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TRUMP and ANTI-SEMITISM

Thursday, April 17th, 2025

What is going on when a man, who is known to be racist and extremely sexist, starts a campaign against institutions and others demanding they address their anti-semitism?

Well, if the man is Donald Trump, you know he self-serves and does little else and in the case of his anti-semitic campaign – could that be because his sin-in-law (Kushner) is an Orthodox Jew? And his daughter (Ivanka) – Kushner’s wife – converted to Orthodox Judaism in 2009?

Is that what made Donald Trump able to fight anti-semitism and threaten to destroy Universities and more if they didn’t address the issue? And – at the same time strip African Americans of their jobs because of their skin color, ancestors, etc? And – at the same time work to eliminate Gay and Trans folks from any involvement in society along with Latina’s and so many more “minorities”?

It is too bad Trump’s “campaign” to eliminate anti-semitism hasn’t cleaned up his, Elon Musk’s and their circle of folks ethics, morals, etc.

One thing all of this has done for many of us is to show how slavery held on so long and how folks were able to own slaves; treated their African slaves; the dirt poor Chinese living in these United States building the structures on which the railroads ran and who lived in horrendous circumstances and still suffer to this day from being one of the American Minorities; and so many more from other parts of the world and along with those who lived on the continent we now call the United States, who suffered under the Donald Trumps and Elon Musks in the past and in the present.

These were people stealing from every one and living in the most abominal, vile, unethical ways. They and those who inherited their immorality are now in society doing everything they can to make sure only those like them thrive. They make sure only their own kind are able to exercise their talents like everyone else without the immorality of Trump supporters destroying their lives.

To have elected such an immoral man as President of these United States makes quite a statement about United States many of the United States’ voting citizens. Trump has been accused of sexually abusing many women. Elon Musk has 14 children by 4 wives most of whom know only negatives about their “father” because of the way he treats them – ignores them – and goes on making more children. Does money and the power it brings give you the right to do this?

What Trump and Elon Musk are doing today is showing the world how immoral you can be and still have people who idolize you and want to do your will because of their money and power.

Many of us have long looked at the two opposing ‘governments’ in these United States. The one with people working to maintain and grow a democracy where all people are created equal. The other pushing forward in positions of leadership those who created and continue and grow an autocratic, fascist society which uses the corporate structure to gain ever more money, power and arrogance to attempt to exercise their unethical, immoral and arrogant lifestyle.

We have seen and experienced how minorities and women with great businesses don’t get to bring all of their hard work to fruition because it is usually – with very few exceptions to disprove the rule – stolen from them when their businesses show their creations moving into great, very lucrative money wise ways.

Will it ever stop or will this be the way of this world as long as humans live on it? Will our priorities ever change to make it a necessity for humans to reach out to those who have less and work with them to bring them into enjoying the fruits of their labor?

Dear God – you promised that when two or three were gathered in your name you would be in the midst of them. Please make your presence felt during thiis time of great need in these United States as the horror of what is happening here is gradually spreading across the globe.

Trump University – responsible for the horrendousness suffered by Harvard and Columbia and Northwestern Universities with more to come?

Saturday, April 12th, 2025

One of the first attacks by Donald Trump, very shortly after he took on the job of president of these United States were the attacks he made against Harvard University, Columbia University and who else?

Interesting the side issues to that – in the background – the woman who was out front, Elise Stefanik, lost her job as Ambassador to the United Nations before she got a chance to be sworn in. She was front and center trying to take down the female presidents of some of our best universities. Had to do with Trump’s gratitude to those who prostrate themselves to him?

Go back into recent history and take a look at what happened with Trump University! There are many articles which have researched this topic. One is https://www.americanprogress.org/article/trump-university-look-enduring-education-scandal/

The above article mentions Columbia Business School. It says “Columbia Business School made clear that “individual faculty” helped develop early programs but have nothing to do with the real estate program that became the heart of Trump University”. In a statement provided by the university, Don Sexton, a professor at the business school, said, “If the allegations are true, then they took something that was designed to help struggling small business owners and corrupted it.”32

That does answer some questions as to why Trump went after Columbia University.

Thousands of students paid between approximately $10,000 and $35,000 to attend this University founded by Donald Trump and from which he benefitted at a time when it looks as though he was having tough financial difficulties. Those who were trying to gain an education and better themselves paid the price for his next step up. Some of these articles claim Trump was paid a sum for each student who signed up for the very abbreviated learning they received.

The lawsuit itself resulted in a $25 million dollar settlement against Trump! It is claimed, Trump did not pay that settlement, someone else paid for him and he continued life as usual.

