PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

AND THE

MORAL DECLINE IN AMERICA

WE  hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

We take for granted that the above declaration is our everyday right. The pursuit of Happiness. Only it just doesn't float down from the sky and surround us like a magic cloud and wrap us in this state of being. No, it has to be worked at, pursued, protected, and guarded by us all. This pursuit, this of a state of being. It can be taken away from us, by bad luck, bad people, and bad choices.

1. Bad luck. Being born into a family of poverty and economic insecurity.

2. Bad People taking of the disadvantaged for their pleasure.

3. Bad choices by young inexperienced children.

Donald J. Trump's personal characteristics and history of bad character traits. We know this for we have seen with our own eyes and ears these traits well documented. . For the most part, people have ignored signs of this person's bad behavior. These traits have been enhanced and absolved by the Supreme Court.

1. I can do what ever I want because I'm a star.

2. I could stand on 5^th ave and shoot someone

3. People who get captured are not heroes

4. I did not loose the election, it was stolen

5. Inspired, energized, encouraged his followers to attack the Capital on Jan. 6

6. Pardoned and freed the convicted Jan 6^th felons.

7. I am your retribution

8. I am you revenge

9. I did not have the privilege to go to Epstein's Island

10. I wish Her Well

11. He Stole Her from me

His Moral Decline has been on display since 2015 when he rode his golden escalator down to announce his candidacy. Little by little the gradual escalation of his moral declining values have been over looked by most. The last two items on the list are the ones that should terrify all parents of little girls. His involvement with Jeffery Epstein is well documented and now he has given his support to one of the most heinous pedophiles in American history. By Accepting the lack of moral character in our President, does that imply that we Americans are adapting to his values?

Virginia Giuffre

Over one thousand young girls had their pursuit of happiness taken away forever. They still live with the horrible memories of the rape and trafficking of their young lives.

Is this the last thing on the list that America will accept for an American President? Will the Mothers and Fathers of little Girls finally say NO, this we cannot accept, we will not have the highest officer of our Land, of America to be an enabler for pedophilia. Is the pursuit of Happiness * only for the rich and well connected? Has the moral decline infected the congress, the Supreme Court, and the Voting American Public to the extent that the President can protect, and give well wishes to a convicted criminal pedophile? If so, What's Next?

The Declaration of Independence states that we have the right to pursue happiness, this right was taken away by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, for the thousand young Girls, to pursue the guaranteed right put forth in the Declaration of Independence for their Future...

How do we tell our Children that the President's behavior is not what they should take as a guide for themselves? Why do we a as a Nation, give to this person with his moral unspeakable behavior a pass? 

My Hope is that the Fathers and Mothers of the American People will not let this behavior of a President of such moral turpitude stand for our Nation's leader. Politics should start at most local level, and that is at the hearth of America homes and in the hearts of our People.

* this film is one of heart felt emotion of what some folks have to live through...in their pursuit of Happiness.

 

"I Wish Her Well"

He knows her well, He wishes her well

There are monsters in our dreams, there are monsters in our human world, and there are monsters in our midst who prey on Children. One of these monsters is Ghislaine Maxwell.

She was convicted by a jury and given 20 years in prison for her role in the Jeffery Epstein Saga. Now she resides in a Club Fed prison in Texas with no security. She could just walk out and be gone...She has been sent there by the person who resides in the oval office.

Who is the Monster? The person residing in the oval, the persons wearing the black robes of law and Justice, or the people abetting the oval resident who is wishing her well.

As of today, I no longer will call the oval resident the President. He does not protect the very foundations of our Country's Constitution. He is a convicted felon. He seeks to dismantle the Constitution, destroy our morality, our civil rights, the free press, law firms, University independence, due process, and now our 401K's. In the business world, he would not be considered for a school janitor position. Yet, there he is in the Oval, trying to remake America an autocracy...

So, who put him there? Project 25, The Republican Party, the Supreme Court, Mitch McConnell, MAGA, Or, The Voting Public who is in thrall with a snake oil salesman who promised to reduce the price of eggs. He sits there behind the Resolute Desk, walks on the White House roof, plays golf, talks big and has made our Country less safe, less productive, less respected, and on the big stage, less truthful.

He has made the people of our Country fearful, inspired hatred, given succor to the criminals in prison by setting them free, and now wishing one of the worst pedophiles in history, wishing her Well.

