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The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, C. – “Jan. 6 Was Just The Start”

~ tomdolen


***. BUT – it wasn’t: “…the four ways in which Republicans have been hacking away at the foundations of democracy and civil society for a quarter century: their war on truth, their growing exploitation of racism and white supremacy, their sabotage of the institutions and norms of government, and their dehumanizing of opponents and stoking of violence….And in the process, they murdered democracy.” [ Dana Milbank: “The Destructionists’ ]

This post presents excerpts from “Jan. 6 Was Just The Start” [New York Times editorial; 1/4/26]. Please read the entire article. Please continue to support the TRUTH about January 6, 2021. Powerful forces want to RE-WRITE January 6 history. – an ambitious project because the world saw the actual events; perps confessed; even Mitch McConnell immediately laid the blame on Donald John Trump [before he recanted!!!]. In trials all over America, perps confessed, were given jail time. But then – this is what authoritarians do: re-write history [Jason Stanley: “Erasing History…How Fascists Rewrite The Past To control The Future”]

*** “The accumulation of all power, 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, Founder, 4th U.S. President ]

13] “Once..[Trump]..was elected, his post-Jan. 6 experience inspired his administration’s goals and methods. he and his aides concluded that intimidation and lawlessness could yield victories even in seemingly unwinnable and sometimes illegal circumstances.” [N.Y. Times editorial]

8] “THe shocking part of the story was the response of so many other people in government, media and business.”

6]. “Over the next several years, Jan. 6 became a “day of love” in Mr. Trump’s telling: The rioters were “patriots,” and those detained were “hostages’ whose suffering compared to that of Japanese Americans interned during World War II. He made common cause with the most extreme elements of his coalition to manipulate history. Together, they rallied right-wing media to their cause, silenced all but a few Republican critics and intimidated corporate leaders into complicity.”

15] “The pardons issue a message: If you break the law to protect me, you will be supported, and if you uphold the law to restrain me, you will be persecuted.”

*** “The Republican Party is held aloft by a large, powerful, and ever-growing industry of deceit. The purpose of much of conservative media is to lie to their audience. It is fitting that at the heart of the Trump presidency itself is a lie: Almost every Republican elected official in Washington knows Donald Trump is unfit to be president.” [ Stuart Stevens: “It Was All A Lie”]

1]. “It was a day that should live in infamy. Instead, it was the day President Trump’s second term began to take shape…was indeed a turning point, but not the one it first seemed to be. It was a turning point toward a version of mr. Trump who is even more lawless than the one who governed the country in his first term. It heralded a culture of political unaccountability, in which people who violently attacked Congress and beat police officers escaped without lasting consequences.”

2] “The politicians and pundits who had egged on the attack with their lies escaped, as well. The aftermath of Jan. 6 made the Republican Party even more feckless, beholden to one man and willing to pervert reality to serve his interests.”

3]. “All this would have been hard to conceive for many Americans five years ago. Disgust was bipartisan for a time because so many episodes of that day seemed unforgettable.”

4] “The victims who suffered the worst violence were the police officers protecting the Capitol.”

5]. “Mr. Trump made possible the lawlessness. After he lost the 2020 election, he spent weeks peddling the lie that he had rightfully won. He encouraged state officials to ‘find” votes for him or simply appoint electors loyal to him.”

*** “so long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.” [ Aldous Huxley ]

7] “This behavior, though inexcusable, was not shocking. it fir with Mr. Trump’s character, as both a businessman and a politician who has long pursued his self-interest without legal or ethical restraint.”

9]. “..on Jan. 12, Senator Mitch McConnell, then the Republican leader, “has concluded that President Trump committed impeachable offenses…”

10] “…handed Republicans control of the House, and they abandoned any Jan. 6 accountability…Instead, they began investigating their colleagues who had attempted to bring justice to mr. Trump.”

11] “The legal system also took some steps to fill the accountability gap. But it moved slowly and ineffectively.”

12]. “With the political and legal systems failing to punish him, much of the rest of the country started to move on. Business leaders made excuses for him. The conservative media establishment promoted him again and cheered on the purge of Republicans who had criticized this role in Jan. 6.”

*** “Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know is 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 ]

14]. “On the first day of his second term, Mr. Trump granted clemency to all of the nearly 1,600 people charged or convicted in connection with jan. 6. The group included hundreds of defendants found to have assaulted law enforcement officers.”

16] “The thuggishness extends far beyond the people who were directly involved in Jan. 6 cases. The legacy of that day has taught Mr. Trump how to use power more aggressively to advance his interests. In his second term, he has surrounded himself with officials who accede to his lawless demands.”

17]. “Mr. Trump has also learned that congressional Republicans will bow to him even when he treats them with contempt or ignores the Constitution.”

18] “Mr. Trump likewise plays the courts more successfully than in his first term. The Supreme Court has helped him..”

19]. “Again and again, Mr. Trump dares the system to stop him.”

*** “Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law…no court can save it..”

[Judge Learned Hand]

The question of IF America has a real democracy on January 20, 2029. – is up to. YOU. Speak up, protest, organize. Above all – vote out EVERY Republican on November 3, 2026. If Trump has control of Congress. – it may be over. The Far Right blueprint is there in “Project 2025,” some of its authors have power in theTrump DICTATORSHIP. They WILL NOT STOP. attempting to create a PLUTOCRATIC THEOCRACY. – the billionaires behind Trump will demand it; the Christian nationalists behind Trump will demand it; his fearful, misinformed base will demand it.

This site has now published 100 “The Trump DICTATORSHIP” posts in 350 days of Trump’s authoritarian, lawless, reckless, anti-democratic reign. We apologize for not doing more. if we did, besides sleep and eating, we’d pretty much have done nothing else in 2025 than provide YOU with factual evidence of the monstrous depravity of the Trump DICTATORSHIP.

The “Project2025′ strategy was to hit the ground running. They announced the writing of many “executive orders” prior to Trump taking office. Part of their known strategy is to “flood the zone” – do so many things that people can’t keep up. With a CORRUPT Roberts ‘supreme court” of Republican political hacks, there is only Congress to restrain the Trump DICTATORSHIP – and we already know they live in fear, for careers, for their and their family’s safety.

