To maintain a smokescreen of wealth, business savvy, intelligence, and know-how, Donald J Trump designed a devious strategy. If you can’t make it, fake it.
That strategy has been a strategy, not novel to Trump. It is a strategy that has been used by every cheap hustler, pimp, and drug-dealer.

Donald Trump report­ed­ly paid some­one to take his SATs. There are reports he did not actu­al­ly earn the degree he brags about from the Wharton School of Business. His ardent fight to keep his tran­scripts pri­vate feeds the nar­ra­tive that the man we know to be an actu­al dunce, is in fact a ver­i­fi­ably a dunce.
He antic­i­pates well, the ques­tions that will be asked about him, and so he assigns the things he is guilty of to whomev­er he deems as his ene­my at any giv­en time.
He demand­ed to see the col­lege tran­scripts of the immi­nent­ly qual­i­fied Barack Obama, even as he moved heav­en and earth to hide his. But there was nev­er any doubt about Trump’s ignorance.
Trump loves to talk about his Generals, until, of course, he real­izes that [his gen­er­als] can­not, and will not, sup­port a coup to keep him in pow­er against the Constitution’s dictates.
When it came time to serve in the mil­i­tary, Donald Trump, like so many of the priv­i­leged young men of his era, opt­ed to lie about his health to avoid mil­i­tary ser­vice. He claimed that he had bone-spurs. He was giv­en defer­ment after defer­ment, while prin­ci­pled patri­ots like Mohammed Ali went to prison.
As a sup­posed busi­ness­man, Trump has been an abject fail­ure, declar­ing a report­ed six (6) busi­ness bankruptcies.
In the decades that pre­ced­ed his ascen­den­cy to the US Presidency, Donald Trump posi­tioned him­self as a suc­cess­ful busi­ness tycoon in the cen­ter of New York’s Manhattan. The media played along with Trump’s gold­en ‑boy per­sona, even as peo­ple he did busi­ness with were left hold­ing the bag of their own bank­rupt­cies as he avoid­ed pay­ing them for work done on his behalf.

In the high soci­ety of Manhattan’s busi­ness and social cir­cles, Donald Trump’s fraud­u­lent gold­en-boy, mis­ter won­der­ful, car­ni­val-show was not lost on the real blue blood.
USA Today once said this of Trump, “Though he is the scion of a wealthy real estate fam­i­ly, the city’s old aris­toc­ra­cy nev­er quite accept­ed Trump. In a trib­al city, Donald Trump has no real tribe”.
The American Prospect writes, “Trump knows only too well that New York’s aris­to­crats have always looked down on him as crass and vul­gar, and he respond­ed to their con­tempt by becom­ing more crass and vul­gar than any­one could have imagined.
The blue blood nev­er accept­ed Donald J Trump, chalk it up to snob­bery, chalk it up to the idea that they know a fake gold coin when they see one.
Even then, the gullible main­stream media fawned over the wannabe emper­or who con­vinced him­self that the fake fin­ery he spun for him­self was enough to cov­er up his nakedness.
It did not!
“In the end, at least 73% of New Yorkers city­wide vot­ed against their home­town can­di­date in elec­tion 2020.
In Manhattan, where Trump lived before becom­ing pres­i­dent, every sin­gle vot­ing dis­trict went for Joe Biden.
Real New Yorkers have no prob­lem see­ing through a fake pimp or a fake gang­land wannabe.
One thing about real New Yorkers, they know the real deal.
Fuhgeddaboudit.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog mike​beck​les​.com. 
He’s con­tributed to sev­er­al websites.
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Butch Stewart per­son­i­fied what it means to hus­tle and achieve the full­ness of where one’s tal­ent can take any­one will­ing to try.
Today, as Jamaicans, we all mourn the pass­ing of this titan who demon­strat­ed what hard work and deter­mi­na­tion could accom­plish, even when we come from hum­ble beginnings.
Mr. Stewart’s fam­i­ly did not reveal the cause of the death of this great patriarch.

