Founding Fathers

 The United States 

George Washington, President 

Honorable mention, Thomas Jefferson - Declaration of Independence 

“ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”

The Confederate States (failed)

Jefferson Davis, president 

Dishonorable mention

Alexander H Stephens, Vice President 

“ Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.”

Edward Alfred Pollard "The Lost Cause" - “The question was no longer slavery, but white supremacy, which Pollard described as the “true cause of the war” and the “true hope of the South.”

MAGA (failing)

Donald Trump, president 

Dishonorable mention, Stephen Miller

“The powers of the President shall not be questioned “

Trump and MAGA are revolutionaries, not politicians. Trump just thinks he should be king, but MAGA are authoritarian dictators hell bent on ending our democratically elected Republic, and overthrowing the Constitution and Rule of Law. 

They will fail. I believe America is better than this repeated rise of white supremacists trying to crush all human progress in America. They were slavers, then Jim Crow terrorists, then McCarthy red baiters, and now MAGA bullies. They always lose. And will again. I deeply hope and believe. 

The Sovietization of America

 One of the defining traits of the old Soviet Union was that all the economic numbers were total bullshit, and always showed good economic numbers when the whole world knew they were actually disastrous (except for a few gullible and True Believers). Well, here we are in Trump/MAGA America where the country's dumbest person happens to be the president of the country and he just fired the head of Bureau of Labor Statistics for publishing true economic numbers that he didn't like.  So...

Welcome to the Sovietization of America.  False economic info is just the tip of the iceberg, and The United States is sailing full speed ahead into the Sovietized U.S. police state iceberg, and is on its way to sinking to the bottom.  

Thanx, MAGA.  You voted for this disaster three times.  You don't get to say you didn't know what was coming. We all suffer because he hates the same people you hate, people like me, what the hell?  

Why can’t the Pedophile in Chief get rid of the Epstein accusations?

 Betrayal… shattered delusions… rage at having been suckered….

If I understand correctly, the evangelical theocratic Republicans, and other MAGA extremists, have believed for decades that Satan has taken over the United States government and the elite liberal institutions. Has taken over liberals and Democrats, doing such sinful things as allowing gay sex, gay marriage, allowing transgender surgeries, empowering races other than white, allowing women to get out of the bedroom, kitchen, and nursery, learning science, thinking non-Christian theocratic thoughts, terrible sins all.

And they believe that the Satan controlled liberal and Democrat elites have been raping young teen schoolgirls for years. So to them, revealing all of the pedophilia available in the Epstein records is the number one passion of their movement. They see themselves as heroes rescuing children from abomination. 

And now their heroic champion chosen by them to expose and seek retribution against such unimaginable filth and debauchery is doing all he can to cover up and distract everybody from what is actually in the thousands of pieces of evidence in the Epstein records. Because…because…he is in the Epstein records himself? being a filthy rapist of young schoolgirls himself? otherwise why is he distracting and panicking so wildly?

So I think they are dealing with one of the most difficult things for any human being to deal with, a shattered delusion. They are starting to realize that their champion is not one who will expose the filth, but that he himself is the filth. And I agree that he is indeed a sexual predator, a pedophile, a cruel sociopath who has raped school children. And it is traumatic to have a deeply held faith shattered. 

This is betrayal, delusion, rage. Some in MAGA are dealing with the shock of betrayal. At some point. I believe that they’ll come to terms and see that this disgusting excuse of a “man” is a sociopath. 

And they will turn on him.

I believe the writing is on the wall and he is toast.

Some of MAGA will try to cover for him, try to rescue him, to lie for him because they have successfully used him to implement Project 2025, to pass the “Big Beautiful Bill”, to try to end democracy and enforce their Christian Theocracy.  Besides, their entire lives and careers are hooked to his power. 

But, I am hopeful that the fierce blowback against the Pedophile in Chief of enough of the MAGA, along with the everyday disgust of just plain Republicans, will be enough to push the orange Humpty Dumpty off the wall, and all the king’s horses and all the king’s men won’t be able to put the Orange Humpty Dumpty back together again.

I can dream. 

Trump “tells”

 Donald Trump has easy to see “tells” (in poker a “tell” is something a player does that “tells” his hand). 

“Hoax” - as in “The Epstein story is a hoax” means it’s the truth that his cult is supposed to pretend is false. 

“Sir” - means nobody said this, as in “The General said “Sir, you are the greatest genius of all time!”

“Nasty” - means someone just said something true or asked a question about something true.

“Numbers” - every number that he cites is an admission of a lie with the truth being the exact opposite, such as “the cost of eggs has come down like 93, 94% since we took office.”

