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Trump and “Project 2025” – Finish Creating the “American” Plutocratic Theocracy

~ tomdolen

“This is a real plan, by people who have been in government, for how to systematically take over, take away rights and freedoms, and dismantle the government in service to private industry..”
“The Heritage plan aims to make it very hard for the government to function. And then you loudly announce that the government can’t do anything.” [“Global Warning”; Zoya Teirstein; December,2024; Mother Jones]

This discussion of “Project 2025” will end with examination of some “Project 2025” roots being in thre old Southern Confederacy, which – given the cruel arrogance of the FAR RIGHT since 1980, should not be a surprise – YOU have just exchanged one “Master” for another.

It’s appropriate to end “Project 2025” evaluation with the slave-owning Confederacy – because that is symbolic of how the arrogant FAR RIGHT sees YOU – as somebody to be exploited. Instead of the old “Fugitive Slave Law” – now we have the “Fugitive Woman Laws”; instead of Black people denied freedoms – now Americans are denied free reproductive rights; instead of Black people being “owned” by slaveholders – now YOU can be “owned” by YOUR employer; instead of Black people denied the right to read – now YOUR school children denied the right to read books that might “upset” them; instead of the exploitive top 1% slaveholders – now we have the exploitive corporations, Wall Street, etc., etc.

It is NOT an accident the modern Republican Party is based in the old Confederacy. It is NOT an accident the post-2015 Republican Party is now a cult led by THER biggest CON MAN in American history – just like the old “Master” telling YOU what the “truth” is. “Deviants” don’t get physically whipped now – but YOU get mentally tortured by getting trashed on the I-net by self-appointed trolls [ !!! or is it Russians !?!?! ]

If Trump “wins election” – YOU may see “1984” in real terms, just 40 years late. In a sense, “Project 2025” is like “Mein Kampf” – except it has over 140 authors instead of one; reflects the combined FAR RIGHT “wish list”. – which VERY SERIOUSLY – intends to take YOU back to ??? 1950, or is it 1900, or is it 1850 ??????

Now, below – SOME of “Project 2025’s” specifics:

1]. “Project 2025 is a blueprint to End the American Dream” [Karen Dolan; l0/15/24; The Progressive Populist]: “Six ways the the right-wing playbook hurts children, families, and our communities – all to make the wealthy a little wealthier..:
A] “Millions..will lose health care..slashes Medicaid..eliminate the Affordable Care Act.rolls back {drug negotiations]…
B] “Children will be sicker, poorer, and hungrier..cuts to food assistance programs..[cognitive damage potential]..
C] “Public schools will suffer..eliminate Head Start…preschool programs..programs for students with disabilities…
D} “Millions of families will be criminalized. Mixed-status families [could be ripped apart]..
E] “Food, water, air will be poisoned..reduces or eliminates..[environmental] regulations…
F] “Only the wealthy win..main goal is yet more tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations..codify inequality..”

2] “Project 2025 will affect every part of life, even weather updates” {Dispatches; 8/15/24; The Progressive Populist]:”..the plot to gut the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including the National Weather Service…the problem with the weather service is that it5 tries to predict the weather: …that involves making people aware..we are experiencing unprecedented rising heat around the globe..something Project 2025 means to stop.”

3] “Project 2025’s Plan to Gut Medicare and Medicaid” [Sonali Kolhatkar; 8/15/24; The Progressive Populist]: “..how a group of former Trump officials would like to transform the country into a right-wing dystopia where the rich thrive and the rest of us die aspiring to be rich…justify ending social programs..[more $$$ to private health care insurers]…

4] “AFL-CIO Guide Shows How Trump Agenda Would Be ‘Catastrophic’ For Workers” [Brett Wilkins; 8/15/24; The Progressive Populist]: “..highlights include: -Banning unions for public service workers [pg.82]; -Firing civil service workers and replacing them with Trump anti-union loyalists [80]; -Letting bosses eliminate unions mid-contract [603]; -Letting companies stop paying overtime [592] and allowing states to opt out of federal overtime and minimum wage laws [605]; -Eliminating chld labor protections [595]; -Urging Congress to pass J.D. Vance’s bill to let employers create their own sham company-run unions [599]”

5]. “Despite Trump’s Denials, he and Project 2025 are close” [E.J. Fagan; 7/18/24; Chicago Tribune}: “Project 2025’s numerous unpopular conservative policy positions..have come under fire. As a result, former President Donald Trump and his allies have attempted to distance themselves…The Heritage Foundation is closer to Trump than it has been to any presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan.”

