August 2018

“More than 40 percent of Democratic nominees for the U.S. House of Representatives so far are women; fewer than 10 percent of Republican nominees are women.  Republican women have long resisted identity-politics”; none seem willing to stand against Donald Trump.  With the misogynist-in-chief wretchedly running this country, there is a clarion call for a new generation in leadership!  And thankfully “Democratic female candidates are overperforming in the primaries”, and what an awesome crop of women they are!  Imagine a ‘female democratic John McCain’.  Many of these women are the true heroes our nation needs at this perilous time.       I offer introduction to a few of these exemplary women, and beseech you to Google: Amy McGrath video, Runway, and MJ Hegar video, Doors.  McGrath won the Kentucky primary for 6th Congressional District; Hegar won the 31st Congressional District primary for Texas.  The following won primaries in these districts: Katie Porter, California’s 45th,  Kara Eastman, Nebraska’s 2nd,  Madeleine Dean, Pennsylvania’s 4th, Susan Wild, Pennsylvania’s 7th, Deb Haaland, New Mexico’s 1st.  Michelle Lujan Grisham won the New Mexico gubernatorial primary race, after having served New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District as Congresswoman since 2012; served as Bernalillo County commissioner and spent 16 years as a cabinet secretary for three governors. Stacey Abrams won the Georgia primary for governor, and NOW Georgia is planning on closing 7 of the 9 polling locations in the majority black county, because they are not handicap-accessible!  Georgians, don’t be voter-suppressed!

Please view YouTube video on Nazis, by Mikie Sherrill, New Jersey, running for U.S. Congress.  She’s a federal prosecutor;  was a Navy ‘Sea-King’ pilot.  Google: ‘2018 women candidates for U.S. Congress and statewide’, and ‘Potential Candidate Summary – 2018 CAWP’.   The drive to elect women is defining the 2018 Democratic primaries, as women’s voices are more trusted on issues such as healthcare, education, gun control, immigration, etc.  We seek a distinct change in governance, which educated women will provide.  For those of us celebrating diversity, “two Democrat women are poised to become the first Muslim women in Congress, Somali-American, Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota state lawmaker won her MN primary and faces a challenge in November; and Palestinian-American, Rashida Tlaib won her Detriot-area primary in Michigan and runs unopposed”.   Christine Hallquist, a transgender woman, won the Vermont Governor’s primary this month.  WE WILL OVERCOME the hate, prejudice and fear, and Make America Safe Again!   The Dalai Lama made the prediction in 2009, “The World Will Be Saved by the Western Woman”!

Trish Forsyth Voss

TFV

Trump is running so scared and stepping-up his attacks daily.  Peter Strzok’s controversial firing from the FBI does not seem fair, for texting his opinions on political candidates to his gal-pal on his FBI phone, but there’s not much ‘margin of error’ in some government positions, so be it.  However, Trump demonizing the FBI and DOJ, declaring them: ‘The Deep State’ is just getting old!   Trump and his coup d’ etat is: The Deep State, and  those of us who follow real news know this, and are waiting patiently for Special Investigator, Swamp-drainer-extraordinaire, Robert Mueller, to work his way up to the big fish.  For mobsters, racketeers,  gangs and presidents, cases are built meticulously.   Mueller put John Gotti and Sammy the Bull Gravano behind bars; some things are worth the wait.  For those who feel that is ‘hateful’, I would assert that our country used to hang people for Treason, so those of us wanting impeachment and imprisonment for Donald Trump, that’s mild in comparison. 

The vast extent to which a large portion of our citizenry chooses to be unaware, unschooled, misinformed is just incredibly-staggering and sad!  “Let’s hear all the facts before we jump to conclusions”?   Where are they going to hear them from?  They obviously haven’t been able to connect-the-dots so far, haven’t yet heard of all those indicted, those who pleaded guilty, cooperated, turned federal evidence, been granted immunity, have stood trial; and their deep connections with the Trump campaign and administration.   “Outrageous claims”?  They obviously aren’t paying much attention to real news sources.  I wonder if they’ve heard how many Republicans are quitting, retiring, turning into Democratic voters? 

Republican Michael Gerson said recently, “In a democracy a vote is usually not a matter of good and evil.   The possible outcomes this November come down to this: Trump contained or Trump triumphant.  A triumphant Trump will complete his takeover of the Republican party (which is already far along); even a murmured dissent will be silenced.  The GOP will be fully committed to a 2020 presidential campaign conducted in the spirit of George C. Wallace — a campaign of racial division, of rural/urban division, of religious division, of party division that metastasizes into mutual contempt; this would leave many Americans entirely abandoned in U.S. politics.   A Republican vote for a Democratic representative will be an act of conscience”.

