*** Billionaire Leona Helmsley: “We don’t pay taxes, only the little people pay taxes.”
1] “Trump’s taxes illustrate how the game is rigged” [ Jared Berstein; Washington Post; 10/4/2016 ]
2] “Top 1% of wealthy held more assets than entire middle class.” [Alex Tanzi, Mike Dorning; Bloomberg News; 10/11/21]
***. “Corruption comes by degrees.” [ Juvenal ]
3]. Some details – Corrupt Republican 2025 Tax Bill:
– “GOP tax bill mainly benefits wealthy, analyses find” [ Tony Romm; New York Times; 5/18/25 ]
– “Tax bill adds $2.4 T to the national debt..To offset the cost, the measure would slash spending on social safety net programs by more than $1 trillion..” [Jacob Gage, Marianna Sotomayor, Matthew Choi; Washington Post; 5/23/25]
– “All kinds of perverse incentives in this tax bill” – “..even seven moths into fiscal year 2025..[the 119th Congress}.. will grab the prize as most fiscally irresponsible Congress ever.” [ Edward Lotterman; St.Paul Pioneer Press; 5/18/25 ]
4] Some other details about Trump-Musk economic INCOMPETENCE:
– “Sliding U.S. dollar is a fiscal headache” [Allegra Catelli, Michael Msika; Bloomberg News; 5/15/25]
– “Growth becoming harder to achieve” [ Evan Ramstad; Minnesota Star Tribune; 4/27/25 ]
– “U.S. Credit Rating Is Downgraded by Moody’s” [ Tony Romm, Andrew Duehren, Joe Rennison; New York Times; 5/18/25]
[ NOTE: Let’s be honest: virtually ALL of the Trump-Musk economic actions have been motivated by one thing: CUT TAXES ON THE RICH. PERIOD. The 2025 tax bill does that. Musk’s crazy government-slashing DOGE does that. Eviscerating the I.R.S. does that. Gutting environmental protections does that. Crippling consumer-friendly investigating agencies does that. Ending subsidies for EV vehicles does that. And, MUCH more………….]
5] Perspective: Mother Jones, March-April, 2011, page 25: “It’s The Inequality, Stupid”
– “A huge share of the nation’s economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundreth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per household. the average income for the bottom 90 percent of us? $31,244.”
– Most Americans have a VERY inaccurate view of how wealth is distributed in the U.S. – vastly under estimating how extremely unequal and unfair it really is. Essentially refusing to believe had badly they’re being treated.
6]. SOLUTIONS – are easy, well known – CORRUPTION. prevents them being enacted:
– SOCIAL SECURITY – it’s been known for 40 years that the solution which ENDS any Social Security “crisis” is very simple: eliminate the earnings cap with no changes to benefits. In 2010, this would have solved any shortfall by 116%- yes, more than enough. [ Timothy Taylor; St.Paul Pioneer Press; 11/21/2010 ]
– “a living wage for all is attainable” [Nir Kaissar; Bloomberg Opinion; 7/8/21]: “the most pressing problem for the U.S. remains little acknowledged and unaddressed: Tens of millions of people work full time and can’t afford food, clothes, housing, health care and a proper education for their children” [ the problem: GREED – a simple refusal by large corporations to share their profits with workers.]
– “French Lessons on How to Grow the Middle Class” [Steven Pressman; The Washington Spectator; August 1, 2018]: France reduces financial burdens on families: by paid parental leave, affordable child care, how families with children are taxed. [American governments refuse to do these things sufficiently]
*** “No society can surely be flourishing and happy, if which the greater part of ther members are poor and miserable.”
[ Adam Smith – “Wealth of Nations” ]
7]. “Worker pay stagnates as it soars for CEOs” {Patrick Kennedy; Minneapolis Star Tribune; 9/19/19]: “CEO pay has risen 940.3% over the last four decades…Average worker pay rose just 12 percent since 1978..” [Note: “940.3% is NOT a typo]
8]. “Thousands of military families struggle with food insecurity” [Ashraf Khalil; Assoc. Press; 11/15/21]
9]. “Small Farms Struggle To Survive”. [ Alyssa Schukar; New York Times; 12/12/21 ]
10] Rich and Corporate Tax Cheats – some of many hundreds – details:
– “Tax cheats cost U.S. $1 T a year” [ Alan Rappeport; New York Times; 4/14/21 ]: “the agency lacks the resources to catch tax cheats.” [Note: virtually all of those are complicated returns – of the rich & corporations]
– “At least 55 firms paid no taxes in 2020” [ Patricia Cohen; New York Times; 4/4/21 ]
– “Firms move HQ oversea then exploit tax loophole” [ Steven D. Solomon; New York Times; 2/15/16 ]
11] BUT WE KNEW MOST OF THIS ALREADY !!!!! – Reagan, Bush II, Trump 2017 tax cut failures KNOWN:
– “A tax bill only millionaires could love” [ Bill Press; 1/1/2018 ]
– “Experts: Trump stands to save millions under tax measure” [ Drew Harwell; Washington Post; 12/24/17]
– “Art Of The Steal” [ Mother Jones; March-April, 2018]
– “Reaganomics Redux, but Worse” [Jeff madrick; Washington Spectator; February l, 2018} – “…fraud..”
{NOTE; The U.S. national debt for 1789-1980 America was just under $1 trillion. Reagan tripled it. Bush II doubled that [ and bills forhis immoral Iraq war, his2008 recession still being paid]. Trump’s 2017 tax cut is 25% of current U.S. national debt. Multiple Congresses have failed to pass legislation reducing debt [legal bribery!]. BUT – BOTTOM LINE: the rich refuse to pay taxes – have given legal bribes to Congress so they don’t fix it. The debt will now be used as a club to cut services for ordinary people like YOU – which is graphically done in Trump’s 2025 bill!!!!! Rome fell from corruption – will America???]
