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The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXXI – “The Beacon 0f Democracy Goes Dark”

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***. “What distinguishes America is not its greater or lesser goodness, but simply the unrivaled power to do that which is good or bad.” [ Mark Frankland; London Observer; 11/6/1977 ]

9] “American culture is n longer synonymous with the aspiration to freedom, but with transactionalism and secrecy; the algorithems that mysteriously what you see, the money collected by anonymous billionaires, the deals that the American president is making with world leaders that benefit himself and maybe others whose names w don’t know. America was always associated with capitalism, business, and markets, but nowadays there’s no pretense hat anyone else will be invited to share the wealth.”

***. “The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.” [Thomas Paine; Common Sense; 1776]

This post presents excerpts from Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum’s. “The Beacon Of Democracy Goes Dark”. [The Atlantic; November, 2025]. Read it and think. Read it and weep. Read it and pray for America. Read it and share it.

4] “The dramatic shift we have undergone in just a few months – away from a foreign policy based on democratic faith and toward the promotion of a more cynical, more authoritarian, view of the world – has hit these institutions hard. The fact that the Trump administration has tried to shut down all of America’s foreign broadcasters is telling.”

6] “The shift against these traditionally bipartisan institutions, against the belief that Americans should defend and promote democracy around the world, and against the democratic faith itself is part of something broader….Donald Trump appears much happier with dictators than with democratic allies.”

10] “The impact of this change around the world will be profound, far-reaching, and long-lasting. The very existence of American democracy inspired people in every corner of the planet, and the decline of American democracy will have the same effect.”

***. “The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.” [George Washington; 4/30/1789; First Inaugural Address]

1]. “Americans have promoted democracy just by existing. Human rights and the rule of law are in our founding documents…..In the 20th century, w moved from simply from modeling democratic ideals to spreading and promoting them as a matter of policy…..During the Cold War, we connected words such as freedom and rights…to our national identity.”

2] “After the Second World War, the dream of American freedom and prosperity strengthened what were initially shaky democracies in Western Europe and Asia, including recently defeated West Germany and Japan. Their political and economic success drew others into the fold.”

3]. “..by putting democracy at the center of our international and national identity, we also helped strengthen our own political system.”

5]. “…it remains the target of a small group of conspiracy theorists who have influence in this administration because they have a large following in X or have appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast.”

***. “Trump has no knowledge of the American story and so cannot have any faith in it. He has no understanding of or sympathy for the language of the founders, so he cannot be inspired by it. Since he doesn’t believe American democracy is good, he has no interest in an America that aspires to be a model among nations.” [Anne Applebaum: “Twilight of Democracy”]

7] “Vladimir Putin has banned media that spread “fake news’ – that is, accurate information….Rodrigo Duterte, called Rappler, a famous investigative-reporting site, a “fake news outlet”….In places as varied as Egypt and Myanmar, the fake charge of “fake news” has been used to destroy legitimate journalists.”

8]. “All these changes are part of a larger shift, a revolutionary transformation in the way Americans present themselves to the world, and the way they are therefore perceived by others. The most ubiquitous form of American culture nowadays is…the social media platforms that pump conspiracy theories..”

11]. “More predictable is the impact on americans. If we are no longer a country that aims to make the world better, but a country whose foreign policy is designed to build the wealth of the president or promote the ruling party’s friends, then we have fewer reasons to work together at home. If we promote cynicism abroad, we will become more cynical at home.”

***. “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]

Of all the damages to America from the cancer of Trumpism. – what we are learning is this: the damage Trumpism has inflicted on the American soul may be the longest lasting, the most devastating, the most crippling. Trump is truly a CANCER. – a cancer that spreads, a cancer that strangles, a cancer that sucks the life out of us. Pray – on YOUR knees – that America manages to recover our soul……………………..

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXIX. – The ‘con job” that YOU are paying higher prices on. virtually everything !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~ tomdolen

*** “Anybody who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters, cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
[ Albert Einstein ]

YOUR president, one Donald John Trump, wants YOU to believe that prices YOU ARE PAYING on many/most items, some critical survival items – is in YOUR IMAGINATION !!!!! Trump asserts this is all a big Democratic ‘hoax,” a “con job,” false facts – because the Dems are out to persecute him, even worse, ‘hate America.” !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*** “Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.” [ Adolf Hitler ]

Is this Trump BIG LIE lie number 35,xx1 ????? Or – have people stopped counting ???

For YOUR perspective, YOU might want to check on these headlines:

1]. “How the letter. K. describes the shape of the U.S. economy…The wealthy get richer, the poor struggle more.” [Christopher Rugaber; Associated Press; 12/3/25]. More on this later. YOU might want to research the ECONOMIC. FACTS behind WHY economists have documented this.

