***. “It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed before they are promulgated, or undergo.such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be to-morrow.” [ James Madison, Founding Father, 4th U.S. President – 1788 ]
This post presents excerpts from Matthew Purdy’s “The Fog of Trump” [New York Times Magazine; 11/16/25]. READ. THE ENTIRE. ARTICLE!!! It describes how the Trump DICTATORSHIP is INTENTIONALLY vague so it can apply government power against. YOU. – if YOU make Trump unhappy.
2] “..Trump is creating a system of rules and punishments all his own. And when those rules are vaguely defined – unlike, say a speed limit or even compex financial regulations – there is no assurance that anyone can be safely outside the zone of violation. Therefore, there is no telling who might be found out of bounds next and what punishment might be imposed.”
5]. “Vagueness has been seen as antithetical to due process and the rule of law since the earliest days of American democracy…. Vagueness thrived in the dark corner of anti-vagrancy laws. Under the post-Civil War Black Codes, the authorities arrested and sometimes effectively re-enslaved Black people…A hundred years later, vagrancy laws allowed police to detain people for such broadly defined crimes as “wandering or strolling around from place to place without any lawful purpose or object……In 1972, the Supreme Court reaffirmed the concept that laws could be “void for vagueness”…the law furnished “a convenient tool for ‘harsh and discriminatory enforcement by local prosecuting officials, against particular groups deemed to merit their displeasure.'”
3] “Vagueness breeds trepidation, perhaps the desired result. “We want you to fear,’ Steve Bannon, a former Trump aide and prominent cheerleader, said last year, anticipating a second term. Tom Ginsburg, an international law professor at the University of Chicago who has written about the decline of democracies around the world, says inducing worry is effective. “You get a lot of anticipatory compliance, which is cheap. And vagueness is part of the tool kit.”
***. “I do not see why men should not be just as cruel as nature.” [ Adolf Hitler ]
1] “..[Judge Young]..said diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in particular were set up as “some sort of boogeyman” in Trump’s executive orders, with “no operative definition.” Administration officials, he concluded, “decided they are going to ‘eradicate’ something that they cannot define.” Federal District Court judges across the country and across the political spectrum…have echoed Young’s critique, faulting the administration for using broadly cast executive orders and policies to justify “arbitrary and capricious” actions…..But vagueness has become fundamental to the way Trump operates.”
4] “Fear can seep in anywhere…its depth is perhaps best measured in more ordinary spaces, like middle school classrooms. Valerie Wolfson, the 2024 New Hampshire history teacher of the year, is wrestling with a federal order accusing all schools of “indoctrinating” students about racism…it remains a quandary for Wolfson, whose post-Civil War curriculum includes Reconstruction, the rise of the K.K.K. and the Jim Crow era. “I do not know how I could discuss them without creating a risk of being accused of presenting a narrative of the United States as racist”..”
*** “Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom – for himself.” { Elbert Hubbard ]
7]. “For decades, the United States has held itself out to the world as the paragon of ‘laws not men” governance. During the first Trump administration, as vague laws aimed at suppressing dissent spread in Eastern Europe and beyond, the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia, issued a statement underscoring that tradition. The statement, titled “Authoritarian Regimes’ Unclear Laws make Anyone a Suspect,” distinguished between vague laws used by authoritarians and American laws designed to guard against arbitrary power……Today, the ruling of some American judges critical of Trump administration policies echo the language in that statement.” [ Irony, anyone !!!!! ]
8]. “Trump did not hide that he was seeking revenge, nor was it lost on the judges. In the case of another law firm, WilmerHale, Judge Richard J. Leon, a George W. Bush nominee, said he agreed with the firm’s assertion that the executive order left “no doubt that WilmerHale is being punished because it has represented some of the president’s political opponents and advanced positions with which he disagrees.” “The order essentially leaves it to WilmerHale to predict which causes and which attorneys the president personally dislikes and then steer clear of those causes and attorneys,’ he wrote. “This chilling effect triggers serious vagueness concerns.”
*** “The tyrant confuses those he can’t convince, corrupts those he can’t confuse, and crushes those he can’t corrupt.” [Anonymous]
{NOTE: a reminder – this site has often said. – THE TEST. – of any president, of any American government is this: from the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution: “We the People…more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility….promote the general Welfare..” We have now provided 78. examples of WHY the Trump DICTATORSHIP is a threat to American democracy, American national security, America itself – because it has, usually deliberately, FAILED to provide Union, Tranquility, Justice, promote the general Welfare. As bad as the first Trump administration was, the 2025-2029 Trump DICTATORSHIP is a PLANNED assault on all hat America became, 1933-73, because. “Project 2025,” written by far right reactionaries – many of its major authors hold positions of power in Trump’s administration are working to implement that infamous plan. Their goal; make America a plutocratic theocracy. They’ve had numerous successes already. THE QUESTION: What are YOU going to do to protect YOUR family?????????????? ]
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The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXVII – Trump. GIVES More. Tax. Breaks to. Obscenely. Rich. Donors. and Friends – YOUR. Food. Costs. Go. Up!!!!!!!!!!
*** You can’t make this stuff up!!! – Day After Day – same headlines: Trump’s Craven Corruption and the increasing SUFFERING of ordinary [non- top 1%] people – like YOU. Review these reports:
– “Wealthy getting more tax breaks”. [ Jesse Drucker; New York Times; 11/7/25 ]
– “CEO’s Are Getting Richer. Everyone Else Is Falling Behind”. [ Sarah Anderson; The Progressive Populist; Oct., 2025]
– “At McDonald’s, low-income customers aren’t likin” it” { Jaclyn Peiser; Washington Post Weekly; 11/9/25 ]
– “The Undeclared Class War”. [ Wayne O’Leary; The Progressive Populist; August, 2025 ]
– “Our ‘inflation diet’ Is Starving Junk Food Sales”. [ Brooks Johnson; Minnesota Star Tribune; 10/27/25 ]
*** “The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens.”
[ Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President ]
I. “Wealthy getting more tax breaks”
1] “With little public scrutiny, the Trump administration is handing out hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts to some of the country’s most profitable companies and wealthiest investors.” [NOTE: WHY??????}
2]. “The primary target: The administration is rapidly gutting a 2022 law intended to ensure that a sliver of the country’s most profitable corporations pay at least some federal income tax.” [NOTE: WHY?????]
