Adolf Hitler: “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, the people
will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes
cannot be reversed.”
Dear people: America has been “headed in the wrong direction” since 1980. The first CON MAN, Ronald Reagan, made YOU feel good while his rich friends stole the American Dream. But, Ronnie was so handsome, had such a nice smile….so you elected him twice and then his vice president too! He said. all “the right things,” “things you wanted to hear”!!! – while he TRIPLED the national debt, broke a major strike, ended balanced media broadcasts, and……….
THE basis for that 1947-1973 mass middle class prosperity was SHARED NATIONAL WEALTH. Then came the 1980s and “Greed is Good!” – and Bush II tax cuts for the rich, his immoral Iraq war, his 2008 recession – and Trump’s 2017 tax cuts for the rich that are about 25% of the national debt.
SO – CON MAN Trump sold some of YOU on lie #35,xxx: “It’s Joe Biden’s fault.”
Below is a SMALL part of the MOUNTAIN o f statistical proof: America began heading in the wrong direction. NOT. in 2021, but in 1981……
1] “Evil Geniuses” [Kurt Andersen]: “During the 20th century, America managed to make its economic and social systems both more and more fair and more and more prosperous. A huge, secure and contented middle class emerged. Incomes rose in sync. But then the New Deal gave way to the Raw Deal. Beginning in the early 1970s, by means of a long war conceived of and executed by a confederacy of big business CEOs, the superrich, and right wing zealots, the rules and norms that made the American middle class possible were undermined and dismantled. The clock was turned back on a century of economic progress, making greed good, workers powerless, and the market all powerful while weaponizing nostalgia, lifting up an oligarchy that served only its own interests..”
*** Billionaire investor Warren Buffett: “There’s class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making
war, and we’re winning.”
2]. “Is the economy to serve the people who make it up, or is their labor for the sake of lining the pockets of the rich and powerful? [Juliet Schor]; “..the U.S. Catholic Bishops..wrote in their 1986 pastoral letter on the economy, “the economy should serve people; people should not serve the economy.” [“Economic Apartheid In America”; C.Collins, F.Yeskel]
***. “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy, that is the search of a
superior moral justification for selfishness.” [John Kenneth Galbraith]
3]. “Economic Apartheid In America” [2005; C. Collins & F. Yeskel]:
A] “The larger economic trends of the past three decades…falling wages…wealth inequality…widening gap between highest- and lowest-paid workers…losing ground at work…precarious and stressed middle class…the rising tide lifts only yachts.”
B] graphs on pages 41-42: 1947-1979: “We Grew Together”…the bottom 80% quintiles ALL grew 100%-116%, the top 99% [Census Bureau data]; 1979-2003 “We Grew Apart”…the bottom 20% LOST 2%; the second 205 gained 8%; the third 20% gained 15%; the fourth 20% gained 26%; the top 20% gained 51% – & – the top 5% gained 75%.
C] “The Power Shift since the 1970s..Who sets the agenda for economic policies?”…”On the rise: big campaign contributors…corporate lobbyists…corporations…big-asset owners…CEOs…Wall Street”. “In decline: popular political movements… voters…labor unions…wage-earners…employees…main street”
“Why this happened…a power shift led to rule changes”…..”Rule changes since the 1970s: anti-union climate…global treaties benefit corporations…big tax cuts for the wealthy…corporate welfare expands…minimum wage not raised…Federal Reserve “whip inflation” policy helps investors, hurts wage growth…”privatization” [dismantling government] helps investors, hurts consumers and workers”
D]. “The attack on worker’s rights [i.e. unions]..evidence is clear..unions raised the standard of living for most low- and moderate-income people, whether they joined unions are not…Most industrialized countries..would not tolerate the employer practices that occur every day in the United States.”
E]. “The race to the bottom…U.S. workers cannot and should not compete against workers in countries like China [low wages, no unions]..nor..with countries of high rates of child labor…Free trade agreements as..currently written create a climate in the United States where employers are..emboldened to threaten to move plants overseas to extract wage concessions or discourage unionization efforts..”
F]. “In the last two decades, the U.S. tax system has become a two-tier tax system, investigative journalists ..Bartlett T..Steele argue..there is one system for the wealthy, what they call “the Privileged Person’s Tax Law,” and another one for everyone else..”
*** “The point is you cant be too greedy.” [Donald J. Trump, “The Art of the Deal”]
4]. “The Betrayal of the American Dream” [Donald Bartlett & James Steele; 2012; two Pulitzer Prizes]
A] “..[this]..is the story of how a small number of people in power have deliberately put in place policies that have enriched themselves while cutting the ground out from underneath America’s greatest asset – its middle class..the wealthy and the powerful..have become this country’s ruling class.”
B] “..between 1999 and 2008,,foreign affiliates of U.S, parent corporations increased their employment abroad by 2.4 million jobs,,slashed their employment in the United States by 1.9 million.”
C]. “..the ruling class is defined by its ability to move money beyond the reach of government supervision.”
D]. “The U.S. health care system is based on the misguided notion..the private market is the best way to provide care and coverage to Americans.” [see their 2004 “Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business – and Bad Medicine’}
E] ‘..for tens of millions of middle-class Americans, as well as for the working poor who hope to achieve that status, then American dream is over.”
F]. “Running a country like a business means everyone is expendable.”
G]. “Congress writes the rules..and Wall Street..decides what rules it will permit.”
*** “..one certainty..there is no way to access infinite wealth without rigging the system. No one becomes a billionaire honestly.” [Sarah Chayes: “On Corruption in America”]
5] “When did we go astray?..There’s no easy answer to such a question, but clearly the election of President Ronald Reagan represented a turning point..” [“The Price of Inequality”; Joseph Stiglitz; 2012; Nobel Prize winner}
A]. “The underlying thesis..we are paying a high price for our inequality – an economic system that is less stable and less efficient, with less growth, and a democracy..put in peril..”
B]. “For years there was a deal between the top and the rest of our society…we will provide you with jobs and prosperity, and you will let us walk away with the bonuses. You all get a share..we get a bigger share..now that tacit agreement..always fragile, has come apart.”
C] “American inequality didn’t just happen. It was created..Much of the inequality that exists today is a result of government policy, both what the government does and..does not do.”
***. “What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” [Matthew 16:26]
6] “Who Stole the American Dream?” [Hedrick Smith; 2012; Pulitzer Prize winner]
A] “Over the past 3 decades, we have become Two Americas..no longer one large family with shared prosperity and shared political and economic power..’
B]. “Today, the greatest challenge and most corrosive fault line in our society is the gross inequality of income and wealth…What separates the Two Americas..is a wealth chasm..from 2002 to 2007, America’s sup-rich, the top 1% [3 million people], reaped two-thirds of the nation’s entire economic gains..In 2010, the top 1% captured 93% of the nation’s gains.”
C] “..in America since the late 1970s..soaring wealth of the super-rich has brought the unraveling of the American Dream for the middle class..”
D] “From 1998 through 2010, business interests and trade groups spent $28.6 billion lobbying compared with $492 million for labor..no countervailing power matches the political clout of business. Our democracy has become starkly unequal.”
E] “since the 1970s, business leaders have largely abandoned..share-the-wealth ethic…the pay of a typical male worker was lower in 2010 than in 1978, adjusted for inflation.”
*** “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 on one.” [Margaret Mitchell – “Gone With the Wind”]
Dear People – the above is merely the BEGINNING of a mountain of STATISTICAL PROOF that the great 1947-1973 American middle class mass prosperity was. STOLEN. from. YOU by the rich – we have been “headed in the wrong direction” since 1980. – NOT since 2021 !!!!!! o
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Trump as “savior” !!! – Hang On To YOUR Wallet; Trump’s “numbers’ DON’T Add Up !!!
***Republican President Herbert Hoover: “You know, the only trouble with capitalism is capitalists. They’re
too damn greedy.”
1} Christine Benz, director of personal finance & retirement planning for Moringstar: “Whoever takes over as president is inheriting a fairly robust economy, mild inflation, average-to-below-average interest rates and fairly high valuations for U.S. stocks.” [“How election results could affect your retirement accounts.”; Michelle Singletary; ll/ll/24; Wash. Post]
2] “Manufacturing already has made a comeback…Rebound Trump promises has been underway in many places”: “McLean County is part of an unusually strong jump in manufacturing jobs between 2019 and 2023…The Biden administration tried to use policy to ensure..more..would be union jobs, or at least offer union-level wages..this approach is almost certainly dead due to the results of the election.” [Tim Henderson; 11/17/24; Stateline.org]
***Adam smith: “We can’t have free markets because the world is too complex and independent to let everyone run around doing whatever he or she wants to do. As a society, we have to regulate conduct when it interferes with other people’s freedoms or when it threatens damage to other people’s properties.”
