How GOP is Losing an Entire Generation As Trump Brands GOP as Racist Know Nothing Party

What is so COOL about the young people today is that they are very tolerant of others --unlike the old farts (especially conservative whites with no skills who sat in the back of the class thinking they didn't need to learn anything) who are declining, and supporting trump's bigotry. Why? Because they think their color trumps having real skills in a high tech global economy.

So its 'game over' for the GOP - a whole new generation are branding on the Democratic Party as the inclusive cool group vs. the mean nasty name callers who hate everyone. They have lost their way along with the dodo bird...now they are being branded as a racist Know Nothing Party out of the 1850's.

That kind of bigotry in diverse America needs to die. The moderate R's need to get back in control. I wrote about how our system is promoting the extreme in the primaries with gerrymandered districts that make it a one party election in my book "Better Times Ahead April Fool"...

I propose we either reform that process or you will get more nutters instead of the common sense people needed to make government work.

Details in "Predicting 911 and Running Against the Hammer"

What would you think if it was Obama who did THIS?

I ask this:

What would you think if it was Obama who:

•         ran for president with his 3rd wife, who had posed nude?

• ·       had founded a university under his name that was now being sued for FRAUD?

• ·       bankrupted several companies after walking away with millions, and not paying small businesses who supplied his projects?

• ·      imitated a disable person in a mocking way and insulted women, calling them “fat pigs” and saying an entire group were “rapists” and “some were good people”?

• ·       had said he didn’t respect military who were captured?

• ·       said he supported “article 9 and 12” of the Constitution, then you found out there are only 7 articles in it?

• ·       walked around calling people names, like “Lying Ted” and banned the press from his events?

• ·       at a rally encouraged people to beat up protests and offered to pay for their legal expenses if they hurt someone?

• ·       didn’t reveal his taxes?

• ·       said that “we don’t need NATO and our allies” and encouraged the spread of nuclear weapons to places like Japan and Saudi Arabia?

THEN WHY would you support Donald Trump , who has done all of these things?

You really think a guy who inherited wealth and whose tax plan helps only the 1% like him really cares about YOU since he is going to trial on fraud charges Nov. 28 and tried to have an old lady evicted from her land next to his casino because he wanted it for a limo parking lot?

If so, then I have a special deal for you on a bridge in Brooklyn! Just send in your cc# now because a brain is a terrible thing to waste. Don’t leave home without it on Nov. 8.

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Trump Reminds Me of My Last Boss From HELL – Created Chaos & Nothing Got Done

Donald Trump reminds me of my last “Boss from Hell” before I left the Fortune 500 for good.  I had worked in our group for over two years for another General Counsel, and all was smooth and professional.  Then he left and they picked a man from another group to take that spot. Suddenly chaos erupted.

Before I knew it, the new General Counsel had initiated a “war” with one of the divisions we did the legal work for.  Suddenly, every day he would pull me into his office and spend an hour or more telling me how “stupid” the division president and officers were, Every day!  Since I was the only other attorney for the group he was wasting my time.

Trump seems to have the same playbook. Every day he finds someone he has to insult, then wastes everyone’s time listening to him bloviate how “smart” he is and how “stupid” they are, repeat ad nauseum.  Work was delayed and nothing good came out of it; only bad feelings. NOTHING got done as a result.  Our system would become even more dysfunctional, if that's possible.

If Trump were elected, I’d expect the same chaos that would kill our country as we spent day after day listening to Herr Trump stir up another enemy to denounce (like a fellow Republican) while saying “I have such good words, my words are the best words” and other total gibberish that sounds like a student writing a paper for a course in which he never bothered to read the book.

For example: When asked by GOP Senators if he supported Article 1 of the Constitution, the would-be president promptly said “yes” but, like the bullshitting student, promptly added, “I also support Article 9 and 12!”  Oops. If he had read the Constitution, he would know that there are only 7 – not 9 or 12 – articles!  He runs for president without bothering to know anything.

In my workplace things got so bad that finally our Group President called in my boss and said “Knock it off!”  But who can tell a U.S. president acting like that to: “Knock it off?”  Only the public can by NOT electing someone who declared in an interview that “Putin would never go into Ukraine” and when informed by the journalist that Russia had been in the Ukraine for two years, Trump tries to cover his ignorance by blurting more gibberish of the know nothing student: “I haven’t been there; it’s a mess…yada, yada, yada.” Spare us from stupid!

