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Alethia Merritt

Alethia Merritt's Journal
Alethia Merritt's Journal
May 27, 2018

The word is out: have a hostage, Trump will deal. Access, if nothing more.

Wonder what was promised to Venezuela?

May 26, 2018

AM Joy? Isn't "Trumps Bear" a violation of the Flag Code? Dissing the Flag vs kneeling?

What say you DUers out there?

I have read the Flag Code and no where does it mention kneeling during the National Anthem. But it does mention several other ways that many who are Trump supporters and chicken hawks disrespect the Flag and violate its code.

May 26, 2018

Anyone else not believing what MSNBC is showing now about secret Iranian docs?

Bibi is like Trump. They are both criminals in their own countries and make up stuff to make people believe what they want them to believe.

I am glad they are showing both sides of the coin.

May 24, 2018

Leak it all now. All bets are off. Anyone in that meeting who has a mind to ought to leak it all.

What happened today ought end with ALL the GOP in the House and Senate lose their seats.

May 24, 2018

We simply have to make the sticker "ABOVE the LAW" and paste on every picture on the Internet..on

where ever you see his face on twitter, FB. Headliners...paste it over with ABOVE THE LAW.

Make people see it, deal with it and understand that Trump and his administration and the GOP Congress consider themselves ABOVE THE LAW.

May 24, 2018

Don't be surprised if Trump orders (demands) that the comparative coin be valued at $100,000.

There will be many fools who will buy it at that price. Wait for it.

May 24, 2018

Trump keeps handing out military awards in major photo ops as his way of identifying with military.

I bet he has publicly given out more of these wards than any other President in the last decade in such a short time. After demanding the men and women of the Intel community, this seems like a way to garner or keep support among the military and Intel communities and serves as a makeup call for how he has demeaned John McCain which many military really detested.

May 23, 2018

Watching 45 board plane for NY to talk about MS-13.

My thoughts were, Why does the media continue to give this ignorant, fascist, psychopath a forum to spew his lies?

May 22, 2018

It may be time for a citizens march and protest of the US President.

He is usurping our democracy. The majority of the voters DID NOT vote for him to begin with. And these words ring in my mind:

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present [President of the United States] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world."

It's time people. If there ever was a time, it's now, I believe. Waiting until November will be too late. Surely after November, if that election is subjected to the same interference as the election of 2016, it will be too late. I look at the gap that is closing between the generic ballot of the Democrats and the GOP and it sends shivers down my spine. I am more fearful for my country than I was during the attacks on minorities and Jews and the assassinations during the 60's.

If you are a parent of a black or Hispanic child you are feeling what I am feeling tho you may be keeping the feelings in check. History proves that our feelings are harbingers of things to come if we do nothing.

May 22, 2018

This is why I hate that the media keeps reporting on Trump and his attacks against Russian probe



Watch this video and the two or three succeeding videos and try to understand what is happening to us because of the unrelenting reporting of whatever Trump says. The media keeps putting Trump's opinion about the probe into the atmosphere. We are being manipulated (not necessarily us here but others out there) to receive the messages that something is wrong about the Russian probe and many cannot recognize how they are being manipulated.

I would much rather we kept throwing into the atmosphere the remarkable movement by generation next about gun reform and getting Congress to do something about the incessant access to weapons among our citizens. Or talk about the environmental violence being done by our industries or the tax scam and how people are hurting out there because this administration as screwed up Obamacare.

This kind of coverage by the media is exactly what helped Trump get elected...wall to wall coverage of his hateful, racist, misogynistic, and xenophobic tweets and rallies. All that nastiness was thrown out into atmosphere and took up the space that should have been filled by the Democratic platform and HRC's messages about the economy, education, revitalizing the rust belt, and healthcare. It's happening all over again and by the time November gets here, 70% of the voting population will believe that Mueller is an evil monster actually conducting an illegal and unfair witch hunt against Trump. Of course, one expects FOX to give constant coverage of Trump and his fake allegations, but CNN and MSNBC should cover the main points of what is happening with the Mueller investigation. Trump loves the coverage and his handlers know exactly what they are doing.

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Name: Alethia Ward
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Hometown: Darby/PA
Home country: USA
Current location: Maryland
Member since: Sun May 13, 2018, 09:18 AM
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