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

~ tomdolen


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[ Honore de Balzac ]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

*** “When and if fascism comes to America it will not be labeled ‘made in Germany,’ it will not be marked with a swastika; it will not even be called fascism; it will be called, of course, ‘Americanism’..” [ Halford Luccock ]

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

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

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

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXXVII. – America Pays A Very Big Price for NOT Having Leaders With Character

~ tomdolen

*** “Good moral character is the first essential in a man.” [ George Washington, 12/5/1790 ]

This post is primarily built around “When character no longer matters, power becomes the only credential” [Jack Leslie, Ward Brehm; Minnesota Star Tribune; 1/1/26};
1]. “The language of our politics has grown reckless, inflammatory rhetoric and casual cruelty are no longer fringe phenomena; they have crept into the mainstream of our public life. When leaders treat fellow Americans as targets rather than citizens, the damage extends far beyond any single remark. It signals a failure of character, more than ideology, that determines whether a republic endures.”

***. “When the late J. P. Morgan was asked what he considered the best bank collateral, he replied, “Character.”

2] “A democracy can survive ideological disagreement. It can survive bad policy. It can even survive bad leaders – for a time. What it cannot survive is the steady erosion of character as a governing requirement.” [Leslie, Brehm]

***. “Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable character.” [ Samuel Adams, 1775 ]

3] “A month after the inauguration, thirty-five psychiatrists wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Times: “We believe that the grave emotional instability indicated by Mr. Trump’s speech and actions makes him incapable of serving safely as President.” [ Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston: “It’s Even Worse Than You Think” ]

***. “The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit – a reputation, character.” [ John D. Rockefeller ]

4] “We are watching behavior once considered disqualifying become routine; rising intolerance, habitual dishonesty, contempt for democratic norms and the deliberate exploitation of division for political gain. – one rationalization at a time.” [ Leslie, Brehm ]

*** “Character is the only secure foundation of the state.” [ Calvin Coolidge, Republican U.S. 30th President ]

5] “History is clear: Democracies rarely collapse in a single dramatic moment. They weaken gradually as standards erode, boundaries blur and citizens are conditioned to accept conduct they once would have rejected outright. The danger is not chaos. The danger is normalization.” [ Leslie, Brehm ]

*** “The best index to a person’s character is [a] how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and [b] how he treats people who can’t fight back.” [ Abigail Van Buren ]

6] “A democracy can survive bad leaders. It cannot survive citizens who excuse them. When character no longer matters, power becomes the only credential. – and history tells us exactly where that leads.” [ Leslie, Brehm ]

*** The qualities of a great man are “vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation,, and a profundity of character.” [ Dwight D. Eisenhower, World War II General, Republican 34th U.S. President ]

7] “So here is the demand: Refuse to fund politicians of either party who abuse power, distort the truth or enforce ideology through coercion rather than persuasion. Withdraw your money. Withdraw your vote. Demand civility, integrity and restraint – and vote out those who refuse to meet that standard.” [ Leslie, Brehm ]

***. “Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.” [ Lawrence Lovasik ]

8]. “Every generation is tested. this is ours. the question is no longer what we believe, but what we are willing to refuse.” [ Leslie, Brehm ]

SO. – YOU tell me, just how would YOU judge Donald John Trump, and the people around him, his donors, people who wrote “Project 2025,” people in his administration carrying out his policies in general – including those that hurt American citizens? In the light of tenets of good character. – how do YOU judge the INTENT of the Trump administration’s rhetoric, actions, policies? In the light of good character how does one evaluate Trump’s 2017 tax cuts for the obscenely rich – and, his insistence these tax cuts be made permanent in 2025? HOW do these tax cuts “…promote the general Welfare..” [u.S. Constitution]???

*** “When wealth is lost; when health is lost; something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.” [Billy Graham]

9] “Trump says he does not see any reason to seek divine forgiveness because he has done nothing wrong in his entire life, an oft-made observation..” [ Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston: “The making Of Donald Trump” ]

*** “I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty.” [ Adolf Hitler ]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity,, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXXV – The new “Trump-class”. Battleships !!!!!!!!!!!