“Didn’t “ - as in “I didn’t say…”or “I didn’t do…” - means “I did…”

“Fake News” - and of course the ultimate confession is when he calls something “Fake News”, it means it is true but my cult will not believe it because I tell the not to believe it, so hahahaha you can’t tell them the truth because THEY CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH.

His lies are not hard to see, but maybe with his betrayal of his cult by covering up the Epstein evidence sure to accuse him of debauchery, maybe even his cult can start to see his lies.

I am beginning to think his time is running out, with the Epstein coverup opening eyes, to be followed by the devastation that his Big Beautiful Bill will have on rural red America, this could be the end of him. 

Unless, of course his failing mental and physical health don’t get him first. 

Betrayal - Epstein

 Why is MAGA going nuts? Haven’t they been betrayed?  Isn’t the whole passion of deep Evangelical MAGA to purge the country of Satan? Of super rich elite pedophiles? Of unspeakable sin?  

And wasn’t the flawed but Chosen by God Trump the One who would purify America? 

And and and and, gulp  ….. Is HE one of THEM?

Hasn’t the deeply, passionately, fanatically held dream been shattered?

It’s not about policy. It’s a shattered dream. It’s a deep betrayal. Does he survive?

Pizzagate - MAGA - Epstein - Trump

 Is it actually possible that MAGA thinks that the Epstein scandals are all about Democrats and not about Trump? Isn’t the most obvious sexual predator in the Epstein world Trump? Weren’t Trump and Epstein very close friends for over a decade?  Didn’t Trump have Miss Teenage Beauty contests, and walk in on these children when they were undressed?  Didn’t Trump brag about his multiple sexual parties and encounters on the Howard Stern Show? Does MAGA not understand this? Apparently not.

MAGA has long been obsessed with pedophilia.  Raping children is unthinkably horrifying, and there have been multiple testimonies of the raped children. 

I think MAGA got its start with “Pizzagate”, the charge that the "satanic" Hilary Clinton was running a pedophilia ring out of the basement of a pizza parlor. Indeed some poor MAGA guy eventually showed up with an assault rifle to “free” the children in the Pizza parlor’s basement. I think he actually fired some shots. Of course there were no children being held for sex trafficking, indeed there wasn’t even a basement. 

You would think that would have put an end to it, but in MAGA Land the idea of wealthy elitists raping children only grew and became a deeply and emotionally article of MAGA faith.  I think we all are repulsed by the idea of pedophilia, but I also think that any man or woman who was sexually abused as a minor is deeply traumatized, and for them to believe that rich elites are guilty of, and successfully covering up, their horrendous sins is beyond repulsive, it can become an obsessive rage. 

Now, why MAGA thought that the elite pedophiles were/are democrats is beyond me. Especially when the most obvious offender is the man who was a close friend and fellow partier with Epstein who was a New York sybarite who later became a Republican President, Donald J Trump.  

Is there proof that Trump was a child rapist?  Maybe not. Where would that proof be? Why, in the multitudinous Epstein files, photos, videos, lists, etc. who knows what all is there?

So, if you were Donald J Trump and knew that there were no lists, photos, videos, proof of your gilt, what would you do?  Would you rush to show everything?  To prove your innocence?  

But if you were Donald J Trump and knew there were lists, photos, videos, proof of your depravity, what would you do?  Maybe refuse to reveal the evidence? Say that “your” Attorney General would review the files and release all the “credible” evidence?

This, of course, screams “Nothing to see here! Look away! See my distractions! I’m guilty but you are supposed to not care! Because you’re supposed to worship me, and believe anything I say, and accept and actually admire my sins! Get back in line!”

But, pedophilia is definitely a bridge too far for some of MAGA, especially the MAGAs who were victims themselves, the MAGA that got started convinced that the elites were child rapists, and the rapists were… democrats.  Not Republicans. But but but… Trump is not just A Republican, Trump is THE Republican. 

Golly, if he’s lying about this, what else has all been just lies?  

Makes you wonder, eh?

Big Beautiful Bill/Project 2025 - ICE, the MAGA Gestapo

 So, what horrors have been passed by Trump/MAGA/project 2025?   Here’s a bad one: “$29.9 billion toward ICE’s enforcement and deportation operations, increasing ICE’s annual budget three-fold“ per the American Immigration Council.

