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lovemydogs's JournalShadow Universe of 'Charities' Joined Political Warriors and Helped Elect Trump
This story is on Raw Story from an article in Washington Post.
I am taking my post mostly from the one in Raw Story but, links to both stories will be available.
It is about the skyrocketing rise of Shadowy non-profits but, to the point, David Horowitz's non profit center that was the most involved with the election of Trump.
His group spawned such internet falsehoods as Soros paid Activists on the left, among others:
'The Post report goes to great length to describe the historical rise of the Freedom Center, from its’ beginnings as a tax-exempt non-profit to a self-described “battle tank” and “school for political warfare.” Among the Freedom Center’s core tenets are the ideas that immigrants are destroying America, that Islam in particular needs to be stamped out and that climate change is a leftist “ruse.” According to Horowitz himself, the Freedom Center operates as a “shadow political universe.” '
Horowitz was responsible for the rise of, hooking up with Sessions and then Trump of the odious Steven Miller. Miller was a Horowitz protogee.
Horowitz is also responsible for helping Steve Bannon go from right wing film maker to political power player and was with Bannon at the Citizen United film festival and book signing. The one where Bannon famously told a reporter he was a Leninist who wanted to bring the Establishment crashing down.
Horowitz's 'charity' also was part of the planting of fake stories about Hillary in the 2016 campaign.
Horowitz was instrumental in getting many of his 'people' into the Trump White House:
'After Trump won the election, Horowitz was quoted congratulating himself for getting so many of his people involved in the soon-to-be-president’s administration, including Miller, Bannon, Sessions, Vice President Mike Pence, adviser Reince Priebus and former campaign manager Kellyanne Conway.
“It’s quite an impressive list,” Horowitz said. “The center has a big stake in this administration.” '
For the full story:
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/revealed-shadowy-right-wing-school-for-political-warfare-helped-trump-take-over-the-white-house/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/how-a-shadow-universe-of-charities-joined-with-political-warriors-to-fuel-trumps-rise/2017/06/03/ff5626ac-3a77-11e7-a058-ddbb23c75d82_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_charitynetwork-840pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.c117e7488d21
The Mayflower Hotel, April 2016
Washington Monthly has an article talking about the fact that a meeting at the Mayflower Hotel in April 2016 between the Russian Ambassador and Trump campaign and knowing what took place there is the clue needed to unravel Trump.
The writer, John Stoher, feels this is the thing that will blow the republican party out of the dream state they've been in for several years. That the scandal would make Watergate seem like 'small potatoes', as he says.
He feels that many in Washington, intellegence, FBI, congress, ect., knows alot more about the Trump campaign's dealings then is being let on and that it is coming out in drips and drabs for a reason:
'I don’t use the T-word lightly, because no one should. But we are getting close. As I noted in a recent column, I suspect everything needed to impeach and remove this president is probably already known, and it probably was known within weeks of Trump’s surprise victory in November. The problem for those with this knowledge was what to do with it after the country had completed a process of choosing a new leader. Only by leaking this information, drip by drip, were they able to expose Trump without jeopardizing the constitutional integrity of our democracy.'
He thinks Trump struck a deal with Putin, as many of us have, for Russia to help Trump win in exchange for dropping sanctions but, it seems the Obama administration knew alot more about this then was let on to the public:
'Even so, senior Obama administration officials and staffers at the Department of State told Michael Isikof of Yahoo that, after the inauguration, the Trump White House demanded “proposals for the lifting of economic sanctions, the return of diplomatic compounds and other steps to relieve tensions with Moscow.” This so alarmed them that they “immediately began lobbying congressional leaders to quickly pass legislation to block the move.”
