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PAGE INDEX- 2025-2 PREFACE/ABOUT CONTACT INFO TO DaviSoapBox 2025-1 1ST QUARTER POSTS 4-3-25 DaviSpunout 4-15-25 DaviSinking DaviShambles DaviStymied ! 4-25-25 DaviSurprised? 5-5-25 DaviSituation 5-20-25 DaviScattered 6-2-25 DaviSmarts? 6-13-25 DaviSlump? 6-23-25 DaviSigns 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 evolving 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 The new government ... 6-23-25 ''DaviSigns'' DaviSigns (of the times) ... Teachers fired for posting a comment or sharing another post disagreeable to the establishment... Students deported for protesting...People kidnapped by masked goons and disapearing from their jobs, churches and schools with no trace let alone due process... News networks stifled because of fear of being sued for telling the truth... Law firms cowing down and aligning with the regime simply because they once represented someone the regime did not like or who held them accountable for their own atrocities... 
Democrats arrested just because they are Democrats...Innocent people, including a U.S. Senator, wrestled to the ground and handcuffed just because they want to ask a legitimate question at a news conference... Masked thugs in plain clothes with no IDs working for the government in the new gestapo of the U.S. ... Citizens' private government data being turned over to corporate interests...
Criminals being pardoned by the dozens while the GOP congress and the president are openly for sale to the highest bidders...Watchdog government agencies along with crucial government funding agencies gutted or elminated entirely and illegally... The SCOTUS turned into an eforcement arm of the exectutive branch...The justice department weaponized against political oponents exclusively while all legitimate court rulings, laws and the U.S. Consitution are all being ignored and violated...All environmental protections and incentives abolished...Hospitals being forced to close and millions losing coverage if the GOP passes the big bill now in congress...Consumers paying higher prices for decades to come due to unnecessary and whimsical tariffs and regulation changes... The U.S. populace threatened for protesting against the current dictatorship...A whimsically deranged dictator in the white house getting us into another foreign war without the action of Congress...
The executive branch of government filled entirely with unqualified Fox News hosts and otherwise non-experienced /non-qualified Trump obsequious sycophants who lie and bluff their way through every legitimate question just like their leader...We could go on and on trying to call attention the ''obvious for the oblivious''....but, really, what's the point? These are just some of the readily apparant and disgusting ''signs of the times'' being forced upon us by today's GOP and the tyranny they continually enable.
After an impetuos war start by the the imbecilic ''IMPeror Don the Con'', Iran is now seeking help from ally Russia which, of course if it happens means we are now at war with Russia as well (WWIII?). Meanwhile, the big media news item I get from one of my news feeds today is - ''Trending: Johnny Depp has 'no regrets' about Amber Heard trial'' ... UNBELIEVABLE! What a society we now live in!
We often talk about ignorance and how it got us into this mess to begin with. Here is a perfect example. I am not on FaceBook but my wife is and she pointed out this ridiculous, but all too typical, post from some deluded MAGA supporter just the other day. The woman posted, ''I'd rather have Trump as a dictator any day than a Democrat as president''. This kind of stupidity is really beyond words to comment on and, I'm afraid, it is beyond reformation for those who believe that ANY ''Democrat'' is somehow ''evil'' (as they have been brainwashed to believe for decades). Meanwhile, they are still fully supportive of the TRUE EPITOME OF EVIL that is now in control running this country! I have often decried the way they eagerly swallow the lies while spitting out the truth! It seems they will NEVER have the gumption to see the GOP ROGUE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM and that spells tragedy for all of us...and that is EXACTLY what the ''IMPeror and COUPany'' is counting on! As the tyrant, himself, said...''they LOVE ME now more than ever'' ... one of the few things he is probably right about! Awhile back I mentioned the necessity to watch the main, traditional network media newscasts (as opposed to the propaganda arms like ''Fox News'' and ''NewsMax'') but, now I have to say that this is becoming an increasingly disheartening endeavor. Aside from MSNBC and CNN, there is not much attention being given, by ABC, CBS and NBC, to the daily ongoing seriousness being dealt upon us by the tyrants while they eagerly report on every little spoon-fed distraction as they try to ''normalize'' and ''sanewash'' the current insanity! In the heading of this editon I emphasized- As I ride through my neighborhoods and see all the red, white and blue banners hanging from balconies as usual in anticipation of the 4th Of July holiday, I now just find that to be unsettling, hypocritical irony! How can these ''sheeple'' feel like celebrating a declaration of independence from one tryant while, at the same time, enabling and celebrating the takeover by another? How can they celebrate the creation of a brilliantly, inspired, Constitution of The United States while watching it being shredded on a daily basis by a self-serving, self-declared DICTATOR? Don't ANY of these people feel dejection seeing our traditional norms, values and institutions, and especially the very Constitution they are supposedly celebrating, being trampled by a mafia-styled ''administration'' (regime) and a cowardly, bribed majority in Congress? They should be hanging out ''NO KINGS'' banners instead of celebrating something that our forefathers fought and died for which is now being destroyed further with every passing day (and actually, possibly no longer exists as a result!) ! 
I had planned to offer more in-depth comment on all the destruction of environmental protections and incentives but, after the Chump's ego stroking power grab war initiation the other day I just don't have it in me at the moment ... after all, it is a real possibility we may not even have an environment at all to worry about with this bunch of asenine goons putting us in unprecedented harm's way, in every respect, moreso and moreso with each passing week! SInce this one is much more abbreviated than usual ... I invite you to please scroll down for my previous, more substantive, effort if you have not seen it yet. I also remind you that this will be the last post for the second quarter. I will begin a new page for the third quater beginning in July and this page will be archived as DaviSoapBox25-2 with the next edition beginning the third quarter. Meanwhile, TRY to stay cool and TRY to stay HOPEFUL! Thank you! Hayne Davis 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 The new government ... 6-13-25 ''DaviSlump?'' Happy Friday The 13th (If we had any more bad luck today ...how would we tell the difference?) ! 😉 Are we in a ''DaviSlump''? Looks like it ... a little bit anyway. Since I started this little auxiliary website in February, I have watched it grow, little by little, with each passing month to the point where we had well over a thousand views at the end of April ( I KNOW....that's ''peanuts'' compared to most Internet sites but, still, I am proud to see THAT many coming here to hear (see) my ''DaviSoundOffs'' as they occur!). Well, this past month, at the end of May, we had gone DOWN just a tad by 35 less views than in April. That's not really a big deal I would say but it is a bit disappointing when you are hoping for some LARGE GROWTH instead of even a SLIGHT DECREASE. But, I promised you full transparency here with these little efforts of mine so I thought I should mention that and ask you to please share a link if you would like to see our growth continue. Since we are, no doubt, comparatively ''buried'' in any search engine, sharing the link is the ONLY method by which we can spread the word at this point. Conversely though, I did receive more email this month than in any month prior...considerably more in fact...and it was ALL POSITIVE...so, that's most encouranging. I also received a couple of small donations! I thank those of you who contributed with ALL SINCERITY and, yes, every little bit helps, especially if the site does continue to grow and the required bandwidth begins to increase! I assure you that I do NOT, obviously, do this for any financial gain (if I did I would further ''STARVE'' 😉 ) but I ALWAYS appreciate ANY support that ANY reader cares to make! As I have tried to emphasize, I do this for my own ''therapy'' as much as for any other reason. When I see the mainstream media react to another ''COUPany'' ''flash-in-the-pan'' news item and then forget about it while moving on to the next, or ignoring events on which they think their reporting might offend their Trump fearing corporate heads, then THAT is why I think a running, chronolgical documentation is MOST important ...although I admit, it is most difficult to keep up with EVERY atrocity as they are spewing them out from all directions in a ''shotgun-like'' manner on a daily basis! BUT...in view of those constructive facts about you readers just mentioned, I think I can say that NO....even though there were a FEW less ''hits'' to the site last month...we are definitely NOT in a SLUMP! As for that encouraging email ... here is one of the several I received just recently ... Hello,This reader has, indeed, made a valid point toward our ongoing analysis attempts as to WHY and HOW there can STILL be ANY Trump supporters left. I have also ''bristled'' at times when I hear somone try to ''pigeon-hole'' all us ''oldsters'' as ''Fox News watching Trump supporting airheads''. I think that he is on to something with his observation about many of the YOUNGER GENERATION being the most gullible and ''cult like'' when it comes to idolizing Trump and his peers! I have, more and more, come to this same conclusion myself in recent months especially in regard to young white males! I think they idolize some of these pretentious, ''wanna-be he-men'' podcasters on YouTube and elsewhere who are all on-board with the ongoing anarchy and, while maybe not by Fox News, they are certainly being brainwashed by their own versions of ''spoon-fed propaganda'' from other directions! As for his reference to my ''association with Lee Atwater'', if any of you missed that segment early on and would like to see it....you can find it here within this recap segment.... DaviSamples- Atwater Segment . In fact, I would appreciate it if you would go back and reflect on that little segment again anyway as it has turned out to be most prophetic of the tragedy that has befallen us in the country today! I want to thank this reader again for the kind encouraging email and donation! I also thank the others of you who have corresponded with me and sent your support. I hope to hear from more of you directly in the future and I ALWAYS answer each email, personally....it may take me a little while but if you do NOT get an answer after some time, it means I did not get your email so please try again (or perhaps check your spam folder!)! I BEG YOUR PARDON.... I NEVER ASKED YOU FOR YOUR PARDON! (TO THE TUNE OF ''ROSE GARDEN'') 
You probably haven't heard, since the mainstream news media is too busy covering the Trump/Musk feud, the Combs trial and the like, but a former Trump MAGA supporter has REFUSED her Trump pardon for her actions on January 6 and asked that it be returned! As you know, or SHOULD know, the FELON-In-Chief has doled out Pardons by the dozens since taking office, usually to big donors (or EXPECTED donors) and ALWAYS to his supporters So far, out of the over 1500 criminals blanket- pardoned for their January 6 insurrection activities, only ONE has had the remorse and morality to stand up and say NO, we deserved it!
