***. Adam Smith: Progress depends on society being “well governed.” The optimal locus of the “government” is individual ethics. An ethical person is just; plays by the rules; makes others feel secure. But in a society of less than angels, society requires an efficient, effective institutional government to police the behavior of those few who would not otherwise play by the rules. [ Ryan Patrick Hanley, editor: “Adam Smith” ]
This post presents excerpts from “When Future Historians Write About the Fall of American Economic Power, Will Trump Be the Turning Point?” [ Thom Hartmann; The Progressive Populist; March, 2026 ]:
8] “..twice in the past 12 months the value of the dollar has taken a huge hit, in both cases because the world freaked out at Trump’s insanity and started to sell dollars.”
9] “..he went to Davos and blithered through a semi-coherent speech that left international leaders wondering about his sanity, his judgment, and his reliability…the judgment and reliability of the United States itself. Trump’s own economic illiteracy and impulse-driven policies…have damaged the value of our currency and may have put the status of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency at risk.”
***. “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
[ Dr. Martin Luther king, Jr. ]
2]. “For more than a hundred years, the United States has been the cornerstone of international economic stability. The independence of our central bank [the “Fed”] has been a part of it, as has the strength of the dollar…And now Trump and the GOP are threatening it all. Trump has added $2 trillion to our national debt in the past 12 months, and he’s on course to do it again [or worse] this year.”
11] “The big impact..could come if international investors and other countries conclude it’s unlikely that the US will be able to repay our debts. Ever since the Bush Crash of 2008 revealed how deregulation had corrupted our banking system, foreign investors holdings of US debt have steadily declined.”
*** “The American people are a very generous people ans will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.” [ Will Rogers ]
1] “America’s economic system has never been fair or perfect, but for more than a century it rested on basic guardrails that kept instability in check and allowed us to fight for progress and win. Those guardrails are now being stripped away by policies that favor wealth and power over accountability and long-term stability.”
*** “Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.” [ Jorge L. Borges ]
3] “When Ronald Reagan came into office in 1981, our national debt was less than one trillion dollars, because every president from FDR to Truman to Eisenhower to Kennedy to Johnson to Nixon to Ford to Carter had worked to pay down the roughly 140% of GDP debt we ran up fighting World War II.”
4] “Across those same presidencies, America had also built a broad and strong safety net for its citizens, primarily through the New Deal and Great Society programs. And Republicans hated it all, particularly because it’d been paid for with a 74% to 91% income tax on billionaires and a 50% income tax on corporate profits.”
5] “..over the course of the Reagan, Bush, and Trump tax cuts and two illegal wars, four Republican presidents managed to add more than $37 trillion to our national debt.”
***. “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 the people in my position to pay significantly higher taxes.” [ Bill Gates ]
6] “The grimmest consequence of this is that we’re spending. $1.2 trillion every year on interest payments on our national debt. That’s money that could otherwise have gone to create a national healthcare system, provide free college education, or help people buy their first homes. but, instead, is going to payments to wealthy investors here and abroad who hold US Treasuries.”
7] “Up until recently, we were able to pull this off because the US Dollar has been the world’s reserve currency for the better part of a century….here’s a huge worldwide demand for our currency….that, in turn, is essentially a subsidy for Americans of all stripes: lower mortgage rates, lower car loan rates, easier credit, and US-based companies can more easily finance growth and new product development.”
***. “No society can..be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of..members are poor and miserable..It is but equity..that they who feed, clothe, and lodge the whole body of the people, should have..and share of the produce of their own labor as to themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged.” [ Adam Smith ]
10. “As the dollar drops in value, that’s ultimately reflected in everything imported becoming more expensive [which drives inflation],..”
12]. “Trump’s willy-nilly tariffs, often used to extort other nations into giving his family a new hotel or golf course, his constant lies on the international stage about everything from renewable energy to our “right” to invade a foreign country and capture its leader, to his killing fishermen off the coast of Venezuela and his current threats against Iran, all argue against trusting us.”
13]. “Trump’s already destroyed our soft power by gutting USAID, ruined our relationships with our allies by embracing Vladimir Putin and trash-talking NATO and the EU, and now is shaking confidence in our remaining democratic allies by imposing police-state tactics on Blue cities.”
***. “Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all…The nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affections, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.”
[ George Washington ]
14] “The BRICS. [Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa] countries are on the move, with Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, and the UAE having recently joined in an agreement to use their alternative currencies instead of dollars.”
15]. “India and the UAE are now trading in rupees and the dirham, and China is using yuan to buy natural gas from the UAE. China has almost entirely abandoned trhe dollar for their trade with Russia, the UAE, and Iran. Like South Africa, Brazil has increasingly been using the real and the yuan to settle bilateral trade with China, bypassing the US dollar.”
*** “Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.” [George Marshall; U.S. Secretary of State, on the Marshall Plan]
{NOTE: On this critique of Trump’s economic policies – AGAIN, to be fair – ask YOURSELF does his policy satisfy the Founders” TEST: does it ‘..promote the general Welfare..”????? Will America be better off from Trump’s rhetoric and actions????? Do Trump policies contain the wisdom of the “Marshall plan”??? The wisdom of several presidents before him in reducing the national debt????? Are YOU and YOUR children and YOUR grandchildren going to be better off because of Trump policies????? Expert, world-wide, fact-based economic analysis says YOU, America, will NOT be more prosperous and fair because of Trump’s STUPIDITY and INCOMPETENCE.]