~ tomdolen


*** “Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal.” [ Samuel Johnson ]

Trump’s 2025 “Christmas gift” to America is……..a new ‘golden fleet’. of naval warships featuring mammoth 35,000 ton. “Trump-class” battleships !!! This is a stereotypical Trump project because it displays. his STUPIDITY, his HISTORICAL IGNORANCE, his ARROGANCE.

In rendering this judgment, please consider the following pieces of evidence:
1] America turned the tide of World War II in the Pacific at the battle of Midway. American planes sunk four Japanese carriers. The Japanese never recovered.

2] The mighty German battleship, the Bismarck, was disabled by a British Swordfish torpedo, then sunk by naval gunfire.

3] In December, 1941, the Japanese sank the British battleship “Prince of Wales” and battlecruiser “Repulse” by airplane attacks.

4]. Ukraine has forced the Russian Black Sea fleet to retreat to a more remote Russian port further away from the war zone. – by using drones !!!

5]. The biggest warships in the current Chinese navy are “Type 055 Renhai-class” destroyers, often called cruisers – which are listed at 13,000 tons.

Read the above again. Now. – think about Trump’s 35,000 ton TARGETS.

Read the following analysis from retired Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery: He said. “the ships are behemoths ill-suited to confront China”…. said the Navy instead needed a dispersed fleet of minimally manned or unmanned ships with large weapons magazines to combat the Chinese threats at sea. “These ‘battleships’ will achieve none of these tactical goals,” said Montgomery.” [ “Trump announced new ‘golden fleet’ of warships named after himself”. [ Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Eric Schmitt, John Ismay; New York Times; 12/24/25 ]

Trump’s. “vision”. – is, as usual. – STUPIDITY. and. ARROGANCE – plus his well-known ego mania of naming a building or institution after HIMSELF. Now it’s American warships

The. VICTIMS:
1] American taxpayers. [except billionaires]. who are forced to pay for these worthless ships
2] American sailors who’ll be assigned to these floating BIG. TARGETS.
3]. American citizens who actually think Trump has ‘improved” American defense. – when it actuality. – he’ll have weakened it. – money wasted, money NOT going into modern weapons

This is one more instance of THE COST TO AMERICA of having a 13-year old as “our” president.

***. “Self-deception once yielded to, all other deceptions follow naturally more and more.” [ Thomas Carlyle ]

***. “I play to people’s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do.” [ Donald John Trump: “The Art of The Deal” ]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXXIV – Trump’s Storm Troopers, and What It Says About America

~ tomdolen

***. “The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Man may hate us. But we don’t ask for their love; only their fear.” { Reichsfuhrer SS, Heinrich Himmler ]

“Dystopian Nightmare: Storm Troopers in the Carolinas…Homeland Security cops – gunpoint assaults” [ Hal Crowther; The Progressive Populist; January, 2026 ]:
1] “You can’t really experience the deep bone-chill of police-state fascism until it reaches your neighborhood. This stunning, court-defying immigration purge, with armed, masked thugs authorized to abuse and kidnap anyone who looks Hispanic, has come to central North Carolina….Hundreds have been arrested and detained, agents have smashed car windows and thrown women to the ground.”

2] “No charges were filed against any of these victims – all three turned out to be American citizens. Imagine your reaction if your own government turned on you so violently, so irrationally.”

***!!!***!!!*** THIS. – is the CORE ISSUE. “Imagine YOUR reaction if YOUR own government turned on YOU..”

3] “One of my greatest disappointments is that when a cruel, stupid leader like President Trump is calling the shots, so many ordinary soldiers are ready to answer the call.”

4] “If the resistance and the rule of law should fail and a constitutional democracy collapses into some kind of fear-ravaged police state, the autumn of 2025 will be remembered as the moment when our dam broke. These aren’t just civil rights but human rights that have been flagrantly violated.”

