And now for the proliferation of nuclear bombs, all across the world

 Now that America is no longer going to protect anybody with its nuclear arsenal all other countries must protect themselves with their own nuclear arsenals. 

Thanks, dumbass.

The SAVE TRUMP from being impeached and convicted act

 Republicans say just show ID to vote, isn’t that fair?  Democrats says bullshit, here is what you need to show - and married women with a name change?  Too bad for you.  City dwellers who don’t drive?  Oops. Don't travel internationally? Who wants your cheap vote? Etc.

✅ Main types of ID/documents that would be accepted

The bill outlines several ways to prove citizenship. Generally, you’d need one of these:

• U.S. passport
• Birth certificate (U.S.-issued)
• Certificate of naturalization or citizenship
• Consular Report of Birth Abroad (CRBA)  

🪪 Photo ID options (with conditions)

Some forms of ID can work, but only if they prove citizenship or are paired with proof:

• REAL ID–compliant ID → only if it indicates U.S. citizenship (most do not)  
• Government-issued photo ID showing place of birth  
• Military ID + service record showing U.S. birthplace  
• Regular photo ID + separate proof of citizenship (like a birth certificate)  

⚠️ Important limitation

• A driver’s license alone usually would NOT be enough, because it typically does not show citizenship status  

Endless defilement by the Pedo on Chief

Trump is not a True Believer

 Someone (Michael Wolf?) recently said that Trump is not a True Believer, and he is incapable of understanding True Believers.  But he certainly knows how to feed them what they need to hear, and to use them for the only thing he truly believes - that he is the center of the world, the most important and awesome person in the world, and that everything that he does must benefit him and him alone. 

Get re-elected in 2024?  How about a fake “assassination attempt” with pro wrestling fake blood and a couple deaths of innocent bystanders?  Too close to revealing his rape of 13 year olds? How about an awesome bombing around the world? In Iran?  Strait of Hormuz? What is that?  Certain of a mid term wipeout at the polls?  How about a new law stripping the votes from married women, people without drivers licenses or passports or birth certificates?  Life long criminals in prison? Pardons for sale. Etc. etc. etc….

So, it is inconceivable to him that a significant part of his MAGA Cult is turning against him because his America First - No Endless Wars president is bombing the crap out of Iran and any country he wakes up thinking about that day. Makes him feel like a manly, manly, manly man… kill people! Make them afraid! See how tough he is? Why would they be upset? Can’t they see how good this is for him? Him? Him?  What else could possibly matter?

But…

Millions of MAGA actually are True Believers.  Millions of MAGA are dumbfounded, apparently. Why?  Did they actually believe anything this mentally ill, plunging into dementia, childish, very very stupid man said?  

Who would be that naive? Gullible? Dumb?  

Oh, MAGA. 

The religious wars of the Middle East

 The U.S has been drawn into the centuries' old religious wars in the Middle East - Sunni Muslim vs Shia Muslims, both against Jews - and Oh Yes the Christian Evangelicals are in it too.  

Saudi Arabia (Sunni Muslim) wants Trump to up the bombing of Iran (Shia Muslim).  Israel (Jew) wants Trump to up the attacks on (Shia Muslim) Iran.  Christian Evangelicals who believe in the Apocalypse being the necessary preparation for the Second Coming of Christ want the Apocalypse, so they want Trump to up the attacks on (Shia Muslim) Iran. And by the way, Muslims also want the Apocalypse as being necessary for the second coming of Christ as well, whom they call Isa or The Mahdi.

Looks like creating the apocalypse is not that hard if all sides try to do it.  Sorry, dear religious believers, Jesus is not coming back to save anybody.  You break it you own it.  And you are breaking a lot of things.

This is our world.  We are here to take care of it and repair it and renew it after we destroy it.  We do this all by ourselves.  No supernatural forces are coming to save us. Not Jesus, Not Isa or The Mahdi, not the ETs, not anybody.  This is all ours.

What is Trump's role in this? Trump just wants the headlines where he is famous, tough guy, important, changes the world map,  and has people forgetting about his crimes being hidden in the Epstein Files.  He has become a gullible tool of the Saudi, Sunni, Israel Jewish, and Christian Evangelical religious wars.  

Dumbass.

Oh well. The destruction is happening, and the repairs, renewals, and rebirths are coming. It's up to us.

"No quarter" is a war crime

The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, has declared this is a war where "no quarter" will be given. That very statement is a war crime.

From Charlie Sykes - "The declaration of "no quarter” is literally a war crime under both international and US law. It usually refers to targeting or killing fighters who are wounded or trying to surrender. The prohibition covers orders, threats, and actual execution of surrendering combatants. Violations can result in criminal prosecution under international law, U.S. federal law, and military justice systems. Indeed, even the threat of “no quarter” constitutes a war crime. The US Military has explicitly banned such orders since the Civil War."

Bombing a school in Iran and killing over 150 children - was this an accident of war? Or was it a chosen target to kill the children of top Iranian officials in order to cause them enough pain to end their hostilities? If the second, it is a war crime.

By the way, bombing of boats from Venezuela rather than stopping them, boarding them, finding evidence of drugs, arresting them and taking them to trial was already an earlier example of a Trump/Hegseth war crime.

Hegseth needs to be impeached and convicted and removed from office and then put on trial and sent to prison.

Trump too.