Trump had to do a lot of explaining during his first run for president. During this second run it was almost not mentioned and after he was installed as president and went after Columbia University and others there was barely any reporting in the media showing the relationship between what happened then and the possibility that what substantial universities are now having to deal with that Donald Trump, president is foisting on them is RETALIATION.

Read about Trump University and you will see that the schools attacked by Trump seem to have been attacked because of Trump University.

Wikipedia write: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_University

Trump University was never an actual University despite calling itself such and Donald Trump owned 93% of the LLC. The lawsuits filed claimed “racketeering” amongst other claims. New York State Department of Education forced a name change from University to whatever else. – and now Trump is trying to close down the Federal Department of Education. Does one have anything to do with the other?

Trump University was also sued by the state of Texas for engaging in false, misleading and deceptive practices.

Many of the people now involved running the United States government at the highest level are talked about as you read what happened with Trump University. Pam Bondi – currently one at the top of the U. S. Government is one of those people. She was then Florida’s Attorney General.

From 1973 through 2016 Donald Trump was involved in over 4,000 cases. Giving a different look at why he is now pressuring law firms and receiving free future legal help.

Northwestern University was involved in all of this. Trump publicly claimed that major universities supported his institution and he named Northwestern University, Stanford and Columbia. All three denied that they had any involvement. Northwestern said Trump’s claim “apparently involves a former professor here named Roger Schank. He retired from Northwestern in about 1998. We do not have any information regarding any subsequent affiliation he may have had with Trump University.”31 And so, Northwestern University was listed wherever Trump keeps his list of grievances against people and institutions and when he had the chance he did what he could to malign them and attempted to make their lives difficult.

This could go on for pages. However, if you want to know more, it is readily available on your computer, simply search for Trump University, Donald Trump, etc. and you will find enough to read that will make you need a bath at the end of your readings. It is putrid to see so much about someone who is now president of these United States. We wonder if those who voted for him don’t also feel as though they need a good cleansing.

We see where this comes from and where it is going. When you read about the latest Trump horror story where he and Elon Musk took Maya Angelou’s book out of the military libraries and left Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler in the library for our military people to read it brings back the divorce statements when Trump and Ivanka Trump divorced where she told the court Trump kept Adolf Hitler’s writings on his bedside table. Most of us keep the bible in that spot. It certainly explains Trump and Musk’s relationship and Trump’s life story. Doesn’t Musk come from a wealthy South African family?

Dear God, we are trying very hard to keep your commandments and to reach out to those being misled and walking an evil path. Don’t know if our efforts are successful, but we will keep praying, believing and walking and doing according to your will. Please look at what is happening in this world and bring about your justice, your peace, your reconciliation. So many people’s lives are being destroyed because of one man’s ambitions with the help of so many more who have let greed and power obtained on the backs of others blind them to what they are doing. Opportunities many being so seriously hurt have worked hard to achieve for themselves and their families and those opportunities are being taken away from them in the ugliest and most vicious of ways. Your hand is needed more than ever in this morass of lies, cheating, stealing, and so much more. Help us all, dear Lord.

TRUMP and Mental Illness!

Wednesday, April 9th, 2025

It is time for psychologists and psychiatirsts, who have noticed the mental problems Trump is showing to speak out. The United States and its future is at stake.

There are beginning to be calls for Donald J. Trump to resign as United Sates President. That is not going to happen. The United States saw what happened when Trump lost the election. His ego and arrogance and fast progressing mental illness will not allow him to resign.

There is a much more serious problem which the United States must face. By a very small majority, the citizens of these United States elected a president who was and is showing signs of mental illness; who is a convicted felon; who has been accused of and it has been proven in Court that he sexually assaulted women. From the accusations against him, it was many many women and from looking at the backbrounds and tendencies of the men he has appointed to serve in his government , his preference of people with whom he wants to work are those who engage in sexual deviancy – particularly the sexual abuse of women.

Our question has always been – what kind of people would vote for and want such a person to lead the country in which they live and raise their children. What happens to your children as they grow to maturity with such an example held up to them as the kind of person they should strive to be?

Donald Trump has led quite a stressful life, which we feel has resulted in his current mental incapacity. Everyone around him and much of the general citizenry of these United States has been trying very hard to ignore this and we are all paying the price. Not just United States citizens, but the world economic, financial and political systems.

How is this exhibited? One way – there is not an appearance Trump makes and at which he says anything that he does not trash someone and use that trashing to build himself up. This is not an occasional trashing of others and glorifying of Donald Trump. The way he does this shows he is quite far along in his mental “craziness.”. The tariffs he is now imposing on the world are a clear indication that his economic vision is impaired and is impaired in a way that clearly shows his mental illness.

