***. “This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs: When he first appears, he is a protector.”
[ Plato ]
This post is the 10th in a series describing to YOU the effects of ICE thugs on ordinary people – like YOU. Outside Renee Good and Alex Prettti. MURDER. videos. Effects often invisible – but the trauma inflicted on individuals, neighborhoods, communities, cities will NOT end when ICE thugs and Trump DICTATORSHIP cease DELIBERATELY causing chaos and fear.
These posts are a WARNING. – what is happening throughout Minnesota can easily happen in YOUR state, if “our” 13-year old president and Rasputins around him decide they ‘NEED’ to do it.
Below is a BEGINNING list of countless indignities inflicted on Minnesota – in the name of “law and order” – by ICE thugs: “For those who doubt it, let me explain why observing ICE is not a crime” [ Ronn Seim; Minnesota Star Tribune; 1/28/26 ]. Some excerpts:
1] “Reasonable people can and should debate what role, if any, ICE should be playing in Minnesota. But given the role ICE is playing, reasonable people can easily understand and defend the presence of peaceful observers and protestors. The stated, specific [‘official”] purpose of the ICE operation in Minnesota seems to be a moving target.”
*** “Truth is the most precious thing. That is why we should ration it.” [ Lenin ]
2]. “What we have witnessed includes:
1] “Masked agents outfitted in full combat gear, typically without visible badge number or name tags, roaming our streets and neighborhoods…
2] “Conducting random racial profiling of adults and minors, often as they simply go about their daily routines…
3] “Refusing to identify themselves or give legal reasons for stops…
4]. “entering homes and private spaces without judicial warrants – in some cases, breaking into residences on the basis of obsolete addresses…
5] “Typically lacking transparency regarding identities, location or status of detainees…
6]. “Exaggerating or lying about criminal histories for either targets or detainees…
7]. “Similarly, taking credit for capturing/arresting criminals who were actually turned over to federal agents by Minnesota law enforcement – sometimes months or years earlier. – while simultaneously accusing local law enforcement of not cooperating…
8]. “Physically and verbally assaulting people they view as uncooperative…
9]. “Declaring that the use of chemical irritants is a de-escalation tactic [Greg Bovino ]…
10 “Hauling innocent citizens in their underwear out of their homes in front of children…
11]. “Detaining American citizens for hours, then releasing them without charges or even winter clothing, often miles from their homes or from where they were picked up…
12]. “And snatching parents, often without warrants, outside schools or at bus stops in front of their traumatized children.”
***. “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.” [ Reichsfuhrer SS, Heinrich Himmler ]
3] “..consider what we have seen and heard in the aftermath of the shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Immediately following each shooting – and before local officials had offered any opinions about the incidents….federal voices have slandered the victims, calling them domestic terrorist acting with evil intent, and offered descriptions of the circumstances that contrasted radically with video evidence that captured the incidents from a wide variety of angles.”
***. “Power is tearing human minds in pieces and putting them together again in shapes of your own choosing.”
[ George Orwell: “1984” ]
4] “ultimately, after a day or two, perhaps realizing no sane person can buy these outrageous and publicly available accusations, they act as though they never made them [multiple times] and pivot to some version of blaming local leaders [Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey]. or law enforcement for inciting or letting the situation get out of hand, of blaming the victim for being someplace they shouldn’t have been as though that justifies shooting them. or sort of admitting that mistakes can happen and it’s tragic, but what can you do about it? Without any real acceptance of blame or apology.”
*** “There is no possibility I have made a mistake.” [ Adolf Hitler ]
5]. “The pattern is one of both disingenuity and duplicity – claiming every immigration enforcement action is lawful, whose objectives are public safety and punishment of criminals, and decrying lack of cooperation by local law enforcement; all while neither maintaining nor sharing databases of activity and detention with local law enforcement, while themselves violating laws as well as norms of human decency in pursuit of political retribution.”
*** “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” [George Orwell: “1984”]
6] “To Dokoupil’s credit, he pressed the question, asking if Homan – in his 20-plus years of experience. – could remember a situation where he concluded, once an investigation was complete, that an officer had used excessive force. Homan said never. Dokoupil responded by saying he imagined many viewers – and even himself. – had to be a bit incredulous with Homan’s answer. Homan repeated, never.” [NOTE: do YOU suppose – had there been no witnesses, no videos – that maybe, the Trump DICTATORSHIP’s version might be: ‘shot while trying to escape.”???}
*** “The Party told you to reject the evidence in your eyes and ears…it was their final, most essential command.”
[ George Orwell: “1984” ]
Note: NOW, there can be NO doubt – the Trump DICTATORSHIP is at war with the American people. For over a year, YOU have seen and heard more than enough evidence of this FACT. This site alone has made 121 posts illustrating to YOU a variety of EYEWITNESS reports, reports by respected legal and law enforcement professionals, economists, judges, Constitutional experts, reports from foreign leaders…….etc, etc….. YOU are living in the midst of a COUP, planed for decades, now carried out by “Project 2025” reactionaries. The Trump DICTATORSHIP, abetted by reactionary state leaders. – is. NOW. – planning on subverting the November 3, 2026 elections to ensure the Trump DICTATORSHIP maintains control of “our” federal government.”
*** “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” [ Dr. martin Luther King, Jr.; 1963 ]
Among the Trump DICTATORSHIP’s very first actins was firing ANYBODY who could hold them accountable – like inspectors general. Throughout this recent year, the Trump DICTATORSHIP has attacked law firms, universities, businesses to FORCE them to obey or else. YOU are now witnessing, live, the Trump DICTATORSHIP effort to make the people of Minnesota, the state, the cities. – OBEY. “Trump’s vision”. – or – ‘my way or the highway.”
