country during his campaign. And still you voted to bring this family into the White House as role models for your children and mine.
She went into the schools talking about bullying. With what credibility? Was she bringing the issue up before our children so they would understand and avoid such tactics or was she teaching them hypocrisy and how to do one thing – live one kind of life – and come out in the light of day talking another. A woman who lives daily with a bully and has supported him with her words and actions. This is who you wanted talking to your children about the evils of “bullying”? One who used a bully to move herself up to billionaire status and has arrived as First Lady of these United States by marrying and tolerating and promoting a bully while doing whatever she needs to do to keep herself sane? This is your role model who you parade through your schools for your children to see and listen to while they ogle her half-nude pictures?
How the mighty have fallen.
Who was Donald Trump’s mentor – besides his father who clearly was a bigot and was arrested at a KKK demonstration – try reading this New York Times article – https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/us/politics/donald-trump-roy-cohn.html
Mentored by Roy Cohn – a notorious and feared New York attorney who was Joseph McCarthy’s right hand man. Who helped to bring much pain and suffering to many in these United States who the McCarthy hearings accused of being “Communist”.- Mr. Trump has now taken one of his mentors tactics and has shown he has no loyalties nor anything approaching a substantial set of foundational ethics by now moving completely to the other side with those same “Communists” apparently having been used to get him elected president of these United States.
It is not accidental that Gorka brought up the Rosenberg’s in his attempt to destroy Hillary Clinton. Destroying the Rosenberg’s and sending them to the electric chair was a part of the tactic that promoted Cohn and his crowd and is the inheritance of Trump and his crowd. If at once you succeed you don’t have to try again you only have to push ahead and move the world into the image that most lets you live like Vladimir Putin, only without the downside Putin now faces. And now comes a reliving of that time, only this time with Trump as saint paul, Cohn in the jesus seat and Gorka and his crowd working to bring in a 2017 form of McCarthyism to project and increase their money and power and the American people allowing all of it to happen as long as their jobs, assets, status as “better than” are safe.
It is time to wake up America and live out your claimed beliefs. Live out your Constitution. Put the quality of life – the equality of all – ability to provide for everyone without having a billionaire crowd growing at the expense of the homeless and others on the margins about to become homeless.
All of the moneys being spent on the foolishness we are now seeing acted out in front of us by White Male Northern European ancestry Americans needs to stop. Oops, not quite. We do have some hangers-on from other groups to disprove that rule – let’s not forget the African American Ben Carson, and others like him. Strivers all!
It is time for the windows and doors of this country to be thrown open and the fresh air of humanity, compassion, equality, love, grace, and all the rest be let in and not be closed off and only allowed to a small and smaller group. The thugs and criminals who keep this country in chains are not who you want in charge.
We need an America whose soil does not grow and support and strengthen such people. I don’t know what happened to them that they pursue such a way of life, but that really does not matter. What matters is their choices in life were evil. The lifestyle that they chose is evil. Their ability to corrupt others is evil. They need to be called out on all of it and removed. The hate they are spewing – the choices they are making ——
It is the personification of evil and different from the sermon I heard a few Sundays ago about labeling this “politics” and not “evil”. It was certainly not a Christian sermon – it was a sermon from the soul of a religion spreading very quickly and calling itself “christianity”. It is the call to follow this god they are promoting as “christ” and ignoring the evil intrinsic to this kind of “politics.” The small letters are not typos – they are intentional.
Stand up and be counted here America. This is your country and you need to take it back and put it in the light. Take it out of the darkness settling on all things American and with that darkness spreading fast. The same group which promoted and supported Jos McCarthy and his brand of anti-communism is around Trump. Their heirs are alive and well and trying to take this country down the same road.
You don’t have much time because one defense Trump has is to start World War III and I have no doubt he is capable and would rather see that happen than to traverse the road he set for himself, which will be hard, painful, a total embarrassment and payment for his past sins in the public and corporate arenas.
