***. “It may be possible to fight intolerance, stupidity, and fanaticism separately, but when they come together there is no hope.” [ Albert Einstein ]
This post is ONE illustration of the DAILY drumbeat of the consequences coming from the STUPIDITY, CRUELTY, CORRUPTION, CRAZINESS, and, INCOMPETENCE of the Trump DICTATORSHIP. Again, †his case comes from the MONUMENTAL Stupidity of starting and fighting a trade war, among other things, against – of all the nations on this earth: CANADA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There are notorious dictatorships, like Russia and China, that SHOULD be opposed wherever possible. But – Trump’s best ‘friends’ are the dictators running these oppressed countries. And. – Trump can NEVER admit that he made a mistake………..
Following are excerpts from. “How A Beloved Canadian Motorcycle Ended Up On The U.S. Import Ban List” { Farah Stockman; New York Times; 10/8/26 ]:
1] “The Can-Am Spyder, a three-wheel roadster popular with riders of a certain age, has inspired festivals and its own national motorcycle club.”
2] “But now this beloved adult trike has become a victim of the Trump administration’s trade war with Canada. On Sept. 29, the Trump administration banned all Canadian-made motorcycles, including the Spyder..”
3] “It makes no sense to me whatsoever,” said Harold Mette, 79, who founded the Spyder Ryders in 2011 after riding traditional motorcycles for about 40 years.”
***. “The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.” [ Aesop ]
4]. “Mette said he was mystified about why his favorite vehicle ended up on the list of banned items. “Quantitatively, in terms of total dollar value of imports and exports, it’s nothing,” he said.”
5]. “The Spyder is just one example of how many products that have become more expensive, or effectively unavailable on both sides of the border..”
6] “In the United States, the costs imposed on Canadian imports have threatened damage to the states and industries that rely on cross-border commerce..”
*** “The most delusional fantasies can be made to masquerade as sanity if you’ve got the political power to reinforce them.” [ Penny Skillman ]
7]. “The Can-Am brand was once a symbol of close ties between the United States and Canada. The first Can-Am bike was built “through a collective effort”. of individuals from Canada and the United States, which led to the name..”
[ NOTE: just a little bit of irony……….. ]
8] “Those close ties have soured since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term.” [ NOTE: “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou ]
9] “Mette said that even if the ban on Spyders remained in place next year, he would never buy a Slingshot, which he said felt more like a car than a motorcycle. He said his fellow riders would probably buy the Ryder, a smaller version of the Spyder that is made in Mexico..”
***. “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.” [ Bertrand Russell ]
{NOTE: Motorcycles may not be important to YOU. – as food and gas. – but that’s THE point of this post. It isn’t just the major cases of Trumpian Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, and INCOMPETENCE. – it IS all these “smaller” things that make the nuts, fools, fanatics, Rasputins, idiots, crazies in the Trump DICTATORSHIP. keep cooking up. – always claiming they will “make America great again,” when in reality, they are MAKING AMERICA WEAKER.]
***. “Instead of politicians, let the monkeys govern countries, at least they will steal only bananas.”
[ Mehmet Morat Ildan ]
[NOTE: Some food for thought. For some time, we were posting on the Trump DICTATORSHIP every other day. We HAD to stop doing that. Just the thinking involved was corroding. The reading about, research, and making the Trump DICTATORSHIP posts became unhealthy. We wish for YOU to think on that….think in WHY it became unhealthy…think on WHY it is so very important that some controls are won back to restrain the Trump DICTATORSHIP on November 3, 2026…..think on WHY multiple public opinion polls taken in foreign countries show people in what WERE. friendly countries now show dislike for America after January 20, 2025. My father fought the Nazis in World War II. I know Dad would be VERY upset over what his nation now is……… ].
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The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness. – &. – INCOMPETENCE !!!, CCXXVIII. – Trump Sabotages The Very Idea of Inspectors General
*** “When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man’s baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.” [ Jacob Javits; Republican U.s. senator ]
This post presents an examination of ONE facet of the Trump DICTATORSHIP’s massive CORRUPTION – in this case, the massive PERVERSION of the offices of “Inspector General.” Their major purpose – is to detect and fight corruption, fraud, waste. Following are excerpts from. “Trump Installing His Allies In Offices Of Inspector General”. [ Luke Broadwater; New York Times; 8/20/26 ]:
12]. “This is in some ways unsurprising because this was all right in Project 2025,” says Rep. Jared Huffman of California, the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee…”They laid out the purge of the civil service and the consolidation of these independent entities within the government under executive power, under the direct executive power, and then they called for a second step, which was to repopulate all these positions with Heritage-trained political stooges.” [NOTE: SERIOUSLY read “Project 2025”]
***. “Never confuse ‘the law’ with justice; the law represents authority and the system. Justice represents integrity and the truth.” [ Gavin Nascimento ]
4]. “During the first year of Trump’s second term, his approach to dealing with federal inspectors general, who are supposed to be apolitical, was to fire them and slash funding for their offices. But since the mass firings, the president has appointed some government watchdogs with overtly political backgrounds. And they have directed their investigations toward allegations of fraud art the state level, instead of targeting the agencies within the administration that they are supposed to scrutinize.” [NOTE: cynical trick: divert attention to states to cover up!!!]
5]. “The president wanted his own IGs,” said Michael J. Missal, who spent nine years as inspector general for the Department of Veterans affairs. “When you have your own IGs, you lose the credibility and integrity of the work.”
