Donald Trump Vs. Joseph McCarthy on hate and retribution

Margaret Chase Smith-Joe McCarthy

Same game, fear, just different players. It was Joseph McCarthy in 1950, with communists. It is Donald Trump in 2026, with threats of hate and retribution. The picture you see here is a cocky Sen. McCarthy observing the confident walk of Maine Sen. Margaret Chase Smith into the Senate chamber...

'Margaret, you look very serious,' McCarthy said with half-amused condescension. 'Are you going to make a speech?'

'Yes,' she answered evenly, meeting his eyes without flinching. 'And you will not like it.'

This was June 1, 1950. And as they say, the rest is history. But there is, of course, more. As the story goes...

"Four months earlier, Joseph McCarthy had stunned the nation by claiming he possessed a list of communists secretly working inside the U.S. State Department. The number kept changing—205, then 81, then 57. The inconsistency didn't matter. Accuracy was irrelevant. What mattered was fear, and fear was spreading like wildfire across America."

Sound familiar? Inconsistency, inaccurate, fear spreading throughout the country. Margaret Chase Smith was there to tell the Senate and the American people that Joseph McCarthy was a fraud, a con artist who had completely misguided the U.S. population with his scare tactics on communism. Fast forward to 2026, when Donald Trump holds a similar U.S. population in a different kind of fear that promises horrific reprisals to anyone who doubts or denies the will of his administration.

This is what had happened [compliments Facebook] to prompt Margaret Chase Smith to enter the Senate chamber and give her speech attacking Joe McCarthy, but without mentioning his name...

Teachers had been fired without evidence. Writers were blacklisted based on 

rumors. Civil servants lost their careers because of anonymous accusations. In McCarthy's America, accusation alone was enough. Guilt no longer required proof. Due process had become a luxury the nation could no longer afford—or so everyone believed."

Chase was a freshman Republican from Maine, elected just two years earlier and she was the only woman in the Senate. The Senator gave Joseph McCarthy the benefit of the doubt, in advance, by asking for proof of what he claimed. Nothing. Even in a private conversation between the two, McCarthy produced nothing. In many of Donald Trump's thousands of lies, he has been asked repeatedly for evidence of his accusations and affirmations but he has none and depends on the American public taking his word. Most of his minions do.

Here's more..."she watched her colleagues—powerful, experienced senators—freeze in terror." They were scared beyond belief that Joe McCarthy would make one of them his next target and ruin their career. Her description, 'mental paralysis and muteness,' with some speaking privately but never in public. This is the most accurate description of the Republican Congress under Donald Trump that I have seen. And you have to understand that Margaret Chase Smith had no protections as a junior Senator. Completely vulnerable.

Roy Cohn - Joseph McCarthy

There is a common denominator between Donald Trump and Joseph McCarthy: Roy Cohn. Cohn was McCarthy's chief legal advisor. Roy Cohn served as Donald Trump’s ruthless legal mentor, political fixer, and close adviser from 1973 until Cohn’s death in 1986. There were three things that Cohn taught Trump that are still prevalent today: 1) Never back down; 2) Use the media; 3) Demand loyalty

Let's take a moment here to stop and see if there is anyone in Congress today that would stand up to Donald Trump in the way Chase Smith did McCarthy. She was a Republican confronting another Republican before the 81st Congress comfortably controlled in both houses by Democrats. Today, it's the opposite but the GOP control is razor thin, and in all likelihood will flip in the upcoming November election. So let's go forward with that assumption  with the same question of who could confront Trump?

Margaret Chase Smith's speech was titled a 'Declaration of Conscience,' didn't mention McCarthy by name, but considering, in today's case, everyone would know we are talking about Trump. Here's the scenario...

"She simply stated fundamental American principles and exposed, with surgical precision, what fear was doing to the country.

Fear has gripped the United States, especially since Donald Trump's second term in office, with bogus arrests and innocent deaths, primarily orchestrated by top aide, Stephen Miller. Could the person to expose Trump be an insider, someone working close to the Oval Office lunatic, who has the facts, which Margaret Chase Smith didn't have? Or is it more likely to be someone from the past who has been viciously denigrated by the White House maniac and is looking for retribution of their own?

There are, of course, members of Congress on both sides of the aisle who could make the

move but Republicans are too coward to stand up to Trump, and no one is listening to the Democrats. So, how do we pull the plug on Donald Trump? Everyone in this country, actually the whole world, knows Trump is a fraud and a lowlife. We don't need another Margaret Chase Smith to make a speech about a moron who was elected by morons. It all comes down to November's election.

There has never been an election in American history to equal the importance of Tuesday, November 3, 2026. GET OUT THE VOTE! Joe McCarthy was chasing communists. Donald Trump is chasing dictators. We got rid of McCarthy. You know who is next.

 

Donald Trump has alienated all U.S. allies...

"Sold us out," is the way "Miles Taylor, who during Trump’s first term served as Deputy Chief of Staff in the Department of Homeland Security and famously revealed the existence of a resistance group within the administration," explained how Donald Trump is "abandoning our friends," around the world. On AlterNet, Taylor is very specific in citing incidents in South Korea, switching to the Pacific and the dilemma of two aircraft carriers, then over to Europe, with, perhaps, the worst of the three, where Satellite imagery makes it clear...