6] “Destroying life and liberty..A Christian Nationalist playbook outlines a broad scheme to overthrow American democracy and install a theocracy” [Liz Hayes; June,2024; Church & State]: “Project 2025 offers a 900-page playbook for restructuring the federal government in order to accommodate the policy goals of Christian Nationalists…Many sections advocate policies that would undermine church-state separation and religious freedom”:
A] Public Education..”calls for federal funding of “education choice”..code words for {govt $$$ to ANY private school]
B] Abortion & reproductive health care..abortion NOT health care..no birth control.. “abortion surveillance” !!!!!!!…
C] LGBTQ equality – end anti-discrimination protections, return to “Denial of Care Rule”….
D] “Biblical family structures’ – return to “heterosexual, intact marriage”….
E] Foster care discrimination – support for taxpayer-funded groups to discriminate..must pass religious litmus test !!!
F] Public health policies – “..prioritize personal religious beliefs over public health and safety.”
G] Department of labor- end anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ and DEI..employers can discriminate

7] “Project 2025 will guide Trump’s dismantling of democracy” [Editorial Board; 7/18/245′ St. Louis Post-Dispatch]: The Heritage Foundation’s president recently said Project 2025 will drive “a second American revolution” one that “will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be”… some recommendations:
A] strip civil service protections for federal bureaucracy by placing them under direct presidential control
B] greatly expand military’s domestic role, include policing and law enforcement !!!
C] more draconian anti-abortion laws; Orwellian stripping of “offending phrases’ from all federal paperwork !!!
D] Dept of Justice – instead of protecting people, prosecute govts, universities, corporations offending it !!!
E] “..turn the FBI into little more than the personal police force of the president..” {King Donald I ???]
F] repeal environmental and climate programs, regulations; gut EPA & downsize agencies

8} “Legislating inequality…the Christian Confederate roots of Project 2025” [Bruce Gourley; July-August,2024; Church & State]: “Like the ideology of the Confederate States, Christian Nationalists’ Project 2025 advocates for “ordered liberty”…In the slaveocratic South, public safety and rule of law meant..forced enslavement of Black persons…”

“..billionaires rather than common folk fund Project 2025’s opposition to fair corporate taxes, effective business regulations, abortion, women’s rights, human rights, public schols, robust Social Security and welfare programs and adequately public health programs – all of which benefit working families…
“Project 2025’s authors in reality parrot ideology of 1950s and “60s Confederate apologists..’
“In addition to Confederate roots, Project 2025 also reconstructs the U.S. Constitution. In the name of their superior “religious liberty” document authors contort the Establishment Clause..” [thus following in the footsteps of the CORRUPT Roberts “court” of right-wing Christian Nationalists political hacks, who contorted the First Amendment]

“The end goal of Project 2025 is religious privilege and power…a theocratic future of religious-based, white male-dominated ordered liberty and structural inequality within which God’s self-perceived chosen people rule over all others.” [hey – correct me – but doesn’t this sound like the “fictional”. “The Handmaid’s Tale”. being brought to life??? What next – the 1692 Salem Witch Trials – with the prosecutors, all except one, being ministerial men ???

YOU – and ONLY. YOU can prevent this dystopian plutocratic theocracy – by YOUR intelligent, rational, fact-seeking. VOTE. against. Trump and his Republican accomplices. on November 5, 2024

YOU and only YOU – can prevent “Project 2025” from occurring

Trump and Immigration – What IF America Does What He Demands?

~ tomdolen

Please consider the following in making a RATIONAL decision about Trump’s Immigration LIES:

1] “Significant immigration and border proposals introduced in 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2012, 2013, 2021, 2023 AA. FAILED, largely due to REPUBLICAN OPPOSITION… the “Gang of Eight” U.S. Senators [4Republicans, 4 Democrats]..crafted a COMPREHENSIVE proposal to fix imigration 10 years ago, only to watch it die under..REPUBLICAN leadership of House Speaker JOHN BOEHNER…
“The proposal would have provided the kind of industry-specific, thoughtful approach we needed then and still need now…The immigration bill TRUMP. KILLED. this year would have done even more.” [Sabrina Haake; ll/1/24; The Progressive Populist] ****!!!*** read, then re-read this – immigration reform is a problem ONLY. because REPUBLICANS have refused to solve it. – keeping it alive as a political strategy – is this what YOU want???

2] “Data disproves Trump talking points on migrant jobs” [Fatima Hussein; 10/13/24; Associated Press]: “..government data shows immigrant labor contributes to economic growth..a mass deportation event would cost U.S. taxpayers up to a trillion dollars and could cause the cost of living, including food an housing, to skyrocket, economists say…
“..people in the U.S. illegally are not taking native citizens’ jobs because [they are jobs] native workers are unwilling to fill, such as agriculture and food processing jobs…
“Data also shows when there are not enough workers to fill these roles, firms will automate their jobs with machines and technology investments rather than turn to native workers.”

