Job #1 – look up “The 14 Characteristics of Fascism.” Now, seriously and critically – examine post-1980 America. If YOU are serious – it should be OBVIOUS that powerful, well-financed, forces have changed 1789-1980 America into what is now, under long-established evaluation tools into a near- PLUTOCRATIC THEOCRACY. Trump-Musk have simply made it worse, more cruel, even more corrupt. Step by step, following PROJECT 2025,” they are centralizing power in the presidency. That current occupant is THE man the Founders feared, the anti-Washington.
1]. “In writing this book..I have found myself more and more fixated on one gnawing question. Is what we are dealing with merely a social movement of the right whose radical ideas must eventually face public scrutiny and a rise and fall on their merits? Or is this the story of something quite different, something never before seen in American history? Could it be – and I use these words quite hesitantly and carefully – a fifth column assault on American government?
“Pushed by relatively small numbers of radical-right billionaires and millionaires..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..The Deep History of The Radical Right’s Stealth Plan For America”] [Question: is PROJECT 2025 that plan???]
*** In November, 2024, America elected an ignorant 78-year old teenage cult leader as “our” president. What could possibly go wrong? How much damage to American society, business, government can he do?
2}. There were danger signs: World War I era persecution of German-Americans & “Red Scare”; the July-November, 1933 Far-Right plot to overthrow FDR; putting 120,000 innocent Japanese-Americans in WW II “camps”; 1940s-50s “Red Scare”; John Birch Society; Nixon; Reagan [Iran-contra & more]; Bush II [lying into Iraq war]; Trump I; steady growth of “Christian Nationalism”; “Originalism” & “law and economics” legal theories; The Federalist Society & corruption of America’s judicial system; changes in corporate morality; Republican authoritarianism in states they control; the 1987-2025 flood of FAR RIGHT DISINFORMATION ; the growth of Far Right militia groups in all 50 states; January 6, 2021 coup attempt; ‘PROJECT 2025″
*** “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” {Benito Mussolini]
3]. Do YOUR own research into FAR RIGHT goals, 1900-2025. Research WHY the original “Populist” and “Progressive” revolts by ordinary rural and urban Americans occurred. Research WHY laws and regulations were passed to control corporate power. People didn’t suddenly “hate” corporations, what happened in 1865-1900?
*** Chief Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court, Edward Ryan, to University of Wisconsin graduates, 1873: “There is looming up a new and dark power..The enterprises of the country are aggregating vast corporate combinations of unexampled capital, boldly marching, not for economic conquests only, but for political power…money is taking the field as an organized power. The question will arise..which shall rule – wealth or man, which shall lead – money or intellect; who shall fill public stations – educated and patriotic free men, or the feudal serfs of corporate power.” [accessed from “Selling Out”]
4]. Research Nazi Germany, 1933-41. What were ordinary people doing? What was the atmosphere like? How did the Nazis control public opinion? Find the extent of corporate support for the Nazis.
Consider: Jews were NOT the first to go into “camps.” Jews in “camps” had one of sic badgers: red for ‘politicals”; green for criminals; pink for homosexuals; black for “anti-socials”; purple for Jehovah’s Witnesses; yellow for Jews. Research the Nazi “justice’ system [Ingo Muller: Hitler’s Justice” – translation]
Other books to learn what it was like living in that dictatorship: Erick Larson: “In The Garden Of Beasts”; James & Suzanne Pool: “Who Financed Hitler”; Adam LeBor & Roger Boyes: “Seduced By Hitler”; Robert Gllately: “Backing Hitler”; William Shirer: “The Nightmare Years. 1930-1940”; Victor Klemperer: “The Language of the Third Reich”]
5] Since Trump”s 2017-2021 term, much serious research has been done. Much driven by fears of demons set loose. Some “must” reads for concerned Americans: Steven Livitsky & Daniel Ziblatt: “How Democracies Die”; Theo Horesh: “The Fascism This Time”; Jason Stanley: “How Fascism Works”; Timothy Snyder: “On Tyranny”; Anne Applebaum: “Twilight of Democracy”; John Dean & Bob Altemeyer: “Authoritarian Nightmare”; Henry Giroux: “American Nightmare”; in 2006, Chris Hedges: “American Fascists..the Christian Right and the War on America.”
*****YOU!!! As this is written in late February, 2025 – there are signs Americans are slowly waking up to the HUGE threat the Trump-Musk dictatorship poses. Congress critters met hostile town halls [“Republicans face angry voters in town halls”; S.Peoples & E.Tucker, A.Seitz; Assoc. press; 2/24] and “Signs of Strain As Tariffs, Cuts Begin..Consumer sentiment sours with Trump’s abrupt moves” [A.Rappaport; New York Times; 2/28]. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE???
***** YOU!!! – Ask yourself – are “reasons” given by Trump-Musk valid for their decisions??? Are they true in ANY sense??? Is what Trump-Musk are doing consistent with 1900-1980 American democracy??? The Constitution’s Preamble says “We the People”. crated a government to “establish Justice” and to “promote the general Welfare” – how does ANYTHING Trump-Musk propose to do accomplish these REQUIREMENTS?????
