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

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

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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

A Rather Long List Of Reasons Not To Vote For Trump

A Rather Long List Of Reasons Not To Vote For Trump

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This entry is part 11 of 11 in the series Donald Trump

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 jbt01@serigraph.com.)

The full list of 100 reasons to vote NO on Trump

 

 

 

Posted 7/7/2024
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Donald Trump Score Card

Donald Trump Score Card

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DONALD TRUMP SCORE CARD

Following is a list of positive, negative, and questionable actions that Donald Trump reportedly and allegedly did.  This effort is to help us all better decide the value of this man to this country and if we should vote for him again.

PAST HISTORY

President Donald Trump was impeached twice during his single term in office. In each case, he was acquitted on all counts by the Senate.

The first impeachment of President Donald Trump occurred on December 18, 2019.

Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, was impeached for the second time on January 13, 2021, one week before his term expired.

“In each case, he was acquitted on all counts by the Senate.”

Source: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S4-4-9/ALDE_00000035/

Score:  THIS IS AN EMPIRICAL INDICATOR OF A POSSIBLE PROBLEM.

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“On January 6, 2021, many Trump supporters gathered near the White House to hear the president speak at an event known as the “Stop the Steal” rally. Trump continued to push the false claims that the election was “rigged” and that he won it. He stated that he would “never concede.” He also suggested that Vice President Pence could halt the certification of the Electoral College vote, a procedural formality that was scheduled to take place in the US Capitol building on that day.

For several hours that afternoon, a mob of Trump supporters violently invaded the US Capitol building, threatening to kill members of Congress and their staff, who hid inside. More than a hundred police officers were injured, and several rioters died—one shot by police and several from natural causes.”

Thus, Donald Trump refused to concede defeat and instead instigated an insurrection, stirring a mob that stormed the Capitol January 6 2021.

Source:  https://millercenter.org/president/trump/life-after-the-presidency
Score:  -1

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Trump openly appealed to Russia to steal his opponent’s emails.
Score:  -1

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Trump’s serial subservience to foreign strongmen such as Recep Tayyip Erdo?an of Turkey, Kim Jong Un of North Korea, and, of course, Russia’s Vladimir Putin—none of whom act out of a sense of shared interests with the United States.
Score: -1

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Trump’s dereliction of duty during the COVID-19 pandemic, which will have killed at least 400,000 Americans by the time he leaves office.
Score:  -1

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Trump had sex with women not his wife.
Score: -1

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“Trump administration’s National Defense Strategy stands out as one of the most important defense policy shifts of the last generation, reorienting the American military to confront rising and increasingly aggressive powers Russia and China.”

Source:  https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impac t-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  +1

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Trump’s Interior Department stonewalled Congressional oversight and got away with it.
Score:  -1

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Trump dismantled Obama-era policies that were designed to curb abuses by for-profit colleges.
Score:  -1

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“The Trump administration played a major but little-noticed role in pushing Congress to enact the most sweeping overhaul of financial crimes safeguards in decades, measures intended to stop money flowing to terrorists, drug traffickers and other wrongdoers.”

Source:  https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  +1

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“Under Trump, the Agriculture Department scaled back the $60 billion Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the food support program for low-income Americans formerly known as food stamps.” 
“The impact: 755,000 Americans have lost their access to food aid.”

Source:  https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479
Score:  -1

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Trump’’s  “Labor Department finalized an overtime rule notably weaker than that issued under Obama, leaving millions of workers ineligible.”
“At least 8 million workers who would have been eligible for overtime pay under the 2016 version and now are ineligible; some estimates place the amount of wages lost at around $1 billion annually.”

Source:  https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  -1

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“The Trump administration loosened the standards oil and gas companies had to meet for how much methane — the largest chemical component of natural gas and a major heat-trapping substance — they could allow to leak out of pipelines, storage tanks and other oil field infrastructure.”

Source:   https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  -1

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“In 2018, the Trump administration for the first time attempted a Defense Department-wide audit.”

Source:   https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  +1

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“The Trump, 2017 tax bill slashed individual and corporate tax rates and made dozens of other major changes to the tax code that affected virtually every facet of the economy, from small businesses to university endowments.” 

Source:   https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  0

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“At the end of 2019, Trump signed into law carefully crafted bipartisan legislation designed to ensure phone companies would install technology to verify that calls were authentic and bolster federal enforcement powers.”

Source:    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  +1

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Trump’s “Agriculture Department went to great lengths to quietly quash scientific research conducted by its employees or funded by government dollars, in particular research about how the agriculture industry could play a critical role in combating climate change.”

Source:    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479
Score:  -1

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“Early in 2020 the Trump administration released a big ball of rules meant to sweep aside barriers to sharing health information.”

Source:    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479
Score:  +1

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“Trump and the GOP-controlled Congress repealed transparency safeguards designed to protect hundreds of thousands of people working for companies bidding for federal contracts from sexual harassment.”