3] “For voters, economy is key”: “..many economists warn..Trump’s plans are likely to worsen the inflation he’s vowed to eradicate, drive up the federal debt and eventually slow growth…Last month, 23 Nobel-winning economists signed a letter warning..a Trump administration “will lead to higher prices, larger deficits, and greater inequality..Among the most important determinants of economic success..are rule of law and economic and political certainty, and Trump threatens all of these.”..The centerpiece of Trump’s economic agenda is taxing imports..In fact, American companies pay them – and then typically pass along their higher costs to their customers via higher prices..Trump has threatened to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, potentially undermining one of the factors that allowed the United States to tame inflation without falling into recession.” [Paul Wiseman; 11/10/24; Assoc. Press]
***Republican President Theodore Roosevelt: “Of all the forms of tyranny the least attractive and most vulgar is the
tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy.”
4]. “Musk Looks To Benefit From New Pal Trump…Billionaire’s six firms, deeply entangled with the U.S., pose a conflict with any new job he gets” [E.Lipton, K.Grind, D.Fahrenthold, T.Schleifer; 11/10/24; New York Times]
5] “Biggest Donors Expect Returns on Investment…Moguls Look to Lifting of Regulations”: “Limit the reach of federal regulations on artificial intelligence. Make room for cryptocurrencies to thrive. Ease the anti-trust crackdown on big companies. Buy more military drones. And don’t raise taxes on billionaires.” [Eric Lipton; 11/17/24; New York Times]
**!!**!! – This & MUCH MORE is the “to-do list” for Trump from his donor billionaires – WHO. is missing from any concerns here??? – YOU, Mr. & Mrs. lower 90% !!!!!!!!!!!!
*** Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis: “We can either have a democracy in this country or we can have great
wealth concentration in the hands of a few. But we cannot have both.”
6] “Trump’s plans likely don’t lower grocery bills…Proposed tariffs, deportation could make food prices rise, according to economists”…”..food producers rely on imported goods like fertilizer, equipment and packing materials. If they’re forced to pay more..they will raise prices….U.S. farmers also could have trouble selling their goods overseas, since other countries would likely respond with retaliatory tariffs..”There is a fundamental disconnect between a stated goal of reducing grocery prices and a tariff policy that only stands to increase those costs.” [Dee-Ann Durbin; 11/17/24 Assoc Press]
7] “Trump tax cut vows face fiscal realty”: “The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office..estimated..continuing all of the expiring provisions would cost roughly $4 trillion over a decade, and Trump’s campaign proposals could add trillions more to the debt.” [Andrew Duehren; 11/8/24; New York Times]
***!!!***!!! – Republican tax cuts, 1981-2017 increased the national debt from LESS than $1 trillion for 1789-1980 America to some $35 trillion – because they cut tax rates for the obscenely rich – which leads to Right-Wing 7 Republican demands for “austerity” – i.e. – cuts to social programs that benefit YOU – see Roosevelt & Brandeis quotes above & more
*** Adam Smith: “The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of government, as nearly as
possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which
they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.”
*** Billionaire Bill Gates: “I need to pay higher taxes. I’ve paid, in absolute, more taxes over ten billion [dollars].
than anyone else, but, you know, the government should require people in my
position to pay significantly higher taxes.”
*** Billionaire investor Warren Buffett: “There’s class warfare, all right, ubt it my class, the rich class, that’s making
war, and we’re winning.” **Buffett has long said his secretary pays taxes at a higher rate
than he does. Recent analysis reveals many billionaires pay a 3.4% tax rate, if anything.
8]. Do. YOUR. own. REAL. research:
A] study 1947-1980 income, wealth, tax rates – compared with 1981-2024 numbers. 1947-1980 top marginal taxe rates AVERAGED 81% – Republicans cut those, first in half, now 1/3-1/4. The 1947-1973 American middle class enjoyed THE. STATISTICAL. PEAK of prosperity in American history. It was “too good a deal”. – for. YOU, so the rich [see Buffett, Brandeis, Roosevelt, Smith quotes above] declared WAR [quietly – through “campaign contributions”]. on. YOU – cut their taxes, cut YOUR income, increased costs for YOUR food, medical care, housing, etc…., move jobs overseas………
B]. find. REAL. critical analysis of “PROJECT 2025” and “Agenda 47”. – to decode what their innocuous language REALLY means to YOU. – it is a Right-Wing blueprint of the R-W “wish list” to COMPLETE the transformation of America into a PLUTOCRATIC. THEOCRACY.
***** WATCH. YOUR. WALLET !!!!! – how uninformed, how misinformed, how gullible. – are. YOU??? If YOU voted for the Con Man, the Entertainer – “who said what you thought” – or – “said what you wanted to hear” – the NUMBERS above – and MUCH, MUCH more – indicate YOU will NOT get what YOU thought YOU voted for; a better, more prosperous life>
*** SO – now what? – vigilance – hold Trump and his Republican enablers to account – but don’t wait until 2026, could be too late. WHY. did 23 Nobel economics winners write a letter warning of economic consequences if Trump puts his plan and his campaign rhetoric into law???? No – they don’t “hate America,” they don’t “hate Trump”. – they examined Trump’s numbers! – and they DON’T. ADD. UP
*** Adolf Hitler: “If you tell a big lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
*** New analysis by the “Conservative Think Tank “Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget” finds Trump plans would. WRECK. SOCIAL. SECURITY – But!!! – Trump promised to “fight for and protect SocialSecurity” –
what if Trump DOESN’T ????
***. On October 4th – McDonalds sued the big four meatpackers for “allegedly conspiring for years to limit beef supplies”. – meaning increased cost of. YOUR. Big Mac – what if Trump DOESN’T. support the suit?????
*** “The top four companies control 90% of the cotton seed market, 80% of corn seed, 70% of soybean seed, 67% of pork, and 62% of agrichemicals according to the advocacy group Farm Action.” **These monopolies cost. YOU. at the grocery store and more – what if Trump. DOESN’T. do anything to lower YOUR. costs ????
*** What if “Joe Biden’s “bad economy'”. DOESN’ T change under Trump???
*** What if Trump’s tariffs, tax cuts for the rich, deportations of food, farm workers, construction workers, and others. – DOESN’ T work?? DOESN’T help. YOU ???????????
*** What if the warning by the 23 Nobel Prize winning economists that Trump’s policies will cost YOU money is correct ?????????????? [ does that mean you voted AGAINST. YOURSELF !!!!!!!!!!! ]
*** Are. YOU, Trump supporter. – still going to vote for his Republican enablers in 2026 –
will the same “rules” that applied to Biden & Democrats in 2024. apply to Republicans in 2026 ?????
HANG. ON. TO. YOUR. WALLET !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Trump and Abortion Cruelty; Religious Zealotry and Nazi Principles
*** “Abortion and homosexuality concerned him particularly; in a speech over the radio in January 1937, he put these two topics high on the list of his ‘tasks for the future’…”We have already set out to tackle these abominations [Schleusslichkeiten] rigorously and with deep seriousness, in the bitter knowledge that a growth or even just continuance of these two epidemics must bring any Volk to the abyss, although lower in. Germany than in most European and foreign countries, is nevertheless shockingly high.” Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler ; page 185}
*** “I’m frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in “A”, “B”. “C”, and “D”. Just who do they think they are? and from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?” [Barry Goldwater}
*** “We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit. We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press – in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess.” This may sound familiar – maybe some over-heated Republican talking points. In fact it’s what Adolf Hitler. promised the German people in 1933.” Reverend Bob Schenck [“Losing Faith; November-December, 2024; Mother Jones; page 2
*** “I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man..being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience.” [George Washington]
*** “The individual ought not be trusted with the right to make decisions related to his or her reproductive potential..Nazi doctrine, founded on the distinction between “worthy” and “unworthy” life, enforced selective breeding by increasing penalties for abortion and prohibiting birth control,” Claudia Koonz; “Mothers in the Fatherland..Women, the Family and Nazi Politics; page 285]
*** “Is it not strange tat the descendants of those Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the Atlantic to preserve their own freedom of opinion have always proved themselves intolerant of the spiritual liberty of others?” [Robert E. Lee]
1]. Opposition to abortion, birth control, the LGBTQ community – is a RELIGIOUS belief. Certain religions seek to impose THEIR religious beliefs on YOU – this is un-American, un-Constitutional, flies in the face of one of the oldest American historical traditions and policies: “separation of church and state.” Do your own research: start with Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson; the 1657 “Flushing Remonstrance,” 18th century Virginia evangelicals demanding separation of church and state; Baptist preachers Isaac Backus and John Leland.
