This post is about one thing: Donald J. Trump’s mental fitness. We start with “Mental health professionals sound the alarm”. [ Sabrina Haake; Progressive Populist; 5/15/25]: “A petition is currently circulating among psychiatrists and other mental health professionals about Trump’s cognitive impairment. The petition was begun by Dr. John Gartner, former faculty member of Johns Hopkins University Medical School. Over 3000 psychiatrists have signed the petition, concluding that Trump has probable dementia. To reach their conclusion, they reviewed recordings of his speech patterns over a nine year period. [Gartner reviewed records dating back through the 1980s]. They note Trump’s shrunken vocabulary, misuse and mispronunciation of words, and that Trump often breaks now in the middle of sentences to digress into inappropriate ramblings.”
“They write, “Donald Trump is showing unmistakable signs strongly suggesting dementia, based on his public behavior and informant reports that show progressive deterioration in memory, thinking ability to use language, behavior, and both gross and fine motor skills…. his vocabulary is impoverished, he often has difficulty finishing a thought, sentence or even a word. Typical of dementia patients he perseverates and overuses superlatives and filler words…” Their concern supersedes their competing professional duty of neutrality; it also outweighs concerns about diagnosing someone without conducting an in-person assessment known as the “Goldwater rule.”
“Wall Street apparently agrees. Analysts at the notoriously conservative Wall Street Journal wrote, following the tariffs, that another Trump impeachment is “already in the bag.” Calling Trump’s tariffs stunt “neurotic,” a WSJ op-ed said Trump, clearly divorced from reality, had “fabricated a gratuitously ambitious mission to meet his misguided sense of importance…. Nobody in Mr. Trump’s orbit actually shares his belief in the magical efficacy of tariffs because it makes sense only in a world that doesn’t exist, where other countries don’t retaliate.” About Trump’s dissociation from reality, the op-ed noted that “no consensus or even significant coalition exists for trying to force into existence a new American “golden age” with tariffs, which is like asking a chicken to give live birth to a lioness. [Trump] invented this mission out of his own confused intuition.”
“Scores of universities have also published papers concluding ..Trump has dementia… Even ..Steve Bannon thought Donald Trump had dementia, and campaigned covertly to remove him from office via the 25th amendment….A simple Google search for “Trump has dementia” identifies hundreds of articles from think tanks, universities and MSM outlets like The New York Times, reporting on Trump’s cognitive decline and the concern it presents among mental health professionals.”
Read this again!!!!! Think WHO said it, WHAT they said….. Then consider previous concerns:
2]. “McConnell was shocked that Trump won in 2016. He told Tackett, “The big problem is…[he]. has every characteristic you would not want a president to have. Not very smart, irascible, nasty.” [Jean P. Bordewich: “Icarus of the Senate”; Washington Monthly; Jan/Feb/Mar, 2025]
3]. “111 former GOP officials call Trump ‘unfit to serve'” [Peter Baker; New York Times; 9/19/24]: Trump had demonstrated “dangerous qualities.”
4] “Security leaders endorse Harris”. [Maggie Astor; New York Times; 9/23/24]: “More than 700 current and former national security and military leaders endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris…arguing only she had the temperament and values needed to serve as commander in chief.”
5] “The Trump Testimonials: The Case Against Him, From His Own People”. {New York Times Editorial Board; 10/6/24]: “Scores of people who know him well, including 91 listed here, have raised alarms about his character and fitness for office.. Some have spoken out at the expense of their own careers or political interests.”
6]. “No one has ever been as dangerous to this country as Donald Trump,” the general told Woodward. “Now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is the most dangerous person in this country.” [Ruby Cramer: “Trump is ‘fascist to the core,’ Milley says”; Washington post; 10/13/24]
7] “Trump praised Hitler, Kelly says..Ex-chief of staff says his former boss meets the definition of a fascist.” [Dan Merica; Associated Press; 10/24/24]
8] “Ex-Trump aides back Kelly’s warning..They say Trump wants “unchecked power” [Tim Balk; New York Times; 10/26/24]: “Thirteen former Trump administration officials released an open letter Friday amplifying warnings from John Kelly..that the former president would rule like a dictator if returned to office…”This is who Donald Trump is,” wrote the 13, all ‘life-long Republicans,” …The letter said its signers had “witnessed, up close and personal, how Donald Trump operates and what he is capable of.”
9]. “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump..37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President…Updated And Expanded With New Essays” [ Bandy lee, editor; Thomas Dunne Books; 2019]
The evidence is clear, and overwhelming: Trump is unfit to be president. About 900 people who viewed him up close, many life-long Republicans. came to an unescapable conclusion: Trump is mentally unfit, and may already be in early stage dementia. Joe Biden was disqualified because of questions about his mental abilities.
Author: tomdolen
The Trump DICTATORSHIP Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, XXXI – Long Term Damage to Health and Science
***** “Where there is no vision, the people suffer.” [ Proverbs. 29:18 ]
As the STUPIDITY, and DESTRUCTIVENESS of Trump policies becomes more evident, Americans are beginning to speak out. Here are just four examples of how Trump policies do NOT. “..promote the general Welfare..”, now, and even worse, for OUR future, which Trump is sabotaging. All of this being done to provide tax cuts for billionaires.
1]. “Economists: Trump science policies pose long-term risk…They say U.S. could lose edge by cutting federal support for research” [Ben Casselman; New York Times; 4/1/25]: “..ask economists which of the administration’s policies they are most concerned about, and many point to cuts to federal support for scientific research.”………
“To economists, the policies threaten to undermine U.S. competitiveness in emerging areas such as artificial intelligence, and leave Americans..poorer, less healthy and less productive in the decades ahead.. “Universities are tremendously important engines of innovation.. This is really killing the goose that lays the golden egg.”
