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Donald the Destroyer

Donald J. Trump wants to think of himself as the greatest man who has ever lived. He is, instead, a schizophrenic narcissist with delusions of grandeur, racist, white supremacist, Christian nationalist, psychopath.  

He wants to be remembered in monuments and buildings, as the human who had the greatest wealth and the greatest amount of property than any other human before him.  

He has already maneuvered to have his name placed above that of John F. Kennedy, carved into the stone of the Performing Arts building in Washington, D. C., by appointing members to the controlling board who are loyal to him. Multiple performers have cancelled their scheduled performances there, in protest. The National Opera and National Orchestra have cancelled any further performances in that building, in protest.  

Donald Trump has torn down the historic West Wing of the White House so that he could construct a giant ballroom at that site, with Donald J. Trump emblazoned on it.   

He wants to construct a giant arch over that ballroom and the rest of the White House, bigger and taller than the St. Louis arch, with Donald J. Trump boldly lettered on it.  

He has offered a bribe to the administrators of Washington, D.C. He will free up funds for remodeling the train terminal and for constructing additional takeoff and landing strips at Dulles airport, if they will put his name on those reconstructions and additions, Donald J. Trump.  

He will continue taking over other countries and other lands, until he has accumulated or established control over property in the north and south parts of this continent and adjacent islands – Greenland, Iceland, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, and still will not be satisfied. Donald J. Trump, you see, is psychotic. The only way he knows how to satisfy his drive to be the greatest man of all human time is by lying, cheating, stealing, and doing so with violence. These are the reasons why everything he does is wrong.  

He takes away the medical care that the poor people need and gives that money to the wealthy. He sends his secret police to those communities who voted against him, and not to those communities where there is a high rate of crime.    

These secret police are the Gestapo of the twenty-first century. He has them wear masks, so their faces cannot be seen; thereby they cannot be identified and held accountable for their acts. He instructs them to break down doors and enter homes without a warrant. He tells them to use children as bait, to get someone to come out of the house, so they can arrest him or her. He tells them to separate children from their parents. He tells them to arrest anyone who looks suspiciously foreign and talks with an accent. He commands his secret police to arrest anyone who speaks negatively about the great Donald Trump. He tells them to arrest anyone who has brown skin or black skin, if they are acting suspiciously. He tells them to arrest anyone with brown or black skin who is a journalist. He instructs them to use violence against any person who is resisting arrest. He tells them to disarm anyone carrying a gun, without asking if that person has a permit to carry that weapon. These secret police have murdered an elementary grade schoolteacher and ICU nurse, in Minneapolis, because they resisted arrest. He has removed those with brown or black skin who were administrators or judges and replaced them with white men. He labels all those people who speak negatively about Judaism or Christianity as terrorists. He calls anyone who speaks up for the Palestinian cause, a terrorist.   

Donald Trump does not know how to lose gracefully. He cannot be wrong at any time. That would be, in his mind, a sign of weakness. If he loses, it must be someone else’s fault. In an election, his opponent must have rigged that election, because Donald J. Trump never loses. His psychotic narcissism will not allow him to lose that election, or any other contest.  

Donald J. Trump is also a psychopath. He does not feel any sympathy or empathy when he sees another person or animal suffering. His amygdala, prefrontal cortex and motor cortex do not light up when another human or animal is in trouble. They do in those people who react immediately to help.  

Donald is doing everything he can to destroy our democracy and establish a dictatorship. He wants to “nationalize” the elections in the Democratic states that did not vote for him in the last election. That maneuver will allow him to have elections in which he always wins. When these deeds are done, then he will find a way to allow him to have another term as POTUS. He will then be the most powerful man on this planet.   

He will, however, not be the greatest man in history. He will, instead, be known as the worst president the USA has ever had, a schizophrenic narcissist with delusions of grandeur, racist, white supremacist, Christian nationalist, psychopath. 

Indian Brave Flashing Spark

In 1945 there was one step further you could take in the Boy Scouts, after you have achieved Eagle Scout status. There was a significant history and story behind that elevated status. You could become an Indian Brave, in the Osage Indian tribe, if you were recommended for that status by your Scoutmaster. The preparation… Continue Reading

Lasting Legacies of Laura Ruth

While Charles Wesley Schowengerdt studied liberal arts at Baker University in Baldwin, Kansas, Laura Ruth Coughlin was taking childhood education courses at the College of Kansas City. He wanted to be a minister. She wanted to be a teacher. He became the state champion in debating; she became the May Queen at the College of Kansas City. Because the College of Kansas City was… Continue Reading

Trump Delusions

The sky above us, in low orbit, is full of space junk, and they are adding more each year. Most of that space junk will eventually slip into a lower orbit, then fall back into the Earth’s atmosphere, appearing as a meteor as it burns up, coming back into our oxygen atmosphere. Since 75% of… Continue Reading

Building a Dictatorship

The end of the sonnet Emma Lazarus wrote, to be placed on the base of The Statue of Liberty, which sits at the entry to the New York Harbor is, as follows:  “Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to… Continue Reading

The Declaration of Independence

(It almost didn’t happen.) Samuel Adams lived from 1722 to 1803. He was a business entrepreneur and a politician. All his business ventures failed, except for a small brewery he managed to keep going. That brewery still exists today, in Boston, bearing his name. He did better at politics. He could not help it; it… Continue Reading

Voucher Systems Violate Our Constitution

  After the revolutionary war came to an end, it was clear to the colonies that the Articles of Confederation they had hastily thrown together and ratified in 1781 were inadequate. They would need to have a document that clearly delineated how the president and vice-president were to be elected, and what their terms of office would… Continue Reading

The Death of American Democracy

It all began with the constitutional convention in 1787. There was at that time no television, radio, telegraph, telephone or satellite communication. There was only horse or sea communication from one person to another. Our founders had to devise a system whereby all the votes could be counted and the mission of democracy achieved, where… Continue Reading

Messages to our Abrahamic Religions

I have this message for the followers of Judaism:             Please understand that there is no divinity which gave your tribe chosen status, superior to all other races and religions. Please understand that there is no divinity which gave your people the right to occupy a certain piece of land on planet earth. Your religion… Continue Reading

The Superiority Complex

                It began when the first human groups formed; the desire of humans to believe that they were, in some way, superior to those other humans around them, and superior to all animals. We apparently need our egos inflated for us to cope with life. Throughout human history, this one weakness has caused us immense… Continue Reading