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The Endless Betrayals By Donald Trump.

It seems like only yesterday when Donald Trump won the 2024 election in a major victory against his intellectually challenged opponent, Kamala Harris. Granted, Harris was probably the weakest candidate the Democrats could have forced upon us, but after four years of disastrous policies, assorted scandals, and mumbled speeches that made no sense, voters in America were desperate for change. They were desperate enough to give Trump another chance to "Make America Great Again", having failed at it horribly the first time around.

I clearly remember Trump's first term. I remember making excuses for him as promises went unkept. Like many others, I blamed the Democrats for sabotaging the MAGA agenda. There's no doubt that endless investigations and two impeachments interfered with Trump's ability to focus on what his supporters expected him to focus on. But as time went by, I began to wonder if there was more to it. On some things, it seemed as if Trump was purposely derailing progress while his most loyal fans in the alternative media claimed that it wasn't Trump's fault but rather the fault of the people he was hiring. We were led to believe that the most powerful man in the world couldn't make a good hiring decision, and then couldn't correct that decision when things went wrong. Eventually the narrative shifted even more and the alt media tried to convince us that nothing was Trump's fault. He was becoming our orange messiah, and to question him or his failures became a sacrilegious act.

By mid 2020, I still had doubts about Trump's authenticity and abilities, but compared to Joe Biden, the choice at the ballot box was easy. I felt that with Trump at least we had a chance of moving forward. With Biden, we faced four years of left-leaning incompetence (and that's exactly what we got).

After hearing several of Trump's speeches and interviews between 2020 and 2024, I became even more concerned him. His positions were changing, and his demeanor was hardening. As election day neared, I agonized over what I should do. Voting for Harris was out of the question, but could I vote for Trump again? After much thought and meditation, my conscience wouldn't let me vote for either candidate. I had reached the point where choosing the lesser of two evils was no longer an option. I stayed home on election day, and eight months later I don't regret it all.

Why? Because Donald Trump has betrayed us. In his first months in office, he has made several decisions that are the opposite of what he promised to do. It feels as if one man was elected but another man occupies the White House. Trump has taken actions that put Americans at risk, places the interests of foreign nations ahead of our own, reduces our freedom, interferes with justice, and denigrates the pain experienced by victims of child trafficking and rape.

Mr Trump has revealed his true nature, and it has nothing to do with "Making America Great Again". Let's take a look at his worst offenses:

In 2020 during the COVID psychological operation disguised as a pandemic, President Trump announced vaccines based on new mRNA technology would be fast-tracked through development so we could all get jabbed and our lives could go back to normal. What he didn't tell us is that the vaccines he was talking about had been created by the Department of Defense long before the pandemic was announced. In fact, they were created before anyone in the world was publicly talking about COVID at all. According to pharmaceutical company whistleblowers, Pfizer and Moderna manufactured the vaccines under contract from the DoD, and they had full immunity from liability in the event the jabs injured or killed people.

Unfortunately, the vaccines injured and killed a lot of people. Some researchers estimate millions worldwide have died from COVID vaccine injuries, and many more have chronic illnesses or disabilities. But Trump doesn't seem to care. In fact, he has bragged about his involvement with the vaccine's creation and has repeatedly said they are great products, while failing to acknowledge the pain, suffering, and deaths they have caused.

In December 2021 Trump said, "I came up with a vaccine, with three vaccines, all are very, very good," referring to the Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson shots. (J&J eventually ended production) But Trump didn't come up with anything. He was nothing but the salesman, the huckster who convinced us to let an untested potion be injected into our arms.

And in January 2023, he said, "Some reports [say] that it's the greatest thing that's ever happened and we saved tens of millions of lives. Then you'll read other reports [that] say there were some problems with the vaccine...but relatively small numbers. Without the vaccines you would have had a thing...where perhaps 100 million people died."

That entire statement is a lie. There is no proof the vaccines saved "tens of millions of lives", and the "problems" were not "relatively small numbers". The problems were huge, and continue to this day. There's also no proof that 100 million people would have died had the vaccines not been available. In fact, we now know that the majority of the deaths blamed on COVID were due to dangerous hospital protocols mandated by Anthony Fauci's NIH. And even five years later, the virus said to cause COVID, SARS-Cov-2, has still not been isolated and proven to actually exist other than as a computer model. The public has essentially been taking risky injections to protect them from an imaginary virus.

