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How Can Trump Become the Best President?

Actual Quotes from Trump’s Endorsement of Hydroxychloroquine during COVID-19 Pandemic

This post is a response to a question posed on Quora in its complete format: “Donald Trump desperately wants to be the best president. What would he have had to do differently in his two terms to be considered one of the best presidents the USA has ever had? Is it too late for him to change his ways and be the best president ever?”

That was never possible for him.
He would have had to have been a fundamentally different human being for that to be possible.

Donald Trump Interviewed by Charlie Rose in 1992

Donald J. Trump has always been a fundamentally broken human being who has left a wake of collateral damage in his journey through life.

The only way he could have achieved a status as a somewhat mediocre president, rather than a toxic stain on a nation built on freedom from tyrants, would have been by overcoming his horrifically destructive family legacy of corruption.

Friedrich Trump, Fred Trump, Donald Trump

Donald J. Trump’s grandfather, a 16-year-old German barber named Friedrich Drumpf, boarded a ship with a one-way ticket to America to escape compulsory military service. He was among the wave of desirable German immigrants settling in America between 1880 and 1885. He began his new life as a barber, then became a restaurateur, saloonkeeper, hotelier, and gold-rush prospector, eventually becoming a New York real-estate investor.

Friedrich’s fortunes, however, came from his brothel operations.
“Friedrich Trump amassed a ‘substantial nest-egg’ from the Yukon hotel before heading to New York.”

How a Canadian adventure helped create the Donald Trump family story | CBC News

Friedrich became wealthy from the exploitation of women through sex for profit.

Friedrich had three children with his Bavarian wife, and their middle child, Fred, was Donald’s father. Fred became a successful businessman who amassed a fortune while many around him slumped into financial ruin.

Friedrich died on the morning of May 30 from pneumonia, and secondarily, nephritis during the period of the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918, just before his 50th birthday, while his son, Fred and his mother continued Friedrich’s real estate work.

Fred met two Scottish sisters at a party and eventually married the younger, Mary Ann MacLeod, who had lived in poverty her entire life as the daughter of a fisherman.

Fred died in a flu pandemic just before his 50th birthday, while Donald and his mother continued Fred’s real estate work.

(This summary was extracted from a somewhat sanitized article posted on History.com,

The Trump Family’s Immigrant Story | HISTORY )

The article fails to do more than hint at potentially embarrassing admissions of corrupt behaviour; however, Donald’s father, Fred, made several enemies among New York’s citizens, as Donald has. Woody Guthrie was considered a legendary folk singer who wrote several songs about Fred’s racist housing practices and his endorsements of segregation. Fred was clearly not a “nice man,” and it appears Donald inherited his racist hatreds from his father (just like all racist hatred has survived the generations).

Woody Guthrie, ‘Old Man Trump’ and a real estate empire’s racist foundations

Old Man Trump: Tom Morello gives new life to Woody Guthrie’s protest song

“In December 1950, Woody Guthrie moved to an apartment building in Brooklyn , Beach Haven Apartments. His landlord: Fred Trump, father of Donald Trump, gained millions in federal funds to construct postwar public housing, moving people of colour out of their neighbourhoods, and creating racial codes to keep decent housing out of the hands of persons of colour.”

I suppose
Old Man Trump knows
Just how much
Racial Hate
he stirred up
In the bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed
That color line
Here at his
Eighteen hundred family project ….

Fred Trump’s racism was an obvious influence on Donald, which explains his actions when posting a full-page editorial in the New York Times endorsing the death penalty for five innocent black men who were eventually exonerated of the rape charges levelled against them.

Given what we know now of Donald Trump’s sexual predation history, this example of over-compensating behaviour makes even more sense today. Donald Trump has since still refused to apologize for this action. Donald Trump does not have a forgiving heart, nor is he capable of assuming ownership of his actions or demonstrating remorse for their consequences.

No one can expect to become an exceptional leader of anything if they cannot rise above the pettiness they have infamously wallowed in throughout their entire life.

For Donald to have achieved a character as a decent human being meant overcoming generational odds against him. To succeed at that would have required high intelligence and immense personal suffering and sacrifice.

Donald J. Trump was, at best, an unremarkable individual, and he allowed the toxicity of his lineage to define his character. Not only was Donald born into a fundamentally corrupt family, but he also leaned into the corruption. He embraced his lineage of hatred, which is the defining characteristic of the most corrupt among us: low intelligence and high cowardice, used to justify corrupt ethics.

Donald J. Trump has lived his entire life as a wailing child angry at a world that cheated him of greatness and has wasted every moment of his life getting revenge on the universe for not being handed the respect that “inferior in his mind” people like Obama seemed to have had given to them on a silver platter.

Trump Stares at Obama

Trump could never achieve the kind of genuine respect that better people freely grant to public figures who deeply inspire us to become better people. He was never going to be anything better than mediocre. Instead, Trump chose the opposite, to become this century’s most destructive force for evil, we could have imagined being saddled with to teach us all some humility.

No matter how far we have gotten as a species, and no matter what it is that we have accomplished while rising above the primitive savagery we tell ourselves that we evolved past, Trump reminds us all that barbarism can easily become our future if we don’t stand against it.

Trump will die as a stain on a nation once considered great and as a cautionary tale for a future that is rapidly transforming into a world that will become either a nightmare for whomever from the billions among us who will survive an impending catastrophe, or will successfully catalyze such a resistance that our progeny can lack back on and feel proud that we, as a people, rose to the occassion and gave our all to fix what is broken and make this a better world for our future as a species on this planet.