3] “…And How It’d Ruin America” [Mother Jones; September-October, 2024]:
A]. FOOD – “Half of all farmworkers in the United States are undocumented…a 50% decrease in the farm labor supply could result in a 21% increase in..prices of hand-picked crops..
Andrew Mickelson, Idaho potato farmer: “If [immigrant workers] just disappeared overnight, the sector would be devastated..I do not think..we in this country could grow enough food.”
B]. CARE – “Some 350,000 undocumented immigrants work in health care..142,000 are child care workers, personal care aides, and home heralth aides…160,000 are..cleaners and housekeepers…
“When former President Donald Trump talks about mass deportations and enforcement, he’s talking about eradicating the type of quality of life..Americans enjoy right now.”
C]. INFRASTRUCTURE – “..1.4 million [undocumented] people are employed in construction..more than 10% of the entire labor force…Trump’s deportation scheme would grind the construction of new housing to a halt, turbocharging the affordability crisis…”The economy would collapse.”
D]. SOCIAL SECURITY – “Unauthorized workers pay $13 billion a year into the Social Security system through payroll tax deductions, even though they’re not eligible for benefits.”
4} – “Expiration Date..Are We Almost Out of [Cheap] Milk?” [Marcela Valdes; 10/20/24; New York Times Magazine]: “What Peter does know..is that without foreign-born workers, his dairy could not stay afloat. Americans are understandibly reluctant to perform dirty, dnagerous and demanding work…In a 2012 study, Watson estimated..if Idaho cut its supply of foreign-born, less-educated labor by 50%, the state’s G.D.P. would fall by $905 million. In 2024..that number would only be bigger..”

5]. “Where Trump Leads, Immigrants Crucial” [Maya Rao; 10/20/24; Minnesota Star Tribune]: “Farm owner John Rosenow credits immigrant labor with sustaining his business, estimating..at least 90% of workers on Wisconsin dairy farms are unauthorized. He turned to Mexican migrants 25 years ago..when he could no longer find American citizens to do the work.” He believes if Trump does mass deportations, “It would devastate the $45 billion dairy industry in America’s second largest milk processing state.”

6]. “You’re Fired! Trump’s Deportation Plan Would Gut Half Ag Labor Force” [Alan Guebert; 9/1/24; The Progressive Populist]: “That’s a hard truth Trump and his political allies never talk about. Deporting all, most, or even a small number of thrse laborers doesn’t mean thise now-open jobs will be filled by unemployed Americans…”
“The vast economic research..Natasha Sarin.told U.S. News, “suggests just the opposite…GDP would actually fall and inflation would rise under Trump’s plan…The key reason for the job loss is the American labor force isn’t static, it’s dynamic; jobs are interconnected across industries…”
“The Congressional Budget Office..calculated the U.S. labor force will likely grow by 5.2 million people and $7 trillion by 2033 “thanks especially to net immigration..”
***Corroboration: “Immigrant surge steers economy around a recession” [Paul Wiseman, Gisela Salomon, Christopher Rugaber; 4/14/24; Associated Press] – native-born American workers, 25-54 dropping because so many aged out/retiring – “filling the gap has been a wave of immigrants’

******Suggestion: Read. “What If Trump Actually Deports 11 Million People?” – Mother Jones, September-October, 2024

Again – the PROBLEM is this: FEAR. over FACTS. – a recurrent FAR-RIGHT practice, 1980 – 202XXX – THINK!!!

Trump as KLEPTOCRAT; Appointing Political TERMITES; and. – Much More = Unfit For Office

~ tomdolen

This post is excerpts from Pulitzer Prize winning David Cay Johnston’s “It’s Even Worse Than You Think” [2018]. If you consider yourself a patriotic American – read this book !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A] “A single factor defines Donald Trump’s presidency, making it unlike the 44..before…past presidents all shared a trait missing in the Trump presidency…their administrations were about America and its people….The Trump presidency is about Trump. Period.”

B] “Trump himself has reduced his life philosophy to a single word – revenge. “I love getting even.”……”go for the jugular, attack them in spades!”

C]. “His entire life Trump has been a con artist…Trump relies on faux news organizations…millions of Americans..believe Trump is their champion and is being railroaded by Democrats who collude with..journalists who Trump calls..”enemies of the people.”

D]. “…Trump’s mercurial nature…volatile emotions often drove his decisions. So does whatever he heard from the last person he spoke to.”

E]. “…statements showing how he reacts instinctively, often without advice or knowing basic facts..revealing how his ignorance of science and the technology of modern warfare blocks his ability to understand issues when they’re explained to him.”

F]. “Trump articulated clearly..two standards of justice..One..for those in positions of power who shared his views and took actions he liked…The other..was for everyone else.” [207-08]

G] !!!!!!! Illegal immigrants working in the U.S.A.???!???!??? “..records showed..Melania Knauss..worked illegally in the United States in 1995; …the staff at Mar-a-Lago, which for years relied on the very workers Trump wanted kept out – foreigners.” [242-44] ***as in Trump gets to play by his own rules !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

H]. “Trump lacks the emotional stability, knowledge, critical-thinking skills, and judgment to be commander in chief. Emotionally he remains the 13-year-old troublemaker his father sent..to a military academy where..brutality was common.” [253] *****!!! but he’s our champion and we trust him !!!!!!!!!!

