Here's what the Far Right idolizes:

a reality tv show host
a five-times failed businessman
a man $521m in debt
a man facing 26 sexual harassment charges
a man who denigrates war heroes and prisoners of war
a man who denigrates members of Congress
a man who takes no counsel from anyone
a man who said Mexico would pay for the Wall; they're not.
a man who spitefully pulled our troops from W. Germany at a cost of billions in transfer dollars
a man who has no allies in western Europe, but allegedly is respected and admired by our enemies Putin and Kim Jong-un.
A man who tells the Proud Boys to " stand down and stand by."
A man who refuses to denounce hate groups
A man who changes his mind hourly and daily on all matter of topics
A man with no known domestic policy
A man with no known foreign policy; talk of ending wars has been just talk.
A man who claimed responsibility for Middle East peace treaties, among countries that were NOT at war with each other.
A man who swore to clean up the swamp, leading one of the most corrupt administrations ever. Dozens under investigation or already convicted of mis-conduct of various types.
A man allowing his family to rake in millions in national and foreign business dealings
A man who thinks he is immune to a virus he has contracted
A man who held open, outdoor rallies and gatherings without requiring masks from anyone, despite the Spin.
A man who never so much has chaired a community council, much less ran a town, a county, a state; zero political experience. And, it shows
A man who couldn't even follow simple debate rules
A man who dis-regarded his medical staff's advice and went for a Sunday drive, putting his entire entourage at covid risk.
A man who tells Dr. Fauci and the CDC that they are wrong about this virus, despite 211k dead fellow citizens.
A man who failed to take action back in January on the virus
A man who hired illegals to work at Mar-A-Lago
A man whose immigration policies have resulted in the separation and confinement of children and parents along our border, at great taxpayer expense, with no plan on what to do next; the simple solution being to send them all back.
A man who is anti-environment.
A man who gave Big Corporation a permanent tax cut, and sold a temporary, soon to expire tax cut, to the little people.
A man who yesterday told the American people to go screw themselves, there would be no stimulus package as approved by the Democrats; and today has changed his mind.
A man who borrowed Reagan's 1980 campaign mantra: Make America Great Again, and has failed miserably.
A man directly responsible for the surge in hate and open violence across the country.
A man who prefers Executive Orders to by-pass Congress, instead of using a tried and true system of checks and balances.
A man who didn't even win the popular vote, and won't again.
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This, is the Savior of the Far Right. Makes ya' wanna puke, realizing there are this many stupid ignorant Americans around.

Where is Our Country?

 

This is not the America I grew up in, back in the 1950s and 60s. It just isn’t. What happened?

I was a white kid from the suburbs. I had a dad who went off to work each morning, and a mom who stayed home all day until I started first grade. Even then, her job was part-time, 9-2, so she was always home for us. Always.

We played in our yard at first, and as we got older played in the other yards, too. There were almost no fences back then, just one yard spilling into the next. This meant that adults all could yell at us, and protect us, and they did, and we took that for granted. There was no anger or malice towards them telling us what to do, what not to do, or when told to go home.

If there were predators and serial killers and lone nuts, we never heard about them. My parents didn’t own guns, nor knew anyone who owned a gun. There were no burglaries or break-ins in our neighborhood. My once-a-week paper route to deliver 100 copies of an advertising flyer that took me two nights to complete, took me several blocks from home. My parents simply had no concerns about that. There weren’t any drug dealers standing openly on street corners, nor gangs conducting drive-by shootings. The only public demonstrations came from Negroes demanding their rights. Later, the Vietnam war brought out a different type of protester.

On Sundays we always went to church, dressed in our finest clothes. Our neighbors went to their churches, too. It was what people did back then. They spent the rest of the day at home, because stores were closed. There really wasn’t any place to go.

My Catholic school required we wear uniforms with school ties, and say the Pledge of Allegiance each morning, and a prayer to start the day, and another one before lunch. Public schools also began their day with the Pledge. No one ever met the principal, yet all were scared to death of being sent to him.

Doors weren’t automatic yet. People actually held them open for each other and smiled and offered a greeting to total strangers. Gas station attendants wore uniforms with ties, and offered to check the oil and the tires, and washed the windows, too. Mom had to actually go inside a bank to conduct her business She was always greeted with a smile, and given a calendar every year.