12]. Breaking News!!! – 5/24/25 New York Times: “GOP harnessing tax code to punish Trump’s nemeses” [Andrew Duehren]. YOU TELL ME – does this cross “the red line” into. DICTATORSHIP???? – in addition to other authoritarian uses of the tax code to punish ANYONE who dares cross him? YOU. TELL ME……………….
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The Trump-Musk DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness – XXII – Creating the Police State I, The Threat To Privacy
FACE FACTS, available in daily headlines – The Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY is WEAPONIZING YOUR GOVERNMENT against YOU. It is also destroying YOUR government’s ability to protect YOU.
*** “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
[ James Madison, Federalist Papers #47 ]
1] “This gets to a fundamental point about privacy: It is not just the question of, ‘Does anyone else in the world know this about me?'” said John Davisson, the director of litigation at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which has sued the administration to block DOGE’s access to financial data at the Treasury and federal work force records at the Office of Personnel Management. “It is a question of WHO knows this about me and what can they lawfully – as a practical matter – do with that information?” {“How Musk’s Team Collects, and Connects Data About You”: Emily Badger, Sheera Frenkel; New York Times; 4/13/25 ]
*** “Only after the Jews were identified..could they be targeted for efficient asset confiscation, ghettoization, deportation,, enslaved labor..annihilation. It was a cross-tabulation and organizational challenge [that called for a computer]..But IBM’s Hollerith punch card technology did exist…Hitler was able to automate his persecution of the Jews.” [ Edwin Black: “IBM and the Holocaust ]
2]. “How DOGE Collects, and Connects, Your Data”. [New York Times; 4/13/25] This is a list of over 300 types of “Personal Data Held in systems DOGE Has Sought to Access” from “Academic rank…Alimony paid…Dates of Employment…Family size…Hospitalization records…Jury duty pay…Medical diagnoses…Moving expenses… Personal bank account number…Physician name and number…Prescription drug coverage…Prior status in foster care…Psychological or psychiatric health records…Residential clean energy credit claimed…Social Security number…Spouse demographic records…Student loan amount…Tests for H.I.V./AIDS…Tip income…W.I.C..nutrition assistance received..” {AND – there are 300 more records on YOU they’re examining!!!!!!! “Big Brother’ is watching]
*** “they have not demonstrated a single case in which fraud detection has required some universal governmental access to everybody’s data.” [ Jamie Raskin, Maryland Democrat U.S. House Representative ]
3] “This assembled data would give the government too much power..It would create a national security vulnerability..it would break a longstanding covenant between the federal government and the U.S. public rooted in privacy laws – that Americans who share their personal data with official agencies can trust that it will be secured and used only for narrow purposes.” [Badger & Frenkel; 4/13/25]
*** “The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness.. They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts..They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone – the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.” [ Justice Louis Brandeis; “Olmstead” ]
4] “Privacy advocates say that al this data could enable the government to punish its political opponents by weaponizing the information about an individual’s personal life..or halting the benefits they receive..” [ Badger & Frenkel; 4/13/25 ]
*** “the American government is premised on the theory that if the mind of man is to be free, his ideas, his beliefs, his ideology, his philosophy must be placed beyond the reach of government.” [Justice William o. Douglas; “The Bill of Rights’ ]
5]. “Technologists warn that trying to match complex data sets to make decisions about government programs – including by using artificial intelligence to identify waste in government spending, as Musk allies have discussed – could produce rampant errors and real-world harm.” [Badger 7 Frenkel; 4/13/25]
***111***!!! Some recent headlines – of EXACTLY what technology experts warned could happen from DOGE:
– “‘Dead” immigrants show up alive” [ 4/19/25; Washington Post; Natanson, Rein, Kornfield]
– “DOGE Makes It’s Latest Errors Harder To Find” [3/14/25; New York Times; Fahrenthold, Singer-Vine]
– “About 40% of DOGE contract cuts save nothing” [2/26/25; Assoc. Press; Foley]
– “DOGE can’t find Social Security fraud” [3/25/25; Washington Post; Frankel, Natanson]
– “DOGE’s only public ledger is riddled with mistakes” [2/23/25; New York Times; Bhatia, Badger, Fahrethold, Katz]
– “HR Experts Say Musk’s “Bullet Points” Faulty” [3/10/25; Washington Post; Abril]
6] “Where will it end?” said..Barry Goldwater..”Will we permit the computerized systems to interlink nationwide so that every detail of our personal lives can be assembled instantly for use by a single bureaucrat or institution?” With the passage of the 1974 Privacy Act, Americans chose privacy over efficiency..” [ Badger, Frenkel; 4/13/25 ]
*** “They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” [Benjamin Franklin]
*** “THe only people who still have a private life in Germany are those who are asleep.” [Robert Ley, director of Nazi “German Labor Front”]
The Trump-Musk DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, XX – Undermining Future American Competitiveness
*** “In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery.” [Woodrow Wilson]
1]. “Economists: Trump science policies pose long-term risk” {Ben Csselman; New York Times; 4/1/25]
“..ask economists which of the administration’s policies they are most concerned
about, and many point to cuts in federal support for scientific research.”
[NOTE & REMEMBER: the driving force behind the Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY is cutting taxes for billionaires!!!
“We” are slitting our throats so billionaires don’t have to pay [any] taxes.]
“To economists, the policies threaten to undermine U.S. competitiveness in emerging areas such as artificial intelligence, and leave Americans, as a whole, poorer, less healthy, and less productive in the decades ahead.”
*** “Any man is liable to err, but only a fool persists in error.” [Cicero]
“Universities are tremendously important engines of innovation…”This is really killing the goose that lays the golden egg.”