*** “When and if fascism comes to America it will not be labeled ‘made in Germany,’ it will not be marked with a swastika; it will not even be called fascism; it will be called, of course, ‘Americanism’..” [ Halford Luccock ]
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The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CVII. – The DAMAGE To America by the Trump DICTATORSHIP, As Reflected In ONE Day’s Headlines !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*** “Nothing is more terrible tan ignorance in action.” [ Goethe ]
Below are headlines from ONE day. – discussing the STUPIDITY, INCOMPETENCE, CRUELTY, RECKLESSNESS. leading to undermining and damaging America by Trump DICTATORSHIP actions:
1]. “Justices cast doubt on bid to fire Cook”. – because it would “weaken, if not shatter, the independence of the Federal Reserve.” {Mark Sherman; Assoc. Press; 1/22/26]
2]. “In Ist year of his second term. Trump leaves economic stamp”. – “an all-out assault on many of the institutions and policy paradigms that have long been seen by leaders of both major parties as the foundation of American economic strength.” [ Ben Casselman; New York Times; 1/22/26 ]
3]. “Social Security data bared by DOGE”. – “confirms concerns among career government employees and data security experts that DOGE’s chaotic access to sensitive government data risks sharing this data broadly…without knowing what data was exposed or who has seen it..” [ Eileen Sullivan; New York Times; 1/22/26 ]
4]. “Off-duty police officer boxed in by federal agents”. – “Bruley and fellow law enforcement personnel spoke against what they say is a spate of racial profiling by federal immigration agents..” [ Allison Kitel; Minnesota Star Tribune; 1/22/26]
5]. “Gap in ICE ‘worst case'”. – “Homeland Security has released the names of only about 240 immigrants arrested”; nearly ALL had served time and were “not actively wanted by police..” [ total people arrested is about 3,000 !!!]. [Christopher Magan, Jeff Hargarten; Minnesota Star Tribune; 1/22/26 ]
6]. “Refugees with legal status being detained” – 5600 Minnesota refugees “who have gone through a robust screening process and are on a pathway to citizenship.” [ Susan Du; Minnesota Star Tribune; 1/22/26 ]
7]. “Russia observes Greenland with glee” – “state media praises Trump’s goal as historic…it weakens the European Union and NATO…takes some of the West’s attention away from Russia’s war in Ukraine.” [ Dasha Litvinova; Associated Press; 1/22/26 ] {Trump is sabotaging THE most effective alliance in world history}
8]. “Canada Elbows Up On Global Stage”. – “PM gets standing ovation at Davos for firm talk about the U.S….calling the current phase ‘a rupture..” [ Matina Stevis-Gridneff, Ian Austen; New York Times; 1/22/26 ]
9] “Immigration operation begins in Maine”. – “ICE official says nearly 1,400 “targets” in state…Some employers have begun looking to immigrants to fill labor gaps, as native-born employees have either left the state or retired.” [ Hamed Aleaziz; New York Times; 1/22/26 ]
Look over the above again, and THINK. – what this mea”coldns not only now but years from now. “Our” 13-year old P.R. performance president does NOT think long-term, cares little for details, and – as a Pulitzer Prize winner said – thinks ONLY of himself. And – reflect on the following:
A] “But economists from across the ideological spectrum warn that Trump is setting the country on a path hat will, in the long run, leave the economy less dynamic, the financial system less stable and Americans less prosperous in the decades ahead…. “We’re weakening the special sauce that made America great,” said Kimberly A. Clausing…. Vance Ginn, who was chief economist in the Office of Management and Budget during Trump’s first term…said the benefits of those moves are outweighed by the costs of its policies on trade and immigration, its failure to rein in the federal deficit and its intervention in the private sector.” [ Ben Casselman; New York Times; 1/22/26 ]
B] “Three top Catholic clerics decry U.S. foreign policy”….’..American “moral role in confronting evil” is put in jeopardy, they say.”… “is in question for the first time in decades..” [ Ruth Graham; New York Times; 1/22/26 ]
C] “Trump insults Minnesota Somalis at Davos” – “Trump directly questioned the intelligence of members of the community…Some near the front of the audience groaned loudly.” [ News Services; 1/22/26 ]
*** “A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.” [ James 1:8 ]
THINK about other facts:
1] America was on the winning side of several 20th century wars, hot and “cold”. – BECAUSE we had friends and allies; BECAUSE. American treasure and blood were spent defending freedom and other nations
2]. American “soft power” conquered the world – music, movies, freedom, openness, accepting immigrants ans scientists, economic opportunity. We did NOT go out of our way to make enemies.
3] Look at NUMBERS. – not rhetoric. – expert, mainstream, bipartisan. analysis of many, if not most, Trump DICTATORSHIP. policies, shows they will NOT. ‘Make America Great Again.” But will, numerically, make America weaker, less prosperous, less stable. Listed above, YOU have only ONE day’s worth of the STUPIDITY, INCOMPETENCE, DESTRUCTIVENESS. of ‘our’ 13-year old president and the radical reactionary Rasputins around him. America has now endured 365 days of this INCOMPETENCE and STUPIDITY.
***. “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” [ Proverbs 29:18]
THINK also when the Founders created the United States, the goal was to have a government that was intended to “..promote the general Welfare..” This is NOT a goal of the Trump DICTATORSHIP.
“You shall love your neighbor as yourself…The stranger that dwells with you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself.” [Leviticus 19: 18, 34] This is NOT a goal of the Trump DICTATORSHIP.
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CVI – “When ICE comes for our kids’ caregivers, no one is safe”
THE symbol of the Trump DICTATORSHIP’s reckless INCOMPETENCE, deliberate CRUELTY, can be viewed by YOU live. Go to “Reuters via GoFundMe”. for a picture of U.S. citizen Chongly Scott Thao, age 57, being dragged out of his home, handcuffed, in shorts and Crocs – in a sub-zero Minnesota winter, hastily covered only by a checked red blanket – by ICE. THUGS.
Details so far are found in “St. Paul mayor ‘livid’ after ICE wrongly targets family friend” [Kim Hyatt; Minnesota Star Tribune; 1/21/26]. Excerpts below:
1]. “the jan. 18 incident in St. Paul stoked fresh outrage about ICE’s tactics as its agents spread across Minnesota. Thao is a U.S. citizen with no known criminal record in Minnesota.”
2] “Thao told Reuters that he was singing karaoke when there was a loud noise as agents broke down his door with guns drawn.”
3]. “Thao immigrated to the United States in 1974 and become a citizen in 1991.”
4] “He was placed into a SUV, and driven around for nearly an hour while be questioned…Only after fingerprinting and running his information did ICE confirm what should have been known from the start – he is a U.S. citizen and had NO criminal record. he was dropped back at home with no apology and no explanation.”
5]. “According to publicly available court records, Thao does not have a criminal history in Minnesota.”
6] “Her added that DHS said it was looking for sex offenders, but the mayor said the family had lived in that house for two years “and trhe person they are looking for does not live there anymore.”
7] “THis is an American citizen who has no criminal record. who was sleeping in his own house, that they broke a door down and put guns to his daughter-in-law’s head.”
8]. “This is happening across our city, across our state….ICE is not doing what it is they say they’re doing. They’re not going after hardened criminals. They’re going after anyone in their path. It is unacceptable. That is un-American.”
9] “Since the incident, Moua said, Thao’s health and emotional well-being have declined.”
Read this again. Laced throughout is DELIBERATE CRUELTY, rank INCOMPETENCE – known public records of citizenship, no criminal record. The ‘sex offender” thet supposedly were looking for hasn’t lived there for at least two years minimum.
QUESTION: would YOUR local police officers drag YOU out into sub-zero winter, half-naked, handcuffed – after they broke down YOUR door. – IGNORANT of known public records???????
How many MILLIONS of dollars could YOU easily get in a legal settlement for this kind of BLATANT, throughly UNPROFESSIONAL. treatment of an innocent American citizen???????
THIS. – is only one reason why this site has posted reports of. STUPIDITY, CRUELTY, CORRUPTION, CRAZINESS by a group of. FAR-RIGHT. zealots – the Trump DICTATORSHIP.
