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Share This Page On ''X'' RIGHT-CLICK to Copy Link to Share OUTSIDE LINKS PREFACE: (Or ''Mission Statement'' as they say nowadays)... PREFACE ADDENDUM- 5-8-25 - I have, as of May 8th, 2025 (the anniversary of my last major heart attack and resulting stent placement) decided to ADD to this, already LENGTHY, preface. I do so because I feel I need to call attention to something very important about this effort and, just perhaps, others like mine....but ESPECIALLY mine since I can only speak for myself. Here is the point- it is MOST important not to take things out of context! One can always find a line or two (or three or four etc.) within any essay or article that rings differently outside of the QUALIFIERS of the entire context! Remember that. It is MOST important. This is one of the reasons that I have this PREFACE at the top of the page ... it is meant to be read as the foundation for what comes next. While I realize it is asking a lot of new readers, I would also appreciate you reading my early efforts since, they too, lay a further foundation for what comes along in all the later editions. That is really the ONLY way you will understand my eveolving perspective and not see each post as an entity unto itself. I realized that when I, later on, added the catch phrase in the opening regarding ''Deprogramming the MAGA Cultists'', I was becoming much more provocative than I had been previously and that it would likely raise the ire of some of those Trump supporters who did not consider themselves to be cultists or even MAGA extremists. But, I did it intentionally, at the time, for a bit of ''shock value'' (for lack of better terms) I suppose in the hope that it might just cause some deep introspection for those few Trump followers, who are otherwise seemingly reasonable, caring people, who STILL, after ALL THIS TIME AND TRAGEDY, continue go along relatively unscathed by the result we are now dealing with as a nation. HOWEVER, as for reasons that will be further explained here, I have decided to REMOVE that particular phrase from the heading since I do NOT want to have someone turn away from this site at a glance simply because they might get the impression that MAGA STEREOTYPING is what I am all about! In fact STEREOTYPING is, and always has been, one of my PET PEEVES! But, truthfully, ''IN CONTEXT'' is why it is most important to read this ENTIRE endeavor, if interested, since it not only chronicles much of the evolution as to how I, personally, evolved in my thinking over my lifetime based on wiser insights developed over the years, but it also lays out the evidence regarding this current destructive situation in America in a way that, hopefully, will allow others to more quickly ''evolve'' in the way they perceive things than I did. I am afraid we do not have a ''lifetime'' of evolving left if we are to have enough aware, caring individuals to literally SAVE our American institutions, our government, our values and our FREEDOMS! This does NOT mean to imply that we do not need CONSTRUCTIVE change in our government and our politics on both sides of the aisle. Is there waste in government that needs addressing? Most definitely, always has been and, unfortunately, always will be to some extent no matter who is in charge. But we can always work to improve it in SANE , orderly ways WITHIN the system and within the law. You don't have to, to use a tired worn phrase, ''throw the baby out with the bath water'' in order to address this waste. But back to the point of context. Do I think that ALL Trump voters should be categorized as ''cultists''? NO and I have NEVER said or implied that. I have said that I have spent far too many hours pondering and wondering HOW ANY reasonable person could still support what is happening to this country NOW under this regime and, like so many others who care, try to determine the reasons for it. One that I have covered ''ad nauseam'' is propaganda and I still believe that this is the main reason. But, some of the feedback I have gotten from ''Trumpist converts'', which I cherish by the way since their ''conversion'' is part of what makes my humble efforts feel worthwhile, has caused me to see and consider other reasons. Many of these people are very much like myself in my younger days. They are simply too involved with their own day to day lives to really pay much attention to ''daily politics'' (which can become ''weekly'', ''monthly'' and so on). Maybe they were also a bit cynical like I was in my early days, feeling that nothing was going to make much difference anyway and that the same old ''politics as usual'' would continue no matter who was ''in power''. Then, on top of that, they have ALWAYS voted Republican because they had always identified with what they had always been told were the supposed, core values and ideology of the Republican party... they just couldn't quite bring themselves to vote Democrat no matter what. I could go on and on trying to find reasons and justifications for them but, at some point, THEY HAVE TO OWN IT! They have to seriously, open-mindedly WAKE UP and see the true reality. As of this writing, there is currently a FASCIST operating in the White House and an authoritarian regime HAS taken over our country in the most vile way possible! This is NOT overstatement, this is NOT hyperbole, this is FACT. I lay out, in orderly chronology throughout these web pages, INDISPUTABLE EVIDENCE for that if you make the effort to read it (as do many, many others out there far more qualified than I)! It has NEVER BEEN MORE IMPORTANT for every TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOT to get past prior ''political leanings'' and realize that this is NOT politics as usual here. It doesn't matter what kind of party label these thugs have hijacked and slapped on themselves EVERYONE HAS TO SEE THEM for what they truly are ... AUTHORITARIAN FASCISTS. So, what it comes down to is this. If you STILL condone all of this, at this point in time, then SOMETHING is badly amiss somewhere, somehow. Does this mean you are a ''cultist''? I don't know. That's what many qualified observers have concluded. Why not consider the definition of ''cultist'' and do your own honest introspection. (CULTIST DEFINITION- A cultist is a follower of a group exhibiting extreme devotion to a person, idea, or object. Cultists are often characterized by their unquestioning loyalty and dedication to a leader or belief system. ) As the old saying goes...''if the shoe fits wear it''! OR... does it mean you are a basically good, but still naive person? I don't know. Does it mean that you are still somehow just not paying attention at all ? I don't know. Does it mean you don't really care one way or another? I sure hope not but I don't know. In worst case, can it mean that you actually indentify with this crowd and WANT to live under, and be a part of, an Authoritarian regime? This is becoming more and more likely than many of us can fathom I am afraid. If that truly is you, then you and I have a REAL problem! My Father fought and risked his life in every major European battle of World War II from Normandy to Bastogne (5 major battle stars to prove it) to fight FASCISM! That is one of the many reasons I feel obligated to continue this fight for him now! I will NEVER stand by and watch our country taken over by fascists without speaking out against it with all I have in me. It's that simple! I invite, and URGE EVERYONE, WHATEVER your ''political persuasion'', to unite and to stand with all of us AGAINST this facists takeover! I live in one of the most ''red'' states in the country, South Carolina. Here, I guess I am now considered one of a few ''blue islands'' in a ''red stream'' although I assure you that I owe NO ALLEGIANCE to ANY political party! My neighbors, friends and family are, with some NOTABLE exceptions (you know who you are!), lifelong GOP supporters. They are, mostly, some of the best, most loyal, kindest, UNSELFISH people in the world when it comes to helping each other. But, if they have a serious fault, it's that many of them have a stubborn, blind, UNSHAKEABLE allegiance to the Republican Party no matter WHO/WHEN/WHAT! Do I consider them all ''cultists'', or even extreme MAGAs? NO, not at all! But, I have to say that this ''blind allegiance'' characteristic is what I have a hard time understanding or having any patience with in THIS particular time! As I keep on, and keep on, saying...these are NOT normal times....this is NOT NORMAL POLITICS! It does NOT excuse or allow for ''NORMAL'' viewpoints to override the blatant TRUTH and THREAT that has been unfolding before our eyes since January 20th! THIS, my friends, is the whole point of this little website of mine ... to KEEP pointing this very sad state of affairs out in honest, documented fashion, to the best of my limited ability, to anyone who WANTS TO take the time to listen! ADDENDUM ( March 2025)- Since these single pages tend to grow significantly with each added post, it was decided that a new page will be started with each new quarter to minimize lengthy scrolling and with a smaller index links list. They will be labelled by year and quarter (Example-2025-1, 2025-2, etc. through 4.). Each archived quarter/year can/will be reaccessed from the index in the current home page. A little, out front, about the author of this webpage and it's purpose. I am Hayne Davis, a lifelong media professional in all aspects from the creative side (writing, producing for radio, TV and film, commercial advertising, radio programming and consulting etc.) to the technical side (audio engineering and electronics design). I helped build one commercial radio station (WIXE, Monroe, NC-1968) and completely built another (WNMX-''MIX106'' FM, Newberry, SC-1988). Through my business, MCP DaviSound, I wrote, produced and consulted for over 1200 broadcast stations worldwide. Often, these associations required me to originate and write editorials for broadcast. So, I suppose I will always be an ''old editorialist'' at heart. As many who read these pages may find ironic, if you read of my ''political evolution'' elsewhere herein, most of my early, young adult editorials often took a most conservative stance in those days! It basically evolved something like- politically critical altogether, to more traditional ''liberal critical'', to finally more traditional ''conservative critical'. Now it is simply critical of the right wing EXTREMISTS trying to turn our country into a full blown autocracy! I like to think that I, myself, did not ''evolve'' so much as did the political and social environments around me which shaped the shifts in my views over the years. I think we need more of that ability, for all people to recognize, that you should NOT be glued to a ''party'' or ''ideology'' just for the sake of it no matter how much it changes or what kind of demagogue takes it over! 2025 is the year of my 77th birthday so I have definitely been alive on the planet long enough, lived through and experienced enough, to offer some, hopefully valuable, insights regarding the current situations we find ourselves in. Over the past four years (as of 2025) I have endured THREE heart attacks (one major), two heart catheterizations, one stent placement, and triple by-pass open heart surgery. I currently still operate my audio engineering company, DaviSound on a limited basis and each month I post a monthly News Updates page from my website there. In recent months, based on all the chaos happening with our government and our democracy, I just could not help but use that forum to comment on what I saw happening to my beloved country since it affected me greatly (and should affect ALL of us!) in every aspect