*** “If you have an opportunity to make things better and you don’t, then you are wasting your time on this earth.”
[ Roberto Clemente ]
2]. “EPA set to end power plant emissions limits”. [Tobi Raji; Washington Post; 5/26/25]: “In its draft, tghre agency argued..carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from power plants that burn fossil fuels “do not contribute significantly to dangerous pollution” or climate change..” [!!!!!!!!NOTE: power plants WERE responsible for about 25% of U.S. greenhouse emissions in 2022!!!!! – did the Trump administration flunk high school math & science?]
*****. “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” [ Lenin ]
3] “Public health system has been eroded by HHS cuts” [Laura Ungar, Michelle Smith; Associated Press; 6/1/25]: “Americans are losing a vast array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy…State and local health departments…are being hollowed out…The Trump administration is cutting health spending on an unprecedented scale…at a time when the nation faces the deadliest measles outbreak..rising whooping cough cases and the risk bird flu could spread widely among people. The moves reflect a shift..Americans may not fully realize, away from the very idea of public health..one of the most critical responsibilities of government..”
***** “Health is the first of all liberties.” [ Henri Amiel ]
***** “Health..is the first and greatest of all blessings.” [ Lord Chesterfield ]
***** “Health is by far the most important element in human happiness.” [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
***** “The first wealth is health.” [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
4] “Funding Cuts Are a ‘Gut Punch’ for STEM Research” [Katrina Miller; New York Times; 5/25/25]: “STEM education resarch focuses on improving how students, from preschool to university, are trained in science, technology, engineering and mathematics….Experts in thre field saw the grant cancellations as part of a broader attack on education….it often took a decade or more of training for scientists to meaningfully contribute to cutting-edge programs. “Reducing the quality of the training can’t possibly be good for society,’ he said.” [ QUESTION: WHY would a modern, advanced, civilized society need citizens trained in science, technology, engineering and math. – OR – is there ANY. LOGICAL. REASON. why such a nation would NOT want these people?????????????????????????? ]
*****. “Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.” [ Goethe ]
[NOTE: We have a manilla envelope bulging with similar Trump STUPIDITIES on health alone from his first 4 months. And – remember WHY. Trump wants to make cuts in health, education, science. – to pay for billionaire’s tax cuts!!!!!!! How does damaging America’s public health system, and its training of scientists and engineers. “Make America Great Again” ???????????? America became a super power because of 20th century public health, public education, advances in science, engineering, math. YOU live better, longer, healthier because of those investments.]
*****. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” [ George Santayana ]
The Trump-Msk DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, XXX – The DOGE Regulation Rollback. FRAUD
!!!!! STOP !!!!! – Before going further – ask YOURSELF – what are the government functions that DOGE
did. NOT. investigate – Defense Department?, Going to Mars?, corporate subsidies,
subsidies to rich farmers – some living in cities!!! – versus real “Mom & Pop” farmers?,
interests that benefit Trump donors?……………
***. “Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees, and both the trust and
the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.” [ Henry Clay, 5/16/1829 ]
1] “DOGE promotes..purported savings on an “Agency Deregulation Leadersboard…But many of those regulatory reversals will actually pile more costs on to individual Americans in the form of higher bank fees, electric and water bills, and health insurance payments, according to experts and government analyses.” [NOTE: average American households saved $576 on water and gas bills due to appliance efficiency standards in 2024]
2] “But several experts, upon reviewing the DOGE website and the notices in the Federal Register that it links to, said many of DOGE’s numbers appeared to be plucked from nowhere.” [!!! – ‘plucked from nowhere” !!!!! ]
3] “An earlier Times analysis of DOGE’s related “Wall of Receipts” – which shows purported savings to federal spending through staff reductions, lease cancellations and terminated contracts – found that the math that could back up those checks is marred with accounting errors, incorrect assumptions, outdated data and other mistakes.” [NOTE: thus revealing that “our” so-called “efficiency experts” are themselves INCOMPETENT !!!!!!!!!!]
4]. “The misleading claims come as the Trump administration has begun a push for mass deregulation of the American economy, with plans to rapidly undo hundreds of rules on clean air and water, food safety, labor protections, finance, health care, telecommunications and more.” [NOTE: – read this again – how will this “..promote the general Welfare..”??? – do YOU benefit from this or – do Trump’s rich business donors ?????]
5]. “Mrs. Dudley, the former regulatory chief of the George W. Bush administration, said she tasked one of her graduate students at the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center to spend days trying to decipher how DOGE came up with the $1.9 billion figure, but the student came up empty-handed.”
“I don’t understand how anyone thinking this through could account for that claim of savings…They’re not doing their homework, and they’re not showing their work.” [ items 1-5 from: Coral Davenport, Stacy Cowley: “Costs for Americans Rise Despite Claims by DOGE”; New York Times; 6/1/2025 ]
***. “Anybody who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
[ Albert Einstein ]
6]. “About 40% of DOGE contract cuts save nothing…Government’s own data show a lot of the money has already been spent”. [ Ryan foley; Associated Press; 2/26/25 ]
7]. “Musk offers no proof for sweeping claims” [ Maggie Haberman, Theodore Schleifer, Zolan Kanno-Youngs; New York Times; 2/12/25 ]: Musk: “We are actually trying to be as transparent as possible…I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.” “In reality, Musk’s team is operating in deep secrecy, surprising federal employees by descending upon agencies and accessing sensitive data systems.”