Pamela Hemphill is quoted as saying, ''The pardons just contribute to their narrative, which is all lies, propaganda. We were guilty, period.'' She continued...''We all know that they're gaslighting us. They are using January 6 to just continue Trump's narrative that the Justice Department was weaponized ... they were not!'' Hemphill has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for her part in the crowd at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. BRAVO for this woman! Who knows just who/what inspired her to take part in the January 6th calamity, but she is now showing courage and character FAR BEYOND any of the others and FAR BEYOND ANY MEMBER OF THE GOP CONGRESS who still publicly condones or tolerates this ''grand-daddy'' of all Trump atrocities to date. My view is that pardon power should be eradicated, period....or, at least, restricted to EXTREME circumstances and with strict limitations as to their number. It is obviously a mockery of the law and the courts for any one person, President or Governor, to have absolute power over the rule of law! Pardons were never put in place to reward one's chronies and supporters (or for sale to donors as per Trump) but only to have a mechanism in place for the RARE instance whereby it may later be proven, beyond doubt by newly revealed evidence, that a prisoner was WRONGLY convicted initially. Then and ONLY then should pardons be considered! Don the Con has made a complete mockery of the pardon process just as he has just about every other tool of the presidency! But, when you elect a convicted criminal as President, what else can you expect? And...in more news from the ''Nut House'' ... Last time I focused on the lack of ''smarts'' within the Trump base....it is really hard to pivot from that thread. When you have a POTUS who publicly makes a social media post that Joe Biden was assasinated in 2020 and replaced by a ''robot/clone'' (contradictory terms BTW), you have to wonder who is the biggest idiot here, the ''IMPeror'' himself or his base .... or both? Whether or not ''Chump'' actually believes it, he obviously expects it to be on the mentality level of his ''base'' on whom he depends so he keeps putting out wilder and wilder and more ridiculous conspiracy theories....especially when he needs a good distraction to the real atrocities continually spewing from his camp. This recent ludicrous post about Biden, perhaps the most embarrasing yet to us as a country, just happened to coincide on the same day that Hamas rejected his proposed, Israeli-backed cease-fire and the war between Ukraine and Russia, that he had promised to end in 24 hours after his election, was escalating. So, instead of worrying about, or commenting on, any of that he decided to inform us that Biden was actually not Biden anymore but, instead, an artificial robot. Turn back the clocks to, say, Ronald Reagan or Richard Nixon and just try to imagine if one of them had come out and made a public statement like that ... just what do you suppose would have followed? No doubt both parties would be calling for the ''men in white coats'' and hurrying to invoke the 25th amendment! But, when you have a both mentally deranged and convicted criminal con man, with an incessant history of daily absurdities, supported and elected by a, for whatever reason, ''ignorant'' electorate, then it just becomes the same old stagnant, status quo I suppose. By now we have come to accept that the crazy ''FELON-In- Chief, having turned the White House into the ''nut house'', can simply get away with ANYTHING and EVERYTHING without ANY consequences whatsoever. The United States is now, totally and deservedly, the complete LAUGHING STOCK of the rest of the world! As all of you who read my humble efforts are all too well aware, I have tried many times, and in many ways, to try and understand how the MAGA movement can even exist, let alone still stand, when it is inherently so unfathomable. The only, even slight, similarity that I can recall in my lifetime, whereby so many people were taken in and followed along in such a ''cult-like'' manner, would be the PTL Club back in the 70s and 80s. For those too young to remember, this Fort Mill S.C. based, ''worldwide televised 'ministry' '', run by ''evangelists'' Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, became an empire with its own theme park taking in millions upon millions of dollars from gullible donators over its 15 year run before it ''blew up'' and began deteriorating due to a sex scandal involving Jim Bakker and ''church secretary'', Jessica Hahn. But, the ''PTL Club'' is still a very far cry from the MAGA ''order'' since, at least, that particular cult did NOT directly affect the sane on-lookers observing from the sidelines, let alone have its hypocritical leader, obviously deranged in the case of Trump, sitting in the White House with the nuclear code at his fingertips! PTL, by the way, stood for ''Praise The Lord'' or, as many of us parodied at the time, ''Pass The Loot''. Their combined fifteen-plus years of transgressions, frauds and conflicts of interest didn't compare to fifteen weeks of the Trump clan! By the way, to all those MAGA supporters who still willingly follow Trump yet resent being referred to as a ''cultist'', just remember that one of the first indicators of a true cult member, aside from the undying, unshakable admiration and allegiance to a leader no matter what, is being unable to recognize it in one's self and being vehemently IN DENIAL about being a cultist! I'M A CITIZEN AND I KNOW MY RIGHTS - A ONCE WELL USED LINE IN THE MOVIES AND TV. DOES IT APPLY ANYMORE? Some doubters still might wonder just ''how'', by what evidence, do I conclude that we are fast loosing our democracy (UPDATE- actually by the time of publishing of this edition we have ALREADY lost it without question!). Well, aside from being most obvious I think to any reasonable person who pays attention to what is going on all around us day by day, I have tried to DOCUMENT most of it herein for many weeks now. I have covered my concerns and observations about how we are exactly mimicking all those failed democracies across the globe in so many OBVIOUS ways. Jonathan Sumption is a former justice of the Supreme Court of Britain and has written a new book on democracy, wherein he describes my, and many others', concerns to a T. He states that he has “watched with rising alarm as many Western nations threaten to become failed democracies,” and he goes on to explain that America could soon join this list sharing many of the same concerns that I have voiced here over and over- the sole motivating purpose of my endeavors! He says that while these countries may still maintain an institutional framework, they are no longer democracies because the political culture on which democracy depends has failed. In a recent guest essay to The New York Times, he focuses on the deterioration of America’s political culture under Trump, a figure “who exhibits the three classic symptoms of totalitarianism: a charismatic leader surrounded by a personal cult, the identification of the state with himself and a refusal to accept the legitimacy of opposition or dissent.” “The result,” he continues, “is a regime of discretionary government in place of the government of laws that the founders saw as the chief defense against tyranny.” He goes on to say, ''As an observer of democracies and a constitutional lawyer in Britain, I have watched with rising alarm as many Western nations threaten to become failed democracies. They may not yet be like Venezuela, Peru, Hungary, Turkey or Russia. But these countries show what can happen when a democracy dies with a whimper, not with a bang. There may not be tanks on the lawns or mobs in the streets, but slowly, they are drained of everything that once made them democratic, often with substantial public support. These countries have elections, legislatures, courts and so on. The institutional framework is still there. But they are no longer democracies because the political culture on which democracy depends has failed. Now the United States is in danger of being added to this list (ALREADY IS - HD NOTE AS OF THIS PUBLICATION!). There are tensions among its institutions, though they are still largely functioning. But the deterioration of its political culture is striking — and alarming. The country resembles other Western democracies in buckling under the weight of increasingly unrealistic expectations of the state from its electorate. Democracy is a constitutional mechanism for collective self-government and a way of entrusting decision-making to people acceptable to the majority, whose power is defined and limited, and whose mandate is revocable. That is the institutional framework. A democratic culture depends on something more than institutions. It depends on the instincts of politicians and citizens. It calls for a willingness to choose solutions that the greatest number of people can live with. It requires conventions about how even lawful powers will be exercised." While he was certainly ''dead on'' in his observations, we, unfortunately, now see the convergence of all of this playing out right before us like never before imagined in the history of the United States. This is one of the reasons how/why our democracy can be, and actually is, failing under this Trump regime. How can ANY caring, aware, dedicated American not see it and not be concerned as hell about it? As bad as ANY totalitarian regime is, SOME may be worse than others and, in fact, we have to admit that in some the totalitarian leader may not always be totally self-serving. Certainly none anywhere can be as as all-around degrading as the one now taking over our country! EVERYTHING is bad under this bunch in every direction you look! I have actually TRIED, TRIED HARD believe it or not, to find one or two GOOD THINGS that may have been done by this regime since January 20, 2025 and I can not find a single thing! Oh, I hear the lies and the distortions about what ''great things'' are being done but I am talking REALITY here not the existing BS! Instead it is ALL destruction, corruption, profiteering and revenge with divisive chaos being spewed forth on a daily basis by the head debaucher! WE actually have a Robin Hood in reverse operating who robs from the poor to give to the rich! As I collate my writings for the publication of this edition, the situation in Los Angeles continues to dominate the news. I commented on this current situation early on if you recall. I said it was only a matter of time before we saw Trump calling in the military to threaten protestors exercising their constitutional rights. THAT, I said, would be the final step towards our becoming a FACIST state! We all (all except the Fox News watching gullibles who believe their insane, theatrically overblown exaggerations) know that the Los Angeles ''crisis'' was deliberately escalated by ''Chump and COUPany'' by sending in the National Guard and then, of ALL things, 700 marines, to a situation that covered just a few city blocks of a vast American city that was already being well handled by the city authrorities. EVERYTHING Trump has said about is a LIE, as usual, and when he addressed the troops at Fort Bragg saying that Los Angeles would have ''burned down'' if not for him, he demonstrated exaclty what his scheme was all about all along- HIMSELF of course, what else?. He also made the ''idiotic idiom'' that Biden was never ''the sharpest bulb'' ... this from a bufoon who demonstrates daily that he is certainly, and dangerously, not the ''sharpest knife in the socket''! Yes, it gets WORSE day by day and week by week. You can only wonder where it will all end and how far down we can be taken. If you REALLY want to have an accurate summation of the situation in L.A., then PLEASE listen to this HONEST, BRILLIANT AND PATRIOTIC speech by California Governor , Gavin Newsom Weakness Masquerading As Strength EVERY AMERICAN DESPERATELY NEEDS TO SEE/HEAR THIS!  As of this writing, the big, EXPENSIVE birthday parade is still being prepared for Saturday in DC. Then, I read today that, according to a new poll, ''more Americans approve than disapprove" of this event! Actually, this is a somewhat questionable, extrication when you consider that, in real numbers, only 40% of Americans approve overall. This poll, as can be seen from the graphs, had about as many ''undecided'' as it did decided. Then, even more strangely, many of those who claim to approve then turn right around and say that it is a waste of money! At least that is what I discern from the graphs shown by the Associated Press since 40% approve of the parade yet 60% say its not a good use of the money! The sad part of all of this is that arguably, at least, 40% of all Americans STILL approve of Trump! I just can NOT, and NEVER WILL, understand HOW IN HELL this can even be possible! Have you ever noticed that support for this regime seems to be inversely proportional to either intelligence and/or integrity? This fact is one of the things that began to get my attention over time as I slowly began paying more and more attention to politics in this country. At the risk of possibly offending some ''Trumpists'' who may wander by these pages, I am simply calling attention to the facts! This is what led me to ultimately conclude that those aligned with today's GOP must be ignorant, corrupt, or both (please keep in mind my ''RI'' [''Real Ignorance''] versus intelligence distinction!). Again, I must qualify my assumption by stating that ignorance does not necessarily correlate with lack of intelligence but I use the term ''intelligence'', in this context, to refer to ''non-ignorance'' as well. 
Take a GOOD LOOK, an open-minded, honest look, around and notice the types of people who support the MAGA movement these days. Why do you suppose the more educated, more talented and more articulate members of our society all easily see through the ''Don the Con'' charade while the MAGA crowd is more often made up of the opposite types....the unaware, the gullible and the least informed? Again, I DO NOT like, or condone, ''PIGEON-HOLING'' OR STEREOTYPING but I am saying that, overall, this observation, and it's conclusion, is simply an undeniable fact!
So, if you consider that AT LEAST 40% of Americans are STILL following along with MAGA like a flock of sheep, then that must mean that almost half of our populace is now either ignorant or corrupt or both! And, coming from someone who has been in this society for 77 years as of this writing, I can tell you that it has NOT always been this way in America! In the old days you could count on the ''thinking majority'' to do the right thing...sadly, this is no longer the case. This is why I have often referred to ''the dumbing down of America''. It is no question in my mind that our ''national IQ'' and, certainly, our eductational standards have drastically declined over my lifetime. I think it is no coincidence that the Trump COUPany panders to this group. They KNOW that honest information and REAL education is not working in their favor and they would like nothing better than to have a more ''sheeple'' oriented electorate, willing to blindly follow along with whatever dominating nonsense they choose to employ against them! 
Coming from an advertising background (among other things), I am often amazed at what I see, or hear, in commercial broadcast advertising these days. In my day we always ''played up'' to our audience ... nowadays the obvious trend is to ''play down'' to the audience. One of the most ''oft-used'' catch phrase these days is ''what you deserve'' ... ''get the medical treatment/new automobile/lawsuit settlement/ etc etc. etc. THAT YOU DESERVE - CALL TODAY''! It doesn't take much to write a commercial in today's advertising markets. It also doesn't take much substance to hook and brainwash an audience with your cheap propaganda efforts either as evidenced daily by Fox News, NewsMax et al.
If you honestly believe that Americans are leading the world in either intellect or education nowadays then I hate to break this to you, but you are simply deluding yourself! Do the research. Look at the honest facts. Why do you think Musk was so eager to waive the immigration requirements in favor of his engineering recruits?
