Author: ERA

100 Corrupt Actions taken by Trump

Senator Warren sign in Senate chamber
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AND THIS WAS ONLY THE FIRST 100 DAYS

THIS HAS BEEN READ INTO THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD BY SENATOR ELIZABETH WARREN SO TRUMP'S CORRUPTION CAN BE RECORDED IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
  1. Turned the White House into a Tesla dealership.
  2. Fired independent commissioners at the FTC.
  3. Punished former officials who opposed his 2020 election lies.
  4. Paid for the White House Easter Egg roll by soliciting corporate sponsors who have business pending with the government.
  5. Helped Trump’s son set up a club — pay $500,000 for access to Trump’s cabinet.
  6. Declared that there would be NO tariff exceptions. Then permitted Apple’s CEO “behind the scenes” access — and poof, iPhone tariffs were cut.
  7. Created an opening for insider trading by reportedly giving Wall Street exclusive information about trade talks.
  8. Hosted million-dollar dinners between Big Pharma CEOs and their regulator RFK Jr.
  9. Launched crypto memecoin right before inauguration to make millions of dollars, then increased the value of those coins by signing executive orders making crypto a priority.
  10. Launched a meme coin for Melania, too. 
  11. Promised his “rich-as-hell” donors a giant tax handout, and is working to deliver. 
  12. Weakened rules insulating government workers from politics.
  13. Limited corporate foreign bribery investigations.
  14. Halted enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act.
  15. Offered a private dinner with Trump himself—and a special tour of the White House—for the top 220 holders of his memecoin, permitting Trump and his family to profit both from the run up in the value of the coin AND the increase in trading on the Trump platform.
  16. Accepted $40 million for First Lady Melania’s documentary from Jeff Bezos – way above the market rate.
  17. Pointed to Bezos’s multi-million-dollar documentary payment as a model, when Warner Bros. asked Trump’s team how to improve its own relationship with the White House.
  18. Struck a deal with Amazon to stream Trump’s old show The Apprentice, which will mean more money for Trump as Amazon seeks tax breaks and other federal benefits.
  19. Coercing law firms to offer almost $1 billion in free legal work in an arrangement that experts say could run afoul of anti-bribery laws.
  20. Started undermining Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices after Big Pharma companies gave millions to Trump’s inauguration.
  21. Filed a meritless lawsuit against 60 Minutes and launched a baseless FCC investigation.
  22. Tried to get the AP to bend the knee and kicked them out of the White House briefing room when they refused.
  23. Hired Defense Secretary Hegseth’s younger brother to serve in a key role.
  24. Hired a longtime former partner of Don Jr. to serve as Ambassador to Greece. 
  25. Nominated Jared Kushner’s father to serve as Ambassador to France. 
  26. Selected Tiffany Trump’s father-in-law to serve as an adviser.
  27. Appointed an oil and gas executive to lead the Department of Energy.
  28. Selected a Chief of Staff who was a big-time lobbyist for clients like tobacco and mining companies.
  29. Named officials who had recently lobbied for oil and chemical giants to help write E-P-A rules.
  30. Appointed Mehmet Oz, who has close ties to Medicare Advantage insurers, to lead CMS to set payment rates and otherwise help out Medicare Advantage insurers.
  31. Appointed John Phelan, a major donor with no military or government experience, to lead the Navy and hand out Navy construction contracts.  
  32. Appointed Pam Bondi, a former lobbyist for a federal detention contractor, to lead the DOJ.
  33. Announced the DOJ would stop prioritizing enforcement of restrictions on foreign lobbyists, under the leadership of Bondi, who herself is a former foreign lobbyist for Qatar.
  34. Appointed Howard Lutnick, who has billions invested in companies accused of illegally facilitating crypto money laundering, to lead the Commerce Department.
  35. Appointed Marty Makary, the former executive of a company selling weight-loss drugs, to lead the FDA, which would regulate his company.
  36. Appointed Sean Duffy, who lobbied for the airline industry, to Transportation Secretary.
  37. Tapped Pete Hegseth, whose wife owns stock in large defense contractors, to lead the Defense Department.
  38. Tapped Doug Burgum — who made money from leasing land to Big Oil — to lead the Interior Department.
  39. Nominated a Big Oil lobbyist to run the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
  40. Nominated as IRS head Billy Long, an aggressive salesman for a fraud-riddled tax credit, who received donations after being nominated to clear old campaign debts. 
  41. Tapped Paul Atkins, a former crypto lobbyist, to lead the SEC.
  42. Appointed a former tax lobbyist, to lead tax policy.
  43. Appointed RFK Jr., who planned to get paid for anti-vax lawsuits while heading up HHS.
  44. Appointed a top Pentagon official who led a firm investing in defense contractors and has directed D-O-D to outsource as much as it can.
  45. Appointed someone who lobbied to privatize Medicare to lead OMB’s healthcare budget.
  46. Installed Steve Davis to effectively lead DOGE while also leading a Musk company.
  47. Installed another DOGE leader to control Treasury’s payment system while still holding down his day job as a software CEO.
  48. Handed power over crypto policy to a White House crypto czar who leads a venture capital firm that heavily invests in crypto.
  49. Selected a border czar who led a firm that got tens of millions of dollars of federal contracts for homeland security companies.
  50. Appointed Treasury Secretary Bessent who is gutting the IRS so that it can’t audit rich tax cheats — he’s a tax-dodging mega-millionaire.
  51. Pardoned Rod Blagojevich, former Illinois governor convicted for corruption, after his vocal support for Trump.
  52. Pardoned January 6 insurrectionists who tried to overturn an election he lost.
  53. Pardoned a Trump loyalist found guilty of wire fraud.
  54. Pardoned the son of a longtime Republican donor.
  55. Pardoned a corporation that had been fined $100 million for money laundering.
  56. Launched his own stablecoin while preparing to sign legislation that will help the stablecoin and let him oversee it. 
  57. Sold merch with presidential branding.
  58. Disbanded DOJ’s crypto unit after business talks between Binance and a Trump-backed crypto company ramped up.
  59. Halted SEC enforcement actions against crypto companies that enriched Trump. 
  60. Met with crypto executives who are asking Treasury to back off of oversight of their companies — all while exploring a deal to list a Trump-linked crypto company’s new stablecoin.
  61. Maintained financial ties between Trump officials and Trump’s media company. That includes: FBI Director Kash Patel who was gifted a huge award of Trump media company stock.
  62. Nominated Attorney General Bondi who owned $2 million in DJT shares.
  63. Paid the Education Secretary almost $1 million in Trump Media company shares.
  64. Intelligence Board nominees who have millions in Trump Media company shares.
  65. Selected a Special Envoy to the Middle East who wants to develop real estate in Gaza while running his own real estate firm.
  66. Appointed an FBI Director who consulted for the Qatari government.
  67. Picked that FBI Director even though he also received millions from a Cayman Island holding company with ties to China.
  68. Decided to cancel the Direct File program, which will help the bottom line of Intuit, which gave $1 million to Trump’s inauguration.
  69. Took its largest inauguration donation from a poultry company under DOJ scrutiny. After the donation, the SEC approved its parent company for the New York Stock Exchange.
  70. Dropped a probe into sexual misconduct allegations against Trump’s Education Secretary’s husband.
  71. Hosted dozens of foreign, federal, and state officials at Mar-a-Lago, helping enrich Trump. 
  72. Hosted a GOP retreat at another one of Trump’s resorts.
  73. Circumvented the normal contracting process to pick a company with close ties to Trump’s former campaign manager.
  74. Awarded a $30 million ICE contract to Trump insider Peter Thiel.
  75. Continued developing new Trump properties overseas, including in Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
  76. Hatched a plan for the State Department to pay Tesla $400 million dollars.
  77. Accepted a $4 million inauguration donation from a GOP megadonor and nominated him as UK ambassador the same day.

