In this blog I have often referred to our current president as He Who Must Not Be Named (“HWMNBN”), taking my cue from J.K. Rowland’s characterization of the utterly evil Lord Voldamart. I have also referred to him as the Orange Monster (the “OM”). And, I have often referred to him by the designation afforded him in last year’s court indictment as the unindicted conspirator known s as “Individual-1.” Along the way, I have given the ne’er-do-well and nincompoop of the oval office many a vile nickname. Of late, I have most often referred to this treacherous creature as “His Assholiness.” None of these nicknames seem to stick, however, as he continues to lie, cheat, steal, exploit, and corrupt his way through our entire federal government system, such that no one—no reporter, news agency, media outlet or news consumer—can even keep up with the cacophony of corruption this his crime syndicate of an administration commits on a daily if not hourly basis.
 
Even keeping up with all of the lies that our Liar-in-Chief makes daily, is maddeningly challenging. According to the Washington Post he has now told over 13,000 deliberate out-right lies since becoming our president. The very first lie he told, it should be pointed out, was that he would solemnly defend our constitution against all enemies both foreign and domestic. And according to the Post, our Liar-in-Chief has gotten much worse: Apparently, the more the know-nothing Republicans and the do-nothing Democrats allow him to continue to lie and to commit crimes without facing even the slightest accountability for his treachery to the public and to the nation, the worse the Liar-in-Chief has become both in the frequency and the shocking mendacity of his lies from very large to tiny.
 
I heard it suggested today on youtube that we give the president the new and well-earned nickname of “the Lyin’ King.” It is catchy and true, and should provoke serious consideration for an apt nickname. Others suggested that we start calling him “Cult 45.” This too is a worthy nickname. But as far as I am concerned his name, like his credibility, must be far worse than mud. Yet, something that would truly fit 45 has yet to stick to him the way most of his caustic nicknames have stuck to his opponents and enemies; nor has any nickname has stuck to him as well as “Moscow Mitch” has become glued to the treacherous Senator McConnell. I believe the voluminous crimes and lies, committed by our president, often several times a day, has made him nearly impervious to any and all slanders. No slander against him can stand as large against He Who Slanders Us All Constantly. Perhaps the “Slanderer Philanderer” might stick. Or “Putin’s Puppet.” But something tells me we need to get down into the shit with the pigs to really find a nickname that could ever be as apropos to such a president so utterly full of crap.
 
My real point here is that actions here require deeper and darker words that we have ever used to describe any president. This one defies them all. His evil is larger, darker and more vile than any of the vilest names any of us could give this Turd-in-Chief. The time for naming names has long since passed. It is time for action.
 
We need this national embarrassment removed from office YESTERDAY, not tomorrow.
 
Clearly the know-nothing Republicans will never take action against this guy. They are in league with him, as with their party, as with the Russians, Moscow Mitch, William Barf, and Lyin’ Brett Kavanaugh. A pox on all of the Republicans and the criminal enterprise of the White House that has now spread to our Department of Injustice, that almost of all of them have supported and continue to support.
 
As to the do-nothing Democrats, it is way, way, way, way past time for the Dems to impeach our Asshole-in-Chief. Nervous Nancy and the do-nothings MUST rise to the occasion, and have the courage to do the right thing and impeach the Criminal-in-Chief and do it NOW, or we can kiss our Democracy goodbye. There can be no more stalling, no more putting fingers in the wind to see which way it, no more counting the votes. Their oath to defend the Constitution requires that they stop stalling and DO THEIR JOBS! 
 
Any and all incumbents of either party who cannot or will not do their duty and vote to impeach the lawless thug in the Oval Office, should be removed from office in November 2020, along with the “Evil One” in the White House, by an awakened nation finally standing up to protect our democracy against all enemies, both foreign and domestic. 

During a broadcast of “Morning Joe” on MSNBC last month, the host, former Republican Representative Joe Scarborough gave Mitch McConnell the well-deserved nickname of Moscow Mitch, which has rightfully stuck to McConnell’s ass like Russian glue to a shingle.
 
Now, after the three mass killings in El Paso, Dayton and the Garlic Festival in California, when Mitch made his disdain for supporting any type of reasonable gun safety laws crystal clear, by refusing to call the Senate back from summer break to attend an emergency session to address this National Security issue, another well-deserved moniker has been plastered to his Russian buttocks, that of “Massacre Mitch”. 
 
Clearly, Massacre Mitch was too busy collecting his ill-gotten gains from his swindling deal to bring Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska’s money into Kentucky (after arranging for U.S. sanctions against Deripaska to be lifted--against the will of the House and the Democratic Senate and against American National Security interests) to bother with holding an emergency session to save his fellow Americans from more mass murder. Indeed, Massacre McConnell has sold out his state and our country to the highest bidder (i.e., Putin). 
 
As the treachery of Moscow Mitch and Massacre McConnell is exposed to the light of day, he should also become infamous as “Mitch the Menace,” as he alone presents a clear and present danger and menace to our National Security. Not only are McConnell and his Republican-Russian comrades acting as well-paid “Russian Assets,” they are also acting in a deeply un-American manner, and collectively betraying our country and our countrymen.
 
Not only is Moscow Mitch a Russian asset, dedicated to allowing the Russian government to infiltrate our entire political and electoral system while his party accepts untold amounts of bribes through the NRA to do Putin’s bidding, he and all of the members of his Russian Republican Federation are also acting as stooges for the NRA agenda, which is to flood our country with as many weapons of war as possible.
 
Russia’s goal appears to be to get as many Americans as possible to kill each other, first by flooding our streets with assault weapons designed only to kill as many people as possible within a war zone, and second by taking over our entire electoral system. Moscow Mitch is obviously fully onboard with this Russian anti-America strategy. I certainly hope he is being paid handsomely for such treachery. 
 
Let’s be clear: Russia attacked our Democracy in 2016. They are attacking America now. And they plan to do so again during the election and presidential campaign of 2020. 
 
It has been reported that Moscow Mitch does not like his new nickname. In fact, he gave a speech on the floor of the Senate chamber denouncing it. Well, if he doesn’t like being referred to as Moscow Mitch, he should stop acting like it. If he still has any allegiance to this country, which I seriously doubt, let him bring to the floor all of the bills passed by the House to protect our future elections from Russian interference and the interference of any other enemies of America. 
 