The Jamaica Observer, one of Gordon Butch Stewart’s cre­ations, explained; [Stewart, who is also chair­man of the Jamaica Observer, will be most remem­bered for his mul­ti­ple award-win­ning Sandals and Beaches Resorts, which helped to estab­lish the Caribbean, espe­cial­ly Jamaica, as a world-class tourist des­ti­na­tion. As a sales­man with an irre­sistible pitch, he built Appliance Traders Limited on some of the top brand names in the world; dreamed that he could con­quer the world of tourism, and built Sandals that today rates among the most lux­u­ri­ous hotel chains in the world; launched a news­pa­per that changed Jamaican jour­nal­ism; and bought an air­line that car­ried the hope and pride of a nation – the lit­tle piece of Jamaica that flies – but which defied his con­sid­er­able genius in the face of polit­i­cal shenanigans.]

Jamaica is worse off for the pass­ing of Gordon Butch Stewart.….

From the moment that he descend­ed the esca­la­tor at his gaudy 5^th avenue tow­er in Manhattan, Trump’s enablers have made them­selves explain­ers for his big­otry, xeno­pho­bia, racism, sex­ism, and oth­er vile traits.
Born in Queens to a mul­ti-mil­lion­aire father, Donald Trump was always used to hav­ing things his way.
He was nev­er forced to find his own way, and through a life of priv­i­lege, he basi­cal­ly had every­thing hand­ed to him.
His con­sis­tent assault on the American demo­c­ra­t­ic process, though aid­ed by a now fas­cist right-wing Republican par­ty, is mere­ly par for a spoiled fail­ure who nev­er accom­plished any­thing worth­while on his own.
Lies, dis­in­for­ma­tion, dis­hon­esty, dem­a­goguery, or erect­ing huge build­ings with mon­ey bor­rowed under pre­tens­es are not virtues.

Before he was elect­ed pres­i­dent, Donald Trump was asked whether he would hon­or the results if he lost the pres­i­den­tial elec­tions; he nev­er answered that fun­da­men­tal ques­tion so per­ti­nent for a democracy.
The big­ots vot­ed for him anyway.
Let me say this to the apol­o­gists who would have you believe that not all of the peo­ple who vot­ed for the racist dem­a­gogue are racists. If you know some­one is racist and you cast a vote for him, you are sup­port­ing racism. If you are sup­port­ing racism, you are, by def­i­n­i­tion, a racist.
Let’s put those lies and white­s­plain­ing to rest.
He was again asked the same ques­tion repeat­ed­ly before the 2020 elec­tions, “would you hon­or the results of the elec­tions should you lose”? One would have thought that hav­ing occu­pied the pres­i­den­cy, the quack would rec­og­nize the office’s impor­tance, both on the world stage, and to the Republic.…..The least he would say was, “we’ll see.”
Despite refus­ing to adhere to one of the most fun­da­men­tal prin­ci­ples of the demo­c­ra­t­ic process, Trump was elect­ed to the pres­i­den­cy to move on grace­ful­ly after defeat.
More than enough big­ot­ed whites in the United States put a dan­ger­ous igno­ra­mus, a known racial arson­ist, into the presidency.
The lies that they want­ed some­one who would shake things up, were just that, a smoke­screen for want­i­ng to empow­er a white suprema­cist to push back at the coun­try’s chang­ing racial demographics.
Those of you who con­tin­ue to won­der at the rabid and sup­port this dem­a­gogue receives, not fac­ing the facts of the fore­gone is to your detriment.
Donald Trump and his father’s big­otry was a mat­ter of record that was not hid­den from those who vot­ed for him in 2016; it was not hid­den from the larg­er num­ber of them who turned out to vote to keep Donald Trump in pow­er in 2020.
Many of them were so ashamed of the votes they were about to cast, or that they had cast, they lied to poll­sters, they lied to their own friends and fam­i­ly mem­bers out of shame. Just not enough shame to not empow­er an igno­rant fas­cist tyrant.
Polling is not a dying art. Pollsters were not over­sam­pling Democratic vot­ers. Trump sup­port­ers had [con­vert­ed] to an oth­er­world Orwellian dystopia of lies and dis­in­for­ma­tion. Anything to main­tain white suprema­cy and enti­tle­ment in America, even to the detri­ment of the Republic.

