“READERS FORUM” MARCH 21, 2019

1. Only 19 Percent Of Americans Are Foolish Enough To Believe Trump Opposes White Nationalism

   Notwithstanding the fact that Donald Trump once called neo-Nazi marchers “very fine people” only 19 percent of Americans still say Trump personally opposes white nationalism, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov survey. Another 20 percent don’t think Trump cares one way or the other

   As noted last week Trump has worked incredibly hard to avoid criticizing his white nationalist supporters after a New Zealand shooter with vile racist views took the lives of 50 Muslim worshippers last week. Asked last Friday if he was worried about the rise of white nationalism as a growing threat, Trump dismissed it as just a small group of people

   Ever since, the White House has been vigorously defending Trump’s weak response to the tragedy and the shooter’s sick anti-immigrant manifesto, which praised Trump as “a symbol of renewed white identity”

   http://bit.ly/2WesEie

   • Democrat Presidential Candidate “Moonbeam” Beto update:
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     “Robert Francis O’Rourke, aka Beto, is an eccentric guy. In addition to writing stories about the joys of running over children and obscene bovine poetry, he also eats dirt. Magic dirt, of course.

     WaPo describes the state he was in following his Senate loss to Ted Cruz:

     Whatever post-defeat sadness [his zillionaire’s daughter wife] Amy felt, she was able to kick quickly; she’s always been the stable one. Beto, on the other hand, more prone to higher highs and lower lows, was in a “funk.” In January, Beto hit the road, much as his father had done before him, and drew energy from the people he met, and — on one stop in New Mexico he didn’t write about in his blog — by eating New Mexican dirt said to have regenerative powers. (He brought some home for the family to eat, too.)”

     https://moonbattery.com/beto-literally-ate-dirt-after-senate-loss/

     • Trump Promised Muscular Economic Growth Would Pay For His $1.5 Trillion Tax Cut—He Lied

       Everyone knew it was a lie when Trump and GOP leadership did it, and now White House officials are finally conceding what everyone knew. Their $1.5 trillion tax giveaway to the rich will not even come close to paying for itself, reports the New York Times

       Trump administration officials now admit that it cannot sustain the 3 percent growth they had forecasted over the long term. Naturally, Trump told an even bigger lie, touting a sustained 5 percent growth rate (and sometimes higher), while his advisers pushed a still heady, but slightly less fantastical, 3 percent long-term growth rate. Well, not so much

       A new report from the administration says the only way to meet that 3 percent pledge over the next decade would be to make more regulatory rollbacks on labor policies, pass a $1 trillion infrastructure plan, and enact another tax cut—because apparently the one Republicans conceived of and passed on their own was crap

       C’mon, who do these bozos think we are? Honestly, even if all these measures were possible with Trump at the helm (and they’re not), why in the heck should Americans believe a word of it? These are the same people who tossed out wildly unrealistic growth predictions and insisted they were true in the face of basically every real economist and other experts saying they were being unrealistic

       As it is now, White House aides say the economy will slow to a 2 percent growth rate by 2026 if nothing is done to goose it again. Frankly, even that may be an overly sunny prediction

       http://bit.ly/2TSuFnR

2. Kentucky Governor Intentionally Exposed His Children to Chicken Pox Instead of Vaccinating Them

   Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin said in an interview Tuesday that he purposefully exposed his nine unvaccinated children to chicken pox so that they would become immune, but medical experts called the practice unsafe and unwise

   “Every single one of my kids had the chickenpox. They got the chickenpox on purpose because we found a neighbor that had it and I went and made sure every one of my kids was exposed to it, and they got it. They had it as children. They were miserable for a few days, and they all turned out fine”

   “I would never recommend or advise it. It is dangerous” said Dr. Robert Jacobson, a pediatrician and expert in vaccines and childhood diseases at the Mayo Clinic, stating “We’re no longer living in the 17th century. I really recommend to my parents that they vaccinate their children, that they do it in a timely manner, and they recognize they are doing the right thing for their children”

   Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also urges against deliberately exposing kids to chicken pox, including the practice of “chicken pox parties” held by some parents, stating “Chickenpox can be serious and can lead to severe complications and death, even in healthy children”

   Dr. Ruth Carrico, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, said chickenpox is often incorrectly viewed as a relatively harmless disease. But it can be fatal to children and adults who suffer complications. Carrico said people should get the chickenpox vaccine and other immunizations not just for themselves, but for others who may not be able to do so for medical reasons and who are susceptible to infection

   “On more than one occasion, I have had a patient who is a pregnant woman who became exposed to chickenpox and became ill and developed pneumonia. Either she or her baby or both did not survive. When we’re vaccinated, we are protecting not only ourselves but others in our community. It’s not all about you”

   Before vaccination was available, chickenpox killed as many as 100 adults and children a year

   http://bit.ly/2WcuBfi

3. No wonder RR’s posts are so wacky. He starts his day reading the Daily Kos. Can’t get anymore deliriously left than that rag.