2]. Research 1776-1800 state constitutions [Faith of the Founders; Edwin Gaustad; Appendix B, pages 134-145. 8 states banned an active minister in their government!!!; 4 states prohibited a “religious test for office” [Article VI]; 10 states prohibited a state church [Amendment One]. Read: 1776 North Carolina Constitution, Articles XXXIV: “..neither shall any person, on any pretense whatsoever, be compelled to attend any place of worship contrary to his own faith or judgment, nor be obliged to pay, for..the building of any house of worship, or for the maintenance of any minister or ministry, contrary to what he believes right..” [ANY DOUDT about “separation of church & state” ???]
2] Some examples of many – Republican cruelties on abortion and reproductive rights;
A – the infamous Ohio case of the raped, pregnant 10-year-old girl, forced to go to Indiana for an abortion [“Penalty sought for girl’s doctor”; Davies & Rodgers; 12/1/22; Associated Press]
B- “Infant mortality rate soars post-Roe”. [Ariana Cha; 10/27/24; Washington Post Weekly]
C- “Radioactive” Pregnant Women” – turned away from ERs – “One woman miscarried in the lobby restroom of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to check her in..” [Amanda Seitz; 4/21/24; Associated Press]
D- “Abuse victims trapped without options”. [Marissa Lati; 7/10/22; Washington Post]
E- “How state abortion restrictions are affecting pregnancy care…Treating a rare complication has gotten harder – and it nearly cost a woman her life”. [Caroline Kitchener; 4/30/23; Washington Post Weekly]
F- “Doctors fear delayed abortions pose safety risk”. [Laura Ungar; 12/10/23; Associated Press]
G- “Idaho’s abortion ban encourages legal delusion and medical myth” [Lisa Jarvis; 4/28/24; Bloomberg Opinion]
H- “Fatal genetic condition at heart of Texas abortion case”. [Kelsey Ables; 12/24/23; Washington Post]
I. “In Louisiana, a woman 10 weeks into her pregnancy was told that although her fetus was missing the top of its skull – an unsurvivable condition – she had to continue carrying it because the state’s abortion ban did not specify that condition as an exception.” [The Week; 9/2/22; page 11] !!!!!! Republican CRUELTY personified !!!!! UNBELIEVABLE !
J- “Sterilizations among women increasing”. [Emily Schmall; 9/12/24; New York Times] An
K- “Why Are Some Women Paying For Contraceptions?” [Alisha H. Gupta; 7/2/23; New York Times]
L- “IVF threats drive clinics to ship out embryos” [Ghorayshi & Kliff; 8/13/24; New York Times]
M- “My patient was a 13-year-old girl..he took her to his apartment..locked her in..raped her.
The neighbors heard her screaming..called the police..[who] caught this guy in the act..there is zero ambiguity..this pregnancy [is] result of rape.” Yet the doctor got hassled by the police..she had more encounters with “..police who
5]felt..emboldened to treat me like dirt..” This doctor and her family left this southern state [“Abortion Stories From Post-Roe America”; 10/27/24; New York Times Opinion
3] Consequences: “Docs Flee Red States” [Editorial; 6/15/23; The Progressive Populist]: both medical interns and practicing doctors are increasingly unwilling to practice OB/GYN medicine in states with abortion bans – because they can’t practice the necessary medicine they were taught/practiced. Texas already has a doctor shortage, expected to worsen by 50%, and a shortage of nurses. Only 40% of Terxas hospitals have labor and delivery services.
4]. “The Right-Wing Plan To Make Everyone An Informant” [Adam Serwer; November 2024; The Atlantic]: Texas’ 2021 “bounty law,” which promises $10,000 to anyone who successfully sues somebody who “aids and abets” an abortion…Republican-controlled state legislatures and conservative activists..passed bills and embraced legal strategies that encourage Americans to monitor one another’s behavior and report their friends, family members, and neighbors to the authorities. Call it the “Snitch State.” – OR. – historically, call it something Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, China might have done. – American police state, anyone ???????
5] Then – How do YOU want to die? Do YOU have “health care directives” and/or living wills? If YOU make the fatal mistake of entering the wrong nursing home – they may refuse to honor YOUR legal wishes. – in. GUESS WHAT. – a nursing home run by a certain church.
In “Medical Emergency…The Church-State Wall Has Collapsed When It Comes to End-of-Life Care,: Kim Callinan discusses this. [Church & State; March 2021; pages 20-21]
In “The Power Worshippers..Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism,” Katherine Stewart, in Chapter 11: “Controlling Bodies: What “Religious Liberty”. Looks Like from the Stretcher,” [pages 241-43] relates how “John” dying of brain cancer in a hospice “repeatedly” asked for information on medically asisted death [legal in his state] – it was refused by the church running it, because “Directive 61 states: “Patients experiencing suffering that cannot be alleviated should be helped to appreciate the Christian understanding of redemptive suffering.” John obtained a gun and blew his brains out in one of their bathtubs – traumatizing the staff.
***** So – do YOU want to die on YOUR legal terms – or, do YOU want to “appreciate the Christian understanding of redemptive suffering”? WHO gets to decide how YOU die – YOU or a church you may not belong to??? See the 1776 North Carolina state constitution listed above – “..not on any pretenses whatsoever.. shall YOU be compelled…”
*** “I don’t want to see religious bigotry in any form. I would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it.”
[Billy Graham, 1981]
6] Partial known summary: Religious zealots want to control YOUR reproductive life – by any means necessary; Religious zealots want to control how YOU die; Religious zealots want to establish “the Snitch State” – with a $10,000 bounty on YOUR head; Religious zealots want to control YOUR use of public roads if YOU want to escape their “Handmaid’s Tale” dictatorship; Religious zealots want to intercept YOUR mail if YOU are guilty of “immoral conduct” by ordering birth control pills; Religious zealots want to control books in YOUR public library and in YOUR chid’ school; Religious zealots want to put up the Christian “10 Commandments” in public buildings; Religious zealots want to change science and history curriculum in public schools
*** Randall Terry: “Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty..are called by God to conquer this country. We don’t want equal time..don’t want pluralism.”
Vote Republican in 2024- and YOU can help make Randall Terry’s plan come true – is this what YOU want???
Trump – a Authoritarian “Savior” – What a Joke !!! [ on Us}
*** “This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs: Whenhe first appears, he is a protector.” [Plato]
1] Research “the 14 characteristics of fascism”:
1- powerful and continuing nationalism
2- disdain for human rights
3- identifying enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause
4- supremacy of the military
5- rampant sexism
6- controlled mass media
7- obsession with national security
8- religion and government are intertwined
9- corporate power is protected
10- labor power is suppressed
11- disdain for intellectuals and the arts
12- obsession with crime and punishment
13- rampant cronyism and corruption
14- fraudulent elections
****** Thanks to the “revenge of the empire” since 1980, America is well on the way toward achieving many FASCIST factors listed above – especially #3, 5, 8, 9, 10, 13 – with Republicans/Far Right working very hard on achieving #14
***”People may start out with an initial prejudice against tyrants, but when tyrants or would-be tyrants treat them with adrenalin-releasing propaganda about the wickedness of their enemies – particularly of enemies weak enough to be persecuted – †hey are ready to follow [the tyrants] with enthusiasm.” [Aldous Huxley]
2]. Read: “The Conspiracy To End America…Five ways my old party is driving our democracy to autocracy” [Stuart Stevens – 25-year Republican lead strategist & media consultant]: “Whenever a democracy slides into autocracy, there are five critical elements at work: financiers, propagandists, support of a major party, legal theories to legitimize authoritarian acts, and shock troops.” YOU know all of these are at work NOW – YOU have seen it: the billionaires visibly out for Trump; the Far Right media echo chamber [TV, radio, I-net, “experts”, authors]: the Donald Trump [oops!!!] Republican “Party”; legal theories [the CORRUPT Roberts’ “supreme court”[???]. plus other legal groups & judges; January 6, 2021, plus various “militias” and armed men turning up at various public events…
*** It already almost happened in 1933 – Read “The Plot to Seize the White House,” by Jules Archer – the Jul-November, 1933 Right-Wing plot revealed by the McCormack-Dickstein Committee hearings and February 15, 1935 report.