Despite what we now know, Donald Trump still stands by "his" vaccines. And now in his second term, his toxic jabs are still on the market, causing more harm and ending far too many lives.

Trump apparently feels no remorse.

On January 6, 2020, a massive "election fraud" protest was held in Washington DC. Trump told his followers to meet him at the Capitol, and they did. Trump, however, stayed in the White House. Thousands of people gathered at the Capitol, and the crowd was intentionally agitated by both FBI agents and members of ANTIFA dressed in civilian clothes, many wearing red MAGA hats. The protesters were urged to enter the building. Videos show Capitol Police officers opening doors for some of the protesters and even giving some people tours. But as often happens with large crowds, violence broke out and some people were hurt. The corrupt news media, which is basically the propaganda arm of government intelligence agencies, reported to the world that an "insurrection" had taken place and that everyone involved must be arrested. Over the next four years, the Biden administration went on a witch hunt and rounded up 1575 people who were arrested and sent to a federal gulag with inhumane conditions. Those arrested spent years in damp jail cells, often in solitary confinement, while awaiting their trials. Many were beaten and tortured by federal prison guards. It was absolutely shameful how the prisoners were treated, and American leftists cheered it on.

But how is January 6 a betrayal by Donald Trump?

He could have preemptively pardoned everyone present at the protest before any formal charges were even filed. These were his people, his supporters. They were in DC that day because Trump asked them to come. And when things went wrong, he turned his back on all of them and left town for Mar-a-Lago, his presidency over.

To his credit, once back in office he did issue pardons to all those still imprisoned, but by then, many were emotionally damaged and some had committed suicide.

On Saturday, June 21 2025, Donald Trump ordered the illegal bombing of a sovereign nation that the United States was not at war with. The mission, dubbed "Operation Midnight Hammer," involved attacks on three of Iran's nuclear research sites. Trump had made wild claims, apparently based on false information from Israel's government, that Iran was close to possessing nuclear bombs that would soon be used against the Zionist nation. Israel's leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been making dishonest claims about Iran's nuclear program for decades, and Trump decided to believe those claims over the intel coming from his own team.

The attack on Iran could have easily led to a major regional conflict if not World War 3, but Trump didn't seem concerned about it at all. And if the "bunker buster" bombs used against two of the research sites had been successful, a massive radiation leak could have been the tragic result. But again, Trump didn't seem concerned at all. Luckily for us, the leaders of Iran are more level-headed and restrained than either Netanyahu or Trump, so war was averted.

The main job of the president is to protect us from harm. Trump's reckless actions in Iran put all of us at risk, and his ongoing support of the genocide in Gaza dramatically increases the terror threat within the United States. But Trump seems more concerned with the safety of Israel than of his own country. This is a major betrayal of our trust, but the worst is still to come.

As working-class Americans struggle with rising food prices and unaffordable housing costs, in addition to taxes and endless government fees, Trump has delivered - to Israel. In an apparent bait and switch maneuver, MAGA has turned into MIGA: Make Israel Great Again. A shockingly high percentage of Trump's efforts in his second term has been dedicated to Israel. He has endorsed censorship of speech that criticizes Israel, and has even threatened to deport US citizens who dare to speak up about Israel's immoral genocide in Gaza. He has continued to send weapons to Israel to help keep the genocide going. And he's sent cash - a lot of cash - that could have been better used right here in the United States. There doesn't seem to be a limit to what he's willing to do for Israel, which could be related to the millions of dollars he's accepted from Zionist Miriam Adelson and The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). It's a "pay for play" White House now, and if you don't have big money to buy influence, you simply don't matter.

AIPAC has given $230,473,622 to Donald Trump according to Track AIPAC.

One of Trump's campaign promises was to bring Robert F Kennedy Jr into his cabinet to launch the "MAHA" (Make America Healthy Again) initiative. Those of us who had followed Kennedy's work at Children's Health Defense were expecting huge changes in the way the government handled health issues, even with Trump's horrific history of pushing the COVID "vaccines". It didn't take long for disappointment to set in. The majority of what Kennedy has been able to accomplish involves getting synthetic dyes out of processed foods and shaking up the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) at the CDC. But by his own admission the goal of restaffing the committee was to restore "public trust in vaccines", not to reveal how useless and dangerous they are. 

