Public Schools had a good run. Trump will end public schools at the federal level

Students burning books on Opernplatz in Nazi Germany

Are book burnings coming?

Washington Post

Trump picks billionaire Betsy DeVos, school voucher advocate, as education secretary

By Emma Brown November 23 at 2:45 PM 

The DeVos / Prince families are as right wing extremist as is possible.  Betsy DeVos will do everything possible at the federal level to eliminate public education in America. 

"On the homepage of almost any major news publication, one can read about the latest bombastic actions of the current crop of conservative candidates – Trump, Cruz, Carson etc. Behind all of the pageantry and show, however, it is critical for people of conscience to consider how big-money donors can influence public policy. Most people have heard of big spenders like the Koch brothers or the Walton family—well known for using their money to shape not only policies, but also the very infrastructure of our political system. But  who are those deep-pocketed names we’ve never heard of? 

The DeVos family—Michigan-based builders of the Amway fortune—is one of the most influential families in conservative U.S. politics. Their agenda includes many items on the Corporate and Christian Right’s wish lists, including so-called “right to work” laws that weaken unions, discriminatory Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) bills, and education privatization (including pushing school vouchers that transfer public dollars to private religious coffers). Although some of their higher-profile activities such as Dick DeVos’ failed 2006 race for Michigan governor and Richard DeVos´ ownership of the Orlando Magic basketball team are covered in the press, their political spending has gotten far less attention. This year 435 seats will be contested in the House of Representatives, 35 in the Senate and 13 gubernatorial races will take place alongside local and county elections; therefore it is critically important for the country to see and debate the influence that rich families like the DeVoses are wielding in politics. 

Though they share the Kochs´ commitment to corporate welfare, the DeVoses also promote a Christian Right cultural and social agenda. They use their money and influence to contribute to conservative infrastructure, including think tanks, astroturf organizations and policy advocacy groups, both in Michigan and elsewhere. The family epitomizes the disturbing trend toward billionaires willing to spend big money to change the political structure—a structure that, as PRA’s late founder and political scientist Jean Hardisty wrote in 2014, is 'drifting toward oligarchy'."

The Koch-Like Family You’ve Never Heard Of Influencing State Legislatures
By Jonathon Orta, on December 22, 2015

Betsy DeVos' brother is the outlaw mercenary Eric Prince:

Blackwater’s Founder Is Under Investigation for Money Laundering, Ties to Chinese Intel, and Brokering Mercenary Services 

ERIK PRINCE, founder of the now-defunct mercenary firm Blackwater and current chairman of Frontier Services Group, is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and other federal agencies for attempting to broker military services to foreign governments and possible money laundering, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the case. 

What began as an investigation into Prince’s attempts to sell defense services in Libya and other countries in Africa has widened to a probe of allegations that Prince received assistance from Chinese intelligence to set up an account for his Libya operations through the Bank of China. The Justice Department, which declined to comment for this article, is also seeking to uncover the precise nature of Prince’s relationship with Chinese intelligence. 

Prince, through his lawyer, Victoria Toensing, said he has not been informed of a federal investigation and had not offered any defense services in Libya. Toensing called the money-laundering allegations “total bullshit.” 

The Intercept interviewed more than a half dozen of Prince’s associates, including current and former business partners; four former U.S. intelligence officers; and other sources familiar with the Justice Department investigation. All of them requested anonymity to discuss these matters because there is an ongoing investigation. The Intercept also reviewed several secret proposals drafted by Prince and his closest advisers and partners offering paramilitary services to foreign entities. 

For more than a year, U.S. intelligence has been monitoring Prince’s communications and movements, according to a former senior U.S. intelligence officer and a second former intelligence official briefed on the investigation. Multiple sources, including two people with business ties to Prince, told The Intercept that current government and intelligence personnel informed them of this surveillance. Those with business ties were cautioned to sever their dealings with Prince.  

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ERIK PRINCE IN THE HOT SEAT

GOP PA Senator Scott Wagner’s “Make Pennsylvania Great Again”-Changing Pennsylvania into Scott Walker’s Wisconsin.

