Making White right again

 Trump administration aims to strip schools’ tax exemption if they consider race. The Treasury Department and IRS proposal would apply to private schools and colleges. The Trump administration has proposed stripping private schools of their tax-exempt status if they consider race, furthering the administration’s intense pressure on institutions that have sought diversity in their classrooms. (The Washington Post)

Ah, the sweet smell of MAGA racism and bigotry, wafting from the offices of the man who exemplifies White Power and White Nationalism, with all the glorious features of Fascism. Interesting, ain’t it, that now, just a few months before the Mid-Terms, that Heir Trump and his cadre of “Brown-shirted, White hooded, Red Capped, Nazi’s present their newest attempt to bring back his base, who just love their segregation, with a large touch of American Christian Nationalism. 

Just as some of the MAGA base seemed hesitant to continue bending at the knee of their Golden Idol, Trump, the sadomasochistic sycophants have brewed a plan to keep hate alive in America, and loudly and proudly are insisting that the white population is truly suffering from the Liberal propaganda of inclusion.

One interesting sidebar, as I see it, is the folks so involved in keeping anyone who isn’t white as The Other. Today we have the Secretary of the Treasury, Scottie Bessent, proclaiming that if any college dares not follow the principles of the Confederacy, they will be punished…I find it quite appalling that a Gay man has no problem denying other people their rights. I suppose because Scotty is white and a billionaire in his own right, he supposes that in the land of Christian Nationalism and White Supremacy he is welcomed. Oh dear, Ms. Thing!

 

 

A name is a name...or is it!

 Trump suggests renaming the Strait of Hormuz after himself, causing fresh trouble for the GOP. The president’s effort to rename Lake Ontario was not popular. He’s nevertheless already eyeing a rebrand for yet another waterway. (Maddow Blog).

In a normal world, aka a world without Trump as President, and not having Republicans in the majority, kowtowing and bending at the knee for every whim and wasteful wish projecting out of any of the Trump orifices, we would be in shock and awe, to have the President of the United States, in the middle of a war he started, ignore the death and destruction, the affordability issues he created, and somehow decide that his ego needs a little more soothing, by naming a foreign part of the world after himself. (Wow, that one very long sentence).

But when the President is a mentally ill person suffering the dire consequences of being a malignant narcissist, and this President believes that he and only he is King of the World, and the same aforementioned person surrounds himself with eunuchs, headlines like renaming the Strait of Hormuz after himself are sadly just another day in the life of Americans. 

It was a war, then it was not a war, then it was, as Trump stated, just “an excursion”, then it had a wham bam no thank you name, Operation Epic Fury. It was indeed an epic mistake, and the Fury somehow has lasted since February 28, 2026, so its fury has just evaporated! 

As pathetic as it seems, for Trump to even consider out loud the name change, what should really be worrisome is the fact that this idea is even being considered, and NO consideration is being given to ending this Trump-Iran War at all. And even worse, is the fact that now that Congress is back from yet another vacation, no one with the power to stop this madness seems to be making an attempt to do so!

 

 

 

some DEFIANCE!

 There is a plethora of angsty, sad, sickening, sobering, and downright “just how fucked up as a nation we have become stories for me to rant and rave about as I write my blog. I mean: Senator Mitch McConnell was hospitalized on June 14, 2026, and as of September 1, 2026, it has been 78 days since his hospitalization. (PBS), The Iran war began on February 28, 2026, and is ongoing as of August 24, 2026, making it approximately 178 days long. (PBS), The Epstein Files Transparency Act required the Department of Justice to release all files within 30 days of its enactment on November 19, 2025, which means the deadline was December 19, 2025. As of today, September 1, 2026, it has been over 255 days since that deadline (Britannica)…just to name a few.

But as I ponder and worry, feeling the pit of “that is just not right”, pain in my gut gets worse and worse, wondering if there will actually be free and fair Midterms, if Trump will try to invade Canada, concerned about Trump’s love affair with Putin, and Trump’s lack of love for anything that has to do with domestic health and welfare, I came across a very hopeful headline, which at first seems a bit whimsical, but once I read the article, it became a much needed act of DEFIANCE, against the absurdity that is, in fact, so Trumpian.

‘We’re not changing it’: SoCal-based Mapquest takes stand against Trump’s ‘Lake America’ Like a voice of dissent from 2005, the mapping site holds firm to Lake Ontario despite Trump’s executive order stemming from his escalating trade war with Canada. (Los Angeles Times).

Because Trump says so is not good enough for me. Because he pretends to be a King, and the Republican majority in Congress acquiesces, is not good enough for me. The mere fact that the art of denying Trump the last word is lost is not good enough for me. So when a person or entity actually says NO, no matter how small a gesture it may be, I find a ray of hope. Imagine if the Supreme Court, or the Congress of the United States, finally said No, you are a crazy person, and not only crazy but wrong.

 

 

 

The Republican Southern Strategy renewed

 The Republican Southern strategy was a 1960s–1970s plan to attract white Southern voters by subtly appealing to racial resentment and opposition to civil rights, using coded phrases like "law and order" and "states' rights." (Britannica)

The Republicans are very bad for America, but they are also very good at doing everything they can to divide, scapegoat, create enemies, and hate. Knowing that, by most estimates, the Republicans cannot win elections if it is a fair and equal playing field, the Grand Old Party has discovered the very useful and deceptive term of THE OTHER.

The devious Republicans have fine-tuned the art of looking over there to keep their horde of racists, bigots, antisemites, homophobes, and misogynists too occupied hating rather than have any of these cultists actually examine how they have been fucked over by the Republican Party.