Tyranny expert Anne Applebaum: “We have never before had a federal police force built on that scale, and around the thuggish culture that appears to be emerging at ICE….ICE has already begun behaving very differently. Its members wear masks, carry military grade weapons in public streets and seem to have a mandate to arrest people without asking questions, on the suspicion that they might be Hispanic. They also seem to feel empowered to break the law first, answer questions afterwards, the opposite of what American police, in a democracy, are supposed to do.”

We are bombarded with videos of Hispanic farm workers, street vendors, shop workers, people who are our neighbors and local workforce being physically dragged away by masked men in military protection and weapons. Video of swarms of ICE, some on horseback, sweeping through a park in LA.  Why? They want us to get used to government thugs grabbing people as the natural way of the new MAGA America.  And because the sociopaths Stephen Miller and Donald Trump demand a daily quota, irregardless of any evidence of criminality. 

They aren’t only going for Hispanic criminals and gang members.  They’re rounding up brown people just to show that they can.  And when innocents are rounded up, they say who cares? They’re brown. 

And, of course, it doesn’t end there. Once the country gets used to these cruel injustices they go after…judges? Lawyers? Journalists? Protestors? Labor Organizers? Doctors? Politicians? Me? You?  

They have a playbook.  What did the Nazis do?  What did the Communists do?  Do you think Trump and Miller and Bondi and Noem and Patel are different?

I don’t. 

But the United States of America has been a democracy for nearly a quarter of a millennium, and we are not likely to have a tyranny established as easily as Tsarist Russia or Depression wracked Germany. They are going to fail. 

Even dumber

 OK, so now it seems even more horrifyingly dumb.  Apparently, Kerr County MAGA Republicans actually turned down flood warning things like sirens, because….because… they were being given by Obama, and then by Biden, Democrats (DemonCrats, you know…)… and apparently surrounding counties accepted these things because… they weren’t driven to insane levels of dumbness by Fox News and the right wing paranoia propaganda machine. 

So much damage being caused by these apocalyptic prophets pounding fear and hatred into their cult like devotees. I weep. 

Two really dumb MAGA ideas

 There are two really dumb MAGA ideas: shrink government, and the “great replacement theory”.

1.  As James Carville just pointed out, the deaths in rural Texas from the flood was mostly because the locals refused to use (pay for) local government to put up sirens and local government warning systems in what apparently has long been a flood area. Good grief. Government is NOT the enemy, I don’t care what Steve Bannon and Elon Musk say. Government is there to protect and help. 

Screw Ronald Reagan. The Fierce Independence philosophy is useless in the face of floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, fire hurricanes, blizzards, etc - all of nature’s storms accelerated to unimaginable degrees by fossil fuel and industrial agriculture dumping pollution, CO2, methane, stink into the air which is warming the planet and creating unprecedented Climate Change. 

RAISE TAXES - let the government protect and help human beings. 

2.  And there is no liberal plot to replace white Christian men with brown and black and red and yellow men and women. It’s called CAPITALISM - COMPETITION.  You want jobs? Up your game.  Go get jobs. 

White Christians have been whining and blaming everyone coming into our welcoming nation for as long as there has been a nation - Chinese “Chinks”, German “Krauts”, Irish “Papists”, Italian “Wops”, Black “Nxxxers”, Mexican “Spics”, Arab “Ragheads”… nothing is ever fair to the poor little aggrieved white nationalist Christians. 

And, of course, MAGA’s dear leader is the lead dumbass. His ignorance about almost everything is astonishing. (Except corruption, greed, swindling, lying, Branding, bigotry, inciting, threatening, hurting…)

America is waking up, is going to wake up, and it is not going to put up with this racism, cruelty, stupidity, and idiocy forever. 

Hire them back!

 The moronic Musk/DOGE/MAGA/Trump fired the top meteorologists from the Department of Energy because the fossil fuel industry told them to get rid of scientists who said Global Warming and Climate Change were caused by CO2 and methane, which are dumped into our air, by the fossil fuel industry. Which, of course is true.  

So, in central Texas the forecast was for about 3 - 4 inches of rain, but 10 inches fell and the river rose 27 feet in the dark and the latest count is 43 dead including children!  

My guess is that the gutting of the top meteorologists is why the forecast was inadequate. 

For goodness sake, hire them back!  Hurricane season is coming, tornadoes, floods, wind storm fires, blizzards, etc.  Only the corrupt and the stupid get rid of weather scientists and weather science.  

Sue Musk, sue DOGE, sue Trump, sue the fossil fuel industry. This level of murderous corruption is unfathomable.  I am horrified.

Damn!