America is increasingly becoming viewed around the world as idiots – for electing this 13-year old as “our’ president. – who is surrounded bya CULT of CLOWNS. – doing one STUPID, DESTRUCTIVE, CORRUPT, CRUEL. thing after another – and then LYING. to us about it.
Chongly Scott Thao is now. THE symbol of EVERYTHING that is WRONG about the Trump DICTATORSHIP.
Get down on YOUR knees, pray that America will still have a FUNCTIONING democracy on January 20, 2029.
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CIV – Trump’s ICE – Recruiting Authoritarians
*** “…authoritarianism happens when followers submit too much to the authorities in their lives. What is “too much,” then? When followers choose to believe a leader who demonstrably and repeatedly lies to them, ignore undeniable contradictions in his rationales, and back him to the max when he makes very bad decisions. – that’s “too much.” When they turn a blind eye to obviously immoral and outright unlawful acts he performs, support him when he places himself above the law and repeatedly tries to undermine the nation’s founding principles, and they genuinely think, feel, and do what he tells them to, because he is their leader, that is WAY TOO MUCH.” [ John W. Dean, Bob Altemeyer: “Authoritarian Nightmare…..Trump And His Followers” ]
This post is based around “ICE plans. ‘wartime recruitment’. push” [ Drew Harwell, Joyce Sohyun Lee; Washington Post Weekly; 1/4/26]. Americans have seen the results of Trump’s use of U.s. troops on American streets; now see armed, masked. ICE thugs routinely assaulting American citizens. – recorded in personal and in shared videos. WHO are these men??? WHY do they act this way???
1] One ICE recruitment site has an Uncle Sam pointing at the reader, with this caption: “America NEEDS YOU America has been invaded by criminals and predators. We need YOU to get them out. You do not need an undergraduate degree. You may be entitled to UP to these benefits $50,000signing bonus $60,000 student loan repayment $25,000 Premium Pay”
{Harwell, Lee: “ICE plans ‘wartime recruitment’ push”]
5] “On social media, administration accounts have mixed immigration raid footage with memes from action movies and video games to portray ICE’s mission as a fight against the “enemies…at the gates.” “Want to deport illegals with your absolute boys?” one post says. “are you going to cowboy up or just lay there and bleed?” says another.” [Harwell, Lee]
8] “ICE has hosted hiring events around the country, including at a Texas job fair last year, during which a
former mixed martial arts fighter told The Post he was eager to “work with these guys that are going to arrest you, slam your face on the pavement and send you home.”
***. “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.” [ George Orwell: “1984” ]
10] “Americus Reed…said the ICE strategy reminded him of the “Army of One” campaign that the military once used to build up recruits as mighty warfighters critical to safeguarding the American way of life.”
“They’re aiming for that sweet spot of people who’ve got something to prove, who want to have that power, under the guise of patriotism,” he said.” [ Harwell, Lee ]
2] “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are planning to spend $100 million over a one-year period to recruit gun-rights supporters and military enthusiasts….through ads targeting people who have attended UFC fights…with calls for recruits willing to perform their ‘sacred duty” and “defend the homeland” by repelling “foreign invaders.” [ Harwell, Lee ]
*** “Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum.” [ P.J. O’Rourke ]
3]. “..Sarah Saldana, a director of ICE during ther Obama administration, who recalled filling its open positions through local police departments and sheriff’s offices with appeals to officers’ interests in federal public safety work.”
“She said she worries that the speed with which ICE is racing to bring on new hires – coupled with the ad campaign’s framing of the jobs as part of a war – will raise the risk that the agency could attract untrained recruits eager for all-out combat.” [ Harwell, Lee ]
4]. “The appeal to law enforcement should not be “the quicker we get out there and run over people, the better off this country will be,” she said. “That mentality you’re fostering tends to inculcate in people a certain aggressiveness that may not be necessary in 85 percent of what you do.” [ Harwell, Lee ]
6] “ICE recruitment ads, the plan said, would be shown to people with an interest in “military and veterans’ affairs,’ ‘”physical training” or “conservative news and politics”. and would target people whose lifestyles are “patriotic” or “conservative-leaning.”
“The strategy said to target listeners of conservative radio shows, country music and podcasts related to patriotism, mens’ interests and true crime, as well as any accounts that resemble users with an interest in “conservative thought leaders, gun rights organizations [and] tactical gear brands,’ the document said.’ [ Harwell, Lee ]
7]. “The war rhetoric is in line with the Trump administration’s broader efforts to push mass deportations as critical to American security and immigration officials’ work as heroic..” [ Harwell, Lee ]
*** “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and hence clamorous to be led to safety]. by menacing it with endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” [ H.L Mencken ]
9] “… DHS has spent more than $1 million on “self-deportation’ ads in the last 90 days targeted to people interested in “Latin music,” “Spanish as a second language’ and “Mexican cuisine.” [ Haewrll, lee ]
Re-read the above – think about the thinking behind what Harwell and Lee have presented to YOU. Do YOU find this at all a little frightening – that ‘YOUR’ government has done this – in ‘YOUR’ name – supposedly for ‘YOUR’ security??? That most of the “enemies” said to be “threatening America’ are NOT “criminals.” That somebody has figured out a profile of people who would be attracted to do “the dirty work”???
Consider trhe following from trhe “SPLC Report – Winter, 2026”: “A Hatewatch review of Department of Homeland Security [DHS]. social media posts and web content found that the federal agency uses white nationalist and anti-immigrant images and slogans in recruiting materials. In some cases, the images and language appear to come from antisemitic and neo-Nazi publications and a white Christian nationalist website.”
“The increase in white nationalist content appears to originate with a June 11 post. DHS’ official X and Instagram accounts posted a graphic of Uncle Sam hammering a sign with the caption: “Help your country…and yourself…REPORT ALL FOREIGN INVADERS.” A hotline number for Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE] accompanied the post. Mother Jones reported the doctored graphic of Uncle Sam originated from an X user called “Mr. Robert,’ who is associated with white nationalist content.”
***. “When and if fascism comes to America it will not be labeled ‘made in Germany’; it will not be marked with a swastika; it will not even be called fascism; it will be called, of course, ‘Americanism’..” [Halford Luccock]
Dean and Altemeyer summarize their research findings on pages 172-173: “..decades of research reveal that, as a group authoritarian followers appear to have a lot of “hurt,” which they are looking to lay on others. These impulses are triggered by fear of a dangerous world…many released by their self-righteousness. When an authority approves the aggression…they find justification in attacking others…research reveals these people have a deep need to belong to a powerful movement they feel will safeguard them…are deeply dependent on others for social reinforcement…are more untethered and adrift than most people….this dependence makes them uniquely vulnerable to manipulators….”