Trump administration wants Supreme Court permission to ban transgender military members. (MS NOW). Currently, it is hating the trans community, and while you hate them, don’t forget to be on the lookout for the immigrant, especially if they have brown skin. Never forget that women are a little too bossy and need to be reminded to be subservient. Keep in mind that black folk might become too uppity, that Muslims want to burn down the Christian churches, and, for shits and giggles, remember that Canadians really do hate America.

The one lesson the Republicans seem to rely on is that hate and loathing can win votes. Fear will bring out the masses, and the masses, according to Republicans, are too petty, too stupid, too ignorant to ever realize that they are the ones being screwed!

Darline Graham and the Dark Ages

Darline Graham Says You Should Work Until You Collapse and Die. ““Gun control, government-run health care, abortion until the moment of birth—bad idea after bad idea. Annie Andrews backs them all,” Graham said in a primary victory speech Tuesday attacking her Democratic opponent. “I have a different background and vision for our state.... My parents worked long, hard hours just to make ends meet. We didn’t take vacations. If they were sick, they had to get up and go to work because if the doors weren’t open, we weren’t making money. My mother passed away when I was 11 and my father just over a year later.” (The New Republic)

Ms. Lindsey Graham’s sister, Darline, when she became a Trump/MAGA candidate for the South Carolina Senate primary, dropped her married name and decided that some South Carolinians might still think her brother was running for office. This person’s only qualification for the job was her last name, so why not make the best of it?

I digress; this blog is not nepotism, nor the sheer lunacy of Republican/MAGA voters of South Carolina, but of a more concerning commonality which oozes from within the depths and depravity of anyone wearing a Red Hat, a White Sheet, or a Brown Shirt. It is the idea that even though they insist they are the Party of Life, most too many of their policies deal with dying, a slow, awful, and tiresome death.

Ms. Graham, no, not Lindsey, but his sister, pontificates about guns somehow being holy and increasing our likelihood of living longer, living long enough so she says that you can actually work until the day you die. Government health care, she proudly pumps her bosomed chest, is just a ploy to make you lazy and makes you more Un-American. Abortion is bad because somehow her God will become angry, so have that kid, but make sure that when it is born, you do not have the money to pay for the child’s health care.

Normally I would say, well, South Carolina Republicans, you reap what you sow, and by voting for this insincere, your life is here on Earth just work and work and work, so be it, but here is the problem: if Darline wins her election in November, she will be one more vote to try and end Medicare, Medicaid, and medical care. One more vote to help America fall back to the days of the Dark Ages

 

  

UNREQUITTED LOVE

 Trump’s midterm campaign theme is unrequited love. The president senses a crisis in his cult of personality. He believes the path to victory is through unwavering devotion. (The Guardian)

Interesting, ain’t it, how the Republicans, the MAGA and their state-run propaganda media, Fox, love to call anyone who is sick and tired of Trump, or calls out Trump for his various nefarious and devious actions, as suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. For this group of ass licking, spineless sycophants, if you have the audacity to actually be anti-corruption, anti-criminal, and actually have a conscience, fighting back against Trump, you are suffering from some form of mental infirmity!

But lo and behold, wham bam thank you ma’am, the real injured folks are those who have placed Trump upon a golden calf, those who have willingly taken kickbacks and paid bribes to Trump, and those whose sense of honor is to prioritize devotion to Trump to make more profit for themselves.

But when it comes down to it, the one douchebag who suffers the greatest from Trump Derangement Syndrome is Donald Trump himself. He is such a sad, sick, malignant narcissist that he is unable to see the truth, incapable of any thought less than total adoration for himself, and is so blinded by the false prophets around him as to not see anything that is real.

As this article states, Trump believes that the whole world of Republicans and MAGA is nothing but devotion, appreciation, and love for Donald, and somehow, if his PEOPLE don’t do so, they are the sorry ones. And so far, Republicans and MAGA in Congress, sitting as Judges, and red-state officials have done nothing to show that Trump is wrong to believe this.

And now, because no one has ever told the Emperor that indeed he has no clothes, the Emperor demands from his cultists UNREQUITTED LOVE!

 

 

More for the Cult

 ICE is arresting soaring numbers of immigrants with no criminal record. Federal immigration officers are shifting their targets and tactics to increase arrests. More than half of those detained last month had no criminal record. (The Washington Post)

This headline is very troubling for me. The first obvious reason is the mere idea that the Trump/Stephen Miller Gestapo has now decided to pick and choose anyone they so desire to arrest and place them in America’s Concentration Camps. At the whim of the ICE Brown Shirts, without any real reason or rhyme, anyone with brown skin can easily be whisked away and, sadly, almost never be seen again. This is happening in America in 2026, and so far, all we seem to do is watch, wait, and worry!

It seems to me that there is another reason why there is suddenly a major uptick in kidnapping people in America by the Fascist Government run and ruled by Trump: once again, the Trump Reich is playing one of their “look over there” tactics. The Trump Iran War is lingering and lingering on; prices are rising; affordability is unattainable, the polling numbers for Trump are dismal, so, as I see it, the Trump Reichstadt, needs to try and lure his racists and bigots back into the cult, and the best way to do is to gather up the brown skinned people, to prove that Trump and his gang of goons can MAKE AMERICA WHITE AGAIN!

The MAGA crowd loves to watch the OTHER become the scapegoat; Trump and his Fascists know that if the MAGA is busy hating on the OTHER, then they will be too preoccupied to realize that, in reality, they are the OTHER, and that they too are being raped and pillaged. Keep the dumb mesmerized by their own hateful ways; thus, they will not realize they are the ones being fucked!