This set off a flurry of activity resulting in a bipartisan measure to force Trump to go through Congress before lifting sanctions. The White House eventually backed off the issue, but that hasn’t stopped Trump from seeking ways to please Russia. The Washington Post reported this week that the administration is “moving toward” with returning two Russians compounds vacated after President Obama sanctioned Russian diplomats for meddling in the 2016 election.'
the writer feels that the meeting at the Mayflower Hotel is where the deal was discussed and struck And shortly after that meeting is when the DNC was hacked:
'We already know that Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington on that day. Sessions said the meeting was part of a reception, brief and public. What we didn’t know is that Trump himself might have been there along with his son-in-law Jared Kushner. NBC News reported this bombshell Thursday: “Classified intelligence [suggests] there was some sort of private encounter between Trump and his aides and the Russian envoy.” '
It is an interesting article. And the deal had to be discussed and hammered out somewhere. The Mayflower has been mentioned several times in various articles and programs discussing the Russian hacking.
What I find interesting is that many knew what was happening long before now and could not just come out and say what was happening. Maybe in need of evidence. Or, as the article says, to spill it all could have diminished the actual crime and what really happened. And the Obama administration was following this for awhile and deciding it best for this to come out bit by bit.
Once they can nail down the Mayflower and what actually happened, he feels the scandal with explode into the public
http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/06/02/call-it-the-mayflower-scandal/
Pence: For Some Reason or Another, the Left Cares About Climate Change,,,
Mike Pence said this in reply in an interview on Fox and Friends:
“for some reason or another, this issue of climate change has emerged as a paramount issue for the left in this country and around the world.”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/pence-for-some-reason-left-climate-change
Best Explanation for Why Trump Pulled Out Of Paris
I just turned on MSNBC because I would not watch Trump. I cannot stand his voice.
Nicole Wallace was on and one of her guest's was Donnie Deutsch.
He said he's worked for CEOs like Trump. He calls them Sociopath Ceos.
He said they come into a company and even if everything is working well and going great, they have to destroy everything to justify their existence.
He said that Trump is like that.
He is destroying everything (much like Bannon's wet dream of destroying western civilization as it has been since WWII) to put his mark on things and justify his presidency.
Doesn't matter if it is a disaster. He comes out of that world and needs to destroy.
Sociopath CEO
Best Explanation for Why Trump Pulled Out Of Climate Accord
I turned to MSNBC after Trump's speech because I cannot stand his voice and he just lies anyway.
Nicole Wallace was on and as one of her guests she had on Donnie Deutsch.
He said he worked for CEOs like Trump. He calls them Sociopath CEOs.
They come into a company and even if things are running fine and things are going great they have to tear it all down, destroy it and do it their way to justify their existence.
That sounds right.
Trump comes in as big bad Businessman and destroys the company he bought and runs it into the ground - in this case the country - to justify his presidency.
They don't see or care if they run it into the ground. They just have to destroy.
That's why Trump is doing all this destruction of the country and maybe following Bannon's wet dream of destroying western civilization as it has been since WWII.
Sociopath CEOs
The Moment of 'Aha!" Regarding the Blind Love and Loyalty of Trump Supporters
I was googling articles on another subject when I stumbled across someone writing about how Trump supporters twist themselves into all kinds of knots excusing his lies, his behavior and cannot let themselves see him clearly.
A lightbulb went off in my head.
I think I know why Trump supporters are so blindly loyal to him that they would defend him and excuse him if he shot a gun off in the middle of 5th Ave., in NY as he so famously observed.
Most of Trump's supporters are older baby boomer whites. And they are not just working class. Many are Christians, have led their life by the book. Did everything they were expected to do as far as the ideal of white middle class.
But, not just the anger about the way their lives turned out, resentment over the rise of minorities, the fear of the coming minority majority, was the driving forces in attraction to Trump.
Many of them also see Trump as a harkening back to their college age days.
Many baby boomers lived a life of rebellion, anti establishment, FU at authority and turning their backs on the political and society norms of the day.
A sense of freedom, of throwing off the yolk of expectations of their parents and a deep suspicion and hate of the government that lied about Vietnam.
This generation hit their stride, however, not as hippies but, as yuppies during the Reagan age. It was the beginning of the end of their parents era of the New Deal and its dominance over public policy for over 30 years. They hated Jimmie Carter and LBJ as symbols of why they hated government and especially taxes. Taxes were for the shared burden of public policies that did the things that maintained our schools, parks, police but, also made possible the Interstate highways and maintaining them. But, to boomers it was a burden they resented. They did not want to pay for those things and for things that equalized things for African Americans after centuries of keeping them out of the good jobs and middle class.