2]. “As shoppers seek lower prices, Walmart sales rise.” [Jordyn Holman; New York Times; 11/21/25]. Think on this quote: “Higher income shoppers are continuing to shop at Walmart, a sign they are also looking to save money where they can.” The wealthy shopping at Walmart !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3]. “Consumers’ Pain Motivates Trump To Act on Prices….Affordability Effort….Offering New Policies and Messaging as Tariffs Sap Wage Gains”. [Alan Rappeport; New York Times; 11/16/25] !!!!! Trump needs to come out with – new messaging!!!! – i.e. – high prices are really a “hoax,” a ‘con job” !!!!!!!! He won’t help YOU – he just wants YOU to think that he really cares !!!!!!!!! Believe that, and I have this bridge to sell………

4]. “Trump calls affordability concerns ‘a con job’… “It doesn’t mean anything to anybody,’ he says, blames Biden” [Erica Green; New York Times; 12/3/25]. “Trump called the issues of affordability a “fake narrative” and ‘con job’ created by Democrats to dupe the public.” !!!!! SO – when YOU shop. – the higher prices YOU ARE PAYING – are a “fake narrative” – it’s all in your mind!!!!! YOUR credit card bill lies – you didn’t really pay that much!!!!! Does ANYTHING more accurately portray Trump’s CONTEMPT for ordinary Americans – like YOU ????????????/

5] “Survey shows shoppers have less jingle…half say it’s harder to buy the gifts they want.” [Josh Boak, Amelia Thomson-Deveaux; Associated Press; 12/13/25]. “About 4 in 10 are dipping into their savings more than at other times….Roughly 9 in 10 U.S. adults, 87%, say they’ve noticed higher than usual prices for groceries…” SO – there must be a lot of really stupid American adults, right? They’ve been “duped” by those sneaky, diabolical Democrats into THINKING they’re paying more, but not really paying more. – because they fell victim to the Dem’s “con job” !!!!!

*** “There are certain persons for whom pure truth is a poison.” [ Andre Maurois ]

YOU might want to read, just a little, of Pulitzer Prize winner Maggie Haberman’s. “definitive biography” of one Donald John Trump: ‘Confidence Man…The Making Of Donald Trump And The Breaking Of America”. [get the updated version through the 2024 election]

Before reading “Confidence Man”. – YOU might want to think. – WHY – did a Pulitzer Prize winner title a Trump biography. “confidence Man” ?????????? Just WHAT does she know?????

OR –
YOU could have already read Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston’s “It’s Even Worse ThanYou Think…What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America”

OR. –
YOU could research. WHY – some people have said Trump makes up numbers that sound good…………..

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXVIII – “How Billionaires Took Over Americn Politics”

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*** “We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentration in the hands of a few. But we can’t have both.” [ Justice Louis Brandeis ]

This post is intended to begin to open YOUR eyes to the magnitude of political influence amassed by America’s wealthiest people. It is expressed in tax code corruption, in laws not enforced, in laws written by and for the rich, in ‘supreme court” rulings like “citizens United,” and much more.

Following are some excerpts from “How Billionaires Took Over American Politics”. [Beth Reinhard, Naftali Bendavid, Clarence Morse, Aaron Schaffer; Washington Post Weekly; 11/23/25]. If YOU care about America, American society, American government, American justice – this is a MUST read.

1] “In an era defined by major political divisions and massive wealth accumulation for the richest Americans, billionaires are spending unprecedented amounts on U.S. politics…leading to a record-breaking surge of donations by the ultrarich in 2024. Since 2000, political giving by the wealthiest 100 Americans to federal elections has gone up almost 140 times..”

3] “..in three landmark decisions, starting with 2010’s Citizens United vs FEC, federal courts gutted post-Watergate campaign restrictions, clearing the way for donors to contribute unlimited money to elections. As a result, U.S. politicians are more dependent on the largesse of the billionaire class than ever before, giving one-four-hundreth of 1% of Americans extraordinary influence over which politicians and policies succeed…driving up campaign costs and eroding public confidence in American democracy.”

9] “..at least 17 billionaires, collectively worth more than $1 trillion, claimed coveted seats in the Capitol Rotunda – a historic concentration of wealth that seemed to herald a new class of American oligarchs, there to celebrate a president known for publicly rewarding his allies and punishing his opponents…..”It was so striking and so out in the open that the rich people are running the country”…….”

11] “..under Trump, the first billionaire president, the ultrawealthy have set up shop inside the corridors of government more openly than ever before…Trump’s Cabinet is the wealthiest in U.S. history..”

***. “Of all the forms of tyranny the least attractive and most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy.” [ Theodore Roosevelt, Republican 26th U.S. President ]

2] “Over the past quarter-century, political, legal and economic changes have reshaped the relationship between wealth and political power in America. Economists say wealth is now more concentrated at the very top than at any time since the Gilded Age.”

4] “Donations are not the only path to power for the ultrawealthy; following Trump’s lead, some billionaires are parlaying their financial clout into public office. At least 44 of the 902 U.S. billionaires on Forbes magazine’s 2025 list, or their spouses, have been elected or appointed to state or federal office in the past 10 years..”

5] “America’s 902 billionaires are collectively worth more than $6.7 trillion, the most wealth ever amassed by the nation’s ultrarich… A little more than a decade ago, there were half as many billionaires in the U.S., with a total worth estimated at $2.6 trillion when adjusted for inflation.”

