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America: No Kings

18 Saturday Oct 2025

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Loud and Clear

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Welles

Re. Israel v. Hamas in Gaza: https://conflict-backchannels.com/2021/02/01/ftac-endemic-russian-anti-semitism-a-note/; https://conflict-backchannels.com/2021/07/26/ftac-palestinian-kgb-the-palestinians-abused-and-plundered-by-their-own/.

Not to digress too much, back in the Vietnam Era, the Soviet Union invested a billion dollars in America’s own anti-war movement, and that money and unknown agents of influence left their indelible mark on the American Left and Far Left. It takes some courage, curiosity, and honesty to engage with the true drivers of anti-Semitism and the Middle East Conflict, among them for certain the long animus sustained by Russian civilizational powers and their equally barbaric and thieving proxies, i.e., contemporary terrorist organizations including the Hamas, PLO, PFLP, reliably hosted and praised by Mikhail Bogdanov, Moscow’s envoy to the middle east.

Regarding the above Dylanesque Jesse Welles . . . fine voice, folksy, strong, and memorable in a way that may bind generations . . . but the illusion of the Palestinian community in Gaza as free beneath the Hamas political and religious mafia — it’s true character is fascist and repressive — has flowed down through Moscow (related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_measures). Israel has its own issues with “medieval war with modern weapons” but the American avant garde Left may have yet issues with its own ignorance and related malleability and vulnerability to malign forces experienced in its exploitation.

American Don – State Capture & State Piracy

I’ll be following the No Kings Day action from my desktop and may update this page as the spirit dictates. Left more or less alone on X–>

Donald Trump is an American criminal with three insufficiently resolved indictments, 34 confirmed felonies, and a monstrous Trump-Epstein accusation and scandal haunting his every appearance before the public. Most notably, Trump, who may be referred to as “Ill Trumpolini” in echo of the Italian criminal and fascist whom he resembled with the January 6, 2021 assault on the the Capitol, appears to have little interest in the United States of America as a modern secular democratic republic guided by a powerful Constitution and devoted to the elevation of its complement in humanity in ways well recognized by the Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans who informed what would become a predominantly Christian west. After the Thirty Years War and consequent Peace of Westphalia, the nation’s Founding Fathers and political architects chose the classical and modern route then available in political philosophy to fashion a government wary of political and religious power both–and that has been our American Government in Principle since both the 1776 Declaration of Independence from the King of England and the American Constitution of 1789 and associated Bill of Rights declared for all Americans and, truly, mankind as well.

Whether through uncontested criminal means or a deeply dissatisfying American election, Trump and his mob of associate ass kissers and leveraged sycophants — add a Catholic-majority Supreme Court apparently favorable to unchecked power — have been degrading in every facet the nation’s security community, and instead of enjoying the back-and-forth of a collegial and cooperating if fractious American government well defended from enemies foreign and domestic, Americans have gotten an ageing, delusional, and ill despot.

No Kings! America v. Donald Trump

“I am a journalist. I am an immigrant. And I am a Muslim. I am everything Donald Trump loves!”

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ICE / ICESTAPO – “Brutality is the Point”

Velshi with Ruth Ben Ghiat–>

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No Kings! Grant Park, Chicago (Video Short)

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No Kings! New York City x Fox 5 New York

The Live Feeds have kicked in on YouTube, but for posterity, the above provides a glimpse of a day still determined, still festive, still nonviolent.

Donald Trump now appears to have lost the People of the United States of America — Americans! — before destroying with his idiot loyalists The American Experiment.

No Kings! Boston Common: “Boston Doesn’t Back Down!”

No Kings! South Florida: “Hey Hey, Ho Ho, Donald Trump Has Got To Go!”

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American Coward and Sellout – Donald Trump Hands Over Ukraine

16 Saturday Aug 2025

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The slings and arrows of outrageous slurs — “vile ignoramus” has become my latest favorite — appear never to reach the armored, delusional, malignantly narcissistic, and unreachable Ill Trumpolini (another fave). His realm: mafia realpolitik along the lines of “your money or your wife” — or both (plus other “property”) according to Jeffrey Epstein via assorted reportage. This week, he predictably added to his ignominious reputation by offering Putin everything asked for: expanded land assets for Russia; the submission of Ukraine to Russia; the abandonment of Ukraine by NATO to Russia.

Related in the News: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/aug/15/trump-putin-alaska-meeting-summit-news-updates | Elsewhere: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/16/ukraine-washington-zelensky-russia-trump/; https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/us/politics/trump-putin-summit-ukrainians.html.