Fear is a BIG part of the “Project 2025” Trumpian strategy – they’ve announced it. Part of the plan is to use YOUR government against YOU. This has already been demonstrated in multiple ways. Fear of persecution. Fear of losing funding. Fear of having your business ruined. Fear of having your career/job lost. This is how DICTATORSHIPS operate.

So. – yes, January 6, 2021, was, “Only Just A Start.’ IF – YOU permit it. Are YOU going to permit it?????????

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXXIX – The Importance of Hatred, Racxism, Bigotry, Lying, Prejudice, Cruelty

~ tomdolen


Today is January 6 – “..a date that will live in infamy.” People inspired by Donald John Trump [they confessed to it] attempted a coup; trashed the U.S. Capitol; injured and killed police officers. Like authoritarians everywhere, the truth is now being re-written. The latest: “This Jan. 6 plaque made to honor police is nowhere to be found” [ Lisa Mascaro; Associated Press; 1/6/26 ]

*** “To speak evil of anyone, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation.” [ George Washington; 11/26/1796 ]

Donald Trump is known as a person who relishes revenge; known for trying to inflict twice as much punishment upon his “enemies” as he received; known for having been accused of racism; known for insulting and demeaning people; known for nursing grievances; known for pardoning people who hurt and defrauded others; . Some have said Trump NEEDS enemies – people he can attack. Trump’s 10 years on the American political scene have featured meanness, negativity, cruelty largely unrestrained by ANY former norms of decency and civility. this post will offer a VERY small sample of Trump’s numerous cruelties.

*** “a new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, as I have loved you.” { John 13:34 ]. The Trump administration doesn’t believe in this; doesn’t practice it – except to favored people.

*** “..all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights..” [ Declaration of Independence ]. The Trump administration doesn’t believe in this; doesn’t practice it – except to favored people.

1} Some recent headlines:
– “Trump knows he’s failing. Cue the bigotry.” [12/7/25]
– “Birtherism was the blueprint. We are living the outcome.” [12/26/25]
– “Trump’s not interested in fighting a new Cold War: He wants a new civilizational war.” [12/14/25]
– “The return of the r-word.” [12/22/25]
– “What’s with the outrage over a barnyard taunt? Maybe it’s hope.” [12/1/25]
– “Trump confirms 2018 use of slur about ‘filthy’ countries” [12/14/25]
– “Trump blames Reiner for his own death” [12/16/25]

***. “Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with their littleness and make it the pretex of bass tyrannies.”

[ Honore de Balzac ]

2] More recent headlines:
– “Trump sets goals for ending citizenship…Immigration offices are given monthly quota..” [12/19/25]
– “Attacks on trans youth escalate…Trump plans to defund hospitals providing gender-affirming care.’ [12/20/25]
– “Trump’s DEI attack may hurt college men – especially white men”. ’12/5/25]
– “U.S. WW II cemetery removes displays about Black soldiers” [11/14/25]
– “Trump trolls Biden, Obama in plaques” [12/21/25]

***. “He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kind of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.” [ Tryon Edwards ]

3]. More recent headlines:
– “VA employees get jobs back, then are placed on leave” [3/24/25]
– “Trump takes aim at kids’ psych meds” [2/18/25]
– “Don’t the Lives of Women and Girls Matter?” [1/12/25]
– “Trump’s executive order suspending foreign aid is reckless and cruel” [1/31/25]
– “Trump’s EPA Threatens Efforts to Clean Up Dangerous Air Pollution”. [3/1/25]
– “Afghan Students Abandoned by Broken U.S. Promises”. [3/30/25]
– “Blocked funding stalls key Alzheimer’s drugs”. [3/21/25]
– “A Watchdog Withers: Homebuyers Beware”. [323/25]
– “Cuts reach nuclear scientists, safety experts”. [3/18/25]

***. “Nothing is so haughty and assuming as ignorance where self-conceit sets up as to be infallible.” [Robert South]

4] More examples of Trumpian stupidity, cruelty, incompetence, ideological idiocy:
– “Farmers are out millions after Trump freezes USDA funds”. [2/11/25]
– “FDA firings decimate teams on med devices, diseases, food safety”. [2/22/25]
– “The Great Dismantling: Trump’s Coming Attack on America’s Economic Backbone [12/1/24]
– “W.H.O. Withdrawal May hurt Americans on Many Health Matters”. [2/2/25]
– “Massive FBI agent purge looms” [2/1/25]
– “The Trump Bump On Your Energy Bills” [10/12/25]
– “Trump Has Betrayed his Working-Class Voters” [7/6/25]
– “Trump’s shutdown of CDC information imperils nation’s health” ‘2/20/25]

*** “Of all the evils that infest a state, a tyrant is the greatest; his sole will commands he laws and lords it over them.”
[ Euripides ]

5] More to consider when you hear about the Trump campaign against anti-Semitism on college campuses:
– “The pro-hitler problem among the American right” [11/19/25}
– ‘Trump taps loyalist ‘with a Nazi streak’ for a different job at GSA” [11/15/25]
– “Right-Wing Antisemitism Exposes Divides in Party” [11/23/25]
– “Offensive texts put GOP on defensive…Messages from elected officials, young leaders included “I love Hitler” ‘ [10’16/25]

*** “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 ]

AGAIN – this site reminds YOU of the Founders’ original intents when they created the new American government: “We the People”. created a government to “..form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility….promote the general Welfare..”
THIS is THE test YOU should apply to ANY American government, including then Trump DICTATORSHIP. We criticize the Trump DICTATORSHIP because it has demonstrated by its own rhetoric, actions, policies, laws. – that it FAILS the Founders’ goals. Which, if ANY, Trump policies perfect the American Union,…establish Justice…insure domestic Tranquility…promote the general Welfare ?????????????