We will be in the middle of nuclear warfare without even knowing what happened. You will be standing in the street with your skin turning to mush and your eyes destroyed and your entire body in excruciating pain because when you had the chance to stand in the street for justice – for equality – to be passionate about a political experiment called the American Way you were among the missing. You went about your day as normal, you did not want to be involved. You wanted others to stand up and take the pain of working hard and sacrificing their lives so you could live in peace, harmony and without extreme environmental changes and so your children could grow up and replace the Trumpians and McCarthyism.
How is that not spreading and being a part of the same evil you are seeing played out in the news everyday? Everyone has a part. Choose yours wisely because your day of reckoning is coming also. Remember the story in scripture about the sheep and the goats? Each day you choose which one you are becoming and each day you take on more of the characteristics of your choice. – and at some point it is too late to change and make another choice – you and yours simply will have to live with the choice you make today, no matter how small.
This is not political – this is evil!!!!
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Friday, September 29th, 2017
The story of the Trump Administration and Donald Trump continues to unfold and as it does, the fascism and the many ways black, brown, yellow, red, purple people are negatively affected by this administration continues non-stop. Trump has not missed one way of doing everything he could do to diminish, degrade, take away the rights of U. S. Citizens under the Constitution, respond only to those who are white – northern european – and hiding that fact only loosely under specious rhetoric.
The NFL debacle – was that to distract and take people’s attention away from what the administration was going to do and was in the process of doing to American citizens in Puerto Rico – the Brown people?
We have a president who actively pushes and demands that American citizens, especially those ‘in charge’ – violate the U. S. Constitution in the way they live, conduct business and interact with those “under” them. He did it with the Muslim ban – with the NFL – and now with Puerto Rico in the way he has handled the response to the tragedy under which they are living. As much as he could use his office to make the lives of minorities horrifically worse he has not missed.
With the NFL the president has done much tweeting and in other ways making demands that the ‘owners’ of the team – the owners of the franchises – refuse their people their constitutional rights and if they demand and move ahead as though they are full citizens of this country living under the U. S. Constitution with their rights under that Constitution fully respected then the U. S. President wants them fired and their personhood diminished in the process.
The president of the United States has done almost no tweeting – especially when compared to what he does regarding other issues – about the situation in Puerto Rico. The tweeting he has done about Puerto Rico has clearly uncovered his goal – which is to do as little as possible and to lead the American people into a space of doing very little for those others.
There are many ways to get the results you need from Concentration Camps and in this case the storms have produced an incredible time and way for the Trump administration to horribly oppress a group of brown people who the Nazi’s w0uld have sent to Concentration Camps. Only Trump’s CCamps are 2017 style. You can’t, in 2017, get rid of minorities the way Hitler did – one has to be imaginative about it and Donald Trump has been unbelievably visionary about how to recreate CCamps doing as much damage to minorities as possible while living to do the same for another day. Do the deed and don’t just deny, but talk about what a fantastic job you are doing for the brown people. Talk about how much aid you are giving them. And then throw in quietly, you can’t do much because they don’t have the money to pay for their aid – and even more quietly engage in foot dragging to make sure the lives of the brown people in and around Puerto Rico takes the largest toll possible so the diminishment and elimination of the minorities of this world takes place in Trump time with Trump’s denial, but continuation of his actions as he moves on to the next event which will allow him to so eliminate minorities.
With General Kelly at his right hand it is not possible for Donald Trump to give any credible reason for waiting over 8 days to waive the Jones Act and on and on and on it goes. Either General Kelly is complicit in this 2017 time of using what’s at hand to attempt to destroy – or at the very least – substantially handicap, oppress, keep in as bad conditions as possible so as many die as possible or if he is not complicit, he is continuing as Trump’s Chief of Staff and not giving Trump the benefit of his knowledge and experience from his military training and wisdom; his time spent as head of Homeland Security when he very efficiently brought in the Muslim ban or ?
