“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????????/
The Trump-Musk DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness – XXII – Creating the Police State I, The Threat To Privacy
FACE FACTS, available in daily headlines – The Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY is WEAPONIZING YOUR GOVERNMENT against YOU. It is also destroying YOUR government’s ability to protect YOU.
*** “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 Papers #47 ]
1] “This gets to a fundamental point about privacy: It is not just the question of, ‘Does anyone else in the world know this about me?'” said John Davisson, the director of litigation at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which has sued the administration to block DOGE’s access to financial data at the Treasury and federal work force records at the Office of Personnel Management. “It is a question of WHO knows this about me and what can they lawfully – as a practical matter – do with that information?” {“How Musk’s Team Collects, and Connects Data About You”: Emily Badger, Sheera Frenkel; New York Times; 4/13/25 ]
*** “Only after the Jews were identified..could they be targeted for efficient asset confiscation, ghettoization, deportation,, enslaved labor..annihilation. It was a cross-tabulation and organizational challenge [that called for a computer]..But IBM’s Hollerith punch card technology did exist…Hitler was able to automate his persecution of the Jews.” [ Edwin Black: “IBM and the Holocaust ]
2]. “How DOGE Collects, and Connects, Your Data”. [New York Times; 4/13/25] This is a list of over 300 types of “Personal Data Held in systems DOGE Has Sought to Access” from “Academic rank…Alimony paid…Dates of Employment…Family size…Hospitalization records…Jury duty pay…Medical diagnoses…Moving expenses… Personal bank account number…Physician name and number…Prescription drug coverage…Prior status in foster care…Psychological or psychiatric health records…Residential clean energy credit claimed…Social Security number…Spouse demographic records…Student loan amount…Tests for H.I.V./AIDS…Tip income…W.I.C..nutrition assistance received..” {AND – there are 300 more records on YOU they’re examining!!!!!!! “Big Brother’ is watching]
*** “they have not demonstrated a single case in which fraud detection has required some universal governmental access to everybody’s data.” [ Jamie Raskin, Maryland Democrat U.S. House Representative ]
3] “This assembled data would give the government too much power..It would create a national security vulnerability..it would break a longstanding covenant between the federal government and the U.S. public rooted in privacy laws – that Americans who share their personal data with official agencies can trust that it will be secured and used only for narrow purposes.” [Badger & Frenkel; 4/13/25]
*** “The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness.. They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts..They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone – the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.” [ Justice Louis Brandeis; “Olmstead” ]
4] “Privacy advocates say that al this data could enable the government to punish its political opponents by weaponizing the information about an individual’s personal life..or halting the benefits they receive..” [ Badger & Frenkel; 4/13/25 ]
*** “the American government is premised on the theory that if the mind of man is to be free, his ideas, his beliefs, his ideology, his philosophy must be placed beyond the reach of government.” [Justice William o. Douglas; “The Bill of Rights’ ]
5]. “Technologists warn that trying to match complex data sets to make decisions about government programs – including by using artificial intelligence to identify waste in government spending, as Musk allies have discussed – could produce rampant errors and real-world harm.” [Badger 7 Frenkel; 4/13/25]
***111***!!! Some recent headlines – of EXACTLY what technology experts warned could happen from DOGE:
– “‘Dead” immigrants show up alive” [ 4/19/25; Washington Post; Natanson, Rein, Kornfield]
– “DOGE Makes It’s Latest Errors Harder To Find” [3/14/25; New York Times; Fahrenthold, Singer-Vine]
– “About 40% of DOGE contract cuts save nothing” [2/26/25; Assoc. Press; Foley]
– “DOGE can’t find Social Security fraud” [3/25/25; Washington Post; Frankel, Natanson]
– “DOGE’s only public ledger is riddled with mistakes” [2/23/25; New York Times; Bhatia, Badger, Fahrethold, Katz]
– “HR Experts Say Musk’s “Bullet Points” Faulty” [3/10/25; Washington Post; Abril]
6] “Where will it end?” said..Barry Goldwater..”Will we permit the computerized systems to interlink nationwide so that every detail of our personal lives can be assembled instantly for use by a single bureaucrat or institution?” With the passage of the 1974 Privacy Act, Americans chose privacy over efficiency..” [ Badger, Frenkel; 4/13/25 ]
*** “They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” [Benjamin Franklin]
*** “THe only people who still have a private life in Germany are those who are asleep.” [Robert Ley, director of Nazi “German Labor Front”]
The Trump-Musk DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, XXI – A Patriotic Citizen’s Reading List
One of THE major components of the Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY is LIES, Misinformation, twisted information, DELIBERATE DISINFORMATION – a literal. POISONING of American minds. They are capitalizing on 90 years of FAR RIGHT. efforts to divide Americans, to camouflage the EAL villains – the top 1% and corporations – to manufacture hatreds and discontent.
