THE MOST IMPORTANT INFORMATION YOU'LL NEED TO VOTE ON NOVEMBER 3

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that the upcoming presidential election on November 3 is the most consequential election in American history. But the re-election or dumping of President Donald (the Coronavirus is not my responsibility) Trump is not the most important issue being decided that day. That far more pressing issue is the Senatorial and House elections. On November 3 Americans will decided whether they can stand another term of hapless Republican subserviency to a president who just doesn't seem to care if we live or die. 

That's why I am offering my Amazon #1 Bestselling book, 101 Lies Republicans Tell America to readers absolutely FREE on September 18-20 : Friday, Saturday and Sunday. That's right. You can purchase the book directly on Amazon for the promotional price of FREE on all of those days and I ask only that you tell everyone you know to pick up a copy, read it like lives depend on it, and then make sure to vote on November 3. 

Also, if you like, leave a review at Amazon for the book and tell your friends to pick up a copy. It's only $3.99 after the promotion ends.

The Republican Party must be made to answer for what they have done to America.

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY PROMOTIONAL GIVEAWAY

Hello, political junkies. Having just recovered from Trump's latest outrage at the "press" podium yesterday (delay the elections, anyone?) I have decided to take matters into serious hands and offer my Amazon Bestselling book, 101 Lies Republicans Tell America: The Truth About the GOP, to all readers Saturday and Sunday only for the very reasonable price of FREE. If you care about where America is going, please pick up your FREE copy of the book tomorrow and Sunday at Amazon and let all your friends know that book is available without charge for those two days only.

THE WORD IS DEMOCRATIC

Republicans began calling the opposition party "the Democrat Party" about a year ago and the name has become a rallying cry for Conservatives and Fox News talking heads who use it to denigrate and mock those Americans who do not consider themselves Republicans or Independents. You can catch smarmy Fox pundits and their smarmy guests every night of the weekday week talking about the "Democrat Party" or the way "Democrat members of Congress" do their jobs. The word is a cudgel used by these Republicans to communicate to their audience that Democrat(s) are somehow less worthy than their opposite side of the aisle Republican colleagues. That they are silly, or uninformed, dangerous to the fabric that holds America together.

This has been going on so long, this egregious bastardization of language that even many in the media have adopted the expression, probably forgetting where it came from, that it was a talking point issued with malice and forethought by the leaders of the Republican Party all those many months ago.

Well, here's an idea. Why don't the members of the "Democrat Party" start to use expressions like "Republicants" or "Republicos" when referring to the Republican Party and its partisans? How do you think that would go over with the Hannitys and Ingrahams of the world? My guess is those folks would consider that sort of talk very disrespectful and we all know how much the Republicans treasure respect, especially when they want to receive it. 

It's time to move past this disgusting Republican mangling of a perfectly acceptable word. On November 3, Republicans across America may need to get used to using the word properly. The word is "Democratic." You know, as in America is a "democratic" country?

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

Have you had enough, America? It has been a long few months and an even longer few years in this, the Greatest Country on the Face of the Earth. At least that's what America has been billed as. But, lately, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone outside our shores who will pat you on the back and congratulate you for being an American. They may have a laugh or two at your expense or give you a sidelong glance, sympathize with you because you live in a country without a trace of leadership from the Oval Office.

Donald Trump and the Republican Party have managed to do what no one else was ever able to accomplish over three hundred years of American history -- they have managed to make a laughingstock of America and Americans all over the world. Crisis is supposed to be our middle name and under the present administration, crisis has become the Albatross that hangs around the neck of every American.

I just finished reading Mary Trump's explosive book about her Uncle Donald and it was certainly eye-opening to find out about the wildly dysfunctional family that made Donald Trump into the Frankenstein monster he has become -- an egomaniacal, empathy-challenged despot-wannabe who seems constitutionally incapable of making an intelligent decision for the people he represents -- ALL OF US. 

