Daily PUMA Column - Commentary by Alessandro Machi

Monday, March 11, 2019

Wow, AIPAC really does Run Congress.

I have mixed feelings about Muslim Religious Influence on Politics in America. While I have trouble with any religion that forces its members to dress a certain way in public at all times, I recognize it's a way of being authentic and open about how they believe. The difference when Nuns do it is Nuns actually live separate lives because they are Nuns.

Forcing a Hajib on women when in public seems to be a defiant reminder that there will aways be a difference between Muslims and others.

In the case of Ilhan Omar's recent allegedly controversial remarks about Israel, I didn't see the remarks as being controversial since ALL lobbying groups use money to do their talking.

Here is a review of the alleged controversy regarding Ilhan Omar's recent comments that have been overblown by politicians from both parties. Clearly AIPAC reaches into both parties, which is exactly the point that Omar was making.

There is a lot of posturing going on among the Media and Politicians over Omar's remarks. The ironic part is, Sharia Law gives me the creeps, big time, bigly even. Yet in this instance Omar has been treated unfairly by all.

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Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Why did Trump's Associates lie about Russia when there was no reason to do so?

Someday people may look back and wonder how the media created so much fear regarding talking to anyone from Russia among Trump's higher echelon associates. I am not understanding how consulting with Russia over the 2016 Presidential Election equals collusion.

According to 60 Minutes, Trump might have won the 2016 Presidential because Facebook was literally at Trump's Headquarters educating members of Trump's campaign ad team on how to use Facebook Micro Targeting Ads during the 2016 Presidential Elections.
Hillary Clinton refused to advertise on Facebook. If Hillary Clinton had matched Trump's marketing efforts on Facebook, she would have probably won the popular vote by at least 5 to 6 million votes and most likely also won the Electoral College vote.

It seems like the Russia collusion bar has been lowered below ground level. As long as Mueller can show interactions between Russia and Trump's people, it will somehow mean collusion when the reality is it might just have been consulting work, just as Manafort, Devine and Stone did in Eastern Europe 10 years ago.

Ultimately, Trump's personal drive to always be the winner is bad for what it mean to be President of the United States. Trump is ok with losing as long as publicly he can say he won, this is a very dangerous psychological trait to have as the President of the United States. 

But I agree the Border Wall is necessary to prevent the ongoing dilution of Healthcare Services in California along with the ongoing desire to create more and higher tax revenue streams in California. Just recently Democrat Presidential Candidates sided with the Striking Teachers in California. Now a new Parcel Tax is on the ballot in California to pay for smaller classrooms, a situation directly related to 500,000 undocumented coming into California on a yearly basis.

So what may be called Russian Collusion, may actually be Consulting, and that concerns me, it should concern you as well. Hillary did an amazing job in 2016 considering she did have some health issues, was trying to keep Obama's coalition intact by not attacking Sander's per Obama's request. But Hillary Clinton probably chose to not surround herself with non yes people who could have given her cutting edge advice.

Twice now Hillary Clinton was in part defeated by opponents who latched on to Media Disruptors. By not admitting she erred by not using Facebook Micro Ads, we may see another Trump term because Democrats are too focused on rewriting 2016 rather than reaching out to rural America, and agreeing that a Border Wall would curb undocumented entry and allow for America to Breath again without having to keep raising taxes to accommodate all within our borders.



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Sunday, March 3, 2019

Seth Meyers confuses Collusion with Consulting.

https://youtu.be/lik8EYGBmXw?t=373

Seth Myers Confuses Collusion with Consulting. It's only collusion if actual ballots or votes were tampered with by Politicians or Russian Consultants.

Seth Myers on his Valentines Day, 2019 Closer Look...
This isn't just some sort of so-called process crime.....
06:16.  that has nothing to do with
06:18.  the core question of Russian collusion.

06:19.  Mueller's office said Manafort's lies go to the heart

06:22   of what the Special Counsel's office is investigating.