Reagan and the new conservatives spoke to that resentment. And made greed and money worshiping good. For the first time since the depression it was good to spend on everything, to salivate over material things. And grasping for luxury items and status symbols. Throw off the pinching pennies, being wise with money, save for the things you want and doing without. Let the good times roll, baby.
Trump brought those two eras together and for much of his base, he reminded them of the euphoria of thumbing their noses at authority and government when they were young. His wealth and obscene gaudiness of taste reminded them of the fun and freedom of spend baby spend, Lifestyle of the rich and famous 80s.
The crash and austerity after 2008 brought back memories of their parents lifestyle and moderate living. Trump reminded them of Reagan and the splashiness of the 80s. Trump was a creature of the 80s and epitomized the whole era. His wealth, his showing it off, his splashiness. On top of it, he was a Reality tv star just like Reagan was in the movies and tv early in his life.
Trump reminds them of their glory days and erases the fear of 'their way of life and white dominance' being replaced, like that Obama did with his presence everyday in the White House. Obama was a constant reminder of the rise of minorities and the ebbing of white rule.
Enough With the Terrorism Porn
I am very sorry for the people in Manchester who lost their lives and are critically injured. I am sorry for everyone who has died or had been hurt in a terror attack.
Terrorism is a sad thing that is all too common these days everywhere.
Resentful and angry people carrying out their problems by killing.
But, I am sick of the Terrorism Porn.
When there is an attack in Europe these days, the news goes on a 24 to 48 hour terrorism orgy.
All Terrorism all the time.
We see the same footage hundreds of times.
If there is nothing new they fill the airwaves with the same material over and over again.
Nothing else is discussed and no other news is talked about.
All we get is deluged with Terrorism porn.
I, for one, am sick to death of it.
We do not need wall to wall coverage of nothing but,
Then we wonder why so many people are in fetal positions over terrorism and think there is a terrorist around every corner.
Is It Genocide?
I have a question
Genocide is the knowing murder of thousands and millions of people.
The republicans in the House of Congress voted to repeal healthcare.
Many who cannot afford healthcare any other way or cannot get insurance because of Pre-existing conditions needed Obamacare for their very survival.
There are many who had conditions that they could not see a doctor to manage their care and by the time they got to Obamacare, they were in severe condition.
Many who were getting cancer treatments got thrown off of their insurance because they hit a ceiling and could no longer get care.
On and on.
The republicans in the House of Congress knew this, knew that many who needed Obamacare for their very survival are going to die as a result of their vote. And they did not care. All they cared about was giving a massive tax cut to the rich - so big, it is seen as the biggest transfer of wealth to one class in history.
So, would that be considered a form of genocide?
And if so, why is no one telling the republicans that that is what they are doing?
Are We Monsters?
This is a title from an article on Juan Cole's Informed Comment written by Neal Gabler.
https://www.juancole.com/2017/05/are-we-monsters.html
He addresses the very thing that I have been wondering for several years.
That we are no longer a compassionate or caring nation.
That we are facing a reckoning someday for our unlimited quench for greed, materialism and glory in our selfishness.
Not all of us but, a sizable minority of people, a growing minority of people.
It starts by an observation of the dusting off of movie vaults of old classic monster movies from the heyday of the great Studios.
He does observe that in times of crisis in the past, monster movies seemed to abound and let people project their fears and anxieties onto the movies.
'Warner Brothers and Universal have both been dusting off an inventory of classic monsters — King Kong, Godzilla, The Mummy, The Wolf Man, etc. — which prompted New York Times film critics Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott to speculate whether this was a reaction to a contemporary America, where monstrousness now seems to run rampant. When you add a film like the mega hit Get Out, about human monsters, you get the feeling that maybe Hollywood is onto something.'
