America Is In Distress…

America Is In Distress…

First of all this is in no way a “political piece” because I do not participate in politics, but this is a warning to all who will heed it because YOUR country is in GRAVE DANGER…

In case you have not been following the news, what happened Thursday was a total misuse of executive power and it must STOP NOW. We must understand that anyone in the federal government who has or has had any access to classified information is legally required to keep that information classified until it is declassified for the rest of his/her life if necessary. Also, once they become an “ex-official,” that person will no longer have access to any classified information unless they are recalled to be a  consultant to the United States and thus this is why former intelligence personnel maintain their security clearances (not to go out and make money like the state controlled TV station is lying to America about). Also, Presidents do not need to revoke security clearances from ex-officials because a person must have a “need to know” to gain access to classified information. In addition, almost all federal employees and the military must swear an oath to the U.S. Constitution however there is nothing in that oath about loyalty, allegiance, fealty or personal servitude to the President of the United States nor does it say that any member of the federal government cannot speak out against the President or what he is doing (because that would violate their 1^st Amendment right of free speech).

This President apparently does not understand that or he dislikes it so much that he is willing to overlook the oath and then calls federal employees (especially those in intelligence) the “deep state”. Many federal employees are appointed by the incoming President and that President can fire them anytime he wants, however firing a federal employee (not an appointed one), without cause is difficult and the ultimate arbiter for security clearances is the President of the United States. So to stop any investigations of Trump all Trump has to do is take away the security clearances of certain people in the Department of Defense, the State Department, the DOJ, certain intelligence agencies, and even the CDC and bam he silences everyone who has ever spoke out against him (but he did not remove their security clearances for any real national security threat).

Can you now see how dangerous this is? If you do not know what this is called then here is a clue… Putin… Kim Jung Un… Xi Jinping… Yes it is called a dictatorship and it is FORMING before your very eyes. How do I know?

What was said in his private meeting with Kim Jung Un? You don’t know? Neither does anyone else in America…

What was said in his private meeting with Vladimir Putin? You don’t know? Neither does anyone else in America…

Every other President we have EVER had told the country at least some of what was said, and all this guy says is “it is all better now” so what is he hiding?

You have to understand that to silence anyone by removing their security clearance is a clear violation of the Constitution that so many Americans claim that they love. So where are all those flag waving Constitution backing Americans now? Why are they not standing up and defending a man who served this country from 1980 until 2017 [which means he served under Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump] that just had his security clearance for speaking his mind and not because of some national security threat he posed. How about you put your money where your mouth or maybe you only love the parts of the Constitution that suit your agenda…

Also, did you know that Trump has been involved with the Russian Mafia (which is just another arm of the Russian Intelligence Agency)? Oh, you didn’t know that?

“The FBI did wiretap Trump Tower to monitor Russian activity, but it had nothing to do with the 2016 Presidential election it has been reported. Between 2011 and 2013 the Bureau had a warrant to spy on a high-level criminal Russian money laundering ring, which operated in unit 63A of the iconic skyscraper which is three floors below Mr. Trump's penthouse. The investigation led to the indictment of more than 30 people, including alleged mafia boss Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov”

And this is the man you people elected to run the country?

So if he is going to start pulling security clearances of everyone who speaks out against him, then who will be left to protect the safety of America? You must know that most of what comes out of this man’s mouth is a lie and since he lies so much how can you ever trust what he says? He doesn’t lie you say?

Psychology Today Magazine

“How President Trump’s Lies Are Different From Other People”

Bella DePaulo Ph.D.

December 9^th, 2017

“My passion is single life and that’s what I most enjoy writing about, but every once in a while my old interest in the psychology of lying sneaks back into my life. That happened recently when I saw that reporters at the Washington Post had been keeping a tally of all of Donald Trump’s falsehoods, misleading claims, and flip-flops since becoming president. I had studied the lies of ordinary people years ago and I learned from that research how often people lied and what kinds of lies they told and I wondered how Trump’s ways of lying would compare to what my colleagues and I (along with other researchers) had already documented. So I coded the most recent 400 of Trump’s lies using the same categories my colleagues and I used when we coded the lies in our research.