What more is there to be said? Keep foreign governments from coming to the aid of Puerto Rico by keeping the Jones Act in place. Keep the Puerto Ricans in painful, disease inducing, death inducing, and in a place where they are starving with very little to no health helping possibilities and on and on goes the list.
Playing to his base again? Fading into the woodwork are the Fascists, the KKK, the White Supremacist, the Mafia – all who are now clear believers in the fact that Donald Trump is on their side, doing what they would do and making sure he puts a good face on what he is doing so he can continue onto the next tragedy, catastrophe, demonstration and more that he can use to push the goals of his base – their racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-semitic and more goals to change this country and move on to work with his friends around the globe to indeed change the world.
Change this world how? Make the the rulers of this world and those who benefit from the life of others white again.
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Friday, September 22nd, 2017
A reader responds:
“As I read the blog on “Trump – an aspiring American Oligarch”, my mind went back in history to the time of Hitler when a wall was built around the Jewish Ghetto in Poland. Before that, Jews were welcomed in Poland and things like Jewish cuisine and culture and Polish cuisine and culture melded. And then along came Nazism and broke that up – it was too much and might lead to some kind of equality across Europe. That could not be allowed to happen.
What is there about walls and despots? They love to “wall” people in and then destroy them – either wholesale as Hitler did or a few at a time the way it happened between East and West Germany.
Walls must equal power, control and total oppression – or a distraction to what else the totalitarians are doing. And how does this fit with America and democracy?”
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2017
Thank you for that analysis on Trump’s Presidency.
I have long thought that the American Public is being robbed of great treasures because our tax money has to be spent controlling a greedy, fascist and out of control corporate boardrooms.
If there were ethics in our business schools and ethics demanded of our business management people and our business leaders we would be way ahead and this country would be stellar amongst its peers.
When you add up the tax dollars spent on all the regulatory bodies we have to support it is obscene.
Trump wants to get rid of regulation, but he wants to get rid of it so the business/corporate people can have a broad avenue down which they can run with their greed and rob our citizens of everything they have ever had and ever will have.
Banks charging almost 30% interest on credit cards whether your credit is stellar or not, but just because after a period of time they have decreed that is what will happen is pure unadulterated greed.
Corporations ruining the environment is because of greed.
Discharging chemicals into our water supply – hiring the least qualified white male before the most qualified minority has been our history and when we put blockers to that in place the rhetoric became opposite to the reality.
Building luxury apartments using money of the least of our citizens and not allowing them to live in those apartments – and creating a “poor” door for them to enter when the ‘government’ decrees builders will have to put aside a percentage for those who can’t afford the obscene rents being charged, well what can be said about that.
The profits being made from those buildings is also beyond obscene and should be classified as criminal.
Using prisons to establish the new slavery in these United States and maintaining statues and memorials to honor the losers of the war waged to abolish slavery with those statues being paid for with tax payers money just to put and keep fear in the hearts of the least of these whose ancestors experienced the horror that the statues seeks to memorialize so they will be forever bound is to worship god – the small “g” god about which you write.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for having the courage to be a for profit business outlining to us the reality of what you see and we all experience. I will certainly patronize your business and I hope others will also. I realize some will not, but hopefully there are enough of us who know the truth of what you are saying to keep you going.
I was a customer of Bettina Network and I benefitted from the vast knowledge you folks have. I was able to side step a disaster because you were next to me. Those trying to take my small accumulated fortune were confounded. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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Monday, September 11th, 2017
Now that we are over Trump having been elected president of these United States, what’s next?
Many people have extolled his election and claim it was an act and the will of God. I too believe it was an act and the will of god – and the small “g” is no typo. And who is this god? Us – the collective us without God! Doing our own thing, on our own terms, running our own lives and pushing God out of the picture because god is such a comfortable deity. That god we control!
We are all aware that the major thing Trump has done is to rip the cover so many in these United States have put on what we do and have done to create this fantastic country. He has taken our carefully crafted and traditional narrative about our identity, history, culture and exposed its bones. He has exposed all of us to the reality of who we are and if you look closely he has also called out the institutions we have and are creating.