We're still living with the PREP (Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness) act declaration for COVID-19, which gives liability protections for certain COVID countermeasure activities through 2029. Kennedy could end it immediately if he wanted to, or perhaps I should say, if he was allowed to by his boss. But it remains in place for the benefit of Big Pharma and to the detriment of everyone else. A new COVID vaccine from Moderna, "Spikevax" has just been approved for children despite them being at little to no risk from COVID and despite the well-documented dangers associated with all COVID vaccines. These injections have been the most dangerous medical interventions the world has ever seen, but with Trump in the White House, there's little chance the death jabs will be going away.

I don't place all the blame for the lack of progress at HHS and the CDC on Kennedy. I sincerely believe he had good intentions going in, but he's not being allowed to do his job.

But it's not just Kennedy. Today we learned that Trump's EPA is going to court to make sure the IQ-lowering neurotoxin, fluoride, remains in the drinking water of as many Americans as possible. When you combine this news with the disappointments of MAHA, we can't ignore that the man above it all is the president.

And finally, possibly the worst betrayal of all. After years of hearing about Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged empire of child trafficking and blackmail, we're now being told to forget about it. Books have been written about Epstein and how he was said to have video taped politicians and celebrities having sex with children, likely on behalf of the CIA and Mossad, to create "control files".

"A control file is a private record that contains secret information or pictures that are the basis of threatening and blackmailing a person. Control files are often used to command loyalty and obedience from the people who manage government, sit in the courts, lead enterprises and direct financial transactions." [source: Catherine Austin Fitts]

The evidence against Epstein is substantial, and it suggests that some of the most well-known and important people in the world had gotten caught up in his web of depravity. For years, Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr, and even J.D. Vance have talked about Epstein and how important it is that all the evidence be investigated and released to the public.

It was a big deal. It's STILL a big deal. If the allegations are true, then intelligence agencies run by the United States federal government and the Israeli government (and possibly others) were working with Epstein, a Mossad operative, to influence legislation and finances on a global scale. And hundreds if not thousands of children were molested or raped to keep the operation running.

But now, Trump is trying to bury the whole sordid affair. A Department of Justice investigation has strangely concluded that there are no Epstein files, there is no evidence. Trump has even bizarrely pushed the notion that it was all a hoax by Democrats and the left.

He recently said:

"Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?"

"This guy's been talked about for years. You're asking.… We have Texas, we have this, we have all of the things. And are people are still talking about this guy, this creep?" Trump asked. "That is unbelievable."

"I mean, I can't believe you're asking a question on Jeffrey Epstein," Trump continued. "At a time like this, where we're having some of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened in Texas. It just seems like a desecration."

“What’s going on with my ‘boys’ and, in some cases, ‘gals?’ They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB! We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening. We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and ‘selfish people’ are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. 

“For years, it’s Epstein, over and over again. Why are we giving publicity to Files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, Brennan, and the Losers and Criminals of the Biden Administration, who conned the World with the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, 51 ‘Intelligence’ Agents, THE LAPTOP FROM HELL,’ and more? They created the Epstein Files, just like they created the FAKE Hillary Clinton/Christopher Steele Dossier that they used on me, and now my so-called ‘friends’ are playing right into their hands,” Trump wrote in the post.

When the public didn't bow down to his bullying and rants, Trump became a bit unhinged and attacked his own MAGA base, saying that if you're still talking about Epstein, he no longer wants your support. He now calls this scandal the "Jeffrey Epstein Hoax", which is a tragic slap in the face of all the victims who have come forward to describe the abuse they suffered on Epstein Island being pimped out to royalty, members of Congress, and Hollywood elites.

"Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this "bullshit", hook, line, and sinker. They haven't learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years. I have had more success in 6 months than perhaps any President in our country's history, and all these people want to talk about...is the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax. Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don't even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don't want their support anymore!" -- Donald Trump

Trump has had a few successes in his second term, most notably being the closing of the southern border and the deportation of illegal immigrants. And cutting the size of the government is always a good thing. But he's also been an agent of chaos, continuing old wars, starting new wars, and flip-flopping on the tariffs. It often seems he's not even the same president that he was in his first term, like an actor playing a new role.