Over the last 90 years, the FAR RIGHT has built up MANY propaganda outlets: foundations; phantom funding of “grassroots” groups; funded numerous “experts” churning out ‘studies,” books, articles, making media appearances; creating bogus “legal” theories like “originalism” and “textualism”; funding “legal” studies of “law and economics”; funding university level “studies”; supported FAR RIGHT media personalities and programs; building their own schools and universities; supporting entire media and internet organizations………..
A vital media outlet – local newspapers and media – have been devastated by the internet and being bought up by major media companies – who then DICTATE what is said. The loss os small, often “Mom & Pop” operations, has been a MAJOR loss in those communities, and, usually a blow to democracy.
Not content with all this. – the FAR RIGHT. has also engaged in a vast. CENSORSHIP. program to force local libraries and schools to remove materials ‘offensive” to THEM, often a single person’s views.
The Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY. is vigorously removing ANY material THEY say YOU shouldn’t see or read – virtually always the TRUTH on what happened, 1789-2025.
This is straight out of Orwell’s “1984,” when ‘big Brother” told YOU all you needed to know; and – what REAL dictatorships – Communist, Nazi, Fascist, Putin – do and did.
***YOUR defense – read mainline newspapers, books, magazines; listen to mainline news. Be very careful of ANY “news” on social media – how do you really know it isn’t a Russian or Chinese bot posing as your “influencer”??? Studies have shown that Republicans who DIDN’T listen to Fox News were more realistically informed than Republicans who did.
***A Beginning List – to help YOU ask questions:
– magazines: Mother Jones, The Atlantic, Scientific American, Church & State
– crucial books: “Democracy In chains” – Nancy macLean; “Dark Money” – Jane Mayer; “Evil Geniuses” – Kurt Andersen; – the money BEHIND the FAR RIGHT
– stealing prosperity: “The Betrayal of the American Dream – double Pulitzer winners Donald Barlett & James Steele; “Who Stole the American Dream” – Pulitzer winner Hedrick Smith
– economic inequality: “The Spirit Level” [international bestseller] – Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett; “The Price of Inequality” – Nobel winner Joseph Stiglitz; “Economic Apartheid in America” – Chuck Collins & Felice Yeskel
– sabotaging democracy: “How Democracies Die” – Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt; “American Amnesia” – Jacob Hacker & Paul Pierson; “The Big Myth” – Naomo Oreskes & Erik Conway; “Minority Rule” – Ari Berman; “Attack from Within” – Barbara McQuade
– fascism & authoritarianism: “How Fascism Works” – Jason stanley; “On Tyranny” – Timothy Snyder; “Twilight of Democracy” – Anne Applebaum; “On Fascism” – Matthew MacWilliams; “American Nightmare” – Henry Giroux
– Trumpism: “Authoritarian Nightmare” – John Dean & Bob Altemeyer; “It’s Even Worse Than You Think” – Pulitzer winner David C. Johnston; “The Cult of Trump” – Steven Hassan; “How The Right Lost Its Mind” – Charles Sykes; “It Was All A LIE” – Stuart Stevens, 25-year Republican lead campaign strategist
– corruption: “On corruption In America” – Sarah Chayes; “American Kleptocracy” – Casey Michel; “Corruption In America” – Zephyr Teachout; “Kleptopia” – Tom Burgis
– warnings: “Broken Government” – John W. Dean; “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks” – Thomas Mann & Norman Ornstein; “The Wrecking Crew” – Thomas Frank; “The Great Unraveling” – Nobel winner Paul Krugman
– corporate criminality: “Predator Nation” – Academy Award winner Charles Ferguson; “Selling Out” – Mark Green; “These Are the Plunderers” – Pulitzer winner Gretchen Morgenson & Joshua Rosner; “The One Percent Solution” – Gordon Lafer; “THe Devine Right of Capital” – Marjorie Kelly
– truth: “Murder The Truth” – David Enrich; “The Death of Truth” – Michiko Kakutani; “Erasing History” – Jason Stanley; “The Death of Expertise” – Tom Nichols; “The Digital Civil War” – Peter Daou; “Losing Reality” – Robert j. Lifton
– religious extremism: “Preparing For War” – Bradley Onishi; “American Fascists” – Chris Hedges; “The Power Worshippers” – Katherine Stewart; “The Theocons” – Damon Linker; “Thy Kingdom Come” – Randall Balmer; “Church & State” magazine – numerous articles on Christian Nationalism
***The TRUTH about the Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY is available – please read and find it!!! YOU can help save American democracy from the FAR RIGHT’S 9-year effort to create a THEOCRATIC OLIGARCHY in YOUR country
The Trump-Musk DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, XX – Undermining Future American Competitiveness
*** “In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery.” [Woodrow Wilson]
1]. “Economists: Trump science policies pose long-term risk” {Ben Csselman; New York Times; 4/1/25]
“..ask economists which of the administration’s policies they are most concerned
about, and many point to cuts in federal support for scientific research.”