The first thing that really is disturbing in this is all of the generals in his administration. Violating our long in place traditions. Why? Because of all of those non-thinking and non-caring news people who are singing the praises of these generals and describing how they are going to rise above Trump, do their work as substitute under-cover presidents, while controlling Trump and save us all from his racism-sexism-xenophobia so we can again start walking into the sunset together. All of this done by our generals? Our saviors? Like Russia did and does and like Germany did under Hitler? Wasn’t Hitlers’ elevating the ‘right’ generals what accelerated and helped fuel, protect and grow his power and administration?
Ignore the recent history of these generals – we have already pointed out that his Chief of Staff General was head of Homeland Security when it was doing all of the massive rounding up; trying to deport huge numbers of people until stopped by the Courts; and very efficiently and quickly put in place Trump’s campaign to ‘throw the Muslims out and don’t let anymore Muslims in” campaign. A campaign strong and viable enough to make a mess of our transportation system and the lives of tens of thousands of people – even reaching to some who were in the air at the time his campaign went into effect and before the court’s stopped it. We won’t waste space talking about the rest of the generals, but they could all be so grouped. Isn’t that slightly reminiscent of how Hitler Captured Germany and with his loyal generals turned it into a fascist, horriblist state complete with ovens etc.? Isn’t that why we have not had so many generals in an American presidential administration before? So there would be no yielding to temptation?
Let us drop the major talk about racism and sexism, which is all out and well known in every corner of the globe – let’s talk about what else we are trying hard to ignore.
Trump is/was the answer to a lot of peoples’ prayers. Specifically, those wanting a businessman as president. That would show the world how great we are and how we mean business. He would re-organize this country and move it to the top of the heap again. We needed the efficiency and all else that a businessman would bring to the presidency.
Well now we have a businessman and thank God he is Donald Trump.
Let’s look at the legacy of some other businessmen!
When you take a look – close look – at American businesses and those management people who have reached the top – notice anything very much like Trump and the administration he is trying to establish? They are all White – Male – with similar Character. Although I am sure the ones we would want as president, after seeing the mess Trump is making, would be the button down collar, silk suit, understated, quiet, never in the news kind of person, who nevertheless does much cleaner and untraceably and unstoppably what Trump is doing with great unwanted fanfare. My God sent us a businessman who shows and incorporates into himself the character traits of them all, but with those character traits not covered, but public. You are living through and are a part of an old fashioned morality play.
Take a look at how Trump is functioning and you will understand why it was necessary to create an EPA. Why? Because of the horribly unethical way top corporate people in these United States carried out what they perceived as their jobs – deliver the most assets possible to themselves and make sure a little was left over to quiet their stockholders. Take all and leave little to nothing. Look closer and you will see why we need an HUD. Look even closer and you will see why this government has been forced by its citizens to form all of these departments – draining money from other things that need to get done, but departments we can’t survive without because the business men in charge were draining the citizens of this country – were making all of us ill without any thought to the fact that those illnesses would also affect them.
Take a look at the saga of the tobacco companies. How hard did and do those ‘businessmen’ fight to keep marketing and selling cigarettes even after health research showed the damage cigarettes were doing to the general population – those who smoked and those who didn’t but inhaled that second hand smoke.
Many of them died of lung cancer. Did they really think they could continue on the path they were going and not be infected with the evil they were spewing out to the rest of us?
Trump – such a good businessman – pulled us out of all of the climate change groups and told us there was no problem; it was all public hysteria; the money could be better spent on him and his friends – and then along came God and said “Thou shalt not…”. Looking at the last few days, I don’t know about Trump, but I am quaking in my shoes and I didn’t do the things he did against climate change. I tried to work for climate change, but I noticed in Sodom and Gomorrha the entire society paid. In this society that would include me.