***. “Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.”
[ Justice Lous Brandeis ]

5] “The shameless lie that the federal storm troopers are only pursuing “the worst of the worst” is contradicted by every reported statistic. Of the 600-plus immigrants arrested in Chicago, only 16 had any criminal records, and two of them were for drunk driving. if law enforcement was truly focused on “the worst of the worst,” it could find most of them on that huge list of thugs and insurrectionists Trump has pardoned..”

6]. “In some cozy corner of Hell, Adolf Hitler is smiling. “Those damn Americans destroyed me,” the Fuhrer is thinking, “but now they’re admitting I was right.” He might even note that the Trump administration has requested a list, including contact information, of Jewish students, faculty members and employees of the University of Pennsylvania – ostensibly to “protect’ them…”

7] “Welcome to the Fourth Reich.”

*** “He that despised his neighbor sins.” [ Proverbs 14:21 ]

8] “Its not just our laws and constitution that Trump vandalizes, but our codes of civil decency and acceptable behavior. Anyone who still pretends that the president isn’t crazy is ignoring his outburst at a White House reporter who was trying to question the Saudi prince. – “Quiet. Quiet, Piggy?”

9] “For those of us who suspected that he was a Russian agent all along, here’s a foreign policy update, too. A United Nations resolution that condemned Russia for the war in Ukraine, drafted by the European Union, was rejected by only 18 of 176 nations. The negative bloc included Russia, Belarus, north Korea – and the United States.” [!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

Question: What’s the difference between. the Nazi Gestapo, the Soviet KGB-NKVD, Trump’s ICE thugs?

Answer: Trump’s. ICE. thugs wear masks.


*** “First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Jew. And then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak for me.” {Pastor Martin Niemoller – 8-year concentration camp personal prisoner of Adolf Hitler ]

And. – remember this: at Auschwitz, there were at least 6 major inmate badges: for “politicals,” for criminals, for homosexuals, for “anti-socials,” for Jehovahs Witnesses, and – for Jews.
And this; the first Nazi concentration camp prisoners. WEREN’T. Jews.

AND – perhaps. YOU. – just might want to think on this: in”your’ president’s 11 month reign of terror – he has attacked a large number of people, groups, institutions. – that he personally, and his supporters and donors, don’t like. He, and those around him, have demonstrated a CONTEMPT for “the rule of law.” What’s to prevent King Donald I from persecuting. YOU ??????????

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

~ tomdolen


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

~ tomdolen


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

***. “Trump has no knowledge of the American story and so cannot have any faith in it. He has no understanding of or sympathy for the language of the founders, so he cannot be inspired by it. Since he doesn’t believe American democracy is good, he has no interest in an America that aspires to be a model among nations.” [Anne Applebaum: “Twilight of Democracy”]

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

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

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

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

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

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXX – Undermining, Unraveling, Destroying American Rule of Law.

~ tomdolen


*** “No man is above the law and no man is below the law; nor do we ask anyman’s permission when we require him to obey the law.” [ Theodore Roosevelt; Republican; 26th U.S. President ]

2] “Many judges said the politicization of judges, the Supreme Court’s expanding use of the emergency dockets and sustained criticism from the Trump administration have pushed the courts and democracy to a fragile tipping point – one where cooperation with rulings and adherence to the rule of law can no longer be assumed.”

“RETIRED JUDGES WARN THAT THE RULE OF LAW IS UNRAVELING”
[Brianna Tucker; Washington Post; 11/30/25]

If YOU are a caring, concerned, patriotic American. – this article is a MUST read. It is, unfortunately, NOT the first such reporting to be expressed. Note WHO is talking – retired judges. Legal experts have been expressing dismay and urgent concern that among the damages the Trump DICTATORSHIP has imposed upon America. – a critical, perhaps THE critical sabotage has been a wide-ranging program to DESTROY America’s “Rule of Law,” a fundamental American strength since 1789. Donald John Trump, and his powerful wealthy backers and donors, want American law bent to support their immoral, greedy, reckless, selfish purposes. If YOU don’t understand this – YOU don’t understand the depth and breadth of the Trump DICTATORSHIP’s threat to American law, government, democracy, society, values, freedoms.

