*** “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” [ Proverbs 29:18 ]
1] “…President Donald Trump..has already positioned America to lose the 21st century, in three simple steps:
– Alienate your friends.
– Destroy your business environment.
– Slaughter your golden goose [ i.e., science and research ].”
*** “Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom, and with all your getting get understanding.”
[ Proverbs 4:7 ]
“Trump most vividly demonstrated Step 1 with his Oval Office tantrum against a war-torn ally. But it includes gratuitous insults of our friends; abrupt termination of programs tackling public health menaces; and threats to punish our closest trading partners.”……….
“…Step 2:…Investors have long viewed the United States as more attractive..given our free capital markets, strong property rights, [relatively] predictable regulatory landscape and – most importantly – rule of law…under the Trump administration, none of that can be taken for granted.”……
[Step 3] “Our country’s greatest global advantage, by far, is in science, research and technology.. It is this knowledge sector that determines who “wins” the 21st century.”…..
“…Trump is gutting our scientific and research infrastructure…pushing out senior scientists and ending scientific training programs…Trump has purged experts..”……
“Meanwhile, Trump’s immigration policies will cut off our international talent pipeline, which has been America’s not-so-secret weapon in building a dominant knowledge sector.” [ Catherine Rampell: “How to lose the 21st century”; Washington Post Weekly; 3/9/25] – read the entire article – and everything YOU can on her 3 points]
*** “The danger is that the indulgence and attachment of the people will keep a man in the [presidential]. chair after he becomes a dotard..” [ President Thomas Jefferson ], 1/6/ 1805 ]
2] “Earlier this month, Tillerson described Trump as “pretty undisciplined, doesn’t like to read, doesn’t read briefing reports, doesn’t like to get into details of a lot of things, but rather just kind of says, “This is what I believe.” [Julie Pace, Zeke Miller: “As advisors leave, the guardrails come off”; Assoc. Press; 12/22/2018]
*** “It would be extremely dangerous if a President were to believe in the myth of his own omnipotence.”
[ Robert Hartmann ]
3] “Trump broke the news in statements showing how he reacts instinctively, often without advice or knowing basic facts, and revealing how his basic ignorance of science..blocks his ability to understand issues when they are explained to him.”…..
“…Trump again demonstrated his backward-looking perspective on the world and his rejection of ideas, science, and technologies…Trump’s vision is not about the future but a mythical past, at best a romantic nostalgia.” [Pulitzer Prize winner David C. Johnston: “It’s Even Worse Than You Think…What the Trump Administration Is Doing To America”]
*** “Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.” [Norman Cousins]
*** “Wisdom comes not into the malicious heart.” [ Rabelais ]
*** “The highest wisdom consists of distinguishing between good and evil.” [ Socrates ]
*** “The highest wisdom is kindness.” [ Talmud ] [Leonard Frank: “Quotationary}
4] SO – YOU tell me – is the Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY going to “Make America Great Again”. – OR. – is this just another TRUMP. GREAT. LIE – to cover their REAL goal, which is, above all, ELIMINATING taxes on billionaires; and destroying what’s left of American democracy while they finish the 90-year FAR RIGHT project to create a PLUTOCRATIC THEOCRACY????? – plans of which are now easily seen in. PROJECT 2025. – which, of course, Trump lied about, saying [like Col. Klink] – he knew “nothing,” and then appointing numerous ‘PROJECT 2025″. authors to positions in the MUSK-TRUMP KAKISTOCRACY. YOU can, MUST, also read: Kurt Andersen’s. “Evil Geniuses” and Nancy MacLean’s “Democracy in Chains… the Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America”.
*** “.. there is absolutely nothing to be said for a government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the ‘money touch’, but with the ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.” [ Republican President Theodore Roosevelt ] r.”
With Justice For All 