Donald J. Trump Memurinal

Since this piece is being published on the last day of an incredibly dysphoric 2025, I want to wish you a festive New Year’s celebration filled with hope for a far better 2026 than many have had to endure.

Thank you for reading this post, and a special thank you to my Quora readers who quickly blew up a shorter version filled with errors to support my efforts with their acknowledgments (and corrections).

What do you expect America to be like after Trump’s full 4 years?

This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “After seeing what Trump has done in less than a year, what do you expect America to be like after his full 4 years?”

The problem we are overlooking with this question isn’t what America will be like, but what the world will be like.

America is the epicentre of a sociopolitical earthquake that will fundamentally change the global geopolitical landscape forever.

Whether that results in the further democratization of a multipolar world or in the establishment of continental empires is entirely contingent on the degree of public engagement today.

Whether we like it or not, the recent release of the American National Security Strategy , alternatively referred to as a revisionist version of the “Monroe Doctrine,” which they arrogantly and narcissistically refer to as the “Donroe Doctrine,” is a declaration of war. (citations below)

We have been witnessing their strategy play out throughout the last year with antics ranging from a cleansing of bureaucratic staffing throughout the entire government apparatus, to tariff wars, annexation threats, ICE expansion and citizen round-ups to be shipped off to concentration camps, to testing the waters of a Venezuelan aggression through the commission of war crimes to see how far they can push to trigger resistance.

All of it has appeared to be a random series of events intended to sow chaos without a guiding strategy to culminate in the long-term achievement of objectives. It’s been easy to find ourselves misdirected by an imbecile who stares at an eclipse as if immune to blindness or rambles incoherently into fractured thoughts strung together only by the mouth in which a babbling stream of consciousness flows.

It’s not randomly generated chaos, however. It is a carefully orchestrated stream of chaos that Steve Bannon conceived of as a “flood the zone” strategy. The goal is and always has been misdirection because that’s how grifters play their marks, and the marks in this case are not solely the American people, but the entire global network of interconnected enterprises and competing foreign powers.

For an in-depth review of the Trump administration’s plan, Ben Norton from The Geopolitical Economy Report presents a one-hour, chapter-by-chapter interpretation and analysis of the scope and severity of the global upheaval planned in the video linked below. The intention is for the entire globe to be reconfigured into continental trading blocks, with the U.S. at the centre of a global power dynamic following the consolidation of the Americas (North and South) under U.S. control.

(Citations are below for those who may be unfamiliar with Ben Norton’s credentials as an Investigative Journalist. – Transparency on this source is provided for those whose personal political views might be triggered by Ben’s. Whether you align yourself with them or not isn’t relevant to the issue of an objective analysis of his analysis of the gravity of the issues he examines in a globally transformative initiative spearheaded by the Trump administration.)

Like all things Trump, he’s not intelligent enough to have contributed significantly to the goals and strategies outlined in this document, even as he provided little more than his name as a brand for the Project 2025 initiative. Trump’s M.O. has always been to have other people do the groundwork while he brands and sells the product to a gullible public.

Trump is a spokesperson for a movement that has essentially operated outside the spotlight and occasionally lets slip the quiet part of its plans.

You may remember the election campaign when the president of the Heritage Foundation threatened violence if people did not willingly submit to their restructuring of a New World Order conceived of by a White Supremacist ethos.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/04/leader-of-the-pro-trump-project-2025-suggests-there-will-be-a-new-american-revolution-00166583

This is not “political business as usual,” where issues are bandied about like a table tennis match, and points are awarded for each winning strike the opposition fails to return as fans cheer their favourites from the bleachers. Changes or initiatives implemented by opposing parties in the past may have affected people’s lives, but they have never fundamentally transformed civilian life as this current administration seeks to do.

We have been hearing cries that the U.S. is at the precipice of full-blown fascism (and, in the interests of complete transparency, I have also been contributing to that noise), but this is the next stage in a dramatic battle for global control involving machinations in which we, the little people, are pawns in a massive game of power between the few who have no loyalty to any nation and who treat the world like a chessboard, as they position their dynasties for shaping tomorrow’s brave new world order.

We are passively watching the pieces of last century’s attempt at global dominion reassemble like a reborn T-1 Terminator. They have reinvented the Hakenkreuz symbol as a red beanie, and their little people’s army sings “Sieg Heil” in a country twang. Their base of disgruntled citizens, marginalized by society, sincerely view themselves as “patriots” who commit treason against their nation and wage war against their neighbours with righteous indignation.

Since 22 states are already in a recession and recent job reports have been terrible, the odds are excellent that the economy as a whole will be underwater by the midterm election. As much hardship as that will cause, the sad fact is that not enough truly understand what’s at stake. Many are still deluded by the shortsighted, self-serving thinking they’ve been led to believe is a patriotic fight against the evil forces that have been making their lives more difficult by the year.

A recession means they won’t be able to continue lying to themselves about who is genuinely responsible for their hardships. The polls and the recent elections show a distinct swing away from supporting the party of the plutocrats. However, the DNC is still struggling to accept that the opposition has long since lost sight of its responsibility to provide good-faith representation.

People like Chuck Schumer refer to the current situation as a fever he hopes will break, and that’s the thinking that a parent demonstrates when they’re holding out hope that their addicted child will eventually see reason in time to return to sanity. Decades of working with the same people have glossed over his perceptions with unwarranted sentiment. It is an incredibly tone deaf mistake because he’s prioritizing his relationships with his political peers rather than accepting the deadly threat they pose to a nation struggling to survive a dystopic shithole.