Yes we still have some VERY smart and productive people in this country, no doubt. It might even be argued that the smart get smarter while the dumb get dumber much the same as the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. But, the problem remains that the populace overall is just not as ....pick your word ... smart/informed/aware/educated/ as it once was and at the bottom end of this scale is where you will find most of your MAGAs ... that's just how it is...the simple TRUTH! SO, how do we improve this situation? I'm not sure. It may just be a by-product of the overall societal environment in this country now that can never be reversed. But, I suppose that one of the very reasons that people like me keep speaking out and TRYING and TRYING and TRYING to get through, is the fact that we have hope that we might just reach one or two of these types along the way and ''light a spark'' of introspection which may promote some enlightenment and new awareness. We have to try to maintain this hope I believe. Until next time ... Hayne Davis Trump visited soldiers at Fort Bragg where he delivered a speech to “his favorite men in uniform who aren’t in the Village People. Oh, my God, give these troops a break already! They have to sit through your show, they have to invade Los Angeles, and now they have to parade for you?” — DESI LYDIC-The Daily Show 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 The new government ... 6-2-25 ''DaviSmarts?'' This one may draw more controversy than usual ... and, I suppose, that IS saying something! But, this one will largely be another commentary on the overall intelligence, or lack thereof, of our general populace. So, as they say, ''buckle up'' and bear with me! I've often quoted George Carlin, as above, in his comment that ''Ignorant voters elect ignorant politicians''. Does it follow, then, that smart voters elect smart politicians? While we get his point ... both of those generalizations are far to broad to mean much. I guess one could call himself ''smart'' and identify with whichever group happens to be in ''power'' at the time. But, what if there are NO, or very FEW, ''smart'' politicians (which is becoming far more frequent it seems!) ... what then? Do we NOT vote if we're ''smart'' or do we try to go for the lesser of the evils? Then, let's carry this a bit further and consider... what if there ARE smart politicians but the majority of the voters are too ignorant to recognize them or prioritze this ''smartness''? Some might say that is the situation we are in right now in this country. There ARE/WERE some very smart, and sincerely dedicated along with it, politicians who ran in the last election who didn't come close to winning (assuming, of course, the last election was largely legitimate). It does NOT take an ''Einstein'' to observe the IGNORANCE now rampant in the congress and the White House staff currently in power. When you combine this blatant ignorance with the blatant corruption along with it ... then ...well, if you are one of the INTELLIGENT (and ''NON-IGNORANT'' ...please see my earlier post for the distinction- REAL IGNORANCE ) you get the point and you, no doubt, see the problem as well since we have been living with it, and seeing it escalate, since January 20th! 
Robert Kennedy Jr. is such a pathetic joke that it literally makes a mockery of the appointment process of our government agencies. But, then, so do ALL of Trump's other appointees! What even ''half smart'' observer could conclude otherwise? Most of them are not only IGNORANT and grossly UNQUALIFIED but also, sadly, CORRUPT (in some cases even CRIMINAL like their appointer)! That is one hell of a DANGEROUS combination for our country ... yet here we are watching it play out....for the next four years? GOD HELP US! Not only have they replaced competence with incompetence at the head of all the protective agencies, but they have gutted their staffs of reliable, experienced administrators along with it! I don't know about you, but you could NOT PAY ME to get on an airplane in this country for the remainder of this ''CHUMP and COUPANY'' regime's takeover!
We all knew about Kennedy's uniquely disqualifying attributes which were sensationalized even by some of the most conservative biased media. We suspected the others since, after all , they were being nominated and appointed by Trump and approved by his stooge GOP Congresss so what else would you expect? But I don't think any of us expected it to be THIS bad! Then, Rachel Maddow, in her daily coverage of Trump's first hundred days told you all you needed to know about each of them one by one. Unfortunately, there was not a ''saving grace'' in the bunch! How unreal is that? Just consider that the ''POTUS'' deliberately chose the most ridiculous crew of heads for EVERY agency/department, exclusively, in the history of the United States! How is this possible? WHY isn't there some mechanism in place for THINKING, CARING Americans to put a stop to this terrible, destructive nonsense? Many of us saw this coming long before the election if the ''unthinkable'' were to actually happen with a Trump win and we tried to call attention to, and warn of, these very possibilities. But, in ALL honesty, I don't think ANYONE could have imagined the situation as bad as it now is and we're not even a quarter of the way into it yet! 
Meanwhile, many of those ''RI'' MAGA voters hear Trump say ''We're now entering a 'golden age' in this country and, it's taken us four months, but things are so much better now'' ... and they believe every lying syllable while they go back to watching WWE, Jerry Springer, Judge Judy, Fox News et al ... all those ''enlightening'' TV shows they crave! Or, the more elite of the Trump voters just tune out, or remain in denial of, the many attrocities and go back to their golf games, supper clubs and their distorted version of ''living the dream'' in their own minds. They don't hear, or don't care, that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem struggled to define habeas corpus at a Senate hearing when questioned, looking like the proverbial deer in the headlights and saying that"Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country" . “That’s incorrect,” the Democratic interogating senator responded. It's more than ''incorrect'' by the way, it's the exact OPPOSITE of what habeas corpus is all about! They don't hear, or care, that hyper-brat Pete Hegseth lied everytime he was questioned about leaking war plans via a public chat app.
They don't hear, or care, that their GOP representatives consistently say one thing and do another, or systematically blame every ill they have created on their opposing party for their supporters' gratification. They don't hear, or see, or understand, that their very OWN freedoms, and those of their children and grandchildren, truly are at stake now, that our country is no longer the democracy that it once was and that irreversible damage has been done/is being done to our environment and our planet as a whole.
BUT ... Let's give some credit where it is due. More and more former GOP supporters have awakened to the blaring TRUTH of what is going on and they don't like what they see. More and more are now openly confronting these double-dealing, self serving poilticians at every opportunity- that is when the elected cowards aren't hiding out from their constituents at the official advice of House Speaker, ''Trump doting choir boy'' Mike Johnson. This is certainly good to see and, as hard as it is for many of us observers to understand your former support for this madness whatsoever, it's at least refreshing to see you, now at last, waking up to the REALITY that many of us have been TRYING DESPARATELY to call to your attention all along! By now it is undeniably, blatantly clear that, albeit ALWAYS suspected/expected, the SOLE PURPOSE of this Trump term, aside from keeping himself out of fair trials and prison terms, is simply ''profit and payback''. You can read some of the specific details of the bribery, corruption and how ''The President Is For Sale'' in my prior post (scroll below). But, it sometimes looks like that he actually enjoys the revenge aspect moreso that the corrupt profiteering although both are abounding simultaneously. And, of course, the ''RI'' MAGA crowd loves it...they THRIVE on the REVENGE aspect, they FEED on it! Trump ''hates'' the same ones that they, themselves, hate ... the ones their social media bubble trolls daily and that their radical right ''news'' outfits spread lying propaganda about regularly.They also seem to enjoy watching their leader profit illegally somehow associating THEMSELVES with HIS profiteering while they continue to pay escalating prices for everything they consume! Is any of THIS the mark of ''intelligence''? You tell me! It is MOST disgusting to see Trump take out revenge on the media with frivilous lawsuits simply because he saw somthing he didn't like while they simply reported the truth about him that HE, himself, created! Then we have his attacks on higher education, particularly Harvard of late, for not bowing to his ludicrous and absurd, self-centered threats. Here is a related, recent New York Times condensed interview sent by email from The New York Times- Why Harvard has no way out And, what about these ''smart'' (ahem) GOP politicans? Several of them were recently forced to admit in town hall meetings, that they had ''somehow missed'' the particular clause in Trump's ''Big Beautiful Bill'', on which they had just voted their approval on, that the enraged crowd of constituents were questioning them about! Well, there are quite a few such ''hidden'' clauses being SNEAKED into this enormously, wordy bill, including one of the most dangerous....that being the DISCONTINUANCE OF FUNDING for any court proceeding launched against Trump's agenda! Yes, they have that very thing riding along with the typical GOP cruelties like cutting off medicaid for masses, blocking their healthcare, cutting federal funding for nursing homes and hospitals, eliminating food for school children, gutting the VA, etc. etc. etc. in order to provide record tax breaks for their major donors and lobbyists (DO THE RESEARCH!)! They actually intend to CRIPPLE the entire federal court system so that they do not have any funding to function in any proceeding that involves Trump's illegalities! Is this also OKAY with any/all of you longtime GOP voters? I guess so ... everything else seems to be. 
Remember my MANY concerns about the advent of AI many months ago back when it was a ''hot topic''?
Well, while this may be trivial compared to the REAL threats of UNREGULATED AI (which is ALSO in the big bill by the way...yep, they want to BLOCK ALL REGULATION OF AI for ten years!), Trump (or someone in his clan) has been spending far too much time playing with AI on social media. He's been ''doing his important Presidential duty'' getting his jollies by portraying himself in ways that he WISHED he were, for example, muscular, heroic, etc. etc. ...aside from showing himself actually dressed up as the Pope (can you imagine ANY public figure doing anything so childish and disrespectful...let alone the POTUS?), another such example has him riding along as a lance weilding crusader. Well, in reality the only things he is leveling his lance against currently are his REVENGE tactics against his perceived enemies and, most disgustingly, his attack on renewable energy! What's worse, he now considers it his right to critique other countries who are much further along with their move toward renewables than the much higher polluting United States.
Recently he publicly criticized Britain for wind energy projects that now supply about a third of its power grid, writing on Truth Social that “I strongly recommend” the island nation “stop with the costly and unsightly windmills.” Windmills comparatively ''costly''? I'm sure the Brits really ''love and cherish'' his ''strong recommendations''! His alternative? More oil drilling in the North Sea: “U.K.’s Energy Costs would go WAY DOWN, and fast.” He was nodding to a known predicament for the liberal government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer, which wants an ambitious transition to clean energy while being wary of simultaneously crippling the oil and gas industry. The ''FELON IN CHIEF's" remarks also reflect his distaste for wind energy turbines. As we know, he has continuously made numerous wild and FALSE statements about windmills claiming that they cause cancer, trigger frequent blackouts and kill huge numbers of whales and birds....all RIDCULOUS of course, much like everything else that comes out of his foul mouth or deranged mind. (Can you imagine ANY President of the United States actually posting on-line publicly that he HATES a particular popular singer as this one did about Taylor Swift? If ANYONE supports this kind of behavior by the leader of a country then, like it or not, YOU, yourself, are ALSO deranged! It's that simple!) What about the glaring contradiction and hypocrisy of ''DON THE CON'' imposing tariffs on other countries supposedly to force evrything to be made in America, while he, meanwhile, not only accepts foreign bribes and invests in real estate projects all over the world, but also has his own MAGA hats, his ''Trump Bible'', and assorted other gimmick merchandise (not to mention Melania's line of commodities) ALL MADE IN CHINA? How do the MAGAs justify all that in their own collective minds? There is no justification of course just as there is no reason when it comes to incessantly supporting ''Chump and COUPany''! To sum up... There are really no surprises here ... the Republicans are doing just exactly what they always try to do, what they said they would do, and what so many of us tried and tried and tried to warn was coming if they were allowed to remain in power. They even published most of it in their ''Project 2025'' that so many GOP supporters tried to deny. They are now forcing bills through Congress to destroy any and all policies which support solar power, wind power and electric vehicles while, at the same time, discarding social services along with any and all limits on pollution! They continue their scheming to give the wealthiest Americans enormous tax cuts, I suppose because their lives somehow are not quite easy enough yet; and, meanwhile, the middle class is left to pick up the tab.The priorities for Republicans at the national level remain the same as they have been for decades: 1) lower taxes on the rich 2) take away crucial public services and support for the average middle class 3) make things as favorable for the fossil fuel industries as is possible. They are also confiscating American public lands en masse for more drilling and mining and to hell with any consequences or protests from honest concerned American citizens. Again and again I keep asking myself, just what kind of people are these greed mongers...concerned with nothing but themselves and their own momentary and monetary satisfactions? In the old days, these would be the ''bad guys'' in all the movies but, alas, nowadays they seem to be the heros...at least to many misguided citizens, especially those wearing the MAGA hats! How can these people sleep at night and look their grandchildren in the eye the next morning with no remorse, no guilt and absolutely no apparent regard for their future world whatsoever? The sad thing is....as I said when Trump's first term resulted in at least 50 years setback to the environment ... much of this damage they are doing now is PERMANENT and will NOT be repairable in the future by any wiser and more devoted publilc servants to come along. I wish I could find some positive note to leave you on but, at least for the moment, I just don't see any where the immediate future of our country is concerned! So....until next time...I thank you, as always, for hearing me out as I ''DaviSoundOff'' on my little ''DaviSoapBox''. Hayne Davis 
PS- Since I will NOT have another post before the anniversary of D-DAY, June 6, 1944, I would like to now remind everyone to ponder just exactly what D-DAY, and WWII, was all about ... the all-out fight AGAINST Autocracy and Facism! Please think about this as we face these very perils developing in our own country today ... not JUST on the anniversary of D-DAY, but for as long as this crooked regime continues to force it's powers over us and over the memories of those who fought and died to preserve our democracy! In honor of my father and his landing on Utah Beach on the ''day of disembarkation'', I would like to, again, repeat, here, the segment about his efforts from my preface - 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! 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 The new government ... 5-20-25 ''DaviScattered'' Yep...much like the goons now running the country ... I'll be ''scattered'' all over the place with this one! 
