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...  

 

America is FUBAR

Her Last words, "It's fine, dude. I'm not mad at you." Rene Good was then shot in the face, killing her.

Conversely, some reports from social media sources claim the ICE agents' words directed at her before the shooting were "F*** you, bitch.

The Last letter in FUBAR is Recognition. I don't recognize my Country anymore.

This is why.

1. There is no accountability from Federal agencies or the President.

2. The pardons are there for anyone the President deems to be on his side.

3. Our Federal Government deploys agents to commandeer ocean going vessels of Oil that is not ours. We don't Need their oil.

4. Seeking to overthrow Greenland with no reason as we already have a base there. Achieving the take over, the easy way or the hard way. This is threatening War.

5. Threatening other sovereign nations in the western hemisphere.

6. Murder is immediately lied about by the current Administration.

7. ICE agents infiltrating our Democratic Cities causing demonstrators to react against their gestapo actions.

8. The Supreme Court looking the other way from granting absolute immunity to the leader of this administration's actions, resulting in the ICE actions of Today.

9. Due process for immigrants has vanished

10. Congress is just not there anymore for oversight.

If an ICE agent can murder Rene Good a white American, and not be held accountable, anyone of us could be the next person to be killed for just being in our car, and not getting out when told to do so by an ICE agent. This should not be a reason for the agent to shoot her in the face, killing her.

This agent has a history with demonstrators with which he incurred a severe injury. He was primed to react with the mental distress of this memory. Why though, did he call her a F----g bitch after he shot her? He was not injured, he had no problem walking to the crashed car and back showing sign of injury. He filmed the whole incident on his cell phone. Phone in his left hand, gun in his right hand. 

 This is not the America we had before this Administration, and the Oval Occupant that leads his army and cheers them on.

I do not recognize Our Country anymore. We now live in one of three Supreme Dictatorships of this World. I have googled at length about how to stop ICE from coming into our Cities and causing harm to our Citizens and immigrants. Apparently since ICE is a federal agency, it overrules our National Guard, our local Police force so, no, it can't be stopped. Even though there are some laws that prohibit ICE from using local resources, this administration has thoroughly demonstrated that they will not be stopped by laws, they will ignore any law that gets in their way. The shooting of Rene Good proves this by killing her, then lying about it.

My heart cries about what my eyes see and my mind comprehends. Trust no longer resides on our Nation's Capital.

I have never used another artist's work on this blog, but today, in The San Diego Union Tribune, Bill Day's political cartoon echo's my belief about ICE.

 

The Don-roe Doctrine

The Fantasy of a Mad Man

Yes, Dear Readers, this time putting his name on a policy of established usage. While not a law, The Monroe Doctrine has been one of time honored foreign policy that the Western Hemisphere is to be protected from Eastern Countries expansion into the Western Hemisphere. For over a hundred years, there has been many variations of our interaction with other countries seeking to expand into the Western Hemisphere and the Hawaiian Kingdom.

It seems that The Oval Occupant wants to be one of the Members only Club of the Major Dictators of the three Hemispheres. He is openly advocating the capture of Greenland, and threatening other countries in our Western Hemisphere. This is pure madness of a mind that is fantasizing his place in history as the Owner of our Western Hemisphere. Therefore He would be the third member of the Members only Club of Supreme  Dictators of our Planet Earth.

Trump has privately and publicly praised the control exercised by China's Xi Jinping. During a briefing with Republican senators, Trump recounted an experience where Xi's officials remained completely still and silent, not responding to questions without Xi's permission. He told his cabinet members that he wanted them to behave in a similar manner, noting that he had "never seen men so scared in their lives". He also praised Xi for being "president for life," stating, "And he's great. And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot someday".

However, this history of established policy did not prevent the current Occupant of the Oval from invading Venezuela and capturing the dictator Maduro and his wife. They were designated by our State Department as a Foreign terrorist Organization FTO as a justifying reason for our invasion which can be considered an act of war.

What is the goal of the Occupant of the Oval? What does he mean we are going to “Run” the Country? What comes next? How does he induce the major oil companies of our country pay for restructuring the broken infrastructure of oil producing agencies? Venezuela oil is thick sticky “sour” crude. To make it viable, it needs to be refined. This is where the American companies come into play and remake the broken structures productive. This makes money for American Companies, but how does it make America safer? How does this make America First?

We do not need the Oil from Venezuela. Our Country is the world top producer of Oil, leading significantly, producing around 20 - 22 million barrels per day, compared to Saudi Arabia of 10 million bpd and Russia 10 million bpd. The Only reason for America's involvement for the oil fields of Venezuela is to make money for the rich billionaire oil companies of America.

What is the real reason for this American Invasion of a Sovereign Nation?

1. Makes America safer from narcotics

2. Making Venezuela great again

3. Saving the Petro Dollar

4. Preempting China from refining Venezuela's heavy sour crude

5. Controlling the countries in the Western Hemisphere

6. Making his fantasy of being the third member of the Members Only Club of Dictators come true. 

Last year was the opening salvo of a man who ignores congress, established law and policy. This year he is putting all of his “Absolute Immunity power” from any action which could be illegal into real trans-actionable profits for himself and his companies.

He is the gift of 90 million American voters who gave him the Presidency. They Voted a convicted criminal into a position of absolute power, and we now are experiencing the foreseeable intentions of a criminally sociopathic mind.

Can the Rest of Us, save our Republic ? Will the 2026 election happen and have results we can Trust? I have no answers, only my blog of dissent.

I WILL CONTINUE TO DISSENT !