Because of National Security

 When all else and your vanity projects are seen as nothing but you, an insecure fool, decide that it is a case of National Security.

Trump is on to his next phase of crazy; first, it was the fact that his ballroom (his ballroom, not the average non-billionaire person’s) would suddenly be a fortified military bunker. (Because no average citizen knows exactly how fortified the White House already is, this whole thing is probably a sham.) And now Trump’s paranoia has morphed into a 250-foot Arch that suddenly is not just a vanity project but now a drone headquarters and a sniper base.

Amazing, isn’t it, when Trump’s self-aggrandizing projects are discovered to be nothing but a sad, sick old man's insecurities, and there is dispute regarding these, that wham bam thank you ma’am they suddenly turn into defense projects. Lie after lie, and then Trump’s army of anarchists and PR Fascists come up with a new excuse…America is under attack, and Trump’s love for this nation inspired him to build a ballroom and erect an arch.

And because they say that three times is a perfect charm, Trump’s assault on the First Amendment of Free Speech, where he has insisted that MS Now/CNN/Politico are a fake news cabal, Trump has claimed once again that he is doing this for National Security.

The grift, the lies, the bull shit goes on and on and on…Of Course It's because of National Security

When does it become too late

 Trump Floats Obliterating Entire Nation in Chilling Fox News Call.

“Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst appeared on Fox & Friends Weekend Sunday, following a conversation with the 80-year old president.

“I just spoke with President Trump about the situation with Iran,” Yingst said from Tel Aviv. “He tells Fox News he’s in a ‘deciding mode,’ and that ‘very big things are going to be happening in the not-so-distant future.”

Yingst shared: “The president described the current choices on the table as ‘wiping Iran out, letting them rot economically, or making a deal.’ “He added, ‘My question is, if and when do I blow the entire nation up? They better behave.” (The Daily Beast).

Okay, another day, another threat. Perhaps if Trump were some 80-year-old codger sitting on his porch pissed off at the neighbors because they parked in front of his house, or some older guy who couldn’t find his newspaper and blamed the entire neighborhood for trying to steal his stuff, maybe the rest of us could roll our eyes, share a “tsk, tsk,” and go on with our day. But this 80-year-old man is the guy who has the power and permission to declare a nuclear strike and make certain that the rest of us die a very horrible death, just because he did not get his way! 

Yeah, we have heard this old, demented man scream and shout, lie, accuse, threaten, and act maliciously, and yeah, the rest of us (even you MAGA) have paid many a consequence for his actions. Too often, we have held our breath just to realize that Trump is crazy, thinking that this time he might be told to stop. 

But this is America version 2026, and so far, no one has stood tall enough to say, dude, you are nuts, you are dangerous, and honestly, dude, you need to be removed from office.

How many times will the rest of us overlook these manic machinations, pretending that he is all bark and no bite? The Trump/Iran War rages on and on and on, going nowhere but deeper and deeper into Hell! When will it be too late to say enough?

 

 

AI and Trumps newest scam

 Trump to Name AI Czar While Rejecting Safety Risks as a Hoax. (Bloomberg)

Ya gotta wonder just how much private money Trump and his family are receiving from the Tech Bros. I wonder if it is the same amount of grift that Trump and his cronies have already received from the Fossil Fuel Cartel; I mean, how many times has Trump declared windmills to be evil! Not to mention how ready Trump has been to open up US National Parks for mining.

And then Trump added this: “President Donald Trump said he would name an artificial intelligence czar as he continued to push tech companies to race ahead with development despite growing fears safety. He rejected concerns that the quickly evolving technology may pose risks to humans as a hoax, comparing it to the alarm over climate change and the scandals that led to his two impeachments during his first term.” (Bloomberg)

Greed is the only motive behind everything Trump does. With greed comes power. Power and greed seem unstoppable for Trump. Add to that the fawning parasites who also thrive on power and greed, and we have a very dangerous cocktail when drunk persuades a person that he or she is limitless in becoming a God-like creature.

So far, the Supreme Court has acquiesced to the wanton wishes of the wicked King. The checks and balances written in the Constitution are mainly words written in pencil for Trump and his allies, thanks to the hateful Republicans in power who despise American Democracy. Add to that his cult-like followers whose only priority is that Trump hates the people they hate, and there is little to no stopgap in place to stop Trump.

I strongly believe that as long as Trump can make a bigger buck, he will never weigh the health and safety, the morals or values, good over evil for anyone else but himself.

