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American Dilemma America in the age of Trump

08/26/2026

♤♤♤ AD ♤♤♤ Abdul El-Sayed vs. Jesse Watters

Abdul El-Sayed went on Fox News and was interviewed by Jesse Watters, and of course, Watters tried to ambush him--without warning of course.

Watters only wanted to talk about culture war stuff, but El Sayed admonished bim for that and claimed that Watters only wanted to distract him from concentrating on Trump's poor handling of almost every aspect of his stewardship of this country.

Jesse Watters wanted to trap El-Sayed into talking about immigration enforcement or trans boys in sport because conservatives cannot defend Trump's war of choice, his horrible economy, or the Epstein files, so they try to distract constantly from the fact thst Donald Trump did the old bait and switch, failing to honor his promises to end others,' wars while not starting his own wars, ending high prices, and not taking funding away health care.

So Watters hammered away at Abdul El-Sayed, baiting him, talking over him, and trying to make him lose his composure on air, but El-Sayed did not get angry, nor flustered.

Repeat Trump and Republican malarkey talking points, and be obnoxious and overbearing while trying to destroy the liberal opponent he is interviewing--that is what blowhard Jesse Watters js paid to do by Rupert Murdock.

It was a pointless interview, really, because Watters would never shut up, so El Sayed could not get a lot of his points across.

What he did accomplish is show that he will go deep into enemy.territory and put his head into the mouth of the lion to stick up for us, without flinching or losing his head..

Americans are looking for candidates who can and will do that and that is something that liberal people need to see in the candidates they vote for.

08/25/2026

♤♤♤ AD ♤♤♤ Jon Ossoff Tells on Natalie Harp

Jon Ossoff has picked up the torch Gavin Newsom apparently put down and in this clip he deftly stokes his constituents' furor and outrage with every syllable he speaks. He recites many of Trump's bad decision and pokes fun at his laziness and inabilty to stay awake in important meetings.

Making fun of Trump is easy pickings, but it takes a superior orator to weave it all togrther and deliver his barbs with perfect timing.

Ossoff spoke about Trump not wanting to do his job becsuse he would rather play golf or trade stocks. He.is unable to be a good commander-in-chief as illustrated by his gargantuan falure in Iran.

But Trump is inclined to spend time with young blonde Natalie Harp, who is always giving flattering things for him to read, and accompanies him everywhere annd has become a vulnerability. That is the reason that Trump and his lackies verbally attacked Ossoff for several days and displayed fake outrage when that occursbce mentioned.

The Trump administration is flailing now as the number of serious problems that Trump has caused are multiplying, not being reduced.

We must now deal with the negative aspects of his presidency that we all have to put up with.

1. He started an endless war, and used very poor strategy, not rallying allies to help us, and not recognizing the danger to our nearby military bases, or the fact that Iran might close the Strait of Hormuz. Now he can't end it, because he can't admit he lost.

2. Immigration enforcement has become another incredibly evil thing, as agents are ki*lling Americans and ICE is still attacking people in public places and abusing their civil rights--ICE is not going after the worst of the worst, and is now using their electric gloves to terrorize people even more.

3. The tariffs are making people miserable and purposely being used against our allies. Right now our biggest trading partner is Canada, and Trump applied a new 50% tariff on Canadian imports . Canada will retaliate with tariffs of equal magnitude to the ones Trump used.

4. The Big Ugly Bill has taken away so much Medicare Medicaid, and SNAP--which had helped millions survive--but Trump an Republican-led leadership got the bill passed, and then celebrated.

Trump has purposely made life more difficult here, and much more expensive, so we should blame him for that. Tariffs, ICE. BUB and the Iran War have cost Americans billions of dollars in money better used to help Americans. But Trump wants to help himself and everybody else just has to wait.

08/25/2026

♤♤♤ AD ♤♤♤ Trump Gets Owned by Doug Ford

Ontario Premier Doug Ford had a lot tp say about the 50% tariffs, which went into effect on August 22nd and will affect future prices on alcoholic beverages; rereational items like hockey equipment, fishing rods, and swimming pools; building materials, food items, and some clothing.

Canada will iniate retaliatory tariffs on September 8th that will match the US's duties dollar for dollar, and will affect prices on steel and aluminum, some dairy products, some electronics; some appliances and equipment, which includes household appliances and farm mahcinery, as well as paper.

Mark Carney said every agrement with Donald Trump might as well be signed with a pencil becsuse Trump alway breaks agreements he makes if he suspects he can get a better deal by bullying the opposing side.

