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 SDJ
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These are all very good interpretations of the dream. I agree with the idea that if I didn’t notice a crash and the plane going down didn’t disrupt my day, then the country will recover from this stressful period.



   
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I second what @bluebelle said!!!!

We love your voice here. I can spell but I cannot type on this phone without multiple mistakes. I call them my psycho typos but my kids think I'm the queen of autocorrects gone wrong.

We still get it said and we keep on keeping on --so hurray for you for speaking up and many, many good thoughts for you and the good people of Kentucky ?

 



   
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Someone on Quora asked “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:
 
A few things spring to mind.
 
Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.
For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
 
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.
I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
 
But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
 
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
 
And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
 
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.
 
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.
Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.
 
And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.
Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.
He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.
 
He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
 
There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.
 
So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
 
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.
God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.
 
He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.
In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.
 
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:
‘My God… what… have… I… created?
If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.
 

Source: jobsanger: British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read

 



   
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Wow. If a perfect vivisection of a man could be accomplished using only the written word, this would be it. The horribly tragic part of it all is that there is no exaggeration or stretching of the truth for effect. It is, sadly, completely spot on.



   
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@sdj

I keep thinking about your dream. I do feel Trump will be taken down, but I also see that dream as a vision of what is happening right now -- that  the Office of the Presidency is rapidly descending in a fast paced death dive. There is work to do to pull that plane up. 

The GOP has been crashing the Office of the Presidency for a long time.  A party devoted solely to business profit is incompatible with democracy. 

GW Bush helped start the nose dive because he simply lacked the intelligence and the upbringing  to meet the requirements of that office. At the time, author Kurt Vonnegut lamented that C students were in the White House. 

Now Donald Trump has sent the plane into a rapid death dive.

Over the years, it has been painfully obvious that GOP candidates, GOP Fox News presenters, GOP high court judges, and GOP office holders are noticeably less intelligent and capable than their predecessors. They have lowered the bar on their professions and it lowers the quality of the U.S. leadership. there should be no C students in the White House. Donald Trump's transcripts are in a vault because he likely had worse than Cs. 

In the dream, you never heard the crash.  The fate of the U.S. presidency is still undetermined. Nancy Pelosi is trying to pull that plane back. 

I believe we will turn it around, in the same way that I believe we will come back from climate catastrophe -- we will survive but with damage that we will have to face and climb out of over time.  And that's okay because with so much damage, we will be highly motivated to turn things around!  Several years ago, one of our readers likened the recovery to a post war recovery. 

The words of Elijah Cummings continue to echo in my mind.  In July he warned all Americans: 

"I'm begging the American people to pay attention to what is going on. Because if you want to have a democracy intact for your children, and your children's children, and generations yet unborn we've got to guard this moment…this is our watch."  

I believe everyone who reads this blog gets it.  We have to stay hopeful and vigilant at the same time.  We have to tell our Congressmen how we feel and do what we can in our own way.  To stay awake and strong! 



   
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@SDJ

"It was more reminiscent of 9/11 than of Scully's miraculous river landing."

I've been thinking more about the recent dream you shared.  I completely and from-my-heart agree with all Jeanne has just so well stated. 

On 9/11, foreign terrorists purposefully coordinated, with direct calculations, the use of U.S. planes as weapons to strike catastrophic blows to our country's previously held sense of protection from being attacked by an outside enemy.  When you saw Air Force One flying dangerously low over NYC, at a steep (determined) angle, I think it represented Trump's purposeful, coordinated, and calculated (treasonous) intent to use the office of U.S. President as a weapon to strike devastating blows to our country's framework, tearing asunder what we have previously believed to be protected via the Constitution, checks and balances, a president's core decency and unquestioned loyalty to our country, etc.   

 



   
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I wholeheartedly agree that the GW Bush presidency aided in the office's decline in many ways. Bush wasn't alone in his hobbling of the office, Cheney did more than his fair share. Honesty and decorum went right out the window, as did sound judgement. We all hear about Hillary's emails, but what about Bush's? He broke the law in hiding millions on RNC servers, and then deleting them. There's a reason that the office legally requires record preservation.

