True Monster: Need Intervention

My wise friend wrote:

We have created a true monster that does not want to accept and respect the constitutional boundaries or accepted norms of the country. Gangster style . Trump and his financial supporters have no problem splitting up the country for their personal gain. We need an intervention.

That we do.  I sent the following letter to my elected official (Congress) in February:

I voted for you in the last few elections and appreciate your general level headedness. Balancing traditional conservatism with MAGA populism and its irreverence of reality must be quite the challenge. 

I am writing in regard to the absurd report that nearly 1.9 million federal employees received an e-mail Saturday afternoon with instructions to report what they did in the past week by Monday evening or be fired. There is no credible management theory that supports such a screen for eliminating unnecessary jobs. 

It's clear Elon Musk's six companies have no need for his onsite supervision. His boards of directors must have no expectations. Any work he is doing for those companies and DOGE is not all onsite, thereby he is telecommuting. I imagine you telecommute at times in your role as a Congressman. 

The quality of savings produced thus far is rather shaky. Musk would eviscerate any leaders from his six companies that presented him that shoddy level of analysis. 

I find Musk's demand absurd and unanchored from any sound management/leadership theory. It's a horrible look for our country, having a petulant South African excoriate our federal government. 

I recognize you are in a difficult space. I worked for a CEO with similar predilections as President Trump. Subservience and loyalty are all that are allowed. Independent thinking for the good of the organization (or country) are not allowed and usually met with ridicule, shunning and derision from the CEO/Trump and his ring of enforcers. 

Leadership is why you are there. I hope you find a way to exercise some on behalf of all your constituents, traditional conservatives, the MAGA "base", liberals and independents. 

An intervention is needed.  Anything public would not be tolerated and I have no desire to endanger anyone's political future. The longer reasonable members of Congress and the Supreme Court wait, the harder it will become.

Trump the Usurper will continue to envelop and incorporate anything valuable in his path along with quick detours to consume his political enemies.  

One day our grandchildren's children will learn the stories of how the monster ate a whole democratic country and usurped its economy solely for his image needs and pocketbook demands.

Supremes' Stress Precedence: Trump Trashes Same

 The rule is now:

If Trump does it, it is a OK.

Trump II's maxim is:

Saying or doing whatever in the present moment to optimize his image, his power, his greatness.

The more adulation the better .

Blind loyalty is required.  Anything less will be steamrolled.

Difference, criticism or simply another viewpoint may bring out Trump II's vengeful side.  Like an angry god or scorned king, Trump II sees no constraints on his retaliation.

Irritated members of the Supreme Court made clear to lower court judges their failure to follow precedence.  

Yet, the Donarch issued another decree.

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order requiring the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute people for burning the American flag, an activity that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled is legitimate political expression protected by the U.S. Constitution.

Trump's speech is privileged, protected and endless.  Yours?  Not so much.  

However, you are free to offer him compliments ceaselessly.

Your principles and memories of America and what it stands for are irrelevant to Trump II.  His America is coming and coming and coming and coming via a barrage of savage whims.  

Notwithstanding (in spite of) anything and everything.  That's Trump II's will.

My wise friend offered:

Who is going to stop him? Little by little the National Guard comes to every big city. Homeland Security becomes the SS "All Hail Commander-in-Chief" from K Street to Wall Street to Silicon Valley back to Mar A Lago and Palm Beach Island. The power elite are protected and know what is best for you.

Opportunity, like speech, is for the limited and politically connected few.   Meanwhile, Trump II, the digital Caligula, accumulates gobs of new wealth on his goal to a $200 billion net worth by January 2029.  

Is his political hornet's nest just an obfuscation for his obscene wealth accumulation and usurpation of public assets?  Maybe, maybe not.  I think it's both.  That's just who Donald Trump is, a bully, a prick, a con and a horse's behind.  Many can say otherwise, but that does not remove the underlying truth.

Update:  I erred in quoting my wise friend, initially noting PBI as the Palm Beach airport.  He let me know he meant Palm Beach Island where many private equity legends have palatial estates, Stephen Schwarzman, Henry Kravis, & Wilbur Ross to name a few.  The airport does make it easy for other PEUs to fly in and appeal to Trump II when he holds court at Mar-a-Lago.  So I wasn't totally off the mark.  I just missed the home greed and leverage boys.

Politics Sucks

The State of Florida removed a rainbow painted crosswalk that honored 49 people who died in the Pulse nightclub shooting.  It did so in the middle of the night.  NBC News reported Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' response:

"We will not allow our state roads to be commandeered for political purposes."

Who commandeered that crosswalk in 2017?  The State of Florida. 

Politics is an insufficient way to explain our world, given its ever shifting sands, serial mistruths and mind numbing double standards.  Governor Ron DeSantis' comment should be viewed in that context. 

I hope the 27 Camp Mystic girls who died in the tragic July 4th flash floods don't want to be honored with a "political" rainbow.  Surely. Texas Governor Greg Abbott can come up with an appropriate football image on behalf of those young girls.  

There are good reasons the majority of the country wants nothing to do with either political party.  Most of us have lives to live, money to earn and believe U.S. values enshrined in the Constitution are for everybody.  

When people gunned down can't be remembered in a way that honors them, then we are in a sorry state.  Politics sucks.

Him-icaine Trump Draws Resources

Trump II, the digital Caligula, filled the streets of Washington, D.C. with National Guard members to fight crime and eliminate the blight of slums and homelessness.  His logic was to make D.C. a better place for commerce for locals and tourists.  That has not translated into restaurant business, which has fallen substantially:

Research by Open Table found that restaurant attendance was down every day last week compared with 2024, with the number of diners dipping by 31% on Wednesday, two days after Trump ordered the national guard to patrol Washington.

