After failing once again to “obliterate” the Iranian nuclear nuisance, King Adolfhit Mine-tRump wants more attacks and more self-aggrandizing glory and big history! For all of your viewing satire pleasure, I present tRump’s War Room by clicking the link below…
“Downfall,” the 2005 war-drama film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel
Notice that our Supreme Leader, Highness, Führer, has banned YouTube from showing these captioned clips from “Downfall,” the 2005 war-drama film. But is that any surprise given our POTUS’ impulsive inclination for no freedom of the press?
My own rendition of the POTUS war room these last few days
Now that my life, and Sandy’s too, are beginning to return to some semblance of normal, dust settling, adaptations employed, and everything that are after-effects of a death, I thought I’d post this short update regarding the completion of Part 2: Of Me, By Me, and For Me. No, I have not forgotten about this post, I have a bit of time to return to it now. I’ve just had to deal with, manage, and put out multiple fires since my mother’s passing November 3rd, 2025, my sister’s evil antics toward me and Mom between October 2024 and Mom’s death, Sandy’s fall and fracture of her hip followed by her long rehab, the torturous delays that the holidays caused in our legal paperwork and very slow progress, and finally sorting out Mom’s life insurance benefits—one to her estate (probate?), another to her beneficiary, me and all that legal paperwork—and still trying to manage, juggle Sandy’s business and legal transitions from Chattanooga, TN, to Kerrville, TX, which includes her driver’s license change, health insurance transition, her name change, etc., etc. It has been quite exhausting and are all the reasons why I’ve been absent of late on WordPress. Woof, breathe Dwain.
You know, if there is one thing I’ve learned in my life, it is the fact of just how enormously expensive it is to live in the USA, and just as expensive (if not more) to die in the USA. There are always unexpected turns and twists when a loved one or immediate family member passes. Period. Always. It seems unavoidable, and yet my Mom had her Last Will & Testament done in 1995, a Durable Power of Attorney (me), Medical Power of Attorney (me again), and other legal financial matters already documented and executed/applied. Imagine what it would’ve been like for me if she hadn’t done any of those things beforehand!
That said, I did want to mention a few things about the unspeakable things going on in our country and Minneapolis, Minnesota, and that will likely continue given this administration’s track record and M.O. of never backing down, never admitting mistakes and bad policy, and their sheer inhumane and indecent behavior by our Commander-in-Chief (initials DJT) and his cult sycophants and ass-kissers such as Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, and everyone else brainwashed by Trump-Gestapo ideology against perceived opponents (enemies?). Retributions and punishment seems to be the only recourse DJT has against those who disagree with him and all his childish whims he invents!
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” — Lord Acton, letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton
A Whole Lotta Flaky Flip-Flopping & Diverting
After the murders of protestors Renée Nicole Good, January 7, 2026, and protestor Alex Jeffrey Pretti, January 24, 2026, both in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents fatally shot multiple times Good and Pretti respectively (that’s overkill to the hilt) , as both were demonstrating no lethal or imminent threat to those agents, president Donald J. Trump and his appointed directors Kristi Noem and Gregory Bovino as well as Homeland Security Advisor (HSA), Stephen Miller and many other Trump-MAGA federal cult followers and MAGA media personalities prematurely described the murders against two legal U.S. citizens as ‘necessary and warranted.’ Yet, the reality was that the entire nation watched cell phone videos from multiple viewpoints of both incidents and seeing everything completely unequivocally different and contradictory to the Trump Administration’s back-peddling rhetoric and blatant lies to Americans. It quickly became one of the most despicable, disgraceful showing of Trump’s second term to-date. And over the following days Trump and his ass-kissing sycophants made it much worse on themselves by continually lying and diverting from the facts of both incidents.
In one interview with reporters Trump called Alex Pretti “stupid” for bringing a gun to a protest. This was from Jan. 27, 2026 outside the White House:
Yes, actually stupid on his part. But the President went even further by incriminating himself and being a bonified hypocrite as well as insulted gun-rights activists and Second Amendment rights he supposedly supports. And worse still he contradicted himself regarding what (his)protestors (or insurrectionists) did January 6, 2021, at the Capitol building:
According to Reuters and all the exhaustive video evidence of the Jan. 6th attack on Capitol Police Officers, Congress members and their assistants, incited by President Dumb-Rump and his radical MAGA supporters, many guns and weapons were present by the insurrectionists (protestors). By the way, the federal government under dictator Trump have removed many of the below links of the evidence supporting this article:
WEAPONS PRESENT
Firearms, tasers and knives were some of the types of weapons used and carried on or around Capitol grounds by rioters, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of Columbia, which published the status of prosecutions, related to the Capitol attack as of Jan. 3, 2025 on its website.