06:25.  For example, Manafort lied about the fact he shared

06:28.  Trump campaign polling data with a longtime associate of his

06:31.  who the FBI thinks has ties to Russian intelligence.
06:33.  He shared polling data with a guy
06:35.  tied to Russian intelligence

06:37.  while Russian intelligence was helping Trump win the election.

06:40.  That is the definition of collusion.
06:41.  If someone said, "I don't understand collusion."

06:43.  Can you give me an example?" You could say that.
End of Myers Commentary.

Meyers is mixing up Consulting with Collusion. It's only collusion if actual voters or votes were tampered with. While a case could be made that if Russia paid for facebook ads to help Trump win, might be considered collusion, the problem is Hillary Clinton did no Facebook ads, and should have. 

If Hillary Clinton had done Facebook ads, and lost because both Trump and Russia were doing Facebook ads, then that could be seen as collusion by Russia. 

Unfortunately Hillary Clinton refused to do Facebook Targeted Micro Ads. It's like a golfer forgetting their putter, but because the other golfer was given golf clubs by Russia, the other golfer is disqualified. If Hillary Clinton had her putter, and still lost, then maybe make a case that Trump got help he was not supposed to use. But if Hillary Clinton did not put forward the logical counter move, then too bad for her. Take responsibility for not being able to be agile enough to understand the value of Facebook targeted micro ads.

The bottom line, in my opinion, is Hillary Clinton would have won the popular vote by 5 to 6 million votes if she had done Facebook Targeted Ads.

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Friday, March 1, 2019

Steve Kornacki with Amazing Hardball Editorial from February 27, 2019 Explains Donald Trump to the Befuddled.

Kept waiting for the Hardball February 27, 2019 episode so I could view Steven Kornacki's editorial close. Was unable to find just the Editorial only but I did manage to get a Transcript of it. Kornacki's Editorial explains Trump and his supporters exceedingly well. Kornacki only said his name at the very beginning of the Hardball episode, then. never said it again. I had never seen him before and didn't know who he was. Incredible how protective Chris Matthew's people are over not allowing a guest to even say his name or have it flashed on the screen. Best Educational and informative Editorial goes to Steve Kornacki while filling in on Hardball on the February 27, 2019 episode.

.......Welcome back. 


The scene the whole world
40:49
witnessed in front of the House
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Oversight Committee today would have
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rocked any other presidency to its core
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Michael Cohen called Donald Trump a
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criminal a fraud and a racist and
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suggested federal prosecutors may be
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putting a case together from a legal
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standpoint there are obvious open
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questions here we will see what special
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counsel Robert Muller does or doesn't do
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we will see what if anything emerges
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from federal prosecutors in New York
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maybe even from the New York State
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Attorney General action on any of these
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fronts could dramatically change Trump's
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presidency but when it comes to the
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politics it is still far from clear what
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effect if any a day like today will have
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the charges from Cohen were absolutely
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explosive no question but were they
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actually surprising this is one of the
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things that makes the Trump presidency
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so different from those that came before
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it most voters including many of trumps
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own supporters already believe that
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Donald Trump had exceptionally low
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character even before he became
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president in the 2016 exit poll just 33
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percent of voters said they considered
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Trump honest one in three of his own
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voters considered him dishonest only 35%
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said he had the temperament to be
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President just 38 percent said he was
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even qualified for the office in polling
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before the election only one-third of
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Trump's vote of voters said that Trump
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shared their values 59% said they agreed
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that quote Trump talks in a way that
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appeals to bigotry 44% said they
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considered him an out-and-out racist
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remember the Access Hollywood tape
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Trump's comments about what he could get
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away with because he was famous that
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tape played for the whole world to hear
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just weeks before the election and yet
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here we are by the slimmest of margins
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and with huge numbers of Americans
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convinced he was a lousy person Donald
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Trump was still elected president and
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while there is no evidence he has gained
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any support since becoming president his
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numbers have been pretty stable an
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approval rating that never really falls
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lower than somewhere in the high 30s
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never really gets hire than the mid 40s
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just like his support in the polls
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during the campaign so yes the kinds of
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things we heard today would probably
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have been ruinous for
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past-president but what was shocking in
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the past may almost be expected in the
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Trump era that's hardball for now

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Thursday, February 28, 2019

Cortez hits it out of the Park in her Demeanor, Follow up, and Focus during Michael Cohen's 2019 Congressional Hearing.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was brilliant throughout her entire five minute Screed.  Her focus on "if not you, then who", was refreshing. Her follow ups to prior comments from before the break were powerful. I can tell Cortez knows how to use a phone, and that talent lent itself well during her five minutes questioning Michael Cortez.