Doug Ford, the Premier of Ontario, went further after Trump inotiating his 50% tariffs, noting that Trump is a "dictator" and the king of bankruptcies."

After Trump responded on Truth Social, caling him a blustering "flunky," Ford responded and went further, noting that, "I've dealt with guys like you my whole life, and guess what, theyare all losers; you're a loser"

Donald Trump uses tariffs to gain leverage, always trying to win the deal, even with allies.

He will always break an agreement, even one he made, to gain leverage, so he can use the power of the US government to bully trade partners into signing agreements unfavorable to them. But Canada will not play that game anymore.

Enduring more price hikes is bad enough, but what happens if Canada decides to increase trade with China, and trade a lot less with the US to avoid having to negotiate with the aimless and tyrannical Donald Trump? Who will buy all those things we are producing that Canads used to buy, but will likely stop buying because they can get them cheaper from China.

Donald Trump's new tariffs will hurt everyone but him, and that is always the litmus test for his actions.

Simply said, Trump will always do something that benefits him even if is harmful to us. He just doesn't care.

08/24/2026

♤♤♤ AD ♤♤♤ Grand Prix Temerity

They started their engines around 1 pm yesterday, and after Trump waved his flag., off they went, 15 participants driving Indycars. and selected after qualifying runs the day before.

The Freedom 250 Grand Prix was held in Washington DC and it is the first IndyCar road race there in history. The track used ran around the Whitehouse 147 times, and these powerful reached speeds up to 165 miles per hour when on the straightaways on Pennsylvania Avenue and Independence Avenue, but had to negotiate 2 tight turns when turning off Pennsylvania Avenue and when turning onto Independence Ave.

The race took almost 3 hous to go 250 miles and was won by Kyle Kirkwood, a Florida native, and he talked about how excited he was the night before the race. It is estimated thar the attendance of spectators was around 150,000, because there are many fans of Indycar races, and the opportunity to see one for free was something many could not pass up.

According to Trump this was paid for completely by IndyCar, so the funding supposedly did not come from Freedom 250 or other public money.

After the race Donald Trump took a victory lap, although we have no idea what he thinks he won. This was another event that was supposedly for the people even though Trump is a big fan of professional racing as well as pro wrestling, but at least a lot of people got to enjoy something he created.

The Whitehouse insists that all laws and statutes were adhered to when preparing for the race, but it is hard to believe him. At the very least he is likely schmoozing with Indycar executives, asking for money for favors, or demanding it with threats. That is who he is.

08/23/2026

♤♤♤ AD ♤♤♤ Elon Musk: Release Derrick Chauvin

Elon Musk is showing us what a bigoted charlatan he is by advocating for the vacating of Derrick Chauvin's 22-year sentence for the mür*der of George Floyd in 2019.

Maybe he didn't see the phone video of Chauvin's grisly actions, sitting on a man's neck for more than 8 minutes for no earthly reason; yeah, right, and maybe he really didn't know what USAID did when he blithely eliminated it, resulting in more than 750,000 de*aths worldwide, which will balloon to many millions in the coming years.

Of course he knew, and he is still running Twitter into the ground by encouraging and participating in squalid and hateful disussions with those who enjoy a white supremacist forum where bigotry reigns and inciting violence is encouraged.

This repulsive man is going to contribute millions to Republicans' campaigns in the coming months to assure that he still gets preferential treatment for government contracts and free reign to destroy communities with his irresponsible resource-hogging and illegally-polluting data centers.

We must challenge Democratic legislators to bring charges against Musk for his actions during DOGE's pillage and plunder. They saved nothing, found fraud that actually wasn't, and stole millions of American citizens' personal data.

Where is the indictment?

08/23/2026

♤♤♤ AD ♤♤♤ Scott Bessent: We Don't Need to Produce as Many Jobs

The Trump administration is trying to explain away their colossal failure running this country by using more gaslighting.

According to Trump's Treasury Secretary, who has become the official Trump apologist, we don't need to produce more jobs because Trump's immigration enforcement and southern border closure has reduced the need for more employment opportunities, so we should not be concerned.

Really? How does that work Mr. Bessent? Over 675,000 migrants have been deported according to government estimates, with over 2 million self deportations since Trump took office for his second term.

We must suppose that all the jobs the departed immigrants made available by leaving were eagerly taken by Americans who just love to detassle corn, pick fruit, pack meat, dig ditches. clean toilets or work in the hospitality industry.

