Tough Karma
Monday
Oct032016

THE ULTIMATE OUTSIDER VS. THE ULTIMATE INSIDER

It is the Year of the Outsider in American elections, Republican candidate Donald Trump is testament to the allure of the Anti-Insider Outsider movement sweeping the country. Notorious liberal filmmaker Michael Moore explained the phenomenon on Meet The Press this past Sunday, "Donald Trump's supporters view the Republican presidential nominee as a human Molotov cocktail they can throw into a political system that has left them behind."

It is a striking image...... blowing up the political establishment... "Across the Midwest, across the Rustbelt, I understand why a lot of people are angry. And they see Donald Trump as their human Molotov cocktail that they get to go into the voting booth on Nov 8. and throw him into our political system," Moore said on Meet the Press. "I think they love the idea of blowing up the system," he said.

Bernie Sanders anti-Washington campaign generated huge turnout of millennials who felt the Clinton machine epitomized the Washington elite holding onto power, afraid to pass the torch to the next generation. Sanders inspired millennial and independent voters during the Democratic primaries to get involved in politics and join the movement to transform America. And Sanders almost won, as student loan debt is crushing the dreams of millennials, his candidacy was appealing.

"Is anyone here ready to transform America?” Sanders asked the crowd at the University of New Hampshire in New Hampshire recently, Sanders voiced his support for Clinton, “You've come to the right place.” Clinton's polished version lacks the verve, “We're going to put a moratorium so you don't have to pay your student debt back for a couple of years while you try and get your business started. We're also going to provide loan forgiveness for people who want to go into public service or national service.” Yada, yada, yada.

Jill Stein got into a war of words in the press with Senator Liz Warren for claiming that a vote for the Green Party nominee could only help Donald Trump. Stein, a Lexington physician said votes still need to be “earned.” “Politicians are not ‘entitled’ to our votes simply because they represent the establishment political parties,” said Stein who is polling single digits.

“With a majority of Americans rejecting (Hillary) Clinton and Trump with record high levels of dislike and distrust, neither of them has earned our votes. I say: Don’t waste your vote on politics as usual that’s throwing us under the bus. Invest your vote in a movement for real change,” read a statement issued by Stein. Warren had appeared at Roxbury Community College in support of the Democratic nominee Clinton, said a vote for Stein would effectively be one for Trump "Anything you do that helps Donald Trump get one inch closer to the White House is a danger to all of us,” Warren said, adding that a vote for Stein “moves Donald Trump closer to the White House.”

Stein, the Green Party nominee in 2012, shot back on Twitter, Sad to see @elizabethforma attacking real progressives on behalf of a Wall Street-financed campaign. #WalkTheWalk”

Moore summed up the critical role of the Outsider in this election, "Trump is not just comedy to me. I think that people see that he is maybe their messenger."

Sunday
Jul242016

“ET TU, TED CRUZ?” - GOP BETRAYAL AT CLEVELAND 2016

Ted Cruz pulled the ultimate betrayal move on the modern political stage, with his refusal to endorse GOP candidate Donald Trump, the psychotic insistence on stabbing in the back the GOP candidate while speaking at the GOP convention in Cleveland, Cruz delivered the non-endorsement in a prime time speech.... it backfired, Cruz committed political suicide.

Shakespeare has a play about betrayal entitled Julius Caesar..... it is about foiled political alliances. In the play, Cassius thinks he can entice Brutus to join the conspirators against Caesar in a move for personal glory. Brutus was interested in self-gain, that was the motivation for taking down Caesar. Evidently, Cruz' interest was to destroy his own personal glory and become political nuclear waste, when he said Republicans should “vote your conscience” for candidates “up and down the ticket.”

There is something wrong with Ted Cruz....really. No one respects political figures anymore anyway, but Cruz added fuel to the burning fire of distrust by declaring himself a traitor to his own party. Cruz stood among the GOP candidates in the crowded Republican field last year and took a televised pledge to support the candidate who became the nominee of the Republican Party.

Cassius states, "Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,But in ourselves that we are underlings. 'Brutus' and 'Caesar'—what should be in that 'Caesar'? Why should that name be sounded more than yours?" Yes, Teddy..... the sound that disrupted your soul is the sound of the GOP nominee Trump, who knocked you off your political high horse and revealed the schism in the Republican party, when no one in the Senate or House came to your rallies to endorse you -- your prickly personality had already alienated the major GOP party political figures.

Cruz, your political life is now dead in the wind.

Sunday
Jul102016

DALLAS 2016 - AMERICAN DREAM CRISIS

Dallas, Texas must be the energy center of our collective American Dream crisis - President Kennedy was assassinated in the back seat of a motorcade in downtown Dallas in 1963, and now in 2016, five police officers have been assassinated in revenge style killings for the deaths of two black men shot by police officers in Louisiana and Minnesota. All these deaths tear a hole in our collective hearts, this is the end of the American Dream, it is now the American Dream Crisis.

