*** “The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.”
[ Adolf Hitler ]
1]. “When ICE came for a U.S. citizen and army veteran’: “The ICEmen were presumably looking for undocumented immigrants. Retes’s driver’s license, which he says the ICEmen never asked to see, identifies him as “Veteran Army.” His license plate includes “DV”: disabled veteran. While ICE’s warriors were trying and ultimately succeeding in smashing his driver’s-side window [the better to pepper spray him], they apparently did not notice his rear window’s “Iraq Combat Veteran’ sticker.” [read this again – 3 chances to see who Retes is – ignored]
***. “It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” [ Machiavelli ]
2] “Amid a torrent of shouted and contradictory ICEmen commands…after he asked for an agent’s badge number…Retes was dragged from his car…wrists zip-tied behind his back…seated on the ground for 4 hours…taken to a Navy base…strip searched…incarceration…handcuffs. No charges…mouth swab collected his DNA without his consent…requests for a lawyer…a shower to ease ..tear gas and pepper spray [discomforts]..ignored. After3 days…charges dropped.” [ George Will: “When ICE came for a U.S. Citizen and Army veteran’; Washington Post; 10/26/25 ]
Note: Hopefully, when YOU, a PATRIOTIC American read this – YOU are angry. As details above relate, NONE of this should have happened. – he had I.D. ON HIM. – which they could have verified ON THE SPOT – refused. They have quotas to meet.
*** “Some things are not forgivable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable.” [ Tennessee Williams ]
THEN – THIS; ‘American Gulag… The brutal rollout of Trump’s police state.” [ Mother Jones; November-December, 2025 EVERY American should, MUST, read this.
3] “When it comes to President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, cruelty has always been the point, but anti-immigrant animus is now being paired with unprecedented funding, manpower, and technology….The new immigration is everywhere, rife with conflicts, and it’s only just begun.”
4]. “Force Multiplier…How the GOP bankrolled ICE [ $74.9 billion] to unleash an army of masked agents on America.” 50 NEW detention centers. KNOW THIS ; 70% of people in detention in august HAD. NO CRIMINAL. CONVICTIONS. Another BIG Trump. LIE.
5]. “Minority Report”. – no-bid contracts to connected people. “The perils of this extend beyond mere immigration, privacy experts warn. The growing surveillance infrastructure could be ‘deployed by an authoritarian executive to coerce and control the US population at scale,”….
***. “The kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.” [ King Solomon ]
6] “Camp Fear…Florida’s troubled tent city has inspired copycats across the country” “According to an ACLU lawsuit, exposure to sun and mosquitos is “used as form of punishment and retaliation, with restrained individuals placed outside for hours at a time to be bitten and sun burned.” “An immigration lawyer called conditions at Alligator Alcatraz ‘psychological warfare..”
7] “Random House”. Small firm with NO experience in incarceration gets $1.3 billion deal….. 4 more examples of contracts and their “Trump connection”…. former ICE official: “The Fort Bliss deal is “a giant pass-through to other companies.” [ NOTE ; corruption, anybody???????}
*** “The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don’t ask for their love, only their fear.” [ Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler ]
NOTE: Remember what was said above: “It is a mistake, ” the center noted, “to think about what the Trump administration is doing now as ‘immigration enforcement.” Trump is using immigration powers as the vehicle for activities of his militarized police force.”
And also this: Without last minute compromises, on November 1, 2025. – 42 million Americans will suddenly be left without government-aided access to food. – but this same government – YOUR government is spending $75 billion to TERRORIZE people, inside THIS country. It is making a choice – either feed its own citizens. – or. -build a police state.
***. “Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.” [ Terry Pratchatt ]
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The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXI – “Bow To The Emperor
*** “The accumulation of all power, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many; whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” [James Madison, 1788}
THE GOOD NEWS: on October 18th, 7 million PATRIOTIC Americans turned out for 2000 rallies held in all 50 states. Other rallies occurred in foreign nations. The NO KINGS” rallies showed Americans are waking up to Madison’s warning. King Donald I NOW controls all 4 branches of the U.s. government – House, Senate, Executive, Judiciary. Daily examples of STUPIDITY, CRUELTY, CORRUPTION, CRAZINESS are reported. Many more not reported.
THE BAD NEWS: The Trump DICTATORSHIP’s war on the “rule of law” continues. This post centers on Emily Bazelon”s “Bow To The Emperor” article in the 10/19/25 New York Times Magazine. If YOU. are a patriotic American – this is a MUST read. Some excerpts presented here. Read the entire article. Look at WHO is talking – 50 members of the legal establishment, 25 Republicans, 25 Democrats. look at WHAT they’re saying – the Trump DICTATORSHIP is a BIG threat to American “rule of law.” Look at WHY they say this. look at the fact their level of CONCERN has increased in Trump’s 9 months in office. Look at their FEARS.
*** “The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask a justice.” [ Justice Robert Jackson]
1] “A majority of our respondents told us they were alarmed about a potential second Trump term given the strain he put on the legal system the first time around……”What’s happening is anathema to everything we’ve ever stood for in the Department of Justice.”…..almost universal fear and anguish over the transformation of the Justice Department into a tool of thenWhite House.”
2]. “Just as chillingly, the new survey reflects near consensus that most of the guardrails inside and outside the Justice Department, which in the past counterbalanced executive power, have all fallen away…..But many of them – more so than last year – don’t want to speak on the record. These are people with stature in their world…But now they’re worried about retribution, for their law firms or their family members, if they draw Trump’s ire
3] “All but one of the respondents rated Trump’s second term as a greater or MUCH greater threat to the rule of law than his first term. They consistently characterized the president’s abuses of power – wielding the law to justify his wishes – as being far worse than they imagined before his re-election…….And every single one of the 50 respondents believe that Trump and his attorney general, Pam Bondi, have used the Justice Department to go after the president’s political and personal enemies and provide favors to his allies.
*** “Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.” [George Bernard Shaw]
4] “To measure the degree to which the Department of Justice has changed…at the end of his first presidency, Trump insisted that the department investigate ‘fact free claims”….Barr had been Trump’s close ally. but in late December 2020, he resigned rather than give in to the president’s demands….other remaining top officials said that they too would resign rather than use the department to seek to overturn the election….”No one in the room now will say no,” said the Justice Department official from Trump’s first term.