Whatever happens between now and the midterms, the public will need to see hope on the horizon as the economy careens headlong toward what could conceivably become a full-on depression. Without that alarm bell ringing loudly in their ears and motivating them to the polls, they may not cleanse the halls of government enough to slow down the strategic assault against the nation, its people, and the rest of the world. At the same time, the increasing consolidation of power among the plutocratic class continues their machinations and maneuvers the country into armed conflict with Venezuela.

An open war seems like a likely strategy to mobilize their base to vote for them, and, depending on how they massage the optics, they may convince a few Democrats to support them enough to hold onto enough seats to continue their agenda.

The DNC must stop resisting public sentiment, and the old guard must step aside to make way for new leadership and convince people that the two parties are not the same. The DNC has done a terrible job on their messaging, and that turns off potential support while convincing people that the entire edifice of government must be torn down. However else Trump may be perceived, he still represents the chaos they innately trust more than a government that has turned its back on them for the last 50 years.

If the DNC loses the support they’re getting now, “for free,” they’ll be stuck with tepid government shutdown strategies that will turn the public further away from a do-nothing administration.

They still don’t understand the hardships people are enduring.
People like Schumer and the “old guard” are living in a disconnected reality, like it’s 1983.

The people are angry, and they have to feel that anger themselves if they want to leverage it for change.

If the DNC succeeds in winning back enough control to turn Trump into a lame duck for the remainder of his term, and even possibly initiate another impeachment process (although after two prior impeachments that accomplished nothing tangible enough to be visible to the public, that could backfire on them). The nation might have some hope of at least mitigating the economic downturn, while the entire country will be in turmoil.

Economic hardship otherwise seems unavoidable, and particularly so when destabilization becomes an international strategy for containing the expansionist MAGAt hunger for dominion.

Making matters worse, the people behind Project 2025 and the “Donroe Doctrine” will continue to push their agenda by ramping up their disinformation campaigns. They’re not going to rest while their crown falls closer within their reach. They will likely do what they can to kneecap the DNC or enough members to hamper efforts to stop them, or at least minimize their investment losses.

Results from the mid-term elections will dramatically affect the trajectory of the remaining half of Trump’s term in office. Even if Trump’s power and influence wane, the architects of Project 2025 and the U.S. National Security Strategy will have contingency plans to sow discord, escalate disinformation, and likely inflame conflicts between nations, thereby furthering their agenda.

For example, I’d been thinking the $80 billion transfer to Argentina was to cover Trump’s escape plan, should things go south and he finds himself facing insurmountable legal battles. That money, however, could also serve as a means by which they can destabilize Venezuela’s politics enough to justify American aggression.

Keep in mind that their endgame is a North and South America economic bloc that they can control.

It seems quite possible that Trump could deliberately sabotage a renegotiation of CUSMA to pressure Canada and Mexico into falling in line. He seems to be taking steps in that direction by imposing punitive tariffs on Canadian potash and proactively minimizing the impact on farmers by handing out money to quell their growing anger and disappointment with the results of his actions so far.

Moving too fast or too hard in that direction, however, risks global retaliation, such as a massive sell-off of U.S. Treasury securities, which could further destabilize the nation and the world. This would be a “nuclear option” to avoid a perceived worse outcome that would further impact global trade and exacerbate a U.S. recession into a worldwide depression, but that’s a nightmare scenario which seems least likely.

At any rate, at the end of Trump’s four-year term, the least dramatic outcome would be for Trump to voluntarily step down (as he should – but won’t without at least hurling a choice collection of his favourite words of petty spite), and the nation is left hobbling through a deep recession that would require both austerity on behalf of the little people will be so enraged by this point that the plutcrats they will demand restitution from will either begrudgingly commit to long resisted initiatives like a universal healthcare option, and quite possibly a minimum guaranteed income.

Whatever else may be the case, if the architects of this madness fail in their quest to reshape the globe into a manifestation of their “Dark Enlightenment agenda,” then the days of the U.S. as a dominant superpower are rapidly ending.

America will be in chaos at the end of Trump’s second and final term, but it will at least represent a state of turmoil with some hope shining through the end of a long and dark tunnel.

CITATIONS:

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/trump-strategy-document-revives-monroe-doctrine-slams-europe-2025-12-05/

What is the Monroe Doctrine, and why does Trump want to ‘reassert’ it? – National | Globalnews.ca

Click to access 2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf

Ben Norton – AI Summary:

Ben Norton is an American investigative journalist, political analyst, and founder of the Geopolitical Economy Report, known for his anti-imperialist reporting on U.S. foreign policy, Latin America (where he lived for years), and China, now based in Beijing, studying at Tsinghua University to blend journalism with academic research on global development and finance. He previously worked for Salon, AlterNet, and The Real News Network, focusing on economic justice and critical media analysis.

Ben Norton

Why do Liberals trash Conservatives?

This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “Why do liberals feel it’s okay to publicly trash conservatives?”

It’s funny, but the only time I think of myself as a liberal is when an ideologue draws a line in the sand.

Whenever I encounter a nutbar, I think to myself that the idiot I have encountered is a nutbar. I don’t care much about triangulating their ideological affinity. I prefer interacting with people as people and not as idiotologues who are myopically affixed to a flag embedded in quicksand.

Sadly, though, it’s become almost impossible not to assume the nutbars I encounter are ideologically conservative. It has been so consistently this way for so long that I was surprised recently to discover a nutbar group that was ideologically left-wing.

I had to do a double-take because I hadn’t encountered anyone I could remember who had extreme views (from my biased perspective).