8]. “DOGE’s only public ledger is riddled with mistakes”. [ Aatishi Bhatia, Emily Badger, David Fahrenthold, Josh Katz; New York Times; 2/23/25 ]: “But the math that could back up these checks is marred with accounting errors, incorrect assumptions, outdated data and other mistakes…its slapdash accounting adds to a pattern of recklessness by the group…” [NOTE: in one case, DOGE claimed $232 million in savings, actual savings were $560,000 !!!!! ]
9]. DOGE Savings Could Be Offset By Firing Costs”. [ Elizabeth Williamson; New York Times; 4/27/25 ]: The Partnership for Public Service said: “..firings, re-hirings, lost productivity, and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost over $135 billion in 2025.” Then there is the cost of defending 200 lawsuits and appeals related to Trump’s agenda. “Not only is Musk vastly over inflating the money he has saved, he is not accounting for the exponentially larger waste that he is creating..”
10]. “DOGE can’t find Social Security fraud… In recent years, less than 1% of payments deemed improper”. [ Todd Frankel, Hannah Natanson; Washington Post; 3/25/25 ]: Musk claimed 20 million Americans over age 100 receive Social Security checks – the agency found 1,294 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
11] !!!!! Read “DOGE falls far short of budget goal”. [ David Fahrenthold, Jeremy Singer-Vine; New York Times; 4/14/25 ] – for. LAUGHTER !!!!!!!!!!!!! at the unbelievable. INCOMPETENCE. of DOGE – claiming savings for a contract canceled when Biden was president; claiming saved $1.75 billion for. $0 savings; claiming savings for a “contract that did not exist.” !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And more !
*** “Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most do.” [ Dale Carnegie ]
[ NOTE: no laughing matter – the cost of all this craziness, damage, chaos, error, incompetence – Americans like YOU will suffer, and many will die. We will soon post here what the Trump-Musk DICTATORSHIP is doing to cripple and dismantle American health care – in the name of “saving money.”
Keep in mind one simple thing: all this is being done to save money for billionaires and others in the top 1-3%. Defunding the IRS gives the game away – because an underfunded IRS can’t enforce tax laws – as the IRS has ALREADY testified. – it can’t get the $1 trillion a year in evaded taxes. – most of which will be by the top 1-3% and the corporations they own or control. Speak up or YOU will continue to get hurt.
The Trump-Musk DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, XXIX – The New Know-Nothings
*** “When the Know-nothings get control, it will read, all men are created equal except Negroes and foreigners
and Catholics. When it comes to this I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense
of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of
hypocrisy.” [ Abraham Lincoln, 8/24/1855 ]
1]. “Other civilizations have experienced moments like this…Mysticism and occultism spread rapidly in the dying days of the Russian empire…Rasputin, a peasant holy man..claimed..he had magical healing powers..eventually became a political advisor to the Czar…many Russians were convinced..dark forces..were secretly in control of the country.”
“Replace “dark forces” with “deep state.”…For Americans, the merger of pseudo-spirituality with politics represents a departure from some of our deepest principles: that logic and reason lead to good government; that fact-based debate leads to good policy; that governance prospers in sunlight; and that the political order inheres in rules and processes, not mystical charisma. The supporters of the New Obscurantism have also broken with the ideals of America’s Founders..” [ Anne Applebaum: “The New Rasputins”; The Atlantic; February, 2025 ]
*** “..it was the witch craze that produced the witch and not, as has been traditionally argued, the figure
of the witch that stimulated hunting.” [ Leland Estes ]
{NOTE: In addition to all the other damage Trump has inflicted on American democracy, American government, American society, American decency – Trump wishes to become the Culture Czar!!!!!, to become YOUR “Big Brother”!!!, who knows all about every thing!!!!!!!!! The person who doesn’t read, who gets his “information” from media sources KNOWN and DOCUMENTED to push lies they themselves don’t believe!!! THIS person is now going to decide what is good and true and proper for 330 million Americans!!!!!!!!!! }
2]. “President Trump is not known as a student of history…[but]…keenly understands the power of history…has moved forcefully to advance his vision of it – and to reshape federal cultural institutions…moving to challenge or seize control of history-related federal cultural institutions..” [ Jennifer Schuessler: “Trump Puts His Spin on 250 Years of U.S. History, to Historians’ Dismay”; New York Times; 4/20/25 ]
*** “Who controls the past’, ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present
controls the past.'” [ George Orwell” “1984” ]
3] “Okla. to teach ’20 election theories..New school standards promote conspiracies and misinformation” [ Sean Murphy; Associated Press; 5/18/25 ] [Note: the New Know-Nothings and Rasputins are, unfortunately, not confined to Washington, D.C. Think about the magnitude of this: an American state proposes to teach KNOWN, lies to its children as part of their “education.” Is this a form of a “re-education” camp? What is the cost to American democracy of this?]
*** “Erasing history helps authoritarians because doing so allows them to misrepresent it as a single story…[it is]..
especially true of..fascism, which seeks to divide populations into “us” and them..”
[. Jason Stanley: “Erasing history.. How Fascists Rewrite The Past To Control The Future” ]
4] “..Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday he may bar government scientists from publishing in the world’s leading medical journals…the latest Trump administration’s attacks on scientific institutions.” [Niha Masih, Amy Wang, Leah Sun: “RFKJR. may bar scientists from top medical journals”; Washington Post; 5/29/25 ]
*** “The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be
accepted as truth and truth be defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings
in the real world – and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this
end – is being destroyed.” [ Hannah Arendt ]
5]. “..Trump..has leveraged control of foreign enrollments to press his demands with American colleges…The uncertainty raised by the suspension of the visa appointments will do further damage to the U.S. reputation as a destination country…”Undermining their ability to study here is self-defeating. With these actions, the United States will alienate the very minds that fuel its success.” [ Annie Ma: “Visa rule adds to scrutiny of international students”; Associated Press; 5/29/25 ]
*** “Stupidity makes you dangerous – to yourself and everyone around you.” [ Jennifer Lee Carrell ]
6]. “To economists, the policies threaten to undermine U.S. competitiveness in emerging areas such as artificial intelligence, and leave Americans..poorer, less healthy and less productive in the decades ahead. “Universities are tremendously important engines of innovation.”…”This is really killing the goose that lays the golden egg.” [ Ben Casselman: “Economists: Trump science policies post long-term risk”; New York Times; 4/1/25 ]
***. “Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.” [ Friederich Nietzsche ]
{ NOTE: THINK !!!!! Education and scientific advances are what made America great and strong and free. The Trump crew cares not. They are determined to impose THEUIR prejudices, ignorance, stupidity and craziness on America. History, experience, evidence tells us that if they succeed – YOU nad. YOUR. children will pay the price. Freedoms of thought, speech, creativity. were what drew people from around the world to America. An ignorant, bitter, greedy, vengeful LIAR – Trump – has the ability to destroy virtually everything that for over 230 years made America the envy of the world. Speak up. NOW – or it will happen.]