5]. “Several legal experts told us they began worrying on the day Trump retook office…pardons and commutations to the Jan. 6 rioters – unraveled the work of what prosecutors have said is the Department of Justice’s largest-ever investigation. Trump alsofired lawyers who worked on the Jan.6 cases.”….
“..in February, Emil Bove..was appointed second in command at the Justice Department, ordered Danielle Sassoon..to drop an active corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams. Sassoon resigned, saying…It was a clear example of quid pro quo….At least 10 more career prosecutors resigned…..”
6] “In June, Trump nominated Bove for a lifetime appointment to a federal judgeship…..Several respondents raised Bove’s ascension as a sharp break from the past. Trump also stunned many of them when he issued a flurry of executive orders in march and April targeting big law firms perceived as being aligned with Democrats.”
***”Great is the mischief of a legal crime.” [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
7]. “Just as notable, in the eyes of many of our respondents, is the work these firms and others are NOT doing for fear of Trump….Thirty-three said that big firms as a group are doing little or nothing to constrain excessive uses of presidential power.” [Note re-read this, think what it means]
8} “More than any step the president has taken, according to a lawyer from the Reagan solicitor general’s office, Trump’s bullying of law firms has undermined the rule of law.” [NOTE: read THIS again, PATRIOTIC American}
9]. “In Trump’s Justice Department..retribution has been institutionalized. In February, Bondi created a “weaponization working group” to investigate “abuses of the criminal justice process.” She instructed the group to look into people who prosecuted Trump. To the dismay of some of our respondents, the head of the working group, Ed Martin, promised to smear the reputations of any target he couldn’t indict…a clear violation of Justice Department policy.”
***. “Crime is contagious. If the government becomes lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.” [ Justice Louis Brandeis ]
10]. “In September, Trump trampled whatever remaining hope prosecutors had of exercising their judgment independent of the president. Trump forced the resignation of Erik S. Siebert, the U.s. attorney in Eastern Virginia who had concluded there wasn’t enough evidence to charge Comey….On social media, Trump ordered Bondi tontake action ‘NOW!!!” against Comey…Adam Schiff…Letitia James……The next day, news broke that Trump’s Justice Department COLSED an investigation into Tom Homan, Trump’s so-called border czar, who was recorded last year accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover F.B.I. investigation.” [NOTE; read this again – this is “justice’ in Trump’s “America.” ]
11]. “The firing of the Jan. 6 prosecutors, the resignations over the Adams case, Martin’s conduct and the indictment of Comey – each step corroded the Department of Justice in the eyes of our respondents. “It’s all about dismantling the institution”…”And the message to everyone in the department is that if you speak up, something could happen…you’d better bow to the emperor.” [Note: read this again – patriotic American]
12] “..all 50 believe that Congress, which framers intended to be the most powerful branch…is doing very little – or nothing at all – to fulfill its role of restraining the president. “The greatest threat,’ said Stuart Gerson, an assistant attorney general for President George H.W. Bush, “comes with the probability that the president is on the road to assuming autocratic powers and that the Congress has allowed its countervailing constitutional powers to wither.”
*** “Power may be justly compared to a great river which, while kept within its due banks is both beautiful and useful; but when it overflows its banks, is then too impetuous to be stemmed, it bears down all before it and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes.” [ Alexander Hamilton ]
13]. “Some former officials said the Supreme Court set the country up for disaster by ruling in July 2024 that presidents are immune from criminal prosecution for most of their official actions…Nancy Gertner ..[said].. “I believe that they are fully on board with enabling him.” {NOTE: Patriotic Americans, knowing that “impeachment’ is in the Constitution by SPECIFIC Founders’ intent, think on this – which MANY other scholars have said}
14] “All but one of our respondents said they were concerned or very concerned about Department of Justice attorneys failing to tell the truth in court, which judges across the country have complained about….The reactions of judges like Alsup signal how lawyers who used to uphold the standards of the legal profession are compromising them to adapt to the Trump era. “ThenD.O.J.’s loss of credibility is devastating to the rule of law,” said William Yeomans..”
15] >>”>>>Trump is cowing people and institutions in a way that could change the foundation of America’s system of government.” [NOTE: PATRIOTIC American, think on THIS]
*** “Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.” [ John Locke ]
TEAM Right Wing Republican REACTIONARIES – CORRUPT Roberts ‘court” MAKES UP Another Decision
*** “It is a very dangerous doctrine to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions. It is one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.” [ Thomas Jefferson, 1820 letter ]
Increasingly, the CORRUPT 6-3 Reactionary Republican ‘supreme court” majority is demonstrating Jefferson’s fears. Consider their PATTERN ; Shelby County; refusal to oppose Gerrymandering – recognized for 200 years as an antidemocratic abomination; giving ANY president – let alone one D.J. Trump – “immunity” [if the Founders intended that, why is impeachment of a president in the Constitution???]; 9 months of “Shadow Docket” decisions allowing Trump’s dictatorial decisions; and now – removing injunctions by lower courts as a way of restraining Trump’s often BLATANT authoritarian decisions and actions.
This PATTERN is UNMATCHED in American legal history for its antidemocratic and unconstitutional scope and damage. With most other U.s. presidents, this would have been a lesser threat – with a deeply flawd person like Donald John Trump – possibly fatal to American rule of law and democracy.
*** “As a member of this Court, I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.: [Justice Felix Frankfurter]
Consider excerpts from “Ending Nationwide Injunctions Will Let Trump Do His Worst”. [Sabrina Haake; The Progressive Populist; August, 2025]
1]. “The partisan majority chose instead to strike nationwide injunctive relief, a disastrous ruling that gave Donald Trump the green light to continue sh*tting on the Constitution. As a 30-year federal litigator, I am outraged. I don’t see how the rule of law survives this decision, handed down when our executive is so clearly and demonstrably unhinged.”
2]. “What the Republican majority did was outrageous…they struck down nationwide injunctions, the main tool federal courts have used to stop Trump from bulldozing the Constitution…It gives Trump license to trammel every law, every clause, and every amendment in the Constitution.”
***. “A judge can’t have any agenda. A judge can’t have any preferred outcome in any particular case. And a judge certainly doesn’t have a client. The judge’s only obligation – and it’s a solemn obligation – is to the rule of law.” [Samuel A. Alito, Jr. – opening statement in his Senate confirmation hearing; January 9, 2006] !!!!!!!!!! [NOTE: YOU be the judge on whether “justice’ Alito has honored this pledge – any doubt/ – read “Dobbs”; study Alito’s PATTERN on the ‘court.”]