If you feel conservatives are unfairly trashed, then you are obliged to speak out against the people who have co-opted the conservative brand. It’s not like the MAGAts among you are the silently incognito types in your group.

You don’t get to complain about liberals mocking conservative stupidity because that’s the only brand of conservative appearing on the horizon.

“All that is required for evil to exist is for good people to do nothing.” — Edmund Burke

If you wish to identify yourself as conservative and be treated with respect, then you have a house to clean up.

Standing on the sidelines and complaining about being trashed isn’t defensible. It makes you a coward and a hypocrite.

If you have a problem with liberals trashing conservatives, then you should be going after the people who are giving liberals something to trash.

You should be screaming at the top of your lungs at the treasonous monsters who are making you look bad.

Complaining to liberals about being trashed only makes you look worse.

Grow some Liz Cheney-sized cojones and fight to take your party back. Clean out the trash clogging up your house and take the garbage people out with it. You need to stop behaving like a snowflake because you bear responsibility for this happening.

You’re supposed to work with your honourable opposition to create solutions to our common problems, not treat them like enemy combatants while mindlessly cheering for your team and trash-talking the other like politics were a sporting event.

Real lives are at stake, and your nation deserves better. The entire world deserves better. Democracy demands better.

Bonus Question:Why do many democrats oppose ICE deporting illegal immigrants?

Your question needs to be fixed:

“Why do many Democrats oppose ICE deporting people without first identifying and proving that they legitimately are immigrants who are in the country illegally?”

You’re welcome.

A bonus question you could add is, “Why does the Trump administration commit human rights violations against American citizens by ignoring an 800-year-old legal precedent from the Magna Carta that’s more than three times as old as the U.S.?”

Yet another question you might want to ask is, “Why am I not scared of being hauled away in the dead of night and sent to a foreign concentration camp?”

Being placed on an International Human Rights Watch list should deeply disturb you. If it doesn’t, you’re the problem, not the people who fight to protect rights you take for granted. Before rewording their protests to suit your biases, you should try to understand what they are saying.

Why would anyone turn a blind eye to the liberal agenda?

This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “Why would anyone be so ignorant as to turn a blind eye to the liberal agenda? It’s very apparent they want to control and not be controlled as they should.” (This answer was originally written about six months before the 2024 election and I’ve updated it but I may have missed a few items that could make it seem somewhat disjointed. I apologize for any confusion I missed clearing up. Thank you for reading.)

You have answered your own question.

You assume the right to control what you demonize as a “liberal agenda” and then hurl a confession of your controlling nature as an accusation.

There is no “liberal agenda,” but CONservatives have been very clear in conveying their agenda of controlling a population. The examples of power-hungry conservatism stretch back to antiquity through a delusional assertion of association with Godhood through the arrogance of a “Divine Right of Kings.”

This delusional presumption forms the basis for driving efforts such as Project 2025 and Trump’s assault on democracy, both inside and outside the borders of his nation. This delusional presumption forms the backbone for the “Dark Enlightenment” proposed by the political influencer, Curtis Yarvin, who imagines restoring a two-class society of rulers and serfs. It is precisely this assumption of power that drives every right-wing organization manipulating a MAGAt army of extremists who are prone to violence and listed as domestic terrorist organizations like the “Proud Boys,” “Oathkeepers,” “Sons of Odin,” and other militia groups.

Right-Wing Extremist Terrorism in the United States

https://www.adl.org/resources/report/right-wing-extremist-terrorism-united-states

This self-serving and socially destructive delusion sums up the entire character of conservatism. It shows up everywhere in everything you monstrously destructive idiots do.

Every problem you pretend to deal with, you make worse. You create problems with your perpetual violations of the social contract each time you issue an idiotically dictatorial edict to repress people and strip them of their rights on all issues that you pollute with your monstrously vile, misanthropic hatred of your fellow humans.

Name any issue where a conservative barfs up what their perversion of a solution is, and you will see nothing more than a hammer smashing a nail because CONservatives can’t handle complexity or nuance.

Economics? — Tax breaks for the wealthy while claiming the wealthy are altruistic beings and not predatory parasites who were responsible for the Great Depression and World War II, and the rise of the Nazi threat — even though history is repeating itself right from the tax table level to the overt increase of racial hatreds.

Abortion? — Shrink the government to the point of fitting inside every vagina to monitor the state of pregnancy. Force pregnant ten-year-old rape victims to term while endorsing capital punishment for women who abort their development process as per their right to bodily autonomy.

Environment? — Pretend the floating plastic continents don’t exist, and if that doesn’t work, deny they’re a symptom of a much larger problem because the last thing you want to do is hold wealthy monsters who pay for your unearned power in government accountable for their destruction.

Alternative Energy? — Deny the need to transition to an environmentally responsible system of meeting our growing energy needs because that would reduce the grotesque profits of the fossil fuel industry, destroying our planet. Have some idiot monkey perform for optics by bringing a snowball into the chamber to deny the global warming responsible for creating heat bubbles that incinerate towns from the face of the map.

Crime? — Pretend it’s on the increase instead of admitting that crime has become less of a problem because you need to keep your idiot flocks scared of a big, bad world so that you can justify the militarization of a government-sanctioned terrorist organization that kills innocent citizens for sport.

Mass-Murders? — Pretend that children being gunned down in their schools is the price the public must pay to be free, while no other nation on the planet experiences that kind of depravity. It’s more important to you monstrous freaks to defend profits for the weapons industry because weaponizing everything is how you react to being overwhelmed by a world that intimidates stupid people who wallow in fear.