As I was watching the NBC 6:30 news a few nights ago (although the mainstream media coverage is typically TERRIBLE these days on all the major networks, we try to rotate networks and watch each evening when possible- more on this later), I was disgusted to see that their LEAD STORY, what they considered to be the most important news item of the day, was the ''Diddy'' Combs trial! THIS was what they were starting with and spending the most time on while American Democracy, as we have always known it, is/has been crumbling all around us with never-before-seen corruption levels abounding in plain sight every day! Maybe this reflects the current trend of pandering to the tyrants and ''normalizing'' the situation by the corporate owned media, or maybe it reflects what they consider to be the mindsets of their ''dumbed-down American audience'', or perhaps a little of both. Either way, it is most disgusting and disheartening to observe!
I have, in prior editions, talked much about televised propaganda from Fox News, NewsMax et al. I have emphasized how DANGEROUS it is to let them be your ''news'' source since, when you do, you are simply getting fed a deliberate diet of FALSE REALITY. For just one of many examples, you NEVER see the news clips of Trump displaying his ignorance in a speech, you never see him mocking the disabled, you never see him displaying his all-around seven-year-old bully mentallity with his childish attacks on his perceived adversaries in the select, edited video they show of him ( have you seen his recent low-brow social media attacks against Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift? This shameful behavior from the so-called ''leader of the free world'' is not only embarrasing to all of us it is also downright disgustingly deranged!). On the MAGA propaganda outlets you also never see the ridiculous behavior of his unqualified, hand-picked staff on display. But, there is another group of people who are missing this also ... those who watch NO TV or media news whatsoever, instead just forming their own views from prefabricated opinion and their chosen, biased social media platforms. In my younger days, I, too, was one of the ''never-watch-the-news'' crowd for a variety of reasons which I won't bother to go into here since reasons don't really matter. The bottom line is, nowadays, as bad as the mainstream major networks are (and will likely be getting worse under pressure- the head producer of ''60 Minutes'' and the CEO of CBS have both RESIGNED as of this writing!), it has never been more important to try and watch what they have to offer than it is today! NO TV NEWS is not an option any more if you want to TRY to stay informed. It is especially important to watch MSNBC with their presenters like Rachel Maddow and The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell since, while the MAGA crowd will always write them off as ''liberal media'', instead they are two of the few commentators who actually tell it like it is...the simple TRUTH! If the FACTS fall AGAINST those you choose to align with, then that does NOT make the facts ''fake news'' and you would be wise to heed the EVIDENCE they try to lay before you! If you are a Fox or NewsMax et al viewer, then the professional contrast SHOULD jump out at you when you watch MSNBC for awhile. They may APPEAR to be ''liberal biased'' at a glance but only because when you tell the TRUTH nowadays, and focus on the FACTS pointing out the OBVIOUS, then unfortunately the facts of the deeds and actions by the radical right ''bias'' THEMSELVES! There just isn't much REAL ''good news'' coming form the direction of the ''poltical right'' nowadays! I also suggest, once again URGE, that you check out the few YouTube links I post at the very bottom of the page. I have brought the BRIEF description of them here, again, from a much earlier post, so that you may consider them once more if you haven't already- My links descriptions from prior post- Right now I would like to call attention to just four YouTube channels and, most importantly, a link to the Rachel Maddow YouTube ''mission statement'' for her show on MSNBC. In my opinion, Rachel Maddow is, BY FAR, the BEST all around news commentator anywhere today, period! She is honest, intelligent, articulate and has a way of framing her commentaries in a clear and factual manner unlike anyone else out there. And there is NO DOUBT that her CONCERN for our sad state of affairs is truly genuine! I HIGHLY recommend that you follow her insights regularly if you REALLY want to know what's going on! Rachel Maddow Mission Statement . SO ... How do you KNOW when you are no longer living in a TRUE DEMOCRACY? With so many varying degrees of perception among the populace the answer will vary depending on who you ask. Experts say that in some South American dictatorships it took as long as a decade before the entire population realized they had completely lost their full democracy. These same experts say that the definitive measurement is when one is afraid to speak out against the regime for fear of being punished. Are we there yet? The other key indicator is when MEDIA, especially, is no longer speaking out against the atrocities of the regime for fear of being reprimanded. Sound familiar? The lack of a widely dispersed (widely ''DaviScattered''?) INDEPENDENT media has always been one of my main concerns of the way our country was evolving as a result of the conglomerate takeovers of the media (as addressed in some of my prior posts). It just so happens that we are, now, seeing exactly that scenario unfold before us with CBS' now parent company, Paramount (another classic example of conglomerate monopolizing permitted by the GOP controlled FCC) reigning in their news departments against any negative coverage of the Trump and COUPany facist regime. WHY are they doing so? Well, not only because of fear of sanctions but because they apparently want the regime's blessing and approval of their planned, further monopolizing merger with Skydance Media! The corruption multiplies day by day with all the blessings of the Republican controlled congress! I can well identify with those principled CBS executives who have resigned rather than be forced to operate under such dictorial stratagems. One of the reasons I am NOT a wealthy person today is because, throughout my life, I ALWAYS had to put my core principles ahead of ill gotten gains! There are very FEW within today's greed/power motivated GOP who would understand this characteristic! During my broadcast advertising days I turned down many, many lucrative production contracts with major advertising agencies because I just could not go along with many of their tactics that I knew to be unethical, or unprofessional, as I saw them. Trump, and his kind, would indeed call me ''stupid'' and a ''loser'' no doubt. But, there are some of us who still value principle before profit as hard as that may be for others to fathom in today's materialistic society. I have never been, and never could be, hypocritical no matter how much money someone might offer. This is why I so admire those few former members of the GOP, like Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, as well as former members of Trump's own first-term staff, who sacrificed their political careers in order to stand up for truth and justice against the MAGA delusionists. However, I am most disheartened to see the once beloved, CBS crumble under the new authoritarian ownership, as I know that whomever they hire to replace those who have refused to sacrifice integrity, will be just the opposite types. This banner of shame will hang over Paramount from now on and the resulting stain on CBS will remain as well. 
And...speaking of ''opposite types''...Two of my fellow South Carolinians, both unprincipled GOP politicians, each crawled out from under their respective rocks recently to make some noise. Nikki Haley actually came out with some mild criticism of Trump's acceptance of the Air Force One bribery gift from journalists murdering Qatar, while ''principles in the wind'' Lindsey Graham turned up on YouTube commercials letting us all know that he was more aligned with Trump than ever before. It really is hard for me to even imagine someone like Lindsey Graham. Just try to imagine him puttng ''principle before power/profit'' and standing up AGAINST Trump, like his former cohorts Cheney and Kinzinger, instead of sucking up TO Trump (well he did so for about 15 minutes the day of the insurrection but turned his hypocritical coat inside out entirely a short time later). Graham is one of the most sickening, shameful politicians to ever immerge in my opinion while Haley is about as an archetypal , duplicitous poltician as you can find. 
As for the most blatant corrupt move so far with the airplane deal, just like I have said about so many of the other atrocities over the years, who could be surprised? This ''presidency'' is for sale in so many ways until it's almost comical! Some few Republicans showed a hint of a spine by voicing some, albeit rather mild and ambiguous, skepticism over the deal but most of them regard Trump's dismissal of the United States Constitution like the Georgia Congressman who said ''nobody should bellyache about that''. He certainly seems to be on target with his chronies since the Supreme Court also seems to agree for the most part.
Once upon a time, the GOP believed in, and honored, the Constitution. Notice the source of my old copy which was supplied by the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee, delivered by Strom Thurmond, back in 1987. Does ANYONE actually believe that Trump has EVER read this document? Does anyone actually believe that he has ANY respect for it? Of course not...OBVIOUSLY NOT. Just about every official act and ruling attempt he has made since taking over the White House has violated it in some way. And, when he swore his Presidential Oath to ''protect it'' (hand NOT on the Bible by the way) he meant that about as much as the numerous campaign promises that he has consistently ignored or broken. He and his COUPany are so far beyond desecrating the constitution that any hint of respect for it, now or in the future, is far beyond belief to any intelligent observer. The ''party of law and order''? Hardly! A convicted criminal felon, whose first order of business was to blanket pardon his fellow criminal capitol rioters and attackers (in at least one case MURDERERS), and who has ignored, and broken, nearly every law pertaining to the executive branch in The Constitution, with his way cleared and paved by his fellow GOP Congresspersons and Supreme Court, claiming to be obeying or upholding the law is the biggest farce in the history of American politics! They then have the gall to stand up and claim to be ridding the country of ''dangerous criminals'' with no regard to due process . His White House Deputy Chief Of Staff, the morbid Stephen Miller, is on record saying they are now actively considering ways to simply ''suspend habeas corpus'' at will. Can ANY ... I mean ANY true, honest American actually keep condoning this kind of activity in the slightest? Many observers who have seen actual video, which has surfaced, of ICE and the Department Of Homeland Security ''police'' in action, have concluded by their appearance, methods and mannerisms that these characters are in NO WAY actual trained government law enforcement. Instead, they are most likely hired, ''contract thugs'' (possibly some of the ''Proud Boys'' themselves, or similar!) who are kidnapping people off the street and whisking them away in unmarked civilian vehicles tagged with regular NON-GOVERNMENT license plates (or no plates at all). The way they are breaking into innocent victims homes with no official protocol and no proof of who they claim to be, in my view, relegates them to any other criminal who breaks into your home and they should be dealt with as such! Remenber way back in one of my earlier posts when I talked about ''PROJECTION'' and how that has become a standard working tactic of the MAGA extremists? Trump often ''projects'' his criminal intent on someone else before he, himself, actually commits the deed. Remember how he claimed that the ''Biden Justice Department'' had ''weaponized'' the agency just to go after him (they went ''after'' him because they were doing their job to pursue those who break the law- a simple premise apparently foreign to ''Chump and COUPany'')? Well, NOW, he has formed his own Department Of Justice ''Weaponization Working Group'' claiming to ''investigate anyone who has used the department for political purposes'' ...THE BIGGEST OXYMORON I HAVE EVER HEARD OF! He's stuck another Fox joke, Hegseth ''drinking buddy'' Jeanine Pirro in the role of U.S. attorney for DC to conspire with his loyalist Ed Martin, a big supporter of the Capitol rioters, who is taking over the Justice Department just to investigate Trump's investigators. This is really ''draining the swamp'' isn't it? It's more like stocking it anew with alligators and pythons! Anybody out there approve of this corruption on top of corruption (ole ring-kissing [to be polite] Lindsey is celebrating of course!)? By the way, just in case you didn't know, Trump and Pirro have LONG been ''partners in crime'' since during his first term Trump pardoned her criminally convicted husband for her. After this latest ridiculously atrocious appointment, The Democratic National Committe properly concluded in a formal statement: ''Jeanine Pirro is yet another unqualified TV personality with a history of putting Trump and violent insurrectionists above the rule of law''. Naturally, shameless Lindsey Graham celebrated this typical dose of repulsive maneuvering on social media calling Pirro a ''grand slam, home run'' choice. If he's talking about another perfect display of underhanded, crooked, mob-like, administration, he's right for once...they certainly ''knocked it out of the park'' in that case! And speaking of the ''presidency is for sale'' as we were earlier... now that the family is rolling it in with their crypto currency dealings that go far beyond the bounds of corruption, the Don's underboss and capo sons Don Jr. and Eric have been having a contest of sorts all across this country, Europe and the Middle East to see who can bring in the most loot for their father by selling his status in one way or the other. This has been a rush to cash-in that involves BILLIONS of dollars with no precedent in American history! They include a luxury hotel in Dubai, a second high-end residential tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, two new cryptocurrency ventures based in the United States, new golf course and villa complex in Qatar, and a new private club in Washington. These new deals promoted over the past few weeks will not only personally benefit Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., but also directly benefit ''IMPeror Trump'' himself! 
