DJT critics may find it's too late to protect selves

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DJT is out in the open practicing retribution. Maybe we the public are experiencing the "boiling frog" thing. The worst fears that many of us harbored about Trump long ago, are being borne out in reality. The media tells us this. Well it's just another day, yawn. 

You mean there's consequences with Federalist Society types filling the Supreme Court? Women losing their right to choose? That's just one example. 

"Judge Cannon" isn't even on the Supreme Court but she has been as impactful as anyone. I mean, where would we be today if she had not tossed the "docs" case on specious grounds? And then the dug-in Trump people started looking for blood after that. Can't you see this is the real danger? Retribution? 

And why must that drive be satiated? Well, rhetorical question: autocratic aims. And our society now is the boiling frog. We no longer have Dan Rather to turn the fire hose on the most extreme right-wingers. 

Rather could be "rather" a pain sometimes. But I'd prefer living in an America with someone like him having a check on power. 

I should refrain from making comments like this if I know what's good for me. But I began making such comments a long time ago, really since DJT "came down the escalator." I have been wise to his system of gathering power for himself. He has a true gift with rhetoric. But then that's a common trait for autocrats like the most notorious one of the 20th Century. 

Michelle Fischbach

I established a track record long ago. So if retribution is in the works for someone like me, I would have no cover. I'm vulnerable. You would think that our own congressperson out here, Michelle Fischbach, would want her own constituents protected from such a thing. She should put our welfare first. That was the ideal in the "old" America of pre-Donald Trump. 

The old ideal would have been to let the citizens of Texas vote in a conventional way without the hasty gerrymandering that we now see. People who believe in basic ethics should be crying out about this. Texas officeholders were initially hesitant about the re-districting move. DJT changed the equation when he muscled in.

The motive was naked. 

Our basic sense of fair play and decency should be tugging at us. It would have been, in the America I grew up in. 

Today we see the increasingly crass and abrasive president of the U.S. - at age 79 on shaky ground with his health and cognitive state - do extreme things with retribution and partisan arm-twisting. In the case of the Federal Reserve, it may not even be partisan politics. 

 

Don't bludgeon the Fed 

Of course I learned as a young person that the president is supposed to be hands-off with the Fed. I probably did not learn this in the classroom, rather it was from esteemed commentators on the news. One of my traits has been to digest the news since I was a little kid. Maybe I assume too much about other people's knowledge. Don't most people understand that incumbent office-holders need to leave the Fed alone? 

The fundamental principle is this: The Fed is called upon to make decisions sometimes that are bad in the short term but good in the long term. And what happens if we allow our long-term best interests to be ignored, to be vetoed actually? Do we really want to find out? Do you care, really? Well I know of a lot of people who I think wouldn't care at all. 

Look how DJT is trying to bludgeon Lisa Cook of the Fed. 

 

The news is out there 

We learn now that DJT has personal self-interest involved with what the Fed does. Good grief he's almost 80 years old. Why be obsessed with such objectives? A normal person would want to do well by the American people. Doesn't his legacy for the American people matter at all? Well no, it doesn't. 

So what is the essence of his motivation? Is it the devil? At the same time this charlatan has worked for years to get insecure Christians eating right out of his hand? 

Today is Sunday and I'm not even going to church. I know people who'd say "we don't care." Or they might say "we don't give a f--k" because this is how they have become. 

No, Michelle Fischbach would not care if she were to learn that I personally have come to suffer from DJT's retribution. She puts aside her normal impulses to show absolute fealty to Trump. If you are on her email communications list you certainly know that. Does anyone try to talk back to her?

  

Higher prices? 

A whole string of interest rate cuts will exacerbate inflation. So will the deportation of cheap labor thanks to the "goon squads" of ICE and the handiwork of the exhibitionist Kristi Noem, the former South Dakota governor. Boy, "Minnesota nice" never rubbed off on her. She totes a machine gun and looks like she has had plastic surgery. She was a naturally attractive woman when she first entered politics. 

John Bolton: target of retribution

Many people are simply attracted to power. This includes otherwise good people, shall we say people who were not born to do these terrible things. Look at a picture of Martin Bormann of Germany - looks like he could be your local State Farm agent. Had this man grown up in America, he might have been quite straight-laced. But what's the old saying? "Absolute power corrupts absolutely." 

So many of us have been parties to this. Maybe I won't be around to see how it all turns out. 

John Bolton is a fresh target for retribution. We read the news articles about such things, then it looks like we just shrug and move on. This must be how it happened in Germany.

I sigh. "Mongo just pawn in game of life." 

 

Addendum: Here's a comment that I posted to Yahoo! News over the weekend:

 

Pretty soon all critics of Trump will learn to be quiet if they just want to live a normal life.

 

"Another Way" responded:

There goes the First Amendment, the most precious in a democracy. Yes, autocracy rules through fear, certainly not good policy. 

 

- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com