DOGE Debunked: Billionaires Are Robbing You And Calling It ‘Efficiency’

"Are Trump and Elon Musk’s budget and workforce cuts really about making things more 'efficient? Economist Richard Wolff argues that 'government efficiency' is just a smokescreen to deepen Trump's assault on the working class—slashing public services to serve the interests of the ultra-rich.

"What you're watching with Trump and Elon is pure ideology. And, for all the talk about how Trump and Elon Musk are breaking the mold and breaking the rules and taking the Republican party in a New Direction, the truth is the Republican party has always hated taxes. That's how they built the Republican party. It's a coalition between the business community, which doesn't want to pay taxes, and a whole lot of special constituencies."

Click on this link for a 16-minute video putting all of the pieces together on what Trump/MAGA are really trying to do. It is greed and treason.

The Southern States In The USA: Why They Are A Problem

Click on the link below for an 11-minute video to better understand why residents of the southern USA are so different than the rest of the country:

Why The US South Is Insanely Poor

The Law In The USA Is What The POTUS Says It Is

The most frightening post from this blogger:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/18/trump-signs-executive-order-allowing-attorney-gene/

To those who are still supporting this bastard, please tell me what he has done since being elected for the 2nd time that tells you he is for you and not for the super-rich. I will wait.

SOME courts are resisting this, but I am not holding my breath. Both houses of Congress are part of the problem. The press is intimidated and still in the "Fair and Balanced" false equivalency bullsh!t mode. IMO, the only government body that can prevent the coup from being completed is the military. It's sad to think our options are that radical.

Do not tell me history only rhymes: “When the president does it, that means it is not illegal." (Pres. Nixon)

At least then the Republican Party was not a dictatorship.

They Are Traitors And Not Hiding It

Following are excerpts from a recent article by Heather Cox Richardson, my favorite American historian, focusing on JD Vance's statements at the recent Munich Security Conference, the world’s leading forum for talking about international security policy:

" - - - Vice President J.D. Vance launched what The Guardian’s Patrick Wintour called 'a brutal ideological assault' against Europe, attacking the values the United States used to share with Europe but which Vance and the other members of the Trump administration are now working to destroy.

"Vance and MAGA Christian nationalists reject the principles of secular democracy and instead align with leaders like Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán. They claim that the equal rights central to democracy undermine nations by treating women and racial, religious, and gender minorities as equal to white Christian men. They want to see an end to the immigration that they believe weakens a nation's people, and for government to reinforce traditional religious and patriarchal values."

Click here for the full article.

The Nose Of The Christian Monster Is Under The USA Tent

"While national headlines capture much of our attention, it's crucial to recognize the significant challenges arising at the state level that threaten the separation of church and state, a cornerstone of our democracy. Recent legislative efforts in various states aim to blur this wall of separation, undermining the First Amendment's guarantee of the freedom of, and from, religion."

Click on the link below for the details of this unconstitutional movement's efforts:

The Push to Christianize Public Schools

Russia Owns The USA (Mic Drop)

History repeats itself, it doesn't just rhyme. The Republican Party, at least since the 1930s, has had to battle fascist extremists. Until now, it has been able to attenuate and keep them under control. Enter Donald J. Trump, a con man/huckster/racist narcissist who, while portraying himself as a real estate tycoon, went bankrupt several times. In recent decades, his reputation became so toxic that only one bank in the world would lend him money, Deutsche Bank. Yes, the favorite bank of Russian Oligarchs, who used it to launder money. (link)

Connect the dots.

Click here for an excellent summation of the reality of the present USA being a puppet of Russia.

Click here for a reality check from my favorite American historian on how bad things are now in the USA.

There is a base upon which he did it.

The New World Order

The USA responded late to non-democratic nations' imperialism in the early 20th century. It made World War I worse.

The USA responded late to non-democratic nations' imperialism in the 1930s. It made World War II worse.

Presently, the USA under President Donald J. Trump is following the same isolationism as above. What can go wrong? Oh, and I am not even addressing the fascist dictatorship that is taking over OUR constitutional representative secular democracy.

