USA is Trump's private Mar-a-Lago with the Shutdown

USA is Trump's own Mar-a-Lago with the Shutdown. He can reopen the parts of government he likes and abandon the parts he doesn't like.
If you are close to Trump, the govt stays open, if you are not, you are on the street with a sign in your hand.
Yet another way to destroy a nation from within: Defund social service while backing select business, and as a result throw people out in the streets, while the other half have everything they need and feel no pain.
This is astonishing to watch, gotta hand it to Putin et al, getting Trump elected was One Smart Way to invade a nation without using guns or bombs

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‘We’re left in the dark’: As many industries get shutdown relief, those without political clout feel left behind

The lack of guidance from the White House on what services can be considered essential has created an opening for politically connected interests, critics said.

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Kay Ebeling

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just watched report on France 24 about far north cities in Russia that are prospering now thanks to climate change, as routes of passage across the arctic have opened that they never could cross before. Whole new industries are developing in Russia's far North, connecting to Finland, cutting a month off of shipping times.
In case you wonder why Trump is not concerned about climate change. Vladimir and his guys are benefiting from it.

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Trump] "looks bad, but only if we're going to start counting evidence as proof." -Stephen Colbert, Jan 17, 2019

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This is what information warfare looks like. it took 20 years of brainwashing and twisting truth on Fox and hate radio to prepare Americans to think a govt shutdown is normal. Today the slow moving coup is amping up, attacking more aggressively, but still Slow Moving.

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George Washington, the first President of USA, "could not tell a lie." The last president of USA, Donald Trump. . .

People who lose their jobs and homes soon from "govt shutdown" may then be shipped to the Southern border to live in camps where they will build the wall.
that image just popped into my head

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Links: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/were-left-in-the-dark-as-many-industries-get-shutdown-relief-those-without-political-clout-feel-left-behind/2019/01/19/98375914-1b4e-11e9-8813-cb9dec761e73_story.html?utm_term=.d1b5b01d7aab
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Was Ayn Rand a Russian sleeper cell?

Kay Ebeling

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This Whole Right Wing revolution is rooted in the writings of Ayn Rand, who came to USA after WW2. Her books are mostly an extreme reaction to Communists in her home Russia,  and her words became the foundation of "Libertarianism." 

The idea came from Russia...
I just think that is a funny coincidence.

Libertarians Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich were the first to close the govt in 1995 while Rush Limbaugh cheered from his perch on Hate Radio. Now in this revolution in 2019 the Russians seem to have gotten to right wing politicians such as Ron's son "Rand" Paul through media characters such as Rush Limbaugh and in backroom deals.
Right now a libertarian coup is causing the U.S. govt to make policy that is destroying the USA, including a government shutdown that no one balked at in early December, bk shutdowns have been done before.
It all started with one Russian girl Ayn Rand coming to USA and getting a job writing in Hollywood which you just don't get without connections. Then she started writing looong mesmerizing books full of the new right wing political rhetoric.
hmm

Watching downfall of USA from my laptop continued

That line in Trump's speech last night re building a wall because "they love the people inside'' could have been written by a professional propagandist in the Kremlin.
People build walls "not because they hate the people outside but because they love the people inside,'' our President said. 
We Are All Being Set Up. 
It works better when you say the line with a Russian accent: 
People build walls "not because they hate the people outside but because they love the people inside.''
Very persuasive line as it leads you off the lemming cliff.
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Something very creepy is going on in USA w Trump Putin et al, happening in increments, so we only see a little of it at a time. I think there was no accident in that line from Trump last week, "Enjoy the ride" as that is about all we can do right now. I'm sitting here thinking that govt shutdown in 1995 was first of a couple dry runs, same year Fox News showed up on everyone's cable lineup. Putin and his friends militarized misinformation and right now we are experiencing the results of 20 plus years of infiltration and ... mesmerizing, mind controlling a large part of the population to go along with it, mostly on Fox with red white and blue sets and anchorettes in short skirts, but also with hate radio permeating rural America, and local cells flooding local papers with letters to editors and the St. Petersburg troll farm. It all worked together to bring us Trump the puppet president and the USA's self destruction, which is entering a new phase now.
"Give me five billion dollars or I won't reopen the govt."
The USA is held hostage.
I have known many Russians in my life and one characteristic they don't have that Americans have is a trust in govt, a belief that the people in charge will make things right. Americans are really pretty naive. We've only been around 250 years, Russia's been around a lot longer. 
I think those of us living in USA right now need to develop a more crafty attitude. Many Russians I've known are parts of black market networks and have underground secretive ways to make things happen where no one trusts anyone. You can't expect anything in govt to work, even if there is a law saying it should work.
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This is a slow moving coup
They took over the USA without firing a shot*, using... journalists basically, and very persuasive PR people. At least no American cities got bombed. Some of us may end up better off under our new colonial leaders.
I'm ready to just ride this out for now and see what happens next.
Hope I live to read the analyses of this whole thing 20 years from now.
*although they did help us shoot each other as the Maria Putina / NRA story will reveal.
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It's like watching a bad movie. Last night the Donald was to take to the air to declare a national emergency that doesn't exist after setting us up with the last 2 years of chaos. Then he didn't.