As a very young man, Donald Trump was surrounded by and helped to move ahead financially and otherwise by a small group of gay people who surrounded Roy Cohn. They helped him move taking along his father’s money and the influence his father built over a lifetime, from Queens to New York. Unfortunately, Trump also took along his father’s bigotry, having worked with his father to keep African Americans out of their apartment buildings.

The group most influential in; most helpful to Trump’s acquiring Trump Towers and other business moves was the gay group around Roy Cohn, a man who did not deny his gayness and worked to help others even though his ethics and in the way he did this was quite questionable. The way Roy Cohn moved in his business life as an attorney was quite similar to the way Trump now moves – although Trump is moving on a much larger scale.

As a result of all of the help and sacrifices Roy Cohn and the group around him made to help Donald Trump move out of his father’s sphere of influence and into Manhattan, they and the entire gay community has been repaid by Donald Trump in the most negative of ways. By Trump moving very strongly against the gay community and characterizing them in the ugliest of ways making sure their lives today will be exponentially more difficult because Donald Trump is and was president..

We don’t believe Trump is gay. From what we have looked into, our conclusion is that Donald Trump is a sexual deviant of the worse kind and he is uplifting and spreading his sexual deviancy by the way he empowers those like him and with the same tendencies, appointing many of these to be his co-workers – many of those who have been accused of the same tendencies to sexual deviancy to high office in the United States of America..

Once upon a time there was no questioning the sexual identity of members of groups like those who planned the Krystalnacht march complete with lanterns marching down a hill. Today, the first question that we hear asked about such groups has to do with the sexual identity of the members of such groups. That questioning parallels the ascendancy of Donald J. Trump and his use and sometimes abuse of these groups.

As Trump has moved away from those groups, except to use them when he needs their help, he has not moved away from the talk and questions about his sexuality.

Today also, many of the prominent people who have worked the hardest to move Trump back into the White House are rumored to be gay. There are rumors about Vance, Trump’s choice for vice President. Mostly about why he was chosen. Vance worked for Peter Thiel, who is appaarently the only person Vance has worked for most of his life, totally admits his gayness. Was that choice (Vance as Trump’s running mate) put in front of Trump, who was not allowed to turn away from that because of what was known about Donald Trump? Like Roy Cohn, Thiel and his group have not denied their gayness having lived into it most of their lives.

During most of Donald Trump’s life indications of mental illness have been front and center. Mostly, the people around him have tried to deny that, probably because they used his mental illness to their economic and political advantage.

Today, it is time for these United States to acknowledge what is “in your face.” Donald Trump needs to be taken down as United States president because the country cannot properly function with a leader. who shows indications of a very destructive form of mental illness and has been showing suchfor quite some time. Trump has clearly shown everytime he makes a speech – even short and very brief comments – the extent of his mental illness. His being president the first time ended in this country’s first ever insurrection during which the police, White House guards and many others lost their lives because Trump lost the election for a second term in office. He is now back and mentally even worse than he was those four plus years ago. The people surrounding him who are aware of this are using it to their benefit and to the detriment of the United States.

IT IS PAST TIME TO CALL FOR – NOT THE RESIGNATION OF DONALD J. TRUMP AS PRESIDENT OF THESE UNITED STATES, BUT FOR HIS REMOVAL AS PRESIDENT BECAUSE OF MENTAL ILLNESS CAUSING A SEVERE PROBLEM FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD.

If that does not happen, things will most definitely and quickly move DOWNHILL.

The Word for Today – GASLIGHTING

Friday, April 4th, 2025

An entire world is being subject to gaslighting. The expert and top dog at the sport is Donald J. Trump. He is followed only by Elon Musk. I would put Musk first, but he didn’t have what it was to run for and become president. Instead he has taken the backseat, but not backstage positioning allowed to him by Donald J. Trump.

This is the second time around that Trump has shown off his gaslighting ability to the whole world and it is a spectacular talent.

The American stock market is the latest subject. He has gone about his job with talk, talk and more talk. None of it clear. None of it true. None of it particular to the stock market in America and – incidently – actually affected world wide stock markets. Now that is a first class gaslighter.

Elon Musk’s gas lighting ability and use of – or should I say abuse of – his talents has made me back away from wanting to become the world’s wealthiest woman or man. Maybe I should rather say the world’s wealthiest person.

