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Politics: The US Inauguration Day is Heating Up

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Raymond Alexander Kukkee

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[caption id="attachment_41" align="aligncenter" width="640"]A Northern Sunrise The Sun, Too, Shall Continue to  Rise after Inauguration Day, January 20th, 2017[/caption]

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**NOTE:  Inauguration Day  January 20th 2017:

  Here at Incomingbytes.com  We choose to comment on controversial issues even when they include the ugly and distasteful. Our readers get to talk back...and we mutually  agree  to respect the opinion of others, dislike human imperfection, scum-tossing, past mistakes, folly, and foolishness.  However—we ALSO get to think...and get to discuss...the good, the bad, AND the ugly... Inauguration day includes all of them. RAK.

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January 20th, 2017 is Inauguration Day! ....so...

Congratulations, Donald Trump!   

Let's Comment on  Trump's Inauguration  —Politely

The United States of America is about to get out the Golden  Trumpets. Hail the Chief,  raise Old Glory in a traditional, pompous ceremony; attend in patriotic fashion, or not, —and all that infers.   Inauguration Day  for the 'chosen'.  President-elect Donald Trump is about to become the 45th President,  either unleashed or inflicted upon the world, depending upon who you have been  listening to...

 

****Wow!..the first American Presidential Inauguration day was held on April 30, 1789,  which is 228 years ago.  Let us  attempt to offer some decorum and dignity to this important and momentous occasion. ****

Let's Comment on  Trump's Inauguration Day

(Continued Politely)_

That's not what  Liberals and the detractors and sore losers think, or intend to allow, under any circumstance.  

"On Inauguration day the world will fall in.  " We won't attend."  The country will blow up."  "We will protest"   "A button-pushing frenzy and nuclear holocaust"  "We will boycott the ceremony"  "America will become isolationist and trash trade agreements"  "Misogyny,'  "Cronyism "  "Racism"  "Disaster" ... are all tossed about.

 

Trump  supporters and advocates simply fire back (paraphrased) :

"Get stuffed...Anyone's  better than  electing patronizing, crooked  Hillary." "Your own D.N.C. blew the election when you tossed Bernie"  "We won, losers, so...... get over it".

Yes? No? Maybe? No? Never? The days leading to Inauguration Day have certainly been  heating up. Flaming hot. Acidic, visceral hyperbole. 

So.... Trump will Make America great again: Hot Or Not?

Confusion reigns in the land of the Free and Home of the Brave. Trump is a bad boy (reportedly) Russians hacked and interfered with the election, (reportedly)  and bad boy Trump  won the election unfairly, (reportedly) and the United States of America is headed for  imminent disaster ( the Liberal  conclusion, fear, blah, blah... ) (reportedly)

But relax, America....Trump's Electoral College triumph  will retrieve order from chaos and save Inauguration Day and Make America Great Again. Calm gurus insist. The sun, too, shall continue to rise after Inauguration Day.

Inauguration Day Fence-Building, Trade  and Hacking

If Trump immediately isolates America, has a tantrum, starts  border wall-building, nuke button-poking,   ignores traditional, international protocol, irritates the world  and trashes America  entirely— there  she blows...maybe. What would remain of America, nobody knows.

"The mere question: Just how likely is that?" should sway  doubters, in any creatively extreme scenario.

Unfounded rumours smack of political conspiracy...so who has been  smoking what? Was there ever any Russian election-hacking?  Seventeen security agencies knew all about it, —and did nothing?  Advised Pres. Obama  at the time of the election?  Or  did they? Subsequently HE did ...what exactly??  If not, why not?  There 'ya go. Inaction, incompetence, whatever, it was fine while Hillary was higher in the polls.  Golly gee.... That's why Trump won isn't it... Why all the whining NOW, the day before the inauguration? Really...Think about it...any credibility, let's see...were  there ever 'weapons of mass destruction' in Iraq ?  er....no.  "Mission accomplished ' became an international joke."  Right. So will "Russian Hacking".

So—it's The Donald you're Crowning...  Deal with it.  What is Trump—a  preemptive foreign-affairs genius or a certified loose-cannon? A master of one-upmanship?  A delusional billionaire without direction?  A  worst nightmare in inner circles of the self-entitled?  We can only guess.  One thing for sure, change is inevitable, and  the recent months have hosted  the most confusing, ridiculous,  unpredictable, and for the record, the  ugliest and most putrid and inexplicably shameful  presidential election in history.

