Donald Trump...The anti-icon

An icon, when referring to an individual, is a person who is a widely recognized symbol of a specific set of beliefs, era, or lifestyle, embodying traits like consistency, influence, and uniqueness. They are looked up to with admiration for their accomplishments, someone with integrity. They have cultural impact, affecting how people think. Although some of this ideology, like widely recognized, specific beliefs, even influence, can be attributed to Donald Trump, we completely lose Dufus Rump when it comes to integrity.

Still, there is no doubt Trump has an effect on how certain people think, a sordid group of double-digits who can't think for themselves, nor do they have the ingenuity to act as a responsible individual. A group this country can do without. There is some of this gang who are turning against the Oval Office lunatic, as well as many congressional Republicans. And, when you are cornered with no other way out, you resort to any desperate moves you can make. Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor said...

it was “highly likely” Trump, 79, will exercise his pardon power to protect himself and his close circle from scrutiny.

“And then you know what our challenge will be, and I hope we’re up to the challenge,” Kirschner said. “We have to go into court, and we have to fight corruptly delivered pardons.”

Robert Davis says Trump is "sweating" over a new legal Epstein settlement...

"Bank of America is reportedly in talks with victims of disgraced financier Jeffrey 

Epstein to settle claims concerning the bank's connection to Epstein's sex trafficking operation."

Dufus Rump is still reeling from the testimony given by a victim who apparently bit his penis when he tried to force her to do oral sex. B of A is apparently trying to reach a settlement regarding it liability. Legal expert Joyce Vance says,,,

"That settlement should "raise the temperature" in the Trump White House because it shows the investigation is moving one step closer to shining a light on whatever it is Trump wants to hide."

And, as all these events occur and are covered in detail daily by the media, Donald Trump, completely lost in his thoughts of power and corruption, once again turns maliciously on the press as he proceeds with the Iran war. Margaret Sullivan in the Guardian says, "There’s nothing completely new in Donald Trump’s latest attacks on reporters." Adding...

"But they’re more extreme now and ever more indicative of what he wants: a docile press that provides propaganda – not factual journalism – for everything he does, including for his misguided war in Iran.

"He even suggested this week that news organizations could be charged with treason for, as he baselessly sees it, spreading false information and thus helping America’s enemies."

Trump isn't alone. Brendan Carr, chair of the Federal Communications Commission, " threatened that media companies could lose their licenses if they didn’t get in line." This reeks of George Orwell's 1984 which...

"portrays media as a totalitarian tool used by Big Brother to enforce conformity, rewrite history, and manipulate reality via telescreens."

Do we really want to go down this road? And the answer from a sane population is obviously no. This all is somewhat diminished when we return to the White House maniac's Iran war. And although Dufus Rump has regularly tried to promote his war against the Iranians, at the same time minimizing its disastrous effect on Americans, as well as Middle Easterners, the Daily Beast says experts are warning...

"that President Donald Trump’s war in Iran could rattle the energy market for months to come because of a strike on a critical facility in the Middle East.

"An Iranian missile hit Ras Laffan in Qatar, home to the largest liquefied natural gas, or LNG, export facility in the world. In total, Ras Laffan supplies about a fifth of the world’s supply."

As a measure of reference, Ras Laffan has extensive damage and took three decades to complete. Gas prices in the U.S. and Europe have skyrocketed and could climb even more. 

Just recently Sen. Mark Kelly from Arizona revealed that Trump is selling ‘private’ national security briefings and presented receipts to confirm his charge. United States Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John Ratcliffe were questioned about the Iran war, reported by Mary Sue. And then the subject was turned to Donald Trump’s corrupt practices in government. Followed by this...

"A particular moment that has been gaining significant attention online, especially on X (formerly Twitter), involves Senator Mark Kelly asking Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe to confirm whether they had seen the circular Trump sent to his donors, promising them access to classified briefings."

Both said they had not. while at the same time defending their boss over something they were supposedly unaware of. The whole thing escalated when both Ratcliffe and Gabbard further denied that Trump had even done what they were accusing him of. Kelly said that the document had been made public six days earlier and offered to provide a copy. The question was never answered whether Dufus Rump should profit from offering classified briefings to donors.

 

Donald Trump's diversion of Iran War won't hide Epstein, immigration murders and mixed economy

Epstein and Trump

You couldn't miss the new bronze statue of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein entitled "The King of the World," on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 10, 2026. What' more it has become impossible to ignore the fact that Dufus Rump will do anything take away the attention of the American public on Epstein, immigration murders and mixed economy going nowhere. Here's the scenario...

"Dubbed Operation Epic Fury, the Trump administration’s military campaign against Iran has been routinely mocked as “Operation Epstein Fury,” a reference to the ongoing scandal that has rocked Trump’s second presidency."

 Senator Chris Murphy, Connecticut Democrat, Trashes Trump as ‘Senile Old Man’  after secret war briefing. He said...

“This is the most incompetent, incoherent war America has fought in the last 100 years, and that’s saying a lot,” Murphy said, with his comments at the Capitol aired on CNN’s NewsNight on Thursday.