*** “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.”
[ Benito Mussolini ]

6]. “Overall, billionaires have rallied behind Trump’s Republican Party. More than 80% of the federal campaign spending by the 100 wealthiest Americans went to Republicans…Trump himself raised 15 times as much from the 100 richest Americans in 2024 than he did during his first presidential campaign, in 2016.”

7] “..over the past half-decade, many of tech’s wealthiest titans rebelled against the Biden administration’s criticism and policing of their industry…”

8] “When Trump first ran for office in 2016, he pitched himself as someone whose personal fortune made him uncorruptible. [ stop laughing !!!], and he promised to break the power of elites in Washington and “drain the swamp.” [stop laughing, you’re going to hurt yourself !!!]

***. “The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.” [. Adam Smith – yes – THE. Adam Smith. ]

10] “Billionaires didn’t acquire their influence in D.C. overnight. President Bill Clinton aggressively courted Wall Street, then signed a sweeping financial deregulation and a trade deal strongly backed by wealthy Americans. President George W. Bush also relied heavily on affluent donors, then pushed through tax cuts that benefited the rich, as well as the Troubled Asset Relief Program to bail out big banks. In 2008, Barack Obama became the first presidential candidate in the post-Watergate era to reject public campaign financing and instead raising huge sums from private donors.”

12] ‘..Trump has championed a deregulation and tax cut agenda that is bringing huge benefits to wealthy Americans..DOGE..slashed the regulatory state that polices – and infuriates – billionaires, along with their business activities. The IRS has lost thousands of workers, which cripples efforts to pursue tax cheats…The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created to ensure that financial institutions treat their customers fairly, is on its deathbed. .Trump’s main legislative achievement, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, locked in lower tax rates for corporations and allowed the children of the super-rich to inherit $15 million tax-free, while cutting Medicaid programs that benefit the poor and the elderly.”

***. “You know, the only trouble with capitalism is capitalists. They’re too damn greedy.”
[ Herbert Hoover, Republican. 31st U.S. President ]

A future post will concern material from “Tax The Rich!” [ Morris Pearl, Erica Payne and The Patriotic Millionaires]. It will feature “Tax Tricks,” “Corporate Tricks<” Tax Lies. We leave YOU with this quote to chew on:
“According to the study [Martin Gilens], not a single policy supported by the majority of voters but opposed by the rich and the business community ended up being passed into law.”

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXVII – “Trump Falls Short of His Populist Rhetoric”

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*** “I play to people’s fantasies. people may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That’s why a little hyperbole never hurts.” [ Donald John Trump: “The Art of The Deal” ]

This post is based on “Trump Falls Short Of Populist Rhetoric” New York Times 11/30/25 editorial. Excerpts below. Read the ENTIRE article.

1] “president Trump talks like an economic populist, forever promising to help consumers, small business owners and, especially, workers….declared himself “the champion of the American worker.” But in his second term, as in his first, Mr. Trump is failing to deliver on that talk.” [NOTE: he DID deliver for fellow billionaires by making his obscene 2017 tax cuts for them PERMANENT. ]

5] “One of the bitter lessons of the past century is that authoritarian regimes have often relied on the concentration of corporate power to consolidate political power. The consolidation of media ownership makes the government more powerful, because it is easier to pressure a few big companies than a fragmented host of independently owned stations.. That possibility is not merely theoretical when the president is attempting to intimidate the media in myriad ways.] [ Do YOU think at least part of Trump’s goal in defunding public radio and TV just might help achieve his aims to eliminate ALL independent groups who could oppose or refute him???????????????]

***. “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” [ Lenin ]

2] “The Trump administration is decimating the federal agencies that police corporations and protect workers and consumers…..under Mr. Trump, there is mounting evidence that the government is cynically wielding its antitrust authority – one of the most important checks on excesses of corporate power – as a means of punishing its enemies, rewarding its friends and consolidating Mr. Trump’s political authority.” [NOTE: read this again. This is WEAPONIZING government power against its citizens. Its also an open COUP against American democracy.]

3]. “None of that was regulation in the public interest…We agree with Anna M. Gomez, the sole Democrat on the F.C.C.’s board, who criticized the agency for “imposing never-before-seen controls over newsroom decisions and editorial judgment, in direct violation of the First Amendment and the law.” [Note: disabling the government from the inside]

4]. “..the F.C.C. is working to clear the way for a media merger that should have raised concerns about the concentration of corporate power….A company that owns a lot of TV stations can more easily..exert [control] over what Americans see on their TVs.” [Note”. do YOU think this is good for democracy???]

*** “Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.” [ Edmund Burke ]

6] “Outside the media, the Trump administration has shown little interest in curbing corporate power…..the Trump record is mostly disappointing….Hewlett Packard hired a number of lobbyists with close ties to mr. Trump, who negotiated with aides to the attorney general, Pam Bondi, bypassing the departments antitrust lawyers.”

7] “Regulators have also set aside efforts to protect workers and small businesses. {under Trump they abandoned Biden era rulings on ‘noncompete’ rules that protected workers by suppressing their wages]

8]. “..one of the Biden administration’s final acts of antitrust enforcement, the F.T.C. sued Pepsi, arguing that the company was offering better deals to Walmart than to smaller grocers….This spring, the F.T.C. dismissed the Pepsi lawsuit.” [Note; is it possible that Walmart can offer lower prices because of. unseen government aid, just asking, YOU tell me………….]