6]. The Founders intended Congress to be THE dominant branch. They INTENTIONALLY divided up power – “checks and balances.” Trump-Musk have tried to create a NEW form of American government – one that has authoritarian, FASCIST tendencies. Trump-Musk have PURGED the FBI, fired inspectors generals, ignored court orders, tried to control YOUR “free press,” violated numerous laws, moved to limit the Federal Reserve’s independence.
**!!**!! – Trump’s “rationale”: “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” !!!!!!!!!!!
*** “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elected, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” [James Madison; Federalist. #47}
The Trump-Musk Dictatorship – Stupidity, Corruption, Cruelty, Craziness – VII – “Make America Greedy Again
Consider three recent headlines:
1]. “The Real Reason Trump Pushes Tariffs”. [Kimberly Clausing; New York Times; 2/23/25]: “The goal behind the policy: tax breaks for the wealthy.” [upcoming post VIII]
2]. “Biggest Donors Expect Returns On Investment” [Eric Lipton; New York Times; 11/17/24]: “Moguls Look to Lifting of Regulations.”
3]. “House passes Trump budget plan” [Catie Edmondson, Andrew Duehren; New York Times; 2/26/25]: “Greatest benefits go to richest Americans.”
Now – more details – but the common theme from “our” “transactional” president – helping those most LOYAL to him. You’ve seen it in the pardons, the 2017 tax cuts, letting an unelected rogue billionaire recklessly cut the ability of YOUR government to function, and MUCH MORE. Now YOU begin to get some explicit NUMBERS – showing YOU who the real winners are in Trump’s. “PROJECT 2025” world.
1] “Biggest Donors Expect Returns On Investment”: “Limit the reach of federal regulations on artificial intelligence. Make room for cryptocurrencies to thrive. Ease the antitrust crackdown on big tech companies. Buy more military drones. And don’t raise taxes on billionaires. The to-do list for President-elect Donald J. Trump from Marc Andreessen, the venture capital billionaire…is long, but quite specific. Now, after donating big money to Mr. Trump, Mr. Andreessen is eager to see his candidate work through the list.”….
“Mr. Andreessen’ excitement is a hint of just how broadly the victory by Mr. Trump has resonated with business executives who invested millions of dollars in his candidacy and now stand to profit from his policies.”
***[NOTE: read this again “..to-do list”…invested millions of dollars…now stand to profit”… What does common sense tell YOU?????? }
2] “House passes Trump budget plan”. “..a Republican budget resolution that calls for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and a $2 trillion reduction in federal spending over a decade…teed u a bitter fight within the GOP over which federal programs to slash to FINANCE A HUGE TAX CUT THAT WOULD PROVIDE ITRS BIGGEST BENEFITS TO RICH AMERICANS.”
3]. Consider these headlines from this same day [2/26/25]: “Trump Policies Threaten To Drive Up Inflation” [Colby Smith, Ben Casselman; New York Times]. “About 40% of DOGE contract cuts save nothing” [Ryan Foley; Assoc. Press] “DOGE staffers resign over Musk’s actions” [Brian Slodysko, Byron Tau; Assoc. Press]. “Consumer confidence tumbling” {Matt Ott; Assoc. Press]. Also – consider recent news stories of Congress critters confronted in their local town hall meetings over CONSEQUENCES for people from Trump-Musk Republican policies.
4]. “DOGE staffers resign over Musk’s actions”: “More than 20 civil service employees resigned Tuesday from billionaire Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” saying theyvwere refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.”
*****[NOTE: READ THIS ENTIRE ARTICLE – what are these patriotic insiders telling YOU????????]
***** sign at a 2/25/25 protest rally: DOGE’ means. “Department of Government Evil”
***** Go tomYOUR local community leaders – ask them WHICH federal government services are going to be cut, or have already been cut. Have they cut YOUR local parks and forest services??? Have they damaged YOUR local schools???? We KNOW funding to church food shelves has been cut. Is all this what YOU think America has stood for??? Did YOU vote to cut billionaires taxes????? Why is a billionaire cutting services for ordinary people like YOU????
The Trump-Musk Dictatorship – Stupidity, Craziness, Corruption, Cruelty – VI – Ukraine Attacked Russia!!!
WE. are. disgraced.
There are now three “Days of Infamy”: December 7, 1941; January 6, 2021; February 24, 2025.
You’ve been lied to: On December 7, 1941 – America attacked Japan at Pearl Harbor!!!!!
On January 6, 2021 – the police 7 “Deep State” attacked innocent ‘patriots’ in Washington
On February 24, 2022 – Ukraine attacked Russia inside Ukraine!!!!!!!!!!!
On September 1, 1939 – Poland attacked Nazi Germany!!!!!!!!!!!!
Major Question: Is Donald John Trump THE REAL “Manchurian Candidate”? And NOT the “fictional” Raymond Shaw of 1962 & 2004 movies?
