M.C. Escher Concave and Convex

"The Stairs to Nowhere"

The absurdity of Bigness. The mantra that we hear from the Oval Occupant is that big, bigly, hugely, is where his mind must tortuously spend most of his waking time. Over and over, the mantra of big is the adjective of his communications to the American People.

He climbs these stairs of bigness and when he realizes that he has nowhere to go in his latest escapade, the sight of nowhere gives him panic as the realization that nowhere is a losing strategy. Thus, we have Iran. His nowhere steps for his ballroom* is not a tragic tactic in the design of anything, but when applied to international wartime policy, we have a potential war crime in the making.

I think of M.C. Escher, and his stairs to nowhere, the over and around the imaginary castles of Trump's mind. His mind will change the image or conversation of something not possible to a new something that will in his mind give a new bright shiny object for public consumption and will be a step up from the bigness of the current unsolvable problem. The Epstein Files are still there just like the floor of the Escher building, the stairs continue, but there is no way to solve the ending of the stairs to nowhere...

The Metaphor of a stairway for giving the Oval Occupant a way to change the conversation of a current problem of his own making to something bigger in importance cannot work, for his structure of holding up the stairway with sycophants who cannot and are not capable of running the agencies he has put them in charge, are not structurally sound.

Now that he has led our Nation up the stairs to War in the Middle East, he  declares that Religion will be the next step for our Country. He has said that “I an King”, and his big beautiful staircase is one of National Unity through Religion. 

Our problem is that the Oval Occupant could lead our Nation into oblivion when the stairs that he has constructed crumble into the abyss of War.

* Associated Press “Architects panned the large staircase as too large and basically useless as there was no way to enter the ballroom at the top...”

TodayI heard this speech from Mark Milley he gave 

September 29, 2023 on his retirement

Now we have this

 Trump's War

I Weep

For the Assassination of JFK

For 9/11

For the Invasion of Iraq

For Trump's War 2026...

Dr. Khalil Totah the father of one of my highschool friends wrote a book, “Dynamite in the Middle East”. I read this book  in 1955. I sat with Dr. Totah one afternoon and asked him if this really could happen...and He answered, it is only a matter of Time...

I remembemer this so clearly as if it was only yesterday.

What was never considered, was that We, America, would start this War...

 

 John Trumbull

THE TRILLION DOLLAR QUESTION

In the World of Economics, this statement generally refers to a critical,, high-stakes question with massive financial, economic, or societal consequences, often lacking an easy answer. Currently, it frequently refers to whether the AI boom is a bubble, or challenges regarding the $36 trillion U.S. national debt.

I have another take on this question which in my view is the more critical and

broader consideration of importance.

My question is;

Why do we have a convicted criminal acting as our President? For me this is the Trillion Dollar question as the President now has almost total control over

our 31.1 Trillion GDP.

There are built in Control mechanisms so the President can not control our GDP.

Congressional Authority: The Constitution grants Congress the "power of the purse"—the authority to determine taxation and government spending, which are massive drivers of GDP.

As we have seen the Congress has largely given up this role.

• The Federal Reserve: The independent central bank controls monetary policy (interest rates) to manage inflation and growth, largely operating outside presidential control.The President is actively seeking to remove the present Chair of the Fed and install his own man.

• Market Forces & External Factors: Global events, pandemics, natural disasters, technological changes, and consumer behavior play a massive role in economic output, often outweighing presidential policy. The President has eliminated the most of the National Institutions which deals with these factors.

In 2024, 77,303.568 People voted for this man. Yesterday I spoke to one of them. She volunteered that she did not like what he was doing with ICE, putting his name on buildings, and most of all his lies. I asked her why she voted for him and her answer was,“I voted for Him because of Her”.

The word Her was spoken with a hiss in a loud whisper. A discontented republican, she now has become an independent. I asked her about the “ Her” comment

the reply was that Harris had no experience. I did not question her further, for she obviously had the truth on her phone for which she was in thralled the whole time of her waiting for my order to come. The answer of “ Her” was shocking to me not because of what she said, but the way she said it. Racism was dripping with venom and her mouth was contorted with rancor.

So, for Me, this is part of the Trillion Dollar Question. Did the 77 plus million people feel that between a convicted felon a white man , and a black woman, the only person acceptable to be our next President was a convicted felon a white man, not a black woman. Is this is where we are in America today? This kind of decision making was not about policies, it was about the oldest of prejudices, that of the “other”. Prejudice is a poison. This poison flows from the Oval occupant and throughout this administration It has killed the independence of the DOJ.

White vs Black and Brown,. ICE makes this incredibly painful to see. This fracture of our civil ethos, now has another component, The people who are resistant, people like me. We are now targets of non compliance. We are a very large and multicultural group. We are the Educators, the Writers, the Lawyers, the Judges, Creatives, the Young, the Old, the Veterans, the Scientists, the Environmentalists, Mothers, Fathers, Medical Doctors and independent critical thinkers. We have become “the Others”.

The Founding Fathers made a critical mistake in the writing of our Constitution. They thought that the checks and balances that were in the Constitution would prevent a man like Trump from becoming President.

The answer is

Constitutional Qualifications

Natural-born citizen: A person must be a U.S. citizen at birth, which typically includes being born on American soil or to American parents, as noted by the Library of Congress – Constitution Annotated (.gov).

Age: The candidate must be at least 35 years of age by the time they take the oath of office,

Residency:The candidate must have lived in the United States for at least 14 years.

