I often don’t start my rants with the title, but today the only thing I can think of is “how did “we the people” vote an Imbecile into the “White House?” According to the American Heritage Dictionary here’s the definition:
A person who is considered foolish or stupid.
A person of moderate to severe mental retardation having a mental age of from three to seven years and generally being capable of some degree of communication and performance of simple tasks under supervision. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
One destitute of strength; esp., one of feeble mind; — sometimes used as a pejorative term.
Every place in the Western world, with the exception of MAGA land, that is the word being used to describe our so-called four times indicted 34 times convicted of FELONIES president around virtually every where except maybe Russia, Saudi Arabia, or maybe Israel. OK, maybe others are using terms like STUPID, MORON, IDIOT – I’ll let you take your choice.
No sooner had Trump spent an hour or so on the phone with Vladimir Putin than he was spewing the Kremlin’s talking points in regard to Ukraine and setting up “peace talks” WITHOUT Ukraine. Worse than that Trump referred to Volodymyr Zelenskyy as an unelected dictator who “needs to hold elections” (he can’t according to Ukrainian law while the country is at war), Trump suggested Zelenskyy’s poll numbers were at 4% (They’re really at 57%), and he claimed Ukraine had STARTED the war. Let that sink in, even if you’re a member of the MAGA cult. How can anyone be that STUPID. Like in the definition above, Trump needs adult supervision.
Trump has turned (f)Elon Musk loose on one federal department after another – INCLUDING, so it seems, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid – areas where he’s PROMISED over and over “not to touch.” Of course, if I haven’t learned NOTHING coming out of Trump’s mouth is reliable by now, that’s on me. Of course, he’s going to do whatever Musk tells him to do. I’m at the point where, as far as America’s domestic policy is concerned it’s Musk and Russel Vought making the decisions and regarding foreign policy it’s Vladimir Putin. The Russians reacted with pure JOY when they heard Trump’s comments regarding Ukraine. The Europeans not so much!
As I try to figure out how anyone could be that stupid I keep thinking, “There must be a pee tape.” Or who knows what else the Russians have on Trump, but it’s got to be something – because how could ANY American be so STUPID as to stand before a camera and act like it’s Putin’s words coming straight out of his mouth? Of course, the next day Trump crowned himself America’s KING – complete with a photo with an actual crown on his toupe – and, in a second photo with a robe to go along with the crown. He’s NUTS. Can you even imagine if Joe Biden had done any of this?
I keep thinking of all the democrats who didn’t seem to understand how old Joe Biden was until he gave a poor performance at the debate. I’ll try not to say this here again, but the issue WASN’T Joe Biden’s age – it was the person he was running against. Trump was the issue along with the FOUR indictments (OK three indictments and 34 FELONY convictions) not to mention – what I brought up seemingly endlessly – Project 2025 – which “we the people” are beginning to understand as each day passes.
And, draining the swamp? For heaven’s sake – it shouldn’t be hard to visualize Musk and the other BILLIONAIRES who were crawling over themselves at Trump’s inaugural seemingly to be able to touch the “king’s robe” – laughing as they’re pilfering our economic future in order to get MASSIVE tax cuts (if any of them pay taxes in the first place) so they will have even more BILLIONS. Maybe when some of those in my peer group don’t get a Social Security check, or their Medicare insurance is canceled – maybe that’s what it’s going to take to get their attention – because I know several of them who don’t have the slightest care about all the people losing their jobs and the people DYING as a result of the indiscriminate slicing up of government agencies.
There’s going to be a reckoning for all of this. Every republican president since 1980 has left office with a mess for the democrats to clean up. The TRICKLE UP economics started with Reagan – who was putting the philosophy of Lewis Powell and Milton Friedman (as if there are “free markets” in America) on steroids and the top 1% of Americans have gained something like $30 or $40 TRILLION out of the Middle Class since then. And, of course, here they go again.
George W Bush and Dick Cheney inherited a $250 BILLION annual economic surplus from Clinton/Gore and left the “Great Recession” for Barack Obama and Joe Biden to “clean up” after the financial crash of 2008. The amnesia of the American voters allowed Trump to “win” (remember, he CHEATS at everything including golf) the 2016 election leading to another “tax cut for the rich” in 2017 and an economy which was the ONLY economy in modern American history to have a NEGATIVE job creation record – MINUS 3 MILLION jobs. Plus 4000 people were dying per day from the mismanaged COVID pandemic and (of course there’s always more) an attempted coup d’etat after Trump LOST the 2020 election – by a LOT!
