I want to say something. It’s been bothering me. Maybe it bothers you, too. All we hear in the media about that stupid Big Ugly Bill is that it was a tax cut and a spending cut. That’s not right. It IS a tax cut. A tiny, temporary tax cut if you work for a living, and a lovely and large, permanent tax cut if your primary income is in Capital Gains. So, really more of a tax shift in the long run. Rich people don’t want to pay but they’re happy to let the working class pick up the tab.

It wasn’t a spending cut, either. Donny is out there spending money like a drunken sailor. It was, rather, a spending shift. America stopped spending money intended to help people but we’ve been spending on 47’s pet projects and other wasteful pursuits like it’s a sacred obligation. Turning one’s back on the needs of one’s people and instead, looting the treasury as fast as one can? Well, that’s just what dictators do…

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Okay, so I loved this: “DONALD ‘TACO’ TRUMP, AS MANY CALL HIM, ‘MISSED’ THE DEADLINE!!! CALIFORNIA WILL NOW DRAW NEW, MORE ‘BEAUTIFUL MAPS,’ THEY WILL BE HISTORIC AS THEY WILL END THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY (DEMS TAKE BACK THE HOUSE!).

BIG PRESS CONFERENCE THIS WEEK WITH POWERFUL DEMS AND GAVIN NEWSOM — YOUR FAVORITE GOVERNOR — THAT WILL BE DEVASTATING FOR ‘MAGA.’ THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! — GN”

That’s a post made by Gavin Newsom’s office. I think it captured Donny’s tone beautifully. The all-caps bit was a nice touch…

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OMG, he’s federalizing Washington, DC! Uh-huh. He’s taking over the Kennedy Center! Yep. OMG, he’s taking control of the Smithsonian’s exhibits! Well, sure. He’s putting back statues of confederate traitors, too! Of course he is.

Donny is just doing what dictators do. It’s only a matter of time until he commissions a “glorious” statue of himself. If you didn’t want a dictator, the time to stop him was before he had control over the levers of power. Now? Oh, it’s FAR too late.

Oh, sure, people are pissed off about it – NOW. Not pissed off enough to do anything effective about it, but they’re angry. So they’re going to town halls and yelling at useless Republicans infesting congress. The most recent I’ve heard about is the town hall held by Doug LaMalfa, who is, according to the Guardian, “a fourth-generation rice farmer who has represented his northern California district since 2013.” That sounds like he’s not so much a farmer as a politician but, whatever.

When people started shouting at him over the Epstein files, he tried to shift the blame in that way the GOP always does when they get caught red-handed in some grift, graft, or lie. “It’s interesting the Epstein situation was not an issue during the Biden administration,” LaMalfa noted earlier in the town hall. The crowd booed and jeered in response. Biden should have released the files, too, but he never promised he would. That was Donny. Donny promised, but Donny lied. Of course, that’s just what dictators do…

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Speaking of taking over Washington, DC, he’s just lying, you know, but, really, that’s just part of dictator shtick. It’s just what dictators do. He comes out and describes DC as some kind of crime riddled, dystopian hell-hole. He makes it sound like people can’t even open their curtains, let alone go outside, for fear they’ll be victimized by all of that crime. Of course, then, people who do know what they’re talking about come back with facts and details and it turns out, Donny’s just lying about crime in DC. IS there crime in DC? Sure. Pick a city, any city. You’ll find crime.

It tends to be worse in red states. Did you know that? It does. As it happens most red states are poor states. I’m certain there’s a correlation but the red hats never see things like that. Anyway, poverty leads to crime. There’s a genuine aspect of “What choice?” So it’s not a surprise that crime is higher in red states, but 47 isn’t talking about sending troops in to red states. He’s talking about sending troops into blue states.

Sending in troops. In America. Even though I know, it’s just what dictators do, I’m having difficulty accepting that we all just acquiesed so easily. That’s not blame or finger-pointing. It’s just an observation…

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I think it’s funny that a common refrain from Americans when talking about the impending Putin/Drumpfster meeting expresses the hope that Donny isn’t duped out of Alaska by Putin. It’s being expressed as a joke, but I suspect genuine concern drives the humor.

I, for one, don’t expect much from this meeting. Really, I think Donny’s just checking in with his Russian handler. He’ll pass along whatever secrets Russia has requested and update old Vlad on things he’s heard that are going on. Then he’ll suggest Russia stop bombing Ukraine and “old Vlad” will tell him no, because that’s what dictators do. That should be the end of it.

But I’ll tell you this: I’m concerned Donny is going to come out and announce that Putin has “agreed to a twelve-hour cease fire in exchange for Alaska. It’s a great deal, a wonderful deal. It’s a deal only I could have worked out. Oh, yeah, now anybody living in Alaska is a Russian citizen so don’t you DARE try to come back to the United States.” Or something to that effect…

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Okay, thanks to 47’s incredibly fragile ego, coupled with his incredibly thick skull, official numbers from US collection agencies should now be disregarded in general. When the jobs numbers weren’t where Donny wanted them, he fired the person responsible for collecting the numbers, not the idiot who did all of the damage to the jobs market. That’s the fragile ego part.

But he’s also eliminating information on subjects he doesn’t like, like climate change. The guy is so dumb, he seems to really believe that if people just stop tracking and reporting on climate change, it just goes away. That was his oh-so-stupid attitude about Covid, too, but all that “went away” were over a million lives that didn’t need to be lost.

Perhaps one can still trust the weather report – so long as it doesn’t mention climate change, of course. But pretty much, US government numbers are now a patchwork of lies intended to salve one discontented, insatiable ego. I know, trying to force reality into one’s own delusions is really just something dictators do, but he’s just… such an embarrassment…