of my life including my work. I never intended for the DaviSound News Updates page to evolve into the direction of ''politics'' or commentary on any other topics besides audio and electronic media. So, with that in mind, and at the encouragement of some family, friends, and even some recent inquirors, I decided to create this site dedicated solely to those topics while keeping them completely OUT of the DaviSound News Updates! Thus, here we are now ...on the new DaviSoapBox! The format of this page will be presented, very much like the DaviSound News Updates page just mentioned. Each new post will be dated and placed at the top of the page just above the prior post. All posts will be indexed so that they may be accessed individually from the top of the page or the entire page of prior posts may, of course, be scrolled. There will be no regular posting schedule since I expect to present them as time permits and/or as occasion may necessitate...most likely on a weekly basis or thereabout but no regular schedule. I ask that you please bookmark this page and please share it with anyone you feel may be interested. It would also be MOST helpful to share it with friends who ''need it'' if you know what I mean (those well meaning friends, and family, we all have who ''keep on drinking the MAGA cult Kool Aid''!). As one of my readers once pointed out- Those who really NEED to read and consider what you are saying will never even see it! Several of the aquaintances, who I just mentioned suggested that I start this new endeavor, also recommended that I do a PODCAST. That would certainly seem to be a ''natural'' for me given my broadcast and audio background. I may just, possibly, include that, at least from time to time, in the future and it would be called ''DaviSoundOff'. However, recording audio and uploading it is very time consuming and I do not need to have my, already limited, work time much further disrupted. Therefore, I may just stick to the written word, for the most part anyway. Besides, I feel that too many ''Podcasts'', to use the old adage, ''just go in one ear and out the other'' whereas the written word gives one time to ponder, reference and easily access and share. At the beginning, to initiate things here, I will be including some of my most recent past posts from my DaviSound News Updates page to get things started so that you will ''know where I'm coming from'' as they say. I also feel the need to emphasize here, in this prelude, that it is important, more important nowadays than EVER, to be able to differentiate between political propaganda and honest commentary. I WILL be offering the latter! I hope that ANYONE who happens upon my writings here will have the common sense to distinguish between the two! Nowadays, if you criticize one side of the political spectrum you are automatically aligned with the other. This itself is one of my MAIN PET PEAVES! I will be largely criticising the FAR RIGHT side of the political spectrum simply because they are the ones that have EARNED the criticism by their actions. Recognizing and pointing out the obvious does NOT make me simply ''one of them'' (meaning the OTHER side). That's much of the whole problem - one ''side'' versus the other ''side''. My agenda will be on the side of FACT and TRUTH! If the facts and the TRUTH go against one ''side'' or the other than so be it. This does NOT necessarily relegate me to the ''left'' side of the spectrum just because the currently disgusting TRUTH about the ''right'' side deserves to be told! But, when I see the ''left'' screwing up (and they DO), I will be honestly pointing that out as well! Truthfully, this is NOT about right versus left or, really, not about political platforms or even ideology. Things have become MUCH more serious than that now in this country! We are motivated by urgent concern for our way of life and our way of government as a whole- NOT by some political party agenda! And, too, my concerns for our grandchildren and the environment they will inherit, as well as the future of the planet as a whole, are no less a concern. Renewable energy is a LONG TIME passion of mine and the ONLY logical salvation of mankind's future! Therefore, we MUST fight to promote and protect the move towards renewable energy also! As most of my readers know, I am MOST against HYPOCRISY, double standards and the distortion of facts to suit one's ''side''. Unfortuntely, today one does not have to look far to see that this is a CONSTANT method of operation for those on the right side of the political spectrum. So, that being the case, they will be the ones having THEIR hypocrisies and lies, of their OWN MAKING, called out! Alec Baldwin in his satirical portrayal of Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live once gave one of the funniest, but simultaneously MOST ACCURATE, lines of any of his performances. In a mock press conference he was asked, ''Mr. President, why is it that you hate all the media besides Fox News?" His answer was, "Because you report on all the things I say and all the things that I do!" That simple line was BRILLIANT, and kudos to whoever wrote it, because it says so much in so few words! The honest networks simply show the buffoon being himself! Unfortunately, Fox News did not/does not simply report on, or show video of, Donald Trump, or his chronies, as they really are. That network was designed STRICTLY as a propaganda machine and, as obvious as it may be to all but the gullible, unfortunately there are too many gullible viewers in America today. That outfit alone, along with a few little copycat wannabes, has done more to destroy America than any other single entity over the past several decades! It is what they were designed for and, unfortunately, they do it fairly well. President Obama once famously said, ''If all I did was watch Fox News for my news source, I wouldn't like me either!". That being the case, this forum will undoubtedly be calling out Fox News, it's tabloid styled hosts and it's millions of ''brainwashed'' viewers quite often! They also had much to do with me increasingly distancing myself from the ''political right'' over the years since I, along with any other reasonable person, easily saw through them as being as believable as a televised fake wrestling match. My wife and I spend FAR too much of our time pondering and lamenting the fact that so many well meaning, otherwise honest Americans now align themselves with a movement so OBVIOUSLY WRONG and DANGEROUSLY opposed to fact and truth as well as right over wrong! America is now, so sadly, becoming very much like Nazi Germany in the late '30s with much of it's citizenry following behind a glorified, self-serving, imbecile-bully narcissist, with his oligarch chronies, and there is no doubt that Fox News has much to do with that! In wrapping up this prelude, let me point out that this site is totally INDEPENDENT! It is my OWN PERSONAL endeavor and any and ALL views presented here are my own. I am not beholding to ANY advertiser, corporation, political entity etc etc or anyone else WHATEVER! You will NOT find any data hogging scripts, No PopUps, NO COOKIES, first, second or third party or otherwise! I will NOT be mining and selling your data! You will find this site/page instantly loading with NOTHING running in the background! I type all of my content myself in Windows notepad text editor and use the good old fashioned hyper text markup language- HTML. I try to proofread but, since my text editor has no spellcheck, please expect and overlook typos from time to time! Finally (for this preface that is), let me point out that I do this largely to try and help maintain my own sanity in what I see as INSANE times! I know that if it were not for a few encouragers who I hear from occasionally, and without the likes of (fellow South Carolinian) Steven Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel (I watch the former live and the latter afterwards on YouTube-daily!) I would never have survived the first Trump administration let alone another one! When you have overwhelmingly deep concerns about what you observe going on day in and day out, it just helps to get things off your chest, so to speak, and to at least TRY to make a positive difference by keeping FACT and TRUTH at the forefront and DOCUMENTING IT in some way...Thus- my ''DaviSoundOff''' with 'DaviSoapBox''! Thank you so much for joining me here and I hope you will let me hear from you! My business email address is Hayne at DaviSound dot com My personal email address is LHD521 at Yahoo dot com My phone number- for texts only- is 803-944-7972. (email addresses spelled out to avoid spam robots) I welcome your comments and suggestions! If you would like to see these efforts continue, please share a link to this page! And, should you like to make a contribution to help maintain the site (we accept NO advertising and display NO advertising, and share/sell NO DATA whatsoever! This site is TOTALLY SELF SUPPORTED!)... then please hit the ''DONATE'' button below to make a PayPal donation. ALL DONATIONS ARE DISCREET, SAFE AND COMPLETELY CONFIDENTIAL! Thank you VERY much for ANY support! BACK TO INDEX ''Mr. Trump ... Don't you ever get tired of yourself?'' July 23, 2025 ''DaviSolemn'' Since this latest one here will be comparatively ''DaviShort'' (but certainly not ''sweet''), and since the last edition covered a LOT of ground, I urge you to please scroll down (or link above) to my previous post(s) if you have not seen it/them. (Or even if you have! 😉 ) Throughout the reign of ''IMPeror Trump'', there has been sad news after tragic news after sad news on a daily basis. But, for me personally, some of the ''DaviSaddest'' news so far came on Thursday, July 17, when Steven Colbert announced to his audience that CBS (Paramount actually) is CANCELLING The Late Show. This is truly a sad and SOLEMN occasion for several reasons. First, fellow South Carolinian, Steven Colbert is a RARE talent and his show has been a badly needed tonic for many of us during these terrible times in America. I DREAD to think we will be without this valuable resource henceforth. Secondly, it further demonstrates the tragedy of conglomerate corporate control of the media and, especially, now when this move is an obvious further concession in the series of ''Don The Con'' bribes by Paramount. When Colbert came back from vacation and called out Paramount/CBS for paying the bribe to Chump in order to obtain their merger approval with Skydance Media (which is owned by a billionaire Trump donor, by the way), I was glad to hear his expected reaction in one sense but sort of cringed in another. I knew he was testing the waters and dangling the bait out there and, unfortunately, they eagerly took it. The big ''non-political'' announcement came just three days later. These ''geninuses'' at Paramount were suddenly cancelling the highest rated, highest revenue, late night show on television for ''financial reasons''. Sounds like they just graduated Trump's ''Lyin' King'' school magna cum laude with a ''BS in BS''! And, talk about ''cutting off your nose to spite your face''....this has got to be one of the most STUPID moves in the history of broadcasting. But it is just more demonstrable shortsightedness in the new extremely shortsighted world we live in. No doubt that Colbert will ''land on his feet'' and resurface somewhere in the media world....at least all us fans sure hope that he will (or, maybe, as some suggest, take his common sense and deep insight into politics and RUN FOR PRESIDENT!). But this will be the biggest STAIN yet to CBS and Paramount which has painted itself with quite a few so far to match and align with the Trump regime of nincompoops...may they forever feel the result! 