*** “Of all the forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of the plutocracy.” [Theodore Roosevelt]
3]. Read: “Take Trump At His Word”. [New York Times Editorial; 10/27/24; Sunday Opinion]:
A- “Trump says he will use the Justice Department to punish people he doesn’t like. Believe him. In his own words…”
B- “Trump says he will round up and deport millions of immigrants. Believe him. In his own words…”
C- “Trump says he will deploy the American military against U.S. citizens. Believe him. In his own words…”
D- “Trump says he will allow vigilante violence to end crime. Believe him. In his own words…”
E- “Trump says he will order the military to strike foreign civilian targets if the United States is attacked.” Believe him..”
F- “Trump says he will punish blue states by withholding disaster relief. Believe him. In his own words…”
G- “Trump says he will use ideological tests to decide which public schools get federal money. Believe him…”
H- “Trump says he will abandon U.S. allies. Believe him. In his own words…”
*** “At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” [Abraham Lincoln]
*****. Lincoln didn’t know about fascism. He didn’t know that the party he helped form – would itself be the author of most of America’s post-1980 problems and controversies, virtually all the craziness and cruelties. He did say, speaking of the “Know Nothings”..”I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”
***** Which explains why Trump is no Abraham Lincoln. – and why the party Lincoln formed is dead.
America is in BIG DANGER, democracy itself is in BIG DANGER, if near-50% of Americans believe an acknowledged “despicable” person, convicted felon, liar of recorded 30-40,000 lies, racist, misogamist, tax cheat, draft dodger, etc., etc. who instigated a near-coup on 1/6/21 – can somehow be “an instrument of God’s will” to “save” America from itself – when it’s his fellow top 1% that have created much of the mess the lower 90% needs to be saved from.
THE. SINGLE. GREATEST. CON. of all human history – turning the biggest, greatest democracy into a FASCIST PLUTOCRATIC THEOCRACY looms as a distinct possibility. – unless. YOU. decide this cannot happen when YOU vote on the future of America, November 5, 2024. Please think…………………
Trump’s Economic Plan – DISASTER if Implemented
The Trump economy “was better”???????? What if Trump had ruled under 4 years of COVID??? What is the leader factor in 2020-2024 inflation – COVID !!! – and of course, top 1% & corporate GREED.
America is a capitalist system – PRIVATE companies sell goods & set prices – not government. There are NUMEROUS corporate CEO confessions – some listed below – where CEOs CONFESSED they had used COVID to inflate their prices. Many/most American industries are controlled by 2-3-4 companies – often in food. Numerous cases where companies have pled guilty to price-fixing collusion. Then there are Trump stupidities – like tariffs……
********!!!!!***** l0/31/24 headline: “New tariffs would lead to price hikes…U.S. companies say they’ll pass added costs to consumers if Trump is re-elected and makes good on his promises”. ****!!!!!*****!!!!!! HERE’s. your proof !!!!!!
First – just a few headlines:
– “Trump’s tariff plan would sow chaos…His attacks would raise prices, hurt markets, spark economic feuds” [10/17/24; Stein & Lynch; Washington Post]
– “Trump’s budget ideas don’t add up…Promises could add trillions of dollars to rising national debt” [9/28/24; Stein; Washington Post]
– “Trump’s fiscal plans could hike U.S. debt…Analyses also cite rising costs for most Americans” [Duehran & Rappeport; 10/8/24; New York Times]
– “Report: Trump would drain Social Security..fund might run out of money within six years under a Trump presidency” [Weil; 10/27/24; Washington Post]
– “Trump’s Big Promises to Big Business…Former President Trump has a ‘For Sale’ sign around his neck” [Goldmacher, Haberman, Swan; 10/27/24; New York Times]
– “Worried about inflation? You won’t like Trumponomics 2.0…former President Donald Trump’s economic agenda seems to be dedicated to raising prices” [Bloomberg Opinion Board; 5/26/24]
– “Beware of Trump’s economic plans…Higher tariffs, politicized central bank, a deliberately weakened dollar and more public borrowing would be dangerous”. [Bloomberg editorial; 5/20/24
– “American Business Can’t Risk Another Trump Term..he is attacking the foundations of American prosperity” [New York Times Editorial Board; 10/20/24]
– “Poorer households at risk with Trump plan…economists say lower-income households would be hit hardest by tariffs..” [Swanson, Duehren, Broadwater; 7/18/24; New York Times]
– “Trump Plans to Make His Massive Tax Cuts for the Rich and Corporations Permanent..which would allow the wealthy to steal from the public”. [Kolhatkar; 4/15/24; The Progressive Pipulist]
– “Trump’s Idea To Drop Prices May Lift Them…Economists See Costs in Three Key Proposals”. [Savage, Haberman, Swan; 6/9/24; New York Times]
– “UAW Slams Trump-Vance As “Menace To The Working Class” [Dispatches; 11/1/24; The Progressive Populist]
– “How Republicans Screw Workers..Efforts by Obama and Biden to enforce labor laws have been systematically undermined by right-wing courts and legislators” [Kuttner; 5/1/24; The Progressive Populist]
Second – do you need details, after the above – how “the champion of the workers” has, WILL, screw over the lower 90%? What would you expect a selfish ‘millionaire/billionaire” to do??? OK – try this:
– “GOP deregulation hurts consumers; new bill from Democrats could help”. [Catherine Rampell; 3/6/19; Washington Post]: “For markets to work, you need a system where either the government protects consumers or consumers can adequately defend themselves…The “neither” option lands you in a kleptocracy..where Republicans have been leading the country for the past few years…”
“Under President Trump, Republicans have repealed or watered down tons of federal rules..notice a striking pattern: Many of them loosen the limits for how much harm businesses can inflict upon consumers…”
“..perhaps where the GOP has been most successful in curbing consumers’ ability to fight back relates to mandatory arbitration clauses..’ [*** FORCED arbitration in front of industry-paid/friendly “judges”]
Third – were YOU really better off under Trump??? What do REAL statistics reveal?
A]. “Were You Better Off Than Trump?” [The Progressive Populist editorial; 4/15/24]: “Donald Trump’s promoters are now asking “Are you better off today than you were four years ago..?”
“By almost any objective standard, the U>S. is in much better shape today…Trump inherited a healthy economy..Non-farm employment fell by 1.4 million jobs in March 2020 and a staggering 20.5 million jobs in April..Unemployment was 6.3% in January 2021..grocery shelves were empty…”
“The British medical journal The Lancet..blamed Trump for an error-filled response to the coronavirus pandemic that analysts said contributed to 40% more deaths compared to other wealthy countries…”
“All those jobs lost during Trump’s last year have been recovered under Biden, plus 423,000 manufacturing jobs..created since..the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act in 2021…”
“Inflation has settled back to 3.2%, much of which is caused by corporate profiteering, which Republicans have shown little interest in checking…”
“Despite Republican claims..crime has run out of control under Biden, a recent FBI report noted..crime actually declined significantly in 2023, continuing a post-pandemic trend…”
B] “The Truth About the Biden Economy…His economy is outperforming other countries, and past presidents by a long shot”. [Matthew Winkler; 4/28/23; Bloomberg Opinion]: “..the economy during Biden’s 27 months..witnessed the greatest and fastest recovery of gross domestic product in modern times.. We have a jobless rate that is the lowest in a peacetime economy since World War II..”
C] “The Greatest Economy Ever?..The president deserves the credit he’s taking”. [Dean Baker; 7/17/23; InsideSources.com]: “Since the pandemic, the U.S. has had the highest growth growth rate of any wealthy country. It’s inflation rate is among the lowest..Perhaps even more important were..bills changing the long-term direction of the U.S. economy.”
Fourth – PRICES !!!!! – consider:
A]. “A Tale of Two Consumers”. [Robert Reich; 7/1/24; The Progressive Populist]: “..PepsiCo has so much monopoly power it’s been able to raise prices, blame inflation, shaft consumers, and score record profits..”
