WE. are. disgraced.
There are now three “Days of Infamy”: December 7, 1941; January 6, 2021; February 24, 2025.
You’ve been lied to: On December 7, 1941 – America attacked Japan at Pearl Harbor!!!!!
On January 6, 2021 – the police 7 “Deep State” attacked innocent ‘patriots’ in Washington
On February 24, 2022 – Ukraine attacked Russia inside Ukraine!!!!!!!!!!!
On September 1, 1939 – Poland attacked Nazi Germany!!!!!!!!!!!!
Major Question: Is Donald John Trump THE REAL “Manchurian Candidate”? And NOT the “fictional” Raymond Shaw of 1962 & 2004 movies?
What other reasons[s] exist for this: “U.S. sides with Russia in U.N. vote on Ukraine? Is Trump going to get financial ‘concessions’ from Russia – for the U.S. – or – for Trump family businesses – or – businesses of connected billionaires?
Picture this: FDR siding with the Nazis in World War II; Reagan siding with Russians in the Cold War!!!!!!!!!!!!
WE. are. disgraced.
On Friday, February 21, 2025 – Trump fired four-star General Charles Q. Brown, Jr. as chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Admiral Lisa Franchetti as chief of naval operations. Charles Brown is Black. Lisa Franchetti is female. both had served America for 40 years, had distinguished records
Major Question: Would Trump have fired Jackie Robinson “for disrupting major league baseball” in 1947?
Would Trump have fired Jesse Owens for embarrassing Hitler at the 1936 Olympic Games by
disproving the Aryan myth?
Would Trump have fired Joe Louis for destroying Max Schmeling in round one in 1938?
Would Trump have fired Billie Jean King for defeating Bobby Riggs in 1973?
We. are. disgraced.
An unelected rogue billionaire cuts funds, programs, civil servants – in order to: “have a more efficient government and save taxpayers money.” We. get:
1] “Domestic violence services at risk” because of Trump’s budget cuts
2] fired health inspectors at border stations open door to disease not being caught
3] laid off 6700 IRS employees means fewer audits of millionaires, less service to YOU
4]. reassigned FBI & Cybersecurity officials who’d been fighting foreign interference in U.S. elections
5]. some National Nuclear security employees responsible for U.S. nuclear readiness – FIRED!!!!!
6]. announced Health Department will “scrutinize’ childhood vaccines in face of Texas measles outbreak!!!!!!!
7]. USAID goes dark [2/7/25]- farmers fear impact of lost payments
8] CDC resumes bird flu report [2/6] after “unprecedented” silence – in face of threat to chickens & dairy cows!!!
9] gutted National Institutes of Health biomedical research training programs, possible epidemic shortage
10] attacks on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau which protects YOU from financial scams
11] funding for church food shelves frozen [2/7], hurts local growers and starving citizens
12] ‘another $20B stripped from IRS” [12/28/24 – Republicans don’t want billionaires audited]
13] “..Social Security under Trump..must cut benefits in 2031 or 2032” – so he can cut billionaire”s taxes [10/27/24]
ALL of this, plus MUCH MORE, to carry out. PROJECT 2025. plan to impose PLUTOCRATIC THEOCRACY on YOU. People are beginning to figure out letting an unelected rogue billionaire with fascist leanings cut supposed “waste” from YOUR government – in REALITY – means cutting government services to YOU, YOUR children, YOUR neighborhood, YOUR kid’s schools, YOUR health and safety. – all so the already obscenely rich don’t have to pay even their FAIR SHARE of taxes. An IRS official has already said due to understaffing. the IRS CAN’T collect $1 trillion a year in collectible taxes, most of which is taxes owed by the rich.
We. are. disgraced.
WE have a ‘KAKISTOCRACY”. running our “democracy.” “There’s a name for a government based on xenophobia, demagoguery, and greed: “kakistocracy” – government by the worst people in society.”
[ Jim Hightower; The Progressive Populist; 1/1/2025 ]
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The Trump-Musk Dictatorship – THE PATTERN, III
***** Do NOT lose the forest by looking at some trees. THE PATTERN is clear IF YOU begin to look for reasons why. Get past all the chaos and drama of the Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY. – look at WHY, WHO wins. WHO benefit from destroying American government, destroying YOUR government’s ability to function?????? Read and find serious, objective analysis of. ‘PROJECT 2025………….because…..
‘PROJECT 2025. is NOW. THE governing document – NOT. the Constitution.
9] LYING
*** “Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is masked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of men who can fabricate it.” [Hannah Arendt]
*** “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” [ Adolf Hitler ]
If Donald J. Trump’s lips are moving, he’s likely lying. As confirmed by his life PATTERN for 60 years and his DOCUMENTED LYING. RECORD. of 2017-2021. Economists and others are now providing DOCUMENTATION that the ENTIRE BASIS for “DOGE” is based on falsehoods; that it’s driven by FAR RIGHT IDEOLOGY – and the GREED of billionaires who don’t want to pay ANY taxes, or fair living wages, or follow evidence-based regulations
Consider the following:
A]. “Trump’s budget ideas don’t add up” [Jeff Stein; Washington Post; 9/8/24]
B]. “Trump’s Corporate Tax Cuts Paved the Way for Inflation…The former president made it more profitable for companies to gouge us..” [Lindsay Owens; The Progressive Populist; 6/15/24]
C]. “They’re eating cats and dogs….”
