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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? OUTSIDE LINKS Aspire to be a Zelensky ! PREFACE: (Or ''Mission Statement'' as they say nowadays)... 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 ... 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 begin 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 |