!!! One more thing: “president Donald Trump issued an executive order Thursday evening promising to eliminate “improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution’s museums..” Question One would be; has Trump EVER been in any of the Smithsonian museums, or ANY museums, the Library of Congress, or ANY other serious place of learning????? THINK on the bitter irony of this. If Thomas Jefferson had said this, we might wonder hat had disturbed him that he would issue such a order. Trump, and the POWER behind him are deadly serious about rewriting factual American history and culture into their own ignorant and bigoted version.
The Trump-Musk DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness. XXVIII – Crippling Efforts to Support Antismoking!!!
*** “When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up there – a monarch
a dictator, a Pope, a legislator – so decrees.” [ Jessica Mitford ]
YOU tell me, after reading excerpts from this article: “Trump budget cuts hobble efforts to support antismoking education?” [ Christina Jewett; New York Times; 5/18/25 ]
1] “Experts on tobacco control said the Trump administration’s funding cuts would set back a quarter-century of public health efforts that have driven the smoking rate to a record low and saved lives and billions of dollars in health care spending.”
2]. “The decimation of antismoking work follows a year of lavish campaign donations to tobacco and e-cigarette companies to President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans..”
*** “You cannot serve God and money.” [ Matthew 6:24 ]
3] “At the Food and Drug Administration, officials fired many staff members who levied fines on retailers that sold tobacco to minors or marketed illicit vapes. Some scientists who were experts in addiction and toxicology lost their jobs. The agency also fired the team that wrote proposals to ban menthol cigarettes and to reduce the amount of nicotine in cigarettes, efforts the Trump administration has abandoned. Most staff members who review new tobacco products for approval kept their jobs.” [!!!!!!!!!!]
*** “Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.” [ Terry Pratchatt ]
4]. “Kennedy has made chronic disease his top priority, taking aim at artificial colors in food and unproven theories about vaccines. Yet decades of data show that smoking is a top driver of cardiovascular disease, cancer and premature death.”
5] “We”re at an inflection point,” said Mitch Zeller, a former director of the FDA’s tobacco center. He likened the cutbacks to “kneecapping” the agencies’ mission.”
*** “Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in th liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.”
[ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
6] “The tobacco industry, meanwhile, has heavily supported Republican politicians and introduced new products. In 2024, Reynolds American, which makes Newport cigarettes and Vuse vapes, gave $10 million to PACs supporting Trump and $4.6 million to support Republican leaders in Congress.”
“Altria, the maker of Marlboro cigarettes and NJOY vapes, contributed $6.4 million to congressional Republicans and $1 million to the Trump inaugural committee. Breeze Smoke, a vape company, and the Vapor Technology Association each contributed at least $1 million to the inauguration.”
[ NOTE: This is part of a PATTERN. See the following stories:
– ” Biggest Donors Expect Returns On Investment…Moguls look to Lifting of Regulations” [ Eric Lipton; New York Times; 11/7/24 }: Among other things, it mentions “The to-do list for President-elect Donald J. Trump from M.A., the venture capital billionaire..” {!!! – a “to-do list” for a president ???????? ]
– “Trump asks Big Oil for $1 B, vows to undo climate rules”. [ Josh Dawsey, Maxine Joselow; Washington Post; 5/10/24 ]: “Trump’s response stunned several of the executives..according to people with knowledge of the meeting…he has turned to the industry to help shape his environmental agenda…”
SO – is this corruption, is it “quid pro quo,” is it “freedom of speech,” is it legalized bribery, is it “good lobbying,” is it “democratic government in action,” ????? YOU. tell. me…..
*** “Corruption is never an individual act. It always involves groups of people bound by one fundamental rule of
association: an exchange of favors.” [ Roberto da Matta ]
How is this going to “benefit” OUR children??? Is this going to make OUR children healthier??? Would YOU want YOUR child to know about the risks of smoking???
*** “I am not sure how many “sins” I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.” [ Elizabeth Janeway ]
The Trump-Musk DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty,Corruption, Craziness, XXVII – The Destructive and Immoral 2025 Trump Tax Bill