    And Donald Trump took actions that could advance the personal interests of his co-president Elon Musk: 
  78. Fired EEOC leaders investigating and suing Tesla.
  79. Illegally fired the NLRB Chair, which filed a complaint against SpaceX.
  80. Gutted CFPB staff and fired the Director after they investigated complaints against Musk’s companies.
  81. Gutted the Department of Labor office investigating Tesla and Space X.
  82. Fired the USAID Inspector General, who launched a probe into satellite terminals made by Musk’s Starlink. 
  83. Targeted the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration staff who were reportedly, quote, a “thorn in Tesla’s side.”
  84. Said Musk would self-police his conflicts of interest. Yeah right…
  85. Pressured the Administrator of the FAA, which fined Musk’s SpaceX, to resign .
  86. Permitted Musk to keep his financial disclosure hidden. I’ve got a new bill to fix that!
  87. Allowed Musk’s Starlink to start working with the FAA after Musk criticized the FAA’s air traffic telecom system. 
  88. Made Musk’s SpaceX the frontrunner for a new lucrative Golden Dome contract.
  89. Stood by Musk when his X executives told an advertising firm to increase ad revenue — threatening that Musk could interfere with a pending merger.
  90. Permitted Musk to join Trump’s interview with the Air Force secretary nominee while SpaceX held billions of dollars in contracts with the Air Force. 
  91. Permitted the National Transportation Safety Board to share news related to the airplane crashes in Washington and Philadelphia only on Musk-owned X.
  92. Permitted the Social Security Administration to only share important public communication on X.
  93. Dropped DOJ’s anti-discrimination complaint against Musk’s SpaceX.
  94. Fired FDA staffers reviewing Elon Musk’s Neuralink clinical trial applications.