What do we tell our Children? We warn them not to talk to strangers for they might hurt them. Now we have an oval office person saying, he wishes one of those Monsters Well. Projection is a Monster too.

 

                 The Salk Institute

“Ask not what Your Country can Do For You, Ask what You Can Do For Your Country”

A President's words to inspire. I will never for get that Day. The Kennedy Family has a long and storied history. Some of the story to be sure is one of Greatness, some not. JFK and PT109 was a story of heroism, and dedication to his crew. His acts were not political, they were human.

So, we have another Kennedy in power now who doesn't had any idea for serving America with truth and established science. He terminates 22 projects which were working on mRNA vaccines.This was the breakthrough science that worked to halt the Covid pandemic.

Robert Kennedy is not a scientist, or a medical physician...he is an attorney who has made a name for himself through the years ranting about vaccines and that they cause autism. Why has he made this his life mission? Looking at his place in his family history, his place is without any historical accomplishment of greatness. Now, playing the President's fool, he is transforming our health systems in ways which will take decades to recover. Already, the measles have made a resurgence when they were mostly gone in past years. Jealousy can be a strong motivator.

Throughout history, men have perpetrated acts which were reaction to their own weakness of character. They start wars, destroy cities, countries, works of art, scientific advancement, and human endeavor when it doesn't fit with their personal conception of what they want to be or portray to the world. RFK has no place for historical accomplishments of greatness when compared to his brothers. Competition is fierce in families and when translated to the world stage, it can be deadly. He is making a name for himself through the magnanimity of Trump. Selling his soul to a convicted felon can only make his name synonymous with corruption...Worse, Americans will die because of his decisions which lack any scientific factual basis.

Today I will write a letter to Governor Newsom to hire all of the Scientists who have been fired by Kennedy, to come to California and be a part of our State's HHS program. California can be the place where our Scientific Communities of UCSD and Scripps* could take up the challenge of leadership and medical truth.

Writing this letter today is be my effort to do something for my Country. To take up the pen, to hopefully tell Trump and his administration that California could be the new Pennsylvania of foraging, ...a HHS document of truth, and Science.

* San Diego is a global leader in biomedical research, supported by institutions like the Scripps Research Institute Salk Institute for Biological Studies, UC San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI), and Sanford Burnham Prebys (SBP) These organizations focus on a wide range of areas, including cancer, neurology, immunology, metabolism, and infectious diseases, with a strong emphasis on translational research and developing new therapeutics. 

my letter... 

Dear Governor Newsom

We have a State HHS program here in California. Why don't we hire all of the HHS scientists who have been fired by Kennedy and bring them to California? We could become the leading truth and scientific State which could be a beacon of hope and truth to the rest of America. This could be a revision of the Manhattan project when the U.S. hired many German Scientists to America for building the bomb. I don't liken building vaccines to bombs, although there are similarities. Viruses kill millions and are just deadly as a bomb. When one State cannot bring truth to science, another State should walk through that door, and be the new bearer of truth in Science...Over one million Americans died from Covid...

 

From time to time I will use my own American voice and words. rj

LAST NIGHT I DREAMED ...

“All communications have to go through the President”. “why” asked a small voice and that person was sent to jail for 10 years...

This dream repeated for several times when I tried to go back to sleep...

This dream was not of people, but of text in columns like a newspaper which was printed in Red. A strange experience. There was a voice reading the text, and it was if I was the voice, but not audio of the dreaming self, it was a surreal volume from another existence.

On waking this morning, my pup jumping up and down happy in the new day, I was still half in the dream. I am haunted today hours later, and the dream seems more real to me as I peruse the day's news... He has already sent people to jail far away from their homes, saying he had the right to do so...

Yesterday, He fired Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the BLS. He claimed that the country's jobs reports "are being produced by a Biden appointee" and ordered his administration to terminate her.

In the future, this position will be staffed by a person who will communicate good news to the President. All communications to be told to the People will have to go through the approval process of the President

 

Trust

“THE NEWS IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE” SO SAYS OUR PRESIDENT...