Related for Background: https://www.reuters.com/article/world/toppled-mafia-president-cost-ukraine-up-to-100-billion-prosecutor-says-idUSBREA3T0KA/ | https://transparency.eu/corruption-opulence-and-decadence-in-ukraine/ | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas | https://conflict-backchannels.com/2022/02/24/ukraines-black-thursday/

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Malignarcs: Ali the Thief; VladolphPutler; Mafia Don.

18 Wednesday Jun 2025

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The malignant narcissists share the same hidden misery in their fear of public humiliation and shame. Never give in, never give up, never back down? In modern life, cooperation, dignity, and freedom win for independent, modern, responsible, and responsive mentalities–cognizance, consciousness, emotion, and empathy comprising human virtues and nothing like the “mind viruses” of feudal-medieval mafia, all of them damaged goods made callous and deadened by their earliest experiences and adult excesses. Call them what they have been always: criminals and political criminals.

Ali the Thief

The 82-year-old Iranian woman keeps the documents that upended her life in an old suitcase near her bed. She removes them carefully and peers at the tiny Persian script.

There’s the court order authorizing the takeover of her children’s three Tehran apartments in a multi-story building the family had owned for years. There’s the letter announcing the sale of one of the units. And there’s the notice demanding she pay rent on her own apartment on the top floor.

Pari Vahdat-e-Hagh ultimately lost her property. It was taken by an organization that is controlled by the most powerful man in Iran: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. She now lives alone in a cramped, three-room apartment in Europe, thousands of miles from Tehran.

Stecklow, Steve, Babak Dehghanpisheh, and Yeganeh Torbati. “Khamenei controls massive financial empire built on property seizures.” Series: Assets of the Ayatollah: The economic empire behind Iran’s supreme leader. Reuters, November 11, 2013.

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For Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the image and power of his most pious religious position covers, in fact, an immensely ruthless callousness, greed, and self-aggrandizing and entirely self-serving madness. Man of God? Man of Peace? Thief, evidently, and murderer in his own feudal-medieval political and religious mode: see NCRI, “Iran: Khamenei’s New Record in Execution and Crimes, January 2, 2025.

Vladolph Putler

Putin’s pretext for his 2014 invasion of Crimea along with Donetsk and Luhansk–the Donbas–had been his duty to save a surrounded Russian culture in Ukraine–and never mind the comfortability of complacent Russian enclaves in Ukraine–from the bogey of Ukrainian tyranny, a thought as faked up and self-serving as his hallucinated Ukrainian Nazis. As a delusional and surreal malignant narcissist, the not-so-great Russian leader and mediocre mafia, secret police, and political thug had intended to make himself look like a hero. Instead, he provoked Russians in Ukraine to fight with Ukraine, and not a few of them as Russian partisans for Ukraine in Russia.

Today by way of Putin’s petulant lunacy, Russia has suffered more than a million military casualties of war. Financial losses appear immeasurable for their being multiple dimensions involved but staggering in the region of $100 billion and up (query AI on “Russia’s financial losses related to invasions of Ukraine”), and the direct losses to its defense appear in the Odessa Journal (June 18, 2025) approximately as follows — note: I’ve made the list alpha, adjusted typography for this blog, and edited with, I hope, experienced judgment:

Estimated total Russian combat losses from 24.02.22 to 18.06.25

Russian Military Casualties of War: about 1007160 (+1040) persons. Note: more than one thousand Russian soldiers have been dying per day in Ukraine. The numbers in parentheses indicate expected additional losses at the time of initial publication.

  • aircraft: 416 (+0)tanks: 10947 (+7)
  • anti-aircraft systems: 1187 (+0)
  • artillery systems: 29265 (+37)
  • boats: 28 (+0)
  • cruise missiles: 3369 (+23)
  • helicopters: 337 (+0)
  • MLRS: 1420 (+1)
  • special equipment: 3916 (+0)
  • submarines: 1 (+0)
  • troop-carrying AFVs:22845 (+31)
  • UAV operational-tactical level: 41165 (+184)
  • vehicles and fuel tanks: 52312 (+137)
  • warships: 28 (+0)

What kind of crazy drives a dictator? And what might turn him off?

From January 20, 2023 on this blog: “FTAC: Why Putin Won’t Stop Until Stopped.”