Abraham Lincoln And The Republican Party: How The Great Have Disappeared

Click on this link for a history of Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party. Today's Republicans make fallen from grace many steps UP from them:

A Rant Against MAGA For The Ages

 Click on this link for a 9-minute video put-down of Trump voters, all of whom should have known better:

If You Voted for Trump, You are NOT Allowed To Act SURPRISED!

The USA Is No Longer Led By The Law-Abiding

Click this link to learn Robert Reich's views on Trump's total disregard for the law. Many are upset that, no matter how many federal judges attempt to stop him, he will disobey their orders. Obviously, Republicans in the Senate and House are not giving him any resistance. While I am very critical of this spinelessness, I can understand the fear that they all must have to be primaried and/or become victims of violence from "Trump's army" who are pardoned and show no sign of remorse for their January 6th actions.

This link also shows how serious this situation is.

Given the above, is there any hope that the US's democratic, representative, and secular government will survive? Some note that the legal challenges to Trump's orders also apply to those executing the acts. Thus, they also would be committing felonies. Would that be enough information to stop the unconstitutional/illegal actions at the levels below the POTUS?

Trump Didn't Win 2024 Election.

"Investigative journalist Greg Palast proves the 2024 election was handed to Trump through underhanded voter suppression tactics. 

"The only question now is... what do we do now that we know Trump's second term is illegitimate?"

Click here for the evidence of widespread voter suppression by the Republican Party, giving Trump the 2024 election. So much for the bastard's "Mandate" 😡

The Best Way To Spot An Idiot

 This short video exposes the evil that the USA is presently allowing. Shame on us. 😣

The USA And Education: It's Not Great

Click here for a brief video that should embarrass the USA (but won't unless or until anti-science thinking is marginalized.

My Last Post Regarding Donald Trump/MAGA

"Throughout now-president Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, it was clear that his support was coming from three very different factions whose only shared ideology was a determination to destroy the federal government. Now we are watching them do it."

My favorite American historian, Heather Cox Richardson, has confirmed to this blogger, in this article, that nothing will change politically in the USA from now on unless the reasonable majority wakes up and acts as a force against the evil within the present US Republican Party.

My favorite international media person closes my opinion:  https://overcast.fm/+AAFmLlLAdjM

The "Saturday Night Massacre" That IS WORKING!!!

 Click on the link below to understand the worst action yet by Donald Trump against our trust in the US legal and law enforcement system.

Maddow Drops BOMBSHELL On TRUMP. The Details Are CHILLING

An Expose Of Neoliberal Capitalism

"Richard D. Wolff is an American economist and professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is known for his critiques of economic inequality and his advocacy for worker cooperatives as a way to empower individuals and address systemic issues within the economy. Through his books, lectures, and public appearances, Wolff explores topics such as economic democracy and alternative economic models."

Click on the link below for a historical look at the dominant economic idea in present-day capitalistic countries around the world and its problems:

Most People Have No Idea What's Coming

The First 12 Hours Were Worse Than Expected

Click on the links/Images below to learn some of the particulars of what Trump did yesterday. It gives frightening a good name:

Heather Cox Richardson

Robert Reich

Thomas Malone

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What executive orders did Trump sign on Inauguration Day?

-Stop Paris climate agreement

-Federal hiring freeze

-Get lethal injection drugs to carry out executions.

-withdraw the US from the World Health Organization

-TikTok will keep going 75 days

-pardon of 1,500 Jan. 6 rioters

-more security at the southern border

-suspension of all U.S. foreign assistance programs

-Create "Department of Government Efficiency"

-modify refugee admission program

-Declaring a national emergency S. border

-Stop weaponization of political adversaries

-drug cartels are foreign terrorist organizations

-preventing government censorship of speech

-address the cost of living crisis

-federal workers return to in-person work

-Regulatory freeze

-Resent 78 previous executive orders

-stop wind projects

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More on the bastard's character historically:
Tracy Wade Suhan added a new photo to the album: Truths.

