Schumer caves, again

 Trump is an idiot. He cannot understand anything complex.  People try to get info to him with pictures, simple ideas that he might be able to grasp. But… he has decades of expertise on building his brand, dominating the media, crushing enemies, getting his way. 

And he can smell weakness, and like bullies everywhere he is driven to crush weak people because he is afraid that he is weak so he has to crush the weak.  

It helps him tell himself he is strong. But he’s not. He’s just cruel, which is a weak person’s substitute for strength.  Bullies punch down. He punches Schumer and Schumer submits. He grovels to Putin because he sees Putin as strong and he is afraid. 

So, it looks like Schumer is giving up and pretending to believe the lies the Republicans are telling him about “concessions” needed to end the government shutdown. Bullshit. Trump will ignore them. It will make him feel strong. 

America loses.

The photo that Summarizes Trump

 Apparently, a man named Gordon Findlay, a HealthCare executive, collapsed during a press conference.  Dr Oz and others (not RFK Jr) rushed to attend to him. The cause of the collapse is unknown at this time, perhaps just a fainting episode.  But here is a photo that could be the most iconic photo of the Orange Narcissist so far in this administration - not trying to help, not bent over in concern to see if he is alright, just staring ahead, looks somewhere between indifferent and annoyed to me.. 

Good grief.

Anti-fascists vote!

 Trump and Steven Miller have declared antifa to be "terrorists".  What blithering idiocy. America lost about half a million soldiers fighting fascists in WWII.  To be anti-fascist is one of the great honors and achievements of America.  And anti-fascists have risen to the occasion once again.  

We voted.  We voted to say NO to the Fascist in Chief yesterday.  Bigly!!

Trump and MAGA and the Theocrats and the Oligarchs probably think they can just cheat and make false election results in 2026, bring out the violence, and crush the American Democratically elected Republic.  Delusional nitwits.

Make them suffer until they break

Michael Cohen, Trump's primary lawyer and cruel enforcer for about 14 years before he was sent to prison for illegal hush payments to Stormy Daniels on Trump's behalf, has written that he witnessed Trump saying many, many times "Make them suffer until they break", which is the real Trump "art of the deal".  It's not deals, it's extortion, it's mafioso attacks, it's totalitarian police state right here in our country.

The kindest explanation I can give for this extended 28-day government shutdown is that Trump is doing his extortion racket - make "them" suffer - who cares? not him, but he figures Democrats will care because he sees caring, empathy, compassion as weaknesses and he sees Democrats as weak.  And he expects to break them.  But we all know that the government is shut down because the Tyrant in Chief tells his Republican Party in Name Only party to shut the government down.  So, there will be no negotiation, or if they do the Republican negotiators will be snuffed out of the party, maybe literally?

But I think the real reason Trump will not let the government open is because if they do they will have to swear in a newly elected Democrat from Arizona, Adalita Grijalva, and she will be the last needed vote to release the EPSTEIN FILES.  

And it is clear that Trump, who is deeply guilty of so much that will be revealed if the EPSTEIN FILES are ever fully released, will do anything to keep them from being seen.  We think he is guilty of pedophilia, which drives Qanon and MAGA mad with rage, but I think it also includes lifetime criminal sentences for years of multiple financial crimes as well.  We don't know all that he is guilty of, but he does, and his behavior reveals that there is much there for him to hide.

All People are Created Equal

Democrats are trying to find a "message" for their political campaigns.  How did they lose the working-class vote? some of the black vote? some of the brown vote? some xyz vote? What message do they need to come up with?  I have a suggestion:

ALL PEOPLE ARE CREATED EQUAL.

Why do I think this is the "message"? Because it is not a message. It is a vision.  It is a dream. It is the foundational American vision and dream.  

This vision and dream won the Revolutionary War.  It won the Civil War.  It won the New Deal "war".  It won the Civil Rights Movement "war".  It won the War on Poverty "war". It will win again.  Why?

All People are Created Equal undercuts the very roots of fascism/authoritarianism/racism/Nazism/Oligarchy-ism/theocracy-ism. How?

Racism says Whites are superior to blacks and browns and reds and yellows.  Sexism says men are superior to women.  Xenophobia says white Americans are superior to brown immigrants.  Oligarchs say the rich are superior to we peasants.  "Kings" say they are superior to their "subjects".