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The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CLI. – “The Real Epstein Cover-Up”
***. “In 2016, Trump with his outsized ego, his anti-immigrant and anti-trade positions, coupled with barely disguised racism and deep-seated sexism and a willingness to lie whenever it suited him, was a near-perfect fit.: [Bob Beckel]
This post presents excerpts from “The Real Epstein Cover-Up”. [ Rachel Louise Snyder; New York Times; 11/23/25] and “The Victims Who fought Back”. [Pamela Collofff; New York Times Magazine; 3/1/26]:
A]. “The Real Epstein Cover-Up”
6] “The misogyny that is such a casual part of Mr. Trump’s entire modus operandi gives license to systems that prioritize men’s freedoms over women’s lives.”
13] “..we are entitled to demand a life free from the violence of men. We are entitled to demand more from our leaders, to demand an open investigation into the Epstein files, to demand accountability for the perpetrators regardless of political party or cultural cachet, to demand justice for children and women trafficked by Mr. Epstein, and perhaps more than anything, to demand real change in which a broken system is compelled to reinvention.”***
*** “When societies go backwards and slide into authoritarianism, nationalism, and tribalism, machismo and sexism are also emboldened.” [ Elif Safak ]
1] “But the ..[Epstein]..emails are just a piece of the larger story: the lengths this country and the systems we’ve created – from the smallest jurisdiction to the national stage – will go to maintain the power of men at the expense of women’s bodies.”
2] “..#MeToo movement, when it seemed possible to reform the male-dominated systems that kept women down. The movement led to a handful of convicted men, but also fed a colossal backlash that reminds us how our country has never adequately protected women…contributed to the second election of Mr. Trump, who has overseen an era that might be unique in its willingness to sacrifice democratic institutions and American norms to control women.”
3] “…there is a White House proposal that aims to lower the Office on Violence Against Women’s stature within the D.O.J. and cut its shoestring budget by nearly 30 percent. This would devastate shelters, advocacy programs and violence prevention measures, and escalate the danger for victims of intimate partner and familial violence in all corners of the country.”
***. “The basic premise of math is about efficiency. And when you’ve got racism, sexism, and bigotry, that’s just standing in the way of efficiency in our own progress.” [ Glen Powell ]
4]. ‘..a report on violent deaths of girls and women from 2014 to 2020 noted that laws constraining abortion providers were associated with a 3.4 percent rise in the rate of homicides related to intimate partner violence. We are being killed for our own lack of choice.”
5]. “An estimated one in 20 women in the United States gets pregnant from rape or sexual coercion…a whopping six million women with violence-initiated pregnancies.”
7] “One night in 2012..Latina Ray, and her boyfriend, Lawrence McQueen, got into a fight. She told me that he had hit her many times…On this night, ms. Ray said, mr. McQueen used the handle on a gun to assault her…he beat her so badly that he broke a bone in her face, blinding her in one eye. They wrestled over the gun and she managed to get hold of it and shoot, killing him…Our defense laws say that if you are about to be killed or suffer grievous bodily harm, you are entitled to defend yourself. not Latina Ray. She was entitled to take her beating and be quiet about it.”
***. “The misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. it is life out of balance and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and every woman who confront it.” [Jess Whedon]
8] “The same violence perpetrated on these real-life women is increasingly replicated across online platforms. Sora 2, the generative video tool released by OpenAI, is helping creators on TikTok and X create fake choking videos featuring teenage girls in which they are depicted as struggling, crying and falling.”
***. “I believe sexism in tech is a real problem.” [ Sam Altman ]
9] “Victims in deep fake technology are overwhelmingly women, and a 2019 study found that a shocking 96 percent of deepfake videos were were pornographic and nonconsensual.”
10] “Given that men dominate in technology companies, and as policymakers, judges, police officers and even players on gaming platforms, perhaps we ought to expect this, we women. Perhaps we ought to take out lumps and be quiet about it. Is this what we get for wanting a life beyond diapers and dinner?”
***. “Whether it’s repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common. – they exist to keep women ‘in their place, to make sure that we’re acting ‘appropriately,’ whatever that means.” [ Jessica Valenti ]
11]. “..Helen Andrews, a recent guest on Ross Douthat’s “Interesting Times” podcast, wrote an essay in Compact magazine that claimed feminization of workplaces led to the rise of cancel culture and wokeness. That development, she said, signaled the downfall of many institutions, including our system of law….She writes this knowing, i assume, that the United states still has no federal law against marital rape, so if women are somehow running our legal system with all our messy emotion, we’ve been pretty slow to act.”
12] “Ms. Andrews ignored an inconvenient fact: Women may be attending law school in higher numbers, but their careers often stall in their 30s and early 40s, their childbearing years.”
***. “When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch.” [ Bette Davis ]
B]. “The Victims Who fought Back…An Oklahoma law was supposed to help free women convicted of killing their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?” [ Pamela Colloff; New York Times Magazine; 3/1/26 ]
1]. THis article is full of stories like this: “..Moss described a pattern of abuse that began six months after their wedding, when her husband grabbed her by the throat and threw her against the fireplace…How she was knocked unconscious…How he repeatedly punched her in the stomach when she was pregnant…How he raped her multiple times, once with a curling iron…”I bled every day for five years until i finally had a hysterectomy.”
2]. THis article is. full of stories about brutalized women NOT being set free despite the law.
3] One explanation: “I grew up in the deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well.” [ Pauley Perrette ]
4] Another explanation – read the rticle, see if YOU. can see certain predispositions among the local prosecutors. – they just can’t accept the law.