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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Summing up the Morning Session of the Michael Cohen Congressional Testimony.

Here's what we know and may have learned regarding Michael Cohen's February 27, 2018 Testimony. 

Donald Trump will stop at nothing to win, even if it means lying, cheating, bribing, deceiving, or publicly posturing being victorious no matter what actually happened.  Democrats see themselves as the good guys trying to save the World from Trump, by opposing everything Trump stands for and condemning his behavior. Democrats think they have right on their side, what they have are policies that invite the youth vote, at all costs to Baby Boomers and the Elderly.

Meanwhile Trump is in Viet Nam, probably watching the Michael Cohen Congressional Hearings at 1 am in the morning rather than prepping for his talks with Kim Jong Un.

Gasp.

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Tuesday, February 26, 2019

How Donald Trump could blow Everyone's Mind.

Donald Trump could blow everyone's mind if he asked for an Investigation into Fox Televisions Contracting practices. There appears to be an obscenely wide chasm between what African American Actors and Caucasian Actors are paid on Fox Television. 

Even when ratings favor the African American Show, and the show is twice as long, as in sixty minutes versus thirty minutes, the Caucasian Actor will get paid significantly more for a lower rated, 1/2 hour show than the African American Actors will get paid for their hour long show that also has higher ratings.

I'm not talking 10% or 20% more, I am talking a few hundred percent higher. A recent example would be the cast of Empire, Fox's highest rated Show for several years until it was bumped to second highest rated this past season, versus a show like Anger Management that was also on Fox, which was only half an hour long, and starred Drug and Prostitute compromised Actor Charlie Sheen.

When Sheen is on, he seems to have keen awareness of both sides of most issues, and Sheen's acting for both 2 and 1/2 Men and Anger Management seems to reflect an awareness of both sides of an issue. I'm ok with Sheen being number one. The problem is African Americans are so much farther down the contract scale one has to wonder if some of their contract goes to pay Sheen's contract.

It appears that Jussie Smollett made less money over the first 54 one hour shows covering three seasons of Fox's Number one rated Empire, as a co star, than Sheen made for ONE half an hour episode of Anger Management. The pay disparity was so great it most likely played a hand in Smollett's alleged recent actions regarding reporting a hate crime.

Fox may be tap dancing into the area of Financial Abuse in the case of Smollett, and President Trump could really make a name for himself if he ordered an investigation into why there was and is such a financial disparity between Caucasian Actors on Fox television shows versus Minority and Women Actors on Fox television shows.

There may be obvious demographic reasons why a Caucasian Male Actor might make the Most money, but left unchecked, it appears the disparity between ethnicities, women and caucasian men has reached incomprehensible levels on Fox.

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Friday, February 22, 2019

Why Jussie Smollett is Innocent in my Eyes.

Jussie Smollett was apparently being paid peanuts for his recurring role on Empire. According to a Newsweek article from October, 2016, Smollett was being paid 20,000 dollars per episode, which sounds like a lot, but for having a recurring role in one of the most Popular Prime Time Fox shows, it's actually Peanuts. 

In my opinion, if Smollett's Character is recurring, he should be making at least 50,000 per episode, not 20,000. Lead Actor's salaries range from 100,000 to 800,000 per episode, so 40,000 to 50,000 per episode for a recurring co-star role seems reasonable.