*** “Fools are more dangerous than rogues.” [ George Bernard Shaw ]
“Scientists have warned that the United States risks losing its status as a leader in cutting-edge research and its reputation as a magnet for top scientific minds from around the world.”
*** “What most people don’t seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.” [Margaret Mitchell: “gone With the Wind”]
“Economists across a broad ideological spectrum argue that investments in scientific research..are among the most efficient uses of taxpayer dollars. Research has found that every dollar invested in research and development returns about $5 in economic gains, a figure that probably understates the true return because it doesn’t account for benefits that aren’t captured in measures of gross domestic product, such as longer lives and increased leisure time.”
***!!!***!!! READ THIS AGAIN – for irony! The Musk-Trump DOGE claims to be eliminating “government waste” and promoting government efficiency!!! YOU tell me – how many tax deductions for billionaires “..promote the general Welfare..” on a $1 spent with $5 return!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DOGE STUPIDITY personified!!!!!
“Virtually all of modern medicine relies, to some degree, on research that was supported by federal dollars. So does much of commercial agriculture. Those discoveries, collectively, helped propel the United States rapid economic growth and rising standard of living in the 20th century.”
*** “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy, that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” [ John Kenneth Galbraith ]
2] Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY policies are – YOU tell me….Are they deliberate sabotage???…..Are they treason [note: dictionary definitions: ‘adhering to its enemies and giving them aid and comfort…the betrayal of trust or confidence; breach of faith….impair the well-being of a state…”
The economists quoted are saying that Trump-Musk policies ARE ‘impair[ing] the well-being of {America]”. When Trump was elected, did or did not Americans bestow upon him a “trust or confidence” that he would “Make America Great Again”?????????
The economists quoted ARE saying Musk-Trump policies ARE sabotaging America’s future, using historic NUMBERS – NOT opinions; FACTS – NOT “beliefs” or “gut instincts.”
Just asking………YOU tell me………………
*** ‘..there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the “money touch,” but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.” [ Theodore Roosevelt ]
*** “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 ]
The Trump-Musk DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, XVII – One Week’s Damage!!!
The following is a review of one week’s damage to America and YOU by the Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY as reported by the New York Times in their “The Week In Trump” series of one-week of their destruction.
March 28 – “Reiterated his desire to take the territory of Greenland, saying the United States “cannot do without it’
– “Laid out plans to effectively eliminate U.S.A.I.D. by moving the agency under the State Department and reducing its staff to some 15 positions”. [thus crippling an American “soft power” effort around the world!]
– “Said he picked a conservative journalist and Fox News contributor to be his ‘drug czar'” [?qualifications?]
– “Pardoned Trevor Miller, the founder of the Nikola Corporation, an electric truck manufacturer that went bankrupt [Milton had been sentenced for securities & wire fraud; Trump claimed his conviction was political]
– “Commuted the sentence of a media executive convicted of fraud, on the day he was set to surrender to prison [he’d been sentenced to almost 10 years for defrauding investors & lenders]
March 29 – “Fired nearly all U.S.-based staff at the Institute of Peace” [an independent nonprofit]
– “Said he wouldn’t fire the officials involved in a leaked Signal chat” [which disturbed U.S. allies for its incompetence]
– ‘Said he ‘couldn’t care less’ if car prices went up in response to his tariffs”. [meaning he doesn’t care about YOU]
March 30 – “Gave Elon Musk’s cost cutters access to a federal payroll system” [ and sensitive data like YOUR Social Security number]
– “Suggested imposing so-called secondary tariffs on Iran and possibly bombing the country if Tehran didn’t make a nuclear deal”. [like maybe the one Trump killed himself earlier???????]
– “Fired two longtime career prosecutors in Los Angeles and Memphis” [because Trump knows more about u.S. law?]
– “Said he was serious about running for a third term in office” [because he had ‘methods’ to circumvent the U.S. constitution – is the Trump DICTATORSHIP official now?????????]
March 31 – “Admitted that the U.S. has deported a legal immigrant because of an ‘administrative error'” [ Trump also Aclaimed American courts lacked jurisdiction to stop him – is the Trump DICTATORSHIP official now????]
– “Said the administration would relax limits on pollution from cars, saying the move wouldn’t make a difference to the environment” [ because Trump “knows’ decades of science have proved him wrong?????]
– “Made a DOGE employee the new acting president of the U.S. Institute of Peace” [“qualified’ because he helped take it over earlier !!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
– “Nominated Anthony D’Esposito. a former U.S. representative of New York, as the next inspector general for the Labor Department” [‘during his House term’ he’d earlier “raised concerns of ethics rules violations”]
– ‘Dropped a Biden-era voting rights lawsuit in Georgia”. [ Georgia Republicans tried to limit voting]
April 1 – “Planned to target another law firm that brought lawsuits against the president and his allies” [they made the ‘mistake” of ‘documenting Mr. Trump’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol”]
– “fired thousands of federal health workers” [“the purge included senior leaders & top scientists charged with regulating food & drugs, protecting Americans from disease & researching new treatments & cures” – why do we need this ?!?!?]
– “Laid off the entire staff running a $4.1 billion program to help low-income households across the United states pay their utility bills” [why should “we’ care if 6.2 million Americans freeze – they must be “un-deserving”]
“Laid off one of the leaders of the Food and Drug Administration’s response to bird flu” [hey – its only in birds, right???]
– “Removed between 350 and 400 books from the Naval Academy library to comply with a verbal order from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth”. [obviously, these must have been subverting minds, right???????]
April 2_ “Unveiled expansive global tariffs in a significant escalation of the president’s trade fight, sending shock waves through the global economy” [ like in many other areas, “our’ president is a “genius” on tariffs and the world economy!!!]
– “Demanded additional cuts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after extensive staff reductions” [!!!!!]