*** Billionaire Leona Helmsley: “We don’t pay taxes, only the little people pay taxes.”
1] “Trump’s taxes illustrate how the game is rigged” [ Jared Berstein; Washington Post; 10/4/2016 ]
2] “Top 1% of wealthy held more assets than entire middle class.” [Alex Tanzi, Mike Dorning; Bloomberg News; 10/11/21]
***. “Corruption comes by degrees.” [ Juvenal ]
3]. Some details – Corrupt Republican 2025 Tax Bill:
– “GOP tax bill mainly benefits wealthy, analyses find” [ Tony Romm; New York Times; 5/18/25 ]
– “Tax bill adds $2.4 T to the national debt..To offset the cost, the measure would slash spending on social safety net programs by more than $1 trillion..” [Jacob Gage, Marianna Sotomayor, Matthew Choi; Washington Post; 5/23/25]
– “All kinds of perverse incentives in this tax bill” – “..even seven moths into fiscal year 2025..[the 119th Congress}.. will grab the prize as most fiscally irresponsible Congress ever.” [ Edward Lotterman; St.Paul Pioneer Press; 5/18/25 ]
4] Some other details about Trump-Musk economic INCOMPETENCE:
– “Sliding U.S. dollar is a fiscal headache” [Allegra Catelli, Michael Msika; Bloomberg News; 5/15/25]
– “Growth becoming harder to achieve” [ Evan Ramstad; Minnesota Star Tribune; 4/27/25 ]
– “U.S. Credit Rating Is Downgraded by Moody’s” [ Tony Romm, Andrew Duehren, Joe Rennison; New York Times; 5/18/25]
[ NOTE: Let’s be honest: virtually ALL of the Trump-Musk economic actions have been motivated by one thing: CUT TAXES ON THE RICH. PERIOD. The 2025 tax bill does that. Musk’s crazy government-slashing DOGE does that. Eviscerating the I.R.S. does that. Gutting environmental protections does that. Crippling consumer-friendly investigating agencies does that. Ending subsidies for EV vehicles does that. And, MUCH more………….]
5] Perspective: Mother Jones, March-April, 2011, page 25: “It’s The Inequality, Stupid”
– “A huge share of the nation’s economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundreth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per household. the average income for the bottom 90 percent of us? $31,244.”
– Most Americans have a VERY inaccurate view of how wealth is distributed in the U.S. – vastly under estimating how extremely unequal and unfair it really is. Essentially refusing to believe had badly they’re being treated.
6]. SOLUTIONS – are easy, well known – CORRUPTION. prevents them being enacted:
– SOCIAL SECURITY – it’s been known for 40 years that the solution which ENDS any Social Security “crisis” is very simple: eliminate the earnings cap with no changes to benefits. In 2010, this would have solved any shortfall by 116%- yes, more than enough. [ Timothy Taylor; St.Paul Pioneer Press; 11/21/2010 ]
– “a living wage for all is attainable” [Nir Kaissar; Bloomberg Opinion; 7/8/21]: “the most pressing problem for the U.S. remains little acknowledged and unaddressed: Tens of millions of people work full time and can’t afford food, clothes, housing, health care and a proper education for their children” [ the problem: GREED – a simple refusal by large corporations to share their profits with workers.]
– “French Lessons on How to Grow the Middle Class” [Steven Pressman; The Washington Spectator; August 1, 2018]: France reduces financial burdens on families: by paid parental leave, affordable child care, how families with children are taxed. [American governments refuse to do these things sufficiently]
*** “No society can surely be flourishing and happy, if which the greater part of ther members are poor and miserable.”
[ Adam Smith – “Wealth of Nations” ]
7]. “Worker pay stagnates as it soars for CEOs” {Patrick Kennedy; Minneapolis Star Tribune; 9/19/19]: “CEO pay has risen 940.3% over the last four decades…Average worker pay rose just 12 percent since 1978..” [Note: “940.3% is NOT a typo]
8]. “Thousands of military families struggle with food insecurity” [Ashraf Khalil; Assoc. Press; 11/15/21]
9]. “Small Farms Struggle To Survive”. [ Alyssa Schukar; New York Times; 12/12/21 ]
10] Rich and Corporate Tax Cheats – some of many hundreds – details:
– “Tax cheats cost U.S. $1 T a year” [ Alan Rappeport; New York Times; 4/14/21 ]: “the agency lacks the resources to catch tax cheats.” [Note: virtually all of those are complicated returns – of the rich & corporations]
– “At least 55 firms paid no taxes in 2020” [ Patricia Cohen; New York Times; 4/4/21 ]
– “Firms move HQ oversea then exploit tax loophole” [ Steven D. Solomon; New York Times; 2/15/16 ]
11] BUT WE KNEW MOST OF THIS ALREADY !!!!! – Reagan, Bush II, Trump 2017 tax cut failures KNOWN:
– “A tax bill only millionaires could love” [ Bill Press; 1/1/2018 ]
– “Experts: Trump stands to save millions under tax measure” [ Drew Harwell; Washington Post; 12/24/17]
– “Art Of The Steal” [ Mother Jones; March-April, 2018]
– “Reaganomics Redux, but Worse” [Jeff madrick; Washington Spectator; February l, 2018} – “…fraud..”
{NOTE; The U.S. national debt for 1789-1980 America was just under $1 trillion. Reagan tripled it. Bush II doubled that [ and bills forhis immoral Iraq war, his2008 recession still being paid]. Trump’s 2017 tax cut is 25% of current U.S. national debt. Multiple Congresses have failed to pass legislation reducing debt [legal bribery!]. BUT – BOTTOM LINE: the rich refuse to pay taxes – have given legal bribes to Congress so they don’t fix it. The debt will now be used as a club to cut services for ordinary people like YOU – which is graphically done in Trump’s 2025 bill!!!!! Rome fell from corruption – will America???]
12]. Breaking News!!! – 5/24/25 New York Times: “GOP harnessing tax code to punish Trump’s nemeses” [Andrew Duehren]. YOU TELL ME – does this cross “the red line” into. DICTATORSHIP???? – in addition to other authoritarian uses of the tax code to punish ANYONE who dares cross him? YOU. TELL ME……………….
The Trump-Musk DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, XXVI – Stupid And Destructive Economic Policies
*** “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
[ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ]
[NOTE; the following excerpts are fro David Frum’s “That ’70s Feeling,” The Atlantic; June, 2025 ]
1] “In January..Trump inherited an economy..growing strongly.” Low unemployment. Restrained inflation. If Trump left it alone, he could’ve coasted to economic success. “Instead, Trump single-handedly plunged the economy into chaos..Trump’s tariffs are like a hundred self-inflicted oil shocks, all arriving at the same time.” Trump and surrogates promise a new era of prosperity where investors build American factories. Even if this were true, “the result would still be a bad bargain. Tariff-sheltered industries tend to produce inferior goods at higher prices.”
