Friday, October 03, 2025

COVID Shots and Brain Fog

 

                                                            COVID Shots and Brain Fog

                                                                  Junious Ricardo Stanton



            Examining America’s social milieu, you would not be thought out of touch if you concluded this society is going crazy; hard and fast. It’s not just the incessant media bombardment of negative news, mass shootings, corruption, gender dysphoria or bone headed government decisions and policies; there is a prevailing sense that mental illness is metastasizing throughout the country. We are at odds with our neighbors, our co-workers, family and fellow citizens and the rancor seems to be deepening. The partisan bickering is intensifying to the point people are talking about civil war. This is insane.

            There are obvious signs and symptoms of increasing mental illness in this society. More adults and children are reporting feelings of depression, anxiety and they are seeking professional help. https://www.kff.org/mental-health/exploring-the-rise-in-mental-health-care-use-by-demographics-and-insurance-status/ Others are being prescribed psychotropic drugs or they are self-medicating using drugs and alcohol. Substance abuse is prevalent in the US  https://www.mastermindbehavior.com/post/addiction-statistics-dab8b  These are symptoms of a society facing traumatic disfunction and disintegration.

There are a myriad of factors and causes at work here, some are obvious while others not so much. The SARS COV-2 “pandemic” is a major factor and an ongoing stressor. Fear and anxiety are rampant in America these days. People were deliberately misinformed and constantly told, by the government and media, how dangerous and deadly SARS COV-2 was, when in fact it had a 98% recovery rate for healthy people.

The operative words in this context are healthy people. The problem is the US is not a healthy nation by any means. There are huge swaths of US demographics whose quality of health is extremely poor, whose immune systems have been severely compromised due to their unhealthy “lifestyles”. https://www.halletecco.com/blog/why-americans-are-unhealthy, https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5295701-americans-wealthy-but-not-healthy/  

Obesity is rampant in the US as are hypertension, diabetes, cancer, heart, Kidney and liver diseases. In an environment of chronic disease such as America, introductions of unsafe materials into the body under coercion and duress are bound to cause additional problems and stress! The government’s COVID “remediation” efforts and policies culminating in the roll out of massively hyped yet woefully untested and highly unsafe mRNA inoculations in a nation which was already unhealthy and at risk, has exacerbated America’s health decline.

The myriad adverse reactions to the COVID shots that were originally suppressed by the government, media and Big Pharma, are now being revealed and brought to light. Major health anomalies are widespread and more and more are being discovered as time passes. There is ample evidence the mRNA shots are causing major organ damage https://citizens.news/591443.html and there is documented evidence the shots cause serious issues in reproduction, such as stillbirths and miscarriages. https://academic.oup.com/humrep/article/38/12/2536/7308743?login=false

One problem is the government still continues the bogus narrative that COVID shots are safe and effective and have saved millions of lives despite the patently obvious facts the mRNA shots failed to stop the spread of the numerous COVID strains or the resulting sickness!

            Back to America’s mental health problems, it is now being reported the COVID shots are negatively impacting the brain, causing what is called brain fog as well as additional harmful symptoms. https://thenewamerican.com/video/dr-stephanie-seneff-how-mrna-shots-induce-brain-diseases/. Government propaganda claims brain fog is rare, that’s exactly what they said about all the other adverse effects to the shots! By now we know this is a lie. Symptoms of brain fog include long lasting dizziness, cognitive impairment, diminished concentration, reduced abstract thinking ability.

 These symptoms have a deleterious effect on human emotional stability and behavior. Psycho-social issues such as feelings of anxiety, social withdrawal, depression, hopelessness and helplessness, worthlessness, problems sleeping, distress and lack of productivity, problems processing information, finding the right words to use and slowed reaction time are also being reported.

Many of these symptoms are being attributed to COVID itself not the shots, however researchers are discovering proteins that are causing inflammation they call prions that do not match with the SARS COV-2 virus. There is speculation these proteins have misfolded causing inflammation in the brain. Another possible explanation is the proteins are the result of the COVID shot introducing spike proteins that misfold.  https://www.techtimes.com/articles/300998/20240125/unlocking-insights-prion-proteins-covid-19-mrna-vaccines-prion-diseases-emerge.htm

If this is true, the CDC, Big Pharma and the government have a lot of explaining to do! The problem is they are not going to enter into a dialogue willingly. More research needs to be conducted on how COVID shot induces brain inflammation which in turn induces brain fog.

