Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets

'When I'm President' - Labor Day Music for You, from Ian Hunter of the U.K.

https://youtu.be/RMsrwP8pCgk

Yes, the President says vote twice. William Barr, the Attorney General, who is supposed to be defending the constitution for the people of America, when Trump says vote twice, Barr says I don't know what the law is in North Carolina. . . .  Who is working for whom?

The Trump Code: Why be blatant/Why hide it/Why project humility/There no upside to failure << extrapolated from the teachings of his father Fred . . .

Trump believers don't want to know the truth/They've been conned by a blowhard/Who lies and cheats workers/Out of money they've earned. 

Going amoral, as is his m.o., now he suggests his voters cheat for him, as he cheats for himself - suggesting they should vote twice in the Nov 3 election. What kind of model for decency and justice do we have for President right now? This currently is his America. Shaped by his ruthless unscrupulous nature, while his dedicated 'base' takes whatever he dishes out. Impunity goes unpunished . . .

As he always says: "Believe Me" 

which is the title of my book available now: "Believe Me" - Trump Poems Volume 1

Edition Two should be available within 4-6 weeks, including as an ebook.

Donald Trump said he trusts dictator Kim Jong-un. He trusts him to denuclearize North Korea. The two met at a summit in Singapore 6-12-18 when Trump said the dictator told him he would do this. Jong-un is still making nuclear weapons, and has not denuclearized North Korea.

Sycophant - Merriam Webster defines as: servile self-serving flatterer

Donald Trump Surrounds Himself With Sycophants

Donald Trump has been culling down and reorganizing his team of sycophants so he can be Alexander The Great, or The Vladimir Putin type of authoritarian he wants to be . . . A rather possessive poem . . .

President Donald Trump has loosed over 20,000 false claims - aka - lies - since he has been in office. As tabulated by the Washington Post. That number has increased since that ignominious milestone was reached in July of 2020. This does not seem to bother his followers, his 'base' - for whom the concept of 'truth' has to have been redefined/?altered under his administration.

Jerry Falwell Jr., (former) President of Liberty University, was the first evangelical leader to endorse Donald Trump for President in 2016. Now he has fallen like a Falwell will, partying and sinning on yachts with young women-not-his-wife. Not setting a very good example for the students at the religious university - where prohibited premarital sex and extramarital sex will not get you closer to Christ. The latest is: the young pool boy the Falwells met in Florida, and then flew around with them in their jet and received $1.8 million in support money for a project of his, has been interviewed by Reuters. Giancarlo Granda claims that while Becki Falwell had sex with him, Jerry Junior would watch. He was so close to the Falwells (not necessarily to Christ), who are friendly with Donald Trump, that he was captured in a photo shaking hands with our now beleagured fomentor of divisiveness, President Donald Trump (with Falwell watching, set back in the picture). And more will be heard about Falwell and another photo (and ?more) - besides the one You most likely have seen by now. Of Jerry Jr. with the young red-headed lady, both of them with their underwear drooping . . . when Michael Cohen's book 'Disloyal' hits the bookshelves for public purchase on September 8th.

Though the painting of the N-Word on LeBron's Gate occurred in May 2017 just before the NBA finals were about to start, today the same, perhaps MORE inflamed racism, is still flaring. Especially after another police shooting of a black man, Jacob Blake, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. 7 bullets into his back with his three young children in the car - and LeBron speaking out about it. And Jason Whitlock tweeting this Uncle Tommery about LeBron:

'I'm black. I'm not scared. I'm not terrified. Neither is LeBron James. He's lying. He and the political activists controlling him want black people to immerse themselves in fear. Fear is a tool used to control people.'

This was a reaction to what Whitlock reported LeBron tweeted, as reported in outkick**:

“And y’all wonder why we say what we say about the police! Someone please tell me WTF is this?! Exactly another black man being targeted. This s&$#  is so wrong and so sad! Feel so sorry for him, his family and our people! We want justice.”

“I know people get tired of hearing me say it, but we are scared as black people in America,” James said. “Black men, black women, black kids, we are terrified.”

“If you’re sitting here and telling me that there was no way to (subdue) that gentleman or detain him or just before firing guns, then you’re sitting here lying to not only me, but you’re lying to every African American, every black person in the community,” James said.

** https://www.outkick.com/whitlock-lebron-james-is-a-bigot/

Contrast the with what Los Angeles Clippers NBA coach Doc Rivers had to say - quoted from ABCNEWS*:

Following Tuesday night's win over the Dallas Mavericks, Los Angeles Clippers coach Doc Rivers discussed why unarmed Black men continued to be shot by police.

"What stands out to me is, just watching the Republican convention, they are spewing this fear. All you hear is Donald Trump and all of them talking about fear. We're the ones getting killed," Rivers said, speaking with reporters after the game. "We're the ones getting shot. We're the ones that were denied to live in certain communities. We've been hung, we've been shot, and all you do is keep hearing about fear."

"It's amazing why we keep loving this country and this country does not love us back," he said, fighting back tears. "It's really so sad."

Rivers said police need better training, but he said that doesn't mean he hates police or that they should be abolished.

"My dad was a cop. I believe in good cops," he added. "We're not trying to defund them and take all their money away. We're trying to get them to protect us, just like they protect everybody else."

* https://abcnews.go.com/US/shots-fired-tear-gas-deployed-wisconsin-jacob-blake/story?id=72616792

Fear is a big part of the story. Fear and racism do not make a good mix, no matter what frosting you put atop the cake. And you can add this spice into the story: [from the same above source / story]:

'Cellphone video from Tuesday night's protests showed a white man armed with what appeared to be a semiautomatic rifle running past police and being chased by demonstrators. The footage showed the man trip and fall and appear to open fire on demonstrators. He then is seen running away.

The alleged gunman surrendered himself to police in Antioch, Illinois, in the "pre-dawn hours" Wednesday, authorities said. He was identified as 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse and was arrested based on a warrant issued by Kenosha County authorities charging him with first-degree intentional homicide, police said. He was also being held on a charge of "fugitive from justice." ' 

This poem is published in "Believe Me" Trump Poems Vol 1 available everywhere,  ebook too.

It's frightening what is going on. Secret police throwing peaceful protesters into unmarked vans; racism being inflamed and amplified as a campaign tactic by the President; dismantling the post office: destroying and then throwing into dumpsters amazing expensive magnificent sorting machines that can sort 34,000 pieces of mail in ONE MINUTE! culling overtime pay; generally slowing the distribution of the mails. Already affecting delivery of important documents and checks and prescription medicines, especially in rural areas. This all done to put in place a chokehold on the delivery of mailed-in paper ballots to thwart what could happen in the November presidential election. Trump apparently knows from a poll that ~72% of Democratic voters intend to cast their ballots via mail. This is contrasted with somewhere around 23% of Republican voters intending to vote by mail. 44% of Independents were polled saying they would be opting to mail their votes in. I think that was a recent Monmouth poll, out of the college in New Jersey. Woe to our democracy. This election is a plebiscite for the continuance of our democracy! Or rule by an authoritarian wannabe and his sycophantic enablers. Trump has said he wants to be President-for-life. Michael Cohen said Trump doesn't joke. He probably literally means it. September 8th should be a day shedding political enlightenment on our Covid-Trump-weary souls - the day of the publishing of Michael Cohen - Trump's designated hit man's book 'Disloyal.' What could happen between now and then? A desperate man does desperate things . . . . ! . . . .? May this poem inform you in some inspiring way to do your part in ensuring safe elections for America.