[ “Authoritarian Nightmare…Trump And His Followers ]
FOOD FOR THOUGHT, #1: find Mike Luckovich’s cartoon of 1/14/26 – showing 3 armed, masked ICE thugs standing over a fallen “Statue of Liberty” with the caption. “SHE WAS BRANDISHING A TORCH”
FOOD FOR THOUGHT, #2: find the Minnesota Star Tribune front page, 1/15/26. for a picture of an ICE thug reaching out of a car window for a drive-by hit on an unarmed protestor. “with chemical spray”
FOOD FOR THOUGHT, #3: “The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.” [ Dante Alighieri ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, C. – “Jan. 6 Was Just The Start”
***. BUT – it wasn’t: “…the four ways in which Republicans have been hacking away at the foundations of democracy and civil society for a quarter century: their war on truth, their growing exploitation of racism and white supremacy, their sabotage of the institutions and norms of government, and their dehumanizing of opponents and stoking of violence….And in the process, they murdered democracy.” [ Dana Milbank: “The Destructionists’ ]
This post presents excerpts from “Jan. 6 Was Just The Start” [New York Times editorial; 1/4/26]. Please read the entire article. Please continue to support the TRUTH about January 6, 2021. Powerful forces want to RE-WRITE January 6 history. – an ambitious project because the world saw the actual events; perps confessed; even Mitch McConnell immediately laid the blame on Donald John Trump [before he recanted!!!]. In trials all over America, perps confessed, were given jail time. But then – this is what authoritarians do: re-write history [Jason Stanley: “Erasing History…How Fascists Rewrite The Past To control The Future”]
*** “The accumulation of all power, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
[ James Madison, Founder, 4th U.S. President ]
13] “Once..[Trump]..was elected, his post-Jan. 6 experience inspired his administration’s goals and methods. he and his aides concluded that intimidation and lawlessness could yield victories even in seemingly unwinnable and sometimes illegal circumstances.” [N.Y. Times editorial]
8] “THe shocking part of the story was the response of so many other people in government, media and business.”
6]. “Over the next several years, Jan. 6 became a “day of love” in Mr. Trump’s telling: The rioters were “patriots,” and those detained were “hostages’ whose suffering compared to that of Japanese Americans interned during World War II. He made common cause with the most extreme elements of his coalition to manipulate history. Together, they rallied right-wing media to their cause, silenced all but a few Republican critics and intimidated corporate leaders into complicity.”
15] “The pardons issue a message: If you break the law to protect me, you will be supported, and if you uphold the law to restrain me, you will be persecuted.”
*** “The Republican Party is held aloft by a large, powerful, and ever-growing industry of deceit. The purpose of much of conservative media is to lie to their audience. It is fitting that at the heart of the Trump presidency itself is a lie: Almost every Republican elected official in Washington knows Donald Trump is unfit to be president.” [ Stuart Stevens: “It Was All A Lie”]
1]. “It was a day that should live in infamy. Instead, it was the day President Trump’s second term began to take shape…was indeed a turning point, but not the one it first seemed to be. It was a turning point toward a version of mr. Trump who is even more lawless than the one who governed the country in his first term. It heralded a culture of political unaccountability, in which people who violently attacked Congress and beat police officers escaped without lasting consequences.”
2] “The politicians and pundits who had egged on the attack with their lies escaped, as well. The aftermath of Jan. 6 made the Republican Party even more feckless, beholden to one man and willing to pervert reality to serve his interests.”
3]. “All this would have been hard to conceive for many Americans five years ago. Disgust was bipartisan for a time because so many episodes of that day seemed unforgettable.”
4] “The victims who suffered the worst violence were the police officers protecting the Capitol.”
5]. “Mr. Trump made possible the lawlessness. After he lost the 2020 election, he spent weeks peddling the lie that he had rightfully won. He encouraged state officials to ‘find” votes for him or simply appoint electors loyal to him.”
*** “so long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.” [ Aldous Huxley ]
7] “This behavior, though inexcusable, was not shocking. it fir with Mr. Trump’s character, as both a businessman and a politician who has long pursued his self-interest without legal or ethical restraint.”
9]. “..on Jan. 12, Senator Mitch McConnell, then the Republican leader, “has concluded that President Trump committed impeachable offenses…”
10] “…handed Republicans control of the House, and they abandoned any Jan. 6 accountability…Instead, they began investigating their colleagues who had attempted to bring justice to mr. Trump.”
11] “The legal system also took some steps to fill the accountability gap. But it moved slowly and ineffectively.”
12]. “With the political and legal systems failing to punish him, much of the rest of the country started to move on. Business leaders made excuses for him. The conservative media establishment promoted him again and cheered on the purge of Republicans who had criticized this role in Jan. 6.”
*** “Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know is wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.” [ Robert F. Kennedy, Senior ]
14]. “On the first day of his second term, Mr. Trump granted clemency to all of the nearly 1,600 people charged or convicted in connection with jan. 6. The group included hundreds of defendants found to have assaulted law enforcement officers.”
16] “The thuggishness extends far beyond the people who were directly involved in Jan. 6 cases. The legacy of that day has taught Mr. Trump how to use power more aggressively to advance his interests. In his second term, he has surrounded himself with officials who accede to his lawless demands.”
17]. “Mr. Trump has also learned that congressional Republicans will bow to him even when he treats them with contempt or ignores the Constitution.”
18] “Mr. Trump likewise plays the courts more successfully than in his first term. The Supreme Court has helped him..”
19]. “Again and again, Mr. Trump dares the system to stop him.”
*** “Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law…no court can save it..”
[Judge Learned Hand]
The question of IF America has a real democracy on January 20, 2029. – is up to. YOU. Speak up, protest, organize. Above all – vote out EVERY Republican on November 3, 2026. If Trump has control of Congress. – it may be over. The Far Right blueprint is there in “Project 2025,” some of its authors have power in theTrump DICTATORSHIP. They WILL NOT STOP. attempting to create a PLUTOCRATIC THEOCRACY. – the billionaires behind Trump will demand it; the Christian nationalists behind Trump will demand it; his fearful, misinformed base will demand it.
This site has now published 100 “The Trump DICTATORSHIP” posts in 350 days of Trump’s authoritarian, lawless, reckless, anti-democratic reign. We apologize for not doing more. if we did, besides sleep and eating, we’d pretty much have done nothing else in 2025 than provide YOU with factual evidence of the monstrous depravity of the Trump DICTATORSHIP.
The “Project2025′ strategy was to hit the ground running. They announced the writing of many “executive orders” prior to Trump taking office. Part of their known strategy is to “flood the zone” – do so many things that people can’t keep up. With a CORRUPT Roberts ‘supreme court” of Republican political hacks, there is only Congress to restrain the Trump DICTATORSHIP – and we already know they live in fear, for careers, for their and their family’s safety.
Fear is a BIG part of the “Project 2025” Trumpian strategy – they’ve announced it. Part of the plan is to use YOUR government against YOU. This has already been demonstrated in multiple ways. Fear of persecution. Fear of losing funding. Fear of having your business ruined. Fear of having your career/job lost. This is how DICTATORSHIPS operate.