Wherever you look, the only difference between Trump and the rest of our business institutional management teams is those others have acquired a smooth exterior; an ability to hide what they are doing; a way to show the public through marketing and advertising that they need garbage, disease and all the other gook being pedaled to them and a strong and constant denial supported by many of us that they are certainly doing everything they can for homelessness, to eliminate racism and sexism and they certainly don’t want xenophobia to exist – they love everybody, are working for the good of everybody, let’s not look at the multi-billions going to continue the ugly and that they are raking off for themselves.
Drop down to the bottom line and Trump is simply doing everything he can to keep up with those he considers his “brothers”. It is probably of great pain and hurt to him that they are rejecting him and casting him in as negative a light as possible and will or have already dumped him – not because of what he has done, which parallels what they are doing. Not because of the wreck he is making of this country because they are doing the same thing. Not because of the racism and sexism he has shown the world the United States has and is still continuing to practice ruining millions of lives in the process, but because the way he has gone about doing all of this.
Its not that they dislike him – they are embarrassed by his process. The very public and uncovered and raw way he has and is going about bringing in the KKK, the White Nationalists – following the WN’s program and putting it in place as quickly as he can, knocking over everything that is sacred in the process. They, the corporate community, has been doing that for generations and were good at it, although quietly with a strong togetherness that was difficult to break to bring about change. They are unhappy with him and dislike him because he is ruining what has been a good thing for them. Trump doesn’t know how to do what he is doing under cover so he can’t be blamed or maligned for his actions and they will be the stronger for being so covered up and un touchable. Trump, instead, has managed to awaken that sleeping giant – the American Middle Class – and we are not happy campers.
How could so few people have gathered for themselves the billions of dollars and the tools of capitalism leaving next to nothing for the rest of us. Leaving only enough so that we can fight amongst each other, spreading blame where there is no blame and letting the real guilty culprits continue on their greedy paths.
Is there an answer? The one thing we are not, is honest. And the one thing we do not do is love one another. We love our own. We deny and lie about everything else. We have created a society which oppresses the rest of the world and we were very proud of that achievement. We elected Trump for that to continue and grow.
Trump carps on bringing jobs back to America. Trump and his family have not moved to bring jobs from their companies back to America so this huge marketing program, which has been the Trump for President campaign was really held to blind the rest of us – and it has been successful. Why would the top business people bring jobs back to America where they have to pay American wages when they can continue to allow those jobs to be done by “foreigners” in other countries where the wages are so low people cannot survive. Why can’t they survive? Because they have given up their own cultural values to follow those of America and they need an American lifestyle to do that. Those business people hold up that American lifestyle as though it is the holy grail and most of us follow it expecting to find its end and life happily ever after. We have enslaved most of the rest of the world – except those who can be called white – so a few can live a life with more money and assets than thousands could spend in a thousand lifetimes. Allowing those “foreigners” into the U. S. would jeopardize all of that. Keeping them in their own countries provides the people power to continue that kind of oppression upon which our lifestyle depends.
Our response to that tragedy, which has been created by and for us, was to elect a Donald Trump expecting him to do the same for the rest of us that was done for him and his ‘peers’. Taking his supporters for rides in his helicopter during the campaign – parking his private jet and having his rallies with that jet in the background, etc. helped to blind many to the reality and truth of who he is and how he achieved his goals.
Trump is doing, crudely and quickly, what his business peers have been trying to do incrementally for generations. In that he is succeeding beyond his or their wildest dreams.
They will allow him the slack to achieve those goals – or as much of those goals as possible – and because they can’t have that stain on their reputations and careers, they will take him down crudely.
And there ends today’s session with the Bettina Oracle. Until next time!
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Tuesday, September 5th, 2017
by Marceline Donaldson
We are once again in the cross hairs.
Donald Trump announced he would give an opinion on DACA on Tuesday (today). And, as of last night what has been given to the media is the announcement that he will end DACA with a six month time frame for folks to get ready for it – which means to get ready to be moved or to move out of the U. S. A.