One of my regular correspondents asked me what I thought about the Epstein situation and why I had not commented on it so far. Well, basically, I see the whole current focus on the Epstein situation as mostly another distraction....a distraction to the continued chaos and destruction of an unleashed regime gone wild (and crazy at the same time, of course) behind the scenes. Sure, Pedophilia is about as bad as it gets in terms of moral and criminal behavior but....WHY NOW? Trump has OBVIOUSLY been involved with pedophiles all of his adult life and he has been involved with, and photographed with, and written about being with, UNDER-AGED girls for decades....from questionable ''modeling agencies'' to '' beauty contests'' to the infamous ''Kit Kat Club'' etc. etc. So....WHY NOW?
So why hasn't this mattered to his supporters in the past and why is this the ONE atrocity out of hundreds he has caused since taking office in 2016 that bothers them. I guess one simple reason is that the MAGA crowd has been told that they have no Democrats in the files to blame this one on... after years of propaganda promises that every Democrat since John C. Breckinridge has been a ''pedophile''! THEN....to have them suddenly tell you they can't find any in the files, and having their supreme cult leader slam and disown them when they question why they won't release everything...this seems to leave them as riled and confused as a caged animal with blinders on! If you are MAGA, you ALWAYS have to have somebody to blame things on....and it can NEVER be ''your side''. You ALWAYS have to have some ''Democrat(s)'' to HATE and blame for everything you ever see wrong in your life. There is always this desire to ''one-up'' and WIN the fabricated culture war against your obligatory ''oponent''. It's ALWAYS somebody ELSE's fault...ALWAYS. Have you EVER heard a GOP politician admit and own a mistake or make a sincere, heart felt apology for anything anytime? Of course not. THEY NEVER ''make'' mistakes....certainly never admit them. I honestly think it is possible that it is not even in their make-up to even RECOGNIZE their own flaws in many cases. They are just not ''programmed'' as normal, open-minded, fair-minded individuals or they would never have aligned with the extreme right wing that they fly with! Furthermore, most of them have, at least , SOME amount of narcistic qualities about them, and certainly they must be inherently HYPOCRITICAL, or they never would have sought to become a GOP politician to begin with...that's a key prerequisite these days it seems. It truly is a sad time for the MAGA base...almost as bad as if someone had finally proven to them that pro wrestling really is fake and that the earth really is round and not flat after all! SO, what really IS going on here? Well, at this juncture (late July '25 as I write these comments), since Rupert Murdoch just declared war on Trump (apparently) with the revelation of the Epstein letter, and the report that J.D. Vance just had a ''secret'' meeting with the Murdochs (Dad of the WSJ and son of Fox News), some might speculate that the oligarchs who actually run this country may just have decided that it is time to 25th ammendment Trump for a variety of their own self interests. That's one of the assumptions that has been floated out there (and that had occurred to me as well). One thing IS certain to any half-alert observer, guilty or not Trump definitely looks it and could NOT be acting any more guilty. The more he tries to ''pull a typical Trump'' blame game on this one, the worse it gets so he is helping his own self destruction, no doubt. However, as terrible is Trump is...just remember what they have waiting in the wings....it would be like trading a demented gator for a deranged crocodile so let's give our attention to the REAL DAMAGE they continue to do, that ALL OF THEM WILL CONTINUE TO DO, to our democracy, our citizens and our planet! Just remember, when Trump does finally fade out of the picture WHENEVER for WHATEVER ... the foundation for fascism has been laid and this bunch will not give it up easily! Our fight for democracy and the restoration of TRUTH, JUSTICE, THE CONSTITUTION, RULE OF LAW, DECENCY, DIGINITY and CHARACTER to this country will, and must be, forever ongoing! As for your ''hard working Congress''... House Speaker ''MAGA Mike'' Johnson, after initially claiming the American people had a right to see ALL the file information, has now done his typical, characteristically GOP side-step and about face. He is now shrugging off and rebuffing all the pressure to act on the investigation into the Epstein files. Instead, he has declared an early recess to block voting and is sending members home early for a month-long break from their Washington duties. This comes after an entire week’s legislative agenda was disrupted and upended by Republican members who have been clamoring for a vote on the issue. Now, who would have ever thought that the ''God-Fearing'' head of the Republican House Of Representatives could EVER, POSSIBLY, be a double-dealing, two-faced (multi-faced) hypocrite? My oh My! Deep In The Heart(LESS) Of Texas.... I have always had a fondness for Texas. I have had a lot of ties with the state throughout my life. My parents lived there for awhile when they first got married and my Dad was in the military. I bought my first recording equipment from a closed studio in Amarillo. Over the years I worked with Dallas production companies supplying jingles for some of our radio stations I worked with. Then, during my own studio production years, I had many broadcast clients scattered all over the state of Texas. I always found that Texans and South Carolinians had a lot in common. Unfortunately, so does their politics! Some of the worst politicians in the U.S. Congress now hail from both Texas and South Carolina....I don't have to mention names since you KNOW who they are and, in reality, SO DO THEY! Underhanded GOP politicians also dominate the state houses of both states as well. Texas Republicans are now poised to redraw the state’s congressional map during a special session. It's an act specifically called for by ''IMPeror'' Trump designed to help the GOP retain control of the U.S. House in next year’s midterm elections (well at least it appears they still plan to allow elections...so far anyway). This midcycle restructuring of political boundary lines definitely complicates the Democrats’ plans to try to regain power in Congress since they don't have many avenues open to push back. Of course crooked Gerrymandering is nothing new to a party that specializes in any and all under-handed scheming that can be mustered. Meanwhile, thanks to a Trump appointed Texas Judge (NATURALLY AND OF COURSE A ''TRUMPIST''!), they have also managed to overturn the ruling that medical debt no longer appears on your credit report. This was a concession that the Biden administration had enacted to help struggling families with enormous, out of proportion medical debt (thanks to the ''good ole'', uniquely broken, American medical system!). So, naturally, the Trumpists want it removed. I have never seen a group of sadistic power mongers more intent on hurting people in any direction they can. Instead of trying to help the average American, they are, daily, actually looking for ways to go out of their way to cause hardship against the average, working-class citizen. This rule, which was a part of the Biden administration's efforts to actually help people, was intended to assist an estimated 16 million Americans by removing approximately $49 billion in medical debt from their credit reports. The CFPB argued that medical debt was not a good indicator of a borrower's ability to repay loans and that its presence on credit reports could unfairly harm consumers. Note that it was NOT debt ''forgiveness'', only exclusion from the files of credit reporting agencies. However, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas sided with industry groups who challenged the rule, arguing that the CFPB overstepped its authority under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The judge's decision means that medical debt, particularly balances over $500, can still appear on credit reports and negatively impact credit scores. The ruling, issued by Trump appointee Judge Sean Jordan of the U.S. District Court of Texas' Eastern District, orders that the rule be vacated because of the court's finding that the CFPB exceeded its authority under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. And while everyone is distracted by the Epstein saga.... MEANWHILE... the incessant terror goes on ''behind the scenes''... Just SOME of the headlines we have to wake up to daily... 
