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Ready for Season 6 Sarasota, Florida ". . .On the eve of Independence Day. Trump’s second post-presidential “Save America!” rally was held at fairgrounds in Sarasota, perhaps fitting for a man often described as a carnival barker or clown.

For more than 60 years Sarasota was the winter quarters of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus.

But John Ringling, “king of the sawdust ring”, lost his fortune and fell on hard times. . ."

The new circus comes to town: fiery support for Donald Trump at rain-soaked Florida rally

Fireworks, a Trump impersonator and undying belief in the former president at his second rally after leaving office

David Smith in Sarasota, Florida

Sun 4 Jul 2021 00.42 EDT

Last modified on Sun 4 Jul 2021 09.47 EDT

Supporters of Donald Trump, the former US president, gathered in their thousands at a rain-soaked rally in Florida on Saturday unmoved by criminal charges against his business. . .

The new circus came to town with a man playing guitar and singing “You can stick your poisoned vaccine up your ass”; a Trump impersonator in baggy suit, red tie, blond wig and orange makeup prancing across the field; a 10ft-plus Trump statue with giant hands outstretched; a man in a “Trump 2024” cap and Confederate vest; an eight-year-old Black boy wearing a t-shirt that said: “Trump won.”

But it only became the greatest show on earth when a small plane, presumably belonging to a Biden voter, circled overhead with the words “Loser-Palooza’ scrolling in lights underneath its wings. . .

There was food, fireworks and flags that snarled: “Fuck Biden and fuck you for voting for him!” Warm-up acts including Matt Gaetz, a Florida congressman under investigation over alleged sex trafficking, and Trump’s son Don Jr who said of the Manhattan DA’s case: “The political persecution will continue because we are no different from Russia, we are no different from the mullahs in Iran.”

Trump himself launched a tirade against the charges, insisting that they were part of a five-year campaign against him that included the Russia investigation which, he claimed, cleared him of collusion. He accused Democratic prosecutors of “corrupting and weaponising the law” against opponents while allowing violent crime to skyrocket.

“This is the kind of persecution they’re doing, as an example in New York, that you would see in Third World nations,” he said. “It’s reminiscent of a communist dictatorship targeting its political opponents... There’s no depth to which the radical left will not sink to stop our Make America Great Again movement.”

. . .The views were shared across age, gender and race. Liz Ulibarri, 57, who works in a metal shop, said: “I think the charges are trumped up and the Democrats are desperate to pin something on him. They’ve decided to try and bring him down but everything they’ve tried has failed. Over five years, how many things has he been accused of and how many have turned out to be trumped up?”

. . .And if Trump ends up in handcuffs? “The people will support him without question,” she said, gesturing to the crowd. “We are there. We’ve seen him go through so much. I think the Democrats have hurt themselves more than they’ve helped themselves. Trump might be a talker and antagonist but he loves the American people.”

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15 October 2017

Messiah Mash-Up : Tongue-In-Cheek New Testament "He Is Risen"

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In another strange twist of what is now the dysfunctional and chaotic, corrupt, confused Trumpian Dystopia, the current tenant in The White House, who is temporarily occupying the Office of the President of the United States has turned history on its head by declaring that the nation-state we live in now worships God, not government . Is this mebbe Middle Age onslaught of Dementia for real estate tycoon Trump?

Has the Age of Enlightenment and separation of Church & State taken a dark turn under the tutelage of Trump? 
The whacky statements were made at a Value Voters Summit, organized and supported by The Family Research Council that every other president has avoided like the plague.
Most pundits and commentary acknowledge that the Prez is catering to "his base" to hold onto religious zealots and whose high regard for the institution of marriage has made him enter into this holy sacrament three times in succession.

 

 

 

 

The PT Barnum of American Politics is headmaster who training all the GOP elephants to stand on their heads to perform to his control - either that or out they go!

 

 

 

 

 

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20 January 2017

Let's Get Politico About Lies [ Thanks to Reporter Maria Konnikova ]

Your MesaZona blogger, admittedly, never really warmed-up to "The Donald" during 22+ years living in New York City. He was one of "the Bridge-and-Tunnel people" somehow grabbing a toe-hold on real estate while smearing his name on things he called "towers". He was outdone and out-classed by Michael Bloomberg in The Big Apple, and by hook-or-by-crook or playing media tricks has staged the biggest take-over in the heist of the highest office in America in a scale and strategy not seen ever on the political stage - definitely "a show-man" like PT Barnum for those that like it when the circus arrives in town. If that's not your choice for entertainment purposes only then we have some information for you
This is out from Politico

Trump’s Lies vs. Your Brain

Unfortunately, it’s no contest. Here’s what psychology tells us about life under a leader totally indifferent to the truth.