Charlie Sheen got more money in one episode of Two and a Half Men during his final season than Smollett's has been paid over the first three years worth of Empire Episodes. If Sheen's 1.8 million per episode is not the epitome of Racism in Hollywood, than lets all be grateful that Sheen never Drank, Smoke, did Drugs or hooked up with Prostitutes and possibly gave some Women HIV, and made more money in one episode than Smollett has made over the first three years of Empire.


and, we should all be grateful that after Sheen was run off of Two and a Half Men for his Drinking, Smoking, Drugging and possibly giving women Aids, he was NEVER offered another show nor crazy money ever again. (this is snark)




If Mr. Smollett was being paid just 20,000 per episode (that's TWO LESS Zeros than Sheen got from the SAME NETWORK that Smollett's show runs on. After being fired from 2 and 1/2 Men Fox then hired Sheen for Anger Management). 

After taxes, agents fees and other associated expenses with being a celebrity, not to mention higher costs for clothing, grooming, and where he lives, perhaps even security detail for public visitation, Chicago area taxes, Smollett's take home pay per year might not have been more than 150,000 to 200,000 TOTAL, a ridiculously low figure for any performer who manages to get a recurring role in any Prime Time TV Show that has at least 20 episodes per year.

While it appears that Smollette got raises at some point, because the original contract was for such a low amount per episode, a rather nominal raise will look like a very large raise in terms of percentage.

What is being perceived as selfish, "how could you do that behavior" is really defiance towards a Hollywood system that year after year purports to try and level the Diversity playing Field while still discriminating and dragging its feet, rewarding White Actors who behave very badly while financially punishing an African American Actor for finally lashing out after years of financial abuse from the same Network that paid Sheen 2 million per episode.

Yes, it matters that Smollett was obscenely underpaid, it matters greatly. Smollette wanted to be paid more for his work and when no one took him seriously, he didn't give up. 

I bet EVERYONE being Interviewed who is ridiculing or judging what Smollett allegedly did, makes more money per year than Smollett does, and for that reason, and that reason alone, they should either shut up, or acknowledge that he was underpaid and was being taken advantage of by the same system that Paid Charlie Sheen more money for one episode of Anger Management than Smollette's total Salary over his first three seasons of Empire. 

Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. I can't fathom this, it's beyond comprehension to me. People, learn Simple Math, please.

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Wednesday, February 20, 2019

My Letter to Xavier Becerra and Mr. Lee Sherman regarding Declaratory and Injunctive Relief from the Border Wall Emergency Funding.

Dear Mr. Lee Sherman, Please forward an exact copy of this entire email message and photos to the Defense Team and the Presiding Judge along with the photos of my Mother so you all can see a face on the California Senior Genocide that continues because there is no Border Wall for California and Healthcare Funds are diluted as a direct result.

As a California resident, I object to the filing of the
STATE OF CALIFORNIA; STATE OF COLORADO; STATE OF CONNECTICUT; STATE OF DELAWARE; STATE OF HAWAII; STATE OF ILLINOIS; STATE OF MAINE; STATE OF MARYLAND; ATTORNEY GENERAL DANA NESSEL ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE OF MICHIGAN; STATE OF MINNESOTA; STATE OF NEVADA; STATE OF NEW JERSEY; STATE OF NEW MEXICO; STATE OF NEW YORK; STATE OF OREGON;andCOMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA;
Plaintiffs,
v.
DONALD J. TRUMP,in his official capacity as President of the United States of America;UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; U.S.
1COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF

500,000 undocumented crossings into California on an annual basis have diluted Healthcare Coverage for the Elderly in California and are also a direct cause of overcrowded Classrooms in both Los Angeles and Oakland County.
On March. 10, 2018 I personally witnessed multiple and repetitve EMTALA violations at West Hills Hospitals in West Hills, California. An ER Nurse refused to document, examine, or render aid to my Mother when she started wheezing while on her ER bed in her ER room. The ER Nurse’s defiance went so far as to call a False Code Gray on me after I requested to speak to the Head Nurse. The ER Nurse brought in a ringer instead who stated we were refusing to leave and preventing other patients from being seen. I decided to document the ERs refusal to document my Mothers onset of pneumonia and for that action a Code Grahy was called on me, I was assaulted and my video was erased. We were then against our will dumped in the rain outside of the ER. My Mother died 2 and 1/2 days later at home and I have PTSD over what I saw happen. The ER Nurse's brazenly illegal actions were no doubt fueled by a filled to capacity waiting room and the knowledge that all she had to do to get out of any unlawful situation she was creating was to call a False Code Gray via the ER Intercom.
I will give testimony as to the many ways California is shorting its seniors when it comes to MediCAL benefits and IHSS. And when Teachers in both Los Angeles and now Oakland demand smaller classrooms, they are really demanding a Wall but are too afraid to say it. You should know better, you should do better. 