And still 41% of Americans support Trump, who is a war criminal and an obvious pedophile doing all he can to keep his depravity that would be shown in the Epstein files from being seen - including bombing Iran.

Iran is going to be Trump's "Waterloo". He has impulsively and stupidly made a major attack on Iran with not even the slightest understanding of the consequences, and not even the slightest detailed plans for the day after the bombings. The closing of the Strait of Hormuz was always going to happen. And when the price of oil skyrockets, the price of everything goes up, from gas, to air travel, to fertilizer, to food, to plastics, to clothes, to cars, to....

Dumbass.

Pedophile.

War criminal.

Will the oil crisis spur green energy?

 Everyone has always known that the reason you don't attack Iran is that Iran can and will close the Strait of Hormuz which will drive the price of oil into the stratosphere which will topple governments around the world.  Israel apparently doesn't care, and the dumbass, ignorant Pedo-in-Chief (voted into power mostly by bigoted white supremacist Christian evangelicals who are in pursuit of the apocalypse so Jesus can return and "save the world") has no understanding of anything other how to get a headline and have the whole world look at him and make him feel important. 

The world goes boom!  He takes a bow.  He walks away. 

But the consequences continue.

So, here we are.  Trump can declare victory and walk away all he wants, but Iran is not about to play nice going forward.  Oil will be way too expensive for quite some time, and economies around the world, and in the U.S. especially, will face major inflation and crisis.

Is there any upside to this?  Maybe this is what we need to have people finally wrench their power away from the polluting, dirty, greedy fossil fuel industry and put major research, development, and implementation of various forms of green energy.  Will Artificial Intelligence, in order to power itself, develop technology that ignores fossil fuels by doing something like put solar power generators above the clouds that then transmits that power to the earth grid?  Or create things that have yet to be imagined?  

Could the dumbest war in modern times end up saving the world from its inexorable march to climate uninhabitability by endlessly dumping of CO2 and methane into the atmosphere creating global warming and climate change?

I am open to some miracles here.  How about a positive unintended consequence?

What did Caesar do?

 In a world that glorifies fame and cruelty, Caesar is seen as some kind of hero, or some kind of admirable historical leader.  But what was it that Caesar actually did?  PBS has a three part docudrama named "Julius Caesar, the Making of a Dictator," available on the PBS free app.  What he actually did was horrible.  What he actually did was exactly what the American Founding Fathers tried their best to make sure that their new U.S. Government would never be able to do.

What Caesar actually did was destroy and end the 500 year old Roman Republic and establish a dictatorship.  Rome had a provision that a Consul could be deemed a dictator for a prescribed time, six months, to deal with a catastrophic crisis needing the powers of a dictator to deal with.  That provision was part of the Roman Republican system.  But Caesar forced the ever dwindling power of the Roman Senate to name him dictator for a year.  There was no triggering catastrophic emergency that required a dictator, only the unbounded greed and ambition of a cruel and despotic ego of a flawed man.  

And then Caesar decided that being a dictator for a year was not nearly good enough for his manic need for power so he forced the Senate to declare him dictator for life.  

Oops.

The Senate appointed him dictator or life, and then they killed him. Fuck you, Caesar.

But the assassination of Caesar did not restore the Roman Republic.  Factions went to war against each other and I think it was Octavius who came out on top declared himself Emperor.  He was followed by the Emperors Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, and Nero, etc. I think all of them claimed to rule over the Roman "Republic" but were actually cruel absolute dictators of different degrees of cruelty and incompetence.  

And the Roman Republic was gone.  Caesar ended 500 years of the Roman Republic in 15 years.

And so, here we are after 250 years of the United States democratically elected American Republic, in the process of being destroyed by a filthy excuse of a "man" in 10 years.  

Will the U.S. Senate and Congress metaphorically "kill" Trump.  That is why the Founders put impeachment and conviction into the Constitution, so that American senators had a "kill" process that was not actual assassination.

Time for the House and Senate to wake up and do their duty.  Please.

How many beans in this jar?

 Infamously, the Jim Crow south had many ways of keeping blacks from voting after the Civil War and prior to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (which the racist John Roberts and his racist Supreme Court MAGA flunkies have largely ended).  One of the notorious ways to turn away black voters was to point to a large jar of jelly beans and ask for an exact count. The guess was always wrong, sorry darkie, no voting for you today!

Well, Trump and MAGA are back at it again.  Unnoticed by most of us, MAGA has passed a voting law that will end voting by mail.  It used to be that if a mail-in ballot was received with a postmark earlier than the voting day it would be counted even if it arrived at the voting location after the voting day.  That has been changed in the most devious and fascistic way.  It used to be that the post office would postmark the mail-in ballot when it got to the post office.  Now, I understand that there is a new procedure/law? that it will not be postmarked until it gets to the "processing center", wherever that is.  Oops, who would have guessed, but in many places MAGA faithful will hold stacks of mail-in ballots at the processing center and not have them officially processed and postmarked until AFTER the voting Tuesday.  Oh my, too bad for all those back folks, brown folks, red folks, yellow folks, women, etc.  

No voting for you today...

Why has no president tried to take out Iran before?

 I think the Pedo in Chief thinks he is winning the war against Iran.  He is being led by Israel who has an existential reason to annihilate Iran's nuclear threat.  But, golly gee, why has no previous U.S. president killed the Iranian spiritual and political Ayatollah leader?  Well...