Because the Trump DICTATORSHIP is intent on achieving the goals of “PROJECT 2025.” it CANNOT achieve the goals the Founders established in the American Constitution

Assaults upon the American people continue, unabated, to this very hour: “Hortman children condemn post about parents’ killing….Trump shared video promoting false theory.” [ Sofia Barnett; Minnesota Star Tribune; 1/6/25]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXXVIII – Using Fraud For Political Advantage

~ tomdolen

*** “The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.” [ Aristotle ]

This post presents three”letters to the editor”. from January 3, 2026 isssue of Minnesota Star. Tribune, concerning accusations of “billions” in fraud. YOUR. thoughtful examination is requested on the observations of three “ordinary people”:

1] “On Monday, the public’s xenophobic outrage from an unethical YouTuber sharing unfounded accusations of fraud emboldened President Trump to pledge to cut federal funds to the state of Minnesota, a move that could cause the child care sector to collapse….Child care is a failed market system: Parents can’t afford the true cost and average profits are 1% nationally…”
“..child care is the work behind the workforce…the 23,000 children receiving child care assistance in Minnesota will not get the care they need…will prevent kindergarten readiness, cause parents to become jobless and render families unhoused..”
“..I imagine Minnesota will be the first but not the last to have child care axed..we have their playbook. Project 2025 wants to push women out of the workforce, and what better way to achieve that than to sabotage the child care sector?”
[ C. F. ]

***. “Any excuse will serve a tyrant.” [ Aesop ]

2] “Disregarding whether fraud was or wasn’t committed, i find it odd that some people seem to think it’s suspicious that he was denied entry to these child care facilities when he. showed up unannounced, with no credentials and no valid reason to be there…No one who is not an employee or a parent/guardian of a child being cared for there should be allowed in. Two strangers with a camera crew? Absolutely not. The only businesses that should lose their licenses over this are the ones who did let them in.” [ P. S. ]

*** “Instead of clearing his own heart, the zealot tries to clear the world.” [ Joseph Campbell ]

3] “Please allow me to attempt a thought exercise to see if I have the Republican thought process understood.
“Medical facilities receive taxpayer dollars via Medicaid assistance to their patients. If I were angry about this and I drove by a clinic at a time when they were closed and filmed the empty lot and locked doors, this proves fraud?”
“If I went to a different clinic and they were open and I demanded to see patient files that they refused to show me, that would be proof of fraud?”
“If I went to a pediatrician’s office during business hours and started filming the children in the room until I was thrown out…that’s definitely also fraud but not an invasion of children’s privacy…?”
“..everything is obviously the fault of Gov. Tim Walz and no one in the nearly equally split Legislature. This much i know for certain, for President Donald Trump tells me so.” [ A. S. ]

***. “When it comes to conspiracy, everything is permissible.” [ Napoleon ]

Then – please consider the following:

4] “Pandemic-era fraud occurred in all 50 states.” [Phil Morris: “Minnesota’s fraud reckoning enters the influencer era”; Minnesota Star Tribune; 12/31/ 25] SO. – can we therefore assume that we’ll soon see the Trump administration cutting off aid to 49 other states?, or, perhaps just ‘blue’ states, or, perhaps…………………??????

***. “The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.” [ Justice Robert Jackson ]

5] “A 43-minute video…viewed by millions…has also set off a series of events that show the symbiotic relationship between the Trump administration and self-described journalists….highlights the way the White House seeds narratives about key issues, then rewards sympathetic craetors who deliver viral content.” [ Ken Bensinger, Ernesto Londono: “Viral video sparks intense response”; New York Times; 1/1/26] SO – do YOU think that Joseph Goebbels, and, quite likely also, “Big Brother,” just might be clapping in great glee – admiring how a DICTATORSHIP in America manages to drive and control “the news.” ????? !!!!! ?????

SO !!!!! – Do YOU think that a man who ORDERED Republicans in congress to vote against a bi-partisan immigration bill crafted by a very conservative Senator, so he could run against immigration in the 2024 election. – would. – try to conjure up a variety of ‘issues’ so he can maintain HIS Congressional majority in the November 3, 2026 elections ???? !!!! ????? Nobody would stoop that low, right ?????

***. “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” [ Herb Brooks; Anthony Weldon ]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXXVI. – Trump’s. Radical50 million Americans. Reactionary Incompetence

~ tomdolen

*** “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present i. which the Party is aways right.”
[ George Orwell: “1984” ]

We end 2025 with an apology. We”re sorry, but we cannot keep up with the daily drumbeat of damage the Trump DICTATORSHIP is inflicting upon America. Below are SOME of the anti-democratic recent headlines, reflecting on the WIDESPREAD CATASTROPHE and EVIL imposed on Americans by ‘our” government.

1] “How the letter “K” describes the shape of the U.S. economy…The wealthy get richer, the poor struggle more” [Christopher Rugaber; Associated Press; 12/3/25]: “The top 40% of all U.S. consumers are driving two-thirds of all consumption….the wealthiest 10% of Americans own roughly 87% of the stock market..” [50 million Americans are food insecure {4/17/25}. 44% of U.S. workers are in low-wage jobs; 60% of U.S. workers live paycheck-to-paycheck. {11/18/25}

2] “The Cost of Care in the Land of Plenty….For many Americans the question may not be ‘how bad is it?”, but rather, can I afford to get this looked at?” [Andrew Tait; The Progressive Populist; January, 2026]. [can. YOU. afford medical care or health insurance in America????????]

3] “White House downplays risks of AI”. {Tony Romm, Colby Smith; New York Times; 12/25/25]. – versus “A.I. Will Displace Workers at a Scale Many don’t Realize”. [Sal Khan; New York Times; 12/28/25]. Jeremy Rifkin’s “The End of Work [1995,2004], and many other analyses showed from DATA that jobs were ALREADY being lost, from manufacturing to white collar jobs. – before A.I. A.I. will only make job loss WORSE, plus many other issues like privacy.

4] “Somber mood at scientists’ annual meeting….Amid cuts, many say American science is suffering under Trump” [Eric Niiler; New York Times; 12/21/25]: “It’s a fundamental disruption of the systems that allow science in this country to function.” “Morris lab down to just 3 scientists….Soils laboratory among many ag science sites gutted by federal cuts” [Christopher Vondracek; Minnesota Star Tribune; 12/30/25]. “Science Under Siege” [Michael Mann, Peter Hotez]. “Fool me Twice….Fighting the Assault on Science in America”. [Shawn Lawrence Otto]. WHY does the radical reactionary R-W attack science? Because science deals in proven FACTS. FACTS are POISON to the Trump DICTATORSHIP.

5] “Bankruptcies soar amid tariffs, inflation….Filings for 2025 reach highest tally since 2010” [Aaron Gregg, Jaclyn Peiser; Washington post; 12/30/25]. Trump’s policies have hurt manufacturing, construction, transportation hardest’; small businesses are hurt, many closing.