“This administration has no idea what they are doing. There is no viable war plan. They change their goals and their aims every single day,” Murphy added.

Of course, Donald Trump has never been accused of knowing what he is doing, embarking 

on whims that have placed America in a precarious position both domestically and internationally. Thomas Kika says in AlterNet, "Trump nosediving as his presidency is dragged down by 'failure after failure': analysis." He has basically lost control due to a combination of blunders launched solely to satiate his enormous ego and line his pockets where possible. And here are the results...

"Gas prices surging. Unemployment climbing. War with Iran threatens to engulf his presidency," Cheney wrote. "The fracturing of his political coalition. The collapse of his signature trade-negotiations-by-tariff strategy. Relentless scrutiny of the Epstein files. A public backlash to his agenda that could swamp Republicans in the midterms. Failure after failure to criminalize the conduct of his political adversaries."

And apparently Trump's co-conspirator in the Iran War, Netanyahu, has his own problems. Iran has threatened to assassinate Netanyahu, although there is a question if he is still alive, according to a suspicious video. Iran calls him a "child killer," but directs attention to a clip of the Israeli PM's national address that went viral. In his speech...

"there's an unusual moment in the video where Netanyahu appears to develop six fingers all of a sudden, sparking a lot of people online to wonder if the stream was generated using artificial intelligence and that the PM is actually dead."

As an example of Dufus Rump's stupidity and egotistical resistance to advice,...

"Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine told Trump in multiple briefings that U.S. officials long believed Iran would deploy mines, drones, and missiles to close the critical shipping lane."

It appears that Donald Trump was well aware of the risk but decided to proceed anyway, in my opinion as a result of an ego that constantly tells him that he is the king of the world. And, of course, we know what has happened, he recently demanded  NATO and China police the Strait of Hormuz. So far they aren't joining;  France and Italy have opened talks with Iran amid the oil scandal, leaving Trump humiliated; but here is the kicker, Iranian attack on US soil likely...

“It’s not a matter of if — it’s a matter of when,” retired Top Gun Navy fighter pilot Matthew “Whizz” Buckley told The New York Post, warning that Americans were vulnerable to Iranians hungry to retaliate after the US killed the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader and unleashed war across the Middle East.

Chief among the dangers are scores of Iranian agents who “likely” slipped into the US over the southern border and could be waiting for orders from handlers in Tehran to strike, Buckley said.

“There is probably thousands, if not tens of thousands of Iranian agents and sleeper cells in this country,” he said, adding that sources in Customs and Border Protection have ominously told him, “You wouldn’t believe how many Korans and prayer rugs we find in the desert.”

Elizabeth Warren says, "After Helping Convince Trump to Attack Iran, Kushner Solicits Billions for His Private Equity Firm." She continues...

“While US servicemembers die in another forever war in the Middle East, Donald Trump’s ‘peace envoy’ is raising money for his private equity firm.”

Kushner has been quietly working with Saudi Arabia in the background of Dufus Rump's shenanigans

Twins of corruption

since the first term of the Oval Office maniac. If Donald Trump eventually goes before war trials, Kushner's co-conspiring corruption with Donald Trump should also put him in line for conviction. Here's the scenario...

"Citing five unnamed people with knowledge of the talks, the Times reported that 'Affinity’s representatives have already met with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund,' Affinity’s largest investor. Saudi Arabia’s leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, reportedly played a significant role in the behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign urging Trump to attack Iran—Saudi Arabia’s top regional rival."

And to cap it all off, the White House maniac said last Saturday that he "may strike Iran’s Kharg Island oil export hub ‘just for fun’" Do you voters who put this moron in the White House, and you Republicans in Congress who are keeping him there heat this. Apparently stupidity reigns in this country under the letters G-O-P.

Is American democracy dead?

Let's start at the top. We know Donald Trump will never change, only get worse. The Republican Congress has made it clear they will not give up support for the Oval Office lunatic. The MAGA maggots are firmly entrenched in their following of Trump. And there is a combination gang out there like the apathetics, the double-digit voters who chose the White House maniac in 2024, and finally those who are completely clueless about politics and political parties. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Trump has been working on the destruction of our democracy since day one of his second term.

The Crew site says Donald Trump has been "dismantling our democracy, one piece at a time," and that it is important to keep a record as a reminder of the damage that has been done. Dufus Rump is changing democracy gradually so as not to alert those who aren't keen on current issues. Here's an AI analysis...

"Approximately 67% to 70% of Americans cannot name all three branches of government, and over 70% fail a basic civic literacy quiz. Furthermore, 27% of Americans follow national political news "not too closely" or "not at all," while about two-thirds feel exhausted by politics."

So when you combine the percentages who don't know what's going on with those who don't care what's going on, there is only a small group out there voting who place their votes with the knowledge of what they actually voted for. Based on these scary figures, we have ended up with Donald Trump in the White House and a Republican Congress so cowardly in their fear of Dufus Rump that any of his utterances becomes their goal. Here are more AI facts...