6] “The latest example of Trump’s inserting a political actor into a nonpartisan watchdog role occurred amid public furor over the Reflecting Pool fiasco. Alarmed over the Trump administration’s botched repairs of the Reflecting Pool and the president’s attempt to falsely blame the failures on left-wing vandals, Democratic lawmakers urged the Interior Department’s inspector general to investigate. The Trump administration’s response was to insert a right-wing operative to take over the office that would carry out the investigation.” {NOTE: is there any doubt about MASSIVE TRUMP DICTATORSHIP CORRUPTION???? Cover up your own incompetence, & blame innocents you don’t like!!! ]
*** “The Trumpian lie is different. It is the power lie; or the bolly lie. It is the lie of the bigger kid who took your hat and is wearing it – while denying that he took it.” [ Masha Gessen ]
7]. “Dennis Kirk was among the authors of Project 2025, a collection of conservative policy proposals published before the 2024 election. The plan to install Kirk as the Interior Department inspector general sounded alarm bells in the world of government watchdogs and among Democrats on Capitol Hill, and not merely because he could thwart an internal investigation into the Reflecting Pool.”
11] “Within the inspector general community, the nomination of Kirk is considered a pivot beyond merely cutting those agencies. Now, former inspectors general say, they are being politicized. Kirk was a former advisor to Tulsi Gabbard when she served as the director of national intelligence, and a staff member at the conservative Heritage foundation.”
***. “It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.” [ Chief Justice Earl Warren ]
8]. “Missal was one of at least 20 inspectors general who were fired or demoted by Trump in the first six months of the president’s second term. The mass purge, which was accompanied by staff reductions of up to 30% in some offices, resulted in inspectors general offices without permanent leaders and a culture of fear that workers could be fired for doing their jobs.” [NOTE: this PATTERN is common throughout Washington, as a Republican Senator remarked; “We are all afraid.” ]
9] “..as Trump fills some of the positions, he has selected people with political backgrounds, and they have made it the mission of their organization to look outside the Trump administration fro fraud and wrongdoing.” [NOTE: this is the WEAPONIZATION of “Your” government AGAINST YOU ]
10] “Inspectors general, by law, are tasked with preventing and detecting fraud, waste and abuse related to their agency, while promoting efficiency in agency programs and operations. While they are located inside respective federal agencies, they are designed to act independently and in a nonpartisan manner.” {NOTE: their proper mission is EXACTLY what the Trump DICTATORSHIP does NOT want.}
***. “dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact they foster idiocy.” { Jorge Luis Borges ]
{Note: We have now given YOU 228 examples of why the Trump DICTATORSHIP is Stupid, Cruel, Corrupt, Crazy, and INCOMPETENT. The posts have been based on commentary made in reaction to something undemocratic, unConstitutional; something corrupt, cruel, stupid, incompetent that Trump has already done. The Pulitzer Prize winners, experts, law professionals, people from his own government, etc. are. NOT. making stuff up. They don’t need to. On virtually a daily basis, the Trump DICTATORSHIP violates. THE. test of any American government, written in the Constitution’s Preamble: it fails to “..promote the general Welfare..” of the American people. In 20 months of a four year term, the Trump DICTATORSHIP is already THE most corrupt and destructive in ALL. American history. If we are lucky, on January 20, 2029 – we MAY still have a DEMOCRACY.” But – even there – the damage Trump has done to the American soul, to our system of governing, to our financial health, to our physical health, to the health of planet earth, to our international reputation – may NOT be repairable.
So – what are YOU going to do that helps America recover????? ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness. – &. – INCOMPETENCE !!!, CCXXVII – “Iran war is a master class in squandering credibility”
***. “I believe it is among nations as with individuals,, that the party taking advantage of the distressed of another will lose infinitely more i the opinion of mankind, and in subsequent events, than he will gain by the stroke of the moment.”
[ George Washington; 7/28/1791. ]
This post presents excerpts from “Iran war is a master class in squandering credibility”. [. Fareed Zakaria; Washington Post Weekly; 8/23/26]. Read this article, please. Understand a basic truth of the Trump DICTATORSHIP’s effect on American standing in the world: Trump has drastically. LOWERED faith in the United States around the world. – by his rhetoric and his actions. Multiple public opinion polls taken in countries – which USED TO BE. our friends and allies confirm this. YOUR safety is now threatened. If America were to become involved in a war with one of THE most powerful nations. – how many countries would help us????? America is. LOSING. CREDIBILITY because of Donald John Trump.
The reputation and record the United States built, 1945-2015, has been severely damaged by the Trump DICTATORSHIP. Look no further than Trump’s STPUID and reckless assault on Canada – THE single most STUPID foreign affairs BLUNDER in. all. 1775 – 2026 American history. This article is but ONE example of how the Trump DICTATORSHIP. has damaged America’s standing in the world.
10]. “During the Cuban missile crisis, President John F. Kennedy sent former secretary of state Dean Acheson to Paris to brief Charles de Gaulle on the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. Acheson brought reconnaissance photographs to prove the case. De Gaulle, hardly an American supplicant, waved them away. He said he did not need the evidence. The word of the president of the United States was enough. That scene is unimaginable today.”
[ NOTE: it is “unimaginable today” BECAUSE of Donald John Trump ]
***. “Credibility is a leader’s currency. With it, he or she is solvent. Without it, he or she is bankrupt.”
[. John C. Maxwell. ]
1]. “Earlier this month, a minor geopolitical earthquake shook the Middle East. Saudi Arabia and Turkey. – two nations that have been openly hostile toward one another for much of the last decade. – pledged to go to war i each other’s defense…… So what brought them together? President Donald Trump. – or rather the two countries’ diminishing faith in him and his word.”
2]. “The iran war has been a master class in how to squander credibility. Recall both received security commitments from Trump only last year.”
3] “But Trump’s word is a solid with his counterparts abroad as it was with his bankers in New York.”
***. “Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.” [ Warren Bennis ]
4] “The world has learned to treat his Truth Social announcements as a mix of fact and fiction, like some of the AI – generated videos he posts.”
5]. “The same pattern is visible in Europe. In may, the Pentagon announced that 5,000 American troops would leave Germany, and Trump suggested more cuts were coming. The Pentagon then scrapped a planned deployment of roughly 4,000 troops to Poland. Sometimes he threatens not to defend Europe against Russia; other times he says he will.” [ NOTE: WHY does Trump almost always favor Russia????? ]
6] “for eight decades, the U.s. built up something as powerful as aircraft carriers and squadrons of F-35s: credibility. Allies believed American commitments would endure from one administration to the next. Adversaries understood that American threats, while sometimes exaggerated, carried real weight.”