But the bottom line is, as this article has laid out, Donald Trump has betrayed us in the past and he continues to betray us now. The fact that he's done a few good things doesn't override the bad. The bad stuff he's done is really bad; immoral, actually. To ignore it and give him a pass is like saying a serial killer is a good guy because he does volunteer work when he isn't chopping up bodies.

Anyone who still supports Trump and makes excuses for his behavior is, at this point, complicit in his crimes and condoning immorality. If we are to survive as a nation, we must hold our elected officials and ourselves to a higher standard. What we're doing now is simply not sustainable.

Descent Into Madness.

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On Saturday, June 21 2025, President Donald J. Trump illegally bombed the sovereign nation of Iran in an unprovoked attack on locations Trump imagines houses research facilities for nuclear weapons. He did this on behalf of the rogue, Satanic nation of Israel, which previously launched its own illegal, unprovoked attacks on Iran on Friday, June 13, 2025. Iran has been retaliating against Israel ever since in an unsuccessful attempt to convince Israel to stop its daily bombing raids.

Where will this end? Iran has promised "measured actions" to protect itself from the Zionist-controlled United States federal government, and such actions could involve missile attacks on the many U.S. military bases in the Middle East. It could also include the closing of the Strait of Hormuz, a major shipping route that western nations rely on. A third of the world's liquefied natural gas and almost 25% of total global oil consumption passes through the strait. Closing the strait could possibly induce a global recession if it remained closed for more than a few weeks. If Trump or Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu then ramped up the war, it's possible other nations could be brought into the fight. Yemen is certain to ally with Iran, along with Pakistan and possibly Turkey and Iraq. Fighters aligned with Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza would also continue their efforts against Israel, putting Israel in the difficult position of fending off attacks on multiple fronts. It's also possible that China and Russia would provide backdoor aid to Iran in the form of weapons shipments.

Israel can't win this war without additional support from Trump. So what will he do next? It's hard to say, as he's unpredictable and obviously unstable, but it's a sure bet he will do whatever Israel wants him to do. Trump is owned by Israel, and some say he's being blackmailed by Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency that allegedly worked with Jeffrey Epstein to blackmail almost every influential politician in the United States and the United Kingdom. Trump will not do that which is moral, ethical, or in compliance with international law. He doesn't care about those things. He will do what he has to do to protect his wealth, his power, and his fragile ego. Only by submitting to Israel can those things be protected.

I'm not predicting World War 3 quite yet, although some analysts believe Israel's war against Iran is just a flashpoint of a global war we've already been in for a long time. But I do predict this war will become a lot uglier, a lot bloodier, and a lot more expensive, really fast.  Iran is not going to give up, nor should they. Israel started this mess and it's up to them to end it. The United States could help end it if would stop sending money and weapons to Israel, but of course that will never happen as long as our government remains under their control.

My biggest fear is that Israel will use its "Samson Option", which is their pledge to use nuclear weapons on Europe, the United States, Iran, or even on its own people if it feels sufficiently threatened and thinks its existence is at risk. With madman Netanyahu running the show, the Samson Option is a real possibility that we all need to stay aware of.

My hope is that the Israeli people become angry at the chaos Netanyahu has brought their country and they rise up and send him into exile, or better yet, to a work camp in Gaza.

And I also hope that God enters Donald Trump's heart and he begins to behave like the Christian he only pretends to be now.

Otherwise, he'll descend further into madness and take the rest of the world with him.

Revelations: May 26, 2025.

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Compromised sell-out Kristi Noem went to Israel to kiss some ass after the shooting deaths of two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C. (which many say was a false-flag event to bring in more laws governing "anti-semitism"). While in Israel, Noem visited the Western Wall, writing in the visitors' book that "Israel is the chosen people, and the United States stands by you." She also met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later on Sunday night, where Noem expressed "unwavering support for the Prime Minister and the State of Israel." Although American politicians have inexplicably supported Israel for decades (most likely due to blackmail and bribery), the Trump administration has taken it to insane new heights. I'm beginning to think that when Trump was saying "Make America Great Again", he meant he wants it be great for the Zionists who will soon dominate our nation, and he's willing to use censorship and the threat of arrests to make it happen.