With the passage of President Trump’s domestic policy law, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is poised to vastly expand its reach.Chump's ''big UGLY bill'' allows for more of everything designed to make illegal Gestapo operations more functional in virtually EVERY state of the union including MUCH more personnel, equipment and, of course, new concentration camps for detainees. It will make ICE the nation’s highest funded federal law enforcement agency even far surpassing the budget most other countries allow for their entire military! I can't help but keep wondering what General Eisenhower and General Patton (as well as my own father and all the others who served under them) would think about the genuine Gestapo operations and concentration camps now being normalized in the United States Of America! We certainly know what our allies now think of us and who could blame them? Air traffic controllers didn't warn a B-52 bomber crew about a nearby airliner, the Air Force says... Air traffic controllers at a North Dakota airport didn’t inform an Air Force bomber’s crew that a commercial airliner was flying in the same area, the military said, shedding light on the nation’s latest air safety scare. This is just one of numerous near disasters in the airways due to the regime's disruptive ''cleansing'' of the FAA . The already understaffed agency can no longer begin to manage the traffic and safety concerns at all the various large and small airports across the country thanks to DOGE and the funnelling of its ''wastes'' into the pockets of billionaire GOP and Trump donors. Me fly now? No way! Congress Agrees to Claw Back Foreign Aid and Public Broadcast Funds... Before they left for that ''badly needed vacation'' (WE certainly need a ''vacation'' from THEM!) ... in the midst of the Epstein turmoil, Congress DID manage to find time to do more harm to it's constituents and the world. They approved a request from the ''IMPeror and COUPany'' to retract $9 billion in funding for public broadcasting and foreign aid. Understand that this was funding ALREADY previously approved by Congress and in the budget, NOT new funding (which they had previously blocked for PBS and the arts etc in the ''Big Ugly Bill''). In so doing, Republicans also set another dangerous precedent for the country in their latest bow to their ''Felon In Chief'' with this highly unusual surrender of congressional spending power. The ''power of the purse'' belongs ONLY to Congress according to the U.S. Constitution but that little document, of course, obviously no longer has ANY meaning for the GOP! Too little too late.... Senator Thom Tillis, North Carolinia Republican, got himself a bit of credit from the critics of the COUP awhile back since he FINALLY got to the ''bridge too far'' with ''King Trump'' when deciding to blast the ''BIG UGLY BILL'' and then announce his retirement. But, where was he just a few weeks prior when we needed him? This is the same guy who, when questioned about the continual circumventing of the constitution by Chump and COUPany, said ''Yes, but nobody should bellyache about that''. HUH? HUH? Then, don't forget that he was also the one who cast the deciding vote to approve the nomination of Pete Hegseth one of the worst disasters among the entirely disastrous Trump flock! NOW he says if he had it to do over he would not have voted for him...sorry but the damage has been done ... because of your vote! It's always nice to see one of these Republican ring-kissers finally do an about face and take a stand for democracy and truth for a change. But, rest assured, the ONLY ones who will are those who were considering retirement or expecting not to run again anyway. Self-servance is ALWAYS the number one motivation of ANY GOP politician, make no mistake. I truly wish I could find one or two to prove me wrong but the few who have shown me otherwise (GENUINE public servants like Cheney and Kinzinger) have LONG disassociated with the hypocrisy and madness of their former party. The ones who are now smelling up the House and Senate, people like South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham for prime, odious example, will ALWAYS sway in whatever direction their shortsightedness tells them might further their own immediate political careers. Believe me, for the most part they are NOT, I repeat NOT IN ANY WAY, genuinely concerned about the wellfare of the country, or even their own constituents, whatsoever except for doing/saying whatever they think will get their next votes, or keep the cult leader from bashing them on social media! ''DaviStupidest'' comments - Leaviitt - The Library Of Congress and Noem Habious Corpus ... There is a LOT of plain old STUPIDITY now daily seeping out of the White House and the regime but I have to award the latest ''dunce caps'' to two of the more stupid amongst the stupid. We all cringed awhile back when the head of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem was asked if she knew what Habious Corpus was, when her associate, Stephen Miller had floated the idea of actually trying to just ''do away'' with it. You will recall that she answered that '' Habius corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country and suspend their rights.'' Actually, of course, the answer was, ironically, just exactly 180 degrees out of phase with the correct and opposite definition which is - The law requiring a person under arrest to have due process under the law which is to be brought before a judge, especially to secure the person's release unless lawful grounds are shown in court for their detention. She could have just answered that it was the very basic American constitutional right that her ICE agents had been guilty of ignoring all along. Stupid? Yes. Dangerous? Moreso! Then we have cute little ''Bimbo Barbie'' ... the innocent looking, but arrogantly condescending, lying White House Press Secretary and arriviste, Karoline Leavitt. Leavitt commented on the Library of Congress in May 2025, stating that the former Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, was dismissed due to concerns about her focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives and the presence of "inappropriate books in the library for children". Leavitt also indicated that the administration believed Hayden was not serving the interests of the American taxpayer effectively. Uh....since when has the Library Of Congress been a ''lending library for children''? Never of course. Carla Hayden's dismissal was most obviously politically motivated (just like EVERYTHING ELSE this regime does!) as well as a tactic to distract from her numerous achievements in modernizing the library and improving its digital infrastructure. The Library of Congress is a research institution primarily for adults, and certainly not a public lending library for children. It houses the nation's largest collection of media and is home to the U.S. Copyright Office where submitted copies of ALL PUBLISHED BOOKS AND MEDIA MUST RESIDE! Books can be used only on the premises by members of the public over age 16. All patrons using the Library's reading rooms and/or browsing collections must have a reader card with a photo ID on it. The firing of Carla Hayden, the first woman and first African American to hold the position, was most obviously just part of a larger political effort to target DEI initiatives and to try and further control the narrative of American history by the corrupt GOP and ''CHUMP and COUPany'' regime. Why bother to ''whitewash'' and lie about it, Ms. Leavitt? Why not just come on out and tell it like it is ... that you and your kind that you represent are simply, and obviously, trying to destroy every U.S. law, institution and founding principle in order to make way for the self-serving anarchy that you all so desire? It just never ever stops. But, neither will we! Those of us who still have some capability will continue to fight, document, and call this evil out as long as they continue to spew it forth. Since this one was SUPPOSED to be ''DaviShort'' let me just put the wrapping on it here and ask you to PLEASE HELP ME ''DAVISPREAD'' THE WORD by sharing a link to these efforts on a regular basis! As ALWAYS ... I do sincerely THANK YOU for ''hearing'' my ''DaviSoundOffs'' and I ALWAYS welcome your comments and suggestions! Until next time... Hayne Davis PS- ''DaviSurprise''! - I have mentioned on occasion that I have looked hard for something....ANYTHING....to report on that was a true POSITIVE to come out of the Trump rule. Well, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I have actually just seen one and I do have to give credit where credit is due. TRUMP JUST GOT COCA-COLA TO OFFER HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP FREE COKE IN THE U.S.! Not that I drink Coke (or any other soft drink) these days, but I was actually glad to hear this news! For years, Coke has made their traditional recipe colas for Mexico and other countries while sticking its own U. S. customers with cheaper, high fructose corn syrup, a slightly more unhealthy option than good old cane sugar, and a subtle flavor changer (for the worse) as well. So, at least I have found ONE, albeit minor, genuinely POSITIVE Trump accomplishment so I have to mention it herewith in all fairness!😉
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July 11, 2025 ''DaviSermons?'' My mother ALWAYS wanted me to grow up to be a Lutheran minister. She was determined. I had the strictest church-going/involvement upbringing that any child could possibly have. But, as I was ALWAYS an independent thinker and individualist, this influence mostly slid off of me like the proverbial ''water off a duck's back''. By the time I was in my twenties and had a good friend who was also a Lutheran minister, I was often teasing him about how they must teach ''Guilt 101'' and ''Fear 101'' at the seminary. 😉 Oh, and of course, they MUST teach ''Tithing 101" without a doubt! To my ears, those were the themes most often espoused from the pulpit. So, needless to say, by now, I am definitely NOT your traditional religionist. However, in my day, I have certainly done my share of ''bible study'', particularly the New Testament, and the teachings of Jesus Christ. Jesus' teachings ALWAYS resonated with me because they ultimately rang so LOGICAL and TRUE....they just were so inarguably CORRECT. They were also full of UNDERSTANDING and FORGIVENESS, as opposed to judgment and punishment, for all of the human transgressions. If you would like your own refresher, no matter what your religious preferance, go back again and read, and ponder, The Sermon On The Mount for example. When I was taking a real ''101 course'' in college, ''Philosophy 101'', we had a remarkable young professor (one I will never forget for many reasons ... an important one being that he stood up for me against the administration for wrongly accusing me of ''cutting out'' of classes by their own errors!). The first day of class he walked in, wrote a few lines on a blackboard (green board as they were then), turned and said ''ponder that until next class''... then turned and walked out the door. That was QUITE an introduction to his course. The words he wrote were- ''Do the gods will it because it is true? Or, is it true because the gods will it?" I never forgot the impact those two lines had on me at the time! Of course, to any LOGICAL person the answer to that little riddle is obvious. There are just certain UNIVERSAL TRUTHS that are undeniable and which nothing could exist without. So-called ''good'' is also logically obvious since mankind would not last very long without following the ''good'' truths . Even so, the old ''good versus evil'' struggle has dominated mankind from the beginning. Unfortunately, nowadays many supposedly ''good'' people seem to have LOST their ability to discern ''UNIVERSAL TRUTHS"" or even the simple distinctions between ''right and wrong''. It is most ironic that down through history, more wars have been fought in the name of ''religion'', one side's version of ''good'' versus the other side's version of ''good'', often with neither side reflecting much of the real TRUTH of the matter! As for ''good versus evil'' in politics, It has gotten to the point, now, where trying to find a ''GOOD GOP MEMBER'' is a DEFINITE oxymoron! 