Vladolph has yet to do anything that would refute the psychology involved. In his own head, his posture appears courageous, heroic, and unassailable, and that’s what he believes he must project. There is no reasoning with his mentality.

Donald Trump has turned out the same way.

Mafia Don

I’ve published this bloc a time or two on X:

https://money.cnn.com/2016/03/28/news/trump-apartment-tenants/; https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-tenants-lawsuit/2020/12/04/db4a82e6-367a-11eb-8d38-6aea1adb3839_story.html; https://thehill.com/homenews/news/528714-tenants-sue-trump-over-scheme-that-increased-their-rent-report/; https://www.newsweek.com/2016/10/28/donald-trump-business-busts-victims-511034.html.

A glance a the CNN URL cited tells just how greedy, ruthless, self-serving, and sideways ol’ Mafia Don has been in his unbridled ambitions and related methods of getting his way:

It began in 1981. Trump bought a 14-story building on prime real estate facing New York City’s Central Park.

His plan was to tear down the building and replace it with luxury condos. But first he needed a small band of rent-stabilized tenants out of there.

To succeed, Trump played rough, according to lawsuits filed by the tenants. Renters said he cut heat and hot water, and he imposed tough building rules. Trump even proposed sheltering homeless people in the building.

It went on for five years as Trump fought tenants, real estate lawyers, New York state regulators and city officials.

Pagliery, Jose. “Donald Trump was a nightmare landlord in the 1980s.” CNN Money, March 28, 2016.

When Winston Churchill delivered his resounding speech advocating a stubborn resistance to Hitler’s aggression and purpose–“Never give in, never give in, never give in . . . .“–he spoke for all of Great Britain against barbarous aggression of a mass-murdering tyrant; when Donald Trump repeats his admonishment to never give up, never give in, and never quit, he repeats basically his own cheerleading formed in the process of his own embattlement. He has lived through and with a process today well known to psychologists–here’s my distillation of it: https://conflict-backchannels.com/2022/07/10/malignant-narcissistic-process-distilled/ –and as with his fellows of similar class, he must appear always courageous-heroic and unassailable before the public and those who would otherwise humiliate and shame him. His own image creates his politics, not a nation’s more authentic challenges and predicaments.

The grim phantoms of history–whatever was thought to have been left behind in the many ways of the dreaded horsemen–Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death–have ways of appearing before us just when we think we have beaten them. So here are the three insults to modern humanity, each one callous and crude, greedy as sin, without boundaries or limits, an sickeningly delusional with criminal and messianic intents, and the authentic among those good and noble must wonder how they are to be met. That they will be “met” we may be certain for time evolves communities more than it resigns any to again living in caves and by tooth and claw, arrow or spear, or sword and shield, but for the living cohort subject to the will of evil leaders, all pay a price in the producing of better and more secure and permanent good circumstance.

For Americans, I believe it appears the “American Experiment” has taken its one giant step backward with Donald Trump as well as the “tech-bro threat” of a degrading and dehumanizing AI future, so perhaps we must all look forward to envisioning the character of our best possible “two steps forward” and then find ways of joining together and in irresistible force to get that next and better world.

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On X: Afghani Veterans Who Served in The Global War on Terror (GWOT) in Trumpolini’s Limbo

08 Sunday Jun 2025

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They fought to keep safe–and they were not Americans.

, as represented by past Administrations and national policy across decades, and we promised attached to the refuge in the . That’s what we stood for when we stood with .

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For over twenty years, I’ve spent my life training, studying, and preparing to fight for my country. Even when my country turned its back on our Afghan allies, I, along with thousands of others, tried our very best to “relocate” (IYKYK) thousands of Afghan families to safety. Out of twenty years of futility, it was the only piece of honor that kept many Afghan combat veterans afloat with hope. Now, however, it seems that some of our Afghan allies might be detained and eventually deported – https://www.gcvfriends.com/p/its-not-your-fault.

Related Online

NPR. “Many Afghans living in the U.S. fear being tortured or killed if they get deported.” Podcast and transcript. May 7, 2025.

Schneider, Andrew. “Former Afghan soldier arrested at Houston-area home by ICE, stripped of asylum protections, attorney says. Houston Public Media, June 3, 2025.

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Trumpian Vision: Personal Patronage System –> Enserfment, Gulag, Sovietization

31 Saturday May 2025

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Enserfment refers to the virtual enslavement of workers to select business owners and industrialists beneath the umbrella of a vast system of patronage headed by a leader invested with absolute power in relation to all persons and property–one to whom there should be no difference between the two in their treatment–within his domain.