*** Trump: “I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.” [George Will: “Dismal marks, only two months in”; Washington post Weekly; 3/23/25}

9] “congress enacted the nation’s antitrust laws to ensure that private power did not become so concentrated as to threaten the public interest. Government took the side of the people against the powerful.”………. Under the cover of populist rhetoric, Mr. Trump is subverting the nation’s long-standing commitment to those principles. In his hands, laws created to limit the concentration of economic and political power are being used to further its concentration. This administration is not governing in the interest of the people. It is acting in the interest of Mr. Trump.”

***. “The public be damned.” [ William H. Vanderbilt ]

*** “They who possess the prince possess the laws.” [ John Dryden ]

Do YOUR own, FACTUAL, research. WHY do many experts, historians, analysts. [REAL ones, not R-W hacks] say the United States is on the verge, or is IN a second “Gilded Age”????? [the 1865-1901 era of MASSIVE and unrestricted GREED and CORRUPTION. At the end abetted by the “Lochner” era Supreme Court – which leads YOU to research the corrupt Roberts ‘court’ track record of favoring big business and trhe rich – see ‘Citizens United” and more]
ALL of this has been, is being, done under Republican control and “justices.” The elections of 2026 may be YOUR last chance to save American democracy – by restoring what the Founders WANTED, created – when they instituted “checks and balances.” If YOU elect ANY Republicans in 2026 – YOU are giving King Donald I two more years to complete the Trump DICTATORSHIP, and corporate control over YOUR life.

*** “Power must never be trusted without a check.” [ John Adams; Founder; 2nd U.S. President ]

*** “The true test of a good government is its aptitude and tendency to produce a good administration.” {Alexander Hamilton; Founder; Washington administration official]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXVI – Trumpism. Soils. American. Honor

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***. “Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.” [ Adolf Hitler ]

This post concerns the monumental cruelty and dehumanization currently being done in YOUR name by ‘your’ government in its horrendous and despicable program to “cleanse” America by arresting and terrorizing of the 52 million immigrants, temporary visitors, green card holders, people holding work, student and tourist visas….

Yes, our borders, any borders, need to be controlled. With Trumpism, as in virtually all other policies – the question is HOW it is done. And – as in many/most Trumpist policies, we soon see CRUELTY, STUPIDITY, LIES, CRAZINESS.

This post is based on. “The System Is Meant To Break You”. [ Sarah Wildman; New York Times; 11/23/25]. As a caring and patriotic American – YOU should, you MUST – read the entire article. PLEASE.

5] “The stories we were told call into question both the constitutionality and the morality of how the Trump administration is directing immigration policy. That immorality, once unleashed, may ultimately be aimed at others in this country, regardless of immigration status. If a woman returning from a vacation with her young children can be suddenly removed from her family and her life, how can we believe that any of us will remain safe?”

12] “The Department of Homeland Security maintains that 70 percent of immigration arrests have targeted criminals. The Migration Policy institute and other monitoring groups have found the opposite: As of September, those groups found, some 71.5 percent of people held in detention had no criminal record. Of the rest, many have a record of minor infraction, such as driving with a broken taillight.” [read this again – THIS is the. BIG. LIE ]

14] “…conditions in U.S. immigration detention centers. The report identified more than 500 cases of abuse and neglect, including inhumane treatment of children and pregnant women, between January and August…a second report in October, noting cases of medical neglect and a dire lack of potable water and acceptable food.” [CRUELTY]

15] “The utter disregard for whether people pose any danger to the community or any flight risk is new.”

16]. “But the reason for her detention was a guess. “Never once did we receive any written notice for why she was officially detained.”

17] “”..Ms Rosa…was then transferred to a rat-infested women’s jail in Maine.” [ CRUELTY ]

18] “Then she was released – burt she did not walk out to her lawyer, nor her husband. She was left outside in the rain, with no phone and no money, disheveled and frantic. She walked to a nearby mall and begged a kindly passer-by to use a phone to call her family.” [ CRUELTY ]

***. “Cruelty is the first attribute of the devil.” [ Nani ]

1]. “Ms Rosa..has been a lawful permanent resident of the United States since she was 9 years old; she s now 43. Just weeks before the trip to Cancun, she had renewed her green card without incident. her husband and daughters are American citizens.”

2]. “None of the people we spoke to had a criminal record….All were treated like suspected violent criminals.”

3] “..something different is happening now in the breadth and ferocity of efforts to change the makeup of this country.”

4] “What should give Americans equal pause is the inhumanity happening beyond the cameras.”

6] “There was a disquieting sameness to the horror that was described to us.”

7] “..the Trump team promised the largest mass deportation in American history, a pledge to expel one million people a year, starting with violent criminals. None of the people we spoke to fit that description.”

*** “Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.” [ General Douglas MacArthur, 1957 ]

8]. “then the rules seemed to change.”

9]. “the administration is not only deterring newcomers from entering the UnitedStates; it is also effectively encouraging noncitizens who are already here to leave.”