3]. “These breaks come in addition to the roughly $4 trillion package of tax cuts that President Donald Trump signed into law in July. The legislation passed entirely by Republicans, heavily benefits businesses and the ultrawealthy. It is projected to add trillions of dollars to the federal deficit ands came with steep cuts to health care for the elderly and food stamps for the poorest Americans.” [NOTE: read this again – this is the very definition of corruption and cruelty]
4] “The alternative minimum tax isn’t the administration’s only effort to roll back taxes on large businesses and wealthy individuals. Last month, the Treasury granted a new tax relief to foreign investors in U.S. real estate. In August, they withdrew regulations to prevent multinationals from avoiding taxes by claiming duplicate losses in multiple countries at once. And, as The New York Times previously reported, the Treasury and IRS have rolled back a crackdown on an aggressive tax shelter used by big companies…” [READ THUIS AGAIN – corruption anyone?]
***. “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”
[ John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. President ]
5]. “The Treasury’s actions are probably contributing hundreds of billions of dollars to the federal deficit, tax experts said. That is on top of what the agency did during the first Trump administration..”
6] “Big companies effectively keep two sets of books – one for investors and another for the IRS. The profits they report to the IRS permit various deductions that can bring a firm’s tax rate far below the 21% corporate tax rate.”
7] “The One Big Beautiful Bill Act that Trump signed into law in July provided well over $1 trillion in relief for big companies when they calculate their income tax bills….. As a result, the regular tax bills of many businesses drop so sharply – below 15% – that that they could be newly subject to the alternative minimum tax.” [NOTE: faer not!!!!! – “lobbying’ took care of that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]
*** “Do you decree righteousness, you rulers? Do you judge the people fairly? No, in your hearts you devise wickedness; your hands deal out violence on the land.” [ Psalm 47: 8 ]
II. “CEO’s Are Getting Richer. Everyone Else Is Falling Behind”
1] “CEO’s of the 100 S&P 500 firms with the lowest median wages – a group I call the ‘Low-Wage 100″ – have enjoyed skyrocketing pay over the past six years. As a group, these CEO’s now earn 632 times more than their median employees, I found in a new report for the Institute for Policy Studies. Their pay has risen nearly 35 percent since 2019 in absolute terms, While their median worker pay hasn’t even kept up with the U.S. inflation rate.” [ Greed? ]
2]. “It’s not for lack of cash. Between 2019 and 2024, these firms spent a combined $644 billion on stock buybacks. This once-illegal financial maneuver artificially inflates the value of a company’s stock – and with it, CEO pay. Even the most inept executives can rake in vast fortunes through this scam. Every dollar spent on buybacks represents a dollar not spent on workers. [. GREED, anyone????? ]
3] “The tradeoffs can be downright staggering. At Lowe’s..every one of their 273,000 employees could’ve gotten an annual $28,456 bonus over the past six years with the money the retailer blew on stock buybacks. Lowe’s median worker pay was just $30,606 last year. If McDonald’s had spent their buyback outlays on worker bonuses during this period, they could’ve given all their employees an extra $18,338 per year – more than the company’s median wage.”
*** “To lead the people, walk behind them.” [ Lao Tau ]
4]. “It’s bad for business too – most of these companies are spending more on buybacks than on vital investments like training employees or upgrading technology, equipment, and properties. And extensive research shows that extreme pay disparities undermine employee morale and boost turnover rates.”
5] “How could policymakers incentivize more equitable pay practices? They could increase taxes on corporations with huge CEO-worker pay gaps. Congress could also increase the 1% excise tax on stock buybacks that went into effect in 2023.”
*** “He that hastes to be rich has an evil eye, and considers not that poverty shall fall upon him.” [Proverbs. 28: 22]
III. “At McDonald’s, low-income customers aren’t lovin’ it”
1] “Lower-income customers aren’t finding much value in the menu at McDonald’s these days. Traffic dropped ‘nearly double digits” industry-wide among this demographic. Meanwhile, traffic among higher-income customers continued to grow across the fast-food sector.”
2] “McDonald’s is the latest example of a growing bifurcation among U.S. consumers. The wealthiest Americans are fueling consumer spending, while the working class – bogged down by waning wage growth, grocery inflation and the rising costs of living – are forgoing dining out….Chipotle chief executive Scott Boatwright told investors last week that “the gap has widened’ among its customers, with those in households earning less than $100,000…eating at the fast-food restaurant less frequently.” [ read this again, & again ]
***. “In imitation of our Master, we Christians are called to confront the poverty of our brothers and sisters, to touch it, to make it our own and to take practical steps to alleviate it.” [ pope Francis ]
3] “Walmart, Dollar General and Dollar Tree have also noted the growing pressure on their core low-income customers as they continue to pullback on spending in discretionary categories..”
4] “From 2019 to 2024, the average cost of a menu item rose 40 percent, according to a company fact sheet.”
***. “Take heed, and beware of greed, for a man’s life consists not in the abundance of the things he possesses.”
[Luke 12: 15]
IV. “The Undeclared Class War”
1] “A number of commentators have remarked recently on the symbolic expression of Trumpian corruption and ostentation… If you can’t afford to belong, don’t feel bad. most Americans can’t afford to ante up for much of anything in the nation’s capital these days. The town belongs to the billionaire class and their retainers – or political bosses.. Oligarchy is in the saddle, and the oligarchs know it.”
2] “It’s a strange combination: Fascistic apparatchiks resembling a mafioso peddling conspiratorial extremism, fear and vengefulness are paired with nouveau riche entrepreneurial billionaires willing to happily accommodate the extremist politicos to ensure the success of their personal, wealth-generating vision of a starwars economic future built on monetized technology. Put it all under the command of a godfather figure who is at once chief executive and chief oligarch. as well as chief enforcer, and you have what some have called a gangster government.” [re-read this!!!]
3] “The descent can be said to have begun in the 1980s, when the excesses hailed as freedom by Trump sycophant Bezos were delivered in large helpings to the upper orders under the smiling visage of Ronald Reagan. It was classic American laissez-faire capitalism in application; that is, deregulate and privatize, eliminate high-end taxation, and allow the market’s “invisible hand” to work its will free of government oversight. Assume the rewards will trickle down to the benefit of all…they never do; the signature characteristic of the system in its mature phase is overwhelming economic concentration and starkclass disparities.”
*** “There is class warfare all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” [Billionaire Warren Buffett, 2005]
4] “The group Americans for Tax Fairness reports that by the end of 2023, American billionaires were collectively worth a record $5.2 trillion – up an astounding $2.3 trillion, or 78%, since the passage of the Trump-GOP tax cut of 2017; that’s an annual increase of 13%, producing unheard of riches even by the standards of U.S. billionaires…..”