This would “required businesses to publicly disclose any sexual harassment or labor law violations over the previous three years whenever they bid on large federal contracts.”

“The impact: Federal contractors with a history of sexual harassment or other labor violations can win bids without having to reveal their problematic history.” 

Source:     https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  0

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“The Obama administration’s plan would have required automakers to improve fuel efficiency by 5 percent per year, but the Trump administration rolled those targets back to just 1.5 percent improvement each year.”

Source:     https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  -1

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 “Trump wanted to crack down on illegal immigration at the southern border, his administration also imposed tighter restrictions on legal immigration.” 

Source:  https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  0

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Trump’s administration’s approach paved the way for less stringent regulation of toxic chemicals.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  -1

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LEGAL & CRIMINAL CASES AGAINST DONALD TRUMP

 

In August, Georgia Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, brought a sprawling RICO case against Trump and 18 codefendants, accusing them of forming an enterprise to illegally try to keep him in power despite losing the 2020 election.

Source:    https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-key-cases-civil-criminal-investigations-lawsuits-updates-2022-7

Score:  Implies Trump May Be A Flawed Individual

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“Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith brought an indictment against Trump in Washington, DC, federal court. The case is being overseen by US District Judge Tanya Chutkan, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, who has overseen numerous criminal trials of January 6 rioters.”

“The indictment alleges Trump and a group of yet-unindicted co-conspirators conspired to stop Congress from doing its duty to certify now-President Joe Biden’s electoral victory in the 2020 election and rob Americans of their lawful votes.”

 “The Supreme Court is weighing whether Trump is immune from prosecution in the case, a legal battle that has effectively frozen proceedings. The high court is set to hear arguments on Thursday, April 25.”

Source:    https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-key-cases-civil-criminal-investigations-lawsuits-updates-2022-7

Score:   Implies Trump May Be A Flawed Individual

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“Early in 2022, Trump turned over 15 boxes of documents — including some marked as classified and “top secret” — to the National Archives. But federal investigators scrutinizing the former president’s handling of records reportedly grew suspicious that Trump or people close to him still retained some key records. The FBI seized about a dozen boxes of additional documents during a raid of Mar-a-Lago last summer.”

Source:   https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-key-cases-civil-criminal-investigations-lawsuits-updates-2022-7

Score:   Implies Trump May Be A Flawed Individual

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New York’s, ManhattanDistrict Attorney Alvin L. Bragg’s office investigated whether Trump violated campaign finance laws in connection to hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. A grand jury voted to bring criminal charges against Trump in the case.”

Source:    https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-key-cases-civil-criminal-investigations-lawsuits-updates-2022-7

Score:  Implies Trump May Be A Flawed Individual

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The Trump Organization was found guilty of 17 tax fraud counts on December 6, 2022 in a speedy, slam-dunk conviction in New York state court.

Score:  -5

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“New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Trump, his family, and the Trump Organization.  James said she uncovered a decade-long pattern of financial wrongdoing at Trump’s multibillion-dollar real-estate and golf resort empire.”

Source:    https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-key-cases-civil-criminal-investigations-lawsuits-updates-2022-7

Score:  Implies Trump May Be A Flawed Individual

 

The Disqualification Lawsuits

“Voters and advocacy groups in several states have filed lawsuits seeking to keep Donald Trump off the ballot in 2024. A case in Colorado brought by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has been litigated most extensively so far.”

“Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution, passed shortly after the Civil War, forbids “an officer of the United States” (Donald Trump) from being “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the country.”

Source:    https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-key-cases-civil-criminal-investigations-lawsuits-updates-2022-7

 

SUMMARY

The Above list Shows That Trump Is A Possible Political Threat To Democracy.

 

FINAL SCORE TOTALS:

-18

+5

POSSIBLY A FLAWED INDIVIDUAL:  +6

 

 

The above listed items came from:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/trump-worst-president-history/617730/

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-key-cases-civil-criminal-investigations-lawsuits-updates-2022-7

 

 

Posted May 15, 2024
Updated:  May 16,2024
By Score Card

United States Radio Podcasts Reveals Alleged Instances Of Donald Trump May Have Acted As A Spy And Agent For Russia.

United States Radio Podcasts Reveals Alleged Instances Of Donald Trump May Have Acted As A Spy And Agent For Russia.

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June 18, 2023 the audio blog Background Briefing hosted by Ian Masters had Thomas Carl Hartmann , as a guest speaker, revealed that Donald Trump may have been working for the Russian government some of the time with some very bad results.  Both men listed example after example of alleged collusion with Putin and possibly with SVR RF and Trump.  

There are TWO sources for this rather shocking information:

#1). The radio show of June 18, 2023 revealed “Why Did Trump Steal Classified Documents? Maybe Because Putin Told Him To.”

#2). Thomas Hartman wrote “How Much Damage has the Trump-Putin Collusion Inflicted on America?”