***. “As women gain rights, families flourish and so do societies. That connection is built on a simple truth: wherever you include a group that’s been excluded, you benefit everyone. And when you’re working globally to include women and girls, who are half the population, you’re working to benefit all members of every community. Gender equality lifts everyone, women’s rights and society’s health and wealth rise together.” [ Melinda Gates ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CL. – “A Blank Check For Brutality”
*** “Men with power have an extraordinary capacity to convince themselves that what they do conincides with what society needs done for its [own] good.” Raymond Vernon ]
This post presents excerpts from “Return of The Big Stick…..Hoe Donald Trump’s Embrace of ‘Realism’ is Becoming a Blank Check for Brutality”. [ Linda Kinstler; New York Times Magazine; 1/25/26 ]:
10] “..for Trump, the threats posed at home and abroad are seemingly the same, and so is his response. Armed government agents have arrested and killed U.S. citizens as part of Trump’s immigration policies; the federal government has strong-armed universities into accepting its agenda by withholding research funding; the Federal Communications Commission uses mergers as leverage to influence media coverage.”
11] “The second Trump administration may very well mark the start of a violent global age of Machtpolitik. “Trump is different than all of his predecessors because of his contempt for international law and international institutions,” Mearsheimer said …past presidents…correctly understood that those laws and institutions were in America’s interest..”
9] “For Porter, it is not realism that defines the Trump era but rather its “corrupt cousin,” Machtpolitik, which pursues power for its own sake and is defined by a “sort of violent exhilaration of destruction, nihilism and vengeance.” Trump’s penchant for theatrics and bombast, his obsession with status and his use of power to enrich himself and his family – all these are characteristic elements of his darker ideology….”By losing all restraints, you destroy yourself, Porter said.”
*** “Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.” [ Frank Herbert ]
1] “President Trump’s aide Stephen Miller blithely articulated the outlook that has taken hold of the White House. “We live in a world, in the real world, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” Miller said. “These are iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”
2] “That National Security Strategy, released in early December, gave a name to one of the organizing principles supposedly governing the administration’s foreign. policy: ‘flexible realism.”
3] “The realist school of foreign policy is rooted in the belief that the world is fundamentally ungovernable and that politics comes down to power.”
***. “Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of our own choosing.” [ George Orwell: “1984” ]
4]. “While the varied strains of realism are plentiful and sometimes contradictory, the Trump administration is channeling one of the crudest forms….By invoking realism to justify their actions abroad, Trump and his associates are treating it as an alibi for a distinctly American imperialism, a pretext for belligerence.”
5] “There are iron laws of world politics that they don’t understand,” said Stephen Walt, a professor of international affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. “Realism is all about realizing that in a competitive world, you want to be smart and go for genuine strategic advantage, not just pointless displays of power.”
6] “Critically. 20th-century realists accepted that all power is necessarily bound by constraint, hemmed in by the limitations of geography, politics and human nature. To lose sight of this is to risk slipping into much darker territory.”
*** “My power depends on my glory, and my glory on my victory. My power would fall apart were I not to support it with new glory and new victories. Conquest has made me what I am, and conquest alone can maintain me.” [Napoleon]
7]. “For Walt and other realist thinkers, Trump’s aggressive and chaotic actions on the world stage – his antagonism of U.S. allies, threats of territorial conquest and assertions that the U.S. is not afraid of putting “boots on the ground”. – undermine any claim he could make to practicing a realist foreign policy.”
8] “The incoherence of Trump’s foreign policy is explicitly memorialized in the National Security Strategy.” [Which is criticized in point #9 above]
12]. “Trump and his deputies have revealed how profoundly they disdain the norms of global governance and demonstrated their willingness to use force to get what they want. On Jan. 9, the president signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from dozens of international organizations.”
*** “In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery.” [ Woodrow Wilson; 28th U.S. President ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CXXXXIX. – Weaponizing Government to Control Speech
***. “The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.” [ Adolf Hitler ]
This post provides excerpts from. “Screen Shot….Under Trump, the F.C.C. has used obscure regulatory powers to crack down on network TV. Some conservatives are pushing back” [ Jim Rutenberg; New York Times; 1/25/26]:
9] “The template was now set for Carr to give Trump what he had always wanted – muscle behind his previously hollow threats to punish the networks.”
13] “Cruz’s legislation could only protect the First Amendment privileges of those outside the government at the expense of those within. – an especially meaningful concern in a country where elected officials, at least in theory, speak for the people. An attack on their platform, no less than an attack on platforms like Facebook or X, could also be seen as an attack on a cornerstone of democracy.”
15] ‘…the Reagan and Bush F.C.C. commissioners, Fowler and Sikes, along with several other former F.C.C. commissioners, all represented by a group of public-interest lawyers including Schwartzman, submitted a petition to the F.C.C. calling for a end of the “news distortion” policy that Carr had used against C.B.S….The petition won the endorsement of the Wall Street Journal editorial page.””
7]. “…the Fairness Doctrine, requires stations to present all sides of important civic issues – and to grant free air time to those who could convincingly argue that their side was shut out. But it was scrapped in 1987, after a long campaign by conservatives who argued that it gave the F.C.C. undue power over speech. Its elimination set the terms for the subsequent explosion of right-wing radio and the template for Fox News.” {NOTE: and the subsequent POISONING of some American’s minds by relentless RIGHT-WING lies and propaganda; and – the statistical decline in American’s standard of living; now in the Trump DICTATORSHIP era known as “the affordability crisis”. – which, of course Trump lies and says the higher costs YOU face don’t exist!!!!!!!!!!!!]
*** ‘…in early 2009, we noticed a marked increase in politically motivated misinformation coming from Fox News…Following the 2010 election, the University of Maryland released a study finding that Fox News viewers were the most misinformed audience on any major news network…Fox..is something unprecedented in the United States: a news business that is willing to put politics above all else.” [David Brock, Ari Rabin-Havt, Media Matters: “The Fox Effect”]
1]. “..it was hard to ignore the fact that Trump’s entire second term seemed to be a grand exercise in coercive government, and in particular that the government effort to suppress free speech drew largely on the power of the government itself to speak freely.”