 

 

Death as a non-priority

 “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has come under fire for appearing to complain that children dying with measles get more attention than people he says are harmed by vaccines. As the death toll from the worst measles outbreak in decades rises, Donald Trump’s Health Secretary also told a room full of vaccine skeptics that they had a “steadfast friend” in Washington.” (The Daily Beast).

Nothing to see here, so says one of the most idiotic and maniacal Cabinet Secretaries serving in the Trump Reich. Death and dying by kids are so yesterday, so it seems to this moron. So, what if a few kids or a few dozen kids die from a disease that had almost been eradicated before he took office? Most likely a conspiracy from the Liberal Democrats to make not only Kennedy look bad, but an intentional “gotcha” against Trump. 

The Republican Party, which loves to brag about being the only Pro-Life people in politics, once again demonstrates just how ineffective they are at actually preserving life and then making that life viable and livable.

Hard to keep track of the Trump Clown Car Cabinet, as to who is the most incompetent fool. You got Hegseth, whose wife is now sitting in on matters of Defense (rumor has it she is there to make sure Pete doesn’t drink on the job). Then there is Patel bringing back bestiality as a qualifying perversion to serve in the FBI. Good ole Markwayne Mullin, bragging about deporting any Congressperson who is a Muslim. Then there's Scottie Bessent, who insists the Treasury is honestly considering Trump’s bribery of sending $5000 checks. 

But right now, above and beyond the stupid, the crazy, the absurd of any other Clown Car Cabinet Member, RFK Jr. is the most dangerous, as he is negating the health and welfare and the death of children as a non-priority.

 

 

 

          

I want my money back

 “Democrats were ready to pounce when Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) sent the House home a day earlier than planned this week after already having canceled the final two weeks of votes scheduled ahead of the November midterms.

“What are Republicans doing?” asked Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries at a Thursday news conference with House Democratic leadership. “They’re running away from their responsibilities here on Capitol Hill.” (The Washington Post).

Trump is scared. So, he has demanded that his lackey, actually the best lacky ever, Mike Johnson, cancel the number of days that the House of Representatives is in session. Most of the Republicans in the House most likely prefer this idea, so that they can pretend that they care about their constituents, but if they remained in their job, they might have to vote on legislation that demonstrates how much more they care about pleasing Trump than helping those who voted them into office in the first place. Mike Johnson may be called the Speaker of the House, but the only person he speaks for is Trump.

There are 243 days from January 1 through August 31. If you are a full-time employee with a standard five-day workweek, you probably worked around 165 of them, depending on how generous your holiday and PTO policy is. But the House held floor votes on 65 of those days, just over a quarter of the time. That’s low, even by Congress’s standards. Washington always slows down during election years as members spend more time at home campaigning. But No Labels pulled the data going all the way back to 1994; 2026 was the fewest voting days in over three decades. (No Labels)

The total cost to taxpayers for members of the House of Representatives includes a salary of $174,000 per year, plus an average office budget of approximately $1.93 million per member, which covers staff salaries, office expenses, and travel. Additionally, members receive benefits such as health insurance and a pension under the Federal Employees Retirement System. (fedlaws.org)

Umm, at least for me, if the public servants for whom I am paying their salaries, benefits, and office budgets are not showing up for work on a regular basis, I am not happy and want my money back. But who am I just a lowly taxpayer!

 

 

 

 

Should have said, Thanks, but no thanks!"

 “In response to detailed questions, a spokesperson for Trump Jr. did not dispute the wedding payments from Kremlev. “Umar is a personal friend of Don,” he said. The spokesman said that Kremlev is “not someone he has a business relationship with” and that the men met through a mutual friend in the hunting world and bonded over their love of boxing and the outdoors.

A spokesperson for Trump Jr.’s brother Eric said of Kremlev: “Eric has absolutely no clue who this person is, nor has never heard his name.” 

In a statement, Kremlev’s press office said, “Mr. Kremlev and Mr. Trump Jr have a friendly relationship” and they first met “a couple of years ago.” (New York Magazine)

Maybe I should ignore this continuous story regarding the Don and Betinna wedding saga, but I don’t. Who gives a fuck about Junior and his bride, you might ask… and the answer to that who cares " question is that Don Junior is the evil seed of Don Senior, and both men are career corrupt conmen. Both wield significant influence and power, breathe the same rotten air of scams, and have shown zero evidence of moral fortitude or a sense of values.

And like their in-law, Jared Kushner, both men have flirted with, caved to, and have sung the praises of Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Putin, by the way, has invaded the democratic nation of Ukraine and has been proven to have provided information to the Iranians regarding all of the US bases in the Middle East.

