Today, I was forced to pay an illegal tariff on two imported pups!

Unilateral executive powers for tariff are for matters of ‘national security’. Otherwise, tariffs require Congressional action.

Importing border collies because we have such horrible breeding stock in the USA has NOTHING to do with national security. Federal courts have said it is an illegal use of executive authority. However, as is his way, Trump and his gang, will appeal and appeal, exploiting and manipulating the justice process, dipping and diving and abusing the court system due process.

The Trump Party in Congress that could do something is servile and submissive. Trump has them enthralled or in fear.

Everything about Trump is WRONG.

In the past, we relied upon enough people bucking party and personal interest and fear to stand up for what is right. Tragically, for America and the world, that is no longer the case.

Trump has filed for bankruptcy 6 times according to Politifact. How do we square that with business and executive acumen? In each case, the business kept going but the creditors were stiffed. Notorious for not paying or honoring deals and bullying his way out of it using the legal system, Trump is adopting the very same approach to governance. He dips, dives, evades and deceives …calling it business talent. Meanwhile, he ruins American advantage and undermines America’s future.

Trump is the ugly face of capitalism with no soul or conscience.

His tariffs, which I paid today on dogs that enhance the USA breeding stock, are a farce, illegal economic buffoonery by an elected and tolerated autocrat.

Democracy functions when have a shared spirit and reverence for the constitution, laws, institutions and norms. For 70 years, those in opposition to the spirit of Franklin Roosevelts New Deal have been working to undermine it. Their extraction, grown to nearly half the population, filled with resentment, greed, ignorance and deceits found fascination, shared grievance and form in Trump. For the life of me, I cannot understand how it could be so …except on some intellectual level.

Someday, ‘the chickens will come home to roost’, as they say. The consequences of Trump and his Trumped-Up MAGA will be present, and they will not be shaken off with a new election.

When it comes time to taking responsibility for Trump, MAGAts, MAGA voters and enablers will -out of ignorance (often willful), greed, and guilt- say something akin to what the residents of Bergen and Belsen did when the Allies discovered the horrors of the concentration camp, “But vee didn’t noh!” …if they say anything at all. Lies and bullshit. We ALL knew what Trump was about. He had history, he had a first term. He told us.