6} Get more facts: “Trump’s First Year Back, in 10 Charts” [New York Times; 12/28/25]: ‘..by year’s end, Mr. Trump’s popularity has sunk to historic lows, as many Americans recoiled from his brutality and his extremism. Above all, they fretted about his failure to improve their economic well-being.”

7]. “For DOGE, Big Disruption Returned Meager Savings….Largest Claims Were Wrong and Real Cuts Were Small, Times Analysis Finds”. [Emily Badger, David Fahrenhold, Alicia Parlapiano, Margot Sanger-Katz; New York Times; 12/28/25]: ‘..the group did not do what mr. Musk said it would: reduce federal spending by $1 trillion before October. On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up.” [!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!] And then this: DOGE broke numerous federal privacy laws and policies, often at gunpoint, to acquire YOUR personal data. What did they do with it??? WHO has YOUR personal data – Russians, Chinese, criminals, musk??????? Just perhaps – the REAL DOGE goals were NOT savings. – BUT WERE. – acquisition of YOUR data, destroying independence in the federal government, ruining the federal government. – all enabling the Trump DICTATorship. to do whatever it wants ???????!!!!!!?????

8] “Trump’s Monroe Doctrine Will Tip Our World into Chaos….We are headed for more confrontations, more brinksmanship, more war”. [Greg Grandin; New York Times; 12/21/25]. Trump’s plan could result in 3 big powers ruling the earth; china, Russia, America – back to pre-WW I. “Trump’s vision; A nation unto Itself” [Naftali Bendavid; Washington post Weekly; 12/21/25]: “The problem is that strategic detachmewnt was attainable in the 19th century, it’s not attainable today,” Kupchan said. “This will..ultimately fail because it’s not possible.”

9] “It Matters Who Owns the National Debt, Too…New invstors demand higher returns for lending to the U.S.” {Geng Ngarmboonanant; New York Times; 12/28/25]. Trump’s policies are a threat to trust in U.S.debt because of questions on the independence of the Federal Reserve; predictability of the Treasury, rule of law; international partnerships. This is also important because Trump’s 2017 tax cuts are 25% of U.S.debt; he demanded these cuts be made permanent, and we ALREADY KNOW this will increase U.S. debt by trillions. You – research Republican tax cuts of Reagan, BushII and Trump – see how much they’ve blown up the U.S. debt since 1981

10] “The White House is a Lost Cause”. [ Jamelle Bouie; New York Times; 12/21/25]: Trump often does NOT know what ‘his” administration is doing , on ANYTHING. “He is, by most accounts, isolated from the outside world….rarely meets with ordinary Americans outside the White House….He is uninterested in anyone except his most devoted fans….the work of the White House has been delegated to a handful of high-level advisors..”
Thanks to a corrupt “supreme court,” America is being moved toward implementing “the unitary executive theory”….”Think Bonapartism with an American twist…the president we have isn’t unitary. He has given his newfound power away to a small set of virtually unaccountable advisors, insulated from public outcry and indifferent to public opinion.”

THEN – consider WHO has benefited from the slow erosion of America’s loss of economic affordability from 1981 forward. WHO has, will, benefit from the loss of civil liberties? WHO will benefit from cuts in government services? HINT: – look at pictures of Trump’s 2025 inaugural, see WHO had the most honored seats!!! WHO wrote “Project 2025? – and. – how many of them are in Trump’s administration?????

*** The “Republican Party’ of 2025 is NOT the Republican Party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Eisenhower. Since 1981, R-W reactionaries have steadily gained control. They had a blueprint, often derided, said to b too extreme. Backed by R-W billionaires, they have acquired power in the Trump White House. Matthew Dallek’s “Birchers”:
“Trump benefited from the rhetorical and ideological legacy..Birchers had bequeathed to subsequent generations…he campaigned on a set of Birch-toned themes….Trump’s apocalyptic oratory and conspiracy theories helped mobilize supporters and framed his message….The Birch inheritance not only colored Trump’s campaign but also informed his White House agenda….Trump drew energy, as Birchers had, from white supremacists, militias, and nativists and brought them into his coalition….imposing Christian prayer and “Americanist” teachings on public schools – became a plank of the administration’s policy agenda….The Birch Society’s view of public health policies as a statist plot to squash individual liberties entered the conservative mainstream during the Trump administration’s response to ..COVID-19….Trump’s governance helped turn conservative anti-government idology into a government-as-the-enemy, root-of-all-evil philosophy…the so-called deep state..”

***** What is happening to YOU, and other ordinary Americans is NOT an accident. It has already been investigated and described to YOU – Double Pulitzer Prize winners Donald Barlett & James Steele’s. “The Betrayal of the American Dream”; Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s “Who Stole the American Dream?”; Kurt Andersen’s “Evil Geniuses”; prize winner Jane Mayer’s. ‘Dark Money”; and many more.

*** Do YOUR own FACTUAL research: on. WHY YOUR purchasing power has declined since 1973; on people’s incomes, 1947-73. versus. 1981-2025; on top marginal tax rates 1947-73. versus. 1981-2025; on ordinary American’s ability to buy a home. 1947-73. versus. 1981-2025; on WHY ordinary people are NOT having children, none or 1 or 2. versus earlier having families of 2 – 3 -4 kids.

*** Read the Constitution’s Preamble on WHY “We the People’. created the U.S. government: “Union,” “Justice,” “domestic Tranquility,”…….”promote the general Welfare.” This site criticizes the Trump DICTATORSHIP and the Reagan and Bush II governments BECAUSE of their FAILURE to achieve those goals, and, in many cases, of working to sabotage those goals.

