They own the Supremacy Court.

They own the REPUGNANTCANTS in Congress. They totally own Donnie J. Trumphuk as their useful tool and fool. His Maladministration of craven corrupt purposely incompetent grifters and shysters has only the objectives to deliberately dismantle the Federal Government while using it as a means to extract wealth for themselves.

All this is part of a well articulated plan. The assault on basic freedoms is part of this. Create a hated segment to demonize and justify aggressive and brutal attacks on widening segments of the population. Increasingly constrict freedom of expression and information through coercion and acquisition of the media by the oligarchs. Attack voting rights — use the courts as well as executive authorities to undermine representational democracy.

Use the power of law enforcement — expanding the role of ICE and even the military — to “police” our society under the guise of preventing domestic terrorism.

Their immigration pogroms are just the initial salvos in coming after “the others” — in Steven Niller’s terms “the Cosmopolitans”, those who are not part of the self anointed “correct” America. Those of color. Those who are not of the appropriate religious background. Those who are deviant from their definition of the norm.

So, yes, they’re coming after us.

Yes, they’re out to stifle us.

Yes, they are correct in fearing us.

Because if (when) we win the midterms we will require that all of the illegal executive orders be rescinded and that all the mechanisms of control be removed.

We will require the abolition of ICE.

We will require the end of the idiotic and illegal “war” against Iran.

We will require that voting rights be bolstered.

We will require that the Trumphukian Maladministration be prosecuted for its massive corruption.

We will require sweeping removal of the cabinet of craven coconspirators that have ruthlessly destroyed the federal government.

We will require the removal of all upper level executives in all federal government Departments who have been inserted to dismantle and disrupt their proper functioning.

We will end all of the Trumphukian tariffs against our friends and allies.

So, yes there is a zero sum game with absolute winners and losers. Those of us who seek to reestablish our democracy and maintain our freedoms versus the CABAL of the Oligarchs, Aggrandizers and Righteous Extremists.

Yes, we are all potential victims and targets.

We have reached the point of no return. We win the midterms and insist in its results being effected or democracy as we know it will be crushed.

They include

• The extreme so-called Christian Nationalists with Mike Johnson and Russell Vought as key inside players and Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation as key interlocutor.

• The  egregiously wealthy multibillionaire oligarchs such as Thiel, Musk, Bezos, and Ellisons of infotech.

• The financial speculators in crypto and inside trading including Bessent and Lutnick.

• The corrupt insiders and family — led by Donnie J. himself and his sons, daughter and son-in-law, but including a coterie of interconnected criminals such as the Witkoffs — father and son.

• The cast of enabling REPUGNANTCANTs in Congress and across the state governments

• The inept Cabinet of Fools who are destroying the federal government from within: Hogsbreath the Destroyer, RFKjr the Charlatan, Lil’ Narco the Suckretary of the Estate, AG Blanche the Consummate Conniver.

• The Fascist Phalanx of Intimidation and Terror implementing lil’ Stevie Nosferatu Niller’s war against a diverse and multicultural society with ICE and Border Patrol as the legions to brutalize and assault those who they deem inappropriate.

• The Supremacy Court of Roberts and his Federalist Society cohorts.

This is an amazing cast of characters who know if there are free and fair midterm elections that they are done. They will be under constant investigation. There will be hearings on their excesses. There will be calls for resignations. There will be impeachments.

Their agenda will be overturned.

Their mass pilfering and corruption will be exposed.

So — will there be free and fair elections? Will the results be allowed to hold? Or will they be subverted and kiboshed by intimidation, dirty tricks and outright assault?

If all this—then how can we prevent and oppose their plans to undermine our democracy?

Conservativism : Where’s my “trickle down”….Them tax breaks sure ain’t helping me….

Socialism = Social + ism…. Relating to society: a movement or ideology relating to society as a whole with emphasis on collective wellbeing of the society. Often it Includes public or state ownership of key economic sectors and highly regulated private enterprise. Socialism generally propounds democratic political processes emphasizing equal rights for all.

As opposed to  fascism = an authoritarian system of government with emphasis on control and allocation of all resources and rights by a single central authority. That authority asserts the right and authority to dictate political and economic decisions. Often private enterprise oligarchs are part of this ruling elite.

