@Jeanne, not disputing what you're saying about Baba Vanga, except to suggest that "evil black president" could have been a reference to Twitler actually. Eastern Europeans, particularly of her generation, don't tend to be racist. There was no history of black slavery or even African colonialism in Eastern Europe, and so the people were more likely to be curious or fascinated by black people than anything else. In fact, many Americans of color found refuge from racism in Soviet Russia, as well as better educational and job opportunities.
Additionally, it is important to note that Baba Vanga was blind from childhood, so (1) I can't imagine her caring much about the color of a person's skin, and (2) I think it is more likely that any reference she makes to someone's "color" would be about their aura.
Jeanne, I'm going to assume you are not certain that the Democrats will actually win the senate in 2020. The bad news is that should that happen we will probably get a SCOTUS that contains not 5 but 6 rightwing Republicans and only 3 liberals. And it will take many years to reverse it. Ruth Bader Ginsberg is frail with multiple health problems that could end her life or force retirement any day now.
What we need to hope for right now is that Republican efforts to cover up the truth about what was actually found by the Mueller investigation and is lurking in financial documents that the GOP is trying to get hushed up fail and it causes such a massive uproar among the public at large when the whole truth comes out that many Republicans finally say that this is too much and they will let Trump drown. Trump then resigns in disgrace and the GOP's general reputation is badly tarnished for the next few years.
Yosiofi, thanks for your post :-) and I too am not trying to take you on either - I love this stuff! . Just want to be clear what I know about the Bulgarian psychic.
The Wikipedia article about her waa sourced with newsy articles dated after she died attributing various predictions to her after those events came to pass.
Thanks for your thoughts about Eastern Europeans not being racist. It is quite possible that her alleged Obama predictions were made up by some American right wing Obama-dissing blogger after Obama was elected. When it comes to what baba Vanga actually said, nothing she said was written down and it’s myth at this point.
But will trump refuse to leave when his time comes? Want to meditate on that.
" Today I went to Wikipdia and was unimpressed with all the "news" articles that simply pass along folk tales about her, mostly generated in Russia. " —Jeanne Mayell
-- Very interesting. I think safe to assume that the folk tales are entirely manufactured by the Russian Info Bureau - the people who generate ALL the fake news they can to undermine anything they can.
In regards to the Great Cheat-Olini I think he will not leave unless he is pressured to get out or we have a blue wave in Congress. This man is stupid but not that stupid if he leaves he will most likely have many indictments and why would he voluntarily leave the only place that he is safe. This is why he says he should have 2 more years since he was robbed of the his first 2. He is not saying that he wants to continue to be president so he can get down to work and destroy our country even more it is because he is afraid of what is waiting for him out there. He knows he has seen the full Mueller report. The White House is the only place he is safe from reality. If he leaves, he is going to bargain out and of course only for him and not his family.
I am happy to say that my beautiful NY state is going after his state tax return and pardon
One bill would eliminate the so-called double jeopardy loophole that gives individuals who have been pardoned at a federal level indemnity from New York State prosecutors. Its sponsor, Senator Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat from Long Island, said the bill would address “wanton threats of the use of the pardon power” by Mr. Trump.
The other bill would authorize the commissioner of the New York Department of Taxation and Finance to release any state tax return requested by a leader of one of three congressional committees for any “specified and legitimate legislative purpose.”
He can hide from the federal but not from the states law.
She also made some pretty crazy predictions that are really out there. Like Jeanne says, anything she predicted is word-of-mouth and who knows who was or is behind the promotion of her predictions.
I snorted when I read her prediction about him being the last because he is and always has been a dictator at heart and definitely in his own deranged, hallucinatory mind. He has no regard for the rule of law except for how it can benefit him, and his love of brutal dictators is on almost constant display.
If trump is defeated he'll leave, because he's a coward. He can't even fire anyone directly, he has to have his minions do it for him. What he will do is behave badly, wreck the new president's inauguration, sow dissent, and generally be the ***hole that he is. If he's defeated.