Free men would never stand for it; easily led and subjugated men would–and will.

With America boarded, commanded by a wealthy criminal, disarmed from the top, and prepared for plundering, Americans may have only their agitating protest for power, a not insignificant power but perhaps a power the same criminal mentality in high office may choose to ignore with impunity and thereby dismiss as merely a bothersome noise.

To produce enserfment: break the country’s economy as well as confidence in it; reduce the middle class; shrink government support for basic standards of living as well as modern healthcare. Who among the patronized wealthy should care about those impoverished and without means for even their own basic dignity and independence? And who among those reduced in means as well as access to education and defense against illness–or aid with established conditions–will have the capability, cognizance, desire, and energy to defend the democracy that had in fact become The Great Society, i.e., a national culture and government strong and stable and methodically given to improvements beneath the remit of the nation’s secular democratic republic?

Donald Trump’s reactionary clique would do away with basic defenses against the potential ravishing of the nation’s human and natural complement by private interests. For example, both Jeff Bezos (e.g., https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/business/economy/amazon-labor-nlrb.html) and Elon Musk (e.g., https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/business/spacex-elon-musk-nlrb-workers.html) have sought to neutralize the venerable National Labor Relations Board defending workers from each titan’s own unconscionable greed and venality.

For an example of the same illness in a different dimension, here’s coverage of the Trump Administration’s assault on the natural beauty and environmental health of the nation: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/01/trump-air-climate-pollution-regulation-100-days.

Donald’s Gulag

A second Trump administration threatens to accelerate mass incarceration, further dehumanize people in our criminal legal system, engage in a death penalty “killing spree,” and reverse many reforms gained over the last two decades.

Trump’s proposals are dangerous on two levels. First, with respect to the federal system, Trump will seek to double down on the failed policies of the past: encouraging brutal policing practices, pursuing extreme sentences, and expanding the use of the death penalty. Second, Trump’s racist and extremist rhetoric may embolden states that have previously embraced reform to return to failed crime policies, fueling mass incarceration and widening racial inequality – https://www.aclu.org/trump-on-the-criminal-legal-system.

Before reporters entered the room, Trump even suggested to Bukele he should build more prisons because the mega-prison isn’t “big enough” to hold “the homegrowns” he wants to send from the U.S.

“We’re studying the laws right now,” Trump said, after earlier saying they “always have to obey the law.”

He made a similar comment about sending Americans to foreign prisons in February, saying back then as well that the laws would be need to be checked – https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-send-us-citizens-foreign-prisons-legal-experts/story?id=120834167.

With President Trump, an American felon has arrived in power as a political force. We may keep in mind that he faces at least three additional felony-level trials should he ever lose power: election interference in relation to January 6, 2021; classified documents abuse for the haul he tried to hide at Mar-A-Lago; attempted election fixing for his “perfect phone call” begging for a fraudulent win in Georgia. As an American President who perhaps has his position confused with that of a mafia don, he’s bound to have some enemies he believes deserve prison for disliking him vocally. Why should he differ from any other fascist contemporary in power or personality to be dredged out of the more repugnant patches of history?

As it stands, anyone Donald Trump says is a criminal may be treated as one given his own arrogant, ignorant, and impudent lawlessness.

Sovietization

The boot in the face, the knock on the door, the secret police — the tropes of dystopian literature have arrived in corrosive small displays.

The “fake news” proves real and Trump-approved news as delusional as its judge; the Republican Party (for cowards, criminals, sycophants, and traitors) has shown the nation the independence of the rubber-stamping Soviet Duma; the agencies most devoted to fighting crime and securing the homeland have been handed over to clowns unqualified for public service by their defects in character, education, and experience. Bottom line: the longer Trump remains in power, the greater his opportunities for exploiting the capabilities of the Federal government for his own financial and political gain. Add in “emotional gain”, i.e., “Narcissistic Supply” and the illusion — to be sustained by himself for himself — of unlimited public adoration and validation. After all, he’s making America great again and information contrary to that must be diminished. The tools of the Soviet to be embraced by Trump-Putin:

  • Agitprop, Disinformation, Mass Perceptual Control
  • Dictatorship (Confined-Exclusive Political Control)
  • Enserfment and Mass Incarceration
  • Neutralized Critical Press
  • Political Mafia
  • Political Repression
  • Psychiatric Abuse; Punitive Psychiatry
  • Punitive Surveillance State
  • Secret Political Police
  • Totalitarianism

The “leadership” of the worst of all political worlds must convince or force its population to believe it lives in the best of all possible worlds. There are ways for “power” to do that, and they are all on display in America, China, Hungary, North Korea, and Russia, i.e., the states in which the leading thug and related associates strive to control the image of the “great leader” and “greatest state” by controlling the elements in government and in media that contribute to it.