If he doesn’t like his other nickname of Massacre Mitch, let him bring to the floor all of the gun safety laws already passed by the House as well, and waiting on his desk.
 
And if he doesn’t like his new nickname, Mitch the Menace, he should start acting like an adversary for America. But clearly his allegiance lies elsewhere, with those who secretly fill his pockets and his campaign chest.
 
Russian Republicans, as led by Mitch the Menace and His Assholiness, our 45thpresident and the first U.S. president ever appointed by Russian Oligarchs, are both doing everything they can to welcome and give aid and comfort to our Russian enemy. Indeed, if a war had been officially declared against Russia when they first began their plan of attack against our democracy in 2014, most of currently elected Republican members in the House of Representatives and the US Senate, particularly Senator McConnell, along with His Assholiness, our 45thpresident, could be officially accused of treason. 
 
In time, and hopefully sooner than later, most of the Republicans in Washington will be shown to have accepted illegal contributions from Russian Oligarchs, funneled through the equally corrupt NRA, which might as well stand for the National Russian Associationat this point. 
 
If this treason were not enough, His Assholiness, the Racist in Chief, has turned the “White” House into a symbol of pride for Fascist White Nationalists everywhere, while his Repugnant Racist Republicans have stood silently by and placidly supported him in doing so.
 
The upcoming election of 2020 is going to be a watershed moment for our country. Forget the normal issues of a presidential year: the economy, health care, etc. The election in November 2020 is going to be an existential question: Americans will have to vote either for or against our Democracy. Which will it be: Will we have a Dictator or will we choose the Rule of Law? Will we allow Moscow Mitchand His Assholinessto hand our country over to Vladimir Putin, or will we choose to end this abject corruption?
 
Voting for the Republicans—any Republican—is a vote for Putin and the Russian Oligarchs. So prepare far in advance to make your choice, America. And make it wisely. As this may be the last election held in our country—at least the last one with even the slightest semblance of fairness.
 
I pray to God that we collectively vote out Moscow Mitch, His Assholiness, the NRA, and the Russian-Republican Federation. 

"As I pointed out in last Sunday’s blog posting, “Moscow Mitch” has blocked all attempts to stop Russian and other foreign governments from attacking our democracy and our voting system. According to Dana Milbank’s column in last week’s Washington Post:
 
"McConnell has blocked all such attempts, including: 
A bipartisan bill requiring Facebook, Google and other Internet companies to disclose purchasers of political ads, to identify foreign influence. 
A bipartisan bill to ease cooperation between state election officials and federal intelligence agencies.
A bipartisan bill imposing sanctions on any entity that attacks a U.S. election.
 A bipartisan bill with severe new sanctions on Russia for its cybercrimes."
 
"McConnell has prevented them all from being considered — over and over again. This is the same McConnell who, in the summer of 2016, when briefed by the CIA along with other congressional leaders on Russia’s electoral attacks, questioned the validity of the intelligence and forced a watering down of a warning letter to state officials about the threat, omitting any mention of Russia."
 
Clearly, McConnell’s acts are that of a Russian stooge and a traitor to America. Further, McConnell, is acting as a Russian Asset, quite willing to do anything to aid and to abet our sworn enemies so that he and our Russian-appointed president retain his power. And McConnell seems quite willing to let foreign actors invade and attack our country, just so that he and his fellow Russian-Republican stooges can retain their power.
 
Let’s be clear: Russia attacked our Democracy in 2016. They are attacking America now. And they plan to do so again in the election of 2020. 
 
It has been reported that Moscow Mitch does not like his new nickname. In fact, he gave a speech on the floor of the Senate chamber denouncing it. Well, if he doesn’t like being referred to as Moscow Mitch, he should stop acting like it. If he still has any allegiance to this country, which I seriously doubt, let it bring to the floor all of the bills passed by the House to protect our future elections from Russian interference and the interference of any other enemies of America. 
 
If he proves his allegiance to America by putting these bills forward for debate on the Senate floor, then we can stop calling him Moscow Mitch. If, on the other hand, he proves that he and our president and their Russian-backed party are beholding to Russian influence, as I believe he will, by not allowing any of these bills that would protect America come forward, then the name of Moscow Mitch should not only stick to him forever after, he should be renounced and chastised by every American who loves our country. A traitor is a traitor and an enemy is an enemy. If McConnell continues to betray our country, the nickname of Moscow Mitch, like that of Benedict Arnold and others whose stains outlast the time in which they betrayed their country, should be emblazoned on his tombstone, in all of the history books, as a name that will live in infamy.
 
The hatred that is espoused daily from the loathsome White Nationalist creature who became our 45thpresident, is now spreading hate and violence throughout our land, quite awash in guns thanks to the Republicans and the NRA. In the last two days, two mass killings have taken place, both killers being racist white followers of their Racist in Chief. And rather than tone down his hate-filled rhetoric His Assholinessonly spouts and spreads more hatred, and more contempt for the Rule of Law. Clearly, His Assholiness is also a Russian appointee, precisely in the same mold of Moscow Mitch. These traitors to the Constitution, to the Rule of Law, and to any remaining sanity in our society, must be removed soon. Indeed, the current president presents a clear and present danger to our country, to our national security, and to our democracy. He, like the Russian asset Moscow Mitch, must be removed as soon as possible.
 
The call for the impeachment of the unworthy and unlawful monster in the Oval Office is finally growing in the House of Representatives, such that a majority of the Democratic members of the House now support an impeachment hearing. Most if not all of the Republican members of the House (i.e., the Russian Republicans), appear to want to stay onboard the Trumptanic as it veers toward the ultimate iceberg; history should judge them, too, as traitors to America and the American way, even as they sink while still happily aboard their Racist and White Nationalist flagship, a most deserved outcome. 
 
His Assholiness, the Racist in Chief, has turned the “White” House into a symbol of pride for Fascist White Nationalists everywhere. Now, on a nearly daily basis, we see his racist killers using their assault weapons to kill as many of their fellow Americans as possible.  
 