[NOTE & REMEMBER: the driving force behind the Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY is cutting taxes for billionaires!!!
“We” are slitting our throats so billionaires don’t have to pay [any] taxes.]
“To economists, the policies threaten to undermine U.S. competitiveness in emerging areas such as artificial intelligence, and leave Americans, as a whole, poorer, less healthy, and less productive in the decades ahead.”
*** “Any man is liable to err, but only a fool persists in error.” [Cicero]
“Universities are tremendously important engines of innovation…”This is really killing the goose that lays the golden egg.”
*** “Fools are more dangerous than rogues.” [ George Bernard Shaw ]
“Scientists have warned that the United States risks losing its status as a leader in cutting-edge research and its reputation as a magnet for top scientific minds from around the world.”
*** “What most people don’t seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.” [Margaret Mitchell: “gone With the Wind”]
“Economists across a broad ideological spectrum argue that investments in scientific research..are among the most efficient uses of taxpayer dollars. Research has found that every dollar invested in research and development returns about $5 in economic gains, a figure that probably understates the true return because it doesn’t account for benefits that aren’t captured in measures of gross domestic product, such as longer lives and increased leisure time.”
***!!!***!!! READ THIS AGAIN – for irony! The Musk-Trump DOGE claims to be eliminating “government waste” and promoting government efficiency!!! YOU tell me – how many tax deductions for billionaires “..promote the general Welfare..” on a $1 spent with $5 return!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DOGE STUPIDITY personified!!!!!
“Virtually all of modern medicine relies, to some degree, on research that was supported by federal dollars. So does much of commercial agriculture. Those discoveries, collectively, helped propel the United States rapid economic growth and rising standard of living in the 20th century.”
*** “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy, that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” [ John Kenneth Galbraith ]
2] Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY policies are – YOU tell me….Are they deliberate sabotage???…..Are they treason [note: dictionary definitions: ‘adhering to its enemies and giving them aid and comfort…the betrayal of trust or confidence; breach of faith….impair the well-being of a state…”
The economists quoted are saying that Trump-Musk policies ARE ‘impair[ing] the well-being of {America]”. When Trump was elected, did or did not Americans bestow upon him a “trust or confidence” that he would “Make America Great Again”?????????
The economists quoted ARE saying Musk-Trump policies ARE sabotaging America’s future, using historic NUMBERS – NOT opinions; FACTS – NOT “beliefs” or “gut instincts.”
Just asking………YOU tell me………………
*** ‘..there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the “money touch,” but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.” [ Theodore Roosevelt ]
*** “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.” [ Justice Louis Brandeis ]
The Trump-Musk DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, XIX – Destroying Friendships
“U.S. authorities will allow Canadian library cardholders to access the building as usual until Oct. 1. Then, they must go through an official border crossing. Boudreau plans to convert an emergency exit on the Canadian side into an entrance. A GoFundMe to raise money for the entrance surpassed its goal. Its donors included several contrite Americans.”
“What’s happening at Haskell is happening across the border, which is…the elimination of the special cross-border spaces, Alden said. “They were symbols of the deep trust and friendship between the United states and Canada, which has sadly been badly eroded.”
[Amanda Coletta: “A tiny library caught in the crossfire”; Washington Post Weekly; 4/6/25]
Note: Read this article, with tears in YOUR eyes, over the senseless Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY subverting decades of friendship and TRUST between Canadians and Americans on our mutual border.