2] “The administration attacked network television with particular intensity.”
3] “Here was the crux of the matter. Cruz was talking about “jawboning,” a still evolving legal term. But the line between the bully pulpit and flat-out bullying was still being drawn. “Government officials threatening adverse consequences for disfavored content is an unconstitutional coercion that chills protected speech,” Cruz said.”
*** “The Republican Party is held aloft by a large, powerful and ever-growing industry of deceit. The purpose of much of conservative media is to lie to their audience.” [Stuart Stevens: “It Was All A Lie” For 25 years, Stevens was a major Republican strategist and media consultant]
4]. “In July, Suhr sent Carr a letter arguing that “the late-night shows are relentlessly left-wing” …in September, just days before the Kimmel incident, Suhr filed another formal complaint, arguing that the late-night host targeted the G.O.P. ticket consistently, which amounted to “a massive abuse of the airwaves.”
5]. “Bias, Suhr’s firm had argued, violated a long-standing. but seldom-used public-interest standard. It was a shaky legal interpretation, but it offered the F.C.C. a weapon in a much larger war to use its power to crack down on the networks, control what they broadcast and begin a new era of conservative mass media.” [NOTE: Big Brother, Joseph Goebbels, Stalin, Putin – would all love this!!!!!]
6]. “Trump, who spent more than a decade as the star of NBC’s “The Apprentice,” registers every televised knock on him as a serious political hit. Since his earliest days running for president, he has demanded that the F.C.C. punish the networks for any perceived mistreatment by stripping them of their licenses.”
***. “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.” [ Hannah Arendt ]
8]. “Suhr told me he saw an opening to use the old F.C.C. rules to not only punish the networks for bias, but also …getting conservative content on the air.” [ Big Brother approves!!!]
10]. “Carr was clear about how he saw the stakes. “President Trump is fundamentally reshaping the media landscape,” he said shortly after.” [ Putin approves!!!]
11]. “Mark Fowler served as Ronald Reagan’s F.C.C. chair…led the charge to dismantle the Fairness Doctrine. Now 84 and a Trump supporter, he told me he was shocked nevertheless by the final terms the Paramount deal and the actions of the F.C.C.. he said it never occurred to him that the government would use what remained of the public-interest rules to compel broadcasters to alter their content.”
*** “When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about the big issues.” [ Thomas L. Friedman ]
12]. “Cantwell had gotten to a central challenge of any legislation against jawboning, which is that it, too, was a form of speech.”
14]. “Still, no matter how carefully written, the law could expose public officials to all kinds of lawsuits, some malicious, some justified, but all of them chilling, for better or worse.”
16]. “Suhr echoed Carr’s comments about the conservative turn from free-market orthodoxy….To him it came down to results.” [ Big Brother agrees!!!!]
*** “The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as the people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned. The American fascist[s].. method is to poison the channels of public information. With the fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.” [ Henry Wallace; 33rd U.S. Vice President ]
NOTE: We have now given YOU 149 posts about the monumental antidemocratic, corrupt, cruel, stupid Trump DICTATORSHIP. Please think. Please ask questions. And – refer to the Constitution’s Preamble – a statement of WHY, “We the People”. formed a new American government: “Justice..Tranquility”. – and the four magic words: ” promote the general Welfare..”
We criticize the Trump DICTATORSHIP because it FAILS to achieve those three very simple goals. WHEN, if ever, has the Trump DICTATORSHIP. intentionally acted to “promote the general Welfare”????????????
*** “Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.”
[ Justice Thurgood Marshall ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CXXXXVIII. – Trump Builds The Corporate State
*** “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.”
[ Benito Mussolini ]
This post takes YOU back to review the “Public citizen News” of Sept./Oct., 2025. A quick read of headlines helps YOU understand HOW the Trump DICTATORSHIP has quickly built a corporate state.
a]. “Not a Border Crisis, but a “Free Trade” Crisis” [Meena Rakasi]
1]. “…how decades of corporate-led trade agreements have displaced millions of people, stripping them of their livelihoods and forcing them to migrate to survive.”
2] “U.S. manufacturing workers have long decried free trade agreements that empty out factories and create ghost towns.”
B] “Revolving Door Trump 2.0 Officials Create Fossil Fuel Playground”. [Alan Zibel]
1] “On the first day of his second term…Trump declared a “national energy emergency,” falsely blaming the Biden administration’s push for a transition to renewables for a supposed crisis….it laid the groundwork for a sweeping attack on federal agencies and states to serve fossil fuel interests.”
***. “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 ]
C] “Litigating for Democracy: Public Citizen’s Fight Against Trump’s Power Grab”. [editorial]
1] ‘..the Trump administration is unilaterally and unconstitutionally dismantling the federal government..”
2]. ‘That data base went dark after Russell Vought – one of the primary architects of the infamous Project 2025 manifesto – took charge of the Office of Management and Budget…Vought believes that Trump has virtually limitless power – including the power to ignore Congress.”
D] “How Insurance Regulators Fuel Climate Change Profiteering” [Rick morris]
1]. “Homeowners and renters across the U.S. are feeling the sting of skyrocketing insurance rates…insurance corporations are exploiting the crisis to line their pockets…most profitable year in history…record bonuses.”
2] “Regulators are supposed to stand for the public interest over corporate power. But..they’re handing the pen to the insurance industry to write the rules…This isn’t just regulatory capture – it’s regulatory surrender….”
*** “Perversely, Trump’s drain-the-swamp 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.”
[ Sarah Chayes: “On Corruption in America” ]
E] “Trump Puts Big Tech Above the Law”
1] “…Big Tech’s lavish support for Trump’s inauguration and campaign has already paid dividends in dropped federal investigations and weakened oversight.”