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Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Now Is the Time

 

                                                              Now Is the Time

                                                          Junious Ricardo Stanton


            The concept of time is an artificial construct invented by humans to help us understand the processes of living by providing reference points using such notions as the past, present and future. Humans have marked time differently over the millennia. Some used the moon, others the sun while others invented calendars to mark the passing of days months and years.

 But in the end, time is merely a man-made construct something all cultures internally agree upon to suit their needs and purposes. In our era, we say things like: time marches on, time stood still, or time is speeding up. It is none of this, because the concept of time is something we make up, it is not real, it is not an actual thing.

            Many of us are fascinated by time. We’re always focused on some aspect of time, the past, the future and the present. Unfortunately, most of our focus is in the form of worry, anxieties, apprehensions, anticipations and expectations. Remember when you were younger you couldn’t wait to turn a certain age or you felt you couldn’t wait for your natal day, a holiday or special event to arrive? That was in the future something you were enthusiastically anticipating. On the other hand, there were things you dreaded, maybe a doctor’s visit, a school examination or a conversation with teacher, your parents, a girlfriend or boyfriend. All of these were couched in the concept of future time.

            On the other hand, many of us are overly fixated with the past. We spend inordinate amounts of energy and thought thinking about, emotionalizing, rehashing, regretting and reliving events and experiences that have already happened not only to us but others whether a few days, months or even lifetimes ago. For example, history is seen as the past, some of us want to leave it there and not remember it at all while others carry it with them constantly for better or worse. We spend our energy often agonizing about our experiences, or joyously reliving them because of what we accomplished and achieved or didn’t.

            From a practical perspective all we have is now, the present. The past has already happened and the future is yet to occur. Yes, we can learn many valuable lessons from our past, our history impacts our present because life is a continuum, on ongoing process.  We can use past experiences to help us navigate the present. We are all creatures of habit. We tend to do things over and over again often because it feels “comfortable” or because we want to fit in, conform to others’ expectations and demands of us, their norms or our cultural patterns.  All we have is now, that being the case let us decide to use this now, this moment to be our best selves.

            The best way to effectuate this type of self-actualization and transformation is by living in the now, being aware of the present, what many call being mindful. Our present can be better than our past if we choose it to be regardless of happenstance or what is going on around us. We have the power to alter our lives, we have the ability to effectuate change, to either deconstruct or reconstruct our lives by changing our thoughts, attitudes and our behavior. We have the ability to refashion and change the trajectory of our lives for better or worse. This is a powerful ability one very few of us take full advantage of because too often we are stuck in the past, worrying about the future or conforming to someone else’s vision or agenda!

            Daily we are manipulated by nefarious forces using highly sophisticated technology to create a false reality and manufacture a state of being which benefits and enriches them totally at our expense. They want to enslave us in a dystopian technocratic hellscape. They do this by keeping us distracted, deceived, discombobulated and divided. We can escape their manufactured milieu by thinking critically, being aware, mindful and envisioning a purposeful life for ourselves here and now. We can not only alter our own destiny and quality of life; we can help change the world for the better. It is possible.  Now is the time, take full advantage of all of its possibilities and potential.

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Friday, September 19, 2025

We're On a Slppery Slope

 

                                                      We’re On a Slippery Slope

                                                           Junious Ricardo Stanton


            Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles California, Washington D.C. and his threats to do the same in Chicago Illinois and Memphis Tennessee is placing this nation in an untenable predicament.  Under the guise of public safety, Trump is using the National Guard for purposes they were not intended to serve. The Natonal Guard is for emergencies: to assist in natural disasters or to quell uprisings and riots.  Usually, the governor of the state is the one who calls for the activation of the National Guard units in the state once he or she has declared an emergency, not the president.

            The situation in L.A. with the wildfires was an emergency yet neither the governor nor the mayor called for the National Guard to be deployed. Trump took the unusual step of bypassing both of them and calling for the deployment of the California National Guard.  There the guard performed a variety of tasks from aerial firefighting using their planes and helicopters to try to contain the blazes, on the ground firefighting, aid distribution, traffic control and security.  