I don't know if my mother would approve of my little ''DaviSermons'' in these humble little writings of mine but I like to think that she would. But, for the most part, I always feel that I am just truly ''preaching to the choir'' since I really doubt that many ''Trumpists'' would be influenced by my thoughts and revelations even if they were to read them, or could understand them, both of which are now becoming fully doubtful to me.
I know, I have heard from a few ''converts'' and I GREATLY appreciate them but that's just it, I am afraid that, by this time, any further ''coversions'' will be very few and very far between!
I have commented in the past that my maternal grandfather, whom I never met as he was gone long before I arrived (as was my paternal grandfather), had a saying, as I have been told, that ''he who argues with a fool is even a bigger fool''. ''Tennessee Brando'' one of the YouTube podcasters I admire and recommend, has often said that he can no longer consider debating, or even sitting down to converse with, what's now left of the hold-out MAGA cult since he just cannot get down on that level. I understand what he means. When you are up against someone, or a group, whose so-called ''principles'' can change on a whim, typically on the whim of a ''cult leader'', supporting a thing one minute and denying it the next, they obviously have NO principles of their own or any sustaining logic about them. Therefore, you are simply wasting your time and breath trying to reason with the unreasonable. Remember - "You can lead someone to knowledge, but you can’t make them think!"! I have to agree that we will ALWAYS be up against these simple-minded- ''just blame it all on the Democrats no matter what/when/where/how'' mentalities regardless of ANY OBVIOUS, DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE, TRUTHS, or ''RECEIPTS'' we put before them. I am becoming more and more CONVINCED that these ''just talk with them more...exchange ideas...find common ground'' etc. etc. ideas that these well meaning, but naive, Democrats keep suggesting in their ''I have faith in America's future'' speeches, is pure self delusion on their part. It simply ''ain't never gonna happen''! We are going to be stuck with most of these ''dumbed down'', brainwashed MAGAS to perpetuity since their very existence is apparently based upon hunger for conflict and wallowing in the culture wars their puppeteers keep dangling them against! It often seems to me that many of our voters cannot see past today and yesterday anyway. They certainly don't seem to care about any future of our society and our planet beyond tomorrow! If they could see and understand the past decades, they would realize the OBVIOUS CYCLES that seem to occur with the changing administrations over the decades (assuming any of them have been alive long enough to vote in more than one or two elections). I turned 18 in 1966 but, of course, didn't get to cast a presidential vote until the 1968 election two years later. My first presidential vote was for Republican, Richard Nixon. Since I was growing and evolving along with the ''cycles'' over the decades I didn't notice them at the time either. I first became aware of these trends during the Clinton administration and REALLY became aware after the latter Bush years. The ''cycles'' I refer to are basically this...THE TROUBLES THAT THE REPUBLICANS CREATE , ALTHOUGH EVIDENT AND SPIRALLING ALL THE WHILE, ARE NOT FULLY FELT UNTIL THE NEXT DEMOCRATIC TERM . AS THE NEW DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION BEGINS TO , QUIETLY AND EFFICIENTLY, FIX THINGS DURING THIS PEAK, THEY GET THE BLAME FOR ALL THE ILLS STILL ONGOING DURING THEIR FIRST YEARS. THEN, AS THINGS SLOWLY BEGIN TO IMPROVE THE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGNERS FOCUS ATTENTION ON STATS THAT EXISTED DURING THE FIRST YEAR OR TWO OF THE NEW DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION (WHICH THEY, THEMSELVES HAD CREATED PRIOR) AND CAMPAIGN ON THAT. THEN WITH THE HELP OF THEIR PROPAGANDA MEDIA MACHINES, AND THE ''ALWAYS BLAME THE DEMOCRATS'' MENTALITY OF THEIR SUPPORTERS, THEY GET RE- ELECTED AND THE CYCLE STARTS ALL OVER AGAIN. I remember the prime example of this cycle being demonstrated with the fall of the Bush administration and the beginning of the Obama administration. By the time Obama was finishing his second term, so much ''badmouthing and brainwashing'' had occurred that no one seemed to remember, or care, about the disastrous end of the former Bush administration that brought us the ''Great Recession''! Under Bush and his bank deregulating cohorts, we saw the housing market crash, the credit card industry throwing millions into default by changing their rules and rates in midstream, unemployment went through the roof, GDP growth, while averaging 2.1% during the Bush administration's entirety, slowed considerably in his second term, averaging only 0.5%. By the end of 2008, the U.S. was officially in a recession, with the National Bureau of Economic Research confirming it actually began in December 2007. It took the Obama administration many years and many efforts, QUIETLY BEHIND THE SCENES, to save the American economy along with the entire automobile industry, and begin CORRECTING and restoring the damages that Bush mismanagement and deregulation had caused. Then, by the time Hillary came along in 2016...well, you know that tragic story without me regurgitating it again here. Just suffice it say it was ''SOS''! As usual it is just ''ALWAYS BLAME THE DEMOCRATS'' ( because of that the typical ''Judge Judy''/''Jerry Springer''/''WWE''/''FoxNews'' etc. etc. etc level of mentality that rules the GOP ''roost''). Interestingly enough, It almost seems that some of this new ''Project 2025'' agenda stuffed into the ''BIG UGLY BILL'' is actually DESIGNED to play along with this ''cycling backdrop'' ! If you look carefully at the BIG UGLY BILL, you will notice that many of the most undesirable, unpopular aspects are designed NOT TO TAKE EFFECT until 2027, AFTER the 2026 elections! Ponder that for a minute and ask yourself, ''WHY''? Then some of the more ''ugly'' provisions don't even start until AFTER 2029! But, more importantly, while some of the most destructive legislation is permanent (unless somehow miraculously repealed) many of those boasted as FAVORABLE to the MAGA crowd will END in 2029! Don't believe me? Then, why not do something that your ''IMPeror'' and his subjects in Congress obviously didn't do, READ the entire bill! However, this is ONE thing that I think we can credit ''DON THE CON'' for. I believe that he has totally ended the ''cycles'' phenomenon in the sense that I refer to it! His autocratic takeover is SO unusual and SO EXTREME that it is, of course, UNLIKE ANYTHING (thankfully) EVER SEEN in this country prior so that it supersedes ANY political ''cycle'' before or after! His disasters are being felt IMMEDIATELY and many will last PERPETUALLY! Last time, I said that the most appalling, to me, member of the ''goons'' in Congress and the entire Chump ''COUPany'' was ''MAGA MIKE'', speaker Mike Johnson, because of his religious fanaticism and total hypocrisy. Clearly, though, although its often a ''toss-up'', perhaps the most totally and inherently, ''insanely evil'' member of this crowd of misfits is Stephen Miller. If you had the power to mold the perfect character to play the role of the traditional evil villain in your next movie, you would, no doubt, come up with Stephen Miller who, just by his very nature, epitomizes EVIL in every regard! SInce you are obviously concerned about our situation or you wouldn't be reading this, then you, no doubt, know at least a little bit about Stephen Miller. You may even remember different chapters in his life from some of his past profiles like being the son of wealthy California Democrats, the student instigator, and the designer of ''DON the CON's'' family separation immigration policy. Many professional observers have noted that most all roads in this new authoritarian regime seem to lead back to Miller. They note that he emerged from the four years when Trump was out of power with the skills and knowledge he needed to impose his ethnocentric, authoritarian transformative vision on the United States and we are living the result of this tragedy right now. And it WILL get worse as we now have NO guard rails, protections or watch dogs anymore since the so-called ''Supreme Court'' is no longer ''supreme'' in terms of the rule of law, justice and the true American way! They have lost ALL respect from real, loyal Americans since they are now nothing more than an enforcement arm of the Trump authoritarian regime. Just another example of this occurred today (as I write this) as the supreme court officially ruled and cleared the way for more Trump mass firings at federal agencies. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the lone dissenter on the bench, accused her colleagues of once again "greenlighting this president’s legally dubious actions." The corruption in/of our highest court will just never stop with no available recourse to stop it! It is just too bad we can't employ these mass firings within the supreme court itself! As for the unchecked, Stephen Miller, as the New York Times editorial staff points out - ''With ICE getting tens of billions of dollars from Trump’s 'Big, Beautiful Bill,' Miller will effectively have a standing army at his disposal, poised to execute a plan that has been years in the making. And by Miller leveraging key lessons from his journey through the interregnum, Zengerle writes, his influence now extends beyond immigration, to the “battles the Trump administration is fighting on higher education, transgender rights, discrimination law and foreign policy.” Along with all the other daily LIES and distortions spewed by Chump on the campaign trail, he repeatedly disavowed the notorious Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for a second Republican administration organized by the far-right Heritage Foundation and written by at least 144 people who worked for the Trump administration or his campaign. In an attempt to distance himself from the unpopular plan, Trump had said, “They've been told officially, legally, in every way, that we have nothing to do with Project 25. They know it, but they bring it up anyway. They bring up every single thing that you can bring up. Every one of them was false.” In fact, his campaign said they would ban people involved in Project 2025 from his administration. The only thing FALSE about any of this, of course, was Chump's denials about it. 
