Month: August 2025

You can and could say anything and everything and you don’t know when, how or where to stop because the wickedness, ignorance and pure evil are everywhere all day long, manifest all the time.

 It is enough to say that this man in the White House with the regime he and his henchmen have concocted is the worst thing ever to happen to and in the United States of America – even including the Civil War.

The Civil War had a political and moral purpose that moved the arc of human decency and progress in preserving the union while dissolving slavery in the U.S.

It ended de jure slavery though not its economic, social, and moral degeneracy. The 13th Amendment could not and has not dissolved Jim Crow and the abiding racism in America that persists with abundant evidence that this is the Jim Crow Trump regime, intent on turning the clock back to pre-Civil Rights and pre-Voting Rights Act times.

 Indeed, if it could, the Trump regime would restore slavery. Have no doubt. It would. It is a slavers’ regime in which Trump regards the United States as his plantation and anyone other than some white northern Europeans and their stock here as inferior.

In 1861 we were a nation of 30 million – 20 million in the north, 10 million in the south including, think of it, 4 million slaves. Today  we are a nation of 340 million. It is a different, harder time now than when blue fought grey.

More than 40 million are black Americans. It is recorded that during WWII 130,000 black Americans were among the more than 1 million American troops waiting in England for D-Day. In England they were welcomed and treated as equals while in the U.S. Army they were kept apart by segregation and white Americans’ hatred and instinctive and learned bigotry.

White soldiers of the 101st Airborne Divison, the “Screaming Eagles,” the “Band of Brothers” divison, received a cordial visit from General Dwight D. Eisenhower on the eve of their jump into Normany on June 6, 1944. The black troops waiting in England to go over never had a visit from Ike, the Supreme Allied Commander. Never.

None of them nor their counterparts in the Navy or those of color serving in the PTO ever received a congressional Medal of Honor until six decades after the war, though many were earned:

Many earned them, starting with Mess Attendant Doris “Dorie” Miller at Pearl Harbor, when this Navy cook aboard the USS Battleship West Virginia siezed an abandoned shipboard machine gun and under enemy fire shot down at least two Japanese planes. History records that Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox opposed any combat roles for black sailors and opposed a CMH for Miller.

Black men in the Navy then were consigned to service as cooks and messmen. Miller, after Pearl Harbor, was awarded the Navy Cross, the first black sailor ever to receive the medal, the Navy’s highest. After Pearl Harbor he was promoted mess attendant second class and once again sent to serve in the kitchens and officers’ mess aboard the ships on which he served. Promoted once more, Miller died in combat in 1943 – as a cook 3rd class.

Do you think Commander in Chief Bone Spurs knows this? That’s a rhetorical question. These things are not mentioned casually or to guild a lily. A commander in chief should know them, should want to know them. This one knows nothing.

“Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, who knew” blurted Trump during his first term. Who knew? All of us knew but not this president of the woebegone ignorant – of Mencken’s “Species Boobus Americanus.”

We have within the population the highest percentage of foreign born in over a century, 17 percent of us. That’s why uneducated white America votes Maga. It hates and fears who it does not know – and those hates and fears are fed by Trump and his crew of Maga maggots:Miller, Hegseth, Vance, Bondi, Patel, Bove, Noem, Kennedy, Vought, Pierro, Leavit, and Homan, the thug who runs human roundups by masked marauders.

With homage to Dickens, it is the worst and still worser times, the most desperate time in American history – subsumed in a history and myth of nationhood abandoned by an entire political party, and by the extreme right wing faction of the SCOTUS in service to Trump, his minions and their nihilistic campaign of destruction.

The day after right now, 100 years from now – wherever time takes and has taken us – nothing withstands the hard truth that they are bent on destroying progress, any and all progress made in the past 249  years in and by this country. Their inevitable purpose?  To destroy any and all progress in every field of human thought and endeavor, scuttling the United States on the wreckage of history.

Washington, Lincoln, FDR. Greatness from time to time, though hardly ever and very rarely, is bestowed on the office of the president, gifted to but a few by the exigencies of the moment, and their innate ability to meet and face hardship and lead a nation.

This, this time, is as opposite such a period as it is possible to imagine, much less live through or even begin to see through opaquley to what lies beyond.

Never before and not until now have we had a president who is and demonstrates every day that he is mentally deranged, morally unfit, stupendously ignorant, grotesquely vengeful, and vigorously evil.

