Tuesday after Labor Day

 This is Tuesday, immediately after Memorial Day; it should be a moment when a variety of emotions rise up. This unofficial but significant day marks the end of summer. Jokingly, for some, wearing white is Tres taboo. Summer loves most likely have been left for pages in a diary. Too soon for Christmas music, but not soon enough for College Football. Perhaps the romanticizing of autumn and its coziness, its let’s take out our sweaters motif, seems like a well-needed break. 

But as I write this blog, two sentences seem to be gnawing at my gut and running rampant in my brain. “The value of things that do not contain profit” is the first. As I look around, read, watch, and witness the arrogance of the billionaire class, under the guidance of Trump and the vast majority of Republican politicians, who prioritize anything but health care and the climate, and the impoverished, placing profits over people, I become angry. This demographic goes on and on, getting wealthier, planting more roadside bombs to deter almost everyone else from doing more than survive.

The other sentence that burns my brain is, “manufactured fear!” Once again, Trump and his willing accomplices seem to freely decide who will be the newest demographic to hate, to judge with the indulgence of great hypocrisy. Knowing that most of their cultists are drowning in insecurity, breathing in a lack of introspection, and always looking to point their fingers at the so-called others, it is without any pushback that Trump and the Republicans can invent the newest villains with the snap of their fingers. 

The coming of the Fall season, full of change and mysteries ahead, has for me become just another moment in this current moment in the life of this nation, as scary, not romantic, but a bit ravenous. And once again I worry.

Dumb hires dumber

 Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy on Tuesday said President Trump tapped her husband, Sean Duffy, to be Transportation secretary “because that was all that’s left.” “He said he wanted to serve the president in any way,” Campos-Duffy said. “He ended up in Transportation because that was all that’s left.” Duffy is a former Fox News host. (The Hill)

There are a plethora of really inadequate people serving in King Trump’s Cabinet, and if you have read the headlines, almost each and every one of his dumb a dirt selections have tried to out dumb one another. Some of the Cabinet picks were people who gave Trump and his PACS tons of millions of dollars; a very few were provided to Trump by the Heritage Foundation to promote their plans to Christianize the American government; and then we have the selection of the clowns who served as the dupes on the FOX Network.

Sean Duffy makes Pete Hegseth, another former FOX entertainer, seem smart, savvy, and sure-footed. Sean has spent our taxpayer money to film a reality show of him and his family traveling the United States because, of course, he is the Transportation Secretary, and for him it makes more sense to transport himself, once again using our money, rather than using our taxpayer dollars for things like improving infrastructure and rebuilding roads and highways damaged by Mother Nature.

Now, remember this: people like Sean Duffy could not have been given the power to fuck things up for the rest of us if the Republican Majority in the Senate actually gave a fuck about what is better for the people of this nation rather than what was in their best personal interests in doing the bidding of another dumb as shit person, Trump!

He hates poor kids

 Trump is waging a war on America's children — and he's winning. Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act made massive cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP, leaving millions of children in low-income families without access to health insurance, adequate and healthy food and, in some cases, learning and developmental services in public schools. (The Hill)

And where is the outrage from those within the Republican Party who claim and clamor that THEY and only THEY are the true party for being Pro-Life and Pro-Family? 

President Trump’s administration is waging war against children, especially those in our nation’s poorest families.  (The Hill)

I often wonder and am aghast at the inability of the people living in poverty who proudly claim that they are MAGA. They purchase the Red Hats, buy into the hate, and somehow think that if you are not a person of color, then somehow your own poverty is not the same as those you consider the other! Statistics have proven that a high percentage of Caucasians suffer the same ills as those who are not Caucasian and somehow lack the ability to introspect. It is as if being a racist or bigot will provide some kind of protective shield against the rust and ruin of poverty.

Trump and his Reich pretended to be Populists, advertising him as a man of the people. And if the people who voted for him, find him a cult leader or a golden calf, had the ability to look beyond their own insecurities, they would discover that this billionaire, is only out to be popular for his friends and family!

Bone Spurs at it again

 Veterans make emergency request to block construction of Trump’s arch. The administration is seeking to render the project a “fait accompli” by moving quickly, the veterans’ lawyers argued Friday. (The Washington Post)

The Arch, one more Trump action making America great- oops, I mean making his ego feel great. This monstrosity will block the view to Arlington Cemetery and be one more outrageous eyesore developed and supported by Trump. Oh yeah, and we, the taxpayers, still don’t know the final cost of this, and who, actually, in the end will pay to stroke Trump’s ego.

But Trump’s distaste and hate for the military should come as no surprise, because just recently he said: Trump Makes Jaw-Dropping Insult to the Dead of His Own War. President Donald Trump has dismissed his war in Iran, in which 18 U.S. service members have been killed, as “small potatoes for us.” The president, 80, was taking questions in the Oval Office on Friday when he was asked how he would describe the conflict with Iran. (Daily Beast).

And remember this: Donald Trump reportedly made disparaging remarks about dead soldiers and those who were captured during his presidency, including calling fallen soldiers "losers" and "suckers" in 2018. (PBS)

Bone Spurs Donnie, the rich coward, has made it very clear that the Military is beneath him, that they are nothing but a bunch of lower forms of life. He, I believe, considers them to be like a box of plastic soldiers that he can play the game of “war” with. He is the Commander-In-Chief, and as the Commander, Emperor, and King, I believe he believes that the lives of His soldiers are meaningless. Talk about red, white, and blue! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He doesn't care

 “Acclaimed psychiatrist Dr. Henry Abraham, who shared in the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 as a member of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, has warned that he believes Donald Trump has become even more dangerous in recent months. Abraham, one of dozens of physicians who in April called for Trump to be removed from office over what they alleged was a lack of mental fitness, envisioned the president deploying a nuclear weapon in a fit of rage, but not really understanding the absolute devastation it would cause.” (HuffPost)

I read this entire article, and the one sentence that truly frightened me was “…the president deploying a nuclear weapon in a fit of rage but not really understanding the absolute devastation it would cause.” For me, this sentence sums up the entire actions, decisions, and intentions of Trump, by Trump and for Trump. The man is too mentally unstable to understand that there are consequences for his behavior. Mainly, I believe this because he has seldom had to own up to his negative personality.

Trump is dangerous. He is stupid; he is selfish, self-serving, greedy, gluttonous, insecure, unable to understand, let alone discern wrong from right, good from bad. And if we look at Trump’s life experiences, this monster has hardly ever been held accountable in a legal way, a moral way, or an ethical way.

Perhaps if he were anyone else but the President of the United States, surrounded by lackeys and lemmings, a Mob Boss, Trump might face the consequences of his actions, but to this moment in his life, very few people with the power to rein in his terror have done so.

Imagine this: this moron’s ego gets hurt- really hurt- and his first reaction is to “get even,” reacting without thinking about his actions, and, in his mode of revenge, he acts to drop an atomic bomb! Far-fetched? Am I suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome? Am I full of hyperbole? Look closely at each and every perverted Executive Decision he has enacted; think for a few seconds…

 

 

 

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!