Perhaps one of the most blatantly corrupt maneuvers is the new private membership club in Washington D.C., co-founded by Don Jr., called "Executive Branch", which is designed to cater to wealthy donors and those seeking access to the Trump administration.
Worried about not getting your money's worth from bribing and buying congress? Well worry no more...why, for a mere half million dollars you can get exclusive access to the president himself to make your pitch! The club only requires a $500,000 membership fee so if you can spare the change you are just the type the Trumps are looking for! Come on in...buy yourself a fat government contract, maybe even a pardon or two. Just let your money do the talking!
Meanwhile ''Big Daddy'', you know who I mean, the ''Felon In Chief'' who is so concerned with ''waste and fraud'' that the cost-saving centerpiece of his “big, beautiful bill,” will cut at least $880 billion to Medicaid to help cover the cost of $4.5 trillion in tax breaks for his weatlthy donors...yes THAT ''Big Orange Daddy'' ... has also announced plans for his big birthday bash in Washington that will cost the taxpayers at least $45 million! He plans to have a military parade that will rival his idols Kim Jong Un, Putin, Stalin, Hitler et al just to feed his ego while forcing the military to endure this as a ''miltary exercise'' whereby they will sleep on the ground and eat MRE maneuvers rations. But, don't worry, they are being paid $50 a day for their fun and if they need hospitalization they can ....oops....that may be a bit of a problem since The Trump regime has cut funding for the VA and fired over 80,000 employees leaving them desparately under-staffed and under-equipped. Oh well, it's all in the name of ''fraud and waste''. Maybe he can just slash a few more government jobs to help offset that 45 million for his party without having to compensate for the $30 million his golf trips have already cost the taxpayers so far (as of mid April) since he took office. It could ONLY HAPPEN IN MAGA AMERICA! 
Well I could go on and on but I suppose this ''DaviScattering'' of bad news needs to pause until next time. As always, I SINCERELY thank you for joining me with my little ''broadcast'' although I am also MOST SINCERE when I say that I truly wish that I did NOT have to do this! I would much rather enjoy writing about something positive like my work, my interests and my few electronics hobbies. Unfortunately, I am compelled to try to document this disaster we are now all enduring and, if it helps you any at all, I would appreciate you joining me here again for my next endeavor, whenever I can make it happen. Meanwhile I urge all of you to please keep sharing this and any other relevant efforts you might run across elsewhere. We ALL HAVE TO fight this tyranny in every way we possibly can. Documenting the sad facts, along with my comments, is my way of doing so. I haven't received much feedback as of late, just a couple of emails, but the site stats do indicate that we keep inching up a bit with each new month. April showed well over a thousand views! That's not much by most Internet standards but it certainly is enough to keep me motivated to keep publicizing my ''rants''. I would like to hear from you and I do appreciate the fact that you are sharing and promoting this little effort of mine!
Hayne Davis PS- Actually, I guess I should mention that my ''DaviScattered'' theme for this post was not originally inspired by the current events in Washington but, rather, by a recent trip to a local hospital for a routine doctor's appointment for my wife. While I was waiting for her in the parking lot, I decided to take our little, 15 year old Maltese, Pretty Penni, for a little walk around the grounds. Unfortunately, as soon as we got started, we were met by a contract grounds crew who were busy scattering leaves and debris all over the place in an apparent attempt to clear away every single stray leaf in the lot even if it meant noisily blasting their polluting, strap-on leaf blowers for an entire gasoline burning afternoon. As you may guess, while all inefficient gas powered lawn equipment is a ''pet peeve'' of mine in this age of MUCH more highly efficient battery powered equipment, gasoline powered leaf blowers are the absolute WORST! As I sat watching this, I was reminded of the REAL waste we have all around us everyday. These guys were, no doubt, being well compensated by the hospital for this exercise which, of course, would eventually find its way into every patient's bill. Since it was a very windy day, I had to wonder WHY anyone would attempt to blow leaves on such a day when they were obviously being continually re-blown right back by mother nature. Perhaps it was just going through the motions that mattered. We went back to the car, which I had managed to park under a shade tree, and since I do NOT sit and run an engine (like so many) just for the air-conditioning, I had rolled down the windows to enjoy the fresh air. That didn't last long since the guy who was walking the lot blowing the debris and stirring dust between each of the parked cars, headed in our direction and managed to ''DaviScatter'' quite a bit of this trash into our window before he noticed we were in the car or I could roll up the windows. The moral of this little postscript story? I will just leave that up to you to reflect on. Suffice it to say that what could have been a beautiful afternoon walk in the fresh air was ruined, as they all too often are, by one of the many thoughtless, wasteful quirks of our modern society. 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 The new government ... 5-5-25 ''DaviSituation !'' You know ... when you step back for a moment to think about it ... and REALLY consider the situation we're now in... while there are many adjectives that might help define it ... perhaps the main one that hits me in the old cerebral cortex is ...UNBELIEVABLE! Just how believable is it that we, as American citizens, can now have a low charactered, self-serving, 34 count convicted felon put in charge of the country, so he can pardon fellow criminals and place others in high positions, while he destroys the foundation of our government functions? Just really sit back and ponder that for ahwile. It's really amazingly UNBELIEVABLE! As some say ... you just can't make this stuff up! But each new day we have to wake up and accept the fact that THIS IS our reality ... this is NOW the REAL America! Can you believe it? It really and truly is hard to ... but, believe it we must! It truly IS a ''hell of a situation'' to put it mildly! The even more unbelievable thing we have to wrap our minds around is ... we have at least four more years of it to endure; and, if it does endure, it will ONLY GET EVEN WORSE! Sorry if I just spoiled your day with that reminder of the new reality! While the ''COUPany'' increases ''defense'' spending and fat government contracts to their chronies by the trillions, they continue to whittle away the already minuscule budgets of every worthwhile government agency or program even totally obliterating many of them. I guess all the GOP voters are literally ''getting their tingling jollies'' over the fact that the Department Of Education is being destroyed along with grants and funding for higher learning institutions, watchdog agencies eliminated, foreign aid cut out, the FAA, FDA and Social Security departments all gutted with more to come, the State Department bureaus working on democracy, human rights and refugee issues shut down, medicaid and medicare both threatened and sitting with bullseyes on their backs, the CIA and FBI as well as the justice department all purged of reliable veterans and replaced with ''COUPany'' PUPPETS solely to do the ILLEGAL bidding of the Führer, all environmental protection agencies and laws are being disintegrated, all science is being rejected and funding for legitimate science retracted, legitimate media and journalists are being squelched and, now, the arts are the latest target. Funding for PBS is being cancelled (wonder what took them so long on that one?) and just a couple of days ago, as I write this, the Trump ''COUPany'' began cancelling all arts funding! Arts groups say federal grants have been rescinded just hours after Trump's new budget proposed eliminating several more agencies, including the National Endowment for the Arts while other arts groups said they had been informed that previously awarded grants were being withdrawn. Well, congratulations GOP voters, enjoy that good news while you hoist a few celebratory toasts to each and every other self-serving, covetous, rapacious cohort in your group! Of course the Kennedy Center will get all the funding it desires now since The Felon-In-Chief declared himself its new leader ... I know you all will thoroughly enjoy all the new Kid Rock, Lee Greenwood and Village People concerts not to mention those wonderful WWE events you crave ... REAL art...just what the Kennedy Center has been missing! UNBELIEVABLE SITUATION IN 2025 AMERICA!....BUT...BELIEVE IT! IT'S HERE. 
Trump was quick to respond on April 30th to the news that the US economy contracted for the first time in three years, which sent stock indexes even lower. "This is Biden's Stock Market ... we have to get rid of the Biden 'Overhang,'" he posted on social media.
He then added a series of messages in his typical all caps saying that the contraction has "NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS" and also to "BE PATIENT!!!"
That routine of his is something of a years-long pattern for ''The FELON-In-Chief'' of shifting stock market responsibility when it suits his needs (the same way he declares his own '' fake history'' and ''alternate facts'' about every other matter to suit his needs or whims of the moment). You will recall that he often tried to take credit himself during Biden's term when the market was up, but then, of course, blamed Biden whenever it was down.
If there is ANYONE out there who buys into this ''BS'' and STILL supports this hypocritcal, self-righteous mental sluggard, all I can say for YOU at this point is that you are either just not paying attention or one simple, pitiful, ingenuous, FOOL!
It doesn't take an economic genius to notice that the stock market was responding like a yoyo on a daily basis to Trump's on again/off again tariffs. Since it now has nowhere to go but up...once it does, he will be ''railing from the rafters'' how HE ''saved'' the stock market that Biden ruined. It's essentially the same old ruse he always uses of creating a problem in order to ''solve it''. And, of course, his duped followers ALWAYS believe whatever he spins. I was always taught to first recognize your mistakes...then admit your mistakes... then try to correct your mistakes. But the MAGAs seem to be teaching their children to never admit a personal mistake and always blame something else or somebody else just like their glorious leader always does. And speaking of mistakes... While the autocracy has so far been enveloped in one blunder after another, what I am about to call attention to is, perhaps, one of the WORST mistakes I have heard of so far during the regime takeover and it's Gestapo-like tactics! Please take a look at this clip of Rachel Maddow calling out a tragedy imposed on an innocent, Oklahoma family (all females in this instance) by an ICE raid against American citizens in the middle of the night. - Oklahoma Raid I don't care WHAT your ''political persuasion'' might be, if this does NOT make you CRINGE ... then NOTHING ever will! As one commentor pointed out, this kind of behavior is unacceptable even if the raiders had NOT mistaken their target! 
Is it ''over-reach'' to think that we now have a real ''Gestapo'' operating in the United States? From this example (as well as the Garcia incident, the numerous arrests of American citizen protestors, and the deportation of a small child with cancer all without due process, etc.) who could think otherwise? Imagine a group of invaders in YOUR home in the middle of the night, presenting NO identification, offering NO explanation, ordering you and your undressed spouse and children out of your own house in the rain while they ransacked it, then driving away in UNMARKED vehicles with YOUR possessions all the while with NO documentation, NO warrants and NO valid explanation!
The threat of THIS exact kind of activity is THE very reason for the 2nd ammendment in the first place. Maybe all those right-wing 2nd ammendment advocates, who apparently support this kind of radical rights infringement, should keep that fact in mind!