You name it. You pollute EVERY issue with ignorant stupidity and destroy lives.

“Right to Work” Laws — Strip workers of their rights, increasing poverty among the working class. All “Right to Work” states have the highest poverty level in the nation.

The list is endless. CONservative stupidity worsens EVERY issue and creates issues that would not exist without their power-hungry meddling. CONservativism is defined by its bullying antics.

Your president is a 34-time convicted felon who you reinstalled to finish destroying 243 years of democracy. It wasn’t enough, though, that he is responsible for more American lives lost than Osama Bin Laden. You want him to rid you of more Americans you don’t like to help the oligarchs take over the nation and become a mirror image of the corruption that has defined an enemy America has been in a cold war with for over 100 years.

You endlessly complain about the debt when your government isn’t controlled by “your team”, while ballooning it by trillions in giveaways to the wealthy and throwing people into dire straits by stripping them of their lifelines.

Republicans embrace the power-hungry, controlling evil that the founding fathers escaped and warred against for the freedom of the people. Republicans embody that evil and seek to transform the nation into the nightmare that prompted the creation of a nation built on liberty through fraternity and equality.

America was built on the solidarity of the people against the controlling monsters that CONservatives everywhere embody.

During the horrors of your prior CONservative presidency of war criminals, you had Karl Rove blatantly announcing your treasonous agenda by claiming your goal of a “permanent Republican majority.” You have taken all the steps you can in an overt agenda to ensure that’s the case by denying Obama’s right to appoint a SCOTUS judge and maintain an objective balance in the scales of justice. Now, you have succeeded in corrupting the highest court in the land to make it a mockery of justice.

You spit on democracy when you dedicate your efforts to controlling strategies like gerrymandering districts, purging voter lists, and creating barriers to the electorate to ensure you can win elections. Then, when that corrupt strategy fails, you attempt a coup on the nation and kill people who won’t submit to your abusive horror show. None of you care in the least about solving our common problems because the only problem you care about is how to control everyone and everything permanently.

You are all ruled by fear and ignorance.

You have concocted a plan (Project 2025 / Agenda 47) to send the entire nation back to a medieval state of rulers and serfs and blatantly threaten violence against those who don’t capitulate to your monstrously inhuman betrayal of humanity. Meanwhile, you believe Trump’s denial of knowledge of it as he recruits its authors and begins his assault against the nation with a “flood the zone” strategy to implement it, on day one of his re-election.

You people embody evil and embrace it with every word and deed, including this pretend question.

“Liberty, Fraternity, and Equality” are values that define a liberal sensibility. It’s not an agenda because values transcend agendas. Only stupid monkeys who have nothing of value to offer beyond horror need agendas. The most famous Republican in history was a liberal. He freed slaves because he valued “liberty, fraternity, and equality.”

You should be embarrassed by your incompetence, if not by your evil and controlling natures or your betrayals of your fellow citizens.

Agendas are what monstrous freaks of broken human nature rely on to conspire against their fellow human beings and assert power over them.

Liberals want power to be decentralized and distributed to everyone, while CONservative monsters aggregate power and attempt to centralize it like every dictatorship throughout history. With clear intent, conservatives deliberately try to reset humanity to a medieval state of society with rulers and serfs and deny it in the same breath.

You can see it in their agenda to make the president’s powers absolute. The SCOTUS took another significant step in that direction before the 2024 election, hoping a decent human like Joe Biden would choose the high road of not exercising that power and permanently terminating a threat to democracy.

You stupid freaks have no clue that you have handed him the right to assassinate your beloved saviour, who pretends to be victimized through a fraudulent assassination attempt to gain sympathy because he’s the most unsympathetic character in recent history. Having him assassinated by the legal means you have granted him would bring a sigh of relief heard all around the world. No one but you, bloodthirsty freaks, wants the ideological divide you’ve been stoking to escalate into a bloody nightmare.

Joe Biden has proven that by refusing to follow your frenemy’s method of eliminating political rivals by nuclear mist. Meanwhile, Trump has been doing all he can to eliminate his detractors by having judges and political leaders arrested, while you delusional freaks cry “freedom!”

Only grotesquely inhuman monsters would support a predatory pedophile like that murderous Orange Nazi… but here you are… endorsing a convicted felon on an agenda to destroy democracy and install him as a permanent ruler while he brazenly claims no one will ever need to vote again.

Ignorance is what defines humongous monsters like you. You should be very glad that we still have the pretense of democratic civilization protecting your stupidity because once that veil drops, all bets are off. You are sowing chaos, and with it, you will reap a whirlwind of regret, which will require the rest of this century for the nation to recover.

Your politics of hatred is not infinitely sustainable and will burn itself out along with you, just like it did almost one hundred years ago, and one hundred years before that. The real tragedy, however, is how many innocent lives you will take with you as you destroy 250 years of progress.

We see you for what you are and what you feed on, while the more people who wake up to the truth of you, the more you dig yourselves into a toxic hole that the world will try to bury in the dust of horrified memory from a nightmare of evil.

Would you tell the truth if it meant losing your job?

This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “Would you tell the truth about something to help the course of justice if it means you’d lose your job by means of corruption?”

I’ve just rewatched “The Big Short” — a film about the cluster of greed and stupidity that made a few people rich and millions poor and poorer. The housing market grew in a stupidity and greed bubble that collapsed in 2008, and a publicly funded bailout ensued while long-term financial institutions were wiped out of existence.

One quote I caught this time around that I’m stunned I missed it the first time I saw it, or at least don’t remember it:

“For every one percent the unemployment rate goes up, forty thousand people die.”