I] “Our Constitution is not written to handle someone like Trump,” the political scientist Jason Johnson told me. “That is the greatest danger and greatest harm he is to our country.” [263]

1]. “Trump is the first president to pose numerous questions about whether he is receiving income from foreign governments, which the Framers felt was inherently corrupting.”

2]. “As president, he did not change his long history of refusing to pay contractors, fighting tax bills, and using two sets of wildly different estimates of the value of his properties.”

3}. Three lies in one tweet [pg. 41] on appointing ambassadors!!!!! *****Trump doesn’t follow rules YOU & I do****

4]. The director of the Office of Government Ethics quit, later said Trump’s conduct “risks people starting to refer to us as a kleptocracy.” [*****as in, becoming more like Russia******]

5] Pages 79-92 – how Trump conned voters into a tax plan where most benefits go to the top 1%. – and [94- ] Trump paid at a 3.5% tax rate, or, NOTHING *****how would YOU like to pay 3.5% or nothing???*******

6]. Pages 101-111 – SOME of the Trump lies on his Mexican Wall; violation of the Logan Act

7] Pages 115-142 – attacks on the EPA and science – BECAUSE. science provides REAL facts on why FAR RIGHT business practices are injuring American’s health and prosperity

8] “Stocking the Swamp” – how Trump appoints industry-friendly hacks and crooks to positions; how Wall Street “easily manipulates”. the system.

9]. Trump likes the Saudis because they “buy apartments from me..Am I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.” [158] ***might someone call this a “conflict of interest”??? ***

10]. Trump killed the proposed “Trans-Pacific Partnership” trading alliance WITHOUT China. “Trump’s protectionist instincts..his dark vision of..America run by what he called stupid leaders, included at least two other actions that helped the Chinese..” [165-66]

11] “Trump did more to help the Chinese fulfill their ambitions of becoming a 21st century superpower than anyone else.” [167} **** remember this when China & America go to war****. Trump and greedy “American” corporations gave and ARE giving the Chinese the $$$$$$$$ to build their threat to America and democracy ***********

12]. Trump imported cheap steel from China – COSTING U.S. JOBS – – and “..went to great lengths to hide where the steel came from.” [171]

13] Pages 185-203 – Trump’s destructive education policies – huge budget cuts damage U.S. future – contradict Trump’s “America First” and “Make America Great Again” propaganda slogans !!!!!!!!!!

14] Trump cuts budgets for VETERANS !!! – on mental health, homelessness, disability, unemployment, government hiring freeze – in spite of promises !!! [221-227]. ***hey, gotta pay for the top 1% tax cut somehow !!!!!!!

15]. Trump allows 75,000 people “so mentally ill they’re not allowed control over their finances could easily buy guns.” [232] [just following the CORRUPT Roberts “court’s “thinking” ]

16] “…I relied on public records to illuminate Trump’s conduct, including a major drug trafficker for whom he risked his casino licenses for reasons that..have never been properly explained..” [266]. [ and – consider, “some people are saying” – why didn’t Trump loose those licenses – when others probably would have ….where is THIS going ????? !!!!!]

********. Again – this posting is only a small part of the very large. MOUNTAIN. of DOCUMENTED. evidence why one Donald J. Trump should NEVER be allowed in ANY. public office. – shame on US. if we “vote” him another chance.

Trump – ‘UNFIT FOR OFFICE’ – the Psychiatric Case

~ tomdolen

This post includes excerpts from “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump…37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President”. If you are a patriotic American, wanting crucial info on the 2024 election – this is a MUST read- **** the following are but a SMALL sample of evidence against a second Trump presidency. What is being discovered is this: there is NO way Trump should be allowed to be president again – he is mentally unfit for the job – here’s why:

A] “..Gilligan told Dr. Lee’s town hall attendees, “I don’t say Trump is Hitler or Mussolini, but he’s no more normal than Hitler.” [74]

B} “Donald Trump’s speech and behavior show..he has severe sociopathic traits. The significance of this cannot be overstated.”…no other presidents “have shown sociopathic qualities to the degree seen in Mr. Trump. Correspondingly, none have been so definitively and so obviously dangerous.” [85-86]

C] Clinical psychologist John Gartner: “I will argue..Trump can be both evil and crazy, and that unless we see how these two components work together, we will never truly understand him. Nor will we recognize how much danger we are in…When you combine narcissism, antisocial traits, and paranoia, you get a leader who feels omnipotent, omniscient, and entitled to total power; and who rages at being persecuted by imaginary enemies..all who are not part of the in-group or who fail to kiss the leader’s ring are enemies who must be destroyed.” [92]

D]. “..one more factor:..possibility of neurological disorder…comparing video interviews to Trump from the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s to current video, we find..differences [significant reduction in the use of essential words; an increase in the use of adjectives such as very, huge, and tremendous; and incomplete, run-on sentences that don’t make sense and that could indicate a loss of train of thought or memory} are conspicuously apparent.” [41]