The USA is being run by a dictator on Twitter. 

You could not write that script and get past the first readers at a production company, yet that scenario is happening in real life.
and worst yet, this coup runs on the USA's inability to stop things. The entire nation is standing by shrugging going, "not my department."

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I'm watching this coup with its bizarre hourly news breaks on my 2 laptops, I bet it's even weirder on TV screens.
strange times

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Kay Ebeling

Yesterday at 5:28 AM · 

by Kay Ebeling 

on a mountaintop watching it all happen from my laptop 

Watching downfall of USA from my laptop, continued

it's like watching a bad movie, tonight the Donald takes to the air to declare a national emergency that doesn't exist after setting us up with the last 2 years of chaos. The USA is soon to be run by a dictator on Twitter. 
You could not write that script and get past the first readers at a production company, yet that scenario is about to happen in real life. 
and worst yet, this coup runs on the USA's inability to stop things. The entire nation is standing by shrugging going, "not my department."

My Will

When I die, and I will eventually, I leave all my DVDs and books to the El Dorado public library, South Lake Tahoe branch.
Musical instruments and NASA papers and paraphernalia donate to local public schools.
Money: I don't have enough for it to matter, use what's in the bank to pay off the credit cards.
-Kathryn Joan Ebeling

USA et Roma

The USA lost 4, 5(?) wars last 50 years and with incredible hubris declares itself still a victor. But looking all around, dealing with institutions, I see a third world nation in the making, a banana republic, where you will have to always keep a stash of cash on hand to bribe or otherwise buy needed services that used to be done by govt. Budgets are draining and in every city we have humans living on streets, begging. We Are a third world nation and we are vulnerable, like Panama decades ago. Glad i live near a lake

“Beauty is a world of its own, it has a godly license,” says Karen Stone in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone by Tennessee Williams. 
The USA today resembles post World War Two Italy in many ways. With our faded grandeur, long gone honor, and crumbling buildings and roads, Americans claim to still own an elegance that is actually no longer there.

In France there are massive violent protests now over a gas tax meant to get people to stop burning diesel fuel. Middle class French people (the original bourgeoisie) are outraged that they may have to change driving habits in the French government's small effort to stop global warming, and right now the bourgeoisie are burning down the Champs d'Elysee. 
Which shows me, there's no place left to go. 
Just ride it out (and ride my town's new electric buses) knowing at least I'm not contributing to the problem even though it really is too late to save the planet. That's the saddest part. Only persons who will be able to live comfortably on Earth in twenty five years or so are residents of higher latitudes such as Russia.
thanks, Vladimir.
(oops, Vlad, you goofed. The Arctic is spewing methane where there used to be ice. Won't be comfortable there either. sigh.)