After mentioning this on social media, I received a reply from Dave4691:

"Our cosmetically enhanced Secretary of DHS submitting to the Talmudic ritual of “praying” at a stone wall. How do Bible believing Christians not see the absurdness of this? Many believe this is part of a wall from the temple that existed when Jesus walked the earth. Jesus told us after he left the temple that NOT ONE STONE WOULD REMAIN STANDING! Did Jesus lie? Of course not. So what wall is she “praying” to? It is the wall of an old Roman fort….that's what it is.

This is why I worry about our future. The deception is so ingrained in most people they seem to be unable to see the world as it is. It is not that many miles from where she is pretending to honor our Creator, the people who manage this wall are starving children. The silence from churches on this equates to them being complicit."

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless."
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer 

Will Donald Trump send your children to die for Israel?

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From the Associated Press: "Chanting “Death to Arabs” and singing “May your village burn,” groups of young Israeli Jews made their way through Muslim neighborhoods of Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday during an annual march marking Israel’s conquest of the eastern part of the city."

A group of young Jewish Israelis followed a Palestinian woman through the streets, calling her “charmouta” — Arabic for “whore.”

Israel has become a nation of sociopaths, so far removed from anything divine that it's no surprise many call it "The Synagogue of Satan". Any group of people that willingly commits genocide, laughs at the death of children, and demands even more blood must be seen as a clear and present danger. Israel in not our ally and it never has been. Israel is deceiving us, extorting our politicians and draining our wealth to achieve its own selfish goals. And when we have nothing left to give them except our land, the next thing they'll be chanting is "Death to Americans. May your cities burn."

I was sent this image of a post by writer CJ Hopkins, no fan of Elon Musk. He writes, "You are reading these words on a communications platform owned and controlled by a US government operative and member of the Military Industrial Complex who "filters" the "visibility" of everything you see. It couldn't get any more Orwellian. Enjoy your "freedom".

I can relate to his feelings. After Musk bought Twitter, I had hoped free speech would return to the social media platform that was little more than an echo chamber for the radical left. I opened a new account and began unleashing some truth. I gently, but firmly, pushed back against the misinformation being vomited out by the few leftists who dared to stay as Twitter morphed into "X". I followed the rules. I was polite, but unwavering. And within two months my account was permanently suspended without an explanation. I appealed the decision. Musk's team ignored me. Later I tried to delete my account, but Twitter refused to let me, I'm guessing so they can retain my data for eternity. So yeah, it couldn't be more Orwellian as millions of people cheer the government operative who they imagine is giving them freedom.

A COVID memorial is being planned in Chicago Illinois with an unveiling set for 2026. I'm mentioning it because it's not the kind of memorial we really need. Instead of being a reminder of the multi-billion dollar psychological operation that world governments put us through, the Chicago monument is meant to reinforce the illusion that a virus killed millions of people before we were saved by Donald Trump's "beautiful shot". It's truly unfortunate that the monument won't mention the avoidable deaths caused by Anthony Fauci's hospital protocol of Remdesivir and ventilators, coupled with the banning of proven treatments such as Ivermectin and Budesonide. It's equally unfortunate that the victims of the COVID vaccines, those millions of people who suffered strokes, heart attacks, miscarriages, and cancer, won't be honored at the memorial. Instead, we'll continue to believe the lies we were fed by institutions we thought we could trust, because we really want to trust those institutions and it's just too scary to accept the truth.

Notes From Clown World: February 24, 2025.

Seen at the NAACP's Image Awards, Kamala Harris showed up looking like a villain in a James Bond movie. Dressed top to bottom in an intimidating black suit that would make Ernst Blofeld jealous, Harris accepted a meaningless award for accomplishing nothing, similar to how Barack Obama received a Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing more than being elected president back in 2008. When you're a Democrat you don't actually have to accomplish anything to be celebrated. You just have to show up. 

In her speech Harris didn't speak of hope and change but rather warned of "the flames on our horizons, the rising waters in our cities, the shadows gathering over our democracy". I doubt her next gig will be working as a motivational speaker.