In D.C. Trump’s rational for deploying the Guard was to boost security, augment policing, and clean-up of squalor. The Guardsmen and women were deployed around federal property as well as several neighborhoods in D.C. The mayor of Washington D.C. did not request assistance from President Trump and was resistant to his activation. Several Republican governors supplied their Guard Units for deployment in D.C.

            With regards to Chicago and Menphis, Trump is threatening to send in the guard and use them as law enforcement to supposedly augment those cities’ police departments. The problem is, just like L.A. and Washington D.C. neither the Chicago and Memphis mayors nor the governors of those states has requested federal aid! Trump is literally militarizing the National Guard authorizing them to perform duties the state and local governments have not requested! His Republican pal governors are supply the troops to comply with Trump’s activation orders which is quite unusual!

            On the surface it seems like Trump may be or could be considered well intended, but upon closer scrutiny he is overstepping his bounds. Using high crime rate data, Trump is playing on the fears, anxiousness and gullibility of the American people, something this nation already has an abundance of. These cities are run by duly elected mayors who just happen to be African-American which plays well with Trump’s base who believe everything he says no matter how foolish, untrue and fabricated it may be. Trump is subtly playing the race card insinuating these elected officials are unable to deal with the problems in their own cities and states. Meanwhile it is apparent Trump’s policies both domestic and foreign are ineffective and wishy-washy.

 The mayors acknowledge they have crime in their city; all cities even Red State cities and towns have crime; but these mayors challenge Trump’s assertions the crime rates in their cities warrant the deployment of the Natonal Guard. In fact, the mayors say crime is down in their municipalities. National statistics, even Trump’s FBI’s data, verify violent and property crimes are down in the US, that homicides despite what the nightly news says are down across the US!

Nevertheless, Trump is using contradictory data to justify his actions. Trump ever the showman/circus barker is using this disinformation to accomplish several objectives: one, he is brazenly overstepping his constitutional authority, the Posse Comitatus Act forbids deployment and use of troops in a law enforcement capacity, but Trump is ignoring this.  Second, by mobilizing the Guard he is getting Americans used to experiencing soldiers on their streets in a law enforcement capacity, third Trump’s deployment of the Guard is complimenting the use of surveillance and biometric recognition technology such as Palantir to spy on Americans and set up a Big Brother police state infrastructure that would make George Orwell blush with envy. Lastly by calling on Red State governors to supply and deploy troops in Blue State cities, Trump is exacerbating the partisan divide in this country.

Whether or not Trump is aware he is doing all these things is not the point, he could very well be an unwitting tool of the Deep State. Trump is not the first US president to be used and played by nefarious forces and interest groups like the Military Industrial Complex, the banksters or foreign governments.

What does this mean for us? It means we are already on an extremely slippery slope, one that, along with the other bone headed moves Trump is making, could take this nation into the abyss of a technocratic police state, and this is not hyperbole.

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Friday, September 12, 2025

Don't Fall for the Okey-Doke Again

 

                                                            Don’t Fall for the Okey-Doke Again

                                                                     Junious Ricardo Stanton


            The murder of Charlie Kirk was merely one of numerous shootings, killings and murders that occur in America on a daily basis. The fact he was a political influencer is immaterial. He was a Soul whose life like so many in this country was needlessly and prematurely snuffed out. Whether it was a political hit or a random act of violence is not the issue, the issue is there is a lack of respect for the sanctity and importance of life, a lack of morality in a culture that uses gratuitous violence as the predominant form of entertainment. Then when something like this happens, we feign shock and horror despite the fact violence has become a rampant daily occurrence.

            Unlike the hundreds of Americans who are shot and killed in America on a daily basis, Charlie Kirk was somewhat famous, he had a media following, he had a platform, he was the darling of the right, a conservative influencer and organizer. He was a personal acquaintance of Donald Trump; he campaigned on his behalf and Trump included him in his MAGA circle of supporters and acolytes.

As a “celebrity” Kirk was known and revered in right wing circles and held up for his public pronouncements and ideology. His strident commentaries reflected an animus against liberalism, progressives and their policies.

