The Most Powerful Woman In American History (Nancy Pelosi) Faces The Most Dangerous President In American History (Donald Trump)

When the history of America from 2017 to the present is chronicled, there is no question that it will be acknowledged that the most powerful woman in American history was Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and that she successfully combated the most dangerous President in American history, Donald Trump.

Trump is a bully, a misogynist, and totally out of control, but Pelosi has shown fantastic skills in confronting him, as at the White House gathering on Wednesday, where she told him that he had proved that he was connected to Russia and Vladimir Putin, and would be held accountable for that transgression.

Pelosi has been very careful in the promotion of the impeachment of Donald Trump, and has been criticized by many in her own party for the laid back approach, but Pelosi is simply making the case stronger against Trump by his own actions and utterances.

The outcome of the struggle between Pelosi and Trump is not clear, but it is without doubt that she is a “Profile in Courage”, and she will be so honored in American history long term.

6 comments on “The Most Powerful Woman In American History (Nancy Pelosi) Faces The Most Dangerous President In American History (Donald Trump)

  1. Jeffrey Moebus October 18, 2019 6:23 am

    Answering the Three Most Important Questions: A Prospectus

    Executive Summary: This is a statement on the Three Most Important Questions Confronting America and The World Today: What they are; Why they are the most important Questions; and a proposed way to go about exploring those Questions.
    …….

    My nominees for The Three Most Important Questions Confronting America and The World Today [or 3MIQ] are:

    1. What is the difference between a “Human Right,” on the one hand, and a “Human Need” and “Human Want,” on the other?

    2. Given that difference, what is the proper function of Government as regards the meeting of Human Needs, the satisfaction of Human Wants, and the protection of Human Rights?

    3. So What and Now What?

    i believe these to be the Three Most Important Questions because:

    1. Confusion over, of, and about the difference between Human Rights, Needs, and Wants has always been and now is the primary, core, root cause of much, if not most Human Suffering in this Nation and on this Planet.

    2. Confusion over, of, and about the proper function of Government ~ as regards the meeting of Human Needs, the satisfaction of Human Wants, and the protection of Human Rights ~ has always been and now is the primary explanation for the How and Why of that Suffering, locally, nationally, and globally. Ie:

    a. Human Needs are not met.
    b. Human Wants are not satisfied.
    c. Human Rights are not observed, preserved, and protected.

    3. Unless and until that difference is understood, acknowledged, accepted, and acted upon ~ and Governments assume their proper functions as regards Needs, Wants, and Rights ~ Human Needs will continue to not be met, Human Wants will continue to not be satisfied, and Human Rights will continue to be ignored, suppressed, and obliterated.

    To answer these Three Questions, the following Preliminary Questions must first be answered:

    0. IS there a core, fundamental difference between Human Needs and Wants, on the one hand, and Human Rights, on the other?

    1. If there is: How and Why are they different, and What are those specific differences? [Note: If it can be established that there IS no difference, then this conversation ends here.]

    2. Because, then, Human Needs and Wants are different from Human Rights, then How and Why is there such confusion about that difference?

    3. What are the results of that confusion? What are the problems whose root cause source are indeed and in deed that confusion of Human Needs and Wants with Human Rights?

    4. How and Why would the elimination of that confusion solve many, if not most, if not virtually all of those problems resulting from that confusion?

    5. What specific steps can be taken to eliminate that confusion?

    6. As specifically regards MIQs 2 and 3, and preliminary Questions 3, 4, and 5, above:

    How and Why does all this matter to America and the World in this, Year III of The Age of Trump?

    Once those basic and base Questions are answered, then the following Follow-on Questions can be asked and begun to be answered:

    1. Is Health Care a Human Right? Or is it a Human Need and Want?

    2. Similarly, are Education, Employment, Housing, and Physical, Mental, and Emotional Security Human Rights? Or categories of Human Needs and Wants? What about healthfully breathable Air and drinkable/irrigationable Water?

    3. And what about Abortion; the use of Recreational/Explorational Drugs; the possession of military grade-Weapons and Weapons Systems; one’s choice of Marital Partner and/or Sexual Proclivity; Membership in organizations; freedom from warrentless Mass Surveillance; freedom of Association and from involuntary Participation on Religious or Other grounds; freedom of “offensive,” “offending,” or otherwise-Incorrect Speech; freedom Of and From religion; and so forth? Are these Needs and Wants; or are they Rights?

    Is not having to worry about getting blown away while in school, at work, out with friends, or at a place of worship a Human Right? Or is it a Human Need and Want?

    4. And perhaps most importantly: What about TRUTH?

    Is the Truth ~ about What our governments, corporations and financial institutions, religious and educational organizations, and media conglomerates are actually, really doing, and really, actually either hiding from us, or simply [and sometimes blatantly] lying to us about ~ is THAT Truth a Human Right; or merely a Need and Want?

    Once those penultimate Questions have been asked and answered, then the ultimate, Real Questions can be addressed:

    1. How are Human Needs best most met and Human Wants most best satisfied? What mechanisms of which kinds of economic, political, social, and cultural structures, systems, processes, procedures, and ultimate products most optimally and efficaciously accomplish that? And Why is that so?

    2. How are Human Rights most and best observed, preserved, and protected? Again: What mechanisms of which kinds of cultural, social, political, and economic structures, systems, processes, procedures, and ultimate products most efficiently and effectively accomplish that? And Why is that so?

    3. Which specific Human creations, efforts and activities, groupings, organizations, and institutions ~ over the course of the history of Homo sapiens ~ have contributed most to the meeting of those Needs and the satisfying of those Wants, on the one hand, and/or to the observation, preservation, and protection of those Rights, on the other?