1]. “Trump is a “mirror-hungry” leader..a narcissist whose private feelings of inadequacy must be quenched by..constant adulation of his followers, hence nonstop rallies..filled with chants of hatred, threats of violence..constant references to Trump’s serial lies and fantasy world.” [xx]

2]. “Trump is not Adolf Hitler, but he shares many of Hitler’s disorders, addiction to lies, and appeal to wounded followers through dehumanization of target groups.” [xx]

3] “The dangers stoked by Trump and his toxic triangle of conditions go beyond war. Trump is stoking mass violence..denying any role of his own toxic hate-filled speech..another sign of Trump’s pathology, an utter inability to face..consequences of his own actions.” [xxii]

4]. “The election of Donald Trump is a warning sign for American society..decades-long trends toward economic inequality, environmental destruction..hollowing out of the content of U.S. democracy..are gaining steam. The election of Trump escalated many..processes breaking down traditional institutions in the country.” [xxvii]

5] “..malignant normality, one brought about by President Trump and his administration…Trump’s dangerous individual psychological patterns: his creation of his own reality..inability to manage..inevitable crises..violated American institutional requirements and threatened the viability of American democracy.” [xiviii]

6]. “It doesn’t take a psychiatrist to notice our president [2017-19] is mentally compromised…A man can be both evil and mentally compromised – which is a more frightening proposition. Power not only corrupts but..magnifies existing psychopathologies, even creates new ones.” [iviii-lix]

7]. “Unbridled and Extreme Present Hedonism…How the Leader of the Free World Has Proven Time and Time Again He is Unfit for Duty”. [pages 21-45]: dehumanization, lying, misogyny, paranoia, racism, self-aggrandizement, the narcissistic personality [“I alone can fix it”], the bully personality [“I hope Corrupt Hillary Clinton chooses Goofy Elizabeth Warren as her running mate”], the Trump effect [“I’m gonna bomb the shit out of them”] “

8]. “I Wrote The Art of the Deal with Donald Trump”. [Tony Schwartz]: Trump’s self-worth is forever at risk…..compelled to go to war with the world…..a zero-sum choice for him: You either dominated or you submitted…..His development essentially ended in early childhood…..The life he lived was all transactional…..facts are whatever Trump deems them to be on any given day…..in 1985, the image I had of Trump was that of a black hole….. [64-69]

9] “Trump’s Trust Deficit is the Core Problem” [Gail Sheehy]: “..the biggest concern is that Donald Trump trusts no one…..As president, Trump is systematically shredding trust in the institutions he now commands….. {he} borrowed a phrase from Lenin and Stalin to brand the American media as an ‘enemy of the people’…..Trump operates on..assumption..everyone is out to get him…..giving his subordinates the license to lie…..”manages the situation so it’s never possible for his advisors to know where they stand..the opposite of what you want in a high-functioning organization”…..in..his first 100 days, Trump appeared..increasingly out of touch with the reality in which the majority of us live..” [70-76]

**** Please read, study, think. more – this site posted material on 10/24/24 – more is coming, more appears almost every day – either in warnings about Trump, or, more unhinged speeches and announcements by Trump. Ask yourself – why are groups of former Trump administration workers, 700 – YES !!! seven hundred – former national security people warning against Trump, why are dozens of Nobel Prize winners warning about Trump ????? , and – on and on…. NO OTHER American president or presidential candidate has EVER been discussed concerning their “sociopathic traits” Ask yourself: why do the Russians want Trump to win ???????

PLEASE. – think. VERY. carefully before you vote. Thank you.

Trump as CANCER, as “Unhinged,” as Mentally Unstable, as “Unift For Office, – and MORE

~ tomdolen

This post, and following, will provide “insider” insights as to the 110%, often DOCUMENTED, case; Donald J. Trump is a threat to American democracy, American society, EVERYTHING America has stood for….

1] information from Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston’s “It’s Even Worse Than You Think” is coming, including [pg. 258]: Trump fails tests of “U.S. Army Field Manual” for leadership: “emotionally he remains the 13-year-old troublemaker his father sent..to a military academy..”; “Even by standards of the incurious George W. Bush, Trump is appallingly ignorant.” [253]

2] information from “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump…37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President” is forthcoming, including [pg. XX]: “Donald Trump is a profound danger to Americans and to the rest of the world. He will remain a profound danger until he is no longer president, since the dangers clearly result from Trump’s serious mental impairments that are untreated and are most likely impervious to treatment.”

3] information from “Unhinged..An Insider’s Account of the Trump white House,” including “Trump’s greatest character flaw is his total lack of empathy, which is itself a function of his extreme narcissism. Trump constructs his own reality to make himself look good.” [287] This author won a $1.3 million court-ordered award from Trump campaign.

4] “111 former GOP officials call Trump “unfit ti serve” [9/19/24; P.Baker; New York Times]: this group “..included former officials who served under Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, or George W. Bush.”