10]. “If you want to produce the deportation numbers that the administration is after, you cannot get those numbers if you focus solely on deporting people who have serious criminal records.” [ THE. BIG. LIE ]

11] ‘..vastly broadening the category of criminality…” [. So – you change the rules, so you HAVE a million ‘criminals” !!!]

13]. “The American immigration detention system has never been known for its humanity.”

***. “Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.” [ Lodovice Ariosto ]

Then – there’s this, from Martin Niemoller: “First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Socialist……………..”

And – “the immorality, once unleashed, may ultimately be aimed at others in this country….how can we believe that any of us will remain safe.?” [. ‘..the bell tolls for thee…”

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXIV – “Trump’s Rap Sheet vs. the People”

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*** “The Trump presidency is about Trump. Period. Full stop. He says so himself all the time. [ David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize winner: “It’s Even Worse Than It looks” ]

1] “Donald Trump’s conquering of the country is complete. The blows he’s inflicted on American democracy will take a lifetime to heal.” [ Jamie Stiehm: “Trump’s Rap Sheet vs. the People”; The Progressive Populist; September, 2025 ] Excerpts follow on specifics:
– “The president fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief, a woman, for a poor jobs and growth report. That is a death knell – or a deep chill – for honest government officials.
– “He shut the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, headed by a woman.
– “He’ll no longer enforce pollution laws, giving fossil fuels open season.”
– “He fired the Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a woman admiral.”
– “He decimated the federal workforce.”
– “He slashed climate and weather national services as the air gets hotter, floods rise faster, blazews burn longer, and hurricanes cause havoc. Hes threatened to curb the Federal Emergency Management Agency.”
– “His volatile tariffs are hurting consumer prices and jarring the world trade system, creating uncertainty.”
– “Trump compelled the Senate to confirm his criminal defense lawyer, Emil Bove, to the federal bench, 50-49.”
– “He’s taking away health care for at least 11 million people. [ after the 2026 midterms ].”
– “He fired the librarian of Congress, a Black woman, and the Kennedy Center president, a woman – in overnight emails.”
– “He dismantled our helping hand around the world, the U.S. Agency for International Development.” [our foreign enemies LOVE this!!!!!]
– “He’s seizing federal funds from top universities.” [ this damage will unfold over years ]
– “The mainstream media bends over backwards, mainly in legal payoffs, to pacify his rage.” [too much truth]
– “He’s abducting residents with no criminal record.”
– “Trump’s Supreme Court stripped a constitutional right – reproductive rights – away from citizens for the first time in history.”

*** “If Fascism came to America, it would be on a program of Americanism.” [ Huey P. Long ]

2] For perspective, consider these charges from “The Declaration of Independence”. against King George III:

– “He has refused his Assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good.”
– “He has obstructed the Administration of Justice..”
– “He has made judges dependent on his Will alone..”
– “He has kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our Legislatures.”
– “He has affected to render the Military independent and superior to the Civil Power.”
– “He has combined with others to subject us to a Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution..”
– “For cutting off our trade with all Parts of the World. – for imposing taxes on us without our consent; for depriving us, in many Cases, of the Benefits of Trial by Jury; for transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offenses..”
– “He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of His Protection and waging War against us.”
– “He has excited domestic Insurrections amongst us..”
– “In every stage of these Oppressions we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble Terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated Injury. A Prince whose Character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the Ruler of a free people.”

*** “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.” [ U.S. Representative, Senator, Secretary of State. – Henry Clay ]

[NOTE: What’s the practical difference between King George III, and King Donald I ??? George ruled by “divine right”; Donald rules by “Project 2025,” says God’s protecting him.. George was surrounded by rich nobles. Donald is surrounded by rich billionaires
King Donald I talks about “my judges,” “my generals,” “my Justice Department,” ‘my legislators.” King Donald I’s best foreign friends are dictators; he just pardoned an ex-leader convicted of smuggling “tons’ of cocaine into America. King Donald I attacks, persecutes, prosecutes ANY person or group telling the truth about him – what kings and dictators do.
YOU tell me – when Congresspeople say “we’re all afraid”; when the acknowledged goals of Trumpian rhetoric and actions are FEAR and CRUELTY – what’s the practical difference between King George III and King Donald I ???? ]

*** “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” [James Madison, Founder, 4th U.S. President]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXIII – Trump As Bully In Chief

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***. “You do not lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.”
[Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th U. S. President, World War ii Commanding General ]

“In social media posts near midnight on thanksgiving, [Trump] threatened to strip citizenship from naturalized migrants “who undermine domestic tranquility.” [“Shooting sets Trump on angry path”; Shawn McCreesh; New York Times; 11/29/25]

Stop laughing! Think hard – is there ANYBODY in the United States of America, who, since 2015, has dome more to “undermine domestic tranquility” than Donald John Trump ???????

