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Blatant Racism And Egomaniacal Behavior Of Donald Trump Worsening Exponentially

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Donald Trump’s racism and egomaniacal behavior is worsening exponentially, an alarming development.

Trump puts an image of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes on Truth Social, and then blames it on an aide, although it was posted in the middle of the night, when Trump goes bonkers on multiple postings on his website.

His egomaniacal behavior moves beyond destroying the Kennedy Center and the White House Rose Garden, and eliminating the East Wing of the White House as he plans a gigantic ballroom that will be much larger than the remaining historic building.

Now, he wants the Dulles International Airport in Virginia renamed after him, at a time when in Florida, there is a move to name the Palm Beach International Airport after him, as well.

Trump also wants the landmark Penn Station in New York City named after him, and is refusing to allow the building of the Hudson River Tunnel project infrastructure to deal with transportation improvements in the ultra busy New York-New Jersey metropolitan area unless he gains what he demands.

His worse traits are showing through more than before, and he is a growing threat as he rapidly declines, but with control over the nuclear codes, that if misused, could lead to nuclear devastation with his eccentric madness traits.

Persistent Detention Of Children By ICE A Growing Outrage In Public Opinion Polls!

Ronald 4 Comments

Public Opinion is rapidly turning against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), after the outragous murders of Rene Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, but ever more by the persistent detention of children who are often used as pawns in the arrest of their parents, most of whom are not engaged in criminal activities.

The effect on children is so traumatizing, and will last a lifetime, and is interfering with and preventing education, most particularly in Minneapolis, but also elsewhere.

This includes the trauma visited upon educators who are witness to the abuses visited on their students on a daily basis, who are cowering in fear of being detained, and in many cases, are staying home and being denied a normal education.

This intolerable situation cannot continue much longer, without a major revolt by Americans, way beyond the demonstrations going on regularly around the nation.

ICE needs to have its budget cut dramatically, with Democrats doing whatever has to be done to affect change.

The treatment of children in particular, but really, of all those pursued and detained, a vast majority not criminal elements, must be made to improve dramatically.

The Decline Of Honest Journalism: Washington Post, CBS, And Potential Threat To CNN!

Ronald 4 Comments

American Democracy is in dire danger, with the decline of honest journalism, and with major news sources compromised.

The Washington Post, owned by Amazon tech entreneur Jeff Bezos, has just cut one third of its staff, including such departments as sports, local news, international news, and previously moving opinion columns toward a right wing slant. This was the newspaper which exposed the Watergate Scandal under President Richard Nixon, and has won the second most Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, only behind the New York Times.

CBS News has become a disaster under Bari Weiss, no longer a beacon of decent, honest journalism, and if Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow were still alive, they would be in shock, as retired 94 year old Dan Rather, most assuredly, is now.

CNN is in danger of being taken over by the same Billionaire Larry Ellison family that now controls CBS News, and could lead to the destruction of the original, award winning cable news channel, created in 1980 by Ted Turner.

With the decline of so many reliable news sources, and Donald Trump interfering with freedom of the press, the future looks gloomy for upholding truth and facts, and maintaining the Constitution and the rule of law in the future!

Glorification Of Donald Trump Must Be Resisted Now, And Reversed After He Leaves Office!

Ronald 7 Comments

The destruction of the Rose Garden at the White House.

The elimination of the East Wing of the White House, and the plan for a White House Ballroom (90,000 Square Feet addition) larger than the remainder of the White House (55,000 Square Feet).

The renaming of the Kennedy Center as the Trump-Kennedy Center, and plans to shut it down for renovations for two years.

The plans for the creation of a Triumphal 250 foot high Arch, which would dwarf the Lincoln Memorial (100 feet) and the White House (70 feet), and likely be named after Donald Trump.

These radical changes are being perpetrated by a power hungry, aggrandizing President, who is out to destroy for his own personal ego.

The damage already done must be reversed after Donald Trump leaves office, leading to restoration of the White House to the historical building that existed before 2025, and the Kennedy Center to its original status.

Legal action must be taken against the building of a massive Arch, which is just to glorify Trump, but would destroy the traditional Washington DC that Americans know and love!