5]. “Security leaders endorse Harris”. [9/23/24] [Maggie Astor; 9/23/24; New York Times]: “More than 700 current and former national security and military leaders..arguing that only [Harris] had the temperament and values needed to serve as commander in chief..They argued..former President Donald Trump posed a threat to both national security and the nation’s democracy.”

6]. “The Tempest…A Memoir by a onetime presidential advisor shows how Donald Trump’s insecurities and weaknesses harmed U.S. foreign policy” [Nicholas Niarchos; 9/29/24; New York Times Book Review]: “In tale after tale, McMaster shows how the former president alwed his own prejudices and the petty rivalries within his administration to undermine his policy goals..Time and again, Trump can’t seem to focus on briefings and responds to serious problems with inane suggestions.”

7] “Trump is ‘fascist to the core,” Milley says [10/13/24; Ruby Cramer; Washington Post]: “Retired Gen, Mark A. Milley warned that former President Donald Trump is a “fascist to the core” and “the most dangerous person in this country” in Bob Woodward’s new book, “War.”

8] Bob Woodward, in “War”: “Trump was the most reckless and impulsive president in American history and is demonstrating the very same character as a presidential candidate in 2024.”

9]. “The Trump Testimonials: The Case Against Him, From His Own People” [New York Times editorial board; 10/6/24]: “Scores of people who know him well, including the 91 listed here, have raised alarms about his character and fitness for office..Some have even spoken out at the expense of their own careers or political interests.”
A] Bill Barr, former attorney general: “He will always put his own interests and gratifying his own ego ahead of everything else, including the country’s interest. There’s no question about it.”
B]. Betsy De Vos, education secretary: “It was unclear to me if the president was actually in the mental place to continue to serve as the commander in chief..His behavior had grown increasingly erratic and unnerving.”
C]. John Bolton, national security advisor: “His short attention span {except on matters of personal advantage} renders coherent foreign policy almost unattainable.”
D]. Cassidy Hutchinson, Mark Meadows aide: “Trump’s temperament wasn’t rational..”
e]. Dan Coats, ex-senator, director of national intelligence: “To him, a lie is not a lie. It’s just what he thinks. He doesn’t know the difference between the truth and a lie.”
F]. Rex Tillerson, secretary of state: “His understanding of global events..of global history..of U.S. history was really limited.”
G] Michael Cohen, Trump’s attorney, fixer, confidant, 2006-2018: “I bore witness to the real man..in the unguarded moments when he revealed who he really was: a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man.”
H] Maryanne Trump Barry, elder sister and former federal judge: “You can’t trust him.
I] Mike Pence, vice president: “I belive anyne that puts themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United states..”
J] J.Michael Luttig, retired federal judge: “The former president sought to overturn an American election which he lost fair and square..these claims by the former president and his Republican allies havw corroded and corrupted American democracy and American elections.”
K]. John Kelly, homeland security secretary and Trump’s chief of staff: “A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution and the rule of law.”
L] George Will, conservative political analyst and columnist: “Trump is what he is, a floundering, inarticulate jumble of gnawing insecurities and. not at all compensating vanities, which is pathetic.”

10]. Past J.D. Vance Donald Trump quotes: “Trump is an idiot!..noxious..reprehensible!’; “He’s cultural heroin!”; “He might be America’s Hitler!’; “..unfit for our nation’s highest office!” [Rick McKee; 7/17/24; Cagle Cartoons]

11] “Johnson said Trump unfit to sere in ’15”. [Anne Karni, Steve Eder; ll/l1/23; New York Times]: current House Speaker Mike Johnson: “The thing about Donald Trump is that he lacks the character and the moral center we desperately need again in the White House. – HIS 8/7/15 post.

12] “What 17 of Trump’s ‘Best People”. Said About Him” [Sarah Longwell; 1/21/24; New York Times]: “In the history of presidential cabinets, former President Donald Trump’s stands out for two qualities: turnover and dissension..These appointees didn’t start out opposed to Mr. Trump..But many of them quickly became alarmed by Mr. Trump’s personality, temperament, and policy aims.”
A]. H.R. McMaster: “President Trump and other officials have repeatedly compromised our principles in pursuit of partisan advantage and personal gain.” [national security advisor]
B] Mark Esper, secretary of defense: “I have a lot of concerns about Donald Trump. I have said that he’s a threat to democracy.”
C] John Bolton, national security advisor: “By the time I left the White House, I was convinced he was not fit to be president…I think it is a danger for the United States if he gets a second term.”
D]. James Mattis, secretary of defense: “Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people – does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of thus deliberate effort.”

13] “Trump is increasingly hostile to fact-checking”. [Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey; 10/15/24; Washington Post]: “..Trump and his campaign have waged an aggressive campaign against fact-checking..pushing TV networks, journalism organizations and others to abandon the practice if they he to interact with Trump..the latest example of Trump’s long-held resistance to being called to account for his lies..the bedrock of his political message…The Washington Post Fact Checker team tallied..by the end of Trump’s presidency, he had made 30,573 false or misleading claims – an average of about 21..a day.”