According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, more than 70% of Americans fail a basic civics test.

Gallup News indicates that 27% of Americans follow political news "not too closely" or "not at all".

Pew Research Center notes that 22% of Americans cannot identify a single strength in the nation's political system.

Looking at the above, either the educational system has failed at teaching political science in schools, or

a majority of Americans are just turned off by their government. With 27% of the public virtually ignoring the political news, you end up with a large block of misinformed voters. And the Pew finding that 22% of Americans cannot identify a single strength in the nation's political system, indicates to me another large block that has basically given in to the destruction of the Donald Trump administration. All three items considered are competent confirmation that Americans have lost their dream.

Getting back to how Crew explains how Dufus Rump is dismantling our democracy, one piece at a time, there are four core main categories used to identify the onslaught Trump is making on U.S. freedom and justice. They are, Corruption, Weaponization of the Department of Justice and U.S. military, Regulatory Retaliation and Hiding or Distorting Legally Required Information. Starting with the first...

Corruption, "Trump's abuse of entrenched power for private or personal gain. Over the past 10 years, despite some attempts to fight corruption including the creation of a National Strategy on Countering Corruption, we have seen a precipitous worsening of corruption in the United States." This has expanded to enormous proportions during both Donald Trump administrations. Corruption, in my opinion, is one of the worst factors in the overthrow of democracy,

Weaponization of the Department of Justice and U.S. military, When the dictator looks inward to shore up his strengths, the first move is to make sure the legal arsenal is in place that will loyally support his every move. "Strong democracies have a robust civil society, including an active and engaged opposition. A network of constitutional and statutory laws, as well as executive branch policies rooted in the First Amendment, are designed to prevent politically motivated investigations and prosecutions and ensure that government law enforcement and military resources are not used to suppress dissent." Trump, however, has made the Executive Order (EO) the new way of governing, his ploy to eliminate Congress from the process. He relies strongly on the Dept. of Justice to back him up on every move.

Regulatory Retaliation, To begin with, Dufus Rump has taken away the independence of government agencies, "an independence which has all but evaporated thanks to a series of Supreme Court shadow docket decisions permitting the indiscriminate firing of independent agency heads." Donald Trump, using as an example the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to enact regulatory retaliation. If the White House maniac doesn't like what you are doing, vengeance and retribution will follow you everywhere you go.

Hiding or Distorting Legally Required Information, "Transparency is the currency of democracy, because it allows people to know that their government is acting honestly and with their best interests at heart." Add to that the fact that anything that does come from the Trump administration is misinformation...lie after lie, after lie, after lie, after lie...into ad infinitum. And transparency to Donald Trump is the release only of that information that both pleases and honors him. What we should expect: "This category therefore tracks government attempts to hide or misrepresent information that is supposed to be lawfully available, obscure reliable data or make government decisions in secret outside of the eye of the American public." 

Unless you are living under a rock, you know the latter couldn't be farther from the truth. This all screams the question of why anyone would want to live with an authoritarian government. Here's an AI answer...

"Some Americans express a desire for an authoritarian government or strongman leader primarily as a response to perceived threats to their economic stability, social status, and traditional way of life. This mindset is often driven by a need for order, safety, and conformity in a society seen as increasingly chaotic, unstable, or threatening."

My opinion is that many of these ne'er-do-wells and apathetics are just too dumb or too lazy to make a good life for themselves. That leaves those of us who still have the will to be free to fight on, and I do mean fight hard, in the war against autocracy. I urge you to read the Crew article for the extensive timeline it contains on all of the above categories.

American democracy is not dead...it's just snoozing,

There is someone who could bring down the Trump administration

This was No Kings Day Oct. 18, 2025

No one can say it like Robert Reich, the man and his rhetoric, who could send Donald Trump and his minions packing.  Here's what he said on X to kick off the No Kings Protests...

"As we resist tyranny, America gains solidarity. As we gain solidarity, we build courage. As we feel courageous and stand up to Trump, we weaken him and his regime. Let's continue to build solidarity by peacefully opposing our tyrant-in-chief today at No Kings Day 2.0."

One can only hope that these protests will produce a decline in t-Rump's power, leading to a return to democracy. Millions of Americans hit the streets last Saturday in peaceful protest against a dictatorial government "in the spirit of a street party," as The Guardian described it. The idea was to counteract the balderdash from a moron sitting in the U.S. House Speaker's seat by the name of Mike Johnson. He called the No Kings Protest the “hate America” protests and was seconded by another moron, Steve Scalise, House majority leader. Not enough brains between these two to come in out of the rain.

Reich did a piece in The Guardian early in October professing leverage by the Democrats because of the shutdown of the U.S. government. Here's what's happened...

Agencies and departments designed to protect consumers, workers and investors are now officially closed, as are national parks and museums.

Most federal workers are not being paid – as many as 750,000 could be furloughed – including those who are required to remain on the job, like air-traffic controllers or members of the US military.

So-called “mandatory” spending, including Social Security and Medicare payments, are continuing, although checks could be delayed. The construction of Trump’s new White House ballroom won’t be affected.

