What is Trump’s endgame?  Obviously, he envies the absolute power of the dictators of Russia, China, North Korea, Turkey, Hungary and the other 50+ around the globe, but if, for some reason, he can’t achieve that level of tyranny in the United States, would a few tens of billions of dollars represent an acceptable substitute?

In truth, no one knows, perhaps even including Trump himself.  He appears to be taking one step at a time, and not getting too attached to any of many modes of taking his own wealth and power into the stratosphere.

One thing we know with complete certainty: Every action he takes is all about Trump; it has nothing to do with any notion of integrity, nor his oath to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution, nor the wellbeing of the common American.

This is Trump’s “brand” and it seems likely that it will take him forward until the day he dies.

The MAGA base of tens of millions of American voters would happily re-elect him to a third term and die in the streets of a treatable disease than be led by a gay communist Kenyan-born Muslim like Obama, or Biden, the president who looked over a fabulous economic recovery, though is well-regarded by Trump supporters as the “worst president in history.”

This is the level of stupidity of where we’ve taken ourselves–over an incredibly short period of time.

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For those who may not know too much about the politics of the interior of the U.S., Omaha, Nebraska is one of very few progressive spots in an otherwise bright red state.

That said, this really is good news.

 

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If by “they” you mean grocery stores, I suppose you have a point, though growing all the dozens of kinds of food you want in your diet sounds like quite a task.  For example, do you like coffee in the morning? It doesn’t grow in the continental United States.

But it gets worse, as there is a great deal more to self-sufficiency than food. Do you propose to make your own cars, gasoline, toilet paper, air conditioners, shoes, network routers, lightbulbs, condoms, and cell phones?

Maybe this meme was created for people with limited capacity to think.

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The simple answer to the simple question is that the United States ran into a “perfect storm” about 10 years ago, where both the level of hatred and ignorance of the common American and the corruptive influence of money in politics hit the levels required to reduce our democracy to ruins.

Trump appears to have pulled off the ultimate coup, usurping the powers that the Founding Fathers were convinced belonged to the legislative and judicial branches of the U.S. federal government.

At this point, we can only conclude that an evil and demented man seems to have become the first king of the USA.

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You may think that Big Oil may be at least pretending to get on board the concepts of climate change mitigation and the phasing out of fossil fuels in favor of low-carbon energy sources.

You’d be wrong.

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A lack of shame isn’t what prevents the Trump MAGA base from being embarrassed by the actions of their leader.

Those who think at that level and believe everything that comes out of the president’s mouth are thrilled that the price of gasoline has fallen below $2/gallon, that Canadians can’t wait to live in the 51st U.S. state, that Trump has successfully negotiated several peace agreements, and that the United States has, since the 2025 inauguration, become the most respected nation on Earth, after being disgraced by the former president, who had ruined the economy, crashed the stock market and caused record unemployment.

The saddest part of all of this is that our country is home to tens of millions of voters with extremely limited capacity to think, and though this problem is most on display in the United States, insofar as our economy and military is so large, it’s hardly contained here.

Yesterday, I asked some Englanders about their feelings about Brexit.  They lamented that their country has been set back by the same stupidity and xenophobia that we have here.

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This from former Republican U.S representative Joe Walsh.  And he’s right, what’s worse than Trump’s treasonous behavior is that the majority of congresspeople in both houses are unwilling to intercede.

What’s arguably even worse than that is that almost half of voters think that Trump is proving to be wonderfully effective in Making America Great Again.

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No one denies that meat tastes (and smells) good. Anyone who will tell you, for instance, that frying bacon doesn’t smell incredibly good is lying.

The problems are a) bacon is terrible for your health, b) animal husbandry is ruining the planet, and c) factory farming is intensely cruel.

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At left is a reference to Trump’s amazing ability to convince his supporters of things that couldn’t possibly be true.

Has the price of gasoline really fallen below $2 per gallon?  Well, we could take a short drive and look for ourselves. Or we could go online and check out websites that track the average price of gas in real time to one tenth of a penny.

Hey, wait! I have a better idea.  We could believe the unbelievable, simply because Trump says so.

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Many Americans are wondering about the content of the meme here. Why exactly are Trump’s picks for important governmental positions so blatantly disqualified?

Take Pete Hegseth as an example.  Did Trump choose him specifically because he’s an alcoholic and former Fox News anchor, or is that just some baggage that came along with a supremely loyal secretary of defense?

The same question could be asked about any of the others.  RFK Jr. is another fine example.  Did Trump specifically want a recovering heroin addict and QAnon-style antivaxxer to be in charge of Americans’ health, or was that just something that came along with absolute loyalty to the would-be king?

 

 

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