I am still shadow blocked on Twitter. I was posting about how Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, co-founder of Fox, also funded start-up of Twitter and ever since, the only posts I write on Twitter that can be read are in comments. I have no idea how to get a shadow block lifted, but I think it may be bk I ID'd myself on home page as a former PAO* for the US government and Trump backed by Russia/Saudis first act as President was fire all the PAO's.
This ain't the USA anymore. Like I used to say two years ago and am saying again now. I am not a US citizen anymore, I just live in Tahoe.
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*PAO: Public Affairs Officer (or staff), the ones who inform public and press what the US government is doing. All fired first week Trump was in office so fast almost no one heard about it...
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Kay Ebeling

November 29 at 6:59 AM · 

Americans were shocked when Monica Lewinski blew Bill Clinton under a desk in the Oval Office, yet no one seems to mind now when Donald Trump does the same thing to Vladimir Putin.

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Since one of the smarter women in my senior apt bldg announced Sunday she's still boycotting football bk of how disrespectful some players are during the National Anthem, I have been muttering to myself, "How is taking a knee and bowing in prayer being disrespectful?" But after bad experiences in last two housing places I've lived like this, where I had to leave bk hostility towards me from neighbors got so bad, i bit my tongue.
I just now identified one feeling I have since Trump took office: Americans are now billiard balls rolling in all different directions because of a really bad pool player with a stick that needs more chalk.

• Trump is a Trojan Horse

• Trump the Trojan Horse, continued
• Trump Is A Trojan Horse (2917 edition) 

Trump the Trojan Horse continues his destruction of USA from within

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Federal Deficit Jumps 17 Percent As Tax Cuts Eat Into Government Revenue

The federal deficit ballooned to $779 billion in the fiscal year just ended — a remarkable tide of red ink for a country not mired in recession or war.

Americans were shocked when Monica Lewinski blew Bill Clinton under a desk in the Oval Office, yet no one seems to mind now when Donald Trump does the same thing to Vladimir Putin. 

Mexico ends up paying for the wall after all

Wow, Trump was right. Mexico IS paying for the border wall, by taking on the entire burden of housing and care of refugees from Central America, allowing people in USA to ignore this global crisis and buy more cars and hamburgers.

Trump the Trojan Horse, continued

I've changed so much in the past two years. It's hard for me to even CARE about the Catholic Church and its cast of perverts right now, which I covered for 10 years at my other blog. Now I watch as the USA is under information warfare attack, which is likely being run by Putin and his country full of spy professionals, but is likely funded by Saudis. Right now, the war on USA by messaging is on the uptake, accelerating, becoming more bold and more aggressive, and we HAVE to stop trying to make sense of what our President is doing. He's not working for USA. I'm just afraid of what it will be like in ten years when Russia and Saudi Arabia have accomplished their goals here.
Trump is a Trojan Horse, slipped into our country through a weird election, and now every time he opens his mouth it's like little soldiers pouring out of the Trojan horse's body, going on attack and doing more and more damage to USA.
As someone who once served in the Naval Air Reserves and worked full time for the federal government, who once was patriotic and believed in democracy, I am astounded by how quickly our nation is being attacked and torn down.
The one similarity between what happened in the Catholic Chu-rch and what is happening to USA now is the way the humans most affected just sit there and DO NOTHING, so are just letting it happen.
But in terms of what is important and relevant now, it's much WORSE for me to watch my country be attacked and destroyed the way the Trump presidency is destroying us than it was for me to learn of the hundreds of thousands of pedophile priest crimes in the last century.
So glad I'm living now on top of a mountain where it would be hard for the tanks to get to me. I'm seriously scared.
-Kay Ebeling
On top of California, watching it all happen
* See also Trump is a Trojan Horse July 2018
And Trump is a Trojan Horse May 2017
Background from Malcolm Nance: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1357240287697261&set=a.142932949128007.37772.100002339085623&type=3 

“Russia fully understood the potential of the internet age to mold perceptions and create its own reality, and information warfare is a central tenet of Russian political, diplomatic, and military operations.  The internet age has just sped up the time that propaganda – both innocent and malicious – can infect the global information flow and corrupt whatever target Vladimir Putin desires.” (Malcolm Nance writing in The Plot to Hack America, published June 2016, p. 41)

Nance also predicted after Trump’s election that since Putin’s disinformation warfare had been so successful, the attacks would accelerate and become more sophisticated. 

We are living in that time now.