The upcoming election of 2020 is going to be a watershed moment for our country. If Americans want to see daily carnage in a nation swimming with insanity and guns, by all means vote for the Russian Republicans and vote for the White Nationalist pig now snorting from the bully pulpit. You, too, can joins the Russians who want to see America sink into the abyss. OR you can vote for America, for decency, for the Rule of Law, for the expulsion of Moscow Mitch and every other Russian-backed traitor, be they Republican or Democrat (I’m looking at you, Tulsi Gabbard!). You can vote for hate and White Nationalism and turn our current president into an Russian-appointed Emperor who will never need to step down or ever hold national elections again. OR you can vote for a return to sanity, to civility, to Rule of Law. That is the choice, clear and simple. Just what in God’s name, do Americans want our country to become? We can be Fascist or we can be Free but we cannot be both. We can be a nation where there are more guns than people OR we can decide we have had enough of the violence, the racism, the hatred, the contempt for law, but we cannot continue to be both, a nation torn apart from within, divisible and hate-filled. 

We can continue to drown in guns and killing OR we can stop the violence by choosing to get most of the guns off the street, but we can't have both situations. It's either the right to guns or the right to life, but you cannot have both!
 
We can continue to allow the occupant of the Oval Office to shout his racist hatred across all of our media, or we can choose to have his sorry ass thrown out of office. We can keep the outlaw president we now have OR we can send him to prison where he deservedly belongs as soon as possible.
 
At the very least, every thinking American should want impeachment hearings to begin immediately, before our Russian-appointed president is allowed to spew any more of his racist bile and before any more innocent Americans are shot down at the local mall, the theatre, or your local public school.
 
In essence, we can choose hatred or we can follow our Better Angels and choose love. But we can’t go forward into the future, holding both in our hearts.

Right now, Russia has us right where they always wanted us: at each other's throats and killing each other.
 

I quote here from Dana Milbank’s column in the Washington Post on July 26, titled “Mitch McConnell is a Russian Asset”:
 
Mitch McConnell is a Russian asset.

This doesn’t mean he’s a spy, but neither is it a flip accusation. Russia attacked our country in 2016. It is attacking us today. Its attacks will intensify in 2020. Yet each time we try to raise our defenses to repel the attack, McConnell, the Senate majority leader, blocks us from defending ourselves.

Let’s call this what it is: Unpatriotic. The Kentucky Republican is, arguably more than any other American, doing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bidding.

Robert Mueller sat before Congress this week warning that the Russia threat “deserves the attention of every American.” He said “the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in our election is among the most serious” challenges to American democracy he has ever seen. “They are doing it as we sit here, and they expect to do it during the next campaign,” he warned, adding that “much more needs to be done in order to protect against these intrusions, not just by the Russians but others as well.”
 
Not three hours after Mueller finished testifying, Mark Warner (D-Va.), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, went to the Senate floor to request unanimous consent to pass legislation requiring presidential campaigns to report to the FBI any offers of assistance from agents of foreign governments. Representing Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) objected.
 
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) then attempted to move a bill that would require campaigns to report to the FBI contributions by foreign nationals. Again Hyde-Smith, acting on behalf of McConnell, objected.
 
After that, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) tried to force action on bipartisan legislation, written with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and supported by Sens. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.), protecting lawmakers from foreign cyber-attacks. “The majority leader, our colleague from Kentucky, must stop blocking this common-sense legislation and allow this body to better defend itself against foreign hackers,” he said.
 
 “I object,” repeated McConnell’s lackey Hyde-Smith yet again.
 
As Mr. Milbank’s column went on to explain:
 
The next day, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), the minority leader, asked for the Senate to pass the Securing America’s Federal Elections Act, already passed by the House, that would direct $600 million in election assistance to states and require backup paper ballots.
 
McConnell himself responded this time, reading from a statement, his chin melting into his chest, his trademark thin smile on his lips. “It’s just a highly partisan bill from the same folks who spent two years hyping up a conspiracy theory about President Trump and Russia,” he said. “Therefore, I object.” McConnell also objected to another attempt by Blumenthal to pass his bill.
 
Pleaded Schumer: “I would suggest to my friend the majority leader: If he doesn’t like this bill, let’s put another bill on the floor and debate it.”
 
But McConnell has blocked all such attempts, including:

A bipartisan bill requiring Facebook, Google and other Internet companies to disclose purchasers of political ads, to identify foreign influence. 
 
A bipartisan bill to ease cooperation between state election officials and federal intelligence agencies.
 
A bipartisan bill imposing sanctions on any entity that attacks a U.S. election.
 
A bipartisan bill with severe new sanctions on Russia for its cybercrimes.
 
McConnell has prevented them all from being considered — over and over again. This is the same McConnell who, in the summer of 2016, when briefed by the CIA along with other congressional leaders on Russia’s electoral attacks, questioned the validity of the intelligence and forced a watering down of a warning letter to state officials about the threat, omitting any mention of Russia.
 
Clearly the Russian-appointed president (which I shall now refer to as His Assholiness—since ‘He’ now believes himself to be our King and quite above the Rule of Law that generations of Americans, both Republican and Democrat, once held sacred and fought and died for) wants Russian help and the help of other foreign governments in our next election! 
 
And McConnell, is quite willing to do anything to stop any attempt to thwart Russian interference. Further, McConnell, the Russian Asset, is willing to do anything to aid and abet our foreign enemies so that the president and he himself as well as all of the Russian-Republicans retain their power.
 
Let’s be clear: Russia attacked our Democracy in 2016. They are attacking America now. And they plan to do so again in the election of 2020. And the Russianpublicans, in particular Mitch McConnell, and His Assholiness, are doing everything they can to welcome and give aid and comfort to our enemies, both foreign and domestic. 
 
Indeed, if a war had been officially declared against Russia when they first began their plan of attack against our democracy in 2014, most of currently elected Republican members in the House of Representatives and the US Senate, particularly Senator McConnell, along with His Assholiness, our 45thpresident and our once-and-future Emperor, could now potentially be found guilty of treason, and face possible execution for their crimes against our country. 
 
Let that statement sink in for a minute. 
 