Propagandist Joy Reid no longer has a show on MSNBC. Her future at the declining network is uncertain, but at least for now the nation won't be torn apart by Reid's endless anger and baseless accusations that everyone she disagrees with is racist. Reid's skewed interpretations of world events apparently weren't resonating with most viewers anymore. The radical left immediately went to social media and complained that it's racist to fire a racist, as long as the racist is black and preferably female. 

Proving once again that free speech to the left is like kryptonite to Superman, Christine Burns posted on Mastodon that the European Union should shut down X (Twitter), alleging that Elon Musk's social media platform is actively interfering in elections. She provides no proof. In case you've never heard of her, Burns has spent most of her life pushing the LGBT agenda with an emphasis on normalizing all things transgender. Burns was awarded an MBE in 2005 in recognition of her work representing transgender people. MBE is an abbreviation for "Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire". It seems fitting that a nation that jails people for Facebook posts would give an award to a woman who wants to shut down free speech.

Here's Peter Gleick posting on Mastodon, suggesting that the Democratic Party commit treason by appointing "Shadow Cabinet Secretaries" who basically work against the real Cabinet Secretaries to subvert the work of the Trump Administration. If a Republican had suggested such a thing during Biden's time in office, I'm pretty sure the Democrats would have raised the alarm and likely held Congressional hearings on how Republicans are attacking our "democracy". Gleick's post proves once again that Democrats are perfectly okay with breaking the law as long as it advances their agenda. 

And here's Aram Sinnreich claiming to understand the "psychology of MAGA". Sinnreich says that Trump supporters are "scared of everything" and that they're "jealous of your joy". His post shows how out of touch the radical left is with the rest of America. Although I'm not a Republican (I'm unaffiliated), I talk to a lot of Republicans and other conservatives, and I can say without a doubt that they aren't scared of anything. They may disapprove of behaviors that conflict with their moral beliefs, but the disapproval isn't based on fear. And they aren't "jealous of your joy" because I'm not sure anyone on the left has any joy to be jealous of. The left is comprised of the most angry, depressed, and miserable people I've ever seen. Where is their joy? Where is their generosity? (giving away other people's money doesn't count). And where is their optimism? They are the league of doom and gloom. I'm not jealous, and I don't know anyone who is. If anything, I feel pity.

Finally in Clown World, we have this post from billionaire Mark Cuban congratulating millionaire Bernie Sanders for his "mission to fight oligarchy". Remind me, Mark, what is your net worth, and how many homes does Bernie own? And why aren't you mentioning the oversized influence that oligarch George Soros has had on the Democratic Party and Democratic Party elected officials? Once again, the hypocrisy of the left is in full display. And if the photo above is any indication, the party's faithful fans are swallowing the bullshit with happy enthusiasm. Are they naive, brainwashed, or just plain stupid?

Which Candidate Will Shrink The Federal Government? Let's Take A Look.

As a lifelong libertarian, I've always felt that the biggest obstacle to a free and prosperous society is an oppressive and parasitic government. In the United States we have a federal government that began with good intentions more than 200 years ago, but has since become a hostile, angry monster that can never be fed enough. The size of the government is staggering: as of 2022, "the federal government employs nearly 9.1 million workers, comprising nearly 6 percent of total employment in the United States. The figure includes nearly 2.1 million federal employees, 4.1 million contract employees, 1.2 million grant employees, 1.3 million active duty military personnel, and more than 500,000 postal service employees." [source: The Hill] There are more federal employees than the total population of Austria. The federal budget for 2024 is $6.9 trillion, and that number is expected to grow no matter who is elected president in November. The national debt is currently more than $35 trillion [source: Statista] and that number rises by another trillion dollars every 100 days. The federal debt to GDP ratio is now at 122%, meaning we're broke.

The United States is a bankrupt nation that functions on debt and the intimidation of the world through our military. This is an unsustainable situation, and an economic crash is inevitable unless drastic action is taken to reign in the spending. Painful decisions will have to be made to ensure the long-term security of the nation. But politicians don't like to make decisions that cause pain. They'd rather kick the proverbial can down the road and hope someone else comes up with a real solution, after they've left office.