Our pediatrician came to the house for emergencies and this was considered normal. Whatever was wrong with us could be cured by whatever he carried in his black bag.

My dad’s one car had a large steering wheel, no power steering or brakes, an am-radio, long fins, and a really wide back seat that could seat three adults and me sometimes. There was no cruise control, there were no child locks or air bags, no automatic locks and windows, no heated seats that moved in six different directions, no back-up cameras, and no satellite-based maps. The tires had white walls, and the fenders had flexible steel curb finders for ease of parking.

At night, during the winter months, we would be allowed to watch television until 7:30 p.m. which definitely was bedtime. That Walt Disney’s show ran from 7-8 made zero difference to my mother. Bedtime, was bedtime. I have no idea what shows were on the other two channels. Our little black and white swiveled on four legs, but wasn’t the finest piece of furniture in our living room. The ads were sure different. No feminine hygiene products, bra ads, or male sexual performance aids. No one swore,  or exposed a wrong body part.

I am sure my dad grumbled over the politics and stories displayed in the newspaper. It wasn’t a perfectly idyllic time, but it sure seemed like it. We weren’t involved in war anywhere in the world. The Russians weren’t a threat, and no one had heard of Vietnam. We elected new leaders when their terms expired. We hadn’t begun to shoot them yet.

After the JFK assassination, things seemed different. I have come to look upon that event 54 years later as a simple and direct coup d’etat. It was smoothly carried out almost perfectly, covered up, I believe, by one lie after another to the people by the very govt sworn to lead and protect them.

Assassinations became routine: JFK, RFK, MLK JR., Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, James Meredith, civil rights workers, George Wallace, the list is endless. Blacks started marching and protesting and burning down portions of cities, usually their own neigbhorhoods, while looting them clean, complaining about their rights. Police oppression and use of force, routinely it seemed against black citizens, finally resulted in the turbulent summer of 2020, made worse by the pandemic.

Prayer in school disappeared, as did respect for our flag. School environments became looser. Students started being more individual, less compliant, and less respectful, to themselves, and everyone else. Classroom disruptions became routine, as did assaults on teachers and staff.

Automation seemed to come on in a rush, and the friendliness seemed to ebb out of our society one step at a time. Suddenly we didn’t need elevator operators, doormen, gas station attendants, bank tellers, checkout cashiers, toll booth operators, or telephone operators.

Food could be obtained without leaving our cars, and so could cash. We could buy liquor in a drive-through lane, and soon pay phones disappeared too. Comic hero Dick Tracy’s two-way radio wristwatch gave way to devices that told time, played music, provided weather updates, and gave driving directions and the news, all in one. We slipped away increasingly from human contact with all this automation, this ease of living. We gave up something that is hard to put a finger on.

We have driverless cars, electric cars, solar powered cars. There are trains without engineers, ships without crews, and trucks without drivers.

Our schools have devolved into near-disaster centers. Only a handful of students seem to excel, to want to apply themselves, despite having much-dedicated staff at their disposal. Dress codes for staff and students are all but extinct, and this attitude shows up, poorly, in daily relations and accomplishments by both parties. The Pledge of Allegiance, made optional by the Supreme Court in 1943, is being all but ignored. Some students choose not to stand for recitation. Forget praying, in classrooms, on athletic fields, at commencement exercises.

Police officers routinely are assigned to schools, and not just for traffic control. Schoolyard fights now result in student arrests and court time, instead of the shake hands and get on with your lives approach we once favored, which worked. Drug dogs work the hallways and no one thinks this strange. Too many high school graduates, certified in May as having been educated to a certain level, require remedial classes in the most basic of courses as they begin college. What happened?

Crime seems ubiquitous, although folks reading this will cite downward-spiraling stats that indicate otherwise. Road rage is a common daily occurrence. Drivers wave at each other with just one finger instead of the whole hand.

Guns of all types are absolutely everywhere, and there is no shortage of ammo. No shortage of people who are convinced they fully and clearly understand our 2^nd Amendment. Worse, there is no desire, no indication of compromise at all on this deeply divisive and vicious issue, of whom, should allowed to have what. When did we decide the answer to gun violence, was more guns?

Our national social fabric is ripped nearly to shreds. E Pluribus Unum is a fading fantasy, a relic of yesteryear. In its place is every single cause one can dream up, with a group following, each demanding their right to be heard, and none of them interested in opposing opinion.