D]. “…beautiful tariffs..” – Consider: “He needs money to pay for bigger tax cuts for the rich.” [“The ugly myth of “beautiful tariffs”: Heather Long; Washington Post Weekly; 1/19/25]
E] “I don’t now anything about “Project 2025” – BIG, MAJOR LIE!!! – turns out Trump knew a lot; turns out Trump hired major “Project 2025” authors in his administration; from many accounts “his” agenda strongly resembles “Project 2025” – some are even quoting “Trump agenda” policies from SPECIFIC PAGES OF “Project 2025 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
F] “Climate change is a hoax.” YOUR insurance company does NOT think so – in fact is raising YOUR home insurance premiums BECAUSE of climate change CRISIS damage all over America.
G] Trump and FAR RIGHT attacks on government rebutted by 1787 thinking on WHY America NEEDED a better governing system; citing failures of the Articles of Confederation. James Madison: “There never was a Government without force. What is the meaning of government? An institution to make people do their duty.” John Adams: “The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult.”
H] The 2024 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.” The 3 men demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity. Societies with a poor rule of law and that exploit people do not succeed.
I] Read “American Amnesia,’ by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson…How the War on Government led us to Forget What Made America Prosper.” It is the “mixed economy,” “the combination of energetic markets and effective government.”
***. THE reason Musk and other rich people attack government is simple: they do NOT want to pay fair taxes – or really ANY taxes, because “I earned this money by myself”; they do NOT want ANY regulations restricting their profits; they do NOT want to pay fair living wages [which is WHY they moved “American’ jobs overseas; why is WHY they attack ANY labor union; which is WHY they bankrolled 2024 campaigns to defeat Representatives and Senators who disagreed with them
*****. IF the Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY was serious about saving taxpayer money, they can:
1] adequately fund the IRS – and collect the $1 trillion NOT collected EVERY year [much of it from millionaires]
2] cancel the immoral 2017 Trump tax cut for the rich – responsible for 25% of 2025 U.S. national debt
3]. save $1 trillion annually by eliminating the current national debt [mostly from Reagan, Bush II, Trump]
4] stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry – which is on a path to destroy the earth YOU live on
5]. audit the Defense Department – rumor has it they’ve NEVER passed one
6] fire all the “private contractors” getting paid up to double what government workers get paid
7]. take on BIG PHARMA – demand to pay what other nations pay for prescriptions
8]. tax ALL income for Social Security – end the “cap” for the rich
9] stop giving farm subsidies to rich farmers – give them only to “Mom & Pop” farmers
*** Here”s YOUR test!!!!! – if few, or none of the above KNOWN cures for U.S. National Debt are even mentioned, let alone actually put into force – YOU have DEFINITIVE proof – the ENTIRE DOGE. “efficiency” hunt is a BOGUS FAR RIGHT wish list – part of the cover for lowering taxes even more for the already obscenely rich.
SPEAK. OUT. – while YOU still can. Four more years of this – we will NOT have a prosperous middle class democracy. The evidence is plain. “Trump’s numbers don’t add up.”
The Trump-Musk Dictatorship – THE PATTERN, II – part Two
Continuing Part II of. THE. PATTERN:
7]. CORRUPTING LAWS [ALL dictatorships corrupt the laws and judicial system]
“…a new school of legal thought..’law and economics’..became one of the prime organizers of a regular series of seminars for judges…including legal arguments in favor of network priorities [the kleptocratic network] and market-based ethical standards and denigrating the very notion of the public interest…the Federalist Society..subnetwork of legal scholars and practioners has been crucial to the hydra’s ability to weaponize the justice function….much more radical….What American citizens don’t yet realize..is that ‘this will make it very hard for future democratically elected institutions to govern.'” [Sarah Chayes: “The Corruption of America”] *****{NOTE: Chayes is an internationally recognized expert on government corruption, having observed it elsewhere. Also – do YOUR own research on the “law and economics” theory & the “seminars for judges” this movement conducts – & VERY BIG – WHO pays for these law school classes, WHO wants this radical FAR RIGHT legal theory put into American law?????]