I remember in the 1950's when my brother went to Boy Scout Camp, I had to deliver his paper route. Almost every home had a paper delivered. It was a big job riding a bike and throwing with accuracy the paper to land on the door step. On my morning walks in 2025, there is only one other home in my neighborhood, which has a paper home delivered. In the 50's the News was our local paper, The Whittier Daily News, and in the evening's Network news with Edward R. Murrow at CBS. We trusted both news sources. There was no 24 hour cable, no cell phone influence-rs, no AI making up fake stories, and most of all, what we read, heard, and saw the news was an independent critically presented trusted source for our daily lives. At our Family dinner time, we as a family had occasion to talk about together what was news of the Day.

Who do you Trust Now? Really trust to get the Whole Story. To find the Whole Story. The Networks have a daily Evening News which has been downsized to 15 minuets of headlines. Even so, the headlines are only what is deemed profitable to capture a Click. Social Media for many folks has replaced traditional news sources. This kind of news is most often experienced on a Cell Phone in an abbreviated form. The TV version of news for many is Fox News, which has paid millions of dollars for having people lie on their platform. Many of my neighbors get their news on Instagram. I remember who sat in back of Trump at his inauguration. The Media Giants, Billionaires all...their social platforms are designed by algorithms, to engender clicks of like minded people and spread the stories for clicks...Real news, trusted research* is NOT their cause, their cause is making more money and power for themselves...and, not report any negative information about Trump or his policies.

Words of our Senate in Real Time

To counter, I suggest to them that C-Span, 1,2,3, is a great way to watch in real time the meanderings, double speak, and what is really happening in our Congress. PBS on TV and NPR radio give in real time a source of news in depth. Most of the time, I trust my own eyes and ears on C-span, and trust what I am hearing on PBS, most of the Time.

Cell Phones are the distribution mechanism of AI generated fake media. Stories, Art, News, Politics, and attacks on peoples privacy and personal lives writ large. Coupled with AI Chat-GP these communications can be spread exponentially in seconds. When the President writes his tweets on Truth Social, it is transported to his millions of followers in seconds. Believing all that you see on social media accounts is like believing a six year old child with a pile of rocks in front of him saying he didn't break that darn window he is standing in front of with a rock seen within.

He lies about so many stories, with elements of truth sometimes, that followers are in thrall with his attention to them. Let's contemplate the twitter platform he has created.

Truth Social. Sounds innocent and real, it's first word Truth is what he want's his followers to believe is factual Truth. When someone is trying to sell you a used car, and he loudly proclaims that the car is without any defects, do you believe him or, do you take it in for a check up from your trusted mechanic? When someone says the big lie over and over again somehow it becomes so familiar, it seems true.

Social is the second word on his twitter site. Social is a word we all are a part of, it has become a thing, in our daily lives. Humans are mostly social beings. We love to have friends to interact with daily, and whether in person or on our phones, we are Connected. By it's self, the word is innocent. It does not have a negative theme. It implies friendship, community, and happiness to connect, to be a part of a needed experience. We are hooked. We all have this need to be connected with those we trust and love.

Turning to a source for information and truth on this platform Truth Social can only be factual right? A genius lure to draw in the trusting masses looking for solutions for moral and economic problems. 

Clark Stanley

The snake oil salesman is very charismatic. He is an entertainer. He speaks with vigorous force and strategic movement, energizing his audience. He is exciting, he is more interesting than common sense. He becomes a trusted Friend. He tells all of the People that their problems will all be solved by him alone. Didn't we hear that years ago when he first began his plan to become king? 

What on God's Green Earth would make you believe that this  Billionaire cares about You? Prices are NOT a concern for him. 

I Will bring prices down...his words, we all heard him, some believed him... too many believed.

* Snopes

The Fourteenth Amendment in the Year of 2025

In the previous post, I enumerated some of the steps which contribute to the establishing of a Dictatorship. The 14^th erosion amendment was the first step.

Government Power

1. The Presidency

2. The Congressional

3. The Judicial

For almost 250 years, our Country has survived and prospered under the words of The Founders Constitution. The present day officers of our Country's Governmental operational functions have become beholden to those who have decided to change or give new meanings to the original text of the Constitution. The Three co-equal branches of our Government have the power to impart to our lives all of the rights and privileges defined under the Constitution.