Our three branches of federal government, once so eloquently designed to both mesh and counter-balance one another, have all but disappeared in their individuality. Congress adamantly refuses to work on a bi-partisan cooperative basis, and instead each side takes a stance, rigidly digs in, and nothing gets done. This leaves presidents with no choice but to issue Executive Orders to pass laws to get much of anything accomplished. This is basically the opposite of what our Founding Fathers had in mind, wanted, designed. Their greatest fear was a return to Monarchy, but that indeed is basically what we have been operating with for too long now. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court, unable to remain neutral, spends its time reversing previous decisions, almost all in favor of Big Business. Our country has stalled as a result. The rich have gotten incredibly richer, and the poor have gotten incredibly more poor, and the supporting middle class has all but disappeared.

We are a nation founded upon, dependent upon immigration, always have been and always will be. The Lady in The Harbor weeps as she holds her increasingly dim lamp, aghast at a process once so treasured by so many, and now reviled by those already here.

What happened?

Our Second Revolution

Social media filled up over the last few years with various versions of Thomas Jefferson's belief that "a little rebellion now and then is a good thing" rings true today.

We are seeing that today across our country with the protests in multiple cities, mostly peaceful, some not quite, some stupidly violent in the destruction of personal and government property.

Calls for overhauling police department practices are valid and must be listened to, but de-funding them is not the answer. Civilian review, constant overhaul of police functions and processes are clearly necessary. So is the proper recruitment of the right people in the first place, and their on-going training in dealing with all of the public, the law-abiding, and the other-wise.

This "little rebellion" we are experiencing this year has not quite been overwhelmed by the accompanying deadly virus. The rebellion could advance even more if Congress, traditionally a do-nothing body, would listen to the people who put them there, and act appropriately with good faith and Common Sense and a belief in their constituents.

Personally, I am still awaiting congressional action on these fronts. There has been no action, nor active work, on any of these for decades:

Eliminating the penny from production and circulation. Hugely expensive to keep that penny in production.

Eliminating subsidies, some of which are over 100 years old. These include the initial oil industry subsidy to help get them off the ground. Today the major oil companies have been reporting $30B in QUARTERLY profits, and remain subsidized by taxpayers. The virus has had its impact on the industry's profits, but the subsidies remain in place to the tune of about $11B annually from taxpayers.

The agriculture subsidy is a five year bill that in FY2018 totalled $867B, a slight rise from the FY2014 total of $489B. It is an extremely complicated piece of legislation but still encourages people NOT to grow crops, among other requirements/assistance. Agricultural subsidies were originally created to help farmers ravaged by the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. It has mushroomed out of control.

Obamacare is budgeted to spend $1.039 trillion on subsidies for these middle-class working families between 2015 and 2024. It only expects to spend $792 billion on expanded Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program for the poor. 

Amtrak receives somewhere between $1-2B annually in subsidies, because the Transportation Dept. has no clue how to run a railroad system, and shouldn't be expected to. An organization that is crying out for privatization continues to lumber along with deadly accidents, a heels-dug-in approach to automatic safety mechanism improvements, and just continues to bleed massive amounts of citizen tax dollars with no end in sight. Meanwhile, routes are cut along with service. It's a joke, and a disaster.

Perhaps the biggest hindrance to revolutionary progress, are the Rules of the House, and the Rules of the Senate, in which these two less than august bodies, are allowed for some reason to regulate themselves, set their own operating rules, while flaunting any approach to Common Sense and progress.

I believe we need to change the presidential term to one six year term, non-renewable.

No presidential family member may run for the office for 30 years, and no former president may run for any other federal, state, or local political office.

Upon announcing candidacy for president, each person shall simultaneiously provide seven years' tax and medical health records for review and public presentation. We have the right to know if our leaders are honest, healthy and sane.

Our FF created reasonably good but not perfect founding documents. It is more than reasonable for us to update these documents from time to time. Indeed, the 27 amendments implemented over 244 years, are proof of just how good a job the beginners did, in setting up this volatile experiment in self-rule.