The former Labor Secretary expresses his experience with shutdowns but claims this one is different. One reason, "Republicans used an arcane Senate procedure called 'reconciliation', which allowed the big ugly (Trump's big beautiful) to get through with just 51 votes rather than the normal 60 required to overcome a filibuster." The bill barely made it with J.D. Vance breaking the tie with no Democrat votes. This put everything in motion for a shutdown which started on October 1. Results of the shutdown...

"The big ugly fundamentally altered the priorities of the United States 

Robt. Reich and Trump's "Big Ugly"

government. It cut about $1tn from healthcare programs, including Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act, meaning that health insurance premiums for tens of millions of Americans will soar starting in January.

"The big ugly also cut nutrition assistance and environmental protection, while bulking up immigration enforcement and cutting the taxes of wealthy Americans and big corporations."

The big ugly was inevitable with Donald Trump in the White House, but what is not inevitable is Trump staying in the White House. Here's the scenario...

Senate Democrats refused to sign on unless most of the big ugly’s cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act were restored, so health insurance premiums won’t soar next year.

Even if Senate Democrats had obtained that concession, the Republican bill to keep the government going would retain all the tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations contained in the big ugly, along with all the cuts in nutrition assistance, and all the increased funding for immigration enforcement.

Enter the Trump troika, Stephen Miller, Russell Vought and J.D. Vance. Vought, and Elon Musk before him, have irresponsibly fired thousands of federal employees, then found it was necessary to hire many of these people back immediately. As Reich puts it, they are firing those in jobs they don't value like the   Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. They have seized appropriations approved by Congress which the experts say is unconstitutional. What will happen...

"All of this is illegal, but it seems unlikely that courts will act soon enough to prevent the administration from harming vast numbers of Americans."

So here is Robert Reich's answer to this fiasco...

"If tens of millions of Americans lose their health insurance starting in January because they can no longer afford to pay sky-high premiums, Trump and his Republicans will be blamed."

Democrats have won political battles on healthcare in the past...

"Over the last two decades, Democratic political wins on healthcare include the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the expansion of ACA premium tax credits, and the Inflation Reduction Act's provisions to lower prescription drug costs."

January isn't that far away but, in the meantime, the left must keep up and increase their efforts like the No Kings Protests. 

Be sure and see the documentary, 'The Last Class' examines the legacy of professor Robert Reich."

Don't miss the No Kings Protests tomorrow

U,S. House Speaker, Mike Johnson, has branded himself as a certified idiot and the GOP as scared beyond comprehension of tomorrow's No Kings Protests by saying, "We refer to it by its more accurate description, 'The Hate America Rally.' I'm not sure how anybody can refute that." Only a double-digit IQ would make a statement like that in view of what Donald Trump has done to destroy this country. And also the work desperate and sincere Americans have achieved to demonstrate the fact they are fed up with Donald Trump and his minions.

The points made by Johnson in the above article are so preposterous and pathetic that it shows they clearly understand the No Kings movement as being something that can bring down the Trump administration and the radical right with it. So be sure and check for your protest location here, and then turn out on Saturday for the big day.

Charlie Kirk...In his own words...REVISITED

Charlie Kirk - Donald Trump

Charlie Kirk is not someone I have paid much attention to, plodding the political sites daily. Guess I just wasn't interested. I knew who he was, but had no idea he was a close associate of Donald Trump. So when I heard about his assassination, there was complete surprise over all the hoopla from the right. The execution also seems curious, coming from such a conservative state. There has been, however, a recent slightly larger increase in Democratic votes compared to the national trend. The shooter, Tyler Robinson, was thought to be a liberal but Robinson was known to be a follower of Nick Fuentes.

On AlterNet, a witness reported a Group of students 'stood up and cheered' after Charlie Kirk was shot. Here's the scenario...

"An eyewitness at Utah Valley University described a chaotic scene during a campus event when conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot, saying that a group of students celebrated the shooting.

"The witness recounted hearing a gunshot and then seeing Kirk collapse, prompting panic among the audience.

"'I did see a select group of students who stood up and cheered after that fact,' the witness told ABC4."

Since the shooting CNN reports, "People are getting fired for allegedly celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder. It looks like a coordinated effort"...

"Prominent far-right influencer Laura Loomer, a US senator, and a site called 'Expose Charlie’s Murderers' have all drawn attention to people who have posted messages about Kirk’s Wednesday assassination."

There's more...

"Most people whose messages have been posted on the site [The Charlie’s Murderers] do not seem to refer to themselves as activists, nor did it seem many were calling for violence. Administrators for the site did not respond to a request for comment. The site also opened an X account on Friday."

Do we have a Luigi Mangione copycat?

Luigi Mangione

 The best way to define Charlie Kirk comes from the title of this post, taken from an article on The Guardian...

Here’s Kirk, in his own words. Many of his comments were documented by Media Matters for America, a progressive non-profit that tracks conservative media.

Trump blamed ‘radical left’ for Charlie Kirk’s death – even as shooter’s identity remains unknown (later identified and captured)...