"Russia is building a network of secret drone bases within striking distance of NATO, with storage for a thousand attack drones at a single site."

To start, it would appear that Dufus Rump's love affair with Kim Jong Un has been rekindled, but if Trump thinks Vladimir Putin is coming to the party, he needs to think again. Taylor reports a Russian drone, loaded with explosives, was found at the Leipzig airport. The White House maniac has been trying to dump NATO for some time now with this being our current position...

"Western planners are quietly admitting they have no real plan for NATO’s nightmare scenario, a coordinated Russian and Chinese strike on two fronts, at the very moment Trump has hollowed out the alliance that exists to prevent such a surprise attack.”

I have been writing about the fact that both China's Xi and Russia's Putin must be keeping

Xi - Trump -Putin

their eye on the fact that Donald Trump is exhausting the U.S. munitions supply on the Iran War, and now both are probably completely giddy that Trump is shunning the very allies that could help him defend the U.S. against aggression. You have to wonder what they are waiting on. Taylor says Trump is pissed at South Korea because they wouldn't support him in the Iran War, calling Kim and North Korea "unthreatening and respectful."

Then, the author reminds Trump of the possibility during his first term that North Korea might launch a nuclear attack on the continental United States because Kim Jong Un was so "respectful." In the old days under rational and levelheaded presidents, the U.S. could take out North Korea in a heart beat. Today, under Donald Trump, I wouldn't bet on the outcome. At any rate, Kim could probably woo the Oval Office lunatic into laying down our arms so Trump could play dictator with his North Korean counterpart.

Just to show you how unsure Donald Trump is of himself and his administration, the Pentagon, under the direction of, perhaps, Dufus' top moron, Pete Hegseth, sent all U.S. allies a questionnaire asking whether these countries are adhering to President Donald Trump’s vision for the transatlantic alliance. In an Al Jazeera exclusive...

"The questionnaire asks pointedly whether the allies have been 'publicly supportive of US foreign policy priorities.'”

They don't just have to support us, they also have to call all their friends and neighbors and tell them about the fact that they are supporting the U.S. Whose imbecilic idea was it to embark on a PR program right in the middle of a war that most of America's allies oppose?

GOP congressman Don Bacon: Pete Hegseth "Stupid as Hell"

And there is yet more stupidity, compliments of Hegseth...

"Another bullet point poses the query, “Has the country shown alignment with the US approach to [be] ‘strong, clear, and quiet?'” a reference to a phrase used by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in his address at the Shangri-La Dialogue in May." 

And just last week, China's Xi, who is a major Iranian trading partner, flat rejected Trump’s ‘economic D-Day’ threat where he vowed “tremendous economic consequences” against countries that continue to do business with Tehran. There's more...

Tehran also condemned the US president’s economic threat, with the Iranian Foreign Ministry warning that those who order or implement the levies “are liable to prosecution and punishment.” 

Tehran called the threat the "other side of the coin of war." And CNN analysts commented...

Several analysts told CNN they were skeptical that Trump’s claims would have the desired impact on an Iranian regime that has withstood oppressive economic sanctions from major world powers.

Let's take a quick look at the countries Donald Trump has alienated, and why...

• Canada over tariffs -
  
  
  
• France over the Iran War - 
• Italy over Iran War - 
• Germany over foreign policy - 
• Denmark over Trump Greenland threats - 
• So. Korea over removal military support -
• Japan over Trump's big mouth -
• Australia over tariffs -

When you look at the above list, it is obvious the United States has nowhere to turn for help in a state of emergency. Except to Trump's authoritarian friends whose assistance always comes with a catch. There is no free lunch, as the saying goes, and you can bet that Kim, Putin, Erdogan, Xi and all of Dufus Rump's other dictatorial cronies would extract every drop of blood available from the White House maniac before they finally cut him loose. He's an idiot, they know it, the world knows it, and that is the problem.

 

 

STEPHEN MILLER: Scary, Evil, Dangerous

Mr. Burns or Stephen Miller

There is only one thing scarier than Stephen Miller, himself, and that is the possibility that, with Donald Trump's health crisis, the Oval Office lunatic could put Miller in charge of the U.S. government. I have been posting on how scary Dufus Rump's closest advisor is since the administration's first term. This sort of thing was done with Joe Biden in easing him out of the spotlight when it was obvious he was having trouble with dementia. Biden, on the other hand, was not the raging maniac that is Donald Trump.

Daily Beast political analyst David Rothkopf...

"believes the president is preparing to shift power to one of his most loyal sycophants.

"Rothkopf argued that one of the president’s most trusted aides—not Vice President JD Vance—could take charge of the White House if Trump can no longer handle the job; he identified that person as Stephen Miller."

Let's face it, Trump falling asleep on the job is enough to get anyone fired; but of course this can't happen. He could be impeached, and I covered that in a recent post, "How Democrats can take back Congress and the White House by the first quarter 2027." But that isn't what this is all about. Rothkopf is proposing, perhaps, the most daunting idea for this country's future since George Orwell's dystopian novel, 1984. Yes, that is precisely where I think we could be headed under the control of Stephen Miller.

In 2021, Stephen Miller was branded an "Extremist" by the Southern Poverty Law Center, where you can find the best documentation of hate groups in the United States. Here is SPLC's take on Miller...