5] “a reasonable question is how such egregious capital concentration – it currently stands at 17% of American GDP – has been allowed to develop. The most obvious explanation is federal tax policy.” YES – it is that simple – this is CORRUPTION in action. There is NO justification that considers. ‘..to promote the general Welfare..” that can imagine tax cuts like these, let alone actually enact them.]
6] “Since the 1980s, virtually all federal taxes impacting billionaires – personal income, corporate income, long-term capital gains, shareholder dividend, and inheritance – have been cut roughly in half, radically reducing the money owed..” [. this isn’t rocket science – it’s blatant CORRUPTION ]
***. ‘You have despised the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you, and drag you before the judgment seats?” [ James 2: 6 ]
V. “Our ‘inflation diet” Is Starving Junk Food Sales”
1] “Rising food prices remain the top concern among consumers globally, according to a recent NielsenIQ study. Food inflation ranked higher than war, job security, housing costs and climate change. Almost all food is noticeably more expensive now compared with five years ago.”
2]. “But many food companies, like Hormel and Oreo-maker Mondelez, are still raising prices to preserve their profit margins… Then there is ‘shrinkflation,’ where prices ara stable, but packages contain less food.”
3] “Without sales growth comes a hunt for productivity. Nestle, the world’s largest food company, recently announced it’s cutting 16,000 jobs, about 6% of its workforce, and will bring in more automation in office jobs and at factories to become ‘an agile company.” The Swiss giant’s stock price rose 10% on the news.” [ SO, stay tuned….]
***. “Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.” [ Henry Clay, U.S. Senator, 1829 ]
*** “The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.” [. Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father, 3rd U.S. President ]
The Trump Dictatorship – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXVI – “Are We losing Our Democracy?”
***”The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, 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, Founding Father, Fourth U. S. President; Federalist #47 ]
[NOTE: This post is from a New York Times editorial, 11/2/25; “Are We Losing Our Democracy” – excerpts presented here. READ THE ENTIRE EDITORIAL – if YOU care about whether America will have a REAL democracy on January 20, 2029. If TYOU happen to be a Trump supporter, then YOUR challenge is to examine each accusation – WHY is this said, what are the undisputed facts of consensus Americans – not just in your bubble?
“Countries that slide from democracy toward autocracy tend to follow similar patterns. To measure what is happening in the United States, the Times editorial board has complied a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion, with help from scholars who have studies this phenomenon. The sobering reality is that the United States has regressed, to different degrees, on all 12.
“No. 1 An Authoritarian Stifles Dissent And Speech. Trump Has Started To……The Bottom Line…His evident goal is to cause Americans to fear they will pay a price for criticizing him, his allies or his agenda.”
“No. 2 An Authoritarian Persecutes Political Opponents. Trump Has……The Bottom Line…he has already targeted his opponents with legal persecution in shocking ways.”
“No. 3 An Authoritarian Bypasses The Legislature. Trump Has Started To……The Bottom Line. Mr. Trump has defied the Constitution by trampling on Congress’s power of the purse.”
“No. 4. An Authoritarian Uses The Military For Domestic Control…..The Bottom Line…..his willingness to use it as he has – and his threats to expand that use….”
“No. 5. An Authoritarian Defies The Courts. Trump Has Started To……The Bottom Line…the court’s reluctance to restrain him appears to have emboldened him to sidestep lower court orders he does not like.”
“No. 6. An Authoritarian Declares National Emergencies On False Pretenses. Trump Has……The Bottom Line Mr. Trump’s willingness to kill people without due proces…represents one of his most extreme abuses of power. It raises the prospect that he may expand the use of emergency power to other areas, including domestic law enforcement.”
“No. 7. An Authoritarian Vilifies Marginalized Groups. Trump Has. The Bottom Line. Mr. Trump is borrowing from the autocrat’s playbook by suggesting that some citizens are legitimate and others are second-class.”
“No. 8 An Authoritarian Controls Information And The News Media. Trump Has Started To……The Bottom Line. In place of an independent and free press, Mr. Trump evidently hopes to create a shadow ecosystem willing to promote his interests and talking points.”
“No. 9 An Authoritarian Tries To Take Over Universities. Trump Has Started To……The Bottom Line….Initially, some universities seemed as if they might simply submit to Mr. Trump’s demands. More recently, several showed more willingness to resist, rejecting a proposal that would have rewarded them financially for adopting Trump-friendly policies.”
“No. 10 An Authoritarian Creates A Cult Of Personality……The Bottom Line. The Trump cult of personality plays into his claims – common among authoritarians – that he possesses a unique ability to solve the country’s problems.”
“No. 11 An Authoritarian Uses Power For Personal Profit. Trump Has……The Bottom line. Mr. Trump’s culture of corruption may resemble the behavior of foreign autocrats more closely than any other category on this list. he is using what rightly belongs to American citizens – the power and resources of our democratic government – to enrich himself, and he is not trying to hide it.”
“No. l2 An Authoritarian Manipulates The Law To Stay In Power. Trump Has Started To…….The Bottom Line. Even if he backs away from any scheme to serve more than two presidential terms, Mr. Trump’s attempts to tilt the electoral field in favor of Republicans is anti-democratic and could pervert American elections for years.”
*** “Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it…” {Judge Learned Hand]
***. “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.” [ Wendell Phillips ]
SO – Mr. and Mrs. American. – what are YOU. going to do about the obvious, blatant, theft of YOUR. DEMOCRACY. in plain sight??????
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXV – “Americans go hungry while Trump parties like Gatsby”
***. “Just tell your readers that you have a source who knows a lot about the Republican Party from long experience, that he knows all the key movers and shakers, and he has a bit of advice: people should not vote for ANY Republican, because they’re dangerous, dishonest, and self-serving… I have come to realize the Democrats really do care about people who most need help from the government; Republicans care most about those who will only get richer because of government help. The government is truly broken, particularly in dealing with national security, and another four years, and heaven forbid not eight years, under Republicans, and our grandchildren will have to build a new government, because the one we have will be unrecognizable and unworkable.” [commentary “by a lifelong Republican…who voted for Bush and Cheney twice, because he knows them both personally,” in John W. Dean’s “Broken Government…How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches}
{NOTE: America did NOT listen – and we have now had 4 years, 9 months of Republican rule this man FEARED. AND – from daily headlines, the Trump DICTATORSHIP. IS working to make American government, America itself, “unrecognizable and unworkable.” ]
This post presents excerpts from Ka Vang’s. “Americans go hungry while Trump parties like Gatsby” [ St. Paul Pioneer Press; 11/6/25 ]:
1] “President Donald Trump threw a “Great Gatsby” party this past weekend at Mar-a-Lago while millions of Americans lost their snap benefits. It’s one thing to eat cake and drink champagne while others starve; it’s another to rent a jazz band, pour champagne into a tower, and rub it in our faces while calling it presidential leadership.”