What other reasons[s] exist for this: “U.S. sides with Russia in U.N. vote on Ukraine? Is Trump going to get financial ‘concessions’ from Russia – for the U.S. – or – for Trump family businesses – or – businesses of connected billionaires?
Picture this: FDR siding with the Nazis in World War II; Reagan siding with Russians in the Cold War!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE. are. disgraced.
On Friday, February 21, 2025 – Trump fired four-star General Charles Q. Brown, Jr. as chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Admiral Lisa Franchetti as chief of naval operations. Charles Brown is Black. Lisa Franchetti is female. both had served America for 40 years, had distinguished records
Major Question: Would Trump have fired Jackie Robinson “for disrupting major league baseball” in 1947?
Would Trump have fired Jesse Owens for embarrassing Hitler at the 1936 Olympic Games by
disproving the Aryan myth?
Would Trump have fired Joe Louis for destroying Max Schmeling in round one in 1938?
Would Trump have fired Billie Jean King for defeating Bobby Riggs in 1973?
We. are. disgraced.
An unelected rogue billionaire cuts funds, programs, civil servants – in order to: “have a more efficient government and save taxpayers money.” We. get:
1] “Domestic violence services at risk” because of Trump’s budget cuts
2] fired health inspectors at border stations open door to disease not being caught
3] laid off 6700 IRS employees means fewer audits of millionaires, less service to YOU
4]. reassigned FBI & Cybersecurity officials who’d been fighting foreign interference in U.S. elections
5]. some National Nuclear security employees responsible for U.S. nuclear readiness – FIRED!!!!!
6]. announced Health Department will “scrutinize’ childhood vaccines in face of Texas measles outbreak!!!!!!!
7]. USAID goes dark [2/7/25]- farmers fear impact of lost payments
8] CDC resumes bird flu report [2/6] after “unprecedented” silence – in face of threat to chickens & dairy cows!!!
9] gutted National Institutes of Health biomedical research training programs, possible epidemic shortage
10] attacks on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau which protects YOU from financial scams
11] funding for church food shelves frozen [2/7], hurts local growers and starving citizens
12] ‘another $20B stripped from IRS” [12/28/24 – Republicans don’t want billionaires audited]
13] “..Social Security under Trump..must cut benefits in 2031 or 2032” – so he can cut billionaire”s taxes [10/27/24]
ALL of this, plus MUCH MORE, to carry out. PROJECT 2025. plan to impose PLUTOCRATIC THEOCRACY on YOU. People are beginning to figure out letting an unelected rogue billionaire with fascist leanings cut supposed “waste” from YOUR government – in REALITY – means cutting government services to YOU, YOUR children, YOUR neighborhood, YOUR kid’s schools, YOUR health and safety. – all so the already obscenely rich don’t have to pay even their FAIR SHARE of taxes. An IRS official has already said due to understaffing. the IRS CAN’T collect $1 trillion a year in collectible taxes, most of which is taxes owed by the rich.
We. are. disgraced.
WE have a ‘KAKISTOCRACY”. running our “democracy.” “There’s a name for a government based on xenophobia, demagoguery, and greed: “kakistocracy” – government by the worst people in society.”
[ Jim Hightower; The Progressive Populist; 1/1/2025 ]
The Trump-Musk Dictatorship – THE PATTERN, III
***** Do NOT lose the forest by looking at some trees. THE PATTERN is clear IF YOU begin to look for reasons why. Get past all the chaos and drama of the Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY. – look at WHY, WHO wins. WHO benefit from destroying American government, destroying YOUR government’s ability to function?????? Read and find serious, objective analysis of. ‘PROJECT 2025………….because…..
‘PROJECT 2025. is NOW. THE governing document – NOT. the Constitution.
9] LYING
*** “Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is masked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of men who can fabricate it.” [Hannah Arendt]
*** “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” [ Adolf Hitler ]
If Donald J. Trump’s lips are moving, he’s likely lying. As confirmed by his life PATTERN for 60 years and his DOCUMENTED LYING. RECORD. of 2017-2021. Economists and others are now providing DOCUMENTATION that the ENTIRE BASIS for “DOGE” is based on falsehoods; that it’s driven by FAR RIGHT IDEOLOGY – and the GREED of billionaires who don’t want to pay ANY taxes, or fair living wages, or follow evidence-based regulations
Consider the following:
A]. “Trump’s budget ideas don’t add up” [Jeff Stein; Washington Post; 9/8/24]
B]. “Trump’s Corporate Tax Cuts Paved the Way for Inflation…The former president made it more profitable for companies to gouge us..” [Lindsay Owens; The Progressive Populist; 6/15/24]
C]. “They’re eating cats and dogs….”