“The rich and their lobbyists have taken firm control of the levers of power in Washington, and the state capitals while remaking the rules in their own interests…These same people also happen to be the primary source of the campaign donations that put politicians in office and keep them there…Rules define a civilization…For more than a quarter century..our government has been adopting rules that tilt the playing field in favor of the rich, the powerful, and the politically connected.” [“Free Lunch,” David Cay Johnston. NOTE: Johnston has also written “Perfectly Legal” and “The Fine Print”. also documenting how the rich and their corporations are robbing YOU.}
*** “I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country…Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people until all the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.” [ Abraham Lincoln; 11/21/1864 letter to Col. W.F. Elkins]
8] LOYALTY AND OBEISANCE
– “Noem is rewarded for Trump toadying”. [Jennifer Brooks; Minnesota Star Tribune; 11/13/24]
– “..anticipatory obedience”….”..actions..individual people or private institutions took pre-emptively, with some measure of free will.” [“We Are Watching America Capitulate To Trump”; M.Gessen; New York Times; 2/9/25]
– “If you were seeking to destroy the country, the Gabbard, Gaetz, RFK Jr. picks were exactly the ones you’d make.” [“Will then Senate Save America From Trump’s Cabinet?”; Joe Conason; The Progressive Populist; 12/15/24]
– “In Hiring, Trump Follows Instinct More Than Ever…Prioritizing Loyalty and Not Seeking Advice Outside His Circle”. {J.Swan, M.Haberman; New York Times]
*** “Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters.”
{ U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson]
The Trump-Musk Dictatorship – The Pattern, II
Democracy is fragile. Democracy depends on “the rule of law,” NOT “rule BY law.” Democracy depends on norms, restraints, toleration, decency, respect for others, and as the U. s. Constitution’s Preamble says: American government was created to “..establish Justice…promote the general Welfare.” “Promote the general Welfare”. means that U.S. government policies, rhetoric MUST benefit ALL 330 million citizens – not just a select few.
The Founders established a government of separation of powers. No one branch was to control everything. The Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY intends to control EVERYTHING. Their latest move: “Trump plans to control U.S. Postal Service,” is discussed in today’s newspaper, 2/21/2025 thus: “President Donald Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the INDEPENDENT mail agency into his administration..” [Jacob Bogage; Washington Post]
******* Is it sinking in now????? The governing document for the United States is no longer the Constitution.
it is now “PROJECT 2025”. – a 900 page FAR RIGHT plan to change YOUR “democracy”
into a. PLUTOCRATIC THEOCRACY. The first mechanism is run by a billionaire!!!!!!!
Now, here is Part II – of the Trump-Musk Dictatorship: THE. PATTERN, II:
5] Destroy The Government’s Ability To Function
“The Great Dismantling: Trump’s Coming Attack on America’s Economic Backbone” [Thom Hartmann; the Progressive Populist; 12/1/24]: “By torching the regulatory state, Trump and Musk pave the way for America’s elite to plunder…having a strong administrative stat is essential to a high-functioning economy…A strong administrative state is also the only thing that can protect the environment from those who destroy it for their own profits…A strong administrative state i the only thing that protects entrepreneurs and small businesses from being squashed..by monopolistic behemoths and small businesses are our nation’s main growth engine.”
“They [Trump & Musk] don’t care if the government delivers food or comes in and rescues your town from a flood or teaches poor kids in the inner city because they don’t have to live through any of those things themselves,” said..Trump biographer Tim O’Brien. “They’re rich and powerful, so they’re insulated from consequences of their actins.” [“Playing DOGE ball”; Maureen Dowd; New York Times; 2/9/25]
*** “Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are
“..acreated for the benefits of the people.” [Senator Henry Clay, 1829]
6] Access Sensitive, Classified, Private Data
“Treasury was warned of DOGE risk”. [J.Menn, J.Stein, E.Nakashima; Washington Post; 2/8/25]: “..was warned in a confidential assessment that U.S. DOGE Service access to a sensitive payment network represented an “unprecedented insider threat risk,”…said the DOGE’s access to the payment network should be “immediately suspended”…urged Treasury to scour payments systems for any changes approved by affiliations of DOGE…The memo highlights the degree of concern among government officials and cybersecurity experts…with implications for tens of millions of Americans…”There are reasons we don’t let just anyone peer into the fiscal machinery. Our adversaries would love to get to the headwaters of the money flow…[so] they csan trace out who is receiving payments.”
“DOE targets U.S. health agencies, gains access to payment systems” [D.Diamond, H.Knowles, J.Stein, L.Sun, L.Kaori Gurley; Washington Post; 2/6/25]: “..alarming some government workers with requests to access sensitive records…federal personnel who access those systems are required to undergo specialized training to comply with privacy protections…It was not immediately clear if DOGE officials have undergone that training.”
[NOTE: and WHAT are they going TO DO WITH THAT INFO??? Will we know if Musk’s businesses have it???]
7] CORRUPTING. LAWS {ALL dictatorships corrupt laws]
The Trump-Musk Dictatorship – THE PATTERN
***** As an American citizen, YOU need to know an essential truth:
the governing document for the United States of America is
no longer the Constitution.
It is now. PROJECT. 2025″
This and two more posts will BEGIN to reveal
THE. PATTERN
of how this is being done to YOU.
*** “The best way to take control over people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, people will not see these rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.” [Adolf Hitler]
The Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY is doing this; the big difference is they’re doing so much damage immediately and rapidly. Note how many people, especially Republicans, are accepting this damage.
*** Notice two pieces of advice from Lenin that Trump-Musk follow faithfully: “A lie told often enough becomes truth.” and: “Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.”