So. – yes, January 6, 2021, was, “Only Just A Start.’ IF – YOU permit it. Are YOU going to permit it?????????
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXXIX – The Importance of Hatred, Racxism, Bigotry, Lying, Prejudice, Cruelty
Today is January 6 – “..a date that will live in infamy.” People inspired by Donald John Trump [they confessed to it] attempted a coup; trashed the U.S. Capitol; injured and killed police officers. Like authoritarians everywhere, the truth is now being re-written. The latest: “This Jan. 6 plaque made to honor police is nowhere to be found” [ Lisa Mascaro; Associated Press; 1/6/26 ]
*** “To speak evil of anyone, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation.” [ George Washington; 11/26/1796 ]
Donald Trump is known as a person who relishes revenge; known for trying to inflict twice as much punishment upon his “enemies” as he received; known for having been accused of racism; known for insulting and demeaning people; known for nursing grievances; known for pardoning people who hurt and defrauded others; . Some have said Trump NEEDS enemies – people he can attack. Trump’s 10 years on the American political scene have featured meanness, negativity, cruelty largely unrestrained by ANY former norms of decency and civility. this post will offer a VERY small sample of Trump’s numerous cruelties.
*** “a new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, as I have loved you.” { John 13:34 ]. The Trump administration doesn’t believe in this; doesn’t practice it – except to favored people.
*** “..all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights..” [ Declaration of Independence ]. The Trump administration doesn’t believe in this; doesn’t practice it – except to favored people.
1} Some recent headlines:
– “Trump knows he’s failing. Cue the bigotry.” [12/7/25]
– “Birtherism was the blueprint. We are living the outcome.” [12/26/25]
– “Trump’s not interested in fighting a new Cold War: He wants a new civilizational war.” [12/14/25]
– “The return of the r-word.” [12/22/25]
– “What’s with the outrage over a barnyard taunt? Maybe it’s hope.” [12/1/25]
– “Trump confirms 2018 use of slur about ‘filthy’ countries” [12/14/25]
– “Trump blames Reiner for his own death” [12/16/25]
***. “Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with their littleness and make it the pretex of bass tyrannies.”
[ Honore de Balzac ]
2] More recent headlines:
– “Trump sets goals for ending citizenship…Immigration offices are given monthly quota..” [12/19/25]
– “Attacks on trans youth escalate…Trump plans to defund hospitals providing gender-affirming care.’ [12/20/25]
– “Trump’s DEI attack may hurt college men – especially white men”. ’12/5/25]
– “U.S. WW II cemetery removes displays about Black soldiers” [11/14/25]
– “Trump trolls Biden, Obama in plaques” [12/21/25]
***. “He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kind of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.” [ Tryon Edwards ]
3]. More recent headlines:
– “VA employees get jobs back, then are placed on leave” [3/24/25]
– “Trump takes aim at kids’ psych meds” [2/18/25]
– “Don’t the Lives of Women and Girls Matter?” [1/12/25]
– “Trump’s executive order suspending foreign aid is reckless and cruel” [1/31/25]
– “Trump’s EPA Threatens Efforts to Clean Up Dangerous Air Pollution”. [3/1/25]
– “Afghan Students Abandoned by Broken U.S. Promises”. [3/30/25]
– “Blocked funding stalls key Alzheimer’s drugs”. [3/21/25]
– “A Watchdog Withers: Homebuyers Beware”. [323/25]
– “Cuts reach nuclear scientists, safety experts”. [3/18/25]
***. “Nothing is so haughty and assuming as ignorance where self-conceit sets up as to be infallible.” [Robert South]
4] More examples of Trumpian stupidity, cruelty, incompetence, ideological idiocy:
– “Farmers are out millions after Trump freezes USDA funds”. [2/11/25]
– “FDA firings decimate teams on med devices, diseases, food safety”. [2/22/25]
– “The Great Dismantling: Trump’s Coming Attack on America’s Economic Backbone [12/1/24]
– “W.H.O. Withdrawal May hurt Americans on Many Health Matters”. [2/2/25]
– “Massive FBI agent purge looms” [2/1/25]
– “The Trump Bump On Your Energy Bills” [10/12/25]
– “Trump Has Betrayed his Working-Class Voters” [7/6/25]
– “Trump’s shutdown of CDC information imperils nation’s health” ‘2/20/25]
*** “Of all the evils that infest a state, a tyrant is the greatest; his sole will commands he laws and lords it over them.”
[ Euripides ]
5] More to consider when you hear about the Trump campaign against anti-Semitism on college campuses:
– “The pro-hitler problem among the American right” [11/19/25}
– ‘Trump taps loyalist ‘with a Nazi streak’ for a different job at GSA” [11/15/25]
– “Right-Wing Antisemitism Exposes Divides in Party” [11/23/25]
– “Offensive texts put GOP on defensive…Messages from elected officials, young leaders included “I love Hitler” ‘ [10’16/25]
*** “When and if fascism comes to America it will not be labeled ‘made in Germany,’ it will not be marked with a swastika; it will not even be called fascism; it will be called, of course, ‘Americanism’..” [ Halford Luccock ]
AGAIN – this site reminds YOU of the Founders’ original intents when they created the new American government: “We the People”. created a government to “..form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility….promote the general Welfare..”
THIS is THE test YOU should apply to ANY American government, including then Trump DICTATORSHIP. We criticize the Trump DICTATORSHIP because it has demonstrated by its own rhetoric, actions, policies, laws. – that it FAILS the Founders’ goals. Which, if ANY, Trump policies perfect the American Union,…establish Justice…insure domestic Tranquility…promote the general Welfare ?????????????
Because the Trump DICTATORSHIP is intent on achieving the goals of “PROJECT 2025.” it CANNOT achieve the goals the Founders established in the American Constitution
Assaults upon the American people continue, unabated, to this very hour: “Hortman children condemn post about parents’ killing….Trump shared video promoting false theory.” [ Sofia Barnett; Minnesota Star Tribune; 1/6/25]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXXVIII – Using Fraud For Political Advantage
*** “The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.” [ Aristotle ]
This post presents three”letters to the editor”. from January 3, 2026 isssue of Minnesota Star. Tribune, concerning accusations of “billions” in fraud. YOUR. thoughtful examination is requested on the observations of three “ordinary people”:
1] “On Monday, the public’s xenophobic outrage from an unethical YouTuber sharing unfounded accusations of fraud emboldened President Trump to pledge to cut federal funds to the state of Minnesota, a move that could cause the child care sector to collapse….Child care is a failed market system: Parents can’t afford the true cost and average profits are 1% nationally…”
“..child care is the work behind the workforce…the 23,000 children receiving child care assistance in Minnesota will not get the care they need…will prevent kindergarten readiness, cause parents to become jobless and render families unhoused..”
“..I imagine Minnesota will be the first but not the last to have child care axed..we have their playbook. Project 2025 wants to push women out of the workforce, and what better way to achieve that than to sabotage the child care sector?”
