I keep talking about the “flooding the zone” strategy Trump and his Project 2025 puppet masters have been using since the day Trump took (lied about) the oath of office on January 20, 2025 – a day which will go down in infamy. The challenge for people who care enough about our republic is to sift through all the “noise” and focus on the “stuff” Trump and his masters are doing to further their aim at turning America into the fascist country Hitler failed to achieve back in WW II. And, I have to say, as I begin attempting to focus my thoughts on what I consider most important – my mind is “swirling.” I’m not sure I can keep up with it.

But, I’m just a lowly retired school teacher so my goal is usually hoping someone out there who has some standing might find one of my thoughts to be relative (for lack of a better word). My point, usually, is that fundamentally Trump and his Project 2025 masters are systematically plowing through the “guardrails” which were created almost 250 years ago by our “founders.” To Trump and his masters the constitution created back then – and amended over time – demonstrated a “living” document that created the greatest example of “self rule” and the greatest middle class in the history of the world is simply an inconvenience.

The reality is what they’re doing is beyond serious. If we had any other SCOTUS it would be unconstitutional. There are several ways to look at the DAMAGE being inflicted on “we the people.” Of course, the straight on assault on our “rule of law” is “deplorable.” But, of course, there’s a bunch of other “casualties” to what Trump et al are accomplishing. In essence, for example, they’ve completely halted the “first step” in addressing the Climate Crisis that, to me, should have been priority number one to young people in the last election – but, sadly, I don’t think it even made the top ten in the concerns of those under 40 last November.

The issue of the SCOTUS is basically “front and center” almost every day. And, the “permission slip” they’ve given to Trump is, for me, depressing when I consider all the consequences. And, this court will have a 6 – 3 right wing majority for well beyond whatever’s left of my lifetime. They’ve given Trump “absolute immunity” (at least in his mind – I have no idea if they will ever have the guts to say “no” to him), they’ve allowed him to fire people in supposed independent agencies without “cause” (usually because the director of the agency is Black), he’s been busy “clawing back” BILLIONS of dollars of Congressionally mandated funding – leading, in the case of USAID to, by the end of this year, approximately 3 MILLION unnecessary deaths, mostly in Africa (again, Black people), he’s busy appeasing Vladimir Putin leading to an untold number of unnecessary deaths for the Ukrainians, and he’s clearly supporting the Netanyahu genocide in GAZA leading to thousands more unnecessary deaths.

As you can see, the list could go on and on because there’s so much more. Here’s a quick contrast to the difference between President Biden and Trump. President Biden pulled NATO together in an united front helping Ukraine to defend itself and leading the alliance to a better place than it had been in years. In fact, both Finland and Sweden joined NATO after years of independence. They clearly could see the menace of Putin. My only objection to what President Biden was doing as he led the defense of Ukraine, was that Ukraine was restricted in using American weapons to attack inside Russia. To me, it’s well past time for Ukraine to be giving Russia a bit of their own “medicine.” But, Trump has stopped sending aid to Ukraine and now my hope has to be that Europeans will be able to make up the “slack.”

Here’s the scariest part of Trump’s incoherent foreign policy as he leads his “America First” sycophants – who don’t seem to have much of an education on World history – like the history of the Third Reich. Appeasement to Hitler led directly to WW II – or at least made his “agenda” easier when he began his assault on Europe in 1939 when he invaded Poland. So, Trump has given Putin the “red carpet treatment” on American soil – remember the International Criminal Court has a WARRANT for Putin’s arrest and trial as a WAR CRIMINAL – but, of course, that’s meaningless to our president who is a 34 times convicted FELON. Additionally, in Trump’s (illegal and incompetent) trade war via his arbitrary use of tariffs Trump has succeeded in turning India into an alliance with Putin, Xi of China, and Kim Sung un of North Korea. (Two of the four are probably the most ruthless dictators on the Planet). Trump’s appeasement and IGNORANCE very well could be leading to WW III.