I know Jeanne's predictions for years now have been that times get better in the mid-late 2020's. I wish that made me feel better, but that all seems so far away. So much damage will be done, I cannot even imagine it all. But I appreciate Jeanne's honesty.
Lynn the news outlet have been saying that if he looses he would probably try to stay in power by saying the election was rigged.
Laura, funny you should mention the possibility of fake Baba Vanga news, politically motivated. I was thinking the same thing when I learned that her fame initially rose after her death in Russian social media. But lacking the time to research her, my hunch is that she was likely a very good psychic who impressed people with her past life readings and her blindness and remote living situation (in the mountains) added to her allure. Then after she died the folklore took off.
Lynn, I think of that mid-to-late 20's prediction as the worst case scenario for presidential elections; it's what I feel confident about if all else fails. When I had that vision (2014), all I actually saw was a graph along a timeline. Initially I thought I was seeing the markets. But as the years flowed forward, I realized it matched the collective conscience, more than the markets. The big decline came around the 2020's and looked like a bear market. There is talk about a bear market coming so perhaps I was seeing the markets or both.
I just know that I saw for sure a return to normal in the mid to late 20's with women on top. I think of this as a fall-back when things get dark around here. But I've also seen better outcomes in other readings. It's just that that earlier 2014 vision was unusually strong and clear.
I think the election is still up in the air. I sense that people are going to be really sick of Trump by November 2020.
The tax returns are also going to show to everyone what a fake he really is.
In the last few weeks, however, I have felt the fierce determination and lawlessness of the GOP and Trump -- stopping at nothing that they can get away with. They won't let go. It's not like any other situation we've faced. I want the dems to be fully aware of what they are dealing with, only then will I feel better about the outcome.
Rule of sports competition: Never underestimate your adversary when going into a game. The overconfident one is most likely to lose. When I start posting the dreaded visions I get about the GOP's ugly underhanded lawlessness, I am not wanting people to give up hope. Just know what we are dealing with. The dems have to become tough.
On the bright side, the news this morning on his earlier tax returns was pretty embarrassing for Trump -- that from 1985 to 1995 he had greater losses than anyone in tax return history. $1.17 billion! His gambles and losses looked like a manic depressive gone crazy manic, he was a huge business failure whose father bailed him out to the tune of $400 million.
Looks like Ivanka married her father in Kushner, another business failure who, were it not for using the power of the U.S. presidency to attract foreign investment, would have lost his own billion dollars on a foolhardy investment. Perhaps Jared and his father in law will end up in the same prison when all the dust clears.
Lawrence, I do remember your prediction. I hope you're right!
Jessi, NY is legislating some whoop ass for trump. Payback for raising our taxes! I know the news outlets are reporting that he'll figure out a way to stay in office, but I just don't think that'll happen. But look for him to wreck as much as possible before he's pushed out.
Jeanne, thanks for the uplifting words. As always, you're a gift to all of us.
I love Lawrence's vision. I've always felt that Rumpelstiltskin would not finish his first term. The wheels are starting to come off the bus.
The NY Times showed his massive losses in the 80's and 90's. His tweets about that show that he plays fast and loose with tax codes. I don't see that as changing. In the early part of the century, a book was written about his net worth being so much lower than his claims and he sued the author in 2005. He lost before he got out of the gate.
Today the NY legislature passed laws allowing his state taxes to be sent to the state congress. The Senate intelligence committee subpoenaed Rumpel Jr. today. This is coming from a Republican chairman. I'm not overly fond of Burr, and I bristled at the fact he shared info with the WH early in the investigation when that news came out. Burr is retiring after this term (so he has claimed for the last few years) so if he doesn't want to go down on the wrong side of history, and he wants to make amends for his earlier mistakes, he should hold Jr.'s feet to the fire, as well as others.
No matter how it happens, by quitting, impeachment, or being voted out of office, Cheatolini needs to be out of office by 2020. If he's impeached, he can still be tried for his crimes, and it won't be double jeopardy. However, there is a statute of limitations on some of his crimes, and a second term where the DOJ refuses to indict a sitting president would run that clock out.