2] “Trump’s Gatsby soiree was his Marie Antoinette let-the-eat-cake moment, except the cake was gold-leafed, the cavier imported, and the guest list limited to people who don’t know the price of a gallon of milk.”
3] “Meanwhile, the SNAP program – born in the 1960s as a bipartisan way to ensure Americans didn’t starve in one of the richest countries on Earth – was being gutted. SNAP isn’t charity. It’s the reason millions of children, seniors and working parents eat.”
*** “Wherever there is lost the consciousness that every man is an object of concern for us just because he is a man, civilization and morals are shaken, and the advance to fully developed inhumanity is only a question of time.”
[. Albert Schweitzer ]
4] “With the payments cut off amid the federal government shutdown, many families across Minnesota are going down to one meal a day. The Trump party didn’t just ignore them. It mocked them with every bottle of $500 champagne that could’ve fed a family of four for a week.”
5]. “I keep picturing Trump dancing with Melania in a designer sequined gown, pretending to be Gatsby and Daisy, when really they’re more like Edgar Allen Poe’s Prince Prospero and his courtiers in “The Masque of the Red Death.”
6] “On Monday, Trump’s administration said it will partially fund SNAP for November, but only after two judges issued rulings requiring the government to keep the nation’s largest food aid program running. It didn’t feed hungry families out of compassion; it was forced to do it.”
7]. “And in real life – and in books – the party always ends when the people outside get tired of starving. Just ask Marie Antoinette and Jay Gatsby how their parties ended.”
*** “There will be no loyalty, except loyalty toward the Party. Tere will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy…..Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face – forever.” [ George Orwell: “1984” ]
{NOTE: The Trump DICTATORSHIP story is on of CONTEMPT. While there is chaos in airports and 42 million Americans worry about their next meal. – “your” president is playing golf. While 300 million live paycheck-to-paycheck. – “your” president DEMANDED. hat his. IMMORAL 2017 tax cut for billionaires be made permanent. The boot that is stomping on human, non-billionaire faces, FOREVER, is worn by Donald John Trump, who views America democracy, the rule of law, and YOU – with CONTEMPT. ]
{Note: If YOU have ANY doubt about what a truly rotten, selfish, dishonest, damaging, antidemocratic ‘person” Donald John Trump really. IS. – read just a part of any of the following books written by Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporters:
– “It’s Even Worse Than You ThinK – David Cay Johnston
– “Confidence Man”. – Maggie Haberman [“The Making of Donald Trump and The Breaking of America”]
– “Injustice” – Carol Leonnig, Aaron Davis [ how Trump has DESTROYED ‘the rule of law’}
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXIV – STUPIDITY. CAPITALIZED – Desroying American Medical Science
*** “Research to improve the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy – CANCELED”
*** “Study to improve childhood cancer survival rates in low-resource hospitals – CANCELED”
***. “Development of a new technique for colorectal cancer prevention – CANCELED”
***. “Project to analyze premalignant breast tissue in high-risk women-CANCELED”
{NOTE: the list above is SOME of American medical research CANCELED by the “Project 2025” controlled Trump DICTATORSHIP – in order to achieve tax cuts for obscenely rich billionaires and achieve WACKO ideological goals. When YOU figure out how this kind of STUPIDITY. will “..promote the general Welfare..” perhaps YOU can tell America – especially surviving relatives of dead children, dead mothers, dead Americans.]
***. “Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.” [ Margaret Atwood ]
This post provides excerpts from Jonathan Mahler’s. “The War on the War on Cancer…How the 50-year campaign to saver millions of lives was dismantled in six months” [ New York Times Magazine; 9/14/25 ]:
4] “It’s an absolutely unmitigated disaster,’ Lauer told me. “It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do…Project 2025 had called for the new administration to cut reimbursement rates….”We could lose a generation of scientists in a very short time.”
8] “It’s too early to predict what the ongoing dismantling of America’s cancer-research system is going to cost us – what life-saving, life-extending or life-improving treatments will be slower to develop, if they develop at all.”
*** “Authority has always attracted the lowest elements of the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum.” [ p.J. O’Rourke ]
1]. “..Sirianni started hearing rumors that ..[Trump].. was planning to disrupt the N.I.H.’s grant-making process..his administration ordered the N.I.H. to cancel meetings to consider pending grant applications….ordered the N.I.H. to temporarily cease all external communications….In a matter of months, the Trump administration has canceled hundreds of millions of dollars in cancer-related research grants and contracts…has terminated hundreds of government employees who helped lead the country’s cancer-research system and ensured that new discoveries reached clinicians.”
2] “..Trump made a less ambitious attempt to defund America’s scientific research system during his first term…Congress flatly rejected both efforts…But a very different attitude toward American science now prevails on the right wing of American politics…..This force has become institutionalized in Trump’s second administration.”
3] ‘..this has been a deliberate and targeted attack. “They have studied how N.I.H. works, studied it hard and learned well”…”And they have put sand in the gears in ways that are very effective, devastating.”
*** “We are dominated by the fanatic, whose worse vice is his sincerity.” [ Oscar Wilde ]
5] “Before scientists could figure out how to defeat cancer, they first had to learn how little they knew about its biology, starting with the fact that it was not a single disease but an infinite number of them..don’t just originate in different parts of the body. but also behave differently in different people. The process took decades and is ongoing…accumulated knowledge…begin to yield transformative treatments…..It now reaches into just about every medical specialty….This progress is a validation of a slow but patient process that requires time – and the gradual accretion of shared knowledge..”
6] “America’s investment in cancer research has rippled out far beyond cancer…..When the Covid pandemic struck, technologies that had been developed for cancer enabled scientists to quickly sequence the virus and then develop a vaccine for it.””