On race

If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 23 January 2024

If you’re a WNBA, pot-smoking, Black lesbian, do you get treated better than a United States marine?

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 8 December 2022

Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 19 May 2023

If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because affirmative action?

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 3 January 2024

On debate

We record all of it so that we put [it] on the internet so people can see these ideas collide. When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence. That’s when civil war happens, because you start to think the other side is so evil, and they lose their humanity.

– Kirk discussing his work in an undated clip that circulated on X after his killing.

Prove me wrong.

– Kirk’s challenge to students to publicly debate him during the tour of colleges he was on when he was assassinated.

On gender, feminism and reproductive rights

Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge.

– Discussing news of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement on The Charlie Kirk Show, 26 August 2025

The answer is yes, the baby would be delivered.

– Responding to a question about whether he would support his 10-year-old daughter aborting a pregnancy conceived because of rape on the debate show Surrounded, published on 8 September 2024

We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor. We need it immediately.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 1 April 2024

On gun violence

I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single

year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.

– Event organized by TPUSA Faith, the religious arm of Kirk’s conservative group Turning Point USA, on 5 April 2023

On immigration

America was at its peak when we halted immigration for 40 years and we dropped our foreign-born percentage to its lowest level ever. We should be unafraid to do that.– The Charlie Kirk Show, 22 August 2025

The American Democrat party hates this country. They wanna see it collapse. They love it when America becomes less white.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 20 March 2024

The great replacement strategy, which is well under way every single day in our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 1 March 2024

On Islam

America has freedom of religion, of course, but we should be frank: large dedicated Islamic areas are a threat to America.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 30 April 2025

We’ve been warning about the rise of Islam on the show, to great amount of backlash. We don’t care, that’s what we do here. And we said that Islam is not compatible with western civilization.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 24 June 2025

On religion

There is no separation of church and state. It’s a fabrication, it’s a fiction, it’s not in the constitution. It’s made up by secular humanists.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 6 July 2022...

There is one statement, above, that totally rankles me and it is the fact that Charlie Kirk condones gun violence deaths, each year, to protect his Second Amendment right. First of all, these deaths he excuses include innocent children and adults, which is unconscionable. But, on the other hand, was Kirk plotting his own death? 

Florida quack surgeon general plus idiot governor conspire to spread disease

Are Joseph Ladapo and Ron DeSantis
laughing at the people of Florida?

Florida's surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, "said the Florida Department of Health would be working with Gov. Ron DeSantis' office to end all mandates in state law." This imbecile continues on ABC News...

"Ladapo said that parents should be able "to choose" what vaccines they want their children to receive or not to receive."

Okay, I'll say it again. Vaccines have been proven beyond a doubt by the scientific community to save millions of lives. The Covid pandemic would have spiraled out of control without them. But these morons in Florida think they know more than scientists, and in the name of freedom, will deny schools the right to require proper inoculations before sending a child to school. I would be scared to death if I was a parent living in Florida. The equally stupid anti-vaxxers are the culprits that will get things moving soon since schools have already opened in the state.

Several pediatricians and public health experts told ABC News...

"...the removal of mandates -- including those required to attend school -- will likely lead to more infections, hospitalizations and even deaths among children."

And here is something very scary...

"Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, said that because Florida is removing mandates -- and potentially other states will follow suit -- a population of children susceptible to diseases is likely to crop up."

I've said it before and I will say it again...families that are anti-science, anti-vaxxers, should be confined

Anti-Vaxxers demonstrate

to concentration camps where they can happily pass their diseases around amongst themselves. And, in the state of Florida, we aren't just talking about endangering children, there is also a large population of senior citizens that would be highly susceptible to disease. Offit said, "You may not see it immediately. It may take a couple years, three years, before you really see the impact of this," adding, "I do think that's where we're heading."

And here is the tragedy that accompanies this whole concept...

"No other states have announced such plans yet, but Patel said more announcements may come if states view removing mandates as politically popular."

"Politically popular" to enact something that could kill children and adults at risk for the sake of political ideology. Unconscionable, and it all dates back to Donald Trump's succession to power around 2015. Since then, we have experienced an environment where the Republican Party has decided it can do what it chooses without regard for the law or public opinion. They have the support of both houses of Congress plus the Supreme Court. And so far the GOP has minimum opposition from Democrats. This country is almost at the point of having a one party government.

But, surprisingly, Donald Trump stepped in with a statement that Ladapo's decision was a "tough stance," adding...

"You have vaccines that work. They just pure and simple work. They’re not controversial at all. I think those vaccines should be used, otherwise some people are going to catch it, and they endanger other people. I think people should take it.”

Apparently Ladapo also pissed off a lot of people, including parents, public health experts, and many Republican politicians. prompting the state of Florida to scale back Ladapo's comments including vaccines for diseases such as measles, polio and chickenpox. The state's health department even exclaimed that "he doesn’t have the power to arbitrarily chop every mandate he promised he would." Scott Rivkees, an infectious diseases expert at Brown University and former Florida surgeon general under DeSantis, added, childhood vaccinations in Florida are already down 10% in a decade.

