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The Most Murderous Regime In U.S. History.

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As has been previously discussed, the Trump cult appears to view its leader as the savior of America, a man of God, the second coming of the Messiah. If so, Trump must serve a cruel and loathsome deity, since the Felon-in-Chief is responsible for millions of deaths. And he’s only halfway through the first year of his second term.

Think that statement is hyperbolic? Then consider the following:

A 2020 study in The Lancet led by professors at Harvard Medical School and the University of California at San Francisco found that the first Trump administration’s health policies led to 461,000 unnecessary U.S. deaths annually, plus 22,000 avoidable deaths annually from its environmental policies. Moreover, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation estimated the death toll from Trump’s failed response to Covid-19 had reached 1,120,000 by January 2023.

In the current Trump regime, cuts to USAID are estimated to result in the unnecessary deaths of 14 million people by 2030, including 4.5 million children. (Thankfully, Congress restored $400 million in cuts to the PEPFAR program in a rare rebuke of Trump. Otherwise, there could have been an additional 6.3 million AIDS-related deaths over the next four years.)

Further, scientists from Yale and the University of Pennsylvania estimate that 42,500 vulnerable Americans may die each year as a result of health care cuts mandated by the Republican’s Big Ugly Bill. They warn that the cuts to hospitals and clinics, especially in rural areas, could be devastating to communities.

The regime’s plans to deport more than a million immigrants a year, the vast majority of which are only guilty of wanting to work hard and improve their families’ lives, is not just a blow to our communities and our industries. It will almost certainly be deadly. How many of our neighbors will die as a result of being forced to return to the nations they fled to escape war, gang violence, poverty and political retribution?

Appallingly, the Trump regime has also turned its back on the ongoing genocide in Gaza. By failing to support relief efforts by the UN and numerous European nations, the regime could be at least partially responsible for more than 500,000 Palestinians dying of starvation. And those who are spared from famine are likely to be displaced once again as Netanyahu and Trump have called for the relocation of 1.2 million Gazans.

Combined, the death toll from the first Trump administration and his current regime’s actions could total more than 16.8 million!!! Moreover, if Trump and his regime continue to deny the climate crisis, the death toll could rise to hundreds of millions more, if not the entire population of the planet.

A Return To The Gilded Age.

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During his second inaugural speech, Donald J. Trump, he of the golden toilets, announced that he would lead America into a “Golden Age.” What does that mean? Well, based on his executive orders to date and his roadmap called Project 2025, it appears that he wants to return the U.S. to the Gilded Age of the late 1800s when our economy was controlled by a small group of ruthless men who eventually became labeled Robber Barons.

In other words, the Gilded Age was a time when all the nation’s wealth trickled upward to the likes of Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Jay Gould, Jim Fisk and others. Through a combination of inspiration, luck, and insatiable greed, these people created monopolies based on unfettered access to the continent’s natural resources. By 1890, one percent of American families controlled as much as 51 percent of the nation’s wealth. Most of the rest of the nation’s citizens, especially people of color and women, were relegated to a life of hardships and poverty.

That era only came to an end because of economic depression, exposure of corruption by courageous journalists, a populist movement that instituted regulations and antitrust laws, and the Second Industrial Age.

Trump’s so-called Golden Age promises to be worse.

To begin, in 2014 an extensive study determined that the United States could no longer be called a democracy, but an oligarchy – a government controlled by a few wealthy elites. And they have gained even more power under the new Trump administration. Indeed, his campaign was financed by billionaires such as Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos, all of whom were front and center at the inauguration.

Once in power, Trump appointed at least seven billionaires to powerful government positions. And who was the ally given the most power? Elon Musk, the world’s richest man with more than $400 billion in mostly government and Chinese money, who (coincidentally?) also donated the most to Trump’s campaign.

These unelected people are the ones who will benefit the most from Trump’s promise to cut taxes. These are the people who will reap the most rewards from a hollowed-out federal government that repeals regulations. These are the people who will benefit most from Project 2025’s planned attack on labor unions. These are the people who will remain unharmed by Trump’s trade war. And these people will almost certainly be among the very few who will benefit from the economic recession that almost certainly will result from Trump’s actions – actions that will lead to even more wealth disparity between billionaires and ordinary working people. (In 2023, the top one percent already controlled 30 percent of American wealth. And fifty percent of Americans controlled 97.5 percent of the wealth.)

Musk, aided and abetted by Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson and other congressional Republicans, is also the one given unparalleled power by the Felon-in-Chief to lead the ongoing coup against our government and the Constitution through the newly formed and unofficial agency called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Musk claims his agency should be pronounced “doej”, but it would be more aptly pronounced “douche”. And, without constitutional Article I authority, the lead douchebag has taken control of multiple agencies that are created and funded by Congress.

In just 14 days, Musk has taken control of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and unconstitutionally shuttered the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). He has also blocked communications between government agencies and the American citizenry – all without congressional approval.

Of course, there are precedents for these kinds of actions. We have seen them executed by dictators and fascists the world over. But they have never before been seen in the United States of America where we are now watching our once proud democracy circle down the drain of one of Trump’s golden toilets.