Here we begin with various parts of the Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY’s PATTERN
1]. “He who saves his Country does not violate any Laws.” [Donald J. Trump: 2/15/2025]
***. “Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 155 million followers, it will no longer be America.” [Dwight Eisenhower]
2] “Monetizing Assets”. and Monetizing the Presidency
A high-ranking Trump official said they’d take U.S. government assets and sell them off [“monetize them”] like YOUR national forests, YOUR mineral and oil rights, YOUR hydroelectric dams. etc. Guess who’d likely be at the front of the line of possible buyers? Elon Musk and 28 other billionaires who kicked in $1 million or more to help Trump!!!!
Monetizing the Presidency? – Trump DID this, 2017-2021; did it 2021-2025 out of office; has plans to continue: “Trump’s Family Business Is Preparing to Profit” [E.Lipton, B.Protess, D.Yaffe-Bellany; New York Times; 12/6/24]; “Trump’s crypto venture raises ethics issues-billions” [Tony Romm; Washington Post; 1/23/25]. For perspective: “On Corruption In America” [Sarah Chayes]; “Corruption In America” [Zephyr Teachout]
***. “The point is you can’t be too greedy.” [Donald Trump: “The Art of the Deal”]
*** “The love of money is the root of all evil.” [1 Timothy. 6:10]
3] Defund The I.R.S.
“Another $20B is stripped from the IRS” [J.Bogage, S.Najmabadi; Washington Post]: “..the additional cuts would add $140 billion to the national debt..by hamstringing the agency’s ability to audit wealthy individuals and corporations….years-long assault by Republicans on the Internal Revenue Service….Bush II hired private contractors, who “..ended up costing the federal government money.”
Republicans then “slashed 20% of the IRS’s budget and 22% of its staff from 2010-2018. For people making more than $1 million, the number of tax audits dropped by 72% – and the money the IRS collects from audits fell by 40%…Biden’s new IRS commissioner told Congress the agency is leaving on the table $1 trillion a year in uncollected taxes because it doesn’t have enough staff.” [Washington Monthly; July-August, 2021]
***. “The citizens of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.” [Adam Smith]
4]. PURGE. THE FBI, INSPECTORS GENERAL, “DISLOYAL CIVIL SERVANTS”
“Massive FBI agent purge looms” [A.Goldman, D.Barrett, G.Thrush; New York Times; 2/1/25]. “Trump cuts back election monitors”. [C.Itkowitz, Y.Wingett Sanchez, S.Ellison; Washington Post; 2/9/25]. “Hegseth strips Milley of security protections”. [Tara Copp; Assoc. Press; 1/30/25]. “The friends and foes of Trump and Co.” [Aaron Blake; Washington Post Weekly; 2/16/25]: “The self-serving pattern of the president’s norm-shattering early actions is unmistakable.”
***. “If the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority..is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put, at one stroke, to Republican government.” [George Washington]
Trump-Musk Dictatorship – Stupidity and Climate Crisis Denial
*** Donald J. Trump: Climate change is a hoax.
Albert Einstein: “Anybody who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
*** CLIMATE CHANGE CRISIS- and – YOU!!!: Can YOU insure YOUR house???????
Consider. “A Growing Threat To Home Values,” Abraham Lustgarten; 2/9/25; New York Times {Note: The following is a summary – READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.
1] Maps – A] “Where home values may decline because of climate change” [large parts of the Southwest, West Coast
Florida]
B] “How climate change may cause rising insurance rates over the next 30 years” [almost everywhere west
of the Mississippi River; Florida & Gulf Coast; much of the South]
2]. “Climate change means home ownership may no longer guarantee financial security.”
3]. “One little-discussed result is that soaring home prices in the United States may have peaked in places most at risk, leaving the nation on the precipice of a generational decline…analysis predicts an extraordinary reversal of housing fortunes for Americans – nearly $1.5 trillion in asset losses over the next 30 years.”
“The implications are staggering: Many Americans could face a paradigm shift in the way they save and how they define their economic security. Climate change…is upending the American dream.”
[NOTE: re-read this very carefully. With all their frantic work to “make American government more efficient – exactly what is the Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY doing to help save your family’s home insurance??????]
4] “The First Street researchers found that climate pressures are the main factor driving up insurance costs. Average premiums have risen 31% across the country since 2019…Over the next 30 years. if insurance prices are unhindered, they will, on average, leap another 29%…Rates in Miami could quadruple..” [NOTE – SO, if the Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY continues to say climate change is a “hoax,” – then it means they don’t care about the cost of YOUR home insurance increasing 50-60-70%, assuming you can get YOUR home insured.]
5] “..systemic economic risk..” Insurance USED TO BE 8% of average mortgage payments, TODAY. they’re about 20%, “outpacing inflation and even the rate of appreciation on the homes themselves.”
“That makes owning property, on paper anyway, a bad investment.” 30 years from now, houses could be worth 6% LESS THAN TODAY, “..affirming fears that many economists and climate analysts have held for a long time.”