Now we learn that ''Don the Con'' has stated in a news interview that he's unsure whether people in the U.S. are entitled to due process or not! When asked whether U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike should be protected by the 5th Amendment, he stammered around with, “I don't know. I’m not, I’m not a lawyer. I don't know.” If you don't know whether or not an American citizen is ALWAYS entitled to due process under the law, always being considered innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law, then that flaw alone (not to mention the dozens of other disqualifiers ''Con Don'' possesses) should disqualify you from holding ANY political office in this country! Think carefully all you ''Trumpists'' ... you may think you approve of this kind of ''grandstanding'' from your revered dictator, but just wait until they come after YOU for some ''TRUMPED-UP'' reason. Think it can't happen just because you're a big supporter and that you ''hate'' all the same ones that they hate? Well, don't forget, these ''geniuses'' that you have enabled are ALWAYS MISTAKE PRONE and they just might come after YOU and YOUR family anyway! Kamala's Echo - When Vice President Harris ''emerged from the shadows'' recently for her first major speech since her campaign, she focused on the situation that I had called attention to way back in one of my early February posts. Since her concerns almost exactly echoed what I had written back then, I thought it worthwhile to repeat that segment here once again since, like her, I think it is one of the most important aspects of the entire ''Felon In Chief and COUPany'' takeover! Here's that segment - (Begin Repost Segment)- ''After all of my diatribe about Trump as the diabolical cult leader in my previous, initial post (please link above or scroll below), I now think it is important to consider the other side of the coin! All of us who have watched with concern since Trump hijacked the GOP early on, have criticized the ''enablers'' ... those spineless elected Republicans, largely in Congress, who allowed Trump's atrocities to flourish. I commented once, back during Trump's first term, to my hispanic tenant in a conversation about Trump, that he was the most dangerous thing to happen to America in my lifetime. She quickly responded, showing amazing insight, ''Yes, but it is not Trump so much that scares me as all those crazy people who support him. One day Trump will be gone but they will still be here''. An important, insightful observation! Maybe now is the time that instead of dwelling on those who ''enable Trump'', we concentrate on those who ''Trump enables''! Remember Project 2025? This well organized group of extremists began planning and plotting their project to take over the American government immediately after Trump's defeat in 2020 and, actually, before that. They wrote it all down and put the blueprint out there for all to see BEFORE the 2024 election. Of course, when asked about it Trump claimed he had heard the name somewhere but didn't really know anything about it. He distanced himself each time he was asked about it as did his chronies. Well, as it turns out, Trump's executive orders and wreckless, destructive efforts since day one have been a direct checklist to that outlined in the Project 2025 agenda. Did you watch any of Trump's big ''executive order signing production'' on days one and two (I KNOW it was difficult!)? If so, you no doubt noticed that most of what he was signing he not only hadn't read, in many cases he didn't even know what it was. It had to be explained to him whereby he then switftly put his sharpie pen to it with a big flourish without so much as a glance at the content! The guy standing behind him, handing him one document after another, could have, no doubt, handed him ANYTHING during his big ''show'' and he would have put his signature on it. And, just who WAS that guy anyway? He is a lawyer named Will Scharf, apparently now one of Trump's ''staff secretaries''. Now, here is the interesting thing ... if you go to the Project 2025 website and look up ''personnel'', you will find Will Scharf's name listed right there. But, of course, Trump didn't really know much about Project 2025, I KNOW because he told us so over and over and he NEVER lies. He also didn't really know any of the people involved with it, remember? The point here is, there is a much larger threat at work than just Donald Trump himself. I think a shadow group of rightwing extremists, working in the background, saw a great opportunity with Trump's cult status and began working diligently to take advantage of it in order to establish their dangerous agendas once they could get him elected again! We're seeing that start to play out right now. Yes, Trump IS a very real dangerous ''pyschopath'' but we MUST keep in mind that he will likely increasingly become nothing more than a mere puppet to an even more dangerous group who HE has enabled! This group has the ''legal'' foundation and the connections to truly dismantle democracy and establish an authoritarian government right before our eyes and I, for one, am afraid that is just what we are witnessing rapidly unfold right now! They've been planning and organizing for a long time with their tentacles far-reaching even affecting the elections in many states through voter purges, vote rejections and the like. And, of course, we have the billionaire oligarchs playing right along. Combine all of that with a crooked Supreme court and a bought-off congress and it paints a pretty bleak picture!'' (End Repost Segment) So, yes like the former Vice President, I also believe that there is a far greater underlying threat to American democracy than Donald Trump himself. Those whom he has enabled by the fact of his ''election'' will take advantage of these given (or TAKEN as the case may be) four years to do EVERYTHING they can to manipulate and manage the executive branch in ways never seen or imagined before to undermine the balance of power that was installed by the Constitution and claim the American government for their own perverse interests. However, in closing, there is one thing I would like to point out to them, even though they are working hard to OWN all the federal law enforcement agencies. So far, there is still some semblance of true law and order in this country. And, as inept as the tyrannists have been so far, it MIGHT just survive to some extent. Therefore, they should consider... Trump might have been given immunity by the (NON-)Supreme Court but none of his ''goons'' have been! At least the U.S. marshals (if that office hasn't been entirely corrupted) can start going after them as accessories for violating the courts and, just perhaps, that fact alone should cause some of them to have second thoughts before carrying out Trump's illegal orders. So, that's the unfortunate ''DaviSituation'' I currently find myself in like many of my fellow Americans ...and, just remember, at LEAST about half the population sees things with the same awareness and desparate concern that we do and that number seems to be growing week by week as reflected by all the reliable polls. So ... until next time ... I leave you with SOME hope at least ... Hayne Davis 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 The new government ... 4-25-25 ''DaviSurprised?'' I am hearing that MANY Trump voters are now ''SURPRISED'' by the way Trump lied to them about his agenda if elected. WHAT? Trump LIE? Who could have ever imagined? Where HAVE these people been HIDING for the past decade? The man lies about SOMETHING, often even about things of little significance, practically every time he opens his mouth for an interview, or makes a social media post! I realize that I am a unique individual in many ways and that I never have, or ever do, see things the exact same way as a lot of others around me. It's been that way all my life. Whatsmore, I can often just get a ''feel'' for situations that somehow triggers an internal ''alarm''. Also, like my Dad before me, I seem to have an instinct for ''sizing up'' someone after having been around them for awhile and these particular inherited traits have proved correct far more often than not. In fact, I know that they have literally SAVED me from conflicts over the years and, perhaps, even saved my life on occasion! 
Well, these little ''vibes'' of mine pretty well had Donald Trump summed up the first time I ever really paid any attention to him, LONG before he ever went into politics. I would never have wasted my time watching ''The Apprentice'' and can not understand why ANYONE would be taken in, or entertained, by such nonsense. As I have said, I don't see things like most folks but, still, watching an obviously fraudulent, disgustingly self-centered, con man pretend to teach people about business would never be my idea of ''entertainment''! Yet, apparently, millions not only watched but somehow even IDOLIZED this same narcissistic, duplicitous character that I, personally, wouldn't want to be around for even a few minutes.
You can imagine, then, my ''DaviSurprise'' and my feelings when I learned that THIS was what the Republican party would be running for president back in 2016! However, unlike the way a typical MAGA cultist and most of today's GOP supporters would react toward Obama, Hillary, Biden, Kamala etc., I actually tried to accept him once he was elected and actually hoped that he would SURPRISE me and SUCCEED!. I TRIED to see the positive side of things and hope that just maybe, the office itself would somehow bring out some humane and efficacious qualities in the man which had been hidden prior (Although I still had to wonder and worry what we had lost by not giving Hillary the opportunity to govern as President; much the same way I endured similar feelings about Al Gore when his chance, and OUR chance, was robbed by the Supreme Court, and Gore's rival's governor brother, who stole his presidency in 2000). Of course, once Trump got started, it didn't take long at all to have any positive hopes dashed and shredded (much the same way he is shredding our country today). I realized those old, first instincts were guiding me correctly all along. Then, by the end of his first attrocious term with the crimes, the lies, the mishandling of COVID and the economy, the impeachments, and the coup attempt etc., I just could not, STILL can NOT, and NEVER WILL understand how ANYONE could stomach this dunderhead any more than I could! And... NOW... they are ''SURPRISED'' by his actions? Good God, just what in hell does it take for all these myopic, propagandized Trumpists to be able to see the ''elephant in the room'' that's been there bellowing all along? Unfortunately, by re-electing him (if he WAS actually legitimately ''re-elected''), the elephant has gone full rogue and you have dragged all of us in there with him where there doesn't seem to be any way out! BUT ... I do have to give credit to, at least, SOME of these former ''Trumpists'' who have, apparently, not only come to regret their former support, but also some of whom are actually out joining the thousands in protests across red states throughout the country. It is hard to imagine how it took this long but, I guess, it finally hit home in SOME personal way that this new regime was far beyond anything remotely acceptable. I actually think that many of these ''fringe'' supporters of today's GOP are basically good people who had simply ALWAYS voted Republican and just never paid much attention to the daily news or politics in general. Then, when the chaos began to hit close to home, they FINALLY HAD to pay attention! This would explain a lot since many are assuredly ''waking up'' and becoming part of the growing resistance. I guess I do have to also admit, and point out, that I, TOO, was once a voter with ''quick regret sydrome''! Back in 1980, I was one of those who, although a fan of Jimmy Carter overall, felt that America needed the change that Ronald Reagan could bring to the White House. However, being a big supporter of renewable energy, I soon regretted my decision since Reagan's very first act as President was to REMOVE the solar panels that Carter had installed on the White House as he subsequently began the all-out promotion of fossil fuel energy, even removing some of the environmental protections that Nixon had initiated years before. I believe, and I think that history documents, that Reagan was more successful with foreign policy yet far behind Carter when it came to domestic policy. Now... since I have given those ''on the political right'' SOME credit, let me go even a bit further and cirticize some of the activity I am now seeing ''on the political left'' . If you read my preface you will note that I emphasized that this little effort of mine was NOT a ''political'' agenda per se, but, instead, an all out effort to call attention to the current destruction of our democracy which affects ALL Americans! I also said that when I saw the ''left'' EARNING some cirticism I would definitely point that out as well. So...here it is. Unfortunately, the ''radical right'' no longer seems to have the stronghold on PROPAGANDA. I am now seeing it more and more often from the left and I do NOT like what I am seeing. There is NO PLACE for PROPAGANDA of any degree, and from any direction, in this already overly mis-informed world! Just what IS propaganda and where does ''slanted'' information ( favorable but FACTUAL information related to one's cause) cross the line to become propaganda? The dictionary defines propaganda this way- ''information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view''. I would take that definition a bit further or, at least, point out that there are varying degrees of propaganda. If you want to see it at it's most extreme with full-blown lies, distortions, omissions and ''alternate facts'' as they like to say, you can look no further than the likes of Fox News and NewsMax. What I am about to point out is nowhere near that ''extreme'', yet I find it offensive anyway. Lately, it seems, there are more and more new PODCASTERS turning up out there on YouTube and other media everyday. Some of them are totally sincere and well-meaning but others seem to be just out there to try and get attention for themselves and, perhaps, make a few bucks doing it. I watch a lot of YouTube... always have. I find it a great repository for most all the things I am interested in. I also have a YouTube channel myself ( MCP DaviSound ) created basically just to digitally archive many of my old recordings, whether anyone else might be interested in them or not. I am also considering starting a channel for DaviSoapBox primarily just as a ''teaser'' to call attention to THIS web page. However, unfortunately, like many other areas of endeavor in our world today, YouTube is becoming more and more convoluted by the saturation of so-called ''political podcasters'' of all persuasions. You can't get on wthout the algorithm recommending a dozen or more new ones a day it seems. Even one of my recommended ''channels'', Meidas Touch Network (linked below), is starting to seem a bit ''propagandizing'' in my opinion, if only slightly so. This is not to say that these channels are perpetrating outright lies or ''alternate facts'' like the radical right does consistently, but the ones I refer to are starting to become a bit ''tabloidish'' in their presentation and often using unrelated ''click bait'' to get viewers. You can recognize the pattern that most of them are utilizing. For example, they will have some disgusting looking photo of Trump with a large YELLOW (always YELLOW because yellow is supposed to attract the most attention) arrow pointing toward him with some line like ''Trump Blindsided By BOMBSHELL!!!'' Then when you click the video the so-called ''bombshell'' turns out to be nothing more than a clip of few mediocre, repetitive comments from a CNN, or MSNBC, commentator that Trump probably hasn't even heard or would even care about. This ''cookie-cutter'' pattern is becoming all too prevalent. They seem to have a new ''BOMBSHELL'' every day (PLEASE get a new catch-phrase!) in the same old format and dozens of others doing basically the same thing. It begins to get very cheap looking and disgusting in my view and it does NOT help further the seriousness of the cause we are all supposedly here for. I hope this recent trend will somehow reverse itself although I highly doubt it. Meanwhile, as for me, I will be checking the ''don't recommend channel'' box for every ''YELLOW BOMBSHELL'' recommendation that pops up from now on! 