***. “In times of crisis, credibility is an American president’s most valuable currency.” [ Anthony Blinken ]
7]. “..there was a broad presumption that the U.S. was a predictable actor and that the president’s words meant something.”
8] “Trump treats promises and threats as if he is playing a grand game of bluff. But unpredictability is a very different thing in an alliance than in a real estate negotiation. If allies cannot know whether troops will arrive or leave, whether tariffs will rise or fall, whether an agreement signed today will survive until tomorrow, they do not become more obedient. They become more independent.”
9]. “Countries are building insurance policies. Denmark chose the Franco-Italian SAMP/T air defense system rather than the American Patriot. Canada is reconsidering its F-35 purchases. European governments are investing heavily in their own arms industries. South Korea has become the second-largest seller of arms to European NATO countries and is helping supply the Gulf’s air defense with systems cheaper than Patriots………..None of these moves by itself amounts to a rupture with Washington. but together, they show a deepening loss of faith in America’s word.”
***. “Trust is built on credibility, and credibility comes from acting in other’s interests before your own.”
[ Stephen Denny ]
{NOTE: The above is just ONE. example. “Your” president, Donald John Trump, has SEVERELY undermined YOUR security in a few months of his second term. he has made the world. FAR. more dangerous. he has – by his rhetoric and actions. – begun to isolate America. – because he has. STUPIDLY. attacked the 1945-2015 alliance system that won World War II, that won the Cold War, that largely kept the peace, that helped build an interconnected world wide trade system. The Trump DICTATORSHIP has NOT “made America great again.” He has done the reverse. – weakened YOUR country in virtually EVERY way possible. His policies have benefitted Russia, benefitted China, will now benefit Iran. Major question for YOU: is Donald John Trump. the REAL “Manchurian Candidate”??? What “kompromat” does Putin have on Trump? THE two most important tests for the democratic fate of the world are Ukraine and Taiwan. What has the Trump DICTATORSHIP done to make sure they aren’t conquered by Russia and China??? ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness. – &. – INCOMPETENCE !, CCXXVI. – Trump’s Effort to Control Speech and Information
***. “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 ]
This post presents excerpts from “A Sweeping Effort To Stifle Free Speech”. [ Jim Rutenberg, Maggie Haberman; New York Times; 9/13/26 ]. Read the entire article for full appreciation of the gravity of this threat to American democracy, please.
5] “Mr. Trump has been candid about his aim: to inflict pain, even if it was fleeting. After bringing a failed libel suit against a former Times reporter Timothy L. O’Brien, whose book Mr. Trump “TrumpNation”. estimated Mr. Trump to be worth far less than he claimed, the president gloated about forcing the publisher to spend money. “I did it to make his life miserable, which I’m happy about,” he said.” [NOTE: run this around in your mind]
6]. “Mr. Trump’s team is unapologetic about its goal of achieving firmer control of the national information environment. – what Mr. Cheung, the communications director, has dubbed in a social media post, “Full Spectrum Dominance.”
2]. “Driven by personal pique, fury over leaks and a determination to shape the political narrative to his advantage, Mr. Trump is deploying the might of the federal government and filing lawsuits. – targeting not just journalists and liberal critics, but also comedians and talk show hosts, and the corporate entities behind them……… Free speech advocates say the president’s intent is apparent: to punish, intimidate and silence dissenters….”There’s not a week that goes by where they’re not taking a new step to curtail press freedom in the country…..”
***. “For if men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and, dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.”
[ George Washington; 3/15/1783 ]
3] “Reporters Without Borders maintains an index that tracks press freedom in 180 countries, clocking governmental threats, subpoenas and the vindictive use of regulations against journalists. The United States now ranks at its lowest since the organization started the index in 2002. – 64th, just above Panama and just below Botswana. The trend is the same at similar indexes kept by the Freedom of the Press Foundation and the V-Dem Institute of Sweden.”
10] “Government efforts to subpoena journalists and chill their reporting through threats are at the highest level since trhe foundation started tracking incidents in 2017.”
11] “..as a private citizen, Mr. Trump has filed lawsuits against a wide range of targets including The Guardian newspaper, the journalist Bob Woodward and the Pulitzer Prize board. – legal battles often financed by his donor-funded political action committee.”
***. “The first thing dictators do is finish free press to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.” [ Fidel Castro ]
12] “Many of the moves have also drawn stern rebukes from judges….Judge William b. Porter chastised the government….a judge worried that allowing the suit to proceed could have “a massive, chilling effect.” After a judge harshly questioned government lawyers…..Judge Paul Friedman..”Those who drafted the First Amendment believed that the nation’s security requires a free press and an informed people and that such security is endangered by governmental suppression of political speech.”
4] “Now the administration is breaking new ground in stifling dissent with personal lawsuits and novel uses of executive power…with implications that extend far beyond Mr. trump’s presidency. “We live in a different world under this administration because the threats are so grave…”
1] “The Justice Department has sent F.B.I. agents to reporter’s homes to serve subpoenas…The Pentagon has fired the editor and publisher of its traditionally independent newspaper….Regulatory agencies are using their powers to pressure media over their content……]
*** “We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.” [ Edward R. Murrow ]
7] 16 paragraphs are devoted to the actions of Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Republican state attorneys general and their persecution and prosecution of media companies they didn’t like. They used ‘YOUR’ government’s power of investigation and filing charges to harass, intimidate, and silence ANY media that dared oppose the Trump DICTATORSHIP.
8]. “..[Brendan Carr]..has bent the F.C.C. to the president’s will..”
9] 12 paragraphs are devoted to discussing “Mr. Trump’s animus against ABC..” The Trump DICTATORSHIP uses government powers to conduct investigations, follow “equal time rules,” started “an early review of the federal licenses that ABC stations need to operate” [ NEVER done before ], demands for documents, etc.