3] “Just as these same partisan hacks did in Dobbs to erase abortion rights that had been in existence for 50 years, Trump v. Casa erased the history of nationwide injunctions, by focusing on what happened in the 1700s and 1800s instead of our more recent, and relevant, history
“Nationwide injunctions have been used in the U.S. for over 100 years. They are the strongest and surest remedy to keep elected officials from violating federal law or the constitution. Now, in service to Trump, that remedy has been removed, and protection for the little guy has been erased.”
4]. “Everyone who wants to stop Trump from illegally harming them now has to sue, and appear personally before the court , or join a class action, which can take years to certify. I defended class actions for over 15 years – they are an expensive, time consuming and cumbersome way to try to fight back against the government.” [NOTE: this too, is a Roberts “court” PATTERN – on paper you have a right , but exercising it is made much more difficult]
*** “..;Thomas himself vowed on the day of his confirmation, at the age of forty-three, that he intended to spend the next forty-three years of his life as a Supreme Court Justice. It would take that long, he told friends, to get even.” [Jane Mayer, Jill Abrahamson: “Strange Justice,” page 360] [NOTE: YOU decide: has Clarence Thomas achieved his promise “..to get even.” ??????????]
5] “Sotomayor’s outrage is also palpable. She continues: “In partially granting the Government’s remarkable request, the Court distorts well-established equitable principles several times over.”
6]. “The Roberts court is well aware of what Trump is doing…They know exactly what is happening, but shamefully choose to look away and let Trump do his worst AFTER they gave him immunity to break criminal laws.”
***. “If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.” [ Justice Louis Brandeis ]
7] “Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent hit hard: “the Court’s decision to permit the Executive to violate the Constitution with respect to anyone who has not yet sued is an existential threat to the rule of law.”
***. “I have always thought that one of this Court’s most important roles is to provide a formidable bulwark against government violation of the constitutional safeguard securing in our free society the legitimate expectations of every person to innate human dignity and sense of worth.” [ Justice William Brennan ]
Ask YOURSELF: does the 20-year record of thre Roberts “court” uphold the Constitution’s requirements of “..establish Justice…promote the general Welfare..”??? The two BIG winners; corporations and the Religious Right. The Reactionary Republicans claim to be “originalists” or “textualists.” But their decisions aren’t. They’ve LIED, made up, misrepresented, ignored contrary evidence. They pick cases they can USE to aid the 50-year Right Wing agenda.
In 1947-73, America approached being a TRUE democracy, a mass middle class prosperous society. THEN – the Empire struck back. The Burger and Rehnquist “courts” chipped away. The Roberts ‘court” has, is, moving America toward the Far Right goal of a Theocratic Oligarchy, case – by – case.
Look at the RESULTS of major Roberts ‘court’ decisions in cases ‘big’ and ‘small.” The America of 2025 is a shadow of 1947-73 America economically, socially, politically, ethically – by DESIGN. The Roberts ‘court” has exacerbated America’s problems with virtually every major decision, and many ‘lesser” ones.
They’ve topped this off – so far – with making the ANTI-George Washington a virtual dictator, who issues one stupid, irrational, destructive order and decision after another.
***. “Power corrupts, and unrestricted power will tempt Supreme Court justices just as history tells us it has tempted other judges. For, unfortunately, judges have not been immune to the seductive influences of power, and given absolute or near absolute power, judges may exercise it to bring about changes that are inimical to freedom and good government.” [ Justice Hugo Black ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXX. – TrumpGate Worse Than Teapot Dome and Watergate
*** “I have always tried to treat white-collar criminals like other criminals. It still bothers me that Richard Nixon escaped that equal treatment….If Nixon had had the character of President Eisenhower, or any honest president, this scandal [Watergate] would never have happened….I hope no political party will ever stoop so low as to embrace the likes of Richard Nixon again.” [ John J. Sirica, former federal judge ]
This post presents excerpts from Jacob Silverman’s. “Teapot Dome and Watergate: They’re Nothing Next to this”. [New York Times; 10/19/25]:
1] “If you were an authoritarian seeking to influence another head of state, you might offer him a luxuriously appointed Boeing 747 airplane. You might spend big at his hotels or invest in one of many companies owned by him and his children. You might buy his sneakers, NFT’s and other branded products. In the case of President Trump, a potential influence peddler has a vast menu of choices.”
***. “No punishment, in my opinion, is too great for the man who can build his greatness upon his country’s ruin.” {George Washington; 12/12/1778]
2] “With World Liberty, Mr. Trump has created a powerful vehicle for those seeking influence. Anyone – you, me, an Emirati prince – can put money in his pocket by simply buying the tokens the company issues. The key is the convenience factor.”
***. “..no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of Congress, accept any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.” [ U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 9 ]
3]. “We’ve never seen anything like this before. You can tick off notorious executive branch scandals…but none of them featured this scale of mixing of personal and government interests, much less the sheer accumulation of profit, of Mr. Trump’s multibillion-dollar crypto windfall.”
***. “Uncontrolled power, in the hands of an incensed, imperious and rapacious conquerer, is an engine of dreadful execution; woe to that country, over which it can be exercised.” [ Thomas Paine, 1780 ]
4]. “But the greater risk concerns Mr. Trump and the huge amount of money that powerful overseas actors can potentially funnel toward him. if you are a head of state, it is in your direct political interest to buy Mr. Trump’s tokens or invest in one of his crypto ventures.” [ Question – just asking – Vladimir Putin is said to be one of the world’s richest men. “Our” president has consistently refused to REALLY stop Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Just asking. – do YOU suppose Putin has bought a considerable of Mr. Trump’s “crypto ventures”? – Just asking………… ]
***. “There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.” [Ludwig von Mises]
5] “In another era [in other words, a few years ago] we would have already had congressional hearings and law enforcement investigations into the president’s crypto business interests. But the Supreme Court’s recent decision related to presidential immunity signals that such moves could end up being practically superfluous.”