And, can you believe this? Ladapo admitted he didn’t study whether ending the vaccine mandate would increase diseases, adding, he didn’t calculate the costs of ending vaccine mandates in the state. If this isn't sure-fire incompetence, don't know what is. This dope with a medical license decides to put thousands of Florida children and elderly at risk without knowing what the outcome might be. I don't know who is the dumbest, Ladapo for what he did, or Ron DeSantis for appointing him surgeon general in the first place.

But you still have a blockhead for a governor, Ron DeSantis, and a numbskull for surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, in critical positions leading the state of Florida. There are questions re. just how many deaths were caused by these two lunkheads during the Covid pandemic, but right now we should be asking, what else can they come up with like this. If the state residents are smart, they will begin the process right away of impeaching both.

UPDATE: CHUCK SCHUMER AGREES...Robt. Reich says let the government shut down, force Republicans to turn against Trump

Robt. Reich - Donald Trump

JUST IN:  Chuck Schumer Says He's Now Willing To Risk A Government Shutdown

There is no one I know of more aggressive in pointing out Donald Trump's lies, corruption and his abuse of power in an orchestrated destruction of America than Robert Reich. The former Sec. Labor for Bill Clinton, pulls no punches in his opinion on the forthcoming potential shutdown of the U.S. government. It is scheduled to run out of money September 30, and even as a veteran of a government closing during his tenure with Clinton, Reich feels it just might be best to let it shut down and force cowardly Republicans to come to their senses and challenge Donald Trump. In Robt. Reich's own words...

"Under ordinary circumstances, people like you and me — who believe that government is essential for the common good — would fight like hell to keep the government funded beyond September 30.

'But we are not in ordinary circumstances. The U.S. government has become a neofascist regime run by a sociopath.

"That sociopath is using the government to punish his enemies. He’s using the government to rake in billions of dollars for himself and his family."

And here's his reasoning...

"He’s using the government to force the leaders of every institution in our society — universities, media companies, law firms, even museums — to become fawning supplicants: pleading with him, praising him, and silencing criticism of him.

"He is using the government to disappear people from our streets without due process. He is using the government to occupy our cities, overriding the wishes of mayors and governors.

"He is using the government to impose arbitrary and capricious import taxes — tariffs — on American consumers. He is using the government to worsen climate change. He is using government to reject our traditional global allies and strengthen some of the worst monsters around the globe."

It would be a national tragedy to keep the government open to the mass of Donald Trump suck-ups that don't have the balls to use their constitutionally given rights to put the reins on the Oval Office lunatic and say, whoa, you're way out of line. Shutting down his dictatorial moves once and for all. Then reopen the government to a new democracy. Reich's own words again...

"So I for one have decided that the best route is to shut the whole f------ thing down."

He added...

"Morally, Democrats must not enable what is now occurring. Politically, they cannot remain silent in the face of such mayhem."

At best, Democrats have been observers on the political scene, for the last several years. Like their

Republican counterparts, who are cowards, Democrats have lost their taste for aggressive politics, in a period when it should have been running at full power. The GOP has outdone them in federal and state offices, and are also known for their dirty politics like voter access, campaigning, and institutional manipulation. Republican's specialty is suppressing votes and are unparalleled in the creation of misinformation. Democrats have let this happen with a weak agenda and party confusion.

Reich is convinced if Democrats stand firm on the closing of the government on Sept. 30, it will give them "a chance to show America that they have chosen to become conscientious objectors to a government that is no longer functioning for the people of the United States but for one man." But to do this they have to discover the party's aggressiveness of the past and not budge when challenged. Robert Reich says...

"They can then use their newfound leverage — the only leverage they’ve mustered in eight months — to demand, in return for their votes to restart the government, that their Republican compatriots give them reason to believe that the government they restart will be responsible."

It just may be now or never... 

 

Is there anyone in Donald Trump's Cabinet that isn't crazy?

Hegseth, Noem, Bondi

Let's start with Kristi Noem, Sec. Homeland Security, who killed her 14-month-old dog, Cricket, because he was untrainable, supposedly dangerous. Then there's Pete Hegseth, Sec. Defense, who leaked highly-sensitive attack details in yet another unclassified Signal chat, this time to his wife and brother, putting the lives of our men and women in uniform at greater risk. And another looney, Pam Bondi, Attorney General, who said that Trump's fentanyl seizures saved 258 million lives in his first 100 days in office, experts say is a gross exaggeration. All major suck-ups but crazy as the maniac they work for.

However, the one who has literally broken the mold for crazies is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for his recent performance at a Senate hearing. Sen. Michael Bennet from Colorado shredded RFK Jr. calling out all his lies and conspiracy theories emphasizing how the Sec. Health was demolishing the American health care system. Trump's stooge was exasperated, acting like a wild animal who had been caged for months. ABC News said...

"He spent about three hours defending himself and his actions a week after the ousting of Susan Monarez as CDC director and major vaccine changes, including limiting access to the COVID-19 vaccine."

Here's more to this...