In the video I embedded in this post, Chester County Republican Party incumbents and candidates repeatedly praise Scott Walker and vow to remake Pennsylvania in the manner that Scott Walker remade Wisconsin. 

Wisconsin’s economy is in horrible shape because of Walker. Wisconsin’s educated workers are escaping to neighboring states to find work:

Tuesday, September 2, 2014 

VIDEO-It appears that a State Rep. Harry Lewis will not stand in the way if Republicans try to privatize public schools. 

Harry Lewis is scheduled to speak at this Republican breakfast/prayer event.  But notice that he is not on the podium during the first 9 minutes of the video. They forgot Harry Lewis was part of the event. Maybe they thought he was part of the server staff.  Harry Lewis speaks at 22:29. He stops speaking at 26:24.  

I was asked what the “Platform” of Republicans running for state government in Pennsylvania. I don't know of any platform. 

 The video below is Chester County Republican candidates talking to their people. It's easy to see that all the Chester County Republican candidates are Right Wing Christian Extremists running against abortion and Obama. 

 A common theme of all the speakers is to be willing to listen to Chester County liberals, to not be too ideological, but when it comes to making a decision to make the true Christian conservative decision. 

 Notice the praise to Scott Walker in Wisconsin.

"Gubernatorial hopeful Republican State Senator Scott Wagner waited exactly until 3:19 Wednesday afternoon to send an email congratulating his supporters on Donald Trump’s victory, and proclaiming that he will “Make Pennsylvania Great Again.”  Pennsylvania Republicans picked up three senate seats and a veto proof 34-16 majority, and to make things worse, Wagner was in-charge of the Senate Republican Campaign Committee."

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Pennsylvania Gubernatorial HopefulWants to “Make Pennsylvania Great Again.”

November 10, 2016 Sean Kitchen Front Page, November 2016 

The Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania's plan to crash Pennsylvania's economy is in line with Trump's plan for a "new Great Depression":

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Crash the economy, riots, hate crimes, kleptocracy-Nazi President Trump & his Goebbels, Steve Bannon have a plan.

Crash the economy, riots, hate crimes, kleptocracy-Nazi President Trump & his Goebbels, Steve Bannon have a plan.

On Saturday I wrote about a co-worker who was an artilleryman in Hitler’s Wehrmacht. Freddy said, "Hitler wasn't all bad. He gave people jobs."

I think a popular Trump has the potential to be far more horrific than Hitler and his Nazis. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have a plan to make Trump wildly popular:

"Look at that black bastard, his friends are eating him."- Trump more dangerous than Hitler?

I'm convinced that Trump plans a presidency that will be a dictatorship, his personal kleptocracy. A dictatorship that could be worse than Hitler's. You say it's not bad enough for a new Hitler? Trump and his Nazi advisor Steve Bannon have a plan for that:

“You know what solves it?” Trump said of America’s alleged troubles during a 2014 interview. “When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell and everything is a disaster. Then you’ll have a [chuckles], you know, you’ll have riots to go back to where we used to be when we were great.” (His chief strategist concurs.)

We need to begin now to stop him. 

Governor Cuomo has begun. See the video below.

Some highlights from the transcript of: 

A Dark View from Flyover Country

White Anger, Racial Violence, Economic Despair — And the Worst Is Yet to Come

Sarah Kendzior:

"Obviously, Trump has run a very racist and bigoted campaign; sort of white nationalist campaign reminiscent of dictators. I should note that I do live in Missouri, so I have this perspective but I also have a Ph.D. in anthropology where I studied dictatorships, particularly post-Soviet dictatorships like Uzbekistan, so I’m an expert in that field as well. 

Many of the things that Trump did throughout his campaign reminded me very much of the dictators that I’ve studied in terms of his demagoguery, his use of spectacle, manipulation of the media and his manipulation of the masses. 

Those who voted for him, I think have signed on for something that they don’t really want. I don’t think he’s going to fulfill his promises to them in order to improve their economic livelihood or keep them safer. I, in fact, think the opposite is going to happen. That’s true because he has frankly stated so, including long before the election. 