Joe Scarborough during a broadcast of “Morning Joe” on MSNBC earlier this week gave Mitch McConnell the well-deserved nickname of Moscow Mitch. This should and must stick as McConnell’s new moniker because he is, indeed, as Dana Milbank pointed out in his column, a “Russian Asset.” And he is anti-American and un-American, and a traitor to our country in nearly every respect.
 
As I said in my latest blog last Sunday, America is clearly at a crossroads. The contemptible pile of excrement that now passes as our president has in his own filthy and vile way exposed all of the evil and corruption within our government an in particular within his Russian-supported Republican cabal. His Assholiness has exposed the vile  and dirty backroom deals, utilizing Russian oligarch laundered money, the foreign influence of the murderous Saudi Regime, and the filthy hidden money that has flowed to the Repugnant Ones since the Republican-appointed US Supreme Court—the best Court you can buy—passed the Citizens Uniteddecision, encouraging a deeper and darker swamp in Washington, D.C. 
 
Most of the Republicans in Washington will, I have little doubt, be exposed to have accepted illegal contributions from Russian Oligarchs, funneled through the equally corrupt NRA. 
 
His Assholiness, the Corrupter in Chief and Putin’s Puppet, has so corrupted Washington with his misogyny and pussy-grabbing ways, that all of his pedophile and sex-trafficking friends have been forced to crawl out of the various holes in which they were hiding and brought out into the light of day. How many other American presidents in our history could say that five of their closest friends and allies are felons? Only His Assholiness! 
 
How many presidents could say that among his best friends were two pedophiles currently rotting in prison? Only His Assholiness! 
 
And how many could say that they have been accused of raping a 13-year-old girl (supposedly at Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan Mansion in the early 1990s)? Only His Assholinesshas such a distinguished record among all of our presidents.
 
More than this, if that were not enough, His Assholiness, the Racist in Chief, has turned the “White” House into a symbol of pride for Fascist White Nationalists everywhere.
 
The upcoming election of 2020 is going to be a watershed moment for our country. 
 
Forget the normal issues of a presidential year: the economy, health care, etc. The election in November 2020 is going to be about much more fundamental and existential issues. For example, just what in God’s name, do Americans want our country to become: A symbol for White Nationalist Fascism throughout the entire world or to again become the symbol of Freedom and Tolerance that we once were?
 
In 2020, Americans will once and for all, have to decide first and foremost, whether they give a damn about saving themselves and their country by fighting for exercising their right to vote. Every single American, if they have the right to vote, MUST exercise their right to vote. Period. No Excuses. No more ignoring of elections. No more sitting on the sidelines. Quite frankly, this will be an election like none other of the modern era. It will be a CHOOSE OR DIE moment. Americans have fought and died for us to have the right to vote. There is simply no excuse for hanging back or sitting on the sidelines while Moscow Mitch and His Assholiness hand our country over to Vladimir Putin. 
 
I’m saying it now and as loudly as I can:

​EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN OVER THE AGE OF 18 MUST VOTE IN NOVEMBGER 2020 AND EVERY ELECTION THEREAFTER! PERIOD. NO EXCUSES. GET YOUR LAZY ASSES TO THE POLLS AND PROTECT OUR DEMOCRACY OR SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES! 
 
Once you are at the polls, you must make a basic decision: Do you vote for the 3 R’s—Russia, Racism, and Rape—or do you vote for the Democrats? And I am quite serious about this. That is how dire our circumstances now are. You will be choosing between a Dictatorship or the Democrats. Period. No more equivocation. You will be called to make a moral choice, not between Republican and Democrat, but between Right and Wrong.
What path should our country take going forward? And before casting that vote, think long and hard about the future you want for your children and grandchildren.
 
I pray to God that we send Moscow Mitch, His Assholiness, and all of the Russian Republicans back to Russia where they belong.

Remember back to the 2016 presidential campaign when candidate Hillary Clinton was condemned and called out ruthlessly for quite accurately describing her opponents’ supporters as a “basket of deplorables?” Well, now, after the Racist in Chief tweeted that four minority democratic congresswomen should “go back to where they came from,” he gathered a stadium full of his deplorables to what became a KKK Rally. After the Dear Leader lambasted duly-elected Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar—a Somali refugee who immigrated to the US when she was teenager became a nationalized citizen of our country—they violently chanted, “Send her back! Send her back!” must to the satisfaction of our Racist in Chief. Meanwhile, Ilhan Omar is as much or more a citizen of the United States of America as any of the un-American dunderheads in that stadium that night. Indeed, the stadium was filled with deplorables that night.
 
The entire Republican Party is now filled with deplorables. More than deplorable, these folks are anti-American. The Republican Party now blindly follows and salutes a Racist in Chief. They stand against everything that our American Flag is supposed to stand for. Significantly, only four Republicans in the House of Representatives voted with the Democrats to condemn our president’s racist tweets. The remaining 187 Republicans in the House of Representatives chose not to condemn their Dear Leader’s racist comments. The Republican Party and the elected Republicans in office are aiding and abetting a racist and racism. Thus, they have become the Party of Racism, Bigotry, Ignorance, and Hatred. They have no position or policy to run on in 2020, other than Hate (oh, and more tax breaks but only for their wealthy, immoral donors).
 
As I pointed out in my blog last week, according to the Washington Post, the current president’s “remark swiftly united a House Democratic caucus that had been torn apart in recent days by infighting between Pelosi and the four freshman women of color—Democratic Reps. Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), Rashida Tlaib (Michigan), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), and Ilhan Omar (Minn.)” Incidentally, three of these four women were born here in the United States. Pressley was born in Cincinatti, Tlaib was born in Detroit and AOC was born in New York, only about 20 miles from where the Orange Monster was born. Omar was born in Somalia; her family fled the county amid civil war when she was a child, and she became a U.S. citizen as a teenager. 
 
Clearly, the Orange Monster believes that anyone who speaks up against him or his policies should be locked up and/or removed from the country at once. With a brain the size of a pea, he struts around like a mini Mussolini, but a highly incompetent one. Aside from being cruel, stupid, ignorant, authoritarian, deeply vindictive and thin-skinned, he is exceedingly racist. His tweets attacking American citizens and telling them they should “go back to where they came from” harken back to the vitriol and hatred he stirred up with his racist “Birther” platitudes.