But none of that is true.  All People are Created Equal means all people are human beings and are endowed by the Creator of Human Beings the Right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.  Somehow, the flawed Thomas Jefferson had a moment of Divine Inspiration to put the emerging United States on the greatest dream the world had ever seen - All People are Created Equal.  At our deepest root, we are One.  And this truth cannot be killed by the bigots.

The law? - nobody is above the law; everybody is protected by just laws and legal systems.  Health, financial opportunity, abundance, safety of the home and neighborhood, anything that already excites liberals and democrats are a subset of ALL PEOPLE ARE CREATED EQUAL.

I hope that this message and vision catches fire and ignites inspiring political candidates.  This is the American Dream.  It is the American answer to "kings", racists, fascists, and bullies of all stripes.  

This is the greatest vision and dream in human history.  It is not going away. And it is needed now, and is much more powerful than the domineering scare-the-crap-out-of-everyone stupid MAGA cult led by an astonishingly cruel, but stupid, leader.

 

And he shits on America

 Saturday, October 18, 7 million people marched all across the country, massive turnout in big cities, on the second No Kings Day. This is in protest to the mentally ill orange cult leader of MAGA systematically destroying anything and anyone keeping him from doing "anything the hell he wants".

But of course, the orange one needs to do what he can to capture the headline. So he had an AI generated video of him wearing a king’s crown flying a jet and dumping shit on the protesters. 

I don’t think that he, nor MAGA, can quite see how right on the nose that symbol is. Only he is not just dropping shit on protesters, his dropping shit on the entire nation and all Americans.

And now he is demolishing part of the White House to add his monstrosity of a ballroom.  Sacrilege.

Everything this man touches he shits on.

JD Vance asks Nazis and KKK for their votes in 2028

 JD Vance excused the horrific racist, cruel, violent private texts of “young Republicans” after they were exposed.  Why? James Carville points out that he needs their votes, and these shockingly sickening people make up a substantial percentage of the current Republican Party Base.. Nazis, KKK, 6MWE, Groypers, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, “ Hang Mike Pence”, “Where’s Nancy?”  The Politico reporter looked through 2900 pages of messages.  These are representative:

• Everyone who votes no is going to the gas chamber
• You’re giving nationals too much credit and expecting the Jew to be honest
• Are you going to do whatever it takes? 
• I’m ready to watch people burn now
• He also hates the Jews
• Great. I love Hitler
• But everyone who endorsed but then votes for us is going to the gas chamber
• Take a nice shower and relax - Boom - they’re dead
• They love the watermelon people
• I’d go to a zoo if I wanted to watch a monkey play ball
• Stay on the closet f——t

How did Vance let this significant part of the MAGA base know he was on their side?  He said they were just kids making jokes.  The “kids” were 20 to 40.  The “kids” are the future of what used to be the Republican Party. The “kids” are violent, dangerous, racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, future of the party of Trump.  

JD Vance either can’t denounce them without losing their support and votes, or —- he agrees and IS them 

I hope and pray that actual Republicans see that there no longer is a Republican Party - only MAGA/Nazi/KKK/theocrat white supremacists. You cannot accommodate Nazis, they just take over your party, and you end up complicit in horror. 

Look. Look. Look. See them. 

Turn away. 

Trump refuses to allow the House to come back in session …. Epstein files

 The make-believe Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, announced that  the house will be closed next week for the third week in a row. Of course, simply doing what his lord and master, Donald Trump, tells him to do. Why?

People think it is to put pressure on the Democrats to cave and give in to MAGA demands about crushing Obamacare, Medicaid, and other heartless goals of the Republican Party. Obviously there is a lot of truth in this. But…

If Congress is back in session a newly elected Democratic, Angelita Grijalva, AZ , gets sworn in who is the 218th vote to release the Epstein files… and Trump desperately needs to stop that.  Why?

I believe that Donald Trump is afraid of only one thing, going to prison. How does he go to prison? The Epstein files. His actions to never allow the Epstein files to be seen betray his obvious guilt of deep crimes that can be uncovered in those files. Crimes that will lead even MAGA to impeachment - pedophilia? Russian money laundering? Being controlled by Russian or Israeli espionage to act against U.S. interests on behalf of a foreign power?  And then he is impeached, convicted, thrown out of office, tried for his crimes and sent to prison. 

Desperate little person. 

Which Americans want authoritarian dictators?