As we turn attention toward recent developments, it underscores the fact that the left-leaners (or those of us ''JUST THE TRUTH'' leaners) do NOT NEED any propaganda to drive home our points! All we need do is try to keep up with and document all (or at least SOME) of the ridiculous, and largely illegal, daily activities of the Trump and COUPany regime!
U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in issuing his recent injunction against Trump and COUPany made this statement-
"All nine sitting justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, the Assistant Solicitor General of the United States, Congress, common sense, basic decency, and this Court all disagree (with the administration's arguments)." I like the fact that he used the basic, simple and HIGHLY APPROPRIATE phrases ''common sense and basic decency'' within the ruling. However, I do have to question why he included Congress in the list of dissenters since the GOP majority certainly do not ever stand against Trump and COUPany nor do they ever display any common sense!
Like many of you no doubt, I have been most concerned about the illegal kidnapping and transporting of Mr. Garcia to an El Salvador death camp. What that says, is that, while we care for Mr. Garcia's rights and well-being, we are MOST CONCERNED over the further example of Gestapo practices now becoming commonplace in this authroritarian regime. The ''Bimbo Barbie'' White House Press Secretary has stated coldly that this husband and father, who was admittedly wrongly siezed through a ''clerical error'', "will never live" in the US again! Trump himself has said that he wants to extend this same tactic to ''homegrown'' indviduals meaning to you, me and all fellow American citizens. If ONE person looses due process... then WE ALL have lost it- not just those the MAGAs don't like at the moment! Always remember that! Furthermore, if the Felon In Chief is truly sincere in wanting to deport ''homegrown dangerous criminals'', then one simple question prevails ... why not start by deporting himself (followed by most of his cabinet)? This bunch in Washington now operates exactly like the Mafia of old with Trump as the ''mob boss''. In the Mafia, the term "Don" is a title for the highest-ranking leader, or boss, of a criminal organization. It is derived from the Italian word for "boss". The ''Don'' is the ultimate authority. Well, our ''Don The Con'' ruler certainly has the right name for his current position! BUT ... We must realize that all this attention surrounding the Garcia kidnapping has also been a ''smokescreen'' against all the other ongoing and SERIOUS attrocities that continue to pour out of this mob-styled regime! A big part of the, near thousand page, Project 2025 playbook is to roll back ALL the controls over environmental pollution and to try to squelch ANY form of green energy while bringing back ''dirty coal'' (there is NO SUCH THING as ''clean coal'' by the way). Trump just recently signed executive orders to basically continue to further undo most everything in The National Environmental Protection Act even though science reconfirms that the burning of dirty fuels is responsible for 75% of planet-warming emissions and 90% of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere. Of course the GOP doesn't believe in science anyway (or REAL knowledge of ANY kind) so that doesn't matter. Neither do they seem to possess the common sense (or care) to realize that breathing polluted air is one of our greatest health concerns all over this burgeoning planet. The E.P.A.’s new leader, Lee Zeldin, already plans to rescind more than two dozen protections against air and water pollution in the United States. FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES- ''I hear from early-career scientists who now find their futures in limbo. Nearly all of them tell me they entered science not for fame or fortune — an exceedingly rare prospect in research. They chose these careers because they wanted to learn something about the world and share it. And they are disheartened by the way the gutting of federal funding for science in the past several weeks has made this pursuit feel increasingly impossible in America. We’re on the cusp of seeing an entire generation of American scientists leave for greener pastures abroad where governments are still committed to supporting basic research or quitting their fields in order to secure a more stable future for themselves and their families.'' This is just one more way, of many, that ''Emperor Trump'' and pawns are now Making America UNGreat! Trump promises to be investigating waste and fraud in the government, yet he’s fired the expert watchdogs who did exactly that. Meanwhile his own wastes and fraud run rampant- including the '' Midas Touch'' gold trappings to the oval office....just wait until you see his planned military parade and 4th of July festival! Trump's personal transportation and personal security costs FAR exceed any former President in American history and most of them are entirely whimsical and unnecesary! Musk scraps children's food and health programs while enriching himself with new fat multi-billion dollar government contracts... efficiency? ... of course... for Musk and chronies. Meanwhile, Trump's ''bullying'' tactics, mentioned in a prior post, continue behind the scenes with media and law firms being ongoing targets. Most recently, major law firms have buckled rather than endure punitive executive orders or fight in court. “They’re all bending and saying, ‘Sir, thank you very much,’” Trump said recently. This is a MOST DANGEROUS precedent for other firms and for the rule of law all across our country! Unfortunately, much of the mainstream media is also giving way to these mob styled pressure tactics and cowing down to Trump's vindictive demands. Why can't they learn that the most effective way to deal with an arrogant bully, even one with ''unbridled Presidential power'', is just to stand up to him and confront him, especially with RIGHT and rule of law on your side? Appeasement just fuels dictatorships! ''Con Don's'' ongoing media threats most recently target CBS and ''60 Minutes'' whereby the CBS executives showed no spine in conceding to Trump's demands while they forced/allowed their top producer to resign after trump continued to whine on social media about the show. The producer, Bill Owens, said, ''Over the past months, it has become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it ...To make independent decisions based on what was right for ‘60 Minutes, right for the audience ... So, having defended this show... and what we stand for... from every angle, over time with everything I could, I am stepping aside". What a shame. I guess we will eventually see everything disappear except ''Fox and Fools'' and their spin-offs. Meanwhile, Don the Con is also blackmailing Harvard by illegally withholding authorized federal funding until they do his bidding and knuckle under to his authoritarian agenda and control. Fortunately for our democracy, Harvard is fighting back (as the media SHOULD be doing as well!) through the court sytem. Other American universities are now uniting with organized plans of resistance. In this ''all for one and one for all' scenario, if the dictatorship attacks one university, they will ALL come to it's aid. Bravo for higher education! Of course the MAGAs would like to see ALL education come to an end except for the indoctrination of their own perverse beliefs... REAL knowledge is ''power'' but power AGAINST them so they are, of course, AGAINST ALL REAL KNOWLEDGE AND FACT! It is well established now that many Trump voters do NOT understand how government is supposed to function in this country and don't really care! Furthermore, it has become all too apparent that Elon Musk, Donald Trump and many of the GOP Congress don’t fundamentally understand how government in the United States is meant to function either, nor do they care! All they now want is a complete overthrow and takeover whereby they can rule, unchallenged, any way THEY want, perpetually! I could certainly go on and on with this documentation of the recent ''behind the scenes'' activities of mob boss ''Don the Con'' and his COUPany of mobsters (for example unqualified Fox News host Pete Hegseth's continued disregard for military secrecy and his brattish responses when confronted... or the dog-shooting head of Homeland Security having her ''unsecured'' purse stolen along with her valuables and papers from right under her nose). But, this one is getting a bit long and I have to stop somewhere. So... until ''next time same station'', I thank you for ''tuning in'' and ask you to join me here again next time when we make another humble attempt at ''reasoning for the unreasonable''! Hayne Davis PS- If anyone ever wants to accuse me of being a ''propagandist'' myself, I simply urge you to do a legitimate and accurate FACT CHECK of anything I present herein! 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 The new government ... ''If I dangle you over the edge of a building... 4-15-25 ''DaviSinking DaviShambles DaviStymied !'' Today, as I take a few minutes to write this (I HOPE it is a FEW minutes!), is the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. It is also the ongoing SINKING of American democracy. As Senator Adam Schiff recently said, ''It is here''. We are now living under a genuine tyranny and at least half the country hardly, if at all, even notices. Then, there are those who apparently do notice and do not care and, even worse, we must now come to the realization that there are also many who actually WANT this! Apparently, most of the current GOP politicians and many of their enablers fall into the latter category. As I continue to watch our government deliberately put into SHAMBLES I continue to try and understand HOW and WHY we got here. How could we have EVER come to this ''God awful'' point in our history is the question I just can never get out of my mind. I am continually STYMIED in any effort to understand it! I keep wondering WHY and HOW so many seemingly ''good'' people, or at least those I THOUGHT were ''good people'' previously, can allow and even support what is going on. I've hashed out the possible ''reasons'' in my mind, and sometimes in these posts, over and over. I have tried to even make excuses for them to some degree at times. But I have come to the conclusion that I will just NEVER be able to comprehend their motives and mindsets. It is all just too unfathomable to reason out....because there simply IS NO LOGICAL REASON to it! 
Basically, much of it keeps coming back to my subject last edition...RIGHT WING EXTREMIST PROPAGANDA! Many of these people have had their basic core beliefs exploited, amplified and distorted beyond recognition over decades of literal BRAIN WASHING by a media that was soley designed to do just that- manipulate and exploit. If ONLY these ''gullibles'' (and you really DO have to call them that...their media controllers certainly do!) could see themselves through the eyes of those of us who see through all of this manipulation! We care for them. We pity them. But, at some point, we have to hold them RESPONSIBLE!
I've heard it said many times that it is foolish to loose friends over politics. It is certainly hard to have family members at odds with you over ''politics''. The big problem with that now is something most of them can not understand....this is no longer just ''politics'' per se. It is CORE PRINCIPLE ...it is NOT ''right versus left'' in a political sense it is now ''right versus wrong'' in a moral sense and, I assure you, ''RIGHT'' no longer aligns with the political ''right'' if it ever did. Those of us who are repelled by ''The Felon In Chief and COUPany'', and motivated to try and do something about it, are most definitely on the right side of history! One day honest historians will, no doubt, look back and ponder the same questions I keep coming back to over and over...HOW and WHY could it happen to Amerca! As for those who continue to ignore, excuse and even support the new Tryranny, even among our friends and family, at some point you have to consider that the line is drawn...a line that they, themselves continue to call attention to. As podcaster TENNESSEE BRANDO recently pointed out, when these people try and force their Trump cultism on you with shallow comments and repeated propaganda lines and lies, you just CAN NOT ''UN-SEE'' it and ''UN-HEAR'' it. It stays with you from now on whenever you think of them. When I see a lifelong friend post some ridiculous anti-liberal cartoon online in the midst of the real destruction of America going on all around us, it actually further breaks my already weakened heart. How can someone you always thought so much of be so ''sophomoric'' and shallow, you wonder? I am STYMIED when I try to find the answer to WHY and HOW protective government agencies, largely staffed by UNSELFISH, SINCERE, PUBLIC SERVANTS, which evolved over decades after being established by Congress over time out of necessity to serve the American society, can be obliterated overnight by a self-serving, narcissistic, cult leader and his unelected oligarch partner with his squad of unvetted ''nerd kids'' with NO CONSEQUENCES! The idea that some socially challenged, ''ivory-tower'' billionaire with a bunch of ''geek kids'' can be turned loose to shred these vital agencies, indiscriminately firing dedicated, experienced experts is not only a STUPID way to run a government, it is also downright, quite literally, CRIMINAL! Of course, as I have pointed out before, much of this, if not all, IS BY DESIGN! The whole idea is to burn it all down if at all possible and replace it with privatized corruption all around! The bigger question becomes, HOW and WHY can our gullible friends and neighbors continue to justify ANY of this in ANY fashion and for how long? "DaviStymied'' here...how about you? During my daily ponderings I often wonder what many of the former GOP members and supporters would think about our current situation. Can you imagine Eisenhower, or even Reagan (just not so sure about the Bushs) standing by and condoning the low-life types now dominating their beloved party? I often wonder about other figures of better bygone times...Johnny Carson and Bob Hope to name just a couple from the entertainment industry of old- what would they be thinking/saying? Can you begin to imagine how General George Patton would have reacted to ''Don the Con''? I have ALWAYS cared about the environment. It's just a natural trait of mine. Why would anyone want to ''politicize'' a clean environment? I'm also mindful of BURNING things since I, like MANY others on the planet, am very sensitive to smoke. One of my most memorable motivations for converting my old gasoline powered truck to electric propulsion back in 2003, was the experience of sitting at a red light one winter night and watching all the exhausts surrounding me out of all the ''shaking and spewing'' polluting vehicles. Think of all the waste that could be saved at every stop light all over ther world, every day, if everything actually STOPPED at those stop lights as opposed to sitting there ''shakin' and spewin' ''! Well, now, the ''Polluter In Chief'' announces the other day that he wants to ''bring back COAL'' as one of his self-glorified forms of polluting energy. I felt he did about 50 years of damage to the environment during his first term, just imagine what this and his ''drill baby drill'' oil policies will add. All this from a DOOFUS who actually seems to believe that ''windmills cause cancer''. Again, HOW/WHY can ANY of my old friends and family ever have, let alone continue to, support such a ridiculous and dangerous BUFOON? Nero fiddled while Rome burned and, now, ''Emperor Trump'' golfs while America burns! 