    4. Which specific Human creations, efforts and activities, groupings, organizations, and institutions ~ over the course of the history of Homo sapiens ~ have contributed most to the failure to meet those Needs and to satisfy those Wants, on the one hand, and/or to the dismissal, suppression, and obliteration of those Rights, on the other?

    All of which then leads back to the last and most important of the Three Most Important Questions: So What and Now What?

  2. Princess Leia October 18, 2019 12:13 pm

    Major Kudos to Pelosi for standing up to Widdle Donnie and exiting the meeting.

  3. Jeffrey Moebus October 19, 2019 1:48 am

    US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations” Since World War II by James A. Lucas, Global Research, June 30, 2019

    GR Editor’s Note: Let us put this in historical perspective: the commemoration of the War the End All Wars acknowledges that 15 million lives were lost in the course of World War I (1914-18).

    The loss of life in the second World War (1939-1945) was on a much large scale, when compared to World War I: 60 million lives both military and civilian were lost during World War II. (Four times those killed during World War I).

    The largest WWII casualties were China and the Soviet Union, 26 million in the Soviet Union, China estimates its losses at approximately 20,000,000 deaths. Ironically, these two countries (allies of the US during WWII) which lost a large share of their population during WWII are now categorized as enemies of America, which are threatening the Western World. A so-called preemptive war against China and Russia is currently contemplated.

    Germany and Austria lost approximately 8 million people during WWII, Japan lost more than 2.5 million people. The US and Britain respectively lost more than 400,000 lives.

    This carefully researched article by James A. Lucas documents the more than 20 million lives lost resulting from US led wars, military coups and intelligence ops carried out in the wake of what is euphemistically called the “post-war era” (1945- ). The extensive loss of life in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Libya is not included in this study.

    Continuous US led warfare (1945- ): there was no “post-war era“.

    Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, January 20 2019
    ***

    US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People Since World War II

    After the catastrophic attacks of September 11 2001 monumental sorrow and a feeling of desperate and understandable anger began to permeate the American psyche. A few people at that time attempted to promote a balanced perspective by pointing out that the United States had also been responsible for causing those same feelings in people in other nations, but they produced hardly a ripple. Although Americans understand in the abstract the wisdom of people around the world empathizing with the suffering of one another, such a reminder of wrongs committed by our nation got little hearing and was soon overshadowed by an accelerated “war on terrorism.”

    But we must continue our efforts to develop understanding and compassion in the world. Hopefully, this article will assist in doing that by addressing the question “How many September 11ths has the United States caused in other nations since WWII?” This theme is developed in this report which contains an estimated numbers of such deaths in 37 nations as well as brief explanations of why the U.S. is considered culpable.

    The causes of wars are complex. In some instances nations other than the U.S. may have been responsible for more deaths, but if the involvement of our nation appeared to have been a necessary cause of a war or conflict it was considered responsible for the deaths in it. In other words they probably would not have taken place if the U.S. had not used the heavy hand of its power. The military and economic power of the United States was crucial.

    THIS STUDY REVEALS THAT U.S. MILITARY FORCES WERE DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR ABOUT 10 TO 15 MILLION DEATHS DURING THE KOREAN AND VIETNAM WARS AND THE TWO IRAQ WARS. THE KOREAN WAR ALSO INCLUDES CHINESE DEATHS WHILE THE VIETNAM WAR ALSO INCLUDES FATALITIES IN CAMBODIA AND LAOS.

    THE AMERICAN PUBLIC PROBABLY IS NOT AWARE OF THESE NUMBERS AND KNOWS EVEN LESS ABOUT THE PROXY WARS FOR WHICH THE UNITED STATES IS ALSO RESPONSIBLE. IN THE LATTER WARS THERE WERE BETWEEN NINE AND 14 MILLION DEATHS IN AFGHANISTAN, ANGOLA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO, EAST TIMOR, GUATEMALA, INDONESIA, PAKISTAN AND SUDAN.

    But the victims are not just from big nations or one part of the world. The remaining deaths were in smaller ones which constitute over half the total number of nations. Virtually all parts of the world have been the target of U.S. intervention.

    THE OVERALL CONCLUSION REACHED IS THAT THE UNITED STATES MOST LIKELY HAS BEEN RESPONSIBLE SINCE WWII FOR THE DEATHS OF BETWEEN 20 AND 30 MILLION PEOPLE IN WARS AND CONFLICTS SCATTERED OVER THE WORLD.

    To the families and friends of these victims it makes little difference whether the causes were U.S. military action, proxy military forces, the provision of U.S. military supplies or advisors, or other ways, such as economic pressures applied by our nation. They had to make decisions about other things such as finding lost loved ones, whether to become refugees, and how to survive.

    And the pain and anger is spread even further. SOME AUTHORITIES ESTIMATE THAT THERE ARE AS MANY AS 10 WOUNDED FOR EACH PERSON WHO DIES IN WARS. Their visible, continued suffering is a continuing reminder to their fellow countrymen. [EMPHASES added.]

    It is essential that Americans learn more about this topic so that they can begin to understand the pain that others feel. Someone once observed that the Germans during WWII “chose not to know.” We cannot allow history to say this about our country. The question posed above was “How many September 11ths has the United States caused in other nations since WWII?” The answer is: possibly 10,000.

    Continued at: https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-has-killed-more-than-20-million-people-in-37-victim-nations-since-world-war-ii/5492051

  4. Ronald October 19, 2019 6:08 am

    Jeffrey, thanks for opening up our eyes to reality about American foreign policy.

    The information is very sobering!

  5. Rustbelt Democrat October 19, 2019 9:56 am

    War is terrible but we can’t turn our back on the world.

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