As opposed to “liberalism” or conservatism = a philosophy / system of government emphasizing individual rights including largely unfettered free enterprise. In the US and in the UK today this is called Conservatism = limited government, free markets, and traditional values. Both the US and UK Conservatives tend to emphasize closed borders, nationalism and often “traditional” values focused on ethnic and cultural homogeneity.

There are similar political parties in other countries representing this spectrum of government policies.  All this focuses on the role and extent of government where: conservatives (traditional liberals) emphasize limited government and private enterprise relatively free of government regulation or control, while socialist (some versions of social democracy) emphasize government oversight and some ownership of economic enterprises while seeking relative equality in societal benefits such as health care.

Socialism has had or been given a pejorative implication in much of US political history and essentially is being used by “conservatives” and ultra conservatives as equivalent to dictatorial communism as a means of denigrating its influence. However, as what was once “conservatism” has now devolved into an authoritarian (neo-fascist) regime hugely favoring the ultra-wealthy, the concepts of socialism are becoming more acceptable as an alternative.

Democratic Socialism with a mix of regulated entrepreneurial free market capitalism may emerge from the current battle between Trumpism and the growing opposition to its corruption and extreme favoritism of the extremely wealthy elite.

Where oh where in the nation?   

He may be in rehabilitation

Is he’s still having palpitations?

Is he  having complications?

Is he  ingesting medications?

Is he on resuscitation?

Where oh where has Mitchy gone?

Has he left us for the sun?

He’s left us a final question:

Is he suffering an infestation

Of guilt for ruining the nation?

Is he per chance in hibernation

Or on an extended vacation?

Since we have no information

We are victims of manipulation

Until we get some verification.

The oligarchs are deeply embedded into wherever and whatever enables profits to flow. They control the system—they rig the system.

This then extends to their control of the political processes…. They are trying to stifle opposition and create an autocracy… While Donnie J. is their current useful tool / fool for fronting the CABAL, we need to look further into their Heritage Foundation / Federalist Society base and who is being nurtured as the successor. Theil begot Vance. How are they posturing him? Can he be groomed further to succeed or has he proven inept? Who else is being promoted. Good gawd — Donnie Jr.?

Let’s think about whether the strategy is to engage this internecine CABAL or whether it’s best to withdraw into communes and localities and build a separate society that is removed from oligarchs and autocrats.

I’m not one to go offline and live in a commune…. I’m of the mind we have to take on the CABAL while it’s still (hopefully) feasible.

Teddy made some headway against the Robber Barons.

FDR used the wreckage of the Depression and WWII to implement major structural reforms.

After 50 years these have been assaulted and eroded by the plutocrats and the oligarchs using the angst of the “forgotten Americans” — that’s the white, racist underbelly who has felt “threatened” by the government fostering programs for “the others”… them black, brown, heathens, apostates, uppity womens…. The cosmopolitans… The libtard city folk.

That’s their foils against “liberal democracy”.

McCarthy

Nixon

Reagan

Bush 1 and 2

Trumphuk

They are part and parcel of the oligarchy who supported and emplaced them.

Do we confront them and oppose them….?

Or try to hide from them in our sinecures?

I say we need to confront them building on the legacy of the Roosevelts, Truman. Kennedy, LBJ and Clinton, Obama and Biden —Democrats all — who stood for the common man not the ensconced plutocratic elite. None were perfect and they all had to deal with the continuous efforts of the REPUGNANTCANTS with their policies to cut taxes for the rich, deregulation and to squash any and all social programs including Social Security.

What it will take is a galvanized leadership that takes on the corruption, the double dealing and the self serving economic policies of the elite who have usurped power.

We need to sweep the midterms and go at the corruption and the anti-democratic agenda of the REPUGNANTCANTS…

We must then use the processes available — including impeachment — to end this Trumphukian assault on democracy.

We need a BLUE TSUNAMI 🌊.

He’s a marmoset murdering monster!

Trumphuk and the Trumphukians deny reality and invent preposterous lies to cover their failures.

Trumphuk hisself lied about COVID and invented dangerous and harebrained stupidities to deal with it resulting in thousands dying who should not have.

Trumphuk hisself lied about his motives and intents in starting his Trumped up war against Iran resulting in thousands dying who should not have.

Trumphuk hisself with the DOGE, Musk, Rubio and Vought closed USAID and stopped its funding for the starving and ill worldwide resulting in thousands dying who should not have.