Kirk rose to prominence within ultraconservative circles when he co-founded Turning Point USA a student-based organization in 2012. The organization grew nationwide and became his major platform for his ideology. He was supported by wealthy and influential Republicans and toured the nation sponsoring debates between young, college aged Republicans and Democrats after dropping out of Harper College a community college near his home in suburban Chicago Illinois.

 Kirk had been influenced and radicalized by The Tea Party an insurgent group that denounced US fiscal and to some degree US foreign policies. He was a skillful organizer and he targeted younger Americans with his message. Soon Turning Point USA became one of the largest conservative organizations of its kind in the US. Kirk railed against the culture wars and what he considered Marxist influence even publishing a list of college professors whom he considered purveyors of “leftist” propaganda.  His professors list caught on and through it he gained even more attention and followers.

 Kirk distanced himself from the virulently racist Neo-Nazi fringe of the right and embraced Christian Nationalism which is still predominantly White oriented. He was a supporter of Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential run, he hobnobbed with Trump’s sons and became a key player within the Trump wing of the Republican Party.

Turning Point USA subsequently established several subsidiary organizations and Kirk became a role model for young conservatives due to his zeal and organizing skills. He had a popular podcast; he authored several books, he sponsored college and university speaking tours around the country where he promoted free market capitalism (which doesn’t actually exist), limited government and he was a harsh critic of America’s current socio-political-economic conditions. Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on September 9, 2025 at a college in Orem Utah where he was speaking.

Now the Right is in arms about his murder. They are calling it a political assassination and making him into a martyr. Many are saying his murder is the opening salvo of a new US “Civil War”! Donald Trump has ordered the lowering of all US flags to half mast in honor of this man.

 Meanwhile several HBCUs were closed and put on lockdown due to threats. However, there is no evidence these threats had a direct correlation or connection to right wing supporters of Kirk! Nevertheless, US history is replete with examples of White ire and outrage being focused against Blacks due to the Whites’ fears and prejudices over the economy, their tenuous socio-economic status or whatever boogeymen and hobgoblins they conjure up rather than dealing with the root causes of whatever problems real or imagined they are experiencing.  Today in the US right wing White males are full of anger and angst; who knows what they might do. Look at what they did on January 6, 2020. The Left is just as animated and agitated and the nation is polarized and divided.

We must remain vigilant but don’t fall for the okey-doke. There may be civil unrest but there is not going to be a civil war. In our communities we are more likely to be the victim of a home invasion or random attack by our own then by rabid right-wing fanatics! We have our own issues to resolve and truth be told we cannot rely on White folks or the government to do so.

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Monday, September 01, 2025

Labor Day Contradictions Abound

 

                                                  Labor Day Contradictions Abound

                                                             Junious Ricardo Stanton



Today is Labor Day, a day set aside to remember and honor workers and organized labor and their struggles to gain respect, decent wages, safe working conditions, benefits, the right to bargain collectively and a place at the workplace decision making table. The irony is on this day there is an ongoing attack on organized labor and unions spearheaded by the government at the behest of corporate executives, the financial sector supported by national elected officials and oligarchs alike.

President Donald J. Trump has been in the forefront of this attack on organized labor which goes back several decades. Billions of dollars have been spent to push back the gains made by both public and government unions and this pattern will continue into the foreseeable future. Upon his return to the White House, Donald Trump has overseen the negation of hundreds of thousands of federal government workers collective bargaining rights. He has terminated 400,000 employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Environmental Protection collective bargaining rights and illegally terminated thousands of government employees.

He has done this by Executive Order, fiat, personal decrees which are highly authoritarian. He is using little known legislation like the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act which allows for the setting aside of collective bargaining if collective bargaining is not applied in a manner consistent with national security requirements. This is a seldom used piece of legislation that Trump is applying unilaterally to dozens of federal agencies such as: Federal Communications Commission, Environmental Protection Agency and the National Science Foundation.

Trump seems to like following Ronald Reagan’s model and example. In 1981 President Reagan broke a strike called by the Air Traffic Controllers Organization who were demanding better pay and working conditions. Reagan swiftly decertified the ATCO, effectively rendering it a non-entity while simultaneously firing all 11,000 members of the union! Ironically Reagan was a former union member himself having served as the president of the Hollywood Screen Actors Guild.