The elec­tions have been over for almost two months now. If Trump’s behav­ior in the Presidency teach­es us any­thing, any despot can over­throw any sys­tem with sup­port in the right places.
If the Republicans that swore an oath to the Constitution were hon­or­ing their oath, if they were not jock­ey­ing to demon­strate feal­ty to an une­d­u­cat­ed cir­cus clown, Donald Trump would have been seen as the true igno­rant moran that he real­ly is.
Whether the cir­cus planned for January 6^th man­ages to over­turn the free and fair elec­tions of November 3^rd, 2020, poten­tial­ly cat­a­pult­ing the nation into a sec­ond civ­il war is yet to be seen.
Regardless of the out­come, it is clear that the Republican par­ty can no longer be trust­ed to guard the world’s old­est democracy.
Over 30% of the 330 mil­lion peo­ple in the coun­try are Trump loy­al­ists who do not believe in the demo­c­ra­t­ic process if it does not mean they have total gov­ern­ment control.
This is how coun­tries slip fur­ther and fur­ther into despo­tism. When duly elect­ed lead­ers like Josh Hawley of Missouri, Raphael Cruz of Texas, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, James Lankford of Oklahoma, and the oth­er morons in the Senate added to the duti­ful serfs in the house Republican cau­cus are will­ing to do the bid­ding of a tyrant; it pulls the nation ever clos­er to going over the brink into despotism.
The next tyrant who comes along will have a tem­plate to fol­low, and a bet­ter under­stand­ing of what to tweak to achieve his or her ends.
A more edu­cat­ed and savvy wannabe tyrant like Josh Hawley will have an eas­i­er time orches­trat­ing the demise of the American exper­i­ment as we know it.
Way to go, Missouri, vote out the rea­soned and sane Claire McCaskill and replace her with an anti-demo­c­ra­t­ic, self-pro­mot­ing Seditionist.

If you believe that this is just Trump being Trump on his way out the door, you are just as delu­sion­al as those who say all we can do is pray.
Donald Trump and his Republican cohorts’ attempt to over­turn the elec­tions has prece­dent; it hap­pened before; that is what they want to pull off on Wednesday, December 6^th.
What ought to catch the atten­tion of every sin­gle one of the 330 mil­lion Americans regard­less of their polit­i­cal affil­i­a­tion or none at all is the fact that all liv­ing Defense Secretaries, Democrat & Republican, signed a let­ter cau­tion­ing the Military not to allow Trump to use the Military to fur­ther his goals through mar­tial law.
According to [Slate]; In an unprece­dent­ed cri­tique of a sit­ting pres­i­dent, all of the 10 liv­ing for­mer sec­re­taries of defense — from five admin­is­tra­tions, Democratic and Republican — have warned that the time for chal­leng­ing the 2020 elec­tion results has passed, that order­ing the U.S. armed forces to resolve dis­putes would be “dan­ger­ous, unlaw­ful and uncon­sti­tu­tion­al,” and that those who issue or exe­cute such orders “would be account­able” and pos­si­bly face “crim­i­nal penal­ties” for “the grave con­se­quences of their actions on our republic.”The state­ment, released Sunday night as a Washington Post op-ed, indi­cates that not only left-lean­ing con­spir­a­cy the­o­rists but sev­er­al top denizens of the nation­al secu­ri­ty estab­lish­ment are con­cerned President Donald Trump might try to take dras­tic action — even mil­i­tary action — to reverse his clear loss to Joe Biden and extend his grip on power.
According to two for­mer offi­cials involved in the state­ment, none of the 10 sig­na­to­ries believe Trump could suc­cess­ful­ly pull off a coup. They’re con­vinced the Joint Chiefs of Staff would dis­obey any such effort as an “unlaw­ful order.” However, senior offi­cers inside the Pentagon, who are said to be alarmed by Trump’s recent behav­ior, have told some of the for­mer sec­re­taries that they great­ly appre­ci­ate the statement’s message.