2]. “Many of the tech leaders represented companies under active federal investigation….has already dropped or halted a third of the tech-related federal enforcement actions inherited from the Biden administration.”
F]. “Trump Administration Aims to Shut Down Public Participation in Federal Rulemaking” {David Rosen}
1] “The Trump administration is advancing a deregulatory strategy that strikes at the heart of democratic accountability: eliminating the public’s right to weigh in on federal rules.”
2] “To advance its corrupt agenda, the Trump administration is arguing that agencies can ignore public participation requirements…when the president directs them to do so. – a position that has no basis in law.”
***. “We are on the road not just to a highly unequal society, but to a society of an oligarchy. A society of inherited wealth. When you have a few people who are so wealthy they can effectively buy the political system, the political system is going to tend to serve their interests.” [ Paul Krugman; Nobel Prize Winner; Economics ]
G] “Political Games: Trump’s Rescissions Law Threatens Lives and Democracy”. [Sara Faraj]
1] “the Trump administration is playing political games with human lives. A so-called ‘rescissions bill,” permitting the Trump administration not to spend previously appropriated money..”
2] “The rescission model threatens to undermine Congress’s constitutional power of the purse and concentrate authority in the executive. if a president can rescind funding that Congress has already enacted, no public program is truly safe.”
H] “Trump and Allies Threaten to Worsen Health Care, Putting Lives at Risk”
1] ‘..Trump has disrupted, depleted, and desecrated our nation’s already fragile health care system, putting millions of lives in jeopardy.”
2] “The report highlights the threat posed by Trump’s health officials…..Kennedy….Oz…O’neill..”
3] “The report also describes the chaos Trump and his allies unleashed in the early months of his second term..”
4]. “Trump fired several inspectors general who were ensuring that agencies are accountable to the American people..”
*** “…there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a 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; Republican; 26th U.S. President ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CXXXXVII. – A Blueprint For How To KILL DEMOCRACY
*** “Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.” [ Max Lerner ]
This post presents excerpts from. “Twelve Steps to National Collapse: A Blueprint for How Democracies Die” [Thom Hartmann; The Progressive Populist; November, 2025 ]:
Historian Kevin Kruse: “We’ve had f**kups in the White House before, but never a president who seemed so deliberately intent on being a f**kup. It’s been said before, but if these people were actual agents of an enemy power seeking to divide, dismantle and destroy the USA, they wouldn’t be ding anything different.” [NOTE: think about “The Manchurian Candidate.” With his love for Putin, is Trump the REAL “Manchurian Candidate”?????]
From the “Dictator’s Playbook,” the simple 12-step formula:
1] “The first step would be to turn Americans from E Pluribus Unum…into hate-filled warring factions. Turn us against each other. Divide us by race, religion, gender, region, education, income,…cities or rural areas.”
2]. “Next, we’d want to immiserate as many Americans as possible, creating a huge pool of mostly white men who are pissed off because they’ve been left behind economically and feel locked out of the American Dream…Destroy unions…Gut programs…Shift manufacturing overseas…Build media operations that demonize ‘the other”…Ban books…Spread hate and conspiracy theories…”
3] “Third, we’d want to destroy people’s faith in straightforward news…”left-wing bias”…”enemies of the people”…attack the media relentlessly.”
4] “Fourth, shatter people’s faith in reality itself. Challenge science and expertise. Flood the zone with conspiracy theories…”….Attack vaccinations and measures to slow climate change. “Sow confusion until they no longer know who to believe, and then offer yourself as the only source of truth.”
5] “Fifth, deconstruct international alliances that go back centuries by alienating traditional friends and embracing openly hostile foes while tearing up norms of defense, trade, and commerce.”
6]. “Sixth, fracture citizen’s faith in their elected officials and the government itself.” Legalize the rich and corporations buying legislation “by claiming that “money is speech” and “corporations are persons.” Define opposition political parties as “radical,” ‘dangerous,” and “outside the mainstream.”
7] Seventh, turn the military and police forces..against its own people. making them terrified of challenging armed, masked men..” Vilify ..”minorities like immigrants and, when they’re “under control,” turn those forces against anybody who dissents from the new single-party rule.”
8]. “Demolish faith in the nation’s currency by seizing political control of the central bank while villinizing its leadership.”
9]. “Ninth, run scams to accumulate as much wealth as possible in the hands of Dear Leader and his close cronies while refusing to raise the minimum wage so as to keep people in poverty.”
10] “Tenth, use the power of government to force institutions. – corporations, universities, law firms. – into complete submission and even explicit collaboration in the enshitification of the nation.”
11] “Eleventh, seize control of the legislative and judicial branches so your law-breaking, election-rigging, and bribe-taking is never held to account. Openly and brazenly break laws…”
12] “Twelfth, turn the nation’s premier law enforcement agencies into tools for punishing political enemies while ignoring the crimes of friends of the regime, thus destroying faith in equality under rule of law and terrorizing anybody who speaks out.”
***. “Where law ends, tyranny begins.” [ William Pitt, the Elder ]
Thom Hartman. to YOU: “History shows that any democracy can fall into tyranny if its citizens grow cynical, give up, or look away. The question. – the only question that matters now. – is whether enough of us will choose to stand up, to act, and to reclaim what generations before us fought and bled to pass along.”
The Trump DICTATORSHIP has its “Blueprint to kill a Democracy.” it’s known as. “Project 2025.” Details have, are, being carried out. Authors are IN the Trump DICTATORSHIP..
THE. QUESTION: are YOU. willing to act, speak up, protest, vote out Trump and his Republican enablers??????