Make no mistake, every honest wage-earning job is an honorable vocation that one can be proud of it, but the fact is most Americans won't willingly take these jobs. It is also true that many of the jobs that immigrants left were higher paying and more desirable. So, perhaps Bessent's theory is that we don't need new jobs because so many Americans grabbed those jobs that no new jobs are needed.

The problem with his logic is that an American citizen taking a deported immigrant's job is one job gained and one lost, for a net gain of zero jobs.

The simple fact is that if no new jobs are created, but actually lost, the economy is shrinking, and Bessent can't obfuscate that with mindless gobbledygook.

What else does this sycophantic fool have for us? How about his attempt to minimize the importance of the $40 trillion national debt on which the yearly interest due is $2 trillion.

Bessent says we "can grow our way out of that," but doesn't the economy actually have to be growing for that to happen? If we are losing jobs our economy is not growing.

These lying and gaslighting criminals are trying to pull the wool over our eyes with one hand while they take money out of our pockets with the other.

Oh, and how can this buffoon claim that he doesn't understand why oil prices are going up? Geeze.

08/23/2026

♤♤♤ AD ♤♤♤ MAGA Humor

Donald Trump does not understand and nobody has ever seen a time when he made or heard a joke that he enjoyed and laughed at that was not hurtful to somebody--the man has no sense of humor at all.

But MAGA comedians highlight some of his worst behaviour to the delight of stidio audiences who are happy to see gay people, especially trans people, lauged at and derided, because of the permission structure that our odious chief executive has created.

Trump has a.16-year-old lifeguard hero who saved a boy from drowning, at the Whitehouse and Trump admits he wouldn't have done it----

We knew that already, that Donald Trump is no hero:

He wouldn't serve in the military because he claimed he had bone spurs.

He can't face the reality that he has made mistakes and never admits shortcomings, which is why he can't admit he lost reelection in 2020.

He can't negotiate peace treaties in the case of Russia vs Ukraine because he can't say no to Vladimir Putin, as he is scared of defying the man he idolizes.

He can't end the war in Iran because he cannot admit that he lost it, which is why we keep hearing his lies about how the US controls the Strait of Hormuz and threatens Iran endlessly while they ihnore him and offer one-sided peace treaties because they know they have us over a barrel .

Donald Trump is a man ruled by fear that people will realize that he is actually a failure at almost everything he has ever done, if you just look at the real facts.

The facts are that our Dear Leader has an approval rating of 30%, because not only has he failed to live up to his promises, he is laughing it up about the pain he has visited upon the American people, and attending to what he WANTS, as oposed to what we NEED.

People enjoy Trump admitting he is a coward, because he tells the truth at the strangest times. Peopl crave watching our President confess his complete lack of courage on video for all to see. It is really an infomercial about who this man is and an open question to those who keep voting for him about why they kept doing it.

Everybody wants a President who gets things done but if he doesn't but provides material for liberal and conservative comedians alike what does that mean?

Obviously Donald Trump is a joke but his material is getting really stale. His Presidency should be cancelled like any failing show. His 30% poll rating says it all--7 people out of 10 people want his failing term eneded. But will those 7 people actually vote to defuse theis regime in November?

08/22/2026

♤♤♤ AD ♤♤♤ Trump, Vance and Their Circus of Lies

Donald Trump was in South Carolina yesterday campaigning for Darlene Graham after her disastrous debate against her opponent in which she was unable to answer a national security question, admitting it was something she knows nothing about, which is not good for an individual who wants to win an election in South Carolina, a state with a high population of veterans.

Trump excused her
ignorance, saying she knew about affordabilty, as if that is all she needs to know to be an excellent Senator for South Carolina.

Of course that is not all he talked about, and the unlucky audience got the full litany of his favorite topics, which yesterday included the ballroon and the helipad, but also talked some about affordabilty, making the claim of how it is getting better, and how horrible the economy was when he took office, which is obviously untrue.

Trump repeated his claim that the US controls the Strait of Hormuz, which is strange when very few ships are getting through and Iran attacks them anytime they please.

He talked about his love of tariffs right after he implemented 50% tariffs on Canada a couple of days ago. "It made us rich as hell," he exclaimed, referring to the tariffs, and it certainly put a lot of money into the treasury, but it all came from us, and he has the unmitigated gall to talk to his rally-goers as if it isn't hurting them too.