Trump is after "violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs and homeless people."  The National Guard may be the wrong tool given their limitations on arresting, processing and prosecuting local crime.  Police and social workers with access to programs are a more appropriate and targeted solution.  That matters not to Trump, the Savage Whimmer.

Red Team Governors are sending National Guard troops to D.C. as we begin the height of the hurricane season.  NOAA predicted 3-5 major hurricanes which surely will need National Guard support if they strike the continental U.S.  

Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina have all suffered greatly in the aftermath of major hurricanes.  Their governors may earn Trump points but the public might not be so forgiving if critical assets are not available in a hurricane's aftermath.

Trump is a vortex in himself, subsuming all in his path, taking anything he deems valuable, denigrating the fleeced, then crowing about all he did to achieve an outcome only he can see.  Reality is a completely separate world.  Unfortunately, the U.S. Presidency gives him significant power to mow down anything blocking his path.  

The "Just Us" Department, Congress and the Supremes were subsumed some time ago and are of no help in dealing with Himicaine Trump.  The sad part is those guys live there and can see with their two eyes what is happening.

Update:  NYT reported:

Army officials appear to be trying to keep the troops on the sidelines of the mission, despite the tough-on-crime image that Mr. Trump has sought to project

Wingman!

Trump II, the digital Caligula, has a new partner in raping and pillaging countries for their land and natural resources.  Poo-ty takes land while the Donarch appropriates mineral resources.  All these are earthly things for the taking by the powerful.

Think of the Donald's new wingman as Jeffery Epstein with a whole country, army, and currency.  Add China's Xi and the world is a Risk game board for the dividing.  

The little people matter not to Global Dividers of Spoil.  It's "theirs" to carve up as they wish.  Bring on the summits!

Trump II is Stage 4 Cancer to Society

Trump II is nonstop in his mendacity and malevolence, turning simple government functions into "LIV loud" level irreality, complete with a White House chock full of "mirrors, mirrors on the wall" and cascade of compliment babbling buffoons.  Trump's Cancer's Court is:

Government, but meaner.  Trump II usurps and usurps and usurps that which is rightfully his, pulling it from society's poor and disadvantaged.  

Revenue, but off budget.  Trump II got himself a luxury jet for life on the taxpayer dime.  Surely, some of his export fee $ billions and sovereign wealth fund investments will leave office with him.

Religion, but no Gospel.  Trump II displays none of the teachings of Jesus and his behavior would have one discern that he worships power and money while prioritizing earthly things.  

Crime fighter, but on behalf of criminals.  Trump II steered every government police function away from fraud and other financial crimes.  He advances cryptocurrencies, the currency of criminals, and does so with monstrous conflicts of interest.

The U.S. had already gone down a steep ethical slide with both political parties choosing to serve the moneyed interest over common folk.  Elected officials sided with billionaire private equity underwriters (PEU), TechGods and Cryptobros, giving them carte blanche to prey on citizens.  Officials did nothing to reign in harmful social media and are sitting on their hands while predatory AI and nonsense cryptocurrencies stand to destroy what's left of societal fabric.

Trump II, a 79 year old taker of the first order, is the perfect partner for a predatory tech future.  Along the way he will spend all our money to achieve his never ending scroll of savage whims.  There is nothing conservative about the man.  He is plain and simple, a fraud, a charlatan, a Stage 4 cancer on society and deep down inside Donald knows it.

Update 4-26-25:

Crossroads

Jesse wrote yesterday evening:

We stand silent and complicit in the face of a genocide that matches the viciousness of the worst of the last century.

We stand silent, and therefore complicit, as the structure of our Constitution is slowly being dismantled, clause by clause, amendment by amendment.

We stand silent, as our Congress disgraces itself a bit more every day in the service to greed and power.

There is only one time to speak, the present.  Your voice is yours until it is silenced by natural events or malevolence, which is rapidly rising under Trump II, the digital Caligula.  

Texas stands silent regarding leaders abject failures to protect our most vulnerable.

It's been three years and Texas DPS is yet to release records regarding the Uvalde School Shooting.  Elected officials would rather carve up the state into new voting districts to entrench their status and power.

The three Kerr County officials responsible for warning residents/visitors of dangerous flash flooding and setting up an incident command remain in their positions.  They were sheltered by state officials for 27 days and deserved far worse than they got from the House panels, whose members seemed to want to focus on the future.  The most basic thing done in disaster response is assessing what went right, what failed and what to do in the future.

Basic protections are shown to citizens in plans and through officials with titles.  They are taught to us in schools via the Constitution, Bill of Rights and the checks and balances of our three branches of government.  Thus we have an expectation of our leaders.  Repeated and accelerating failures point to mendacity and malevolence.  

No one took control....they were all asleep....

That wasn't good enough then and it's sure not good enough now.

Update 8-15-25:  This is what Congress protected in the Big Beautiful Bill (shirk & jerk) with its ten year federal AI moratorium on state regulations.

They (elected officials) did not protect the children and they sure are not going to protect your ability to earn a livelihood.  It's all usurpable.

Update 8-16-25:  Business Insider reported researchers gave AI bots their own social media site and it turned toxic under three different AI models, OpenAI, Llama and Deepseek.

Update 8-21-25:  Parents of Mystic Camp children who died in the July 4th flash flood spoke before the Texas Legislature.  Their stories are far worse than Governor Abbott's "team loss."

Politics is an insufficient way to explain our world, given its ever shifting sands, serial mistruths and mind numbing double standards. Governor Abbott's analogy should be taken in that context.