*** “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thougthcrime literally impossible because there will be no words in which to express it.” [ George Orwell: “1984” ]
For perspective – The Trump DICTATORSHIP escalates its war on TRUTH… Presented below are excerpts from “White House Enforces Ban On 3 Outlets”. [ Michael Grynbaum, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Benjamin Mullin; New York Times; 9/20/26]:
1]. “Journalists from CNN, MSNOW and Politico had their badges confiscated…a stark escalation in President Trump’s ever-expanding battles with news media..”
2] “First amendment experts condemned Mr. Trump’s ban as unconstitutional and said it was unlikely to survive a court challenge.”
3]. “Legal experts said that Mr. Trump’s news media ban was unlikely to survive a court challenge, because the president explicitly connected his decision to ban CNN, Politico and MSNOW to the content of their reporting. That’s “textbook viewpoint discrimination”…”
***. “Truth is the most important thing. That’s why we should ration it.” [ Lenin ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness – &. – INCOMPETENCE!!!, CCXXII – The Corrupt FBI Job Interview!!!
*** “Dictators cause the world’s worst problems. All the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.” [ George Ayittey ]
This post presents most of the corrupt FBI job interview printed on pages 16-17 of Devlin Barrett’s “The Department of Revenge.” Read this VERY carefully. – THIS is how “your” government, during the Trump DICTATORSHIP, operates. It is ONE. example of the WEAPONIZATION. of America’s “Justice Department.” [ NOTE: Devlin Barrett was won THREE. Pulitzer Prizes for his work. ]
1]. “Driscoll had gotten a heads-up from other FBI officials, including Paul Abbate, the acting director, that he and Robert Kissane, the senior counterterrorism official in the FBI’s New York office, were being considered for temporary roles at FBI headquarters, though it was unclear what the roles were exactly.”
2]. “Ingrassia’s first call with Driscoll, on the Friday before Trump’s inauguration, did not go well. Ingrassia asked two relatively straightforward questions about the organizational structure of the FBI and about threats to the United States. Then he asked Driscoll whom he had voted for. Offended, Driscoll refused to answer, and said asking those kind of questions were a violation of federal law. – specifically, the Hatch Act.”
3] “Ingrassia then asked if Driscoll agreed that the FBI agents who had “stormed” Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago should be held “accountable” for what they’d done. No, Driscoll replied, because they were doing their job based on a properly premised investigation and a warrant approved by a judge.”
*** “The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.”
[ Georges Bernanos ]
4] “Ingrassia then asked when Driscoll had started supporting President Trump. Shocked that he had even been asked the question, Driscoll refused to answer. Like all FBI agents and Justice Department career employees, he had been trained, tested, hired, and promoted in a culture that sought to studiously avoid brining politics into their work.”
5]. “A core principle of federal civil service people did not carry their political baggage into work decisions. In such large organizations, there were some people who violated the rules and some people who tried to bend them, but the overwhelming majority of Justice Department employees followed them and understood that they existed for good reason. Generations of law enforcement officials had sought to make a professional class of government lawyers and investigators, a work culture that demanded high standards not just in court or at crime scenes, but in every facet of their work. None of that seemed to matter to Ingrassia.”
6] “He asked Driscoll if he had voted for a Democrat in the last five elections. Driscoll refused to answer. With that, Ingrassia cut the interview short. The whole exchange had been bizarre. An aggressive young Trump staffer with no law enforcement or even White House experience had grilled a veteran FBI agent with a series of highly inappropriate questions about his political loyalty. Driscoll found it alarming and insulting.”
7]. “Later that night, Bove called Driscoll and told him he had “failed” the interview. Driscoll, Ingrassia had told others, was not “based out” enough. – not willing to declare his allegiance to the president’s agenda. Bove still wanted Driscoll in the job and told him he had worked to “flip” Ingrassia’s negative review.”
***. “There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.” [ Montesquieu ]
[NOTE: consider the following for perspective: “Donald Trump has brought a very different approach to presidential politics, one that has corrupted our traditional expectation of public service that benefits the people….Trump’s approach to power during his second term has also made him resemble something else. – a mob boss.”
[ Former U.S. Attorney; law professor; Barbara McQuade: “the Fix” ]
***. “The U.S.S.R. was a totalitarian state in which judges and prosecutors were controlled by the ruling party. The result was injustice, oppression and corruption.” [ Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness – &. – INCOMPETENCE!!!, CCXXI. – “The Ludicrous Argument Behind Trump’s Tariffs”
***. “Adam smith’s case for free trade was richer and deeper than just the simple presumption that trade was beneficial and therefore should be left alone. Smith pointed to two specific benefits..a country would derive from trade. First, countries could exchange their superfluities…Second, and more important, countries would benefit by increasing their productivity..and thereby …increase the real revenue and wealth of the society.” [ Ryan Hanley, Editor: “Adam Smith” ]
This post presents excerpts from “The Ludicrous Argument Behind Trump’s Tariffs” [ New York Times “Editorial”; 8/30/26 ]:
10] “In economic terms, the policy so far has been a disappointment. The tariffs have raised prices on many goods, without producing a revival in manufacturing employment. Overall job growth and economic growth have slowed in recent months. Instead of pulling back in response, Mr. Trump has doubled down on his trade war. Incredibly, the 1930 law that he has used to justify the Canadian tariffs is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, a law notorious for contributing to the Great Depression.” [ NOTE: fanatics on a “mission” aren’t deterred by inconvenient facts!!! ]
***. “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
[ Martin Luther King, Jr. ]
1] “President Trump’s repeated attempts to impose tariffs have become an encapsulation of his second term. They have hurt the American economy and his own popularity. They also range from legally dubious to blatantly illegal.”