How can having a president this ignorant help America succeed?  Having an email mistake with classified information in this day and age is not on the same dangerous level as a candidate openly encouraging Putin to take over Eastern Europe and condoning the spread of nuclear weapons and backing off our allies in NATO!

We don’t need a Putin patsy in the White House.  I know 12-year-olds more qualified to be president than this “Boss from Hell” who is totally ignorant of the Constitution and has a dangerous personality defect, low-life gutter mouth and total lack of decency that he willingly attacked a former POW and a Muslim Gold Star family while claiming he “sacrificed” by dodging the draft and avoiding a venereal disease (he said it, I didn’t make it up.)

 I spent my career promoting American-made products globally. Trump is promising jobs yet had his products made in 12 countries overseas – creating jobs overseas, not here, while ripping people off from small businesses in the U.S. who supplied his casinos. I admit his talent of bankrupting casinos, where the deck is stacked in favor of the house, is a nearly impossible feat!

America is better than this. Don’t elect the “Boss from hell” who has publicly said how much he admires ruthless dictators, including Saddam, Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jung Un – Trump was so impressed that Kim would kill his own uncle to establish his authority.

We don’t need the narcissist sickness Trump would bring to the presidency.

Michael Fjetland

Author, Better Times Ahead April Fool

www.BetterTimesAheadAprilFool.com

Trump Reminds Me of My Last Boss From HELL – Created Chaos & Nothing Got Done

Donald Trump reminds me of my last “Boss from Hell” before I left the Fortune 500 for good.  I had worked in our group for over two years for another General Counsel, and all was smooth and professional.  Then he left and they picked a man from another group to take that spot. Suddenly chaos erupted.

Before I knew it, the new General Counsel had initiated a “war” with one of the divisions we did the legal work for.  Suddenly, every day he would pull me into his office and spend an hour or more telling me how “stupid” the division president and officers were, Every day!  Since I was the only other attorney for the group he was wasting my time.

Trump seems to have the same playbook. Every day he finds someone he has to insult, then wastes everyone’s time listening to him bloviate how “smart” he is and how “stupid” they are, repeat ad nauseum.  Work was delayed and nothing good came out of it; only bad feelings. NOTHING got done as a result.  Our system would become even more dysfunctional, if that's possible.

If Trump were elected, I’d expect the same chaos that would kill our country as we spent day after day listening to Herr Trump stir up another enemy to denounce (like a fellow Republican) while saying “I have such good words, my words are the best words” and other total gibberish that sounds like a student writing a paper for a course in which he never bothered to read the book.

For example: When asked by GOP Senators if he supported Article 1 of the Constitution, the would-be president promptly said “yes” but, like the bullshitting student, promptly added, “I also support Article 9 and 12!”  Oops. If he had read the Constitution, he would know that there are only 7 – not 9 or 12 – articles!  He runs for president without bothering to know anything.

In my workplace things got so bad that finally our Group President called in my boss and said “Knock it off!”  But who can tell a U.S. president acting like that to: “Knock it off?”  Only the public can by NOT electing someone who declared in an interview that “Putin would never go into Ukraine” and when informed by the journalist that Russia had been in the Ukraine for two years, Trump tries to cover his ignorance by blurting more gibberish of the know nothing student: “I haven’t been there; it’s a mess…yada, yada, yada.” Spare us from stupid!

How can having a president this ignorant help America succeed?  Having an email mistake with classified information in this day and age is not on the same dangerous level as a candidate openly encouraging Putin to take over Eastern Europe and condoning the spread of nuclear weapons and backing off our allies in NATO!

We don’t need a Putin patsy in the White House.  I know 12-year-olds more qualified to be president than this “Boss from Hell” who is totally ignorant of the Constitution and has a dangerous personality defect, low-life gutter mouth and total lack of decency that he willingly attacked a former POW and a Muslim Gold Star family while claiming he “sacrificed” by dodging the draft and avoiding a venereal disease (he said it, I didn’t make it up.)

 I spent my career promoting American-made products globally. Trump is promising jobs yet had his products made in 12 countries overseas – creating jobs overseas, not here, while ripping people off from small businesses in the U.S. who supplied his casinos. I admit his talent of bankrupting casinos, where the deck is stacked in favor of the house, is a nearly impossible feat!

America is better than this. Don’t elect the “Boss from hell” who has publicly said how much he admires ruthless dictators, including Saddam, Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jung Un – Trump was so impressed that Kim would kill his own uncle to establish his authority.

We don’t need the narcissist sickness Trump would bring to the presidency.