    And for our closing six moves that make every bit of this corruption even harder to root out, Trump got rid of cops on the beat:
  95. Fired 18 Inspectors General who make sure the federal agencies follow the law.
  96. Fired the head of the Office of Special Counsel who protects whistleblowers and makes sure that civil service laws are fired.
  97. Fired the head of the Office of Government Ethics who watches to see that the President and his Administration follow the laws on conflicts of interest, bribery and other ethics issues.
  98. Fired DOJ prosecutors who worked on January 6th investigations.
  99. Sidelined DOJ’s office that reviews the legality of executive orders.
  100. Gutted DOJ’s office that prosecutes misconduct by public officials.

That’s 100 corrupt acts in 100 days. Americans deserve accountability. We need to fight back—all of us. 

September 11, 2001

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AN UPDATE ON A 5 YEAR OLD STORY DOCUMENTING A 20 YEAR OLD TERROR

Dedicated to Joe Moore my companion that day, 25 years ago

POSTCARD: THE STATEN ISLAND SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL

Five years ago I first admitted that I was a victim of 9-11. I always said I should not use that word because I was alive and lots of people were dead. But 5 years ago I realized the trauma that I lived with was real and those who we lost need to have everyone remember, no matter when that realization came. It suddenly struck me about how important it was that I documented that story, firstly for me and also for anyone else who survived.

I sold my house and moved to an apartment in November 2024 and to my amazement I realized that all the windows in my apartment faced the 9-11 Postcard Memorial remembering Staten Island victims of that fateful day. The memorial frames the new building erected where the Trade Center was.

Postcard memorial on 9-11 2025 framing the light beams that shine into the sky where the WTC stood
The memorial at sunrise through my window

I am ever grateful that I survived that day; and always sad for those who lost loved ones. The day lives with me but I have moved forward and I am unsure if you lost someone you could move on. I hope so. Loss carries such a burden but my hope is that the weight has become lighter.

What is different is that now I don’t run from the memorials, I don’t run from going downtown, I am stuck, happily, in a place where I can go sit remembering that day but with less grief and terror than previously, and more capacity to pray for those who lost so much.

Here is the link to the original story, which brought me awareness of the day, the terror, the loss and the desire to move forward positively being grateful to be here . . . and I have done that.

Remembering September 11, 2001

Searching for Something?

Three young people playing and splashing in a pond at sunset with cherry blossoms and a traditional pavilion
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I THINK I KNOW WHAT THAT IS

What I have learned from protesting:

  • the person standing next to you in a protest line is your comrade; no need to agree on everything
  • the person waving to you from a car during a Visibility Event [where the message is “ICE lies and kills”] and you smile because you might have reached someone but then all of a sudden they flash you the “finger” —it is disturbing on every level
  • when you realize that person is a woman—the disappointment is enormous but I deeply understand that is someone who is missing a whole lot in their life
  • the people you meet when shouting bring you joy because you are in good company causing good trouble

So if you are searching for that little bit of comfort in an explosive world maybe a little shouting STAND UP FIGHT BACK will be good for you. It will assuage your conscience, but more importantly, it will give you courage and power.

Young folks joining others and getting traction while protesting
  • there is always enough time: start little, get bigger, grow with others
  • if you believe you are young and this horror will pass, you are wrong
  • If you believe there is NOTHING you can do, you are wrong
  • if you believe there is NOTHING MORE you can do, you are wrong
  • if you believe there is a LITTLE SOMETHING you can do—you are ready to join with others so others may hear your voice

I encourage you to do something, write a prepaid postcard, write a postcard where you pay postage, attend a local protest, join a group that lets you know what is happening, create relationships with like-minded people, that give you comfort. This alone will give you more and fill in the missing gap.

