Trump is bad for America

Deploying troops in DC is wrong. If he wants to stop crime go to Memphis or high crime cities. 

Being against wind power is just stupid. Fact is, it's going up. His oil stocks will hold their value anyway. 

Constant lying. Changing the way the USA reports data won't change the reality that we're spiraling into a recession. 

Pardoned insurrectionists, he should be held accountable. 

The hype-partisand environment is really dysfunctional.

He breaks things and then fixes them, that's not really doing anything but smoke and mirrors. 

He's honestly breaking the conservative principles by suggesting owning part of Intel. 

If he gave everyone medicare he'd be a great hero, and become wildly popular. I'd feel ambivalent about that but honestly as much as I hate him, I'd rather the American people were taken care of. 

Just challenging every liberal piety doesn't make sense. The death penalty in DC, sure he can suggest his DA go for that, but there are laws and judges. Anyway, the death penalty doesn't save money and doesn't go back in time and prevent things that happened, or strike at the roots of the causes of the pathologies. It's cosmetic like everything he, I can't use the verb "does" because he breaks and repairs, he's not doing anything. He's pushing his white supremacist agendas by firing as many minorities as he can, and tries to fire people he can't fire. 

He runs his grifts and enriches his family--I've heard two idiots say it's no more than Obama did, and that's just plain wrong. The people who think all politicians are corrupt, and can't see the difference between Obama and Trump, well, that's just stupid. Obama is enriched by his salary and book publishing, and investments. Trump is running grifts and all sorts of corruption schemes, there's quite a difference of both how and how much he's enriching himself. The crypto-currency hides part of his corruption, we can only guess at. Even so, he's by order quite significantly different in how and how much he's enriching himself. 

JFK Jr. trying to get an academic journal article unpublished is the height of denial of reality. 

There are so many double standards. Biden was too old, but Trump isn't? Inflation was crazy after Covid, but it's also crazy now, and it's OK? We're going into recession, Biden was so much better for the economy. It's the sadistic vote, the I'd rather not have one kid taking advantage of a free lunch than 99 starving crowd, fantasizing they were rich enough to get a tax break, meanwhile actually getting a tax hike, and the government going deeper into debt so that every dollar we put in, isn't as worth much, because it's all just paying off debt from thieves who sabotage the government. 

Reddit has a list of 19 reasons for impeachment.

Quick blurb

Someone complained about r/USHistory was too negative. Here is my response:

One of the things about trying to be a better nation is that you really look at things, and when you look closely, you see a lot of things that could be improved. To me, pride in America is about trying to improve America and not just superficial self esteem boosts and participation trophies. Let's get this democracy working, let's do a good job for all Americans. If you're a white supremacist, you want a rigged system, that's what the roll back of DEI, and the firing of black and women generals in the military. Asking Texas to find 5 more senators isn't an American thing, the way you win seats is to be a popular president, but he's tanking in popularity as the economy tanks, and he knows he's going to be in trouble. If you really want to get chaos down, send troops into cities where there's high homicide rates, not DC. There's ways of doing things, and then there's ways of wrecking up the place, and just grifting protection scams. America was an amazing country from 1776-2025, but we've lost American exceptionalism by abandoning the rule of law by siding with Russia against Ukraine. The loss of the middle class is horrible, I mean there's very little to be proud of America about right now, unless you're a hate filled racist, who wants to wreck up the government because you don't like government--but he's not lowering taxes on anyone except the ultra rich. It's really quite a horrible day in America, and if you think things are going really well, then what can I say, you're not really into the vision of America, maybe you would like Italian fascism, Franco in Spain, or other chaotic violent right wing regimes, which is terrible for the people and the economy. America has been hoodwinked on many levels. 

Course if I wrote that it would be downvoted, and I remove downvoted posts quickly, so I'm not even going to post it.

Listening to Heather Cox Richardson on Katie Couric's substack, and I'm all cranked up. 

I get the point about negative load, they even talk about it, like you know you can't keep up with the onslaught of atrocity and wrongs. It's information blasting, a gish gallop. 

Toying with the idea of studying persuasive rhetoric, giving it an informal practice. 

The conservative mind & gerrymandering

I think the conservative mind literally wants to kill complications, counterexamples to their theories and vision, hatred for the liberal imagination, and sees the freedom to murder kids accidentally in gun ownership as a right, while others rights don't exist. Like the right to a medically necessary abortion to save the mother's life, maybe a woman who malfunctions like that as a breeder doesn't deserve to live. Maybe marginal cases just should be erased easily.

If Texas gerrymanders, California and New York are talking about fighting back. Fighting all the time, just escalates, there are two wings that balance each other out, in a democracy, but in fascism, authoritarianism, Trumpism, you try to win at all costs, and are particular about not seeing the larger checks and balances. 

When you cheat to win, it means you don't think you can win with the regular rules. That's not really the democratic spirit. Until Trump, America was a democracy. 

My approach to Trump is as follows. Read he's showing charts to disprove the economy isn't tanking. So he's trying to quell panic, so that he has power a little longer. He sees his horizon of good will shrinking from the base. The economy tanking will erase his base.