– “Picked a lawyer who has defended several key Trump loyalists for the Justice Department’s No. 3 post” [All dictatorships run on the principle of loyalty – does this mean the Trump DICTATORSHIP is now official???]
April 3 – “Fired head of National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command” [after a well-known FAR RIGHT “influencer” talked to Trump – rumor has it the Russians and Chinese are laughing and celebrating}
– “Threatened to cut funding at more universities” [ rumor has it the Russians and Chinese are laughing and celebrating over “our” president destroying intellectual ability at leading U.S. universities]
– “Restored gun rights to Mel Gibson and nine other people with criminal convictions”. [DICTATORSHIPS reward ‘prominent supports”; America NEEDS more people with criminal convictions running around with guns, right????]
The Trump-Musk DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, XV – APRIL FOOL!!!!!!!!!!
April Fool!!! – and May Fool! – and June Fool! – and July Fool! – and 2026 Fool! – and 2027 Fool! – and 2028 Fool!
The JOKE is on YOU, America!!!!!
An ignorant, cruel, greedy, immature, anti-democratic, lying, cheating, 78-year old teenage cult leader FOOLED enough people, a SECOND TIME!!!!!, to acquire the power of the American presidency.
What could possibly go wrong?????
How possibly could this person, known and understood by even most of his own voters to be a person of questionable “character,” even a “despicable” person, convince enough people to get elected president???
The JOKE is on all of us…………
When “our” government destroys “the rule of law” by ignoring court orders, attacking judges, attacking law firms
The JOKE is on all of us………..
When he denied ANY knowledge about ANYTHING relating to ‘PROJECT 2025″ – enough people bought that MAJOR BIG LIE, voted for him. – GUESS WHAT/
The JOKE is on all of us…………
As the Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY implements provisions of ‘PROJECT 2025’s” 900-page FAR RIGHT manifesto on YOU virtually every day
The JOKE is on all of us………….
When “our” president said he’d lower prices “On Day 1” – enough people believed that MAJOR BIG LIE to vote for him
The JOKE is on all of us…………..
When “our” president says there will be “a little temporary pain” from his ASININE tariffs, many people actually believe it won’t bother them
The joke is on all of us…………
Because any SERIOUS economist dealing in actual facts knows this to be a MAJOR BIG LIE, as farmers, business people, financial analysts tell YOU it’s going to cost YOU $X,000s
The JOKE is on the lower 90-95%……….
Because Musk and others in the top 3-5 million WON’T be affected
The JOKE is on the lower 90-95%……………
As it begins to sink into their brains that the rumored American oligarchy is now becoming, on a daily basis, more and more visible
The JOKE is on the lower 90-95%…………
As the Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY demands Congress renew the DESTRUCTIVE and IMMORAL 2017 Trump tax cuts
The JOKE is on the lower 9-95%………
as the exploding national debt becomes a “reason” for YOUR Social Security, YOUR Medicare, YOUR Medicaid, YOUR children’s education, YOUR national security, YOUR health and welfare services, YOUR national parks, YOUR infrastructure, YOUR protection against unscrupulous billionaires, to be cut. – so the already OBSCENELY RICH can get another tax cut
The JOKE is on all of us……………..
That enough of “us” actually thought the Republican cartoon characters in Congress and state legislatures actually intended to honor the Constitution, and provide a government that actually wanted to “establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare..”
The JOKE is on all of us……………
What more can possibly go wrong in the next 3 years and 10 months??? like ‘our” president saying he’s thinking of running for an UN-CONSTITUTIONAL 3rd term???; like his co-president spending over $20 million to elect a state supreme court justice???; like his co-president spending millions and threatening “Republican” Congress people he’ll “primary” them if they don’t vote “correctly”????????
The JOKE is on ll of us……………
Because the “Reichstag fire” already occurred on January 6, 2021…….The “Enabling Act” already occurred courtesy of a CORRUPT ‘supreme court” giving “our’ president “immunity”
What can possibly go wrong before January 20, 2029???…………..
Like YOUR home and car insurance doubling, if you can get it, and “our” president says that climate change crisis is a “hoax”. – as natural disasters pummel America
The JOKE is on all of us…………
As Musk destroys YOUR federal government in his fairy tale BOGUS ‘DOGE’ Easter Egg Hunt for infinitesimal government “waste” and “inefficiency”
The JOKE is on all of us……………
As Musk creates the conditions making upper 1% PRIVATIZATION of YOUR government’s assets a reality, and they then buy up buildings, parks, the Postal Service, Social security, Medicare, Medicaid – and then they charge YOU to use them!!!!!!!!!!!!
The JOKE is on all of us……………
As the United States of America is re-incorporated into “Trumpiana”. where YOU now have to re-apply for citizenship!!! – and it all happened while YOU watched and did nothing
And then – there is no more joke, because there is no ore America………….
he Trump-Musk DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, XIV – THE COUP
*** “Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.” [Robert F. Kennedy, Senior]
1]. So you want to change a democracy into an autocracy. Where to begin?…………Begin by eroding press freedoms. Then move on to threatening major universities….Frighten the legal community…go after any judge who has the temerity to disagree….. Your tools are fear, confusion, intimidation, and, where applicable, loss of funding..” [Judge Edward J. Cleary: “A step-by-step checklist toward autocracy – moving along too easily so far”: Minnesota Star-Tribune; 3/26/25. – READ THIS ARTICLE1111 – excerpts following…]
*** “So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.” [ Aldous Huxley ]
2] “…..the land of the free, and the home of the brave…”??? YOUR democracy is undergoing a COUP right now – conducted by ruthless, GREEDY, cruel, ARROGANT, anti-democratic people. What have YOU done to stop them?
In 60 days, the Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY has done more damage to America, American society, American democracy than ANY individual or group, 1789-2024.
