TRUMP: BAMBOOZLED, SNOOKERED AND TAKEN? (Or, MEET THE NEW BOSS; SAME AS THE OLD BOSS?)

Howdy, You All.

I believe that my last post (HERE) and a comment I left (HERE) as a guest on the blog Fellowship Of The Minds may have clouded where I'm coming from in regards to President Trump. I want to clear that up.

But first I want you to know that if you aren't already familiar with Fellowship Of The Minds, you should be. The website is a collective involving 4 or 5 different bloggers and over the last several months it has become one of my real go-to sites for political news. Along with G. Edward Griffin's Need To Know News, Selwyn Duke's blog, Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit, Fellowship Of The Minds is a site I check on every day. It's not uncommon for FOTM to post a story even before I find it posted on the other aforementioned sites. And there are a lot of intelligent, informed, and friendly commenters at FOTM. It's a great site that comes with my highest recommendation!

Now then, a few days ago, I left a comment at FOTM in which I expressed some dismay about a bill that President Trump just signed into law. I said that I was becoming somewhat disillusioned with Trump and that my earlier enthusiasm had been curbed to a notable degree.

One of the regular readers there -- a friendly and knowledgeable person using the pseudonym Chemtrailssuck -- responded to my comment and, acknowledging that he(?) too had voted for Trump, stated that he felt we had all been fooled. He said he now believes Trump is just another New Word Order shill, but a bit more disguised. 

I decided I would respond because I wanted to express what I feel is really going on with President Trump, and to let Chemtrailssuck know that I thought he was being too hard on himself, and that his judgment was actually better than he was giving himself credit for.

So, below is a copy of the second comment I left on that thread:

Howdy, Chemtrailssuck. Thanks for the comment!

Actually, take heart a bit, Brother, because I strongly believe that neither you, Steven Broiles, nor I really got “scammed” or “conned” by Trump and “fell for the same trap”. I feel quite certain that what we are dealing with is a case of....

THERE REALLY ISN’T ANYTHING THAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT, OTHER THAN TO SIMPLY DO THE BEST JOB THAT WE CAN FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FROM WITHIN THE GIVEN PARAMETERS.

That is something that was once privately stated by a famous U.S. Congressman whom I’ve known personally. If you’re interested in the full story, you will find it [Link:) ​HERE​​.​

​I don’t believe I’ve ever publicly said who the Congressman was, but if you’ve been interested in politics for some time, you’ve definitely heard of him. (He once even ran for POTUS.)

By the grace of God, I’m a good judge of character. And I don’t know precisely when it may have occurred, but I believe somewhere along the line (perhaps while he was actually campaigning) God tapped the heart of Trump. I believe he was and IS sincere. I also believe that he really didn’t realize the magnitude and scope of “The Swamp”. He didn’t know just how difficult a job he had really signed up for. But his speech during the Inauguration — no, that man was SINCERE!

I’m currently deep into the book THE FRANKLIN SCANDAL by Nick Bryant. And as entrenched, dangerous, and potent as that conspiracy was, we’d need to magnify it about a godzillion times to conceive of what Trump is up against. I think he’s made some blunders, but I also believe he is genuinely trying to “do the best job that he can for the American people from within the given parameters”, and while also trying to keep his family alive. (If they can’t compromise and blackmail the subject, they threaten the lives of their loved ones. Most men will cave in when it comes to that.)

I was saying all along — during the presidential campaign — that unless the Democrats could rig enough dead, illegal, and machine-counting votes, Trump would win. But I also said that the best we could hope for is that Trump could buy America a little more time in order for us to convert more souls to Christ before “the end” (which I believe will likely occur in 2029). The Bible is too clear for me to have ever deluded myself into believing Trump could “MAGA”. And I’m convinced that he too now realizes that. So, he’s trying to win us as many victories as he can with the time and personalities that he has to work with.

So, Brother, don’t beat yourself up. I don’t think you got bamboozled, snookered, or taken. You got it right. (The nearly countless forces that have been fighting against Trump for so long and with such ferocity PROVES that they perceive Trump as a real, genuine threat to their agenda. They’re not that good at “acting”.) I think we all just need to downgrade our expectations and celebrate whatever Trump is able to do while still keeping his loved ones above ground.

Sorry for being so long-winded, but I wanted to clarify my outlook and let you know that I truly do not believe that in the case of Trump it’s really a “meet the new boss; same as the old boss” situation. (Love that Who quote though, and I’ve also used it many times in political discussions!)

~ D-FensDogG
‘Loyal American Underground’

My Friends, My Friends, feel free to let me know what you think of this explanation. If you also voted for Trump, how do you feel about your vote at this time? Do you believe that Trump is really doing what he can to fulfill his campaign promises? Or do you think that all along he was just another New World Order shill whose true colors are now beginning to show?