Trump is an obvious authoritarian - "strong man", dictatorial, cruel to his enemies, etc.  I find that disqualifying in a president. But, millions of Americans want that.  And indeed, they voted for Trump because they want an authoritarian ruler.  Who? Those that are raised by authoritarians to be authoritarians themselves. 

Here are the four questions that sociologists have found reveal the authoritarian personality:

1. Obedience vs. Self-Reliance: Which is more important for a child to be?  Obedience - trained to want an authoritarian
2. Respect for Elders vs. Independence: Which is more important for a child to have? - Respect for elders - trained to want an authoritarian
3. Well-Behaved vs. Considerate: Which is more important for a child to be?  Well behaved - trained to want an authoritarian
4. Good Manners vs. Curiosity: Which is more important for a child to have? Good manners - trained to want an authoritarian

There was a seminal book by psychologist Eric Fromm - "Escape from Freedom" written right after WWII where he wanted to discover what the hell happened that created the Nazis and Soviets? His answer was that these societies raised their children to value authoritarianism in the family and thus in society.  

And here we are with an authoritarian government which was voted for an is approved by an authoritarian voter base.

But I believe that America has far more non-authoritarians than the authoritarians in the MAGA base.  Indeed I was raised by an authoritarian father, but I grew up and grew out of that limited mindset. 

This attempted police state takeover of the Land of the Free is going to fail.  Authoritarians suck.

Manufacturing violence to justify a police state

 Donald Trump and the domestic brains directing him, Steven Miller, are doing what authoritarian police states have always done - creating violence as a pretense to establish a police state.  From Thomas B Edsall, NYT article:

"The quickest way to piss people off is to send soldiers into their neighborhoods especially when there’s no reason for them to be there. It's inherently provocative, and Trump and his team understand this. Research by the political scientist Robert Pape shows that the single most powerful predictor of suicide terrorism is the presence of foreign troops on local soil. People hate, hate, hate that. They hate the humiliation, the powerlessness, the feeling of being occupied.

Once citizens begin to view their own government's security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable."

Oldest tactic in the fascist playbook - false "emergency," send in the troops, abuse the populace, incite violence, justify military occupation of the entire nation, viola - end of elections.  Totalitarian fascist police state.  

For Trump - No Epstein files exposure.  No dying in prison for pedophilia and corruption.  

And, for Miller - Racist hatred, terrorism, and "purification".

But America can see this and can not fall for it.  I choose to believe that these extremists will fail because they don't have enough support in the country to pull it off.  

Preparing the country for Martial Law in 2026

So Trump is now Federalizing the Illinois National Guard.  Against the strong objection of the governor, Pritzger.  This is unconstitutional, but Trump's theocratic Supreme Court are actually revolutionaries helping him end the Constitutional order. The Trump 6 are life-long opponents of American democracy, it seems to me, and see their job as ending the evil reign of Satan, who they think has taken over all the liberal institutions, norms, and influences.  So, down with Satan, and oh yes, down with all Constitutional protections that have been taken over by Satan (liberals)

This atrocity in Illinois is all about preparing the country for a declaration of Martial Law in response to some fictitious emergency in the Fall of 2026 to prevent elections. This tyrant will not allow real elections because if he does his MAGA fanatics will lose and he faces impeachment and prosecution for his multiple corruptions and crimes - ending his sad little life in prison.

This is not hard to figure out.

Shut the government down until he releases ALL the EPSTEIN files ALL ALL ALL

 Michael Cohen, former lawyer and cruel enforcer for Donald Trump during his "business" career, writes this about how Trump "negotiates":

"There’s a line I used to hear when working for Donald Trump: “The art of the deal is making them suffer until they break.” That’s not negotiating. That’s sadism with a pen and a contract.":

So, here we are, Trump demands a shutdown of the Federal Government and his terrified Republicans in Congress give him a shutdown - yessir yessir yessir....

So, who suffers?  We suffer, and the poorer you are the more you will suffer, which is fine to the the fascist wannabe king, and his MAGA subservients, who openly declare empathy and compassion to be weaknesses, and to prove the point one has gone so far as to shoot a family dog who displeased her.

Welcome to Trump/MAGA/Theocratic/Oligarchic America.

Another man who has a lot of personal and reporting insight into Trump's mind is Michael Wolff who strongly advises that there is only ONE message and demand that the Democrats need to make in order to end the shutdown - EPSTEIN

Shut down the government until the Republicans release ALL of the Epstein files, and remove all the redactions of mentions of their dear pedophile leader.