Schizophrenic America

 America is Slave Owner, genocidal expansionist, KKK, Jim Crow, America First Nazis, McCarthyism, MAGA authoritarian, Trump, Miller…

But America is also…

    

                   

NO KINGS 

Today we celebrate America overthrowing the rule of a king. And some of us take this moment to dedicate ourselves to overthrowing the cruel rule of this wanna be king. This shall not stand.

They want the deficit

 Republicans have always pretended to passionately care about the debt and the deficit. I don’t think so. I think they have always wanted bigger and bigger and bigger deficits. For two reasons. 

First, they want to pay less taxes. They pretend the reason is that the wealthy will create jobs, lower taxes on the wealthy grows the economy. Not really. Lower taxes on the wealthy grows their portfolio, buys multiple mansions home and abroad, buys yachts and private planes and trophy wives. 

But I believe the real reason they want bigger deficits is to strip the working classes of money, benefits, protections, savings, and most of all - power. They crave a weakened and desperate work force. Who will accept anything the wealthy “give” them.

Step one - CREATE HUGE DEFICITS.

Step two - CUT GOVERNMENT SENDING.

It’s all a con.

This is not hard to figure out. 

So, the BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL has passed the Senate and goes back to the House. It is an abomination. Millions lose Medicaid, rural hospitals will close, education, science, weather forecasting, green energy growth, blue states projects - all crippled. It’s a horror. 

But, THEY GET THEIR TAX CUTS!

And, most important THEY CUT SPENDING and the working and the poor lose more and more power. “Please Mr Billionaire, can I have just a little more?”  Hahahahahahahahaha….More?……hahahhahahahahahahaha

And the Conman in Chief smirks and grins and dances…and threatens and punishes and hurts and hurts and hurts. Endless, bottomless. 

Sickening to me. 

What’s in it for Donald J Trump?

 Was it a good idea to bomb Iran? I don’t think I supported that in any case. But…

It might have been acceptable. If the United States had a president, if the United States had a State Dept, if the United States had a Defense Department, if the United States had an intelligence service.

But the United States does not have a president, the United States has a TV star playing president on TV who thinks he was elected king. The TV star is just doing that which dominates the day on TV.

The pretend president has destroyed much of the defense department, the state department, the intelligence services, and as much of the federal government as he possibly could. Why? Because the pretend president knows nothing and cannot allow people who know things to work for him. So he gets rid of them and puts in place other people who are good on TV and know nothing and will do whatever he tells them to do.

But the real question is what is in it for Donald Trump? I would bet that Trump and many of his billionaire collaborators made fortunes on buying defense and oil stocks just prior to the bombings. Did Donald Trump make money by bombing Iran? Duh.

But what does Donald Trump really need? Donald Trump really needs to avoid prison. Donald Trump really needs to avoid the election in 2026 where he is very likely to lose both the House and the Senate. Donald Trump really needs to avoid impeachment conviction and removal from office.

What Donald Trump really needs is to declare martial law so as to stop the 2026 elections and arrest all political opponents, and destroy all opposition media, and arrest and imprison all protesters. And stop the 2028 elections too. 

Donald Trump needed his Reichstag Fire moment. So he created it. With bombs.  Any opposition to Donald Trump from this moment forward will be deemed  treason and dealt with imprisonment.

The only question to ever ask about anything that Donald Trump did or will do is what’s in it for Donald Trump?

He got his stupid headline

 So the mentally ill megalomaniac bombed Iran.  Start a war with Iran?  The way Netanyahu wanted him to? Maybe the way Putin told him to? 

So he goes on TV…such a tough guy!  See how important he is?  See how he can kill?  Aren’t you impressed?

So we have the war criminal, Netanyahu, and the 86 year old mentally impaired fanatical Ayatollah, and the mentally declining Dumbass.  

Afghanistan…Iraq…Iran…

Boom. 

Why MAGA needs to destroy beauty

 Why is MAGA gutting the National Parks and destroying environmental protections?  Oh, you say, money… save money by not “wasting” it on National Park personnel, and let the billionaire oligarchs make more and more and more and more money and who cares about preserving parks or increasing pollution or accelerating Climate Change or spurring Global Warming?  

OK, sure. But…

I think it is deeper than that. I think that tyranny needs to destroy beauty. I remember an interview of a man who had served time in a Federal Prison. What I remember from that interview was how important it was for the prison to block as much beauty from the lives of prisoners as they could. The movie “Shawshank Rebellion” has a memorable scene where a prisoner managed to play a transcendently beautiful aria over the loudspeaker and was punished as a consequence. 

Beauty, love, empathy, compassion… these are powers that need to be killed by Nazis and KKK and MAGA and fascists and oligarchs and tyrants. Because they are powerful antidotes to the soul and spirit crushing aims of the tyranny of the “king”.