They are following. “Move Fast and Break Things.” And they have, they ARE. As usual, this particular FAR RIGHT group “justifies” their ILLEGAL acts by LYING. They’re MAKING STUFF UP. There is NOTHING in the U.S. Constitution, nor ANY “intent,” nor ANY practices, 1789-2024, that allows this ‘PROJECT 2025″ destruction
They are presenting YOU with a fait accompli and. daring YOU to undo it.
***. “In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it.”
[. George Orwell: “1984” ]
3] “Let us begin with the press…she resigned in protest doe to a directive issued by the owner of the Post, Jeff Bezos….The directive limited the subject matter opinion columnists could cover and circumscribed what viewpoints they could express. So much for press freedom..” [ Judge Cleary: ‘…checklist…” ]
***. “I tell you..the cornerstone of democracy is free press…because that’s what they’re always first after..newspapers, radio, television..” [ Milos Forman ]
4] “On to the major universities. The Trump administration has made it clear that it will withhold funding from these institutions if they don’t cooperate….a climate of fear is descending on institutions of higher learning, leading to self-censorship and muted voices.” [ Judge Cleary: “…checklist…”
*** “Fascist politics seeks to undermine public discourse by attacking and devaluing education, expertise, and language…its representatives and facilitators denounce universities and schools as sources of “Marxist indoctrination”…By debasing institutions of higher learning and impoverishing our joint vocabulary to discuss policy, fascist politics reduces debate to ideological conflict.” [ Jason Stanley: “How Fascism Works” ]
5]. “Our goal is to intimidate the legal community and settle old scores. We’ll punish large law firms..for who they have represented in the past, thereby discouraging attorneys from taking on clients that do not adhere to the administration’s positions.” { Judge Cleary: “…checklist…” ]
***. “Fascist law-and-order rhetoric is explicitly meant to divide citizens into two classes: those of the chosen nation..and those who are not..women who do not fit traditional gender roles, non-whites, homosexuals, immigrants, “decadent cosmopolitans,” those who do not have the dominant religion, are by their very existence violations of law and order.” [ Stanley: “How Fascism Works” ]
6] “That brings us to the one major impediment to establishing your autocracy: the rule of law, as pronounced by the third co-equal branch of government, the judicial branch….a dozen federal judges…have issued injunctions and have otherwise put at least a temporary halt to your myriad attempts to impose your will….You cannot allow that to continue. Back to fear and intimidation. Call for the impeachment of these obstructionists….Sooner or later..cases will come to the Supreme Court. If a majority..rule against the administration..if the rule of law holds – then you will have to decide if you will accept the decision or defy it. If you defy it, and succeed in doing so, you have your autocracy.”
[ Judge Cleary: “…checklist…” READ THIS AGAIN! – THIS is how close YOU are to dictatorship ]
*** “Trump has no knowledge of the American story and so cannot have any faith in it. He has no understanding of our 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…..”To destroy a society..it is first necessary to delegitimize its basic institutions.” If you believe that American institutions are no different from their opposite, then there is no reason to defend them. the same is true of transatlantic institutions.” [ Anne Applebaum: “Twilight of Democracy” ]
7] “Our nation is in the middle of a coup d’etat..a classic coup..An ill-defined but powerful group of people, most with no legal standing but with ample private funding, is making drastic change in our nation’s politics and governing structures. Many of these changes violate existing laws and some our Constitution.” [ Edward Lotterman: “Shaky politics make for a shaky economy”; St. Paul Pioneer Press; 2/16/25 ]
8] “President Trump’s second term dizzies many Americans, but I find it oddly familiar…I”ve seen parallels in authoritarian countries I’ve covered…Strongmen seek power through a pattern of behavior that is increasingly replicated in Washington.”….”When authoritarians covet power, they pursue several common strategies.
First, they go after checks and balances within the government….Trump ignores laws he finds inconvenient.”…
Second, authoritarians try to crush independent referees and civil society institutions….Trump is doing his best to intimidate news organizations and discredit them as “enemies of the people.”…
Third, authoritarians sometimes recruit shadowy private enforcers….Trump has not gone that far.”…
[ Nicholas Kristof: “An Alarming Pattern Emerges”; New York Times; 2/16/25 ]
***. So, OK – YOU tell me – as a patriotic American – should YOU be alarmed at what the Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY is doing? One simple test for you: the Constitution’s Preamble: “We the People, created OUR government to “…establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility…promote the general Welfare…” What, IF ANYTHING, has the Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY done to achieve these goals – in realty, not rhetoric – for ALL 340 million Americans???
The Trump-Musk DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, XIII – Creating The Fear Economy
*** “Corruption is never an individual act. It always involves groups of people bound by one fundamental rule of association: an exchange of favors…It allows crimes to be protected with impunity and is characterized by an intolerable arrogance.” [ Roberto Matta ]
1] “The reality is that he [Trump] brings together the least attractive elements of capitalism and socialism, fusing heavy-handed state control with high inequality, and entrenching a set of oligarchs who serve simultaneously as the ruling party’s victims and co-conspirators. The more that political favor displaces market competition as the basis of corporate success, the worse things will get.” [ Jonathan Chait: “The Fear Economy..How Trump is exploiting American capitalism for personal power”; April, 2025; The Atlantic – portions follow – READ THIS ARTICLE!!!!!]
***. “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.”
[ Benito Mussolini ]
2]. “Mr. Miller told Mr. Zuckerberg that he had an opportunity to help reform America, but it would be on President-elect Donald J. Trump’s terms….His rehabilitation complete, Zuckerberg assumed a place of pride at Trump’s inauguration..”
*** “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in some conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” [ Adam Smith ]
3] “The President’s public communion with the business titans who have submitted to him has been analyzed as a signal of authoritarianism and his alliance with the rich. But it also reveals another emerging aspect of Trumpism: his rejection of the capitalist principles that ultimately generate prosperity.”