***. “Dictators are the popes of nationalism.” [ Aldous Huxley ]

“Gov. Walz knows how bullies operate.” [ Jennifer Brooks; Minnesota Star Tribune; 11/29/25]:
1] “Trump’s words and deeds – the time he mocked a reporter with with a physical disability; the times in recent weeks that he called women “stupid,” “ugly,” and “piggy” – tend to get shrugged off as Trump being Trump.”
“This is not both-sidesism,” Walz said. “This is clearly one side – Donald Trump – hat is clearly trying to divide this country and thinks that it’s beneficial to him, politically.”

2] “There’s a pattern to Trump’s holiday greetings: Subject. + verb +. insult.”

***. “It is the old practice of despots to use part of the people to keep the rest in order.”
[. Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U.S. President; 1798 ]

3] “Trump’s tradition of wrapping holiday greetings around insults dates back at least to Memorial Day. 2015: “I would like to wish everyone, including all haters and losers [ of which, sadly, there are many ] a truly happy and enjoyable Memorial Day!” “Mother’s Day? “Happy Mother’s Day to ALL, in particular the Mothers, Wives and Lovers of the Radical Left Fascists, Marists, and Communists who are doing everything within their power to destroy and obliterate our once great Country.” “Christmas. 2024: “Go To Hell!”

4] “People who do things like this, you don’t associate with,’ Walz said. “I really wish America would start to understand that this has nothing to do with conservative tax policy, it has nothing to do with climate change. “It has everything to do with – at heart – just being cruel,’ he added. “The cruelty is at the center of the agenda.”

*** “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all.” [ Thumper, 1942, Disney’s “Bambi” movie ]

*** “No circumstances can repair a defect of character.” [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

***. “The best index to a person’s character is [a] how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and [b] how he treats people who can’t fight back.” [ Abigail Van Buren; 5/16/ 1974 ]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXII – Sabotaging American Law Enforcement In Order To Deport people

~ tomdolen

*** “When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it’s always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.” [ Robert Pirsig ]

“Homeland’s Core Missions Disrupted by Deportations”. [New York Times article explaining COSTS TO. AMERICA from the Trumpian anti-immigrant program – 11/16/25: Nicholas Nehamas, Michael Keller, Alexandra Berzon, Hamad Aleazia, Zolan Kanno-Youngs]. READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE. Excerpts below:

1]. “The Department of Homeland Security has diverted thousands of federal agents from their normal duties to focus on arresting undocumented immigrants, undermining a wide range of law enforcement operations in response to mounting pressure from President Trump..”

6] “.. federal data shows that many immigrants being arrested do not have criminal records in the United States. Fewer than 40 percent of people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement – the D.H.S. law enforcement agency leading the administration’s crackdown – have a criminal conviction…Roughly 8 percent of those arrested had been convicted of violent crime, while about 9 percent had a traffic conviction..”

9]. “Even highly trained specialists have been pulled into immigration work, such as analysts who assist in money laundering and counterterrorism cases and agents who investigate the multibillion-dollar black market for looted antiquities, a source of income for organized crime and terrorist groups.”

12] “D.H.S. keeps being pulled further away from its core missions in protecting the homeland,’ said David Lapan, who served as the department’s press secretary during the first Trump administration. “These distractions could have deadly consequences.”

***. “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

[. Martin Luther King, jr.]

2] “Homeland security agents investigating sexual crimes against children..have been redeployed to the immigrant crackdown for weeks at a time, hampering their pursuit of child predators.”

3] “A natinal security probe into the black market for Iranian oil sold to finance terrorism has been slowed down for months because of the shift to immigration work, allowing tanker ships and money to disappear.

4]. ‘and federal efforts to combat human smuggling and sex trafficking have languished with investigators reassignerd to help staff deportation efforts.”

5] “The changes have extended deep into D.H.S.’s public-safety mission, as the Coast Guard has diverted aircraft to transport immigrants between detention centers and the department’s law enforcement academy has delayed training for many agencies to prioritize new immigration officers.”

*** “The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.” [ Adolf Hitler ]

7] “The pressure to deport more people began almost as soon as Mr. Trump took office. Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff and architect of mr. Trump’s deportation agenda, holds a regular morning conference call with top government officials to plan and execute the massive operation…..Mr. miller..has at times berated ICE leaders for not arresting enough people..”

8] “The H.S.I. reassignments have occurred in rotations of thousands of agents being redirected to immigration duties for stints ranging from days to months, according to two officials.”

10]. “Other top officials have also felt pressure….Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, joined by Mr. Miller…promised that no job at the department would be safe, including her own, if deportations did not pick up..”

11] “The immigration operation has also pulled in thousands of agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Drug Enforcement Administration; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; and at least four other federal law enforcement agencies, documents show.”

*** “One man with a gun can control a hundred without one.” [. Lenin ]

Then – the article lists specific evidence for six federal law enforcement operations that is being WEAKENED in order to carry out the Trumpian PUBLIC. RELATIONS. CAMPAIGN of arresting immigrants in the daily news:
CHILD EXPLOITATION. ILLICIT IRANIAN OIL. INTELLIGENCE REPORTS LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING COAST GUARD MISSION HUMAN TRAFFICKING. Read to see HOW Trump’s P.R. campaign sabotages overall American security!!!!!!!!!!