It is the belief that our lives will be better than the generations that have come before us, economically, culturally, socially, we can overcome past cultural divisions, and open the gateways to all people to live life free, these freedoms guaranteed in our Constitution. We depend on that belief to live together as a diverse nation that is suppose to give all of us the freedom to worship disparate religions, speak our minds openly, write our truthful blogs, report the news openly and critically, engage in open political discourse... the American Dream Crisis has begun in July 2016.

The five police officers in Dallas were ambushed protecting a peaceful march of the Black Lives Matter movement. The march was prompted by shootings of two black men by police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and St. Paul, Minnesota -- videos of those deaths went viral and open warfare against police officers was declared by Micah Xavier Johnson, a former military veteran who served in Afghanistan, a black man angry about the deaths in Louisiana and Minnesota.

Quinyetta McMillon, the mother of Alton Sterling, the young man who died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana after being shot by police, released a statement in response to the murder of five police officers in Dallas, at a rally protesting police brutality. "We wholeheartedly reject the reprehensible acts of violence that were perpetrated against members of the Dallas Police Department,” the statement says. “Our hearts break for the families of the officers who were lost as they protected protesters and residents alike during a rally....responding to violence with violence is not the answer."

The question is...... how do we handle the American Dream Crisis..........

Sunday
Jun122016

MASS LBGT KILLING........ARMAGEDDON TERROR WAR

Cloaked in religious verbage, Omar Mateen, legally armed up and kills almost fifty human beings who are gay..... hiding behind the excuse of religious laws. The twisted violent nature of human beings becomes an evil nature within the twisted faith of Islamic extremism. It is modernized as the faith that encourages lone wolf terrorism madness to be put into motion. The glare of human violence can hide behind these views... against women, against Christians, against Jews, against Gays. It is the battle for the human soul....do we allow evil acts to continue or do we address the modern Armageddon Terrorists War??

Armageddon terrorists wars have begun.... the excuse is twisted views on homosexuality embedded within Islamic Muslim extremist beliefs. The terrorist attack took place at a gay club in Orlando, Florida involved a Muslim loaded up with extensive firearms, including an assault-style weapon – the attack left 49 people dead and more than 50 injured. The mass murder of human beings... the battlefield of Armageddon will land between the Islamic Muslims extremist world versus Western modern life, the centerpiece will fall within the gay community.

Dictionary.com defines Armageddon as: (1) the place where the final battle will be fought between the forces of good and evil (2) the last and completely destructive battle: The arms race can lead to Armageddon. and (3) any great and crucial conflict -- we are there, the human race has embraced the culture of Armageddon, when differences are settled by mass killings....... in this case, the targeted mass killing of LBGT individuals who were slaughtered by someone who harbored religious disgust of the gay lifestyle.

The murderer knew his weapons........ he was a licensed security guard. When will the Islamic Muslim extremists be called out as despicable fanatics in the Armageddon Terrorism War??

Wednesday
May182016

SANDERS' GROUPIES.....SUPPORTERS GONE WILD

Violence at the 1968 Democratic Convention resulted in the election of Republican Richard Nixon -- Sanders' supporters violent behavior at the Nevada Democratic convention -- chairs thrown, vocal threats of violence, vulgar and sexist insults shouted at Democratic leaders -- brought to life images of the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Hardcore Sanders groupies violent actions will cause the demise of the Democratic convention in Philadelphia this summer...thus, handing the Republicans the presidency.

Hardcore Sanders Groupies refuse to accept that the battle for the nomination is lost. At the Nevada Democratic convention, longtime liberal California Senator Barbara Boxer was repeatedly booed and shouted out during her appeals for party unity. A fight literally broke out on the convention floor during the setting of rules regarding the election of 43 delegates with 3 alternates to go to the July 25th national convention in Philadelphia.

Democratic party leaders have blamed the clashes on a "disgruntled group of Sanders supporters" -- the reality is that the final split between the Democratic Party and the Socialist candidate from the hills of Vermont could be televised. The party will not be able to tolerate the ongoing violence that was on display at the Nevada Democratic Convention. The escalating violence of the Sanders' Groupies has created a worse case scenario for Democrats -- Sanders supporters may take to the streets at the Democrat Convention and destroy the chances of presumptive Democrat party nominee, Hillary Clinton winning the general election in the fall.

Bernie Sanders issued an angry response to the chaotic Nevada State Democratic Party convention, denouncing the entire process as illegitimate.“It is imperative that the Democratic leadership, both nationally and in the states, understand that the political world is changing and that millions of Americans are outraged at establishment politics and establishment economics,” Sanders said in a public statement. “The people of this country want a government which represents all of us, not just the 1 percent, super PACs and wealthy campaign contributors.” Worse, Sanders' political advisers are encouraging the supporters to maintain their anger at Wall Street greed and political corruption... but will the party burnout this summer? It’s not clear that the tactic will work beyond a political platform battle in Philadelphia, but it's a very dangerous strategy, that can backfire and change the ultimate outcome in the general election, defeating the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton.

Is this the chaotic anger of the 1968 Democratic convention..... one more time?