My recommendations for national change include these:

• Campaigns are wastefully expensive. Let city and county office campaigns be limited to 30 days and a reasonable dollar amount that won't prevent people from running for office. The advent of technology allows candidates to reach more people than ever.
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• Let state office campaigns be limited to 90 days, for the same reasons.
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• Let national office campaigns (House, Senate, Presidency) be limited to six months and a dollar cap. The news this morning reported a simple advertising buy from Mr. Biden's campaign totalled $280m. This is ridiculous, with all the other needs in our country right now.
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• Supreme Court justics must step down at age75, no exemptions. They cannot be appointed if they are within nine years of that age.
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• No lifetime jobs in federal government, anywhere. Another anachronism.
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• Representatives' terms should be four years. Right now with a two-year term, such people spend the first year figuring how govt works, and the second year getting re-elected. The folks they're supposedly representing on various issues, are simply brushed aside. Not much can nor has even been accomplished in a two year term. It is an anacronistic hold-over from 1780s. 
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• Senators and Representatives should be limited to three terms, lifetime. No relative may hold the same office for 30 years. It is simply ridiculous how many decades some people stay in office, with the same tired ideas and old approaches to issues. Government political office holding was never designed nor intended to be a lifetime career, and it is wrong that we keep re-electing the same folks repeatedly. It shows our non-caring attitudes towards politics in general, to easily mark the same name on a ballot year after year, not bothering to learn about the candidate and where he and she stands on issues.
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• Presidents shall be limited to the issuance of two Executive Orders per year, aside from responding to Acts of God national emergencies. Our Founding Fathers designed the three branches of government to be used regularly, not to be ignored whenever a president felt like it. All such EOs must be submitted to the SC for review and approval.
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• No president shall maintain any type of social media account until retirement. 
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• Presidents shall be limited to issuing sentencing pardons one time during their six year term, in the last 90 days, and shall be limited to regular citizens and never include any public office holder at any level.
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• A civilian oversight committee be created to review and re-write the operating rules for both the House and the Senate. This installs civilian controls on processes and procedures, such as banning midnight pay raise amendment riders and all other types of riders that have nothing to do with the bill in question; controlling amount and frequency of pay raises for members, and eliminating pork barrel projects. It would also establish a time limit for the processing of all bills submitted by members in both houses. This would lower the extraordinary amount of power the Speakers of both houses have currently, to control what is brought before each house for consideration, debate, adjustment, and either approval or disapproval. This nonsense of legislation lingering in committee for months until it dies a natural death, is stupid.
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• The revolution this year has changed the American landscape permanently, I believe, for all of us. No more Confederate Flag displays, Confederate monuments and others of questionable honor removed; a new awareness that the rights guaranteed in our documents never really were properly implemented and were in fact deliberately hindered, blocked, or rendered meaningless. It is a new day for our country, in its constant attempt to attain in actual action the ideals first prescribed in our Founding Documents. Let's keep moving forward. 

What Were We Thinking?

Today marks the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing. Exploding one-third of a mile above the heavily populated city, it instantly wiped 80,000 humans off the Earth. It destroyed miles of a once vibrant city, and its effects linger today.

I won't discuss the politics involved in the determined need to use this horrific weapon. No one really knew, despite tests, what the destruction would be like, or even if the 5-ton weapon would work as designed. It did, stunningly, shockingly, overwhelmingly, horrifically, so that they have not been used again. Yet.

Over seven decades later, mankind has walked backwards from that day of alleged advancement. The opening of the Atomic Age is perhaps the biggest single mistake humans have made since evolving from where and whatever. 

We looked at the massive damage, destruction, and amount of death, and instead of vowing to head in another direction, we pushed on to develop weapons of mass destruction probably 100 times worse.

What is wrong with us? What have we been thinking? Post WW-II Americans were cited in the early 60s as stating that their greatest fear, was living in the nuclear age. It has become much worse since.

Audaciously, it was determined by American leaders that only we, and eventually the Russians, should have such weapons and that both nations were certainly capable of controlling/limiting their use. We could be trusted, but no other country could.  How silly. How stupid. How wrong we were.

Below is the list of proliferation we humans around the globe have allowed to happen:

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• Russia, 6,850 nuclear warheads
• The United States of America, 6,185 nuclear warheads
• France, 300 nuclear warheads
• China, 280 nuclear warheads
• The United Kingdom, 215 nuclear warheads
• Pakistan, 145 nuclear warheads
• India, 135 nuclear warheads
• Israel, 80 nuclear warheads
• North Korea, 15 nuclear warheads

A nuclear weapon is defined as an explosive that has such an intense power behind it that the form of weaponry can cause massive amounts of damage in faraway places.

