It may be an old goal of Trump to leverage control of United States as President to secure Trump Tower Moscow, but old habits die hard. With 3 Middle East Trump Towers emerging, the urgency of catering to Putin for access to Moscow real estate is waning. We can judge so by the acts of Trump toward Ukraine-Russia peace talks that are going nowhere. Putin is intransigent; Zelinskyy won't give up territory. But the supply chain of armaments to Ukraine is/has dried up; Putin's foot dragging leading to peace talks are being accepted by the president.
So Trump is still driving down ole America in economics, culture, alliances and more. Tariffs are solving nothing with friend or foe to redress any former trade imbalances in any hemisphere or continent. We all know Trump slept through his Wharton class on foreign trade--doesn't know or care, if he knows, that tariffs punish consumers not suppliers of goods. He's raising prices on most everything that comes here from abroad. That spells inflation down the road a few months or year from now--raising family costs it's estimated from one to $4,000.
Using the excuse of an immigrant invasion, he is deporting, or is it shanghaiing, non-whites from streets, schools, courts hearings with unmarked vehicles and masked thugs--ala Portland several years ago. That puts millions of DACA dreamers, migrant workers, bonafide green card holders, foreign students and Americans in general into jeopardy. The goons immediately transport captured individuals across state lines without legal representation or Miranda rights, and often right onto planes to Guantanamo and El Salvador prisons and elsewhere, sometimes within days.
That causes those with darker complexions to fear lone travel outside of homesteads. Meanwhile books are burned that contain DEI diversity, equality and inclusion notions anathema to white supremacists in charge of Trump's policing forces; Ivy League universities are extorted for control of curricula and operations under threat of withdrawn grant funds, their lifeblood; parents continue to remove their children from public schools for unaccountable charter schools; rhetoric of invading sanctuary cities and states turns to National Guard federalizing with regular troops mobilized to support ICE immigration and customs enforcement police in Blue cities, starting with Los Angeles.
Abroad Trump openly rejects NATO and European Union treaties and shared intelligence findings, urges Russian president Putin to invade former East Bloc nations, sits mute while Israel's Bebe threatens war on Iran while starving Gaza citizens. We know this is in favor of foreign dictators Trump likes because he's silent about every one of them and the gains they make with American preoccupation with Trump pot-stirring. Whether Trump is following Project 2025 ultra-conservative moves knowingly or ignorantly, his staff steams full speed ahead to trash our Constitution and the rule of law.
Every White House move neglects laws and Constitutional conventions using arcane and obscure laws or loopholes to justify his moves. His cabinet members when affected by actions knee-jerk support their leader, lying and obfuscating about justifications or goals/aims. Congress is either silent like the Senate's new Thune leadership or obsequiously vague about backing whatever the dear leader wants or has done. There isn't a Red backbone to be found after the rhetoric of condemnation is quickly silenced. The Big Beautiful bill that sucks funds from Medicare, Medicaid, stops food stamps and distribution of infrastructure funds, stops nuclear power plant construction, wind and solar reimbursements, inhibits storage battery development, cuts funds for schools, hospitals and social security, and initiates trillion dollar tax cuts for millionaires awaits Senate passage and presidential signing.
You couldn't script the last 5 months degradation of American life in a nightmare or TV story line. Courts can only deny illegal moves when suits are filed by civil rights groups, and those can be appealed, the ones that survive factual inspection, into the distant future without estopple, depending on the judge involved, or adjudication continues at snail's pace while the dirty moves continue. Meanwhile big business says nothing, hoping for eventual stability, refusing to rebuff their deregulator, and awaits the windfall tax bonanza to come; Supreme Court lays low trying to protect the Chief Justice's reputation; Red States remain silent hoping to maintain control in upcoming elections in the face of public demonstrations about immigration and personal rights; DNC the Democratic National Committee settles it's leadership internecine warfare; and potential Democratic leadership licks it's election loss wounds while regrouping to allow emergence of new leadership while older leaders like Clinton, Obama, Biden, Pelosi and Walz keeping mum for the most part when they should be encouraging the nation to resist, giving direction on how to slow deterioration of everything, and assisting civil rights groups to stop the juggernaut trashing the country. Let's hope the people rise up for every election to throw out the bastards and elect democracy defenders, activist leaders, moral and ethical practitioners, and future-looking leaders that appeal across the political spectrum. The world wonders. . .