The government has begun to kill people for very disturbing reasons: not because that someone is going to hurt someone; not because that person hurt someone before, but because they don’t want them in this country. The government is hunting people down and sometimes that person gets shot, or beat, or deprived of medication when detained and dies

Pay attention and do something.

Corruption

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follow the money

The country that was built by immigrants is now being sold to oligarchs.

IT’S A PAY TO PLAY GOVERNMENT

If you pay dearly, you may have your status as a US resident fast-tracked. 

Trump signed an Executive Order in September 2025 which created a GOLD CARD and PLATINUM CARD visa program.

Any foreign national who makes a $1 million gift to the Commerce Department you will be fast-tracked for residency here. In the case of a corporations $2 million does the trick.

There is a Platinum visa program as well where a $5 million contribution allows you extended stays without US tax liability on foreign income. 

Sweet sweet deal. As of June 2025 more than 70,000 people have joined the list for this program. 

What you get for your money:

  • Unlimited right of residence in the U.S., similar to a green card
  • A possible path to U.S. citizenship, what Trump calls “privileges plus”
  • Legal residency without the need to invest in specific businesses or projects, as is the case with the existing EB-5 program
  • Faster and more direct path to residency compared to other immigration programs
  • Opportunity for oligarchs and other wealthy foreigners to immigrate to the U.S. more easily
  • Potential attractiveness for companies looking to bring highly skilled workers to the U.S.
  • Tax exemption for up to 270 days with the Trump Platinum Card

Wonder what type of vetting is being done. We accept oligarchs but not immigrants or those fleeing violence. The country that was built by immigrants is now being sold to oligarchs.

PLEASE ALLOW ME TO introduce myself

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Trump has introduced himself to us many times and the lyrics of Sympathy for the Devil present his actions to us. For all the evil in the world, this man has brought us new evil and new shame.

I am a devout left catholic who takes my freedom seriously and I can attach myself to many freedom songs from the 60’s era, but the Rolling Stones lyrics stand apart from other songwriters of that time period.

In the first verse, Trump describes himself — “Please allow me to introduce myself ….

I’m a man of wealth and taste
I’ve been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man’s soul and faith”

That is all you need to know about this man, his purpose is to steal souls and your faith. He has succeeded in turning a party with conservative values into a soulless group of men and women who have sided with the devil and his evil policies.

If you are not afraid, you should be. If you are not paying attention, you should be. If you are not doing anything, you should be. I cannot cure your fear, because I am as afraid as you.

The devil is a powerful defender of all that is wrong with America. Those who believe immigrants do not belong here, those who have abandoned the science that has healed us, those who think that abuse of women is OK as long as you don’t get caught. Fraud and dishonesty are values to be promoted in this administration as many who are serving as department heads have committed crimes of abuse and fraud.

If you are not paying attention, I might be able to help you. I can talk to you in the street, I can write you letters. And if you are not doing anything, and think “oh, I just can’t, its too depressing, I’m too young, I’m too old, I have too many things to do–then I feel sorry for you–because when the shit goes down, your conscience will be bugging you.

Trump is now pushing the buttons to start a revolution. He is causing chaos beyond anything I have seen to many families in Chicago and other cities. In order for him to declare an insurrection, he needs to cause chaos–and that he is. The GOP has turned their backs on you and me. They have decided that power is more important to them, then representation and legislation. They have bought into

I am a man of wealth and taste

Are you OK with masked men with large guns stopping children walking home on suburban streets of Chicago.

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, …
But what’s puzzlin’ you
Is the nature of my game …

The nature of the game is not puzzling. The game of separation of families, military in the streets of American cities, denying healthcare to millions is the game. The cruelty is the game.

GOP must wake up and know that they have joined ranks with the devil

So if you meet me, have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politeness
Or I’ll lay your soul to waste …

I hope they wake up before their souls are laid to waste for right now they are soulless sycophants to the devil in the White House.

Crickets!

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Nicole Malliotakis refuses to answer questions

I have been making videos for a few months to ask Rep. Malliotakis questions because there are so few issues that I know where she stands. Let me say before I went public with the videos I tried making an appointment to meet with her, wrote to her, called her office, protested in front of her office and now, made many videos.