B] “Corporate profiteers pandemic strategy: GOUGE CONSUMERS AND BLAME JOE BIDEN” [The Hightower Lowdown; February, 2022]: “Consider diapers..Procter & Gamble announced last April..Covid-driven production costs were forcing it to raise the price for ..Pampers…used the excuse of inflation to inflate the price of diapers..co-monopolist Kimberly-Clark goosed up its prices at the same time…’
“IN 2019..big U. s. corporations hauled in roughly a trillion dollars in profit..two years later, during the pandemic, they grabbed more than $1.7 trillion. Antitrust analyst Matt Stoler finds..this huge profit jump accounts for 60% of the inflation now slapping U.S. families…” [****!!!!!! – got that; 60% of inflation is. CORPORATE GREED !!!*****]
“The CEO of Kroger..gloated last summer that “a little bit of inflation is always good in our business..we’ve been very comfortable with our ability to pass on increases” to consumers…”
“..85% of the U.S. beef market is controlled by just four multibillion-dollar goliaths..this beef cartel has been raising consumer prices during the pandemic..Their profit margin at the end of 2021 was 300% [!] higher than the previous year.”
C]. “FTC Launches Probe Into Surveillance Pricing That Targets Individuals” [Naveen Athrappully; 7/24-30/24; The Epoch Times]”. “[FTC] is looking into how firms are using surveillance pricing to charge different prices to different consumers…In September, the FTC accused Amazon of creating a secret price-setting algorithm.”
D]. “He’s the Expert on Uncovering ‘Shrinkflation'”. [Clare Toeniskoetter; 11/27/22; New York Times]: “With inflation at a 40-year high, business owners have been increasingly shrinking their products in an attempt to hide price increases.”
E]. “Inflation may be cover for gouging” [Paul Davidson; 4/28/22; USA Today]: “..last year, the aggregate profit margin of non-financial corporate business hovered above 13% in all four. quarters, the best performance in 70 years…56% of retailers say inflation has allowed them to raise prices above what’s required to offset higher costs, according to a survey of 1,000 retailers by Digital.com in November. More than half..say they’ve pushed up prices by an average of 20% or more.” [***!!! – got that – best profits in 70 years…prices up by 20%. !!!!!!]
F]. “Quantifying Big Pharma Price-Gouging” [Rick Claypool; Public Citizen News: Nov-Dec, 2021]: “Big Pharma makes almost twice..selling the top 20 prescription drugs in the United States as it does selling the same drugs to..the rest of the world combined…now Big Pharma is using every trick in the corporate influence playbook to fight policies that would reduce U.S. drug spending..” [also including a “Ripping Off Americans” chart for HIV, Autoimmune disease, multiple sclerosis, type 2 diabetes drugs !!!!]
G]. “Auto insurance costs rising at fastest pace since 1970s” [Emily Flitter; 5/16/24; New York Times]: “Geico recently reported a big jump in quarterly profit on higher premiums and lower customer claim..”
***!!! GUESS WHAT??? In details, company names, etc….- one name is missing; Joe Biden……NOBODY. said Joe Biden raised rates or his profit margin by 10-20-30%… GEE – WHY not???? If YOU voted for Trump “because Biden’s at fault for high prices – you’re very badly misinformed. – because this is one more TRUMP. BIG. LIE. – because facts supplied above. are a very small “drop-in-the-bucket” of the vast MOUNTAIN of other facts soundly disproving this. TRUMP. BIG. LIE. – which. GREEDY corporations and Wall Street are more than happy to see YOU accept.
Trump and “Project 2025” – Finish Creating the “American” Plutocratic Theocracy
“This is a real plan, by people who have been in government, for how to systematically take over, take away rights and freedoms, and dismantle the government in service to private industry..”
“The Heritage plan aims to make it very hard for the government to function. And then you loudly announce that the government can’t do anything.” [“Global Warning”; Zoya Teirstein; December,2024; Mother Jones]
This discussion of “Project 2025” will end with examination of some “Project 2025” roots being in thre old Southern Confederacy, which – given the cruel arrogance of the FAR RIGHT since 1980, should not be a surprise – YOU have just exchanged one “Master” for another.
It’s appropriate to end “Project 2025” evaluation with the slave-owning Confederacy – because that is symbolic of how the arrogant FAR RIGHT sees YOU – as somebody to be exploited. Instead of the old “Fugitive Slave Law” – now we have the “Fugitive Woman Laws”; instead of Black people denied freedoms – now Americans are denied free reproductive rights; instead of Black people being “owned” by slaveholders – now YOU can be “owned” by YOUR employer; instead of Black people denied the right to read – now YOUR school children denied the right to read books that might “upset” them; instead of the exploitive top 1% slaveholders – now we have the exploitive corporations, Wall Street, etc., etc.
It is NOT an accident the modern Republican Party is based in the old Confederacy. It is NOT an accident the post-2015 Republican Party is now a cult led by THER biggest CON MAN in American history – just like the old “Master” telling YOU what the “truth” is. “Deviants” don’t get physically whipped now – but YOU get mentally tortured by getting trashed on the I-net by self-appointed trolls [ !!! or is it Russians !?!?! ]
If Trump “wins election” – YOU may see “1984” in real terms, just 40 years late. In a sense, “Project 2025” is like “Mein Kampf” – except it has over 140 authors instead of one; reflects the combined FAR RIGHT “wish list”. – which VERY SERIOUSLY – intends to take YOU back to ??? 1950, or is it 1900, or is it 1850 ??????
Now, below – SOME of “Project 2025’s” specifics:
1]. “Project 2025 is a blueprint to End the American Dream” [Karen Dolan; l0/15/24; The Progressive Populist]: “Six ways the the right-wing playbook hurts children, families, and our communities – all to make the wealthy a little wealthier..:
A] “Millions..will lose health care..slashes Medicaid..eliminate the Affordable Care Act.rolls back {drug negotiations]…
B] “Children will be sicker, poorer, and hungrier..cuts to food assistance programs..[cognitive damage potential]..
C] “Public schools will suffer..eliminate Head Start…preschool programs..programs for students with disabilities…
D} “Millions of families will be criminalized. Mixed-status families [could be ripped apart]..
E] “Food, water, air will be poisoned..reduces or eliminates..[environmental] regulations…
F] “Only the wealthy win..main goal is yet more tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations..codify inequality..”
2] “Project 2025 will affect every part of life, even weather updates” {Dispatches; 8/15/24; The Progressive Populist]:”..the plot to gut the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including the National Weather Service…the problem with the weather service is that it5 tries to predict the weather: …that involves making people aware..we are experiencing unprecedented rising heat around the globe..something Project 2025 means to stop.”
3] “Project 2025’s Plan to Gut Medicare and Medicaid” [Sonali Kolhatkar; 8/15/24; The Progressive Populist]: “..how a group of former Trump officials would like to transform the country into a right-wing dystopia where the rich thrive and the rest of us die aspiring to be rich…justify ending social programs..[more $$$ to private health care insurers]…
4] “AFL-CIO Guide Shows How Trump Agenda Would Be ‘Catastrophic’ For Workers” [Brett Wilkins; 8/15/24; The Progressive Populist]: “..highlights include: -Banning unions for public service workers [pg.82]; -Firing civil service workers and replacing them with Trump anti-union loyalists [80]; -Letting bosses eliminate unions mid-contract [603]; -Letting companies stop paying overtime [592] and allowing states to opt out of federal overtime and minimum wage laws [605]; -Eliminating chld labor protections [595]; -Urging Congress to pass J.D. Vance’s bill to let employers create their own sham company-run unions [599]”
5]. “Despite Trump’s Denials, he and Project 2025 are close” [E.J. Fagan; 7/18/24; Chicago Tribune}: “Project 2025’s numerous unpopular conservative policy positions..have come under fire. As a result, former President Donald Trump and his allies have attempted to distance themselves…The Heritage Foundation is closer to Trump than it has been to any presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan.”
6] “Destroying life and liberty..A Christian Nationalist playbook outlines a broad scheme to overthrow American democracy and install a theocracy” [Liz Hayes; June,2024; Church & State]: “Project 2025 offers a 900-page playbook for restructuring the federal government in order to accommodate the policy goals of Christian Nationalists…Many sections advocate policies that would undermine church-state separation and religious freedom”:
A] Public Education..”calls for federal funding of “education choice”..code words for {govt $$$ to ANY private school]
B] Abortion & reproductive health care..abortion NOT health care..no birth control.. “abortion surveillance” !!!!!!!…
C] LGBTQ equality – end anti-discrimination protections, return to “Denial of Care Rule”….