Play to win.  Democrats can only think in terms of policy, but they need to understand that they are in a war. And Trump only fears the Epstein files, obviously for very good reason.  So the Democrats have only one lever of power over Trump - EPSTEIN.

Trump proudly declares himself and his Republican Party to be fascists

 On September 22 the president signed an executive order designating “Antifa” as “a major terrorist organization,”  What is Antifa?  It is a shortened word meaning Anti-Fascist. So, who would be afraid of anti-fascists? Oh, fascists would be afraid of and attack anti-fascists.

Then he sent the MAGA military into Portland, to attack anti-fascists. 

It’s what actual fascists do.  Say it out loud, they are fascists and proud.  

Lordy, he really is demented

Much to the humiliation of the United States of America, its elected leader rambled on ludicrously for an hour scolding the U.N. and making silly, childish claims. Here are some of the low lights:

First, just make believe…”It’s too bad that I had to do these things instead of the United Nations doing them,” Trump said. “I ended seven wars, dealt with the leaders of each and every one of these countries, and never even received a phone call from the United Nations offering to help in finalizing the deal.” 

Then bragging about his ignorance … “belittling climate change as “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world”

And glorying in cruelty… “The president praised El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, for keeping deportees from the U.S. in “terrorist prisons.”

And bragging about his war crimes… “Trump also boasted about his extrajudicial strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug cartels”

And wrapping it up like a six year old child… “During the campaign they had a hat, the best-selling hat ‘Trump was right about everything,’” he told the gathered world leaders while discussing climate change. “And I don’t say that in a bragging way but it’s true. I’ve been right about everything”

Sorry world. We tried to warn and warn and warn, but they were told not to listen to us. So they voted for him. 

So, it was rage at hatred against transgender women

 Well, it looks now like the Kirk killer was not a nihilistic Groyper who killed him because he was not conservative enough. It now looks like he was romantically involved with a transgender woman and“…had enough of his hatred”.  

“ Yesterday, a Utah court filing refuted a theory popular on the left: that the suspect in the murder of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk was a right-winger. “I had enough of his hatred," the suspect, Tyler Robinson, wrote in a text message to his romantic partner, according to a transcript of their exchange released by the prosecutors. “Some hate can’t be negotiated out.” An assassin to the right of Kirk, irritated by Kirk’s moderation, would have criticized him for being insufficiently hateful. The other charging documents describe Robinson’s recent drift to the political left. Robinson’s romance with a trans person, and decision to kill Kirk just as he was speaking about transgender mass shooters, strongly suggests that the alleged killer felt special zeal for the cause of trans rights, which is itself closely identified with the left.”

Frighteningly, this killing seems to be giving MAGA’s move into fascist rule an excuse to escalate their desires, where Stephen Miller, Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff, called the Democratic Party a “domestic extremist organization.  As usual, MAGA’s accusations sound a lot like confessions.

There is no stupider organism on the planet than an adolescent with his friends watching.

 Listening to the War Room podcast with Al Hunt and James Carville, they were interviewing two experts on crime on how to reduce crime.  One of them, I think it was David Kennedy, said when he is addressing a room of people, men and women, in an at risk neighborhood to violent crime, he says to the women "You know that there is no stupider organism on the planet than an adolescent with his friends watching." Which the women apparently agree to from their own hard experience. I think this is the quote most germane to so much today.  By the way, this principle also applies to overgrown adolescents, as indeed it looks to me like the Trump Administration is filled with adolescent brains of all ages.

This deeply dysfunctional killer of Kirk, if I understand the Groyper world correctly, was performing a violent act to impress and amuse his young man nihilistic Groyper audience. Boom, murder, horrible consequences for the country.

The criminologists on the podcast were saying that every city today knows that the terrible crime they face comes from a very small number of young men who are in blood feuds, and the way to reduce the crime is intervention at the local level to pull them out of the cycle of violent retaliation.  And these programs are remarkably effective and violent crime, although always too high, has dramatically dropped as a result of targeted social intervention.  As one of them said, the police know you cannot arrest your way out of the problem. It takes targeted social intervention to give them a way out of the retaliation cycle.

So, I take this truth about the cycle of retaliatory violence and apply it to the assassination of Charlie Kirk by a 22 year old young man lost in the dark world of Groyper nihilism.  Trump, and Stephen Miller, and JD Vance, and Fox News are doing the exactly wrong thing: they are calling for an escalation of violence by Their Gang against who they falsely claim are their Enemy Gang - liberals.  