During Biden’s four years in office there were MORE jobs created than in any four year period in American HISTORY. Let that sink in – so, we got 78 year old pathological LIAR and, DERANGED Donald Trump instead of Joe Biden who – is too old – BUT he’s STILL the most proficient person in this country at understanding how our government works. You can NEVER make everyone happy (and shouldn’t be trying to do so) but, “we the people” should have had at least enough memory cells to remember what Trump’s first term was like – we must have MILLIONS of masochists to want another go around.
Democrats have been afraid of their own shadows for as long as I can remember – but, they’d better figure out what is at stake REAL fast! It’s one thing for Trump and Musk to undermine the American economy – but, to throw Ukraine under the bus and to adopt the talking points of Vladimir Putin? Just writing that makes my stomach feel queasy. And, just ponder this – Putin’s aims go way beyond Ukraine – and, I don’t doubt for a second that he and Trump were discussing his longing to recreate the Soviet Union. Trump’s appeasing Putin is SO reminiscent of Neville Chamberlain and Hitler back in WW II – possibly leading to WW II. Trump may very well be setting the stage for WW III.
Trump wanted to pull the U.S. out of NATO back in his first term and now, it seems obvious to me, he’s got the sycophants in place – yep, I’m talking about you JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard – to enable him to do it. Talk about employing the “best and brightest?” NOT!!! Hegseth has a history of harassing women and excessive DRINKING, Vance has virtually NO international experience and Gabbard is a Russian “useful idiot.” (Of course, so is Trump) Is Trump going to cause the U.S. to stand idly by as Putin sets his sights on Moldova, then Poland, and then??? And, will the COWARDLY republicans in Congress just idly watch from the “sidelines?”
I’m really losing my patience with those I know who are OK with all of this. The parallels of what happened in Nazi Germany are about as obvious as they could get – yet, I know people – my age – people who’ve spent their lifetimes experiencing the best this country has to give – who are actually cheering this stuff on. I’ve been involved with a text exchange with a guy – older than me, in his 80’s – who says “I’m not a racist” while spewing one racist text my way after another. I’ve tried to give him some facts in order to get him thinking about what he’s saying – but, to no avail. He told me “I don’t watch Fox “news” – I watch “Newsmax.” I have to admit, I’ve NEVER watched “Newsmax” – but based on this guy’s racist commentary – well, I finally texted him – “that’s enough.”
I have to wonder when those who voted for Trump will begin either realizing their mistake – and saying so – or, more likely, start saying they didn’t vote for him. Musk has no idea what he’s doing with his Dogeshits randomly cutting agencies and pilfering through the personal data of MILLIONS upon MILLIONS of Americans. I have to wonder, what happens when they screw up a data base and can’t figure out how to undo their ransacking of it? Additionally, what happens when we find out the Iranian hackers, or Chinese hackers, or Russian hackers, or North Korean hackers have penetrated a data base with Social Security numbers, bank account info, etc. of MILLIONS of Americans? Will (f)Elon Musk say – sorry? Give me a break!
Final Thought: Here’s what I can hope for. Let’s start with (f)Elon Musk’s Tesla corporation going in the tank – people would STOP buying his cars. When I see one of the “Cybertrucks” all I can think of is it must be a republican who would spend money on something so ugly. How about, Trump’s social media impostor dropping on the stock exchange to where it belongs – and, that is at or near ZERO. Plus Trump’s ponzi scheme with his so-called crypto (fake) coin would cave in upon itself. Trump, of course, has made certain he won’t be the loser due to transaction fees charged to all the SUCKERS who purchased those “coins.”
Thanks to America’s “uneducated voters” I’m not going to live long enough to see Trump thrown in jail (where he belongs) – but, maybe with a little luck I’ll live long enough to see him thrown out of office. Keeping in mind, he’s busy setting up a circumstance where our so-called “free and fair elections” will be a thing of the past. Just this day, he has proposed that HE will get rid of the leadership of the United States Postal Service and “absorb the Postal Service into his administration.” Can he do that? I sure as hell hope not – because, clearly, that would be the first step in ending our elections as we’ve known them. Trump is no genius – but, keep in mind, something like 170 of the worst of the worse in America wrote Project 2025 and they are orchestrating all of this surreptitiously. The shit is hitting the fan! Stay tuned!!!