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CXXXXVI – Corrupting The “Department of Justice”
*** “Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself.” { Justice Louis Brandeis ]
“The Unraveling of the Justice Department”. [Emily Bazelon, Rachel Power; New York Times Magazine; ll/30/25. Some excerpts below from “more than 60 attorneys” who worked in the Justice Department:
20]. “I wouldn’t even call it the Justice Department anymore. It’s become Trump’s personal law firm.”
[Note: Read this again – think what this means for “the rule of law.”]
15] “Trump pardoned a series of white-collar offenders….His family was wealthy…someone who defrauded everyday folks in Ohio….they’re better off spending their money on a political donation, drawing Trump’s attention..”
8]. “The way we did investigations drastically changed….That process turned upside down. it was outcome driven.”
[Note; FACTS didn’t count – ideology and connections did]
4]. “It was inconceivable to me they’d fire people for no reason except they’d worked on cases that were now disfavored….It flipped the culture of the institution. it’s a culture now of fear. And they are losing people all the time, very good people, who were the future of the department.”
*** “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” [ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ]
1] “President Trump’s second term has brought a period of controversy…Trump and his appointees have blasted through walls designed to protect the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency from political influence; they have directed the course of criminal investigations, openly flouted ethics rules and caused a breakdown of institutional culture.” [Note; read this again, word-by-word. this IS the destruction of “the rule of law.”]
2] “..the lawyers narrated the events that most alarmed them…described being asked to drop cases for political reasons, to find evidence for flimsy investigations and to take positions in court they thought had no legitimate basis. they also talked about the work they and their colleagues were told to abandon. – investigations of terrorist plots, corruption and white-collar fraud.” [ Note; read this again! – the Trump DICTATORSHIP is deliberately sabotaging American security]
3] “On his first day in office, President Trump made ir clear that lawyers loyal to him would lead the Justice Department.” [Note: – just like in any other dictatorship]
5]. “Pam Bondi..issued a first-day flurry of 14 memos that radically redefined the department’s mission. One mandated that government attorneys “zealously defend” the president’s agenda..” [Note; thus the title of this article!!!]
*** “I don’t want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.” [Roy Cohn – check his biography!!!]
6] “What happened to PIN was an alarm blasting everywhere. that’s when I was like, “They’re just going to break every rule. They don’t care.”
7]. “The E.P.A. found in 2021 that the new standard would save thousands of lives and that the health benefits would outweigh the cost of compliance. The Trump administration put the litigation on hold in preparation for rolling back the regulation.” [Note: Trump just decided to endanger YOUR. health. Big Question: WHO asked him to do this???]
9]. “The idea of the investigation was that Perkins Coie supposedly engaged in illegal discrimination against white men. But Perkins Coie is an extremely white firm – only 3 percent of the partners are Black. When my colleague pointed that out, the leadership didn’t care. They’d already reached their conclusion.” {!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
10] “Our laws gave American companies cover so they could resist shakedowns to pay bribes….People across the political spectrum saw promoting the rule of law abroad as important for promoting American interests and national security. You could see these ideals fall away quickly in the moves the administration made.”
***. “When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There – a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator. – so decrees.” [ Jessica Mitford ]
11]. “Mel Gibson has a history of domestic violence….It was strongly suggested to me that Mel Gibson is someone who had a personal relationship with the president and that really should be all I needed to know.” [!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
12] “Erez Reuveni, acknowledged in court that the Trump administration wrongfully deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia….In previous administrations, including Trump’s first term, the government routinely worked to get people back when they were deported without legal authority. In this case, however, Bondi put Reuveni on leave and trhen fired him.” [Note; a highly respected attorney is fired because he told the truth. What else do YOU need to know?]
13] “When the president issued his executive order related to voting, the Civil Rights Division was initially charged with defending it. But many provisions of it were an unlawful power grab..”
14]. “It’s unprecedented to shift resources away from national security to this degree….You have to have good, experienced, trained people doing this work on a daily basis. If you don’t, because you demand they do immigration shifts, there is real danger to national security and public safety.” Note: apparently, to the Trump DICTATORSHIP, a few undocumented immigrants are a bigger danger than Russia or China]
***. “My task is not to make men better but to make use of their weaknesses.” [ Adolf Hitler ]
16] “Bondi fired around 20 prosecutors and support staffers who worked on the special counsel Jack smith’s investigations into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and his refusal to return classified documents after leaving office…..Trump demanded the prosecution of several of his perceived political enemies…Based on the results of investigations by career prosecutors, Erik Siebert…told senior Justice Department officials he did not think there was sufficient evidence to indict Comey or James.”
17] “No one should be charged with a crime because the president says. “Do this,”….”
18]. “This is the whole problem with the White House directing criminal investigations. This is what you get. We won’t get the benefit of credibility from judges that we had, and I’m even more concerned about juries. I really fear the Justice Department. – which has a good record of convicting dangerous, violent people. – won’t see the same success rate, becuase people will think it’s not on the level.”
19] “It shows the president has no regard for ethics or rules or the appearance of impropriety or any of the guardrails we used to have before… The Mar-a-Lago case was buttoned up. They begged him to give them the documents so it wouldn’t rise to the level of the F.B.I. going in to get them. To say there’s abuse here. – it’s absurd.”
*** “There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.”
[ Ludwig von Mises ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CXXXXV – “ICE Is Watching You”
***. “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; 1837 ]
“ICE Is. Watching. You” [Tressie McMillan Cotton; New York Times; 2/6/26]
This post presents excerpts from. ICE Is Watching You”:
6]. “Many of us have come to believe that our data is something outside ourselves, when, in fact, data is our self.”