“But Trump’s tariffs will not induce much factory-building. Who’d invest..unless assured that foreign competition would be excluded for a long time, if not forever?”
*** “wooden-headedness consists of assessing a situation in terms of preconceived, fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be confused by facts.”
historian. Barbara Tuchman, 1980 ]
2]. “Donald Trump has no grasp of history. The people around him are afraid to teach it ti him. So Trump’s trade war could well lead him, as the economy sinks, to ever more interventionism of his own: subsidies and tariff exemptions for favored companies; payouts to farmers and other constituencies; political warfare against the independence of the Federal Reserve.”
“The most dangerous temptation that Trump may face is to impose some form of capital controls to stop investors from dumping dollar assets. Trump’s trade war has driven a sell-off of U.S. Treasury bonds, which raised interest rates in the United States.”
*** “In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery.” [ President Woodrow Wilson, 1913 ]
3] “The grim fact about stagflation is that – once stumbled into – it is very hard to escape.”
*** “Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.”
[ Anatole France ]
4] “Ultimately, the end of the crisis will depend on the actions of millions of people across dozens of trading nations. Only if and when they recover their trust in the United States will the U.S, and world economies fully recover from the breach of trust Trump has created. How long will it take? No one knows.”
*** “How can you be a person if your words are not to be trusted.” [ Confucius ]
5] “As a businessman, Trump was notorious for operating in bad faith….He repeatedly drove his properties into bankruptcy, leaving creditors, investors, employees to bear the costs of his failure.. Trump vowed to “make America great again” with the same predatory methods….The only way he feels confident that he prevailed is if the other party suffers.”
***. “No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.” [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
[NOTE; Trump’s first trade war cost between 160,000 and 240, ooo American jobs. This one already is ringing major alarm bells about what will happen to small businesses. Trump’s chaotic off-again, on-again tariffs are already creating much uncertainty – neither investors, business, nor consumers spend in such a climate – meaning stagflation is a very distinct possibility. Most respected economists REJECT Trump’s theories. There is some sell-off of U.S. financial assets – which is nothing but trouble. Major question: how does Trump’s trade war against the world “..promote the general Welfare..”?????????? Exactly WHO will suffer “a little pain” from Trump’s STUPIDITIES ??????]
The Trump-Musk DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, XXV – “PROJECT 2025”
***** “During the 20th century, America managed to make the economic and social systems both more and more
fair and more and more prosperous. A huge, secure, and contented middle class emerged. Incomes rose in
sync. But then the New Deal gave way to the Raw Deal. Beginning in the early 1970s, by means of a long war
conceived of and executed by a confederacy of big business CEOs, the superrich, and right-wing zealots,
the rules and norms that made the American middle class possible were undermined and dismantled. The
clock was turned back on a century of progress, making greed good, workers powerless, and the market
all powerful while weaponizing nostalgia, lifting up an oligarchy that served only its own interests.”
[ Kurt Andersen: “Evil Geniuses” ]
If YOU are a patriotic American who loves YOUR country for what it used to be: a mass middle class society focused on democracy – then you. MUST read about. ‘PROJECT 2025″. – the FAR RIGHT plan to erase much of the 20th century progress toward a REAL democracy in order to build a theocratic oligarchy [ a real life “Gilead” ].
Find critical analysis that gets YOU past the opaque and euphemistic language of “Project 2025’s” authors, many of whom are NOW in the Trump administration, some in VERY key positions.
I*ve just finished David Graham’s. “The Project’. l35 pages], excerpts appear here. Also: Bryan Woodward’s “Project 2025 Explained Chapter By Chapter” [135 pages], and Lois Alarcon’s “Project 2025…An Objective Analysis.”
1] “Project 2025 is a skeleton key for understanding the second Trump presidency – as well as the future of the Republican Party and the American right….Project 2025 is a scheme to massively expand the power of the president….Three-quarters of the authors and contributors worked in the first Trump administration….thirty-seven of forty-seven executive actions taken in Trump’s first few days back in office directly or partially matched recommendations in “Project 2025.” [ David Graham: “The Project” ]
******* “Pushed by relatively small members of radical-right billionaires and millionaires who have become profoundly
hostile to America’s modern system of government, an apparatus decades in the making, funded by those
same billionaires and millionaires, has been working to undermine the normal governance of our democracy
…one such manifesto calls for a ‘hostile takeover” of Washington, D.C.”
[ Nancy MacLean: “Democracy In Chains” ]
2] “What sets “Project 2025” apart..and makes it important to take seriously and comprehend is its detailed scheme for execution….Russell Vought [2024 speech]: “We have detailed agency plans..We are writing the actual executive orders. We are writing the actual regulations now, and we are sorting out the legal authorities for all of what President Trump is running on.” [ Grahame: “The Project” ]. [!!!!! is he saying that Trump is a trained seal?????]
***** “Heritage started publishing papers and making arguments to the right of the conservative mainstream – turning
Social Security into an optional system….”We are different from previous generations of conservatives”, one of the
cofounders, Paul Weyrich, explained later. “We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of
the country.”….Heritage’s ultra-conservatives encompassed the two big strange-bedfellow constituencies of the
Republican right, the libertarians and the uncomfortable-with-liberty fundamentalist Christians.”
{ Kurt Andersen: “Evil Geniuses” ]
3]. “Project 2025 will guide Trump’s dismantling of democracy” [St. Louis Post editorial; 7/18/24]: “The [Heritage’s] president, Kevin Roberts, said in a recent interview..the..project..will drive ‘a second American revolution” – one that ‘will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”…..Consider some of “Project 2025’s” specific recommendations:…. place much of the federal bureaucracy, currently made up primarily of nonpolitical civil servants, under the direct control of the president…..greatly expand the role of the U.S. military on domestic soil…..turn the civil-rights function of the Department of Justice on its head…..turn the FBI into little more than a personal police force for the president…..aggressively turn back the clock on environmental and climate programs..”
