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Venezuela Is Ruled By A Dictator & Held In Power By A Corrupt Legal System And Military.

Venezuela Is Ruled By A Dictator & Held In Power By A Corrupt Legal System And Military.

08/22/2024 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

“Maduro heads an authoritarian government, and has been described as an autocrat and a dictator. Between 2013 and 2023, Venezuela dropped 42 places in the Press Freedom Index. According to estimations by the United Nations (UN) and Human Rights Watch, under Maduro’s administration, more than 20,000 people have been subject to extrajudicial killings and seven million Venezuelans have been forced to flee the country. The UN Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela concluded that the country’s justice system independence has been deeply eroded; the mission also identified frequent due process violations, including political external interference and the admission of evidence through torture. Most Venezuelan television channels are controlled by the state, and information unfavourable to the government is not covered completely.  In 2018, a Board of Independent Experts designated by the Organization of American States (OAS) alleged that crimes against humanity have been committed in Venezuela during Maduro’s presidency.  In 2021, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced the opening of an investigation regarding the situation in the country.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro

 

RESULTS FROM VENEZUELA HAVING A CORRUPT POLITICAL SYSTEM:

  • More than 20,000 people have been subject to extrajudicial killings.
  • The country’s justice system independence has been deeply eroded.
  • Mismanagement of the economy.
  • Rampant violence,
  • Inflation,
  • Gang warfare,
  • Soaring crime rates
  • Shortages of food, medicine and essential services.
  • Currently, 96 percent of Venezuelans live in poverty

Posted: 8-22-2024
Posted by Score Card

 


News, Politics, Venezuela
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Some Possible Factors That Large Portions Of The United States Might Represent Being An Idiocracy.

Some Possible Factors That Large Portions Of The United States Might Represent Being An Idiocracy.

08/22/2024 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

Why is it that Donald Trump has such high approval among US voters when the evidence about the man should diminish his standing?

One of the most significant group of voters that support Donald Trump are white Christians.

“… most White Christian voters say they would vote for Trump over Biden if the election were held today”

“… he promised to expand religious liberty and nominate pro-life judges who would overturn Roe v. Wade. Perhaps even more important, he fought in the culture war against anti-religious fanatics.”

“… it’s difficult to imagine evangelical Christians would prefer a world where the president is of good character but attacks their values and religious beliefs.”

 

CONCLUSIONS:

“Religious liberty is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, yet the meaning of this core American value has been debated throughout the nation’s history. Today, conflicts most often arise from Christian nationalism, the anti-democratic notion that America is a nation by and for Christians alone. At its core, this idea threatens the principle of the separation of church and state and undermines the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. It also leads to discrimination, and at times violence, against religious minorities and the nonreligious. Christian nationalism is also a contributing ideology in the religious right’s misuse of religious liberty as a rationale for circumventing laws and regulations aimed at protecting a pluralistic democracy, such as nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQI+ people, women, and religious minorities.”

“…critics have described White Christian nationalism, a deviant strain of religion that has infected the political mainstream. White Christian nationalists believe the US was founded as a Christian nation, although the Constitution never mentions God and enshrines the separation of church and state. Its adherents twist biblical language to justify violence, sexism and hostility toward people of color.”

Recommended documentary about this subject: BAD FAITH
It is a feature-length documentary that explores the dangerous rise
of Christian Nationalism in the United States.

Posted: 8-22-2024.    Posted by: Score Card


News, Opinion, Politics, United States of America, US Government
Bad Faith, Donald Trump, evangelical Christians, US is an idiocracy, white Christians
What Do Americans Want? – Strengthen The Economy – Which Political Party Delivers?

What Do Americans Want? – Strengthen The Economy – Which Political Party Delivers?

08/20/2024 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

Americans’ top policy priority this year? Strengthening the economy.

“No single issue stands out after the economy.”

Nearly three-quarters of Americans (73%) rate strengthening the economy as a top priority.

Pew Research Center

 

Next question:

Which political party has performed the best in delivering this priority?

“…an analysis of economic performance since World War II under Democratic versus Republican presidents strongly suggests that claims that Republicans are better at managing the economy are simply not true.”

“… since World War II, the economy has performed substantially better under Democratic presidents.”

Source:  Joint Economic Committee-fact-sheet—The-Economy-Under-Democratic-vs.-Republican-Presidents-June-2016.pdf

 

 

CONTINUE FULFILLING YOUR PERSONAL POLITICAL PRIORITY.
VOTE FOR.
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz!

 

 

POSTED: 8/20/2024
POSTED BY SCORE CARD


County, Economics, Federal Government, News, Opinion, Politics, United States of America, US Government
Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, US top political priority
Donald Trump Evaluation

Donald Trump Evaluation

08/12/2024 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

Donald Trump is allegedly all of the following:

  • Lacks intelligence.
  • Con artist
  • Fraud
  • Ignorant
  • Lies constantly.
  • Racist
  • Trump is an autocrat.
  • Trump is a traitor.
  • List of criminal charges against Donald Trump.
  • Donald Trump killed 400,000 (or more) Americans.
  • Trump is self centered, only concerned about himself. (book:  The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump …)
  • Trump may be in a psychotic spiral. (Bandy X Lee MD).  (book:  The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump …)
  • Trump exhibits arrested development. (Bandy X Lee MD)  (book:  The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump …)

Trump’s political plans:

  • Trump supports the plutocracy.
  • Plutocrats are normally autocratic.  They are concerned about themselves.
  • Trump is still running for the presidency so he can stay out of jail.

 

The problem is many Americans fail to analyze properly, to calculate the positive and negative issues to vote with intelligence.