7] “Imagine what our country would look like if a federal agency compiled everything it could find about you on the open market and then paired it with your most sensitive personal data and the full weight of the federal surveillance apparatus. The result would be a system that could not only track you but also pretty accurately predict your choices, behaviors and vulnerabilities.” [NOTE: does this sound like “1984” ????? ]
10] “Emily Tucker, the director of Georgetown University’s Center on Privacy and Technology, suggested the agency could be constructing a surveillance system that, in my estimation, would make “Minority Report” look like child’s play. Homeland Security, she said, “is increasingly emphasizing interoperability in its contracting.” That is a strong sign that the agency wants to connect a range of databases……”They are seeking data about every aspect of the lives of everyone,” she said.” [NOTE: “1984” ??? ]
15] “A militarized federal police force that acts out of loyalty on the whim of a political leader who relishes retribution and adulation is the tip of the iceberg….This kind of weaponry could effectively nullify our Fourth Amendment right to protection from unreasonable search and seizure. it could also more easily enable the government to trample on your free speech. And it could do all of this without meaningful transparency or oversight.”
***. “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” ]
1] “In the latest stop in Donald Trump’s war on liberal democracy, federal agents in Minneapolis have shot and killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti…”
2] “The gun and the phone are both weapons – one a tool for violence and the other a tool of control.”
3] “That phone represents a greater power, one that could outlast Trumpism. ICE knows that it cannot shoot us all. But the Department of Homeland Security is close to being able to track us all.”
4]. “The federal government, whether Democratic-or-Republican-controlled, has repeatedly failed to institute meaningful, urgently needed regulation of or legislation about data privacy that matches the scale of our risk.”
***. “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of the opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” [ Harry Truman; 33rd U.S. President ]
5] “Democratic administrations…thought Silicon Valley chief executives were the good guys. So they enabled their sci-fi aspirations….Then many chiefs turned heel, helping the Trump administration aggressively scale up a data dragnet that will eat our civil liberties for lunch, if we let it.”
8]. “In a citizen video from Maine that has been widely shared online, an ICE agent told a legal observer that he was taking a picture of her license plate to add her to a “nice little database” that will label her a “domestic terrorist.”
[ YOU know nothing about an ICE agent, BUT, he knows EVERYTHING about YOU ]
9} “..on Jan. 30, the Times reported that ICE was exploring ways to integrate advertising technologies and the data associated with them into its operations, specifically asking potential vendors the extent to which data could be collected on “people, businesses, devices, locations, transactions, public records.”
11] “If combined with the facial recognition and social media monitoring commonly deployed byt the Department of Homeland Security, those reams of data would turbocharge ICE’s terror campaign in the short term and destroy American civil liberties in the long term.”
*** [ ‘BIG BROTHER. IS. WATCHING. YOU” – “1984 ]
12]. “…Senator Ron Wyden….told me that the federal government is “weaponizing private data” against citizens and noncitizens. Of particular concern…was….what this administration cannot buy, it will simply take.”
13] “The Trump administration has been taking advantage of state-level data that has been aggregated by a third party nonprofit data clearinghouse called Niets….there are far too few restrictions on who can use that data and how they can use it.”
14] “You only need to know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.”
16] ‘.. it all starts with the American people understanding that our freedoms are now bound up in who controls our data.”
*** “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
George Orwell; “1984” – Or, is it Donald Trump; 2025-20XX ??? ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CXXXXIV – Measuring How Far Toward Autocracy Trump Has Brought America
***. “Of all the evils that infest a state, a tyrant is the greatest; his sole will commands laws, and lords it ovr them.”
[ Euripides ]
This post presents excerpts from the New York Times editorial. “Trump’s Stifling Of Dissent Reaches A New Level”. [2/8/26. It is the first update since October, 2025]:
A]. “The crackdown on dissent and speech in Minnesota..follows a pattern that is common in countries that slide from democracy to autocracy..”
B]. “The wide-ranging abuses in Minnesota are the main reason for change….The true goal seems to be instilling fear in people who oppose Mr. Trump’s agenda.”
C]. “The acceleration in the stifling of dissent and speech is broader than what’s happening in Minnesota.”
D] “The clearest sign that a democracy has died is that the leader and his party make it impossible for their opponents to win an electin and hold power. Once that stage is reached, the change is extremely difficult to reverse.” {NOTE: The danger is what the Trump DICTATORSHIP will do to rig the November 3, 2026 and November, 2028 elections.]
Below are the 12 metrics of “The. Autocracy. Index” A 0-10 scale is used.
1]. “Stifling speech and dissent”. “4”. “The repression of speech and dissent is ‘central”. to an authoritarian takeover.”
2] “Persecuting political opponents”. “5”. “Mr. Trump’s Justice Department has become an enforcer of his interests.”
3] “Bypassing the legislature”. “4”. “When a democracy slides toward autocracy, the leader often finds ways to neuter the legislature..” {Trump has violated laws and gutted congressionally authorized agencies.]
***. “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and the. 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 ]
4] “Defying the courts”. “2”. “At times, the Trump administration has openly defied federal judges.”
5] “Declaring false emergencies”. “5”. “Autocrats often curtail democracy by declaring an emergency and arguing the threat requires them to exercise unusual degrees of power.”
6] “Using the military at home”. ‘2’. “Authoritarians frequently and performatively use the military for domestic control.”
***. “It is the old practice of despots to use part of the people to keep the rest in order.” [ Thomas Jefferson ]
7] Vilifying marginalized groups”. “6” “Authoritarians tend to demean minority groups, trying to turn them into perceived threats that provide justification for a leader to amass power.”