Michael Fjetland

Author, Better Times Ahead April Fool

www.BetterTimesAheadAprilFool.com

How Brazil's Olympics Message Beat a Queen Jumping from a Helicopter - Yet Is a Warning on Oligarchs

Global American values

August 6, 2016

The Brazilians did more with their opening in message than other cities did with hundreds of millions and James Bond and the Queen look alike jumping out of a helicopter.

They conveyed a message about how they came to be as a country, a mix of African, European and Native. They conveyed the message of the adjustment they have had to make to deal with their conflicts and respect each other.

But then they went on to take up bigger issues so it wasn't just about THEM,  a huge country that holds half the world's endangered Rain Forests, but has massive economic inequality.

They conveyed a global message with a video showing Earth HEATING UP as the time lapse shots showed our eyes how our blue planet is turning into an orange HOT -- that impacts all children and future generations. Like frogs sitting in a warming pot, we don't notice it. The message was worth more than China spending $100 million on flashy stuff while their citizens choke on some of the blackest air in the world...(even china is now leading in green energy development because breathing coal dust is killing millions of Chinese every year.)

It also gave a sense of what Brazilians are like - they are warm and like to dance, drink. They have their annual Carnival which we call Mardi Gras. A friend of mine went and loved it. I would need to lose 30 years to do it and live to tell.

I met the Brazilian people on a trip for a large company when I was young and they were the same then, warm and friendly. It was the first time I had been approached by women in a bar! That just didn't happen in the USA or European places I had been to (that story is part of "Better Times Ahead April Fool" at the link below.)

The opening ceremonies didn't say that Brazil is losing that valuable rain forest by clear cutting that is turning it into vast wasteland, all for a quick buck. Its president wasn't there because she is being impeached. Her predecessor is under investigation for fraud - and it was that way when I was there about 1980. 

We Americans aren't perfect but we are nuns compared to the official corruption in places like Brazil, South Africa, Russia, etc. - unless we got a President Trump, who would like to be a WORLD OLIGARCH - just him and Putin, brother oligarchs, billionaires with a common interest in getting rid of the free press and carving up the world between them, NATO allies be damned. Trump has already banned major media from his events, and he is only a candidate!  He has a strange fixation on dictators he likes to praise, including North Korea's Kim Jung Un who murdered his own uncle to assert his authority!

Brazil has massive income inequality where the rich 1% have it all while the 99%  have nothing. That same inequality was made possible in the USA by the 2001 Bush tax cuts, which put all the benefits at the top 1%, so that a hedge fund manager making billions pays less percentage tax than his secretary--so a Trump can play with the tax code and pay ZERO taxes. That is probably why he has refused to disclose his tax returns as all other candidates have for 40 years. 

Rules don't apply to billionaires, right? If they did, someone wanting to be president would produce his returns like everyone else so the public knows the truth, unlike countries like Russia and China, and Brazil.

We need to avoid becoming like Brazil, with oligarch billionaires like Mr. Trump cutting deals for themselves at the top while the middle and lower income people get left out so that even an Olympics will not benefit them when the games are over.

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Michael Fjeltand, BBA/JD

Terrorism Analyst/Author

"Better Times Ahead April Fool"

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It's not about black versus white; it is about the tolerant versus the intolerant

After this week's shootings here is how I see it - because its not about blacks versus whites, as some say.

It's about those who respect others and those who don't. (Racism is a lack of respect).

It's about those of us in each race sex and religion being tolerant, versus those who are intolerant and disrespectful towards others.

It's about those like Hillary who speak respectfully, as head of a diverse party of like-minded people of all religions and colors, versus the hate speech and overt racism that led voters in a mostly aging "whites only" party to pick Donald Trump, who is disrespectful of all and a generator of hate.

The choice is between an inclusive party that looks like America today and its future -- versus a "whites only" party, a mostly aging, angry, low skilled whites (especially primary voters) who loved to hear Trump's hate speech. They loved his promoting violence against protesters at his own rallies. They are not what our diverse America founded on "all men are created equal" is all about.

So which presidential candidate and party looks like America or its future?

Who speaks with respect and seeks solutions instead of being on both sides of the issue at the same time and is ignorant of our own constitution?

Easy answer. Women have always acted better than men in communicating instead of insecure hate mongering. The Democratic party includes all people, straight and gay, Christian, Muslim,  Jew, Buddhist and beyond.  The GOP rejects people who don't look like them. Trump has feed off it and been a divider, not a uniter.

ISIS feeds off the Trump's who try to make this a religion war.  Picking Trump would boost ISIS and PUTIN. 