***. “The point is you can’t be too greedy.” [ Donald John Trump – “The Art of the Deal” ]
6]. “>>>to start his term, Mr. Trump fired 18 inspectors general, who might otherwise have been able to investigate and shine light on the crypto activities of this administration. In February, he ordered the Justice Department to suspend enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits the bribery of foreign officials.” Note: items 1-6: Jacob Silverman: “Teapot Dome and Watergate; They’re Nothing Next to This”; New York Times; 10/19/25]
***. “Wherever there is power, greed, and money, there is corruption.” [ Ken Poirot ]
We close this post with words from Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston’s. “It’s Even Worse Than You Think,” written in 2018 about Trump’s first term:
“Our Constitution is not written to handle someone like Trump,” the political scientist Jason Johnson told me. “That is the greatest danger and harm he is to our country.”………….
“For the next thirty-five years or so, the standard for what you can get away with as long as you are in power and stay in power has been lowered to a level I don’t think any of us can fully appreciate today,’ he said.”
[Note: Trump ordered the demolishing of the White House’s East Wing – without going through proper procedures – AND – despite his assurance that nothing like this would happen – AND – supposedly, it is being paid for by his billionaire friends !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXVIII – One Day!!!!!
***** “Trump lacks the emotional stability, knowledge, critical-thinking skills, and judgment to be commander-in-chief.” [Pulitzer Prize winer David Cay Johnston: :It’s Even Worse Than You Think”]
!!!!! – Headlines – from just ONE DAY! – reveal part of the Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness of the Trump DICTATORSHIP – Thursday, October 9, 2025:
1] “Canceled energy projects to hike costs…Trump’s funding cuts likely to end up hurting ratepayers, officials say” [Kristoffer Tigue; Minnesota Star Tribune]: “That’s because Minnesota’s transmission projects, which are part of a larger initiative to add transmission lines across seven states, will have to be built anyway.”
2]. “25% of FBI agents now diverted to immigration” [Perry Stein; Washington Post]: “The intense focus on immigration has raised alarm among current and former FBI agents who say morale is low across the bureau as agents have less time to dedicate to the often complex cases they were hired to work on.
“Agents have been pulled from duties related to cybercrimes, drug trafficking, terrorism, counterintelligence, and more.” ………
“We are weakening ourselves by the day, said Chris O’Leary, a former FBI senior executive and special agent.”
[NOTE: this is NOT THE FIRST concern on this – America’s defense against our REAL enemies – China, Russia – are being sabotaged. The public does NOT realize how DEEP and BROAD Trump’s administration has hurt American national security.]
3] “Fossil fuel firms get special treatment…As White House blocks renewables, coal and oil get ‘concierge’ service.” [Jake Spring; Washington Post]: “Trump wants to boost production of oil, gas, coal and critical minerals that align with his policy favoring fossil fuels to address his self-declared national energy emergency.” [NOTE: what is China doing? What does SERIOUS research say the FUTURE is going to require???]
4] “Nearly 300 Defense Dept. employees targeted over Kirk…Hegseth ordered probe into whether any online comments were critical” [Noah Robertson, Tara Copp; Washington Post]: “The sweeping, ongoing inquiry..follows an extraordinary directive by the department’s political leadership to silence criticism of a prominent, polarizing figure who was unabashed in his views and fervent support for President Donald Trump.”….
“..deepens alarm over the former Fox News personality’s stewardship of the military, whose personnel are expected to remain loyal to the Constitution, not any one party or president.” [NOTE: THIS is the Trump DICTATORSHIP in action]
5]. “James Comey pleads not guilty…His lawyers say case is vindictive prosecution against critic of Trump” [Eric Tucker, Alanna Durkin Richer, Michael Kunzelman; The Associated Press]: “..the case has amplified concerns the Justice Department is being weaponized in pursuit of the Republican president’s political enemies and is operating at the behest of an administration determined to seek retribution.” [NOTE; what’s the difference between this and Stalin, Hitler, Putin, Communist China???]
*****. “In Trump’s world [lies] are standard operating procedure…Trump’s lies appear to have pushed the same thought stopping buttons used by cult leaders – shutting down critical thinking; employing us versus them thinking; and using emotional manipulation to gain sympathy for the leader while at the same time drumming up animosity toward the media.” [Steven Hassan: “The Cult of Trump”]
6]. “Trump” Pritzker ‘should be in jail’…Illinois governor decries “path to full-blown authoritarianism.’ [Michelle Price, Sophia Tareen; The Associated Press]: “The Republican president made the comment in a social media post, the latest example of his brazen calls for his Democratic opponents to be prosecuted or locked up – a break from longtime norms as the Justice Department traditionally has strived to maintain its independence from the White House.”
7]. “U.S. soybean farmers race to harvest but have few buyers…China, normally the biggest customer, has booked no shipments.” [Michael Hirtzer, Erin Ailworth; Bloomberg News]: “Soybeans are typically America’s most-valued agricultural export.” [NOTE: Trump’s tariffs in action. As farmers and economists have said; once you lose markets, they may be difficult to regain.]
*****. “More surprising than Trump’s lack of knowledge of geopolitics is his ignorance of economics, the field in which he was given a bachelor’s degree.” [D.C. Johnston: “It’s Even Worse Than You think”]
JUDGING A PRESIDENT: Start with the Constitution. The Founders said American government’s purpose is; ‘..form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, secure ther Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity…”
SO – individually, and collectively, ignoring what Trump SAYA. – what exactly is the REALITY of his actions – rhetoric, policies, programs, laws, executive orders???
Look at the 7 actions of just this one day. – in one or more ways. – EVERY one of the 7 Trump actions FAILS the test of the Constitution. They may make his ‘base” happy, they may make authors of “Project 2025″ happy, they may make his billionaire donors and friends happy. The United States is. NOT a better, more prosperous, more ‘democratic” nation because of Trump’s actions above; nor did Trump leave America a better country when he left office in January, 2021; nor have his actions in 2025. “made America great again.”
According to current statistics, 70% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck; the economy is being driven by top 20% spending; 50% of ALL U.S. spending is by the top 10%; 80% fell ‘squeezed;” 70% question ‘the American Dream;” inequality is statistically getting worse. NOTHING Trump has done even attempts to lessen this distress.
Trump’s biggest first term “achievement’ was an IMMORAL tax cut for the rich – now 25% of U.S. national debt. in his second term, he demanded a Republican Congress make that immorality PERMANENT. YOU tell me – how does this tax cut for the already obscenely rich ‘..promote the general Welfare..”???????????