Just as soon as the election was over, the mask came off, and Trump nominated several architects of Project 2025 to play key roles in his ''administration''. As already mentioned, AT LEAST 144 people who worked for ''Chump and COUPany'' were directly involved in the creation of Project 2025! Stephen Miller was at the top of the list as Chump’s pick to serve as White House deputy chief of staff for policy and the president’s initial homeland security adviser. He is also Trump’s former adviser and the head of the conservative legal activist group, America First Legal, which served as one of Project 2025’s advisory organizations and was also featured in videos produced by the Heritage Foundation promoting Project 2025!
Another member of the Project 2025 team that we are all, unfortunately, TOO familiar with, is the one I call ''Bimbo Barbie'', Karoline Leavitt. This very pretty little girl is so UGLY to watch as she spews forth Chump's dictated lies and garbage daily in her defiant, condescending style at every press briefing. Leavitt is, of course, the formal ''mouthpiece'' for a ''foul mouthed Felon-In-Chief'' as White House Press Secretary. She is also his 2024 campaign’s national press secretary and then served in the White House during his first term. Leavitt is listed as one of Project 2025’s INSTRUCTORS who train conservatives on conservative governance ''best practices''. She was featured in the Heritage Foundation’s videos promoting Project 2025. Naturally, as all ''good liars do'', she tried to distance Trump’s campaign from Project 2025 even though, as stated, she herself was a Project 2025 instructor as well as his campaign’s national press secretary. Do these kinds of lies not matter to ANYONE who supports the GOP and the Chump regime? How is it even REMOTELY POSSIBLE to continue condone a governing body running ENTIRELY on lies, destruction and vindictiveness? PLEASE TELL ME HOW, REPUBLICANS! (But, then, I have to keep reminding myself that if the ''BIG LIE'' about the ''stolen 2020 election'', and the resulting insurrrection that happened after, didn't influence the Trump cult, nor his convictions and all the other lies and atrocities that have followed, then WHAT ELSE COULD ANYWAY?) In other news...this time more ''sickening settlement'' news... Paramount went ahead and bowed down, as expected, stopped fighting in an easily winnable frivilous lawsuit, and, instead, agreed to pay ''DON the CON'' $16 Million to settle the infamous ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit whereby Trump didn't like their interview with Kamala Harris. The company has agreed to settle Chump’s lawsuit over their interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris, an extraordinary concession to a sitting president by a major media organization and a dangerously, DANGEROUS precedent! It would be ironic that even after all of that bribery, they still were denied their proposed, now colluded, merger with Skydance Media approval for which they were awaiting from the regime. I think its increasingly becoming time to just TURN OFF the major networks, period, as they are all fast becoming just another fall-in-line propaganda arm of the ''Kingdom'' by becoming ''RI'' (see previous posts for meaning) and just ignoring the daily abominations . One has to wonder just how long MSNBC and CNN, the last of the HONEST journalism majors, can remain steadfast. GET THE HELL OUT OF DOGE! ... ... As we all know too sickenly well, in the early months of the Trump presidency, Elon Musk and his allies built a false narrative of widespread fraud at the Social Security Administration, as well as other vital agencies, using their claims to justify an effort to gain access to millions of Americans’ personal information throughout the system..Their destructive efforts have led to the departures of thousands of vital employees and set off a wave of public anxiety all across the country. Meanwhile, in an NPR interview recently, Sahil Lavingia, a former DOGE engineer, says he didn't see the fraud and abuse in government spending that he was expecting. He says he was actually 'surprised' by 'how efficient' the government really is. He says that during his time embedded within the Department of Veterans Affairs, he did not find the levels of waste, fraud and abuse that he had expected and was "pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was." ''I did not find the federal government to be rife with waste, fraud and abuse. I was expecting some more easy wins. I was hoping for opportunity to cut waste, fraud and abuse. And I do believe that there is a lot of waste. There's minimal amounts of fraud. And abuse, to me, feels relatively nonexistent. And the reason is — I think we have a bias as people coming from the tech industry where we worked at companies, you know, such as Google, Facebook, these companies that have plenty of money, are funded by investors and have lots of people kind of sitting around doing nothing. The government has been under sort of a magnifying glass for decades. And so I think, generally, I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was. This isn't to say that it can't be made more efficient — elimination of paper, elimination of faxing — but these aren't necessarily fraud, waste and abuse. These are just rooms to modernize and improve the U.S. federal government into the 21st century.'' Speaking of fraud and waste.... In another news item that went largely ''under the radar'' (if it had been any other president it would have been headlined for days!) Trump continues to lead the parade in that ''fraud and waste'' regard and one example is his most ridiculously wasteful executive order yet. Believe this or not, ''King Trump'' recently ordered a full investigation of Joe Biden and his former aides because he thinks the real Biden might be dead and was replaced by a puppet! We certainly need to spend some time and money on that! Whatever it takes! The executive order is the latest effort by Chump to stoke outlandish conspiracy theories about President Biden and question the legality of his actions in office as President. The ''IMPeror'', SERIOUSLY, ordered his White House counsel and the attorney general to investigate former President Joseph R. Biden Jr., and his staff, in Trump's latest attempt to stoke outlandish conspiracy theories about his predecessor. In an executive order, ''DON the CON' put the power and resources of the federal government to work examining whether some of Mr. Biden’s presidential actions were legally invalid because his aides had enacted those policies without his knowledge, presence or official capacity. The executive order came right after Chump's shared social media post that claimed Mr. Biden had been “executed in 2020” and replaced by a ''robotic clone'', following a pattern of suggestions by the president and his allies that Mr. Biden was a mentally incapacitated puppet of his aides. Not only is this the most absurd of the absurd wastes of time and taxpayer money yet by an outfit that's full of them, it is also, in my view, truly worthy of invoking the 25th ammendment to finally get rid of this dangerous loon! It's also more of that old ''projection'' pattern we typically find with the MAGAs, although this time ironically involuntary, since the ''IMPeror'' himself is the one more likely becoming evermore ''puppet -like'' being controlled by his aides and Project 2025 agenda staff! Of course, when questioned, President Biden just brushed off such claims calling them obviously “ridiculous and false” in a statement after the order’s release. What else could you call i t? You know, you could make a rubber stamp with those words ''riduclous and false'' and apply them to just about everything that comes out of the new golden, ''Bulbous Office''! This all fits right in with that ''surreallity'', that we find ourselves enduring, which I talked about in my last post. Meanwhile as the REAL weaponization of the justice department continues (as discussed in a last quarter post), as UNBELIEVABLE as this seems to even the most hardened Trump regime observer, now ''advising'' the justice department’s ‘weaponization working group’ is Jared L Wise, a ''FELON-IN-CHIEF'' pardoned January 6th rioter who is seen on video calling for police to be killed...''Kill 'em....KILL 'em''... at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 as he helped instigate the riot violence. Jared L Wise has been named an ''adviser'''' or ''counselor'' to Ed Martin, the advocate FOR January 6ers who was previously acting as US attorney for Washington DC and is now leading the ''weaponization working group'' at the new ''UNjustice department'' under Chump. Meanwhile, this newly corrupted outfit is taking further steps to ''investigate the Trump investigators'' as they target two officials who just did their jobs responsibly and legitimately by investigating Trump's illegalities, former F.B.I. director James B. Comey and the former C.I.A. director John O. Brennan . Are all you ''everyday GOP supporters'' REALLY okay with ANY of this? REALLY? When I said that America was becoming like Nazi Germany in the late 1930s back in early February when I wrote the preface for this new website, little did I realize just how QUICKLY AND TOTALLY ACCURATE that statement would turn out to be. I just cannot believe what I am seeing unfold daily in this country....and how the general population and mainstream media is just ''normalizing'' it all ...it truly, TRULY is UNBELIEVABLE ! Meanwhile, the NBC nightly news hasn't mentioned ANY of this...although they did cover the important ''big news'' we NEEDED to hear about ... Paul McCartney's new tour! And, while the major networks have sensationilized the Texas flooding and the tragic victims, as of this writing at least 121 confirmed deaths, with more than 160 people still missing, I haven't heard them mention much, if anything, about the role of the regime's budget cuts to federal assistance or the mismanagement by the stooges that Chump put in charge to basically just wreck the agencies. From CNN... ''As the monstrous floodwaters surged across central Texas late last week, officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency leapt into action, preparing to deploy critical search and rescue teams and life-saving resources, like they have in countless past disasters. But almost instantly, FEMA ran into bureaucratic obstacles, four officials inside the agency told CNN. As CNN has previously reported, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — whose department oversees FEMA — recently enacted a sweeping rule aimed at cutting spending: Every contract and grant over $100,000 now requires her personal sign-off before any funds can be released. Federal Emergency Management Agency workers claim they ran into red tape while