If you want to stay up a night or two read this book and find out what is behind Trump's dangerous behavior. You may not be surprised but you'll certainly be disgusted. Trump's daddy did some work on his son and the behaviors that we see as toxic are a direct result of his toxic upbringing in the Trump family, as Mary, a clinical psychologist, carefully explains.

There are now less that 100 days to the next election. As Mary Trump points out, these may be the most important three months of all of our lives.

WHY I WROTE "101 Lies Republicans Tell America: the Truth About the GOP"

*Not all Republicans or members of the Republican Party lie to America. Many are truthful with the country and have sincere political beliefs that they espouse through the ballot box and in the media. But too many members of the Republican Party have waged a not always passive war on the truth, over the past fifty years, that has culminated in a presidency where lies and misleading statements are the norm, rather than the exception.

Why I wrote this book: there are over 60,000,000 Americans who voted for Donald Trump and the Republicans in the 2016 elections. Trump and the Republicans promised these voters the moon – and more – and they have insisted that they've made good on all the lofty promises. A large majority of those who voted for the Republicans continue to believe the Republicans have done what they promised. Yet... the rates of homelessness in this country have never been higher and a majority of Americans report that, despite the promises of the GOP they are no better off economically than they were when President Obama left office.

Why do Trump voters continue to support a man and a political party that has, simply, failed to make their lives better in obvious measurable ways? In some cases, it's because these voters just don't like the Democrats or the policies they stand for. In some cases, it's because these voters continue to believe that Trump and the Republicans will somehow, eventually change their lives for the better, despite the evidence of their wallets and pocketbooks. In some cases, it's because these voters just like the appeal of what the Republican Party has become – far to the right, insular and isolated from the world's preoccupations, anti-free trade, anti-immigration and so on.

Now the President of the United States has been impeached and the Republican Party is asked to serve as “jurors” in his “trial” in the Senate. What is their quick and certain response? Senate Majority Leader and Senator Lindsay Graham hurry before the news cameras to protest that they are not about to be “impartial jurors,” that they've already made up their minds before the trial has even begun. And, furthermore, there is no need for witnesses to appear before the Senate because, after all, why do you need witnesses when the outcome has already been decided by the Republican majority. Does any of this sound right to the 63,000,000 voters who supported Trump's election? Sadly, yes,

The purpose of this book is to show the 63,000,000 that things are not quite as they may assume. The purpose of this book is to show them that there are incontrovertible FACTS, that many of the things they have been fed by the Republican Party are just not true. It's never an easy thing to admit that you have been misled but the fate of America as the world's greatest democracy is hanging in the balance and it will be up to those 63,000,000 Americans to decide what kind of country they want, going forward. It is our sincere hope that many of the 63,000,000 will read this book and learn the awful truth about the Republican Party's mult-year, multi-generational effort to mislead the American voter and to discredit the reporting of veteran American journalists. There are many wonderful Republicans in this country, hard working, dedicated, patriotic Americans and many of them do not like or approve of the lies that have been peddled in their name by a political party that has lost it's way under the leadership of Donald J, Trump (who was a Democrat before he ran for president). But the voices of these Republicans have been drowned out by the crashing waves of lies and half-truths.

We wrote this book to try to convince some of the 63,000,000 that there is still time to reverse the course of this country, that there is still time to refuse and repudiate the lies of the Republican Party. As Ben Bradlee famously said in the movie, All the President's Men, “Nothing's riding on this except the First Amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press, and maybe the future of the country.”

A NATION IN TROUBLE

America is a nation in trouble. It will come as no surprise to anyone who is waking up in this country as the month of July, 2020 creeps slowly by, that things are not looking good in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Things are not looking so well in other parts of the world either, granted, but life seems especially sad these days in what is always sold as the greatest country on the face of the earth.

     The problem is at the top, of course, a brutal and unforgiveable lack of leadership coming from the White House and the Republican-led Senate, where entrenched sycophants, fearing for their political lives, go about their daily business as if the very fabric of America were not on fire. You can read about the lies of the Republican Party in my book, 101 Lies Republicans Tell America. But the problem is even deeper than that. Way deeper than that.

     The problem is us. The problem is Americans. 