I mostly call the Representative out on the lies she tells us about legislation on conservative news channels and sometimes on CNN where they call her out as well.

I am unsure whether she ever sees the videos, but at least a lot of her constituents do. Sometimes when I meet people in Staten Island, they say I saw your video and then want to discuss it.

In a way I know that someone in her office listens otherwise they would be remiss in their job. After all if you work for a politician you need to know what her constituents think. They also know that some of them trend and this is a very small island.

Anyway, I just wanted you all to know the questions I want answers to because I am only getting

Crickets!

Maybe some of you know the answers or have other questions, and if you do, please comment to this post. These questions are the most important questions facing this country right now and if I have a representative who cannot tell me where she stands on these items, there is a problem.

Here they are:

  • How do you feel about Trump pardoning the convicted January 6th terrorists?
  • How do you feel that some of those convicted felons now work in the Department of Justice?
  • How do you feel that the man running our Department of Health and Human Services is an extreme conspiracy theorist who has cancelled so much important research and fired the entire vaccine commission?
  • How do you feel about a third-rate Fox News Saturday host running the Department of Defense [now called the Dept. of War]?
  • How do you feel about Trump demanding the Department of Justice to go after his political enemies?
  • How do you feel about the military or the National Guard coming to New York to police us?
  • How do you feel about Trump eliminating many exhibits from the Smithsonian because he doesn’t want to acknowledge our history?
  • How do you feel about those who invaded a private lunch with Mr. Mamdani who is running for mayor?
  • How do you feel about Trump calling Gov. Abbott in Texas to say “please redistrict” I might need three seats?
  • How do you feel about this administration eliminating the Department of Education and of course the banning of books?
  • Do you believe children should be separated from their parents?
  • Do you believe that Trump should eliminate the history of his impeachment from the Smithsonian?
  • Do you believe that Trump should take money from foreign governments for personal use?
  • How do you feel about Trump intimidating law firms, universities, corporations and others to bend to his wishes on DEI initiatives and other items?
  • How do you feel about Laura Loomer having a say about who works in the White House?
  • How do you feel about renaming of universities and forts with names of Confederate generals who were treasonous and killed many?
  • How do you feel about Trump sending a Justice Department lawyer [once his lawyer] to interview convicted child abuser, Ghislaine Maxwell, who abused so many teens witih Jeffrey Epstein. She refused to speak at her trial so why should she have a voice now.
  • How do you feel about Kristi Noem’s statement of dismantling FEMA and putting the onus on the states to fix emergencies?
  • How do you feel about defunding NPR and PBS?
  • How do you feel about Trump wanting to designate left organizations and transfolks as terrorists?

This is not all of them and maybe I will start a “Crickets” column.

The reason Nicole cannot escape these questions is because Trump says the quiet part out loud now so we all know where he stands. There is nothing obscure about his statements. We just don’t know where Nicole stands.

Like, I said Crickets.

Disappointment in Faith: Addressing Cardinal Dolan

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Letter to Cardinal Dolan

September 21, 2025

Your Holiness Cardinal Dolan

As a practicing Catholic who is 77 years old, I find it so difficult to understand how you can compare Charlie Kirk to a modern day St. Paul. I find it offensive to my faith that you, as the Cardinal of New York and a representative of Christ, would use those words. 

I do not judge Charlie Kirk as a sinner or saint, but what I know is that some of his rhetoric was hateful to people of color and so many other communities. His words were always parsed but his message was always clear. His words about MLK Jr.:  “Martin Luther King Jr. was awful. He is not a good person.” This was in January 2024

His speeches at colleges promoted free speech but his speech was both inflammatory and helped create cultural battlefields at universities. His rhetoric promoted bigotry and intolerance for others. 

I will quote some of Mr. Kirk’s inflammatory statements in hopes that you will clarify your statements and give your congregation some insight.

In May 2023 Mr. Kirk said “Happening all the time in urban American, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more.”

And again in January 2024 Mr. Kirk said “If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?” 

“The great replacement strategy, which is well under way every single day in our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different.”  —March 2024

“The American Democrat party hates this country. They wanna see it collapse. They love it when America becomes less white.” —March 2024

I cannot connect any of this to missionaries or Christian behavior. 

Cardinal Dolan, I think I know why you as a scholar of scripture used St. Paul, the missionary to describe Charlie Kirk. But Kirk’s words will haunt me as a Catholic who follows Jesus’ teachings and your words have knighted this man.