trying to assemble resources in response to the catastrophic flooding in central Texas because of new guidelines implemented by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. FEMA officials told CNN they were unable to pre-position Urban Search and Rescue crews from across the country to Texas, as flood waters dramatically rose to levels not seen in decades, destroying children’s summer camps, homes, and putting hundreds of lives at risk. That was because Noem enacted a new rule requiring any department contract or grant over $100,000 to be personally signed off by her before funds can be utilized, several current FEMA officials said. “FEMA doesn’t sneeze without spending that amount of money,” a former official was anonymously quoted. The rule, which is meant to cut back spending, could be a continuing major problem for FEMA, which regularly accesses millions of dollars to assist in disaster response and recovery. “We were operating under a clear set of guidance: lean forward, be prepared, anticipate what the state needs, and be ready to deliver it,” an unnamed longtime FEMA official told CNN. “That is not as clear of an intent for us at the moment,” the official added. FEMA officials told the news outlet that they fear the newly implemented rule could have far more devastating consequences when disaster strikes a larger area, or multiple states." All of this appears aligned with Trump’s larger goal of phasing out FEMA completely. In June, Trump said he wants to “wean off of FEMA” and “bring it down to the state level. A governor should be able to handle it, and frankly, if they can’t handle it, the aftermath, then maybe they shouldn’t be governor”.... SOME ASSESSMENT! 
As most people know, FEMA is the lead federal agency tasked with responding to disasters and was established during the Carter administration. When a president declares a major disaster or emergency declaration, a state can access critical federal funding to assist in response and recovery.
In this case, Federal Emergency Management Agency workers explain how they ran into ''red tape'' because of these new guidelines installed by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.
As reported by CNN above, FEMA officials stated that they were ''unable to pre-position Urban Search and Rescue crews from across the country to Texas, as flood waters dramatically rose''. In the past, FEMA would have swiftly staged these teams, which are specifically trained for situations including catastrophic floods, closer to a disaster zone in anticipation of urgent requests ... not anymore thanks to ''Chump and COUPany''!
As Texas rescue crews raced to save lives, FEMA officials realized they needed Noem’s approval before sending those additional assets. Noem didn’t authorize FEMA’s deployment of Urban Search and Rescue teams until more than 72 hours after the flooding began. Of course, naturally, Homeland Security officials have defended the federal response in Texas and Trump’s plan to dismantle FEMA and shift more responsibility for disaster response to states. Texas does have remarkable resources for disaster response on it's own but did request aerial imagery from FEMA to aid search and rescue operations. However, that too was delayed as it awaited Noem’s approval for the necessary contract for it. For months, FEMA officials have been warning that the agency is unprepared amid a mass exodus of experienced emergency managers and the looming threat of the agency being dismantled. The tragedy in Texas has made one thing clear- The buck now stops with Noem. Her office has delegated little authority to acting FEMA Administrator David Richardson, who, as of Wednesday morning July 9th, had not yet even visited Texas since the flooding began, according to multiple FEMA officials. All of this points out the stupidity of ''Chump's'' idea of emergency management that he has laid out several times so far during his regime takeover whereby states should bear the brunt of the responsibility for disaster relief and FEMA is eventually “phased out” entirely. We can only HOPE that one of these days sanity, character, empathy and dignity will return to America and that ''Trumpism and MAGA'' will fully be PHASED OUT entirely! With all of that said, I suppose it is time for me to ''phase out'' this edition of ''DaviSoapBox''. I hope that you few faithful readers (1,363 total views in June) will return next time and, perhaps, share this and bring a few more along with you. I do NOT enjoy writing this kind of content anymore than, I hope, you ''enjoy'' reading it. I do it because I feel compelled to do my part, no matter how insignificant, in order to continually raise awareness against the TRUE EVIL that now engulfs our government! I hope that my little efforts may inspire those of you who feel the same way since about all we can do these days is try to support each other during these awful times in The United States Of America and URGE THE OBLIVIOUS TO PLEASE WAKE THE HELL UP ! Until next time, Hayne Davis PS- I know....there are always a few typo mispellings scattered about in my hurried writings ....as mentioned many times prior (including the preface) I do NOT have any form of ''spellcheck'', other than my own limited proof reading, and some typos often get by me even after multiple reads. PLEASE excuse any that jump out at you and accept my apologies. I hate them too! BTW...since my previous post on July 4th was kind of special, and only a week old as I post this new latest edition on the 11th, please scroll down and check it out if you missed it. I hated to add a new one on top of it so quickly but felt I needed to go ahead and get this one out there as well. Thanks again for reading and considering each effort!
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There's one disgusting, sickening headline (in the REAL news) day in and day out. Here's just one small ''back story'' example.
The New York Times has reported yet another stab at education by the autocratic regime as the Trump Administration withholds nearly $7 Billion in funds ALREADY ALLOCATED for schools, with no explanation.
The money would help pay for after-school and summer programs, support for students assisted learning, teacher training and other services. But, in an email, the Education Department simply notified state education agencies that the funds would not be available. Surprised?
Who knows, perhaps that money will be redirected toward funding the obsolete, dangerous, polluting COAL industry. They certainly have announced plans to pour money into a dead industry with their plans to ''revive coal''. As ridiculous as that sounds in the year 2025, that is just part of the new ''Surreality'' in which we find ourselves living! Of course that is nothing compared to the result of the ''BIG UGLY BILL'' they just passed, the worst piece of legislation to ever come out of a broken Congress in this country. I present some of this here just in case some alternate reality ''Fox Newser'' might happen by since they will likely never have heard the TRUTH of it (unless like their leader, ''Don the Con'', they just don't care)! Here are the most significant spending cuts- At LEAST a 12% cut is happening to Medicaid, impacting low-income Americans. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the OBBBA will cut federal spending on Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) by $1.02 trillion over the next ten years. Let's repeat that $1.02 TRILLION DOLLARS! This means that not only will millions loose healthcare directly, but an indirect result will also occur since MANY nursing homes, hospitals and clinics that rely primarily on Medicaid funded patients, all across the country, will ultimately be forced to close down permanently! Meanwhile, GOP governors remained silent amid these plans to slash Medicaid spending in their own states while their reps in Congress simply LIED when questioned- as usual...modus operandi- just keep on creating that false reality narrative and all will be swallowed and all will be well. It also, of course, includes significant cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), affecting millions who rely on food assistance. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the bill will cut $186 billion from federal SNAP spending over the next 10 years. One of my biggest concerns, personally, happens to be CLEAN ENERGY for a variety of, what should be, OBVIOUS logical reasons to anyone with half a brain. Cuts to green energy include almost all funding, including most tax credits, while deregulating environmental controls into oblivion. To further offset massive tax cuts for corporations and the top 1% of the citizenry, the bill includes $546 billion in cuts to tax credits and programs promoting clean energy. Specifically, this includes $336 billion in cuts to clean energy tax credits along with Electric vehicle (EV) adoption efforts, specifically, $199 billion will be cut from efforts aimed at adopting less polluting and more efficient vehicles. The bill also cuts over $11 billion in funding for all other climate-related programs previously established under the bi-partisan IRA. Of course, simultaneously, this “Big, UGLY Bill,” is also designed to create a more favorable environment for oil, gas, and coal production, contrasting with previous policies aimed at promoting clean energy. This includes providing additional tax breaks for oil and gas producers.One significant example is the inclusion of $18 billion in new, ADDITIONAL, tax benefits for oil and gas companies! And, of course, more penalties are projected for clean energy companies and practitioners- typical of ''CHUMP and COUPany''- reward those pushing ''evil'' and punish those aspiring toward promoting ''good''! Want to further see the reality of how they are protecting your federal lands and their environments from desecration and destruction? Here are some examples- The "Big, UGY Bill" aims to provide the oil, gas, and coal industries with greater access to federal lands. For example, the bill MANDATES oil and gas lease sales in Alaska, the Gulf of Mexico, and the American West. It also requires the Department of the Interior (DOI) to "immediately resume" quarterly onshore lease sales and MANDATES more oil and gas leasing in Alaska. Specifically for coal, the bill makes at least 4 million additional acres of federal land available for MINING ! Whatsmore, the legislation lowers the federal royalty rates that coal companies pay to mine on federal lands. Previously, in 2023, the Department of the Interior had proposed a rule to increase the lease royalty rate from 12.5% to 16.67%. The new bill REDUCES the rate from 12.5% to 7%. Let's PAY the pollutors to further destroy our environment and our health! No ''chainsaws'' ever taken to this backward budget of course! 