This will only escalate the violence, of course.  And that is what Trump and Vance want: more violence so that they can declare martial law and suspend the 2026 elections and stay in power, because they know they will lose in 2026 due to their amazingly harmful and unpopular policies of their Big Beautiful Bill, and due to the exposure of their deeply corrupt and criminal natures as they try to suppress the Epstein evidence, rake in billions in government created crypto scams, and endless violations of the rule of law and the Constitution.

The Gang in the White House and Congress needs to rouse its gang all across the country to attack and destroy the "enemy gang" - Democrats and liberals of all stripes.

We are in a dangerous time.  I give no real credit to the Orange Bully for strategy, I think his life long operating principle is simple - "What benefits me?" and "I get to do whatever the hell I want to do."

But, his MAGA movement includes people who are very aware of the tried and tested strategies to end democracy and establish a fascist police state - crush all forms of resistance - Congress, Courts, Education, News, Entertainment, Culture - all forms of Free Thought.  

They are clear that they want only one law of the land - "You Shall Obey!"

Kirk’s killer - Young man nihilism?

 In 1987 I read Alan Bloom’s “The Closing of the American Mind”.  It was a a complex book but what I remember are two points that he made. First, kids were showing up at the University of Chicago with no background at all in thinking deep thoughts, questions about good and evil, what makes a good life, how to live a meaningful life, what’s right and wrong? These kinds of questions used to present themselves to earlier generations through religion, reading good literature, philosophy, etc.  What he saw was kids believing that right and wrong were relative, that there was no right and wrong. But they were wrong. There are things that are right and wrong. Not everything is subjective and arbitrary. 

He then expanded that idea into the Germans and Nietzsche’s Death of God famous quote and his warning that without a God, without actual right and wrong the world could collapse into nihilism, the belief that life is meaningless, truth could not be known, and the world would spiral into ever greater violence and annihilation. And, indeed, with the rise of Nazism that is exactly what the Germans did, and also did the Fascist Mussolini Italians and Fascist Franco Spanish. 

So, the killing of extremist provocateur, Charlie Kirk?  It appears that the killer was a neo-Nazi Groyper, a young man, among millions of young men, whose minds have been warped on social media into believing that life isn’t worth living, it is all just a big joke, and they are dedicated to creating chaos, destruction.  It appears they are lost inside the deranged void of nihilism. He saw Kirk as a fraud. And he killed him as a joke, since all of life is just a big meaningless joke, in order to cause pain just to see the pain, in order to make his nihilistic social media world laugh, and maybe that’s all it was. Just show up a fake, and make his world laugh. 

I am old, liberal, and am not familiar with the despairs and coping strategies of young men lost in nihilism. To me the question was whether he was a right wing nut or a left wing nut. But maybe he’s just a violent nihilistic troll. 

This is a shock to me. Hoping that this isn’t our future. It did not work out well for the Germans, nor the world. 

Although there are determined people wanting more destruction, I choose to believe in the Better Angels of our natures. I choose to believe we will emerge from these terrible mistakes and renew ourselves. 

Charlie Kirk killing - two reactions - MSNBC and Fox News

 MSNBC fired Matthew Dowd for saying that Charlie Kirk, right wing extremist activist, was in part responsible for his own killing - "“Hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions,” Dowd said, adding: “You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and then not expect awful actions to take place.”  Wrong.  Gone.  Thank you MSNBC.

Fox News has no problem with Jesse Watters calling for violence in response to the Charlie Kirk killing - "“We are sick. We are sad. We are angry. And we are resolute,” he said. “And we are going to avenge Charlie’s death in the way that Charlie wanted to be avenged.”  Fox News allows this, apparently.

See the difference?

By the way, at this time we don't know who the shooter was and whether politics were involved.  Likely a left wing nutcase, but let's wait and discover more.

Update, 9/12/2025. The killer was turned in by a family friend and he is a Mormon 22 year old whose parents are Republicans, and he is registered as independent, and he dressed up in a Trump costume in 2017 - in other words, he is not a hate filled Marxist, regardless of how the Right Wing Media Industry wants him to be. Also, he is not Trans -- 

"A report in the conservative Wall Street Journal yesterday claimed that a law enforcement source had revealed that ammunition with "transgender" ideology carved into it had been recovered at the site of the Kirk shooting.