Trump’s Desire To “Nationalize” Elections Means Push To Fix And Control Election Results: An Alarm Bell Danger To American Democracy!

Ronald 22 Comments

“Free and Fair Elections” are the lifeblood of American democracy, and of any democracy around the world.

Without such processes, it means authoritarian controls and dictates the lives of 340 million Americans.

Elections have always been held, conducted, and results counted, by state and local governments, never by the federal government.

But now, Donald Trump is calling for “nationalizing” elections, focusing on 15 states, those that are seen as “Swing” states, and also counties, that have produced results that are unfavorable to Donald Trump and his policies and beliefs.

Trump has already claimed “voter fraud”, without any evidence, that although he lost the state of Minnesota in three national elections, that actually, he won that state, and the results showing his loss were “fixed”, when that is exactly what he wishes to do in that “Blue” state and others.

Clearly, Trump is terrified that if the Democrats gain control of either or both chambers of Congress in the Midterm 2026 Elections, they will pursue investigations and subpoenas into his administration’s actions, and would likely move to impeach him and many of his Cabinet Officers for malfeasance.

Trump is clearly desperate to eliminate his rivals in the Democratic Party, and to defeat the small number of Republicans who have dared to challenge him.

This is a threat that has been perceived for a long time, and now, with the seizure illegally by FBI agents of election records in Fulton County, Georgia, and the involvement of the Director of National Security Tulsi Gabbard in the action, is extremely alarming, and totally outside of her area of responsibility.

It is clear that Donald Trump has no scruples, and will do everything illegally to control the election results for 2026 and 2028, until and when he is stopped dead in his tracks by legal actions of his critics.

This is an alarming threat to the upcoming elections and the rule of law!

Cruelty, Inhumanity Of Ice Promoted By Donald Trump, Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller A Massive Violation Of The Bill Of Rights!

Ronald 23 Comments

The level of cruelty and inhumanity of ICE, and Donald Trump, Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, and others is beyond all sense of decency and compassion.

Children are being incarcerated in ICE facilities, and being mistreated, and denied decent conditions and medications and food.

A father incarcerated, who has done nothing wrong, is denied the chance, first to visit his dying son, and then, to attend his funeral.

ICE agents are attacking people in their cars and on the street, with 4-6 agents wearing masks tackling pregnant women, old people, teenagers.

Tear gas and pepper spray is being used against whole families, and chokeholds are being utilized as a brutal tactic.

Mass deportation is not only being used against criminals (the so called worst of the worst), but also against immigrants who have broken no laws and have kept their immigration appointments, as well as US citizens who have been arrested and incarcerated for no viable reason.

The mass demonstrations in Minneapolis and nationwide make it clear that the American people want ICE to be cut back dramatically, and to stop the massive violations of civil liberties that are constantly occurring.

The cold and freezing weather is not stopping the protestors, utilizing their First Amendment rights!

Trump Administration In Violation Of Five Amendments: First, Fourth, Fifth, Tenth, Fourteenth!

Ronald 83 Comments

The Donald Trump Presidency, the most abusive and unconstitutional Administration by far in American history, is openly defying five constitutional Amendments, including four that are the basic Bill of Rights.

First Amendment–freedom of speech, press, assembly

Fourth Amendment–No unreasonable search and seizure, and no warrants to be issued but upon probable cause

Fifth Amendment–No deprivation of life, liberty, or property without due process of law

Tenth Amendment–The powers not specifically delegated to the federal government, are reserved to the states

Fourteenth Amendment–No denial or limits on due process and equal protection of the laws.

THe actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minnesota in particular, and in Chicago, Los Angeles, Maine, and soon to be in Ohio, and a threat to other “Blue” states and cities, is a massive abuse of power, that needs to be condemned, and opposed vigorously in court cases.

Such organizations as the American Civil Liberties Union; Common Cause; Southern Poverty Law Center; People For The American Way; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Public Citizen are involved in constant law suits and investigations to protect our civil liberties, protect democracy, and promote the rule of law.

New Escalations On Freedom Of The Press And Voting Rights By Trump Administration!

Ronald 10 Comments

Alarming new escalations on Freedom of the Press and Voting Rights are being promoted by Donald Trump and his Cabinet and other collaborators, with never a day going by that a new outrage is not being perpetrated.