So now, we have a Criminal in the Oval who has almost total control over our economy, our Constitutional Rights, Our Congress, Our Courts, The Fed, and our Future .

 

We

The most important word in the Declaration of Independence.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America"

The eighth grade class of which I was one, had to memorize the Preamble to the Constitution in order to graduate to high school. We stood at the front of the room and one by one had to recite the Preamble. I had forgotten all about this incredibly scary event until yesterday. This was in 1948 not long after the Second World War. The war was still very ingrained upon our young minds, and we all had practiced the drills of duck and cover under our desks.

Now I wonder if the Children of our present school eighth graders have this kind of knowledge of or Declaration. Do they learn about the power ofWe  Do they read about the concept of Where the Power is conferred in our Declaration? The Bill of Rights speaks to the rights of We the people not the congress, not the courts, and not the Supreme Court Justices...

We have the right to free speech, the right to bear arms, the right to have our homes free of invasions from the government, the right to protest, and the right to have due process.There are other rights listed in the Bill of Rights, but in our present daily lives, the Rights listed above seem to be the ones most in peril.

The First sentence of the Declaration does not say “The President” of the United States in order to form a more perfect Union, it does not say “The Congress people” of the United States, It does not say the “Supreme Court people” in order to Form. No, It says “We The People”. Without this one word, The Declaration is impotent.

Today, the power of the People can be seen and heard all over our Land, and yes even across the World. The Handmaids are protesting today in Minneapolis, and Rising of Americans regardless of political party can be seen and heard expressing the Rights given to us in our Constitution. 

The Handmaids

We are 158,427,986 strong. A Powerful number. I am just one, but, there are 158,427, 985 others in the We the People of the first sentence of our Declaration of the Constitution of the United States of America. 

We will Strike

We Will Resist

We Will Vote

 

TRUMP'S WAR

Weapons of Our mass destruction:

Facebook,Tic Toc, Instagram, and YouTube

It seems that when I read the morning paper, there are wars being fought all over the planet. People wars, Environmental wars, Political wars, Educational wars, Legal wars, Food wars, Vaccine wars, Emigration Wars, Tariff wars, Ice wars, and Blue state wars, and Social Media Wars.

For me, the last category is the most worrisome. For this war, the Dictator in the making has an army of 77.3 million infantry soldiers. He has 218 House members, He has 53 Senators, and He has 6 members of the Supreme Court. He also has Social Media Presidents that targets 174 million voters in America. This is his PSYWAR Tech Army and he is using it in concert with the play book of Hitler.

He has at the present over 3000 Ice agents who are actually fighting the Citizens of the United State of America, residents of Minneapolis of Minnesota , and killing two of them. What is the end game for the rest of our Blue State Citizens? If he can control the small blue states, as a group, then attacking the large blue states can be psychologically targeted and economically threatened to be brought in compliance. The big tech companies have already Kissed the Ring. These companies have unlimited resources of money and for the most part, their companies are located in Blue States.

I recently watched AI generated podcast of Rachel Maddow , the giveaway is that the person doesn't really look like Maddow, but is good enough to fool the unsuspecting. These deep fakes will by 2028 be undetectable, and voters will not know what is True.

Without Truth,we do not have a Constitution. This War will be bloodless. That is what it says in Project 2025. You may not believe this but, this project got Trump elected in 2024.

Trump, "I will never Forget "

Supreme Court Justice Roberts describes the moment as a second “revolution,” one that he hopes will remain bloodless as long as, we can impute, the left doesn’t provide too much resistance”

I have a fantasy of doing a no eating sit-in on the Capital Steps...  

Trump's Brain 

Trump's Brain

The Only thing that limits his Power ... “Is my own morality and my own mind”.

A truly scary declaration. This is where America now resides. In this deranged brain of the Oval Occupant. From day to day it becomes more deluded about what impulses compel him declare another impossible threat to our County, and to the World. He cares not, because his brain is incapable of the concept of “caring” for others. He lives in this uncontrolled world of derangement because our Congress and the Supreme Court have given him the power to do so.

 

A Small Moment of Wondering

The San Luis Rey Mission Oceanside CA

Yesterday as I was driving home and stopped at a four way signal by the San Luis Rey Mission, I spied something small and incredibly sweet. The hillside grass this time of year in Oceanside California, is lush green velveteen from the rains and the lovely fragrance of the promise of Springtime is in the air literally. My eye roamed the corners of my stop and to my joyful surprise, the small baby squirrel hopped toward the corner of what I suppose was a tempting taste of green sweetness.

He looks at me, and I am him 

This little creature, so very small, furry, and quite bold looked at the street full of automobiles with their spewing tail pipes of toxic fumes like he knew with his little instinctual wisdom of wildness , that he was king of his world, on this emerald green corner, and knowing this, safe from the asphalt street full of monsters...

He was a surprise of wonderment for me from the Natural World that needs no enhancement of our mondarity . He was fearless from the fears we face everyday with the resolve of our superior brain. His world is soft and lush, full of green sweetness, Our World is one of natural wonders that we with our superior brains are quietly making our Earth increasingly difficult to inhabit, and now the Oval Occupant has commandeered the EPA to go quietly into the dark night.

I am, for one moment, the little one sitting on the corner of lush green complexity, filled with toxic fumes, taking my time, tasting springtime, safe on the soft green corner of eternal growth of the seasons, and know that while I stay in my little space, I am safe...    The signal light changes...