Indeed, the billionaire MAGA supporter, Musk, famously said that empathy and compassion were weaknesses.

So, the White House “king” takes over the Kennedy Arts Center.  Why? So that the man who thinks gold toilets are beautiful can control the arts. Because the arts, and beauty, are threats to tyrannies. 

We are in the midst of a full out fascist takeover of the U.S. This shall not succeed. 

A call to decency

 June 14, 2025 and the White House megalomaniac insists on a four mile military parade, in front of him, on his birthday. Gag…

But, the Catholic Church has a new pope. And he is having a mass led by him broadcast in his Chicago White Sox stadium.  Excellent counter programming. 

He is an American, and like Pope Francis before him he appears to be a spiritual and decent man focused on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, rather than being a scolding dogmatic theocratic, trying to take the church and the world back into previous centuries.

I am glad they chose an American because, in this current moment in the world, America has turned into a force of domination, cruelty, greed, and repression, because that is who the current American president, Donald J Trump, is. So now we have an American spiritual leader who is opposed to all of that, who is the symbol of empathy and compassion and caring.

Empathy, compassion, and caring. 

Of course, he is Catholic, so I am sure he will not approve of gay marriage, too bad, nor abortion, too bad, but bringing a message of compassion is very welcome. 

I stopped being a Catholic decades ago. And I will not become one now. But I welcome a pope who focuses on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. 

I see this as a call to America, and the to world, to decency.

What’s the ONLY THING that matters to Trump?

 The only thing that matters to Trump is…Trump…the only thing that matters to Trump is that he stays out of prison…the only thing that matters to Trump is that he is not impeached and convicted and thrown out of office…the only thing that matters to Trump is that the Democrats don’t win the House and Senate in 2026…the only thing that matters to Trump is that the 2026 elections are rigged to keep the House and Senate Republican…how?

Oh, maybe declare martial law in response to “foreign invasion”…you know…send in the troops…arrest hundreds…show smoke and fires and violence…on TV…on Fox News TV…SMOKE, FIRE, VIOLENCE, TROOPS…TV TV TV.

Aw shucks, sorry America, we can’t have elections in 2026, you know…MARTIAL LAW…NO ELECTIONS….

Whew, no elections, no Democratic House and Senate, no impeachment, no dying in prison….no problem NO PROBLEM….for Donald J Trump….

Which is the ONLY THING that matters to Donald J Trump.

The direct line from McCarthy to Trump

 I watched a recording of the live broadcast “ Good Night, and Good Luck”, the story of CBS and Edward R Murrow exposing the filthy bullying destructive attacks by Joseph McCarthy against people he falsely slandered as Communist.  The good news is that in 1954 the Senate finally turned on McCarthy, held hearings, and destroyed him. This only happened after concerted efforts by journalists like Drew Pearson and Edward R Murrow, and a growing demonstration of disgust by Americans. So in one way it was a positive story that can give us hope.

The problem is that there is a direct line between Joe McCarthy and Donald Trump. That direct line is the hideous monstrous lawyer Roy Cohn.  Cohn was the vile hate filled opportunistic lawyer who fed and led McCarthy. And who became the vile hate filled opportunistic lawyer who trained Donald J Trump.

Cohn is gone, but his filthy bullying methods to attack and destroy innocent people’s lives was imprinted on in the filthy mind of the heartless President of the United States, Donald J Trump. Trump isn’t very smart, but he has decades of practice of the despicable tactics of the toxic Cohn.

We beat these people once, I hope and expect we can beat them again. But right now, I am pretty depressed.  Why are these terrible people always with us, attacking our freedoms, soiling all that is good and true of America?  

The play is a good one, and there was an earlier movie of the same name.  And the comfort is that it showed good winning over evil.  Can we win again?  

It is up to us.  That is the message of the play.  “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in the stars, but in ourselves…”. We Americans allowed and wanted this toxic boil, and his rabid minions, in power.

Thank you, George Clooney for this Production  

Oops, maybe a big mistake?

America’s richest heartless jerk, Elon Musk, decided to make his move and take over the MAGA movement.   I think Musk always thought he was so smart, and Trump was so dumb, that he could easily take over the MAGA movement.  Oops. The trouble is that Musk has all the charisma and magnetism as the high school nerd trying to be popular. His political attractiveness ranks right next to failed presidential candidate Ron DeSantis. 

Musk accuses Trump of raping children at Epstein parties. Musk calls for the impeachment of Trump. Musk is in the throws of multiple drugs induced hubris. 