"Stephen Miller is credited with shaping the racist and draconian immigration 

Nosferatu or Stephen Miller

policies of President Trump, which include the zero-tolerance policy, also known as family separation, the Muslim ban and ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Miller has also “purged” government agencies of civil servants who are not entirely loyal to his extremist agenda."

The SPLC and The Daily Beast believe both Donald Trump and Stephen Miller, together, have fomented hate in the administration...

"Stephen Miller, the highly influential advisor to President Donald Trump, is the end result of a shadowy network made up of racist organizations and PAC’s designed to push a white nationalist worldview from the fringes into deep inside the White House."

I did a post back in 2025, "Are you prepared for armageddon...Donald Trump's death?...REVISITED," where I considered what could happen if Trump died. It is worth reading again but here is the way I wrapped the whole thing up...

"And this whole boondoggle won't come to an end until Trump's Cabinet and other doormat bootlickers start their own infighting, which will bring down the government. J.D. Vance has become president, Mike Johnson V.P. Both are borderline smart and think they can control Trump's gang. But this inept crew of morons erupts into dissention, with Stephen Miller ending up as their leader. Miller, who is a white nationalist, decides to round up all Blacks, Hispanics, Orientals, anyone non-white, and put them in a concentration camp. Then Kristi 

Golum or Stephen Miller

Noem calls and says, 'Let's move them to Alligator Alcatraz.'"

Rothkopf says the two Minneapolis murders, "where two U.S. citizens—Renee Good and Alex Pretti—were fatally shot by federal immigration agents," somewhat muted Miller temporarily, but he is back in Trump's saddle again. And it isn't unusual to have an acting president, the author points out...

“We have had multiple times in our history—after Eisenhower’s heart attacks, when FDR was in his declining health at the end of his term, when Woodrow Wilson was bedridden after a stroke—where other people did the job of president," according to Rothkopf.

I don't know the full story, but I dare say the people involved in those incidents were nothing like Stephen Miller.

And when DB contacted the White House for comments, Trump's imbecilic White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said...

“David Rothkopf is a far-left loser who clearly suffers from a severe and incurable disease known as Trump Derangement Syndrome that has completely rotted his peanut-sized brain...

Then he added the unbelievable,,,

"President Trump’s sharpness, unmatched energy, and historic accessibility stand in stark contrast to what we saw during the last administration when Democrats and the legacy media intentionally covered up Joe Biden’s serious mental and physical decline from the American people. President Trump is the sharpest and most accessible President in American history who is working nonstop to solve problems and deliver on his promises.” 

The real Stephen Miller

Rothkopf ends with...

“If [Trump] were incapacitated and they had to invoke the 25th Amendment, that would be another story. But that’s not what I think is going to happen here. I think, you know, you may have a slow decline, and you may just have more memos or more decisions going to Stephen Miller, or going to somebody else who’s sitting outside the Oval Office.”

So, there is a chance we aren't destined for the oppressive rule of this federally endorsed hit man. We'll watch Donald Trump's decline and see.

WANTED - DEAD OR ALIVE: Mitch McConnell - UPDATE Saturday 7/25/26

UPDATE: Saturday 7/25/26: 

‘Nothing to add’: Mitch McConnell’s office reports. Absolutely unacceptable and ridiculous, unless...you are a Republican. Then it is pathetic!

UPDATE: Friday 7/24/26: Today "AOC tells Mitch McConnell to provide a health update or resign." Only a Republican nation would allow this kind of absurdity

UPDATE: Tuesday 7/21/26: Latest headline on Mitch McConnell's whereabouts: "Mitch McConnell’s Aides Launch New Health Cover-Up." Here's a quote from the article: "His staff, led by $226,000-a-year longtime aide Terry Camack, refused to even say if the senator had spoken to any of them in recent days." This is beyond the absurd! 

UPDATE: Monday 7/20/26: KY Gov. Andy Beshear received two different calls from “agencies” that led him to believe that the 84-year-old McConnell was no longer alive. These were federal agencies.

UPDATE: Thursday PM: I cannot see where Moira Donegan in the Guardian resolves the Mitch McCpnnell issue of his medical condition. Her proof is too vague. And AOC thinks the Senator's absence might just be illegal. Then KY's Gov.  threatens using the nuclear option to install a new Senator.

UPDATE: Monday PM: Has anyone with credibility actually seen and/or talked with Mitch McConnell? There is no date stamp on the picture, and why didn't he make the newspaper's date obvious to clear the air. Still suspicious? See this: https://www.wlwt.com/article/sen-mitch-mcconnell-gives-update-on-health/71910759

Mitch McConnell is still a U.S. Senator and owes the people of this country, especially his constituents in the state of Kentucky, the consideration of letting them know whether he is dead or alive. Staff news releases won't do; they're all Republicans and their word cannot be trusted. We need it from the man's mouth in a dated video to make it believable; even then close scrutiny is advised. No, we don't trust the GOP, and rightfully so after the thousands of lies from Donald Trump and Republican congressional cowards who support him.

Most of us remember the confrontation between then President Obama and McConell when the Senator caused gridlock in the 2010s declaring his primary political goal was to make Obama a "one-term president. That didn't happen but this...