Thank You Again, I won't Forget 

The checks and balances of the Three Branches of our Government have been co-opted by the Supreme Court and now the most powerful words come from the Office of the President. It has been determined that the President is not an Officer of our Government by the Supreme Court. He, above all is immune to what his words can do by executive order. However, he is a executive person who has taken an oath to “uphold the office of President”. ArticleII section 1, [8]. If a person takes an oath to uphold the office of President, it seem logical that he would be considered an officer. This doesn't seem to the be position of the Supreme Court.

A partial list of the President's new powers granted by The Supreme Court;

                    1. Release of 1500 convicted traitors for Jan. 6^th

2. Immunity from creating Jan 6^th insurrection

3. Overriding a State Governor's power of National Guard

4. Disregarding Presidential oath of office

5. Disregarding Due Process for immigrants

6. Immunity for aiding traitors of Jan 6^th

7. Federal Election Interference Case:*

8. Classified Documents Case*

9. Georgia Election Interference Case*

10. Civil Lawsuits Related to January 6th*

11. “Friday Night Massacre,” firing the Igs

12. Creating a non-governmental office of DODE

13. Bombing Iran

The Peoples House and the Senate because of fear, their Constitutional imposed duties have been subsumed into the office of the President. His words now have and hold the greatest power in our Government. The greatest weapon of this President is Fear.

Another article of the 14^th is the nullification of the Section I. All persons born in the United Sates are Citizens of the United States. By the words and EOs of the President we now have questionable status of those born in America for mothers who are not legal citizens. The legal status of many immigrants are now being rounded up and made prisoners to be deported. The conflation of these two very different problems, immigration and birthright have imbued terror our brown and black populations. The 5^th Amendment is circumvented defining due process seems to have vanished.

People Power ~ The Preamble to the Constitution of America

“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”.

People Power

In the 8^th grade We had to memorize this preamble in writing for our final exam. Civics was a required subject to graduate. My teacher Maud Brink, was a survivor of the Bataan Death March in WWII . She told us that a Japanese Guard gave the family one meal day of gruel and one egg a week for her and her three children. She, return taught him English. Her stories of Dictatorship inspired war were vividly told, and her struggles on the march with her children who were about the same age as we were, gave us an appreciation of America and our Constitutional rights told to us by a powerful woman who had all of her rights taken away, and faced death of her children and herself every day.

The Bataan Death March

For the Price of Eggs we now have a would be Dictator...and his words of Unlimited Power...

Our People Power, will it be enogh, can it hold untill the midterms...? 

* When Trump became President,he pardoned himself.

 

Where are we as a Nation on the on the slippery slope of Dictatorship? What defines a Nation as living within a Dictatorship? What defines a Nation as a Democracy? 

The Free Press, Freedom of Speech, Due Process, Freedom from Fear, Constitutional Integrity, National Leaders upholding our Constitution. These elements are foundational for living in a true Democracy.

Purge Defined: the removal of elements or members regarded as undesirable and especially as treacherous or disloyal. Elements of a Purge* for a Nation.

1. Step one...Declaring that the Press is the enemy of the People.

2. Step two...Declaring that certain people are criminals and enemies of the State.  

   
   
   

3. Step Three... Instilling Fear into the Press, the Courts, Universities, the Public Media, the Representatives of the States and the Justice elements as defined in the Constitution.

4. Step Four... By executive order, removing all of those deemed disloyal to the President of our Country. 

5. 

    Scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

   
   
   

The Creation of foundational support for a Dictatorship. 

1. Step one...Eroding the Constitution by the Supreme Court. FourteenthAmendment

2. Constructing new frameworks of monetary influence and election support and facilitation. Citizens United

3. Step two...Establishing ...new unconstitutional powers for the President. AbsoluteImmunity

4. Consolidating of Congressional support though Fear. Primaried

5. Creating a following of noncritical thinking peoples who willingly allow a Leader speaking untruths to achieve his unconstitutional goals of establishing his new powers of dictatorship. MAGA 

6. Utilizing one press entity to inform, fertilize and indoctrinate a large segment of the Population. This one station of information is the only one that the President tells the People that speaks the Truth. Period, full stop. Fox News 

Elements of Purge have already happened. The creation of a Foundational Support for a Dictatorship has already happened. Where does our Nation stand on this slippery slope of Dictatorship? It seems that we are sliding downward at warp speed. The Courts, the Congress, the Press, our legal system have caved. What we have left is our first Amendment Right for Assembly. Do we have any hope that we can retain our rights until the Mid-Term election?

* https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purge