​Had the Republican establishment immediately spoke up against this racist blighter back then, the Orange Monster would have slunk away into the shadows of his own lies and bile several years ago, and as a country we would never have had him foisted upon the American people by the Russian government. But the Republicans did not want to offend the many racists hiding in their party ranks, so they chose to say nothing. Later, when he ran for the nomination of the Republican Party, again they showed their cowardice by not speaking out and loud about his racism, incompetence and rancor. Once he was chosen as their nominee, they acquiesced in cowardice yet again. At every turn, when given a chance to speak out against this lowlife, and stand up for our Constitution and our Democracy, they cowardly took his side. And now he owns them and they own him. Republicans are now Repugnant Ones, and all of them should be referred to as such. They will never be able to wash off the stench of their leader’s corruption. The once great GOP, the party of Lincoln, now wears all of the disgusting and deplorable colors of America’s Racist Party. 
 
America is clearly at a crossroads. The contemptible pile of excrement that now passes as our president has in his own filthy and vile way, and without ever meaning to, exposed all of the evil and corruption within our government. He has exposed all of the vile backroom deals, the foreign influence of dirty laundered money. He has exposed the corruption within the Republican Party. Most of the Republicans in Washington will, I little doubt, be exposed to have accepted illegal contributions from Russian Oligarchs that was funneled through the equally corrupt NRA. Republicans all the way from local dogcatcher to the White House, will be known for their acquiescence to Russia, traitors all. The Corrupter in Chief, Putin’s Puppet has also so corrupted Washington with his misogyny and pussy-grabbing ways, that all of his pedophile and sex-trafficking friends have been brought out into the light of day. And by his racist rants, he has turned the White House into the “White” House, a great symbol for White Nationalism. Indeed, Kelly Ann Conway and her ilk might as well hang a banner on the front lawn at the White House right now, declaring enthusiastically, “No Coloreds Allowed!” 
 
Regardless of whether or not our Congress does their duty and impeaches and removes all those who have worked in this current administration, starting with the Racist in Chief, as Americans we will have the greatest choice to make of our entire existence: What country do we want our America to become? What will we choose for our country to stand for? If you want an America where all men are created equal, and treated equally under the rule of law, you MUST vote for the Democratic nominee, whoever she is. If you want an America where only white people have rights and protections, then by all means vote the Republican Racists back into office. If you want an America who still has a constitution that it adheres to, and honors and obeys, you MUST vote Democrat. If, on the other hand, you want a Dictatorship, make sure to vote for the Turd in Chief, and prepare to bow down and kiss his ring at every turn. If you are against the caging of children, vote Democrat. If, on the other hand, you enjoy seeing children caged, sexually exploited and trafficked by pedophiles, then vote for the Pedophile in Chief and his fellow lunatics. 
 
So, America, what sort of a nation will you choose to become in 2020, when everyone of us will be called to make a moral choice? It won’t be about the economy this time. You will be forced to choose to become a nation of deplorable racists and rapists and those who aid and abet such activities. Or you can choose to become a nation of laws again, with some sense of morality and human dignity at long last?

​The current resident at the White House, our Racist in Chief, tweeted Sunday that four 
minority, liberal congresswomen should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places where they come from.” 
 
According to the Washington Post, his “remark swiftly united a House Democratic caucus that had been torn apart in recent days by infighting between Pelosi and the four freshman women of color—Democratic Reps. Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), Rashida Tlaib (Michigan), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), and Ilhan Omar (Minn.)”

I should point out that three of these four women were born here in the United States. Pressley was born in Cincinatti, Tlaib was born in Detroit and AOC was born in New York, only about 20 miles from where the Orange Monster was born. Omar was born in Somalia; her family fled the county amid civil war when she was a child, and she became a U.S. citizen as a teenager. So, for three of these four women, returning to “the country where they came from,” would leave them right here in the good ol’ USA. As for Miss Omar, if we are now asking immigrants who became legal citizens to return to their former countries, almost all of us will require exit visas including our racist pig of a president. Indeed, the OM is the grandson of immigrants, the Drumpfs, of Germany. By his own racist rules, he needs to go back to Germany where his grandparents came from. And by the same token, two of three wives, including our First Lady, should be sent home as well. In fact there is a good bit of evidence that implicates that Melania entered our country as an illegal immigrant. By our racist president’s policies and ideas, she should be locked up in a cage, along with his son Baron, and shipped back to Slovakia.
 
Thankfully, by making his most racist remarks ever, our Criminal in Chief successfully brought the Democratic caucus in the House back together, reminding all of them that the constant threat to our democracy is the living, breathing enemy illegitimately occupying our White House. Speak Pelosi responded by saying that when our president “tells four American Congresswomen to go back to their countries, he reaffirms his plan to ‘Make America Great Again’ has always been about making America white again. Our diversity is our strength and our unity is our power.”
 
The four Democratic congresswomen also fired back at our Racist in Chief, and within only a few hours Democratic lawmakers were united in defending their colleagues again the Orange Monster’s attacks. As Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.)) said, “I’ve been trying to figure out how to bring everybody together—I think the preside4nt just did that for us. Nobody in our caucus is going to tolerate that kind of hatred.”
 
Clearly, the Orange Monster is incompetent, cruel, stupid, ignorant, authoritarian, deeply vindictive and thin-skinned but most prominent among all of his worst qualities is his racism. His tweets this morning, attacking American citizens and telling them they should “go back to where they came from” harkens back to the vitriol and hatred he stirred up with his “birther” racist nonsense. Apparently, he believes that all people of brown or black skin should be rounded up and removed from what he hopes to remake as an all-white country. By his logic, the only true Americans who belong here are the Native Americans, the “redskins,” since the rest of us stole their land from them. Everyone else here is in on a pass. Instead of recognizing this reality, our Racist in Chief has been very busy at the border, kidnapping children (and perhaps trafficking them as sex slaves to Russian and American oligarchs?), putting babies in cages, dividing up families at the border, cramming adults into cages for weeks at a time, without hygiene, water, deprived of sleep and forced to stand for days a time. Already several children and a few adults have died (perhaps I should say killed?) at the border and in our name. What will come next? Ovens?
 