***** “The governments of the past could fairly be characterized as devices for maintaining in perpetuity the place and position of certain privileged classes, without any ultimate protection for the rights of the people. The Government of the United States is a device fro maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.” [ Calvin Coolidge, Republican 30th president, 1924 ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXVII – Making American Health Care WORSE
*** “All the other countries..have made a different moral decision. All the other countries like us..guaranteed medical care to everyone who gets sick..have concluded that everybody has a right to health care – and they provide it. One result is that most rich countries have better national health statistics…Yet all the other rich countries spend far less on health care than the United States does…most developed countries manage health care without resorting to “socialized medicine.” [ T.R. Reid: “The Healing of America” ]
1] “Barely eight months into his second term, president Donald Trump has disrupted, depleted, and desecrated our nation’s already fragile health care system, putting millions of lives in jeopardy. A new Public Citizen report, “The Rise of Trump’s Dangerous Health Cabal,” highlights the threats posed by Trump’s health care appointees – not just to the agencies they’re supposed to run, but also to patients, providers, and the programs they rely on.” [“Trump and Allies Threaten to Worsen Health Care, Putting Lives at Risk”; Public Citizen News; Sept/Oct, 2025]
*** “It was no accident that American health care became a profit center for Wall Street…..To encourage Wall Street to step in, The Reagan administration embarked on an ambitious plan to sell investors and venture capitalists on investing in health care.” [Donald Barlett & James Steele: “Critical Condition”]
2] “Robert F. Kennedy, jr.’s efforts to undermine vaccines in America are not just scientifically absurd. they’re also financially ruinous…vaccines save money….Health insurance companies know this; that’s why they make flu shots free….Employers know this, too: it’s why many of them pay for flu-shot days…..The HPV vaccine is extraordinarily cost-effective….the DPT vaccine..prevents three horrifying diseases….If Kennedy succeeds in pushing even one vaccine off the market, the financial repercussions will be severe.” [ Donald McNeil, jr.: “Not vaccinating comes at an exorbitant cost”; Washington Post Weekly; 9/28/25 ]
*** “How Hospital Monopolies Drive Up the Cost of Care”; Shannon Brownlee; Washington Monthly; November/December, 2022 – a review of “Big Med: Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America; David Dranove, Lawton Burns.
3] “The Trump administration is preparing a plan that will make it harder for older Americans to qualify for Social Security disability payments, part of an overhaul of the federal safety net for poor, older, and disabled people could result in hundreds of thousands of people losing benefits..”….
“People familiar with the proposed changes said they are a priority of Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget and a key author of Project 2025, which has shaped Trump’s policies. [NOTE: remember Trump LIED during the 2024 election about having anything to do with “Project 2025.]
*** “The true “elephant in the room,” to use Dale’s metaphor, is the fact that our health care system has been ‘privatized” by an insurance industry more intent on lining its pockets than on ensuring that the American people get the public service and care that they pay for.” [ Dr. Ralph Bovard: “Rationing is not the only alternative”; Minneapolis Star Tribune; 2/8/2011 ]
4] “In July, the Trump administration cut off Medicaid payments to reproductive health care clinics that offer abortions…The move was seen as directed at Planned Parenthood…a long-time target of Republicans. But two smaller providers, Maine Family Planning and Health Imperatives, a network of seven clinics in southeastern Massachusetts, were also swept up in the measure.”
“The fallout will soon be felt by thousands of patients across the country, particularly where there are few options.” [ Jenna Russell, Anna Griffin: “Freeze on Medicaid payments forcing rural health care cuts”; New York Times; 10/5/25]
*** “Inadequate attention to and investment in services that address the broader determinants of health is the unnamed culprit why the United States spends so much on health care but continues to lag behind in health outcomes.”…..
‘…the United States is not spending as much as other industrial countries on fortifying crucial social services that help make people healthy…10 percent of its GDP on social services while France, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark..and Italy all spend about 20 percent…providing reliable housing, ensuring nutrious food sufficiency, and safeguarding against harmful exposures…” [Elizabeth Bradley, Lauren Taylor: “The American Health Care Paradox”]
5]. “Millions of low-income seniors are missing out on crucial help paying for Medicare – and the recently enacted federal budget law blocks an effort to help them get it….the law does suspend until 2034 a requirement that states adopt a Biden-era plan to increase enrollment in state-run Medicaid programs that help seniors who qualify get a hand paying for out-of-pocket Medicare costs.” [Mark miller: “Poor Retirees Lose Key Medicare Help”; New York Times; 10/5/25]
*** “The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.” [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
6]. “Last week, President Donald Trump emphatically discouraged women from taking Tylenol during pregnancy, based on unproven claims that acetaminophen is linked to autism…..The truth is that chosing relief or intervention when its medically appropriate is not weakness.”…..”They want to dictate your pregnancy……and add to the sense that it is appropriate for women to suffer for the sake of their babies.” [Catherine Pearson: “Pregnant Women Face An Onslaught Of Advice”; New York Times; 9/28/25]
***. “The most delusional fantasies can be made to masquerade as sanity if you’ve got the political power to reinforce them.” [ penny Skillman ]
7]. “At the behest of Trump, Congressional Republicans passed a massive tax cut for billionaires, paid for in part by huge cuts to Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, and other crucial programs. These cuts threaten to cut off access to health care for millions of Americans. The Trump administration has ramped up efforts to privatize Medicare by hiking rates for Medicare Advantage plans.” [“Trump and Allies Threaten to Worsen Health Care, Putting lives at Risk”; Public Citizen News; Sept/Oct, 2025]
***. “The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.” [ Justice Robert Jackson ]
8] “Trump could gain leverage from shutdown….Layoffs, cuts would play into Project 2025 goals” [ Jacob Bogage; Washington Post; 9/28/25]: “..The White House is preparing for a shutdown that would reflect the purest vision of President Donald Trump’s vision for the federal government, guided by White House budget director Russell Vought, an architect of the controversial Project 2025 playbook for Trump’s second term…The result, both during and after a shutdown, could be a federal government dramatically reoriented to defense, immigration and law enforcement – and not much else.” [NOTE; remember what was said above – underinvesting in social services to keep people healthy – if the Trump DICTATORSHIP cuts health funding – how does this “…promote the general Welfare..” ? {U.S. Constitution]
*** “Zeal is fit only for Wisw Men, but is found mostly in Fools.” [ Thomas Fuller ]
For Perspective: “We the People of the United States, in Order to from a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility…promote the general Welfare..do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” “..promote the general Welfare..” YOU tell me, where in all the Craziness, Stupidity, Corruption, Cruelty of its “health care’ policies does the Trump DICTATORSHIP “..promote the general Welfare..” of YOU and other Americans??????? YOU tell me, after nearly 9 months of Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness – what, if anything, has the Trump DICTATORSHIP done to. “..promote the general Welfare..” ?????????