We care for our American friends. 

With very, very few exception, they are absolutely great people, so of course we feel their pain, support their  concerns and still comment freely.  We're Canadian.  We  are not brainwashed conspiracy advocates.  We choose not to believe last-minute frantic media lies,  spinning innuendo, and questionable revelations.

Some of the subliminal  crap  from  untrustworthy, biased media , senile politicos, inner-circle manipulators,  gossips and even once-trusted Hollywood personalities....is genuinely disturbing, misplaced, and sick.  Let us be aware of those comments, concerns, and issues, but do so with peace of mind. "Where is it all coming from?" must have occurred ...or has it?

Before Inauguration Day,  let us think...

Let's touch on, and consider, and be aware of  Political lies,  fabrications, allegations,  questionable international  'friendships', and potentially disastrous political  'appointments'.  Let us studiously be aware of, but cautiously temper allegations of  racism, misogyny, crotch-groping, and deviate behaviour  of all types. Let us forget previous and sticky  Republican-brand soap-on-a-rope lynching,    epic and mindless Twitter battles , and raise our eyebrows at opportunistic, desperate revelations of cronyism and conflicts of interest.  Why?  On Inauguration Day,  all  dirty laundry— belongs in the same trash can—not staining and denigrating forever the Inauguration —a historic, traditional and proud  process.

Is   anything,  sordid and demeaning valid —when coughed up by opponents,  political 'enemies', Republicans and Democrats  alike,  —people intent on simply discrediting  —at any cost — the President-elect?

Keep in mind  that the imperfect President-elect (at an unprecedented  40% approval rating) Trump will stand alone for  Democracy on this Inauguration Day.  Not a single  whiner, loser, political enemy, detractor—or supporter, best friend or family member can take the oath for Donald Trump. He stands alone.

What has  happened TO America?  Is  Truth no longer relevant? Has fact and civil decency been replaced by creative fiction from  ugly and destructive political minds  intent upon painting America  with infidel evil,  filth,  political poison and dirt?

To Liberal doom-seekers,  we say Inauguration Day  IS  a great day to  wash it off and reflect.  Why?   It is true there is no crystal ball, there can be no promises or predictions made with human imperfection and folly  but — at some point in the future,  what will  YOU say IF YOUR new   President, Mr. Donald Trump —happens to turn out to be  one of your greatest Presidents?

Here at Incomingbytes.com  we  suggest that civilization and freedom itself can only survive with awareness and wisdom—and must remain  solidly  anchored by—truth,  civility, decency,  common sense, common goals, thought, maturity and reason. 

What do YOU think?

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The US Presidential Election: The Liberty Bell Tolls

Posted on November 7, 2016 by Raymond Alexander Kukkee
©2016 by Raymond Alexander Kukkee [caption id="attachment_3118" align="aligncenter" width="388"]The Cracked Liberty Bell tolls... The Liberty Bell Cracks[/caption]  

American Election:  The Bell Tolls for Democracy

Americans are visiting  the polls on Tuesday.   That is, if they haven't already voted early.  A bell tolling, you ask?   Is democracy at work?  We have witnessed the most surprising, dirtiest,  most impolite and  loco  race for the White House  in history.  Revelations of racism, misogyny,  sexual predatory behaviour and assault,  vows to refuse the results,  accusations of rigging, disbelief in the system, hate, off-script visceral reactions and  certainly troubling, local, state, national and global fear mongering. The Liberty Bell tolls for democracy—for democracy, in the USA, like the old bell, is cracked. Badly.

Accusations: Unmitigated gall and finger-pointing...

Nerves jangle.   According to the juicy rhetoric, the victor  of this sleazy race will be either brash, dangerous, unstable,  nasty, and thin-skinned  in the persona  of 'a one-time reality star 'you're fired'  billionaire Republican Donald Trump  or  the Teflon®-coated,  'crooked Hillary' corrupted and corrupt,  reportedly careless, unstable, a negligent private-server-using emailing security risk. That would be none other than the  tired, worn-out, evil ex- lawyer,  corporate-funded Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton, the 'First Lady' of the past. We must not forget, along with Hillary will come an added bonus in the form of    disrespected boy toy -adviser, "First Man' Play-Bill, her hubby , Monica's playschool friend, and ex-President.  Yes, that Bill.