[ C. F. ]
***. “Any excuse will serve a tyrant.” [ Aesop ]
2] “Disregarding whether fraud was or wasn’t committed, i find it odd that some people seem to think it’s suspicious that he was denied entry to these child care facilities when he. showed up unannounced, with no credentials and no valid reason to be there…No one who is not an employee or a parent/guardian of a child being cared for there should be allowed in. Two strangers with a camera crew? Absolutely not. The only businesses that should lose their licenses over this are the ones who did let them in.” [ P. S. ]
*** “Instead of clearing his own heart, the zealot tries to clear the world.” [ Joseph Campbell ]
3] “Please allow me to attempt a thought exercise to see if I have the Republican thought process understood.
“Medical facilities receive taxpayer dollars via Medicaid assistance to their patients. If I were angry about this and I drove by a clinic at a time when they were closed and filmed the empty lot and locked doors, this proves fraud?”
“If I went to a different clinic and they were open and I demanded to see patient files that they refused to show me, that would be proof of fraud?”
“If I went to a pediatrician’s office during business hours and started filming the children in the room until I was thrown out…that’s definitely also fraud but not an invasion of children’s privacy…?”
“..everything is obviously the fault of Gov. Tim Walz and no one in the nearly equally split Legislature. This much i know for certain, for President Donald Trump tells me so.” [ A. S. ]
***. “When it comes to conspiracy, everything is permissible.” [ Napoleon ]
Then – please consider the following:
4] “Pandemic-era fraud occurred in all 50 states.” [Phil Morris: “Minnesota’s fraud reckoning enters the influencer era”; Minnesota Star Tribune; 12/31/ 25] SO. – can we therefore assume that we’ll soon see the Trump administration cutting off aid to 49 other states?, or, perhaps just ‘blue’ states, or, perhaps…………………??????
***. “The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.” [ Justice Robert Jackson ]
5] “A 43-minute video…viewed by millions…has also set off a series of events that show the symbiotic relationship between the Trump administration and self-described journalists….highlights the way the White House seeds narratives about key issues, then rewards sympathetic craetors who deliver viral content.” [ Ken Bensinger, Ernesto Londono: “Viral video sparks intense response”; New York Times; 1/1/26] SO – do YOU think that Joseph Goebbels, and, quite likely also, “Big Brother,” just might be clapping in great glee – admiring how a DICTATORSHIP in America manages to drive and control “the news.” ????? !!!!! ?????
SO !!!!! – Do YOU think that a man who ORDERED Republicans in congress to vote against a bi-partisan immigration bill crafted by a very conservative Senator, so he could run against immigration in the 2024 election. – would. – try to conjure up a variety of ‘issues’ so he can maintain HIS Congressional majority in the November 3, 2026 elections ???? !!!! ????? Nobody would stoop that low, right ?????
***. “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” [ Herb Brooks; Anthony Weldon ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXXVI. – Trump’s. Radical50 million Americans. Reactionary Incompetence
*** “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present i. which the Party is aways right.”
[ George Orwell: “1984” ]
We end 2025 with an apology. We”re sorry, but we cannot keep up with the daily drumbeat of damage the Trump DICTATORSHIP is inflicting upon America. Below are SOME of the anti-democratic recent headlines, reflecting on the WIDESPREAD CATASTROPHE and EVIL imposed on Americans by ‘our” government.
1] “How the letter “K” describes the shape of the U.S. economy…The wealthy get richer, the poor struggle more” [Christopher Rugaber; Associated Press; 12/3/25]: “The top 40% of all U.S. consumers are driving two-thirds of all consumption….the wealthiest 10% of Americans own roughly 87% of the stock market..” [50 million Americans are food insecure {4/17/25}. 44% of U.S. workers are in low-wage jobs; 60% of U.S. workers live paycheck-to-paycheck. {11/18/25}
2] “The Cost of Care in the Land of Plenty….For many Americans the question may not be ‘how bad is it?”, but rather, can I afford to get this looked at?” [Andrew Tait; The Progressive Populist; January, 2026]. [can. YOU. afford medical care or health insurance in America????????]
3] “White House downplays risks of AI”. {Tony Romm, Colby Smith; New York Times; 12/25/25]. – versus “A.I. Will Displace Workers at a Scale Many don’t Realize”. [Sal Khan; New York Times; 12/28/25]. Jeremy Rifkin’s “The End of Work [1995,2004], and many other analyses showed from DATA that jobs were ALREADY being lost, from manufacturing to white collar jobs. – before A.I. A.I. will only make job loss WORSE, plus many other issues like privacy.
4] “Somber mood at scientists’ annual meeting….Amid cuts, many say American science is suffering under Trump” [Eric Niiler; New York Times; 12/21/25]: “It’s a fundamental disruption of the systems that allow science in this country to function.” “Morris lab down to just 3 scientists….Soils laboratory among many ag science sites gutted by federal cuts” [Christopher Vondracek; Minnesota Star Tribune; 12/30/25]. “Science Under Siege” [Michael Mann, Peter Hotez]. “Fool me Twice….Fighting the Assault on Science in America”. [Shawn Lawrence Otto]. WHY does the radical reactionary R-W attack science? Because science deals in proven FACTS. FACTS are POISON to the Trump DICTATORSHIP.
5] “Bankruptcies soar amid tariffs, inflation….Filings for 2025 reach highest tally since 2010” [Aaron Gregg, Jaclyn Peiser; Washington post; 12/30/25]. Trump’s policies have hurt manufacturing, construction, transportation hardest’; small businesses are hurt, many closing.
6} Get more facts: “Trump’s First Year Back, in 10 Charts” [New York Times; 12/28/25]: ‘..by year’s end, Mr. Trump’s popularity has sunk to historic lows, as many Americans recoiled from his brutality and his extremism. Above all, they fretted about his failure to improve their economic well-being.”
7]. “For DOGE, Big Disruption Returned Meager Savings….Largest Claims Were Wrong and Real Cuts Were Small, Times Analysis Finds”. [Emily Badger, David Fahrenhold, Alicia Parlapiano, Margot Sanger-Katz; New York Times; 12/28/25]: ‘..the group did not do what mr. Musk said it would: reduce federal spending by $1 trillion before October. On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up.” [!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!] And then this: DOGE broke numerous federal privacy laws and policies, often at gunpoint, to acquire YOUR personal data. What did they do with it??? WHO has YOUR personal data – Russians, Chinese, criminals, musk??????? Just perhaps – the REAL DOGE goals were NOT savings. – BUT WERE. – acquisition of YOUR data, destroying independence in the federal government, ruining the federal government. – all enabling the Trump DICTATorship. to do whatever it wants ???????!!!!!!?????