The CORRUPTION and HIGH COST of American ‘health care” that was begun under the Reagan administration has now created a crisis in American “health care” that. DOES. NOT exist in other “developed’ nations. Check on health care in Scandinavian countries – “the happiest people on earth.” What do they do that America does not? Read T.R. Reid’s. “The Healing of America;” Pulitzer Prize winners Barlett & Steele’s. “Critical condition;” Bradley & Taylor’s. “The American Health Care Paradox.” The answers to America’s health care crisis are. KNOWN. – because of. CORRUPTION. – we don’t do them………..
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXVI – Trump Declares War On American Citizens
*** “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds…to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves…” [ Abraham Lincoln; Second Inaugural Address ]
Well, Trump has officially done it – admitted he thinks some American citizens are “disloyal,” must be rooted out, jailed, perhaps exiled or executed. He, of course, won’t do the dirty work, as usual, he’ll have somebody else do it, in this case, the U.S. military – on American streets…….
1]. “president Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed using American cities as training grounds for the armed forces and spoke of needing U.S. military might to combat what he called the “invasion from within.” [“Trump urges military brass to quell ‘invasion from within'”; Ben Finley Konstantin Toropin, Evan Vucci; Assoc. Press.; 10/1/25]
*** “The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.” [Adolf Hitler]
2] “It’s a war from within,” [Trump] said. In that moment, the president again pitted himself against the wishes of the country’s founding fathers, historians and former military leaders say. Mr. Trump’s suggestion hat ‘we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military” is in tension with a core principle that the country’s armed services have long sought to preserve – that the military should be nonpartisan.”
“This principle, with its deep roots in American democratic traditions, is meant to ensure that the standing army initially feared by the country’s founding fathers serves the nation as a whole, and not one political party or leader.” [Helene Cooper: “Trump’s Military Goals Contradict Nonpartisan Roots”; New York Times; 10/3/25]
***. “May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.” [General, 34th President – Dwight Eisenhower]
Note; for perspective – research details on the May 4, 1970 tragedy at Kent State for context of what could happen if U.S. troops are called out to deal with ‘the enemy within.”
*** “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 ]
3] “I don’t understand the reasoning of several recent letter writers who have protested use of the term “fascist” to describe the behavior of the Trump administration.”
“Merriam-Webster describes ‘fascism” as “a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime…that is associated a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition.”…
“Trump has violated and disregarded the law, condemned legal decisions he disagrees with, attacked individual judges and launched criminal investigations of attorneys who pursued cases against him. With his draconian cuts to federal spending, he has usurped powers reserved for Congress. he violated the Posse Comitatus Act when he deployed the national Guard to Los Angeles, D.C., Memphis and now Portland, and again when he directed 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges. Trump has targeted universities, journalists, corporate executives and governors. unable to stomach an election loss, he incited an angry crowd to attack legislators and law enforcement officers at the Capitol, then pardoned all who were convicted of these offenses. Now Trump has urged military officers to use U.S. cities as ‘training grounds’ and to suppress ‘the enemy from within.” [J.N.: letter to the editor; Minnesota Star Tribune; “This ‘enemy’ talk should make you nervous”; 10/2/25]
*** “{The tyrant} is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.” [ Plato ]
FOR CONTEXT: research the 1940s-60s McCarthy era “Red Scare,” when the power of “our” federal government was used to persecute innocent people accused of being “communists” [the enemy within]. Thousands had their lives ruined, lost their jobs, were blacklisted, were required to take “loyalty oaths.” Griffin Fariello’s oral history, “Red Scare,’ called it ‘the American Inquisition.” And/or – read David Caute’s “The Great Fear.”
Make sue YOU research attorney Joseph N. Welch, who’s question to Senator McCarthy lives on in American history as one of our “finest hours.” During the 1954 McCarthy-Army hearings, Mr. Welch, in exasperation, said to Senator McCarthy: “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?”
This won’t work with “our’ president, because Donald J. Trump has NO sense of decency or shame – BUT – we are waiting for somebody to ask him precisely that.
***. “It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” [ Benjamin Franklin ]
NOTE: We will post more shortly on Nazi Germany 1933-38. What YOU need to know now: Hitler used government power against German citizens; people were required to pledge “loyalty” to Der Fuhrer; independent sources of power were eliminated/controlled. Sound familiar????????????
***. “I do not fight fascists because I will win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.” [ Chris Hedges ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXV – Using Government Power to Persecute American Citizens
*** “Today, as in ages past, we are not without tragic proof that the exulted power of some governments to punish manufactured crime dictatorially is the handmaid of tyranny.” [ Justice Hugo Black ]
1] “The first 100 days of President Trump’s second term did more damage to American democracy than anything else since the demise of Reconstruction. Mr. Trump is attempting to create a presidency unconstrained by Congress or the courts, in which he and his appointees can override written law when they want to. It is precisely that autocratic approach that this nation’s founders sought to prevent when writing the Constitution.” [ “Fight Like Our Democracy Depends On It.”; Editorial; New York Times; 5/4/25 ]
***. “The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don’t ask for their love; only for their fear.” [ Heinrich Himmler; Nazi Reichsfuhrer – SS ]
2] “Control has been a relentless focus of the second Trump administration. And Mr. Trump’s efforts to assert that control at home draw on the security infrastructure the United States built to impose its will abroad. Deportations and policing have been militarized and supported by big data. Legal authorities designed to confront enemies beyond our borders have been enlisted to justify actions within them. Threats of crime are hyped far out of proportion…The othering previously reserved for jihadists or communists is applied to immigrants and the “radical left.”….The empire came home.” [ Ben Rhodes: “Britain Offers a Warning of What America could Become”; New York Times; 9/21/25 ]
*** “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected…When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains.” [Russell Vought; Trump administration official; “Project 2025” author]
3] “The events of the past week in Virginia mark a dark new stage in President Trump’s effort to turn federal law enforcement into a personal tool of oppression and vengeance. He is undermining a core premise of the American justice system: the fair and equal enforcement of the law.”…
“He has removed any pretense that the law is blind. As despots have done for centuries, he is persecuting people he considers his enemies, with little justification other than raw political power. It is reminiscent of the old royal notion…I am the state..”……[ “Comey’s Indictment Signals A Grave New Chapter”; Editorial; New York Times; 9/28/25 ]
*** “Decency, security and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fail to observe the law scrupulously….If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.” [ Justice Louis Brandeis ]
4]. “We have seen much debate over the merits and timing of a legal case against Mr. Comey… but any such discussion misses the most important point: We don’t want to live in a country where the president dictates, publicly or privately, who should be targeted by federal prosecutors and then pressures any prosecutor unwilling to bring said politically motivated charges.”……..