   • Bernie, RR needs a major chill pill. Dude is full on Trump obsessed.

4. Ronald Reagan may need a safe place and therapy bunny after reading these facts, which should be obvious to any logical thinker:
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   MI5: Number of Far Right Terror Cases ‘Absolutely Dwarfed by the Number of Islamist Cases’

   The number of far-right terror cases the authorities are faced with is “absolutely dwarfed” by the number of cases related to radical Islam, according to Britain’s Security Service, better known as MI5.

   MI5 specialises in counter-espionage and domestic security, in contrast to the foreign intelligence-oriented Secret Intelligence Service – better known as SIS or MI6, made famous by Ian Flemming’s James Bond books. The assessment of the relative seriousness of the Islamist terror threat and the far-right terror threat was disclosed halfway through a Guardian report focusing heavily on the latter, later republished by other media outlets including CNN and Microsoft-owned MSN.

   The left-liberal newspaper led on claims by the far-left HOPE Not Hate organisation, which describes itself as “anti-fascist” and has previously received funding from billionaire open borders campaigner George Soros, that “huge numbers of Britons are among the global audience for far-right forums” online.

   The Guardian also quoted Britain’s anti-extremism “tsar”, Sara Khan, regarding the “frightening amount of legal extremist content online” which the left claim is fuelling far-right extremism. The comments suggest a clampdown on online anonymity and uncensored discussion groups may be on the cards.

   Halfway through the article, however, the Guardian concedes that, while the security services “have not revealed how many of the 700 or so live terror plots and 20,000 individuals classified as ‘closed subjects’ … are related to right-wing extremism”, MI5 did disclose that such cases are, quote, “absolutely dwarfed by the number of Islamist cases” being dealt with.

   This is the case despite the fact that Britain’s white population, from which white nationalist extremists are presumably likely to recruit, is in excess of 50 million, while the Muslim population, from which Islamist extremists are likely recruiting, is officially only 2.7 million – suggesting the radical Islamism presents a much more potent threat than the far right in terms of its capacity to radicalise people.

   Nevertheless, the British authorities have placed a huge degree of emphasis on tackling the far right since even before Christchurch, with Cabinet minister Amber Rudd warning that people viewing what she described as “far-right propaganda” online could face up to 15 years’ imprisonment under harsh new counter-extremist penalties while she was still at the Home Office.

   The measures drew some criticism from Max Hill QC, then terrorism legislation watchdog, now Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales, who warned that the Government should not “criminalise thought without action or preparation for action,” and that “the struggle for national security must not be used as a stick to beat down the rights we hold dear.”

   “If that were to happen, terrorism would have prevailed,” he added.

   https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/03/21/mi5-number-of-far-right-terror-cases-absolutely-dwarfed-by-the-number-of-islamist-cases/

   • Trump’s Malignant Narcissism Is Toxic

     Psychologist and mental health professionals have a “duty to warn” about a leader who may be unfit to serve

     If you take Trump’s words literally, you have no choice but to conclude that he is psychotic. A delusion is “a fixed false belief that is resistant to reason or confrontation with actual fact”

     Is it all for effect, to rile up his base, deflect blame and distract from his shortcomings, or does Trump really believe the insane things he says? It’s often hard to know, because as Harvard psychoanalyst Lance Dodes put it, Trump tells two kinds of lies: the ones he tells others to scam them, and those he tells himself

     “He lies because of his sociopathic tendencies. There’s also the kind of lying he has that is in a way more serious, that he has a loose grip on reality” Is he crazy like a fox or just plain crazy? Not a question we want to be asking about the president”

     Much has been written about Trump having a narcissistic personality disorder. As critics have pointed out, merely saying a leader is narcissistic is hardly disqualifying. But malignant narcissism is like a malignant tumor: toxic