The ques­tion that must be asked is, “what do these for­mer high­ly ‑placed for­mer sec­re­taries know that we don’t, that would cause them to issue such a warning?
Those of you who haven’t yet absorbed the mind-alter­ing drug of Trumpism will recall how the Republicans dis­par­aged President Barck Obama for alleged­ly bow­ing to the Saudi King.….….….….… That was a pres­i­den­tial sin that would destroy the Republic. Not the clear and present dan­ger today, of a sociopath who des­per­ate­ly wants to save him­self from crim­i­nal pros­e­cu­tion, that he is will­ing to burn the coun­try down to save himself.
As a large por­tion of the House Republican cau­cus elect­ed mem­bers and some in the Senate embark on a mis­sion to over­turn the free and fair elec­tions that made Joe Biden President-Elect, it must be not­ed that every sin­gle one of them is high­ly con­ver­sant that Biden won fair and square.
On that basis, it must be acknowl­edged that every one of them has signed on to and will par­tic­i­pate in that exer­cise instead of the exist­ing sys­tem of gov­ern­ment they took an oath to protect.
As I argued ear­li­er, if noth­ing else, this era has laid bare the fault lines and the sys­tem’s weak­ness­es that have guid­ed America and the rest of the free world since the end­ing of the sec­ond world war.

Speaking of the sec­ond world war, the past always offers us an oppor­tu­ni­ty to learn and grow and not repeat those mis­takes, even as it improves the good.
The Nazi Party’s mete­oric rise to pow­er began in 1930, when it attained 107 seats in Germany’s par­lia­ment, the Reichstag. In July 1932, the Nazi Party became the largest polit­i­cal par­ty in the Reichstag with 230 representatives.
In the final years of the Weimar Republic (1930 to 1933), the gov­ern­ment ruled by emer­gency decree because it could not attain a par­lia­men­tary major­i­ty. Political and eco­nom­ic insta­bil­i­ty, cou­pled with vot­er dis­sat­is­fac­tion with the sta­tus quo, ben­e­fit­ted the Nazi Party.
As a result of the Nazis’ mass sup­port, German pres­i­dent Paul von Hindenburg appoint­ed Hitler chan­cel­lor on January 30, 1933. His appoint­ment paved the way for the Nazi dic­ta­tor­ship after Hindenburg’s death in August 1934.
Before the Great Depression in Germany in 1929 – 1930, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (or Nazi Party for short) was a small par­ty on the rad­i­cal right of the German polit­i­cal spec­trum. (ency​lo​pe​dia​.ush​mm​.org).
The destruc­tion the Nazi par­ty wrought on Jewish prac­ti­tion­ers, the Germany Nation, and the rest of the world is one for the ages.
All great empires of the past found ways to self-destruct. What we see today may be the pre­cur­sor to anoth­er world­wide conflragation.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog mike​beck​les​.com. 
He’s con­tributed to sev­er­al websites.
You may sub­scribe to his blogs, or sub­scribe to his Youtube chan­nel @chatt-a-box, for the lat­est videos.