D]. “…beautiful tariffs..” – Consider: “He needs money to pay for bigger tax cuts for the rich.” [“The ugly myth of “beautiful tariffs”: Heather Long; Washington Post Weekly; 1/19/25]
E] “I don’t now anything about “Project 2025” – BIG, MAJOR LIE!!! – turns out Trump knew a lot; turns out Trump hired major “Project 2025” authors in his administration; from many accounts “his” agenda strongly resembles “Project 2025” – some are even quoting “Trump agenda” policies from SPECIFIC PAGES OF “Project 2025 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
F] “Climate change is a hoax.” YOUR insurance company does NOT think so – in fact is raising YOUR home insurance premiums BECAUSE of climate change CRISIS damage all over America.
G] Trump and FAR RIGHT attacks on government rebutted by 1787 thinking on WHY America NEEDED a better governing system; citing failures of the Articles of Confederation. James Madison: “There never was a Government without force. What is the meaning of government? An institution to make people do their duty.” John Adams: “The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult.”
H] The 2024 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.” The 3 men demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity. Societies with a poor rule of law and that exploit people do not succeed.
I] Read “American Amnesia,’ by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson…How the War on Government led us to Forget What Made America Prosper.” It is the “mixed economy,” “the combination of energetic markets and effective government.”
***. THE reason Musk and other rich people attack government is simple: they do NOT want to pay fair taxes – or really ANY taxes, because “I earned this money by myself”; they do NOT want ANY regulations restricting their profits; they do NOT want to pay fair living wages [which is WHY they moved “American’ jobs overseas; why is WHY they attack ANY labor union; which is WHY they bankrolled 2024 campaigns to defeat Representatives and Senators who disagreed with them
*****. IF the Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY was serious about saving taxpayer money, they can:
1] adequately fund the IRS – and collect the $1 trillion NOT collected EVERY year [much of it from millionaires]
2] cancel the immoral 2017 Trump tax cut for the rich – responsible for 25% of 2025 U.S. national debt
3]. save $1 trillion annually by eliminating the current national debt [mostly from Reagan, Bush II, Trump]
4] stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry – which is on a path to destroy the earth YOU live on
5]. audit the Defense Department – rumor has it they’ve NEVER passed one
6] fire all the “private contractors” getting paid up to double what government workers get paid
7]. take on BIG PHARMA – demand to pay what other nations pay for prescriptions
8]. tax ALL income for Social Security – end the “cap” for the rich
9] stop giving farm subsidies to rich farmers – give them only to “Mom & Pop” farmers
*** Here”s YOUR test!!!!! – if few, or none of the above KNOWN cures for U.S. National Debt are even mentioned, let alone actually put into force – YOU have DEFINITIVE proof – the ENTIRE DOGE. “efficiency” hunt is a BOGUS FAR RIGHT wish list – part of the cover for lowering taxes even more for the already obscenely rich.
SPEAK. OUT. – while YOU still can. Four more years of this – we will NOT have a prosperous middle class democracy. The evidence is plain. “Trump’s numbers don’t add up.”
The Trump-Musk Dictatorship – THE PATTERN, II – part Two
Continuing Part II of. THE. PATTERN:
7]. CORRUPTING LAWS [ALL dictatorships corrupt the laws and judicial system]
“…a new school of legal thought..’law and economics’..became one of the prime organizers of a regular series of seminars for judges…including legal arguments in favor of network priorities [the kleptocratic network] and market-based ethical standards and denigrating the very notion of the public interest…the Federalist Society..subnetwork of legal scholars and practioners has been crucial to the hydra’s ability to weaponize the justice function….much more radical….What American citizens don’t yet realize..is that ‘this will make it very hard for future democratically elected institutions to govern.'” [Sarah Chayes: “The Corruption of America”] *****{NOTE: Chayes is an internationally recognized expert on government corruption, having observed it elsewhere. Also – do YOUR own research on the “law and economics” theory & the “seminars for judges” this movement conducts – & VERY BIG – WHO pays for these law school classes, WHO wants this radical FAR RIGHT legal theory put into American law?????]
“The rich and their lobbyists have taken firm control of the levers of power in Washington, and the state capitals while remaking the rules in their own interests…These same people also happen to be the primary source of the campaign donations that put politicians in office and keep them there…Rules define a civilization…For more than a quarter century..our government has been adopting rules that tilt the playing field in favor of the rich, the powerful, and the politically connected.” [“Free Lunch,” David Cay Johnston. NOTE: Johnston has also written “Perfectly Legal” and “The Fine Print”. also documenting how the rich and their corporations are robbing YOU.}
*** “I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country…Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people until all the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.” [ Abraham Lincoln; 11/21/1864 letter to Col. W.F. Elkins]
8] LOYALTY AND OBEISANCE
– “Noem is rewarded for Trump toadying”. [Jennifer Brooks; Minnesota Star Tribune; 11/13/24]
– “..anticipatory obedience”….”..actions..individual people or private institutions took pre-emptively, with some measure of free will.” [“We Are Watching America Capitulate To Trump”; M.Gessen; New York Times; 2/9/25]
– “If you were seeking to destroy the country, the Gabbard, Gaetz, RFK Jr. picks were exactly the ones you’d make.” [“Will then Senate Save America From Trump’s Cabinet?”; Joe Conason; The Progressive Populist; 12/15/24]
– “In Hiring, Trump Follows Instinct More Than Ever…Prioritizing Loyalty and Not Seeking Advice Outside His Circle”. {J.Swan, M.Haberman; New York Times]
*** “Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters.”
{ U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson]
The Trump-Musk Dictatorship – The Pattern, II
Democracy is fragile. Democracy depends on “the rule of law,” NOT “rule BY law.” Democracy depends on norms, restraints, toleration, decency, respect for others, and as the U. s. Constitution’s Preamble says: American government was created to “..establish Justice…promote the general Welfare.” “Promote the general Welfare”. means that U.S. government policies, rhetoric MUST benefit ALL 330 million citizens – not just a select few.