Donald Trump appears to be laying the groundwork for a deeply authoritarian and criminal American government by abusing his power to engage in the kind of nepotism that encourages loyalty unto himself and related blind and unconscionable sycophancy. While he’s finding the American Federal Government’s defensive capabilities present, he’s only in his first year of leading American democracy to ruin.

Realpolitik

In the process of faking American leadership, Donald Trump has — as suggested above — run into real American official and popular resistance. Trump’s tariff drive and trade war against all balanced, open, and stable markets has not been smooth while efforts in other dimensions lurch around like pinballs against administrative and judicial bumpers. Trump, as he has promised with elections, prefers rigged machines.

Against Trump’s chaotic know-nothing recklessness, the American system stands but unsteadily with its confused institutions, their powers in Trumpian antibodies, and Trump’s own driven narcissistic delusions and related stupidity.

Related Online

In addition to the potential look-ups given and inline URLs, the following articles may have application as regards the American economy and its criminal leadership. Some entries have been added following publication.

Broadwater, Luke. “Trump officials intensify attacks on judges as court losses mount.” The New York Times, May 29, 2025.

Ito, Aka. “Offices are about to get very, very grouchy.” Business Insider, May 5, 2025.

Newman, Andy. “Trump nominates a former far-right podcast host to head a federal ethics watchdog.” The New York Times, May 29, 2025.

Romm, Tony and Ana Swanson. “Trump’s tariff defeat injects more uncertainty into U.S. trade policy.” The New York Times, May 29, 2025.

Samuels, Brett. “Trump White House steps up attacks on courts after tariff ruling.” The Hill, May 31, 2025.

Smith, David. “Why Trump is really going after Harvard.” The Guardian, June 1, 2025.

Whitehurst, Lindsay and Josh Boak. “Federal court blocks Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs under emergency powers law.” AP News, May 29, 2025.

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#MuskTrumpPutin #RussiaRussiaRussia

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America Under Assault by Musk, Trump, Putin

05 Saturday Apr 2025

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Russia, Russia, Russia!

From Cold War to Cold Takeover–The Big Picture Background

https://conflict-backchannels.com/2022/07/19/detecting-post-soviet-russias-black-narrative-of-revenge-for-89-and-91/; https://conflict-backchannels.com/2024/11/08/well-have-it-fixed-so-good-said-donald-trump/; https://conflict-backchannels.com/2025/02/18/trump-piracy-board-disarm-and-plunder-the-united-states-of-america/; https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/.

Donald Trump’s ambition may be to establish his own vast system of patronage in place of the governments of the United States of America, transforming himself into a king and producing a three-tiered state of royalty, financially productive associates, laboring serfs, and dispossessed and disposable slaves. Big crayon? Yes–but he’s dumb and in his hands, power has turned out one big plug ugly crayon for ruling the land by fraud, force, and coercion. That’s the guidance of the world he knows and the world fit to his own malign narcissism. First: bankrupt the state; second: transfer state assets into private hands in the Soviet post-Soviet manner; third: marry criminal methods with state power and produce the American Mafia State to mirror the Russian one.

The two “families” represented by Moscow’s Tsar and Washington’s King will be finally at peace with one another–and the American and Russian people will hate both but have no choice as regards their displacement.

Americans vs. Trump’s Criminal Foreign Infection

Americans in yet unknown numbers will be on the streets of the nation’s capitals today and millions more will be watching through media how protest works where politically criminal power could care less about listening and much less about empathy and reason before their own aggrandizement and greed. Moreover, so I believe, Trump has set out deliberately to debase Americans and bankrupt the nation in a manner that fits his own embattled, isolated, and persecuted image of himself, an image in fact expressive of his own paranoid-delusional malignant narcissism. Whatever the character in numbers and tone the popular protest, state security elements sworn on oath to defend the Constitution of the United States of America needs must set their own stance as regards their conscience and honor as well as their purpose in light of the damaged, traitorous, and treacherous usurping power in the White House.

