The U.S Is Facing Enormous Problems Most Politicians Are Afraid To Address.

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When WWII ended, it was thought that are problems were mostly over. We were paying down the wartime debt through income taxes on the wealthy of as much as 94 percent. Manufacturing was thriving. The middle class was growing with more Americans able to afford a home, a car and a good education for their children. And we had begun turning our attention toward eliminating persistent racism and sexism.

Then, beginning in the 1950s, our government and large corporations began meddling in the politics of other countries based on the fear of communism and the so-called Domino Theory. That led to the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the overthrow of democratically elected leaders in Iran, Chile, and elsewhere. And, as our nation’s power and influence spread, so did the power and greed of our corporations.

As a consequence of their globalization, industry consolidation and tax inequity, we have seen our nation change dramatically. The Citizens United decision permitted corporations and billionaires to quite literally purchase our government through campaign donations and influence. That led to growing wealth disparity, a weakened democracy, growing executive power, weakening international influence, increasing threats both domestically and abroad, the threat of environmental and climate disasters, a failure to transition to renewable energy, the threat of corporate and government controlled AI, the threat of corporations and billionaires controlling our food chain, massively increasing deficits and debt, competing ideologies with little hope of compromise, and a growing segment of the population that wants to tear everything down.

There are no easy and quick fixes to these problems. No answers that can be articulated in a sound bite. Few politicians are willing to risk losing their office by speaking out. Very few billionaires are willing to finance those who would address the issues at the risk of losing part of their fortunes. And even worse, few middle-class voters are willing to sacrifice their resource-depleting, energy-consuming, material-based lifestyle.

As I’ve written before, there will come a reckoning – perhaps the kind of collapse my grandparents faced when the banks and stock markets collapsed turning the Roaring 20s into the Great Depression. When many lost everything and an entire hard day’s work paid 50 cents to a dollar. Maybe less.

That may seem like ancient history not worth considering. Yes, it happened nearly 100 years ago. But there’s a lesson to be learned. Those generations thought it couldn’t happen to them, either. Yet it did, because then, like now, voters kept electing shortsighted politicians who refused to make hard decisions.

We can prevent such a calamity from repeating itself. We can overturn Citizens United and place severe limits on campaign contributions. We can create more jobs and reduce consumer costs by transitioning to renewable fuels. That will also benefit the environment and help head off the coming climate crisis and mass extinction. We can break up the 3 or 4 corporations that control almost every industry. We can address the federal debt by charging corporations for the infrastructure they use; by charging extraction industries for the natural resources they take; by making corporations and the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes; and by reducing our bloated military budget. We can make healthcare accessible and affordable for all Americans by implementing Medicare for all.

Unfortunately, those ideas are unpopular right now, especially among elected MAGA Republicans and their rightwing propaganda machine. And why not? They all profit handsomely from their obedience to the Felon and his billionaire friends who naturally oppose change. But there are a few politicians who understand that the future of our nation, and perhaps our planet, is at stake. People like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and most of the Democratic progressive caucus. People who understand the real issues and are willing to fight for ordinary Americans.

It’s long past time that we listen to them.

Why CBS Should Drop The C From Its Name.

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When Walter Cronkite was anchor of the CBS Evening News, he was quoted as saying, “My job isn’t to tell you what you want to hear. My job is to tell you what you need to hear.” But now that the Ellisons have purchased the network and put Bari Weiss in charge of its news operation, the job of current and future anchors will be to tell you what David Ellison wants you to hear.

That is no exaggeration. Given recent changes such as the dismantling of 60 Minutes, it’s abundantly clear that the network’s reporting will no longer be independent and objective. Instead, every news story will be forced through a MAGA filter for the benefit of its new billionaire owners.

Just what we needed: Another MAGA propaganda network to deceive and divide us.

Unfortunately, this one could be even more dangerous than Fox, Newsmax, OANN, The Blaze, Real America’s Voice, RSBN and all of the many rightwing radio networks. That’s because it had long earned the reputation as the most reliable broadcast news organization. The network of legends such as Edward R. Murrow, Douglas Edwards, Eric Severaid, Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Dan Rather, Connie Cheung, Scott Pelley and many, many others.

Unlike the network’s founders, the Ellisons obviously have no interest in facts and truth. They simply view their ownership as an opportunity to sway viewers to their rightwing ideology while, at the same time, adding to their billions in assets.