Heather Heyer said, “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention!”

Trish Forsyth Voss

T’he War escalates; the chasm deepens!   With each passing day the battle intensifies …. between legitimate news coverage and fake ‘news’ sources, spawning huge casualties.  The Truth is being eviscerated!   There is a significant difference between opinion pieces, and ‘stories’ told knowingly with lies, malice and the intent to incite violence.  Political discourse can be and often is coarse and inflammatory.  Our present political climate is poisonous and malignant.  The current president is the most consistently untruthful and divisive ever!  He spews outright lies about nearly every single issue that confronts us.  People want to believe their president and elected officials in charge of government; we want to believe that they have the good of our union and democracy at heart.   The majority of Americans want to see the DOJ investigation continue to its full conclusion, and many of us are clamoring for Impeachment.  Each day brings us closer to the constitutional crises that is hurtling toward us like a spinning comet.

At Trump’s rally in Tampa on 7/31 , Trump incited his angry-mob to bitterly bellow at journalists, his enemies.  It was UGLY and Scary!  Did you notice attendees wearing “Q” t-shirts and holding placards stating: “We Are Q”, which stands for QAnon, whose advocates are extreme right-wing conspiracy theorists, who push insane stories like Pizzagate, where Hillary and Podesta were running a child-sex-ring, from the basement of a D.C. pizza parlor.  Q is anonymous, on the web, and “claims to have high-level government clearance and access to insider information”.  The avid followers, called the army, react with fervor attacking the new targets, like accusing  Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks as pedophiles.  The ‘army’ seems like “Deplorable on bath salts”.  The latest is: “Q is really John F. Kennedy Jr, who faked his own death 20 years ago”.   Lives are ruined, people act on these stories, like the man with a gun, who was arrested in D.C., in 2016, when he showed up to deliver justice at Comet Pizza.  Alex Jones, INFOWARS hate-talk, radio-show host and conspiracy theorist, is now returning suit  in a defamation trial, brought by the parents of murdered Sandy Hook children, because Jones has claimed vehemently for years that IT WAS ALL A HOAX, and several of the parents have had to relocate amidst death threats.  SAD!   ‘BREAKING HATE’ is a MSNBC television documentary, scheduled for Sunday, Aug 12 at 9 p.m. EST.   Hate on the Rise in America.  Let’s tune in.

Trish Forsyth Voss

How inconceivable would it have seemed a couple decades ago that Russians would have infiltrated every sector of our security and energy infrastructures as well as our electoral processes in the 21st century?  Who would have believed that the NRA and other conservative groups would be in cahoots with such attempts and attacks on our democratic systems?   With Maria Butina’s arrest, Red Sparrow-style, the spy-gal offered sex in exchange for positions to influence political leaders, she worked with the NRA to funnel Russian money to Republican campaigns; those Republicans are compromised!  There is leaked information regarding Butina and another Russian, meeting with U.S. Treasury Department officials in 2016.   The Patriots that fought for our country are rolling in their graves!   Anyone seen pics of Confederate-flag-waving Americans now waving Russian flags?  How are people so naïve or misdirected?  And for those who keep repeating the false-mantra: “there is no evidence of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign” …. these chanters are either extremely misinformed OR they constantly seek to misinform any who will listen to them.  Several members of Trump’s campaign have been indicted — more to come.

George Washington, in his presidential farewell address urged Americans, “to remain on their guard against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government”.  He spoke of his hope that our nation “as a free, enlightened, and at no great distant period, a great nation, would give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence”.  Instead we have a totally unfit person in the presidency telling the electorate that a “free press is the enemy of the people”, coming out with autocratic enemy lists, disputing our own intelligence agencies, aiding and abetting the very enemy who authorized cyberattacks against our democracy.

Senator Jeff Flake tweeted, “The Russian ambassador says that ‘important verbal agreements’ were reached at the Helsinki summit.  What are those commitments, Mr. President?  Congress needs to know!”   Ex-Republican Steve Schmidt answered Flake, “Senator, working with Senator Corker, you have the ability to find out the answer to this urgent question by taking control of the U.S. Senate and removing McConnell as Majority Leader.  You could make certain the U.S. interpreter is called before the Intelligence Committee”.

Trish Forsyth Voss