2] “The Supreme court has already rejected most of Mr. Trump’s tariffs once. In February, it ruled them to be illegal, and he immediately made it clear that he would not be deterred. “Their decision is incorrect,” he said within hours of the rulings release. “But it doesn’t matter.” [NOTE: it doesn’t matter if you’re a king, or think you ARE a king ]
3]. “Mr. Trump’s defiance stands out. He has twice tried to circumvent the court’s tariff ruling, imposing new rounds of import fees by invoking legal justifications that are patently ridiculous.” [NOTE: kings, and dictators often try “legalistic noncompliance,” or. – they remake the court……. ]
***. “The tariffs, or Trump tax, are a mistake in many different ways. but the most important error is a fundamental misunderstanding of the global trading system.” [ Philip Coggan: “The Economic Consequences of Mr. Trump” ]
4] “..several of Mr. Trump’s individual justifications are far flimsier than those that past presidents have attempted. His latest round of global tariffs offers an example. The administration’s rationale for them is a section of a 1974 law that empowers a president to enact tariffs against countries that import goods made with forced labor. Last month, the administration cited the law to impose tariffs on nearly all goods entering the United States. That round of tariffs is a successor to the similarly sized tariff level that the Supreme Court rejected in February, as well as a temporary tariff Mr. Trump imposed after that decision. A panel of federal judges ruled that temporary tariff to be illegal as well.”
5]. “some countries do deserve scrutiny for importing goods made with forced labor. One major source of forced labor is China, which has compelled residents of Xinjiang, a predominantly Muslim region, to produce cotton, car parts and other items. Yet federal law already empowers the government to address forced labor in other ways, including by simply blocking the entry of goods made with such labor. Mr. Trump has used a genuine problem as an excuse to apply tariffs to more than 80 countries that are collectively responsible for more than 99 percent of American imports.”
6]. “..[Trump]..is effectively claiming that products made with forced labor are a major issue in Canada, Japan, South Korea, Britain, France and dozens of other countries. The tariffs apply even to Norway, which has been a pioneer in fighting forced labor around the world.” {NOTE: morons aren’t convinced by real facts ]
***. “In “On the Jealousy of Trade,” Hume suggested that international trade should not be viewed as a zero-sum game, in which countries were competing with each other as rivals, but rather as a form of mutually beneficial exchange that should be encouraged.” { Hanley: “Adam Smith” }
7]. “Then there is the sketchy rationale for his latest tariff on Canadian goods. The president invoked part of a 1930 law that has never been used before to impose tariffs, while ignoring more recent laws. – as well as the trade agreement that his first administration negotiated with Canada. He has imposed a 50 percent tariff on many Canadian goods by claiming that Canada has discriminated against American goods, even though his administration started the trade dispute.” [NOTE: for perspective for Trump’s war on Canada, see “The Real Winner of the Trade War With Canada? China” [Chad Brown; New York times; 8/30/26}. and “The Tinfoil Folly of America’s Trade War”. [Bill Saporito; New York Times; 9/3/26: “It’s not cheating when Canadians undersell American aluminum producers. It’s an advantage. It’s logical for the United States to import lower-cost Canadian aluminum and invest in industries in which America enjoys its own advantage. – chip design and artificial intelligence, for instance.” ]
8] “While federal judges have often done an admirable job of trying to respond to Mr. Trump’s illegal policies, the tariff cases highlight a core problem: Mr. Trump’s legalistic noncompliance moves more quickly than the courts do. when a judge rules one Trump policy to be illegal, he replaces it with a new one accomplishing similar aims.”
9]. “Eventually, the forced labor tariffs will probably go back to the Supreme Court, which needs to become nimbler about protecting the constitution from Mr. Trump’s disrespect for the balance of power among the three branches of Government….When faced with blatant defiance of the law from Mr. Trump, however, the court’s Republican-appointed majority sometimes takes its time or demurs. In the meantime, Mr. Trump’s policies do damage.”
***. “Wooden-headedness consists of assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting to wish while not allowing oneself to be confused by the facts.”
[ Double Pulitzer prize winner Barbara Tuchman; author of “The march of folly”. – a study of governments pursuing self-destructive policies. – “From Troy To Vietnam” ]
{NOTE: – AGAIN!!! We ask YOU to judge Trump’s policies in terms of THE test: the U.S. Constitution’s Preamble: “…promote the general Welfare…” HOW do Trump’s tariffs ‘promote the general Welfare” of America and the American people??? Think on this: “The idea that things will return to ‘normal’ once Donald Trump leaves the White House is probably just wishful thinking,” Montreal’s McGill University political science professor Daniel Breland – as in long-term damage to America’s 200-year peaceful alliance with Canada. – Bob Gillies; Associated Press; 8/25/26 ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness. – &. INCOMPETENCE!, CCXIX – “Trump’s Election Meddling Erodes Our Democracy”
***. “..If Nixon had had the character of President Eisenhower..this scandal [Watergate break-in and cover-up] would never have happened…I hope no political party will ever stoop so low as to embrace the likes of..Nixon again.”
[. Federal District Court Judge John J. Siraca ]
This post presents excerpts from “Trump’s Election Meddling Erodes Our Democracy”. [ New York Times “Editorial”; 8/23/26]:
5] “Background and methodology: The clearest sign that a democracy has died is that a leader and his party make it impossible for their opponents to win an election and hold power. Once that stage is reached, the change is extremely difficult to reverse. The 12 benchmarks in this editorial offer a way to understand how much Mr. Trump is eroding American democracy.”
4] “The president is prioritizing his own interests over the national interest.”
***. “If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half way to a dictatorship.”
[ Clement Attlee ]
1] “The surest sign of democratic collapse is the unwillingness of an elected political party to leave office. The party rewrites laws and changes election rules to prevent its opponents from gaining power. The shift often starts slowly, but can ultimately end in autocracy.”