When Trump announced he was thinking of ending this program from Obama’s time as president, it was clear his decision would end the program and it would be done in such a way as to attempt to obscure the facts of what he was announcing and give those who engage in denial of bigotry the opportunity to keep others from seeing what was actually about to happen until it was upon them. That fits with Trump’s history of such announcements and of his trying to wipe Obama’s presidency off the record and to continue and give another chapter to the “Birther Movement” which Trump carried on, funded and promoted for some eight plus years.
To know more about this lie and others Donald Trump has carried on see https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/23/opinion/trumps-lies.html?mcubz=1&_r=0
In addition to the “Birther” lies Donald Trump claimed ISIS was founded under Obama when in fact it was formed in 2004 – Obama was elected president in 2008. And the list goes on………..most recently the FBI came out with the findings from its latest investigation into Trump’s lies. Trump claimed Obama had his wires tapped in Trump Tower during, what Trump called, “the very sacred election process”. The FBI on Friday came out to say there was no evidence to back that up after their extensive investigation into what Trump claimed was a felony that Obama committed. And the list goes on…..
Most people are asking “why”? Those who have to ask such a question are some of the people who have internalized bigotry and have a response to and justification of bigotry, which is denial – white, black, green, yellow, pink people. Denial is one of the strongest tools which got Trump elected. How else does this United States elect a man who promoted the “birther lie” for so many years and which everyone knew he promoted – yet still voted for him.
We have had a long history of bigotry in the United States, which we deny. In fact, we have gone overseas and lectured to other countries about their violation of the human rights of their citizens when the record in the United States could equal if not top some of the human rights offenses found in the countries to whom we were lecturing and demanding that they change their ways of treating their minority groups.
Our record in these United States is so bad that we – in 2017 – have elected a KuKluxKlan Legatee as president of these United States. Donald J. Trump the son of Frank Trump who was arrested at a KKK rally – was he marching, clothed in white? He clearly had an ugly civil rights record as shown from the law suit filed against both Donald and Frank Trump for not allowing black families to live in their apartment buildings.
And now we have DACA – entering this KKK Legatee’s history as a part of the anti-immigration stances and decisions made by Donald Trump.
What is wrong with DACA? All the rationalizations put out by Trump and all of the counter rationalizations put out by others to attempt to show that the young people in DACA are gainfully employed and contributing members of this society – they all need to be put aside because the reason Trump wants to end DACA lies in the reason he does everything else as president. There are 1.7% whites in DACA. The rest are minorities – the “brown” people. Given that fact, there is no way those backing Trump and Trump himself are going to allow the DACA program to continue. Their goal, showing clearly from their actions, is to make these United States a whites only country. That is the base from which they come. Throw out as many “browns” as they can using immigration laws to move that goal to fruition and then move on to other ways to eliminate the rest.
Trump didn’t come lately to the bigotry he now displays. He has been a bigot generationally. He comes by his foulness legitimately from his father and probably way beyond that. Why else would he hide his German roots calling himself and his family Swedish? Well, today all of those lies are gone and they have been replaced by the Nazi flags; the recreation of Kristallnacht in Virginia and much more. Don’t know about Kristallnacht you can read about it here – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht and much more. Kristallnacht was the beginning of the Final Solution and the Holocaust in Germany.
That was a clear message that night in Charlottesville, – the White Nationalists message that this was the beginning of their Final Solution and the beginning of the holocaust for the minorities in these United States, but no one seems to have either made the connection or had the guts to report on the two as parallel events. Maybe the real message of Charlottesville was blurred by the ridiculousness of making such a statement with one of the props being the “tiki torches”.
And after the “Tiki Torch” parade anouncing the beginnings of the United States version of the holocaust comes the announcement by Trump about DACA. Cancel DACA and you get rid of lots of “brown peoples” in one fell swoop.