And, if their bid for Warner Bros. Discovery is approved, reporters at CNN will almost certainly suffer the same future.

The World’s Most Powerful Crime Network.

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Who could have imagined the FBI and DOJ becoming part of a crime syndicate in support of a narcissistic crime boss? But that’s exactly what has happened. Even the MAGA-dominated Supreme Court has participated in the ongoing crime spree by granting the Felon immunity while sitting in the Oval Office, and by gutting the Voting Rights Act allowing MAGA to gerrymander districts in his favor.

And, of course, all of the MAGA Republicans in Congress should be considered co-conspirators and accessories after the fact.

The Felon-in-Chief once bragged that he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and people would still vote for him. Turns out he has done far worse. The first weeks in his 2nd term he froze spending for USAID. That single action is estimated to have led to the deaths of millions. Since then, he has engineered budget cuts making healthcare unaffordable for millions of Americans. He and his ICEstapo have incarcerated thousands of immigrants, most of whom were here legally. He has overseen the executions of dozens of men operating boats in international waters. He has sent billions to Israel to help them continue their genocide in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon. He allowed Israel to drag us into a war against Iran resulting in the deaths of 13 American service members and hundreds Iranian civilians, including 120 school children and their teachers. And he cut funding for the institutions responsible for preventing the next pandemic which could again lead to the deaths of millions.

It’s clear that his actions have killed many times the number of people as all the rest of the world’s organized crime families combined. And, with the power of the U.S. military and its stockpile of nuclear weapons, there is literally no limit to the harm the Teflon Don can inflict.

Moreover, there seems to be no limit to the amount of taxpayer funds the Felon and his charlatan family and friends plan to steal. It began with his $3.4 million weekend golf trips. Then there’s his family’s crypto schemes, his billion-dollar ballroom and other vanity projects, his $1.776 billion slush fund intended to pay off his criminal supporters, the blatant insider trading of he and his gang, Kristi Noem’s $250 million vanity ad campaign, Sean Duffy’s year-long all-expenses paid family vacation…the full extent of the corruption is much too long to cover here. (For a comprehensive list, I recommend checking the linked website: Tracking the Trump Administration’s Most Corrupt Transactions | Campaign Legal Center.) On top of all that, if the DOJ “settlement” of the Felon’s lawsuit is allowed to stand, he and his family will be able to defraud the government out of many more billions in taxes for the rest of their lives.

It’s enough to make Mafia families, Mexican drug cartels, and all the rest of the world’s organized crime families green with envy.

Adding To Our $39 Trillion Debt: What Happens When You Trust The Economy To A Felon.

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When President Reagan took office in 1981, the national debt was under $1 trillion. By the time he left office, it had ballooned to nearly $3 trillion. President Clinton was able to slow the growth and eliminate annual deficits. Then George W. Bush oversaw three wars and a stock market crash that sent the debt soaring. By the time he left office the debt had climbed to more than $10 trillion. And, by the time President Obama was able to correct the economy, the debt had nearly doubled to more than $19 trillion.

Then the debt really started climbing. In his first term alone, despite inheriting a booming economy, the Felon-in-Chief added $7.8 trillion to the debt. Of course, that doesn’t count the trillions President Biden needed to resurrect the economy from the Felon’s failed response to the pandemic. Already in the Felon’s second term, the debt has increased another $2.7 trillion to more than $39 trillion, 133 percent of our GDP. And it’s expected that his tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy will add yet another $3.4 trillion over the next 10 years.

That means that the Felon is on track to add more than $14 trillion to the debt even as he cuts federal services for average Americans and safety nets for the needy!

And that doesn’t include the likely $2 trillion cost of his war of choice with Iran, the $1.776 billion slush fund for his criminal supporters, the tens of millions it cost for his many golf trips, the billions he wants to build a lavish ballroom and his Arch d’ Trump, and the billions his family will skim from the federal budget for their personal use.

Of course, you also have to consider the impact his war and illegal tariffs have had on the cost of living and the cost of health insurance, which have forced American families to spend many additional billions. And the growing possibility that, like W, he and his MAGA party will again crater the economy.

So, if you’re looking for a reason to elect Democrats in the 2026 and 2028 elections, I can give you trillions of them.

Rewarding Criminals, Seditionists And Traitors.

