Give me my way or I will torture children. MAGA Tuesday, Jun 25 2019 

Visualize a child-hostage situation in which the hostage-taker says, “Give me a  billion dollars, or I will begin to kill one child every hour.”

How does that make you feel about the hostage-taker?

Visualize that the hostage-taker is the President of the United States, and the hostages are foreign children at our southern border.

How does that make you feel about America?

White House Threatens To Veto Aid Bill For Migrant Families



Is America in such imminent danger from these families that killing children is an appropriate measure?







The hostage-taker-in-chief doesn’t only threaten children and families at the border. He also threatens the children and families who, for many years, have lived peaceful, productive lives here in America.



They sent us away. They told us America is”full.” (AP Photo/Julia Le Duc)

Wait a minute. Do those millions constitute such a grave and imminent danger that mass, Gestapo-like roundups are warranted?

If the danger is so grave and imminent, why does the President now decide it’s OK to postpone the deportations?

Could it be there is no danger, but rather an invented, political talking point to appeal to Trump’s xenophobic base?

Does Trump believe the immigrants are not really people, but rather are non-human political pawns, whose lives don’t matter to us white American citizens?

Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said the threatened raids were “appalling.”




Trump, the GOP, and their followers have a long history of mean-spirited cruelty. The attempts to take health care from the poor, by eliminating ACA (“Obamacare”) failed only because one decent Republican (John McCain) objected.

Trump, being indecent himself, still hates McCain for that act of decency.


And then there are the states that deny health care to their own poorer citizens by refusing to expand Obamacare, even though the expansion would bring billions of federal dollars into the states.

More Trump, GOP cruelty.

And not to forget the gay hatred and Muslim hatred that courses through right-wing veins.

Finally, let us remember the “DREAMers.”

They are the young undocumented immigrants —who often arrived at a very young age in circumstances beyond their control.




The children live each day, knowing they are subject to deportation. Trump and the GOP could solve their plight in an instant. Cruelly, the right wing invents excuses to continue the torture. 

Trump is a bully and a coward, as his “Cadet Bone Spurs,” draft-dodging persona demonstrates.

He has the shocking temerity to claim that bullying helpless men, women, and children somehow will “make America great again.”

And ironically, his “religious, patriotic, law-and-order” followers believe him.

The world looks on in astonishment as Reagan’s (and others’), “Shining City upon a hill” sinks into depravity, led down by an egomaniacal psychopath.

MAGA, indeed. That slogan will live in infamy.

One only can hope that when the Trump Gestapo begins to kick down doors and starts herding unfortunate families into boxcars for travel to nowhere,  thousands of good Americans, true Americans will surround the jackals and chase them off, never to disgrace America, again.

Only then will America recover from traitorous Trumpism, and prove to ourselves and to the world, that we indeed are the world’s Shining City, deserving of worldwide admiration.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty
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Implementation of The Ten Steps To Prosperity can narrow the Gaps:

Ten Steps To Prosperity:

1. Eliminate FICA



4. Free education (including post-grad) for everyone

5. Salary for attending school

6. Eliminate federal taxes on business

7. Increase the standard income tax deduction, annually. 


9. Federal ownership of all banks





Help me. There must be a word for this. Tuesday, Aug 30 2016 

Perhaps you can help me either find or invent a word for this.

Do you know of a word that means: The tactic of accusing and insulting someone for having a fault that you, yourself have even more extremely?

For example, Donald Trump referred to Ted Cruz as “lyin’ Ted.” There is ample evidence that Trump is one of the worst liars ever to run for political office.  (Being a worse liar than most politicians really says something. It’s like being the fattest pig in the pen or the loudest howler monkey in the jungle.)

While I don’t like Ted Cruz — he’s a mean-spirited SOB — he seems pretty honest about who he is, and surely doesn’t compare to Trump as a liar.

So for Trump to call Cruz a liar is: [The word needed here]

The closest thing I can think of is “ironic,” but it isn’t specific enough. Ironic can apply to all sorts of unexpected relationships. I’m looking for something more specific.

“The pot calling the kettle black” isn’t quite right. It’s not a word, and it implies that the pot and the kettle are equally black. I’m looking for a word that indicates the pot is much blacker than the kettle, but calls the kettle “black,” to divert attention from its own greater blackness.

Example: Trump refers to Hillary Clinton as “Crooked Hillary.” This, from the man who founded and profited from the outrageous scam operation known as “Trump University,” for which he is being sued and very well could be jailed.

Now, in truth, there always have been questions about Clinton’s finances, but the combination of Trump University and Trump’s failure to pay workers, and his cheating of creditors and boasting about it, surely exceeds any Clinton “crookedness.”