The anti-Semitism is now showing increasingly. It seems to have become public when one of Trump’s supporters loudly asked why he “gave” his daughter to a Jew. From then on we are seeing an increasing amount of anti-Semitism around Trump.
General Kelly – the Chief of Staff – over whom many are raving about how he has ‘cleaned out’ the White House and what great things he can do – was head of Homeland Security. What did he do as Head? He quickly and very efficiently brought in the Muslim travel ban which the courts in this country closed down and stopped him and his boss Trump from removing tens of thousands of people and from denying those who could enter these United States from doing so – almost 100% “brown peoples”. He quickly and efficiently rounded up tens of thousands already in this country and had them ready to be deported until, once again, Kelly and his boss Trump were stopped by the courts.
Another lie being told is that Trump has accomplished nothing during his seven months in office.
Trump is right when he says he has accomplished an enormous amount. Not the traditional accomplishments through Congress, but he has changed this country in ways that show we are probably no longer a democracy or republic, but he and his White Supremacist his KKK his neo-Nazi’s are putting in place, structuring and institutionalizing, a fascist government which can be controlled and moved along to become a whites only country where the minorities are slaughtered – deported – generally destroyed. Those left over whites who are still fighting the Confederate war against the United States also join this group. Those whose ancestors, real and/or spiritual, used tax payer money to build statues and memorials to their heroes – “heroes” guilty of major treason against the United States, but for the pardon they received at the end of the war.
Robert E. Lee is the one they seem to most revere. He was also found guilty of treason against the United States. That is who they want to honor with all of those statues, even changing the name of an Episcopal Church, among others to remember the events and honor what took place during that war. Continuing the fight and continually looking for ways to destroy, demean, turn the “brown peoples” into a modern day replica of slaves – all of that has been going on in this country for decades. It has finally reached and is using the power of the Office of the president of the United States. That is success. After some 50 plus years as a Republican, I am no longer a part of this political group. I resigned when Trump as elected President. It was clear that there was no hope for change; that the history of Republicanism which helped free the slaves and which fought the Democrats when they were deep into the KKK and lyncings, and etc. was now the Political Party composed of those KKK, neo-Nazi’s, White Supremacists and more like them reaching into the office of the president to achieve their goals. I moved to declare myself an Independent hoping that, as my grandmother would say – this too shall pass.
It was said that President’s Trump’s decree against transgender people in these United States was just to deflect attention away from negatives about him in the press. He did nothing to back up his decree – until weeks later when he ordered the armed forces to investigate ways and to bring about the elimination of transgender people in the armed forces. Trump deflected ugly headlines away from himself with the announcement – as he has done continuously. Others deflected by claiming he was crazy and made such announcements with nothing in back of them. We get to see that both are working together to bring this country back to a time Germany has rejected and so have others in their countries. We are moving incredibly quickly to establish such an institutionalization of extreme bigotry in these United States. Our country today – after only seven months – is barely recognizable as “free”, working to move in the direction of equality and justice, etc.
What are you doing? Who was it that said “Evil survives because good people do nothing!” That is still just as true today. This is a time when you are either out there risking or sitting in your home tending your home fires until the knock comes on your door and you are ushered out into the middle of that holocaust being planned for all of us by the White Supremacists, the KKK, the neo-Nazi’s and all of their supporters either vocal or silently.
May God have mercy on all our souls!
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Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017
by: Marceline Donaldson
I watched the president present himself in front of our military and other dignitaries last night and it was horrifying. Having just recovered from the thought of our military being replaced by a for profit civilian army headed by Eric Prince and paid billions of tax payers dollars to eventually move against those same American tax payers was revolting.
Donald Trump is playing this country and we are going along with the act.
Why did this come up so quickly? Why did Vice President Pence have to interrupt a foreign trip to come back to the U. S. to participate in this hastily put together act? What was this all about?