“Step by step, action by action, Mr. Trump has been trying to turn the Justice Department and the F.B.I. into political weapons that target whom he tells them to. The weaponization of federal criminal charges against political enemies stands as one of the most alarming signs of mr. Trump’s creeping authoritarian tendencies.” [ Garrett m. Graff: “After Comey, Who Will Be The President’s Next Target?”; New York Times; 9/27/25 ]
*** “There can be no free society without law administered through an independent judiciary. if one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is the law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.” [. Justice Felix Frankfurter ]
5]. “The ouster on Friday of the federal prosecutor who failed to charge two of President Trump’s most-reviled adversaries was a huge blow to the Justice Department’s teetering tradition of independence, showing how far Mr. Trump has gone in exerting personal control over the institution.”….
“… the move strikes at the nuts-and-bolts foundations of the criminal justice system. It seems intended both to create a frictionless path for prosecutions of those who have run afoul of Mr. Trump and perhaps to provide the White House with a tool it could use to set aside or slow cases it would like to see disappear.” [ Alan Feuer, Glenn Thrush, Maggie Haberman, Devlin Barrett: “Ouster Pushes Justice Dept. Closer to Cliff”; New York Times; 9/21/25 ]
*** “There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be not to trust no man living with the power to endanger the public liberty.” [ John Adams, 2nd president ]
6]. “”The push for the indictment trampled over the agency’s long tradition of maintaining distance from the White House and resisting political pressure, and it raised the prospect of further arbitrary prosecutions pushed by Mr. Trump against his enemies…the break-glass moment…”
“The rush to prosecute Mr. Comey was the clearest example yet of how the normal process of justice has been reversed under mr.cTrump, showing how the president came into his second term with targets already in mind…”
[ Alan Feuer, Jonnah Bromwich, Maggie Haberman: “A Presidency of Reprisal Tramples on Safeguards”; New York Times; 9/27/25 ]
***. “Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.” [ Adolf Hitler ]
7]. “We are now seeing that such painstakingly built institutions are remarkably fragile. Historian and philosopher Yuval Harari centered his panoramic book about the history of mankind, “Sapiens,” on the idea that the foundation of civilization is no more than a collection of stories…….. Similarly, all institutions consist of just a fragile belief in our heads. The rule of law, democracy, civil rights, the United States itself? Just thoughts in our heads……… If people stop believing in the fair, independent enforcement of laws that apply to everyone, why should anyone follow the law?
“Our choice now is whether we allow ourselves to get used to the corrosive idea of legally sanctioned favoritism and retribution. Or whether we hold fast to the thought of America as a principled, just, law-based country.” [Bruce Peterson: “Institutions are fragile, as recent Trump moves show”; Minnesota Star Tribune; 9/25/25 ] {Note: Peterson is a senior district judge]
*** “The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted..not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power. The purpose was, not to avoid friction, but by means of the inevitable friction incident to the distribution of the governmental powers among three departments, to save the people from autocracy.” [ Justice Louis Brandeis ]
America is NOW closer to theocratic plutocracy and/or dictatorship than ever. THIS is what the people above just told YOU. Read about “Project 2025″ – the FAR RIGHT blueprint for all this, created by the POWER BEHIND TRRUMP. Research the decisions made by the CORRUPT Roberts ‘court.” Look at Trump’s DEMAND for red state redistricting. YOU are witnessing a COUP by TEAM REPUBLICAN. Speak up – while you still can. Protest. Vote the CORRUPT Republicans out in 2026 – because that MAT BE YOUR LAST CHANCE TO SAVE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. American democracy is dying right in front of you – and WILL, if YOU just sit there…………….
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXIV – Trump Embarrasses America Before The World
*** “Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” [Plato]
1] On Tuesday, September 23, 2025 – “our” president, one Donald John Trump, illustrated fro the entire world that America is being run by fools, incompetents, ideologues, and know-nothings. In a “meandering” 56 minute rant, “Trump lectured the United Nations and other countries about how they are failing and aired a list of grievances….The White House had billed Trump’s address..as a chance for the president to lay out his vision for how the U.S. should wield its power abroad.”
“Trump undermined the scientific consensus on climate change, saying it was “made by stupid people”…called climate change the “greatest con job’ perpetrated on the world and claimed environmentalists are out to eliminate America’s cows.” On religion, Trump “falsely claimed that Muslim leaders in the West are planning to institute sharia law, while proclaiming Christianity to be the “most persecuted religion on the planet.”……
Trump ‘personally insulted the Muslim mayor of London. he bashed allies and foes around the world. He questioned whether the United Nations should even exist.” [“At the U.N., Trump slams strike near and far”; Luke Broadwater; New York Times; 9/24/25]
*** “There are some people, that if they don’t know, you can’t tell ’em.” [ Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong ]
2] On Monday, September 22, 2025, Trump warmed up for his early Halloween scarefest by attacking the use of Tylenol by pregnant women, “suggesting a connection between the widely used medication and autism…”Fight like hell not to take it.” [“Here’s what experts say about Tylenol”; Niha Masih, Ariana Eunjung Cha; Washington Post; 9/24/25]
3] On Wednesday, “The World Health Organization has joined the international pushback against the Trump administration’s warnings that acetaminophen use during pregnancy leads to autism, saying Wednesday there is ‘no conclusive scientific evidence confirming a possible link.”