"resulted in an era characterized by routine filibuster usage, historic government shutdowns, and the unprecedented blockade of Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland in 2016."

McConnell opposed Obama with every move the President made and stonewalled an administration that could have put the U.S. on the right track for years. I called McConnell a racist, "The most despicable U.S. politician ever," back in June 2019, and I have never changed my mind. Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt, a longtime GOP insider who has served as a political strategist for George W. Bush and John McCain...

"declared Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) 'one of the greatest villains across America’s 250-year history.'”

He goes on to say...

"Americans cannot trust carefully curated assurances from political allies whose first instinct is to protect an institution, a party, or a reputation — particularly when those assurances come from people who have no credibility whatsoever."

Schmidt expands the above to include Scott Jenning, as well as Senate Majority Leader John

Thune and his number two John Barrasso from Wyoming. Each claimed to have spoken to Mitch McConnell by phone for 20 minutes each. But why should we be surprised that top Re3publicans are lying; the precedent comes from the top down, Donald Trump. The Lincoln Project co-fonder shows why we can't be sure any of the above three spoke to
McConnell...

"not only is it highly unlikely that McConnell was capable of having such a conversation, noting that “an 84-year-old who had CPR performed on him before being put in an ambulance has a roughly six percent chance of ever walking out of a hospital,” but Americans have no reason to believe leaders who are unwilling to give a straight answer to who won the 2020 election."

Kentucky’s Gov. Andy Beshear asked for the second time to release information on his hospital confinement that began on June 14, and hasn't been seen in public since. Beshear sounded like he was almost pleading...

“Let’s end the crazy speculation,” Beshear wrote on social media. “Just tell us what’s going on.”

Beshear, of course a Democrat, and is seen as a possible contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028.

It has been weeks since Mitch McConnell's wife, Elaine Chao, has spoken out. Everyone, including Republicans, thought it was particularly strange that Chao flew to China just days after her husband went to the hospital. Even more so that she set up a meeting with China's Vice President during her visit. Marjorie Taylor Greene, as boisterous as ever, even without her congressional seat, labeled Chao a Chinese spy. Here's the scenario...

Elaine Chao meets with Chinese V.P.

In a statement, the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the United States of America backed Chao’s unexpected trip. “Chao said maintaining stable U.S.-China relations serves the interests of all parties, and expressed the willingness to continue making efforts to promote practical cooperation and people-to-people exchanges between the United States and China.”

Apparently keeping China happy is more important that her husband's health. But there is a report from a medical source that appears to be credible...

Dr. Jeremy Faust, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, appeared on CNN to discuss the situation. Asked what the June 14 EMS call indicates about how serious the episode was, Faust said: “When we hear that, we often get a call like that saying we have a patient coming to the hospital receiving CPR. And what that means is that their heart has stopped, and if CPR does not work, we will have to pronounce them dead.”

Faust noted that only about a quarter of people who experience cardiac arrest survive to the hospital. He was clear that he was not speaking to McConnell’s case specifically.

Faust and his hospital are located in Boston, which broaches the question, 'why don't we have a report from George Washington Hospital in Washington, D.C. where McConnell was admitted? And here is yet more mystery...

McConnell’s office provided its first meaningful update on his condition on June

 

22, saying he is “continuing his recovery,” “continues to improve,” and is well cared for, while declining to disclose the nature of his illness, name the hospital, or offer any time frame for his return. His staff waited eight days after the hospitalization to say even that much, and only confirmed he would not be voting that week.

There's more...

McConnell’s office would not even confirm whether he was conscious and would not say whether he was on life support. When pressed for clarification, a spokesperson pointed only to a statement released on July 2, saying: “Senator McConnell appreciates the outpouring of support he’s receiving while he continues his recovery in the hospital.”

Laura Loomer, a crackpot by most standards, but still close associate of Donald Trump, says, McConnell was “officially brain dead” and would not be returning to Congress. And, on Sunday, radical right Utah Sen. Mike Lee said that even members of Congress don't know the current condition of Mitch McConnell. As Yul Brynner would have said, "Tiz a puzzlement."

Just so you know where all this far-right domination is coming from, it stems from as far back as Newt Gingrich in 1994 when he was architect of "Contract with America," the beginning of Republicans' lust for power. After him came Karl Rove, spawned by Geo. W. Bush, followed by The Tea Party and finally MAGA, Donald Trump's gang of hoodlums that have attempted to take over all facets of the U.S. government. Mitch McConnell has been a key player in this movement during his control of the U.S. Senate

It has been a carefully planned strategy by the GOP that has overshadowed the efforts of Democrats for years, and continues to hamper their efforts to wrest control from the radical right.

 

 

Women voters will not "skip" but they will "flip" on Donald Trump in November

Democratic strategist Celinda Lake is warning Democrats against "complacency" leading up to the midterms in November, and past that into 2028. Here's her take...

"Republicans still have a massive war chest, Trump loyalists are still winning big, and redistricting efforts are likely to benefit the GOP."

Lake says the expected midterm "blowout " could disappear in this mode of "complacency," this term defined as...

"a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc."

Taken from the above, describing Democrats perfectly, are "unaware" and "smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc." Remember Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the DNC head during Hillary Clinton's run for the White House in 2016? Wasserman Schultz not only helped tank Clinton's run but she was apparently sitting around on a Florida beach while Republicans took over state legislatures and governors' offices throughout the country.