Wow. Some choice. Uber rich, both with coloured past, the  spoiled candidates are both unpopular, considered unfit,  or pretty close to it, depending on—what?  What exactly is the measuring stick?  The  past, morality, questionable dealings,  failures in security?  And which playbooks and lip service,  foundation records are consulted, which tax disclosures.  Don't forget Clinton Foundation games.

Well okay,  let's add a  little truth?   Some truth and bare-bones honesty from the candidates themselves might  be nice  at this late date.

Yet— it never dawns on the public. It never ceases to amaze thinking observers that these unbelievably unsuitable, brash individuals  are deemed the best, the only candidates possible, chosen magically and inexplicably  from 300,000,000  people. Unbelievable.  Notice that 'best of the worst'  is not relevant. It simply does not apply.  Consequently...

The Liberty Bell Tolls for Humanity

To hear Hillary tell it, the Donald might stub his toe, fall down or suffer a few bruises —and instantly, in a rage, push the  nuke button , destroying humanity itself in a Trump-apocalypse.  Subsequently, in that model,  if Vladimir  isn't his friend any more out in the old sandbox, if China floats a fishing-boat in the China sea,  North Korea winks, or Melania, God forbid,  sends the old boy out in the White doghouse for diddlings of the past, Trump might get a  headache,  suddenly hate more Mexicans, say bad words like you're fired!  and build  higher fences at all borders. And chase  out immigrants, just in case, to  revive isolationism.   Most likely all of that won't matter, anyway, since Hillary insists the world can first expect  a resounding  tantrum and unprecedented button-pushing in the old sandbox.

"Trump  is thin-skinned"  —according to one  who screeches about unwashed deplorables, (Trump supporters) the dumb voter, the foolish uninformed, who (coincidentally) may not be persuaded to choose her hidden corporate agenda.  Of course there is  more screeching about the undecided Republican or Democrat, who's who, —who happen to rightly  voice displeasure with Trump locker-room talk and escapades past and present—but secretly love his less-than-stellar 'let's make America great' oratorical  skills.  And the Hillary-bashing part.   Nevertheless, what remains is a genuinely rich, Trump-hating rant...from an equally-unsuitable,  exhausted gender-chosen 'candidate' .... to make history yet. Go figure.

Clearly, as we consult the latest FBI machinations and revelations, the runes,  tea leaves, waving peasant-sticks and broken Trump signs, the Liberty Bell tolls for humanity itself.   After the election, everyone may wish to take that under advisement.  And go for coffee.

The Liberty Bell Tolls for the United States of America

Most notably,  it has become increasingly apparent the political system used by the United States of America is badly broken.  Think about it. Millions of people  somehow, somehow voting  for the worst candidates in history  BUT  80% or more Americans do not like either candidate. Following that heady deception,  that  supposedly rigged honest  voting process, the Electoral College is free to ignore the popular vote and decide for themselves who's going to destroy lead the country, blow it to smithereens,  or manipulate  it with  a deceptive,  some suggest 'corporate fascist-minded police-state bureaucracy'.

Bad choices, people, result in bad outcomes.

Given that the founding fathers of 1776 clearly did not have any faith in  '(We )the (ordinary) People' and  the subsequent choices made by ordinary American voters, a reality check is sorely needed. The Liberty Bell tolls for the minds, core values, and  perhaps the very existence of the United States of America.   The unimaginable is always possible; in observation, if the USSR can fragment with political differences, so can the USA.

Is a revolution in the making?  You decide. On Tuesday. That is, if you've decided to vote at all in the biggest political circus in history.  Vote or not, you'll hear  bickering, name-calling and the acidic results of lies, half-truths, mandatory head-examinations and media spin.

Unbelievably, a Boeing 747,  U.S. Air Force One  may be seen, dutifully trundling President Barack Obama  in partisan high fashion, happily coaching voters,  stumping for the 'stellar' Hillary —all the way across America  to Hillary-rallies everywhere— at a cost to taxpayers of  $200,000 per hour.  How about that?  That's the President, " Ensuring democracy" ...er... when he should be at the White House hard at work.  We must wonder who should be paying the bill for that one...

As for we Canadians—this is just another  'beyond belief' American reality show. It may be X-rated entertainment but it is entertainment that concerns.  Perhaps it is comic relief from the  cold realization that the performance of our own collection of  'politicians' breaking political promises, practicing the Peter Principle, taking ga-ga selfies, and leading parades while selling out Canadian interests— is equally disastrous.

...Let us laugh.  Perhaps a prayer or two for the old Liberty Bell might be in order.  Coffee time before the big show...

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