Unfortunately, Donald Trump’s gaslighting has cost most of us tens – no – hundreds of thousands of dollars that we worked hard to acquire, save, invest. Those facts, however, never touch a gaslighters conscience. He/she just continues to gas light.

We wonder – just an aside – if Donald Trump’s big emphasis on fighting bigotry against Jews comes from his guilt from the way he treated his mentor – Roy Cohn.

We used to work hard to bring about change for the betterment of humanity. We don’t anymore. We understand human beings better than we did at a much younger age. The best of us can turn into the worst of us in seconds and continue on the most despicable way to live and relate you have ever encountered.

The laziest way to do that is through gaslighting and then stepping aside to enjoy the results of one’s talent. Even lazier is to combine gaslighting with lying. Now that should bring down empires.

God help me to remain centered in all that I do with my eyes, ears, heart tuned to your word and my deeds reflective of your plan for my life. It is really hard to do that, but I will keep trying.

McCarthyism’s Successor – TRUMPISM

Thursday, April 3rd, 2025

What a day – what a world – what a country!

We have Elon Musk doing everything he can to turn this country into what White South Africa was like many years prior to Nelson Mandela, so Musk can be comfortable living here being the power and money behind the Trump Throne. And then, we have Donald Trump living out Joe McCarthy and Roy Cohn’s dream. Trump was well mentored by Roy Cohn for years and now he gets to fly solo putting into practice what he learned at Roy Cohn’s knee and what he added to at Vladimir Putin’s knee.

Who was at the head table for the McCarthy public/political meetings and rallies!!!! Who made up the McCarthy trinity and who has succeeded them:

  1. Joe McCarthy – with his successor who we can’t accurately name

2. Roy Cohn – who mentored Donald Trump

3. Robert Kennedy – succeeded in this political iteration by Robert Kennedy Jr.

What most amazes ue is the fact that these people were allowed and mostly elected to destroy these United States in the attempt to keep it white, male, mostly northern european, with power and money belonging only to the few.

If any of us thought these United States were becoming this beautiful country living out its constitution we have unrefutable proof that it is a country doing its best to become one of the most bigoted countries spending its energy and resources exploiting its lower to middle class citizens, while building into its structure that place for its billionaire class which would be ‘better than” all others. Slavery has just bveen redefined, it has not been eliminated.

The people who voted for Trump and Company should be on their knees begging God’s forgiveness for having violated all of God’s commandments – some vicariously through supporting and putting themselves under those who have and continue to flagrantly violate those commandments and way of being.

It is tragic to see Peter Hegseth join Donald Trump. What do they have in common? – The abuse of women? Doesn’t Donald Trump have a weakness for those who do just that. Who has he chosen for his cabinet who is not such a violator of women? It is as if the Presidential Cabinet’s job descriptions have been re-written to add abuse – sexually and otherwise – of women and if that is not your thing, then immigrants and others who are not white, not northern european ancestry, not in that group.

If you have been about the abuse of women, a short investigation will show the rest of your life has been about the abuse, disrespect, etc. etc. of many, many others.

Trump and those working with him are busy destroying the lives of those they designate as “Criminal Immigrants.” Tragically, a look into their backgrounds shows -Trump particularly – that they have ancestors and family who could be categorized as what they today call “Criminal Immigrants”. Those ancestors and family to come who have the stage set for their past and future family to carry their horribleness which they inherited from the past into future generations. And Trump’s children? Are they on the same path? We have seen their self-absorption, but where is their care and concern for others.

Well Joseph McCarthy – former United States Senator – see what you have wrought. There are no words to describe your sins. And to you Attorney Roy Cohn, may God have mercy on your soul. Robert Kennedy, former U. S. Attorney General, you moved the end of your life to a better purpose than the road on which you started your career. May your last work on this earth help to ease the burden you had to carry into your next life. Maybe the example of how you changed your course will leak into the life of your son who will feel moved to do a bit of repentance and good work instead of calling what he is now doing good work as he helps Donald Trump and Company destroy so many others to help him totally change these United States into a country which continues the slavery and awfulness of its early beginnings into today.

Unfortunately, looking at one’s life and seeing the desperate need for change and the awfulness of where you are currently does not seem to seep in when it is power you are seeking. The corruption that power and money brings into ones life blinds one to the incredible price you pay and that you force others to pay for your extreme misdeeds.

These United States have everything it needs to become a strong, caring, sharing nation. Unfortunately, every time we come close to crossing that threshold into goodness we put up blockages to make sure we don’t cross over. It is past the time for us to leave ugliness, bigotry, greed, the lust for personal power and so much more evil that you all are creating today and walk into the beautiful garden of God’s promise.


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