***. “The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.” [ Aristotle ]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXXIII – Donald John Trump Violates the Spirit of Christmas 24/7, 365

~ tomdolen


*** “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, as I have loved you.” [ Jesus Christ – John 13:34 ]

1- – “The Human Toll of Trump’s Aid Cuts” [ Nicholas Kristof; New York Times; 6/11/25]
– – “Children who are citizens deported” [ Marc Levy; Associated Press; 4/27/25 ]
– “”Head Start Under The Budget Gun…Trump administration’s planned spending cuts threatens to end 60-year old program that provides care for 800,000 kids” [ Jenny Gold, Kate Sequiera: Los Angeles Times; 4/27/25 ]
– “As markets fell, Trump played golf”. [ Dan Diamond; Washington Post; 4/8/25 ]

*** “City sidewalks busy sidewalks; Dressed in holiday style, in the air; There’s a feeling of Christmas; Children laughing; People passing meeting smile after smile…” [ “Silver Bells” ]

2]. – “Trump blames Reiner for his own death”. [Michelle Price; Associated Press; 12/16/25}
– “Top Aide Says Trump Has ‘An Alcoholic’s Personality'” [ Peter Baker; New York Times; 12/17/25 ]
– “Weather lab to be dismantled…White House calls the research center a source of ‘climate alarmism”. [ Lisa Friedman, Brad Plumer; New York Timres; 12/18/25 ]
– “Heating Costs Rising Near 10% This Winter…Bills going up as government cuts aid to states to help low-income residents”. [ Ivan Penn; New York Timers; 12/18/25 ]

***. “If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming after you, and you don’t do it, you are wasting your time on this earth.” [ Roberto Clemente, beloved HOF baseball player. An annual Roberto Clemente Award is given to a player deemed to be a positive public asset ]

3] “Donald Trump’s single greatest character flaw as a leader and human being is his complete and total lack of empathy.” [ Omarosa: “Unhinged”; Trump first term official ]

*** “There’s no Christmas like a home Christmas with your Dad and Mother Sis and Brother there; With their hearts humming at your home commin’ and that Merry Yuletide spirit in the air’.” [“There’s No Christmas Like A Home Christmas” ]

4]. – “The Trump administration ..[said].. the Smithsonian is too focused on “how bad slavery was.” [Kelsey Ables; White House threatens Smithsonian funds amid content review”; Washington Post; 12/22/25 ]
– “White House aid cuts hamper food shelves” [Trey Newes; Minnesota Star Tribune; 2/24/25 ]

– “FDA firings decimate teams on med devices, disease, food safety”. [Christina Jewett; New York Times; 2/22/25 ]
– “Trump, Musk and Cruelty to Poor Kids” [ Gene Nichol; The Progressive Populist; 4/1/25 ]

*** ‘So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in the world.” [ Isadora Duncan ]

5]. – “Trump Promised lower Prices. His Policies Are Raising Them” [ New York Times; Editorial; 11/23/25 ]
– “Trump calls affordability concerns ‘a con job'”. [ Erica Green; New York Times; 12/3/25 ]
– “Black Friday spending shows widening economic divide”. [ Abha Bhattarai; Washington Post; 12/10/25 ]; [Lower-and middle-income Americans have been hit hard by rising costs…For the first time, the top 10% of Americans account for nearly half of all spending..” ]
– “Launching Affordability Tour, Trump Mocks Affordability” [ Matt Viser; Washington Post; 12/11/25 ]: [“Trump …returned to a comment he made easrlier in his presidency, saying that Americans needed to go without.” ]

*** “Here we come a-caroling, among leaves so green, here we come a-wandering, so far to be seen; Love and joy come to you, and to you, and to you glad Christmas too, and God bless you and you, a Happy New Year, and God send you a Happy New Year.” [ “Here We Come A-caroling” ]

6] ‘…Donald’s pathologies are so complex and his behaviors so often inexplicable that coming up with an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis would require a full battery of psychological and neuropsychological tests..” [ niece Mary Trump: “Too Much and Never Enough” ]

***. “In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.” [ Senator J. William Fulbright. ]

7]. – “Domestic violence services at risk” [Briana Bierschbach; Minnesota Star Tribune; 2/25/25 ]
– “Consumer agency is ordered to stop work”. [ Christopher Rugaber; Associated Press; 2/10/25 ]
– “Vets are becoming face of Trump’s cuts, Dem’s fight”. [ Stephen Grover; Associated Press; 3/25/25 ]
– “Farmers are out millions after Trump freezes USDA funds”. [. Daniel Wu, Gaya Gupta, Anumita Kaur; Washington Post; 2/11/25 ]

***. “People who love people, are the luckiest people in the world. We”re children needing other children, and yet letting grown-up pride hide all the need inside, acting more like children than children.” [ Barbara Streisand; “People” ]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXXII – Lawsuits Filed to Stop Trumpism Corruption and Power Grab

~ tomdolen


***. “Free governments have committed more flagrant acts of tyranny than the most perfectly despotic governments we have ever known.”” [ Edmund Burke ]

Since January 20, 2025 – the Trump DICTATORSHIP has proven that maxim, often far below the public radar. Below are SOME of the at least 18 lawsuits Public Citizen has filed against the Trump DICTATORSHIP by November 10.

1] “Stopping Trump from using taxpayer resources for partisan purposes; AFGE. v. Department of Education, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, October 3, 2025. Background & why the case is important: “When the government shut down on October 1, 2025, most civilian federal workers were placed in furlough status… Employees at thre Department of Education discovered..the agency changed their out-of-office emails to include language blaming “Democratic Senators” for the shutdown.

2] “Stopping Trump from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protections Bureau: NTEU, Et Al. v. Vought, Et Al., U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, February 13, 2025. Background & why this case is important: After Trump vowed to ‘totally eliminate” the Consumer protection Bureau [CFPB], OMB director Russell Vought set out to make good on that promise. The CFPB, which has recovered billions of dollars for American consumers, cannot be dismantled without Congressional action.” [NOTE: YOUR clue is “Recovered billions of dollars” for Americans like YOU. Question: why would an American govt that cared about YOU kill this agency?????????]

3]. “Protecting worker health: National Nurses united, Et Al. v. Kennedy, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, May 14, 2025. Background & why the case is important: Trump and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. are trying to dismantle the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health [NIOSH], the country’s premier authority on occupational safety and health, protecting workers in high-risk industries…Among other things, NIOSH screens miners for black lung disease, provides medical monitoring to September 11 first responders and evaluates the safety of worksite protective gear…” [NOTE ; Ask YOURSELF – why would an American govt that cared for its people dismantle this agency?????????]

