Category: Government

Dictators Do as They Wish!

–President Donald Trump on Friday removed the head of the agency that produces the monthly jobs figures after a report showed hiring slowed in July and was much weaker in May and June than previously reported.

When Trump does not like government reporting he fires the people involved even if the reports are accurate.

–The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced on Friday that it will wind down its operations due to the successful Republican effort to defund local PBS and NPR stations across the country.

-In March, the president issued an executive order, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” that it said was meant to address “a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.”

He singled out the Smithsonian Institution and said the administration would seek “to remove improper ideology from such properties.”

In an email to NPR, White House Spokesperson Davis Ingle wrote: “Unfortunately for far too long the Smithsonian museums have highlighted divisive, DEI exhibits which are out of touch with mainstream America.”

“We are fully supportive of updating displays to highlight American greatness. The Trump administration will continue working to ensure that the Smithsonian removes all improper ideology and once again unites and instills pride in all Americans regarding our great history,” he said.

Is Freedom of the Press in Jeopardy?

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is an American late-night news talk show hosted by Stephen Colbert, which premiered on September 8, 2015. CBS announced the show will end when the host’s contract runs out in 10 months. Colbert’s political commentary was a continuing criticism of Donald Trump.

Coincidentally, or not, Paramount Global, which owns CBS, is seeking regulatory approval from the Trump administration to sell itself to the Hollywood studio Skydance Media. (I’d never heard of it either.) An official statement, claiming that the “Late Show” cancellation represents “a purely financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night … not related in any way to the show’s performance, content.

Trump’s war on the media has been non-stop on every network accept Fox.

Newspapers and television outlets are under attack like never before. Yes as far back as Richard Nixon presidents have attacked the media. ABC News settled a defamation suit brought by Trump on Dec. 14, agreeing to donate $15 million to his presidential library and issue a statement. Trump’s lawsuit against CBS, filed in Texas in October, accuses the broadcaster of deceptively editing a “60 Minutes” interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump has sued CNN, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. The president has prevented The Associated Press from entering the Oval Office press events.

To stay on the good side of Trump both Jeff Bezos owner of the Washington Post and Patrick Soon-Shiong owner of the Los Angeles Times both stopped the endorsement of Kamala Harris. NPR and PBS rely on government subsidies and are likely limiting their criticism of the Trump administration.

You could have asked the question ‘Is freedom of the press in jeopardy?’ Sadly dictators do not allow opposing opinions.

Dictator or King?

A San Bernardino born Hispanic was arrested by masked men wearing “border patrol” vests. A popular Oregon vineyard owner was taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody outside his church in Oregon on Thursday.    

If you have brown skin you are subject to arrest. Donald Trump’s words saying immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country.’ The Biden campaign likened the comments to Hitler.

The raids by ICE are stunning but no surprise.

Terry Moran defends ‘fair and accurate’ post about Trump that got him dropped by ABC News. Both ABC and CBS have been sued by Donald Trump because he did not like their reporting.

Where does this end?

If Trump has his way he will be a dictator or a king.

Flag Day is Sad Day!

Today is Flag Day but it has turned into Sad Day as the president has an Army Parade, people are demonstrating calling this No Kings Day, and thousands of Hispanics have fear of arrest and deportation.

The lawn was not cut. I called the gardener. His wife said he feared for arrest and told me he is in hiding.

Hotel workers, restaurant workers, farm workers and many other groups are living in fear.

This is one Flag Day we will never forget.

Is this the beginning of Civil War?

President Theodore Roosevelt said “To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

In merely four months Donald Trump has turned the United States from a functioning democracy into a country on the edge of a fascist dictatorship.

Trump’s war on California has begun. These news items are not my imagination.

Trump deploys National Guard as Los Angeles protests against immigration agents continue. California Gov. Gavin Newsom condemned the Trump administration’s move to send the California National Guard into Los Angeles to handle immigration protests.

The Trump administration is preparing to cancel a large swath of federal funding for California, an effort that could begin as soon as Friday, according to multiple sources.

Agencies are being told to start identifying grants the administration can withhold from California. Sources said the administration is specifically considering a full termination of federal grant funding for the University of California and California State University systems.

ABC News has suspended its senior national correspondent, Terry Moran, after he called White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller a “world-class hater” in a since-deleted post on X.

Trump has sued both CBS and ABC over their reporters saying things that Trump does not like.

The president has now called for the arrest of California governor Gavin Newsom calling him grossly incompetent.

Is this the beginning of a civil war?