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THIS WAS ON A FRIEND’S PAGE: An anguished question from a Trump supporter: ‘Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?’

THE SERIOUS ANSWER: Here’s what the majority of anti-Trump voters honestly feel about Trump supporters en masse:

That when you saw a man who had owned a fraudulent University, intent on scamming poor people, you thought "Fine." (https://www.usatoday.com/.../trump-university.../502387002/

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That when you saw a man who had made it his business practice to stiff his creditors, you said, "Okay." (https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hotel-paid-millions...

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That when you heard him proudly brag about his own history of sexual abuse, you said, "No problem." (https://abcnews.go.com/.../list-trumps-accusers.../story...

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That when he made up stories about seeing Muslim-Americans in the thousands cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center, you said, "Not an issue." (https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../donald-trumps.../

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That when you saw him brag that he could shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and you wouldn't care, you exclaimed, "He sure knows me." (https://www.usatoday.com/.../president-donald.../4073405002/

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That when you heard him relating a story of an elderly guest of his country club, an 80-year old man, who fell off a stage and hit his head, to Trump replied: “‘Oh my God, that’s disgusting,’ and I turned away. I couldn’t—you know, he was right in front of me, and I turned away. I didn’t want to touch him. He was bleeding all over the place. And I felt terrible, because it was a beautiful white marble floor, and now it had changed color. Became very red.” You said, "That's cool!" (https://www.gq.com/story/donald-trump-howard-stern-story

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That when you saw him mock the disabled, you thought it was the funniest thing you ever saw. (https://www.nbcnews.com/.../donald-trump-criticized-after...

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That when you heard him brag that he doesn't read books, you said, "Well, who has time?" (https://www.theatlantic.com/.../americas-first.../549794/

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That when the Central Park Five were compensated as innocent men convicted of a crime they didn't commit, and he angrily said that they should still be in prison, you said, "That makes sense." (https://www.usatoday.com/.../what-trump-has.../1501321001/

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That when you heard him tell his supporters to beat up protesters and that he would hire attorneys, you thought, "Yes!" (https://www.latimes.com/.../la-na-trump-campaign-protests...

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That when you heard him tell one rally to confiscate a man's coat before throwing him out into the freezing cold, you said, "What a great guy!" (https://www.independent.co.uk/.../donald-trump-orders...

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That you have watched the parade of neo-Nazis and white supremacists with whom he curries favor, while refusing to condemn outright Nazis, and you have said, "Thumbs up!" (https://www.theatlantic.com/.../why-cant-trump.../567320/

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That you hear him unable to talk to foreign dignitaries without insulting their countries and demanding that they praise his electoral win, you said, "That's the way I want my President to be." (https://www.huffpost.com/.../trump-insult-foreign...

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That you have watched him remove expertise from all layers of government in favor of people who make money off of eliminating protections in the industries they're supposed to be regulating and you have said, "What a genius!" (https://www.politico.com/.../138-trump-policy-changes...

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That you have heard him continue to profit from his businesses, in part by leveraging his position as President, to the point of overcharging the Secret Service for space in the properties he owns, and you have said, "That's smart!" (https://www.usnews.com/.../how-is-donald-trump-profiting...

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That you have heard him say that it was difficult to help Puerto Rico because it was in the middle of water and you have said, "That makes sense." (https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../the-very-big-ocean.../

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That you have seen him start fights with every country from Canada to New Zealand while praising Russia and quote, "falling in love" with the dictator of North Korea, and you have said, "That's statesmanship!" (https://www.cnn.com/.../donald-trump-dictators.../index.html

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That Trump separated children from their families and put them in cages, managed to lose track of 1500 kids, has opened a tent city incarceration camp in the desert in Texas - he explains that they’re just “animals” - and you say, “Well, OK then.” (https://www.nbcnews.com/.../more-5-400-children-split...

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That you have witnessed all the thousand and one other manifestations of corruption and low moral character and outright animalistic rudeness and contempt for you, the working American voter, and you still show up grinning and wearing your MAGA hats and threatening to beat up anybody who says otherwise. (https://www.americanprogress.org/.../confronting-cost.../

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What you don't get, Trump supporters, is that our succumbing to frustration and shaking our heads, thinking of you as stupid, may very well be wrong and unhelpful, but it's also...hear me...charitable.