Monarez, who was in the job for only a month, was pushed out after she declined to fire top officials and pledge to support Kennedy's vaccine policy changes, a source familiar with her conversations with the secretary previously told ABC News.

And then there's this shocker...

"Doctors and other public health experts have pointed out that Kennedy has filled open CDC positions with people who have earned income testifying against vaccine makers and hold vaccine skeptical views."

RFK Jr.

RFK Jr. obviously has his own agenda which is anti-vaccine, actually just anti-science, and is determined to destroy years of medical advancement and research in this field based on his lunatic theories and beliefs. And here's a switch, Kennedy's family has called for his resignation, but Donald Trump is backing him after the Senate hearing. RawStory is reporting...

"The internet had a fiery response Friday to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s bizarre plans to announce research revealing a potential connection between an over-the-counter medication and pregnancy — dubbing him an 'insane clown' and 'fool.'"

We're talking about Tylenol causing autism in a child when taken by a pregnant mom. The article pointed out the fact that autism had been around years before Tylenol came on the market, making RFK Jr. look like a complete idiot. The RawStory article is full of comments by women about Kennedy that more than puts him in his place and well worth reading. The piece also mentions the Tylenol scare of many years ago when someone was tampering with the product. I believe it has been squeaky clean since then and now this.

Here's one for the books, a Kennedy  crackpot adviser, a doctor, mind you, claims COVID-19 Vaccine Gave King Charles and Kate Middleton Cancer. Couldn't resist throwing this in, just illustrating the whackos that RFK Jr. collects around him. Funny? Yes. But tragic when you consider these nut cases are in control of America's health.

The Daily Beast picked up on the ABC News article adding that a Donald Trump adversary, Chris Christie, "suggesting the health secretary’s tenure under President Donald Trump could be nearing an end." This, in the face of Trump's recent support of RFK Jr. Here's the take...

In an appearance on ABC News’ This Week, the Republican lawmaker and Trump foe said Thursday’s Senate hearing, where Kennedy faced off against critics from both parties, “just confirms what all of us around this table have known for decades: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a foolish man, full of foolish and vapid ideas.”

And finally, a classic example of what this country is dealing with in a world of Republican lies and misinformation, Trump’s former chief of staff Reince Priebus takes this position on RFK Jr...

“I saw a decent, humble, caring guy,” Priebus said. “I think he’s trying to do the right thing.” He argued that Kennedy was simply trying to “balance the benefits of the COVID shot.”

It is this kind of Republican orchestrated lies and misinformation that Democrats have not figured out how to combat. Until they do, Donald Trump and his crazies will go on their merry way. 

Liberals are breaking loose onto the political landscape

I'm back...had to attend to some medical issues and other problems. During my absence my blog has exploded with traffic numbering 14,800 readers yesterday, 10,000 already today, two months over 100,000 each, and averaging 80,000 per month. All since the first of the year, when Donald Trump recaptured the White House. You know that Nasty Jack Buzz is totally anti-Republican, more specifically anti-Donald Trump, the reason for the headline above, and my belief that support for Trump is dwindling fast indicates the nation is finally realizing we are on the precipice of losing our democracy.

I heard something recently in the media that a large portion of the American public have resigned themselves to accept Trump as a dictator, letting him make all their decisions, but feeling they will be better off with this. In a recent Google AI poll...

"around 44% of Americans express sentiment that aligns with giving former President Donald Trump extensive power, though no mainstream poll frames the question with the loaded term 'dictator.".

Maybe these morons are salvageable, at least a portion, but, regardless, the rest of our country must move ahead and work toward ridding the U.S. of Donald Trump and his administration of imbeciles. And it's not just the left that is reacting, Republican Rep. from Kentucky, Thomas Massie, is "spearheading a bipartisan bill for transparency on the notorious late sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein." This is one of, if not the biggest, obstacle facing Trump today. Massie and Democratic Representative Ro Khanna’s bill to force the DOJ to release the so-called Epstein files in full have garnered support...

"Three of MAGA’s strongest soldiers are flipping on President Trump to back Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna’s bipartisan discharge petition to force the Justice Department to release the Epstein files in full."

And they are...

Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, and Nancy Mace have all come out in support of the discharge petition, while virtually everyone else in their party cowers in fear of angering the president further.

This is just the beginning so please keep reading my blog for more of what is eventually going to bring down Donald Trump and his corrupt administration. And...THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! for your support.

Laura Loomer has Donald Trump by the balls...again

 

Donald Trump - Laura Loomer

The Donald Trump mass firing across the U.S. government are unconscionable on their own, but letting a fellow lunatic talk him into cutting loose the director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Timothy Haugh and his civilian deputy Wendy Noble is questionable for the security of the American public. Loomer even confirmed it on her Twitter post...

"NSA Director Tim Haugh and his deputy Wendy Noble have been disloyal to President Trump. That is why they have been fired ... Thank you President Trump for being receptive to the vetting materials provided to you and thank you for firing these Biden holdovers."

How the hell have they been disloyal in this short period Trump has been in the White House? Of course, this question cannot be answered. ABC reports...