Even so, “only 6 in 10 Americans (62%) say they disapprove of the treatment migrants are receiving at the border, but there’s a steep partisan divide,” according to a new CNN poll. “Democrats are near-unanimous in their disapproval (93% disapprove), and a majority of independents feel the same (60%), but most Republicans (62%) say they approve of the way migrants are being treated by the government after crossing the US-Mexico border.” 
 
62% of Republicans are happy about the situation fermenting at our border, and they probably would be delighted to hear about the exterminationof this “vermin” to use our Racist in Chief’s own word. This is what comes next once an entire group of people have been dehumanized, degraded and treated in the horrible manner we are witnessing at the border.
 
Let’s remember how the migrants who are trying to exercise their legal right to claim asylum at our southern border are being illegally and deliberately treated by this current administration in the cruelest manner possible. People are being locked up in cages where there is standing room only, for weeks at a time, where there is no ability to sit down or lie down, where they are given no running water, except to be told to “drink from the toilet,” where they are not allowed to bathe for weeks on end. The reports of these conditions are not skewed by politics. The Investigator General of this president’s own DHS, released a report along with video and photographs to document the deplorable conditions that these migrants are being illegally detained in. Yet 62% of all Republicans are all for it, apparently since their president has convinced them that these immigrants are less than human.
 
Since the Democrats refuse to hold the president and his party accountable for these and a thousand other worse crimes, by not beginning a formal impeachment inquiry, which should have begun the day after Muller’s Report was released, we will have to hope that international tribunals at the U.N. or at the Hague, will hold this administration legally responsible for its crimes against humanity, and specifically will hold our Racist in Chief as personally responsible for the death and mayhem that he alone has brought to our southern border. We can only hope and pray that Justice will one day be done, and that our current U.S. government will be held accountable for its crimes against all of humanity. 
 
Indeed, this cruel and inhumane treatment is the desired result of the Orange Demon’s policies. As John Kelly openly admitted a few months before he left the administration in disgrace, this abject cruelty and inhumane treatment was the whole point, as it was seen by the president and his evil minions to be a “deterrent” to those seeking asylum. His comments today are just one more step in our Orange Demon’s Make America White Againcampaign. 
 
In truth, if anyone needs to go back to the country where he came from, it’s the evil hatemonger in the White House. The sooner he leaves, the sooner we can regain our sanity as a country.
 

​“About 6 in 10 Americans (62%) say they disapprove of the treatment migrants are receiving at the border, but there’s a steep partisan divide,” according to a new CNN poll. “Democrats are near-unanimous in their disapproval (93% disapprove), and a majority of independents feel the same (60%), but most Republicans (62%) say they approve of the way migrants are being treated by the government after crossing the US-Mexico border.”
 
Let that sink in for a minute. 62% of Republicans are happy about the situation fermenting at our border.
 
Now, let’s remember how the migrants who are trying to exercise their legal right to claim asylum at our southern border are being illegally and deliberately treated by this current administration in the cruelest manner possible. People are being locked up in rooms where there are standing room only conditions for more than a week at a time, where there is no ability to sit down or lie down, where they are given no running water, except to be told to “drink from the toilet,” where they are not allowed to bathe for weeks on end. In many ways, the babies held in cages are being treated even worse. Disease is running rampant. Conditions are unsanitary, unsafe and inhumane. And this is not skewed politically. The Investigator General of this president’s own DHS, released a report along with video and photographs to document the deplorable conditions that these migrants are being illegally detained in. Yet 62% of all Republicans are all for it, apparently since their president has convinced them that these immigrants are less than human.
 
Regardless of what the majority of these mindless, heartless and morally corrupt Republicans think, this situation is intolerable. The administration must be held accountable for its crimes against humanity, along with all of the Republican Senators who refused House proposals to remedy the very conditions that the inspector general found during recent on-site visits.
 
According to an Associated Press report on Tuesday night, a federal judge in Seattle found the administration’s policies unacceptable. As the AP reported, “A federal judge in Seattle on Tuesday blocked the administration policy that would keep thousands of asylum-seekers locked up while they pursue their cases, saying the Constitution demands that such migrants have a chance to be released from custody.” In other words, the effort to deny these immigrants the right to bond hearings was illegal.
 
The AP report went on to explain: “U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman said that as people who have entered the U.S., they are entitled to the Fifth Amendment’s due-process protections, including ‘a long-standing prohibition against indefinite civil detention with no opportunity to test its necessity.’ Immigration rights advocates including the ACLU sued to block the policy, which was due to take effect July 15. 
 
Matt Adams, legal director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, said in a written statement, “Thecourt reaffirmed what has ben settled for decades: that asylum-seekers who enter this country have a right to be free from arbitrary detention. Thousands of asylum-seekers will continue to be able to seek release on bond, as they seek protection from persecution and torture.”
 
But 62% of all Republicans, having lost their minds and sold their souls to the Orange Devil in the White House, want these asylum-seekers persecuted and tortured, simply 
for daring to assert their legal right to ask for asylum and to receive a fair hearing. 
 
Indeed, this cruel and inhumane treatment is the desired result of the Orange Demon’s policies. As John Kelly openly admitted a few months before he left the administration in disgrace, this abject cruelty and inhumane treatment was the whole point, as it was seen by the president and his evil minions to be a “deterrent” to those seeking asylum. Just today, in fact, the Orange Monster revealingly tweeted: “If illegal immigrants are unhappy with the conditions in the quickly built or refitted detentions centers, just tell them not to come. All problems solved!” The whole point of his policy, or lack thereof, is to cause such a humanitarian crisis at the border than no one with brown skin would ever want to risk asking for asylum ever again. It’s just one more step in the Orange Devil’s Make America White Againcampaign.
 
For these 62% of Republicans, anyone who refuses to wear a MAGA hat deserves the same kind of treatment, and that goes for Democrats, liberals, anyone who doesn’t agree with the idea of their Dear Leader. Indeed, they cheer on the likes of over one-half of all of the border agents within the CBP, who wrote scurrilous and dehumanizing and sexually offensive postings on their secret Facebook page attacking AOC, and the other Democratic members of the House of Representatives, who dared yesterday to visit and report on the atrocities happening in these U.S. concentration camps on our southern border.
 