***** “We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentration in the hands of a few.
But we can’t have both.” [ Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis ]
4] From “The Project” [ Graham ], various things YOU may care about [read this very carefully!!!]: “What we’re trying to od is idnetify the pockets of independence and seize them.”……”We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected.”…..”..an America where..sex is closely policed, public schools don’t exist, and justice is harsh, all in accordance with fundamentalist Christian principles..”…..”..privatize Medicare, slash Medicaid, and limit federal protections for patients.”…..”..ensure that far fewer people enter the country, both legally and illegally..”…..”..shifting to a consumption tax..” [note: HIGHLY regressive]…..”..cut regulations wherever possible.”…..”..privatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac..”…..politicize the Census Bureau…..”..abandon practically all federal efforts at combating climate change..”….”..privatization of N.O.A.A…”……….
***** “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a
few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very
definition of tyranny.” [ James Madison; Federalist #47 ]
5]. “Trump wants to be king, Russ Vought has a plan to make it happen.” {Isabella Dias; “The Architect”; Mother Jones; November-December, 2024]: “Vought could be one of the key figures leading us into a new and violently authoritarian future.”
Still having trouble believing the above – a small fraction of the evidence, then consider the following;
1]. This coup by far right millionaires is NOT THE FIRST ATTEMPT!!!!!! – Read and research “The Plot To Seize The White House” [ Jules Archer ] – about the July – November, 1933 plot. See McCormack-Dickstein Committee hearings begun in November, 1934, and a report of February, 1935.
2]. Research support given the Nazis before and during World War II – “Trading With The Enemy’ [Charles Higham], and “IBM And The Holocaust” [Edwin Black]. If American business people could support Hitler, why not other things…????
The Trump-Musk DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, XXIV – The Police State, III – Subverting The Rule Of Law
*** “..Hitler’s originality lay in his realization that effective revolutions..are carried out with,
and not against, the power of the State: the correct order..was to first secure access to
that power and then begin the revolution. Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality;
he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead
he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.”
[ Alan Bullock: “Hitler, A Study In Tyranny” ]
1]. “Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says he’s “trying to stop a dictatorship”…Ellison and fellow attorneys general are litigating against him on more than a dozen fronts…”He wants total and complete authority,” Ellison said, “with a thin, thin, thin, ineffectual veneer of democracy so that he can pretend legitimacy.”
[ Alison Kite: “If he keeps it up, I’ll keep it up”; Minnesota Star Tribune; 4/28/25 ]
*** “What Hitler aimed at was arbitrary power..from the first, he had no intention of having
his hands tied by any constitution.” { Bullock: “Hitler, A Study In Tyranny” ]
2] “..there is growing anxiety about the safety of our financial institutions..Trump fired Todd Harper and Tanya Otsuka..”This is the latest in a string of actions by the Trump Administration to subvert the law and undermine financial regulators that keep Americans’ money safe..” [ Michelle Singletary: “Are banks and your money still safe under Trump 2.0?”; Washington Post; 4/28/25 }
*** “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of the opposition,
it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures,
and it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone
lives in fear.” { President Harry Truman }
3] “President Trump on Saturday posted on social media a single sentence that appears to encapsulate his attitude as he tests the nation’s legal and constitutional boundaries.. “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” Mr. Trump..has repeatedly suggested..he has divine backing to enforce his will.” { M. Haberman, C. Savage, J. Swan: “Trump Suggests No Laws Are Being Broken If His Motive Is To Save His Country”; New York Times; 2/16/25 ]
*** “Devine right of kings is a belief..monarchs get their right to rule directly from God..it is
up to God to punish a wicked king. So far as the people are concerned, ‘the king can do
no wrong.'” [ the World Book Encyclopedia ]
4] “The list of measures purpose-built to cleave off a domain in which the law does not apply grows by the day: the pardons that bless and invite insurrectionary violence; the purges of career lawyers at the Justice Department..[and]..inspectors general across the government, and senior FBI officers; the attorney general’s command..lawyers obey the president over their own understanding of the Constitution; the appointment of people such as Kash Patel and Dan Bongino..; the president’s declaration that he and the attorney general are the sole authoritative interpreters of federal law.. the threat of criminal prosecution for speech deemed unfavorable by the president; and the verbal attacks on judges for enforcing the law.
“The singular aim of these tactics is to construct a prerogative state where cruel caprice, not law, rules…it is striking how Donald Trump’s executive orders reject some basic tenets of American constitutionalism..”
[ Aziz Huq: “A Warning Out Of Time”; The Atlantic; May, 2025 ]
*** “An authoritarian dictatorship like the Nazi regime stiffles real possibilities of control. the Nazis
abolished parliament and all chances of parliamentary investigation, they politicized the
judiciary, they scratched away the power of the rechningshof [the auditor’s office]..”
Adam LeBor, Roger Boyes: “Seduced By Hitler”}
5]. “After nightfall on Jan. 24, President Trump summarily dismissed as many as 17 of the most important guardians of integrity in the federal government – the inspectors general… Mr. Trump’s action was an overt defiance of a law..very much in keeping with the president’s imperious resistance to any form of accountability…Many of Mr. Trump’s first assertions of executive power blatantly exceed what is legally granted.”