What made Reagan’s gambit work was the fact that powerful unions like the Teamsters and Longshoreman failed to support the ATCO membership. Had just these two union gone on strike in solidarity with the ATCO, all commerce across the nation would have stopped, Reagan would have had to back down, and been forced to deal with the air traffic controllers. Alas that did not happen and Reagan won a major victory for anti-union forces.

Similarly Trump seems to have little organized opposition, there have been a few lawsuits filed by federal union employees which are winding their way through the courts. Trump has won a few decisions in the lower courts while others are still pending. Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was not created by an act of Congress so it really has no authority. It really was a working group or consulting entity.

Following the firing of thousands of government workers by DOGE, Trump was forced to scramble to get the Republican controlled Congress to approve the job cuts and his tax bill. It remains to be seen how the courts will rule on his firings and the abolition of collective bargaining rights for hundreds of thousands of government employees.

Meanwhile people are partying, cooking out and going about their business celebrating a federal holiday that was created to honor the struggles and hard fought victories of workers, oblivious to organized labor’s long history or to the implications of what Trump is doing now!

The fact of the matter is, union membership is in decline in the US. Only 11.7% of private sector employees are union members while their federal worker counterparts make up 29.9% union membership. Decades of deindustrialization in America, offshoring of jobs and the shift to a service economy with so called gig worker has accounted for much of the decline in private sector union membership. However the push to de-unionize by corporate owners, employers and the federal government is also a major factor. We should think about this as Labor Day 2025 comes to a close.


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Saturday, August 23, 2025

We Are Living in Bizzaro World

 

                                                      We Are Living in Bizzaro World

                                                           Junious Ricardo Stanton


            Every day we are assaulted with more and more absurdities, irrational claims, government pronouncements and policies that make no sense at all. Eight months into the second Trump presidency we are witnessing the implosion and collapse of the Democratic Party as Trump places his stamp on the Republican Party which means we will see more flip flopping, outrageous bombast, threats, contradictions and gaslighting.

            It’s as if we somehow got sucked into another dimension and we are now living on Bizzaro World. Some of you may not know what Bizzaro World is, it is a fictional place in the DC comics universe one of Superman’s nemesis created. Bizzaro was a sort of Frankenstein Superman who was created by the mad scientists/criminal mind Lex Luthor, but Bizzaro was so flawed he was a caricature of Superman. Bizzaro later created his own world an upside-down place where everything was the opposite of what was happening on planet earth.

 Bizzaro had super powers like Superman but his thinking and behavior was as we used to say was “throwed off”. Normal people dealing with Bizzaro faced a major challenge because Bizzaro presented a reverse, inside out, upside-down version of everything they were accustomed to.  When Superman travelled to Bizzaro World he had to make major adjustments when he confronted Bizzaro because the situation was so bizarre.

America in 2025 is very much like Bizzaro World. We have a president who claims he is for peace yet he supports wanton genocide and supplies hundreds of billions of dollars worth of weapons in an ongoing proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, he makes vague threats and provocative statements against China then backtracks or postpones what he threatened. He postures and boasts about America prowess when in fact the US is at a severe disadvantage geostrategically, economically and militarily!

Plus, Trump’s buddy Benjamin Netanyahu who is waging a unrelenting campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide against the people of Gaza who in July launched an illegal and unprovoked attack on Iran that Trump supported and joined is going to nominate Trump for the Noble Peace Prize! This is pure Bizzaro World stuff.

Here are a few examples of Trump’s Bizzaro World antics. Trump claims the US economy is doing great under his watch yet anyone paying attention to consumer prices knows things are not great, inflation is still high. Trump wants to replace Jerome Powell the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank because Powell won’t lower interest rates, an act most economists know will generate continued inflation! Meanwhile Trump says absolutely nothing about the steadily escalating rise in M2 the US money supply which is the real cause of inflation!  We are being gaslit on this issue.