EMTALA violations are not enforced in California or my Mother would still be alive today. Mayor Garcetti added 1 million more police on the street hours in 2018, not one hour of it was EMTALA related. I was rebuffed by the local police, the FBI, the Department of Justice and DHHS in California when I asked for an Investigation regarding my Mother’s death. We need the Wall, not 500,000 illegal border crossing every year that are causing a dilution of healthcare, especially among seniors.

California Politicians are floating the nonsensical mathematical theory that because Border Crossings are “down”. a Border Wall is not necessary. Illegal Border Crossings are ongoing and create residual healthcare Dilution effects and increasing Student Classroom sizes with each passing year. 
There are ZERO free legal aid facilities for IHSS in the San Fernando Valley, yet there are as many as SIX free legal aid IHSS facilities in Los Angeles City for Seniors and IHSS. LA City Free Legal Aid zip code discriminates against San Fernando Valley Seniors. Clearly a bias against Seniors who are more likely to be citizens of California and have been here for a long time presently exists in favor inner city residents. I consider the siphoning and diluting of MedICAL IHSS benefits for Seniors in California along the lines of Senior Genocide, meanwhile you IMMEDIATELY filed a lawsuit without even asking for Public Input, Can your office be more arrogant?

Please forward my comments to the Judge who will be residing over your sham lies and misdirection regarding California not needing a Border Wall. My Mother is dead because you don’t enforce EMTALA and refuse to do so. My mother’s death allows California to do what it does best, redirect money from Seniors who die prematurely from diluted Healthcare to other parts of the Budget.

Your Cato Institute citations lack merit. You cite statistics that back up Donald Trump’s position that Illegal Immigrants are arrested at 3 to 4 times higher rates than legal immigrants. You were in such a hurry to file a lawsuit that you did not even check your statistics closely, nor did you ask for any public feedback or input. Mr. Xavier Becerra sure likes to get on Television and then brag about it on his Twitter Account, so sad.


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Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Donald Trump's 2019 State of the Union Speech Nails why a Border Wall is Essential in one easy to understand Sentence.

I would testify that the death of my own Mother was directly caused by the dilution of California Healthcare Resources because we don't have a Border Wall. My Mother's death involved Repetitive, Brazen lawlessness by an ER Nurse when the ER Waiting room was filled to the brim. This ER Nurse remains above the law as no one will investigate the horror I witnessed over the elder abuse my Mother suffered at the hands of the Nurse, nor the subsequent death of my Mother that resulted.
Donald Trump's quote from the 2019 State of the Union Address ... "Meanwhile, working-class Americans are left to pay the price for mass illegal immigration ... overburdened schools, hospitals that are so crowded you can’t get in ... and a depleted social safety net.” 

-Donald Trump 2019 State of the Union Speech


Since Trump gave his 2019 State of the Union Speech, he continues to only discuss Gangs and War as it relates to the Border Wall Emergency and seems to have forgotten that those already in the U.S. are suffering because of a depleted social safety net. Maybe someone can show President Trump his 2019 State of the Union Speech where he clearly states lack of a Border Wall has led to a depleted social safety net, especially in California. 


Los Angeles School Teachers had a January 2019 Strike because of over crowded classrooms, now Oakland School Teachers are striking because of over crowded classrooms. This is the result of a depleted social safety net that is being ransacked to the tune of 500,000 newly undocumented in California on an annual basis.


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