***. “A dogma…an indisputable confession of faith, is set up only when the aim is to suppress doubts once and for all. But it no longer has anything to do with scientific judgment; only with a personal power drive.” [ Carl Jung ]
7] “The system was designed to be insulated from politics….Tearing down the system, then, would require moving quickly and aggressively, taking control from the top down….The administration was much better prepared to accomplish this during Trump’s second term..Russell Vought, the director of the White House’s office of Management and Budget and the primary architect of the attack on biomedical-research system, spent the Biden tears getting ready for this moment…He and the new administration began executing their plan on Trump’s first full day in office.”
9] “Other countries are seeing opportunity in the chaos. Varmus is among a number of prominent U.S. scientists who have received solicitations from the governments of France and Spain to consider relocating there. America’s 80-year run as the world’s leader of biomedical research – and a 50-year run as the global leader of cancer research – may very well be coming to a close.”
10] “WE are great in science,’ he said. “Why would we want to destroy one of our greatest assets?”
*** “Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.” [ Laurens van der Post ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXIII – Undermining America’s. Community. Colleges
***. “In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery.” [ Woodrow Wilson, 28th U.S. President ]
14] “Local economies throughout the country couldn’t thrive without them. Community colleges, in all their diversity and inclusion, were the hubs of economic mobility. As Gavin put it, “We are situated more than any other institution in America to deliver on the promises in our original founding documents that everybody deserves a good life.”
8] “The Trump administration was slashing federal funding to a host of programs designed to support first-generation and low-income students, the sort of upward-mobility, American-dream work done by community colleges.” {Ben Austen: “Hitting Close to Home”; New York Times Magazine; 8/17/25]
STUPIDITY – the Trump DICTATORSHIP is full of it. IGNORANCE is part of it. Reckless pursuit of IDEOLOGICAL. GOALS is a BIG part of it. In evaluating Trump Stupidity – ask YOURSELF – would the Chinese, or Canadians, or West Europeans, or Japanese, or Australia and New Zealand. do this???
THEN – think on the Constitution’s Preamble”s goals for ANY American government: “..a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility….promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty..” How does Trump rhetoric, executive orders, actions – achieve ‘..to promote the general Welfare..”?????
We continue with “Hitting Close to Home…President Trump’s war on higher education was meant to punish elite schools – but the nation’s 1,100 community colleges are suffering some of the worst collateral damage.” [Ben Austen; New York Times Magazine; 8/17/25]:
1] ‘..the country’s 1,100 community colleges, which educate about 6.4 million undergraduates each year – roughly 40 percent of the national total and more than twice as many as are enrolled at every highly selective college and university in the country combined.”
2] “..the “dear colleague letter the Department of Education sent to every postsecondary school in the country in February, accusing the colleges of breaking civil rights law each time they considered race when making decisions about hiring, scholarships, classes or any aspect of campus life. The letter insisted that the schools had only days to comply or else.”
3]. ‘..the ways the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill will hit their schools in the near term and in the years ahead: the cascading effects of federal Medicaid reductions, which will force states to shoulder more of the financial burden and use up discretionary funding meant for their schools; the possible end of free community-college tuition…”
4] “Across the United States, community colleges have come to serve as the work-force-development arms of their local economies….It acted as a bridge to bring more women, racial minorities, immigrants, and first-generation college students into higher ed and the skilled work force….Like other community colleges, Durham Tech partnered with all sorts of employers, figuring their exact labor needs, and offered students customized training for those jobs.”
*** “The wise man takes pleasure in what is honorable, but the fool is not vexed by shamefulness.” [ Plutarch ]
5] “The Trump administration’s message is: Get on board or get out of the way,” Scott Yenor, a fellow at the Claremont Institute..”
***. “There is no possibility I have made a mistake.” [ Adolf Hitler ]
6] “..federal grants had also been axed at other big science and technology employers in the Triangle region, threatening not just college campuses but also the entire local research economy.”……”Employers are telling us we’ve got a shortage of qualified workers,’ he said. “We need to find more women.”….. Buxton said that the Bulls Academy, by targeting students of color for jobs earning upward of $45,000 a year, was also supporting the region’s big pharma company and the local economy.” [ read this again]
7] “Proposed cuts to the Department of Education budget would eliminate most funding for English-as-a-second-language classes. In California, nearly 300,000 students took free noncredit English-learner language classes at state community colleges……In a survey of Durham Tech students last year, 42 percent said they were the first in their families to attend college..” [do we know, for sure, WHO will be the next Einstein???]
9] “The Trump administration announced..it would seek to end funding of TRIO grants for students who. were the first in their families to pursue a college degree, calling the program dating back to the 1960s. “a relic of the past.”….The Trump administration had also cut staff in half both at the Department of Education, which historically managed thr country’s enormous portfolio of student loans…”
10] “The Republican spending bill initially proposed gutting funding for federal Pell grants, which helped low-income students pay for college, and limiting access to these grants for part-time and working students – the very definition of most people attending community college. After much lobbying and pleading from community-college advocates in red states as well as blue, warning of a coming catastrophe, Republicans in congress removed those provisions..”
***. “Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.” [ John Keats ]
11] “The Trump administration talked about expanding manufacturing at home. But across the country, 400,000 factory jobs were currently vacant. “That’s what’s so crazy about this,” I was told by another community college leader who asked not to be identified, out of fear of retaliation..” [dictatorships operate in an atmosphere of fear]
12] “Get care at a local hospital, or prepped for surgery at a hospital, or treated after an accident, or have someone come to your home to do repairs – “those are all community college grads, all of them,” the community college leader told me. “This collateral damage is going to end up being regional economic damage.” [shall we slit our throats together???}
13] “…Republicans in Congress were voting to defund NPR and PBS, potentially decimating the public broadcasting station that Delta housed on its campus, a service it had provided the wider Saginaw community, including its rural parts, since 1964.” [ telling the truth is not what a dictatorship wants – see Russia, China, Iran, North Korea…]
*** “The most delusional fantasies can be made to masquerade as sanity if you’ve got the political power to reinforce them.” [ Penny Skillman ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXIII – ICE Arrests, Abuses. U.S. Citizen and Army Veteran
*** “The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.”
[ Adolf Hitler ]
1]. “When ICE came for a U.S. citizen and army veteran’: “The ICEmen were presumably looking for undocumented immigrants. Retes’s driver’s license, which he says the ICEmen never asked to see, identifies him as “Veteran Army.” His license plate includes “DV”: disabled veteran. While ICE’s warriors were trying and ultimately succeeding in smashing his driver’s-side window [the better to pepper spray him], they apparently did not notice his rear window’s “Iraq Combat Veteran’ sticker.” [read this again – 3 chances to see who Retes is – ignored]
***. “It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” [ Machiavelli ]
2] “Amid a torrent of shouted and contradictory ICEmen commands…after he asked for an agent’s badge number…Retes was dragged from his car…wrists zip-tied behind his back…seated on the ground for 4 hours…taken to a Navy base…strip searched…incarceration…handcuffs. No charges…mouth swab collected his DNA without his consent…requests for a lawyer…a shower to ease ..tear gas and pepper spray [discomforts]..ignored. After3 days…charges dropped.” [ George Will: “When ICE came for a U.S. Citizen and Army veteran’; Washington Post; 10/26/25 ]
Note: Hopefully, when YOU, a PATRIOTIC American read this – YOU are angry. As details above relate, NONE of this should have happened. – he had I.D. ON HIM. – which they could have verified ON THE SPOT – refused. They have quotas to meet.
