I originally wrote this as a column and submitted it to the Waco "Trib" newspaper almost a week ago. They have so far not chosen to use it. So I have posted it here.
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Trump lied about the economy. He actually inherited a recovering economy
with low inflation, and then damaged it
severely with his tariffs and trade wars.
Further, you are now facing
simultaneous global recession and out-of-control inflation, because of the closure of the Strait of
Hormuz.
Trump lied about tax cuts.
You got a small one (if any at all),
while his billionaire and corporate cronies got billions! So, the
national debt is going completely out of control, especially with high inflation driving up
interest rates. The interest on the debt
now dominates the annual “budget”. Which
proper budgets Trump’s enablers in Congress repeatedly refuse to pass.
Trump lied about immigrants!
Most of them, including most that
are here illegally, are more law-abiding
and honestly tax-paying, than the bulk
of you readers out there! So say the
crime statistics! And those same people are integral to our
economy. They harvest your food, build your homes, mow your lawns, and serve as housekeepers. And more!
Yet Trump’s lies about how evil all immigrants are, have been the “justification” to weaponize
ICE and CBP into something to abuse and “disappear” people that he does not
like, while trying to intimidate the
rest of us into submission! That is
the very definition of a dictatorship’s secret police force! And while you may have voted for Trump, you did NOT vote for that!
Trump has lied about everything since the start of his Iran
war, including especially the “why”, and the “why now”. The experts dispute quite strongly that the
Iranians were anywhere near ready to build a nuclear bomb. Trump was frustrated because he couldn’t get
a deal about the enriched uranium (after he himself scrapped the one we had
before). Then Netanyahu walked up
wanting to start a war, because of
Iran’s proxy Hezbollah.
Trump lied about how thoroughly we destroyed Iranian
military capabilities. Those lies are
painfully evident. While reduced in
numbers, Iran can still strike targets all
over the region, and ships in the Strait
of Hormuz! Which was open until Trump
started his Iran war! And now, we have mostly run out of interceptors, so those fewer Iranian weapons get through!
Trump has been lying about the progress of the peace
negotiations with Iran! Evidently, he did not even know who he was really
dealing with! Or why the things he
thinks he obtains during these talks, repeatedly
get quickly taken away.
Those Iranian officials at the table in Islamabad are NOT
the de-facto rulers of Iran now, the
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is! The IRGC is a huge, well-armed, terrorist army of violent extremists, recruited specifically because they are
violent extremists! They would die
to the last man, before stopping the use
of the other proxy terrorist armies (Hamas,
Hezbollah, the Houthis, and many more), before giving up their enriched uranium for
their terrorist bomb, or before opening
that Strait!
Trump simply does not understand non-transactional people
like that, not at all! And he (and Netanyahu) actually made the
IRGC the de-facto rulers of Iran, by
killing off most of the clerics and many of the regular government officials, in the first few days of this war!
Further, by bombing
civilian areas, Trump has essentially
united the people of Iran against us,
instead of helping them to overthrow their regime. Regime change is actually the only way to get
what we’d like to have from Iran! It
is now out of reach!
It appears to me that Trump started this Iran war because he
could not get the then-ruling clerics in Iran to deal transactionally with
him. Just like Maduro in Venezuela. And soon Cuba, if and when Trump gets clear of his Iran
debacle!
In order to get clear,
Trump must now commit war crimes by deliberately bombing civilians and
their infrastructure, all across the
country! All the aboveground military
targets actually have been destroyed,
although clearly many remain, deep underground!
You who voted for him,
you did NOT vote for American war crimes! America’s name is now mud around the
world, because of the stupid things
Trump has done, including to our allies! They no longer trust us at all, and justifiably so, nor do they even want to trade with us, anymore!
And one of them, Ukraine, has developed a cheap, mass-produced anti-drone drone, that we do not have! In 20-20 hindsight, Trump’s mistreatment of Zelenskyy, and starving Ukraine of assistance against
Putin’s invasion, looks very stupid indeed!
There is absolutely no excuse for that level of lying,
that much chaos, and that egregious level of incompetence, which we have seen out of Trump and nearly
every appointed figure in his entire administration! And all of you readers bloody well know
that what I said is true!
Now, readers, please go out and do your job as proper citizens
in November! Vote all of Trump’s
enablers out, so that we can get rid of
all this chaos and incompetence before it destroys us, and get back to being a responsible world
power. With a decent economy. But without almost-a-king!
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below is a photo of a Ukrainian-developed drone interceptor, plus some more comments
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A Ukrainian Shahed interceptor drone. Photo credits: Bohdan Myroshnychenko
This drone is actually cheaper to build than the Iranian "Shahed" drones that it can destroy. The Ukrainians developed this on their own, faced with chronic mass "Shahed" drone attacks from Russia. The Iranians have been supplying Russia with those "Shahed" drones for some time now.
Those who know me, know that I consider what Trump has done to our alliances and our allies, to be treason of the aid and comfort type. The most egregious case has been trying to ram Russia's terms down Ukraine's throat, in his so-called "peace process" negotiations. But every alienated ally is another count of that treason.Those who know me also know that I consider Trump's egregious and infamous executive over-reach to be really the attempted establishment of a Trump dictatorship over us. He is doing that so that he won't have to leave office until he dies. That would leave us with a whole series of Trump-wannabees as dictators over us. I estimate that imposition to be about 70% complete now.
The weaponization of ICE and CBP into a secret police force that "disappears" some of us, and intimidates the rest of us, is a piece of that dictatorship. As are the "detention centers" which are really concentration camps for those waiting to be "disappeared". As is the identification and vilification of some group, as the enemy to be "disappeared" (in Trump's case, immigrants). All such are features of all dictatorships.
Do not listen to the words, from anybody! Look only at the events and actions! They verify everything that I have claimed.
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