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Following the corrupt presidency of Richard Nixon and V.P. Spiro Agnew, every president willingly released their tax returns…until Donald J. Trump. Unlike previous presidents and Joe Biden, he not only refused to release his tax returns. He refused to place his investments into a blind trust and refused to divest from his businesses.

So, it seems only right that his tax returns were leaked along with thousands of others by an independent contractor working for the IRS. But Trump decided to file a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS. It’s easy to see why he was furious: Two Trump-controlled entities were each convicted on 17 counts of criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records, making Trump a 34-count felon.

According to most legal experts, the Felon had virtually no chance of winning his $10 billion lawsuit. But his personal attorney acting as the U.S. Attorney General decided to settle the lawsuit for $1.776 billion to be used to pay those who claim to have been victims of the “weaponization” of the DOJ under Biden. Those “victims” include the roughly 1,600 violent thugs and would-be murderers who violently beat police officers as they attacked the nation’s Capitol building on January 6, 2021.

It’s bad enough that the family of Ashli Babbit, the Jan. 6 attacker who was shot as she climbed through a shattered window into the barricaded Speaker’s Lobby, is reported to have negotiated a wrongful death lawsuit with the DOJ for $5 million.  But this!!? This is a bridge way too far!

Todd Blanche calls the $1.776 billion a settlement. Others have called it a slush fund, a payoff to the Felon’s MAGA supporters. But I suggest we call it what it really is: A heist. The extortion of $1,776 billion in taxpayer funds. And that’s only a portion of the fraud committed by the Felon-in-Chief who is blatantly using his office to enrich himself, his family and his friends.

Even worse, this so-called settlement also gives the Felon, his family, and his companies full and permanent immunity from IRS audits and charges of tax fraud – quite literally a license to continue to steal.

As a result, it seems appropriate that banners with the Felon’s image now adorn the Department of Justice building. It’s clear that the DOJ is wholly owned by the criminal occupying the Oval Office.

If MAGA Is Making America Great, Why Do They Need Pardons?

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The Felon-in-Chief has already pardoned violent insurrectionists, drug traffickers and white-collar criminals who have been convicted of stealing millions from unsuspecting Americans. Now we have learned that the Felon has told his staff that he will issue them blanket pardons at the end of his term, which raises the question: Why? After all, if they’re doing such a good job as he claims, why would they face any criminal charges?

The answer is that, since the Felon regained the Oval Office, he and many of his cabinet and staff have engaged in unprecedented illegal and corrupt activity. The Felon himself has violated the Constitution’s emoluments clause to enrich his family by more than $4 billion. In addition, he illegally blocked funds appropriated by Congress. He started an unnecessary and ill-advised war in Iran that will cost taxpayers as much as $1 trillion. He intends to waste billions of taxpayer funds on a ballroom and other vanity projects. And, with the help of his personal lawyer now acting (emphasis on ACTING) as Attorney General, he has engineered a $1.776 billion slush fund to pay off his seditionist thugs and create permanent immunity from any IRS investigations for himself, his companies and his fraudster sons.

His Vice President has proven that his loyalty is to the Felon and his multibillionaire owner rather than the American people. His first Attorney General clearly violated the law by delaying and mishandling the Epstein files. His FBI Director has executed the Felon’s retribution campaign by firing anyone who investigated the Felon’s crimes. He is also accused of being drunk on the job and handing out bottles of his own private label bourbon to supporters. His Christian Nationalist Secretary of “War” has decapitated military leadership by firing most female and black leaders. He has also executed numerous war crimes at the Felon’s behest.

The Felon’s first Secretary of Homeland Security oversaw the murder of U.S. citizens and the lawless detention of thousands of citizens and legal immigrants as she wasted hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on her own vanity projects. His multimillionaire Secretary of Transportation has spent most of his time in office on an all-expenses-paid seven-month vacation with his family while filming a reality TV show. His multi-billionaire Secretary of Commerce is known to have lied about visiting Epstein’s island.

His multibillionaire Secretary of Education’s sole duty is to implode the Department she was appointed to lead. His antivax, roadkill gourmet who occupies the Secretary of Health and Human Services office is making the world more vulnerable to the next pandemic. His ethically challenged multibillionaire Secretary of Treasury has multiple conflicts of interest that have generated accusations of corruption. His Director of the Office of Management and Budget has overseen tax cuts that some experts expect to add $50 trillion to the national debt over the next 30 years.