2] “President Trump has taken worrisome steps down this path since returning to office in January 2025. He has directed Republican-run states to enact newly gerrymandered maps to increase the chances that Republicans maintain control of Congress even if they receive fewer overall votes this. He has tried to pass legislation that could keep many eligible voters from voting. And he has sent signals that he may use the power of the federal government to disallow legitimate ballots this fall. On July 16, mr. trump took the remarkable step of giving a prime-time White House address devoted to lies and misleading statements about voter fraud.”
3] “Together, Mr. Trump’s actions have left constitutional scholars and democracy experts anxious about this year’s midterm elections. They wonder if the Trump administration may use false pretenses to send federal agents to Democratic-leaning areas to intimidate people and suppress voting.”
*** “In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil.”
[ Natan Sharansky ]
“THE. AUTOCRACY. INDEX 12 Markers of Democratic Erosion”
1]. “Manipulating the law to stay in power”. [ 3 / 10 ] “Modern authoritarian takeovers often start not with a military coup, but with an elected leader who uses powers of the office to consolidate authority. The Trump administration has: 2025 – 7 things – “Fired the Federal Election commission chair after she investigated President Trump’s campaigns.” 2026 – 7 things – “Threatened to arrest uncooperative local election officials.”
2] “stifling speech and dissent” [ 4 / 10 ]. “Authoritarians abuse the powers of the office to make political opposition difficult, if not impossible. The Trump administration: 2025 – 5 things – “attempted to suppress protests in Democratic-run cities.” 2026 – 4 things – “Demanded the identities of critics of ICE from social media companies.”
3]. “Persecuting political opponents” 5 / 10 ]. “Autocrats use the immense power of enforcement as a political tool, often starting spurious investigations and prosecutions of perceived enemies while protecting and rewarding loyalists. The Trump administration: 2025 – 11 things – “Issued executive orders punishing law firms that represented his critics.” 2026. – 7 things – “Oversaw a de facto pardon industry open to wealthy supporters.”
***. “The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.”
[ Christopher Hitchens ]
4]. “Bypassing the legislature”. [ 5 / 10 ]. “To push a democracy toward autocracy, the leader often finds ways to sideline the legislature. Without congressional approval, the Trump administration: 2025. – 7 things – “shrank and closed agencies created by Congress.” 2026. – 5 things. – “Refused to enforce anti-money-laundering laws.”
5] “Using the military at home. [ 2 / 10 ]. “Autocratic leaders frequently use the military on their own soil to flex their might and serve their political agendas. The Trump administration”. 2025. – 4 things – “Fired top officials for lacking personal fealty to Mr. Trump.” 2026. – 1 thing. – “Escalated the use of militarized force to enact its immigration agenda.”
6] “Defying the courts” [ 2 / 10 ]. “Would-be authoritarians recognize that courts can keep them from consolidating power, and they take steps to weaken or bypass judges. The Trump administration: 2025. – 4 things – “Defied a court order to restore funding for Medicaid and other services.” 2026. – 6 things. – “Told Republican officials to crack down on “rogue judges that are criminals.”
***. “Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalin’s dictatorship.” { George Kennan }
7] “Declaring false emergencies” [ 5 /10 ]. “Autocrats often curtail democracy by declaring an emergency and arguing that the threat requires them to exercise unusual degrees of power. The Trump administration: 2025. – 5 things – “Declared an energy emergency to deregulate fossil fuels.” 2026. – 2 things – “Declared a national emergency to cut off fuel to Cuba.”
8]. “Vilifying marginalized groups.” [ 6 / 10 ]. “Authoritarians tend to demean minority groups and portray them as threats, providing further justification for amassing power. The Trump administration: 2025 – 8 things. – “Fired women and people of color from government leadership posts.” 2026. – 3 things – “Denigrated prominent Muslim Americans as “jihadists.”
9]. “Controlling information” [ 2 / 10 ]. “Authoritarians suppress inconvenient truths by manipulating government information and controlling news media. The Trump administration: 2025. – 8 things. – “Stopped the collection of climate data.” 2026. – 5 things. – “Subpoenaed journalists who reported on the administration.”
***. “Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.” [ Bruce Colville ]
10] “Trying to take over universities”. [ 2 / 10 ] “Authoritarians often repress universities, recognizing that they are hotbeds of independent thought and political dissent. The Trump administration: 2025. – 4 things. – “Revoked hundreds of millions of dollars in research funding on spurious grounds.” 2026 – 1 thing. – “Continued to pressure universities to comply with demands.”
11] “Creating a cult of personality” [ 6 / 10 ] “Emperors and kings glorify themselves by festooning the nation with their names and images. The Trump administration: 2025 – 8 things – memecoin, banners, parade, Gold Card, merch, renamed, new battleship class, &,&,&…………….. 2026. – 6 things. – Trump sig on “our” money, king meme, Jesus Christ meme, $1 Trump coin, Trump passports, Trump arch in D.C., ……….
12] “Using power for personal profit” [ 7 / 10 ] “Authoritarians often turn the government into a self-enrichment machine, creating a culture of unabashed corruption. Mr. Trump and his family have: 2025. – 7 things. – private D.C. club, foreign real estate projects, $400 million jet, $100 million in corporate payments, demanded government pay him $230 million, pardon rich friend………….. 2026. – 5 things. – “Disregarded conflicts of interest…”..nobody cared.”
***. “If you don’t know the difference between dictatorship and leadership then you got to go back to a fifth grade civics class.” [ Tim Kaine ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness – & INCOMPETENCE, CCXVIII – Trump Attacks Anybodt Telling TRUTH, Anybody Trying To Hold Him Accountable
*** “The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested in power, pure power. Power is not a means, it is an end. One plots not to establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order 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″ ]
tis post presents excerpts from John Rash’s “Despite pressure, White House correspondents persevere” [Minnesota Star Tribune; 8/1/26]. Consider this one, very public exhibit, of the Trump DICTATORSHIP. – the absolute INTOLERANCE for. ANY. criticism, ANY. opposition, and most of all – absolute HATRED. for. ANY. attempt to find TRUTH, absolute HATRED. for. ANYBODY telling. truth, on. ANYTHING. – including the weather!