For example, police found a loaded handgun on Christopher Alberts, who was dressed in body armor and carried a gas mask, Reuters reported.
A corresponding indictment for Alberts on the “Capitol Breach Cases,” page of the USAO-DC website states that he had carried a semi-automatic handgun on Capitol grounds.
Reuters also reported that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had suspended an agent, Mark Ibrahim, who was off duty but carrying his service weapon outside the Capitol during the attack, according to his lawyer.
A criminal complaint, for Ibrahim includes as evidence a photograph that allegedly shows him near the steps of the Senate and displaying his DEA firearm and badge (page 11).
A search for the word “firearms” on the Capitol Breach Cases page with the list of defendants returns five results, including for Alberts and Ibrahim, while the word “weapon” returns 79 results (one case could include multiple defendants).
Rioters also used “makeshift weapons” including destroyed office furniture, fencing and stolen riot shields, according to the USAO-DC page on the status of prosecutions related to the attack.
One such indictment alleged that two defendants, Isaac Westbury and Aaron James, used and carried a law enforcement shield during the attack. Another indictment, for defendant Shane Jenkins alleged he used multiple weapons, including a tomahawk axe, a flag pole, a desk drawer and “stick-like objects” during the Capitol attack.
During the 2022 congressional hearings on the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to Trump’s chief of staff at the time, Mark Meadows, also contradicted the claim that rioters were not armed.
Hutchinson testified that both Meadows and Trump knew about people who had attended Trump’s rally at the Ellipse and later marched to the Capitol armed with AR-15 rifles, handguns, brass knuckles and batons, Reuters reported.
Furthermore, it is indeed a crime to destroy or damage federal property according to the U.S. Department of Justice, Article Code 18, paragraph 1666, Section 1361 which essentially reads:
[Protection of] “any property” of the United States or an agency or department thereof, or any property being manufactured or constructed for the United States or an agency or department thereof, from willful depredation or attempted depredation. “Depredation” has been characterized as the act of plundering, robbing, pillaging or laying waste. United States v. Jenkins, 554 F.2d 783, 786 (6th Cir. 1977); cf. Deal v. United States, 274 U.S. 277, 283 (1927) (“depredation” defined in context of postal statute). This section prohibits actual physical damage or destruction of both real and personal property.”
By the way, this federal law absolutely includes the U.S. Capitol building and its property, not to mention the lives of the Capitol Police protecting it! I mean, DUH people!
President Trump called the violent events that day by his cult supporters as “A Day of Love” and “wonderful people.” Why has he never condemned those “protestors,” as they are always called by MAGA, stupid for bringing a gun/weapon to the protest? Why? And why did he pardon and release all of them? Why?
There is no other way that day’s events reads or interprets, period. It is a hypocritical double-standard Trump-MAGA cultist. Period. No debate.
And the diverting that Trump, MAGA, and all his federally appointed directors have always done: attack the actual victims, attack their character, attack their families, and attack their perceived political viewpoints whether it is justified or not… is indecent and wreaks of Mafia-style tactics and rhetoric. On the contrary, most of us law-abiding sane, reasonable American citizens know we are by far and away a much greater nation with diverse viewpoints, diverse opinions and arguments, and diverse cultures and populations for the simple fact that our Core Founding Fathers said so: All men (and women and children) are equal, have rights and liberties, especially if they are born here.
It is easy to conclude from these last several days in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that 1) either Trump and his ass-kissing sycophants do not know the difference between Whack-a-Mole, diverting justified criticism by incessantly moving the goal-posts in a ridiculous jig/dance, and using hypocritical double-standards… and their own anal rectums—because the Baby Orange Orangutan (Trump) has pushed their heads so far up their colons—that they are incapable of recognizing facts and reality, or 2) they are so audacious in appearing “right” that they intentionally ignore the obvious facts and rewrite a contradictory new narrative as quickly as possible. Or perhaps it is both #1 and #2. I will call it the way I see it and not mince any words…
Bottom-line, Trump and all his administration are a repugnant sack of feces; they are pathological liars. They are destroying this country both domestically and around the globe with our allies.