8] “Controlling information”. “2”. “Authoritarians seek to depress inconvenient truths.” [NOTE: this site disagrees with this low grade. the Trump DICTATORSHIP has taken numerous steps to control and pervert truth.]
9]. “Trying to take over universities”. “2”. “a signature policy of Mr. Trump’s second term has been his attack on higher education.” [NOTE: this site vigorously disputes this low grade for a “signature policy.”]
*** “Truth is the most precious thing. That’s why we should ration it.” [ V. Lenin ]
10] “Creating a cult of personality”. “6”. “Emperors and kings often glorified themselves by displaying their portraits everywhere.”
11] “Using power for personal profit”. “7” “Mr. Trump glories in his administration’s culture of corruption.”
12] “Manipulating the law to stay in power” “2”. “In Mr. Trump’s second term, he has shown worrisome signs of trying to entrench the power of the Republican party…” [NOTE: this site VIGOROUSLY protests this absurdly low grade – see l/6/21 !!!!!!!!!! See the persecution of ANYBODY trying to hold Trump into account !!!!!!!!!!!!!! ]
*** “The aggressiveness of governments grows in proportion to the increase of their internal despotism.”
[ Leo Tolstoy ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, CXXXXIII – ICE Exists to Enforce One Mans Will”
***. “The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others…One does not establish the dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.” [ George Orwell: “1984” ]
This post presents excerpts from. “ICE Exists to Enforce One Man’s Will” {Radley Balko; New York Times; 1/25/26]. Read this – and pray. – that YOU. have an American democracy on January 20, 2029.
19]. “We can still stop these abuses of power, but we need to be clear about what we’re facing. This is no longer a conversation about law enforcement or immigration policy. This is about authoritarianism.”
4] “The lies this administration is telling about Ms. good aren’t those you deploy as part of a cover-up. They’re those you use when you want to show you can get away with anything. They’re a projection of power.”
10] “…the administration has embraced fear tactics long associated with totalitarian regimes. Until now, law enforcement officers in the United States rarely masked their faces….it’s just been accepted that masked policing isn’t consistent with democratic society.”
***. “What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?” [ Mahatma Gandhi ]
12] “The administration has resurrected tactics that professional policing groups have deemed dangerous or counterproductive….Federal agents have shot into cars at least 10 times since September. This, too, is prohibited by most big city police agencies, in part because it’s too easy to mistake a driver’s intent.”
17] “In refusing to investigate Ms. good’s death, the Department of Justice is, at a minimum, indicating that it doesn’t believe that preventing similar deaths is important. But the real explanation may be more sinister. Since she was killed, we’ve seen multiple videos in which immigration officers refer to her death to threaten people lawfully observing or recording them. The real motivation appears to be make all the other Renee Goods out there, the liberal so-called wine moms watching over immigration raids, wonder if they might be next.”
***. “The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.” { Edmund Burke }
1] “I have been covering policing for more than 20 years and have read and parsed a lot of these statements. The Department of Homeland Security’s response after the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis this month is something else entirely.”
2] “The Trump administration’s response to ms Good’s death made no such concessions….There was little empathy for her family…pronounced the shooting not only justified but an act of heroism..”
3] “It isn’t just the lying; it’s that the lies are wildly exaggerated and easily refutable…..”
5] “…since the protests in Ferguson, Mo., America has engaged in a high-stakes dialogue about police abuse and accountability….What Mr. Trump is doing with federal immigration forces has rendered those debates obsolete.”
6]. “The surge of federal forces into Minneapolis …isn’t about law enforcement at all. It is about an administration declaring. – explicitly, at times. – that the purpose of federal law enforcement isn’t to uphold the rule of law or promote public safety but to enforce the will of a single man.”
***. “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
[ Theodore Roosevelt; Republican; 26th U. S. President ]
7] “Administration officials quickly declared those shootings [Parias & Martinez] justified. – and righteous. – with hyperbolic language similar to that used after ms. good’s killing. Those claims would also later be disproved..”
8] “..nearly all of the administration’s responses to deaths in custody, shootings or other accused abuses have used maximalist language to venerate immigration officers, dehumanize their victims and villainize anyone who doesn’t support the Trump administration.”
9] ‘..after federal agents dragged Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen, from her car and arrested her, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson referred to her as an agitator who was obstructing immigration operations. In fact, she was trying to get to a doctor’s appointment at the Traumatic Brain Injury Center…”
11]. “Instilling fear is a drawback only if your goal is public safety. this administration has made it clear that it doesn’t want marginalized communities. – immigrants, Somali U.S.citizens, residents of Latino neighborhoods and so on. – to feel safe.”
13] “Videos from cities where Mr. Trump has sent federal agents have shown agents attempting to stop fast-moving vehicles with techniques that most police departments prohibit or reserve for rare confrontations…”
*** “Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.” [ Edward Abbey ]
14]. “It’s clear that immigration officials are routinely breaking the law.”
15]. “We’ve seen the unlawful arrest and incarceration of Somali refugees who have legal permission to be here, warrantless raids on private homes and reports of detainees be denied access to lawyers.”
16]. ‘..Todd Blanche, said on Fox News that there will be no federal investigation into her killing. The administration has already said the F.B.I. will not share the evidence it collected with the local police so they can conduct their own investigations. This is the very definition of a cover-up. It’s just being done in lain sight.”
18]. “It’s one thing to tank or slow-walk an investigation. It’s quite another to publicly declare that no investigation will happen…and then announce that you’ll be investigating the victim’s partner and supports instead.. Both paths are unethicl and corrupt….The administration’s actions…are a declaration that there will be no accountability and that it would prefer to instill fear rather than trust.”
*** “It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty, – to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are pooer or weaker than themselves.” [ Samuel Adams ]
With Justice For All 
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