Chinese Canadian Professor Jiang Xueqin makes some very important points.

The Strait of Hormuz - Iran can, and did, block the narrow Strait of Hormuz, out of which flows 20% of the world's oil, which goes mostly to Asia - Japan, India, China, etc.  About nine months of no oil from the Gulf States will cause the collapse of the Japanese economy.  We might remember that Japan has no oil, and its efforts to create a Japanese empire had been thwarted by the U.S. blocking oil to Japan in order to halt their attacks on China nine decades ago, which ended up causing Japan to attack the U.S. Pearl Harbor, which brought the U.S. into WWII at the cost of a million dead and wounded Americans.  

The point is Japan and the Asian countries need the Gulf State oil, and without it, economies suffer serious blows and possible collapse.  Also, the U.S. dollar is the world currency because oil is traded in U.S. dollars.  The collapse of Gulf State oil to the world could also remove the U.S. dollar as the world currency, which would be a crushing blow to the U.S. economy.

He also notes that Iran, like Afghanistan, is mountainous, which hide missiles and drones and are very hard to destroy.  Russia could not conquer Afghanistan nor could the U.S. and I think their mountains were a big strategic reason why.

So, what does Iran attack from its mountainous redoubts?  He says three things: Gulf States' U.S. military bases, oil and energy sites, and water - desalination plants. The Gulf States do not have water, they make potable water from the sea using desalination plants, which are an easy target to destroy. Indeed, all three targets are not hard to destroy with missiles and drones, and Russia is supplying Iran with drones.

So, why did no previous U.S. presidents try to destroy Iran?  Because they knew that Iran could and would block the Strait of Hormuz which would destroy the world economy and destroy the American economy and destroy America.  That is because previous presidents knew history and geography and were deeply informed about all of this by their Defense and State Departments, and they knew they needed to become very knowledgeable about all of this in order to keep the U.S. and the world safe.  

But... enter the U.S. dumbass...

The Pedo in Chief knows nothing of history nor geography.  And dumbass thinks he knows more than any other human being on the planet.  And dumbass wants to be remembered for centuries for changing the world map.  Well, too bad for us, and too bad for the world, he will be remembered for centuries for destroying America, destroying the world economy, destroying every stinking thing that he touches - over and over and over again.  And he might well change the world map, but not to our benefit, nor to the benefit of the world.  Maybe he makes some money and gains some fame.

Where is the Republican Party?  I know MAGA has stolen it from the Republicans, but not all of the Republicans in the House and the Senate are ignorant MAGA Cult Pedo in Chief worshippers.  Many of them know all of this.  

Time for them to act and stop this insanity.  I actually think they will finally rise up.

Noem is gone

 Finally!  A really cruel, heartless, incompetent, MAGA Cult slave, Kristi Noem, was dumped by the Pedo in Chief.  Wonderful.  

Being replaced by… an Oklahoma MAGA Cult slave guy, Markwayne Mullin, who was a former mixed martial arts fighter, so I suppose we can expect continued violent cruelty from ICE and HHS. 

What are the chances that we will see him with his shirt off doing push-ups with Hegseth?

Bomb bomb bomb Iran

 Of course, killing the Ayatollah is good news. Of course, we all hope the Iranian people can rise up and overthrow the brutal theocracy.  But…

The Pedo in Chief did this just for the headlines. He wanted to do “like they did in Venezuela” - quick, “success”, headlines, yippee. Everyone is just supposed to forget the Epstein files and admire him.  See how wonderful he is?

But, is he nuts?  I think the brutal Iranian theocrats have had long had succession plans to replace the ancient Ayatollah, including a deep reserve command structure.  Iran is a huge country of 90 million. You don’t get a regime change with a big day of bombs. Dumbass has started a war and actually doesn’t know it. 

So far, we see Iran attacking most of the countries in the Middle East that have American bases. So, nobody said the Iranian leadership is all that bright.  These other countries were likely never too fond of this fanatical theocracy, and being bombed could trigger a war against Iran on multiple fronts. 

Trump has Epstein indigestion so he blows up the Middle East.

And, oh yes, he does what Netanyahu tells him to do. 

One thing we can be sure of, the Pedo in Chief has thought none of this through. He has no plan of action to assist freedom loving Iranians.  And he hasn’t for a moment thought that he has started a war that will last years and countless American deaths. Maybe even his own. 

“Good luck to all you brown skinned people”… (and stay the hell out of America)

Headlines today… center of attention today… look for different headlines next week.  Let’s just hope the next escalation of headlines isn’t a nice nuke somewhere

Caligula appointed a horse to lead the Roman Senate

Tyrannical Roman Emperor, Caligula, planned to appoint a horse as a Counsul to be the head of the Senate.  Caligula was a sadistic, cruel, sexual pervert who demanded that he be worshipped as a god. He completely reduced any power from the Senate, which he made obvious and overt by placing a horse as its head. In other words, the Senate would do whatever the demented Caligula decided.

Trump has done about the same in America. He appointed Mike Johnson to be the Republican Speaker of the House - the human equivalent of a horse, no ability to do anything other than obey his Caligula like god. 

And he appointed Pam Bondi, Attorney General the head of the Department of Justice - obedient as a horse.

And he appointed Kash Patel to head the FBI - horse. 

So Congress just agrees to do what their god tells them to do. 