I have never seen such contentment in a party that has been struggling for years to find a

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

leader, something they should have recognized when Hillary went down the tube. And the old-line Dems received a harsh wake-up call when Zohran Mamdani, A Democratic Socialist, won the mayoral slot in New York city, and then three of his endorsed candidates won their primaries. Here's the scenario...

"Inside a Brooklyn industrial garage turned underground event venue, local leaders of the Democratic Socialists of America urged hundreds of mostly young people last month to avoid complacency."

There's that word again, complacency and you can be assured, the Progressives are not complacent, with their recent wins in mentioned New York, but also in Denver and Philadelphia. This could and should shake up the Democrats that have slowly moved to moderacy over the years, forgetting their base of non-wealthy working Americans. Bernie Sanders has been preaching inequaltiy for his entire Senate candidacy and presidential run. That, I say, is Democratic Socialism, and America had better get used to it.

And looking to the right, one three-time Trump voter said he was "confused and disappointed," and when asked if he feels richer or poorer since Trump took office, that he feels “poorer.” MS Now's Katy Tur asked former Gov. Pat McCrory (R-NC) what he thought of the governor's comment...

“The disappointing thing is not him getting rich,” McCrory told Tur. “The disappointing thing is he got rich on the backs of people who are getting ripped off on high commissions, because that's how they're making most of their money — on the trading of Bitcoin.

Trump hoarding billions in bitcoin

Ah yes, cryptocurrency, the latest area Donald Trump has turned his corruptive attention to, although artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be the new area he is engrossed in most recently. Trump is the epitome of the saying, 'Go where the money leads you.'

And then Celinda Lake, from The Hill, says that Republicans still have a massive war chest to work with. On the other side of the aisle...

"Democrats are significantly trailing Republicans in national party committee funding ahead of the 2026 midterms, with the DNC reporting about $14.8 million cash on hand compared to the RNC's $125 million war chest. However, many individual Democratic candidates remain highly competitive by out-raising their opponents in key battleground races."

Lake says the Democrats should be worried, even with Donald Trump's abysmal ratings. She says the Iran War debacle could help Republicans in November, but states the Dems cannot...

...rely on Trump administration “missteps” to take back control of Congress in November, but rather must “swell” their turnout at the ballot box.

Lake reports, that turnout relies on women voters — and specifically, those women she calls “skippers” and “flippers.” OK, let's get down to what the headline portends, who are these two categories so important to the left...

"Skippers are Democratic voters who did not turn out in 2024. Flippers are disaffected Republicans who could choose to vote Democratic." 

Here's the scenario...

“Trump has a serious problem when it comes to women’s votes,” says Lake. Citing a recent New York Times-Siena poll, she notes that nearly two-thirds (66 percent) of women disapprove of Trump’s performance. Another poll showed Democrats with a 21-point lead among women over Republicans. And 60 percent of young women disapprove of Trump as well.

Lake mentions an analysis done by her team showing specific GOP flipping around the country in numbers that are huge, like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, could have made a difference in electing Harris. Lake concludes with...

“We need to reach and persuade these women to turn out, especially if the Iran war actually ends and gas prices fall,” she writes. “Democrats must do the work to mobilize skippers and create flippers. If we want to lock up a victory in November, these women hold the keys.”

In the latest figures from the League of Women Voters, 91.3 million women voted in 2024. Here are some interesting stats on women voters...

• white, non-Hispanic women voted in the highest numbers
• women of color are significantly more likely to be impacted by suppressive anti-voter policies
• Women ages 25-64 cast the most votes
• young voters (aged 18-24) cast the fewest

According to data from the Pew Research Center, 51% of women lean Democratic compared to 44% who lean Republican.

These are the numbers...now we'll see what the Democrats do with them for November.

 

 

Latest Trump Stupidity+ collection:...News you might have missed

Sometimes you just have to look at the news and say, there is so much going on in the "Stupidity+" category that a collection of news beliefs is necessary to get us all up to date. This is one of those...

Donald Trump's Sec. Energy says the Strait of Hormuz is open for good, unless the U.S, decides to close it should Iran not follow up on a peace agreement. How many times has Trump said the war is won with Iran? How many times has Hormuz opened and closed" How many times have American delegates gone to other countries to negotiate an Iran deal? If you know the answer to these tree questions, you are aware that the United States government hasn't the slightest idea wat it is doing in the Middle East.

One of Trump's short-time(?) bozos just unleashed an outbreak of at least 222 cases of the flu at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. There are four hospitalizations and one recruit's death, which remains under investigation. The outbreak prompted the Air Force to reinstate mandatory flu vaccinations for incoming recruits, which Sec. Defense Pete Hegseth had made optional this past April. The military appears to be placing the blame for the outbreak on Hegseth.

Here's a great idea, owners of data centers would have to pay their energy costs under a new bill moving through Congress. There's a strain on the power grid, and voters throughout the U.S. are unhappy with data centers driving up their utility costs. The Ratepayer Protection Act would require state utilities to create a “large load standard” that would require data center builders to assume any additional costs needed to power these data centers. They had better straighten this out now before the AI scare takes front seat.