     Psychoanalyst and Holocaust survivor Erich Fromm, who invented the diagnosis of malignant narcissism, argues that it “lies on the borderline between sanity and insanity”

     Otto Kernberg, a psychoanalyst specializing in borderline personalities, defined malignant narcissism as having four components: narcissism, paranoia, antisocial personality and sadism. Trump exhibits all four

     His narcissism is evident in his “grandiose sense of self-importance, without commensurate achievements.” From viewing cable news, he knows “more about ISIS than the generals” and believes that among all human beings on the planet “I alone can fix it”

     His “repeated lying, disregard for and violation of the rights of others (Trump University fraud and multiple sexual assault allegations) and lack of remorse” meet the clinical criteria for anti-social personality. His bizarre conspiracy theories, a false sense of victimization, and demonization of the press, minorities and anyone who opposes him are textbook paranoia. Like most sadists, Trump has been a bully since childhood, and his thousands of vicious tweets make him perhaps the most prolific cyber bully in history

     “I warned that the idea that Trump is going to settle down and become presidential when he achieves power is wishful thinking,” writes psychologist Dr. John Gartner, who taught in the Department of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for 28 years

     “Trump, like many successful people, shows biological signs of hypomania, a mild and more functional expression of bipolar genes that manifest in energy, confidence, creativity, little need for sleep, as well as arrogance, impulsivity, irritability and diminished judgment. As is often typical, when Trump has achieved great success, his hypomania has increased with disastrous consequences”

     In Michael Kruse’s article “1988: the Year Donald Lost his Mind” he wrote “His response to his surging celebrity after the publication of The Art of The Deal was a series of manic, ill-advised ventures that led to bankruptcy and divorce”

     After Trump became the Republican presidential nominee, New York Times columnist David Brooks noted a similar deterioration: “With each passing week, he displays the classic symptoms of medium-grade mania in more disturbing forms: inflated self-esteem, sleeplessness, impulsivity, aggression and a compulsion to offer advice on subjects he knows nothing about. Manics display something called “flight of ideas” which is a formal thought disorder in which ideas tumble forth through a disordered chain of associations”

     Some say it is unethical to dare to diagnose the president, but hundreds of mental health professionals have come together to believe that just as we are ethically and legally obligated to break confidentiality to warn a potential victim of violence, our duty to warn the public trumps all other considerations

     Their efforts, aimed at mental health professionals, state Trump should be removed under the 25th Amendment because he is too mentally ill to competently serve. At a conference at Yale medical school, psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton warned against creeping “malignant normality”

     Under a malignantly narcissistic leader, alternate facts, conspiracy theories, racism, science denial and delegitimization of the press become not only acceptable but also the new normal

     If we do not confront this evil, it will consume us

     http://bit.ly/2WjuVJn

     • RR =….bla…..bla…. Trump’s fault…..bla….Trump…..bla…..bla…..blame Trump…bla……= BORING

       • Why The Right Embraces Ignorance As A Virtue

         Being belligerently ignorant and offended that anyone dares suggest ignorance is less desirable than knowledge has become the go-to position for many conservative politicians and pundits

         But for modern Republicans, being downright proud of their ignorance has become a badge of honor, a way to demonstrate loyalty to the right-wing cause while also sticking it to those liberal pinheads who think there’s some kind of value in knowing what they’re talking about before offering an opinion

         The problem here is that someone who is not only so catastrophically wrong but downright proud of being an ignoramus is not going to actually bother to listen to an explanation. When you have nothing but contempt for the facts, attempts to educate you will only make your pride in your own ignorance grow stronger. The more you try to educate the proudly ignorant, the dumber they get

         At the end of the day, the problem is one of identity. The conservative identity is one of being opposed to everything liberal, to the point of despising anything even associated with liberalism. To be a “conservative” increasingly means taking a contemptuous view of reality

         And so the proudly ignorant grow more belligerent, day after day

         http://bit.ly/2HEjibB

5. ‘Damn socialism, why are you chasing me?’ Chinese-Americans see ghost of communism in Democrats’ leftward turn

   Benjamin Yu, also of Irvine, saw the Democratic Party moving toward socialism long before some of its members began embracing the term.

   Yu immigrated to the U.S. with his mother in the late 1990s. In the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11, Yu, then a U.S. Green Card holder, felt a “surge of patriotism,” prompting him to join the Army.