Nevertheless America, if the writing on the wall isn’t in bright enough neon-lights for you sane, reasonable, decent Americans right now and in the coming months and remaining years of President Trump’s second term debacle, then I seriously doubt anything else imbecilic and un-American, un-democratic Trump and his MAGA cult followers do will ever dissuade you from your sheer insanity and childish gullibility. If the latter is the case, then all of you belong in an asylum with real lunatics.
Live Well – Love Much – Laugh Often – Learn Always – Don’t Be Stupid Like Trump!
Why do ICE agents have the need to hide, to cover, to mask, to not be forthcoming in their identity? If one has the absolute moral conviction in their abiding to, the vows by, and for the U.S. Constitution and how its citizens have rights to demonstrate peaceably their grievances against the (Trump) government in all branches (Renee Nicole Good was NOT a threat to any federal agent)… then WHY on Earth would you feel the need to hide your identity? It is a very legitimate question! It is also very telling.
It is not a stretch to argue that IF you think/feel the need to HIDE your facial and personal identity, then it is equally assumed that YOU (the persons hiding their true identity) are involved in, associated with, and/or committing illegal acts… or are an accessory to unconstitutional behaviors and acts. If you are doing nothing wrong and all you do is uphold and abide by the U.S. Constitution for legal residents of the United States, then there is no reason whatsoever to hide your identity. Right?
And yet this is precisely what most all ICE agents do under the authorization of Trump and Trump’s loyalists. Period.
There is something rotten, very evil going on from the White House that is violating all kinds of illegal behavior and actions in this Union of States in (no surprise whatsoever) every city or state that is “Blue” or not aligned with extremist Red Trump authoritarianism. Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Stalin, Kim Jong Un, and a long list of dictators in history that enacted the exact same ‘marshal law’ to wipe out and remove (permanently) their political opposition. This is precisely what Trump and MAGA Repubs are following to a tee in this country.
Wake up American voters, citizens, and true patriots of democracy. Your entire country and federal government have been removed from the core principles our Founding Fathers designed and ratified for this country. This is NOT by any means a legitimate republic democracy of the people, by the people, or for the people. It is slipping away, fast.
Live Well – Love Much – Laugh Often – Learn Always – Remove MAGA
I have been a big fan of Ken Burns and his many exceptional, award-winning historical documentaries on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) over the last few decades. The biggest reason? He does not skimp or cheat his audiences from historical accuracy, historical facts, historical context, or how history always, always applies today. This is never more true than with modern history—everything after the end of the Middle Ages, c.1500 CE, to the present—and how much we Americans are still living it, in fact, it can never be ignored nor should it be. Ever!
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“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero, circa 69 BCE
Cicero’s famous oratory as a Roman constitutionalist made him a statesman with no loyalties to either nobility, patrician, or plebian. He was a well-educated citizen for all the people of the empire. His work should echo in Washington, D.C. every single day and as far south as Palm Beach, Florida, and Mar-a-Lago.
Do Americans Know Enough About Their Own National History?
The short answer is no, and the age gaps are very telling: around 40% of older Americans (65+ years old) are able to show proficiency. Sadly, only 19–27% of those under the age of 45 showed proficiency in modern American history [Institute for Citizens & Scholars]. This translates to just 4-in-10 Americans passing basic history and civics tests (2019). And today it is worse, much worse. This has been an American downward trend the last several decades. To say that the United States has been raising and educating ignorant citizens of American history, not teaching their civic origins and/or their present livelihoods, is a gross understatement. “Houston, we have a problem,” a critical event-horizon problem.
“I’m embarrassed that, as a country, we don’t grasp our history. Everyone approaches it from the arrogance of the position of how it turns out. We are all in the grip of the present, but if you point out the parallels, they are dated immediately. People are always trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.”
What Burns, Richardson, Goodwin, Foner, McCullough, and so many other top American expert historians are alarmed about is the same thing, the same alarm I’ve been sounding since at least 2010 not just here on WordPress, but in my school classrooms when I was a Social Studies/History teacher for several years here in Texas. Drawing from the past and present Ken Burns could not be more unambiguous in his current dismay of Americans. The parallels of his newest docuseries, TheAmerican Revolution on PBS, and speaks to current incompetence of our civic knowledge, duties, and privileges and how it applies right now, whether he intended it or not when making the series. He states:
“…President Donald Trump’s romanticising executive order signed earlier this year to remove “revisionist” interpretations in museums and on monuments that question the “unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty, individual rights and human happiness”.