It may be an old goal of Trump to leverage control of United States as President to secure Trump Tower Moscow, but old habits die hard. With 3 Middle East Trump Towers emerging, the urgency of catering to Putin for access to Moscow real estate is waning. We can judge so by the acts of Trump toward Ukraine-Russia peace talks that are going nowhere. Putin is intransigent; Zelinskyy won't give up territory. But the supply chain of armaments to Ukraine is/has dried up; Putin's foot dragging leading to peace talks are being accepted by the president.
So Trump is still driving down ole America in economics, culture, alliances and more. Tariffs are solving nothing with friend or foe to redress any former trade imbalances in any hemisphere or continent. We all know Trump slept through his Wharton class on foreign trade--doesn't know or care, if he knows, that tariffs punish consumers not suppliers of goods. He's raising prices on most everything that comes here from abroad. That spells inflation down the road a few months or year from now--raising family costs it's estimated from one to $4,000.
Using the excuse of an immigrant invasion, he is deporting, or is it shanghaiing, non-whites from streets, schools, courts hearings with unmarked vehicles and masked thugs--ala Portland several years ago. That puts millions of DACA dreamers, migrant workers, bonafide green card holders, foreign students and Americans in general into jeopardy. The goons immediately transport captured individuals across state lines without legal representation or Miranda rights, and often right onto planes to Guantanamo and El Salvador prisons and elsewhere, sometimes within days.
That causes those with darker complexions to fear lone travel outside of homesteads. Meanwhile books are burned that contain DEI diversity, equality and inclusion notions anathema to white supremacists in charge of Trump's policing forces; Ivy League universities are extorted for control of curricula and operations under threat of withdrawn grant funds, their lifeblood; parents continue to remove their children from public schools for unaccountable charter schools; rhetoric of invading sanctuary cities and states turns to National Guard federalizing with regular troops mobilized to support ICE immigration and customs enforcement police in Blue cities, starting with Los Angeles.
Abroad Trump openly rejects NATO and European Union treaties and shared intelligence findings, urges Russian president Putin to invade former East Bloc nations, sits mute while Israel's Bebe threatens war on Iran while starving Gaza citizens. We know this is in favor of foreign dictators Trump likes because he's silent about every one of them and the gains they make with American preoccupation with Trump pot-stirring. Whether Trump is following Project 2025 ultra-conservative moves knowingly or ignorantly, his staff steams full speed ahead to trash our Constitution and the rule of law.
Every White House move neglects laws and Constitutional conventions using arcane and obscure laws or loopholes to justify his moves. His cabinet members when affected by actions knee-jerk support their leader, lying and obfuscating about justifications or goals/aims. Congress is either silent like the Senate's new Thune leadership or obsequiously vague about backing whatever the dear leader wants or has done. There isn't a Red backbone to be found after the rhetoric of condemnation is quickly silenced. The Big Beautiful bill that sucks funds from Medicare, Medicaid, stops food stamps and distribution of infrastructure funds, stops nuclear power plant construction, wind and solar reimbursements, inhibits storage battery development, cuts funds for schools, hospitals and social security, and initiates trillion dollar tax cuts for millionaires awaits Senate passage and presidential signing.
You couldn't script the last 5 months degradation of American life in a nightmare or TV story line. Courts can only deny illegal moves when suits are filed by civil rights groups, and those can be appealed, the ones that survive factual inspection, into the distant future without estopple, depending on the judge involved, or adjudication continues at snail's pace while the dirty moves continue. Meanwhile big business says nothing, hoping for eventual stability, refusing to rebuff their deregulator, and awaits the windfall tax bonanza to come; Supreme Court lays low trying to protect the Chief Justice's reputation; Red States remain silent hoping to maintain control in upcoming elections in the face of public demonstrations about immigration and personal rights; DNC the Democratic National Committee settles it's leadership internecine warfare; and potential Democratic leadership licks it's election loss wounds while regrouping to allow emergence of new leadership while older leaders like Clinton, Obama, Biden, Pelosi and Walz keeping mum for the most part when they should be encouraging the nation to resist, giving direction on how to slow deterioration of everything, and assisting civil rights groups to stop the juggernaut trashing the country. Let's hope the people rise up for every election to throw out the bastards and elect democracy defenders, activist leaders, moral and ethical practitioners, and future-looking leaders that appeal across the political spectrum. The world wonders. . .