Trump threatens to cancel Musk’s government contracts. Lots of fun for us to watch two severely psychologically diminished jerks fight, but not really all that funny,

I easily believe that the convicted sexual assaulter assaulted underage girls at the many Epstein parties. I really hope he is impeached and convicted. And I can easily believe that the orange psychopath would turn over the government tables to revenge Musk regardless of the consequences for the country. 

I believe both are completely devoid of human empathy or caring about others. But Trump is crazy, I mean actually mentally ill. Musk has cold, calculating, threatening eyes, but Trump has the eyes of a predator lizard. 

By the way, did Musk hack the votes in the swing states to give Trump/MAGA the win?  Is that one of his secrets? 

Israel/Palestine … endless

The United States is not the only country whose heartless right wing fanatics are destroying their own country. Netanyahu’s Israel is committing war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza, says former Israeli Prime Minister, Olmert. The result is devastating to Israel. 

I have never wanted to pay much attention to the endless Israeli – Palestinian “conflict” because it is hard for me to spend a lot of mental time on it. This has been going on since I first paid attention in 1967.  Somewhere between sickening and tiresome. 
 
To me, any time anyone thinks of Israel/Palestine starting with the present and looking back in time, all you get is the reason for one side to kill those on the other side. It’s endless. 
 
To me, the only way to think about Israel/Palestine is to start with the present and look forward with one and only one goal and that is a goal of peaceful living, and the only future that has peaceful living is a fair and equitable two state solution.  
 
Hamas is at fault, of course, and Iran is at fault, of course, and Netanyahu’s entire career has been to prevent a two-state solution. So…it goes on, and on, and on….bloodthirsty, evil...
 
Ireland managed to walk away from the horrors of endless religious blood feuds.  I can only hope for the same for this little piece of land in the Middle East.

Goodbye Constitution

It looks like the worst part of the thousand page “Big Beautiful Bill” of Trump/MAGA is a law to end all powers of the courts to stop violations of the Rule of Law and violations of the United States Constitution by MAGA officials. In addition to the biggest robbing of wealth from the middle classes and working poor to gift to the billionaires, and assaulting clean air and water, and assaulting healthcare, this assault on the courts is even more serious.

What a dictator needs is to crush all other institutions of power in the country.   The courts, and the Supreme Court, are one of those powers. Bye bye to the courts.  This is the most blatant, brazen, unconstitutional fascist language in Trump‘s big beautiful bill that I can imagine. It says:

“No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued," the provision in the bill, which is more than 1,000 pages long, says.”

What does that mean?”

"The Supreme Court has long recognized that the contempt power is integral to the authority of the federal courts…Without the ability to enforce judicial orders, they are rendered mere advisory opinions which parties are free to disregard."

So Trump, and when this old fart dies, MAGA Fascists are rewriting the law to say that the courts cannot determine the law, that the courts cannot stop a fascist government from violating the Constitution, the the U.S. Constitution is meaningless and null and void. Wait, you say, the Senate will eliminate this…you mean the MAGA Senate? The ones terrified of the mad king?  We can hope…

So, this monster tyrant, and his anti-democracy avid shock troops are destroying ALL centers of power that can stop him. 

The Republican Party no longer exists, it has been replaced by the subservient MAGA Cult.  So, Congress has been neutered. 

The press is under serious threat and attack, with the Washington Post being the first to kiss the ring. But local news has been systematically destroyed in small market America for years. 

The Universities are under serious threat and attack, with Columbia the first to kiss the ring, and Harvard is being destroyed, unless the courts can defend it…oops, what courts?

The bureaucracy has been destroyed with MAGA zombies replacing government expertise. 

The military has been gutted of independent leadership under the pretense of ending “DEI” appointments. 

A MAGA “Gestapo” is grabbing people off the streets and sending them to brutal hellhole prisons under the pretense of deporting violent gang members…next on the list will soon be political activists recharacterized as violent traitors and subversives. 

This is a dictator, and his dictatorship minions are destroying democracy, destroying the United States Constitution, and destroying the United States. 

We warned, and warned, and warned. But, hey, Trump voters gleefully “owned the libs”… hahahahahaha. It was so much fun to watch libs’ “Heads Explode”… hahahahahaha. So here we are. 

But the Soul and Spirit of the United States is going to rise up.  This shall not prevail. Screw these corrupt, cruel, incompetent fanatics. 

Is it possible to bankrupt the United States?

 To state the obvious, Donald J Trump is a really terrible businessman. He has bankrupted six of his businesses because he is a unique blend of ignorant, unteachable, and dumb. 