***. “The aggregate happiness of society, which is promoted by the practise of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government.” [ George Washington ]

4] “Ending Trump’s unlawful assault on foreign aid: AIDS Vaccine. Advocacy. Coalition, et Al. v. U.S. Department of State, Et Al., U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, February 10, 2025. Background & why the case is important: With an abrupt freeze on foreign assistance funding, the Trump administration halted lifesaving work around the globe, undermined vital U.S. interests and cost thousands of Americans their jobs.” [NOTE: our adversaries have already cashed in. This has, WILL. damage America’s image around the world. The world’s richest country has now turned its back on the world.]

5]. “Ending Trump’s gag order on public health agencies: Doctors For America v. Office of Personnel Management, Et Al., U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, February 4, 2025. Background & why the case is important: Putting politics, conspiracy theories and reactionary ideology ahead of the wellbeing of the American people, the administration ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health & Human Services to remove from their websites a broad range of public health information vital to physicians, clinics, public health officials and patients.” [NOTE: likely THE perfect example of the Trump DICTATORSHIP’s. monumental cruelty and utter disregard for its own population]

6] “Protecting civil liberties in immigration proceedings: Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. v. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, April 24, 2025. Background & why the case is important: The Trump administration closed the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman Office and Office of Immigrant Detention Ombudsman because they “obstructed immigration enforcement by adding bureaucratic hurdles and undermining DHS’s mission.” In other words, following the law and protecting rights is inconvenient for the administration.”

[Note: the 6 items above were all in a Public Citizen “Memorandum” sent to members]

Americans can’t keep up with all the criminalities, cruelties, craziness committed by the Trump DICTATORSHIP. That is part of their strategy – to. “flood the zone” with so many outrages, YOU can’t keep up. In the meantime, Trump, his cronies, his powerful wealthy donors and backers – the richer. It has been estimated that Trump alone, is, in less than a year, become about $3 billion richer!!!!!!!!!

***. “This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs: When he first appears, he is a protector.” [ Plato ]

!!! – Here are two more instances of corruption and cruelty:
– 12/18/25: “‘Powerful evidence’ against the president.” Special counsel Jack Smith said in testimony to Congress that his team of investigators had “developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt”. Donald Trump had CRIMINALLY. CONSPIRED. TO. OVERTURN THE RESULTS. OF. THE. 2020. ELECTION.”
– 12/19/25: “Trump sets goals for ending citizenship.” “Immigration officers are given a. MONTHLY. QUOTA for denaturalizations.” [And we know from past actions, the Trump DICTATORSHIP. will, if it can’t find REAL evidence, make it up. – for people it doesn’t like.]

*** “Kill, destroy, sack, tell lies; how much you want. After victory nobody asks Why?” [. Adolf Hitler ]

[NOTE: On December 19, 1776, living under King George III, Thomas Paine published. “American Crisis”…….”These are the times that try men’s souls..” In December, 2025, suffering under the DICTATORSHIP of. King Donald I. – Americans are again experiencing……..”These are the times that try men’s souls..”………………….]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXXI – “The Beacon 0f Democracy Goes Dark”

~ tomdolen


***. “What distinguishes America is not its greater or lesser goodness, but simply the unrivaled power to do that which is good or bad.” [ Mark Frankland; London Observer; 11/6/1977 ]

9] “American culture is n longer synonymous with the aspiration to freedom, but with transactionalism and secrecy; the algorithems that mysteriously what you see, the money collected by anonymous billionaires, the deals that the American president is making with world leaders that benefit himself and maybe others whose names w don’t know. America was always associated with capitalism, business, and markets, but nowadays there’s no pretense hat anyone else will be invited to share the wealth.”

***. “The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.” [Thomas Paine; Common Sense; 1776]

This post presents excerpts from Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum’s. “The Beacon Of Democracy Goes Dark”. [The Atlantic; November, 2025]. Read it and think. Read it and weep. Read it and pray for America. Read it and share it.

4] “The dramatic shift we have undergone in just a few months – away from a foreign policy based on democratic faith and toward the promotion of a more cynical, more authoritarian, view of the world – has hit these institutions hard. The fact that the Trump administration has tried to shut down all of America’s foreign broadcasters is telling.”

6] “The shift against these traditionally bipartisan institutions, against the belief that Americans should defend and promote democracy around the world, and against the democratic faith itself is part of something broader….Donald Trump appears much happier with dictators than with democratic allies.”

10] “The impact of this change around the world will be profound, far-reaching, and long-lasting. The very existence of American democracy inspired people in every corner of the planet, and the decline of American democracy will have the same effect.”

***. “The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.” [George Washington; 4/30/1789; First Inaugural Address]

1]. “Americans have promoted democracy just by existing. Human rights and the rule of law are in our founding documents…..In the 20th century, w moved from simply from modeling democratic ideals to spreading and promoting them as a matter of policy…..During the Cold War, we connected words such as freedom and rights…to our national identity.”

2] “After the Second World War, the dream of American freedom and prosperity strengthened what were initially shaky democracies in Western Europe and Asia, including recently defeated West Germany and Japan. Their political and economic success drew others into the fold.”

3]. “..by putting democracy at the center of our international and national identity, we also helped strengthen our own political system.”

5]. “…it remains the target of a small group of conspiracy theorists who have influence in this administration because they have a large following in X or have appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast.”

***. “Trump has no knowledge of the American story and so cannot have any faith in it. He has no understanding of or 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.” [Anne Applebaum: “Twilight of Democracy”]

7] “Vladimir Putin has banned media that spread “fake news’ – that is, accurate information….Rodrigo Duterte, called Rappler, a famous investigative-reporting site, a “fake news outlet”….In places as varied as Egypt and Myanmar, the fake charge of “fake news” has been used to destroy legitimate journalists.”

8]. “All these changes are part of a larger shift, a revolutionary transformation in the way Americans present themselves to the world, and the way they are therefore perceived by others. The most ubiquitous form of American culture nowadays is…the social media platforms that pump conspiracy theories..”

11]. “More predictable is the impact on americans. If we are no longer a country that aims to make the world better, but a country whose foreign policy is designed to build the wealth of the president or promote the ruling party’s friends, then we have fewer reasons to work together at home. If we promote cynicism abroad, we will become more cynical at home.”