This story is about how America sabotaged that cooperation, friendship and TRUST at the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, which sits ON the border between Stansstead, Quebec and Derby Line, Vermont. Patrons of the opera house sitting in seats J-13, K-1l, and M-12 sit in both countries!!!!!
This library stood for 120 years, straddling the border as a statement of cooperation, friendship and TRUST – until that friendship, cooperation and TRUST were sabotaged by Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY authorities – claiming drug traffickers and smugglers exploited a path adjacent to the library allowing them to enter the U.S. without clearing customs. Now, a sensible person might ask – why not work WITH Canada to monitor this – a small library – in a more friendly, cooperative, TRUSTING manner than the Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY giving dictates??????????
Note: this STUPID, CRUEL. story is SYMBOLIC of the way the Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY has treated former American friends around the world. It is also symbolic of cutting off humanitarian aid to suffering peoples around the world. It is also symbolic of the way CRUELTIES and STUPIDITIES are being done to American citizens – such as cutting off health services and information – in order to finance OBSCENE BILLIONAIRE TAX CUTS.
Note: a MAJOR factor in America’s world standing has been our “soft power” – our cultures, our freedoms, our willingness to help other nations and peoples not as fortunate. For the Musk-trump KAKISTOCRACY – †his is an expense to be cut – because, in their warped “thinking” – it costs too much.
*** “Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair.”
The Trump-Musk DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, XVIII – Destroying The Rule Of Law
“If Trump’s executive orders were not so grotesquely unconstitutional and
dangerous to a free society, I might be more sympathetic to a law firm
that doesn’t want to assume the risk of taking on the president…”
“But the undeniable purpose of Trump’s attacks against American law firms
is to destroy the independence of the legal profession in the United States
and weaken the rule of law.”
*** Gregory B. Craig: “Great attorneys take hard cases. I did”; Washington Post Weekly; 4/6/25***
[Note: Craig was a junior partner at the Williams and Connolly law firm. On March 30-31, 1981, the firm was asked to defend John W. Hinkley, Jr., who’d shot President Reagan
The firm held an executive committee meeting to discuss pro-con of representing Hinckley. After much discussion, legendary Edward Bennett Williams spoke. “I have seven kids…And I don’t doubt that one day one of them might do something stupid or crazy that would cause me to need a lawyer for him. I would not have much respect for our profession if I called up Arthur Liman at Paul Weiss and told him, ‘Arthur, I need your help,’ and he came back and told me: ‘I’m so sorry, Ed, I have consulted my partners, and we think representing your son might do damage to our bottom line…” Williams and Connolly represented Hinckley.
Note: Craig was special counsel to president Clinton; White House counsel for president Obama]
***!!!!!!! Re-read Craig’s second paragraph above: “But the UNDENIABLE purpose of Trump’s attacks
against American law firms is to DESTROY. THE INDEPENDENCE OF. THE LEGAL
PROFESSION. IN. THE. UNITED. STATES AND. WEAKEN. THE RULE. OF. LAW.”
********. “Wherever Law ends Tyranny begins.” [John Locke] ******
The Trump-Musk DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, XVII – One Week’s Damage!!!
The following is a review of one week’s damage to America and YOU by the Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY as reported by the New York Times in their “The Week In Trump” series of one-week of their destruction.
March 28 – “Reiterated his desire to take the territory of Greenland, saying the United States “cannot do without it’
– “Laid out plans to effectively eliminate U.S.A.I.D. by moving the agency under the State Department and reducing its staff to some 15 positions”. [thus crippling an American “soft power” effort around the world!]
– “Said he picked a conservative journalist and Fox News contributor to be his ‘drug czar'” [?qualifications?]
– “Pardoned Trevor Miller, the founder of the Nikola Corporation, an electric truck manufacturer that went bankrupt [Milton had been sentenced for securities & wire fraud; Trump claimed his conviction was political]
– “Commuted the sentence of a media executive convicted of fraud, on the day he was set to surrender to prison [he’d been sentenced to almost 10 years for defrauding investors & lenders]
March 29 – “Fired nearly all U.S.-based staff at the Institute of Peace” [an independent nonprofit]
– “Said he wouldn’t fire the officials involved in a leaked Signal chat” [which disturbed U.S. allies for its incompetence]
– ‘Said he ‘couldn’t care less’ if car prices went up in response to his tariffs”. [meaning he doesn’t care about YOU]
March 30 – “Gave Elon Musk’s cost cutters access to a federal payroll system” [ and sensitive data like YOUR Social Security number]
– “Suggested imposing so-called secondary tariffs on Iran and possibly bombing the country if Tehran didn’t make a nuclear deal”. [like maybe the one Trump killed himself earlier???????]