The nation learned nothing and did nothing to prevent this scenario from repeating. The CDO (Collateralized Debt Obligation) — a corrupt means of bundling bad debts into bad investments to profit from- was not made illegal. However, it has been a rebranded gimmick to create profits for those with resources and market exploitation expertise.

Meanwhile, the U.S. is again heading for a major collapse because the American public seems incapable of learning from its mistakes.

This time around, however, the collapse will not be fixed by stealing from a non-existent middle class after all being robbed by trillions per year for decades.

The “Big Beautiful Bill” that Trump named will add a few trillion more to the national debt and deficit, while twelve countries have already announced they no longer accept the U.S. dollar. The U.S. dollar is losing its status as the world’s currency, making it less secure while the cost of borrowing increases (while investing shrinks).

The next stage is a credit downgrade, and store shelves will be emptier than during the pandemic while product prices go on a gouge fest that will definitely trigger a recession. There is no avoiding it now. How bad it gets is still outside my wheelhouse, but I will not be surprised if it’s deep enough to create a full depression.

The unemployment rate will skyrocket, and the forty thousand casualties of unemployment will break one million.

All of this can be possible only because hundreds of millions are so willing to lie to themselves that they can’t risk facing reality and the prospect of losing the stability they count on to survive in a dystopia.

However, they won’t have any more choices because instability and outright chaos are inevitable.

The arc of history may bend toward justice, but that’s because the trajectory of injustice always bends toward chaos.

There is no way to answer this question honestly because context and circumstances are fluid and unique to each situation. What may be true for a person one day within a given set of parameters may not be true the next day with different variables at stake.

One may hope they will make the moral choice and accept sacrifice, but that’s the kind of self-serving thinking that people often indulge in when thinking they would jump on a grenade to save a crowd.

One’s belief about one’s selfless nature rarely matches reality.

At the end of the day, whatever choice one makes will always be a balancing act between benefits and sacrifices that becomes a lifetime burden to carry.

What makes people elect corrupt candidates?

This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “What makes people elect candidates for influential government positions while knowing them to be corrupt?”

Sadly, corrupt agents in government and media have succeeded in appealing to cynical minds enough for a significant proportion of people to believe everyone is corrupt, that there is no difference between parties or people in each party.

Misanthropic cynicism has always existed, but it began to define politics when Ronald Reagan claimed the government was the enemy.

It was a half-truth which appealed to enough people to begin choosing political leaders based less on who they supported and more on who they disliked.

As our societies have evolved from primitive states, most people have consistently found themselves at odds with those wielding the most powerful in society. Before arriving at our current state of global reach by a handful of centibillionaires and multinational corporations, the most powerful in society were always represented by the governing body of a society.

It has been relatively easy to convince people that the most powerful enemy in their lives is the government they comprise as individuals in a system of democracy. It is nearly impossible for people to grasp how a lone individual with a global reach can pull the levers of many governments worldwide. Even though this has been happening for decades now, we have been fortunate to have been given a glimpse behind the curtain when news of Musk’s meddling in the affairs of multiple nations around the globe reached our attention.

On a “quieter level,” Canadians have been experiencing the corruptive influence of oil billionaires such as the Kochs, which has resulted in the creation of an almost national crisis with a separatist movement in Canada originating within the province of Alberta.

Canada is not the first, but only one among many nations around the globe that have been assaulted by mostly American billionaires seeking to extend their reach and control the resources of other countries.

Example upon example of this corruption endorsed by the most powerful among us who transcend governments and destroy governments can be found almost everywhere, from Venezuela, to Iran, Iraq, Panama, and Vietnam.

Understanding how democracy is a system of the people remains challenging for a significant proportion of the population, who also remain susceptible to propaganda through their ignorance of governance today.

Many people still think of government as a ruling authority rather than a servant of the people.

The complexity of the dynamic and its layers throughout society, such as the distinctions between federal, municipal, and state/provincial governments, create barriers to understanding. Meanwhile, our corporate environments have grown to such degrees of influence that they, more than governments, shape our daily lives.

They have, since being permitted to rule by corporations supporting right-wingers throughout the world, defined life for all of us, and that has meant stealing the necessary time, resources, and education the people need to understand how our world functions.

The harsh reality of electing puppets to enable the corruption of the powerful among us is as simple as participating in an auction to establish ownership of a politician who wins their election primarily based on how much funding they get.

When 80 %+ of election winners win because they raise more money than their competitors, we create a feedback loop of corruption in our electoral systems. If winning a cushy job that one can leverage to become a millionaire is as simple as catering to billionaire whims, then we are inviting the most corruptible citizens among us to benefit from screwing us all over.

This dynamic, in turn, reinforces the perception that all candidates are corrupt.

By creating a two-party dynamic, the wealthy and powerful billionaires among us establish a see-sawing dynamic of opposites in our elections that makes it easier to manipulate the people while creating a horse race for their entertainment as they compete among themselves instead of allowing the people to exercise their democratic rights to self-governance.

Their deliberate manipulations of electoral dynamics turn political gamesmanship into a sporting event where those lacking the time, education, and energy to be vigilant dominate the political landscape. This leaves us all to be led by the whims of the most cynical, undereducated, and emotionally unhinged mental health patients among us.

Unless we change this dynamic on a fundamental level by eliminating the influence of the powerful among us, we will continue a trajectory of increasing conflicts, such that we will no longer be able to ignore the widespread destruction of modern society.

