I hope people realize that this isn’t normal, that this is a severe, developmental arrest, cognitively, emotionally, and morally. A man who can’t think of anybody but himself is a danger to the rest of us and should be removed from power, NOW.
Another parallel between Trump and Jackson: corrupt and opportunistic real estate deals. From a book by Steve Inskeep of NPR "One titanic land grab shows how Jackson operated. It was the seizure of the Tennessee River Valley, where the great river bends in what is present-day Alabama. While serving as a U.S. Army general, Jackson wrested control of the valley from Cherokees, and turned it into an explosive real estate opportunity. Jackson and several friends made off with a breathtaking 45,000 acres, colonized the area and even founded a new city. They then established multiple cotton plantations run by enslaved laborers just as cotton prices were reaching record highs. All told, Jackson both created and scored in the greatest real estate bubble in the history of the United States up to that time."
Good examples. I love the Al Capone quote. Trumps’s father was likely well connected to the NY Mafia. No one in Commercial construction survived in NY City unless they were.
Of course he’s only about money. The big question is why is it obvious to only some of us that he’s a con artist? My answer is: failure to learn critical thinking. Some of us are born thinking critically while most learn it in school or I should say used to learn it in school before fascist-like administrators eliminated it so we won’t figure out that they stole our education system.
I’ve been shouting this truth at WhiteChalkCrime.com for decades. I explain the history of our education in my book A Graver Danger. I located an army of teachers like me at EndTeacherAbuse.org starting in 2002 so we could teach the truth about education and you don’t know any of us because those in power don’t want you to know us.
Look at my websites and ponder this: all that truth online for 24 years wouldn’t be there if it weren’t truth. Rather than deal with it, it’s being ignored by a society that thinks it can ignore what our forefathers told us—education is the foundation of democracy.
We’re where we’re at today because of our schools. When you fail to teach critical thinking you create fertile grounds for con men. And boy do we have that now!
I still support NPR but yeah, their political reporting is embarrassingly naive. They seem to have internalized three decades of right-wing whining about the mean media.
I don’t think Trump set out to grab all he could from high office. His 2024 run was, first, about staying out of prison and getting revenge. The grabbing is all he knows how to do now that he’s back in office. Racism is the closest he comes to a lifelong policy, and he’s given Musk and Hegseth free rein to indulge it. His hangers-on are taking advantage of his lack of interest to implement their policies: luxury resorts in Gaza and Albania, Project 2025, opening protected areas to fossil fuel exploration and fishing. Trump is disgusting but he won’t be in office forever. The problem is what he’s allowing the far right to do on his watch.
Trump’s “philosophy” is ME FIRST and ME ONLY.
I hope people realize that this isn’t normal, that this is a severe, developmental arrest, cognitively, emotionally, and morally. A man who can’t think of anybody but himself is a danger to the rest of us and should be removed from power, NOW.
Great article and I believe we don’t know even half of the total grift of the Trump thieves.
Another parallel between Trump and Jackson: corrupt and opportunistic real estate deals. From a book by Steve Inskeep of NPR "One titanic land grab shows how Jackson operated. It was the seizure of the Tennessee River Valley, where the great river bends in what is present-day Alabama. While serving as a U.S. Army general, Jackson wrested control of the valley from Cherokees, and turned it into an explosive real estate opportunity. Jackson and several friends made off with a breathtaking 45,000 acres, colonized the area and even founded a new city. They then established multiple cotton plantations run by enslaved laborers just as cotton prices were reaching record highs. All told, Jackson both created and scored in the greatest real estate bubble in the history of the United States up to that time."
Yet, no matter how much land he stole, he probably never felt the genuine good feeling that comes from loving and being loved in return.
Good examples. I love the Al Capone quote. Trumps’s father was likely well connected to the NY Mafia. No one in Commercial construction survived in NY City unless they were.
Of course he’s only about money. The big question is why is it obvious to only some of us that he’s a con artist? My answer is: failure to learn critical thinking. Some of us are born thinking critically while most learn it in school or I should say used to learn it in school before fascist-like administrators eliminated it so we won’t figure out that they stole our education system.
I’ve been shouting this truth at WhiteChalkCrime.com for decades. I explain the history of our education in my book A Graver Danger. I located an army of teachers like me at EndTeacherAbuse.org starting in 2002 so we could teach the truth about education and you don’t know any of us because those in power don’t want you to know us.
Look at my websites and ponder this: all that truth online for 24 years wouldn’t be there if it weren’t truth. Rather than deal with it, it’s being ignored by a society that thinks it can ignore what our forefathers told us—education is the foundation of democracy.
We’re where we’re at today because of our schools. When you fail to teach critical thinking you create fertile grounds for con men. And boy do we have that now!
I'm not certain Trump was trying for philosopher King, more likely he thought he was applying for the job of pedophile King.
I still support NPR but yeah, their political reporting is embarrassingly naive. They seem to have internalized three decades of right-wing whining about the mean media.
I don’t think Trump set out to grab all he could from high office. His 2024 run was, first, about staying out of prison and getting revenge. The grabbing is all he knows how to do now that he’s back in office. Racism is the closest he comes to a lifelong policy, and he’s given Musk and Hegseth free rein to indulge it. His hangers-on are taking advantage of his lack of interest to implement their policies: luxury resorts in Gaza and Albania, Project 2025, opening protected areas to fossil fuel exploration and fishing. Trump is disgusting but he won’t be in office forever. The problem is what he’s allowing the far right to do on his watch.