And this list of ne’er-do-wells doesn’t even include the real criminal on his staff, Stephen Miller who should rightly be given the title Minister of Cruelty for his extreme racist, anti-immigrant, and anti-worker agenda.

Not satisfied with using their positions of power to enact policies that benefit themselves and their wealthy friends, the Felon and members of his staff are also accused of widespread insider trading. Given all of this, is it any wonder the Felon has added the prospect of blanket pardons to his staff’s employment benefits?

These people aren’t trying to make America great. They’re trying to make themselves rich off the backs of ordinary Americans.

The Real Costs Of Corporate Welfare.

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Increasingly, living wages and employee benefits are being replaced by shrinking government assistance and private donations. Walmart’s wages have long been so low that the corporation almost automatically helps new employees sign up for government programs. The narrative is that it helps assure low consumer prices. And that may be true. But the unavoidable reality is that it ensures higher compensation for executives and massive profits for America’s wealthiest family – the Waltons.

The same is true for the many multinational corporations that have offshored manufacturing jobs to avoid paying living wages along with health and retirement benefits to American employees. Corporations benefit from using public infrastructure and resources often without contributing to their cost. They also often pollute our air, land and water without consequence and when they are brought to account, the officers often declare bankruptcy and simply walk away. At the same time, those corporations lobby for more incentives, lower taxes, and ever-decreasing government assistance for the very people they have helped to impoverish.

Another of their legacies is to have bought up their competition and consolidated industries to the point that they can fix prices. This process has also turned small and medium-size cities into relative ghost towns. The inevitable outcome is that they have created vast wealth disparity and a government run by corporate-fueled oligarchs. At the same time, they are funding, developing and utilizing Artificial Intelligence to replace even more human employees.

Both political parties have responsibility for the conundrum we face. But one in particular – the Republican/MAGA Party – has embraced and enabled it. In return, the politicians have benefited from millions in campaign donations and golden parachutes waiting for their retirement from government.

For many reasons, this pattern cannot continue. Corporations cannot exist without customers who can afford to purchase their products and services. And a government cannot long exist if it ignores the needs of its citizens.

However, this sort of corporate greed has existed for so long, any changes will be extraordinarily painful.

With our national debt now exceeding our GDP, even with massive increases in corporate taxes and a substantial wealth tax, positive change will demand difficult decisions. Using antitrust laws to break up the 3 or 4 corporations that now control entire industries will likely lead to precipitous drops in the stock markets affecting our individual retirement accounts. Encouraging entrepreneurship that leads to more small businesses – the heart of our economy – will require more affordable loans along with increased funding for research and technology, as well as student loan forgiveness.

Since a healthy population is more productive and less costly than an unhealthy one, universal healthcare will have to replace our for-profit insurance system. By most estimates that will save $313.5 billion per year. But it will also make the nearly $2 trillion health insurance industry largely unnecessary putting nearly 3 million people out of work. Of course, many of those workers could be employed by the federal government to regulate suppliers and prevent fraud.

Likewise, creating a fairer and simpler tax system would decimate the $16.2 billion tax preparation industry. And, as with the previous example, some of those workers could be hired by the government to review tax returns and prevent fraud.

Effectively taking on the climate crisis will inevitably eliminate jobs by reducing our reliance on fossil fuels. But it could create even more jobs in what will necessarily become a more robust sustainable energy sector. It will also result in cleaner air and water and perhaps save our planet as we know it.

Addressing the decline of rural areas is equally complicated. It requires restoring locally owned and operated farms and ending the corporate takeover of land and resources. It requires new and more sustainable farming practices along with more crop diversity and more reliable commodity prices. It requires the rebuilding of manufacturing facilities in mid-sized towns. Failing that, it requires the subsidy and relocation of those rural citizens who no longer have reasonable prospects of employment to earn a living wage.

Though difficult, the transformation of our economy would yield great benefits. Creating a universal healthcare system would mean that corporations would no longer have to foot the bill for health insurance which is often the equivalent of employee’s salaries. Given the increased costs of international shipping, that alone might be incentive enough to cause corporations to bring back manufacturing jobs. That could increase competition for employees leading to higher, more livable wages. That, in turn, would likely reduce crime and allow typical American families to exist on a single household salary which could negate the need for expensive daycare. Savings that could be put toward retirement.