We are on a path to chaos, and the people standing in our way are the people we must retrain, but won’t because too many among us envy their wealth and power to such a degree that they fantasize about acquiring such wealth for themselves to empower them in acts of retribution toward their neighbours.

If the top one percent create jobs, does money drip down?

This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “If the top one percent create jobs aka businesses, then without the everyday worker it would only be pipe dream right? Does money drip down not bottom up?”

That certainly is the myth perpetrated by the one percenters, but that’s just a narrative they have invested millions in convincing the gullible to support their hoard-growing efforts.

Anyone who spends even just minutes thinking about how the working class is the engine of the economy knows that’s just bunk — simply due to numbers and how no business can survive without market demand, because you can’t force people to buy your product, no matter how much Elon Musk wishes it were the case.

The job creators in society are the mass of consumers who create enough demand within any market niche, which justifies hiring staff to meet demand.

Making matters worse has been how the one percent have perverted the capitalist system to reduce their tax burden and eliminate laws that would prevent them from indulging in job-killing initiatives like stock-buybacks that they then distribute to shareholders, board members, and executives.

Fifty years ago, under a system of higher taxes and greater regulations limiting corruption, the one percent were incentivized to hire more people to reduce their tax burden. Further to all of that, and before the one percent went on massive “union-killing sprees” with corrupt “Right to Work” laws, the middle class had disposable incomes that they then reinvested back into the economy at greater proportions of their total wealth than the one percent ever have to create the most significant economic growth this world has ever seen.

When the middle class had disposable income, they would also have resources to create businesses and employ more people than is possible today. In today’s corporatist world, the only real employers of note are corporate employers who, when they have a bad quarter, make minor budget cuts that force hundreds to thousands at a time onto the unemployment line.

Fifty years ago, a business could fail, and fewer than one hundred people would be unemployed, with the economy easily absorbing that without a downturn. There was also enough diversity and opportunity for the recently unemployed to find new employment within one or two weeks.

In today’s world, corrupted by the one percent’s greed, people going years without finding suitable employment is not unheard of.

Money in the hands of the gluttonous never drips down. It collects in hoards to cater to sociopathic egos who regard those less fortunate with the same disdain many today consider the poor and homeless.

An economy is like a garden that relies on a strong root structure before flowering.

Economies grow from the bottom up.

Supply-side economics is a wealth redistribution scam responsible for putting the middle class on life support and making home ownership an unattainable dream, fifty years after Reagan betrayed the working class and changed the direction of the ship of state to become a tool of the oppressive class of one percenters.

Economies grow from demand.

No flower can survive without roots, just like no economy can be sustained without demand.

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Why does the Justice Department clear homeless camps?

This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “What do you think of the Justice Department planning to clear homeless camps and involuntarily hospitalize the mentally ill on the streets?”

This sounds very much like a typical MAGAt CONservative brain child. It’s precisely what Pierre Poilievre suggests as a solution for Canadian tent cities.

Poilievre promises to let police break up tent cities, arrest occupants

It’s precisely the mindset of MAGAt CONservatives everywhere:

The irony in this thinking is so dense it generates a gravitational field.

“To fix a government failure, we’ll sweep it out of sight so that you don’t have to be visually confronted by government failure. You can wait until it escalates into increasing crime waves that we can use to leverage your fear and elect us to solve the problem we created.”

It is precisely this mindset that births abominations like hostile architecture.

It’s always the same heavy hand that creates problems to give them excuses to indulge in their misanthropic treatment of the vulnerable people they victimize into early graves.

No example of this kind of monstrous thinking is an attempt to solve a problem. It’s an excuse to get off on perverted Machiavellian desires.

Conservative plan to tackle tent cities looks like ‘political theatre,’ experts say

If they could legalize fights to the death among the homeless, they would.

If they could legally implement a Squid Game television show, they would.

Within the misanthropically short-sighted mindset of reactive thinking that MAGAt CONservatives wallow in, the idea is to pretend to solve a non-problem by punishing the victims of systemic problems they create, creating the non-problem.

I am deliberately describing tent cities as a “non-problem” because they’re not the problem, but a symptom of the problem.

To solve problems, one must look to their causes and address those issues before the symptoms of those problems can ever be addressed.

It’s like affixing a bandage on an open wound while expecting to stem the internal bleeding of a patient.

Making matters even more surreal in the incompetence driving these problems is how the MAGAt CONservative mindset fixates on scapegoats that are part of a comprehensive solution, the non-problems they create with their short-sighted and misanthropic thinking.

In this case, PP blames the “lax liberal drug laws” while completely ignoring how their draconian attitudes toward drugs in society have resulted in an entire host of expensive and socially destructive problems, including punishing the victims of horrible policy while creating an underground growth network for criminal enterprises.

One would think decades of failure in an old problem created by the same thinking which made the same criminal incentivizing problems with alcohol bootlegging about 100 years ago would result in some lightbulbs going off within the dimmest of minds. Still, they seem completely inured against learning from their mistakes.

The kind of self-destructive stupidity that CONservatives perpetually indulge in is like a never-ending nightmare of a Groundhog Day repetition.

The MAGAt flavour of CONservatives wonder why their opposition thinks of them as stupid, and they never stop to look in the mirror and ask themselves why they choose reactionary and destructive approaches toward problems in society. It’s not like the information is unavailable or that educating oneself on issues is impossible. They can’t work through their biases to question their logic.

The mentally ill on the streets has been a problem created by CONservatives to begin with, when Reagan shut down institutions and forced them onto the streets. The homeless issue has grown because people who work full-time can no longer afford to house themselves. At the same time, the billionaire class buys up residential property and inflates prices as their government lackeys continue to refuse to raise minimum wage.