Following are excerpts from “Retired Judges Warn The Rule of Law is Unraveling”:
4] “All you have to do is look back on what occurred in Nazi Germany,’ said Barbara Pariente, a former chief justice on the Florida Supreme Court. In 1937, judges deemed by the Nazi regime as noncompliant with its laws were replaced, resulting in a overhaul of its judicial system.”

6] “Under Trump, many judges and other legal experts say that dynamic has degraded into unjustified criticism, with the president using social media and public speeches to attack judges who rules against his policies.”

9] “Several former judges called the increase in the Trump administration ignoring, defying or circumventing judicial decisions alarming and warned the trend severely weakens the separation of powers that has defined the United States for more than 200 years”

15]. “What he’s done with universities, what he’s done with law firms, what he’s done with the media…it’s changing our country,” Scheindlin said. “Our civil rights are not being protected, our voting rights, immigration rights, whatever they are, we’re losing them.”

***. “It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.” [ Earl Warren; Chief Justice; U.S. Supreme Court ]

1]. “When the White House blasted a federal judge as “partisan” for dismissing the criminal cases against former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James this week, it was an attack that has become common in President Donald Trump’s second term. For many retied federal and state supreme courSocietyt judges, it was another example of the president’s assault on the judiciary and further erosion of the rule of law.”

3] ‘..some of them warn that Trump’s clashes with judges echo how leaders in foreign countries sought to undermine the strength of their courts – from right-wing court reforms in Hungary to attempts by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to shift power away from the judiciary.”

5]. ‘…warned that the public often fails to see the consequences of a weakened rule of law and diminishing judicial branch until it is too late.”

7] “Although attacks on the judiciary aren’t new, the increased frequency and intensity could drive jurists from the bench earlier than in previous generations, the retired judges say.”

8]. “..threats against federal judges reached near-record levels in Fiscal Year 2025, according to data from the Marshall’s Service.”

10] “For decades, the Justice Department has been expected to function independently from theWhite House to ensure impartial decisions. But since taking office in early February, Attorney General Pam Bondi has….”

11]. “Bondi’s lieutenant, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, characterized the Justice Department’s relationship with the judiciary as an adversarial one at a Federalist Society conference earlier this month. “It is a war..”

12] “Many judges said one of the most harmful shifts away from procedural norms within the judicial branch stems from the Supreme Court’s increasing use of the emergency docket, also known as the “shadow docket.”

13] “The nation’s highest court has issued a historic rate of emergency orders throughout the second Trump administration.”

14] “The shift away from standard procedures in cases creates a trickle-down effect through the court system….lower courts are left scrambling to interpret how those orders may effect cases they are adjudicating.”

*** “The worst tyranny is that of misapplied laws.’ [ Metternich ]

***. “Those who suppress freedom always doso in the name of law and order.” [ John Lindsay ]


Team Right Wing might now be in the final stages of their 50-year campaign to undo the increasing perfection of American democracy, which peaked in the 1947-73 mass middle class prosperity inspired by New Deal programs and progressive court rulings. This was “too much democracy”. for theFAR RIGHT. A key, perhaps THE key, was appointing “conservative judges” beginning with Nixon; furthered by Reagan and Bush I, Bush II. AND – now America is cursed by Trumpism and all of its hangers-on. Many, but not all, “judges” and “justices” appointed by Trump have strong anti-democratic, plutocratic, theocratic leanings, which they have been imposing on YOU, YOUR children, YOUR grandchildren.