*** “Some things are not forgivable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable.” [ Tennessee Williams ]
THEN – THIS; ‘American Gulag… The brutal rollout of Trump’s police state.” [ Mother Jones; November-December, 2025 EVERY American should, MUST, read this.
3] “When it comes to President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, cruelty has always been the point, but anti-immigrant animus is now being paired with unprecedented funding, manpower, and technology….The new immigration is everywhere, rife with conflicts, and it’s only just begun.”
4]. “Force Multiplier…How the GOP bankrolled ICE [ $74.9 billion] to unleash an army of masked agents on America.” 50 NEW detention centers. KNOW THIS ; 70% of people in detention in august HAD. NO CRIMINAL. CONVICTIONS. Another BIG Trump. LIE.
5]. “Minority Report”. – no-bid contracts to connected people. “The perils of this extend beyond mere immigration, privacy experts warn. The growing surveillance infrastructure could be ‘deployed by an authoritarian executive to coerce and control the US population at scale,”….
***. “The kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.” [ King Solomon ]
6] “Camp Fear…Florida’s troubled tent city has inspired copycats across the country” “According to an ACLU lawsuit, exposure to sun and mosquitos is “used as form of punishment and retaliation, with restrained individuals placed outside for hours at a time to be bitten and sun burned.” “An immigration lawyer called conditions at Alligator Alcatraz ‘psychological warfare..”
7] “Random House”. Small firm with NO experience in incarceration gets $1.3 billion deal….. 4 more examples of contracts and their “Trump connection”…. former ICE official: “The Fort Bliss deal is “a giant pass-through to other companies.” [ NOTE ; corruption, anybody???????}
*** “The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don’t ask for their love, only their fear.” [ Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler ]
NOTE: Remember what was said above: “It is a mistake, ” the center noted, “to think about what the Trump administration is doing now as ‘immigration enforcement.” Trump is using immigration powers as the vehicle for activities of his militarized police force.”
And also this: Without last minute compromises, on November 1, 2025. – 42 million Americans will suddenly be left without government-aided access to food. – but this same government – YOUR government is spending $75 billion to TERRORIZE people, inside THIS country. It is making a choice – either feed its own citizens. – or. -build a police state.
***. “Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.” [ Terry Pratchatt ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXI – “Bow To The Emperor
*** “The accumulation of all power, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many; whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” [James Madison, 1788}
THE GOOD NEWS: on October 18th, 7 million PATRIOTIC Americans turned out for 2000 rallies held in all 50 states. Other rallies occurred in foreign nations. The NO KINGS” rallies showed Americans are waking up to Madison’s warning. King Donald I NOW controls all 4 branches of the U.s. government – House, Senate, Executive, Judiciary. Daily examples of STUPIDITY, CRUELTY, CORRUPTION, CRAZINESS are reported. Many more not reported.
THE BAD NEWS: The Trump DICTATORSHIP’s war on the “rule of law” continues. This post centers on Emily Bazelon”s “Bow To The Emperor” article in the 10/19/25 New York Times Magazine. If YOU. are a patriotic American – this is a MUST read. Some excerpts presented here. Read the entire article. Look at WHO is talking – 50 members of the legal establishment, 25 Republicans, 25 Democrats. look at WHAT they’re saying – the Trump DICTATORSHIP is a BIG threat to American “rule of law.” Look at WHY they say this. look at the fact their level of CONCERN has increased in Trump’s 9 months in office. Look at their FEARS.
*** “The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask a justice.” [ Justice Robert Jackson]
1] “A majority of our respondents told us they were alarmed about a potential second Trump term given the strain he put on the legal system the first time around……”What’s happening is anathema to everything we’ve ever stood for in the Department of Justice.”…..almost universal fear and anguish over the transformation of the Justice Department into a tool of thenWhite House.”
2]. “Just as chillingly, the new survey reflects near consensus that most of the guardrails inside and outside the Justice Department, which in the past counterbalanced executive power, have all fallen away…..But many of them – more so than last year – don’t want to speak on the record. These are people with stature in their world…But now they’re worried about retribution, for their law firms or their family members, if they draw Trump’s ire
3] “All but one of the respondents rated Trump’s second term as a greater or MUCH greater threat to the rule of law than his first term. They consistently characterized the president’s abuses of power – wielding the law to justify his wishes – as being far worse than they imagined before his re-election…….And every single one of the 50 respondents believe that Trump and his attorney general, Pam Bondi, have used the Justice Department to go after the president’s political and personal enemies and provide favors to his allies.
*** “Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.” [George Bernard Shaw]
4] “To measure the degree to which the Department of Justice has changed…at the end of his first presidency, Trump insisted that the department investigate ‘fact free claims”….Barr had been Trump’s close ally. but in late December 2020, he resigned rather than give in to the president’s demands….other remaining top officials said that they too would resign rather than use the department to seek to overturn the election….”No one in the room now will say no,” said the Justice Department official from Trump’s first term.
5]. “Several legal experts told us they began worrying on the day Trump retook office…pardons and commutations to the Jan. 6 rioters – unraveled the work of what prosecutors have said is the Department of Justice’s largest-ever investigation. Trump alsofired lawyers who worked on the Jan.6 cases.”….
“..in February, Emil Bove..was appointed second in command at the Justice Department, ordered Danielle Sassoon..to drop an active corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams. Sassoon resigned, saying…It was a clear example of quid pro quo….At least 10 more career prosecutors resigned…..”
6] “In June, Trump nominated Bove for a lifetime appointment to a federal judgeship…..Several respondents raised Bove’s ascension as a sharp break from the past. Trump also stunned many of them when he issued a flurry of executive orders in march and April targeting big law firms perceived as being aligned with Democrats.”