One who surrounds himself as have the worst men in history with the dregs of a society, dressed like carbon copies of his hate, hates and hatred for the American Constitution, the laws it has bequeathed heretofore, of knowledge, and more than two centuries of progress across every field of human endeavor.

We are being destroyed from within but because we are indeed so much a civil  society with civilized belief in democracy, in OUR democracy we think this can be righted at the polls and in the courts.

It may be that it can be short of overt civil war; or that it can’t be and that already it is too late. But that we are in a civil war is beyond dispute albeit so far confined to protest and the courts. That we are reaching a constitutional crisis is not so. Why? Becase we are in one now. We are long since in one.

If there are elections in 2026 and 2028, if we see a sea change in those votes signalling definitevely that a clear majority of Americans understand all this and aim to stop it then they must also know this:

There can be no reconciliation with it, not now, not later, not ever.

The century has been surrendered by these creatures, make no mistake there. It took 249 years to get to January 2025 and to achieving the most prominent place in the contemporary life and history of the planet since Rome. That has been devastated in 7 months.

Whatever has to be done to punish its instigators and perpetrators and to assure it never happens again must be done or we will have to tell Sinclair Lews not only can it happen here, it can happen again.

At age 8, in 3rd grade about 75 years ago we would be ushered into the school hallway, told to crouch and cover our heads with our arms. This, they said, would protect us from and in case of a nuclear attack.

It worked.

75 years later there has not been a nuclear attack.

That was then, when we had the bomb and they, the Soviets (the Russians) had the bomb but no one else did – yet.

Things have changed. So have the bombs, only two of which have ever been used – by us at Hiroshima and at Nagasaki. Those two weapons are each estimated to have had the force of 20,000 tons of TNT. Hydrogen Bombs are more powerful.

How much more powerful? A typical run of the mill H-bomb has a force one million times that of the bombs at either Hiroshima or Nagasaki. The Russians once tested an H-bomb said to be 50 million times the power of the 1945 bombs.

Ever seen photos of Hiroshima after the bomb? Now try to imagine what would happen over how wide an area and to how many millions of people if an H-bomb dropped on their villages, towns, suburbs and cities.

A layman’s guess of the claims of an H-bomb or two dropped on New York City: All of the city, all of Long Island, New York’s Westchester and Rockland Counties, all of New Jersey from the state border with New York to south of New Brunswick, eastern Pannsyulvania. Everything destroyed. Everyone – at least 25 million people – dead, dying or wishing they were.

That’s conjecture. This is what we know.

There are nine nations with nuclear weapons. The U.S. led the way in 1945 with the completion of its famous Manhattan Project which, in cinema and books took place in Los Alamos, New Mexico. But it owes as much to equally significant efforts in Hanford, Washington, and Oak Ridge, Tennessee, as well as at the University of Chicago.

In 1949 the then Soviet Union joined the club and in 1952 England, which had been a junior partner in the Manhattan Project, became a nuclear armed nation. France joined the club in 1960, China in 1964.

India had nuclear weapons starting in 1974. Its forever foe, Pakistan, achieved parity in 1998. There the two are, each with over 200 nuclear weapons, always poised against one another as at the point of a sword and for 27 years now at the tips of their nuclear bombs.

We know Israel has the bomb, though alone among the nine nations that do it does not acknowledge this or cooperate with international controls such as they are. Likely it has had nuclear weapons since the mid-1970s, perhaps earlier.

Most of the most prominent physicists on the Manhattan Project were Jews, refugees from Nazi Europe and Nazi Jew-hatred. They all knew the man whose theory made nuclear weapons conceivable, though he took no active role in the project.

Albert Einstein took no part except to agree to sign the letter to President Roosevelt that set it all in motion. He did not write the letter. He read it. He signed it and very much came to regret lending his name to it. He was asked to sign by others to give it the full weight of his reputation and international standing.It impressed President Roosevelt, who set the Manhattan Project in motion and watched it closely.

FDR died April 12,1945. “Trinity”, the A-bomb test at Alamogordo, New Mexico came July 16that year. It was President Truman who was told of that success and ordered the bomb dropped, not on Nazi Germany as originally intended, which had surrended May 8, but on Japan – a mordant payback for Pearl Harbor.

