Those Who See Government as Our Public Service Sector Have Lost Big

   

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Those Who See Government as Our Public Service Sector Have Lost Big

Trump Loyalists, Billionaires Seeking Benefits & Protection, and Idiot Savants Have Replaced Democracy

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"The old relationship we had with the United States, based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperations, is over… The time will come for a broad renegotiation of our security and trade relationship."

Canadian PM Mark Carney

"He's been through so much – the lawfare, having been the leader of the free world, having had an assassination attempt… He's a different person than he was." 

White House Chief of Staff, Susan Wiles

Make no mistake, as special elections for state offices flip once major MAGA strongholds and town halls have made an indelible impression that augurs badly for Trump followers, Donald Trump has noticed. His pulling of GOP stalwart and member of Congress, Elise Stefanik, out of her nomination for UN Ambassador, happened for one reason: despite the fact that her NY district went for Trump by 20 points in November, Trump fears that in any special election that would be needed to replace her, that district could easily go Democratic, putting that narrow GOP majority in the House at greater risk. So, back to the House she goes. Apparently, Americans do not like severe cutbacks to staffing at the VA and the Social Security Administration, the press to decimate Medicaid and the National Park Service. Why? Go figure! This blog is no “April Fools” day talk.

Trump’s recent executive order, and the underlying legislation sitting in the House, have focused on “election integrity” – looking for fraud that simply is as rare as hen’s teeth – but the impact is to cull voters likely to support Democrats. How many rural minorities or Native Americans have birth certificates or passports, the required IDs Trump seeks to require as a precondition to voting? And if that doesn’t work, will Trump use “national security” or an “enemy invasion” as an excuse to delay the midterms? Even as a hapless Democratic Party, which should be organizing “million-voter” marches across the entire US, but particularly in red states, stand idly by, grassroots efforts everywhere suggest the probability of seroious GOP loses if full and fair midterms are allowed.

In the meantime, the nation is watching a new, deeper state evolve. One where fat cats need not worry about audits from a depleted IRS, as Musk smiles as DOGE operatives invade the Securities and Exchange Commission, where Musk has been accused of violations regulations and underlying statutes. Trump-product salesman, Donald Trump, is grinning ear-to-ear as corruption and favoritism become national policy, as Trump touts Teslas at the White House, as he self-serves his family’s crypto holdings by elevating what he once called a “scam,” crypto currency, as worthy of a special federal crypto reserve, as conspiracy theorists tout medical cures that are seriously dangerous, as loyalists at the DOJ fight NY courts to help reverse anti-Trump decisions, as other multi-year senior DOJ staffers face firing for refusing to profess specific loyalty to Trump, and as Trump focuses his efforts on private institutions from law firms (to reduce their willingness to challenge Trump edicts) to universities (“Professors are the enemy,” according to JD Vance) which are now stopped in their tracks from creating new “job creating” technologies and exploring cures to diseases that infect millions of Americans.

But as Trump has appointed some of the least qualified cabinet appointees and senior disruptors in a century, rife with conflicts of interest that are worn like a badge of honor, where a horde of Trump appointees are billionaires overseeing federal agencies that once were designated to oversee them and rein in their excesses, scandals, missteps, and major errors are standard, serious national security leaks are explained away, we now have the most shamelessly corrupt executive branch in our nation’s substantial history. See if you can name the above pictured scoundrels appointed to cabinet leadership positions and identify their lack of qualifications, biases, and clear mistakes since they assumed their cabinet roles. I won’t help you!

If you want a short analysis of our current fall from grace among our international allies, as we threaten to take Greenland and view Canada as merely our 51st state, pull out of treaty commitments as if they didn’t exist, just read Canada’s Mark Carney statement above. His words ring true among most of our allies. While Susie Wiles’ quote above suggests the assassination attempts on Trump have made him a better leader, there are many others who say he’s starting to believe that God spared him to rule, completely in charge.

For all those American soldiers killed fighting Russian pilots in Korea or opposing Russian surrogates in regional conflicts, that Vladimir Putin has replaced our Western leaders in a cherished relationship with the highest levels of our government has to be the greatest act of betrayal they could imagine. Our major international opponent in most of the post-WWII era, Russia is now closer to us that any democratic ally. Reagan’s “evil empire” is now Trump’s bosom buddy… so maybe we need to stop referring to Trump’s part as “Republicans.” They have almost nothing in common with Reagan’s GOP. They are MAGAns and nothing else.

What are the elected Democrats doing about this? For most of them, virtually nothing. Grassroots gatherings should be all they need to plan million-voter marches across the land, but no… nothing. The MAGAns in Congress now believe that they can skip the 60-vote requirement in the Senate to pass their billionaire tax cuts and cement their rightwing agenda into our laws… by using the “continuing resolution” mechanism in the Congress, where the 60-vote Senate rule does not apply to budget reconciliation between the Senate and the House. And Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer already led a small Democratic contingent to pass the budget extension… so… 

I’m Peter Dekom, and I am ashamed of my country as it implements MAGA conspiracy theories and power grabs in lieu of constitutionally supportable legislation and governance… and I am absolutely horrified by the Democratic Party flailing without the necessary leadership or willingness to fight back!