He says that other nations ask this, like Germany or Japan after WWII or some other national horror like Rwanda. That is not the case with America. We are not in the midst of a great national horror as a War. But, there are things that are being done that will cause many to lose their lives the same as any genocide:
'Are we monsters? I know it is a distinctly odd question to ask, the sort of question people ask in self-reflection only after losing a war of aggression, as the Germans and Japanese did in the wake of World War II, or in the aftermath of some mass derangement, as Rwandans did after their intramural slaughter.
But perhaps it ought to be asked as well when a democratically elected legislature votes to throw tens of millions of poor people off the health care rolls for no ostensible reason other than to hand one party a victory for which it was desperate, and to hand the rich another windfall, as happened last Thursday when the House voted to disembowel Obamacare.'
'Have we lost our compassion? Have we become so selfish that we have no capacity for empathy, or have we become so besotted with materialism and the lust for success that we can no longer see beyond them? Is the needle on our moral compass spinning so wildly that we have lost our bearings? To paraphrase the question attorney Joseph Welch asked Sen. Joseph McCarthy, a patron saint of the right, has America no sense of decency?'
The author points out that the tempation is to point to Trump. But, Trump is a symptom. Trump would not be in the White House without people, knowing full well, despite what they say, that he was all about and the pain to be inflicted on so many.
'If we are now a failed country, as I believe we are, it is not because we have a failed presidency, although we do. It is because we are a failed people. A callousness, a self-righteousness, an obdurateness and, yes, a monstrousness has emerged from some subterranean depth where it had been forcibly submerged. We may say this is not who we are. That is denial.'
The author talks about how a sizable minority in our country now feel pleasure in inflicting pain on others. In being selfish and cruel. They vote for people they know will hurt innocents but, don't care. Even enjoy.
'There will, of course, be no national self-reflection over this cruelty, as there was in Germany and Japan, or as there was last Sunday in France when it was confronted with its own Trump, racist Marie Le Pen, and the voters overwhelmingly beat her back. Our monsters know no remorse. Hurting people is now woven deeply into the fabric of our country.'
I have had this question going through my head for a few years now. What ever happened to community and caring? I remember 20 years ago and beyond people being far more compassionate to those in need of help. I also remember people trying to put themselves in others shoes.
I remember when behaving the way Trump, the republican party and voters was shocking and condemned. That was why Nixon fell. People were upset over the actions of Nixon. They are not with Trump and Trump is far worse. People don't care if Russia is playing footsie with the White House as long as they get what they want.
Something happened in the past 25 years, or somethings, to make people be so numb to suffering and so uncaring. To pleasure in the pain and dying of others.
If we do not, as a nation, finally come to terms with the awful people we are turning into, I am afraid the answer to the writer's question is 'yes'.
Please follow the link and read the full article.
Another survey finds Poor White Working Class voted for Trump due to Xenophobia
Not surprising.
Those White Working Class who were mostly worried about the economy supported Hillary Clinton.
Those who were mostly motivated by Xenophobia and Racism voted Trump.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/9/15592634/trump-clinton-racism-economy-prri-survey
The WWC who voted for Trump said:
'PRRI concluded: “White working-class voters who say they often feel like a stranger in their own land and who believe the U.S. needs protecting against foreign influence were 3.5 times more likely to favor Trump than those who did not share these concerns.” '
The Findings were as follows:
'About 65 percent “believe American culture and way of life has deteriorated since the 1950s.”
About 48 percent say that “things have changed so much that I often feel like a stranger in my own country.”
About 68 percent “believe the American way of life needs to be protected from foreign influence.” In comparison, 44 percent of white college-educated Americans reported a similar view.
About 68 percent “believe the U.S. is in danger of losing its culture and identity.”
About 62 percent “believe the growing number of newcomers from other countries threatens American culture,” while 30 percent “say these newcomers strengthen society.”
About 60 percent “say because things have gotten so far off track, we need a strong leader who is willing to break the rules.” '
As I said above, this is not surprising but, just more evidence that the economy was not the driving factor for Trump's support.
But, what is concerning to me is that as long as a large number of people base their support and are strongly pro-Trump due to resentment and hate, then, they will support him regardless of what he does.
I think the reason for their very strong and stubborn support regardless of what he does is due to their belief that Trump is the only one who will do things to Make America White Again.
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