The DOJ and FBI never ever, ever, ever, ever investigate any, any, any of his multiple crimes and perversions.

But…

The tyranized Romans finally assassinated the mad emperor, Caligula. 

And…

I believe that before long Trump’s subservients are going to turn on him. I think the trigger will be indisputable depraved criminality of the mad king. Impeachment coming, and prison as well?

ICE Gestapo in Minnesota

 In Minnesota, ICE is still terrorizing brown people. Some Minnesotans are going to homes and helping deliver babies in people’s homes so they don’t have to go to hospitals where the stinking ICE Gestapo will seize them, imprison them, mistreat them, and deport them.  So, do they get birth certificates?  Are the babies U.S. citizens?  Do they get thrown out of the country when the racist ICE “police” discover them?  Isn’t this ethnic cleansing?  Isn’t this about getting rid of brown people from the U.S.?  Isn’t this the deep fanatical white supremacist hatred for brown people?  

They are terrorizing cities. There is not even the slightest resemblance to the American democratically elected Republic and rule of law that our country was founded on. This is being led by the mentally ill psychopathic narcissist, Donald Trump, egged on by his cold blooded creepy Stephen Miller Deputy Chief of Staff.  And millions of MAGA white supremacist cult troops relishing the pleasures of violence. 

Minnesota stood up and showed us all how to push back.  Document everything. Show everything. Witness. See. Push these thugs into the glare of the spotlight. People are repulsed by them. 

Trump and his white supremacist cult have no plans on allowing free elections and losing power. But lose power they will. 

I believe in America the Good. But America the Good can’t just pretend this is all just go away.  It requires citizenship. 

America the Evil

 I am a Boomer whose life started with the start of the American "empire" and world wide Pax Americana.  And despite a checkered history over these 82 years I lived in what I could think of as America the Good.  And now that is gone.  (But I trust America the Good will rise up again)

America the Evil has a long history - slaughter of the Native American nations, slavery, Jim Crow South, McCarthyism attacks on liberals.  And there were mistakes, which include our wars in Viet Nam and Iraq.

But America has entered a new level of evil - Trump, MAGA, Oligarch cruelty, white Christian nationalist attempt to create an American theocracy.

Without Trump, the others would be there but have much less power.  

Trump's entire reason for living, other than benefit himself and his ego, seems to be to destroy all that he hates, and he hates a lot.  He has destroyed our alliances, withdrawn from NATO, is attacking the rule of law, has destroyed Congress's independence, has destroyed the Republican Party, is trying to destroy the judiciary, is destroying America's elite and scientific universities which is destroying America's excellence in science, is destroying vaccine research and production which is destroying America's leadership in medical research and expertise.  I am sure I am leaving out lots, but this is enough for now.

But the most horrendous, the most unfathomable, the most depraved that is coming to light is the filth being revealed in the Epstein Files.  And, worse yet, Trump's overt actions and demands that the filth be covered up by his slaves running the Department of Justice and FBI.  Why? Because of his obvious guilt that will be revealed in these nauseating files.  

But the rest of the world is not going to be stopped by Trump's administration.  The rest of the world is already arresting some of the depraved that are so far revealed in the files.

In the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s the world was confronted with and forced to see the unimaginable cruelties and depravities of the Nazis leading up to and including WWII,  including the torture and extermination camps of Jews and others.

Now, America is being seen in much the same light as the horrors of pedophilia, torture, and perhaps murder are showing up in the Epstein files.  Indeed, how many in Trump's administration are also in the Epstein files?  The Epstein class was world-wide, but what is being shown is American centered.  And it is sickening.  I know many Americans are deliberately avoiding seeing the details, but the details are there, and more will come, and they will be more and more shocking and sickening. It takes courage to look, but as citizens we must look, we must see, we must react.

America needs to do a lot of work to stop being seen as America the Evil.  I expect that America will be more and more nauseated by what we see and at least some of the MAGA cult will finally have accept who Trump really is and turn on him - like a pack of hyenas.

Q was right

 It looks like Q was "right".  Except it said that the pedophiles and baby killers were left wing elite predators.  Maybe some were, but the top predator was Epstein's best friend for a dozen years, Donald J Trump.  And he has his government slaves stopping any investigations into him and his Epstein class predators. The criminals were a wide cross section of billionaires, oligarchs, elites in all fields. Here are just a few of the things being revealed so far in the Epstein files.

British Prince Andrew was deeply involved in the pedophilia.  Today he was arrested in England.  Rot in prison please.

The DOJ removed three interviews of a Trump victim accusing him of assault.  FBI also interviewed the woman four times and found her testimony to be credible.  She received a "settlement."

A young teenager girl was threatened to have her child killed if she talked.  She had a child when she was 11.

There is evidence that Epstein grew a flower that would drug a child into a stupor and perhaps erase short term memory - Trumpet plants

Claims that the bodies of two foreign girls who died of strangulation during "rough sex"  were buried on Epstein's Zorro Ranch in New Mexico.  The New Mexico legislature unanimously voted to launch an "Epstein Truth Committee" starting at the Zorro Ranch.

Pam Bondi of Florida, now Trump's Attorney General covering up predator crimes, is thought to be a woman who provided teenage girls to Trump the way Ghislane Maxwell provided girls to Epstein and his "friends".

The DOJ released files with massive redactions of the predators' names but "accidentally" released the names of the predators' victims.  This puts a target on their backs and tells them to shut up, or else...