One of the ''scariest'' parts of this new atrocity signed into law, is the expansion of the already over-reached, criminally aligned, ''ICE''
outfit! It allocates over $100 BILLION to ICE and so-called ''border enforcement'' through September 2029. This includes $29.9 BILLION for hiring, ''training'', and retaining ICE ''personnel'', as well as for ''technology and fleet modernization''. A significant portion, $45 billion, is designated for building new immigration detention centers, including family detention facilities and ''Alligator Alcatraz''. Welcome to the new UNITED POLICE STATE OF AMERICA! No need to call out the military now....just expand the gang of thugs already taking over the country illegally and give them more funding than most other countries provide for their own militaries! We can ALWAYS rely on the good ole MAGA GOP to really ''Make America ''GREAT'' Again....can't remember when we were EVER this ''great'' can you? Better to have masked thugs roaming the streets, breaking into homes, businesses, churches and schools kidnapping people, including legitimate American citizens as well as political opponents, and whisking them away illegally, than to keep nursing homes and hospitals open ... gotta get your priorities in order America!
If you happen to be interested in clean, renewable, sustainable energy as I am (a lifelong passion long before it was ''cool''!), a website that you might want to follow is CLEAN TECHNICA . One of their contributors, foreseeing that this diabolical bill would, of course, pass the myopic, corrupt Congress, recently wrote an interesting little piece. He points out that, while this is indeed a setback, the clean energy movement is so logical and self supporting that no matter what they try to do, it will naturally prevail in the end. Here are some excerpts from that article from CLEAN TECHNICA- EXCERPT- Yes, I think he makes a very valid point. While the United States will NEVER lead the world in the move to renewables, it will inevitably happen anyway simply because it is the most logical and efficient solution to the world's energy needs. Since I am recommending outside sources at the moment, let me also call attention to two GREAT examples of the work by two of my favorite podcasters which I have in my OUTSIDE LINKS section. Tennessee Brando is one of my ''downhome favorites'' with his succinctly brilliant presentations. In this one he calls out the two-faced self-serving hypocrisy of the ''fence sitting'' members of the GOP legislature- BRANDO TELLS IT LIKE IT IS NOBODY is better at making a point than ''Politics Girl'' and, although her plea for a last minute ''hail Mary'' effort didn't work, this is one of her most passionate efforts , and one of the most accurate summations of the attrocities of the ''BIG UGLY BILL'' anywhere. EVERYONE should watch this! POLITICS GIRL ON THE BIG UGLY BILL As I wind up this first entry for the third quarter (and the start of a new web page- please see above links in the index for the archived 1st and 2nd quarter posts), I just have to, once again, offer a few comments on the dangerous enablers of Trump. Some are pointing out that since Trump is ONLY interested in anything that benefits him and truly DOES NOT REALLY CARE about anything other than himself, that he might not even have a clue as to what all was actually in this ''BIG UGLY BILL'' of his. We damn well know he hasn't read it! We know he is being manipulated by the ''Project 2025'' grifters and we know, by his own admissions, that he is often unaware of what his cabinet is doing, or has said, at any given time. Trump's cabinet members are all truly some of the most despicable, self serving, callous people on the planet. And, J.D. Vance is REALLY a disgusting ''piece of work'' in this regard! But, the one of the current GOP ''goon crowd'' that gets under my skin the most these days is the Speaker Of The House, Mike Johnson! 
Mike Johnson is one of the MOST DANGEROUS of the GOP goons up there as he is an obviously self deluded, self righteous, religious fanatic ...WITH POWER! He holds ''prayer meetings'' in the halls of congress while all the while IGNORING, and acting against, most of the basic principles and teachings of Jesus Christ! He eagerly ''sold out'' his own constituents, along with the rest of the country, in order to lead the charge for his ''FELON-In-Chief'' commander! To hell with compassion this is the great ''Golden Age''! If Mike Johnson were alive several centuries ago he would have, no doubt, been the one lighting the fire at the local witch burning in the name of ''religion''!One of my long time MAGA disdains has been their slogan, ''Drain The Swamp''. This is because like most of their ''projections'', they truly ARE the swamp of corruption. No political party, or its representatives, is totally beyond reproach for unethical conduct but at no other moment in my lifetime have I ever seen such UNIVERSAL CORRUPTION within a party as with today's GOP...nowhere CLOSE...top to bottom! Even if for no other reason, and there ARE MANY other reasons, the entire thing has been proven totally corrupt with the creation and passage of this lastest fiasco of a bill! The few last remaining ''half decent'' Republicans in Congress either recently announced resignation or retirement and what's left is entirely the scourge of the party. As most of you know, Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the Democratic leader, broke the record for longest House floor speech, in an eight hour and 45-minute talkathon opposing these Republicans’ signature legislation carrying out Trump’s destructive domestic agenda. I didn't get to see/hear much of it but I am so glad that I did catch, at least, one section. At one point, Mr. Jeffries looked directly at Mike Johnson and said, in reference to ''draining the swamp'', ''Mr. Speaker ... YOU ARE the swamp! YOU ARE the swamp!" At last, someone at least had the courage to tell it like it is and tell them ''the facts to their faces''! It was a very satisfying moment to behold! He also made reference to my similar comparison of the ''now and then'' situations surrounding the 4th Of July Declaration of Independence in that it could just as well apply today as it did in the beginning. He stated how the declaration of 1776 was a revolt against ''project 1775'' and that there would now be a new ''Project 2026'' that would be a revolt against ''Project 2025''...hinting at the next election in 2026. However, unfortunately, I am not all that certain that we will still have that opportunity by 2026. I am not being at all hyperbolic when I state that I continue to be afraid that the next BIG phase of the ongoing COUP will be an attempt to block, or at least corrupt, the 2026 elections! I would NOT be at all surprised if that was what Trump was secretly conveying to those possible big bill defectors ...DON'T WORRY ABOUT YOUR VOTE ON THIS BILL AFFECTING YOUR NEXT ELECTION...WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN! Think it can't happen? Don't you realize that this bunch has already gotten away with almost ANYTHING and EVERYTHING that you wouldn't have believed possible just a few months ago?...and they are only a half year into it! What WILL it be like by election time in 2026! I dread to think! 
I guess that about winds up my first attempt for the third quarter of 2025. As mentioned, this page will continue with successive posts for the third quarter of this year and, meanwhile, you can also refer to the previous two quarter archived pages through the INDEX above. BTW, I mentioned last time that our views had gone down somewhat during the month of May...well, I am happy to say that they went UP slightly in June by 195 additional visits! SO...I THANK YOU ALL for SHARING and helping to ''DaviSpread'' the word. The tyrannical resistance overall IS growing and, hopefully, we will prevail in the end! But, we MUST CONTINUE DAILY to do everything we can and NOT become complacent! When the REAL history is documented and written years from now, at least our descendants will know we were on the RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY! Sorry that I can NOT wish you a ''Happy 4th Of July''...but, I definitely believe that this post is the MOST PATRIOTIC thing I could ever do today...so, until next time, I DO THANK YOU AGAIN for joining me! Hayne Davis
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