Welcome to America in August-September 2025. Donald Trump runs wild with Executive Power, as it is clear he believes he answers to no one, but more importantly all our institutions are failing to address this because of complicit lawmakers and an equally useless Supreme Court. While there are lots of stories of Trump supporters regretting their votes once one of his policies affected them personally, still around 90% of Republicans seemingly support his policies. So let’s recap what they voted for and continue to support.
Imaginary “emergencies” are the name of the game in order to execute actions that are illegal, anti-Constitutional, just plain cruel or my personal favorite, the revenge tour of the DOJ.
Freedom of speech, the right to assembly and freedom of the press are all under direct attack with any criticism of the President risking a DOJ raid or lawsuit, protests being labeled as terrorism because only terrorists criticize the “Great Leader” with possible deportation, blackmailing of Universities and News Media organizations with frivolous lawsuits that would normally be ignored except for the threat of federal fund withholding or FCC licenses, and the heavy handed use of National Guard troops only in blue cities or states. This is freedom dying, piece by piece every day. The complete antipathy and inaction of Congress (especially Republicans but Democrats as well) to rein in this power is Chicken Sh$%. The latest example is the absurd $15 Billion lawsuit against the New York Times for defamation of character. You know who is responsible for defaming Trump’s character? Trump. His actions. His words, His mouth.
The complete and total demonization of immigrants with obvious profiling tactics being used to round people up (including citizens), demanding people show “papers” to justify their presence, the lack of any due process on these arrests and the seeming joy in sentencing people to “Alligator Alley” or deporting them to known abusive regimes overseas is a reflection of blatant racism and underlying white supremacy themes. Freedom is dying while the Supreme Court stands by watching, making idiotic procedural rulings that avoid the real subject, issuing unsigned rulings with zero explanations (is that what we pay them for?) and seemingly unable (or wait is it unwilling?) to challenge this executive power escalation because deep down the majority of them like it. Funny how a group of majority Catholics can forget any and all Church teachings of mercy, fairness or helping the less fortunate when white privilege is involved. I think that is overwhelmingly obvious when the Supreme Court rules we can’t consider race in voting districts or in college admissions programs, but it’s of course ok to use it when masked ICE agents harass the public. The worst thing – substantial majorities of Republicans think this is perfectly acceptable. Know what that makes them – the answer is deplorable. Hilary was right I’m sorry to say. Wonder how “appropriate” or “good for America” those people would view a Democratic President declaring an emergency designating all white supremacy groups as domestic terrorists and deporting them to Uganda. Not so damn funny now is it? Anyone who takes pleasure in seeing human beings treated like this is either a NeoNazi wannabe (looking at you Stephen Miller) or just truly is deplorable. The racism is observable every day, just look at Fox News hosts (Brian Kilmeade) making comments about shooting homeless people if they don’t accept help. Or Pete Hegseth with the daily dose of renaming Armed Forces sites for confederate “heros” (again), removing references to military valor examples involving blacks, hispanics, native Americans, etc from any and all DOD sites. 13% of the US military was ethnic minorities in WW2, but apparently they don’t count. How many future wars do we think we will be successful at with this philosophy? Coming from a person with no actual combat experience killing people, this is completely chicken sh#$. Even dumber, calling it the Department of War. So much for Trump the peacemaker, or the concept of getting us out of “endless wars”. Does the title Department of War signal more or less wars to you?
Meanwhile, casting aside decades of Republican free market/capitalism support, the new “cool” thing is direct U.S. government manipulation of industries. After all, what could possibly go wrong in letting a businessman with either four or six previous business bankruptcies to pick winners and losers? The same man who believes that solar and wind are evil and we should really all burn coal. Direct government shareholding in INTEL, “golden shares” of US Steel with the Nippon Steel takeover, 15% cuts on NVIDIA revenue on chips sold to China, the list is growing. How can this not distort the marketplace? The entire concept of a sovereign wealth fund for the U.S. is in my mind bizarre, let alone begging the question of how we fund something like that when we are wildly in debt to begin with. Now the ridiculous meddling in business has reached a new level, Trump is advocating for businesses to have less transparency to shareholders by changing financial reporting to six month vs. quarterly intervals. How does that really help the shareholders (or the markets) know what’s going on? This is freedom dying; anytime the government is telling any segment of American society (citizens, businesses, educational institutions, media companies) what they can and cannot do it’s a loss of freedom. The potential for corruption and graft with this “government support” is astronomical. So where are the Business Roundtable or the Chamber of Commerce or the “titans” of US Industry on this? Hiding in the shadows. Making the noise of crickets. Chicken sh$%.
Meanwhile, farmers are looking at one of their worst years ever throughout vast sections of America. Why? Cost of inputs like fertilizers are up due to tariffs, foreign markets for crops like soybeans, sorghum, etc are drying up as customers migrate to Brazil, Argentina, Australia, etc, equipment costs are rising significantly due to tariffs as well, labor for picking or processing agricultural products is being hunted down by ICE, and my personal favorite, the government spending slashers have eliminated several previous markets for farmers in foreign aid, school lunches, etc. Incredibly, large percentages of farmers continue to support Trump as he undercuts and destroys their very livelihood. I don’t even know how to describe that. Well, I do, but I won’t say it. When will these people wake up?