– “Fired two longtime career prosecutors in Los Angeles and Memphis” [because Trump knows more about u.S. law?]
– “Said he was serious about running for a third term in office” [because he had ‘methods’ to circumvent the U.S. constitution – is the Trump DICTATORSHIP official now?????????]
March 31 – “Admitted that the U.S. has deported a legal immigrant because of an ‘administrative error'” [ Trump also Aclaimed American courts lacked jurisdiction to stop him – is the Trump DICTATORSHIP official now????]
– “Said the administration would relax limits on pollution from cars, saying the move wouldn’t make a difference to the environment” [ because Trump “knows’ decades of science have proved him wrong?????]
– “Made a DOGE employee the new acting president of the U.S. Institute of Peace” [“qualified’ because he helped take it over earlier !!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
– “Nominated Anthony D’Esposito. a former U.S. representative of New York, as the next inspector general for the Labor Department” [‘during his House term’ he’d earlier “raised concerns of ethics rules violations”]
– ‘Dropped a Biden-era voting rights lawsuit in Georgia”. [ Georgia Republicans tried to limit voting]
April 1 – “Planned to target another law firm that brought lawsuits against the president and his allies” [they made the ‘mistake” of ‘documenting Mr. Trump’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol”]
– “fired thousands of federal health workers” [“the purge included senior leaders & top scientists charged with regulating food & drugs, protecting Americans from disease & researching new treatments & cures” – why do we need this ?!?!?]
– “Laid off the entire staff running a $4.1 billion program to help low-income households across the United states pay their utility bills” [why should “we’ care if 6.2 million Americans freeze – they must be “un-deserving”]
“Laid off one of the leaders of the Food and Drug Administration’s response to bird flu” [hey – its only in birds, right???]
– “Removed between 350 and 400 books from the Naval Academy library to comply with a verbal order from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth”. [obviously, these must have been subverting minds, right???????]
April 2_ “Unveiled expansive global tariffs in a significant escalation of the president’s trade fight, sending shock waves through the global economy” [ like in many other areas, “our’ president is a “genius” on tariffs and the world economy!!!]
– “Demanded additional cuts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after extensive staff reductions” [!!!!!]
– “Picked a lawyer who has defended several key Trump loyalists for the Justice Department’s No. 3 post” [All dictatorships run on the principle of loyalty – does this mean the Trump DICTATORSHIP is now official???]
April 3 – “Fired head of National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command” [after a well-known FAR RIGHT “influencer” talked to Trump – rumor has it the Russians and Chinese are laughing and celebrating}
– “Threatened to cut funding at more universities” [ rumor has it the Russians and Chinese are laughing and celebrating over “our” president destroying intellectual ability at leading U.S. universities]
– “Restored gun rights to Mel Gibson and nine other people with criminal convictions”. [DICTATORSHIPS reward ‘prominent supports”; America NEEDS more people with criminal convictions running around with guns, right????]
The Trump-Musk DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, XVI – “Burning People” by ERASING THEM
“Where one burns books, one will soon burn people.” [ Heinrich Heine ]
THE ARYANIZATION of American history, society, government, by the Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY, like all other authoritarian regimes, reveals there are many ways to “burn people.” The modern way is to. ERASE. them from ALL government and official records, from history books. The Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY does this by ripping pictures off Pentagon walls, taking down commemorative murals, banning words, re-writing history, saying people didn’t heroically serve their country, firing generals and admirals who served America for 30-40 years, saying THOSE people didn’t exist, THOSE things didn’t happen
By excluding women, Blacks, Hispanics, LGBTQ, people of the “wrong” religions, – the ONLY Musk-Trump approved “real Americans” – straight, white males – are about 20-25% of “our” population. Are. YOU. in the next group of ERASED people to be deported?????????????
1] “Erasing history helps authoritarians because doing so allows them to misrepresent it as a single story, a single perspective…When authoritarians attempt to erase history, they do so through education, by purging certain narratives..especially true of one specific ..authoritarian ideology: fascism, which seeks to divide populations into “us” and ‘them” by appealing to ethnic, racial, or religious differences…..