Then they whine that reduced birth rates are an existential threat without putting two and two together to realize they created that dynamic with their misanthropic policies.

The self-destructive stupidity is beyond mind-boggling.

MAGAt CONservatives don’t seem to care about solving problems as much as they prefer to focus on destroying the most vulnerable humans on the planet. Ironically, they often cite how much more money Conservatives donate to charities as they indulge in the same overcompensating behaviours that criminals indulge in when they create laws to ban gay marriages or abortions.

The CONservative mindset seems far more driven by hatred of one’s fellow humans than by working together to build a better society for all.

One day, we might be lucky enough to realize that the mentally ill are not those coping with life on the streets, but are those who walk among us, spreading hatred and voting to destroy lives, only to find the consequences mean destroying their lives as well.

Do political parties work to improve the well-being of citizens?

This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “Are there any political parties in this world, who not only defend their country, work to improve social and material wellbeing of citizens, but also aim to improve spiritual wellbeing of citizens?”

Any political party that focuses on the material well-being of the citizens while acknowledging how industry is intended to serve, not rule them, is a party that defends their country and works to improve their overall well-being.

No political party can “improve the spiritual well-being of citizens” because that’s a responsibility each citizen holds for themselves. Governments are administrative bodies that regulate the pragmatic activities of a society.

“Spiritual matters” are neither pragmatic nor quantifiable in any way that any administrative body can directly address. However, by facilitating the development of a socially and economically stable and harmonious environment, a government frees the people up to address their personal “spiritual” issues.

In this case, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs can illustrate these parameters for a government’s responsibility to its citizens.

Governments are responsible for ensuring the first two tiers of needs are accessible to all citizens. By addressing these basic needs, the community can adequately address the following two tiers of needs. When a government provides the stability of the two bottom tiers, then a community can become stable and supportive of its members, which then encourages each member of that community to pursue matters at the top of their hierarchy of needs.,

When the bottom of the pyramid begins crumbling, like it is now with extreme income inequity, the entire edifice of meeting needs crumbles and civilized society is then lost. We are seeing the cracks throughout governments worldwide as widespread disinformation by toxic parties disrupts our systems around the globe while they vie for power.

If we want to avoid system-wide collapse, then we must each reaffirm our commitment to the social contract while recognizing we are all in this together, and only by working together within the context of mutual respect, can we resolve the problems arising from the chasms we have been creating between us to sow division around the globe.

Either we learn to “voluntarily see the light” and choose better for ourselves, or we continue to allow the toxic members of society to direct our species toward a systemic collapse. If we fail to resolve our political issues, future existence on this planet will be threatened by our ecologically destructive activities. Our environmental irresponsibility will catch up to us and cull our species at rates exceeding hundreds of millions per year until the Earth can reestablish a new “normal” for itself.

Governments worldwide must reassert their commitment to ensuring the bottom two tiers of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs are adequately addressed if we are to restore global stability and secure our future. Individuals’ “spiritual needs” will naturally be addressed if we can accomplish that.

To what extent is George Soros a political figure?

This post is a response to two questions posed in their complete formats as: Question 1: “To what extent can George Soros be termed as a political figure?” and Question 2: “Democrats, what would you say to a group of Republicans begging you to give them a chance to prove that they are good people?”

To no extent in “capital P Politics” and a limited extent in “small p politics.”

He mostly avoids public statements about politics, politicians, and political issues. He recently made a rare comment referencing tariffs as warfare when Trump began his tariff rampage, but that was the extent of his input.

It had bothered me for some time that he hadn’t been more vocal, but then I realized how anything he says can create massive ripples throughout the marketplace.

His voice is like Marvel’s Black Bolt from the Inhumans.

He has to be extremely careful about what he says publicly because a slip of the tongue can kill an entire industry and dramatically impact people’s lives.

It took me a long time to arrive at that realization and regret being so dense about it.

I wouldn’t want that kind of influence. It’s way too much stress and responsibility that few can handle, and even fewer can be trusted to handle it responsibly.

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are excellent examples of being too incompetent to have as much power as they do.

He is a shadowy figure who quietly does what he can to leave a positive legacy for the world. That makes him a lightning rod for the toxic among us and an inspiration to those who value his contributions.

Question 2: What do you say to MAGAs who claim they are good people?

Stop begging and start doing.

Actions speak louder than words.

Republicans are being judged by their actions.

Remaining silent in the face of a fascist takeover of the nation is complicity with that fascism.

It doesn’t matter how much you beg, you’re still an ass, and a cowardly one at that if you don’t stand up and fight against it.

If you do that, you won’t need to debase yourself by begging. Grow a spine and take responsibility for the actions of the party you identify with.

Why do you think people are just as pissed off with the DNC?

It’s because they have been spineless while all this destructive nonsense has been happening.

People from all walks of life, except the privileged, demand a new world. The status quo can’t survive because we can’t survive it. We need to work together, and that includes the enraged MAGAts who need to stop attacking their neighbours and start demanding changes from the monsters they admire.

After all, you can’t seriously be okay with being told that you’ll have to cut back on buying dolls for your kids this Christmas, and then be OK with Mango Mussolini getting a half-billion-dollar gift from the people who financed the 9/11 tragedy to jet around the globe to visit his branded properties.

No one who can accept those two conditions can be a good person. Only a coward and a hypocrite who refuses to protect their family could accept that. If you want to be seen as a good person, then it’s time to do the right thing, not the Reich thing.