There are two types of explosives, including fission bombs and thermonuclear bombs. Fission bombs are detonated by way of a fission nuclear reaction, hence the name. However, this is not the only method of activating a nuclear weapon. Bombs that are detonated through a combination of fission and fusion are called thermonuclear bombs. Both of these types of explosives fall under the category of nuclear weaponry.

This list is probably, sadly, not totally inclusive. Countries diametrically opposed to our way of life may have them without our knowing. Having them, and being able to deliver them, are separate entities. 

The sad horrible truth, is that today the entire world lives in the dark shadows of the nuclear threat. It hangs over all our heads, no exceptions, although I presume Antartic polar bears are safe for the moment.

The top goal for all countries, despite a long list that obviously varies, is to remove this nuclear threat once, and for all.

Our future, and the one planet we know that can sustain us, depends upon it.

How your tax dollars get wasted, chapter #2,478:

Lockheed Martin build the newest jet fighter the F-35 Lightning. It comes with, among other options, severe problems. The AF's version has an internal gun mount and it doesn't meet specs.

This Joint Strike Fighter JSF program has 837 unsolved deficiencies, including 13 directly affecting crew and craft. These need to be addressed and fixed prior to the next round of procurement. 

Yep, Congress wants more of these deficient-built fighters.

Instead of withholding funds, Congress surpassed what was requested in funding, earmarking for FY18 and 19, $4.5B to buy 36 more planes than the Def. Dept. asked for.

Chew on that one.

The FY2020 Def. spending bill signed into law last Dec, included $2b to buy 22 more planes than the Def. Dept asked for. All of these planes' deficiencies will also have to be repaired.

This JSF program has been in development for 18 years, is eight years behind schedule, and the cost overrun has nearly doubled, from $233B estimate to exceeding $428B.

Bloomberg article of Apr 2019 noted that lifetime ops and maint. will total about $1.2 TRILLION.

Since put into service, this plane has proven to be unreliable. None of the plane's three variants, NONE, met the Pentagon's five key reliability metrics. It's been grounded about 30% of the time.

Imagine, what $1.2 trillion could have done for our nation's: infrastructure, electrical grid, ATC grid, mental health facilities, inner-city improvements, homeless problem, schools, and so much more.

No wonder people are mad. Rightfully so, at a system that essentially has not changed since the end of WW II.

Fixing our Systemic National Problems Tied to Racial Inequality

Systemic problems, for sure. 

Multiple areas to start, primarily, I believe, with how we fund public education. Property tax-sources only insure keeping the poor, poor; keeping their schools in poor conditions, unable to buy technology, fix the a/c, the heat, broken windows, or have green practice fields and planetariums and indoor pools like th rich people, mostly white, have out in the 'burbs.

 We fix public education funding by transferring oil company subsidies, in place since 1913, to state education budgets.

 We fix public education by reducing the $985B farm bill that includes payments to people NOT to grow products, and shift that money to state education budgets. 

We cut NASA's budget since there is now a private space exploration company, and shift that money to state education budgets.

 We stop building $13B aircraft carriers (we have 13 now) and move a ton of the mil. indust. complex funding to state education budgets.

 We go after slum lords, like Jarod Kushner as a prime example, and others of his ilk, nationwide, and enforce the laws already on our books. 

When we get the schools upgraded, when we stop putting inner-city highways through only the poorest neighborhoods, when we get banks and grocery stores to go into, and stay, in inner-city neighborhoods, we might, one day, see some progress. 

In other words, equal opportunity and hope and education opportunities will go a long way towards changing our systemic mess.

Let's see if I understand all of what is going on.

Nationally, infrastructure is old and needs replacing. Like the WPA of the 1930s this could put millions back to work and instill pride, and coin in their pockets. A Michigan town, I believe it was, got flooded by at least 9 FEET of water when an aging dam broke, after years of age-warnings and no action.

A world-wide pandemic is across our country, that we have not seen in 100 years. No known cure yet, and no national pandemic office at the federal level and we know who to thank for that.

In a roughly two month period, at least three and probably more nationally-known murders of young black people have occurred at hands of our police depts, who are supposed to know better. Surely something should have been learned since the days of Rodney King and can't we all just get along? Apparently no real change in dept. arrest policies and procedures.