14]. THEN !!!!! – consider the wisdom of this: “World’s oldest person dies at age 117”. [Adela Suliman; 8/22/24; Washington Post]: “She celebrated her 117th birthday earlier this year and credited. “staying away from toxic people”. among the reasons she lived so long.”
***** “staying away from toxic people” !!!!!!!!! with good fortune and people’s good reasoning
at the polls – let us ALL pray America is able to stay away from. THE. most toxic person on
November 5, 2024. – one. Donald J. Trump

15] **** Please remember: the greatest mass murderers; Mao, Stalin, Hitler – DID. NOT. kill 6. or 10 or 20 or. 30. million people themselves. – they had help: enablers, advocates, followers who did the actual dirty work. – if one D.J. Trump wins another term – he will. NOT. be surrounded by the many good, patriotic Americans that thwarted his autocratic tendencies – those people have been systematically removed from consideration. – want proof???? Read. “Project 2025”. – a “conservative”. blueprint for Trump to pursue. the remaining FAR. RIGHT. WISH. LIST. “

The. CANCER of. Trumpism

~ tomdolen

*** There are NO, None, Zero reasons to vote for Trump, or virtually ANY Republican – as Trump OWNS the current “Republican” Party
*** Witness what “Republicans” have done in virtually ANY state they control – the cruelty, the craziness,, the corruption in laws and policies enacted
*** Witness the original 1854-1960 Republican Party of Lincoln, Teddy R., Ike – that in many ways, helped build modern America – THAT Party. is. dead.
*** Witness the 1980-2024 “Republican” Party’s attacks on unions and labor rights; voter suppression; subversion of 1947-75 historic mass middle class prosperity; tax cuts for the rich and corporations; attacks on reproductive health care rights; attacks on Social Security and Medicare; subversion of America’s judicial system; becoming THE FIRST party in American history to be controlled by ONE religious philosophy; subversion of 1787-1980 American governing principles; and….much more………

One of THE most demoralizing, truly frightening aspects of 2015-2024 America is how so many GOOD Americans have been deceived by Trump lies and fear-mongering; how many GOOD Americans drank the kool-aid, entered the cult. THIS is now the subject of MANY unrecorded, private conversations – disbelief so many GOOD Americans suspended rational thinking…. – despair so many GOOD Americans sucked into FAR RIGHT echo-chamber of Alice-in-Wonderland fairy tales…. – fear America will repeat 1932 German election, turn America into the THEOCRATIC PLUTOCRACY that Trumpers and FAR RIGHT have been planning for decades – clearly visible in “Project 2025”, partially visible in known ‘CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST’ plans for YOU.

Examine “letters-to-the-editor” for examples of how GOOD Americans have accepted FAR RIGHT propaganda of the Fox “news”-“Christian media – talk radio. echo chamber, as FAR RIGHT “talking points” are repeated, praised, supported – virtually ALL of them factually FALSE, appealing to often exaggerated fears.

Claims Trump’s economy was better; that Democrats solely responsible for inflation; America is under siege by “hordes of criminal immigrants”; crime is “out of control”; etc., etc. – either FACTUALLY FALSE, taken out of context, ignore Republican efforts to create problems for political gain, ignore documented statistics. Suppose Trump’s 2017-2020 term was 100% during COVID – how “good” would it have been?????????

Do your own research: research 1946-1979 income, wealth, taxes paid, tax rates – versus – 1980-2024 income, wealth, taxes paid, tax rates; research crime statistics, 1950-2024; research immigration rates and Border Patrol funding – WHY are people coming to America & what resources does Border Patrol have?; research 1980-2024 retail prices; find 2024 CEO confessions on how they took advantage of COVID to ARTIFICIALLY jack up prices!!!; WHO, specifically is responsible for 25% food price increases – Joe Biden – or – the 3-4-5 corporations with monopolistic control of YOUR food????????

Research studies of which Party – Republican or Democrat – has created the most jobs, has passed labor-friendly and consumer-friendly policies and laws. [ hint – it ISN’T the GOP!!!! ]

Research studies on fascism, authoritarianism, religious freedom, voter suppression, what 1789-1939 Supreme Courts said about the Second Amendment and early state courts ruled, about DELIBERATE disinformation,, WHY America NOW has record numbers of billionaires & centi-millionaires, WHY native-born Americans are having fewer children.

Example!. of! Far! Right! thought!!!: “..Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. asserts that Washington used weather control technology to steer Helene toward Republican voters in order to tilt the presidential election toward Democrat Kamala Harris.”!!!!!!!!!!! [10/7/24; Assoc. Press] Examination of past hurricanes would indicate Washington has been guilty of doing this since 1789 !!!!!!!! – since most hurricanes hit the southern U.S. How many will believe THIS obvious lie???