The Financial Times did an article “What makes Donald Trump irresistible”. 

They call it “the Trump factor”.  

Following is a list of factors;

  1.  Grit
  2. Spectacle
  3. Nostalgia
  4. Faith
  5. Economics

Note how the Financial Times, above, list contrasts shockingly with his significant list of negatives at the beginning of this article.

The Financial Times article seems to reveal the utter lack of many Americans to properly evaluate the many factors associated with  the large number of personal detriments vs attributes of Donald Trump.

Properly Done: One would hope that each American citizen would take note of all positive and negative aspects of Donald Trump and place a value on each and then come up with a plus or negative TOTAL result.  Instead, the Financial Times article seems to reveal incredibly simple minded, flawed, approach by many Americans.  This apparent lack of conducting a good analysis by many Americans may lead to the ruin of the United States!

 

RECOMMENDED READING:

  • The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President – Updated and Expanded with New Essays Hardcover – March 19, 2019. by Bandy X. Lee (Author), Jeffrey Sachs (Foreword), Robert Jay Lifton (Contributor), Gail Sheehy (Contributor), & 37 more
  • Few Americans Express Positive Views of Trump’s Conduct in Office.  PEW RESEARCH CENTER, (80% of the public describes Trump as ‘self-centered’)

  • AMAZON list of books about Donald Trump.
  • Financial Times, What makes Donald Trump irresistible

 

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Posted 8-12-2024
More content added:  8-13-2024; 8-16-2024

Posted by Score Card


Commentary, Federal Government, News, Opinion, Politics, United States of America, US Government
Donald Trump, List Trump's failings, PEW RESEARCH CENTER, The Financial Times
Quality Information Sources Revealing Reasons Not To Vote For Donald Trump.

Quality Information Sources Revealing Reasons Not To Vote For Donald Trump.

07/11/2024 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

WEBSITE:   American Civil Liberties Union

How Donald Trump’s Election Lies and Other Anti-Voter Policies Will Continue to Impact Our Democracy

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BOOK:  The Top 300 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Vote for Donald Trump: (even if you are a lifelong Republican)  Amazon Paperback – September 29, 2020

by Greg Geisler (Author)

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WEBSITE: Common Cause

Donald Trump Should be Disqualified

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WEBSITE:   LANCASTERONLINE

Why evangelical Christians should not vote for Trump

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POSTED: 7/11/2024
Updated: 7/12/2024

POSTED BY: Score Card


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A Rather Long List Of Reasons Not To Vote For Trump

A Rather Long List Of Reasons Not To Vote For Trump

07/07/2024 Score Card Comments 0 Comment

The following list of reasons to not vote for Trump was pulled out of a single website article, listed next.

The full list of 100 reasons to vote NO on Trump

When I came across this website article, and I reasoned that I could not do any better.  So I picked out only some items that I felt had good reasons, valid and punch.

Please help protect the United States to remain a Democracy!   Vote Democratic.
Following is a long list of alleged reasons why Trump is unfit to be president:

  • “A major league narcissist, probably a sociopath …”
  • Some “seeing him as a megalomaniac.”
  • “Some see him as delusional,…”
  • “ His position on health care reform is so vapid that it amounts to gibberish.”
  • “He is the definition of inconsistency.”
  • “ A loose cannon, who throws out outrageous positions.”
  • “Specializing in personal attacks, he insults and demeans.”
  • Trump “has a language deficit and a limited vocabulary. Some experts put his language at 6th grade level.  He specializes in incomplete sentences.”
  • “His combination of tax cuts and spending proposals would sharply increase the federal debt.”
  • “ His focus is always on doing whatever it takes to win, not on doing the right thing.”
  • “ He has disrespected multiple women in a coarse manner.”
  • “With disapproval ratings of nearly 70% of the overall electorate, he will a hard time being elected president.”
  • “He blurted in a debate that he would condone torture of terrorist suspects and the killing of their family members, both violations of international law.”
  • “Trump has trouble with math.”
  • “Trump called the North Atlanta Treaty Organization (NATO) “obsolete”.
  • “Trump uses mockery as a standard form of insult.”
  • “When he makes a big goof, he doesn’t correct it.”
  • “Some of his statements are so absurd…”
  • “ He wants to be unpredictable…”
  • “He is self-destructive.”
  • “His facts are so off as to be absurd.”
  • “He confuses reality and image…”
  • “Trump cheats at golf, big time.”
  • “His flip-flps on issues keeps growing in number.”
  • “Whether he fully intends it or not, his campaign brings out the dark side of the American electorate,…”
  • “He is sketchy on conservation and the environment.”
  • “He fear mongers on alleged American weaknesses and vulnerabilities and uses McCarthyism tactics to smear his opponents.”
  •  “Trump’s “attention span was so limited that it is impossible to discuss problems with him in any detail.”
  • “Trump is uncoachable.”
  • “Trump’s attention span is so short that it left him with “a stunning level of superficial knowledge and plain ignorance.”
  • ““I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes, there is an excellent possibility that it will lead to the end of civilization.”
  • “None of the 45 economists who have advised the past eight presidents, Republican and Democrat, support Trump.” “… things could be worse. And I fear they would be under Mr. Trump.”
  • “Grossly under-prepared for the critical debate, he broke all the rules, interrupting and overriding his opponent and moderator repeatedly. His disorderly mind caused him to miss the point of questions. In short, he covers up for an undisciplined mind with bluster, repetition and theatrics.”
  • “He is oblivious to the truth”

(Keep your No-Trump reasons coming to me at this website or to [email protected].)

The full list of 100 reasons to vote NO on Trump

 

Posted 7/7/2024.   Posted by Score Card


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