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Criminal Mentality: Pete Hegseth Stop Lying

25 Tuesday Mar 2025

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In a stunning exercise of will over reality, it looks like Trump appointed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is going to attempt to invalidate Jeffrey Goldberg’s story in The Atlantic in its entirety as “fake news”, thereby eliminating any expectations Americans may have in relation to knowing the truth about anything–their government will tell them what they know, and the government will lie.

When asked about Goldberg’s access to the chat, Hegseth told reporters Monday, “Nobody was texting war plans, and that’s all I have to say about that.”

Who you gonna believe–through his proxy the dictator wannabe and malignant narcissist crying about “fake news”, the mainstream media, the world being against him, and so on, or the long experienced and responsible editor of The Atlantic?

Criminals and very sick people cover their tracks, deny their worst deeds, and paint through public display and words images of themselves as the best of souls. Some cover their tracks; some get caught and go to jail; some lie their way through life and have jobs in the Trump White House.

Cited Reference

Goldberg, Jeffrey. “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans: U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.” The Atlantic, March 24, 2025.

Suter, Tara. “Atlantic journalist pushes back on Hegseth comments: ‘He was texting war plans’.” The Hill, March 24, 2025.

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Trump Piracy: Board, Disarm, and Plunder the United States of America

18 Tuesday Feb 2025

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Background: Russia Russia Russia!

https://conflict-backchannels.com/2022/07/19/detecting-post-soviet-russias-black-narrative-of-revenge-for-89-and-91/; https://conflict-backchannels.com/2024/11/08/well-have-it-fixed-so-good-said-donald-trump/; https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/.

State of Affairs: National Emergency

“On day one, the new HHS secretary is gutting the agencies that would be necessary to make America healthy again,” said Reshma Ramachandran, a Yale health professor who chairs the FDA task force of the nonprofit Doctors for America. |

Democratic lawmakers have blasted the firings as a threat to the government’s defense of public health, with Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) warning Friday that deep cuts at CDC “leaves Americans exposed to disease and devastates careers and livelihoods for the world’s most talented doctors and scientists.”

Cancryn, Adam, Megan Messerly, David Lim. “Mass firings continue across nation’s health agencies.” Politico, February 16, 2025.

Other American health institutions with functions degraded by the Trump Administration: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Emergency Preparedness Office; Food and Drug Administration; National Institutes of Health, for a start. Elon Musk’s process has been criminal, not responsible or thoughtful.

In relation to the stewardship of the nation’s beauty and natural resources, mass firings in the Forest Service and Park Service have degraded not only the defense of largely rural American public assets but also produced adverse community-wide financial impacts.

The fired National Park Service members are part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to shrink the federal workforce, USA TODAY reported. At least 2,300 federal workers in the Department of Interior had their positions terminated, including 800 Bureau of Land Management employees and about 1,000 National Park Service workers.

Werner, Kyle. “‘I’m not sure what’s next’: National Park ranger in Iowa among thousands fired Friday.” Des Moines Register, February 17, 2025.

At Washington’s North Cascades National Park, visitors pumped more than $26 million into the local economy in 2023./It’s leading some to surmise the president isn’t seeing the forest for the trees in his attempt to save money. | Nationwide, America’s national parks brought a record $55.6 billion to the U.S. economy in 2023, supporting more than 415,000 jobs. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/national-politics/trump-fires-thousands-us-parks-and-forest-service-workers/281-ace07cac-38f9-4572-ba20-6d4af1892a4b

I had not wished to write more about Donald Trump, but his emotional issues and recklessness–and his powerlessness over himself and his assigns–makes him a foreign element within the United States. We are accustomed to democracy and freedom loving responsible politicians, not cons who appear to on a mission for Moscow. Regarding the massive and frankly stupid assault on our nation’s Federal workers and programs–as much amounts to an act of war from an untrustworthy American within. Try to read what’s happening before our eyes differently. I can’t.

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I know my readers have desktops too. Most, I believe, has also the question, “What can we do? What can I do? What will American defense and security services do in this developing confrontation with a deranged “leader” — on some of my X posts — who appears both contemptuous and ignorant of our American Constitution and related ethics, law, principles, procedures, and values? If we have another fair, free, and honest American election — we may not as Dumb King Trump (#DKT) has promised — the Republican Party may be made to pay for allowing the development of the Musk-Trump-(Putin) assault on the nation from within.

Slade, Shelby, Joey Garrison, Mike Snider. “Did Donald Trump fire FAA workers? See all the agencies hit by federal layoffs.” AZ Central, February 18, 2025.

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