So, to bring those among us who are low information citizens up to date; just as The Donald informed us would be the case before the election; that he would be dictator on day one, of course he made many other promises about what would happen on day one; ending several wars, causing the price of eggs and gasoline to suddenly plummet, etc.; all very far-fetched ideas that only a complete sucker would have put any stock in. But now, after over a hundred days of his misrule, the one thing that can be clearly determined about this governance is that we have made a transition from a democracy (however flawed) into a full on, totally corrupt, unapologetic, kleptocratic oligopoly, where the filthy rich, many of whom became so with massive government subsidies, rule ruthlessly over the rest of us without even pretending to give a damn what the overwhelming majority of us would like to see their government doing with their tax monies.
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, whose company, Tesla, was built with massive federal subsidies, was able, thanks to the bizarre Citizens United Scotus decision, which basically says that we are no longer living under the rule of one person, one vote, but now, more like one dollar, one vote, while not eligible to run for president, was able to basically purchase what seems to be a co-presidency for what was, to him, pocket change; 275 million or so, a rounding error for what he had just paid for Twitter.
The smug arrogance of this guy knows no bounds; I could hardly believe it when I read that he had said that the greatest US weakness was empathy! I don’t think that even Heinrich Himmler was ever quoted saying something so bereft of the universal, essential, human quality of care about one’s fellow man.
As if to illustrate for all the full depth of his complete nullity of this most basic trait of civilized life, the first thing I remember him doing once he and his brownshirted tech bros took a meat axe to federal spending, was to abruptly end USAID, which was providing lifesaving food aid worldwide! There is something particularly sickening about the richest man in the world condemning millions of the poorest people on the planet to death by starvation, even though we were, and have been for generations, set up to provide this vital food aid to the least fortunate amongst humanity; to the millions of those who, through no fault of their own, were born into lands where their traditional indigenous farming is suddenly no longer viable, most often due to climate change.
Trump pulled this incredibly coldhearted, skinflint, kind of nasty, murderous niggardliness against those with the least, during the first term of his misrule, always with the stated intention of saving money so that it could be given as tax breaks to those few at the apex of society who already have more money than they know what to do with.
While this resulted in perhaps millions of deaths by starvation (something of absolutely no concern to Trump and his cohort) it also ruined the many farmers across the country who grew crops for the specialized food relief system managed by USAID. Idiotically, many of these farmers probably voted for this fool, who, after ruining their livelihoods, came to their aid with the US taxpayer’s checkbook, doling out billions to replace the lost income that they would have made growing such crops as Milo, for which there is no domestic market.
So, the taxpayer first saves some money by letting starving people die all over the world, but probably ends up spending even more than they had saved in bailing out the farmers. Another typical Trump lose lose proposition. The art of the deal, indeed. BAD freaking deal, all around.
And what about this idea of stopping wars? Just as every national government that has ruled this country over many decades, Trump’s administration will curtsy and genuflect to the horrific genocidal madness of Israel with its present psycho leader Netanyahu, who is faced with a choice of either continuing his genocidal assault on the Palestinian people or going to prison for his epic levels of corruption. The reportage of the slaughter going on there is sickening in its distractions from the fact that, no, the Israelis have not killed only 56,000 men women and children, but that that is the number of those bodies of the dead who have been officially processed by the completely destroyed Gaza medical system; there may be that many again yet to be recovered in the collapsed buildings that Israel has created where millions of people use to live, in however difficult circumstances.
The idea that Trump would get out there and talk about Gaza as a real estate development project (once we kill or move all the Palestinian inhabitants there) tells you all have to know about the amoral mercantile rip off being run by the world’s most infamous scam artist.
Perhaps one of the most depressing aspects of this whole mess is the completely neutered, putatively coequal judicial branch of the government. You know that you are dipping into dictatorial rule when the highest court in the land unanimously lays down the law that the poor people rounded up by ICE agents,(their criterion for guilt being basically people’s tattoos etc.), MUST have some semblance of due process and the rule of law before they can be dragooned into some faraway country’s dungeons. What recourse is there when an arrogant regime simply refuses to stop the dungeon-bound planes, to return them to their departures airports per court order? It’s a constitutional crisis!
The image of Kristi Noem, who established early on her bona fides on cruelty by shooting to death her 10 month old dog because she had not been able to train it to hunt yet, sporting her $50,000 Rolex watch in front of the cage full of recently shaved- head tattood gentlemen, the common element of which was their bodies being festooned with tattoos, much like our head of the DOD, Pete Hegseth, whose body is a poster board of white Christian nationalist tats. Sheesh! Is the Islamic world being paranoid about the choice of powerful individuals in the Trump White House? And are we, at Israel’s behest, making war on the entire Islamic world for Zionism? Clearly the US government has been completely taken over by white supremacist Christian nationalist nut cases who are now running the asylum!
For this and other columns; inarationalworld2.blogspot.com/2025/05/trumponomics.html
John Arteaga is a Ukiah resident.
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