8] “Trump’s Monroe Doctrine Will Tip Our World into Chaos….We are headed for more confrontations, more brinksmanship, more war”. [Greg Grandin; New York Times; 12/21/25]. Trump’s plan could result in 3 big powers ruling the earth; china, Russia, America – back to pre-WW I. “Trump’s vision; A nation unto Itself” [Naftali Bendavid; Washington post Weekly; 12/21/25]: “The problem is that strategic detachmewnt was attainable in the 19th century, it’s not attainable today,” Kupchan said. “This will..ultimately fail because it’s not possible.”
9] “It Matters Who Owns the National Debt, Too…New invstors demand higher returns for lending to the U.S.” {Geng Ngarmboonanant; New York Times; 12/28/25]. Trump’s policies are a threat to trust in U.S.debt because of questions on the independence of the Federal Reserve; predictability of the Treasury, rule of law; international partnerships. This is also important because Trump’s 2017 tax cuts are 25% of U.S.debt; he demanded these cuts be made permanent, and we ALREADY KNOW this will increase U.S. debt by trillions. You – research Republican tax cuts of Reagan, BushII and Trump – see how much they’ve blown up the U.S. debt since 1981
10] “The White House is a Lost Cause”. [ Jamelle Bouie; New York Times; 12/21/25]: Trump often does NOT know what ‘his” administration is doing , on ANYTHING. “He is, by most accounts, isolated from the outside world….rarely meets with ordinary Americans outside the White House….He is uninterested in anyone except his most devoted fans….the work of the White House has been delegated to a handful of high-level advisors..”
Thanks to a corrupt “supreme court,” America is being moved toward implementing “the unitary executive theory”….”Think Bonapartism with an American twist…the president we have isn’t unitary. He has given his newfound power away to a small set of virtually unaccountable advisors, insulated from public outcry and indifferent to public opinion.”
THEN – consider WHO has benefited from the slow erosion of America’s loss of economic affordability from 1981 forward. WHO has, will, benefit from the loss of civil liberties? WHO will benefit from cuts in government services? HINT: – look at pictures of Trump’s 2025 inaugural, see WHO had the most honored seats!!! WHO wrote “Project 2025? – and. – how many of them are in Trump’s administration?????
*** The “Republican Party’ of 2025 is NOT the Republican Party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Eisenhower. Since 1981, R-W reactionaries have steadily gained control. They had a blueprint, often derided, said to b too extreme. Backed by R-W billionaires, they have acquired power in the Trump White House. Matthew Dallek’s “Birchers”:
“Trump benefited from the rhetorical and ideological legacy..Birchers had bequeathed to subsequent generations…he campaigned on a set of Birch-toned themes….Trump’s apocalyptic oratory and conspiracy theories helped mobilize supporters and framed his message….The Birch inheritance not only colored Trump’s campaign but also informed his White House agenda….Trump drew energy, as Birchers had, from white supremacists, militias, and nativists and brought them into his coalition….imposing Christian prayer and “Americanist” teachings on public schools – became a plank of the administration’s policy agenda….The Birch Society’s view of public health policies as a statist plot to squash individual liberties entered the conservative mainstream during the Trump administration’s response to ..COVID-19….Trump’s governance helped turn conservative anti-government idology into a government-as-the-enemy, root-of-all-evil philosophy…the so-called deep state..”
***** What is happening to YOU, and other ordinary Americans is NOT an accident. It has already been investigated and described to YOU – Double Pulitzer Prize winners Donald Barlett & James Steele’s. “The Betrayal of the American Dream”; Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s “Who Stole the American Dream?”; Kurt Andersen’s “Evil Geniuses”; prize winner Jane Mayer’s. ‘Dark Money”; and many more.
*** Do YOUR own FACTUAL research: on. WHY YOUR purchasing power has declined since 1973; on people’s incomes, 1947-73. versus. 1981-2025; on top marginal tax rates 1947-73. versus. 1981-2025; on ordinary American’s ability to buy a home. 1947-73. versus. 1981-2025; on WHY ordinary people are NOT having children, none or 1 or 2. versus earlier having families of 2 – 3 -4 kids.
*** Read the Constitution’s Preamble on WHY “We the People’. created the U.S. government: “Union,” “Justice,” “domestic Tranquility,”…….”promote the general Welfare.” This site criticizes the Trump DICTATORSHIP and the Reagan and Bush II governments BECAUSE of their FAILURE to achieve those goals, and, in many cases, of working to sabotage those goals.
***. “The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.” [ Aristotle ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXXIII – Donald John Trump Violates the Spirit of Christmas 24/7, 365
*** “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, as I have loved you.” [ Jesus Christ – John 13:34 ]
1- – “The Human Toll of Trump’s Aid Cuts” [ Nicholas Kristof; New York Times; 6/11/25]
– – “Children who are citizens deported” [ Marc Levy; Associated Press; 4/27/25 ]
– “”Head Start Under The Budget Gun…Trump administration’s planned spending cuts threatens to end 60-year old program that provides care for 800,000 kids” [ Jenny Gold, Kate Sequiera: Los Angeles Times; 4/27/25 ]
– “As markets fell, Trump played golf”. [ Dan Diamond; Washington Post; 4/8/25 ]
*** “City sidewalks busy sidewalks; Dressed in holiday style, in the air; There’s a feeling of Christmas; Children laughing; People passing meeting smile after smile…” [ “Silver Bells” ]
2]. – “Trump blames Reiner for his own death”. [Michelle Price; Associated Press; 12/16/25}
– “Top Aide Says Trump Has ‘An Alcoholic’s Personality'” [ Peter Baker; New York Times; 12/17/25 ]
– “Weather lab to be dismantled…White House calls the research center a source of ‘climate alarmism”. [ Lisa Friedman, Brad Plumer; New York Timres; 12/18/25 ]
– “Heating Costs Rising Near 10% This Winter…Bills going up as government cuts aid to states to help low-income residents”. [ Ivan Penn; New York Timers; 12/18/25 ]
***. “If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming after you, and you don’t do it, you are wasting your time on this earth.” [ Roberto Clemente, beloved HOF baseball player. An annual Roberto Clemente Award is given to a player deemed to be a positive public asset ]
3] “Donald Trump’s single greatest character flaw as a leader and human being is his complete and total lack of empathy.” [ Omarosa: “Unhinged”; Trump first term official ]
*** “There’s no Christmas like a home Christmas with your Dad and Mother Sis and Brother there; With their hearts humming at your home commin’ and that Merry Yuletide spirit in the air’.” [“There’s No Christmas Like A Home Christmas” ]
4]. – “The Trump administration ..[said].. the Smithsonian is too focused on “how bad slavery was.” [Kelsey Ables; White House threatens Smithsonian funds amid content review”; Washington Post; 12/22/25 ]
– “White House aid cuts hamper food shelves” [Trey Newes; Minnesota Star Tribune; 2/24/25 ]
– “FDA firings decimate teams on med devices, disease, food safety”. [Christina Jewett; New York Times; 2/22/25 ]
– “Trump, Musk and Cruelty to Poor Kids” [ Gene Nichol; The Progressive Populist; 4/1/25 ]
*** ‘So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in the world.” [ Isadora Duncan ]
5]. – “Trump Promised lower Prices. His Policies Are Raising Them” [ New York Times; Editorial; 11/23/25 ]
– “Trump calls affordability concerns ‘a con job'”. [ Erica Green; New York Times; 12/3/25 ]