***. “Truth is the most precious thing. that’s why we should ration it.” [ Lenin ]
1] “But Trump did not rise to his title. Instead, he rambled and ranted for over an hour to often stunned silence – even from sycophantic Cabinet and congressional allies interspersed among the correspondents – delivering jarring, juvenile insults to journalists, celebrities and politicians he doesn’t like. Or hates, as he said himself, bluntly blurting: “I hate some people.”
2] “Actually, lots of people, as he made apparent in his speech. Including, but not limited to..Joe Biden..Gavin Newsom and J.b. Pritzker..Chuck Schumer, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez..Adam Schiff..Bruce Springsteen, Bette Midler, Jane Fonda…Kaitlin Collins…”
3]. “…the president’s core mission regarding the news media is clear…”Just last week..Trump’s lawyers were in court in Miami in a lawsuit against the BBC to punish them for their coverage…in Tampa in a lawsuit against the New York Times..because they didn’t like our coverage,’ Baker said. referring to an important story about security vulnerabilities of the new Qatari-gifted [grifted to critics] presidential plane…Justice Department lawyers were in court in New York, trying to subpoena my colleagues for reporting truthful information.”
***. “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” [ Adolf Hitler ]
4]. “..Trump’s scores of lawsuits and threats. – some from him individually, some from institutions like the Federal Communications Commission. – dim the beacon of free speech America used to shine to the world.” [NOTE; as “our” president, Trump can use YOUR tax dollars to carry out his anti-free speech attacks!!! ]
5]. “Every president has had difficulty with the press, going back probably to George Washington,’ said Jane Kirtley, professor emerita at the University of Minnesota’s Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communications…”in terms of the kind of overt hostility that’s being directed against the press, the many lawsuits that President Trump has brought, his rhetoric, his threats against journalists, calling journalists traitors and accusing them of treason. – this level of rhetoric I have never heard..”
6]. “The subpoenas Baker referred to were hastily withdrawn after a judge demanded to know why federal prosecutors had issued them just two days after the story was published instead of making them the final step in an investigation, as is typically the case.”
***. “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of 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 ]
7]. “..a message has been sent, particularly to reporters who might not work for the New York Times and might not have that kind of legal firepower and retainer, of what might happen to them if they report something that upsets the president.”
8] “The Time’s story of the presidential jet “directly served the public interests of national security..”, said Stern…”it’s a perfect example of how investigative journalism, often based on confidential sources who come forward because they’ve wrongdoing and think they’re doing a public sevice by exposing it. – how that bolsters national security, not hinders it.”
9]. “But the difference is that while other presidents at times did take actions that we saw as infringing on our First Amendment rights and that we objected to, we’ve never seen a president who did it on such a sustained, expansive and really very intimidating manner.”
***. “And if all others accepted the lie, which the Party imposed. – if all records told the same tale. – then the lie passed into history and becomes the truth.” [ George Orwell: ‘1984″ ]
[NOTE: America stands in danger of losing its First Amendment freedoms. – by not using them. Read “Use It Or Lose It”. [Adrienne LaFrance; The Atlantic; July, 2026]:
1]. “Trump, gifted showman that he is, understands that insulted citizens on camera is a tactic that serves his interests. it distracts people from the fact that he hasn’t answered the question.”
2] “Power doesn’t like to be checked.”
3] “The cause of freedom has advanced only because of those who have been willing to stand up against government overreach.”
4] “Although every American is entitled to exercise the right of free press. No one is entitled to be trusted or believed. – that you have to earn.”
***. “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” [ Elie Wiesel ]
*** “The history of liberty is the history of resistance.” [ Woodrow Wilson; 28th U.S. President ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP. – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness – and INCOMPETENCE, CCXII -“The Economic Consequences of Mr. Trump”
*** “Arrogance and stupidity is a deadly combination.” [ Steven Cooper ]
This post presents excerpts from Philip Coggan’s. “The Economic Consequences of Mr. Trump.” Coggan is a former “Economist’ and ‘Financial Times’ journalist for 35 years, author of several books, winner of multiple awards. He lives in London, U.K.
1. “The tariffs, or Trump tax, are a mistake in many different ways. But the most important error is a fundamental misunderstanding of the global trading system.”
2]. “…the Court of International Trade in the U.S. ruled that Mr. Trump has exceeded his authority by imposing tariffs when the power should belong to Congress…the ruling emphasized the one consistent theme behind all the president’s actions: chaos.”
3]. “Mr. Trump has made the goods Americans buy more expensive, and disrupted the global economy, without doing anything to help those who voted for him.”
4]. “Most modern economists would advise Mr. Trump against his trade policies – but he relies on his own instincts and the support of a narrow coterie of acolytes.”
5] “…in particular, Mr. Trump effectively imposed an embargo on his own economy.”
***. “Over the past 200 years – protectionist countries fall behind.” [ President Ronald Reagan; 1988 radio broadcast ]
6] “…footwear manufacturing also warned that the sheer scale of the tariffs would lead to closed businesses, lost jobs, higher prices and shortages on shelves. There was simply no prospect that production could be moved back to the U.S. in any reasonable timescale…Mr. Trump had even placed a tariff on the machinery and materials needed to make footwear in the U.S. this is not, to say the least, an example of joined-up thinking.” [NOTE: read this again!!! – here YOU have the essence of Trump DICTATORSHIP INCOMPETENCE. “We” are being ‘governed” by idiots.]
7] “An academic study that examined the effect of tariffs in more than 150 countries over a fifty-year period found that tariff increases were followed by adverse effects on output and productivity that were economically and statistically significant. Tariff increases were also followed by higher unemployment and greater inequality. They are self-inflicted wounds.”
8] On pages 10-11, Coggan presents six major points on WHY Trump’s tariffs are destructive, including Trump’s tax cuts for the rich will make the trade deficit worse; his tariffs “make no sense” in the era of global supply chains; will likely reduce productivity; the burden will fall on lower income consumers – many of them Trump voters.