Meanwhile, over 30 cities are aflame and no end in sight. Shootings, death, destruction, fires, mayhem, national guard, and our president's response is if there's looting, there will be shooting. He even lied about the presence of the Wash. P.D. in front of his WH last night, saying they weren't involved when they were indeed present.

Our president's response to all of the above has been to: travel around the country un-masked, setting what I believe to be a horrible example; move to de-fund the W.H.O. during a world-wide pandemic for which no cure has yet been discovered; and tweet that looters will be shot; and cut an executive order to stifle free speech.

Next month he will be bragging about having solved all of this by himself. He has to, since he won't listen to any advisors.

 Man is a national disgrace, pure and simple.

The Real Trump

APRIL 11TH, 2016

Lyin’ Donald: 101 Of Trump’s Greatest Lies

By  Hank Berrien

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Donald Trump has repeatedly labeled his political opponents liars. He dubbed Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) Lyin’ Ted when it became clear that Cruz was a serious rival for his nomination; he called Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) an “even bigger liar” than Cruz. He dubbed Dr. Ben Carson a “pathological liar” and said former Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s lies were almost as bad as Cruz’s. Trump has termed virtually every mildly adversarial media member a liar, too.

But there’s only one truly massive liar in this race: Donald Trump. When Politico attempted to measure how many lies Trump told over the course of 4.6 hours of speeches, they found that he lied, on average, once every five minutes. When Huffington Post catalogued his lies over the course of just one town hall event, they came up with 71 lies.

Which made it relatively easy to come up with this not-even-close-to-complete list of 101 lies from Donald Trump.

1. March 30: Trump claims MSNBC edited their released version of his interview with Chris Matthews in which Trump stumbled on abortion: “You really ought to hear the whole thing. I mean, this is a long convoluted question. This was a long discussion, and they just cut it out. And, frankly, it was extremely — it was really convoluted.” Nope; that was a lie.

2. March 29: Trump lies that Wisconsin’s effective unemployment rate is 20%, saying, “”What? Is it 20 percent? Effective or regular? I mean just — effective unemployment rate, 20 percent. Hey, this is out of the big book.” According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, The U-3 official unemployment rate in Wisconsin was 4.6 percent in 2015; Wisconsin’s U-6 rate for 2015 was 8.3 percent.

3. March 29: Told Sean Hannity, “You know, I look at what’s happening in Wisconsin with the numbers, the job numbers, the trade numbers, how it’s a stagnant economy, how they owe $2.2 billion in terms of their budget.” As Factcheck.org reported, Wisconsin’s general fund is currently projected to have a positive balance when its current two-year budget cycle ends next year, according to an analysis by nonpartisan budget experts.

4. March 29: Trump alleged that when Michelle Fields “found out that there was a security camera, and that they had her on tape, all of a sudden that story changed.” Absolutely untrue.

5. March 29: Trump said the Secret Service was worried about Fields, alleging, “She went through the Secret Service, she had a pen in her hand, which Service Service is not liking because they don’t know what it is, whether it’s a little bomb…” As Katie Pavlich of Townhall noted, “All reporters at campaign events, like regular attendees, go through Secret Service security before being allowed into a venue. The security is thorough, with a back check, wanding and a metal detector walk through. Fields wasn’t carrying a knife, she was carrying a pen and if the Secret Service thought it was dangerous, they would have taken it from her at the security checkpoint before entering the room.”

6. March 27: Trump claims Cruz bought the rights to the ad featuring a nude Melania Trump: Debunked.

7. March 26: Trump lies, “There’s a tremendous tax that we pay when we (American businesses) go into China, whereas when China sells to us there’s no tax.” China’s tariffs are higher than those imposed by the United States, but the Chinese exporters are taxed when they sell in the United States.

8. March 23: Trump accuses Cruz of coordinating with Super PAC in its ad featuring a nude Melania Trump. Tweeting, “Lyin’ Ted Cruz denied that he had anything to do with the G.Q. model photo post of Melania. That’s why we call him Lyin’ Ted!” Debunked.