He thinks people are so stupid that he can convince them their lives are better when many are having to pay bills with credit cards and some weeks they have to choose between buying food or putting gas in their cars. People are suffering and Trump is acting like things are just dandy.

Vance was campaiging to steel mill enployees 9in his home state of Ohio, and he was every bit as mealymouthed as his boss, and talked quite a lot about how horrid the Democrats are, and how they have caused all the problems we are experiencing despite the fact that the Republicans have had full control of the government for 20 months now.

It was a non-stop BSfest with Vance claiming that young people can once again buy a home easily despite the fact that nothing has changed much on that front. He also claimed that Democrats do all the things that we know Republicans practics, like putting criminals into office and supporting companies moving theur business overseas.

He screwed up badly trying to talk about corruption in the government, because there is so much wrongdoing and criminal activity in the Trump administration that talking about that is laughable when Donald Trump is arguably the most corrupt President in history.

Trump and Vance campaigning about their economic policies as if the Trump economy is on its way to greatness will not work when people are reminded every day that they are much worse off after 20 months of Trump's tariffs, radical immigration enforcememt, and now a stupid war.

Things are much worse now, and it is likely to get worse still aftrer the new tariffs, and lack of productive negotiation between the US and Iran.

The only solution is Trump losing full control of the government, something we will likely accomplish this November. Keep your fingers crossed.

08/20/2026

♤♤♤ AD ♤♤♤ Trump's Crypto Clarity Act a License for More Corruption

Donald Trump claimed cryptocurrency was a scam before he realized he could profit from it too. Last year he used his meme coin to scam his own supporters of over $600 million.

So of course he likes it now, and yesterday he met with a number of crypto execs to schmooze and discuss the impending regulatory legislation that has already passed the House of Representatives, the Clarity Act, which, according to Congressman Maxwell Frost (D-FL), does nothing to keep congressmen from exploiting the industry, as he rightly believes that those who make rules should not be involved in exploiting those rules.

This is exactly what Trump has done with his cryptocurrency transactions and crypto company Liberty Financial, and his meme coin, taking $635 million from investors, who could not take advantage because Trump was first in and the first one to sell off the coin, which quickly lost most of its value, so he pocketed the losses of secondary investors.

Frost talks about how Trump's upfront exploitation is corruption even though it is in broad daylight, and says that the Crypto Clarity Act does not regulate crypto enough because it allows public officials to continue to profit from it.

His other objections are the regulatory agencies chosen in the bill which do not the FTC (Federal Trade Commission), but instead the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission), and the CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission.) Using the FTC would be a more acceptable alternative.

Frost believes that Trump allowed crypto execs to be too involved in making regulatory rules for themselves. The rules for crypto should not be establisjed by those who profit from it.

The Clarity Act is just a means of providing permission to those in the federal government to continue their scamming ways, especially our Dear Leader. Hopefully the Senate does not pas it, because we all know Trump will sign it.

08/20/2026

♤♤♤ AD ♤♤♤ Trump's Corruption: Republicans Don't Care

Listen to these Republican stalwarts complain about the totally pedestrian actions of Hunter Biden and acting like the Burisma controversey is anything like what is happening now with the Trump crime family.

Hunter Biden was pilloried by the Republican party for supposed corruption while serving on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company. Investigations found nothing, but the Republicans managed to get Hunter Biden convicted of gun and tax violations that nobody else would have been charged with: it was what Trump would have called a witch hunt--Hunter Biden was charged and convicted because they were after the President and Joe Biden was very careful to avoid putting his finger on the scales for his son, even though the whole process was obviously overreach by Republicans seeking to bring Joe Biden down.

Now we see that Donald Trump being the most corrupt President in history is not something the hypocritical Republican party has anything to say about.

You see key GOP scumbags in the video unwilling to say anything about the Trump crime family's corruption and self-dealing.

Hunter Biden was found guilty of NOTHING pertaining to Burisma, and Trump and his family have stolen billions via cryptocurrency scams, no-bid contracts, and Trump's pay-for-play bribes with multiple companies as they seek to avoid tariffs or Trump's wrath about past criticism.

It goes on and on with these useless Republican congressmen who will not hold Trump accountable for anything.

Jim Jordan, Ted Cruz, Lauren Boebert, and Derrick Van Orden, these losers nearly had apoplectic attacks in their performative outrage over Hunter Biden's imagined wrongdoing, while Trump is taking billions from American taxpayers while Republicans sit on their hands.

These hypocrites need to be thrown out of Congress, another reason we need to win decisively in the midterms.

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