The Founders established a government of separation of powers. No one branch was to control everything. The Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY intends to control EVERYTHING. Their latest move: “Trump plans to control U.S. Postal Service,” is discussed in today’s newspaper, 2/21/2025 thus: “President Donald Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the INDEPENDENT mail agency into his administration..” [Jacob Bogage; Washington Post]
******* Is it sinking in now????? The governing document for the United States is no longer the Constitution.
it is now “PROJECT 2025”. – a 900 page FAR RIGHT plan to change YOUR “democracy”
into a. PLUTOCRATIC THEOCRACY. The first mechanism is run by a billionaire!!!!!!!
Now, here is Part II – of the Trump-Musk Dictatorship: THE. PATTERN, II:
5] Destroy The Government’s Ability To Function
“The Great Dismantling: Trump’s Coming Attack on America’s Economic Backbone” [Thom Hartmann; the Progressive Populist; 12/1/24]: “By torching the regulatory state, Trump and Musk pave the way for America’s elite to plunder…having a strong administrative stat is essential to a high-functioning economy…A strong administrative state is also the only thing that can protect the environment from those who destroy it for their own profits…A strong administrative state i the only thing that protects entrepreneurs and small businesses from being squashed..by monopolistic behemoths and small businesses are our nation’s main growth engine.”
“They [Trump & Musk] don’t care if the government delivers food or comes in and rescues your town from a flood or teaches poor kids in the inner city because they don’t have to live through any of those things themselves,” said..Trump biographer Tim O’Brien. “They’re rich and powerful, so they’re insulated from consequences of their actins.” [“Playing DOGE ball”; Maureen Dowd; New York Times; 2/9/25]
*** “Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are
“..acreated for the benefits of the people.” [Senator Henry Clay, 1829]
6] Access Sensitive, Classified, Private Data
“Treasury was warned of DOGE risk”. [J.Menn, J.Stein, E.Nakashima; Washington Post; 2/8/25]: “..was warned in a confidential assessment that U.S. DOGE Service access to a sensitive payment network represented an “unprecedented insider threat risk,”…said the DOGE’s access to the payment network should be “immediately suspended”…urged Treasury to scour payments systems for any changes approved by affiliations of DOGE…The memo highlights the degree of concern among government officials and cybersecurity experts…with implications for tens of millions of Americans…”There are reasons we don’t let just anyone peer into the fiscal machinery. Our adversaries would love to get to the headwaters of the money flow…[so] they csan trace out who is receiving payments.”
“DOE targets U.S. health agencies, gains access to payment systems” [D.Diamond, H.Knowles, J.Stein, L.Sun, L.Kaori Gurley; Washington Post; 2/6/25]: “..alarming some government workers with requests to access sensitive records…federal personnel who access those systems are required to undergo specialized training to comply with privacy protections…It was not immediately clear if DOGE officials have undergone that training.”
[NOTE: and WHAT are they going TO DO WITH THAT INFO??? Will we know if Musk’s businesses have it???]
7] CORRUPTING. LAWS {ALL dictatorships corrupt laws]
The Trump-Musk Dictatorship – THE PATTERN
***** As an American citizen, YOU need to know an essential truth:
the governing document for the United States of America is
no longer the Constitution.
It is now. PROJECT. 2025″
This and two more posts will BEGIN to reveal
THE. PATTERN
of how this is being done to YOU.
*** “The best way to take control over people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, people will not see these rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.” [Adolf Hitler]
The Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY is doing this; the big difference is they’re doing so much damage immediately and rapidly. Note how many people, especially Republicans, are accepting this damage.
*** Notice two pieces of advice from Lenin that Trump-Musk follow faithfully: “A lie told often enough becomes truth.” and: “Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.”
Here we begin with various parts of the Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY’s PATTERN
1]. “He who saves his Country does not violate any Laws.” [Donald J. Trump: 2/15/2025]
***. “Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 155 million followers, it will no longer be America.” [Dwight Eisenhower]
2] “Monetizing Assets”. and Monetizing the Presidency
A high-ranking Trump official said they’d take U.S. government assets and sell them off [“monetize them”] like YOUR national forests, YOUR mineral and oil rights, YOUR hydroelectric dams. etc. Guess who’d likely be at the front of the line of possible buyers? Elon Musk and 28 other billionaires who kicked in $1 million or more to help Trump!!!!