6] “Part of the problem is hat many people were coaxed into living in the very high-risk areas they cll home precisely by the availability of insurance that was cheaper than it should have been…companies canceled policies, but in response, states redoubled support for homeowners…But those discounts “muffled the free market price signals”…also slowed down our adaptation..”
7]. “However imprecise, First Street’s work “plays the role of Paul Revere, of the challenge we could face if we fail to adapt.”
8]. “Like many aspects of the climate challenge, this one will also drive climate haves and have-nots further apart..”
9]. “..Altadena may prove to be the true harbinger – of a future in hich only the rich own their own homes, where insurance is a luxury good and where renters pay a monthly toll to large private equity landowners..”
****** Why should YOU be surprised – that in the end – THE RICH, THE OLIGARCHS, would be the winners as now projected? This will ONLY change if ordinary people – like YOU – demand that “our” government for for the lower 95%, i.e. – that YOU demand ‘..that government of the people, by the people, FOR the people shall not perish from the earth.” Right now, under the Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY, YOUR democracy is threatened like never before. And quite possibly, the existence of YOUR home, if not now, in the next 30 years. LIES have consequences – and in this case, the consequence could likely be YOU can’t afford home insurance.
*** “Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.” [Mohandas Gandhi]
The Trump-Musk Dictatorship – “BROKEN GOVERNMENT – You Were Warned
The Trump-Musk dictatorship didn’t come out of nowhere. At this point, it is the LOGICAL CONCLUSION of decades of DELIBERATE Republican efforts to sabotage government, mostly from GREED for their corporate and wealthy supporters and donors, but also to satisfy FAR RIGHT ideological goals.
YOU. WERE. WARNED – below are some of those warnings…
1]. “Broken Government…How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches” [John W. Dean – Nixon White House legal counsel; 2007]: As Dean was ending this book, “an old friend from the Nixon White House called..a life-long Republican who knew Bush and Cheney personally, who said: “Just tell your readers that you have a source who knows a lot about the Republican Party from long experience..and he has a bit of advice: People should not vote for ANY Republican because they’re dangerous, dishonest, and self-serving…I have come to realize the Democrats really do care about people who most need help from government; Republicans care most about those who will only get richer because of government help. The government is truly broken, particularly in dealing with national security, and another four years, and heaven forbid not eight years, under Republicans, and our grandchildren will have to build a new government, because the one we have will be unrecognizable and unworkable.”
[NOTE – now read this again, remembering WHO said it, and this, he insisted on anonymity “..because one of his sons is in an important [non-political] government post, and we both know that Republicans will seek revenge wherever they can find it.” !!!!!!!!! – NOW, think on this too! – As in who is infamous for seeking revenge on HIS “enemies.”!!!!!!!!!]
You MUST read pages 166-74, “Direct Impact of Judicial Fundamentalism on Individuals,” and his fears of what could [and DID] happen; Appendix A; “Separation of Powers; An Essential Process Envisioned by the Framers;” Appendix B: “Republican Appropriation Process Abuses: shutting Down the Government;” Appendix C: “Bush and Cheney’s Radical Lawyer: The Remarkable Source for UnConstitutional War Powers” [this person is still active!]; pages 102-110: trhe “unitary executive theory” – which the Trump-Musk dictatorship has resurrected to gut YOUR democracy.
2] “It’s Even Worse Than It Looks…How the American Constitutional Sysrem Collided with the New Politics of Extremism”. [Thomas Mann, Norman Ornstein; 2012 – 40 years as respected bi-partisan commentators]:: “In every chapter..we have documented the ways in which the Republican Party has become the insurgent outlier in American politics and as such contributes disproportionally to its dysfunction..the culture and ideological center of the Republican Party itself, at the congressional, presidential, and in many cases, state and local levels, must change if U.S. democracy is to regain its health. The contemporary GOP, to ther horror of many of its longtime stalwarts and leaders like former senators John Danforth of Missouri and Alan Simpson of Wyoming, has veered toward tolerance of extreme ideological beliefs and policies and embrace of cynical and destructive means to advance political ends over problem solving..disdain for negotiation and compromise unless force on them…Republicans in office have driven both the widening of the ideological gap between the parties and the strategic hyperpartisanship on such crucial issues as financial stabilization, economic recovery, deficits and debt, health-care reform and climate change.” [Note: read pages 31-43 on how Gingrich destroyed Congress – WHY}
[Again – read this again – and note – NOTHING has changed- virtually EVERY word van be said of 2025 Republicans]
3]. “It Was All A Lie..How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump”. [Stuart Stevens; 2020 – 25 years as lead strategist and media consultant for Republican presidential campaigns}: “Burn it to the ground and start over.” that’s the answer I find myself giving when asked what should be done with the Trump Republican party..Over the past few years, I’ve come to realize that Donald Trump didn’t hijack the GOP, as much as some of us would like to assert. Sadly, the party had already become Trump, and he or his like was inevitable.”….