This one was supposed to be brief so let me close out with a challenge to ANY MAGA type, or perhaps one now turned ''fence-sitter'', who might have happened upon my little website here. I implore you, FOR YOUR OWN SAKE AND THE SAKE OF YOUR CHILDREN AND GRAND CHILDREN, just try TURNING OFF FOX NEWS for one week! Try the old traditional ABC, NBC, or CBS nightly news feeds for daily headlines for one week. I assure you they are NOT ''liberal biased '' in spite of what your ''bubble peers'' instill in you. They are also NOT necessarily a good mirror of the seriousness of our current situation- they should be screaming DICTATORSHIP THREATENS AMERICA from their towers on the rooftop on a daily basis. So, if anything, they are guilty of NORMALIZING and SANE WASHING our most abnormal and insane current state of affairs! So, that being the case, I further challenge you to watch the Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC nightly for one week. YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF, YOUR CHILDREN AND GRAND CHILDREN TO DO SO! She is a truly dedicated, caring, HONEST journalist who will tell you NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH for a change! You will FINALLY get a taste of REALITY if you do this instead of the perverted fantasy world that ''Fox and Friends'' creates for you every day. Please, as a favor to YOURSELF...not me....just give it a try ... just one week.
Finally, here is a closing dose of REALITY for you that you WILL NOT hear about on Fox News....we are NOW in a genuine constitutional CRISIS since our authoritarian ruler has just openly aligned with a South American dictator and deliberately DEFIED OUR COURTS...even HIS Supreme Court! Of course, he can now do ANYTHING he wants in office, including defying the Supreme Court, since this very same ''Supreme Court'' in it's ''infinite wisdom'' (ahem!) has given him ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY to do so! So ... what now? What next? Until my next edition, I thank you for ''tuning in '' with me here. If you are a newcomer, please check out my earlier TO DaviSoapBox 2025-1 1ST QUARTER POSTS . Hayne Davis 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 The new government ... 4-3-25 DaviSpunout ! 
Welcome my fellow ''April Fools''! In case you missed my announcement about starting a new web page for each quarter of each year (assuming we last that long 😉 !), and you are wondering where the lengthy index is for our first quarter posts, that page has been archived and can be accessed from the TO 2025-1 1ST QUARTER POSTS link in the above index (or from this link as well, obviously). As explained in the above addendum, the single web page was just getting far too long after multiple weeks of posts so it was decided to just begin a separate new page for each three month quarter. So, if you want a refresher on my first efforts, just click the 2025-1 link and it will spring (DaviSpring?) right up. If you are a newcomer here, I ask that you please check out those previous editions also. If it were not so SERIOUS it would be downright FUNNY! In fact, much of what I see coming from the ''Trumpists'' in Washington these days, and especially the right wing ''news'' commentators who SPIN it, truly makes me think I am watching an SNL skit! Unfortunately it is REAL and it is MOST SERIOUS ! It's very hard to take ANY break if one is trying to document the atrocities of the new authoritarian regime since so MUCH craziness happens daily. Most all of the attempts by the ''Felon In Chief'' and ''COUPany'' are, of course, ILLEGAL and UNCONSTITUTIONAL but that never seems to matter any to the so-called ''party of law and order''. I've commented MANY times about the ''FoxEffect'' and how that, alone, has accounted for so much down-turn in our country and our society over the past couple of decades. The sad and sickening thing is, the Fox News audience actually continues to grow which really means one disturbing thing...many Americans are continually becoming dumber and dumber. I check Fox News from time to time just to see what their latest SPIN might be to the latest despicable act by the political GOONS they support and enable (as for the other copycats such as Newsmax et al, their goofball presenters are just TOO disgusting to tolerate even for a few seconds by any sane, sober observer- not to say that it isn't almost as difficult to stomach the Fox News crowd for more than a minute or two!). As Jimmy Kimmel once pointed out, his staff members, who have to monitor Fox News on a daily basis in order to obtain material that shows the Fox crowd up for what they are, probably have the most difficult job of anyone anywhere. These ''Foxist Fascists'' are simply AWFULLY disgusting and hard to watch for anyone besides the gullible, simple-minded viewers who ''feed'' off them every day. As I have done my share of ''monitoring'', to the least possible degree necessary, I have become more and more amazed at the length these Fox commentator clowns will go to to try and put a spin on the latest activities of their political clown brethren. When the little chat group of spoiled brat appointees used the public Signal app to ''play war'' and try to bolster each other's fragile male egos the other day, while simultaneously betraying American service members with careless disclosures, the Fox bunch really came up with some ''doozies''. Remember how they carried on about Hillary Clinton sending a few emails on a non-government server- and the famed battle cry ''lock her up''? Well the hypocrisy came out in full, wide-open display in this instance! First they, like their King Trump, tried to blame the reporter who responsibly reported that THEY had mistakenly included him in this ''chat''. But, then, once he published and revealed the entire chat, after carefully guarding sensitive info in the process which is more than they had done, the Fox news bunch then decided to blame the app. It is ALWAYS somebody/something else's fault....ALWAYS! Shoot the messenger....blame the red light when you run it, etc. etc. etc. The most hilarious claim was that the Signal app had somehow ''sucked'' the reporter onto the chat group....never mind that sensitive material such as ''war plans'' should never be shared in a text chat of ANY kind let alone with a public app! Then, they followed their leader in claiming that the app itself was probably defective and what they were discussing (and laying out for all foreign espionage organizations on a silver platter) was ''no big deal'' anyway! Well, it was a VERY big deal and the fact that this was obviously not the first such chat disclosing other sensitive material by these unqualified ''wannabes'' is even a BIGGER DEAL! Then, we have the SPIN on the Trump tarrifs, the sinking economy and stock market whereby they compare it to ''remodelling a house'' in that you always have to make a mess before you can make it better. Well they got one part right....they are certainly ''making a mess'' and then some! My aunt once told me she was glad she had voted for Trump (first election) because he was going to cause her stocks to increase in value. I wonder what she thinks now! She admired the ''business genius'' who filed bankruptcy four times with the Trump Taj Mahal in 1991, Trump Plaza Hotel in 1992, Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts in 2004 and Trump Entertainment Resorts in 2009. Some argued that was ''smart business'' taking advantage of laws to benefit the company. Well, no one can argue to me that it's best to be in a position to HAVE to run a business into bankruptcy just to enjoy the protection of these laws in the first place! This doesn't begin to include the numerous other businesses he ran into the ground such as the fraudulent ''Trump University'', Trump Vodka, and on and on and on. In fact, if you would like to see the COMPLETE lists of Trump business failures (so many it's really hilarious reading!), check out this article in the Los Angeles Times - A lengthy list of Trump’s disastrous business deals . When I watch these doofus right wing commentators I always have to wonder if they truly believe any of what they are spinning or if they just fall in line for company policy. Its probably a little of both in most cases and I really don't know which would be worse...either way or both, they are MOST DEFINTELY NOT the kind of characters I would want my grandchildren exposed to or role-modelling! But, then, the same can be said of most of those they are aligned with in today's GOP ... you won't find a more slimy charactered, and/or ignorant, group of people elsewhere than what now dominates both houses of Congress. But, I must interject here that at least FOUR of the GOP senators have shown some hint of spine and character by standing tall and voting for the joint resolution terminating the ''national emergency'' declared by Trump to impose duties on items imported from Canada. This self declared ''national economy emergency'' (the economy he inherited that experts had declared the ''envy of the free world'' just five weeks prior to his election!) is where the FelonInChief gained his authority to impose these ridiculous economy wrecking (both the U. S. and global economies) tariffs. However, the bill is likely ''moot out the chute'' since the sleazy house speaker, Mike Johnson, saw this coming and , early on, declared that the entire session of his branch of Congress was now ''one long day'' so that ''tomorrow's'' vote will never be allowed. 
I wonder to what degree this news, along with news of the moving, historical, record breaking 25 hour plus speech by Senator Cory Booker, will be reported by Fox News et al. That's the saddest part of it all, that these Fox News addict viewers seldom get to see any REAL news and what they do see ALWAYS has that propaganda SPIN added to it!
Yes, when it comes down to the right wing media ''spin doctors'' they have definitely, long ago , SPUN ME OUT!
This brings me back to the old ''dumbing down'' of Americans situation that I often express concern about. George Carlin often said that ''ignorant voters elect ignorant politicians''. Now that the ignorant majority is increasingly ruling over the intelligent minority, maybe its time we install voter IQ tests much the same way we require a certain amount of basic knowledge to obtain a driver's license! Or, even better, why not a basic civics test for any politician running for office? Tommy Turberville, MT Green et al would have never gotten out of the chute in that case! Of course that is about as likely to happen as term limits for politicians since it is the politicians themselves who would have to install it...NEVER HAPPEN! I must say, though, that at least SOME of the ''ignorant'' are NOW wising up at last as evidenced by the large number of former Republican voters turning out in town hall grievance meetings as well as in numerous protests around the country. This grass roots movement is also growing in number with each passing week and the ''power of the people'' effect is about all we have left to fight with at this juncture so ...as we used to say in the '70s ...''POWER TO THE PEOPLE!"! Thanks for ''tuning in'', Hayne Davis PS- I received a small flurry of feedback during my first quarter of entries (linked above and below) . However, since then the comments have been few and far between even though the page traffic has increased, albeit slightly (PLEASE SHARE!). One of the few correspondents I heard from was a longtime reader of my humble efforts, from Michigan, who forwarded me some interesting email ''newsletters'' and a very insightful website. Civil Discourse With Joyce Vance (no relation to J.D. I assume!😉 ) Here's the interesting newsletter subscription - Letters from an American-Heather Cox Richardson 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  OTHER LINKS OF INTEREST TO DaviSoapBox 2025-1 1ST QUARTER POSTS RACHEL MADDOW POLITICS GIRL TENNESSEE BRANDO MEIDAS TOUCH NETWORK MARY TRUMP MEDIA CIVIL DISCOURSE WITH JOYCE VANCE LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN- HEATHER COX RICHARDSON BACK TO INDEX BACK TO TOP |