~ Stephen T. McCarthy

WHICH IS WORSE, INFLATION OR THE DECLINE OF THE DOLLAR'S VALUE?

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You've all heard of TDS ("Trump Derangement Syndrome"), right? Well, I just came from the TDC ("Trump Delusion Center"), which is also known as The Conservative Treehouse.
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Essentially, The Conservative Treehouse (TDC) is a website for those folks who are suffering from the opposite of TDS. These folks are apologists for President Donald Trump. Led by a blowhard calling himself Sundance, most of the readers / commenters there worship Trump to such a degree that they cannot acknowledge a single mistake or error of judgment that the president makes. If it appears to be a bad action, or a miscalculated decision, or a poor assessment of someone's character, it's NEVER a mistake on Trump's part. It's always explained as Trump playing "3-Dimensional Chess" -- which only Trump and Sundance are intelligent enough to understand. The Conservative Treehouse (TDC) is practically a religious temple dedicated to god Trump.
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Yes, there are sometimes good articles on that website -- I don't want to knock it completely. And I was reading it fairly regularly during the 2016 Presidential Campaigns. It had some great stuffs! But since then, I've gotten tired of the pretzel logic and the goofy explanations for some of Trump's screw-ups and bad decision making that routinely get introduced into many of the Conservative Treehouse articles.
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And don't get me wrong. I have no buyer's remorse about voting for Trump. First of all, there was NO OTHER viable choice. (I mean, it's not like Ron Paul was running -- whom I surely would have voted for.) And although Trump has a long way to go before I feel satisfied that he's lived up to his campaign trail promises, I understand that not just the Democrat and Republican parties are at war with him. This ENTIRE world (ruled by satan, as The Holy Bible makes perfectly clear) is at war with him. It ain't easy bein' Trump.
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However, overall -- and despite some decisions I vehemently disagree with him about -- Donald Trump is already the best president of my lifetime. (I just turned 58, in case you were wondering how long my lifetime has thus far been.) Of course, that presidential bar has been set really low, so it's not like it was going to take a whole helluva lot for Trump to surpass all the other presidents to begin with.
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Now, like I was saying, I've just come from a rare visit to Trump Delusion Center where I skimmed an article titled Washington Times: Fed Policy Powerless To Influence Inflation. The title alone is laughable. And then we come to the sentence, "While the issues inherent within economic influences can be riddled with complexity, we remain optimistic that MAGAnomics will be very very successful." Which appears to be code for: "I'm not really sure what I'm yakkin' about, but I still believe in Trump!"
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Some of the commenters at TDC seem nice enough, but the vast majority of them come off like know-it-alls. And Heaven help you if you say anything that could even remotely be construed as anti-Trump, because you will be called a "shill" faster'n you can spell the word, and surrounded as if by a pack of rabid, ravenous wild dogs!
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In the aforementioned article, one person (they call themselves "Treepers") began his comment with this:
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"The big elephant in the room is not inflation it is actually the decline of the value of the US dollar."
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Ha!-Ha! Way to go, Treeper! The only error I see in that statement is that... [*wait for it!*] ..."inflation" IS "the decline of the value of the US dollar". These are synonymous!! What do you think "inflation" is if not a decline in the purchasing power of the dollar? Sheesh!
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Finally, I get to the point of this post: The most important book you could ever read on the U.S. economy (and thus by extension, on secular politics) is THE CREATURE FROM JEKYLL ISLAND: A Second Look At The Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin. You can read my own review of this exceptional & essential book by clicking [link:) HERE. ...You're welcome.
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~ Stephen T. McCarthy
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MONDAY MEMES ON MONDAY (4)

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Below are some memes I found this past week and particularly liked, plus one that was made by D-FensDogG (with special thanks to Doc MacSis).
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Let's start with mine this time:
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meme by D-FensDogG (me)

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And just in case there were any question about it in your mind, this will clear it up for you...
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~ Stephen T. McCarthy
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MONDAY MEMES ON MONDAY (3)

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Below are three memes I found and liked, and one which I made:
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A friend of mine is fond of calling political shills "dancing bears". That inspired me to do a Google Images search of the term, and look what I found...
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For this next one, it helps if you are very familiar with the movie TOMBSTONE...
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And this last one was created by D-FensDogG (aka me).
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~ Stephen T. McCarthy
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MONDAY MEMES (2) ON TUESDAY (1)

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Below are three memes I found and liked, plus one I made.
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And the following meme by D-FensDogG (me)...

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~ Stephen T. McCarthy
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