All the supposed “core values” of Republicans “turned out to be mere marketing slogans.” “Family values” was useful as “an otherness tool” to attack Democrats…Christian Right wants the world to see them as the political arm of Jesus saving America – in practice its about power…Basic facts are “indisputable”: in the post-WW II era, Republican presidents have contributed far more to the deficit than Democrats.”
“..an entire industry of hate that has come to dominate the Republican Party…Today the intellectual leaders of the Republican party are paranoids, kooks, know-nothings, and bigots who once could be heard only on late-night talk shows.’
“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 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.”
[NOTE: – now – read all this again, word by word – remembering WHO said this. lies, ‘kooks,’ “unfit to be president”]
Read pages 171-182 on 15 years of Republican voter suppression. “..the current Republican Party is driven by conspiracy theories, a result of nutty radio mixed with nutty internet supercharged by a nutty president.” Read pages 192-202: “How Do Lies End?” ‘..Donald Trump, the most anti-American president in the country’s history…the Republican party has legitimized bigotry and hate as an organizing principle for a major party in a country with a unique role in the world.” { READ the book – remembering WHO wrote it & his 25-year leadership in Republican presidential campaigns}
4] PROJECT 2025. – ask YOURSELF – WHY. are numerous key authors now in the Trump administration???
And – TRHE TRILLION DOLLAR QUESTION – WHO. paid for the “research’ and writing of PROJECT 2025?????????
AS in another Republican GIANT political scandal – Watergate – “follow the money”
It is well-known Donald Trump cares little about history, facts, democracy; that he is uncaringly ignorant of most things not on Fox “news.” SO – WHO wrote PROJECT 2025? WHO WANTED it written???? WHO paid for it?????
If YOU care about America, American democracy, the future of your children and grandchildren – YOU just might want to know WH IS BEHIND PROJECT 2025????? WHO wanted PROJECT 2025 as a ready-to-use blueprint for the Trump-Musk dictatorship??? WHO WANTRS YOUR GOVERNMENT GUTTED????? WHO wantsYOUR government unable to protect YOU from from corporate criminality and deceit???? [see weekly, if not daily newspapers for stories of YTOUR government prosecuting corporate criminality] WHO benefits from YOUR government being able to collect the ANNUAL $1 trillion in taxes payable – but NOT collected [from mostly the rich]?????? WHICH party has demanded the IRS be underfunded – so it can’t audit the rich and corporations?????? Just asking, but is a possible answer people like a certain billionaire running DOGE?????????? Is your answer WHO had honored positions for Trump’s 2025 inaugural – sitting IN FRONT of his cabinet????????
*** “It is the first responsibility of every citizen t question authority.” [Benjamin Franklin]
*** “The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.” {Dante Alighieri]
The Trump-Musk Dictatorship – Corruption and Cruelty – III
ONE DAY!!!!! – Headlines from jst ONE DAY – February 10, 2025 – BEGIN to reveal the depth and breadth of the FAR RIGHT PROJECT 2025 plan to destroy YOUR ‘democracy’ – or – rather – to further pervert the post-1980 OLIGARCHY.
***!!!***!!! – THE HEADLINES:
1] “DOGE paranoia is reasonable with so much on the line” {Michelle Singletary; Washington Post]
2] “Musk’s goals are coming into focus” [J.Stein, E.Dwoskin, H.Natanson, J.O’Connell; Washinton Post]
3]. “Vance, Musk question court’s say” [Jill Colvin; Associated Press]
4]. “Consumer agency is ordered to stop work” [Christopher Rugaber; Associated Press]
1] “DOGE paranoia reasonable..” {M.Singletary]: “Imagine a film where the bad guy is a foreign-born multi-billionaire plotting to take over the U.S. federal government. He uses his vast wealth to help elect the president of the United States, and together they create chaos, consolidating power and making themselves nearly untouchable. They try to gain access to the personal information of millions of Americans, all to amass even more money.”
“Wait, this isn’t fiction. We are extras in that movie right now.”………
“We should all be concerned that Musk’s minions have been angling to dive into government databases…Those very concerns were raised by several Democratic senators in a letter to the White House chief of staff..”…..
“With little transparency into what DOGE is doing with the data it has access, your paranoia is not unreasonable. Major data breaches have already exposed much of our personal information..”
2] “Musk’s goals are coming into focus” [Stein-Dwoskin-Natanson-O’Connell]: “Billionaire Elon Musk’s blitzkrieg on Washington has brought into focus his vision for a dramatically smaller and weaker federal government, as he and a coterie of aides move to control, automate, – and substantially diminish – hundreds if not thousands of public functions..
“In less than 3 weeks, Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service has followed the same playbook at one federal agency after another: install loyalists in leadership, Hoover up internal data, including the sensitive and the classified. Gain control of the flow of funds. And push hard – by means legal or otherwise – to eliminate jobs and programs not ideologically aligned with Trump administration goals.
“The DOGE campaign appears choreographed to gut the civilian workforce, assert power over the vast federal bureaucracy and shrink it to levels unseen in at least20 years. The aim is a diminished government that exerts less oversight over private business, delivers fewer services and comprises less of the economy – but is far more responsive to the president’s directives.”