Shocking news that Don Lemon, the former CNN anchor, has been arrested, along with other journalists, for engaging in interviews and reporting at a Minnesota church in which protestors engaged in demonstrations against the horrors of the ICE intervention in Minneapolis, at a church in which the pastor is an ICE administrator.

Also, the FBI has raided the Georgia Elections Office in Atlanta to seize the records of the voters and vote results of the Presidential Election of 2020, a sign of the purpose to intervene illegally in future elections in 2026 and 2028 in Georgia, a key swing state. Donald Trump continues to claim that the results in Georgia in 2020 were fixed and corrupt against him, a sign of his mental instability.

Already, Attorney General Pam Bondi has told Minnesota government leaders that the aggressive ICE intervention in that state would end if the state government would share voter rolls and information, another sign of the federal government trying to interfere with future elections, and gain private information about voters, an illegal action.

The Trump Administration is continuing to engage in authoritarian moves, and there are mass demonstrations all over the country to resist such actions, in what is clearly a never ending struggle for survival of American democracy and the rule of law.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul Courageously Critical Of Trump Domestic And Foreign Policies

Ronald 3 Comments

Anyone who has read my blog over the past 17 plus year since August 2008 know I am not a fan of Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul.

His father, former Congressman Ron Paul, was also not someone I would endorse.

Both Pauls were and are “libertarians”, which is a viewpoint I totally disagree with on principle.

When Rand Paul contended for the Presidency in 2016, it was made clear by this author and blogger that the thought of him in the White House was horrifying.

However, in the present, Rand Paul has taken stands that this author and blogger can agree with.

Paul has been a critic of the invasion and overthrow of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, particularly in regard to the Trump Administration and Secretary of State Marco Rubio not informing Congress under the War Powers Act of 1973.

Also, Paul has been a critic of the tactics and actions of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), and has been concerned about the damage to civil liberties and the Bill of Rights. He is calling for testimony before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, for which he is the Chairman, by the heads of ICE and Customs and Border Protection, in February, in the light of the murder of Alex Pretti and Rene Good in Minneapolis in January.

Paul has been willing to go against Donald Trump openly, more than almost any other Republican Senator, except for Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski and soon retiring North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis.

So as a Senator with true beliefs, and an element of courage, it is appropriate that Rand Paul be saluted for behaving in a proper, principled manner on these issues, while this author and blogger reserves the right to be critical of Paul on other matters.

Amy Klobuchar Becomes 4th Sitting Senator In 2026 Running For Governor Of Their States

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The announcement by Minnesota Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar that she is running for Governor, makes her the fourth sitting US Senator who is choosing, if the voters agree, to transfer from the legislative branch to being Chief Executive of their state governments.

The other three sitting Senators taking the same path are:

Michael Bennet (D) Colorado
Marsha Blackburn (R) Tennessee
Tommy Tuberville (R) Alabama

Klobuchar has been in the Senate since 2007, and if she were to fail to win the election this fall, she would keep her seat in the Senate, secure until 2030. She is a national figure, due to her run for the Presidency in 2020. The odds are heavy in her favor to win the Governorship of a state strongly “Blue”, and to succeed Tim Walz.

Michael Bennet has been in the Senate since 2009, and would keep his seat until 2028 if he lost the Governorship, but is heavily favored to win what is a largely “Blue” state. He also was a Presidential contender in 2020.

Marsha Blackburn has been in the Senate since 2019, and would keep her seat until 2030 were she to lose the Governorship race, which is unlikely. She also served in the House of Representatives from 2003-2019.

Tommy Tuberville has been in the Senate since 2021, and his former football coach background insures that he will, very likely, win the Alabama Governorship, just as his one Senate term ends in 2026.

With the likelihood that all four Senators will win their state Governorship election, and adding the nine Senators who are retiring from the Senate at the end of 2026, that means at least 13 Senators will be newly elected this November.

This does not include the contended Senate seats, which could bring about up to another 4-8 newly elected Senators.

So we are witnessing what could be one out of every five Senators being new to the body, and as it is now, at least one of every eight!

There have been, historically, 2,018 Senators, and after these meidterm elections, they will be greater than 2,030 in number!