There is a very creepy dentists "office" in Epstein's island.  Why?  The claim is to pull the teeth of the children so they wouldn't be able to bite.

There is a video of a young Mexican teenage girl who is hysterical and screaming "They ate humans!" She has disappeared.  I hope that means she escaped and has successfully hidden, but...

There is a video of a young teenage pregnant girl is a cage struggling to get out.

Katie Johnson has testified that she was tied to a bed by Donald Trump who then raped her.  She was 13 years old.

The United Nations is considering declaring the crimes revealed in the Epstein Files to be crimes against humanity.

And this is only a small sample of what has been allowed to be seen so far, and it is a safe bet that what is still being hidden is much, much worse, especially for the Pedo in Chief.

I am pretty sure that my neighbors trapped inside the media bubbles of Fox News, Breitbart, OAN, Epoch Times, and the rest of the revolutionary right-wing bubble are not aware of any of this.  They are trained to call all of this "fake news'", or just be totally unaware.

So, astonishingly, it looks like Q was right.  The world (is) being run by pedophile baby killers.  But, what they have not yet been able to come to terms with is that the filth is inside their "team', and one of the worst abusers is the same person that they worship - Donald J Trump. 

Give them time.  Not all of them, but some of them will finally have their eyes opened. And that will be the end of the Pedo in Chief.  And a whole lot of others in America and around the world.  The rest of the world is already acting against these criminals - England, Norway, India.  

It will become an avalanche.  And it will bury many.  Or so I hope and expect.  

Bur now is a bad time to be Iran. 

Nukes?

 What do you think?  We are actually getting child rape and torture pictures, videos, what will he do?  And what about murder?  Are there really buried bodies on his golf course?  Can local police get a warrant for a search?  No reason for LA police or judges to want to protect this jackass that let LA burn…

So how does he distract? What’s maybe the only story bigger than this?  Nukes? Iran gets nuked?  

What? Surely he wouldn’t go that low! Surely...

Are you kidding? He kills people. 

It's about obedience, stupid...

Why do fascists lie obviously?  It is an exercise in submission. The tyrant lies and the lie becomes a litmus test for the submissive to submit.  Trump lies and says he won the 2020 election. So, if you want to be in the Trump Cult you say that Trump won the 2020 election.  If you want to be in the Trump Cabinet or in the Trump Administration you say that Trump won in 2020.  If you want to be in the Trump Government bureaucracy you say that Trump won in 2020. If you want to be in the Trump evangelical churches you say that Trump won in 2020.

If you want to stay in the Trump Administration you say that the ICE gestapo bastard that shot Renee Good through the side window as she was slowly driving past him was protecting his own life.  If you want to be in the Trump military leadership you say that black, brown, red, yellow, and women officers are unqualified DEI appointments and need to be gotten rid of.

If you want to be in the Trump MAGA party say that the economy is the best that America has ever had.  And say that the whole world respects America now more than they ever did.  And say that Trump is the healthiest president of all time. If you want to be a good member of MAGA you say that ICE is doing a wonderful job of getting rid of the "worst of the worst criminals" and are doing a great job.  Etc etc etc. 

Tell the lie and make your subservients agree to the lie and make them repeat the lie.  That's how you know that they will obey you, and do what you tell them, no matter how illegal or how stupid it is.

It's about obedience, stupid.

Obesity - Reagan, deregulation, Shareholder Capitalism, Tobacco companies

 PBS has a new show, Horizons, that discusses science, technology, health. The first show, January 15, 2026, available on the free PBS Horizons App, discussed the obesity in the country.  Some really important reasons for the explosion of obesity in the U.S. since the early '80s were made.  And, of course, that time marked the start of the obesity crisis in America.

First, Reagan deregulated the food industry.  Oh boy! The food industry could just focus on profits and market share without those pesky regulations.  

Second, Shareholder Capitalism became the operating principle of the Reagan deregulated capitalist world.  So, this means that the main objective was profits, increase of stock performance, and food quality and nourishment become secondary at best.

Third, with the collapse of demand for cigarettes, the Tobacco giants needed a new way to make enormous amounts of money, so they bought the food companies.  And what did the Tobacco giants do?  why they did the same things they did to sell cigarettes: they shaped the eating experience to increase food sales.  That is to say, they changed food from being nourishing to be eaten until one is full enough, to become food that creates hunger, food that creates cravings, food that satisfies briefly but demands another hit to stave off the cravings for the chemically altered drugs disguised as food.  

So, America became obese.  

What to do?  Eat real food, not processed food.  We have known this for decades, but it is a lifesaving strategy.  When you go to a supermarket only buy the food on the outer edges of the store - produce (fruits and vegetables), dairy, and meat.  Most of the make-believe food in the freezers and cans are addictive drugs stuffed into what looks like food.

And cook your food.  Not just warm up the hyper processes meals that are so convenient.

The show gave some credit to the government's MAHA efforts to have people eat real food but had less than enthusiasm for RFK Jrs new nutrition pyramid which can be summarized as eat lots of real food and mostly meat, which is different than Michael Pollan's advice to eat real food, not too much, mostly grains and produce.  

The tobacco giant's business model is to addict people, make people ill and kill them early. You've got to keep those shareholders happy, doncha know? 

Trump is Hoover 2.0?