Is it possible to bankrupt a nation?  He seems to be trying to.

Heartless cruelty and greed from MAGA

 Well, Congress passed its Big Beautiful Bill in the wee hours of this morning, and it emits a Big Nauseating Stench of cruelty and greed. Here are some of the lowlights:

• The biggest cut in Medicare in its history, 7.7 million people will lose their Medicare - that means rural hospitals will close, nursing homes will close - too bad rural MAGA America…we warned and warned and warned
• Cuts in Obamacare and another 6 million lose health coverage- too bad rural MAGA America…we warned and warned and warned
• Add $3.8 trillion to the debt - interest rates go up, mortgages go up (too bad Millennials, no homes for you), auto loans go up, personal loans go up - too bad rural MAGA…we warned and warned and warned
• SNAP (Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program) cut $300 billon. Too bad rural MAGA America…we warned and warned and warned
• Plus who knows what other abominations of cruelty, greed, and lawlessness are in this fetid heap?

BUT, BUT NOT TO WORRY…

THE BILLIONAIRES GOT THEIR TAXES LOWERED!  So MAGA did what it was told to do - the largest transfer of wealth from the poor and middle classes to the billionaires in history. 

Wow!  MAGA is SO PROUD! They “OWNED THE LIBS”. And we all know how wonderful it is to hate the libs. 

We warned, and warned, and warned…

Oh well. MAGA got what it voted for (but so did the rest of us)

Crap. 

How about RAISING TAXES?

 Oh dear!  Congress can’t get the votes to pass Trump’s massive spending bill.  Oh my!  It will ADD TO THE DEFICIT!  What, oh what can Republican elected legislators do?  Oh What? Oh what?  Oh, they have a GREAT IDEA!  Cut spending, of course, of course. 

But, oh dear, what to cut?  Why, cut as many dollars that go to mainstream Americans as possible, of course.  Who needs FEMA to rescue victims and rebuild after natural disasters?  Who needs money to feed poor children?  Who needs money to teach children or create educated expert professionals? Who needs money to forecast the weather, protect against foreign predatory hackers?  Well, not the billionaires, soooooo… cut cut cut cut.  

See how fiscally responsible they are?  Aren’t you sooooooo grateful that they care SO MUCH about the deficit?  

If you are trapped in the Right Wing disinformation and distortion bubble, I guess you are. 

But I’m not. For Goodness Sake, RAISE TAXES.  On the billionaires.  On the top 0.01%, top 1%, top 10%…graduated tax system.  End the deficit. 

The last president who ran a balanced budget was Clinton. His V.P., Al Gore, led the cooperative project to cut and IMPROVE the Federal Government.

You can take money from the middle class and the poor and send trillions to the billionaires. OR you can have government raise taxes on those who have soooooo much, and benefit and empower the middle class and poor. Who will then GROW THE ECONOMY by spending on the economy rather than just buy a bunch of bonds, foreign mansions, yachts and private planes and helicopters, etc.  the masses of Americans buy the kinds of essentials and pleasures that create jobs and grow the economy. 

And, what do you know? the rich will get richer as the economy grows. What a surprise.

What happens if the income disparity becomes too large?  Well, in France the poor folks cut off the heads of the king and his aristocracy.  In Russia the poor folks shot the Tsar, his family, and his aristocracy.  

In America the poor and middle class folks who felt diminished elected a make believe billionaire because he hated the same people they do.  

Well, they are finding out he is not one of them, he is all about taking their money and sending it to the billionaires. 

What next?

Greedy, corrupt, and an easy mark

 Of course Trump thinks getting a gift of a $400 million 747 airplane whose interior looks like a Las Vegas casino is a wonderful idea. And, of course, receiving it is a massive violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution. It is an impeachable offense.

But there is another part of the story. It seems that this giant, ugly old plane is a white elephant that Qatar has been trying to get rid of for years. And the Orange Puffed Up egomaniac was easily suckered into thinking it was a wonderful tribute to his super duper rich self. It is old, hugely expensive to operate because of old fashioned engines, and really way too gauche and ugly for normal people. 

And, of course, it will cost hundreds of millions to tear apart and debug by the U.S government. 

It turns out the dumbass is an easy mark for conmen to flatter and fool.  

 

Thanks, sucker!

Mine! Mine! Mine! $$$$$$$$$$$$

 Trump says:

For you - 2 dolls and 5 pencils.

For me - a $400 MILLION jet.

And, I almost forgot, he “made a deal” to build a Trump tower in Syria.  