     We have become, a lot of us, soft and weak, the two traits, ironically that are most detested by our Plastic President. In the face of requests that we all wear face masks (made by our national health specialists, like Anthony Faucci, a man who should probably run for president because his poll numbers are way ahead of virtually every politician in Washington) we instead resort to the safe place of our usual petty political bickerings. 

     Thousands of Americans take to the streets, not to protest racial or social injustice, but to protest being asked to wear masks to protect their own well being. Thousands of Americans take to twitter to voice their rage and disgust at being asked to look out for their own friends, families and children. Thousands of Americans refuse to follow Faucci (and others) who are working to ensure that America does not lose a million or two million or three million more Americans in the next few months.

     Face masks have become the hottest political issue in America at a time when face masks need to be the least political issue in America.

     The result of this cannot have a good ending.

     America is in trouble.

PUBLICATION DAY FOR 101 LIES REPUBLICANS TELL AMERICA

Well, ladies and gentlemen -- political junkies all -- today is the day (all right, yesterday was the day, if you want to be strict about this) that my new book, "101 Lies Republicans Tell America" hit the shelves and I wanted all of my JAMES JOURNALIST readers to know that the book is just a push away from coming straight to your reading device. These are strange times, for sure, and strange times call for straightforward information, the very opposite of "fake news," the stuff that this administration has been shoving at us relentlessly for close to four years now, along with all their Republican enablers and cowardly sycophants.

101 Lies Republicans Tell America is divided into 101 entries that cover the lies, obfuscations and half-truths that too many in the Republican Party have been happy to foist on the American people for more than fifty years. Yes, folks, it all goes back to the 1960s and the Era of Richard Milhouse Nixon, who we all previously believed to be the worst president in the long history of the Republic. Little did we know what was coming our way in 2016. 

But as I keep saying to anyone who will hear it, the problem in America these days is not the failed "success" from Queens, New York, Donald John Trump. He is only the latest iteration of a system of political thought that has corrupted the American body politic. The problem, my friends, is the Republican Party, itself. 

The problem is the Republican Senate that has stood by for almost four years while this president has run over the Constitution he pretends to protect. 

The problem is the Republican House of Representatives, which during Impeachment hearings refused to allow witnesses to testify because they feared the earthquake of truth that might result in the downfall of their Republican president. The Republican Party that refused to subpoena Ambassador John Bolton, who it feared, might testify about what really went on behind the closed doors at Pennsylvania Avenue. 

 

101 Lies Republicans Tell America is, I believe, an important addition to the library of these political times and I hope many people read it, digest the truth behind the lies and remember to vote in November. JUST PRESS THE BUTTON ON THE RIGHT AND PURCHASE YOUR s 

An Open Letter to Trump Supporters

An Open Letter to Trump Voters

This is not an easy letter to write. Expressing what I believe in letter form has always been my strong suit but now, as I sit, ready to address these issues with you, I'm nervous, apprehensive, afraid that you will not understand my heart, that you will wrongly believe that my words are coming from a “left wing perspective,” which they are not. Rather my sentiments come from a sincere and pure place of caring and concern for the future of the country we all love and wish only the best for. I am afraid that you will misunderstand me, misinterpret my words, understand them to mean things they do not mean. I fear that you will allow your biases to confuse things I'm about to say, that you will simply regurgitate the things you've heard from pundits and analysts on Fox News and other so-called “conservative” media outlets. I am writing to you not as a Liberal or a Conservative. I am writing to you as an American.

More than 64,000,000 Americans voted for Donald Trump – many of these disaffected voters had previously elected Barack Obama. Why did so many Americans decide to cast their lot with a man who had no experience as a political leader, whose business accomplishments were sketchy and exaggerated, a man whose personal story was filled with questionable moral and ethical choices, a man who seemed to represent the very things most of those 64,000,000 voters had spent their lives opposing?