Trumphuk is a Killer of thousands.

The antivaxxers are allowing thousands to die.

Yet, Senator Rand Paul and other REPUGNANTCANTS besmirch a man who SAVED THOUSANDS OF LIVES.

That is the legacy of the Trumphukians…

Brown?   

Hispanic?

Protester?

Outspoken?

Fear for your lives.

Reporter for an objective media?

Fear for your life.

Intimidation is just the start.

They use the FBI as one of their tools to crush opposition.

They use the Department of “Justice” to justify corruption and repression.

They use a rogue Supremacy Court to remove all guardrails to tyranny by the Executive Branch.

They put an inept partyboy as the Suckretary of Warcrimes to return America to its worst jingoistic warmongering past.

They put a depraved deluded vaccine denying non-medically knowledgeable quack as Secretary of HHS to deprive Americans of fundamentals of medical treatment and  healthcare.

They put a demented, debauched criminal sexual predator psychopath into the Oval Office to systematically destroy American democracy and implement their autocracy.

1. He goes to the NATO meeting in Turkey and tells them he’s mad at them because of what they did over Greenland.   Really— he threatened to take over territory belonging to another country and HE’S mad at those sworn to protect that country?

2. He personally intervenes in an on field call of an international sports match for a game he doesn’t follow or understand. He pisses off much of the other countries and most of “football” fans worldwide while the head of the corrupt FIFA caves to him and allows the offending US (British/Nigerian) player to play the next match. The US loses to Belgium 4-1… nice going Donnie.

3. He launches yet another set of strikes against Iran as part of his genius effort to end his genius war against Iran.

   “When will it end; when will it ever end?”

Marx attacked Hegel for thinking the constitutional state is neutral, while Marx argued the state always protects the rich.

The fundamental problem the US faces today is that the massive wealth of the Oligarchs is untrammeled and unrestricted in its economic and political impacts. THEY control the main economic mechanisms — oligarchies — and have used their massive wealth to then control the government at all

levels and all its branches. The Trumphukian Regime is the outcome of a longterm orchestrated assault on democracy with the purpose to minimize government oversight and protect and enhance the control of the oligarchy. While it has certain religious and ethnic overtones these are in my view additional means to garner support from a pliant electorate.

Hegel, Marx, Engels, et al, were prescient in their diagnosis of the political economic dynamics of so-called capitalism with its so-called “free markets”.  We are going through a potentially critical period — a cusp — where the contradictions and disparities will likely lead to major disruption. How will this unfold?

This is a raving lunatic untrammeled by any guardrails, actively rejecting advice from several “advisors” and insisting on starting a war. This is a vengeful, increasingly demented, mean spirited ignoramus with delusions of grandeur.

We cannot wait any longer to remove this cancerous, perverted, depraved  demented danger from our midst.

It’s time to invoke the 25th Amendment and / or impeachment. But the 25th must be invoked by the Vice President so that’s probably a non-starter.  So that leaves impeachment as the only recourse. With the current Congress controlled by the Repugnantcans impeachment is highly unlikely as well.

Perhaps his refusal to sign the housing legislation that overwhelmingly passed both the House and Senate will stir some action to overcome Trump’s shenanigans. There’s 10 day clock on the bill so if Donnie J. doesn’t sign it would become law.  So is this just a “hold my breath until I turn blue” stunt by Trumphuk? Seems like all he’s done is give the Democrats more ammunition force midterms.

But — is this yet another attention divergence from the real killer: THE EPSTEIN FILES?

I’ve been thinking about the post-Trumphukian scenarios quite a bit. Within a fairly short time Donnie J. will be either out of the way or gone. The Project 2025 / Heritage CABAL likely is working — taking stock, evaluating options — to determine how to proceed beyond the current Administration. With Vought and Miller they’ve got their inside schemers and in Heritage, etc. they’ve got plenty of connivers. They have an infrastructure and they have massive resources. They play a very different game and I don’t see anything equivalent on the Democrats’ side.

The midterms will show whether the bottoms up grassroots opposition can gain a foothold to then stall out the MAGA assault on Federal institutions or whether the megabillionaire tech bros have gained a stranglehold on our collective political processes.

In a past post I called this “The Cusp”….