While it hasn't been officially confirmed, some gun experts have suggested that the bullets may have been produced by Turan Ammo. Such bullets are stamped with the manufacturer's mark "TRN." If such bullets were used by the shooter, it's possible that an overeager bigot saw "TRN" and interpreted it as "trans" instead of "Turan."

Will Fox News, Bannon, Musk and the profiteers of hate apologize and call for calm? I wish they would but that is not how they become rich and powerful.

Oh well...

Update 9/13/2025 - Now it appears that the killer is a Groyper Nazi follower of Nick Fuentes, American Nazi. Cult of violence. It is not unusual for right wing extremists to turn on each other, the obvious precedent is the Night of Long Knives in 1934 Germany where Hitler eliminated his rivals - violent purge ordered by Adolf Hitler from June 30 to July 2, 1934, to consolidate his power within the Nazi Party. "Nazi paramilitary forces, the Schutzstaffel (SS) and Gestapo, murdered the leadership of the Sturmabteilung (SA) (the Brownshirts), including its leader Ernst Röhm, who was a rival to Hitler."

Thank goodness we are a long way from Hitler's Germany but extremists purging others in their movement for lack of purity is just how it goes, it appears.

Look at Nancy Mace's face

Look at Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace's face.  It says all we need to know about the depraved abuse that Epstein, and his elite compadres (Donald Donald Donald J J J Trump Trump Trump - best buddies with Epstein, "party" buddy with Epstein) did to these women when they were children - children - children.

Nancy Mace is a hard core MAGA South Carolina "Republican".  Her famous quote was "I am Trump in high heels".  Well, this may be where the political opportunist worm turns.  I want ANGER by Mace, by Republicans, by Democrats, by all of America.  This is the Pedo ring that Qanon was trying to expose for years.  And I refuse to allow the MAGAs to ignore the central debauched predator, Trump.  He has long bragged about his celebrity allowing him sexual assault, how his money buys everybody off.  I want him at the top of the list.  If Clinton and Gates and Prince Andrew go to prison, fine.  Prison for all of them.

Why is this so important?  Because the only real hope for America and the world is the removal of Trump from office, and slammed into prison for life, with no ability to terrorize and bully the Republican Party to continue to destroy America and the world from afar.  Impeachment by the House and conviction by the Senate are the cleanest way for that to happen, and only MAGA can do that.  Only the Republicans can impeach and convict Trump.  He has them terrified. Expose, beyond any denials by the Sexual Predator in Chief, his debauchery and cruelty.  Turn the stomachs of MAGA.  

The only other two options are the 25th Amendment (he is coo coo coco puffs - or a debilitating stroke) - both possible.  But it would be best if his sins are what ended his reign of terror.

Look at Nancy Mace's face...horror

Trump says "This is a Democrat hoax..."  Oops, time for a Very Very Big Thing to capture the headlines for a long time - troops into Chicago? Nuclear war? This maniac is cornered and dangerous

55 MILLION people!

 The tyrannical Trump MAGA regime is “reviewing” the “records” of 55 million foreign Visa holders. What records?  All of their social media posts, is part of it. Post something on Facebook critical of the Orange Magnificence?  And the “Tech Bros” have developed internet surveillance tools that can’t be escaped, like Palantir.  

“ The US is reviewing the records of more than 55 million US visa holders to assess if they have broken conditions for entry or stay in the country. 

People with US visas will be under "continuous vetting"

Continuous vetting…. Pounce!

This is likely the practice run, just against foreigners so we aren’t supposed to worry… Next up is critics of the regime. American citizens guaranteed by the Constitution to criticize the elected officials… 

Constitution? They don’t need no stinking’ constitution. 

World War IV

Gary Kasparov, on his "Autocracy in America" podcast, made an important observation when talking with a Lithuanian member of Parliament about the Russian invasion of Ukraine - Putin is fighting WWIV, he is clear that what we called the Cold War was actually WWIII, and Russia lost it.  

Putin intends to win WWIV.  By disinformation to undermine democracies in Europe and the U.S., by invading and conquering Ukraine, by invading the Baltic Nations after Ukraine, by destroying the European Union and NATO, by turning all of the world into another version of Russia - corrupt, greedy, cruel, authoritarian police states. So that he, and the Russian police state, can safely plunder and dominate at will.

And Trump and MAGA are on his side.  