You have to ask the question, is all the monery being spent to track immigrants worth it? Spending on government contracts, some of which are, no doubt, Donald Trump's buddies. These contracts include AI tools to track immigrants, soaring to record levels under Trump. Spending with these firms doubled from 2024 to 2025, coming in at just over $310m. Then in 2026, that number escalated to a record $513m. And yes, Palantir, with a

huge government contract, and the Trump administration have forged a deeply intertwined partnership, which led to the White House maniac buying the company's stock before touting Palantir on Truth Social.

Democratic Senator from Michigan, Elissa Slotkin, finally said what many from the left have been espousing for some time, 'it is way past the point for new leadership at the top of the party.' As MEDIAite put it she, "threw Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) under the bus during an appearance on SiriusXM’s Straight Shooter with Stephen A. on Thursday." I will take that a step further, replace Ken Martin as head of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). In other words, we need a cleansing of this whole gang and bring in those who can bring the left to where it should be. How about Progressives...they're winning everywhere?

This keeps coming up, Donald Trump comparing himself with 'Hitler, Mao, and Stalin, three of the most abhorrent dictators the world has ever known. Trump seems to adore them; even had a copy of Mein Kampf in the side table drawer of his bed at one time. You have to

Trump says YES, it's OK to
compare him with Hitler

wonder just how many times the MAGA maggots and other followers of the White House maniac have heard this, yet continue to follow him. He said Hitler. Mao and Stalin maintained their power through fear, then offered, "Who would ever do a thing like that?" Can you freaking believe this? People are living in constant fear of his ICE thugs roaming the streets just looking for prey.

You've probably heard about all the mega-mergers that have been happening recently, the kind that favor the wealthy donors to Donald Trump's coffers. But Sen. Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts says a, ‘tsunami of anger’ could cause many reversals, adding they, "could be undone by a future administration." Case in point, Trump's DOJ approved a, "$111bn merger of Warner Bros Discovery, the parent company of CNN and HBO, and Paramount Skydance, and includes CBS News, all of it controlled by the Ellison family. Enter the incompetent Bari Weiss, head of CBS News, drooling over Donald Trump. This puts two major news networks under the control of a Trump suck-up. Watch out for November.

This is one of those 'Its hard to believe' things' about Donald Trump, although there is really nothing hard to believe about Dufus Rump and what he would do. "Tucker Carlson Excoriates Trump: ‘Shut Up, B*tch! I Don’t Take You Seriously,’" was the headline in MEDIAite which apparently results from Carlson's opposition of Trump attacking Iran and starting a war. Didn't know Carlson had any scruples, but his reaction might just have been using the Iran War as an excuse when the former radio hack really wanted to unload an association with a previous crackpot turned mental case. As the saying goes, 'It takes one to know one.'

So, as Donald Trump wanders in and out of reality, will he some day just meander in and press the button for the bomb? Farfetched, perhaps but certainly possible for this lunatic.

What is an AI agorithm and what can it do?

Last week we talked about the new artificial intelligence software given us by Anthropic, which will not only outdo anything yet developed, but it also will be able to  "clone itself and will not need a human to advance to commands that only the program has control over." Just think of this. Once it has established its own algorithm, the program can make its own decisions and proceed without humans to do its work, as it sees fit; that means absolutely no constraint. Here's a definition of algorithm...

"An algorithm is a finite, step-by-step set of instructions used to solve a problem or perform a task. It takes an initial set of inputs, follows rigorous logical rules, and processes them to produce a specific output. You can think of it as a recipe for computers."

The three key factors here are 'algorithm,' 'without humans' and 'no constraint.' If this new technology can think like a human being, isn't it likely it will act like a human being, and with all the greed and hate in this country today, where do you think it could likely go? But Donald Trump could care less about the danger involved, his only interest is to satisfy a grandiose ego and a beckoning pocketbook. Trump wanted to take over Anthropic's Claude for his administration, but the company said, whoa, we're not ready for open use yet.

On the other hand, the Trump administration is trying to corral Anthropic because of its lack of understanding of AI, and Congress is taking its lead in doing the same. Here's the scenario, according to Politico...

"The Trump administration’s sudden moves to rein in Anthropic are giving fresh

 

momentum to efforts in Congress to impose guardrails on cutting-edge artificial intelligence models.

"Lawmakers are still seeking clear information about the government’s decision late Friday to impose an export ban on the AI company’s latest models, known as Fable 5 and Mythos 5, over cybersecurity concerns — a move that led Anthropic to suspend access to both for all users."

At this point, you'd have to wonder if Trump ordered the export ban for the sake of safety, or whether it is solely for the fact he wants to keep Anthropic in limbo until he can figure out how to cash in on this new technological discovery. But Congress is saying, collectively, left and right, they...

"see an opening to mobilize their colleagues around legislation that would reclaim congressional authority at a time when the executive branch remains firmly in the drivers’ seat on AI regulation."

Pathetic as this sounds, it is true, but, at the same time, it is the fault of Congress, primarily the Republicans, that Donald Trump holds the power he does. All along they have supported him and now they come to their whining decision there is an issue that requires their attention, and they want their ball back. This sort of governing is why this country is in the lousy predicament we're in, and it isn't all the fault of the GOP. The Democrats have been spineless since Trump came into office.