*** “[T]yranny and arbitrary power are utterly inconsistent with, and subversive of the very end and design of civil government…” [ Samuel West, 1776 ]


[NOTE: this article is NOT the first to report that emphasis on the PERFORMANCE PUBLIC RELATIONS CAMPAIGN to show people that Trump’s government is “working hard for you.” The stated goal was to “make America safe’ by deporting “criminals.’ Yet the government’s own data PROVE that “criminals’ are a distinctly SMALL percentage of people deported – in this case, only 8% had a “criminal record.”

Look at ALL the government operations negatively impacted. Just in this report alone – 6 MAJOR security and law enforcement operations weakened, distracted from THEIR CORE FUNCTIONS. Trained experts FORCED to do menial police work. – so YOU could see it.

And this: the major blows to America’s image as a country of “the rule of law,” America as a safe haven for refugees and asylum seekers, America as a place where immigrants can thrive and CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIETY, America as a country where people who follow the rules don’t get punished, America as a country where armed thugs DON’T kidnap people off the streets, DON’T mistakenly arrest DISABLED U.S. ARMY veterans……..

And this fact: immigrants are doing work Americans refuse to do. There are MULTIPLE reports from farmers and industry owners who gave up hiring native-born Americans for their jobs 10-15 years ago. Immigrants are working in nursing homes, in schools, in construction, in factories THAT ENABLE AMERICA TO FUNCTION. How does deporting these low-paid, hard-working people ‘..promote the general Welfare..” ???????????????

*** “Doctrines are the most fearful tyrants to which men ever are subject because doctrines get inside of a mans own reason and betray him against himself.” [ William Graham Sumner ]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXXI – Trumpism is. UNDERMINING what is REALITY, what DID make America great

~ tomdolen


***. “At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” [ Abraham Lincoln, 1837 ]

The murderer of America, as a great nation, as a society – is Donald John Trump. The STUPIDITY and DESTRUCTIVENESS of his rhetoric, his actions, his policies is. UNMATCHED in American history. He just might be the real. “Manchurian Candidate,” or, perhaps, “the useful idiot.”
Ponder the thoughts below:

This post – “America’s Formula for Greatness Is Under Threat” – is inspired by Nicholas Kristof’s 11/16/25 New York Times article of that title. Excerpts follow:

1] “What’s the secret formula that has made the United States the dominant superpower in the world today? I’d point to three fundamental ingredients, each of which is now being weakened. When I think of the historical legacies of our generation and of President Trump, I wonder if they will be less about the political battles in the headlines and more about the slow shriveling of America’s global standing. Patriotism is less about waving flags and more about defending these three that over two centuries have made America pre-eminent:

A] A commitment to education at every level, resulting in global leadership in science and technology.

1] “America became the world’s leading nation largely because of its emphasis beginning in the 19th century on mass education….later, American research universities became global leaders and nurtured technology hubs….American excellence in science drives economic competitiveness and well-being. Yet Trump is winding down mRNA vaccine programs that are full of promise for tackling cancer and has slashed investments in medical research.

B] An inclination toward free markets and free trade, supported by the rule of law.

1]. “Trump has systematically chipped away at some of the underpinnings of a market economy. Markets thrive with prudent fiscal and monetary management, yet his tax cuts lead to a soaring national debt even as he tries to crush the independence of the Federal Reserve. Corruption is a bane of capitalism, yet his family has seemed to use the presidency as a A.T.M.”

2] “And the rule of la?….Trump has periodically defied lower courts and used the Department of Justice to punish his political opponents. Mark l. Wolf, a federal judge appointed by President Reagan..[resigned]…to be able to speak openly about the Trump administration’s “assault on the rule of law” and the way that it poses an “existential threat to democracy.”

C] Immigration and the absorption of some of the brightest minds from around the world.

1]. “..Four of the Magnificent Seven tech companies are led by immigrants, and 46 percent of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or their children..”

AGAIN – if doubtful of this commentary – we refer YOU to the Constitution’s Preamble and the goals of the Founders: “..Union..Justice..Tranquility….promote the general Welfare..secure the Blessings of Liberty..” Few, if ANY, Trump policies, actions, and most of all his hateful rhetoric pass the Founder’s test. BUT. – YOU don’t need to believe me. – read comments from around the world on the STUPIDITY and the DESTRUCTIVENESS of Trump’s policies, actions, rhetoric. Her has routinely offended former friends and allies – symbolized by Canada. Trump has, single-handedly, managed to sabotage a 200 year friendship UNMATCHED. anywhere in the world with Canada.
He is sabotaging the security of Europe by giving Vladimir Putin whatever he wants – a point Europeans are now openly saying and working to offset.
America won World War II and the Cold War. – because w had friends and allies. THE threats to world peace, democracy, stability. – are. Russia and China. Trump is sabotaging America’s ability to have the NEEDED support to combat the threats of Russia and China

Trump is sabotaging. YOUR present, future, economic security by ‘giving away the farm” to his main friends – America’s and the world’s. billionaires. His 2017 and 2025 tax cuts are THE single most destructive attack in American government’s ability to finance NECESSARY functions. America now has a record number of billionaires. Trump’s 2017 tax cut for them is responsible for 25% of our, YOUR, ballooning national debt. Making PERMANENT his 2017 tax cut for the obscenely rich. – will soon be used to cut YOUR Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid benefits. [that YOU worked for].