The two most important categories of lies in the studies my colleagues and I conducted were self-serving lies and kind lies. Self-serving lies help liars get what they want and avoid what they don’t want, they help liars look better or feel better, or they spare liars from blame or embarrassment or anything else they don’t want to experience. Kind lies are the same, only they are told for someone else’s benefit. Originally, I planned to code Trump’s lies into just those two categories. In my previous studies I found that people tell about twice as many self-serving lies as kind lies. I thought that Trump would tell an even greater proportion of self-serving lies than the people I had studied previously, and that would be the big finding I would get to report. I was right about Trump telling an especially big proportion of self-serving lies but instead of telling twice as many self-serving lies as kind lies he told 6.6 times as many.

As it turned out, though, that was not the most interesting finding. As I read through Trump’s lies in the process of categorizing them I realized I could not limit myself just to the categories of self-serving and kind lies. I had to add the category of cruel lies (lies that hurt or disparage or embarrass or belittle other people). In the research my colleagues and I did, we found that only 1–2% of all lies were cruel and that’s why I wasn’t going to bother with them when coding Trump’s lies. Trump’s ways of lying also differed from the previous people I had studied in another way and his lies often served several purposes simultaneously (for example, sometimes they were both self-serving and cruel). In my previous research, it was easy to sort each lie into just one category and I only mention this because it is interesting, and also because it means that for Trump, the percentages in each category will add up to more than 100 percent. Now let me tell you what I found when I tallied Trump’s cruel lies. Instead of adding up to 1–2% as in my previous research Trump’s cruel lies accounted for 50%. When I first saw that number appear on my screen, I gasped. I knew, of course, that Trump likes to mock and denigrate other people (and countries and agencies), but I didn’t realize just how often he was doing that with his lies. When I first thought about measuring Trump’s lies against what my colleagues and I had learned in our previous research, I thought I would look at other psychological processes involved in lying too.

For example, Kathy Bell and I did a series of studies in which we looked at what people did when they were asked about their opinion, but telling the truth about it would hurt another person’s feelings. In those studies, participants were brought into a lab room set up as an art gallery, one at a time. They were asked to choose their favorite and least favorite paintings, and write out what they liked and didn’t like about each one. Only then were they introduced to an art student who in the key moment of the study pointed to the participant’s least favorite painting and said something like “That’s one of my paintings. What do you think of it?” The participants were also asked about a painting of the artist’s that they did like as well as paintings by another artist they never met. Participants in the most difficult situation talking about a painting they hated with the artist who painted it almost never told the simple truth “I hated it.” Instead, they tried to say things they could defend as truthful, even though what they said was deliberately misleading. For example, they amassed misleading evidence: they often mentioned things they really did like about the painting, while not mentioning as many of the things that they disliked. By describing more aspects that they liked than aspects they disliked, they might give the artist the impression that they liked her painting. Her feelings would not be hurt. And the participants would get to tell themselves (and anyone who challenged them) that, hey, they told the truth because they really did like those things they said they liked. The participants came up with other interesting strategies, too. For example, they sometimes exaggerated how much they disliked the other artist’s work so that what they said about the work of the artist right there with them would seem more positive in comparison. Are you starting to realize why I never did similar analyses of Trump’s lies? First, the studies Kathy Bell and I did were of kind lies, told to spare the feelings of the artists in our studies. However, only about 10% of Trump’s lies were kind lies (compared to about 25 percent in my previous studies of lying in everyday life).

More importantly, Trump does not seem to care whether he can defend his lies as truthful. Although I cannot know this for sure, it does appear that he does not feel embarrassment or shame about lying. He doesn’t seem to be thinking about how he can lie in ways that can be defended as truthful, as the participants in my previous studies had done. He seems to just state his lies starkly, and move on”

Time to fly the “American Flag Upside Down” because America is in “Distress”!