Trump claimed he would end the Ukraine war as soon as he was inaugurated in January. Well, here we are seven months later and the war is still raging. Trump held a much ballyhooed meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week promising great results. Prior to the meeting Trump threatened more sanctions if Putin didn’t agree to his demands. But the meeting ended quickly with no deals, no resolutions, no ceasefire nor any concrete prospects for peace. To add insult to injury Putin continued to pound Ukraine hard before and after his meeting with Trump!  So much for Trump’s diplomatic acumen and deal making.

Next, Trump called a meeting with Zelensky the president of Ukraine, but Zelensky brought his European supporters who seem to want the war to continue to the meeting with him! The Europeans and Zelensky made demands they knew Putin would never accept, thus ensuring the war would go on. Even comic book creators couldn’t make this stuff up. We are indeed living in a real live Bizzaro World.

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Thursday, August 14, 2025

Trump Has Shown Us Who He Really Is

 

                                                 Trump Has Shown Us Who He Really Is

                                                              Junious Ricardo Stanton


            Maya Angelou is reported to have famously said, “When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.” In this world and in life, everyone shows us who they are. We all reveal ourselves every day one way or another; whether we are honorable or vile, whether we are truthful or disingenuous, productive or a slacker.  There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, there is nothing done in the shadows that will not come to the light. By this reckoning Donald J. Trump has revealed to the world, he is doubleminded, wishy-washy, disingenuous, impetuous, vindictive and unstable.

His admirers say he is playing three- or four-dimensional chess that his moves are brilliant while his detractors say he is an imbecile, he’s like a reckless child playing with matches. Donald Trump has crafted a media persona that depicts him as the consummate deal maker, he’s the man, a world class wheeler dealer, but his record shows him to be unscrupulous, a multi-failure businessman who has fenagled more second chances and come backs than the average guy could ever imagine. Perhaps that is his best strength, he a survivor.

We will see Trump in rare form this weekend when he and Vladamir Putin sit down face to face in Alaska to discuss a myriad of topics which will have a major bearing and implications on world events. Trump will not be able to bully, browbeat or intimidate Putin who is well aware of his track record in business and politics.

Putin is no slouch. He is the former head of the Russia intelligence machinery. He is a world class martial artist who is sharp and astute. He helped bring Russia back from the abyss of bankruptcy and corruption. He restored a sense of pride in the Russia people. Today Russia is a top ranked nation economically and militarily.

 Despite the best efforts of the West to undermine and break Russia, Putin has time and time again thwarted their efforts and come out victorious. He has weathered the US’s economic sanctions which are economic warfare, he has survived domestic intrigue and direct threats to Russia’ sovereignty yet both he and Russia have survived, are standing tall and doing fairly well.

Putin is waging a war against Ukraine a war he knows the US and its NATO acolytes encouraged, are funding and supporting with logistics, technology and personnel. Putin is winning the war and he holds all the cards. NATO is cutting off its nose to spite its face just to remain America’s lapdog.

Meanwhile Putin is a major player in the BRICS+ alliance, a consortium of nation’s working to build mutual trade and commerce partnerships and soon security and military alliances as a powerful counterbalance to the US/NATO thuggery.

Trump campaigned on a pledge to be a peace president, he lied. He said he would end the carnage in Ukraine within days of being sworn in, that hasn’t happened and in many ways his actions are keeping the conflict going. He said he and Putin would meet and work it out. Yet in recent days and weeks, Trump has uttered threats against Putin, he has given ultimatums and pulled them back when he saw he was being ignored when Russian became even more aggressive against Ukraine.

Putin has stepped up the fighting and is taking more and more territory in Ukraine and Trump has to as we used to say lump it. Trump and Dimitry Medvedev the former Russian president and current Deputy Head of the Russian Security Council (a powerful position) got into a verbal tit for tat and Trump said he dispatched two nuclear submarines presumably as a show of force. I bet the Russians are shaking in their shoes.  

Leopards don’t change their spots so don’t expect Trump to tone down the bluster, reign in his ego or stop his chest pumping and threats. He will be cordial; he will listen but he will not try to Bogart Putin or demean him like he has other leaders. Trump is a blowhard but he isn’t a gangster or an idiot. Putin would not tolerate that! Trump has shown us who he is many times, let’s hope this time he doesn’t get beside himself or tear his behind.

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