By Maria Konnikova January/February 2017

All presidents lie. Richard Nixon said he was not a crook, yet he orchestrated the most shamelessly crooked act in the modern presidency. Ronald Reagan said he wasn’t aware of the Iran-Contra deal; there’s evidence he was. Bill Clinton said he did not have sex with that woman; he did, or close enough. Lying in politics transcends political party and era. It is, in some ways, an inherent part of the profession of politicking.
But Donald Trump is in a different category. The sheer frequency, spontaneity and seeming irrelevance of his lies have no precedent. Nixon, Reagan and Clinton were protecting their reputations; Trump seems to lie for the pure joy of it. A whopping 70 percent of Trump’s statements that PolitiFact checked during the campaign were false, while only 4 percent were completely true, and 11 percent mostly true. (Compare that to the politician Trump dubbed “crooked,” Hillary Clinton: Just 26 percent of her statements were deemed false.)
What does this mean for the country—and for the Americans on the receiving end of Trump’s constantly twisting version of reality?

 

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14 October 2018

We Are So Blessed: Look Who's Coming Here Friday Oct 19th

MAGA!  MAGA!  MAGA! . . .
Can't U just IMAGINE thousands in staged imported crowds shouting-out for The P.T. Barnum of American Politics: 
Right here in vibrant and exciting Mesa 
The Donald himself has chosen 'the most conservative city' in the entire not-so-United States to use our city as the stage for his Freak-Show!
Good thing Friday is not a business-day for City Hall . . .
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> The Circus Moves To The U.S.Senate

So far DJT, The P.T. Barnum of American Politics, has managed to fool some of the people most of the time.
Most New Yorkers have seen through all the side-shows that usually end up on the back-pages of pulp fiction to turn into tabloid trash in the end.
Now "The Big Fat Hoax" occupying The White House is the ring-leader in a take-over of The Republican Party who cower under his power whipped to perform in what could be his final act as charges of impeachment move to the Senate.

It's a dump on democracy when he high-wire rigs our three-branch system of checks-and-balances ahead of an impending trial in The Senate tampering with jurisprudence.
According to reports in the Washington Post and other media reports, it's already a foregone conclusion.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowed "total coordination" with the White House on impeachment plans, the Washington Post reports.
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FIRST THIS from July 2, 2021

Conditions are ripe for repeat of 1970s stagflation and 2008 debt crisis

Nouriel Roubini

the Guardian

"Warning signs are there for global economy, and central banks will be left in impossible position.

In April, I warned that today’s extremely loose monetary and fiscal policies, when combined with a number of negative supply shocks, could result in 1970s-style stagflation (high inflation alongside a recession). In fact, the risk today is even bigger than it was then.

After all, debt ratios in advanced economies and most emerging markets were much lower in the 1970s, which is why stagflation has not been associated with debt crises historically. If anything, unexpected inflation in the 1970s wiped out the real value of nominal debts at fixed rates, thus reducing many advanced economies’ public-debt burdens.

Conversely, during the 2007-08 financial crisis, high debt ratios (private and public) caused a severe debt crisis – as housing bubbles burst – but the ensuing recession led to low inflation, if not outright deflation. Owing to the credit crunch, there was a macro shock to aggregate demand, whereas the risks today are on the supply side.

We are thus left with the worst of both the stagflationary 1970s and the 2007-10 period. Debt ratios are much higher than in the 1970s, and a mix of loose economic policies and negative supply shocks threatens to fuel inflation rather than deflation, setting the stage for the mother of stagflationary debt crises over the next few years. .

For now, loose monetary and fiscal policies will continue to fuel asset and credit bubbles, propelling a slow-motion train wreck. The warning signs are already apparent in today’s high price-to-earnings ratios, low equity risk premia, inflated housing and tech assets, and the irrational exuberance surrounding special purpose acquisition companies, the crypto sector, high-yield corporate debt, collateralised loan obligations, private equity, meme stocks, and runaway retail day trading.

At some point, this boom will culminate in a Minsky moment (a sudden loss of confidence), and tighter monetary policies will trigger a bust and crash.

But in the meantime, the same loose policies that are feeding asset bubbles will continue to drive consumer price inflation, creating the conditions for stagflation whenever the next negative supply shocks arrive. Such shocks could follow from renewed protectionism; demographic ageing in advanced and emerging economies; immigration restrictions in advanced economies; the reshoring of manufacturing to high-cost regions; or the Balkanisation of global supply chains.

More broadly, the Sino-American decoupling threatens to fragment the global economy at a time when climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic are pushing national governments toward deeper self-reliance. Add to this the impact on production of increasingly frequent cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure, and the social and political backlash against inequality, and the recipe for macroeconomic disruption is complete.

Making matters worse, ..."

READ MORE > . . .As matters stand, this slow-motion train wreck looks unavoidable. The Fed’s recent pivot from an ultra-dovish to a mostly dovish stance changes nothing. The Fed has been in a debt trap at least since December 2018, when a stock- and credit-market crash forced it to reverse its policy tightening a full year before Covid-19 struck. With inflation rising and stagflationary shocks looming, it is now even more ensnared.

So, too, are the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan and the Bank of England. The stagflation of the 1970s will soon meet the debt crises of the post-2008 period. The question is not if but when.

Nouriel Roubini was professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business.

He has worked for the IMF, the US Federal Reserve and the World Bank.

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