Picking Hillary is a blow to both. It is a blow to bullies and intolerant and purposeful division. It is a blow to inherited wealth turning our democracy into another Oligarchy of intolerance that leads to racism and violence caused by sectarianism. 

Michael Fjetland, Author

Better Times Ahead April Fool

American Values Under Attack by Donald Trump - July 4 Refresher

American values that made this country great are under attack by the first presidential candidate in history to make racism a central plank of his campaign -- starting with his statement that Mexicans were "rapists" and "some, I assume, are good people."  After attacking minorities, he went on to disrespect women, when he wasn't bragging about the size of his sexual organ (somehow connected to your hand size).

He called women "fat pigs" and said Megyn Kelly had "blood coming out of whatever."Lying Ted" and "Little Marco" is now "Crooked Hillary." Is this what you consider "presidential"!?

Then it was Muslims. When Hitler started it was the Jews. I see no difference between his hate towards Jews and Trumps painting all Hispanics and Muslims as bad people. Trump even pretended not to know who the Ku Klux Klan was; then encouraged violence against protesters at his rallies.

This is one sick bastard who inherited wealth, never faced a day having to chose between food for his family or paying the rent, making phony promises of making our country "great" again - by being a bigoted, sexist promoter of violence and racism.

If his followers think he can bring back coal jobs when natural gas was the killer, or bring back American greatness by inciting attacks on minority Americans, they need to invest $35,000 into Trump University today (never mind the same info is in his $20 book).  They need to ask why he has not revealed his tax returns as every other presumptive nominee has, and why they think he should be immune from following the rules everyone is does?

This is the first election where the choice is between black and white. It is between the real elite - the inherited wealthy like Trump was born rich and whose tax plan would favor the 1% even more and run up another $11  TRILLION in debt.

The other choice is the daughter of a small businessman and her housewife mom who inherited nothing. Dad didn't give her a "it was only $1 million" loan Trump claimed his father gave him. She bootstrapped her way up, just like other Americans

It is between a candidate whose entire campaign has been based on getting votes by racism and gutter talk, name calling and disrespect of one group after another. The other candidate's campaign is entirely based on offering solutions and speaking in respectful dialogue on improving jobs and the economy instead of trash talking street bully language.

In case you think Donald Trump represents American values July 4th is a good time for a refresher on what American values really are:

Our Declaration of Independence states: "All Men (and Women) are Created Equal"

Our Bill of Rights includes the 1st Amendment that addresses both free speech and treats ALL religions with equal respect.  It reads:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

That means that Muslims and Jews are free to practice their religion. We don't have religions dictating laws. We don't have Sharia law or any state religion dictating how people dress, work or play. When our first immigrant forefathers came to North America, it was to flee England's monarchy rule and its state religion. The "Church of England" was picked by a king, not its people. When our forefathers set up camp, having the right to practice your religion without interference was a high priority.

Mr. Trump endangers our 1st amendment rights to a free press which we take for granted. He has "banned" certain news organizations from attending his rallies, such as the Washington Post, because he didn't like what they wrote. Its not the first and won't be the last. That is classic Fidel Castro and Putin - who eliminated Russia's independent press soon after he was elected. Who is to say his friend Trump would not do the same since he is so thin skinned about press criticism.

Never in history has a party nominated a candidate so flawed, bigoted, ignorant and consumed with his own self. When "Brexit" -- the biggest event in a half century hit the UK as Trump was visiting his golf course in Scotland  -- all Trump could talk about was how the crash of England's currency would help his golf course and his pocketbook. Not a word about the damage to ordinary people.

He was clueless that Scotland, where he was standing, had voted in mass to remain in the EU. Trump and Putin both wanted them out of the EU - unbelievable for an American president to want what a dictator desires!

America has always been special because our nation was founded on equal treatment and respect for all --a justice system with a jury of peers designed to not favor the rich over the poor. It wasn't based on labeling various ethnic groups and religions as evil. Hitler did that. Americans fought that.

Global American Values takes those American values of equality, justice and fairness and applies them on a global scale - that's how we win the battle of ideas in the world. Not by following a foul mouth candidate who was born rich and whose opinions change by the minute depending on whether it will yield votes or not.

We don't need a president who pretended to be his own press agent who called the press to brag about cheating on his wife with multiple women at the same time. Trump is a candidate suitable for school yard bully scum, but not president of the United States.

Michael Fjetland, JD/BBA
Author, Better Times Ahead April Fool