[ “Trump’s Test Of the Constitution”; New York Times. editorial; 2/2/25 ]
*** “When and if fascism comes to America it will not be labeled ‘made in Germany’; it will not
be marked with a swastika; it will not even be called fascism; it will be called, of course,
‘Americanism'” [ Halford Luccock ]
5] Some – of dozens – headlines on Trump violating laws and the Constitution:
– – “New White House memo is seen as a threat to lawyers”; [Shayna Jacobs; Washington Post; 3/25/25]
– “Judges Sound the Alarms”. [ Aaron Blake; Washington Post; 2/9/25 ]
– “Flouting With Vengeance”. [ Aaron Blake; Washington Post; 3/25/25 ]
– “AP barred from Oval Office despite court order” [ David Bauder; Assoc. Press; 4/15/25 ]
– “Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons betray the rule of law” [ Minnesota Star Tribune. editorial; 1/22/25 ]
– “Trump’s border czar doesn’t ‘care what judges think’. Do you?” [Mel Dickstein, retired judge; Mn Star Tribune; 3/28/25]
– “Trump ignores courts to rule alone”. [Cat Zakrzewski; Washington Post Weekly; 4/20/25]
– “Trump changes Rules To Let Federal Workers Wear Political Symbols” [Eileen Sullivan; New York Times; 4/27/25]
*** “Whenever Law ends Tyranny begins.” [ John Locke ]
The Trump-Musk DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness – XXIII – The Police State
“What surprised me at first was that most Germans..did not seem to mind that their personal
freedom had been taken away, that so much of their splendid culture was being destroyed…
in the background there lurked the terror of the Gestapo..for those who got too far out of line
….What seemed to matter most was that the Fuhrer was setting out to liquidate the past..He
was assuring the people that he would make Germany strong again.”
[ William Shirer: “The Nightmare Years 1930-1940” ]
1] “America’s Police State Has Arrived….”It’s the unmarked cars, a friend who grew up under an Argentine dictatorship…Those of us who have lived in countries terrorized by a secret police can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity….It’s the catastrophic interruption of daily life….It’s the forced mass transports of immigrants….It’s the growing irrelevance of the law and the helplessness of judges and lawyers….It’s the chilling stories that come by word of mouth….It’s the invisible hand of the authorities….It’s the shifting goal posts….It’s the lists….It’s the denunciations by concerned citizens….The United States has become a secret police state. Trust me, i’ve seen it before.”
M. Gessen: “America’s Police State Has Arrived”; New York Times; 4/6/25 ]
*** “Beneath the surface..Germany had undergone a rapid and sweeping transformation that reached deep into the fabric of daily life…At its core was a government campaign called Gleichschaltung..bring citizens, government ministries, universities, and cultural and social institutions in line with National Socialist beliefs and attitudes.”
[ Erik Larson: “In The Garden Of Beasts” ]
2] “As Fraenkel explained it, a lawless dictatorship does not arise simply by snuffing out the ordinary legal system..the “normative state” remains in place while the dictatorial power spreads across society…the Nazi regime slowly created a parallel zone in which “unlimited arbitrariness and violence unchecked by any legal guarantees” reigned freely.. the “prerogative state”…
“The key here is that the prerogative state does not immediately and completely overrun the normative state. The two states cohabit uneasily and unsteadily….The trick was to find a way to keep the law going for Christian Germans who supported or at least tolerated the Nazis, while ruthlessly executing the fuhrer”s directives against the state’s enemies, real or perceived. Capitalism could jog nicely alongside the brutal suppression of democracy.”
[ Aziz Huq: ‘A Warning out Of Times”; The Atlantic; May, 2025 ]
*** “Throughout that first year in Germany, Dodd had been struck again and again by the strange
indifference to atrocity that settled over the nation, the willingness of the populace and of
the moderate elements in the government to accept each new oppressive decree, each new
act of violence, without protest. It was as if he had entered the dark forrest of a fairy tale
where all the rules or right or wrong were upended.”
Erik Larson: “In The Garden Of Beasts” ]
3]. “When a president declares an “invasion” to justify shredding of thr Constitution, he’s not defending the nation – he’s declaring war on democracy itself…they are sidestepping constitutional protections and rounding up people en masse..This is not just overreach of executive power – it is tyranny…
“Even more horrifying, Trump is ignoring court orders to halt these unconstitutional actions. Hw is deliberately undermining the judiciary, proving once again that he does not see himself as a president constrained by law but as a dictator accountable to no one…
“If left unchecked, this power grab sets a precedent that no American is safe from arbitrary detention. Today it’s asylum seekers and immigrants. Tomorrow, it could be political opponents, journalists, or anyone who dares criticize the orange menace..” [ Thom Hartmann: “Welcome to Trump’s America: Where Immigrants Vanish, Courts Are Ignored, and No One Is Safe”; The Progressive Populist; 4/15/25 ]
***. “We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion,
and scorn toward those who disagree with us.” [ Lenin ]
4]. “The National Intelligence Council, drawing on the acumen of the United States’ 18 intelligence agencies, determined..the Venezuelan government is not directing an invasion of the United States by the prison gang Tren de Aragua, a judgment that contradicts President Donald Trump’s public statements..” [ John Hudson, Warren Strobel: “Intelligence contradicts invasion claim”; Washington Post; 4/19/ 25 ]
*** “Our government has kept us is a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede
of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.”
[ General Douglas MacArthur, 1957 ]
SO – what do YOU think? We, obviously – not yet – don’t have what the Nazis and Stalin Soviets achieved. THE question for YOU: where are we on the continuum? Trump has politicized and weaponized parts of the U.S. federal government [ after claiming – without credible evidence it was done against him. How does this achieve what the Founders said in the Constitution’s Preamble: ‘..a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare..”????????? People HAVE been dragged off American streets – for what they said, for what they believe – without evidence or court procedures.
In the Trump-Musk DICTATORSHIP – are YOU safe, immune from this? Do YOU want to live in a climate of fear, uncertainty, manufactured hatred????????/
With Justice For All 
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