What was behind the attraction of Trump voters for Donald J. Trump? What one word could explain the political detonation that launched a television personality to the highest elected office on earth? That one word is “bullying.” Bullying. Not the bullying that Trump daily inflicts on his enemies and friends, alike. This had nothing to do with pampered, prosperous Donald Trump. We're talking here of the bullying many Americans believed they had been exposed to for fifty years and longer, bullying at the hands of powerful, satisfied elites and entrenched government bureaucrats who just didn't seem to understand the plight of “ordinary” Americans.

Most of the 64,000,000 Americans who voted for Donald Trump believed that the system of American politics practiced by both political parties had deliberately betrayed them. After decades of suffering in silence, they longed for an opportunity to do something about it. Was there anyone in Washington who understood what the daily struggle of Americans was all about, what it really took to get a family out of bed each morning? It became clear that these disaffected voters would have to look outside the Washington Beltway for a politician who could understand and act on their grievances.

The answer soon became clear. The core of what would become known as “Trump voters”

wondered why the roads of their cities and towns were crumbling while Washington increased spending year after year on projects that didn't have anything to do with their lives or well being. They wondered why – no matter how loud they raised their voices, the people running government just didn't seem to hear a word they said.

And then, along came Trump.

Trump was a businessman who claimed to be a multi-billionaire real estate mogul. He wore fine suits and played a flashy, brilliant businessman on a well-rated reality TV show called “the Apprentice.” He seemed to understand the problems of “the little guy,” the struggling middle class that felt left behind by inattentive and greedy politicians of both parties. He seemed to have achieved the American Dream and more, and, at overflow arena rallies, he told anyone who would listen that he wanted to share the spoils of that Dream with them, that he wanted to give “the little guy” all the wonderful things America had given him, the keys to a uniquely American brand of wealth and success.

With this new vision for America Trump assembled millions of discontented voters, principally in the heartland of the nation, assuring them that he knew exactly why their lives were so difficult and that he intended to do something to make their lives easier. He got their attention and trust by offering an old, simple line that held immigrants responsible for many of their woes. When you need to corral public sentiment quickly, it's always convenient to gather it around partisanship and prejudice, hatred for “others” perceived as “doing you wrong.” It was “Mexican rapists,” Trump claimed, who were causing good middle class Americans to stagnate in social, financial and private limbo. Trump proved to me a master at conveying this message. He fired up his crowds with a fire and fervor that had never before been seen at American campaign rallies.

Assisted by a lackluster Democratic nominee in Hilary Clinton, Trump rode to victory in the Electoral College, without winning the popular vote. Middle America had bought the potion Trump was peddling and a new, frightening era in politics was ushered in on November 3, 2016.

So now, three years after the election of Donald Trump, I pose a simple question and ask you, as a Trump supporter, to put aside your biases, your attraction to Trump, the Hollywood Star, and even your support for some of the policies he has put forward over the past 36 months.

I ask you to take an honest, unvarnished look at your life, and the lives of your family and friends. Ask yourself this question and answer it as truthfully as you possibly can: are you and your family and friends better off three years after Donald Trump and the Republicans took control of the government? Are you really making more money? Are your kids really getting a better education? Are their prospects for the future really brighter than they were three years ago when Barack Obama was president? Are you more at ease with the world? Are you children and your friends convinced that America's best days are ahead, that President Trump and the Republicans have achieved their stated goal of Making America Great Again (did you really believe that three years ago America was not great?) Are you confident that America is respected by our allies and feared by our enemies? Think hard about that last one. Can you say that, when you travel around the globe you feel the love and admiration of the rest of the world for you, as an American citizen?

Or is the truth just a little more complicated than the easy slogans passed off from the president's lips at colorful, boisterous rallies of his thousands of fans?

I ask you, as a loyal and dedicated Trump supporter to look at the totality of Trump's behavior over the last three years and also to look at the behavior of the Republican Party, which has stood silently as Trump perpetrated one outrage after another. Are you really comfortable with all of this? And more importantly, can you really say that he has delivered for you, that you are actually better off now that he has been in the White House for three-quarters of his term? If you can't answer that question affirmatively, you need to ask yourself the next logical question: are you comfortable with continuing to support the activities of this president, this administration, and this Republican Party?