Herbert Hoover was blamed for the Great Depression, for good reason, and he destroyed the Republican Party for two generations.  FDR replaced him in 1932 and there wasn't a Republican president again until Reagan in 1980.  I know, Eisenhower was president in 1952 but it was never clear which party he would choose until he declared, so he was just a U.S. president without the baggage of the Republican Party, and indeed he accepted much of the FDR Federalization of the government.

Trump is destroying the U.S. economy, the U.S. dollar, the U.S. rule of law, the U.S. alliances, the U.S. world leadership, and U.S. goodness.  It will take at least two generations to undo the damage done by him, and Stephen Miller, and Russel Vought, and Pete Hegseth, and RFK Jr, and Tulsi Gabbard, and and and and ....

Trump and MAGA ended their pretenses long ago and have come out in bold public declarations that they are proudly white supremacist, Christian theocratic, plutocratic billionaire elitist, child rapist, above the law zealots.  And they think all they have to do to stay in power is to turn the U.S. into to a terrified police state run by the violent force of brutal, immune masked and highly armed thugs.

Bullshit.  Although it is deeply saddening to me to see that about 35 -40% of Americans are hard core MAGA cult racists and thugs, the great strength of America is synergy - the whole of multiple races and personalities and cultures and values is greater that the sum of its parts.  The synergy of the whole of America is much more powerful than the domination of one small part of America - white Christian theocratic men.  

Trump will fail.  MAGA will fail.  We are not Germany of the 1930s or Italy of the 1920s nor Hungary or Russia today. The Soul and Spirit of America is waking up, looking around, and saying What the Hell?  

They are following their training

Polite commentators are saying that ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and US Customs and Border Protection are "making mistakes" because they are "poorly trained".  They say they are not properly trained in police practices of crowd control, de-escalation, constitutional protections and limits, probable cause, etc.  

Nonsense.

They have been fully trained, and they are following their training.  You have to understand what they are trained to do, and what they are doing, on purpose.  They are trained to escalate, not de-escalate. They are trained to incite the crowds, not calm the crowds.  They are not there to "enforce" immigration laws or deport the "worst of the worst".  That is the cover story.

What are they trained to do?  What are they doing?  They are creating a MAGA Gestapo to terrorize the country.  Attacking and throwing men women and children to the ground and brutalizing them. Doing it for the cameras to show on MAGA Cult media to excite their cult to relish the violence (and call it "law and order").  To excite their cult to be violent. 

They are being violent to incite a violent response so the Pedo in Chief can declare Martial Law, or at least put masked US Gestapo menacing thugs and poling places in brown and black communities, and try to cheat the mid term elections which he knows he will loose in a landslide, be impeached and convicted, and face criminal trials.

What they are doing is getting the country used to violent masked, fully armored, using military weapons racists roaming the streets, smashing glass, breaking down doors, pulling people from cars and homes and workplaces.  

They are the KKK of today. They are the Nazis of today.  They are the Gestapo of today.  And we are supposed to be afraid, very afraid, turn away, keep our heads down, don't make trouble, don't see, pretend it's not happening.

Just like the Germans did in the '30s and the Italians did in the '20s and '30s.

But this is America in the 2020's.  We look, we see, we witness, we record, we say no.  We don't submit in advance. We don't submit at all.

We know the game plan. We say no.

 

Russian Honey Trap

 Accusations that Trump, Epstein, maybe others, raped and then murdered young teenage girls and boys has to be the most horrible of the charges revealed in the Epstein files. I hope local police properly search properties mentioned to have buried bodies.

Of course there are multiple charges of rape of young teen girls and boys. And Trump and Epstein are the most often documented names in the files. But there are many powerful names, including the execrable Elon Musk and habitual sex addict, Bill Clinton. 

But, to me, the most important charge is that the Epstein system of debauchery was a giant Russian KGB “honey trap” - that is, it lured weak, sexually deviant and obsessive men into sex acts that were despicable, or at least scandalous, and recorded them or documented them, and then blackmailed powerful political and business and influential men to obey Russia, or else. 

And so, Russia conquered America by trapping one of the weakest and most deviant Americans, Donald J Trump, and had an astonishing stroke of planning and luck when he became president of the U.S. 

So, it has long been obvious that Putin controls Trump, Putin demands that Trump destroy NATO, Putin demands that Trump destroy American alliances and military and economic ties, and sink the Pax Americana that inspired democracy and thwarted Soviet and then Russian imperial conquest since WWII. 

The more specifics that we see the more disturbed and depressed I become. Trump’s deviance and mental illnesses has been obvious from the start to even the mildest scrutiny over the last ten years. What is so hard to live with are the millions of our neighbors who refused to see the obvious, or saw it and didn’t care, or saw it and celebrated a kindred spirit of debauchery, greed, bigotry, and corruption. 

77 million people voted for this criminal in 2024, and who he was was not a mystery. He campaigns on his sins.  Say it out loud, he’s a monster and he’s proud. 

And murder

 And here is the accusation of murder:

Is this a false story plant to discredit scrutiny of Epstein crimes?  

Digital rape of children

 The latest release of the Epstein files gives us this depraved account:

We know that Trump bragged of “…grabbing them by the pussy…” and then “…they let you do it…” if you’re a celebrity. 

And we know that Trump was found guilty of digitally raping E Jean Carrol as a grown woman in a New York department store. 

So this story sticks because it is consistent with his known behavior. 

