National & Minnesota Report
Bad TV, is just what it says, bad. Soap Operas, Reality Television and now the Donald J Trump’s Second Act are all just the same, just bad television, with one distinctive difference, the fate of American Democracy hangs in the balance. As Trump fosters an ongoing saga, the gawkers watch the adverse actions in anticipation of what will happen next, and what will be destroyed through Executive Order. Its like watching an airplane crash, sad to say this has already occurred multiple times since his inauguration, or a train wreck.
This coupled being subjected to the whims and the wills of Elon Musk his unelected co-conspirator head of Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Ironically, Musk could be considered an illegal immigrant. He came to America on a student visa to Stanford, but left to start Zip2 thus violating the visa and in turn overstayed his time. But as the inheritor of a South African emerald mine and successful entrepreneur, bought his American citizenship.
This Trump show features too many twists and turns, felicitated by lies and blatant falsities to justify their actions. Musk gets Trump to target mechanisms of government which impede his conflicted business interests such as the former head of the Mike Whitaker, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which had suspended further Space X launches on January 17 after the Falcon 9 rocket exploded and strafed the skies of Florida.
With too many long-term implications from the what is clearly the Trump Blueprint, the Heritage Foundation Project 2025 is the simple script, Executive Orders are the distraction establishing a level of frenetic activity intended to juxtapose this old white guy differently than the last old white guy, in order to garner attention and distract from the actual undermining of American Society. The fundamental difference is the sheer vehemence and vengeance he brings with him. What Trump is clearly advancing is the shared frustration of loss felt by white men who have felt passed over, looked past and nearly forgotten. This coupled with those immigrant who, unlike Musk, waited their turn played by the rules and received their citizenship in the correct legal fashion.
This ascension white nationalism wedded with is not isolated to America, but is rampant aboard. The rise of the Alternative für Deuschland (AfD) in Germany, lest we forget the Germans voted for facism in the Nazi’s in the 1030’s and with Trump’s election, so did America now white supremacy is the order of the day. One major difference is Jews are not the targets because controlling a part of Israel a way to gain more influence in the Middle East and the Mediterranean because the Suez Canal exists and trying to regain control of the Panama Canal is a perfect way to enrage Chinese President Xi Jingpin.
With the acquiescence of the Republican controlled Congress, where both the Senators and the House members fear reprisals from Trump should they not bend the knee to him, our Democracy will once again be tested. In 1803, in the Marbury v Madison, the US Supreme Court found it has the sole authority to determine what is Constitutional, meaning what is inline with our US Constitution, and no other entity has that authority. The problem is as has been expressed by Trump loyalists, as was first uttered by President Andrew Jackson (D) referred to as “Old Hickory”, “John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.”
We are including pictures of a work of art we own, which once hung in the West Publishing Building in St Paul. The work is by RW Nahstoll a past president of the Oregon Bar, and he was aquaitned with O. Meredith Wilson, ninth President fo the University of Minnesota, and past President of the University of Oregon.
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A portion work of art commerating the US Supreme Court Letter from the artist RW Nahstoll
Trump is now set to test the bounds of the power of the Presidency.