***. “Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it…” [Judge Learned Hand]

Of all the damages to America from the cancer of Trumpism. – what we are learning is this: the damage Trumpism has inflicted on the American soul may be the longest lasting, the most devastating, the most crippling. Trump is truly a CANCER. – a cancer that spreads, a cancer that strangles, a cancer that sucks the life out of us. Pray – on YOUR knees – that America manages to recover our soul……………………..

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXIX. – The ‘con job” that YOU are paying higher prices on. virtually everything !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~ tomdolen

*** “Anybody who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters, cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
[ Albert Einstein ]

YOUR president, one Donald John Trump, wants YOU to believe that prices YOU ARE PAYING on many/most items, some critical survival items – is in YOUR IMAGINATION !!!!! Trump asserts this is all a big Democratic ‘hoax,” a “con job,” false facts – because the Dems are out to persecute him, even worse, ‘hate America.” !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*** “Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.” [ Adolf Hitler ]

Is this Trump BIG LIE lie number 35,xx1 ????? Or – have people stopped counting ???

For YOUR perspective, YOU might want to check on these headlines:

1]. “How the letter. K. describes the shape of the U.S. economy…The wealthy get richer, the poor struggle more.” [Christopher Rugaber; Associated Press; 12/3/25]. More on this later. YOU might want to research the ECONOMIC. FACTS behind WHY economists have documented this.

2]. “As shoppers seek lower prices, Walmart sales rise.” [Jordyn Holman; New York Times; 11/21/25]. Think on this quote: “Higher income shoppers are continuing to shop at Walmart, a sign they are also looking to save money where they can.” The wealthy shopping at Walmart !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3]. “Consumers’ Pain Motivates Trump To Act on Prices….Affordability Effort….Offering New Policies and Messaging as Tariffs Sap Wage Gains”. [Alan Rappeport; New York Times; 11/16/25] !!!!! Trump needs to come out with – new messaging!!!! – i.e. – high prices are really a “hoax,” a ‘con job” !!!!!!!! He won’t help YOU – he just wants YOU to think that he really cares !!!!!!!!! Believe that, and I have this bridge to sell………

4]. “Trump calls affordability concerns ‘a con job’… “It doesn’t mean anything to anybody,’ he says, blames Biden” [Erica Green; New York Times; 12/3/25]. “Trump called the issues of affordability a “fake narrative” and ‘con job’ created by Democrats to dupe the public.” !!!!! SO – when YOU shop. – the higher prices YOU ARE PAYING – are a “fake narrative” – it’s all in your mind!!!!! YOUR credit card bill lies – you didn’t really pay that much!!!!! Does ANYTHING more accurately portray Trump’s CONTEMPT for ordinary Americans – like YOU ????????????/

5] “Survey shows shoppers have less jingle…half say it’s harder to buy the gifts they want.” [Josh Boak, Amelia Thomson-Deveaux; Associated Press; 12/13/25]. “About 4 in 10 are dipping into their savings more than at other times….Roughly 9 in 10 U.S. adults, 87%, say they’ve noticed higher than usual prices for groceries…” SO – there must be a lot of really stupid American adults, right? They’ve been “duped” by those sneaky, diabolical Democrats into THINKING they’re paying more, but not really paying more. – because they fell victim to the Dem’s “con job” !!!!!

*** “There are certain persons for whom pure truth is a poison.” [ Andre Maurois ]

YOU might want to read, just a little, of Pulitzer Prize winner Maggie Haberman’s. “definitive biography” of one Donald John Trump: ‘Confidence Man…The Making Of Donald Trump And The Breaking Of America”. [get the updated version through the 2024 election]

Before reading “Confidence Man”. – YOU might want to think. – WHY – did a Pulitzer Prize winner title a Trump biography. “confidence Man” ?????????? Just WHAT does she know?????

OR –
YOU could have already read Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston’s “It’s Even Worse ThanYou Think…What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America”

OR. –
YOU could research. WHY – some people have said Trump makes up numbers that sound good…………..

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXVII – “Trump Falls Short of His Populist Rhetoric”

~ tomdolen


*** “I play to people’s fantasies. people may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That’s why a little hyperbole never hurts.” [ Donald John Trump: “The Art of The Deal” ]

This post is based on “Trump Falls Short Of Populist Rhetoric” New York Times 11/30/25 editorial. Excerpts below. Read the ENTIRE article.

1] “president Trump talks like an economic populist, forever promising to help consumers, small business owners and, especially, workers….declared himself “the champion of the American worker.” But in his second term, as in his first, Mr. Trump is failing to deliver on that talk.” [NOTE: he DID deliver for fellow billionaires by making his obscene 2017 tax cuts for them PERMANENT. ]

5] “One of the bitter lessons of the past century is that authoritarian regimes have often relied on the concentration of corporate power to consolidate political power. The consolidation of media ownership makes the government more powerful, because it is easier to pressure a few big companies than a fragmented host of independently owned stations.. That possibility is not merely theoretical when the president is attempting to intimidate the media in myriad ways.] [ Do YOU think at least part of Trump’s goal in defunding public radio and TV just might help achieve his aims to eliminate ALL independent groups who could oppose or refute him???????????????]

***. “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” [ Lenin ]

2] “The Trump administration is decimating the federal agencies that police corporations and protect workers and consumers…..under Mr. Trump, there is mounting evidence that the government is cynically wielding its antitrust authority – one of the most important checks on excesses of corporate power – as a means of punishing its enemies, rewarding its friends and consolidating Mr. Trump’s political authority.” [NOTE: read this again. This is WEAPONIZING government power against its citizens. Its also an open COUP against American democracy.]

3]. “None of that was regulation in the public interest…We agree with Anna M. Gomez, the sole Democrat on the F.C.C.’s board, who criticized the agency for “imposing never-before-seen controls over newsroom decisions and editorial judgment, in direct violation of the First Amendment and the law.” [Note: disabling the government from the inside]

4]. “..the F.C.C. is working to clear the way for a media merger that should have raised concerns about the concentration of corporate power….A company that owns a lot of TV stations can more easily..exert [control] over what Americans see on their TVs.” [Note”. do YOU think this is good for democracy???]

*** “Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.” [ Edmund Burke ]

6] “Outside the media, the Trump administration has shown little interest in curbing corporate power…..the Trump record is mostly disappointing….Hewlett Packard hired a number of lobbyists with close ties to mr. Trump, who negotiated with aides to the attorney general, Pam Bondi, bypassing the departments antitrust lawyers.”