   “When something happens so close to you, it doesn’t matter if you are an American by legal status,” he said. “You get a sense that that’s your country. You feel part of the community.”

   Yu saw a nascent socialism developing under President Barack Obama, whom he voted for twice before turning to Trump in 2016. He believes more and more Chinese are voting Republican, though he thinks many are reluctant to say so for fear of being ostracized.

   Zhou, Li, and Yu believe Republicans can win over Chinese-American voters by emphasizing the Democrats’ embrace of socialism, and the GOP’s staunch opposition to it.

   “I just want America to be America,” Li said, “not another Soviet Union, Cuba, or China.”

   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/damn-socialism-why-are-you-chasing-me-chinese-americans-see-ghost-of-communism-in-democrats-leftward-turn

   • The Federal Reserve Just Trampled On Trump Boasting Of An Economic Boom

     The Fed’s decision to keep rates steady is driven by forecasts that are much more pessimistic than the White House’s view. While the White House expects growth at 3.2 percent in 2019 and at least 3 percent in 2020, the Fed actually cut its prediction of 2019 growth from 2.3 down to only 2.1 percent. It currently predicts an even more disappointing only 1.9 percent growth in 2020

     So even as Trump and his administration try to cheer the success of his economic policies the independent experts at the Fed, led by his hand-picked chair, disagree with their rosy predictions

     “And the Fed has marked its growth forecast down. Nobody but the Trumpies believes in the magic of their tax cut” said economist Paul Krugman on Wednesday

     Fundamentally, the Fed does not seem to believe there’s any reason to expect that new tax law will lift the U.S. economy in the way the GOP and Trump promised

     And as FactCheck.org noted, the administration has been desperately trying to spin the 2018 economic indicators to make the Trump’s case. The White House has been claiming, that the growth rate in 2018 was 3.2 percent, even when the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis says it was 2.9 percent

     “That’s a disappointing figure for Trump, as it is still well below the 4 to 6 percent growth he promised repeatedly, both when he was a candidate and also as president. The 2018 figure is no better than the real GDP growth in 2015, which was Obama’s best year.”

     So even when the economy is relatively strong, the White House feels compelled to lie about it and exaggerate economic growth. And when it comes to its predictions, the independent experts doubt Trump’s empty boasting.

     But not to worry, if Trump and his followers’ sky-high hopes fall short, they can always just lie some more

     http://bit.ly/2WcHu98

     • RR, from your crazy blog repost, Trump’s worst year for economic growth was Obama’s best year for economic growth.

       “The 2018 figure is no better than the real GDP growth in 2015, which was Obama’s best year.”

6. Who do you blame for the unacceptable deficit spending of the City of Evansville?

   Clearly, the person to blame is Rusty Lloyd, Comptroller of the City. If you are the numbers guy and you can’t stop the bleeding, that’s on YOU ! Some would probably try to blame the Mayor, but the only numbers he worries about are campaign contributions in exchange for handing out contracts on building projects.

   • FL, don’t overlook the money hemorrhaging Coures led DMD.

   • Way I see it they are all guilty of overspending

7. GREAT NEWS!

   ISIS caliphate has crumbled and last stronghold liberated

   https://www.foxnews.com/world/isis-has-officially-crumbled-and-last-stronghold-liberated-fox-news-has-learned

   • Trump Works Overtime To Keep His White Nationalist Base Close After New Zealand Slaughter

     Donald Trump was extremely careful Friday not to offend his “very fine” white nationalist base around the globe after one of them slaughtered 49 people in two New Zealand mosques

     The white nationalist responsible for the massacre had invoked Trump by name as “a symbol of white identity and common purpose” and left behind a manifesto riddled with racial slurs, like calling immigration “white genocide”

     Still, Trump found no harsh words for the murderous ideology behind the New Zealand tragedy. Given the chance to denounce white nationalism at a Friday press conference, Trump shrugged it off as a few bad apples

     That’s how badly Trump needs attention and praise: He can’t even bring himself to speak out against a hateful doctrine that leads someone to unleash an unthinkable spree that took the lives of 49 innocent people practicing their religion

     http://bit.ly/2WfecXC

   • That is great news.

     ISIS had and has to be the most horrific people on Earth.

     Thanks for your post Joe.

     And stay into true s–t if possible.

     LIKE!….

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