It is not in the Constitution that you can't indict a sitting president. I don't believe the framers of our system ever thought someone with such low morals would ever make it into office. Sure they thought that some could/would be corrupted by power (even W Bush has made comments about power going to his head in ways he didn't see until in hindsight).
Right now the base and Faux News fans believe it's over and this was a witch hunt. But with Mueller testifying, there will be no way of spinning his findings. Sure the DOJ (Barr) may try to postpone his appearance date, but the courts will uphold the rights of Congress to subpoena him. Even those who blindly follow will see and hear for themselves what Faux tries to cover up. Not all will believe their own ears, even Nixon still had a 30% approval rating when he resigned. Some people still argue that the world is flat.
The initial letter by US prosecutors was initially signed by less than 400 professionals, but by today it was around 700. McMaster blasted his former colleagues as being a danger to the constitution. Rumpel's own FBI director said today there was no spying by the FBI on any campaign. John Kelly is bemoaning the influence of the 'First family" and the positions they hold. Things are starting to shake loose.
And I have no doubts that all of the skeletons in the Rumpel family closet have been exposed.
Have faith. The emperor has no new clothes, but I'm hoping for some new prison stripes to be added to his wardrobe.
Nancy Pelosi said today:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday said President Trump is “becoming self-impeachable,” pointing to his efforts to fight all subpoenas from congressional investigations and prevent key aides from testifying before Congress.
“The point is that every single day, whether it’s obstruction, obstruction, obstruction — obstruction of having people come to the table with facts, ignoring subpoenas ... every single day, the president is making a case — he’s becoming self-impeachable, in terms of some of the things that he is doing,” Pelosi said at a Washington Post Live event.
On Tuesday, she made a similar argument about Trump’s actions, comparing him to President Richard M. Nixon and noting that one of the articles impeachment against the former president was that he ignored congressional subpoenas.
“That could be part of an impeachable offense,” Pelosi said of Trump at Tuesday’s event, which was hosted by Cornell University. “Every day, he’s obstructing justice by saying, ‘This one shouldn’t testify, that one shouldn’t testify,’ and the rest. So he’s making a case. But he’s just trying to goad us into impeachment
It's time for Democrats to throw down ...we've been playing by the rule book and [D** T* and the R**********] have been playing by street rules. We need to play by street rules ... it would be unforgivable if Democrats roll on this." Former Congresswoman Donna Edwards
I couldn’t agree more with Donna Edwards.
David Faris is a political scientist and writer. Back in 2018, he wrote a book encouraging Dems to start to fight dirty. He said that the Dems have been engaged in policy fights, while the Rethugs have waged procedural wars.
Faris states that the Constitution is vague, relying on both sides of the aisle working together. Ever since Gingrich was in charge of Congress, the Rethugs have exploited this Constitutional vagueness to their advantage, e.g., gerrymandering, blocking Merrick Garland, etc. Faris calls their strategy procedural warfare, which the Rethugs have used for the past 20 years. And why not? It’s worked for them, they’ve never been held accountable, and they’ve become powerful because of it.
Faris believes that we are in the midst of the unraveling of democracy in this country. He states that the Dems can’t restore order by respecting rules that are not respected by the Rethugs. Faris says if the Dems don’t return the favor with some of this procedural war stuff, the only other option is to continue watching the Rethugs do it.
One of the procedural changes Faris suggests is for Democrats to break up California into seven states. He reasons that based on our current system, Democratic-leaning states, which contain a lot more people, are rarely going to be fairly represented in the Senate. Faris said this shouldn’t be that difficult to do. It would require an act by the California governor (of course a Dem), validated by the state legislature, and then a Democrat-controlled Congress could make it official. More electoral college votes; more Democratic senators!
The Rethugs need to know what it’s like to be on the short end of the stick. It looks like the Dems are finally starting to fight for democracy with a sense of urgency. Thank God.
Looking at the Mueller Report from a mental health perspective. It’s nothing intuitive people don’t already see, but it provides the detailed back room accounts of Mango’s weak erratic and dangerous behavior and how his staff continually protects the country from him (they also protect him from himself). Some Yale psychiatrists analyzed it here.