D] “Biblical family structures’ – return to “heterosexual, intact marriage”….
E] Foster care discrimination – support for taxpayer-funded groups to discriminate..must pass religious litmus test !!!
F] Public health policies – “..prioritize personal religious beliefs over public health and safety.”
G] Department of labor- end anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ and DEI..employers can discriminate
7] “Project 2025 will guide Trump’s dismantling of democracy” [Editorial Board; 7/18/245′ St. Louis Post-Dispatch]: The Heritage Foundation’s president recently said Project 2025 will drive “a second American revolution” one that “will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be”… some recommendations:
A] strip civil service protections for federal bureaucracy by placing them under direct presidential control
B] greatly expand military’s domestic role, include policing and law enforcement !!!
C] more draconian anti-abortion laws; Orwellian stripping of “offending phrases’ from all federal paperwork !!!
D] Dept of Justice – instead of protecting people, prosecute govts, universities, corporations offending it !!!
E] “..turn the FBI into little more than the personal police force of the president..” {King Donald I ???]
F] repeal environmental and climate programs, regulations; gut EPA & downsize agencies
8} “Legislating inequality…the Christian Confederate roots of Project 2025” [Bruce Gourley; July-August,2024; Church & State]: “Like the ideology of the Confederate States, Christian Nationalists’ Project 2025 advocates for “ordered liberty”…In the slaveocratic South, public safety and rule of law meant..forced enslavement of Black persons…”
“..billionaires rather than common folk fund Project 2025’s opposition to fair corporate taxes, effective business regulations, abortion, women’s rights, human rights, public schols, robust Social Security and welfare programs and adequately public health programs – all of which benefit working families…
“Project 2025’s authors in reality parrot ideology of 1950s and “60s Confederate apologists..’
“In addition to Confederate roots, Project 2025 also reconstructs the U.S. Constitution. In the name of their superior “religious liberty” document authors contort the Establishment Clause..” [thus following in the footsteps of the CORRUPT Roberts “court” of right-wing Christian Nationalists political hacks, who contorted the First Amendment]
“The end goal of Project 2025 is religious privilege and power…a theocratic future of religious-based, white male-dominated ordered liberty and structural inequality within which God’s self-perceived chosen people rule over all others.” [hey – correct me – but doesn’t this sound like the “fictional”. “The Handmaid’s Tale”. being brought to life??? What next – the 1692 Salem Witch Trials – with the prosecutors, all except one, being ministerial men ???
YOU – and ONLY. YOU can prevent this dystopian plutocratic theocracy – by YOUR intelligent, rational, fact-seeking. VOTE. against. Trump and his Republican accomplices. on November 5, 2024
YOU and only YOU – can prevent “Project 2025” from occurring
Trump and Immigration – What IF America Does What He Demands?
Please consider the following in making a RATIONAL decision about Trump’s Immigration LIES:
1] “Significant immigration and border proposals introduced in 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2012, 2013, 2021, 2023 AA. FAILED, largely due to REPUBLICAN OPPOSITION… the “Gang of Eight” U.S. Senators [4Republicans, 4 Democrats]..crafted a COMPREHENSIVE proposal to fix imigration 10 years ago, only to watch it die under..REPUBLICAN leadership of House Speaker JOHN BOEHNER…
“The proposal would have provided the kind of industry-specific, thoughtful approach we needed then and still need now…The immigration bill TRUMP. KILLED. this year would have done even more.” [Sabrina Haake; ll/1/24; The Progressive Populist] ****!!!*** read, then re-read this – immigration reform is a problem ONLY. because REPUBLICANS have refused to solve it. – keeping it alive as a political strategy – is this what YOU want???
2] “Data disproves Trump talking points on migrant jobs” [Fatima Hussein; 10/13/24; Associated Press]: “..government data shows immigrant labor contributes to economic growth..a mass deportation event would cost U.S. taxpayers up to a trillion dollars and could cause the cost of living, including food an housing, to skyrocket, economists say…
“..people in the U.S. illegally are not taking native citizens’ jobs because [they are jobs] native workers are unwilling to fill, such as agriculture and food processing jobs…
“Data also shows when there are not enough workers to fill these roles, firms will automate their jobs with machines and technology investments rather than turn to native workers.”
3] “…And How It’d Ruin America” [Mother Jones; September-October, 2024]:
A]. FOOD – “Half of all farmworkers in the United States are undocumented…a 50% decrease in the farm labor supply could result in a 21% increase in..prices of hand-picked crops..
Andrew Mickelson, Idaho potato farmer: “If [immigrant workers] just disappeared overnight, the sector would be devastated..I do not think..we in this country could grow enough food.”
B]. CARE – “Some 350,000 undocumented immigrants work in health care..142,000 are child care workers, personal care aides, and home heralth aides…160,000 are..cleaners and housekeepers…
“When former President Donald Trump talks about mass deportations and enforcement, he’s talking about eradicating the type of quality of life..Americans enjoy right now.”
C]. INFRASTRUCTURE – “..1.4 million [undocumented] people are employed in construction..more than 10% of the entire labor force…Trump’s deportation scheme would grind the construction of new housing to a halt, turbocharging the affordability crisis…”The economy would collapse.”
D]. SOCIAL SECURITY – “Unauthorized workers pay $13 billion a year into the Social Security system through payroll tax deductions, even though they’re not eligible for benefits.”
4} – “Expiration Date..Are We Almost Out of [Cheap] Milk?” [Marcela Valdes; 10/20/24; New York Times Magazine]: “What Peter does know..is that without foreign-born workers, his dairy could not stay afloat. Americans are understandibly reluctant to perform dirty, dnagerous and demanding work…In a 2012 study, Watson estimated..if Idaho cut its supply of foreign-born, less-educated labor by 50%, the state’s G.D.P. would fall by $905 million. In 2024..that number would only be bigger..”
5]. “Where Trump Leads, Immigrants Crucial” [Maya Rao; 10/20/24; Minnesota Star Tribune]: “Farm owner John Rosenow credits immigrant labor with sustaining his business, estimating..at least 90% of workers on Wisconsin dairy farms are unauthorized. He turned to Mexican migrants 25 years ago..when he could no longer find American citizens to do the work.” He believes if Trump does mass deportations, “It would devastate the $45 billion dairy industry in America’s second largest milk processing state.”
6]. “You’re Fired! Trump’s Deportation Plan Would Gut Half Ag Labor Force” [Alan Guebert; 9/1/24; The Progressive Populist]: “That’s a hard truth Trump and his political allies never talk about. Deporting all, most, or even a small number of thrse laborers doesn’t mean thise now-open jobs will be filled by unemployed Americans…”
“The vast economic research..Natasha Sarin.told U.S. News, “suggests just the opposite…GDP would actually fall and inflation would rise under Trump’s plan…The key reason for the job loss is the American labor force isn’t static, it’s dynamic; jobs are interconnected across industries…”
“The Congressional Budget Office..calculated the U.S. labor force will likely grow by 5.2 million people and $7 trillion by 2033 “thanks especially to net immigration..”
***Corroboration: “Immigrant surge steers economy around a recession” [Paul Wiseman, Gisela Salomon, Christopher Rugaber; 4/14/24; Associated Press] – native-born American workers, 25-54 dropping because so many aged out/retiring – “filling the gap has been a wave of immigrants’
******Suggestion: Read. “What If Trump Actually Deports 11 Million People?” – Mother Jones, September-October, 2024
Again – the PROBLEM is this: FEAR. over FACTS. – a recurrent FAR-RIGHT practice, 1980 – 202XXX – THINK!!!
Trump as KLEPTOCRAT; Appointing Political TERMITES; and. – Much More = Unfit For Office
This post is excerpts from Pulitzer Prize winning David Cay Johnston’s “It’s Even Worse Than You Think” [2018]. If you consider yourself a patriotic American – read this book !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A] “A single factor defines Donald Trump’s presidency, making it unlike the 44..before…past presidents all shared a trait missing in the Trump presidency…their administrations were about America and its people….The Trump presidency is about Trump. Period.”
B] “Trump himself has reduced his life philosophy to a single word – revenge. “I love getting even.”……”go for the jugular, attack them in spades!”
C]. “His entire life Trump has been a con artist…Trump relies on faux news organizations…millions of Americans..believe Trump is their champion and is being railroaded by Democrats who collude with..journalists who Trump calls..”enemies of the people.”