“Today we are unquestioningly returning to something like..the Red Scare..symptomatic of a larger global attack on liberal democracy.” [ Jason Stanley: “Erasing History..How Fascists Rewrite The Past To Control The Future” – READ THIS BOOK !!!! ]
*** “Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.” [ Terry Pratchett ]
2] “Historical events are erased and educators are threatened as officials impose Beijing’s policies….What the government is trying to say is that there are wrong teachers, wrong materials, wrong subjects..” [Shibani Mahtani, Timothy McLaughlin: “Pro-China push in Hong Kong Schools”; Washington Post Weekly; 7/12/20]
*** “..Nazism permeated the flesh and blood of the people through single words, idioms, and sentence structures that were imposed on them in a million repetitions….The sole purpose of the LTI is to strip everyone of their individuality..to make them into unthinking and docile cattle..” [ Victor Klemperer: “The Language Of the Third Reich” ]
3] “..dozens of words that partisan Trump functionaries are perverting and purging…It’s though Trump’s word police think censoring language will hide the ugly realities the words express…Yet, the control of language is central to the entrenchment of totalitarian regimes, as George Orwell laid out in his bleak novel ‘1984.” [ Jim Hightower: “An AI Bot..”Trump’s Thought Police are Stomping on Freedom of Speech”; The Progressive Populist; 3/9/25 ]
4] “There is a new web page where you can now report all diversity, equity and inclusion activities to the federal government..” [ Katy S. Lesiak: “Get the DEI police on the phone”; Minnesota Star Tribune; 3/17/25. – So YOU, like good Nazis or Communists can turn in your fellow citizens – thus extending the reign of terror ]
*** “When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.” [ Euripides ]
5] “You cannot remove photographs related to Women’s History Month without also removing the women in the photographs…the Defense department’s DEI initiative does not merely eliminate programs. It erases people….The way we tell stories about America’s past is the way we shape the story of America’s present..” [ Monica Hesse: “The DEI purge has gotten weird”; Washington Post Weekly; 3/16/25 ]
*** “Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” [George Orwell: “1984”]
6] “Now the federal government is..banning or limiting nearly 200 terms from government materials and websites..”accessible, advocate, belong, Black, cultural heritage, disabilities..expression, gender, Indigenous community, justice..pollution, trauma, victim….Words like females..pregnant person, women…that describe the health and life experiences of women – are disappearing..” [ Kelsey Waits, Michelle Witte: “Try as the Trump administration might, it can’t erase women”; Minnesota Star Tribune; 3/24/25 ]
7] “More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down…The purges have removed information about vaccines, veteran’s care, hate crimes and scientific research..”… 3,000 pages from the CDC, 3,000 pages from the Census Bureau, 200 pages from Head Start. { Ethan Singer: “Amid DEI purge, thousands of U.S. government web pages vanish”; New York Times; 2/3/25 ]
8] “Arlington National Cemetary has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website..” [Tobi Baj, Michelle Ruane: “Cemetary website scrubs links about Black, female veterans”; Washington Post; 3/15/25]
9] A page on Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who raised the flag on Iwo Jima “..has now been erased amid Trump administration’s wide-ranging crackdown…Multiple articles about the Navajo code talkers, who were critical to America’s victory at Iwo Jima and the wider Pacific theater [in WW II] were also removed..” [ Jon Swaine, Alex Horton: “Web page on Iwo Jima veteran erased”; Washington Post Weekly; 3/23/25 ]
*** “Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.” [ Lenin ]
The Trump-Musk DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, XV – APRIL FOOL!!!!!!!!!!
April Fool!!! – and May Fool! – and June Fool! – and July Fool! – and 2026 Fool! – and 2027 Fool! – and 2028 Fool!
The JOKE is on YOU, America!!!!!
An ignorant, cruel, greedy, immature, anti-democratic, lying, cheating, 78-year old teenage cult leader FOOLED enough people, a SECOND TIME!!!!!, to acquire the power of the American presidency.
What could possibly go wrong?????
How possibly could this person, known and understood by even most of his own voters to be a person of questionable “character,” even a “despicable” person, convince enough people to get elected president???
The JOKE is on all of us…………
When “our” government destroys “the rule of law” by ignoring court orders, attacking judges, attacking law firms
The JOKE is on all of us………..
When he denied ANY knowledge about ANYTHING relating to ‘PROJECT 2025″ – enough people bought that MAJOR BIG LIE, voted for him. – GUESS WHAT/
The JOKE is on all of us…………
As the Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY implements provisions of ‘PROJECT 2025’s” 900-page FAR RIGHT manifesto on YOU virtually every day
The JOKE is on all of us………….