*** “Wherever there is power, greed, and money, there is corruption.” [ Ken Poirot ]
4] “He [Trump] believes, like Putin in political control of the economy’s commanding heights – success for those executives and companies who please him, failure for those who don’t.. a psychological transformation within the executive class…the combination of fear and solicitousness that Trump now commands is wholly new.”
*** “The fear tactic is a tactic that’s used by people who want to maintain control, and it’s very effective.”
[ Hamza Yusof ]
5] “Putting the screws to media owners in particular, especially early on, seems to follow the same playbook that Putin and other strongmen have used.”
*** “It is a characteristic of a tyrant to dislike everyone who has dignity or independence; he wants to be alone in his glory.” [ Aristotle ]
6] “Although Trump has so far devoted the most attention to media businesses, he has not ignored the broader economy. Every economic policy decision is a potential weapon to punish dissent or reward his friends, beginning with tariffs.”
***. “My task is not to make men better but to make use of their weaknesses.” [ Adolf Hitler ]
7] “..Trump has also used tariffs to gain personal and political leverage over American businesses. During his first term, Trump..entertained a parade of executives pleading for exemptions, which his administration doled out at its whim.”
***. “The technique of acquiring dictatorship over what has been a democracy… always involves the same mixture of bribery, propaganda, and violence.” [ Bertrand Russell ]
8] “A 2019 investigation by the Commerce Department’s inspector general reported ‘the appearance of improper influence in decision-making”…Trump has managed to solve this problem..by firing, to date, the inspectors general of 18 federal agencies, including Commerce.”
*** “Corruption is like a ball of snow, when once set a rolling it must increase.” [ C.C. Colton ]
9] “Musk, like Trump, respects no distinction between his personal financial interests, those of his political party, and those of the country….tells everybody [in] the upper class or aspires to it that their safest path is to join the ruling claque.”
*** “..Trump’s administration proceeded to crystallize and put into practice – in barefaced ways unseen in the United States for a century – exactly the type of systematic corruption Americans decry…a U.S. integrated kleptocratic network like the ones that dominate so many developing countries. It is the most sophisticated, powerful, and threatening such organism..in the United states since the Gilded Age…They want private, not democratic , control of the country’s resources.” [ Sarah Chayes: “On Corruption In America” – READ THIS BOOK – to understand post-1980 declines in people’s incomes and in American democracy}
10] “If Americans think that by empowering Trump, they have traded away some of their equality, civic decency, and political freedom for prosperity, we may find one day that we have sacrificed them all.”
*** “They that can give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
[ Benjamin Franklin ]t ]
The Trump-Musk DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, XII – Creating a “Government” That Persecutes Its Own People
*** “As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we must all be most aware of change in the air – however slight – lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.” [Supreme Court Justice William Douglas]
1]. History has many examples of government persecuting its own people: 1970s Cambodia, 1970s Chile, 1980s America, 1940s-50s America, Nazi Germany, 2001-09 America…….More on these below.
We are now witnessing a new, radical, attempt to USE government power against ordinary people, and for, a privilege3d few by “state capture.” This is the latest stage in a decades-long scheme, well documented statistically. Read: Kurt Andersen’s “Evil Geniuses,” Nancy MacLean’s. “Democracy In Chains,” Sarah Chayes’ “On Corruption In America,” and Senator Sheldon Whitehouses”s “The Scheme.”
If YOU care about America, then YOU must ask questions about what has occurred January 20, 2025 to today. Is the Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY doing ALL the damage to American government by themselves? WHO/WHAT is the POWER behind the “Trump” administration? WHO/WHAT is behind the “DOGE” organization? WHO/WHAT funded work that created ‘PROJECT 2025″?????
WHY is virtually EVERY U.S. government agency witnessing mass firings and defunding one that actually works FOR the lower 95%??? An agency that holds corporations & the rich accountable??? An agency that would collect taxes from the rich and corporations??? WHY do multiple authors of ‘PROJECT 2025″ hold important government positions?
WHY are certain Americans being ‘ERASED”? We’ve seen this before – 1970s Cambodia, 1970s Chile, Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, Communist China, Putin’s Russia, 1940s-50s America, 1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials, European pograms, European Religious Wars, 120,000 innocent Japanese-Americans imprisoned in WW II, Jim Crow segregation, women denied the vote, anti-homosexual laws……….
***. “I have always tried to treat white-collar criminals like other criminals. It still bothers me that Richard Nixon escaped that equal treatment….If Nixon had had the character of President Eisenhower, or any other honest president, this scandal [Watergate]. would never have happened….I hope no political party will ever stoop so low as to embrace the likes of Richard Nixon.” Judger John J. Sirica}
2] ‘…You cannot remove photographs related to Women’s History Month without also removing the women. The Defense Department’s DEI initiative does not merely eliminate programs. It erases people. .. the purge extends well beyond the Pentagon…The New York Times published an extensive list of words that various federal agencies have instructed their staff to limit or avoid…The way we tell stories about America’s past is the way we shape the story of America’s present..” [Monica Hesse: “The DEI purge has gotten weird.”; Washington Post Weekly; 3/16/25]
*** “If all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth. “Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”…”Reality control,” they called it..”
[George Orwell, “1984”]
3] Below SOME examples of Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY cruelty and destructiveness against Americans:
– “Trump’s shutdown of CDC information imperils nation’s health” [2/20/25]
– “Scientists worry about global air monitoring shutdown”. [3/6/26]
– “Mass Firing of Federal Staff May Imperil Food Supply, Cattle, and Pets”. [3/2/25]
– “The Great Dismantling: Trump’s Coming Attack on America’s Economic Backbone”. [12/1/24]
– “Neutering the CFPB: A Banker Speaks Out” [3/15/25]: “..sow chaos..only helps predatory lenders..”
