February 9, 2020: Former Secretary of the Navy Warns Us about Trump

  

2/9/20: If worrying about melting glaciers and rising oceans in 2100 is too much to grasp, consider an imminent threat. 

 

“If we are to sustain this experiment we call democracy.” 

President Trump is a lunatic and people who have worked with him know it. Consider former Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer. Spencer survived close contact, working with Trump. He now tells reporters that while he has been a “lifelong Republican,” and never voted Democratic in his life, he is endorsing Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2020. 

Spencer tells the crowd at a Bloomberg rally that he is “tremendously concerned.” He knows what Trump is like. “I don’t care if you’re a Republican, you’re a Democrat or independent, if we are to sustain this experiment we call democracy, America needs the best leader available.” 

It was “chaos” working for President Trump, Spencer explains. When our military talked to allied militaries, he says, there was great frustration. “It was fraying, it was confusing, it was exhausting. The message one way, the message the next way – it was untenable.” 

“We need honesty, we need integrity,” he says to Nora O’Donnell on NBC. Bloomberg, is not the “sole, ‘I have the only answer,’ kind of guy, which is a very dangerous position to be in, I think.” 

O’Donnell asks if that is how he views Trump. A Marine Corps veteran, himself, Spencer doesn’t miss a beat. “Yes,” he replies emphatically. “This decision here is for the good of the country…Loyalty is to the country, not to a person [emphasis added].” The Democratic candidate, he adds, is “respectful, inclusive and intelligent.” You know what he means. Bloomberg is the opposite of Trump.

 

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A DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION in Virginia decides to abolish Lee-Jackson Day, celebrating the two Confederate generals who did the most to win the Civil War and split the nation in two. 

Election Day will be a state holiday, instead.