And beyond the financial woes, our monstrous government is a burden on society, imposing oppressive laws, rules, regulations, and red tape that cripple our ability to get anything useful done. Picture Star Wars' 'Jabba the Hut' sitting on a throne and eating everything in sight and you'll have a good idea of what our government has become.

It's critical that we reign in this obese monster before it destroys and consumes everything it can reach. But will anyone do it? Does anyone have the courage? I decided to take a look at the campaign platforms of the top four candidates and see if any of them are taking the situation seriously with plans to shrink the government. 

Kamala Harris (and the establishment players she represents), offers little hope or change in the size of the federal government. She is the face of the deep state, the entrenched bureaucrats who remain in power for decades and run the nation un-Constitutionally via policies and regulations. Harris is the vice-president because of the deep state, so you can bet she won't do anything to upset them. One of the first items in her platform says she will "make affordable health care a right, not a privilege by expanding and strengthening the Affordable Care Act" (socialism). She claims she will "make millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share in taxes", although she doesn't say what a "fair share" is. She brags about the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the CHIPS and Science Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the American Rescue Plan, all of which combined added trillions to the national debt. 

Unfortunately for us, Harris' platform contains very little other than references to things she did in the past. On issue after issue, her website talks about what she did as a prosecutor in California or as a member of Congress. There are no specific plans listed for what she will do in the future, except vague statements such as promising to work on the (alleged) climate crisis, or saying she'll end the fentanyl crisis by "signing the bipartisan border bill that will fund detection technology to intercept even more illicit drugs". 

So we're left wondering what she'll actually do. But we know her ideology is rooted in Marxism, so it's a fair guess to say a Harris presidency will be one of taxing, spending, unfettered government growth, and more intrusions into our lives.

Jill Stein of the Green Party, starts out with drastic cuts to our military (50-75%). I applaud her desire to close military bases overseas, disband NATO, and stop military funding of Israel and Ukraine. But she then pledges those funds as a "peace dividend" to a number of spending plans, such as the bogus "climate change" agenda and "universal access to basic human needs for food, clean water and sanitation, education, and health care for every human being on Earth". Stein is promising to build 15 million green, union-built, publicly-owned homes, expand HUD and US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Programs for first-time home buyers, guarantee lifelong free public education for all institutions of learning, including trade schools and Pre-K through college and graduate school, and guarantee free childcare. 

In other words, Jill Stein loves a big government, as long as that government is administering far-left social programs instead of wars. Her platform doesn't mention the federal budget or the national debt at all, except to recommend that we "tax the ultra-wealthy and giant corporations heavily". Unfortunately for Stein, even if the government stole every penny of every wealthy person in the country, it still wouldn't make a dent in the $35 trillion debt. 

Our next Marxist candidate is Cornel West. His platform repeats the word "justice" 17 times just in the category list alone. This should give you some idea of where a West presidency would end up. His platform mentions universal basic income, an expansion of parental leave & disability benefits, "fostering businesses that embody the principles of collective ownership" (communism), a "vow to significantly amplify funding for maternal health initiatives tailored to the needs of Black women (racism), free tuition for higher education, "climate reparations to recognize the deep injustices of climate change" (fake science), on top of a number of other so-called "green" initiatives that you and I will have to pay for. Like Stein, West proposes cuts to the military, including "disbanding NATO" and closing overseas bases. But then he says we need to cancel the debts of developing nations, despite the U.S. itself being bankrupt. It's hard to make the math work on his Marxist vision for America.

Cornel West loves a big government that taxes heavily, spends freely, and imposes itself upon us at every turn. That's not much different than what we already have. The only real difference is what the money gets spent on.

As the MAGA Republican candidate, we should expect Donald Trump to be the candidate most likely to tame the savage beast that is our government. But what does he have to say about it?

He says he wants to "stop outsourcing and turn the United States into a manufacturing superpower". Reducing imports and increasing exports would certainly help our situation, but Trump offers no details on how he will actually do this. Will it involve more government spending or the creation of a new trade agency? He doesn't say. Unfortunately he does say he will increase military spending, including by building a "great iron dome missile defense shield over our entire country". Such a system, which has proven to be a failure in Israel, will cost us billions of dollars...possibly trillions, and isn't needed since we have no enemies with intercontinental missiles who are foolish enough to start World War 3. An iron dome is nothing but a hand-out to the military industrial complex, the same people who have helped to bankrupt our nation and have kept wars going throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. 