– “Another 1,000 weather jobs to be cut” [3/12/25]: “…agency eradication”
– “Undoing years of Climate Policy in a few weeks”. [3/2/25]
– “Erosion of IRS puts its mission in peril”. [3/11/25]
– “White House firing FAA radar, navigation workers”. [2/18/25]
“Report: Trump would drain Social Security”. [10/27/24]
– “Trump Policies Threaten To Drive Up Inflation”. [2/6/25]
***. “Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”
[Hannah Arendt}
4] A review of past examples of where the Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY could be dragging America:
– 1970s Cambodia: Khmer Rouge “true believers” murdered about 3 million in their “re-education” program. Watching “The Killing fields” may help.
– 1940-50s America: the HUAC- Joe McCarthy era: tens of thousands accused of being “communists”; friends and colleagues asked to inform on “traitors”; “loyalty” tests. Watch “Trumbo.”
– 1970s Chile: a military junta took power; imprisoned opponents; restricted media; banned political parties; tens of thousands were “disappeared.”
– 1980s America: the “Iran-Contra Affair” could have led to impeachment; Poindexter & North interpreted the Constitution to carry out secret operations in defiance of law. “Kill the Messenger” details how far Reagan “true believers” were willing to go to suppress truth.
– 1930s-40s Nazi Germany: cult-like faith in Der Fuhrer; media controlled; non-Aryan group blamed for ALL troubles; language bent [Jews were “collected”]. Watch “Alone in Berlin.” Read “Seduced by Hitler, “In The Garden of Beasts,” “The Nightmare Years.”
– 2001-09 America: “Our ” government lied America into a war, tripled national debt, lax regulation of financial “geniuses” led to 2008 Crash. Multiple books written about lies of “our” president. Watch “Fair Game” to see how far Bush “true believers” were willing to go. Read “Robbing Us Blind” [Brouwer]
*** “People may start out with an initial prejudice against tyrants, b ut when tyrants or would-be tyrants teat them to adrenaline-releasing propaganda about the wickedness of their enemies – particularly of enemies weak enough to be persecuted – they are ready to follow [the tyrants] with enthusiasm.” [Aldous Huxley]
5] The Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY’s “DOGE” is a FRAUD. Its basic premises either wrong or twisted. YOUR federal government is UNDERSTAFFED. The IRS is woefully understaffed so much it can’t audit billionaire’s tax returns to recover the $1 trillion a year in certified taxes. Republican tax cuts, 1981-2017, have driven a national debt that was LESS than $1 trillion for 1789-1980 America to over $30 trillion.
The 2017 Trump tax cut is responsible for 25% of YOUR national debt. IF Musk-Trump really want to “save taxpayer money – THE #1 target should be ending the 2017 trump tax cuts!!!!!!!!! #2 is ending ALL the current loopholes benefiting the rich. We now have a record number of billionaires
As reported on 2/17/25 PBS “Newshour” – the U.S. population has increased by 68% in the last 50 years – your federal workforce is roughly at the same levels of thre 1970s in relation to that population increase!
HOW GULLIBLE AND MISINFORMED ARE YOU?????
6]. The issue is very simple: cut billionaire taxes. [already too low]. – OR. – maintain current benefits and services to people like YOU. That is the bottom line. Period.
***. “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.” [U.S, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis]
The Trump-Musk DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, XI – Losing The 21st Century
*** “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” [ Proverbs 29:18 ]
1] “…President Donald Trump..has already positioned America to lose the 21st century, in three simple steps:
– Alienate your friends.
– Destroy your business environment.
– Slaughter your golden goose [ i.e., science and research ].”
*** “Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom, and with all your getting get understanding.”
[ Proverbs 4:7 ]
“Trump most vividly demonstrated Step 1 with his Oval Office tantrum against a war-torn ally. But it includes gratuitous insults of our friends; abrupt termination of programs tackling public health menaces; and threats to punish our closest trading partners.”……….
“…Step 2:…Investors have long viewed the United States as more attractive..given our free capital markets, strong property rights, [relatively] predictable regulatory landscape and – most importantly – rule of law…under the Trump administration, none of that can be taken for granted.”……
[Step 3] “Our country’s greatest global advantage, by far, is in science, research and technology.. It is this knowledge sector that determines who “wins” the 21st century.”…..
“…Trump is gutting our scientific and research infrastructure…pushing out senior scientists and ending scientific training programs…Trump has purged experts..”……
“Meanwhile, Trump’s immigration policies will cut off our international talent pipeline, which has been America’s not-so-secret weapon in building a dominant knowledge sector.” [ Catherine Rampell: “How to lose the 21st century”; Washington Post Weekly; 3/9/25] – read the entire article – and everything YOU can on her 3 points]
*** “The danger is that the indulgence and attachment of the people will keep a man in the [presidential]. chair after he becomes a dotard..” [ President Thomas Jefferson ], 1/6/ 1805 ]
2] “Earlier this month, Tillerson described Trump as “pretty undisciplined, doesn’t like to read, doesn’t read briefing reports, doesn’t like to get into details of a lot of things, but rather just kind of says, “This is what I believe.” [Julie Pace, Zeke Miller: “As advisors leave, the guardrails come off”; Assoc. Press; 12/22/2018]
*** “It would be extremely dangerous if a President were to believe in the myth of his own omnipotence.”
[ Robert Hartmann ]
3] “Trump broke the news in statements showing how he reacts instinctively, often without advice or knowing basic facts, and revealing how his basic ignorance of science..blocks his ability to understand issues when they are explained to him.”…..