***”Great is the mischief of a legal crime.” [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
7]. “Just as notable, in the eyes of many of our respondents, is the work these firms and others are NOT doing for fear of Trump….Thirty-three said that big firms as a group are doing little or nothing to constrain excessive uses of presidential power.” [Note re-read this, think what it means]
8} “More than any step the president has taken, according to a lawyer from the Reagan solicitor general’s office, Trump’s bullying of law firms has undermined the rule of law.” [NOTE: read THIS again, PATRIOTIC American}
9]. “In Trump’s Justice Department..retribution has been institutionalized. In February, Bondi created a “weaponization working group” to investigate “abuses of the criminal justice process.” She instructed the group to look into people who prosecuted Trump. To the dismay of some of our respondents, the head of the working group, Ed Martin, promised to smear the reputations of any target he couldn’t indict…a clear violation of Justice Department policy.”
***. “Crime is contagious. If the government becomes lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.” [ Justice Louis Brandeis ]
10]. “In September, Trump trampled whatever remaining hope prosecutors had of exercising their judgment independent of the president. Trump forced the resignation of Erik S. Siebert, the U.s. attorney in Eastern Virginia who had concluded there wasn’t enough evidence to charge Comey….On social media, Trump ordered Bondi tontake action ‘NOW!!!” against Comey…Adam Schiff…Letitia James……The next day, news broke that Trump’s Justice Department COLSED an investigation into Tom Homan, Trump’s so-called border czar, who was recorded last year accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover F.B.I. investigation.” [NOTE; read this again – this is “justice’ in Trump’s “America.” ]
11]. “The firing of the Jan. 6 prosecutors, the resignations over the Adams case, Martin’s conduct and the indictment of Comey – each step corroded the Department of Justice in the eyes of our respondents. “It’s all about dismantling the institution”…”And the message to everyone in the department is that if you speak up, something could happen…you’d better bow to the emperor.” [Note: read this again – patriotic American]
12] “..all 50 believe that Congress, which framers intended to be the most powerful branch…is doing very little – or nothing at all – to fulfill its role of restraining the president. “The greatest threat,’ said Stuart Gerson, an assistant attorney general for President George H.W. Bush, “comes with the probability that the president is on the road to assuming autocratic powers and that the Congress has allowed its countervailing constitutional powers to wither.”
*** “Power may be justly compared to a great river which, while kept within its due banks is both beautiful and useful; but when it overflows its banks, is then too impetuous to be stemmed, it bears down all before it and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes.” [ Alexander Hamilton ]
13]. “Some former officials said the Supreme Court set the country up for disaster by ruling in July 2024 that presidents are immune from criminal prosecution for most of their official actions…Nancy Gertner ..[said].. “I believe that they are fully on board with enabling him.” {NOTE: Patriotic Americans, knowing that “impeachment’ is in the Constitution by SPECIFIC Founders’ intent, think on this – which MANY other scholars have said}
14] “All but one of our respondents said they were concerned or very concerned about Department of Justice attorneys failing to tell the truth in court, which judges across the country have complained about….The reactions of judges like Alsup signal how lawyers who used to uphold the standards of the legal profession are compromising them to adapt to the Trump era. “ThenD.O.J.’s loss of credibility is devastating to the rule of law,” said William Yeomans..”
15] >>”>>>Trump is cowing people and institutions in a way that could change the foundation of America’s system of government.” [NOTE: PATRIOTIC American, think on THIS]
*** “Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.” [ John Locke ]
TEAM Right Wing Republican REACTIONARIES – CORRUPT Roberts ‘court” MAKES UP Another Decision
*** “It is a very dangerous doctrine to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions. It is one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.” [ Thomas Jefferson, 1820 letter ]
Increasingly, the CORRUPT 6-3 Reactionary Republican ‘supreme court” majority is demonstrating Jefferson’s fears. Consider their PATTERN ; Shelby County; refusal to oppose Gerrymandering – recognized for 200 years as an antidemocratic abomination; giving ANY president – let alone one D.J. Trump – “immunity” [if the Founders intended that, why is impeachment of a president in the Constitution???]; 9 months of “Shadow Docket” decisions allowing Trump’s dictatorial decisions; and now – removing injunctions by lower courts as a way of restraining Trump’s often BLATANT authoritarian decisions and actions.
This PATTERN is UNMATCHED in American legal history for its antidemocratic and unconstitutional scope and damage. With most other U.s. presidents, this would have been a lesser threat – with a deeply flawd person like Donald John Trump – possibly fatal to American rule of law and democracy.
*** “As a member of this Court, I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.: [Justice Felix Frankfurter]
Consider excerpts from “Ending Nationwide Injunctions Will Let Trump Do His Worst”. [Sabrina Haake; The Progressive Populist; August, 2025]
1]. “The partisan majority chose instead to strike nationwide injunctive relief, a disastrous ruling that gave Donald Trump the green light to continue sh*tting on the Constitution. As a 30-year federal litigator, I am outraged. I don’t see how the rule of law survives this decision, handed down when our executive is so clearly and demonstrably unhinged.”
2]. “What the Republican majority did was outrageous…they struck down nationwide injunctions, the main tool federal courts have used to stop Trump from bulldozing the Constitution…It gives Trump license to trammel every law, every clause, and every amendment in the Constitution.”
***. “A judge can’t have any agenda. A judge can’t have any preferred outcome in any particular case. And a judge certainly doesn’t have a client. The judge’s only obligation – and it’s a solemn obligation – is to the rule of law.” [Samuel A. Alito, Jr. – opening statement in his Senate confirmation hearing; January 9, 2006] !!!!!!!!!! [NOTE: YOU be the judge on whether “justice’ Alito has honored this pledge – any doubt/ – read “Dobbs”; study Alito’s PATTERN on the ‘court.”]
3] “Just as these same partisan hacks did in Dobbs to erase abortion rights that had been in existence for 50 years, Trump v. Casa erased the history of nationwide injunctions, by focusing on what happened in the 1700s and 1800s instead of our more recent, and relevant, history
“Nationwide injunctions have been used in the U.S. for over 100 years. They are the strongest and surest remedy to keep elected officials from violating federal law or the constitution. Now, in service to Trump, that remedy has been removed, and protection for the little guy has been erased.”