Trump’s Department of Education has forged a partnership with more than 40 rightwing organisations, including the America First Policy Institute, Turning Point USA and the Heritage Foundation — “dedicated to renewing patriotism, strengthening civic knowledge, and advancing a shared understanding of America’s founding principles in schools across the nation” — as part of celebrations of America’s 250th anniversary in July. On the White House’s official America 250 website, Larry Arnn, president of the conservative Hillsdale College, compares Trump to Abraham Lincoln in his desire to make America great again.”
— Ken Burns, ibid.
Burns and most all American history scholars, myself humbly included, label our current buffoon in the White House as “an insult to our [American] history” and its authentic contextual history and verifiable facts. And I feel these words are too polite and obtuse for the fake President.
Should any of you like to revisit or read some of my WordPress blogs on this troubling subject, I recommend the following from older to newest:
There are several more to be listed, but this is just introductory and relative to your interest, time constraints, and possibly much more in-depth education on American history, civic privileges/duties, and an American sociopolitical landscape past and present.
Live Well – Love Much – Laugh Often – Learn Always Your Nation’s History!
Just as former President George W. Bush forced the United States and its allies into an unnecessary, illegal invasion of Iraq in March 2003, falsely justifying the attack based upon bogus, fabricated WMD weapons inside Iraq, President Donald J. Trump today has gone several steps further and more illegally attacked Iran for even less bogus reasons than the Bush Administration invented 22-years ago.
Many, many serious concerns come to mind after this unprovoked attack on Iran. Very serious ones come to mind that I am quiet sure President Dumb-Rump never considered, much less his incompetent Cabinet.
This is what President Dumb-Rump and his imbecilic MAGA Republicans have now opened up as a Pandora’s Box against Americans and American interests abroad for the next decade or two:
Likely/Assured rising or skyrocketing oil/gas prices across the Western hemisphere. Iran and her oil-producing allies will hit the U.S. and its allies with all sorts of retribution in oil-production, like closing the Straits of Hormuz and convincing other Iranian allies to jack-up Western oil price distributions.
Attacks on American military bases and/or businesses across the globe and in the Far East, Middle East, and Near East causing unnecessary death to American personnel and lifetime despair for their family members.
Likely/Assured rallying of radical Islamic groups and nations to aid and/or attack U.S. interests around the globe and probably inside the U.S. borders. More American and allied casualties!
Number 3 above causes these Iranian allied nations, e.g. China, Russia, and North Korea (to name only three), to aid further in weakening U.S. bases, interests, and the West to help desperately fighting nations like Ukraine and Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine because Dumb-Rump is easily played and manipulated by foreign dictators such as Benjamin Netanyahu to get sucked into another long, drawn out Iraq 2 War.
And the worst possible scenario Dumb-Rump has opened up and flamed are more radical Islamic groups (who hate the U.S., like Al-Qaeda) to plan horrendous attacks on the U.S. like the 9/11 attacks!
Dumb-Rump did NOT first obtain Congressional approval to start a war against Iran like all previous Presidents have done in our 250-year national history! This is grossly UNconstitutional!
Back in July of 2015 a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action known as the Iran Nuclear Arms Deal set in motion a solid agreement between Iran and China, France, Russia, the U.K., and U.S.—plus Germany, along with the European Union to assure PEACE in the Middle East free of nuclear risks. Dumb-Rump destroyed that agreement in May 2018 by withdrawing the U.S., essentially making all bets off! What an EFFIN MORON that buffoon Trump is, truly! 😡🤬 Now the idiot goes and attacks Iran! WTF!? 😡🤬
Now this idiotic decision and attack by Dumb-Rump will fuel perpetually more and more Islamic terrorist groups to form-up against the United States for decades to come.
And these eight (8) concerns above are just the beginning. Who knows what domino-effects Dumb-Rump has started for this country and our military personnel and ordinary citizens in the coming decades.
Americans, mark my words this day, the coming weeks, months, and years are going to be a deadly, horrible, economically unnecessary hardship on us that we never had to shoot ourselves with in the foot and head. Bad, bad, BAD move Dumb-Rump!
I have zero expectation that anything I ever say will end someone’s belief in their God. Not my goal or purpose. That alone belongs to the individual. ~ Zoe
'Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it' - Terry Pratchett
The Professor's Convatorium 