I’m seeking and searching for how we galvanize the “we” to confront the CABAL as it tries to move to Stage 2 — Post Trump Consolidation of the Autocracy.

The “true believers” (the truly racist, misogynistic magamaniacal Trumphukians) are dwindling…

But they will insist that democracy is unwinding.

They want to keep us from the truth of Trumphuk and his pedophiles.

They want us to believe there is nothing to see inside those files.

But there are many who persist and continue to resist.

They will not accept the situation where magamaniacs threaten  the nation.

Trumphukians have not yet destroyed America; but they want autocracy.

We must galvanize resistance now in opposition to defend democracy.

Do not condemn America for the Trumphukian curse

For its clear we have the power to reverse

Trumphuk and the magamaniacs will be defeated

If we can get more true democrats seated

Then with majorities in both the  Senate and House

We can finally get rid of this louse!

They talked about nucs and nuclear material. They talked about regime change. They talked about some sort of new security structure in the Middle East. Then they talked about opening up the Strait of Hormuz… after their attacks caused the Iranians to shut it down.  They talked about bombing Iran back to the Stone Age. They talked about eradicating the Iranian civilization. They talked about obliterating Iran’s nuclear capabilities. They blustered about their massive military might and how it would force Iran to capitulate.

And what we’ve got is ABJECT FAILURE!

The mighty US of A spent billions,  expended massive amounts of munitions, wreaked tremendous damage, killed thousands and temporarily crippled the world economy with huge energy cost spikes.

And what we’ve got is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

The American people should be outraged.  The American people should demand “Secretary of War” Hogsbreath resign immediately. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Lil’Narco Rubio should resign immediately.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Razin Caine should resign immediately.

They failed!

They failed the country by engaging in this TRUMPED UP WAR.

They failed the country in having no concept, no plan, no objectives for this war except mayhem.

They failed by leaving the US much more diminished and vulnerable.

The country should rise up in indignation and anger.

WE LOST A WAR WE NEVER SHOULD HAVE STARTED.

The costs are huge.

The physical damage is huge.

And the damage  to America’s standing in the world is huge.

That’s what I call abject failure.

Donald Trump keeps extolling his knowledge, experience and success as a builder to support his claims that he knows what he’s doing in building the ballroom, renovating the Kennedy Center, creating a huge arch in his own owner, recreating the reflecting pool.  Everyone, including the press and those on the so-called right and left, should look at the facts.  Many if not most of Trumps’ large real estate projects in this century and the end of the last have gone belly up because of bad planning, huge cost overruns, failure to deliver, bad partners, misappropriation of funds, poor management , and alleged fraud.  It’s easy to look up.  Check out the history of his three casinos in Atlantic City, which went bankrupt multiple times, the Trump projects in Baja, Mexico, Toronto, Tampa, and Panama.  Even Azerbaijan.  There are so many others.   When contractors, subs, investors, and would-be condo owners who had made deposits, or even golf course member who had paid their dues, sued him for the damage they suffered as a result of the failed projects, his defense, sworn in court, was that he wasn’t the contractor, but merely the licensor of his name.  He can’t have it both ways.  Love him  or hate him, he’s either a great builder or not.  Results say “not.”

Hope you enjoy your “cage match” — that nobody wants. It’s said that military troops are being ordered to attend at their own expense. Great showmanship Mr. Let’s Make a Deal. Also I hope you enjoy your lalapalooza Big ‘Merica music jamboree  — at which no artist worth anything will perform and will be attended by only those forced to attend.  The celebration of America’s 250th Anniversary is being sullied by Tottering Tiny-brained Tyrant-wannabe and his delirium.

Too bad Donnie—to quote Melania, “I DON’T CARE!”

We are up against something terrible — The CABAL as I call it — billionaires, religious zealots, nihilists and simple avaricious aggrandizers — in cahoots to remove the restraining elements of constitutional democracy. They want to obliterate “cosmopolitan” multicultural democracy  and (re)institute a dominant culture of white male dominated quasi-Christian authoritarian governance.  

My sense of history is that the massive disparity between the democratic history (albeit rather checkered) of the US and the oligarchical autocracy that the Trumphukians are trying to install has reached a crescendo. The degree of corruption and brazen criminality of Trump and his coconspirators coupled with an idiotic war against Iran may have reached a breaking point. But will this lead to a democratic blue tsunami that gives the opposition the means to oust the Trumphukians? Or will it lead to conflict and violence… and then what? 