D]. “…Trump’s mercurial nature…volatile emotions often drove his decisions. So does whatever he heard from the last person he spoke to.”
E]. “…statements showing how he reacts instinctively, often without advice or knowing basic facts..revealing how his ignorance of science and the technology of modern warfare blocks his ability to understand issues when they’re explained to him.”
F]. “Trump articulated clearly..two standards of justice..One..for those in positions of power who shared his views and took actions he liked…The other..was for everyone else.” [207-08]
G] !!!!!!! Illegal immigrants working in the U.S.A.???!???!??? “..records showed..Melania Knauss..worked illegally in the United States in 1995; …the staff at Mar-a-Lago, which for years relied on the very workers Trump wanted kept out – foreigners.” [242-44] ***as in Trump gets to play by his own rules !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
H]. “Trump lacks the emotional stability, knowledge, critical-thinking skills, and judgment to be commander in chief. Emotionally he remains the 13-year-old troublemaker his father sent..to a military academy where..brutality was common.” [253] *****!!! but he’s our champion and we trust him !!!!!!!!!!
I] “Our Constitution is not written to handle someone like Trump,” the political scientist Jason Johnson told me. “That is the greatest danger and greatest harm he is to our country.” [263]
1]. “Trump is the first president to pose numerous questions about whether he is receiving income from foreign governments, which the Framers felt was inherently corrupting.”
2]. “As president, he did not change his long history of refusing to pay contractors, fighting tax bills, and using two sets of wildly different estimates of the value of his properties.”
3}. Three lies in one tweet [pg. 41] on appointing ambassadors!!!!! *****Trump doesn’t follow rules YOU & I do****
4]. The director of the Office of Government Ethics quit, later said Trump’s conduct “risks people starting to refer to us as a kleptocracy.” [*****as in, becoming more like Russia******]
5] Pages 79-92 – how Trump conned voters into a tax plan where most benefits go to the top 1%. – and [94- ] Trump paid at a 3.5% tax rate, or, NOTHING *****how would YOU like to pay 3.5% or nothing???*******
6]. Pages 101-111 – SOME of the Trump lies on his Mexican Wall; violation of the Logan Act
7] Pages 115-142 – attacks on the EPA and science – BECAUSE. science provides REAL facts on why FAR RIGHT business practices are injuring American’s health and prosperity
8] “Stocking the Swamp” – how Trump appoints industry-friendly hacks and crooks to positions; how Wall Street “easily manipulates”. the system.
9]. Trump likes the Saudis because they “buy apartments from me..Am I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.” [158] ***might someone call this a “conflict of interest”??? ***
10]. Trump killed the proposed “Trans-Pacific Partnership” trading alliance WITHOUT China. “Trump’s protectionist instincts..his dark vision of..America run by what he called stupid leaders, included at least two other actions that helped the Chinese..” [165-66]
11] “Trump did more to help the Chinese fulfill their ambitions of becoming a 21st century superpower than anyone else.” [167} **** remember this when China & America go to war****. Trump and greedy “American” corporations gave and ARE giving the Chinese the $$$$$$$$ to build their threat to America and democracy ***********
12]. Trump imported cheap steel from China – COSTING U.S. JOBS – – and “..went to great lengths to hide where the steel came from.” [171]
13] Pages 185-203 – Trump’s destructive education policies – huge budget cuts damage U.S. future – contradict Trump’s “America First” and “Make America Great Again” propaganda slogans !!!!!!!!!!
14] Trump cuts budgets for VETERANS !!! – on mental health, homelessness, disability, unemployment, government hiring freeze – in spite of promises !!! [221-227]. ***hey, gotta pay for the top 1% tax cut somehow !!!!!!!
15]. Trump allows 75,000 people “so mentally ill they’re not allowed control over their finances could easily buy guns.” [232] [just following the CORRUPT Roberts “court’s “thinking” ]
16] “…I relied on public records to illuminate Trump’s conduct, including a major drug trafficker for whom he risked his casino licenses for reasons that..have never been properly explained..” [266]. [ and – consider, “some people are saying” – why didn’t Trump loose those licenses – when others probably would have ….where is THIS going ????? !!!!!]
********. Again – this posting is only a small part of the very large. MOUNTAIN. of DOCUMENTED. evidence why one Donald J. Trump should NEVER be allowed in ANY. public office. – shame on US. if we “vote” him another chance.
Trump – ‘UNFIT FOR OFFICE’ – the Psychiatric Case
This post includes excerpts from “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump…37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President”. If you are a patriotic American, wanting crucial info on the 2024 election – this is a MUST read- **** the following are but a SMALL sample of evidence against a second Trump presidency. What is being discovered is this: there is NO way Trump should be allowed to be president again – he is mentally unfit for the job – here’s why:
A] “..Gilligan told Dr. Lee’s town hall attendees, “I don’t say Trump is Hitler or Mussolini, but he’s no more normal than Hitler.” [74]
B} “Donald Trump’s speech and behavior show..he has severe sociopathic traits. The significance of this cannot be overstated.”…no other presidents “have shown sociopathic qualities to the degree seen in Mr. Trump. Correspondingly, none have been so definitively and so obviously dangerous.” [85-86]
C] Clinical psychologist John Gartner: “I will argue..Trump can be both evil and crazy, and that unless we see how these two components work together, we will never truly understand him. Nor will we recognize how much danger we are in…When you combine narcissism, antisocial traits, and paranoia, you get a leader who feels omnipotent, omniscient, and entitled to total power; and who rages at being persecuted by imaginary enemies..all who are not part of the in-group or who fail to kiss the leader’s ring are enemies who must be destroyed.” [92]
D]. “..one more factor:..possibility of neurological disorder…comparing video interviews to Trump from the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s to current video, we find..differences [significant reduction in the use of essential words; an increase in the use of adjectives such as very, huge, and tremendous; and incomplete, run-on sentences that don’t make sense and that could indicate a loss of train of thought or memory} are conspicuously apparent.” [41]
1]. “Trump is a “mirror-hungry” leader..a narcissist whose private feelings of inadequacy must be quenched by..constant adulation of his followers, hence nonstop rallies..filled with chants of hatred, threats of violence..constant references to Trump’s serial lies and fantasy world.” [xx]
2]. “Trump is not Adolf Hitler, but he shares many of Hitler’s disorders, addiction to lies, and appeal to wounded followers through dehumanization of target groups.” [xx]
3] “The dangers stoked by Trump and his toxic triangle of conditions go beyond war. Trump is stoking mass violence..denying any role of his own toxic hate-filled speech..another sign of Trump’s pathology, an utter inability to face..consequences of his own actions.” [xxii]
4]. “The election of Donald Trump is a warning sign for American society..decades-long trends toward economic inequality, environmental destruction..hollowing out of the content of U.S. democracy..are gaining steam. The election of Trump escalated many..processes breaking down traditional institutions in the country.” [xxvii]
5] “..malignant normality, one brought about by President Trump and his administration…Trump’s dangerous individual psychological patterns: his creation of his own reality..inability to manage..inevitable crises..violated American institutional requirements and threatened the viability of American democracy.” [xiviii]
6]. “It doesn’t take a psychiatrist to notice our president [2017-19] is mentally compromised…A man can be both evil and mentally compromised – which is a more frightening proposition. Power not only corrupts but..magnifies existing psychopathologies, even creates new ones.” [iviii-lix]
7]. “Unbridled and Extreme Present Hedonism…How the Leader of the Free World Has Proven Time and Time Again He is Unfit for Duty”. [pages 21-45]: dehumanization, lying, misogyny, paranoia, racism, self-aggrandizement, the narcissistic personality [“I alone can fix it”], the bully personality [“I hope Corrupt Hillary Clinton chooses Goofy Elizabeth Warren as her running mate”], the Trump effect [“I’m gonna bomb the shit out of them”] “
8]. “I Wrote The Art of the Deal with Donald Trump”. [Tony Schwartz]: Trump’s self-worth is forever at risk…..compelled to go to war with the world…..a zero-sum choice for him: You either dominated or you submitted…..His development essentially ended in early childhood…..The life he lived was all transactional…..facts are whatever Trump deems them to be on any given day…..in 1985, the image I had of Trump was that of a black hole….. [64-69]
9] “Trump’s Trust Deficit is the Core Problem” [Gail Sheehy]: “..the biggest concern is that Donald Trump trusts no one…..As president, Trump is systematically shredding trust in the institutions he now commands….. {he} borrowed a phrase from Lenin and Stalin to brand the American media as an ‘enemy of the people’…..Trump operates on..assumption..everyone is out to get him…..giving his subordinates the license to lie…..”manages the situation so it’s never possible for his advisors to know where they stand..the opposite of what you want in a high-functioning organization”…..in..his first 100 days, Trump appeared..increasingly out of touch with the reality in which the majority of us live..” [70-76]
**** Please read, study, think. more – this site posted material on 10/24/24 – more is coming, more appears almost every day – either in warnings about Trump, or, more unhinged speeches and announcements by Trump. Ask yourself – why are groups of former Trump administration workers, 700 – YES !!! seven hundred – former national security people warning against Trump, why are dozens of Nobel Prize winners warning about Trump ????? , and – on and on…. NO OTHER American president or presidential candidate has EVER been discussed concerning their “sociopathic traits” Ask yourself: why do the Russians want Trump to win ???????
