Leadership Matters

06/20/2025

After the Obama administration stabilized the U.S. economy, (despite monumental efforts to obstruct a “Main Street” bailout by Mitch McConnell and the GOP complaining of the debt ceiling (yes, the same debt ceiling the GOP now seeks to raise by $5 trillion to make room for tax cuts for their wealthy donors) voters grew tired of an experienced statesman leading and governing the United States and thought it was time for a carnival barker and failed businessman, Donald J. Trump. Trump immediately went to work even prior to his inauguration by undermining the Obama administration’s sanctions on Putin and Russia for violating the territorial integrity of Ukraine by annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region and Putin’s state-sponsored interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.

Despite two impeachments, thorough investigations providing evidence of Trump campaign coordination with Putin and Russian oligarchs, the attempted extortion of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and multiple indictments leading to conviction on 34 felony counts, one-third of U.S. voters thought another Trump crime wave would “Make America Great Again” and one-third of the voting population could not determine the difference between a highly-qualified public servant and a criminally corrupt carnival barker, or couldn’t be bothered to vote, Trump was elected President in the 2024 election cycle.

The criminal elect, feeling vindicated by the immunity “for official acts” decision rendered by the Supremely Corrupted Court of the United States, as well as a clear mandate -having received a few more votes than his qualified opponent has started his second major crime wave in the United States with renewed energy and aplomb.

While using the 900+ pages of Project 2025, Heritage Foundation’s all-out plan to destroy federal government and democracy in the United States (something the criminal elect denied any knowledge), he has been fast in extending tax cuts for his wealthy donors, reversing vital climate action, destroying policies protecting against discrimination, eviscerating Women’s rights and LGBTQ+ rights, launching economic attacks on important U.S. trade partners, authorizing kidnappings and trafficking of immigrants, refugees, and in some cases citizens and legal residents, ignoring court orders, authorizing the intimidation and arrests of political opponents, inciting political violence which thus far has led to multiple shootings and murder, and inviting a major donor to create a team of people to gain access to previously secure private healthcare, banking, financial, and other sensitive data about U.S. citizens.

As of this writing, Trump is now deploying U.S. Marines, a formidable and lethal armed service into Los Angeles because it’s not only good political theater, but California is a “Blue” state and the Governor has not pledged absolute fealty to the criminal elect. There is an array of other immoral, illegal, and/or unconstitutional actions committed by this so-called President, but that would require far more data center storage for the rest of the article (similar to the actions of Reagan such as Iran/Contra).

Trump, the criminal elect, is the demented volatile, corrupt, ignorant, narcissistic racist who has the sole authority to authorize a nuclear strike. But hey, “liberal tears” are worth it, even if we lose access to healthcare, shoot a few people “Kent State”-style, cuddle with murderous tyrants, kidnap and disappear people from schools, streets, and workplaces across the United States using secret police, and finally retire those woke bastards: Ernie, Big Bird, and the Cookie Monster, and/or destroy life on Earth via nuclear war and the subsequent nuclear winter.