On December 16^th, 2020, I wrote and pub­lished the fol­low­ing arti­cle in which I sug­gest­ed that it was now time for a new polit­i­cal par­ty in the United States. I argued it was the right time because the Republican Party has become a full-blown Fascist Party that can no longer be trust­ed to look after the Democratic Republic.
In light of the Lincoln Project’s posi­tions, a group of for­mer Republicans who saw the par­ty they love leave them behind, I went as far as to sug­gest that maybe the Lincoln Project should orga­nize and become an alter­na­tive polit­i­cal par­ty to what the Republican par­ty has devolved into.
The true nature of the dan­ger the present Republican Party pos­es to the United States’ well­be­ing can­not be over­stat­ed. Despite those dan­gers, the main­stream media has not prop­er­ly artic­u­lat­ed what’s at stake in a way that the American peo­ple can ful­ly appreciate.
Neither has the weak and feck­less Democratic Party.

HERE IS THE ARTICLE

Now that the Republican Party has demonstrated that it can no longer be trusted to see to the wellbeing of American Democracy; and now that it has become a full-blown autocratic party; now that far-right fringe groups like Qanon and other white supremacist groups like the proud boys and others have taken up residence in the party; and now that the party has all but decided that democracy is antithetical to its goals, there must be a change.

Donald Trump did not cre­ate the nas­ti­ness that now defines the Republican Party; as a dem­a­gogue, he took full advan­tage of it. Ever since Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil and Voting Rights into law and whites ran away from the Democratic Party and took up res­i­dence in the Republican Party, the par­ty has exem­pli­fied itself as the polit­i­cal par­ty for white resent­ment and white grievance.
Despite the hoopla about their good­ness, most white Americans have nev­er been com­fort­able with black Americans enjoy­ing the same rights and priv­i­leges they so sum­mar­i­ly enjoy.
Doctor King spoke about their shock when they saw peo­ple being beat­en on the so-called bloody Sunday on the Edmund Pettus bridge. Still, when it came time to take action against the insti­tu­tion­al­ized racism that made what the police did pos­si­ble, they backed away.
Dr. King; “Like the nation, Negro and white, trem­bled with out­rage at police bru­tal­i­ty in the South, police mis­con­duct in the North was ratio­nal­ized, tol­er­at­ed, and usu­al­ly denied,” he wrote. Leaders in Northern and Western states “wel­comed me to their cities, and show­ered praise on the hero­ism of Southern Negroes. Yet when the issues were joined con­cern­ing local con­di­tions, only the lan­guage was polite; the rejec­tion was firm and unequiv­o­cal.”

FORMER REPUBLICAN SENATOR AND DEFENSE SECRETARY WILLIAM COHEN CALL FOR NEW POLITICAL PARTY

A for­mer Republican sen­a­tor and defense sec­re­tary has sug­gest­ed it may be time for mod­er­ate con­ser­v­a­tives to form a new polit­i­cal par­ty as he launched a with­er­ing attack on the law­mak­ers sup­port­ing Donald Trump’s bid to over­turn the elec­tion result.

William Cohen, who rep­re­sent­ed Maine before tak­ing up the defense role in the Clinton admin­is­tra­tion in 1997, said there is now “a real divi­sion” with­in the GOP and com­pared Mr Trump’s back­ers in Congress to cir­cus ele­phants try­ing to please their “ring­mas­ter”.

His com­ments came after Missouri sen­a­tor Josh Hawley announced that he will chal­lenge Congress’s cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of pres­i­dent-elect Joe Biden’s elec­tion vic­to­ry on 6^th January.

Despite los­ing both the elec­toral col­lege and pop­u­lar vote, Mr Trump and his legal team con­tin­ue to insist that the elec­tion was “rigged”. But the Trump team is yet to present any cred­i­ble evi­dence that mass vot­er fraud took place on elec­tion day.

A num­ber of Republicans in the House of Representatives have declared that they would chal­lenge Mr Biden’s vic­to­ry when Congress meets to cer­ti­fy the result next week.

Senator Hawley’s announce­ment made him the first GOP law­mak­er in the sec­ond cham­ber to voice sup­port for the defeat­ed pres­i­den­t’s efforts to sub­vert democracy.

