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