 

Crime, the economy, and immigration - two views

Trump focuses on these three issues to appeal to his MAGA base - crime, inflation, and immigration. 

Crime. Trump unconstitutionally sends military into Los Angeles and Washington D.C. on the phony pretense of subduing a violent crisis. How is this seen?

MAGA red - thank goodness that we have a decisive manly manly man who gets things done without worrying about niceties or hurting the feelings of goody two shoes weak minded goo goos. 

Liberal blue - this is a phony pretense to get us all used to military brutality in our country in preparation for a soon to come declaration of Martial Law, the suspension of elections, and the end of democracy in America. 

Result?  Trump’s message is that he and MAGA are on the side of law enforcement and liberals and Democrats are on the side of violent criminals and drug addicted garbage.  Liberal’s message is more conceptual, warning of a coming police state and the end of our democratically elected Republic. 

How about the economy?  The Biden administration economic recovery from the pandemic was quite a success, steadily lowering inflation and growing the economy far better than other developed nations in the world. 

MAGA red - don’t listen to those elites snobs and their stupid numbers and charts and disrespectful lecturing about how great the economy is, look at how hard it is for you to make ends meet, buy a house, and survive - the clueless liberal elites don’t see you, don’t care about you, and think you are beneath them, and think that if you can’t make it it’s because you’re inadequate. 

Liberal blue - the economy was growing, inflation was coming down, liberals are fighting to make your life easier and more affordable with child tax credits, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, food banks, elderly care, handicap assistance, etc….policies. 

Result? Trump tells MAGA we see you and the liberals just look down on you. Liberals say we are doing all we can to provide needed support for all of our lives. 

Immigration.  Trump and his insanely racist hit man, Stephen Miller, are sending thousands masked bullies to round up as many brown people as they can, all on the pretense that they are responding to a violent emergency and grabbing lifelong criminals and killer gang members. 

MAGA red - these are filthy, disgusting predators that are bringing crime to our precious white world, and are being brought into America to steal jobs from decent white men.

Liberal blue - Mexicans and all Hispanics are just another of the many immigrants that America has always drawn to our country with the hope of creating prosperous and safe lives. 

Result? Trump and MAGA dumbasses are getting rid of those we identified as Essential Workers during the pandemic - farm workers, hospital workers, nursing home workers, construction workers, household workers, home care workers,  roofers, painters, bus drivers, grocery store warehouse workers, etc etc etc.  So, shelves start to go empty, hospitals and nursing homes can’t do their functions properly, construction doesn’t happen, shortages drive up prices as wages have to escalate to try to find people to do these essential jobs - an economic stupidity. 

The terrible joke is that Trump and his billionaire buddies have betrayed MAGA, lied to them, played them for fools, just steal money from them - transfer trillions to the billionaires the their greedy Big Beautiful Bill, sell them mostly useless Trump branded trinkets and phony “money making opportunities”, and have every intention and plan to remove any and all powers that MAGA, Republicans (and liberals) have to stop their planned tyranny. This is a long planned racist/theocratic/plutocratic/fascist coup.  And, so far, it is working. 

Liberals, Bulwark Republicans, actual Republicans (if there are any left who have not been sucked into the MAGA propaganda bubble) and independents need to be able to say what is actually going on with passion, force, and integrity.   

This shall not stand. Time for the country to wake up. 

Betrayal

Emotion drives votes. Democrats can’t just talk about the horrors of the Big Beautiful Bill and how they harm MAGA people. The truth is that Trump betrayed them. He lied to them. He made promises he never intended to keep.  He played them for suckers.

So, it is not enough to say Trump cut medicare and shut down rural hospitals, etc etc etc.  Start by saying Trump betrayed MAGA and was on the side of his elite billionaire buddies all along. 

There are dozens of harms that Trump is inflicting on MAGA people, and my hope is that Democrats campaign on those accusations and start with saying Trump betrayed you, MAGA, he was always just a rich, elite, swindler who stepped on your neck so he could be important. 

Putin and the Dumbass

 I believe that Putin will convince Trump that he can get the Nobel Peace Prize by ending the war in Ukraine, and the way to do that is to give Putin the territory he has “conquered“, and cut off all military and intelligence support of Ukraine. And thus the war will be over. And dumbass will get the Nobel prize (hahahaha)

And Dumbass will say wow gee what a wonderful idea thank you, Mr. Putin!  And cut off all support to Ukraine. 

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.