– “Black Friday spending shows widening economic divide”. [ Abha Bhattarai; Washington Post; 12/10/25 ]; [Lower-and middle-income Americans have been hit hard by rising costs…For the first time, the top 10% of Americans account for nearly half of all spending..” ]
– “Launching Affordability Tour, Trump Mocks Affordability” [ Matt Viser; Washington Post; 12/11/25 ]: [“Trump …returned to a comment he made easrlier in his presidency, saying that Americans needed to go without.” ]
*** “Here we come a-caroling, among leaves so green, here we come a-wandering, so far to be seen; Love and joy come to you, and to you, and to you glad Christmas too, and God bless you and you, a Happy New Year, and God send you a Happy New Year.” [ “Here We Come A-caroling” ]
6] ‘…Donald’s pathologies are so complex and his behaviors so often inexplicable that coming up with an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis would require a full battery of psychological and neuropsychological tests..” [ niece Mary Trump: “Too Much and Never Enough” ]
***. “In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.” [ Senator J. William Fulbright. ]
7]. – “Domestic violence services at risk” [Briana Bierschbach; Minnesota Star Tribune; 2/25/25 ]
– “Consumer agency is ordered to stop work”. [ Christopher Rugaber; Associated Press; 2/10/25 ]
– “Vets are becoming face of Trump’s cuts, Dem’s fight”. [ Stephen Grover; Associated Press; 3/25/25 ]
– “Farmers are out millions after Trump freezes USDA funds”. [. Daniel Wu, Gaya Gupta, Anumita Kaur; Washington Post; 2/11/25 ]
***. “People who love people, are the luckiest people in the world. We”re children needing other children, and yet letting grown-up pride hide all the need inside, acting more like children than children.” [ Barbara Streisand; “People” ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXXII – Lawsuits Filed to Stop Trumpism Corruption and Power Grab
***. “Free governments have committed more flagrant acts of tyranny than the most perfectly despotic governments we have ever known.”” [ Edmund Burke ]
Since January 20, 2025 – the Trump DICTATORSHIP has proven that maxim, often far below the public radar. Below are SOME of the at least 18 lawsuits Public Citizen has filed against the Trump DICTATORSHIP by November 10.
1] “Stopping Trump from using taxpayer resources for partisan purposes; AFGE. v. Department of Education, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, October 3, 2025. Background & why the case is important: “When the government shut down on October 1, 2025, most civilian federal workers were placed in furlough status… Employees at thre Department of Education discovered..the agency changed their out-of-office emails to include language blaming “Democratic Senators” for the shutdown.
2] “Stopping Trump from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protections Bureau: NTEU, Et Al. v. Vought, Et Al., U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, February 13, 2025. Background & why this case is important: After Trump vowed to ‘totally eliminate” the Consumer protection Bureau [CFPB], OMB director Russell Vought set out to make good on that promise. The CFPB, which has recovered billions of dollars for American consumers, cannot be dismantled without Congressional action.” [NOTE: YOUR clue is “Recovered billions of dollars” for Americans like YOU. Question: why would an American govt that cared about YOU kill this agency?????????]
3]. “Protecting worker health: National Nurses united, Et Al. v. Kennedy, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, May 14, 2025. Background & why the case is important: Trump and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. are trying to dismantle the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health [NIOSH], the country’s premier authority on occupational safety and health, protecting workers in high-risk industries…Among other things, NIOSH screens miners for black lung disease, provides medical monitoring to September 11 first responders and evaluates the safety of worksite protective gear…” [NOTE ; Ask YOURSELF – why would an American govt that cared for its people dismantle this agency?????????]
***. “The aggregate happiness of society, which is promoted by the practise of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government.” [ George Washington ]
4] “Ending Trump’s unlawful assault on foreign aid: AIDS Vaccine. Advocacy. Coalition, et Al. v. U.S. Department of State, Et Al., U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, February 10, 2025. Background & why the case is important: With an abrupt freeze on foreign assistance funding, the Trump administration halted lifesaving work around the globe, undermined vital U.S. interests and cost thousands of Americans their jobs.” [NOTE: our adversaries have already cashed in. This has, WILL. damage America’s image around the world. The world’s richest country has now turned its back on the world.]
5]. “Ending Trump’s gag order on public health agencies: Doctors For America v. Office of Personnel Management, Et Al., U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, February 4, 2025. Background & why the case is important: Putting politics, conspiracy theories and reactionary ideology ahead of the wellbeing of the American people, the administration ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health & Human Services to remove from their websites a broad range of public health information vital to physicians, clinics, public health officials and patients.” [NOTE: likely THE perfect example of the Trump DICTATORSHIP’s. monumental cruelty and utter disregard for its own population]
6] “Protecting civil liberties in immigration proceedings: Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. v. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, April 24, 2025. Background & why the case is important: The Trump administration closed the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman Office and Office of Immigrant Detention Ombudsman because they “obstructed immigration enforcement by adding bureaucratic hurdles and undermining DHS’s mission.” In other words, following the law and protecting rights is inconvenient for the administration.”
[Note: the 6 items above were all in a Public Citizen “Memorandum” sent to members]
Americans can’t keep up with all the criminalities, cruelties, craziness committed by the Trump DICTATORSHIP. That is part of their strategy – to. “flood the zone” with so many outrages, YOU can’t keep up. In the meantime, Trump, his cronies, his powerful wealthy donors and backers – the richer. It has been estimated that Trump alone, is, in less than a year, become about $3 billion richer!!!!!!!!!
***. “This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs: When he first appears, he is a protector.” [ Plato ]
!!! – Here are two more instances of corruption and cruelty:
– 12/18/25: “‘Powerful evidence’ against the president.” Special counsel Jack Smith said in testimony to Congress that his team of investigators had “developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt”. Donald Trump had CRIMINALLY. CONSPIRED. TO. OVERTURN THE RESULTS. OF. THE. 2020. ELECTION.”
– 12/19/25: “Trump sets goals for ending citizenship.” “Immigration officers are given a. MONTHLY. QUOTA for denaturalizations.” [And we know from past actions, the Trump DICTATORSHIP. will, if it can’t find REAL evidence, make it up. – for people it doesn’t like.]
*** “Kill, destroy, sack, tell lies; how much you want. After victory nobody asks Why?” [. Adolf Hitler ]
[NOTE: On December 19, 1776, living under King George III, Thomas Paine published. “American Crisis”…….”These are the times that try men’s souls..” In December, 2025, suffering under the DICTATORSHIP of. King Donald I. – Americans are again experiencing……..”These are the times that try men’s souls..”………………….]
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