Putin is an enemy of the United States, and so far, the behavior of the Trump/Kushner families has proven that as long as there is a profit to be made, they too can and will be enemies of the United States. 

The bull shit line from Junior and his wife is that Kremlev is a friend and he gave a gift… Kremlev is a BFF of Putin, an enemy of the USA, so it would have been very easy for Junior and his wife to say, thanks, but no thanks!

 

 

A Master Race?

 Pentagon Wants Only the Fittest Troops to Attend Upcoming Hegseth Speech. Service members must meet waist-to-height standards and have “impeccable” grooming. (The Wall Street Journal)

The Nazis considered the putative "Aryan race" a superior "master race" with Germanic peoples as representative of the Nordic race being considered the best branch, and they considered Jews, mixed-race people, Slavs, Romani, black people, and certain other ethnicities racially inferior subhumans, whose members were only suitable for slave labor and extermination. (Wikipedia).

Pete Hegseth is an insecure man who feels emasculated and always looks for a scapegoat to blame for his own inadequacies. He seems terrified by women, nauseated by people of color, and consumed with the horrors of never being a real mucho, macho male. Pete, of course, is in power because his boss, Donnie Trump, shares the same sad, sick insecurities about manliness as Pete. 

Hitler and his henchmen, I believe, suffered from the same delusions of power, might, and superiority, always fearful that their own weaknesses might be discovered, showcasing just how inadequate they are. To offset their lack of self-esteem, the Nazi’s decided that they would create a false narrative by identifying as a master race. In doing so, it was a whole lot easier to scapegoat, belittle, and eventually convince other insecure people that they were the master race. 

This bizarre psychology worked well during Nazi Germany, and sadly Pete and Trump are trying desperately to do the same in the United States. Weak men, are a parasite, weak men with power are deadly!

 

 

He just hates you

 Trump is doing everything he can, and with the spineless and immoral Republican majority in Congress, he is having zero pushback in doing so, and he is Making Trump Great Again.

“This year, Trump has championed a number of initiatives and positions that a solid majority of Americans oppose. There’s his deeply unpopular war against Iran; a new trade war with Canada and a new name for Lake Ontario; the “anti-weaponization” slush fund his Justice Department concocted, which even GOP allies instantly rejected; and his incessant need to build a White House ballroom, among other efforts to gut-renovate D.C. — using taxpayer dollars — in the middle of a nationwide affordability crisis his administration undoubtedly made worse.” (New York Magazine).

Add to the fact that all Trump cares about is his wealth and feeding his fragile ego, the fact that, along the way, as long as he keeps his American billionaire oligarchs satisfied, he reaps the reward of never having to say he is sorry.

Trump Can’t Stop Backing Stuff Americans Hate. (New York Magazine)

 In a Truth Social post, Donald Trump said the only “guardrails” AI needs are a “STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT.” Poll upon poll has demonstrated the American public’s loathing for AI Data Centers, but as long as his Tech Bro’s feed him and his family, Donnie gives zero shits about the rest of us. And Trump’s EPA has recently rescinded greenhouse gas emission standards for vehicles and power plants, significantly reducing federal regulations on emissions. His carbon-burning barons have paid Trump good money to help them kill the planet and its inhabitants, because profits are more important than the health and welfare of the rest of us.

To support Trump is to admit that your life is meaningless, you are impressed with immorality, values are for heretics, and that to embrace Trump is simply to state that as long as he hates the same people you hate, it is no biggie in hating yourself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Russia, Russia, Russia

 Hilary Clinton cautioned us and warned us, saying, “Russia, Russia, Russia,” during her campaign against Trump, some ten years ago in 2026. She knew, and let’s be honest, any thinking person of any intelligence knew that Donald Trump was, and most likely still remains, a Putin Puppet. And as is the case with Trump, the more he demonstrates a hissy fit denying any negative accusation against him, the more it proves to be a fact.

For me, Trump is slime, oily, sleazy, gross slime, and the one thing he, as a parent, does best is to let his slime drip and drop and ooze all over his children.

Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin. (PROPUBLICA).

Let’s probe this fact a bit more. First, ask the simple question… Forbes Magazine estimates Donnie Jr. is worth around $400 million as of 2026. Betina Anderson, the woman Junior married, has a net worth of $500,000 to $600,000. So one might wonder: why would anyone else have to pay for their wedding weekend, and especially anyone else who happens to be a BFF of Vlad Putin? 