“Public health leaders and organizations around the world have been sounding off since President Donald Trump called Monday to limit use of acetaminophen – the active ingredient in Tylenol and more than 600 other medications.”…
“The move is a sharp departure from the accepted guidance on a medication that many major medical associations have deemed safe..” [WHO rejects Tylenol warnings”; Vivian Ho, Karla Adam; Washington Post; 9/25/25]
***. “The wise man takes pleasure in what is honorable, but the fool is not vexed by shamefulness.” [ Plutarch ]
[A note of caution and early warning: there are three more Halloweens before January 20, 2029. Given the scary, spook-filled track record of the Trump DICTATORSHIP, it appears there will be many more. “TRICKS” performed by the CLOWNS in “your” government, but – unless YOU are a billionaire – not many, if any. “TREATS.” ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXIII – Destroying The First Amendment – Suppressing Dissent, Controlling and Censoring Information, Threats
*** “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” [ Harry Truman, 33rd U.S, president ]
First, for perspective, just a few headlines on the Trump DICTATORSHIP’s war on dissent:
– “A step-by-step checklist toward autocracy – moving along too easily so far”. [3/26/25]
– “I Taught My Students Slavery Was Wrong. then MAGA Came After me”. [ June, 2025]
– “After Decades Trying, G.O.P. Guts PBS and NPR”. [7/19/25]
– “Trump Amplifies Attacks On Foes After Kirk Death”. [9/14/25]
– “After Kirk’s killing, calls to ostracize, fire his critics”. [9/15/25]
– “Liberal groups targeted after Kirk death” [9/16/25]
– “National park ordered to remove historic photo”. [9/17/25]
– “Kimmel is silenced, Who will be next?” [9/21/25]
– “Trump, allies seek to punish speech”. [9/21/25]
– “America Inches Closer To Authoritarian Club”. [9/21/25}
– “Kimmel Won’t Be the Last”. 9/21/25]
– “Trump’s Chilling Push To Punish Free Speech” [9/21/25]
– “Trump pushes Bondi to go after his foes”. [9/22/25]
– “Profs face increased pressure on speech”. [9/23/25]
This, OBVIOUSLY, is a PATTERN, a STRATEGY. Trump and allies using government power against speech by American citizens – BUT – ONLY, against those whom they don’t like. In principle – what is the difference between the Trump DICTATORSHIP – and. – Stalinist Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Communist China, Putin’s Russia??? And – the McCarthyist. 1940s-1960s. “Red Scare” ???????????
***. “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
[. Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president ]
For perspective on past suppression of dissent, consider this: “some 300 lynchings of whites transpired between 1830 and 1860″ in the American South. People were found ‘guilty” of saying the ‘wrong things” about slavery. Other, luckier people were tarred and feathered and literally railroaded out of town. [William Freehling: “the Road to Disunion”]
1]. “National park ordered to remove historic photo”. [Jake Spring, Hannah Natanson; Washington Post; 9/17/25 ]: “The Trump administration has ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks..” [note: apparently telling the TRUTH about slavery is considered a “corrosive ideology”!!!!!!!!! The good news: there is a citizen group collecting photos of signs the Trump DICTATORSHIP might rip down – they’ve received over 3000 entries so far!!! YOU can help too. Please do.]
2]. “Trump is hitting the media with all that he’s got” [Jim Rutenberg; New York Times; 9/19/25}: ‘..[Trump] ..is now conducting the most punishing government crackdown against major American media institutions in modern times…to eradicate reporting and commentary with which he disagrees.”
***. “I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.” [Patrick Henry]
3]. “America Inches Closer To Authoritarian Club”. [Damien Cave; New York Times; 9/21/25]: “Those in China, India, Iran, Russia, Turkey and Venezuela are familiar with this scenario…[people] squeezed toward silence….President Trump with his threat on Thursday to revoke broadcasting licenses from networks with late-night hosts who joke or comment at his expense, has pushed the United States closer to that club.”
4]. “If the American ideal of freedom means anything, it is that Americans can engage in an extremely wide range of political speech…President Trump himself is a purveyor of tasteless and even threatening language…that no previous president did…Mr. Trump’s aides are drafting an executive order that could come as soon as this week…most likely target left-leaning organizations.” ………..
“Mr. Trump’s promised crackdown depends on the false premise that liberal and nonpartisan groups are part of a far-left conspiracy that promotes violence against conservatives…In fact, multiple data sources show that neither side has a monopoly on political violence, but it is more likely to come from the right. Between 2015 and 2024, 54 percent of ideologically connected killings were committed by people on the far right, according to the Anti-Defamation League…8 percent came from the political left.” [New York Times, Editorial; 9/21/25: “Trump’s Chilling Push to Punish Free Speech”]
***. “Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.” [ Mark Twain ]
5] “On his podcast Friday, GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas called it “unbelievably dangerous for government to put itself in the position of saying we”re going to decide what speech we like and what speech we don’t, and we’re going to threaten to take you off the air if we don’t like what you’re saying.” [Meg Kinnard: “Trump pushes Bondi to go after his foes”; Associated Press; 9/22/25]
6] “The campaigns to silence educators who speak critically of figures on the political right have been effective, suggesting they are likely to expand….The strategy has the endorsement of the Trump administration….Kirk’s supporters, including many in the Trump administration, have made strong statements in the past supporting free speech, no matter how ugly. but now, many of those same officials are trying to limit speech that they say could lead to more violence.”
“Kirk, who was known for making statements that were often criticized as racist, antisemitic and sexist, declared himself to be a proponent of free speech.” ………..
“Turning point’s efforts to target professors it sees as radical datws back nearly a decade, to 2016, when it began asking students to report professors who “discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.” [Stephanie Saul: “Profs face increased pressure on speech”; New York Times; 9/23/25]
***. “Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters.”
[ Justice Robert Jackson]
For perspective – read. “Red Scare,’ by Griffen Fariello, “Memories Of The American Inquisition.” Read how government power was used to ruin innocent people’s lives, loyalty oaths, the Hollywood blacklist. Read how the FAR RIGHT used government power to persecute people it didn’t like. THEN……
Read “He Bult America’s Rockets. The U.S. Deported Him Anyway.” [Kathleen Kingsbury; New York Times; 6/1/25]: “The decision to send Qian Xuesen back toChina changed world history.”
KNOW THIS: the STUPIDITY of the Trump DICTATORSHIP has ALREADY led some foreign scholars to NOT come toAmerica, or to leave. Some American scientists are also leaving.
***. “This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs: When he first appears, he is a protector.” [Plato]
With Justice For All 
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