Announcing his deci­sion, Mr Hawley claimed that Pennsylvania did not fol­low state elec­tion laws and said the “unprece­dent­ed effort of mega cor­po­ra­tions” like Facebook and Twitter inter­fered with the elec­tion to sup­port pres­i­dent-elect Biden. He also urged Congress to inves­ti­gate alle­ga­tions of vot­er fraud.

Crucially, Mr Hawley’s back­ing means that both the House and the Senate will now be forced to debate the results of at least one state and vote on whether to accept Mr Biden’s win.

It will not change the out­come of the elec­tion, but it sets up a sce­nario that Senate major­i­ty leader Mitchell McConnell want­ed to avoid, say­ing it would be high­ly dam­ag­ing for the party.

Speaking to CNN on Thursday, Mr Cohen, 80, sug­gest­ed that “maybe it’s time for a new par­ty”, when asked about the state of the GOP and the pow­er Mr Trump con­tin­ues to exert over it.

“[A par­ty] that abides by the rule of law, abides by bal­anced bud­get oppor­tu­ni­ties, fis­cal respon­si­bil­i­ty. A par­ty that is faith­ful to the peo­ple of this coun­try who vote to elect them,” a vis­i­bly annoyed Mr Cohen added.

Mr Cohen also lashed out at those Congressional Republicans embold­en­ing Mr Trump’s bid to frus­trate the will of the American peo­ple, sug­gest­ing they will be for­ev­er indebt­ed to a pres­i­dent who “can­not be satisfied”.

“The cur­rent occu­pant of the White House is a ring­mas­ter, and what he expects to do is to snap his whip and all the ele­phants jump on the chairs,” he said.

“What they have to under­stand, those who are so eager to sup­port this effort to over­turn the vote…what they have to under­stand is that he is going to con­tin­ue to snap the whip whether he is in office or out of office.”

He added: “And every time they are going to have to sit on that stool in order to sat­is­fy him and his supporters”.

Mr Cohen also called on a num­ber of more mod­er­ate Republicans includ­ing Mitt Romney (Utah), Susan Collins (Maine) and Ben Sasse (Nebraska) to do every­thing in their pow­er to oppose the sen­a­tors back­ing Mr Trump.

Mr Sasse was one of those Republicans who called out Mr Hawley’s move to delay cer­ti­fy­ing the Congress vote as he urged his col­leagues not to fol­low suit.

Writing on Facebook, he said: “The pres­i­dent and his allies are play­ing with fire. They have been ask­ing — first the courts, then state leg­is­la­tures, now the Congress — to over­turn the results of a pres­i­den­tial election.

“They have unsuc­cess­ful­ly called on judges and are now call­ing on fed­er­al office­hold­ers to inval­i­date mil­lions and mil­lions of votes. If you make big claims, you had bet­ter have the evi­dence. But the pres­i­dent does­n’t and nei­ther do the insti­tu­tion­al arson­ist mem­bers of Congress who will object to the elec­toral col­lege vote.”

Mr Trump wel­comed Mr Hawley’s sup­port. “America is proud of Josh and the many oth­ers who are join­ing him,” he tweet­ed yes­ter­day. “The USA can­not have fraud­u­lent elec­tions!”( Story orig­i­nat­ed at Yahoo news)

