Rita's Spur to Action

It is imperative to check out the rise of Hitler in the 1930’s and the subsequent conquest and destruction of Germany and the rest of Europe. He is Trump’s model for the destruction of America. Kings and dictators require an illiterate public (ex. Slaveholders prohibiting the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burning books). Trump’s withdrawal of funding from American Universities is his attempt to destroy American literacy, create an ignorant public, and to further cement himself as king. 

We the people must take immediate action! FORCE the Congress, the Supreme Court, and other federal courts to act. Save the United States of America!

Nobody wins in a war. 

Palestinians are starving because their government has failed them in arriving at a positive peace agreement with Israel. Instead, they have kidnapped Israelis, reluctantly returned dead bodies, and supported the Hamas. Starvation is intolerable but so is the failure to do what is necessary to achieve a ceasfire and peace. The solution is simple: return the Israeli prisoners taken by the Palestinians, guarantee a ceasefire, and agree to work on a two state solution which will be perminent. 

This seems like a simple solution to the question of famine. Why place all the blame on the Israelis? The Palestinians have brought the war upon themselves. Netanyahu has no future at home in Israel and therefore his sole aim is to end the power of Hamas and the Palestinians. Between the two, the war in the Middle East may go on forever, unless both sides find leaders who can negotiate a reasonable solution. If this can’t be done, children will starve as a result of their failure. 

Trump’s idiocy requesting women to have more children and graciously giving them a $5,000 baby bonus, while touting that he wants to be known as the “fertilization president,” is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to showcasing his lack of empathy, understanding, and care for women and children in this country. He and his partner Elon Musk (that idiot with 14 children) are heartless and brainless tyrants.

“According to a new report by ProPublica, billions of dollars in funding for poor schools, for school meals, and for school safety have been slashed by Trump and Musk.

The staff of a program that helps millions of poor families keep the electricity on, in part so their babies don’t die from extreme heat or cold, have all been fired.

The federal office that oversees the enforcement of child support payments has been decimated.

The Department of Agriculture has canceled more than $600 million in grants to farm-to-school programs that had been providing fresh meat and produce to school cafeterias.

In addition, Trump’s new budget includes staggering cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps), which provides food assistance to 1 in 5 children. It would also alter the school meal programs, making it more likely that low-income, eligible children miss out on meals.

Head Start preschools are being shut down.

The Education Department just halted $1 billion for mental health services for children. As a result, schools will no longer be able to hire psychologists, counselors, and mental health workers. The department says that the programs are no longer in ‘the best interest of the federal government.’

Since when has that been the criterion? Programs should be in the best interest of children.

The Department of Health and Human Services has dismissed all staff that had distributed $1.7 billion annually to the states to run their child welfare, day care, foster care, and adoption systems, including birth family visitation, caseworker training, and more.”

It took years to construct these programs, and in practically, one fell swoop, Trump and Musk heartlessly and thoughtlessly destroyed them.

Notes:

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-terrible-truth-about-the-fertilization?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=365422&post_id=161992676&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=tsm7z&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

When Biden was in office, it was largely agreed that the economy was doing well, that America’s economy flourished and that under his administration, “the U.S. had added 16 million jobs, unemployment was at its lowest rate in 50 years, real wages for the bottom 80% of Americans were increasing, and inflation levels had come down almost to the Federal Reserve’s target from their highs during the post-shutdown shocks.”

In three months, Trump has managed to turn all of this around.

He has,”…trashe[d] human rights, undermine[d] our alliances, threaten[ed] the independence of our universities and the press, stymie[d] progress on climate change, decimate[d] our civil service, shaft[ed] the poor, harm[ed] the working class, worsen[ed] the economy, and [left] much of our government in tatters.”

Economists expect the confusion and uncertainty of Trump’s tariffs to hurt growth more broadly in the second quarter of 2025 as container ships from China stop arriving in the U.S. in early to mid-May, about a month after Trump’s April 2 “Liberation Day” imposed a 145% tariff on goods from that country. 

And this is only his first four months in office.

From Robert Reich…

Fernando Rodriguez Jr, a Trump appointed U.S. district court judge in Texas, said “The President cannot summarily declare that a foreign nation or government has threatened or perpetrated an invasion or predatory incursion of the United States, followed by the identification of the alien enemies subject to detention or removal.” This is the first federal court to permanently invalidate the Trump regime’s legal justification for using the Act, and a giant middle finger to the Trump regime’s efforts to centralize power in White House.

