TRUMP! THE DECLINE!

 Trump is a demented fool and he has no idea of what he is doing. (Trump didn't know what happened at Pearl Harbor). Trump is dismantling our government and yes some of it really needed to be curtailed. However the damage he is doing will have far reaching consequences. He is putting an end to scientific research, including for cancer and other diseases. There is not one aspect of our way of life thatTrump hasn't affected in a negative fashion.   Nader says it best!

From Ralph Nader:

Trump has illegally and impeachably closed the Agency for International Development, fast winding down critical humanitarian aid – medicine, food, clean water, etc. – to millions of impoverished families in poor countries abroad. Tens of thousands have already perished, according to aid officials.

He has illegally and impeachably paralyzed the protector of consumers – the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – that returned many billions of dollars to consumers from corporate rip-off schemes, mostly from the finance companies. Throwing corporate law and order out the window, Trump is setting records for being soft on corporate crime – ending dozens of underway prosecutions of companies by the Justice Department.

He has illegally and impeachably closed the cabinet-level Department of Education, throwing student aid programs and the status of existing loans into dark holes of chaos.

Across other federal agencies, Trump has closed down crucial scientific programs designed to understand and alert the people to mega-storms and wildfires, infectious diseases, looming pandemics abroad, and expand basic research in medical science for the public’s health.

With his toady EPA Administrator, Lee Zeldin, Trump is chopping our protection against deadly toxic air, water, and soil pollution into pieces. He is closing down the EPA’s celebrated scientific research section, firing people everywhere, and declaring that the EPA has no authority to deal with the oil, gas, and coal fossil fuel emissions causing global warming. Crazily, he has blocked lower-priced solar energy and wind power projects, calling windmills “ugly.” This is just deranged.

FEMA employees have signed a desperate petition to Trump to stop strip-mining the agency, stop slowing its emergency response time, and restore the staff pushed out during the DOGE lawlessness. For their courage, Trump fired or suspended many of these hurricane, flood, and wildfire rescuers, as he does for civil servants who sign other letters and petitions because  they report they are unable to perform their work because of his actions. He has weakened an already weak OSHA and further jeopardized the health and safety of Americans in their workplace.

Trump has reduced successful programs such as Meals on Wheels America, Head Start, and aims to get rid of the Job Corps and AmeriCorps. Again, illegally defying Congressional mandates.

Trump, who eats well, is cutting food stamps for millions of poor Americans. This is hurting desperate families and supplying farmers.

Earlier, Trump got through Congress a law that will cause over 10 million people to lose their Medicaid; nearly five million could lose health care coverage soon when the elimination of subsidies causes prices to skyrocket under Obamacare scheduled by the end of this year. These serious deprivations, sure to cost lives, are what the Congressional Democrats are insisting be reversed before they go along with the omnibus government funding bill. GOP leaders, Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, are resisting. Of course, they have good health insurance paid for by taxpayers.

Trump has shut down diplomacy abroad, replacing it with threats, violence, fantasies, and boastful rhetoric. The skills of the Foreign Service in the State Department are frozen under the arrogant Secretary of State, Netanyahu toady, Marco Rubio.

DT

LOSING OUR RIGHTS!

 Up until the Trump presidency no one could just take away your personal freedom. You did not have to be a citizen to enjoy this freedom, everyone had the right of due process. Under the Trump presidency no one has this freedom any longer. So whether you know it or not, Trump has taken away your basic freedom. You can only hope that the occasion will not arise when you need this protection, for without it you can be imprisoned, deported and yes even executed.

DT

 

THOUGHT! and AWARENESS!

 Thought has made up most of my living.  If there is such a thing as reality, thought is outside of it. This means that thought cannot know reality. Reality therefore is a direct experience between the mind and what is actual, "reality". Meditation then would be the vehicle to have the experience of reality. This is a bit misleading in that there isn't a self to have the experience. Note that the self arises in thought.

Awareness is another word for meditation. Awareness is being aware that you are aware, again there is no self that is being aware, there is only awareness. This is why thought has made up most of my life, I was not aware of reality.  In not perceiving the actual reality I invented reality, thought created the self and this is a wrong turn. The entirety of mankind has made a wrong turn, this is why we struggle without results. Reality has no need of a "self" and it is this 'self" that is the source of all our problems. The self does not want this to be true, it is a powerful illusion. 

DT AKA Bill Rogan