More on the Sad Way We Are Now

To quit sending them billions of government money is, according to college presidents, tyranny.

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Take a look at the L.A. riots. If Southerners ever engaged in a protest, genuinely “peaceful, as at Charlottesville, we would already be suppressed and arrested, probably killed.

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The Governor of California complains that Trump’s armed intervention against rioters violates his state’s “sovereignty.” Where did he get that? Various Republican politicians compare the intervention to Lincoln’s attack on the Confederacy. Politicians of both parties are totally ignorant about the War for Southern Independence and the Constitution. The Confederacy was not a riot. Secession was democratically voted for and carried out with dignified and formal Constitutional proceedings and expressions of peaceful intent. To compare the Confederacy to violent rioting by foreign criminals is catastrophically ignorant and dishonest.

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In December 1841 the Japanese Empire attacked and tried to destroy the American fleet at Pearl Harbor. They regarded the U.S. Navy as a potential obstacle to their intent to dominate East Asia and the Pacific.


In June 2025 the Israeli armed forces attacked Iran as a potential threat to their dominance of the Middle East as the region’s only nuclear power. The moral position is exactly the same as that of Pearl Harbor - launching a deliberate war of aggression against another country upon a potential threat. A war crime according to every Western and Christian teaching.


Iran is not Libya or even Iraq. It is the inheritor of the mighty Persian Empire, with a large, intelligent, and active population, not a pushover. Many knowledgeable observers have discounted its intention to build nuclear weapons. Unlike Israel, it does not have any now.


The Israeli aggression depends on American money, weapons, and intelligence. It would seem the President of the U.S. collaborated in setting up the attack after Iran refused demands that no independent country could accept.


Donald Trump has abetted not only the Iran attack but the Gaza genocide carried out by Israel. When did a terrorist attack justify the eradication of innocent women and children? Trump has damaged his reputation, lost support, and compromised his more important domestic agenda. And cast doubt as to whether he has gained any control over the Deep State.


There is no reason to pour extra blame on Trump. The last President to have a fair and honest view of the Middle East was Jimmy Carter, a half century ago. It was nearly inevitable that America would be implicated in Israeli crimes. In the U.S. House and Senate the near unanimous consent of both parties has bankrolled Zionism for decades.


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Another major Trump disappointment - the Big Beautiful Bill. Of course, politicians lie and attempt to confuse voters about what they do - that is their nature. But as far as one can tell, Trump in this bill has sold out to the mainstream Republicans who hate him. Supposed spending cuts don’t come in until five years, which is a total useless measure. The Republican Speaker made sure that the USAid expenditures, so vividly exposed by DOGE, remain in force, along with a billion dollars to PBS and Green Energy measures.


What Trump thinks he is doing with this maneuver is hard to understand. I have always said that the greatest obstacle to his populist agenda is the Republican party. Some of the Republicans who voted in the expenditures applauded Trump when he praised spending cuts in the State of the Union address. That is the kind of thing that Republicans in power do.


Some Democrats actually believe in their perverted measures. Though they lie to further them, they actually think they are doing good. But Republican Congresspersons, by and large, are short-sighted and self-promoting and have no ideas about the public good at all. They are merely an election machine for the mediocre element of the Yankee nation to get in office without any real principles or vision. They spout out meaningless party slogans designed by advertising men. They are afraid of anything realistic that might hurt their respectability.


We are told we must admire Ronald Reagan, with a wife into astrology, a toe-dancing son, and a Playmate daughter. He signed into law the MLK holiday and a measure to give citizenship to millions of illegals, and first brought into power the Neocons who have disastrously dominated U.S. foreign policy.


​We have to fear that the populist revolution needed to save the American people is not prospering. Perhaps its failure is already sealed in history.