Research effects of Trump’s 2017-2020 economic policies – blew up national debt with tax cut for rich and corporations; tariffs were a tax on YOU; effects of trade war with China cost U.S. farmers markets; his 2025 plans already shown to damage the U.S. economy [10/8/24]: Trump’s plans “..could inflame the nation’s debt burden while ultimately raising costs for a vast majority of Americans, according to a pair of new economic analyses..among the most in-depth studies..of the GOP nominee’s plans.” How can ANYBODY say Trump’s better for the U.S. economy?????????

Read Barbara McQuade’s “Attack From Within,” chapter one: “The Authoritarian Playbook” – “Aim for the Heart: Emotion over Reason”; “Divide: With Us or Against Us”; “..And Conquer” Shut Down Critics”; “Stoke Violence: Normalize Cruelty and Violence”: “Man and Superman: ‘Regular Guy’ Who Can Solve Problems” – Trump’s done all of this. Chapter two: “From Gaslighting to the Liar’s Dividend: Disinformation Tactics” – “Destroy Truth”; “Go Big”; “Repeat, Repeat”; “Look Over There”; “Insult Them to Death”; “Keep It Simple”; “Reflexive Control”; “They’re Not Attacking Me, They’re Attacking You”. – Trump [and Hitler, Putin]. have done all this

Read James Gilligan’s “Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous Than Others” – when Republicans controlled the White House, America suffered “epidemics of violent death..The reasons are all too obvious: rates of every form of social and economic distress, inequality, and loss – unemployment, recessions, poverty, bankruptcy, homelessness also ballooned..those in the population who were most vulnerable have “snapped,” with tragic circumstances for everyone..until..Democrats, regained the White House.”..[reduced the causes]..”This pattern has bveen documented since 1900.”

Guns and crime? Research the ORIGINAL Second Amendment – that had a provision for “conscientious objectors” people objecting to MILITARY SERVICE – what the Second Amendment is MEANT to cover – NOT “guns for everybody.” “Law and Order”??? – Trump – virtually his entire adult life, considered himself to be above ANY laws: draft, taxes, business practices, Constitution. – note recent criminal evasions and delays [YOU would already be jailed!!!]

“Separation of Church and State”? – read Edwin Gaustad’s “Faith of the Founders,” Appendix B, pages 134-45. 8 original states banned active ministers serving in their gov’t; 4 banned a “religious test for office” [Article VI]; 10 banned existence of “an established church” [Amendment One]. 1776 North Carolina Constitution, Articles XXXIV: “..neither shall any person, on any pretense whatsoever, be compelled to attend any place of worship contrary to his own faith or judgment, nor be obliged to pay, for the purchase of any glebe, or the building of any house of worship, or for the maintenance of any minister or ministry, contrary to what he believes right..” CAN THERE BE ANY DOUBT?????? – “not on any pretense whatsoever”. – are YOU compelled to support any church YOU don’t want to – any ANY way.

Immigration????? – which 2024 presidential candidate ORDERED “Republican” Senators to vote against a BIPARTISAN comprehensive immigration law authored by one of THE most “conservative” Senators. – so he could run his campaign against “lack of immigration enforcement”????????? – name a tactic more CYNICAL & Corrupt than this.

Are YOU, unknowingly, believing and repeating Russian and Chinese propaganda? It’s DOCUMENTED, beyond question, Russia and China want to destroy ANY democracy – because it’s a threat to them. Also DOCUMENTED, beyond question, Russia supported Trump in 2016, 2020, 2024. WHY does Putin want Trump to win?????????????
Russia and China promote chaos, division, controversy in America – on any issue – get us fighting each other rather than them. They want YOU to question democracy, election integrity, American gov’t; to believe America is in decline.

What does Trump repeatedly say

***** The Far Right intends to create an American theocratic plutocracy – have already achieved some of their goals [rich & corporate tax cuts, non-enforcement of anti-trust laws, corrupt Roberts ‘court” rulings: immunization, hamstringing gov’t, “religious rights’, “Shelby”, “Citizens United”]. “Project 2025” is a Far Right wish list to complete the job, with much obscuring “code talk.” “Christian Nationalists” have their own plans for their version of what the Taliban has accomplished in Afghanistan. Trump’s worst instincts were thwarted by GOOD, patriotic Americans in 2017-2020. That “mistake” won’t be made if Trump wins – he’ll be surrounded by “loyalists.”

***There is NO good reason to vote Trump in 2024 – but many BAD, antidemocratic ones. THE greatest con man EVER is working THE greatest con EVER – for the American presidency. Donald J. Trump is a CANCER – on American society and democracy. America will NEVER be “normal”, NEVER be healthy as long as Trumpism FESTERS on the American body politic.
YOU don’t want to have to lie, to YOUR children & grandchildren, about YOUR 2024 vote. PLEASE – think very carefully about America – as it was 1789-1980; as it could be again – without the threat of a con man demagogue like Donald J. Trump – anywhere near any kind of power.