There are a mil­lion and one rea­sons why Senate major­i­ty leader Mitch McConnell ought to have been removed by the vot­ers in Kentucky last November.
Alas, the major­i­ty of the vot­ers in that state, as in many oth­er states across the coun­try, con­tin­ue to elect Republicans, who in turn enact poli­cies that ben­e­fit the very rich at the expense of the very peo­ple who vot­ed for them.
It is an age-old prob­lem; the down-bal­lot suc­cess­es of the Republican Party in the last elec­tions were just the lat­est iter­a­tion of Republican par­ty vot­ers’ cog­ni­tive dissonance.
I will [not] attempt to out­line Mitch McConnell’s sins here suf­fic­ing to say that if you have been fol­low­ing pol­i­tics and are fair-mind­ed, you can relate to exact­ly what the Senior US Senator from the Bluegrass State stands for.
On November 3^rd, 2008, Barack Obama, a young first-term sen­a­tor from the great state of Illinois, was declared President-elect of the United States.
Immideateltly there­after, Mitch McConnell declared that his sole pur­pose as Majority leader of the United States Senate was to make the new pres­i­dent-elect a one-term president.
Mitch McConnell did exact­ly that, obstruct that is. Despite his and the Republican’s best efforts, how­ev­er, Barack Obama was a suc­cess­ful two-term pres­i­dent.. One of his most igno­ble and dis­hon­or­able acts as major­i­ty leader of the sen­ate under President Obama was, of course, his refusal to give Obama’s supreme court pick of Judge Merrick Garland a meet­ing, much less a hear­ing that would have placed him on the Supreme Court, in the seat vacat­ed by the deceased Antonin Scalia.

Mitch McConnell has nev­er seen a tax cut that would ben­e­fit his wealthy back­ers that he was not glee­ful to bring to the sen­ate’s floor. He had no prob­lem bring­ing to the Senate floor and pass­ing Trump’s tax cut that fur­ther enriched the very rich.
However, the coun­try is now in the deep throes of a pandemic.
Over 341 thou­sand Americans have so far died. Literally, every per­son in America now knows some­one who has either been infect­ed or died from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Additionally, the nation faces a seri­ous eco­nom­ic down­turn, one like no one alive has ever seen before.
Donald Trump, who nev­er cared about the poor, has sud­den­ly decid­ed that he wants hun­gry, near home­less Americans to have a $2’000 check from the gov­ern­ment. No one in their right mind believes that Trump actu­al­ly cares enough about any­one not named Trump, to want them to have $2’000.

In fact, there is ample evi­dence that Donald Trump only wants the larg­er $2’000 amount than the $600 num­ber his trea­sur­er sec­re­tary nego­ti­at­ed with both Republicans and Democrats because he knows it won’t pass.
If Trump real­ly want­ed Americans to have a $2’000 check, he would have had Steven Mnuchin nego­ti­ate to have that amount sent to the American people.
Donald Trump con­ve­nient­ly wait­ed until after the $600 amount was decid­ed on, then there­after decid­ed he would not sign the bill into law — –Of course, he then signed the bill he said he would not sign.
He then went ahead and demand­ed a $2’000 check he knew Moscow Mitch would not bring to the Senate floor as a stand-alone bill to be vot­ed on.
Trump has no inter­est in gov­ern­ing out­side of enrich­ing him­self, so it does not mat­ter how many Americans are dying from COVID-19, or are on the brink of star­va­tion; his sup­port for a $2’000 pay­out to the peo­ple is sole­ly designed to cur­ry favor with the pop­u­la­tion he wants on his side in his bid to pull off a coup in America.
Mitch McConnell does­n’t care either, so he attach­es the mea­sure to two oth­er mea­sures he knows Democrats can­not sup­port, and so the bill is all but dead.

The trag­ic irony is that the peo­ple who will suf­fer the most are the ones who came out in droves and re-elect­ed Mitch McConnell last November. They also elect­ed and reelect­ed Republicans down-bal­lot across the length and breadth of the country.
Amidst the noise and hog­wash fed you by the main­stream media are the facts that they won’t both­er to divulge.
White Americans will vote against their own moth­er if the abil­i­ty to coa­lesce around racial griev­ance and white suprema­cy is on the ballot.
They rose against President Barack Obama’s push to have the wealth­i­est Americans pay a lit­tle more in tax­es, dur­ing his pres­i­den­cy. They came out with pitch­forks, tiki-torch­es, and the most despi­ca­ble posters depict­ing the pres­i­dent as every­thing but human.
Obama want­ed those earn­ing more than half a mil­lion each year to pay a lit­tle more in tax­es. Those in the mid­west who came out against the idea, and across the south were earn­ing some­where between $38’000 & $48’000.
They came out to fight a war that was not theirs to fight.
At the time, those actu­al­ly earn­ing half a mil­lion and more annu­al­ly, told the President that they would be hap­py to pay a lit­tle more in taxes.