[NOTE: read this again. Now, study how dictatorships were created – realizing what is NOT discussed here is PURGING THE FBI, firing INSPECTORS GENERAL, installing a CORRUPT ‘supreme court’ and other ideological federal judge hacks – meaning eliminating ANY force holding the Trump-Musk dictatorship ACCOUNTABLE]
3] “Vance, Musk question court’s say” [Jill Colvin]: “Top Trump administration officials are openly questioning the judiciary’s authority to serve as a check on executive power as the new president’s sweeping agenda faces growing pushback from the courts..”…
“Over the past 24 hours, officials…have also attacked the legitimacy of judicial oversight, a fundamental pillar of American democracy, which is based on the separation of powers.”
NOTE: read this again – the Trump-Musk dictatorship is ‘OPENLY’ attacking “..a fundamental pillar of American democracy…the separation of powers.”
Note: a leader – president, king, etc. who has NO checks on his/her power IS. A. DICTATOR]
4]. “Consumer agency is ordered to stop work” [Christopher Rugaber]: ‘..effectively shutting down an agency created to protect consumers after the 2008 financial crisis and subprime mortgage-lending scandal. Russell Vought, the newly installed director of the Office of Management and Budget…Conservatives have targeted the agency since President Barack Obama pushed it to include it in the 2010 financial reform legislation that followed the 2007-08 financial crisis.
“Congress directed the bureau to be funded by the Fed to insulate it from political pressures…The CFPB says that it has obtained nearly $20 billion in financial relief for U.S. consumers..”…
“The administration’s move against the CFPB also highlights the tension Trump’s more populist promises to lower costs for working class families and his pledge to reduce government regulation.”..
“Vought was an architect of Project 2025, a policy blueprint for the Trump White House that Trump tried to disavow during last year’s campaign.”
[NOTE: read this again – a government bureau designed to PROTECT YOU is shut down – in order to protect the billionaires & Wall Street con artists who caused the 2007-08 crash!!!!!!! Congress specifically set it up to be independent from “political pressures” [the Trump-Musk dictatorship]. and – why should YOU be surprised Trump lied about knowing nothing of PROJECT 2025???? If Donald J. trump’s lips are moving, he’s likely lying – 30,000 plus times]
SO – while YOU still have rights of speech, petition, assembly – YOU might want to think about whether American democracy means enough to YOUR family to protest against the Trump-Musk dictatorship – and – everything PROJECT 2025. intended to impose an OLIGARCHIC THEOCRACY on YOU. Day by day the evidence is piling up.
Trump – VS – Martin Niemoller
“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.”
{ Pator Martin Niemoller, Nazi prisoner }
“Then, they came for the Lutherans….recent attacks against Lutheran Americans portend a much larger threat toward wide swaths of the American populace – Christians or not. Before you know it, you may be saying: “Then they came for me.”…….
“..Trump disavowed the Christian nationalist aims in Project 2025…Trump and his administration have in fact been following the Project 2025 playbook to a T.”
“Project 2025 is rooted in a particular idea white, conservative American Christianity. For Trump’s moves against agencies that support immigration and refugees..the proponents of Project 2025 must attack and delegitimize any forms of American Christianity that work to carry out the biblical mandate of “care for the stranger” and the poor..”
{ The Rev. Angela Denker; “And now Elon Musk is coming after Lutheran refugee organizations”; Minnesota Star Tribune; 2/6/25 ]
*** “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: l8,34]
*** “There’s a name for a government based on xenophobia, demagoguery and greed: ‘kakistocracy’ – government by the worst people in society.” [Jim Hightower; “A Kakistocracy Takes Over Immigration Policy; “The Progressive Populist”; l/1/2025]
1] First – the Republican, Trump, Cynicism
“Senate GOP again blocks bill to tighten border” [S. Groves, M.C. Jablonick, R. Santana; Assoc. Press; 5/24/24]: “The legislation, negotiated by a bipartisan group of senators…The Senate legislation would provide money for Customs and Border Patrol Protection officials, asylum officers, immigration judges and scanning technology at the border – all things that officials have said the underfunded immigration and border protection system needs.”….
“Even before the bill was fully released earlier this year, Trump effectively killed the proposal by labelling it “meaningless” and a “gift” for Biden’s re-election chances.” [note: what else but CORRUPTION is this???]