4]. “Everyone who wants to stop Trump from illegally harming them now has to sue, and appear personally before the court , or join a class action, which can take years to certify. I defended class actions for over 15 years – they are an expensive, time consuming and cumbersome way to try to fight back against the government.” [NOTE: this too, is a Roberts “court” PATTERN – on paper you have a right , but exercising it is made much more difficult]
*** “..;Thomas himself vowed on the day of his confirmation, at the age of forty-three, that he intended to spend the next forty-three years of his life as a Supreme Court Justice. It would take that long, he told friends, to get even.” [Jane Mayer, Jill Abrahamson: “Strange Justice,” page 360] [NOTE: YOU decide: has Clarence Thomas achieved his promise “..to get even.” ??????????]
5] “Sotomayor’s outrage is also palpable. She continues: “In partially granting the Government’s remarkable request, the Court distorts well-established equitable principles several times over.”
6]. “The Roberts court is well aware of what Trump is doing…They know exactly what is happening, but shamefully choose to look away and let Trump do his worst AFTER they gave him immunity to break criminal laws.”
***. “If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.” [ Justice Louis Brandeis ]
7] “Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent hit hard: “the Court’s decision to permit the Executive to violate the Constitution with respect to anyone who has not yet sued is an existential threat to the rule of law.”
***. “I have always thought that one of this Court’s most important roles is to provide a formidable bulwark against government violation of the constitutional safeguard securing in our free society the legitimate expectations of every person to innate human dignity and sense of worth.” [ Justice William Brennan ]
Ask YOURSELF: does the 20-year record of thre Roberts “court” uphold the Constitution’s requirements of “..establish Justice…promote the general Welfare..”??? The two BIG winners; corporations and the Religious Right. The Reactionary Republicans claim to be “originalists” or “textualists.” But their decisions aren’t. They’ve LIED, made up, misrepresented, ignored contrary evidence. They pick cases they can USE to aid the 50-year Right Wing agenda.
In 1947-73, America approached being a TRUE democracy, a mass middle class prosperous society. THEN – the Empire struck back. The Burger and Rehnquist “courts” chipped away. The Roberts ‘court” has, is, moving America toward the Far Right goal of a Theocratic Oligarchy, case – by – case.
Look at the RESULTS of major Roberts ‘court’ decisions in cases ‘big’ and ‘small.” The America of 2025 is a shadow of 1947-73 America economically, socially, politically, ethically – by DESIGN. The Roberts ‘court” has exacerbated America’s problems with virtually every major decision, and many ‘lesser” ones.
They’ve topped this off – so far – with making the ANTI-George Washington a virtual dictator, who issues one stupid, irrational, destructive order and decision after another.
***. “Power corrupts, and unrestricted power will tempt Supreme Court justices just as history tells us it has tempted other judges. For, unfortunately, judges have not been immune to the seductive influences of power, and given absolute or near absolute power, judges may exercise it to bring about changes that are inimical to freedom and good government.” [ Justice Hugo Black ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXX. – TrumpGate Worse Than Teapot Dome and Watergate
*** “I have always tried to treat white-collar criminals like other criminals. It still bothers me that Richard Nixon escaped that equal treatment….If Nixon had had the character of President Eisenhower, or any honest president, this scandal [Watergate] would never have happened….I hope no political party will ever stoop so low as to embrace the likes of Richard Nixon again.” [ John J. Sirica, former federal judge ]
This post presents excerpts from Jacob Silverman’s. “Teapot Dome and Watergate: They’re Nothing Next to this”. [New York Times; 10/19/25]:
1] “If you were an authoritarian seeking to influence another head of state, you might offer him a luxuriously appointed Boeing 747 airplane. You might spend big at his hotels or invest in one of many companies owned by him and his children. You might buy his sneakers, NFT’s and other branded products. In the case of President Trump, a potential influence peddler has a vast menu of choices.”
***. “No punishment, in my opinion, is too great for the man who can build his greatness upon his country’s ruin.” {George Washington; 12/12/1778]
2] “With World Liberty, Mr. Trump has created a powerful vehicle for those seeking influence. Anyone – you, me, an Emirati prince – can put money in his pocket by simply buying the tokens the company issues. The key is the convenience factor.”
***. “..no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of Congress, accept any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.” [ U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 9 ]
3]. “We’ve never seen anything like this before. You can tick off notorious executive branch scandals…but none of them featured this scale of mixing of personal and government interests, much less the sheer accumulation of profit, of Mr. Trump’s multibillion-dollar crypto windfall.”
***. “Uncontrolled power, in the hands of an incensed, imperious and rapacious conquerer, is an engine of dreadful execution; woe to that country, over which it can be exercised.” [ Thomas Paine, 1780 ]
4]. “But the greater risk concerns Mr. Trump and the huge amount of money that powerful overseas actors can potentially funnel toward him. if you are a head of state, it is in your direct political interest to buy Mr. Trump’s tokens or invest in one of his crypto ventures.” [ Question – just asking – Vladimir Putin is said to be one of the world’s richest men. “Our” president has consistently refused to REALLY stop Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Just asking. – do YOU suppose Putin has bought a considerable of Mr. Trump’s “crypto ventures”? – Just asking………… ]
***. “There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.” [Ludwig von Mises]
5] “In another era [in other words, a few years ago] we would have already had congressional hearings and law enforcement investigations into the president’s crypto business interests. But the Supreme Court’s recent decision related to presidential immunity signals that such moves could end up being practically superfluous.”
***. “The point is you can’t be too greedy.” [ Donald John Trump – “The Art of the Deal” ]
6]. “>>>to start his term, Mr. Trump fired 18 inspectors general, who might otherwise have been able to investigate and shine light on the crypto activities of this administration. In February, he ordered the Justice Department to suspend enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits the bribery of foreign officials.” Note: items 1-6: Jacob Silverman: “Teapot Dome and Watergate; They’re Nothing Next to This”; New York Times; 10/19/25]
***. “Wherever there is power, greed, and money, there is corruption.” [ Ken Poirot ]
We close this post with words from Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston’s. “It’s Even Worse Than You Think,” written in 2018 about Trump’s first term:
“Our Constitution is not written to handle someone like Trump,” the political scientist Jason Johnson told me. “That is the greatest danger and harm he is to our country.”………….
“For the next thirty-five years or so, the standard for what you can get away with as long as you are in power and stay in power has been lowered to a level I don’t think any of us can fully appreciate today,’ he said.”
[Note: Trump ordered the demolishing of the White House’s East Wing – without going through proper procedures – AND – despite his assurance that nothing like this would happen – AND – supposedly, it is being paid for by his billionaire friends !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ]
With Justice For All 
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