When “our” president said he’d lower prices “On Day 1” – enough people believed that MAJOR BIG LIE to vote for him
The JOKE is on all of us…………..
When “our” president says there will be “a little temporary pain” from his ASININE tariffs, many people actually believe it won’t bother them
The joke is on all of us…………
Because any SERIOUS economist dealing in actual facts knows this to be a MAJOR BIG LIE, as farmers, business people, financial analysts tell YOU it’s going to cost YOU $X,000s
The JOKE is on the lower 90-95%……….
Because Musk and others in the top 3-5 million WON’T be affected
The JOKE is on the lower 90-95%……………
As it begins to sink into their brains that the rumored American oligarchy is now becoming, on a daily basis, more and more visible
The JOKE is on the lower 90-95%…………
As the Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY demands Congress renew the DESTRUCTIVE and IMMORAL 2017 Trump tax cuts
The JOKE is on the lower 9-95%………
as the exploding national debt becomes a “reason” for YOUR Social Security, YOUR Medicare, YOUR Medicaid, YOUR children’s education, YOUR national security, YOUR health and welfare services, YOUR national parks, YOUR infrastructure, YOUR protection against unscrupulous billionaires, to be cut. – so the already OBSCENELY RICH can get another tax cut
The JOKE is on all of us……………..
That enough of “us” actually thought the Republican cartoon characters in Congress and state legislatures actually intended to honor the Constitution, and provide a government that actually wanted to “establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare..”
The JOKE is on all of us……………
What more can possibly go wrong in the next 3 years and 10 months??? like ‘our” president saying he’s thinking of running for an UN-CONSTITUTIONAL 3rd term???; like his co-president spending over $20 million to elect a state supreme court justice???; like his co-president spending millions and threatening “Republican” Congress people he’ll “primary” them if they don’t vote “correctly”????????
The JOKE is on ll of us……………
Because the “Reichstag fire” already occurred on January 6, 2021…….The “Enabling Act” already occurred courtesy of a CORRUPT ‘supreme court” giving “our’ president “immunity”
What can possibly go wrong before January 20, 2029???…………..
Like YOUR home and car insurance doubling, if you can get it, and “our” president says that climate change crisis is a “hoax”. – as natural disasters pummel America
The JOKE is on all of us…………
As Musk destroys YOUR federal government in his fairy tale BOGUS ‘DOGE’ Easter Egg Hunt for infinitesimal government “waste” and “inefficiency”
The JOKE is on all of us……………
As Musk creates the conditions making upper 1% PRIVATIZATION of YOUR government’s assets a reality, and they then buy up buildings, parks, the Postal Service, Social security, Medicare, Medicaid – and then they charge YOU to use them!!!!!!!!!!!!
The JOKE is on all of us……………
As the United States of America is re-incorporated into “Trumpiana”. where YOU now have to re-apply for citizenship!!! – and it all happened while YOU watched and did nothing
And then – there is no more joke, because there is no ore America………….
he Trump-Musk DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, XIV – THE COUP
*** “Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.” [Robert F. Kennedy, Senior]
1]. So you want to change a democracy into an autocracy. Where to begin?…………Begin by eroding press freedoms. Then move on to threatening major universities….Frighten the legal community…go after any judge who has the temerity to disagree….. Your tools are fear, confusion, intimidation, and, where applicable, loss of funding..” [Judge Edward J. Cleary: “A step-by-step checklist toward autocracy – moving along too easily so far”: Minnesota Star-Tribune; 3/26/25. – READ THIS ARTICLE1111 – excerpts following…]
*** “So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.” [ Aldous Huxley ]
2] “…..the land of the free, and the home of the brave…”??? YOUR democracy is undergoing a COUP right now – conducted by ruthless, GREEDY, cruel, ARROGANT, anti-democratic people. What have YOU done to stop them?
In 60 days, the Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY has done more damage to America, American society, American democracy than ANY individual or group, 1789-2024.
They are following. “Move Fast and Break Things.” And they have, they ARE. As usual, this particular FAR RIGHT group “justifies” their ILLEGAL acts by LYING. They’re MAKING STUFF UP. There is NOTHING in the U.S. Constitution, nor ANY “intent,” nor ANY practices, 1789-2024, that allows this ‘PROJECT 2025″ destruction
They are presenting YOU with a fait accompli and. daring YOU to undo it.