2] Consider this BEGINNING of evidence on immigration:
A] “How can developed countries make immigration work? Ask Canada”. [Tyler Cowan; Bloomberg Opinion; 4/7/24]
B]. “Migrants are not taking ‘Black” jobs, U.S. data shows” [Fatima Hassein; Assoc. Press; 10/14/24]
C]. “Plans canceled for refugees cleared to move to the U.S.” {F. Amiri, R. Santana; Assoc.Press; 1/23/25]
D] “Who Are the Millions of Immigrants Trump Wants to Deport?” [A. McCann, A. Sun, E. Sullivan; New York Times; 1/26/2025]
E] “Think tank videos fuel falsehoods” [about noncitizens] [K. Bensinger, R. Fausett; New York Times; 9/8/24]
F]. “How a Broken Border Keeps Our Shopping Carts Full” [S. Eder, D. Ivory, M. Valdes; New York Times; 11/17/24]
G]. “Trump’s Assertions on Immigration” – Fact Check [Angelo Fichera; New York. Times; 12/24/23]
H]. “What if Trump Actually Deports 11 Million People?” [ Mother Jones – Special Investigation; Sept.-October, 2024]
I]. “You’re Fired! Trump’s Deportation Plan Would Gut Half Ag Labor Force” [ Alan Goebert; The Progressive Populist; 9/1/24] [***NOTE! – YOUR food costs WILL increase!!!]
3] Consider Other Cynical, Corrupt Factors:
“Scapegoating Immigrants Hurts All of Us – Except Elites”. [Sonali Kohlhatkar; The Progressive Populist; 11/15/24]: “The right’s unhinged anti-immigrant rhetoric is putting people in danger – and letting the real villains off the hook…The United Nations identifies hate speech as a “precursor to atrocity crimes, including genocide”…Most importantly, the purveyors of anti-immigrant hate let corporate power and wealthy elites – like Musk – off the hook for the problems facing Americans…
“If right-wing politicians really want to help Americans struggling with economic stressors, they could ban hedge fund managers from buying up homes, support single-payer health care, increase the federal minimum wage, tax billionaires, divert money from war to climate, hold fossil fuel companies accountable for climate crimes, and back a renewable energy transition.”
***** Trump and his enablers are a CANCER on EVERYTHING American. He’s an evil P.R. “genius” who has perfected the old “divide & conquer” maxim. Again – ho do Trump actions, rhetoric, policies “..benefit the general Welfare” ?????????
AND – WHO is coming for YOU ????????????????
Trump Stupidity, Corruption, Cruelty, Craziness – I
February 5, 2025 – Well, that didn’t take long!!! Some of Trump’s damage to America is obvious – other damage will take more time.
*** Again – remember – YOU are using as principles of evaluation – THE reasons why the Founding Fathers [no “Founding Mothers! – another story!] created the USA – most especially those magic words; “..promote the general Welfare..” – as in: did ANYTHING Trump decreed in his first weeks benefit ALL Americans? – in REALITY, not rhetoric?
We start with “The Six Principles of Stupidity” [David Brooks; 2/2/25; New York Times]: “Lat week the Chinese made incredible gains in artificial intelligence and the Americans made incredible gains in human stupidity. I’m sorry, but I look at the Trump administration’s behavior over the last week and the only word that accurately describes it is: stupid.”…….
“I define stupidity as behaving in a way that ignores this question: What would happen next?….The administration produced volleys of stupidity last week.”…….
“This Trump policy was like trying to cure acne with decapitation.”……..
“And this is my big prediction for this administration: It will churn out a steady stream of stupid policies, and when the consequences of those policies begin to hit Trump’s approval rating, he will flip-flop, diminish, or abandon those policies.”….
The Six Stupidity Principles:
#1. “Ideology produces disagreement, but stupidity produces befuddlement…That is what happens when a government freezes roughly $3 trillion in spending with a two-page memo that reads like it was written by an intern.”……
#2 “Stupidity often inheres in organizations, not individuals..an organization in which one man has all the power and everybody else has to flatter his preconceptions.”……
#3 “People who behave stupidly are more dangerous than people who behave maliciously. Evil people at least have some accurate sense of their own self-interest, which might restrain them. Stupidity dares greatly!”…
#4 “People who behave stupidly are unaware of the stupidity of their actions…incompetent people don’t have the skills to recognize their own incompetence.”…
#5 “Stupidity is nearly impossible to oppose..Because stupid actions do not make sense, they invariably come as a surprise…Counter evidence is brushed aside. Facts are deemed irrelevant.”….
#6. “THe opposite of stupidity is not intelligence, it’s rationality..the capacity to make decisions that help people achieve their objectives. People in the grip of the populist mind-set trend to be contemptuous of experience, prudence, and expertise…this can make some populists willing to believe anything – conspiracy theories, folk tales, and internet legends..”
***Read, then re-read his article in full. Then THINK. Ask QUESTIONS. Research WHY Brooks said these things. Return to the Founders – students of history, sons of The Age of Enlightenment,” critics of corruption, students of WHY past democracies failed.
The Founders built America on the ASSUMPTION people would act rationally, that citizens would seek out fats and act on them. The Bill of Rights has protections for speech, press, assembly, petition BECAUSE they wanted a “virtuous” government and a “virtuous” public.
Jefferson and Washington were “scientific” farmers. Franklin was honored as a man of science. Washington inoculated his Revolutionary War soldiers against small pox. America’s first subscription library was begun by Franklin and friends in 1731 – its success led to other colonial libraries.
*** “Only the wise, and never the fools, can distinguish between faults and good qualities; between the right and wrong time to do something; between what is skillful and what is not.” [“The Just King”; Jamgon Mipham]
With Justice For All 
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