Mystical Raven, a site about spirituality and inspiration says,  "AI Is About to Escape Human Control — and Nobody Has a Plan." This kind of thinking should be the focus of the technology industry in cooperation with the U.S. government, with the emphasis on coming up with a plan. The main feature of the plan must be to determine how to control a Claude or Fable, or whatever new software that is developed, maintaining constraints over its ability to take over full control. A human must always be in the loop.

Here, from Mystical Raven, is the best analysis of where we are...long, but the best I have ever seen...

On June 4, 2026, Anthropic published a blog post calling on the world’s top artificial intelligence companies to come up with a coordinated way to pause development of advanced AI systems, warning that the technology is improving 

so quickly that there’s a risk humans would lose control. This was not a statement from a watchdog group, an academic ethicist, or a senator who barely understands how email works. It came from the company that makes Claude, one of the most capable AI systems currently in existence. Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic, warned that the rapidly evolving AI sector currently lacks adequate processes to slow development if things move too fast, and that the industry has focused heavily on accelerating innovation without creating enough safeguards to manage potential risks.

I can remember the early stages of AI, when science fiction was predicting the worst, things like the above, but that was just a movie, a book, products of an entertainment industry. At the time, people were saying, 'You know, this could happen some day.' Well, it did, and we are completely at odds what to do about it. We would be better off if the person in the Oval Office wasn't a demented lunatic. And if we didn't have an impotent Congress of cowards. And...there is so much more but time does not permit. 

This is my second post on artificial intelligence (AI), and I am thinking there might just be more on the way in the future.

What's it all about...AI?

This post is about artificial intelligence and I want to emphasize that the issue has become a most important focus now for where our country is headed. It's out there--AI, I mean--in all its glory and there are only a few people who understand what this new technology is capable of. I do, with limitations, having worked with the software some ten years ago in its infancy, while in the junk mail industry. To give you an idea of the value of AI, I paid $25,000 for a program that I I had to renew at $2,500 annually.

It was worth it based on the results I obtained for my clients. However, the new emphasis on AI comes from Donald Trump in the White House, where he will find ways to use it to make his administration look good, for retribution against his enemies and, of course, corruption that will put money in his pocket. Here's the scenario...

"President Donald Trump has significantly boosted AI throughout his second term — and a whistleblower confirms that major economic bubble is about to burst, and take many Americans' fortunes with it."

There's more...

“We've spent something like $1.4 trillion dollars building data centers in this country, and the revenues on AI are $600 billion,” said Alexis Goldstein, a former financial regulatory expert for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Maryland Democratic congressional candidate to The Left Hook’s Wajahat Ali on Thursday. “So the tech industry has earned not even half of what they've spent building these data centers.”

Are we to believe that Epstein compares the AI bubble with the housing bubble that gave us the great recession? If so, the hi-tech designed to make life easier and business more productive will certainly end up a cataclysm.  Donald Trump is not necessarily the source of the artificial intelligence bubble, but his policies and public promotion have actively sustained and inflated it. He's taking credit for the stock market momentum, which

Donald Trump absurd AI likenesses of himself

influences Wall Street in the following ways...

Unprecedented Deregulation: The Trump administration has aggressively pushed back against state-level AI regulations and postponed federal security or oversight orders, citing fears that strict compliance could stifle innovation and development speeds.

Infrastructure & Energy Support: To ensure American technological dominance, the White House has moved to open up federal lands and increase energy production specifically aimed at supporting the massive power needs of new AI data centers.

Voluntary Equity Stakes: The administration has explored taking direct government equity stakes in major AI and tech firms, similar to past equity agreements made with companies like Intel.

Market Volatility: While his "run-it-hot" economic strategy and tax incentives have fueled tech spending, his broader economic policies—such as sweeping global tariffs—have simultaneously introduced market volatility, occasionally triggering broad stock sell-offs across the tech sector.

Wall Street and the tech industry have initiated an impulsive drive, like a rolling ball gathering moss, except this ball is gathering gullible investors who mistakenly believe all is safe, with no risk, or, at least very little. It is like everything else Trump touches, he jumps in and generates all that he can for the home team and then bails, leaving everyone else in the lurch. The problem here is that T-rump may have created something he will soon lose control

over and his departure will leave more than disgruntled Americans.

Anthropic, the developers of the most recent and most powerful AI software say that it is only a matter of time before it can clone itself and will not need a human to advance to commands that only the program has control over. Both scary and a warning of what is to come, especially in the wrong hands. Anthropic adds...

"That is likely to create a feedback loop in which AI systems create even more sophisticated successors."

If you want more and can understand coding for writing algorithms, you will definitely want to read this article by Anthropic, "When AI builds itself."

Anthropic has been all over the media with its warnings...

"that humans risk losing control over AI systems in the very near future if a concerning trend with its Claude model continues."

More about Claude...

"The $1 trillion startup revealed that Claude now writes more than 80 per cent of its own code – up from less than 10 per cent in February last year.

"Anthropic claims that the Claude-written code is currently roughly at parity to human-written code, and is expected to be much better within the next year." 

The article is a warning of future problems if we don't maintain some control over this new phenomena. Those controls must persist throughout the world, as well as in the U.S. There's not much we can do about foreign countries determined to use this technology to do harm. There is, however, something we can do in the U.S. This will require the removal of Donald Trump from the White House and a full sweep of Congress for the Democrats in November.