Trump has put a huge target on the “back” of the United States of America and if India and China decide to create a new alliance with the goal of bankrupting America it appears to me Trump and the people surrounding him will have no idea how to respond. Trump is attempting to turn the Federal Reserve board of governors into political pawns for him to use as he expresses his economic ignorance. Before his first day in Trump 2.0 I predicted he would tank the economy in his first six months. Of course, I was wrong – but he’s put the necessary “pieces” in place to fracture the entire economic “picture.” Should the SCOTUS allow him to replace Lisa Cook as a Fed governor (with 10 years left on her term) that will be like pulling the “domino” allowing the rest of them to fall.

Can you imaging if it’s Trump who decides what interest rates should be? Do you believe other countries who’ve invested in American “debt” by purchasing Treasury bonds will simply leave these investments ‘standing” when it’s up to Trump to set interest rates? What will happen to the American economy when Treasury bills become considered worthless to investors around the globe? I”m no economist but, like anyone else, I can listen to those economists who’ve, for example, received Nobel prizes. That tells me they know what they’re talking about. Many suggest if Trump succeeds in taking control of the Fed inflation will soon reach well into the double digits. Trump will have succeeded in doing to the American economy what he did to his own business – several times! (Six bankruptcies – this time with no father to bail him out)

There you have it – Last night I just wanted to jot down a few quick thoughts and that was the result so, now, here we are. Here’s what I’ve seen just this morning. Trump is, once again, threatening to invade Chicago and other cities (that don’t want American troops on the streets). 11 people were slaughtered in a boat in the Caribbean, allegedly transporting drugs to the U.S. from Venezuela. (Of course, the American ships in the area could simply have stopped the boat, boarded it, and, if there were drugs on board could have confiscated the drugs and had the smugglers arrested) Do you think there’s any chance the U.S. military under Pete Hegseth made a mistake? Also, more reports coming in of American immigrants being “snatched” as they report for their court dates and shipped off to places they don’t belong with just the clothes on their backs. And, that’s all just by 10:00 Am.

Several of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell have gathered in Washington D.C. to encourage members of the House to vote yes on the discharge petition allowing a vote on the release of the Epstein files. Trump is threatening republicans who support this move and the victims are saying they will start naming names if America’s politicians continue blocking the release of the files. One thing I can assure you – Trump’s name WON’T be part of the files once they are released. I’ve used this word before: SCRUBBING. But, it’s not hard to figure out based on ALL the photos and videos available online to surmise Trump was a close friend of Epstein. How much more was he involved with, if any? Time will tell, but I would be surprised if the DOJ hasn’t been making sure Trump’s name will not show up in any of the files which are ultimately released. But, as they say, “pictures tell a thousand words!”

Already my head is spinning. And, for certain, there will be more. Trump will do whatever it takes to deflect attention of his MAGAts away from the Epstein files. I believe they will believe almost anything other than being deprived of seeing what is in these files. Although, do you really believe more than a sliver of these people will actually read 100,000 pages of “stuff?” Like, maybe, “invading” Chicago!

Final Thought: Isn’t it a bit rich having Trump professing to be all about “law and order.” Aside from the 34 FELONY convictions he’s living with there were another 50 or so allegations, including his attempted coup of January 6th, 2021, of FELONY conduct. He’s an adjudicated sexual predator, and a serial FRAUDSTER. And, when you read about Trump’s life history he’s made a career out of pushing the limits of the law. How many laws has he broken during Trump 2.0? Well, with the help of the SCOTUS he believes there are NO laws he can’t break – he’s got “absolute immunity.” He even got away with close to ten alleged acts of OBSTRUCTION during the so-called Russia investigation back when Robert Mueller said he was “memorializing” the allegations for once Trump was out of office – and, of course, Merrick Garland chose to ignore these allegations like he slow walked the investigation into the January 6th coup.

“We the people” are forced to rely on the democrats to save our republic from Trump and his Project 2025 puppet masters. At times I find that very depressing. However, “we the people” do have power if we’ll realize it. We need to come together with the commitment that Trump 2.0 needs to go. The first step in that is to DEMAND free and fair elections in 2026 and then begin the process of voting republicans in Congress into the history books. Don’t get me wrong, there are several democrats who, I believe, need to head off into the sunset. We simply need to replace them with democrats – and, mind you, I’m no democrat. However, realistically, democrats are the only option of “we the people” if we decide we don’t want to be a FASCIST nation!! Stay tuned…..