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ScubaSteve's JournalTrump and The Wizards First Rule
I get it! Terry Goodkind has a series of 17 books known as the Sword of Truth series, and a thread woven through the series are the 11 "Wizard's Rules", which are practical teachings given to young wizards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sword_of_Truth
In this election year the first 2 rules make perfect sense although the rest seem to as well…
Wizard's First Rule:
"People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they're afraid it might be true. Peoples' heads are full of knowledge, facts and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool."
http://www.sword-of-truth.com/wizards-rules
Applies to Trump and all of his loyal deplorables who believe his absolutely ridiculous bullshit, as well as every Fox News watcher who believes they are fair and balanced, because they tell you they are and you believe them, and lastly to all those that believe Hillary is some wacked out pedophile maniac selling babies to fund ISIS.
Wizard's Second Rule:
“The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.”
Seems to apply to all those who felt since Bernie wasn’t the guy and decided to sit this one out, or they didn’t like Bill and therefore couldn’t vote for “her” or didn’t like either, so sitting it out and letting the chips fall where they may with the idea of “what’s the worst that could happen?” mentality…
Which all in the end allowed for the thinnest win in history by a self absorbed sociopath. Check please…
WTF! Turkey and Nukes too!
Will someone please put together a scorecard so I can keep all of this ridiculousness straight in my head?
Okay - Let’s get a handle on who our “new” friends are…first we have Putin, holy shit who would ‘a thunk it! Russia put in the hacking fix and now we’re BFFs! The fucking Commies! Ronnie where out thou!
So, we’re in bed with Putin – Russia, who’s in bed with Assad – Syria! AND Rouhani – IRAN! Fucking Iran! The Republican’s number one, major world ending reason for all that is evil in the world, and this Triad is now part of the new Middle Eastern bloc?
AND THEN!! Russia’s Ambassador is assassinated in Turkey by a killer who shouts “Allah Akbar,” and “Remember Aleppo!” So enter Turkey – Erdoğan, who has begun sucking up to Putin to find the killer and “unite” them against terrorism.
SO, the United States of America…with a few words from its future leader about what a strong leader Putin is and …”who knows who did the hacking?” We have within the last year 37% of Republicans now saying Putin is “OK” (wink, wink), so now the Pubescent Elect has us in bed with; Russia, Syria, Iran, and Turkey! And he hasn’t even taken the office yet…..WTF!!!
What happened to England! Oh yeah Teresa May. France? Who’s the guy? Oh yeah, Hollande. What about Germany! Merkel…hmmm seem to have their own issues these days.
AND THEN!! Today Putin announces….
Snip –
MOSCOW -- Russia’s military today can overpower any potential foe, President Vladimir Putin told an annual end-of-year meeting Thursday with defense chiefs.
“We can say with certainty: We are stronger now than any potential aggressor,” he told the meeting. “Anyone!”
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/vladimir-putin-says-russias-military-is-stronger-than-any-potential-foe/
Snip –
"We need to enhance the combat capability of strategic nuclear forces, primarily by strengthening missile complexes that will be guaranteed to penetrate existing and future missile defense systems," Putin said.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/12/22/putin-russias-military-is-stronger-than-any-potential-aggressor.html
(I know, but wherever you can find the quote, right,
AND THEN!!
“President-elect Donald Trump signaled Thursday that he will look to "strengthen and expand" the US's nuclear capability hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to enhance his country's nuclear forces.”
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/22/politics/donald-trump-strengthen-expand-nuclear-capability/
US President-elect Donald Trump called on Thursday for a strengthening of America’s nuclear weapons program, throwing into doubt longstanding efforts to reduce its arsenal.
On Thursday, Trump tweeted; “The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/22/donald-trump-tweets-expand-nuclear-weapons
That’s just Fucking Brilliant Donald…leading us into an arms race just in time for, wait for it…Christmas!
Viktory for Comrade Trump!
All of the senior white men and women who can remember, lived through, and know that Russia has always been our number one nemesis in the world; why on earth would you vote for Trump?
You did it to get the black guy out, and ensure no woman would tell you what to do. You will hopefully come to the realization that you SOLD OUT our country, the United States of America, to the Commies!!!
Putin has managed to infiltrate the highest office in our land, without firing a shot, and will be influencing the U.S. through his Trump surrogate. Now there, is a conspiracy theory for you fucking fucks of the Alt Right, who are now the new normal. How terrifying!
Trump’s first order of business is: REVENGE!
Like many of you I am still in stage 2 of grieving, which is ANGER! And I am trying not to hate them all! But I will use that energy and throw it back at these fucking fucks harder than they have thrown it at us for the past 8 years.
Remember when the blowhole of Republican radio once said, “I hope he fails,” of then President Elect Barack Obama. I don’t hope that Trump fails…I KNOW that he will fail SPECTACULARLY!
Already they are saying on the right, boo hoo..that we’re not even giving him a chance. Well, you never gave Obama a chance, so join the fucking club!
Never has a President in our history been so maligned from the beginning. Recall during his inauguration how Chief Roberts thought he’d “wing it” giving Obama the oath of office and screwed it up. Republicans went into hysterics saying he isn’t the President yet because he didn’t recite the “exact” words of the oath.