Then we have to wonder why a BFF of Putin would want to pay for the wedding, and we might think, out of the goodness of his heart. Or maybe it has nothing to do with charity and is more of a covert move by Putin to get even closer to the Trump family. 

Donnie Junior has proven his own sliminess and penchant for corruption. He has honed his father's grifting talent. And maybe, just maybe, Putin and his goons are betting on the same greediness and lack of respect for this nation that Donnie Senor has, which is a common trait among the Trump kids.

The Con, a Trump Family Tradition. Selling out to the highest bidder, a Trump Family treasure.

 

 

No clean water for you

 “Federal court rules there is no constitutional right to safe drinking water.” “A federal appeals court has used a decades-long water crisis in one of the Blackest cities in America to rule that the U.S. Constitution does not guarantee Americans the right to clean and safe drinking water. The Sept. 4 ruling came even after Jackson, Mississippi, residents alleged officials knew the water was contaminated and assured the public it was safe. To this point, the appellate court also ruled that the Constitution does not offer citizens the “right to truthful information from officials during a public health crisis.” (Capital B).

In the age of Trump, I sadly have become used to headlines that are obscene, bizarre, sadistic, painful, miserable, and pathetic. I have not become numb to them, but seriously, the spark of surprise at their content has become less and less shocking, and more and more expected.

And now I read this article, where the Courts are declaring that our Constitution gives no fucks about each and every American having the right to safe and clean drinking water. If you live in a location where that municipal, county, or state government is run by fools who place profit over people, most likely owned and operated by some corporation that never gave a shit about people, who have now decided that it is too costly to provide the life-sustaining clean water, well then either die or spend your life savings and purchase bottled water. 

Yep, in America, it is of no concern, as stated by a Federal Court, for you to drink clean, safe water. Nope, your local government can lie to you, can purposely hide the truth from you, and in return, you have no rights to fight back. Just when I think we have reached some of the lowest points of our American life, suddenly the idea of demanding clean water is illegal!

 

 

 

 

 

 

And God created Trump

 

“And on June 14th, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, ‘I need a caretaker,’” the narrator says. “So God gave us Trump.” “God said, ‘I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, fix this country, work all day, fight the Marxist, eat supper then go to the Oval Office and stay past midnight and a meeting of the heads of state.’ So God made Trump.” (HuffPost)

Critics were stunned by the video’s blatant idolatry, especially on a stage where speaker after speaker had attacked Democrats about faith while posturing as defenders of Christianity.  (HuffPost).

Hypocrisy is the real religion that Republicans and MAGA worship. They salivate over creating false Gods, and refuse to ever acknowledge a truth that may provide them with the real facts, disrupting their bigoted, xenophobic, and nowadays Fascist ways. 

Trump has audacity galore, but he and his sycophants understand that those who have joined his cult are so hateful that, as long as Trump points out the evil of the other, his followers feel safer.

“So God made Trump…” Hmm. Trump has been found to be a fraudster, a sexual harasser; he lies as swiftly as he breathes; he is crass, belligerent, a bully, just to list a few of his attributes. So, did God have all of this in mind with this creation?

I can laugh at this bull shit, but what becomes less funny for me is the fact that way too many other Americans don’t find this form of heresy funny, but insist this flimflam is true. Who is the bigger fool…Trump and his goons or the minions who fall for this shit?

 

 

the end of civilization?

 Political world erupts as AI researchers warn of ‘extinction’ threat. A researcher at the artificial intelligence company Anthropic offered a bleak prediction late Tuesday that the systems the company is racing to build carried the risk of causing human extinction, reigniting a debate about the gravest dangers that future forms of the technology could pose. (The Washington Post)

I know this paragraph sounds a wee bit overdramatic. Human extinction, come on. But take a moment, inhale, and as you slowly release your breath, wonder and ask the question: well, why not!

I am a fan of anything science fiction. I applaud the authors and screenwriters who, as they present their fictitious plots, have actually predicted future worlds and universes where bad things have happened at the hands of those who seem to base the future good of humanity not based on the good and welfare of the people, but on how much profit can be made off of those people. 

Technology is not always bad, but as I see it, technology created to increase the profit of those who support it, placing greed above morals and values, is, for me, like creating an uncontrollable monster. 

AI may have its usefulness, but as it is being created, do the inventors and investors consider its exact impact on the everyday person? Sounds wonderful that computers can make our lives feel easier, but in doing so, what is it about our everyday lives we now must relinquish?

