Around 35.9 million people (10.6% of the population) live in poverty. Furthermore, over 47 million Americans—including 14 million children—experience food insecurity (the official term for lacking consistent access to enough nutritious food). The stats say 1 in 7 Americans go hungry.
Putting food on the table and helping the poor is the last thing on Trump's mind.
Dear God in Heaven, Elizabeth. You've named it and called it out for what it is, this 'government' that pretends at 'populism'. This present metasticization of responsible self-governance has become a thing beyond binaries of 'freedom' and 'unfreedom', democracy or state-run marxism, free-enterprise (whatever that ever was) or state-sanctioned totalitarian economic control from the 'commanding heights'; ie, those willing to do whatever it takes to have control AND impunity in action. Even when it's self-serving. Especially when it's self-serving.
I've linked two related and supportive discussions to your point here, which for me, is that to fall for gimmick of "OUR GOOD AND VIRTUOUS SIDE vs THOSE OTHER TERRIBLE PEOPLE we've convinced you to fear and loathe; is:
To be deluded by the manner in which transnational financial criminals have seized the country's wealth to support their errant and destructive mission to accumulate ever more, like late-stage chronic alcoholics wrecking their households because they 'can't get enough' either.
Irish journalist Caolan Roberts has done as good a job as anybody tracking down not just the stories from the plains and firefights and bombings of Ukraine, he's been willing and able to poke into the machinery that benefits from that ongoing war (and, I'll tie this back to your point in a bit...). I recommend this clip of his searching out the Russia connection to the high-rollers at an international art show in Venice this year. I find the insidiousness of Russian money to be disturbing: the 'shrug' of the 'art community' (which looks smarmily similar to the 'Epstein class' of wealth and immunity) is every bit as disturbing as Jason Horwich's 2010 series, "Rubicon". Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyRRDakwOLk
But even more, and substantiated by writers ranging from Timothy Snyder, to Sarah Kendzior, to Whitney Webb; and, to you:
Comes this interview on Ukrainian television with analyst Jonathon Fink, a russophile who lived in Russia in '92 and '93, who speaks Russian and saw the transition from the 'hopeful' days of Gorbachev to Yeltsin shelling the Duma with tank artillery, to Putin serving the Siloviki's desire for money. Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID1Fjcy_t-E
The lens provided in this conversation, which is clearly pro-Ukraine, is that there is substantiation to the theory that transnational financial criminals need a Russia that is a lawless state which 'allows' their oligarchs to 'own' the oil and mineral wealth, it allows OUR oligarchs opportunity for cadging onto and hiding ilicit moneys; and,
'allows' them all to benefit from an 'economy' that is entirely extractive and at the expense of most people, and that a slowly debilitating war enriches those few at the top of their paradigm while enfeebling the rest of us (and getting large numbers of combatants KIA). Ie;
Nations are irrelevant. Common good is irrelevant. Ideologies and beliefs are irrelevant (unless in service as fig-leaf-cover for untrammeled greed and impunity from their selfish behavior). All that matters to the people in power now, is more power.
To your consistent and on-going message: The party of Trump is in thrall to the power that's been exhibited by his patron Vladimir Putin and his ilk. The most important thing / understanding / philosophy is the creation of dependency for all of us and impunity for them. They will continue to do harm in the service of greed, and nothing more. We stop them when we refuse to vote for them; and,
When we refuse to submit to them. Thanks, as always, for your work.
The so called best in sport, theater, film and business are rewarded for their efforts at the box office or in the boardroom which seems fair enough if the reward of entertainment also put food on the table and paid the rent, but it doesn't and families go hungry.
If my numbers are correct, over 5% of the adults here in the US in 2025 skipped meals, in some instances to assure their children had enough to eat.
Thanks Jeri - good to her from you. Plese pass the message on to others. We MUST win in November. Warm Wishes, Elizabeth
Around 35.9 million people (10.6% of the population) live in poverty. Furthermore, over 47 million Americans—including 14 million children—experience food insecurity (the official term for lacking consistent access to enough nutritious food). The stats say 1 in 7 Americans go hungry.
Putting food on the table and helping the poor is the last thing on Trump's mind.
Dear God in Heaven, Elizabeth. You've named it and called it out for what it is, this 'government' that pretends at 'populism'. This present metasticization of responsible self-governance has become a thing beyond binaries of 'freedom' and 'unfreedom', democracy or state-run marxism, free-enterprise (whatever that ever was) or state-sanctioned totalitarian economic control from the 'commanding heights'; ie, those willing to do whatever it takes to have control AND impunity in action. Even when it's self-serving. Especially when it's self-serving.
I've linked two related and supportive discussions to your point here, which for me, is that to fall for gimmick of "OUR GOOD AND VIRTUOUS SIDE vs THOSE OTHER TERRIBLE PEOPLE we've convinced you to fear and loathe; is:
To be deluded by the manner in which transnational financial criminals have seized the country's wealth to support their errant and destructive mission to accumulate ever more, like late-stage chronic alcoholics wrecking their households because they 'can't get enough' either.
Irish journalist Caolan Roberts has done as good a job as anybody tracking down not just the stories from the plains and firefights and bombings of Ukraine, he's been willing and able to poke into the machinery that benefits from that ongoing war (and, I'll tie this back to your point in a bit...). I recommend this clip of his searching out the Russia connection to the high-rollers at an international art show in Venice this year. I find the insidiousness of Russian money to be disturbing: the 'shrug' of the 'art community' (which looks smarmily similar to the 'Epstein class' of wealth and immunity) is every bit as disturbing as Jason Horwich's 2010 series, "Rubicon". Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyRRDakwOLk
But even more, and substantiated by writers ranging from Timothy Snyder, to Sarah Kendzior, to Whitney Webb; and, to you:
Comes this interview on Ukrainian television with analyst Jonathon Fink, a russophile who lived in Russia in '92 and '93, who speaks Russian and saw the transition from the 'hopeful' days of Gorbachev to Yeltsin shelling the Duma with tank artillery, to Putin serving the Siloviki's desire for money. Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID1Fjcy_t-E
The lens provided in this conversation, which is clearly pro-Ukraine, is that there is substantiation to the theory that transnational financial criminals need a Russia that is a lawless state which 'allows' their oligarchs to 'own' the oil and mineral wealth, it allows OUR oligarchs opportunity for cadging onto and hiding ilicit moneys; and,
'allows' them all to benefit from an 'economy' that is entirely extractive and at the expense of most people, and that a slowly debilitating war enriches those few at the top of their paradigm while enfeebling the rest of us (and getting large numbers of combatants KIA). Ie;
Nations are irrelevant. Common good is irrelevant. Ideologies and beliefs are irrelevant (unless in service as fig-leaf-cover for untrammeled greed and impunity from their selfish behavior). All that matters to the people in power now, is more power.
To your consistent and on-going message: The party of Trump is in thrall to the power that's been exhibited by his patron Vladimir Putin and his ilk. The most important thing / understanding / philosophy is the creation of dependency for all of us and impunity for them. They will continue to do harm in the service of greed, and nothing more. We stop them when we refuse to vote for them; and,
When we refuse to submit to them. Thanks, as always, for your work.
Tim Long, Just Up the Hill from Lock 15
The so called best in sport, theater, film and business are rewarded for their efforts at the box office or in the boardroom which seems fair enough if the reward of entertainment also put food on the table and paid the rent, but it doesn't and families go hungry.
If my numbers are correct, over 5% of the adults here in the US in 2025 skipped meals, in some instances to assure their children had enough to eat.
Thank you for continuing to speak truth about the corruption in the self-dealing Trump regime.