In addition, by requiring corporations and their officers to pay their fair share in taxes and by eliminating corporate welfare, there would more money to offset the cost of the transition and leading to programs that could further benefit society, such as free public education for all, including university tuition.

Transitioning to a more fair and sustainable economy will be challenging. But continuing along the path we are currently on will be worse. Much worse.

Proof Of Trump’s Sedition.

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If there was ever a question that the Felon launched the January 6 insurrection, it has been clearly answered by his actions since returning to the Oval Office.

On the first day of his second term, he pardoned nearly 1,600 of his thug supporters who were awaiting trial, had pled guilty, or were convicted of crimes ranging from conspiracy to commit sedition to brutally beating capitol police officers to obstructing an official proceeding to unlawfully entering and vandalizing a restricted area. And, although no one was charged with the crime, it was also clear that many of those arrested planned to murder VP Mike Pence in addition to Democratic senators and representatives.

In his congressional testimony, special prosecutor Jack Smith testified that he not only had obtained grand jury indictments against the Felon for leading the insurrection and trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. But he firmly believes he had enough evidence to secure a conviction. After all, there is an abundance of video of the plot as it unfolded.

Yet the Felon has indicated that he plans to reward his thuggish January 6 followers with $1.7 billion of taxpayer funds as compensation for their efforts!

Combined, all of that would surely be enough evidence to get a conviction of sedition in any court in the land. But sadly, it’s not enough to sway a single Republican to vote for impeachment, let alone a conviction.

That should tell you everything you need to know about the MAGA/Republican Party’s willingness to see justice and our constitution corrupted in its quest for power. It is certainly no longer the “party of law and order” it claimed to be.

Moreover, the party’s actions speak volumes about the lack of patriotism, ethics and morality of those who voted for the 34-count convicted felon. They not only set aside the standard that normally prevents a felon from holding office. A significant percentage of voters was willing to overlook his convictions for fraud and a jury’s decision that he had committed sexual assault, as well as the numerous and credible accusations of rape, including that of a 13-year-old!

Of course, there’s the Access Hollywood tape in which he brags about grabbing women between the legs and walking into the dressing room of the Miss Teen USA pageant to see contestants naked. There’s his longtime friendship with a convicted pedophile and sex trafficker, his adultery and philandering, his many thousands of lies, his delight in acts of cruelty, his obvious ties to Russia, our nation’s greatest external threat, and his obvious mishandling of the nation’s secrets.

But none of that seemed to matter to millions of Americans. They claim to have voted for the man because he promised them lower grocery prices – prices that had become inflated due to his policies and mishandling of the pandemic during his previous term in office.

Even now, many of those voters are willing to overlook spiraling inflation caused by his folly in Iran, his corruption of our justice system and many of our most beloved institutions, his dictatorial and narcissistic behavior, his obvious dementia, and his unconstitutional use of the government to enrich his family. For them, his racism and misogyny aren’t faults, they’re strengths.

Contrary to his supporters’ beliefs, he’s not the second coming of Christ. He’s the second coming of Idi Amin.

Trump’s Folly.

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Let’s call the bombing of Iran and the ensuing blockage of the Strait of Hormuz what it really is: Trump’s Folly. He has a confusing and troubling history with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

In 2017, he withdrew the U.S. from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, an agreement negotiated with Iran and other world powers to carefully watch over Iran’s nuclear program to ensure that it did not develop nuclear weapons. In the first months of his second occupation of the Oval Office, without provocation, he ordered the bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites claiming to have completely obliterated them. Then in February of this year, Trump ordered a second round of attacks, which claimed the life of Iran’s supreme leader, as well as the lives of more than 180 elementary school girls. Again, the Felon claimed the strikes to be a great success.

What followed is something the geographically challenged Felon did not anticipate. Iran struck back at U.S. bases and our Middle Eastern allies. More important, they shut down all shipping traffic past the Strait of Hormuz.

Now this is a conundrum that neither the Felon nor his sidekicks had anticipated. It doesn’t take a world power to close the Strait. All it takes is a few determined individuals equipped with drones, small missiles and enough explosives to damage a few oil tankers and container ships. That is enough for shipping companies to lose their insurance coverage and abandon further attempts.