Sickening man, and all named here. When does MAGA get sick to its stomach and impeach the Pedo in Chief?

The way out

America has a unifying American narrative. It is the same as always - All People are Created Equal.  

MAGA, Trump, White Christian Nationalists, Nazis, KKK, etc... all of them say what the Confederacy said in 1860 - white Men, and Men only, are superior to all other people.

But the Divinely inspired dream of Thomas Jefferson of equality had the power to form a nation, end slavery, empower the Civil Rights movement, lead the post WWII world toward democratic freedoms, and now will overthrow the Trump MAGA cult of white supremacy today.  

The country needs to know what is right and what is wrong.  What's right? all people are created equal.  What's wrong? white men are superior to all other humans.

The philosopher, Mortimer Adler, in his book "We Hold These Truths" answered the question - what do you mean all people are created equal? His answer? we are all equally human.  Created by God and loved equally by God and, as Jefferson wrote, endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights - the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It is the solid rock upon which the United States of America was built.  White male supremacy was and is the rigid but fragile thin ice that the Confederacy was built on, and it cracked and collapsed. As will Trump and MAGA and White Christian Nationalism.  

America, the dream of America, will rise up and prevail anew.

The KKK rides again

 Please remember that the KKK and other southerners killed people in the south during the civil rights movement. Then they wore hoods. Now they wear masks. Today they killed Alex Pretti, a ICU nurse for a VA hospital who was defending a woman that border control fascists had pushed to the ground, in cold blood in the street.  This after cold blooded shooting Nicole Good in the side of the head through her side window as her car was inching past him  

And they are being led by the president of the United States of America who approves of it all, and who makes it happen, and who wants killings so he can declare Martial Law and call off the mid term elections. Because whatever is in the Epstein Files must be so depraved that he would die in prison. This is about more than raping 13 year old girls and boys.

Do not take the bait. Don’t be violent. The only way Trump survives the midterm elections is if he can declare martial law and outlaw the elections.

This seriously ill deranged person has no bottom. He will always go lower than anyone can imagine.

Where is Congress? Where is the Supreme Court?

I wept today. Not the first time.

"Friends... it's time to take the signs down"

 In Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum where over 2000 of the world's political and economic leaders gather, Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, gave a speech that marks the end of the old American led world.  He not only named the madness and threats to the world by America's mentally ill president, but he clearly said what the world must do to protect itself and end the madness.  This is not new to Europe.  Europe has seen fascist and cruel authoritarians many times over the last century, from Mussolini and Hitler to the Soviets and Putin and Trump today.  

Make no mistake.  America has become a threat to the free world.  We are the enemy.  

Here is a key passage from Carney's speech:

"In 1978, the Czech dissident Václav Havel, later president, wrote an essay called The Power of the Powerless. And in it, he asked a simple question: How did the communist system sustain itself?

And his answer began with a greengrocer. Every morning, this shopkeeper places a sign in his window: "Workers of the world, unite!" He doesn't believe it. No one does. But he places the sign anyway to avoid trouble, to signal compliance, to get along. And because every shopkeeper on every street does the same, the system persists.

Not through violence alone, but through the participation of ordinary people in rituals they privately know to be false.

Havel called this "living within a lie." The system's power comes not from its truth but from everyone's willingness to perform as if it were true. And its fragility comes from the same source: when even one person stops performing — when the greengrocer removes his sign — the illusion begins to crack.

Friends, it is time for companies and countries to take their signs down."

We in America must also "take our signs down."  We cannot just pretend that because masked men are not breaking down our doors that America has not changed.  America is over, or so say the MAGA cult, the Theocratic Zealots, the white supremacist insecure overgrown boys trying to be men by being scary. 

But the Soul and Spirit of America will not be broken by this latest assault by masculine insecurity and fear.  These people are not strong, even though they are violent, they are frightened and confused and panicking trying to stop the evolution of the human mind to an ever greater manifestation of the divinely inspired dream of America that All People are Created Equal.  

Trump and MAGA will not stand.

Trump and MAGA crippling America

 Donald Trump’s ridiculous obsession with conquering Greenland will completely destroy America’s involvement with NATO. And it will continue his ongoing project of destroying American power in the world. And ending 80 years of Pax-Americana that has guided the world since the end of World War II. 

To Donald Trump‘s mind all he is doing is making himself enormously rich. Anthony Scaramucci, briefly in Trump 1 administration, says that the people he knows inside the Trump administration report that Trump is dedicated to making $15 billion in this presidency. That he made $5 billion in his first presidency and wants a total of $20 billion - unconstitutional violation of the Emoluments Clause. 

The only thing that counts to Donald J Trump is what benefits Donald J Trump.

I remain convinced that this is more than simple, shortsighted greed on the part of Donald Trump. I remain convinced that he is under the control of Putin’s Russia. And one of Putin’s biggest goals is to destroy NATO.

But I think a funny thing is happening. I think NATO is sending military forces to Greenland to guard Greenland against an American invasion. Also, Canada is turning his back on trade with America and opening up to trade with China. Also, Europe is turning us back on trade with America and looking to other countries for its economic future.

And just for the heck of it Trump is attacking the value of the American dollar by threatening the independence of the Federal Reserve.  Since America is a debtor nation, China, Japan and other nations can just sell off U.S. Treasuries because of lack of trust in American responsibility, and we slide into a Depression. 