Back to today and lately last to become a nuclear nation we come to North Korea, the bizarre hermit kingdom that entered the nuclear lists in the past 10 years as that psychotic state and its current Kim acquired the power to devastate.

There then the nine: the U.S., Russia (inheritor of some but not all of the Soviet arsenal),the United Kingdom, France, China ,Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea. Nine nations that threaten the very existence of life on the planet. Human life. All life.

In all it is estimated the nine nations control just over 12,000 nuclear warheads with more than 10,700 belonging to the U.S. and Russia – about 5,200 American, about 5,500 Russian. The Chinese have 600 while the others have lesser numbers; about 200 to 225 each for England, France, India, and Pakistan, 90 in Israel and 50 owned by North Korea.

But it only takes one and it would only take one being used to set off a worldwide chain reaction – with the possible exception of an India-Pakistan nuclear exchange.

Such an event on the subcontinent might be contained and confined within and by an understanding of their historic mutual hatred as demonstrated recently in and over Kashmir, and depending on how other nuclear nations would respond and react. They have nuclear weapons to threaten each other, not the whole world except that every nuclear weapon is a real threat to the entire world.

Thus, when the debased lunatic in the White House announced at the beginning of August 2025 that he sent two American submarines to sit off the Pacific Coast of Russia because he did not like something said by a man who was president of Russia 20 years ago it caused, oh, some concern.

That man, Dmitri Medvedev, from time to time serves as a place holder for Vladimir Putin. He is a message in a bottle. You do not send two nuclear subs against a bottle.

But there, as if we needed it, came a reminder. Ah yes, the malevolent, mentally sick, profoundly ignorant, resentment-filled U.S. president controls an arsenal of 5,250 nuclear warheads – including Hydrogen bombs. No one knows how many H-bombs we have or Russia has. But it is said to be many.

The Cold War had its uses. You were on our side. You were on their side. There were no other choices, not really. You didn’t get to have a side or sit it out or like India then pretended.

They had their nukes. We had ours. In fact more than either side has now. There was nothing to be done about that except to pick a side.

The world of Mutually Assured Destruction was a mad world.

So, over time rather than blow up each other and the world, we and they negotiated control agreements on various kinds of nuclear weapons – short range, i.e. tactical, long range, i.e. strategic, with agreements extending to delivery systems, kinds of bombs, missiles, verification and development of coordination with and through the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a component of the United Nations.

Only one of those agreements remains, the current New Stratetic Arms Limitation (SALT) Treaty between the U.S. and Russia. It expires in February, but that hardly matteres since Trump had the U.S. withdraw from it in 2019 and Vladimir Putin washed his hands of it as well. Neither nation, neither president has the least interest in replacing it.

So we are in a wholly unregulated world of 10,500 nuclear warheads controlled by us and by Russia, weapons that make the bombs dropped in 1945 seem like mere firecrackers.

At Hiroshima 140,000 died by the end of 1945. At least 70,000 more lives were claimed at Nagasaki and probably twice that number by the end of that year.

This is not to belabor the debate whether yes we had to use the bomb to avoid an invasion that would have bled American forces, or no we should have found another way. Fact is we dropped the bomb dubbed Little Boy on Hiroshima and days later the one called Fat Man on Nagasaki. No one has used one in war since. They have been tested in peacetime though not by us or the Russians in a long while, but not used in war. So far.

No, this is to observe that while the Cold War and its peculiar ability to focus control of nuclear war is long over the binary tension though sublimated yet controls.

Not even China has the kind of say you get with over 5,000 nuclear weapons. Today there are tensions. Not one, but many all over the world. But there are only two participants in global nuclear arms. Us and them, us and Russia.

On this earth, two deceitful men control the two largest nuclear arsenals, world-destroying arsenals if they choose.

If you have long believed that it is certain no one, no leader anywhere of any nation would be so absolutely mad, insane, purely nuts and mentally screwed up as to order the use of nuclear weapons, think again.

Are you so sure? Given the world we are seeing with these men in it, are you so sure, so certain?

For the first time in decades is there reason to wonder about any such certainty? 

Are we are closer to nuclear war than at any time in the past 40 years? Does that mean it will happen? No. But does that mean it could given the state of the world and its dominant leaders? Is it imaginable?

Stare that in the face.

What to do?

Go out in the halway, duck and cover.

See if it still works.