If you have watched or read movies or books about the future, in which corporations suddenly play God-like roles, where the rich get richer, and anyone else is treated like chump change, most likely you have come to the conclusion that, in fact, civilization has become doomed. The haves have more, and the have-nots have even less. 

 

 

A quarter of a century later

 A quarter of a century, and yet the vicious, vivid, overwhelming sights and sounds resonate in my mind as if it were yesterday. Nine-Eleven, the fear, the frantic fumbles, the paranoia, the worry, the unknown smothering most of the time, frustrating all the time, demonstrating just how fragile life in this nation really could be. 

Enemies were created, scapegoats imagined, and trust was pushed far behind distrust, with confusion over who was friend and who was foe. Conspiracy theories flourished; the news seemed like propaganda; no honest appraisal of our current situation seemed to find fruition. We seemed lost and oh so much wanted to be found.

 That was the year 2001. It is now 2026, and from my point of view, so many of the feelings and emotions I felt way back then have reformed, re-emerged, been re-invented. Conspiracy theories regarding who the Other is (Immigrants, The Trans Community, Muslims). Distrust of anyone who is not white, Christian, or male. Propaganda flowing freely from the Trump Media machines, never focusing on the crimes and grift of members of the Trump Reich, but on anyone who is not them. Fear of what might come next: which nation will be bombed, what tariffs will be expanded, who really should be able to vote, and who should be denied.

Planes were flown into skyscrapers; then, buildings imploded; lives were almost immediately ended, and now lives are being ruined; crumbling foundations of democracy are everywhere, but this time, this year, 25 years later, the terror is not coming from across the oceans but emanating from Trump and a cadre of billionaire terrorists.

Was there a lesson we were supposed to learn? No, seriously- no snark on my part- was there a lesson to be learned to help us heal? I wonder. To those who became heroes, to those who still mourn the loss of those they loved, I remember you. 

 

Third time ain't no charm

 President Donald Trump promised a $5,000 check for U.S. voters if Republicans win both the House and the Senate in the looming midterm election.

Such a payout could cost more than $1 trillion and break federal law.

The promise follows Trump's proposed "DOGE dividend" and "tariff rebates." (CNBC)

Promises, or are they bribes? He lies, and so far, he has gotten away with it. He breaks the law, and so far, he has gotten away with it. He is a con, a criminal, a charlatan, a convict, and yet he remains in office and is primarily the most powerful man in the political world.

I suppose the old adage of “the third time is a charm” is exactly what his sycophantic Fascists have told him. They must have added that your base has no memory of being kicked in the balls; they are full of amnesia, forgetting each promise and snake oil recipe you have provided them, and as long as you continue to list a bunch of scapegoats, your masses will overlook being had, due to the fact that as long as you hate the folks they hate, you remain a hero!

And yet… no one within the Republican Party or the Billionaire Class has the conscience, the spine, the moral fortitude to say Donald Trump, enough is fucking enough already! Sad!

 

Making "suckers" great again

 The top 10 problems with the Republicans’ pointless and futile midterm convention. If Trump and his party are feeling optimistic about the gathering in Texas, they probably ought to start lowering their expectations. (Maddow Blog)

It is lovingly (ha, ha) referred to as Trumpapalooza!)

So, the Republicans who have supported the Trump-Iran War, which is still going on for exactly 193 days, won’t be talking about that issue at their HUGE Midterm spectacle. Nor will the Republicans be discussing the fact that it has been 266 days since, by law, all of the names in the Epstein Files were to be released to the public.

One must wonder if the issue of affordability, or, in the case of Trump and the lackluster action on behalf of the Republicans in Congress, the lack of affordability, will be a topic of discussion. Oh yeah, and now the burden of paying for the newly minted tariffs on Canada, with their price increase for Americans- you bet that won’t be mentioned.

Will the Republicans talk about the exact cost to the taxpayer for things like the ballroom, the MMA ring built on the White House grounds, and the actual price of tearing it down and redoing the lawn, or the Trump Arch, and the plans he has for making the public golf courses in DC look like his private clubs?

Perhaps FOX will cover this sham and say that Trump and the Republican Party have made America great again, and provide details about how the Trump Reich has made measles great again, or civil rights great again, or voting rights great again, or American allies great again? As P.T. Barnum once believed, “there is a sucker born every minute,” and tonight and tomorrow night Trump and his billionaire donors will try their darndest to make “suckers” out of most of America, once again!

 

 

 

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!

 

 

 

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.