Trump scheduled a rally in Arizona for tonight. The response to that was electric and ugly. No one wanted him to come. The Governor of Arizona and other dignitaries asked him to stay home. The Governor announced he would not be in attendance. The rally, after all, was called to attempt to clean up the last mess which left Trump’s reputation in the gutter. Got to Arizona – strut around on stage – insult lots of people – glory in the cheers and support – and come home to create new ugliness. But one ugly mess is following too closely on another. Now Charlottesville has to be cleaned up so Trump can continue to crap on everyone as he attempts to glorify himself.
So what did he do? Facing another disgrace, he would never cancel the rally. Instead, he called Pence home from his trip abroad representing the U. S.; Called together the military brass for a hasty meeting to begin the made for television pseudo reality show; and presented himself in as grand a way as possible all within the space of about three days. Something to help him recover and gain some semblance of a facade back
So now he goes to Arizona wrapped in the American flag with Charlottesville behind him and with the military in front of and around him and now what does Arizona do. Trump is now free to pardon Sheriff Arbaio – whatever his name – and do whatever else he wants to do riding temporarily on the cloud of this military spectacle.
And America – you have been used badly.
Evil wraps itself in evil and then parades out to take credit for having had the last laugh. But, just a minute – the last act is God’s not Trump’s and it is going to be brutal for him. God has used Trump – before throwing him into that eternal fire? but don’t worry, he will have lots of company. Second going down behind him are those who claim to be ordained of God and followers of Trump. Just as their life and power seem to be unfolding in their favor and direction it will just as suddenly change course. Amen?
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Sunday, August 20th, 2017
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Thursday, February 8th, 2018Thank you for the forum.
2. Isn’t it amazing how our parents had some wisdom. Mine used to caution me many times growing up “birds of a feather”. And now we are beginning to see some of those wrecking havoc in these United States. Bad enough Wynn’s work was to develop Las Vegas. Too bad he could not have used his God-given talents to a more perfect end. Just think what he could have accomplished. Something great – long lived – and beneficial to humanity. Instead he has helped keep us mired in sin, ugliness, greed and the degradation of our fellow humans. SAD!!!!
3. Loved your analysis. It is one of the more sane pieces I have read as an explanation to what is happening. It won’t garner media headlines because it is not reporting the filth we are experiencing. I have never felt so unclean as I do realizing my United States citizens, people I talk to every day are the one who elected filth to the presidency. And he has extricated from the armed forces the worst kind of filth. So many fantastic generals and people who have sacrificed much for this country. Who does he pick and elevate – John Kelly? Yuk. Who else does he have within his administration in terms of four star generals and more who are on Kelly’s level?
4. WOW! I could have written that article. Keep it up, we need such analysis. Maybe it will change our voting system. We are responsible for who we put in office. We need to carefully think through those running for office and get to know who they are and what they really stand for and maybe we will separate the good from the bad. Get out and really do a bit of research on anyone running for office. Their histories, what they believe, how they have lived their lives and more is out there – we need to find it, share it and stop trying to lie and promote someone because we see something in it for us instead of something in it for all of humanity in a good way, not in a way to promote the ugly. And, we really do have ugly at the top in Washington – President, Vice President and many in Congress. People rated Paul Ryan because of his being Mitt Romney’s pick for Vice President. That should not have happened. Look at Ryan for himself and he looks more like someone infected with greed and more only better able to put a smooth cover over it than most – but if you look close you will see the raggedy edges showing.
5. Wish you posted more often. Turn this into a newsletter or a newspaper or a media center. Your voice needs to be heard by many more people. Maybe it can help bring about change.
6. Who are you people! I used your services once and now I am in the middle of an incredible “community”. Love it, but I didn’t know you even existed before a friend paid for my stay at one of Bettina’s Hedge Schools. You must be the best kept secret around. Not even a small newspaper article which is not an advertisement. You must be quite a threat. You need more exposure. I’ve done a little research on your company and it really needs to expand greatly. Don’t know of another company anyplace doing what you are doing. This is how corporations need to be in this world. Bet you are always mired in one blockade after another. Kick them out of the way and move on.
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