*** “This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs: When he first appears, he is a protector.” [Plato]

The Trump DICTATORSHIP – Stupidity, Cruelty, Corruption, Craziness, LXXX – “Could Trump tamper with ..[Epstein].. files?”

~ tomdolen

YES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*** “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” [ Adolf Hitler ]

This post deals with “the Epstein files.” The primary source is Michael Wilner’s “Could Trump tamper with files?” [Los Angeles Times; ll/20/25]; excerpts follow:
1] “..Donald Trump summoned his lawyer in 2022 for a fateful conversation. A folder had been compiled with 38 documents that should have been returned to the federal government. but Trump had other ideas. Making a plucking motion, Trump suggested his attorney, Evan Corcoran, remove the most incriminating material. “Why don’t you take them with you to your hotel room, and if there’s anything really bad in there, like, you know, pluck it out,” Corcoran memorialized in a series of notes that surfaced during criminal proceedings.”

2]. “But caveats in the bill could provide Trump and Bondi with loopholes to keep records related to the president concealed.” [ how much YOU willing to bet these loopholes just might get used??????!!!!!!!!!!??????!!!!!!!]

3] “Because DOJ possesses and controls the files, it is far from certain that a vote to disclose ‘the Epstein files’ will include documents pertaining to Donald Trump,” said Barbara McQuade..”

4] “Already, this past spring, FBI Director Kash Patel directed a Freedom of Information team to work with hundreds of agents to comb through the entire trove of files from the investigation, and directed them to redact references to Trump..”

5]. “Multiple federal laws bar anyone, including the president or those around him, from destroying or altering material contained in the Epstein files, including various federal record-keeping laws and criminal statutes. But that doesn’t mean that Trump or his cronies won’t consider trying,” said Norm Eisen..”

Given Trump’s 60-year track record of lying, denying, doing anything to win – do YOU really think that with his virtual dictatorial control of the U.S. government – he won’t find some way to make sure his name is not associated with any of Epstein’s crimes in a way that could seriously hurt him??????????? How gullible are YOU???


Is THIS. Trump’s biggest scam of all time?????

Is THIS a. SET-UP – whereby after Trump’s declared. “innocent”. – he and his cult followers mount a HUGE. P.R. campaign decreeing how Democrats, “Libs,” “people who hate America” – have now been exposed as having conducted. a. big. “HOAX”! a. big. “Witch Hunt,” etc. ???????!!!!!!!!!!!!??????!!!!!!!!!!

Will it be official when people like Marjorie Taylor Greene publicly kiss his feet? And all the other MAGA Republicans in Congress apologize and kiss his feet? All part of the planned SET. UP ??????

If they needed it – HIS people in DOJ now have 30 more days to remove, cover up, redact…….any damaging mention of Donald Trump from the Epstein files.

BUT – what if “everything” is NOT in ‘the Epstein files” ?????????

1]. The Associated Press reported on July 10, 2019: “Epstein’s personal address book, copies of which have been included in legal filings, lists multiple numbers connecting Trump, his wife Melania and daughter Ivanka, as well as Trump’s butler, exec. assistant and security staff.” YOU might be interested that on July 9, 2019, Trump said “I don’t think I’ve spoken to him for 15 years. i wasn’t a fan.” [ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ]

2] A Facebook post of December 15, 2017, related material from a 2016 lawsuit that ended four days prior to the 2016 elections. The narrator was Frances Flynn Thorson – reading material from the lawsuit filing – testimony, under perjury oath, from a woman – “Exhibit B Witness Testimony.” The woman testified she worked for Epstein in the 1990s as a “recruiter.” She provided a specific address for parties in New York city. Two 13-year old girls were victims. She said she personally witnessed two men rape them.
[YOU might want to do some research…………..]

3] On September 28, 2010 – Turkish police raided the yacht of a Trump business associate, charging him with runing a prostitution ring of young girls for various businessmen. Trump subsequently denied knowing Tevfik Arif ‘very well.”

4] The Associated Press reported on December 5, 2018 this story: “Sex offender settles lawsuit, averting accusers’ testimony.” Involved was a special, SEALED, deal……..YOU might want to check out WHO is involved and not involved…..Maybe ask WHY the deal????????? ……………

5]. On November 20, 2025 – Bloomberg News reported that in 2023 Deutsche Bank AG paid $75 million to settle a lawsuit with Epstein victims; JPMorgan settled “a similar case” in 2023 for $250 million…………….

6] Before the FBI took back about 40 boxes of presidential records Trump ILLEGALLY had in Florida – what do YOU think the chances are “somebody” might have removed evidence incriminating Trump for who knows what????????? Just saying, maybe……………

7] Epstein emails released [11/13/25]: “a person whom the Democrats identified as a victim of his, whose name was redacted in the email, ‘spent hours in my house with”. Trump.

8] Trump’s PATTERN of misogyny, demeaning comments to women – the latest, ll/14/25: ‘Quiet, Piggy”