*** “You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.” [ Clarence Darrow ]

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

~ tomdolen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXVIII – “How Billionaires Took Over Americn Politics”

~ tomdolen


*** “We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentration in the hands of a few. But we can’t have both.” [ Justice Louis Brandeis ]

This post is intended to begin to open YOUR eyes to the magnitude of political influence amassed by America’s wealthiest people. It is expressed in tax code corruption, in laws not enforced, in laws written by and for the rich, in ‘supreme court” rulings like “citizens United,” and much more.

Following are some excerpts from “How Billionaires Took Over American Politics”. [Beth Reinhard, Naftali Bendavid, Clarence Morse, Aaron Schaffer; Washington Post Weekly; 11/23/25]. If YOU care about America, American society, American government, American justice – this is a MUST read.

1] “In an era defined by major political divisions and massive wealth accumulation for the richest Americans, billionaires are spending unprecedented amounts on U.S. politics…leading to a record-breaking surge of donations by the ultrarich in 2024. Since 2000, political giving by the wealthiest 100 Americans to federal elections has gone up almost 140 times..”

3] “..in three landmark decisions, starting with 2010’s Citizens United vs FEC, federal courts gutted post-Watergate campaign restrictions, clearing the way for donors to contribute unlimited money to elections. As a result, U.S. politicians are more dependent on the largesse of the billionaire class than ever before, giving one-four-hundreth of 1% of Americans extraordinary influence over which politicians and policies succeed…driving up campaign costs and eroding public confidence in American democracy.”

9] “..at least 17 billionaires, collectively worth more than $1 trillion, claimed coveted seats in the Capitol Rotunda – a historic concentration of wealth that seemed to herald a new class of American oligarchs, there to celebrate a president known for publicly rewarding his allies and punishing his opponents…..”It was so striking and so out in the open that the rich people are running the country”…….”

11] “..under Trump, the first billionaire president, the ultrawealthy have set up shop inside the corridors of government more openly than ever before…Trump’s Cabinet is the wealthiest in U.S. history..”

***. “Of all the forms of tyranny the least attractive and most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy.” [ Theodore Roosevelt, Republican 26th U.S. President ]

2] “Over the past quarter-century, political, legal and economic changes have reshaped the relationship between wealth and political power in America. Economists say wealth is now more concentrated at the very top than at any time since the Gilded Age.”

4] “Donations are not the only path to power for the ultrawealthy; following Trump’s lead, some billionaires are parlaying their financial clout into public office. At least 44 of the 902 U.S. billionaires on Forbes magazine’s 2025 list, or their spouses, have been elected or appointed to state or federal office in the past 10 years..”

5] “America’s 902 billionaires are collectively worth more than $6.7 trillion, the most wealth ever amassed by the nation’s ultrarich… A little more than a decade ago, there were half as many billionaires in the U.S., with a total worth estimated at $2.6 trillion when adjusted for inflation.”

*** “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.”
[ Benito Mussolini ]

6]. “Overall, billionaires have rallied behind Trump’s Republican Party. More than 80% of the federal campaign spending by the 100 wealthiest Americans went to Republicans…Trump himself raised 15 times as much from the 100 richest Americans in 2024 than he did during his first presidential campaign, in 2016.”

7] “..over the past half-decade, many of tech’s wealthiest titans rebelled against the Biden administration’s criticism and policing of their industry…”

8] “When Trump first ran for office in 2016, he pitched himself as someone whose personal fortune made him uncorruptible. [ stop laughing !!!], and he promised to break the power of elites in Washington and “drain the swamp.” [stop laughing, you’re going to hurt yourself !!!]

***. “The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.” [. Adam Smith – yes – THE. Adam Smith. ]

10] “Billionaires didn’t acquire their influence in D.C. overnight. President Bill Clinton aggressively courted Wall Street, then signed a sweeping financial deregulation and a trade deal strongly backed by wealthy Americans. President George W. Bush also relied heavily on affluent donors, then pushed through tax cuts that benefited the rich, as well as the Troubled Asset Relief Program to bail out big banks. In 2008, Barack Obama became the first presidential candidate in the post-Watergate era to reject public campaign financing and instead raising huge sums from private donors.”