I've been mulling over posting something for days about how we actually needed a buffoon like Mango to take the office. When liberties are taken, a little here, and a little there, the bar slips, and no one really notices. The decline was slow and while folks didn't like it when they actually noticed, they let it go much easier because the infractions were smaller. It takes a ham fisted, bold faced farce like what we have now to wake people up. 

I've said since the election that this would result in changes and many laws being written to close loop holes and cracks in our foundation. l kept turning things over in my mind when I couldn't get back to sleep last night - I can place a few of my ancestors in church with Franklin, Washington, Adams, Betsy Ross. The bottom line was, I just couldn't feel that they foresaw someone with so much disregard for the country and office actually being put in the office. I think they believed there would be uneducated and more rural folks with less worldly views voting, but I feel they understood that there would be changes in the competency of those holding office due to this. I believe that Hamilton had a nefarious sort in mind when he helped scribe the checks and balances, impeachment, emoluments, and insanity clauses among them. I believe they thought there could be individuals elected who were sly, and would hide their dark side prior to an election, or some trying to be placed in office by foreign entities, but I just can't see them envisioning the population electing someone who is so obviously morally bankrupt. Yet he was necessary, wasn't he? The double standards that have prevailed by the republicans in the last few decades were growing greater and greater. The good of the country was thrown under the bus for the sake of belonging to the winning party by politicians and voters alike. It's going to take a huge fall for the party and their representative for many to wake up.

Having such a farce of an administration roused our youth. That's HUGE. They typically have shown up in the smallest numbers at election time. They now know it's important to show up no only for the major elections, but the minor ones as well. Something some of us older folks didn't even realize. Many of us showed up for the big ones-Presidential, Congressional and Senate races, but we didn't always show up for the state and local races. Our youth will stay involved, and will show the next generation how to do so as well. 

When they wrote the rules regulating our governing processes, they gave instructions like hearings will be held to confirm Supreme Court nominees, they didn't realize that one day, a political party would just refuse to do so and claim they didn't have to. They didn't see that one day the office would rule by Executive Order, because the Senate and House refused to do their jobs and debate and vote on bills. There's a lot to be fixed, and it's a shame that many found and used loopholes because they lacked the dignity we and the founding fathers hoped they would possess. 

I'm confident that all will eventually turn out well. 



   
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The Orange nightmare just inserted himself in the Hillery/Tulsi debate claiming Tulsi is not a Russian Agent (well that of course just calmed my fears lol)

What I do wonder is Tulsi going to run as a 3rd party/independent candidate to take votes away from the dems like Jill Stein did? Does anyone pick up anything about that?



   
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Sorry I haven't posted for a while. I've been busy out of town at a Film Festival.

So much will change before the election. I feel like the energy has been speed up and there will be many rapid changes before the end of the year. Good ones for Americans, not for T. He seems bearly mentally functional by March 2020. T will not be the GOP candidate. 



   
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Will the AJ be out before T?  I sincerely hope that he is, but I think he'll go down with the ship.  He's destroying everything the DOJ stands for. 

 



   
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Have you seen the video of Rump talking to the female Astronauts and he is fixing his “hair” with his middle finger?!!!

Also, he looks real bad. Real swollen eyes and they are small

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J-1KklDCSvw



   
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Ha!   i think he was flipping off his own "hair".    But it was too late, that "hair" was f-ed off a long time ago.   But i couldn't stop laughing at the bobble-heads on each side of him!



   
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The republicans are still behind the Orange Nightmare. They attempted to censure Adam Schiff. Some are not behind him now, but still the majority are.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/21/why-republicans-are-trying-censure-adam-schiff/



   
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Ambassador's testimony under oath today was very damning.  For those who haven't yet seen it, here is his opening statement.  I highly recommend reading the full 15 pages.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/opening-statement-of-ambassador-william-b-taylor/6b3a6edf-f976-4081-ba7f-bce45468a3ff/

 

 



   
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Nancy Pelosi Released a fact sheets called: The shake Down, the pressure campaign and the cover up

https://mobile.twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/status/1186387666004299780?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1186387666004299780&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Finstant-articles%2F



   
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From Noah Weiland at the NYTimes:

Investigators have a new star witness, who said the Trump administration made repeated quid pro quo demands to Ukraine.