For example, in February 2014, Trump went on Fox News to talk about Russia – which we should return to this because it’s very interesting that a reality TV show host would be on TV talking about Russian foreign policy in 2014 – but another thing he said during then, the interview was that in order for America to go back to where it was, to go back to being great, we need total economic collapse and we need riots. He explicitly called for this. His chief advisor and advisor throughout his campaign, Steve Bannon, who is an extreme white supremacist who runs Breitbart Media, which is a conspiratorial, right wing site, has also said similar things. He described himself as a Leninist who wants to destroy the state but I wouldn’t really describe him as a Leninist as much as an accelerationist, which is also what I would describe Trump... 

Since 2008, it’s been a struggle to live out here and to make ends meet. I think that we’re at a point where people feel so desperate and so enraged that they are willing to listen to anybody who is very actively stating that he’s concerned for their welfare, that he’s going to return their lives back to when it was good, especially that they would have steady jobs and work again and the feeling of safety and inclusion in American life. That feeling is very understandable. 

Donald Trump is not going to do that. He doesn’t actually understand or care about people in this part of the country. He’s had his whole life as a billionaire of major influence and political influence to care about what happens to people out here and all he’s done is shake people down. He’s done that all over the place; everywhere from Atlantic City to Gary Indiana. 

He’s about to shake down the entire country in a very kleptocratic way. I think by privatizing resources, by not bringing jobs, by making people feel more desperate – and that kind of desperation can lead to ethnic violence and can lead to hate crimes, especially when you’re being prompted towards those hate crimes explicitly by the administration. 

The hiring of Steve Bannon and others, he’s saying that this is sanctioned behavior now; that it’s okay for the president to be backed by the Ku Klux Klan, that you can get away with treating non-white people in a completely derogatory, cruel and often barbaric fashion. His promises, we should expect him to carry them out... 

I think everyone is going to suffer, whether you voted for Trump or you didn’t. He might try to placate people in the beginning by throwing them some jobs, maybe through infrastructure projects but it seems clear from his team that the goal – as you’ve seen in other countries all around the world, is to try to make as much money for himself and his friends as he can by using and abusing executive powers to strip down national resources and carry out the kind of acts of corruption that he has, many of which we don’t know about because he won’t release his tax returns. So we should be prepared for economic volatility in a very extreme way. We should also be prepared for sanctioned violence and for policies that frankly disregard the Constitution and the rights of American citizens.

 I think right now, people who voted for Trump are obviously happy he won. Some are just regular people who are glad their candidate managed to beat Hillary Clinton, but others – we’ve seen an enormous spike in hate crimes. I think one of the largest in the history of the country since they started tracking this: in the week after the election. Everything; from swastikas being painted in places to “make America white again” to people being beaten and bullied, to children being taunted in classrooms to threats to Muslims and Jews, it’s just very disconcerting. There doesn’t seem to be much reaction in our government to stop it. Leaders are not speaking out very strongly about it with a few exceptions, and I think it’s very interesting that one of those exceptions is Harry Reid, who’s leaving the government. He spoke out in the strongest way. So you kind of have to wonder why aren’t Obama and other leaders being more forceful when there’s a real state of threat from the president-elect in this team to average American citizens and that this threat is being carried out in a populous way and will eventually be carried out with the law itself; with executive power itself. I think as he does not fulfill his promises and jobs do not return here and if resources are denied and the people suffering increases, he will encourage them as he has throughout his campaign, to look for scapegoats. 

Those scapegoats will be Muslims, Mexicans and anyone else who he wants to blame this problem on. The media has really played this down. They played this down throughout the entire campaign, including major incidents such as two weeks before the election, a group of Trump fans were arrested by the FBI for building a weapon of mass destruction to blow up an apartment building that housed Somalis in Kansas. That to me is a pretty major story. 

Imagine if that was the other way around and bunch of Muslim Somalis had plotted to blow up a building of white Kansans. It would be everywhere, but I don’t even know if you’ve heard about it, I don’t know if your listeners have heard about it, but you can look it up. Kansas City Star covered it pretty extensively. 