Hey Jeanne - After reading your comments about intuiting "the fierce determination and lawlessness of the GOP and Trump -- stopping at nothing that they can get away with" I recalled a similar feeling I had during a RV session here last October.
The topic, set by Maria, was about the then-upcoming Midterm elections. Among the RV "glimpses" I received was of the Senate Republican leadership, which kinda surprised me because I expected more insight into the House races. Anyway, here's what I "saw":
"There were some images and "feelings" captured, though. The Senate was foremost in my RV thoughts. I kept getting big images of Mitch McConnell. Ordinarily, his persona is hard to decipher, and for this exercise I can't determine if he's upset or not . He's got his "mask" on and he's a tough nut to crack. However, his big ol' Mitch face kept appearing on my "RV screen". Senator John Cornyn, R-Texas, also appeared. He's the Republican Senate Majority Whip. I sensed a real steely determination in him, a sort of "we must do this" attitude, like Cortez ordering his boats be burned on the beach. There's no going back now."
Mitch and Cornyn were the clearest RV moments of that session. It was like a warning that these guys would be Big Trouble going forward. There was a real sense of them and fellow GOP travelers thinking "we've got to follow through on this, no matter what."
Wow lots of stuff going on the last couple of days. I have thought all along that the Dems have to get tough. Someone ask Pelosi about jailing Barr for contempt and she pointed out there is a jail cell in the Capitol building. David Farris is right about the Rethugs playing dirty. A state congressman in Texis introduced a bill making illegal to transport an elderly, disabled or poor person to vote! He is essentually trying to take away the rights of citizens.
Trump is becoming more and more unhindged, and so have his supporters. In a rally in the Florida panhandle, when immigrants were brought up, the crowd yelled "shoot them". Trump was smiling and joyful. He loves the violence. In New Mexico last month a right wing militia was "helping" the border patrol round up immigrants. One of the leaders stated he wanted permission to build towers and shoot the immigrants before they crossed the border. If just one of these idiots lets lose and shoots will Trump excuse them and pardon them? They released the Coast Guard member who was stock piling weapons and threatening to shoot public officals. They ruled that he didn't pose a terrorest threat!
By the way, is anyone else sick and tired of Melania and her "be Best" BS? To give the speech she did on bullying and parenting when her husband goes on twitter rants that call people horrible names and calls for violence against "the enemies of the people" meaning enemys of his. I don't remember where she was speaking but one of the other speakers was a ex-TV personality from fox who was fired for harrassing his female co-workers with text pics of his penis! Great group of people FLOTUS! When people say they feel sorry for her, I laugh. She is as bad a s her husband.
The WH has also started pulling press passes for journalist they don't like which means anyone who isn't affiliated wiht the right wing. Falwell calling for Trump to get two additional years is another of their tactics. I honestly believe they are putting as much out there as they can to see if the public will rally around Trump. I truly beieve it will backfire.
I know we all have to stay strong and generate as much light as we can. Personally I am sick and tired of all the negitive crap the administration is putting out there and I know I'm not the only one. I quit watching the news in 2016 and am very selective were I get my info on the internet.
Namaste.
Sorry I got a little off topic here. I believe Mueller will eventually testify and it will be earth shattering.
Has anyone seen the movie "VICE"? It is an eye opener to see just how the GOP started their systematic destruction of our democracy and how they skewed things for their nefarious deeds. It was also a very good movie too :-)
I have been saying for years now that the dems need to fight dirty - you can't "bring a knife to a gun fight". That does not mean I want them to use their power the way the GOP has, however the idea of dividing up California for the sake of having more senators is brilliant. Problem is the voters may not always vote the way you think...so perhaps it can work, but even better would be someday when there is a blue wave in all houses the amount of senators per state should be one of the things that future administration will need to change. Senators should be based on both criteria, state and population. A state like North Dakota should have 1 or 2 but California should have 6 or 7. N. Dakota has the same amount as California - 2! Yet you could fit everyone in N. Dakota in just one city in California!