Possible and probable outcomes from these alleged past reported scandalous events:

  • Hillary Clinton lost being president in the 2016 presidential election of the United States allegedly from one of Russia & Trump tricks.  She actually had a much higher popular vote count but the flawed electoral college gave the win to Trump.  If the Russia trick was not played upon her, she most definitely would have won.
  • The FBI is the lead agency for exposing, preventing, and investigating intelligence activities, including espionage, in the U.S.  It appears from the information revealed that they are close to holding Trump accountable with the current trial headed with special counsel, Jack Smith.   But, the GOP appears to be protecting Trump for Russia.

  • Much of the information. presented in the blog post has been known so why does it appear that the national press has failed to “see” the apparent links between Donald Trump and Soviet (agent) individuals.
  • It is revealed from within the two blog and website sources listed above that people working for the betterment of this planet may have been killed because they may have been identified as US friendly agents.

 

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Thomas Carl Hartmann has quite a long list of professional accomplishments:

 

Posted:  6-19-2023

Wonderful Amazon Experience

Wonderful Amazon Experience

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Our house seems to need Wifi extenders to improve getting good Internet on our computers and cell phones.  I did a fair amount of research and chose the product “eero mesh WiFi system – router replacement for whole-home coverage (3-pack)” which cost me $129.99.  The website rating was pretty good at 4.4 and achieved an Amazon Choice recommendation.  But, after installing the units, we experienced random short periods loosing our Internet.  The cause was the Eero units.  I found some web sites that support that a lot of people were having this problem.  There were a few simple web site solutions that I tried but none worked for me.  I finally gave up and called Amazon customer support.  I talked to a man located in India, a terrific fellow, who understood the problem and immediately approved my returning the extenders.  He sent me a return shipping label to my computer within minutes.  I had saved the original box.  How it was repackaged was real easy and I was able to get my package ready to ship out in less than ten minutes.  I dropped the package off at the FEDEX store and those people accepting the shipment with no problem.  Within less than one hour, I got a message from Amazon that my full purchase price was returned to me!  YIKES!  INCREDIBLE!  Amazon had no way to check to see that I had sent them back all three units!   That really impressed me!

 

 

Posted 5/14/2023

Why is the Republican Party going to the far right?

Why is the Republican Party going to the far right?

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Why is the Republican Party going to the far right?

It is quite possible that individuals who embrace the current condition of the GOP political party possess some troubling personal personality issues.  Here is a list for you to consider of some factors that a citizen, a politician, fails to properly possess:

  • Some dictators have a good stage presence that attracts followers.  Donald Trump is an example.
  • Low level of compassion for others.  The individual only is concerned with self and not with us.  The individual has a high level of selfishness. 
  • Some individuals have a failure working with other people.  This person thinks their solution for problems is superior because they utterly fail to take the time to consider other peoples’s views, approaches and possibly other peoples better solutions.
      • RESULTS:  This is why some individuals hold lower value for non white people, women, gay, transgender, etc is because looking down on others elevates their own perceived value.  Diminishing others has become their belief system.
  • Some of the above factors puts an individual into a category of citizens who is now attracted to some disturbing groups of people.  This is because extreme social groups might support the flawed individual social beliefs and actions that seem to be mutually favorable such as cult and religion extremism.
  • The political process is a job that requires detecting what needs to be done for all the people to improve their lives.  A politician needs to do a good job analyzing what needs to be done and communicating with constituents the politician’s approach.  This requires that the politician have a conscientious outlook, good communication skills, organization skills and fairly good personal health to be able to put in the time to get the job done correctly.  Being a dictator allows an individual to not perform best for the nation.  A dictator can more easily make decisions that do not require getting anyone else’s permission.  A dictator can take short cuts.  A dictator can make decisions that work for the betterment of his/her rich friends.
  • There is a failure, for some individuals, to understand the distinct differences of a democracy versus a dictatorship that reveal obvious positive results for a whole nation under democratic rule and suppression of benefits under dictatorship for most citizens.
  • Failure to understand how a democracy works for the betterment of all citizens and not the selfish few.  This may help explain why some plutocrats support dictatorship form of government.  They seem to only understand what is best for themselves and/or do not care for what may be best for a whole nation of people.
  • Individuals who rise to the level of vast wealth become members of the plutocracy and can use their vast wealth to pay for self serving political legislation.  These very rich individuals, who have attained vast wealth from very lucrative enterprises, naturally are biased for favoring their industry at the expense of everyone outside their industry.  This typically leads to selfish bias not equality in the political process.  The National Rifle Association is just one example and has resulted in huge number of killings.
  • Every countries population has a moral, ethical and legal responsibility to deliver a business like country that is not a threat to their own citizens or any other country.  Ideally, every country should be honest and good for the betterment of the whole world.  Failure to adhere to this requirement brings shame upon the whole country. 
    Some current examples of this being violated follow:

 

Why is the Republican Party going to the far right?  That political party seems to have attracted severely flawed politicians and voters who seem to think in terms of self serving interests and not what is best for all.

 

 

Posted 4-15-2023