Monetizing the Presidency? – Trump DID this, 2017-2021; did it 2021-2025 out of office; has plans to continue: “Trump’s Family Business Is Preparing to Profit” [E.Lipton, B.Protess, D.Yaffe-Bellany; New York Times; 12/6/24]; “Trump’s crypto venture raises ethics issues-billions” [Tony Romm; Washington Post; 1/23/25]. For perspective: “On Corruption In America” [Sarah Chayes]; “Corruption In America” [Zephyr Teachout]
***. “The point is you can’t be too greedy.” [Donald Trump: “The Art of the Deal”]
*** “The love of money is the root of all evil.” [1 Timothy. 6:10]
3] Defund The I.R.S.
“Another $20B is stripped from the IRS” [J.Bogage, S.Najmabadi; Washington Post]: “..the additional cuts would add $140 billion to the national debt..by hamstringing the agency’s ability to audit wealthy individuals and corporations….years-long assault by Republicans on the Internal Revenue Service….Bush II hired private contractors, who “..ended up costing the federal government money.”
Republicans then “slashed 20% of the IRS’s budget and 22% of its staff from 2010-2018. For people making more than $1 million, the number of tax audits dropped by 72% – and the money the IRS collects from audits fell by 40%…Biden’s new IRS commissioner told Congress the agency is leaving on the table $1 trillion a year in uncollected taxes because it doesn’t have enough staff.” [Washington Monthly; July-August, 2021]
***. “The citizens of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.” [Adam Smith]
4]. PURGE. THE FBI, INSPECTORS GENERAL, “DISLOYAL CIVIL SERVANTS”
“Massive FBI agent purge looms” [A.Goldman, D.Barrett, G.Thrush; New York Times; 2/1/25]. “Trump cuts back election monitors”. [C.Itkowitz, Y.Wingett Sanchez, S.Ellison; Washington Post; 2/9/25]. “Hegseth strips Milley of security protections”. [Tara Copp; Assoc. Press; 1/30/25]. “The friends and foes of Trump and Co.” [Aaron Blake; Washington Post Weekly; 2/16/25]: “The self-serving pattern of the president’s norm-shattering early actions is unmistakable.”
***. “If the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority..is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put, at one stroke, to Republican government.” [George Washington]
Trump-Musk Dictatorship – Stupidity and Climate Crisis Denial
*** Donald J. Trump: Climate change is a hoax.
Albert Einstein: “Anybody who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
*** CLIMATE CHANGE CRISIS- and – YOU!!!: Can YOU insure YOUR house???????
Consider. “A Growing Threat To Home Values,” Abraham Lustgarten; 2/9/25; New York Times {Note: The following is a summary – READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.
1] Maps – A] “Where home values may decline because of climate change” [large parts of the Southwest, West Coast
Florida]
B] “How climate change may cause rising insurance rates over the next 30 years” [almost everywhere west
of the Mississippi River; Florida & Gulf Coast; much of the South]
2]. “Climate change means home ownership may no longer guarantee financial security.”
3]. “One little-discussed result is that soaring home prices in the United States may have peaked in places most at risk, leaving the nation on the precipice of a generational decline…analysis predicts an extraordinary reversal of housing fortunes for Americans – nearly $1.5 trillion in asset losses over the next 30 years.”
“The implications are staggering: Many Americans could face a paradigm shift in the way they save and how they define their economic security. Climate change…is upending the American dream.”
[NOTE: re-read this very carefully. With all their frantic work to “make American government more efficient – exactly what is the Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY doing to help save your family’s home insurance??????]
4] “The First Street researchers found that climate pressures are the main factor driving up insurance costs. Average premiums have risen 31% across the country since 2019…Over the next 30 years. if insurance prices are unhindered, they will, on average, leap another 29%…Rates in Miami could quadruple..” [NOTE – SO, if the Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY continues to say climate change is a “hoax,” – then it means they don’t care about the cost of YOUR home insurance increasing 50-60-70%, assuming you can get YOUR home insured.]
5] “..systemic economic risk..” Insurance USED TO BE 8% of average mortgage payments, TODAY. they’re about 20%, “outpacing inflation and even the rate of appreciation on the homes themselves.”
“That makes owning property, on paper anyway, a bad investment.” 30 years from now, houses could be worth 6% LESS THAN TODAY, “..affirming fears that many economists and climate analysts have held for a long time.”
6] “Part of the problem is hat many people were coaxed into living in the very high-risk areas they cll home precisely by the availability of insurance that was cheaper than it should have been…companies canceled policies, but in response, states redoubled support for homeowners…But those discounts “muffled the free market price signals”…also slowed down our adaptation..”
7]. “However imprecise, First Street’s work “plays the role of Paul Revere, of the challenge we could face if we fail to adapt.”
8]. “Like many aspects of the climate challenge, this one will also drive climate haves and have-nots further apart..”
9]. “..Altadena may prove to be the true harbinger – of a future in hich only the rich own their own homes, where insurance is a luxury good and where renters pay a monthly toll to large private equity landowners..”