It is obvious Anthropic wants to control Claude for the good of future AI technology that can benefit the world rather than destroy it. Sure, there will be grifters like Donald Trump who capitalize only on what this new technology can do for them, pushing things to the brink, where both industry and the government will have to step in. It always happens when there is greed present. We are emerging from a dark period where the conservative radical right has almost destroyed our democracy and the right to pursue new ventures like Claude. 

I hate making this political, but after what Donald Trump has done to this country, he has made it all about himself and his minions, their efforts to tear down everything our forefathers created. You know what to do in November! 

 

 

Donald Trump gives us an almost guaranteed recession

Chaos in Trump's America

Alexander Willis, in RawStory, acknowledges two major issues that could send the U.S. into "permanent recession." Each should shape an outlook in Americans that produces a fear, so solid and so pointed, that Donald Trump, regardless of his current condition, continues to take the U.S. into an apocalypse. I'll get to these points later but first, the status of his health...

"Recent medical and public scrutiny surrounding Donald Trump’s cognitive health centers on reports of his rambling speeches, visible physical changes (such as hand bruising and slowed walking), and increased impulsivity.:

In down to earth terms, he acts like he is off his rocker. Yet, his latest doctor's report says he is in "excellent health" and "fit to serve" as president of this country. At the same time, Trump was deemed "borderline obese" and The Daily Beast quotes Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a CNN medical analyst and professor of medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine...

"wrote on X that the report had inexplicably noted “improved” ankle edema compared to last year’s exam, even though no edema had been listed in the prior findings."

Apparently you can't believe Donald Trump's physician, Dr. Sean Barbabella, and you sure as hell can't believe Donald Trump. However, amongst all the Oval Office lunatic's idiocy, you still have a Republican Congress scared to death of the man, a group who is letting this  country sink to the lowest level in its history. And really, the Democrats are not nearly doing the best they can to be rid of this maniac. Here's even more from Willis...

Donald Trump's dementia and cognitivity

"A growing number of CEOs suspect a market crash is imminent but have been “scared” to say so publicly out of fear of retaliation from President Donald Trump, and on Tuesday, one security expert warned that such a crash may not only be imminent, but 'permanent.'”

Miles Taylor, former Homeland Security senior official, tells us, the way Trump has orchestrated this recession...

"if it happens before we’re ready – many folks may never be able to crawl back out. That’s because two explosions could hit the U.S. economy at the same time.”

Getting ready for a recession is another story, but it is time to explore the two issues, mentioned earlier, created by the White House maniac that could get us there. They are the Iran War and the dominance of artificial intelligence (AI) in the marketplace. Starting with the Iran War, prices have escalated enormously both in the U.S. and abroad. Both gas and food have shocked consumers and starting to empty their pocketbooks. Donald Trump just laughs and tells Americans to suck it up.

Number two issue, artificial intelligence (AI), described by Taylor...

"as a 'ticking time bomb,' one that he had 'been hearing tick for the last three years': generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)."

I can tell you it has been ticking longer than that, more like ten to fifteen years, if only in the background. I was working with AI some 10+ years ago in its infancy and it was scary for me then what I could do. In simplification, you combine a database of known factors like your customers' buying habits with another database of demographics and lifestyle characteristics by a level of demography to determine where to find new customers. The

results increased business most acceptably in those days, can imagine the outcome today. 

Taylor says Trump started a war with Iran that "should’ve been avoidable," which has been responsible for the increase in prices leading to inflation. And through all this Donald Trump's attention alternates between his billion dollar ballroom and a 250th celebration that is collapsing because most of the stars don't want to perform. Getting back to the "ticking time bomb," artificial intelligence (AI), large and small U.S. companies are jumping on the AI bandwagon. 

Here's a fact that will knock your socks off...

A recent survey found that 99% of CEOs expect “AI-driven layoffs.”

And this is where the second disaster, after the Iran War, takes over and, as Taylor describes it...

"setting off a recession 'different from all others that came before it.'”

Here's the scenario...

“The instant the economy turns, the cautious AI pilots will become emergency AI rollouts. Corporate boards will start demanding cost cuts, and CFOs will start drafting reduction-in-force memos,” Taylor wrote.

There's more...

“Layoffs that would have been framed as long-term 'restructuring' or ‘right-sizing’ will become, by necessity, full-scale workforce replacement. The recession Trump is steering us into will arrive at the precise moment in history when, for the first time ever, wide swaths of the human workforce can be replaced instantly by software.”

If you are wondering about the connection between T-rump, AI and its replacement of

workers, especially since Dufus Rump probably entered politics at about the same time AI was beginning to get momentum...don't. Once he found out he could profit from the technology, be it only through support of those in the industry to begin with, he went full-bore in paving the way for its use...

"Donald Trump is directly responsible for shaping the regulatory environment accelerating AI integration into the workforce. While he frames AI as a "greatest job producer", his administration's policies have actively cleared the path for rapid, widespread AI adoption without imposing strict labor or workplace-safety regulations."

When we eventually find out about a massive loss of jobs and those losing those jobs start complaining about being out of work, losing their homes, theirs cars, unable to afford to eat, Trump's reaction will no doubt be...

'Suck it up, loser, and get a job.'