9] “By declaring ‘America first’, and bullying its allies, Mr. Trump has dissolved this informal empire [ the post-1945 American lead trading system]. This is bad news for democracy in general.”
10] “Mr. Trump’s approach also undermines the image of the U.S. as the embodiment of the liberal democratic system. He bypasses Congress, attacks the courts and the free press, and only believes in elections when he wins them…Mr. Trump’s authoritarianism, by eroding U.S. soft power, has an economic impact too.”
***. “The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” [ Alexandre Dumas ]
[NOTE: this summary of Coggan’s thinking covers ONLY the first 15 pages of his 116 pages. This is bad enough, do YOU need more facts? Coggan ends with “The Man Without A Plan.” Another chapter: “Where The Jobs Went.” “Analysing Donald Trump’s economic policy is rather like nailing jelly to the wall.” How much more DAMAGE can the Trump DICTATORSHIP do to the American economy, to America’s world-wide reputation??? ]
The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness – And: INCOMPETENCE, CCX -Losing Credibility And Foreign Friends – Trump Shoots America In The Foot!!!!!!!
*** “..Trump’s language and conduct has at times presented risks to national security…Many of Trump’s former top Cabinet officers and aides have said publicly that Trump should not be president again and should not even be on the ballot.” [ Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward: “War” ]
NOTE: We have added ‘INCOMPETENCE’ to the description of the Trump DICTATORSHIP because, as we have said many times, Donald John Trump fails THE test written in the U. s. constitution’s Preamble: “WE the People.” create this government to “..form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the blessings of Liberty..” The CHALLENGE: specifically – Which, if ANY, Trump DICTATORSHIP policies and laws have done ANY of this? Just one example: when Trump took office in January, 2017 – the U.s. national debt “…was approximately $19.95 trillion..” In August, 2026 YOUR U.S. national debt is now over $40 trillion, “an all time high..” And – American is paying over $1 trillion in interest EVERY year!!!
This post presents excerpts from “Blaming Canada Is No Longer a Joke,” by Chrystia Freeland, a former deputy prime minister, minister of foreign affairs, minister of finance for Canada, in the New York Times, 8/2/26. Most Americans know Canada is America’s most important ally and friend. Read….then re-read this….then THINK. – what is this former high-ranking Canadian official telling YOU??? This is ONE indication on what the reckless STUPIDITY of one Donald John Trump, unfortunately U.S. president, has done to America’s world-wide reputation.
From 1945 to 2016, America built a POSITIVE reputation world-wide. – because of our generosity, openness, support for democracy around the world. This “soft power” was a MAJOR advantage for America, for Americans. In less than two years, the Trump DICTATORSHIP has trashed this. People, world-wide, will NOT forget what Trump has done – in YOUR name. Indeed, substantial changes – not to America’s benefit. – are already occurring because of Trump’s reckless and STUPID words and actions.
2]. “Mr. Trump’s tariff offensive has a clear purpose: to demonstrate who is dominant and who must submit…The laughably flimsy, constantly changing justifications for the president’s tariffs are in fact part of the point. True power is being able to do whatever you like for whatever reason you like, or for no reason at all…Mr. Trump is keen to establish himself as the world’s apex predator.”
3] “Mr. Trump has made his view plain. His Washington doesn’t have allies. It has only satraps, enemies and equals – the latter a singular group that includes just china and on some days, perhaps, Russia.”
7]. “..the irony is That Washington is abusing its allies at precisely the moment when it most needs them. As the war with Iran is demonstrating, even the United States is weaker when it gores it alone.”
*** “I’ve served the man for two years. I think he’s a long-term and immediate danger to the country,” a senior national security official told us.” { Pulitzer Prize winners Philip Rucker, Carol Leonnig”. “A Very Stable Genius” ]
8] “..for a lot of its longtime members, that list of like-minded democracies doesn’t feel like much of an alliance anymore. A Pew survey published last month showed that in most of the 36 surveyed countries, China was viewed more favorably than the United States. That included Canada, where 33 percent of respondents saw America favorably, compared with 44 percent for China. People in France, Germany and Britain took a similar view.”
9] “..given Mr. Trump’s choice to play by China’s rules and force smaller countries to suffer or submit, the poll shouldn’t be much of a surprise.”
10]. “Would-be future American leaders who recognize the value of allies and think all will be forgiven when the White House has a new occupant need to appreciate the depth of the damage done by its current resident.”
*** “Tillerson was never told why he was fired…It had earlier leaked out that Tillerson had called Trump a “fucking moron’ at a July 20, 2017, Tank meeting. Probably nothing could have triggered Trump’s insecurities more.”
[ Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward: “Rage” ]
4]. “Inside the United States, the pressing question is whether the country will remain a democracy. That matters to the rest of us, too, of course.. But even if democracy eventuallly prevails inside the United States, America’s old friends will wonder whether Trumpism permanently reshaped Washington’s relationship with the rest of the world.” [NOTE: read this again – the reputation of YOUR country is no longer in our hands. Trump has offended and alarmed SO MANY other nations – it will be difficult tor repair his damage.]
5] “Will a post-Trump try to rebuild genuine partnerships with its like-minded allies, based on the idea that win-win outcomes are possible and that even superpowers need to honor their treaty arrangements? or is Mr. Trump saying out loud what most Americans have really thought of their allies all along?”
6]. “After all, in its 250th year, the Republic really is flirting with authoritarianism.”
*** “Trump lacks the emotional stability, knowledge, critical-thinking skills, and judgment to be commander-in-chief.” [Pulitzer prize winner David Cay Johnston: “It’s Even Worse Than You Think”]
1] “At a time when Americans rank inflation and affordability as their top economic concerns, adding another tax on consumer goods. – which is what tariffs are. – is self-defeating.”
***. “Stupidity is a talent for misconception.” [ Edgar Allan Poe ]
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