Currently, there are more than 2,000 ships stranded in the Persian Gulf unwilling to attempt passage. These are ships that move approximately 20 percent of the world’s oil, in addition to a wide variety of other goods, including fertilizer needed for crops in the U.S. and elsewhere.

The astonishing thing about this situation is that any middle schooler with an understanding of geography could see the potential problem of starting a war of choice with Iran. But the Felon and his Secretary of War couldn’t. They obviously committed to the attacks without a goal and without a plan. And now they’re stuck.

They claim the war has already been won. That Iran has no ships, no aircraft, no weapons. Yet the Strait is still closed, and the military says that we are also running out of advanced weapons. They claim that there is a ceasefire. But the U.S. and Israel continue to strike Iran, and Iran continues to strike back. In response, the Felon threatens war crimes and nuclear obliteration.

So far, the war has cost U.S. taxpayers somewhere between $42 billion and $84 billion. And that doesn’t include the $11 billion in additional weapons sent to Israel. Neither does it include the approximately $50 billion in damage to U.S. bases in the Middle East. Nor does it include the $500 billion that the Felon wants to add to our already bloated military budget.

Moreover, it doesn’t include the additional costs for goods and services as a result of rising fuel costs and disrupted supply chains – a total likely far larger than the cost of military weapons and bases. And, of course, it doesn’t include the human costs in lives lost, disrupted or forever changed.

Nevertheless, the Felon continues to claim that he’s winning this “excursion.” He’s not just at war with Iran. He’s at war with reality.

Feeding The Felon’s Ego.

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I believe Trump’s vision of a White House ballroom encapsulates the entire Trump presidency, indeed his entire life. First, he decides to build a grandiose ballroom in his name. He and his friends will pay for it, and it will be attached to the East Wing. But don’t worry, the East Wing will not be touched. Instead, it was demolished. Then we were assured that the new East Wing and the ballroom would be even better. And they would be funded by private donors. No taxpayer funds needed. Now…now we are told that building the ballroom is a matter of national security, and it will cost taxpayers a billion dollars!

None of this should come as a surprise. In the Trump regime, EVERYTHING IS A LIE! A lie to feed the insatiable ego of a deeply flawed individual.

Though he has done nothing to advance the lives of others (in fact, the lives of most Americans are demonstrably worse for his malignant narcissism), the Felon-in-Chief has a grandiose vision of himself as some sort of savior. A leader so revered that the entire capital city and all of America’s symbols should pay tribute to him.

Like Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, and other despots before him, he wants his image and his name plastered everywhere. Not satisfied with seeing his name in cartoonishly large letters atop hotels, on golf courses, on airplanes and the like, he wants to see it on theaters, government buildings, and airports. And, of course on his grandiose ballroom and an even more self-aggrandizing “Arch d’ Trump.”

He even has expectations of seeing his highly punchable face on Mt. Rushmore. Who knows? Before he can be dragged out of the now gold encrusted Oval Office, he may try to rename the White House after himself, or the District of Columbia, or the entire nation.

“Welcome to Trumplandia, formerly known as the United States of America.”

And what has the Felon done to earn this greater than George Washington legacy? He pushed his way into office with help from Russia and its highly dangerous leader. He embraced bullies, racists, thugs, and terrorists of every kind. He weakened our international standing and alienated our most reliable allies. He destroyed our democracy’s most valuable institutions and traditions and turned Americans against one another as never before. He reshaped the Supreme Court and is in the midst of politicizing the entire judicial system.

His national police force has terrorized cities. His “War Department” has committed war crimes. He has set back race and gender relations by more than 50 years. He has rolled back regulations and compromised our environment. His failed response to the pandemic killed more than a million Americans and tanked our economy. He cut off food and medical aid to impoverished people around the world leading to millions more deaths. He has imprisoned and deported thousands of law-abiding immigrants who had become necessary parts of our communities. With the help of RFK, jr., he has made the world even more vulnerable to the next pandemic.

He started a war of choice that has destabilized the Middle East and crippled world economies. He has overseen a regime of unparalleled corruption. In just the first year of his second term, he has used his title to enrich his family with more than $4 billion. And by the time he’s done, he will likely have doubled the national debt.

Given all this, I submit there is only one fitting monument to bear his name: A prison. Who else is for renaming Gitmo?