*** “The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested in power, pure power. Power is not a means, it is an end. One plots not to establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
[ George Orwell: ‘1984″ ]
tis post presents excerpts from John Rash’s “Despite pressure, White House correspondents persevere” [Minnesota Star Tribune; 8/1/26]. Consider this one, very public exhibit, of the Trump DICTATORSHIP. – the absolute INTOLERANCE for. ANY. criticism, ANY. opposition, and most of all – absolute HATRED. for. ANY. attempt to find TRUTH, absolute HATRED. for. ANYBODY telling. truth, on. ANYTHING. – including the weather!
***. “Truth is the most precious thing. that’s why we should ration it.” [ Lenin ]
1] “But Trump did not rise to his title. Instead, he rambled and ranted for over an hour to often stunned silence – even from sycophantic Cabinet and congressional allies interspersed among the correspondents – delivering jarring, juvenile insults to journalists, celebrities and politicians he doesn’t like. Or hates, as he said himself, bluntly blurting: “I hate some people.”
2] “Actually, lots of people, as he made apparent in his speech. Including, but not limited to..Joe Biden..Gavin Newsom and J.b. Pritzker..Chuck Schumer, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez..Adam Schiff..Bruce Springsteen, Bette Midler, Jane Fonda…Kaitlin Collins…”
3]. “…the president’s core mission regarding the news media is clear…”Just last week..Trump’s lawyers were in court in Miami in a lawsuit against the BBC to punish them for their coverage…in Tampa in a lawsuit against the New York Times..because they didn’t like our coverage,’ Baker said. referring to an important story about security vulnerabilities of the new Qatari-gifted [grifted to critics] presidential plane…Justice Department lawyers were in court in New York, trying to subpoena my colleagues for reporting truthful information.”
***. “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” [ Adolf Hitler ]
4]. “..Trump’s scores of lawsuits and threats. – some from him individually, some from institutions like the Federal Communications Commission. – dim the beacon of free speech America used to shine to the world.” [NOTE; as “our” president, Trump can use YOUR tax dollars to carry out his anti-free speech attacks!!! ]
5]. “Every president has had difficulty with the press, going back probably to George Washington,’ said Jane Kirtley, professor emerita at the University of Minnesota’s Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communications…”in terms of the kind of overt hostility that’s being directed against the press, the many lawsuits that President Trump has brought, his rhetoric, his threats against journalists, calling journalists traitors and accusing them of treason. – this level of rhetoric I have never heard..”
6]. “The subpoenas Baker referred to were hastily withdrawn after a judge demanded to know why federal prosecutors had issued them just two days after the story was published instead of making them the final step in an investigation, as is typically the case.”
***. “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” [ Harry Truman; 33rd U.S. President ]
7]. “..a message has been sent, particularly to reporters who might not work for the New York Times and might not have that kind of legal firepower and retainer, of what might happen to them if they report something that upsets the president.”
8] “The Time’s story of the presidential jet “directly served the public interests of national security..”, said Stern…”it’s a perfect example of how investigative journalism, often based on confidential sources who come forward because they’ve wrongdoing and think they’re doing a public sevice by exposing it. – how that bolsters national security, not hinders it.”
9]. “But the difference is that while other presidents at times did take actions that we saw as infringing on our First Amendment rights and that we objected to, we’ve never seen a president who did it on such a sustained, expansive and really very intimidating manner.”
***. “And if all others accepted the lie, which the Party imposed. – if all records told the same tale. – then the lie passed into history and becomes the truth.” [ George Orwell: ‘1984″ ]
[NOTE: America stands in danger of losing its First Amendment freedoms. – by not using them. Read “Use It Or Lose It”. [Adrienne LaFrance; The Atlantic; July, 2026]:
1]. “Trump, gifted showman that he is, understands that insulted citizens on camera is a tactic that serves his interests. it distracts people from the fact that he hasn’t answered the question.”
2] “Power doesn’t like to be checked.”
3] “The cause of freedom has advanced only because of those who have been willing to stand up against government overreach.”
4] “Although every American is entitled to exercise the right of free press. No one is entitled to be trusted or believed. – that you have to earn.”
***. “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” [ Elie Wiesel ]
*** “The history of liberty is the history of resistance.” [ Woodrow Wilson; 28th U.S. President ]
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