What happened today

  • Bill Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, told impeachment investigators that President Trump held up security aid and withheld a White House meeting with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, until Mr. Zelensky agreed to publicly announce that he would investigate Mr. Trump’s political rivals.
  • Mr. Taylor told lawmakers that Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, said “everything,” including the military aid, was dependent on such an announcement. “He said that President Trump wanted President Zelensky ‘in a public box’ by making a public statement about ordering such investigations.”
  • Mr. Taylor, who referred to detailed notes he took throughout the summer, told investigators about a budget official who said during a secure National Security Council call in July that she had been instructed not to approve the $391 million security assistance package for Ukraine, and that “the directive had come from the president.”


   
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Allan Lichtman (political historian) has successfully predicted the last 9 elections in the US. His model has nothing to do with polls etc. but rather the challenging party of the one in power of the Presidency has to have 6 of these keys to go against the party in the White house. So Dems need 6 keys to win the election. House has to impeach DJT, not just launch the inquiry. (I feel they will do it in the house)
I think he's got #9 (scandal key), #12, #10, #8, going against him. If someone in the republican party challenges him (not sure if we count Joe Walsh or not) or a 3rd party candidate runs that's 2 more which would be the 6 keys. If the Economy takes a downturn, that's 7.

The 13 KEYS:

1. Party Mandate                                      8. Social Unrest

2. Contest                                                9. Scandal

3. Incumbency                                         10. Military/Foreign Policy Failure

4. Third Party                                           11. Military/Foreign Policy Success

5. Short Term Economy                             12. Incumbent Charisma

6. Long Term Economy                              13. Challenger Charisma

7. Policy Change

I'm wondering if anyone picks up anything about this intuitively?  I believe Jeanne has predicted that the economy would take a down turn by the end of the year/early next which would be another key. The one I'm not sure of is a 3rd party candidate running. However, I think there's a chance Tulsi Gabbard would try.



   
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A few weeks ago I posted on this site about a large spider web that I discovered on our front porch.  I saw the web immediately after I was feeling very despondent about T.  I received the message that he and his minions would be caught in their own web of deceit. 

Then last week during our vacation at the beach, I saw another spider web, shortly  after hearing more distressing T**** news on MSNBC.  Photos of that web are attached.

Maybe you had to be there, but I found this spider web magnificent – especially when I first saw it through the sunrise (second photo).  To me it reinforced what I felt a few weeks ago about T., but more importantly, it signified the hope and faith of a new day.  I hope it uplifts you as it did me.

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@deetoo

OMG I love these pictures.  Thanks for posting them deetoo. Btw, I have a "penny" thing. When I feel worried or concerned about something, I am shown pennies -- on the street, in a jacket pocket, tumbling out of a washing machine, in my sock drawer -- when and where I least expect to see them. (I haven't seen pennies in relation to trump though, at least not yet.)

A couple of years ago I was working with a client on a really hard case (I'm an imm lawyer) and I needed passport pictures of her and her son for an application that I wasn't hopeful would be approved. She brought me the pictures in a small envelope and when I pulled them out, two pennies fell out. I knew right there that we'd have a good outcome and, sure enough, her case was approved soon after.

I love how these things/objects are used by the universe as way of communicating with us. Please let us know if you see more webs. I love when the other side talks to us!



   
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Another first hand NYC experience. Related. Saw Guiliani in a small cafeteria style Italian restaurant about 15 years ago. Stood next to him with several men standing around him. All kissing up. I remember my first impression was.."Wow, that guy is a total idiot. Clueless"  Told several friends.

My current perception? He's going to jail. All of these arrogant men are going to pay a big price.



   
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