He’s not an American! He’s Kenyan, he’s Muslim, he’s Socialist, and he’s such a threat to society that they will be burning babies in the streets and handing out Korans to everyone if he is elected. Did that happen? No…
They said he took over and “nationalized” the banks making us Communists! Barack bailed out the banks that had almost thrust us into complete insolvency as a nation. But he said you WILL pay it ALL back PLUS interest, and they did. They are flush with more cash than they have ever been before.
They said he “nationalized” the auto industry. He bailed out the auto industry, but he said you WILL pay it ALL back PLUS interest, and they did. They are more profitable than they have ever been before in history.
Mark my words when I say, “…once he takes office, and I will give it say 30-45 days, when you will begin to hear how fantastic the economy is doing, how solid the banks are, how great a 2% growth in GDP is, how successful our auto industry is, how much infrastructure has already been repaired or replaced and they will say…wait for it…”
THAT THEY DID IT ALL! 
Rubio’s Poison Pill for the ACA (Obamacare)
Its all over the news that Health insurers are decrying rates for the Affordable Care Act are going up 25%! Some say 40%, 60%, and others 80%, hailing the downfall of Obamacare as a failure.
So let’s understand that we all know that by bringing everyone into this insurance program that insurers could take a hit by covering so many very sick folks against what profit they could make off of healthy young adults.
The plan says (in essence) if you pay out more than you take in the Government will give you a subsidy to make up for the loss. Otherwise, without the subsidy an insurer would have to either raise the rates to make up for the loss, or get out altogether because who can operate a business at a loss?
Little Marco sponsored a bill stuck into the 2015 Ominbus bill that says if an insurer pays out more than it is taking in, then the Government cannot use tax payer dollars to bail them out, effectively eliminating the very subsidies that makes the ACA functional.
That little fucker stuck a poison pill into a huge bill last year that right now is forcing the hand of insurers to raise the rates to make up for their shortfall, while others are in fact getting out of the healthcare exchanges altogether.
All to make it “look” like the ACA is a failure and therefore “I told you so.” Such a sneaky, conniving, little bastard…
Snip…
“Rubio's provision took aim at an Affordable Care Act program designed to resolve one of the knottiest problems facing the president's plan to expand health insurance: convincing insurance companies to take on clients with higher health risks. To prevent premium spikes for customers of companies that did so, the bill created a “risk corridor” pool. It collects money from insurers that enroll less-costly patients and pays it out to those who enroll more-costly patients. Rubio effectively sabotaged that by barring taxpayers from covering a potential shortfall.
In 2013, Rubio began decrying the risk corridor provision—modeled after one included in the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit of 2003 that experts say it was successful at lowering risk—as a “bailout” of insurers. He pushed legislation to repeal it. The bill didn't pass, but thanks to his efforts, a provision barring the federal government from making up risk corridor shortfalls got tucked into a must-pass bill funding the federal government that Congress passed and Obama signed late last year.
This fall, the government announced a risk corridor shortfall of $2.5 billion.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-11-25/marco-rubio-didn-t-kill-obamacare-but-here-s-how-he-undermined-it
[link:http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-11-25/marco-rubio-didn-t-kill-obamacare-but-here-s-how-he-undermined-it|
George Will is Michelangelo with words…
With all of the dumbed down rhetoric flying about that only requires a feeble mind to absorb, we now have the “unshackled” George Will.
Now an "Independent" he can unleash his frustration, aggravation, nay his raw intelligence at the party he so loved. So brilliant is he with his acerbic wit that it is only overshadowed by his astuteness of the world around us.
If you’re a Big Bang Theory fan ‘cause you appreciate the vocabulary and intelligence as brain candy, then feast your mind on this…glad he’s free and I’m think’in he’s with Her, enjoy...
Trump’s vile candidacy is chemotherapy for the GOP
By George F. Will
The Washington Post
First Published Oct 10 2016 04:24PM
"Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose."
— “Me and Bobby McGee”
Washington
What did Donald Trump have left to lose Sunday night? His dignity? Please. His campaign's theme? His Cleveland convention was a mini-Nuremberg rally for Republicans whose three-word recipe for making America great again was the shriek "Lock her up!" This presaged his Banana Republican vow to imprison his opponent.
The St. Louis festival of snarls was preceded by the release of a tape that merely provided redundant evidence of what Trump is like when he is being his boisterous self. Nevertheless, the tape sent various Republicans, who until then had discovered nothing to disqualify Trump from the presidency, into paroxysms of theatrical, tactical and synthetic dismay.
Again, the tape revealed nothing about this arrested-development adolescent that today's righteously recoiling Republicans either did not already know or had no excuse for not knowing. Before the tape reminded the pathologically forgetful of Trump's feral appetites and deranged sense of entitlement, the staid Economist magazine, holding the subject of Trump at arm's-length like a soiled sock, reminded readers of this: "When Mr. Trump divorced the first of his three wives, Ivana, he let the New York tabloids know that one reason for the separation was that her breast implants felt all wrong."
Read the rest at:
[link:http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trumps-vile-candidacy-is-chemotherapy-for-the-gop/2016/10/10/73e40f30-8f05-11e6-9c85-ac42097b8cc0_story.html?utm_term=.816d2501a6b3|
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trumps-vile-candidacy-is-chemotherapy-for-the-gop/2016/10/10/73e40f30-8f05-11e6-9c85-ac42097b8cc0_story.html?utm_term=.816d2501a6b3]
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