So, for  Trump to call Clinton “crooked” is [The word needed here]

Another example: Trump questions Clinton’s health.

She provided a real medical report from a real doctor. Trump provided a fake report from a gastro guy who claims to be a Fellow at the American College of Gastroenterology. Except he hasn’t paid his fellowship dues for 20 years, and the FACG wishes he would stop making the false claim.

So that isn’t exactly irony, because irony usually is unexpected, and the fact that Trump submits a faked letter from a doctor who provides a fake credential is completely expected. Birds of a feather, you know.

While no 69-year-old woman is in “perfect” health, for an overweight, 70 year-old-man, who turns in a fake health report, to question her health is  [The word needed here]

Similarly, Trump said Clinton is a bigot, who is interested only in black votes, not  in black people.

This from a guy who calls Mexicans “criminals and rapists,” wants to bar all Muslims from America, and who selected Mike Pence, known for his tough, anti- LBGTQ stance.

And it was Trump who tweeted, “Dwayne Wade’s cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago. Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!” 

Talk about being interested only in black votes. A murder elicits that tweet?

Trump is the gun lover who has been endorsed by the NRA and (according to Breitbart) “opposes universal background checks, assault weapons bans, high-capacity magazine bans,and gun-free zones.” Trump even wanted guns in bars and night clubs.

In short, for a guy who has based his entire campaign on bigotry, to call anyone else a bigot, is  [The word needed here]

It’s far more than mere irony. It’s far more than merely the pot calling the kettle “black.”

It’s an attack method to deflect attention from his own faults, so that his followers will use the “They both are” defense.

If a Clinton fan points out that Trump is a bigot, a Trump defender can say Clinton is a worse bigot, to deflect attention from Trump’s bigotry.  “They both are bigots,” or “She’s worse,” is the response.

But while she may or may not have some bigotry in her heart, Trump is a real, major-league B-I-G-O-T, and that makes all the difference.

Trump, the scammer, tweeted that Marco Rubio, “is scamming Florida.”
Trump, the liar, said that reporter Jeff Horwitz, “wouldn’t know the truth if it hit him in the face.”
Trump, who has articulated no strategy re. ISIS, said to Megyn Kelly, “You have no idea what my strategy on ISIS is.”
Trump, who sees nothing wrong with nuclear bombing terrorists, called Charles Krauthammer, “an Iraq war-monger.”

There are many more examples, but to make the point, here is a final one: Trump says he himself is tough, and former POW Senator John McCain was not a hero, despite McCain having been tortured and even having refused freedom if his fellow POWs weren’t freed.

This from Trump, who ducked the military draft with the phony claim of a “heel spur” (that subsequently and miraculously healed all on its own.)

For a draft dodger to claim McCain is no hero is perfect example of  [The word needed here]

What is the best word to mean: “Deriding an opponent for having your flaws”?

“Phony” is accurate, but not specific to the circumstance. The same is true of “ironic.”

“Chutzpah,” “gall,” and “nerve” are in the right genre, but not really addressing the evil selfishness, and damaging, clownish incompetence of a Donald Trump.

So, if a word doesn’t exist, perhaps you can invent one.

Or maybe the word simply is “trumpism.”

What do you think?

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty

Ten Steps to Prosperity:
1. ELIMINATE FICA (Ten Reasons to Eliminate FICA )
This article addresses the questions:
*How much would it cost taxpayers?
*Who opposes it?”





Why I hope Trump wins the Republican nomination Monday, Mar 14 2016 

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Where did it begin? With Karl Rove? George W. Bush? Newt Gingrich? The Tea Party?

Somewhere along the line, the self-proclaimed patriotic, self-proclaimed religious Republican party lost its patriotism, lost its religion, and lost its morality.

The Republicans were not to cooperate to benefit America. For the right-wing, politics became a vicious war, and winning became the obsession.

The biggest story of the past fifty years in American politics has been the ascendancy of the right, and it’s a story of apostasy. George Packer, “Turned Around,” The New Yorker, February 22, 2016

Then came Barack Obama. In reality, he’s just another DINO (Democrat in name only). He’s more conservative than liberal, more Tea Party than Democrat, more pro-rich than pro-poor.

He espouses the Big Lie that federal financing is just like personal financing, that the federal government can run short of dollars to pay its bills, and that federal deficits are “unsustainable.”

Obama signed into law the infamous Budget Control Act of 2011 which led to the outrageous “sequester.” He sold the act to the public as a way to prevent a mythical sovereign default, because of the unnecessary 2011 debt-ceiling crisis.

Obama spoke of “hope,” then deported more hopeful immigrants than any President in American history.

And it was all for naught. Obama’s craven pandering to the Republicans and the rich failed like craven pandering always does — just as his craven pandering to Arab terrorism failed to bring peace.

