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.