“…Trump again demonstrated his backward-looking perspective on the world and his rejection of ideas, science, and technologies…Trump’s vision is not about the future but a mythical past, at best a romantic nostalgia.” [Pulitzer Prize winner David C. Johnston: “It’s Even Worse Than You Think…What the Trump Administration Is Doing To America”]
*** “Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.” [Norman Cousins]
*** “Wisdom comes not into the malicious heart.” [ Rabelais ]
*** “The highest wisdom consists of distinguishing between good and evil.” [ Socrates ]
*** “The highest wisdom is kindness.” [ Talmud ] [Leonard Frank: “Quotationary}
4] SO – YOU tell me – is the Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY going to “Make America Great Again”. – OR. – is this just another TRUMP. GREAT. LIE – to cover their REAL goal, which is, above all, ELIMINATING taxes on billionaires; and destroying what’s left of American democracy while they finish the 90-year FAR RIGHT project to create a PLUTOCRATIC THEOCRACY????? – plans of which are now easily seen in. PROJECT 2025. – which, of course, Trump lied about, saying [like Col. Klink] – he knew “nothing,” and then appointing numerous ‘PROJECT 2025″. authors to positions in the MUSK-TRUMP KAKISTOCRACY. YOU can, MUST, also read: Kurt Andersen’s. “Evil Geniuses” and Nancy MacLean’s “Democracy in Chains… the Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America”.
*** “.. there is absolutely nothing to be said for a government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the ‘money touch’, but with the ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.” [ Republican President Theodore Roosevelt ] r.”
The Trump-Musk DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Corruption, Cruelty, Craziness, X – Sabotaging “We the People”
*** “The governments of the past could be fairly characterized as devices for maintaining in perpetuity the place and position of certain privileges classes, without any ultimate protection for the rights of the people. The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.” [ Republican President Calvin Coolidge, 1924 ]
1] “”We the People,” summons forth the still radically democratic idea that the government of the United States exists to serve the people, not the people serve the government. That is fundamental to the Framers’ original intent, as is the related idea that the government of the United states cannot tell us what to think or believe about politics, religion, science, literature, or anything else.” [Pulitzer Prize winning constitutional law scholar Leonard W. Levy: “Original Intent and The Framer’s Constitution” ]
SO – “government exists to serve the people” – as in education, regulating business, protecting the environment, public health, national parks, highways, infrastructure, scientific research, legal & judicial systems, law enforcement & public safety, protecting civil rights, protecting worker’s rights, social safety net, providing accurate information, programs for children……………..
SO – YOU tell me: what has the Musk-Trump KAKISTOCRACY done to carry out these duties and obligations? They CLAIM they’re promoting “government efficiency” – SO what, if anything they’ve done IN REALITY makes “our” government a better servant of the American people ???
SO – YOU tell me, how does mass firings and defundings of many of the above government services make YOUR life better? How does mass firings of national parks workers make YOUR next trip to one of “our” national parks better and safer/
SO- YOU tell me, how does mass firings and cuts in medical research, halting global health programs, decimating the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention make the health of YOU and YOUR children better?
SO – do YOU care if Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY privatizes access to accurate weather reports – meaning YOU will pay for what used to be free government weather reports?
SO – do YOU care if Musk-Trump privatize Social Security, totally privatize Medicare? SO, maybe YOUR retirement savings could be lost [like happened in the 2008 Crash]. SO, there’ll be NO restraints on prescription drug costs, hospital visits, doctor’s services????????????
SO – do YOU want to be 100% at the mercy of BIG BUSINESS??? That the U.S. government will do NOTHING to restrain their greed??? If Trump-Musk gut federal government powers, YOU WILL BE ROBBED.
SO – are YOU concerned about YOUR environment – as in pollution-free air; as in the cost of YOUR property insurance doubling, tripling, N.A.; as in clean water; as in toxic dumps??? If Musk-Trump reward their corporate donors/silent partners by gutting the EPA and other government agencies – YOUR future life, that of YOUR children will NOT be pleasant.
2] “…injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere..” [ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – 1964 Nobel Peace Prize winner: “for his non-violent struggle for civil rights” }
SO – YOU tell me – should “our” government be protecting YOUR civil rights? YOUR civil rights that began with thew 1791 “Bill of Rights”? YOUR civil right to “be left alone”???
SO – YOU tell me – should “our” government be protecting YOUR rights as an employee? Or, should YOU be totally at the mercy of YOUR employer?????
SO – YOU’RE a white male – what do YOU care if women or people of color are mistreated??? YOU’RE a “Christian” – what do YOU care if other religions, or people not in any church, get persecuted???
3] “There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.” { supreme Court Justice Hugo Black ]
SO – what do YOU care if some rich guy gets off scott-free? If 1,500 rioters trying to help a coup against YOUR government ALL get pardons? A corporation avoids punishment? If the federal courts are stacked with “true believers” who RE-WRITE the Constitution and other laws for favored people and groups?
4]. “Of all the costs imposed on our society by the top 1%, perhaps the greatest is this: the erosion of our sense of identity in which fair play, equality of opportunity, and a sense of community are so important….our democracy is being put at peril.” [ Nobel Prize winner Joe Stiglitz ]
SO – YOU tell me – how is the Trump-Musk KAKISTOCRACY doing in increasing YOUR sense of fair play, equal opportunity, and a sense of “we’re all in this together”??? Do YOU think there is ANY chance that YOU and YOUR children will be one of the “winners” from ANYTHING the Musk-trump KAKISTOCRACY is doing?
SO – YOU tell me – do YOU really believe Musk-Trump are doing all this chain-sawing of “our” government to benefit YOU? Are they doing what the Constitution’s Preamble REQUIRES: ‘..promote the general Welfare..”? Do YOU really trust what they’re doing? Are YOU aware DOGE is covering up their mistakes, refusing to provide details of their “big savings”?
***. “There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.” [Ludwig von Mises ]
With Justice For All 
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