The Republicans (and the terrorists) saw Obama’s weakness and smelled blood in the water.

The Republican goal became not one of building America, nor of helping Americans, but rather of tearing down everything Obama. The Republicans became the party of obstruction, and in doing so, the Republicans also became the party of hatred, a dark, brooding menace on the polical landscape.

They broadcast hatred for gays, for immigrants, for women seeking abortion, hatred for unions, for Muslims, the poor, Latinos, the aged, blacks, those who want any form of gun control, hatred for non-Christians, those who believe in evolution, those who believe in human-caused global warming, those wanting pollution controls, embryo research, peaceful negotiation rather than war, and of course, hatred for anything Obama.

And now we have that political party, so alienated from American morality, it refuses to participate in the American political system. Republicans will not even consider the credentials of any Supreme Court candidate, no matter how qualified, if submitted by Obama.

As the inevitable result of moral abandonment came Donald Trump, the ultimate caricature of Republican contempt for compassion.

If Republicans despised immigrants, Trump would detest them more. He will deport 11 million.

If Republicans despised foreigners, Trump would detest them more. He will build a colossal wall and create fortress America.

If Republicans were bigots, Trump would be the greater bigot. In Trump-world, Mexicans became “rapists and criminals,” and “Islam hated America.”

If Republicans admired guns, Trump would adore guns. He says, “The government has no business dictating what types of firearms good, honest people are allowed to own.” (Everyone to have a machine gun?)

Trump claims global warming is a hoax. He claims deficit spending (which primarily helps the middle and lower incomes) must be cut. He wants to freeze green cards and to end constitutionally provided birthright citizenship. Trump University is only one of his many shameful business legacies. Trying to steal a widow’s home was business as usual.

Trump tells you the U.S. “should look and act tough.” But, he is a bully and bullies are cowards.

He wants to send our young people to fight and die for oil drilling areas, though he did everything possible to stay safely out of the military.

Now, he swaggers to his podium, affects a fierce face, and points at those who disagree with him, snarling “Get ’em outa here. Get ’em outa here.”

Mr. Tough Guy.

In short, he tells us to be bullies just like him. He wants us to be a xenophobic, cowardly, aggressive, hateful America. That is his slogan, his how he plans to “make America great, again.”

And that is why I hope he becomes the Republican candidate.


The Republicans have sown the wind of hatred, and they have reaped Donald Trump. While the Republican party may have become stupid and mean-spirited enough to nominate him, I doubt very much that the American public is Trump-stupid and Trump-mean enough to elect him.

The world is filled with little, rotten, imperious governments, run by little, rotten, imperious martinets. This is not America.

With Trump as a candidate, Americans will have a wonderful opportunity this November to tell the world: “We are not a nation of haters and bigots. We are not a fearful, exclusionary, white-only, Christian-only, male-only nation groveling before the rich and powerful.

We are a giving, charitable, loving nation, comfortable enough in our great strength to welcome the tired, the poor, the homeless, the hungry, and the ‘huddled masses yearning to breathe free.'”

Rather than following the false words, “Make America great, again” (We already are great), we can make America the ideal again, the country the rest of the world wishes to emulate, not just for our money and our military, but for our morals.

Millions of people, all colors and all beliefs, have poured across our borders for more than 200 years. The blending of genes strengthened America’s genes.

Those who already had arrived showed the courage to welcome the strange ideas and the unfamiliar customs of our new arrivals, not with a wall, but with open hearts. We were the golden land, embracing strangers and helping them achieve the American dream.

And that is how we created the greatest, most powerful nation the world ever has known.

But sometimes, even here in America, we need a reminder about who we are, and how being inclusive and welcoming and compassionate have made us admired.

So go ahead, Republicans. Bring it on. Nominate Trump and give us Americans the podium from which we will reject Trumpism and show the world why we still are America the beautiful.

Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
Monetary Sovereignty


Ten Steps to Prosperity:
1. Eliminate FICA (Click here)
5. Salary for attending school (Click here)
6. Eliminate corporate taxes (Click here)
7. Increase the standard income tax deduction annually Click here



10 Steps to Economic Misery: (Click here:)
1. Maintain or increase the FICA tax..
5. Cut financial assistance to the states.
6. Spread the myth federal taxes pay for federal spending.
8. Never prosecute any banker for criminal activity.
9. Nominate arch conservatives to the Supreme Court.
10. Reduce the federal deficit and debt


Recessions are cured by a rising red line.

Monetary Sovereignty

Vertical gray bars mark recessions.



Mitchell’s laws:

•Deficit spending grows the supply of money


•Austerity is the government’s method for widening
the Gap between rich and poor.


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