7] “Regulators have also set aside efforts to protect workers and small businesses. {under Trump they abandoned Biden era rulings on ‘noncompete’ rules that protected workers by suppressing their wages]

8]. “..one of the Biden administration’s final acts of antitrust enforcement, the F.T.C. sued Pepsi, arguing that the company was offering better deals to Walmart than to smaller grocers….This spring, the F.T.C. dismissed the Pepsi lawsuit.” [Note; is it possible that Walmart can offer lower prices because of. unseen government aid, just asking, YOU tell me………….]

*** Trump: “I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.” [George Will: “Dismal marks, only two months in”; Washington post Weekly; 3/23/25}

9] “congress enacted the nation’s antitrust laws to ensure that private power did not become so concentrated as to threaten the public interest. Government took the side of the people against the powerful.”………. Under the cover of populist rhetoric, Mr. Trump is subverting the nation’s long-standing commitment to those principles. In his hands, laws created to limit the concentration of economic and political power are being used to further its concentration. This administration is not governing in the interest of the people. It is acting in the interest of Mr. Trump.”

***. “The public be damned.” [ William H. Vanderbilt ]

*** “They who possess the prince possess the laws.” [ John Dryden ]

Do YOUR own, FACTUAL, research. WHY do many experts, historians, analysts. [REAL ones, not R-W hacks] say the United States is on the verge, or is IN a second “Gilded Age”????? [the 1865-1901 era of MASSIVE and unrestricted GREED and CORRUPTION. At the end abetted by the “Lochner” era Supreme Court – which leads YOU to research the corrupt Roberts ‘court’ track record of favoring big business and trhe rich – see ‘Citizens United” and more]
ALL of this has been, is being, done under Republican control and “justices.” The elections of 2026 may be YOUR last chance to save American democracy – by restoring what the Founders WANTED, created – when they instituted “checks and balances.” If YOU elect ANY Republicans in 2026 – YOU are giving King Donald I two more years to complete the Trump DICTATORSHIP, and corporate control over YOUR life.

*** “Power must never be trusted without a check.” [ John Adams; Founder; 2nd U.S. President ]

*** “The true test of a good government is its aptitude and tendency to produce a good administration.” {Alexander Hamilton; Founder; Washington administration official]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXVI – Trumpism. Soils. American. Honor

~ tomdolen

***. “Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.” [ Adolf Hitler ]

This post concerns the monumental cruelty and dehumanization currently being done in YOUR name by ‘your’ government in its horrendous and despicable program to “cleanse” America by arresting and terrorizing of the 52 million immigrants, temporary visitors, green card holders, people holding work, student and tourist visas….

Yes, our borders, any borders, need to be controlled. With Trumpism, as in virtually all other policies – the question is HOW it is done. And – as in many/most Trumpist policies, we soon see CRUELTY, STUPIDITY, LIES, CRAZINESS.

This post is based on. “The System Is Meant To Break You”. [ Sarah Wildman; New York Times; 11/23/25]. As a caring and patriotic American – YOU should, you MUST – read the entire article. PLEASE.

5] “The stories we were told call into question both the constitutionality and the morality of how the Trump administration is directing immigration policy. That immorality, once unleashed, may ultimately be aimed at others in this country, regardless of immigration status. If a woman returning from a vacation with her young children can be suddenly removed from her family and her life, how can we believe that any of us will remain safe?”

12] “The Department of Homeland Security maintains that 70 percent of immigration arrests have targeted criminals. The Migration Policy institute and other monitoring groups have found the opposite: As of September, those groups found, some 71.5 percent of people held in detention had no criminal record. Of the rest, many have a record of minor infraction, such as driving with a broken taillight.” [read this again – THIS is the. BIG. LIE ]

14] “…conditions in U.S. immigration detention centers. The report identified more than 500 cases of abuse and neglect, including inhumane treatment of children and pregnant women, between January and August…a second report in October, noting cases of medical neglect and a dire lack of potable water and acceptable food.” [CRUELTY]

15] “The utter disregard for whether people pose any danger to the community or any flight risk is new.”

16]. “But the reason for her detention was a guess. “Never once did we receive any written notice for why she was officially detained.”

17] “”..Ms Rosa…was then transferred to a rat-infested women’s jail in Maine.” [ CRUELTY ]

18] “Then she was released – burt she did not walk out to her lawyer, nor her husband. She was left outside in the rain, with no phone and no money, disheveled and frantic. She walked to a nearby mall and begged a kindly passer-by to use a phone to call her family.” [ CRUELTY ]

***. “Cruelty is the first attribute of the devil.” [ Nani ]

1]. “Ms Rosa..has been a lawful permanent resident of the United States since she was 9 years old; she s now 43. Just weeks before the trip to Cancun, she had renewed her green card without incident. her husband and daughters are American citizens.”

2]. “None of the people we spoke to had a criminal record….All were treated like suspected violent criminals.”

3] “..something different is happening now in the breadth and ferocity of efforts to change the makeup of this country.”

4] “What should give Americans equal pause is the inhumanity happening beyond the cameras.”

6] “There was a disquieting sameness to the horror that was described to us.”

7] “..the Trump team promised the largest mass deportation in American history, a pledge to expel one million people a year, starting with violent criminals. None of the people we spoke to fit that description.”

*** “Our government has kept us in 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 ]

8]. “then the rules seemed to change.”

9]. “the administration is not only deterring newcomers from entering the UnitedStates; it is also effectively encouraging noncitizens who are already here to leave.”

10]. “If you want to produce the deportation numbers that the administration is after, you cannot get those numbers if you focus solely on deporting people who have serious criminal records.” [ THE. BIG. LIE ]

11] ‘..vastly broadening the category of criminality…” [. So – you change the rules, so you HAVE a million ‘criminals” !!!]

13]. “The American immigration detention system has never been known for its humanity.”

***. “Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.” [ Lodovice Ariosto ]

Then – there’s this, from Martin Niemoller: “First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Socialist……………..”

And – “the immorality, once unleashed, may ultimately be aimed at others in this country….how can we believe that any of us will remain safe.?” [. ‘..the bell tolls for thee…”