So there’s something going on in that a lot of this seems to be sanctioned by the media, sanctioned by the government and it’s extremely reminiscent of dictators, both past and present and I think it’s an urgent crisis. I think it’s something that the government and the people, people who believe in American values; that we should be free, that we should be safe, that we should honor each other as citizens and respect each other’s rights as citizens. Anyone who cares about that should be very concerned right now and be contacting their representatives and speaking out and trying to amass as much mobilization against this kind of sanctioned brutality, if possible…"

Sarah Kendzior offers hope, but she says we need to start now to oppose Trump:

"I studied a lot of terrible regimes in history and in the present day, and I see that when people band together and they do what’s right and they stand up for their fellow Americans and they are willing to confront the darkness ahead and work very, very hard that they’ve managed to save their country. They’ve managed to save their countrymen. They’ve managed to work and rebuild and make it a better place. America’s been in a bad place for a long time. 

We’ve had two terrible wars. We’ve had a shattered economy. The situation that allowed this to happen, that allowed Trump to come to power was not just that he moseyed on in, like we were vulnerable to this. So we have a lot of things that we need to fix but we will be unable to fix them under this administration. 

People keep saying wait until 2018, wait until 2020. I don’t think we have that much time to try to mitigate the damage that he’s going to do because it will be extreme and it will move very quickly. So really, the time is now. The time to call your representatives, to mobilize with your community, to look out for your neighbor and to think, wait what kind of person are you? What kind of country are we? What does it mean to be an American? What does it mean to be a good citizen? What does it mean to be a patriot? To me, that means you stand up for each other. You work for each other..." As Governor Cuomo and New York is doing:

Spike in hate crimes prompts special NY police unit

By Amy La Porte, CNN

Updated 11:32 AM ET, Mon November 21, 2016

Republicans are now: “The Reich Wing”- Coatesville area black clergy needs to stop taking GOP under the table cash

You know whom I'm talking to, the black Chester County clergy that plays both sides.

 In 2006 a man who had recently became a CCRC committeeperson said to me, “I looked at becoming a Democratic committeeman. There’s no money in it.” 

 He came to my front door to say this. He wanted me to change to Republican. His message was, “You’re a foolish, change to Republican.” 

 It was not the first or last time someone told me to change to Republican. The message to Democrats like me is:

 In Coatesville, Chester County, PA, there is no money for you as a Democrat. There is money for you as a Republican. 

The Reich Wing

Even after Republicans nominated a white supremacist, loved by the KKK and Nazi Party, there are STILL black people in the Coatesville area who claim that Republicans are on the side of African Americans. Their reasoning is that Democrats were segregationists. That was 60 years ago.

"DAVID DUKE: I really believe that we are on the way. The last three appointees of Donald Trump, the most important appointees, [Stephen] Bannon as his chief strategist. Flynn, of course, Michael Flynn as his national security adviser, top adviser, and [Jeff] Sessions as attorney general, I believe, are the first steps in taking America back. He’s appointed men who are going to start this process of taking our country back and I tell you, for the first time in years, our side is empowered, our side is enthusiastic, our side is excited, our side is hopeful, but more than hopeful, we are becoming confident. 

MEDIA MATTERS

“Bravo President Trump!” David Duke Thrilled Over Trump’s “Great” Picks Of Bannon, Flynn, And Sessions 

Former KKK Leader Reacts To Trump Choices: “Our Side Is Empowered, Our Side Is Enthusiastic"

November 18, 2016 11:53 AM EST

I think black Republicans don’t really care about old time Democratic segregationists or civil rights, or that Lincoln was Republican, black Republicans ONLY care about money.

None of PA State Rep. Harry Lewis’ friends buy his, "I’m a Republican because Martin Luther King Jr. was Republican."  Harry Lewis is Republican because there’s money in it, a lot of money.

And then there are black “Democrats” who will accept GOP money in exchange for supporting a Republican candidate.

It's time for all black people to abandon links to the Republican Party.