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PTSD causes auto immune disease

PTSD causes auto immune disease I am learning as I experience it. My own body is attacking itself. Even though I'm trying to not think about the traumatic stuff, it comes in my email, it comes in with the news. I'm really suffering these days with, strangely enough, Allergies to Everything now along with pain in my legs, my joints deteriorating. I'm trying to live healthy, eat healthy, but then wonder what good does it do when every time I turn on the News, there is a bishop pretending to care about the pedophile priest victims or pundits babbling about "sexual abuse." I wish they'd shut up and talk about real news like Hog farms overflowing effluent into the ground water, and climate catastrophes, but instead it's sex sex sex and rape rape rape, triggering me over and over. This connection between the brain and the body is mysterious and powerful. At least I'm in a comfortable safe place to live at Tahoe Senior Plaza while I go through this. When I moved here, I quit using MedMJ because I just don't like the "side effects" I don't like being "high" and losing my keys all the time, etc, plus it Costs Too Much and I was coughing so bad. Quitting weed may be why things are so bad right now. But I'm also amazed that even when you consciously try not to Dwell on the thing causing the trauma, your body keeps the PTSD going despite your brain's efforts.
weird

My image of USA's future

In a crumbling infrastructure, under employed Americans with rotting teeth, bone thin from a diet of mostly methamphetamine and skin covered with rashes from lack of health care, drive 20 year old smoking vehicles, as public transit has all but disappeared.  
Cars adorned with American Flags bounce through potholes. Everywhere there are MAGA billboards with Trump's fat face, still president as no one remembers when the last election took place. One can barely see the horizon in all the smog and wildfire smoke. 
That's where we are headed, in fact, my neighborhood is almost there now.

And still I Tweet

@cityofangelsfem 2m2 minutes ago

While Americans played games and "friended" on Facebook. Russia made internet into a weapon and turned it against its creator, USA. Americans still have not even figured out what is happening to them.

Trump is a Trojan Horse

Trump is a Trojan Horse. Every time he opens his mouth more cyber soldiers pour out over USA attacking us. Until we see Trump Himself as a Weapon being used against us, we will not be able to stop him. PS Trojan Horse in history was near area now called Iraq.

This is our Handmaid's Tale Moment (Michael Moore and Bill Maher, June 29, 2018)

This is our Handmaid's Tale Moment. (Michael Moore on Bill Maher from Friday 6/29, a rough quick transcript)
M: Can I make a serious point? [SIGHS] In the Handmaid’s Tale, Bill, best part of the show are the flashbacks where she tries to figure out where was the point where things start to break. 
B: That's how fascism works. We lose one norm a week. 
M: We have a president who by the way was not elected by the people and is constantly referring to himself in the Third Reich.
B: You and I were on this page before anybody else that he could run and probably would. Maybe they'll listen to us now.
M: But seriously, they have to listen. People, where are you, you have to listen this time. Because he is going to win the 2020 election.
B: Even if he doesn't, he's not going to leave.
M: He won’t leave after the second term, if nobody stops him. This man believes in being President for life. He said a few weeks ago, Roosevelt got four terms, why can’t I. He loves President Xi, President Kim, the dictators. If we don’t stop it now, we'll be looking back at this show where we were all goofing around talking about the Handmaid’s Tale. This is the moment.
We have to find ways to stop the Supreme Court nominee vote from happening. I'll join people standing in front of the Capitol to prevent it. If this judge goes through, for the rest of all of our lives, it's a right wing court. Then if this is the last American President… I know, I know McConnell is going to call the vote and what are we going to do. The Republicans don’t think like that. They've got millions of dollars behind them, why can't we do that (screw the rules)? We tell the truth....

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Posted by: Kay Ebeling· 

The slow moving coup is truly moving slowly but I think Michael Cohen is trying to stop Trump from doing what Cohen knows Trump is about to do.
Since pundits everywhere are trying to figure out why Cohen did the "weird" interview with George Stephanopoulos, that's this retired pundit's take on it all.
A few people who know what Trump is up to from inside may find a conscience and try to stop him. But it does to me seem like Trump is barreling forward and WTF is he going to meet with Putin about later this month.
Glad I'm hiding in the woods and not dependent on US govt for too much... too much... too much..

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the city of angels is everywhere, but under a dark cloud today)