Donald Trump and his MAGAcult are so convinced of the Almighty Power of America that they think the rest of the world is subservient to and must obey any and all greedy, whimsical proclamations of the mighty Trump regime. Total nonsense. It is no longer the 1980s. 

The world has grown up. Donald Trump has not. MAGA has not.

How in the world will the rest of the world ever be able to trust, trade with, share intelligence information with, and rely on America in the future?  Donald Trump will die. MAGA will lose power. But I know, and the world knows, that at least 40% of Americans are unteachably ignorant, arrogant, cruel, and stupid.

Trump’ March towards the cliff continues. 

We get to see it and say No…

Donald Trump and MAGA have killed America of old, or so they think. I have a deep faith in the dream and goodness of the United States of America. We are based upon the brilliant truth that all people are created equal. MAGA, and the Confederacy before them, and Jim Crow too, are convinced of the false belief that white men are superior to everybody else. That’s what the Nazis thought. They were wrong. They lost. MAGA is going to lose.

We are in a final episode of southern slave owner, southern white supremacist, southern patriarchal authoritarian men trying to dominate the world around them. They do so out of fear. Fear that they are not as important as they were told they were from the cradle.  It’s not just southern men, of course. It’s northern men as well. Western men, Eastern men, authoritarian out of balance, chauvinistic men throughout this country are consumed with fear of loss of status and power. But their dominance is coming to an end.

All that is changing is the truth that all people are created equal. That means all people are equally human. And the Synergy of all of us is infinitely more powerful than the domination of a small sliver of our country.

That has always been America’s magic sauce.

Soon Trump’s destruction will be undeniable and he will join Republican Herbert Hoover as the most toxic political brands in American history. 

When did MAGA decide it wanted to be an imperial war machine?

Lots of MAGA thought they were voting for America First, no forever wars, but what they got was America the Imperialist war machine - Venezuela, Greenland, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, where else will the demented Orange Pedo in Chief target next?... Oops.

They thought they were going to get the end of the Russian war in Ukraine... Oops.

They thought they were going to get lower prices... Oops.

It was always clear that MAGA were naive, gullible, easily manipulated and lied to sheep. And so here we are, a confused MAGA wondering what the hell is going on.  

What's going on is they believed the most corrupt, greedy, insecure, cruel psychopath ever to posture as a Republican.  He's a vicious dumbass and his MAGA base are cruel, obedient dupes.  

Well at least they get to terrorize and prosecute their hated liberal "enemies", and that is what they are getting so I guess they are gleefully satisfied there.  How much fun it must be for them to watch their manly, manly, manly MASKED ICE thugs shoot mothers in fleeing cars... Oh boy!  What fun...

Time for Republicans to walk away from these psychopaths.

Damn.

Why he has to see it

 Why does the mentally challenged president need to see his name on so many things?  Trump hotels, Trump Towers, Trump Golf Courses, Trump the Game, Trump Magazine, Trump Ice, Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump Sneakers, Trump Vitamins, Trump University, Trump Coin, Trump Kennedy Center…

And even more frightening, why does he want to change the world map? Gulf of America, Greenland, Venezuela, Canada, Mexico?

I think it is because of his lack of legitimate, internally based self esteem and his desperate need to be told that he is valuable, and his need to see proof outside of himself, so he compulsively puts his name on everything he can think of. 

You can’t get self esteem from outside yourself, you always need more and more, and the need becomes insatiable.  The only self esteem that you actually feel is that which you own because you have slowly built internal qualities that you know and esteem - esteem yourself, esteem your own goodness.  These are to be honest, to be responsible as an adult, to have integrity which is spontaneous honesty and responsibility, to trust yourself rather than manipulate or bully or con others to provide for you, and to not consciously hurt others. If your self esteem is built on your own carefully developed character you don’t need outside proof of your value. 

Trump, obviously, has none of these qualities. He is endlessly dishonest, endlessly blaming and irresponsible, has absolutely no integrity and cannot be trusted by any rational person, and only manipulates and bullies and cheats and cons everyone around him, and he consciously hurts people. He has no internal qualities to stand on. There is no center. He can’t stand on the foundation of his own goodness.  Indeed the deepest but unacknowledged parts of him knows that he is not good. So, he can’t really have real self esteem. So, he needs to look out and name things so everyone will see and admire him. Well, I guess some do admire him. But what are they admiring, really?

The bottom rung of Dante’s hell are desperate and pathetic people who cry out “Please, don’t forget me”.  And I think in the end, that is all our president is begging of us all - please don’t forget him. 

It is very sad for this needy little person that he is trapped in a world where he cannot esteem himself based upon his own goodness. Who tries to be important and remembered by bullying, dominating, and killing people. And by putting his name on everything he can think of. 

And here we are, a country and as world being deeply damaged by this person’s illness. 

Why was his gun drawn?

 An out of control ICE agent shot and killed a 38 year old woman in Minneapolis who was trying to drive away from two threatening ICE agents. Our disgusting president claimed she deserved to be killed because she was trying to run over the agent.  But video clearly shows she was turning the car and he jumped in front of her then killed her.

Here’s my question.  Why the hell was his gun out and pointing at her head in the first place?  How was she some kind of threat to him?  Was she armed?  No. She was not a threat. 

He was a threat. And he killed her. And our president says “good”.

This is MAGA’s America. Crap.