9. March 21: Trump lies, “Out of 67 counties (in Florida), I won 66, which is unprecedented. It’s never happened before.” Nope. In 2004, John Kerry won all 67 counties for the Democrats; in 2000, Al Gore won all 67 for the Democrats and. George W. Bush won all 67 for Republicans. In 1996, Bob Dole took 66 of 67 counties for the GOP primary and the 67th was a tie between Dole and Pat Buchanan in Washington County.

10. March 19: Trump said the 2016 federal omnibus spending bill “funds illegal immigrants coming in and through your border, right through Phoenix.” Nope. The omnibus bill does not fund undocumented immigrants “coming in and through” the border; it funds the very agency tasked with keeping undocumented immigrants out, U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

11. March 17: Trump on Fox News denied that he ever accused President George W. Bush of lying about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. “I didn’t say lie. I said he may have lied.” That’s false. Trump said in a February that Bush “lied.”

12. March 13: Trump states that the man who rushed the stage in Dayton, Ohio, “had chatter about ISIS, or with ISIS” in his social media posts. Trump was fooled by a hoax video; the claim is ludicrous.

13. March 11: Lying about Cruz’s count of the states he had had won: “Wasn’t that funny last night when Cruz said, ‘I’m the only one that can beat Donald Trump. I have demonstrated that I can beat him. I won five states.’” Cruz correctly stated he won eight states, not five.

14. March 10: Trump, the expert economist: “GDP was zero essentially for the last two quarters.” GDP grew at an annual rate of 1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015, and 2 percent in the third quarter, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

15. March 10: Trump claims Michelle Fields made up the story about being grabbed by Corey Lewandowski, blustering, “This was, in my opinion, made up. Everybody said nothing happened. Perhaps she made the story up. I think that’s what happened.”

16. March 9: “Eight weeks ago, they signed a budget that is so bad. It funds ISIS.” As POLITICO noted, “The omnibus spending bill, passed in December, is not strictly a budget, and it’s not clear what part of it Trump thinks gives money to ISIS.”

17. March 8: Trump brags that the Trump winery is the “largest winery on the East Coast.” “That’s not correct,” said Michael Kaiser, spokesman for the National Association of American Wineries. Wine industry analysts calculate a winery’s size by the volume of wine produced. Trump Winery is not even the largest in Virginia. The top producers in the state are the Williamsburg Winery and Chateau Morrisette in Floyd County. In terms of sheer size in acreage, both the Wagner Vineyards Estate Winery in the Finger Lakes region of New York and Pindar Vineyards on New York’s Long Island are larger.

18. March 8: On Trump-branded water and Mitt Romney: “He talked about the water company. Well, there’s the water company. I mean, we sell water.” Well …

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19. March 8: “Upstate New York I poll higher than anybody ever.” Hillary Clinton would slaughter Trump 56 percent to 33 percent in upstate New York, according to a Siena College poll.

20. March 8: Trump: “Trump steaks, where are the steaks? Do we have the steaks? We have Trump steaks.” Once sold briefly by The Sharper Image, the company’s website reads, “Unfortunately, Trump Steaks are no longer available, but their legacy endures.

21. March 8: Lying about how much was spent in one week against him: “So many horrible, horrible things said about me in one week. $38 million worth of horrible lies.” According to The Tracking Firm, every Republican dollar spent by Trump’s opponents on TV and radio from March 1 through 7 amounted to $10.57 million, and not all of it was directed against Trump.

22. March 8: Trump held up a magazine, claiming it was Trump magazine: “This comes out and it’s called The Jewel of Palm Beach and it all goes to all of my clubs. I have had it for many years. It’s the magazine. It’s great. Anybody want one?” Trump Magazine folded in 2009.

23. March 7: Lying about his popularity after the Paris attacks: “After Paris, all of a sudden it started changing. We started getting polls in. And everybody liked Trump from the standpoint of ISIS, from the standpoint of the military. Less than 42% of respondents in a Washington Post-ABC poll said Trump was the best candidate to best handle the threat of terrorism.

24. March 7: “You have Japan, where the cars come in by the hundreds of thousands, they pour off the boats. … [W]e send them like nothing. We send them nothing, by comparison, nothing.” The United States exported $62 billion worth of goods to Japan last year.

25. March 7: “I’ve spent the least money and I’m by far number 1. So I’ve spent the least.” As of Jan. 31, Trump’s campaign had spent $23.9 million, more than John Kasich’s campaign, which has spent $7.2 million, or $19.5 million if you include outside groups supporting him.