How Does Trump Hate You? Let Me Count The Ways*
POST 1169
Crushing Us With Hatred
It isn’t just Trump. He’s assembled a gang of fascist tool-boys and -girls into a hit mob, abhorrents like Elon Musk, Stephen Miller, Kash Patel, Hillbilly Vance, Steve Bannon and so many more.
He’s doing everything he can to tear down our country, to trash the things that make us strong, our safety in a very dangerous world, our belief in ourselves, our health, our economic resilience, the rule of law, truth, justice and the American way.
“You can’t love your country if you hate half the people in it,” Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) said recently. A version of that – Aaron Sorkin’s words – was said by fictional character Sydney Ellen Wade in the 1995 film The American President:
How do you have patience for people who claim they love America, but clearly can’t stand Americans?
Do you have that patience? Neither do I. But these haters are using their power to do hateful things to millions of Americans. Trump makes his hatred plain to see. His insane need for retribution drives the meanness and destruction that he visits upon Americans, done under the flimsiest claim of patriotism with the flourish of a slimy circus sideshow barker. But his reality show isn’t reality. It’s just a cruelty show of gladiatorial murders.
What he does isn’t patriotism, because nobody can both love America and hate Americans.
Boiling Blood
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was in the U.S. legally for many years. He is a sheet metal apprentice, is married to a U.S. citizen and has a young son. He has never been accused of any crime, much less convicted. He was working to build his American dream. Then the Trump thugs swooped in, snatched him up, threw him in a white van and
SOLD HIM
to an El Salvador dictator.
Our courts, including the Supreme Court, have ordered that Garcia be returned for various reasons, like due process, like that the Trumpies have admitted that it was an error to grab him, like that everything about this stinks, including Trump’s claim that he can disappear American citizens the same way.
Meanwhile, Trump’s lawyers are making America a joke before the world with their idiotic claims that they can’t bring Garcia back to this country. Read Prof. Heather Cox Richardson’s report of this Trump-caused American tragedy. It will make your blood boil because of the hatred Trump has for America and for Americans.
Transcript of phone call between President Trump and Abrego Garcia’s children **
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Trump: The only reason I’m on this call is because the failing New York Times leaked a story that it would happen. So, what’s your question for your president?
Garcia children (heard sniffling): We’re so sad. We miss our daddy. Why did you take him away from us?
Trump: Look, your daddy is a very dangerous man and I as your president must protect the American people.
Garcia children: But you said you made a mistake, that he shouldn’t have been taken away.
Trump: That doesn’t matter. He’s in a place where he can’t hurt anyone now and they are very tough there. Very tough. They will deal with him toughly and he’ll stay there because no prisoner ever gets out. Plus, I negotiated a great deal with President whatshisname to make those immigrants disappear. Forget about your daddy. He’s never coming back.
Garcia children (wailing in sorrow): That’s not fair. You’re so mean to him. Bring our daddy back to us.
Trump: I have tariffs to announce, plus I’ve been told that a love letter from Kim Jung Un just arrived for me and it’s very complimentary. He likes me a lot, so this call is over.
The Ultimate Cheat
Trump is and will continue to use defiance of the courts over the Garcia case and others to distract us from his tariffs and the destruction of our economy. It’s his current bright, shiny object deployed so that we don’t see the full truth of his law breaking.
He’s neutered Congress***, so now it’s full speed ahead to
DEFY THE COURTS AND DECLARE HIS KINGSHIP!
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From Meidas+ Touch, April 14:
Donald Trump met with El Salvador’s autocratic president, Nayib Bukele, and used the occasion not to promote diplomacy or human rights—but to spread Russian propaganda, mock the Supreme Court, and flirt with the idea of sending American citizens to prison camps in El Salvador. Yes, you read that right.
Trump openly said he would defy a Supreme Court ruling ordering the return of Kilmer Abrego Garcia—an innocent man the Trump regime deported by “mistake” to a gulag in El Salvador. When asked whether he’d help bring Abrego Garcia home, Trump sneered, attacked the press, and had Pam Bondi peddle blatant lies about Abrego Garcia’s legal status.
Like I said: blood boiling. Yours, mine and everyone’s, as Trump wipes his muddy Gucci loafers on our Constitution.
Winning
“We’re gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning.” So said the reality show huckster.
Are you sick of winning yet? Here’s a short list of what you’ve lost:
– money – gobs of it, and you’ll lose way more as tariffs ramp up to spike the price of everything you buy and the sinking stock and bond markets trash your investments
– the privacy of your IRS information – all of it. Privacy is required by law, but Trump don’ obey no stinking laws.
– access to Social Security
– the rule of law
– world class healthcare – poof, gone!
– safety for our judges, legislators, administrators, commenters – anyone who Trump decides he doesn’t like. He wants us to live in fear.
– preparedness and protection from pandemics and severe weather
– the trust of the world
So, no, you’re not sick of winning.
There is no hyperbole in saying that we are a voluntarily failing nation. Led by Trump and his fascist goons, this country is bringing down the world, leading our former allies to circle the drain with us.
All that and more are why millions of us have taken to the streets and are looking for a political Moses to lead us out of Pharaoh Trump bondage. Perhaps one day the word “winning” will justly apply to us.
Stupid Spend
They won’t say exactly how much they charge for a sub-orbital flight in Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin spacecraft, but it’s rumored to be in the millions of dollars. It costs $150,000 just to apply. On its first passenger flight someone paid $28 million in an online auction for the 10 – 11 minute flight. Let’s do some math.
There have been roughly 52 passengers on Blue Origin spacecraft. Let’s guess that an average price paid for the flights is $2 million. That brings us to a very conservative total of $104,000,000 that has been shelled out for 11 minutes on a rocket. What else might have been done with that $104,000,000 had the passengers been more philanthropically inclined?
– 962 students could have gone to a 4-year, in-state public university and left with a diploma and no student debt.
– 104,000,000 children could have been vaccinated against polio.
– 47 military field hospitals could have been set up in Ukraine.
– 104,000 desperately poor children in Mississippi, Louisiana and West Virginia (our poorest states) could have gone to summer camp for 2 weeks.
– 693 Habitat for Humanity houses could have been built.
Instead, a bunch of very rich people went for an over-the-top carnival ride for 11 minutes.
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* Apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning for abusing the title of her beautiful love poem, How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) for the purpose of exposing today’s ugly reality.
** My fabrication. It means nothing, but it felt good to write that.
*** It would be kind of cool if a bunch of Republicans in Congress suddenly discovered they each has a spine and together they can stand up to Trump.
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