****** Why should YOU be surprised – that in the end – THE RICH, THE OLIGARCHS, would be the winners as now projected? This will ONLY change if ordinary people – like YOU – demand that “our” government for for the lower 95%, i.e. – that YOU demand ‘..that government of the people, by the people, FOR the people shall not perish from the earth.” Right now, under the Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY, YOUR democracy is threatened like never before. And quite possibly, the existence of YOUR home, if not now, in the next 30 years. LIES have consequences – and in this case, the consequence could likely be YOU can’t afford home insurance.
*** “Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.” [Mohandas Gandhi]
The Trump-Musk Dictatorship – Stupidity, Corrruption, Cruelty, Craziness – V – THER. COUP
{Note: this post reflects “Shaky politics make for a shaky economy,” by Edward Lotterman’s “Real World Economics”; St. Paul Pioneer Press; 2/16/25. -*** – read the entire column, a MUST read for ANY American citizen]
“Our nation is in the middle of a coup d e’tat, a civilian one..but a classic coup. An ill-defined but powerful group of people, most with no legal standing but with ample private funding, is making drastic changes in our nation’s politics and governing structures. Many of these changes violate existing laws and some our Constitution, but no one seems to have the means to stop this.” [NOTE: this is a damning thing to say – read every word, mull it over – YOUR job: discover WHY he’s making this statement – he’s an econ prof; what do numbers tell him?]
“..It is our elected president himself together with the shadowy “gray eminence” of Elon Musk who are most scornful of the law..many in the president’s own party are dismayed..yet few dare to speak out…
“Many committed Republicans understand that the historical GOP..Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan, is near death..” ]NOTE: WHY does he say this???]
“For decades, demagogues have lied to the public by asserting that federal budget deficits are caused by “waste and abuse”…Firing large numbers of civil servants is a supposed remedy. No, it isn’t….the number of civilian federal employees..has been roughly level for the past 60 years.. secondly..civil service pay ..remains a relatively small fraction of total federal outlays.” NOTE: re-read this!!! He just told you. THE ENTIRE ‘REASON’ FOR DOGE is one HUGE LIE!!! – like much else of the Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY, it is based on, is a BIG LIE.]
“Non-military foreign aid is not a major factor in federal spending and deficits…is highly misunderstood and a subject of much demagoguery…our foreign aid spending is about $60 billion a year..eight-tenths of 1% of total spending… [NOTE: This is part of America’s “soft power”. – much cheaper than military power]
“International trade is not a zero-sum game. Nearly 250 years ago, Adam Smith and other economists showed how both nations engaging in uncoerced trade benefit…Donald Trump refuses to understand this simple truth…We are not subsidizing Canada.. [NOTE: Meaning Trump’s ENTIRE ‘ECONOMIC REASONING’ is based on NOT UNDERSTANDING what a MAJOR economist understood 250 years ago !!!!!!!!!!!!! His economic policies are based on IGNORANCE!!!!!!!]
“U.S. ‘sovereign wealth fund’ might be a joke or an enormous theft….the key question: From where would the money come?….On its face, the idea is ludicrous…
“..the key detail: “We will take assets the country already has, monetize them….”monetizing” assets we already have would mean selling off national forests, mineral & oil rights..hydroelectric dams…perhaps even locks and dams…And who would be better buyers than the 26 billionaires, in addition to Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Tim Cook, who gave over $1 million to the Trump campaign?…The potential is for the American people to be cheated both coming and going..” [NOTE: re-read this – in plain language – this could be a quid pro quo payoff to favored billionaires for supporting Trump – by selling YOUR national assets. The joke this will “..promote the general Welfare..” requirement of the Constitution; the joke that YOU are supposed to be stupid enough to believe something this “ludicrous.”]
AGAIN – do [real] research – from recognized mainstream economists. Lotterman has just told YOU Trump’s “economic thinking” is one BIG FRAUD; the ENTIRE “rationale of Musk’s DOGE is fraudulent; that the Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY wants to PRIVATIZE government assets acquired 1789- ; that the Trump-Musk team is carrying out AN. UNPRECEDENTED COUP in plain sight – itself based on RADICAL LIES of constitutional executive powers.
Trump lied – SURPRISE!!! – when he denied any knowledge of or connections to PROJECT 2025. Now the Trump-Musk COUP. is carrying out “PROJECT 2025” plans. Trump’s administration is full of PROJECT 2025 authors.
For the last 45 years, the FAR RIGHT has been building a PLUTOCRATIC THEOCRACY over American “democracy.” It began with Reagan’s reactionary radicalism; continued with Bush II’s incompetence and destruction; and now – as John Dean warned in “Broken Government”, Trump Era Republicans are creating this nightmare: “..another four years, and heaven forbid not eight years, under Republicans, and our grandchildren will have to build a new government, because the one we have will be unrecognizable and unworkable.”
The evidence is in plain sight – it is there in post- January 20, 2025 news casts and mainstream newspaper, virtually every day. YOUR democracy is being dismantled and destroyed in plain sight.