At this point where our country is so divided and so misinformed about many things, you chose those words for your description of Charlie Kirk.  

I am very disappointed.

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WORDS AND ACTIONS MAKE SAINTS OR SINNERS

Ever since Charlie Kirk was shot I have been in that state of “what do I really think about this?” As usual putting it down on paper helps me sort through the phases of

  • Killing someone should never be an option
  • I didn’t agree with him on most things
  • Freedom of Speech is the right of every American even hurtful and offensive speech.
  • Inflammatory speech such as threats of physical violence, harassment, defamation and certainly speech that incites imminent violence are not protected; but as we all know this is a cloudy concept and has been debated throughout our history.

Charlie Kirk believed in the right of free speech for his ilk, but he denied others that right. He spent his time at universities in open dialogue but his actions targeting professors with a “Professor Watchlist” belied his own belief. When a woman came to the microphone, he would often cut them off with scripture or patronize them. He was a Christian nationalist and believed that liberty was only possible with a Christian population. He also thought women should not look for careers but should look to have children.

Charlie Kirk aligned himself with Nick Fuentes who is characterized as a white supremacist who holds misogynistic, homophobic, antisemitic and other hate ideologies near and dear. You can tell a lot about a person by who they align themselves with.

He denied systemic racism but consistently made racist comments. His views on the Civil Rights Act, Martin Luther King and DEI policies are abhorrent to me. Kirk’s agenda was attached to whiteness in all cases.

Charlie Kirk was a master manipulator of words. If someone quoted the passages of the Bible that urge compassion and aid for the poor, homeless, and immigrants, he would insist that he loved America so much that he didn’t want anyone who hated it to come here. I am sure Kirk was aware that the vast majority of immigrants who wish to enter the country, come here for a better life.

Charlie would cherry pick and recite passages of the Bible to agree with his opinion of the LGBTQ community but scoffed or passed over passages that preach love of others. While he quoted passages about “stoning” he failed or refused to be wise enough to know that if you are an influencer you influence people. Some people take things literally. Charlie Kirk was absolutely wise enough and understood exactly that his speech spoken in the most flowery manner targeted the most vulnerable of our society. He preached consistenly against the gay community and put many transgender people in physical danger by his rhetoric. As a wordsmith he was always able to parse his words to eliminate any directives.

Charlie Kirk believed that people will be assassinated and no matter how many, we should never abandon the Second Amendment.

This man was not a saint and I will not judge whether he was a sinner. He preached hate and division in various ways and his organization Turning Point USA consistently told their followers that they were under attack. Charlie Kirk was a man who had a large following and could have made the world a better place if he showed compassion for others and valued the truth. He did not.

BTW I am free to say anything I want about Charlie Kirk and I will continue to do so. After all I live in a free country [though not sure Kimmel will agree with me today].

Authoritarianism creeps up on you

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Trump sends National Guard to clean up crime in Washington DC

There is crime in Washington DC, New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Baltimore, etc etc. Those are all Democratically-governed cities. But there is crime in every other major city in America.

Crime in all those cities are at record lows. We have mentally ill people living in the streets of every major city. Homeless people are not criminals, they are homeless. I don’t believe those words are defined the same.

A Republican strategist on CNN just mentioned that he sees men and women peeing near the Union Station in DC–and he is afraid. [shaking head emoji here]. Because one of Musk’s DOGE kids was mugged [sorry about that] and took great photos of how beat up he was, Trump has decided that he is going to send the National Guard to take over DC and clean up all the crime.

Scenario: man pees in the street. National Guards does what exactly? If the man has no where to pee, the problem will continue to exist. Trump has no idea what is needed to fix what is wrong with the cities.

If people are hungry,

if mental illness is not addressed,

if people have no where to pee,

the problem continues.

Trump needs distractions to avert people’s attention from the Epstein files. Every day the distraction moves us closer to authoritarianism. Today Trump declares “Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs and homeless people,”  The police will have authority to do “whatever the hell they want,” says Trump in a press conference. The National Guard will be taking over the policing of the District of Columbia.

The irony of this: the people who committed crimes on January 6th were pardoned by the man who wants to clean up crime in DC. Seems like peeing is a crime but attacking the capitol is not.

AI defines authoritarianism as a political system where power is concentrated in a leader or a small group, and individual freedoms are limited in favor of state control. It’s characterized by a lack of checks and balances on those in power, with little to no accountability to the people. 

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