The same was true of the afford­able care act (ACA) intend­ed to help [them], the most vul­ner­a­ble, the poor­est, and those in par­tic­u­lar, with what is char­ac­ter­ized as pre­ex­ist­ing health conditions.
Republicans know­ing just how stu­pid and racist their vot­ers are, attached Obama’s name to the leg­is­la­tion; this auto­mat­i­cal­ly became poi­son to their voters.
Republican elect­ed offi­cials knew just how easy it was to turn their vot­ers on a dime. All they had to do is appeal to their racist hatred, and they will mil­i­tate against drink­ing water, which is crit­i­cal to their abil­i­ty to survive.
Republicans and Mitch McConnell do not care whether they live or die as long as they can give tax cuts to their rich puppetmasters.
Republican recip­i­ents of the ACA, told Journalists that they did not want Obama Care, they were hap­py with their Affordable Care health care.[sic]
Those who were pay­ing atten­tion knew that those upris­ings were not organ­ic grass­roots move­ments by peo­ple who felt their way of life threat­ened; it was a well-orches­trat­ed cam­paign fund­ed by über-wealthy bil­lion­aire broth­ers Charles and David Koch.
David Koch is now dead, but his old­er sib­ling Charles now wants for­give­ness for what they did with their wealth.
The hatred poor whites have for oth­er races is work­ing to keep them impov­er­ished. Today they no longer work as over­seers on the plan­ta­tion in the tra­di­tion­al sense; they are no longer oper­at­ing under the moniker [slave catch­ers]; they are now called police officers.
Unfortunately, their men­tal­i­ty is the same as it was four-plus hun­dred years ago.

Which brings us to the ques­tion of why these peo­ple con­tin­ue to mil­i­tate against their own self-interest?
From time to time, I write about the his­to­ry of whites who came to America as (inden­tured ser­vants), anoth­er name for slaves.
The dif­fer­ence between the white European inden­tured ser­vants, and the African peo­ple brought into bond­ed servi­tude, is that they had com­mit­ted no crimes.
The act of kid­nap­ping and enslav­ing them was a crime against human­i­ty and remains so today, with­out ade­quate mea cul­pa, resti­tu­tion, and commupence.
The white inden­tured ser­vants were, in fact, the worst crim­i­nal offend­ers in Europe, Murderers, Rapists, Child-moles­ters, who were giv­en the option of being ban­ished to the colonies or be executed.
Naturally, they chose the Colonies.
The prac­tice of dump­ing them in America, con­tin­ued up until the end of the civ­il war. Other nations were pop­u­lat­ed by them as well, Australia and New Zealand. Wherever they went, the death and destruc­tion they brought with them is a mat­ter of his­tor­i­cal record.
Their venge­ful actions against the enslaved African peo­ple are no mys­tery; they were depraved crim­i­nals, end of the story.
Convinced by the plan­ta­tion own­ers that they were supe­ri­or because of their white skin, they exact­ed untold geno­cide on the black enslaved peo­ple in their capac­i­ty as over­seers and slave catchers.
The Planters fear­ing that the two groups of slaves would be too much for them to han­dle, came up with the bril­liant idea to divide them up based on race.
They con­vinced them that they would some­day be free and own plan­ta­tions and be rich as well. That idea is now a part of their DNA; they con­tin­ue to believe in the fal­la­cy that if the rich man is giv­en enough, some will fall from his table, and they will ben­e­fit. That con­cept has all but ensured that the rich have got­ten rich­er and the poor poorer.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog mike​beck​les​.com. 
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