PLEASE. – think. VERY. carefully before you vote. Thank you.
Trump as CANCER, as “Unhinged,” as Mentally Unstable, as “Unift For Office, – and MORE
This post, and following, will provide “insider” insights as to the 110%, often DOCUMENTED, case; Donald J. Trump is a threat to American democracy, American society, EVERYTHING America has stood for….
1] information from Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston’s “It’s Even Worse Than You Think” is coming, including [pg. 258]: Trump fails tests of “U.S. Army Field Manual” for leadership: “emotionally he remains the 13-year-old troublemaker his father sent..to a military academy..”; “Even by standards of the incurious George W. Bush, Trump is appallingly ignorant.” [253]
2] information from “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump…37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President” is forthcoming, including [pg. XX]: “Donald Trump is a profound danger to Americans and to the rest of the world. He will remain a profound danger until he is no longer president, since the dangers clearly result from Trump’s serious mental impairments that are untreated and are most likely impervious to treatment.”
3] information from “Unhinged..An Insider’s Account of the Trump white House,” including “Trump’s greatest character flaw is his total lack of empathy, which is itself a function of his extreme narcissism. Trump constructs his own reality to make himself look good.” [287] This author won a $1.3 million court-ordered award from Trump campaign.
4] “111 former GOP officials call Trump “unfit ti serve” [9/19/24; P.Baker; New York Times]: this group “..included former officials who served under Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, or George W. Bush.”
5]. “Security leaders endorse Harris”. [9/23/24] [Maggie Astor; 9/23/24; New York Times]: “More than 700 current and former national security and military leaders..arguing that only [Harris] had the temperament and values needed to serve as commander in chief..They argued..former President Donald Trump posed a threat to both national security and the nation’s democracy.”
6]. “The Tempest…A Memoir by a onetime presidential advisor shows how Donald Trump’s insecurities and weaknesses harmed U.S. foreign policy” [Nicholas Niarchos; 9/29/24; New York Times Book Review]: “In tale after tale, McMaster shows how the former president alwed his own prejudices and the petty rivalries within his administration to undermine his policy goals..Time and again, Trump can’t seem to focus on briefings and responds to serious problems with inane suggestions.”
7] “Trump is ‘fascist to the core,” Milley says [10/13/24; Ruby Cramer; Washington Post]: “Retired Gen, Mark A. Milley warned that former President Donald Trump is a “fascist to the core” and “the most dangerous person in this country” in Bob Woodward’s new book, “War.”
8] Bob Woodward, in “War”: “Trump was the most reckless and impulsive president in American history and is demonstrating the very same character as a presidential candidate in 2024.”
9]. “The Trump Testimonials: The Case Against Him, From His Own People” [New York Times editorial board; 10/6/24]: “Scores of people who know him well, including the 91 listed here, have raised alarms about his character and fitness for office..Some have even spoken out at the expense of their own careers or political interests.”
A] Bill Barr, former attorney general: “He will always put his own interests and gratifying his own ego ahead of everything else, including the country’s interest. There’s no question about it.”
B]. Betsy De Vos, education secretary: “It was unclear to me if the president was actually in the mental place to continue to serve as the commander in chief..His behavior had grown increasingly erratic and unnerving.”
C]. John Bolton, national security advisor: “His short attention span {except on matters of personal advantage} renders coherent foreign policy almost unattainable.”
D]. Cassidy Hutchinson, Mark Meadows aide: “Trump’s temperament wasn’t rational..”
e]. Dan Coats, ex-senator, director of national intelligence: “To him, a lie is not a lie. It’s just what he thinks. He doesn’t know the difference between the truth and a lie.”
F]. Rex Tillerson, secretary of state: “His understanding of global events..of global history..of U.S. history was really limited.”
G] Michael Cohen, Trump’s attorney, fixer, confidant, 2006-2018: “I bore witness to the real man..in the unguarded moments when he revealed who he really was: a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man.”
H] Maryanne Trump Barry, elder sister and former federal judge: “You can’t trust him.
I] Mike Pence, vice president: “I belive anyne that puts themselves over the Constitution should never be president of the United states..”
J] J.Michael Luttig, retired federal judge: “The former president sought to overturn an American election which he lost fair and square..these claims by the former president and his Republican allies havw corroded and corrupted American democracy and American elections.”
K]. John Kelly, homeland security secretary and Trump’s chief of staff: “A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution and the rule of law.”
L] George Will, conservative political analyst and columnist: “Trump is what he is, a floundering, inarticulate jumble of gnawing insecurities and. not at all compensating vanities, which is pathetic.”
10]. Past J.D. Vance Donald Trump quotes: “Trump is an idiot!..noxious..reprehensible!’; “He’s cultural heroin!”; “He might be America’s Hitler!’; “..unfit for our nation’s highest office!” [Rick McKee; 7/17/24; Cagle Cartoons]
11] “Johnson said Trump unfit to sere in ’15”. [Anne Karni, Steve Eder; ll/l1/23; New York Times]: current House Speaker Mike Johnson: “The thing about Donald Trump is that he lacks the character and the moral center we desperately need again in the White House. – HIS 8/7/15 post.
12] “What 17 of Trump’s ‘Best People”. Said About Him” [Sarah Longwell; 1/21/24; New York Times]: “In the history of presidential cabinets, former President Donald Trump’s stands out for two qualities: turnover and dissension..These appointees didn’t start out opposed to Mr. Trump..But many of them quickly became alarmed by Mr. Trump’s personality, temperament, and policy aims.”
A]. H.R. McMaster: “President Trump and other officials have repeatedly compromised our principles in pursuit of partisan advantage and personal gain.” [national security advisor]
B] Mark Esper, secretary of defense: “I have a lot of concerns about Donald Trump. I have said that he’s a threat to democracy.”
C] John Bolton, national security advisor: “By the time I left the White House, I was convinced he was not fit to be president…I think it is a danger for the United States if he gets a second term.”
D]. James Mattis, secretary of defense: “Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people – does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of thus deliberate effort.”
13] “Trump is increasingly hostile to fact-checking”. [Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey; 10/15/24; Washington Post]: “..Trump and his campaign have waged an aggressive campaign against fact-checking..pushing TV networks, journalism organizations and others to abandon the practice if they he to interact with Trump..the latest example of Trump’s long-held resistance to being called to account for his lies..the bedrock of his political message…The Washington Post Fact Checker team tallied..by the end of Trump’s presidency, he had made 30,573 false or misleading claims – an average of about 21..a day.”
14]. THEN !!!!! – consider the wisdom of this: “World’s oldest person dies at age 117”. [Adela Suliman; 8/22/24; Washington Post]: “She celebrated her 117th birthday earlier this year and credited. “staying away from toxic people”. among the reasons she lived so long.”
***** “staying away from toxic people” !!!!!!!!! with good fortune and people’s good reasoning
at the polls – let us ALL pray America is able to stay away from. THE. most toxic person on
November 5, 2024. – one. Donald J. Trump
15] **** Please remember: the greatest mass murderers; Mao, Stalin, Hitler – DID. NOT. kill 6. or 10 or 20 or. 30. million people themselves. – they had help: enablers, advocates, followers who did the actual dirty work. – if one D.J. Trump wins another term – he will. NOT. be surrounded by the many good, patriotic Americans that thwarted his autocratic tendencies – those people have been systematically removed from consideration. – want proof???? Read. “Project 2025”. – a “conservative”. blueprint for Trump to pursue. the remaining FAR. RIGHT. WISH. LIST. “
With Justice For All 
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