Because if you're NOT stupid, we must turn to other explanations, and most of them are less flattering.

- Adam-Troy Castro

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John Pavlovitz 

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TO THE PEOPLE I KNOW WHO VOTED FOR HIM,

You know how I feel about him.

I’ve never hid my contempt for him, never pulled punches in declaring with great specificity why I have so vehemently opposed him.

You’ve seen the precise detail I have gone into over the past decade in inventorying why I have been so steadfast in resisting him and his movement.

There’s nothing I could say about him here, that you don’t already know.

But as this next chapter of our nation begins, I just want you to know something I feel about you:

I am going to hold you responsible:

for every vile and disgusting thing he says,

for every way he perverts our systems,

for every reprehensible decision he makes,

for every human being whose life he makes a living hell,

for every immigrant he rounds up in hospital beds and churches,

for every legislative assault on the rights of women and LGBTQ people, the poor, and the elderly,

for every economic catastrophe he generates,

for every international conflict he enflames,

every public health emergency he exacerbates,

every natural disaster he weaponizes.

You chose this.

You chose him.

For likely the third time, you had a chance to reject his vitriol, to condemn his criminality, to prevent his lawlessness, to denounce his bigotry—and you flat-out refused. More than that, you celebrated it. That’s not something I can quietly abide.

You’re not some faceless statistic who is part of a theoretical voting block or a nondescript, red-hatted member of a jeering mob or a single number in some exit poll. You’re someone I’ve shared life with, shared holiday tables with, worked alongside, grew up with. I know who you are, at least who I thought you were, and so this is personal for me.

You know I have LGBTQ family members and you’re throwing them to the wolves.

You know I have a daughter I adore and you’ve participated in her marginalization.

You know the vulnerable communities I’ve tried to advocate for and you’ve willingly partnered in their discrimination.

You know the threats my family and I have endured at the hands of his followers and you’ve counted yourself among them now.

And no matter how you’ve chosen to justify your allegiance to him, ultimately you made your decision, and quite frankly, I have lost the respect for and the affinity I had with you. There is a divide between us now that will never be completely removed.

We may share history and memories but we do not share elemental values, and that’s something I won’t simply accept because this isn’t about some relatively benign topics we can agree to disagree on. This is about our fundamental values, our core moral principles, and our dealbreakers on how other human beings should be treated. This is about tens of millions of flesh-and-blood human beings who will be visited by adversity, injury, sorrow, and death because of the choice you made.

I’m telling this to you now, because we probably aren’t going to be talking as much in the coming months and this will be by design. I will be spending my time more judiciously moving forward, and I don’t believe in wasting any of the fleeting moments I have left here in pretending or performing or in feigning connection when that connection has been irreparably harmed by your affiliation with him.

And when we do see one another, there will likely be lots of talking around the real stuff: lots of surface-level conversations about the weather and the kids and sports, but just know that I will not be letting you off the hook for any of the horrors ahead.

You might label this all as petty or judgmental or hateful, but honestly I’m really not concerned with what you think because you’ve proven yourself to have fairly terrible discernment and questionable morals.

Though you’ll likely contend so, I’m not a hateful, bitter, or unforgiving human being, I’m just someone who has a clear understanding of what matters to me in this life, and I believe in holding adults accountable for the irresponsible decisions they make, the due diligence they avoid, the discrimination they perpetuate, the suffering they turn away from, the violence they nurture, and the ugliness they ratify. I don’t wish you ill will or hope for tragedy to befall you, even if it may come from the very man you’ve given power to. I want the same peace of for you that I want for every other person on the planet.

But by voting for him you have declared how little we have in common, how small our shared ground of agreement is, and how different the visions of this nation we share.

And as much as it grieves me, I’m simply choosing to believe you.

ORIGINAL POST: https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/.../to-the-people-i...

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