As I’ve said elsewhere: we’re at the cusp.  There is a rising tide of resistance. There are midterm elections in process. This may be the most crucial time in post World War II US history. 

Crescendo.  

That’s the question: Are we strong enough, determined enough, brave enough to withstand their assaults? Will the college kids come out and stand up? Will the working parents with kids at home stand up? Will the disadvantaged —be they racially non-white or poor white; be they female or male; be they straight or LBGTQ— stand up against Trumphukian tyranny? 

Because too few see the emergency for what it is… This is an existential issue—it goes to the heart of our Democracy.

Time to stop playing by THEIR RULES. They subverted the Supremacy court; They emplaced complicit justices throughout the judicial system; They subverted the Constitution; They subverted the Department of Justice.

They broke the fundamental rights of the American people and we must oppose them using every means at our disposal.

One simple question: When will we stand up against their tyranny?

He’s given them a massively expensive war (that he said he would never start);

He’s given the ultra wealthy giant tax cuts while cutting health and food benefits to America’s less fortunate;

He’s supported the continued coverup of the Epstein Files;   

He’s supported the violation of the Constitutional rights of citizens and immigrants with illegal incarceration and brutality without legal recourse;

Donnie J. Trumphuk is the living example of liability and an inhuman distraction….

Oh and there’s the “Reflecting Pond”…

…and the trashing of the US economy with his tariffs and his increased gas prices….

and diminished America’s standing around the world …

LIABILITY??

A walking talking catastrophe!

I’ve known CEOs and other upper execs of several defense firms. I’d say that most were basically good, smart guys who knew the technical stuff well and had business acumen. They thought they were doing “the right thing”…They were building “the bulwark of democracy”.  Their companies rode the wave of US military adventurism and especially the mutual fear and distrust of the Soviet Union. There was a reality to it. After Stalin and the start of the Cold War there was Khrushchev and his blustering.  After the Cuban Missile Crisis the Soviets maintained an illusion of strength as they dumped a huge amount of its wealth into massive armaments — especially tanks — and posed much of this on their Western front arrayed against our armor.  In the Pentagon new leadership — Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense) and Bill Perry (Director of Defense Research and Engineering—DDR&E) in particular — and others devised an alternative to facing massed armor with armor. They determined this would be a disaster whether or not we came out on top. Europe would be ravaged and much of it destroyed.  They (with Perry as the key contributor) came up with the notion of the “Offset Strategy” which was to use our superior technologies to defeat Soviet massed armor. He correctly gauged the USSR was a Potemkin village — its economy and technology was foundering and there was a growing gap between them and us  technologically. I know the details and history of this — I actually wrote it. The base of this tech leadership came from DARPA — the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.  

Yes, this led to huge expenses and advances in military technology—but there was an aim.  We thought we were in a zero sum long term game versus the USSR.  The result was 1) we “buried” the USSR as they tried to keep building more systems to match the US; 2) when the USSR collapsed we had a massive advanced arsenal of smart weapons and sensor systems and such which far surpassed anything that anybody else had. Perry himself on becoming SecDef under Clinton explicitly told defense contractors that the halcyon days were over.  Defense budgets were going to shrink.  Retrenchment with mergers was necessary.  

Then what? 

A new “enemy” came to the fore. Al Queda and the Middle East became the focus with the Global War on Terror. ISIS arose.  Budgets burgeoned.  What was to be a reasoned cutback in our military was reversed under true champions of the Military Industrial Complex—Rumsfeld and Cheney. 

And now we’ve got the likes of Hogsbreath who has only massive use of force against anything as his mantra—so much so he renamed DoD the Department of War.  

While I’m not persuaded that Raytheon, Northrop or LockMart,  et al, are responsible for this turn of events, it’s pretty clear that the “bomb’em back to the Stone Age” thinking of Hogsbreath and his troglodyte brethren certainly feeds their bottom lines. 

The defense company CEOs I knew would abhor what Trump & Co. have done to US national security and particularly what’s been done to our NATO partnership. They and their successors did not make the decisions to attack Venezuela or Iran. These decisions belong to Trumphuk, Hogsbreath, and their partner in crime—Lil’Marco. They broke it, they own it.