"Loomer has frequently spread misinformation. In July, she claimed in a social media post, without citing evidence, that President Joe Biden had a medical emergency after landing at Joint Base Andrews."

There's more...

"She had also started unsubstantiated claims about family members of Judge Juan

 

Merchan in Trump's New York hush money case, including that his daughter posted a fake photo of Trump in jail on social media, which the court has denied. It prompted Trump to share Loomer's posts and spread the rumors."

In other words, in a critical national security situation of two very competent individuals, NSA Director Tim Haugh and his deputy Wendy Noble, The Oval Office lunatic has let a misinformation crackpot tell him what to do. And the USA is now more vulnerable. Loomer was shunned during the 2024 election campaign because of her previous inflammatory rhetoric, with Republican leaders limiting her access to Trump. But once in the White House, the conspiracist called t-RUMP and got an appointment.

CNN reported this statement from Loomer...

“This is called vetting,” Loomer wrote on X early Friday, adding of the NSA leaders: “Their firings are a blessing for the American people.”

You might want to read Loomer's X post, above, as it reeks of misinformation about the NSA staff fired as well as someone formerly fired by Trump, Gen. Mark Milley, who called the White House maniac a fascist. But it looks like Loomer is just getting started...

"And it appears Loomer’s work isn’t finished. In the days since her meeting with Trump, Loomer has publicly accused the president’s advisers of failing to block Republicans whom she sees as unfaithful to Trump from top White House and administration jobs. In response to what she calls a 'vetting crisis,” 'Loomer recently announced she was starting an opposition research firm to dig into the backgrounds of executive branch hires on her own."

Here's what The Guardian had to say about the white nationalist and conspiracy theorist...

"Loomer, 31, has been involved in politics as an advocate of Trump. She twice unsuccessfully ran for Congress, in 2020 and 2022, in south Florida and had been known for staging protests including handcuffing herself to a Twitter office after the service banned her and jumping a fence at a home owned by the then House speaker Nancy Pelosi."

The Guardian has much more about Loomer that is worth reading. 

And what I want you to take away from this post is the fact that Donald Trump has some very dangerous supporters and that Laura Loomer is by far one of the most dangerous. 

If we have a mental case in the Oval Office, shouldn't we do something?

 

Post-traumatic embitterment disorder (PTED)

The person that has been elected to run the United States should have his or her hands on the pulse of the country. Recently reelected Donald Trump does not. He is more concerned with retribution toward his enemies and most recently, slapping tariffs on any country that disagrees with him. I Googled "revenge and mental illness" and found there is Post-traumatic embitterment disorder (PTED), which is defined as a pathological reaction to a negative life event. The perfect description of t-RUMP in action against his adversaries.

And there is more to identify Trump as losing it. Apparently there was public knowledge about the recent Signal intelligence breach before the White House maniac knew. Then, "Trump casually admitted that he was not aware that several U.S. army members had gone missing during a training exercise in Lithuania." It isn't so much that he didn't know; the problem is that he didn't care that he didn't know. The New Republic comments...

"But the armymen were known to be missing as early as Tuesday at 4:45 p.m., the Lithuanian military said, so why Trump was still unaware of the situation more than 24 hours later is unclear."

"The lapse in Trump’s knowledge begs the question, however, as to just how much intel the president has been left out of within the folds of his own administration."

The question, however, is whether or not Trump even wants the intel. And more from TNR...

"During another White House press briefing on Monday, Trump fumbled by admitting that he was not only not invited to his Cabinet’s Signal exchange, in which his top officials discussed when, how, and where they would bomb Houthi targets in Yemen, but that he actually had no idea it had happened."

 

AlterNet exclaims there are...

"Concerns are mounting over President Donald Trump’s ability, willingness, or even interest in engaging with the most pressing issues facing the country, as he increasingly—and casually—admits to being unaware of critical matters. His repeated declarations of ignorance, often delivered without hesitation or concern, have deepened alarm among critics who warn of a dangerous void in informed leadership in the Oval Office."

The concerns are relative to the two points already mentioned, but illustrates how Trump's mental efficacy is on the minds of major media. There's more from AlterNet...

“Hegseth is doing a great job. He had nothing to do this. Hegseth? How do you bring Hegseth into it? He had nothing to do with it. Look, it’s all a witch hunt,” Trump told the reporter. He then went on to try to blame Signal, saying he thought it could be “defective.”

If this is the response of someone with all his marbles in the right place, then the study of psychology has gone down the drain. And it is Huff Post that reflects on the most prevalent psycho side of  Donald Trump's psyche, his early morning rants on Truth Social...

"President Donald Trump fired off a series of wild messages on a number of topics during a flurry of activity on his Truth Social website in the wee hours of Thursday morning.

"Trump railed against a judge, attacked PBS and NPR, defended his tariffs and sent a warning to Europe and Canada, which were once key U.S. allies."

 The key words here are, 'were once key U.S. allies.' The question is how many more allies will we lose before the people of this country finally stand up to Donald Trump?

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