***. “In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it.”
[. George Orwell: “1984” ]
3] “Let us begin with the press…she resigned in protest doe to a directive issued by the owner of the Post, Jeff Bezos….The directive limited the subject matter opinion columnists could cover and circumscribed what viewpoints they could express. So much for press freedom..” [ Judge Cleary: ‘…checklist…” ]
***. “I tell you..the cornerstone of democracy is free press…because that’s what they’re always first after..newspapers, radio, television..” [ Milos Forman ]
4] “On to the major universities. The Trump administration has made it clear that it will withhold funding from these institutions if they don’t cooperate….a climate of fear is descending on institutions of higher learning, leading to self-censorship and muted voices.” [ Judge Cleary: “…checklist…”
*** “Fascist politics seeks to undermine public discourse by attacking and devaluing education, expertise, and language…its representatives and facilitators denounce universities and schools as sources of “Marxist indoctrination”…By debasing institutions of higher learning and impoverishing our joint vocabulary to discuss policy, fascist politics reduces debate to ideological conflict.” [ Jason Stanley: “How Fascism Works” ]
5]. “Our goal is to intimidate the legal community and settle old scores. We’ll punish large law firms..for who they have represented in the past, thereby discouraging attorneys from taking on clients that do not adhere to the administration’s positions.” { Judge Cleary: “…checklist…” ]
***. “Fascist law-and-order rhetoric is explicitly meant to divide citizens into two classes: those of the chosen nation..and those who are not..women who do not fit traditional gender roles, non-whites, homosexuals, immigrants, “decadent cosmopolitans,” those who do not have the dominant religion, are by their very existence violations of law and order.” [ Stanley: “How Fascism Works” ]
6] “That brings us to the one major impediment to establishing your autocracy: the rule of law, as pronounced by the third co-equal branch of government, the judicial branch….a dozen federal judges…have issued injunctions and have otherwise put at least a temporary halt to your myriad attempts to impose your will….You cannot allow that to continue. Back to fear and intimidation. Call for the impeachment of these obstructionists….Sooner or later..cases will come to the Supreme Court. If a majority..rule against the administration..if the rule of law holds – then you will have to decide if you will accept the decision or defy it. If you defy it, and succeed in doing so, you have your autocracy.”
[ Judge Cleary: “…checklist…” READ THIS AGAIN! – THIS is how close YOU are to dictatorship ]
*** “Trump has no knowledge of the American story and so cannot have any faith in it. He has no understanding of our sympathy for the language of the Founders, so he cannot be inspired by it. Since he doesn’t believe American democracy is good, he has no interest in an America that aspires to be a model among nations…..”To destroy a society..it is first necessary to delegitimize its basic institutions.” If you believe that American institutions are no different from their opposite, then there is no reason to defend them. the same is true of transatlantic institutions.” [ Anne Applebaum: “Twilight of Democracy” ]
7] “Our nation is in the middle of a coup d’etat..a classic coup..An ill-defined but powerful group of people, most with no legal standing but with ample private funding, is making drastic change in our nation’s politics and governing structures. Many of these changes violate existing laws and some our Constitution.” [ Edward Lotterman: “Shaky politics make for a shaky economy”; St. Paul Pioneer Press; 2/16/25 ]
8] “President Trump’s second term dizzies many Americans, but I find it oddly familiar…I”ve seen parallels in authoritarian countries I’ve covered…Strongmen seek power through a pattern of behavior that is increasingly replicated in Washington.”….”When authoritarians covet power, they pursue several common strategies.
First, they go after checks and balances within the government….Trump ignores laws he finds inconvenient.”…
Second, authoritarians try to crush independent referees and civil society institutions….Trump is doing his best to intimidate news organizations and discredit them as “enemies of the people.”…
Third, authoritarians sometimes recruit shadowy private enforcers….Trump has not gone that far.”…
[ Nicholas Kristof: “An Alarming Pattern Emerges”; New York Times; 2/16/25 ]
***. So, OK – YOU tell me – as a patriotic American – should YOU be alarmed at what the Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY is doing? One simple test for you: the Constitution’s Preamble: “We the People, created OUR government to “…establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility…promote the general Welfare…” What, IF ANYTHING, has the Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY done to achieve these goals – in realty, not rhetoric – for ALL 340 million Americans???
With Justice For All 
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