From Sidney Blumenthal at The Guardian…

Trump’s instinct is to deepen and accelerate his retribution and propaganda. But the damage is already done, and the worst is ahead. In the shortest disorder possible, he has created the recessionary stagflation to come, which by its very nature is sticky and difficult to undo. He is angry at the Fed for not rescuing him by cutting interest rates. But if the Fed followed his dictate, inflation would only increase more. Trump’s frustration is that he is trapped within a failure of his own making. Even if he were to reverse himself overnight, it is too late. The effects of his uncertainty and instability have delivered a body blow to both supply and demand, shattered consumer confidence, upset the bond market, undermined the dollar, forced other nations to reorganize global trade and empowered China above all.

The congress and the senate are elected by the people to represent the people, NOT to kiss the ring of Trump or anyone else.

Although they are elected, they actually are being paid by the citizens of America by Americans’ tax money.

Trump recently took in millions, if not billions of dollars in personal money.

It really is the duty of the congress to look into this and decide whether this is proper behavior for the President of the United States to make personal money while in office.

Trump’s recent personal financial gain was made by using the office of the Presidency of the United States to line his own pocket and those of his family.

Once again, the congress and the senate have sat by and allowed this criminal President to enhance his own wealth by milking American citizens who are willing to support his criminal activity.

America has lost the respect of the world and if this man is allowed to continue he will destroy every value that has made America great.


NOTES: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/technology/trump-private-dinner-crypto-memecoin.html

Trump presents himself as a great businessman and is making horrendous deals right, left, and center for the United States of America.

Here is the history of Trump, the oh, so successful New York businessman: He has declared bankruptcy six times. Robert O’Harrow of the Washington Post discussed Trump’s Taj Mahal opening in April 1990 in Atlantic City, but six months later, “defaulted on interest payments to bondholders as his finances went into a tailspin.” In July 1991, Trump’s Taj Mahal filed for bankruptcy. He could not keep up with debts on two other Atlantic City casinos, and those two properties declared bankruptcy in 1992. A fourth property, the Plaza Hotel in New York, declared bankruptcy in 1992 after amassing debt.

PolitiFact uncovered two more bankruptcies filed after 1992, totaling six. Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts filed for bankruptcy again in 2004, after accruing about $1.8 billion in debt. Trump Entertainment Resorts also declared bankruptcy in 2009, after being hit hard during the 2008 recession.

Interestingly enough, Trump and his family seem always to have pocketed or benefited financially from these bankruptcies.

Even if Trump is right to renegotiate our trade deals around the world, he cannot be right by destroying our peaceful relationships with every country.

He is running this us, the United States of America, as he ran all of his businesses, into the ground.

What has happened to decency in America? 

What has happened to the America that went to war against Hitler and his illegal deportations and killing of 6 million people in World War II?

How is it possible that Americans are not rising up en masse to stop the illegal deportation of American citizens or people under legal protected status or anyone for that matter without due process?

Of course we don’t want criminals in the Country, but due process has been one of the features of American decency since this democracy began. 

Imagine a country where the President has the right to virtually kidnap and deport anyone for no reason with absolutely no regard to the law.

This is not democracy, this is autocracy. This is Hitler, 1933. This is Trump, today.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant, who fled gang violence, obtained legal status in 2019 to become a U.S. citizen, has now been illegally deported by the Trump administration with no cause, no reason. Since his deportation, the same administration, led by Donald J. Trump, has refused a court order to bring him back from his illegal deportation.

The President has committed a crime.

He has abused his executive power and violated the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which give citizens of the country, with or without legal status, the constitutional right to due process. Abrego Garcia was initially deported by the Trump administration due to their belief that he has associations with the “terrorist” Salvadoran gang, MS-13. However, those claims have been proved false; “Abrego Garcia had no criminal record, and the Trump administration [has since] admitted his removal was due to an ‘administrative error.’” 

Trump has exceeded his executive powers. He should use those same powers to bring the man back from the mega prison in which he’s being illegally detained, and make amends to him and his family.

The administration has violated the law, the court, and the rights of the American people. The crime needs to be more expeditiously investigated. Speed up the courts. Save this man’s life. 

Bravo to the Sen. Chris Van Hollen for traveling down to El Salvador to not only see how he can bring Abrego Garcia back to America, but also to simply see how he’s doing. Hopefully, this puts pressure on other senators to follow suit. 

Every day this country looks more like Hitler’s Germany. Is this acceptable to the people of the United States of America? Stand up, America, and fight before it’s too late!

Notes:

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5364887/kilmar-abrego-garcia-trump-court-order

https://substack.com/app?utm_campaign=email-read-in-app&utm_source=email

It is clear Trump committed TREASON against the United States when he sat by and encouraged his followers to attack the capitol on January 6th, 2021.

What is unclear is why he has not been prosecuted for treason.

President Trump today and every day is working toward the destruction of the United States.

One of Trump’s first actions for his second administration was to pardon all the rioters who committed treason from any sentencing.

It is clear that Trump had to become President of the United States in order to avoid prosecution and a jail sentence.

If the Congress and the Senate of this Country did their job properly this President would be impeached.