Trump also says he will "rebuild our cities", but again doesn't say how he'll do it. Is this another spending program? It sure looks like it to me.

I wish I could tell you more, but Trump's platform is completely lacking in details. It's a collection of grand words and concepts. But I can tell you there's nothing in it that mentions shrinking the government, cutting spending, or reducing the debt.

If you dig a little deeper, you can find the Republican Party's platform which is different in some ways than what you'll find on Trump's campaign website. There, you will see the Republican's promise to "rein in wasteful federal spending: Republicans will immediately stabilize the economy by slashing wasteful government spending and promoting economic growth." How will it be slashed? They don't say. They also promise to "cut costly and burdensome regulations: Republicans will reinstate President Trump's deregulation policies, which saved Americans $11,000 per household, and end Democrats’ regulatory onslaught that disproportionately harms low and middle-income households." That one statement alone is the most encouraging thing I've seen on any of the platforms. But I question why it's on the Republican Party's platform but not on Trump's website.

Another positive note on the Republican's platform is this: "Republicans will end Democrats’ unlawful and un-American crypto crackdown and oppose the creation of a Central Bank Digital Currency. We will defend the right to mine Bitcoin, and ensure every American has the right to self-custody of their digital assets, and transact free from government surveillance and control." That's a huge statement, and I hope the Republicans have the guts to follow through. 

While there isn't much in either Trump's or the RNC's platforms that suggest they'll cut spending, (and Trump's platform has the wasteful "Iron Dome" boondoggle) their agendas do appear to have the goal of stimulating the economy, reducing the trade deficit, ending at least some of the government's burdensome regulations, and protecting the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. None of the other three candidates are proposing anything similar.

My reservation with Donald Trump and the Republican Party is we've had a lot of promises in the past and an equal amount of disappointments. We don't need four more years of excuses. We need results. And we need results that will last beyond the next election season. 

And it's important to note that none of the candidates have said anything in their campaign platforms about reversing Joe Biden's massive funding increase to the IRS that would enable up to 80,000 new agents to be hired. None of the candidates mention eliminating or greatly downsizing any of the "three letter agencies" such as the CIA, the FBI, the CDC, or the FDA, that have done so much harm to the American people in the past several years. They won't even touch easy targets such as cutting funding to Planned Parenthood or NPR.

But after reading the campaign platforms, I can say without any doubt that the only candidate who has a chance of controlling the "hostile, angry monster that can never be fed enough" is Trump. The other three candidates don't even pretend to care about the problem.

Vote accordingly.

The Republican Party Has Surrendered To The Zionists.

This week's Republican national convention looked more like Zionist love-in than a meeting of MAGA Americans. At times it looked like Israel was more important than the United States, and to some of our politicians, it is. If past statements by Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, Lindsey Graham, and Mike Johnson weren't enough to convince you that Israel and Jewish Americans are the priority of the Republican Party, the parade of speakers at the convention should have at least caused concern. The party that constantly bangs on about defending our Constitutional rights actually let Shabbos Kestenbaum brag about his work to subvert the 1st Amendment while also demanding "antisemitic" hate speech laws. I would expect such a demand would be met with booing, but the conservative crowd, some wearing cowboy hats, cheered him on. Incredible. What's next? If a rabbi is shot and killed somewhere in America, will the Republicans demand gun control to prevent antisemitic violence? Five years ago I would have thought, "no way". Now, I'm not so sure. After all, we now have millions of Christian conservatives defending Israel's genocide in Gaza, as if the deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinian's don't matter because of something they read in the Bible. (Hint: if your god is okay with the murder of children, you might be worshiping the wrong god.)

Seen at the 2024 Republican national convention:

And in case you are living under the delusion that Israel is an innocent victim of terrorism rather than being the instigator of terror around the world, here's a short video of the IDF targeting and striking a Palestinian family with a rocket as they were traveling in an animal-drawn cart along a road in Gaza. It was a senseless act of violence, something Israel takes pride in.

And apparently, so does the Republican Party.