What concerns me most, other than my concern for those being inhumanely treated at the border, is that 38% of my fellow Americans approve of this type of cruelty and barbaric treatment at our southern border. 
 
In truth, there ARE Barbarians at the gates of our southern border, but all of the Barbarians are on our side of the fence.

Let’s review our president’s latest embarrassing display of immorality, incompetence and ignorance on the international stage: First, he mockingly asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop interfering in our elections, with a wag of his finger, and a laugh and a wink and a nod, and only after a reporter put him up to it. Then he joined with Putin in laughing about “getting rid of” journalists, again bringing up “fake news” (meaning any in the press who dare to report and print the truth about him). 

As Margaret Sullivan wrote in her editorial in the Washington Post over the weekend, our president “bonded with Putin over his scorn for journalists. ‘Get rid of them. Fake news is a great term, isn’t it?’ the president said. ‘You don’t have this problem in Russia, but we do.’” Our idiotic and dangerous president says this to a dictator of a country where nearly 60 journalists have been murdered, all the while yucking it up with a murderous thug and our greatest adversary. 
 
But even that was not enough for our authoritarian American president who finds himself far more comfortable and chatty with murderers, thugs and dictators than with our democratic allies. Indeed, in yet another disgusting display of groveling, the OM praised and embraced his “friend” MBS for “doing a spectacular job.” 
 
If you remember, MBS is the murderous crown prince of Saudi Arabia, who ordered the murder and dismemberment of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, the grotesque details of which were recently made public in a special United Nations report. Apparently, our president was congratulating MBS on the great job he did of dismembering an American journalist into body parts that could then be conveyed in suitcases out of the Saudi Embassy in Turkey.
 
But even then, the Orange Monster was not done. On Friday, he invited North Korea’s murderous dictator Kim Jong Un to another photo-op summit in the demilitarized zone at the border between North and South Korean. This is now the third PR coup our president has granted Kim, apparently his love-letter pen pal, while asking for nothing in return. If anything, our idiotic president has made situation far worse than that, by ignoring and refusing to acknowledge the ongoing missile tests that our intelligence agencies all say North Korea is continuing to conduct.
 
Apparently, our president has never met a murderous dictator whom he didn’t admire. He loves dancing with murderous thugs and other mobsters.
 
This only makes sense, since the Orange Monster’s uncontrollable desire has always been to dominate and to control everyone and everything. For him, the whole point in having money is possessing enough power and dominance to lord it over everyone else. This has been the pattern of his entirely lazy and spoiled existence, wasting all of the $480 million he inherited from his rich daddy on his own vanity, avarice, lust and greed. Indeed, he has displayed the same need to control and to dominate in nearly all of his sexual exploits with women, where, as he himself admitted, he likes to “grab ‘em by the pussy,” and even with his first wife Ivana, who accused him in court filings of violently raping her (including tearing her hair out of her head).
 
Now, E. Jean Carroll has brought forth the latest charges of rape against our sitting president. Her telling of the tale only confirms yet again what he himself bragged about on the Access Hollywoodtape. It informs and reminds us of our president’s lifelong pattern of grabbing what he wants when he wants it, of his need to control, exploit and dominate, whether in the bedroom or the boardroom. He always has been and always will be a big-ass bully, with tiny little hands and an even tinier brain. 
 
Let’s face it: Our outlaw in chief admires murderous dictators because he wants to join their club and become one of them. For him, calling out journalists who report facts as being those who create “fake news” is just a first step; he wants the ability to silence his critics indefinitely, to execute them while at the same time vilifying them as the “enemy of the people.”
 
Unfortunately, the greatest enemy of the people we have in our country right now is our ungodly, embarrassing and ghastly president. The Congress of the United States must recognize the clear and present danger that he presents both to our democracy and to the world, and remove him from office before it is too late.

 
The Mueller Report laid out many felonious acts of obstruction of justice, and the felon in the Oval Office has committed many more acts of obstruction, including contempt of congress, since the Mueller Report first came out. Added to this are two additional felonies committed by the president when SDNY named him as Individual-1—i.e., the current White House occupant—as an unindicted co-conspirator that committed felonious acts of conspiracy to defraud the American people by deliberately breaking U.S. Campaign Finance Law during his presidential campaign of 2016.

But our current president has done so many more evil and cruel things in the name of the American people, which should be listed among the many Articles of Impeachment brought against this criminal in chief when he is finally brought to an impeachment trial before the U.S. Senate. One of the worst High Crimes and Misdemeanors that this president has committed is his flagrant incompetence, particularly in his handling of the immigrants seeking legal asylum at our southern border, and then using his own incompetence and incoherence and that of the chaotic administration that he himself created, as a weapon to inflict as much cruelty upon innocent law-abiding immigrants as possible.

Let’s be clear: the criminal in chief has no use for the law UNLESS and UNTIL it is helping him and/or protecting him from prosecution. We have laws on the book protecting the legal rights of immigrants to seek asylum. Rather than obey this law, the incompetent in chief has chosen to ignore this law. Instead, he has deliberately annihilated wherever he can the chance for these brown-skinned immigrants to seek legal asylum. In breaking the law, he went much further, to identify and vilify these poor people as criminals, as non-human, as “vermin.” Then he lawlessly split up families, separating babies and children from their parents. Breaking yet another law he has held children in cages for months on end, withholding food, shelter, blankets, any kind of bathing and any kind of humane treatment. The despot in chief has even seen fit to withhold soap and toothbrushes...and sleep. We can now add crimes of inhumanity and violations of human rights to the list of our president’s Articles of Impeachment.

In addition, let's add Criminal Incompetence--how he has willfully weaponized his unrelenting incompetence to inflict cruelty. And in this same vein, perhaps we should also add Criminal Negligence.