Hey, what is the most important thing to Trump in a Trump presidency?  Why, Trump, of course. 

Thanks, suckers! $$$$$$$$$$$$ 😂😂😂😂

Ego Ego

Amazing how much damage people’s egos can do.  Trump’s ego is incomprehensibly grandiose and deluded.  But how about Biden’s?  Tragically for America and the world, Biden’s ego is what set up the second presidency of the most destructive person in American politics.  Biden’s ego was/is also grandiose and deluded.  To this day he believes that he should have run for a second term and he would have won.  Just delusional nonsense. From the New Yorker article by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson “How Joe Biden Handed the Presidency to Donald Trump”:

 

“The disconnect between Biden’s optimism and the unhappy reality of poll results was a constant throughout his Administration. Many insiders sensed that his inner circle shielded him from bad news. It’s also true that, for Biden to absorb those poll results, he would have had to face the biggest issue driving them: the public had concluded—long before most Democratic officials, media, and other “élites” had—that he was far too old to do the job.”

 

First things first – why did Joe Biden win the Democratic nomination in 2016?  I postulate it was the 15% rule of primary elections.  Come Super Tuesday 2016 it was time to vote in the Democratic Primary in California.  My first choice was Buttigieg and my second choice was Bloomberg – two candidates who were not too far left, like Harris and Sanders and Warren who campaigned on Medicare for All, a sure loser in a nationwide election.  But neither Buttigieg nor Bloomberg were close enough to clear the 15% bar – which means they would not pick up any California electoral votes. This was the same situation in all of the swing state primaries that Super Tuesday.That left only Biden who could get the 15% or more.  So, I chose Biden.  Because it was so existentially important to defeat Trump that I felt we could not nominate someone too far to the left.

 

And so did Democrats all across the nation on Super Tuesday.  And, of course, James Clyburn of South Carolina endorsed Biden, probably for much the same reason, and Biden won the critical South Carolina vote as well.

 

Then, Biden won 81 million votes in the presidential election and became president.  And I guess he thought “They love me!”  No, Joe, they voted against the worst person in American political history.

 

Joe promised to be a transition president.  He promised to serve one term and let the next generation compete in 2024.  He reneged on that promise.  Why?  Ego.  He accomplished real things in his presidency – ended the COVID19 pandemic, passed a massive infrastructure bill, passed the CHIPS act, rallied the democratic countries around the world to support Ukraine against the invasion of Russia.  Thank you, Joe.  But Joe’s ego decided that he was beloved, and indispensable, and sure to win in 2024.  

 

But he couldn’t possibly win in 2024.  His mental and physical capabilities had dramatically collapsed. And it was obvious, obvious, obvious to all who saw him in private, and so too when he mumbled and fumbled his way through his June 2024 debate catastrophe.  I wrote the morning after the debate, June 28,2024:

 

“ Joe Biden will not be president in 2025. It’s over. An old, old man struggling to remember a bunch of stuff he had tried to memorize. Scared old man. I could watch only about ten minutes. It was excruciating. 

I need to say the obvious - Biden was a good president but a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible campaigner. There is too much at stake to be polite”.

 

 

But, still his ego said he could win.  It took a lot to get him to withdraw from the race.  And he is bitter about that even to this day, and he still thinks he would have won.  Ego – delusional.  

 

By the way, people saw Joe with his cognitive and physical and vitality deficiencies and said he was too old. No, he is only a year older than I, than many articulate and forceful people. No, Joe is suffering from dementia, maybe Parkinson’s? Aging is very individual.  Joe’s issues are not from age, in my opinion. Sadly, I know more about dementia than I wish I knew. 

So, instead of having Biden announce that he would not run after the start of 2024 and throw the nomination process open to the enormously talented Democratic political field, from Buttigieg and Pritzger and Shapiro and Harris and Booker and Whitmer and and and…  he stayed in the race.  Then, he CHOSE Harris.  He at a minimum should have removed himself and opened the process to the Democratic Convention to decide their candidate.  That way, elected Democrats and highly placed Democrats at the Convention would elect their nominee after convention campaigning, just like they used to do it back before the ‘70s.  It would be one of the greatest TV spectacles of all time. It would have taken multiple votes. It would have produced a very talented Democratic candidate who would have had massive publicity.  Then there would have been a much better contest for the presidency, and I am convinced that the Orange Menace would have lost, decisively.  

 

But, none of this was to be.  Why?  Because of Joe Biden’s ego.  

 

And now, we have the most grandiose, delusional ego in American history in the White House, with no concern for anything other than “What’s in it for me?”

 

Damn.