12] ‘..Trump has championed a deregulation and tax cut agenda that is bringing huge benefits to wealthy Americans..DOGE..slashed the regulatory state that polices – and infuriates – billionaires, along with their business activities. The IRS has lost thousands of workers, which cripples efforts to pursue tax cheats…The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created to ensure that financial institutions treat their customers fairly, is on its deathbed. .Trump’s main legislative achievement, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, locked in lower tax rates for corporations and allowed the children of the super-rich to inherit $15 million tax-free, while cutting Medicaid programs that benefit the poor and the elderly.”

***. “You know, the only trouble with capitalism is capitalists. They’re too damn greedy.”
[ Herbert Hoover, Republican. 31st U.S. President ]

A future post will concern material from “Tax The Rich!” [ Morris Pearl, Erica Payne and The Patriotic Millionaires]. It will feature “Tax Tricks,” “Corporate Tricks<” Tax Lies. We leave YOU with this quote to chew on:
“According to the study [Martin Gilens], not a single policy supported by the majority of voters but opposed by the rich and the business community ended up being passed into law.”

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXV – Nursing is No Longer Classified As a “Professional Degree” !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~ tomdolen


*** “Where there is no knowledge, ignorance calls itself knowledge.” [ George Bernard Shaw ]

YOU can’t make this stuff up !!!!!!!!! Nurses don’t need education and training ????????

Does the Trump DICTATORSHIP have a “Department of Fools” ??? – who regularly churn out stupidity ???

Around November 20, 2025 – multiple news media reported something like this: “The Trump administration has announced that nursing is no longer classified as a “professional degree.”

SO – when YOU go to the dentist – do YOU want just anybody off the street poking around in YOUR mouth???????

Look up ‘hygienist” – the I-net says: “a licensed healthcare professional..” Read more and YOU find this involves a 2-4 year educational program. Do YOU think that states think that might be a good idea ??????

Look up “nurse’ – the I-net says: “a licensed healthcare professional..” Read more and YOU find this involves several years; 3 years for a registered nurse.

World Book Encyclopedia has a 4-page article on “Nursing,” including information on education required.

When YOU go in for surgery of any type – do YOU want just anybody off the street working with the dentist or surgeon?????????

Classroom work: student nurses study such subjects as anatomy, chemistry, nutrition, pharmacology, physiology, and sociology, as well as the fundamentals of nursing care.” SO – under the Trump DICTATORSHIP – does this mean nurses working on YOU no longer have to do this ?????????????

“Operating room nurses assist surgeons during operations. These nurses must react INSTANTLY AND ACCURATELY. to the surgeons’ request for operating instruments. SO – under the Trump DICTATORSHIP’s. “wisdom” we can put just anybody into the operating room ??????????


Face the FACTS – we in America are now “governed’ by FOOLS, ideological. IDIOTS, good-looking. LIARS, CORRUPT tax-cutters fro the already obscenely rich. YOU are witnessing, on virtually a daily basis, an advanced ‘democracy”. based on math and science slide into “Banana Republic” stupidity, craziness, cruelty, and above all massive and unending CORRUPTION.


Ask YOURSELF – what type of. FOOLS. would even think about saying nursing is no longer a professional healthcare profession????? WhenYOU were born, how many nurses were involved in YOUR healthcare??? WHO makes hospitals function????? WHO cleans YOUR teeth in order to prevent cavities???????

THIS – is an obvious illustration of the type of “thinking” now going on in the Trump DICTATORSHIP. Now, please, judge EVERY Trump DICTATORSHIP action, policy, announcement, rhetoric. with this STUPIDITY in YOUR mind. Re-examine EVERY Trump action since January 20, 2025, in this light.

The Trump DICTATORSHIP is populated with FOOLS, LIARS, INCOMPETENTS……..

***. “I play to people’s fantasies.” [ Donald John Trump: “The Art of the Deal” ]