None of the higher positions at the DHS who should be responsible for overseeing this unfolding humanitarian disaster, have been appointed by this president. All are “acting” appointments, by the president’s unconstitutional design, so that he can circumvent the constitutional duties of our senate to advise and consent, thereby making these officials accountable. The president hasn’t appointed officials to most of the thousands of unfilled positions in the government, because he doesn’t like following the law. He finds it much easier and more comfortable to break the law. And as he has thus far been allowed to break the rules without any consequence, he will continue to act like a king or an emperor. By making “acting” appointments only, the outlaw in chief avoids accountability both for himself and for his staff. Incompetence and Negligence then become not just weapons but excuses. His incompetence and that of his cabinet and whole dysfunctional administration is then used to justify all manner of crimes being inflicted by our government on the asylum seekers at our border. 
 
It is used to justify the illegal kidnapping of literally thousands of children. Who knows what happened to the kidnapped children. The government who stole them away, can’t tell you where they were taken or by whom, because they are too incompetent to have an answer. It is an incompetence born out of evil. The same sort of incompetence the German people used as a defense when they were asked about their own concentration camps. “We didn’t know what was going on,” they answered, when of course they did. 
 
“It wasn’t our fault,” is always the answer of incompetents when defending their acts of Criminal Negligence,  everywhere. “Don’t blame us.” 
 
In fact, whenever our idiot in chief is confronted with a vile act of his own making, he lies and says simply, “I know nothing about that. Don’t blame me.”
 
This president and his evil administration and “acting” appointees, who are willing accomplices to the deaths and deprivations now happening at the border, continue to use their own incompetence and “lack of knowing” to justify the sleep deprivation and other tortures being inflicted on innocent children, while they also deprive them of soap and water or a dry diaper or even someone who knows how to change a dirty diaper.
 
This weaponized incompetence is used to justify the deaths of immigrants attempting to cross the border when all of the Orange Monster’s attempts to thwart their legal right to asylum have proven effective, leaving them no other choice but to literally swim for their lives. The recent photograph taken of the corpses of a father with his infant daughter after drowning in their attempt to reach American soil is a reminder of all who have died as a result of this criminal president’s actions.
 
It is used to justify the murder of seven children who have died in the last few months while being held in our government’s concentration camps. 
 
Mueller’s newly announced testimony on July 17 cannot come too soon. It is long past time already, not merely to begin formal impeachments hearings, but to remove the criminal thug from office that the Russian government selected as our 45thpresident. He needs to be removed before more innocent children, already abandoned to despair in cages, die before our eyes. It is time for the one who caged these innocents to be put into a cage himself.

​There are so many applicable nicknames that have been used to accurately describe our current president: The criminal in chief, the orange monster, the liar in chief, the Russian Connection, the bungler, the charlatan, the idiot in chief, the toddler in chief, the Kompramant Comrade, the Undecider, a Whiny Little Bitch, Individual -1, the Unindicted Co-Conspirator, and on and on. But I believe there is a new nickname for our current president that most aptly describes the clear and present danger that he represents to our democracy, to our nation, and to the world. More than anything else, he is the ARSONIST IN CHIEF, one who loves creating fires wherever he goes, always taking credit when he manages to put out an occasional fire that he himself created. He is, in fact, a toddler in chief who loves playing with matches. 
 
Fire alarms sounded earlier this week when this bumbling president nearly took us into an unnecessary war with Iran. Our president, who has no coherent policy on anything let alone foreign policy, eventually ordered a military strike on Iran, before ordering a stand-down with only minutes to go. And remember, it was he who created this fiery situation  in the first place by tearing apart the nuclear agreement with Iran and with all of the other signatories to the agreement that the Obama Administration wisely worked so long and hard to create.
 
Aside from all of the crimes that the current president has committed while in office, and putting aside his blatant racism, xenophobia and race baiting as well, he is both unfit and dangerous. Every day that he continues to be allowed to disgrace the presidency, he presents a clear and present danger to the National Security of this once great nation. We can only ask: What new and unnecessary fire will our arsonist in chief create tomorrow or the next day or next week? And what, if anything, are we going to do about protecting our country from this out-of-control president?
 
The fact that the vile pile of poo sitting behind the Resolute Desk remains in office is an abomination of justice. That proceedings have not even begun yet to impeach, remove, indict, arrest, and convict this outlaw, is a criminal outrage all by itself. 
 
As I recently pointed out in a previous blog posting, only the Democrats in the House of Representatives have the power to hold our criminal in chief accountable, yet they continue to delay an impeachment inquiry, and refuse to act as a check and balance on this lawless president. House Democrats still don’t get it. We are in a fight for our lives and for our nation’s survival. The menace sitting in the oval office MUST be dealt with, much sooner than later. They still want to believe that they are playing in a game with rules by which both sides will abide, but this president does not play by any rules except those of his own making, and he clearly is not playing with a full set of marbles. 
 
By setting fires, both large and small, our Emperor in chief (akin to Caligula) is burning it all down, little by little, law by law, norm by norm. If unattended, these fires will join and grow, turning the many small fires into a conflagration, too large to put an end to. 
 
I don’t believe for one second that the White House madman came to a lucid moment of sanity in halting the very same military attack that he had ordered earlier in the day. This is just another one of the more than 10,000 lies that this president has told the public since Russia selected him in 2016. I DO BELIEVE THAT HE HAD TO BE TALKED OUT OF THE IDEA, probably by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 
 
No one can convince me that our idiotic and immoral president gave a rat’s ass about 150 possible Iranian casualties. I believe that our narcissist in chief was told that this decision would cause him pain, probably at the polls in November 2020, and that was why he called off such an unwise action. What matters to our lunatic in chief is always seen through the prism of what is best for him, not what is best for our nation, or even for his own party. 
 
As the arsonist in chief continues to set ablaze anything and everything that he can, House Democrats still don’t seem to understand that they alone have the power to put out all of the fires. The House Democrats ARE the Fire Department. They alone can put out the fires, and it is THEIR job to do so. But they continue to dawdle.
 
The fact that our 45thpresident has committed crimes both before and after taking his oath of office is indisputable. The only question is whether or not anyone in the Democratically-controlled Congress will EVER hold this president accountable and impeach him. But they should keep in mind, as they ponder on what actions to take for the sake of their own political survival, that our arsonist in chief stands over a world drenched in oil and gasoline, with a box of unlit matches in his tiny hands.