Plato warned us 2300 some years ago: “This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs: Whenhe first appears, he is a protector.” [How many times has Trump said he is our “savior”??? – the latest being on 2/15/25: “He who saves his Country does not violate any Laws.” !!!!!!!!!!! ]
The Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY – “There Is No Turning Back”
{Note – the following is from “There Is No Going Back,: by Jamelle Bouie; New York Times; 2/9/25. READ HIS ENTIRE COLUMN – and then THINK, think very hard and long IF America is still a “democracy.”
“Even if anyone had elected Elon Musk to anything, his past week would still be one of the most serious examples of executive branch malfeasance in American history. Musk has seized hold of critical levers of power and authority within the federal government, apparently enabling him to destroy agencies at will, barring congressional action or judicial pushback…..
“By his own account, Musk uses his access to the payments system..to effect a kind of personal line-item veto. If he does not believe….if he thinks….he will then cancel its funding and leave it to starve on the vine…
“When you see prices go up at the grocery store, the prices are going up because of excess government spending…The supermarkets are not taking advantage of you. it’s not price gouging; it’s that the government spent too much.” [This, it must be said, makes no sense.]” [!!!!!NOTE: – See confessions by by various CEOs that they DID GOUGE YOU!!! Then contact a rational econ prof – see on what page of econ 101 THIS appears!!!!!! How many BIG LIES has Musk now told???]
“Musk says..he is acting on the authority of the United States. Even still, it is not as if the president of the United States has the authority to unleash an unvetted, unaccountable private citizen onto some of the most sensitive data possessed by the federal government.
“But that is the situation. A power-mad president possessed of radical theories of executive authority and convinced of his own royal prerogative has given de facto control of most of the federal government to one of the richest men on the planet…whose own interests are tangled up in those of rival governments and foreign autocracies as well as the United States. The public has no guarantee..its most sensitive data is secure… [NOTE – now, sit back and very carefully re-read this paragraph. What is Musk going to do with YOUR private info. When will Russia & China have it/]
“Thune and Johnson, acting with the support of Republicans in both chambers, have, in effect, renounced their power over the purse and abnegated their powers of oversight. Their Congress is supine, submissive and subordinate..
“Somewhere King Charles I is jealous.” [NOTE: THINK – what THIS ALONE means – WHY do we have a “congress”??? What doers the Constitution say about WHICH branch has the power of the purse???
“To describe the current situation in the executive branch as merely a constitutional crisis is to understate the significance of what we’re experiencing, “Constitutional crisis” does not even begin to capture the radicalism of what is unfolding…
“together, Trump and Musk are trying to rewrite the rules of the American system..an anti-constitutional theory of executive power..in service to a plutocratic agenda of austerity and upward distribution of wealth..” [NOTE: THINK on what “..trying to rewrite the rules of the American system..” MEANS – hint; after one neuters Congress, fires inspectors generals, purges the FBI, acquires sensitive data, stacks courts previously with reactionary “judges” – what do you have??????? Hint: some might say; a dictatorship. Or in this case. the Trump-Musk. KAKISTOCRACY.
“..Russell Vought..a vocal advocate of an autocratic “radical constitution” that treats the president as an elected despot..[if they] succeed, the question of American politics won’t be if they’ll win the next election, but whether the Constitution as we know it is still in effect….
“Trump and Musk really have altered the structure of things. They’ve taken steps that cannot be so easily reversed..”
[NOTE: Re-read this brief summary – every word, every thought. If Republican – isTHIS what you voted for? Contact rational, fact-based constitutional experts – ask them if ANY of what the Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY is doing is justified by 1787-1980 laws, discussions, DOCUMENTS, precedents, people’s understandings.}
NOTE: much of what the Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY is doing is in PROJECT 2025, which, of course, Trump LIED about – once voters heard what it meant. so, many of you trusted him [why would you/] Much of the rest is a PLUTOCRATIC wish list 90 years in the making. Destroying YOUR government’s ability to regulate THEM has been an announced goal. NOT paying ANY income taxes is their well-known goal. YOU should be asking why some, if not most, billionaires are reportedly paying taxes at a 3.4% rate, if they pay any taxes at all
YOU should be asking WHY corporations making billions don’t pay ANY taxes. YOU should be asking WHY billionaires have their Social Security taxes capped at $170,000 – under the “theory” that “they don’t benefit from paying any more, so it wouldn’t be fair to them.” [they don’t get any benefit for police protection, courts, infrastructure, etc.]
YOU should be asking, under the announced goals of “saving taxpayers money,’ how many federal government expenses that benefit Musk and other billionaires will also be cut. OR – is this austerity only for the “undeserving” lower 95%????????
If what Trump and Musk, and their cadre of enablers, in Congress and out, succeed – IT. IS. OVER. American “democracy” will die somewhere between January 20, 2025 and January 20, 2029 – OR – maybe, the KAKISTOCRACY will just continue under one of Trump’s children in the “Trump Dynasty.”
With Justice For All 
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