Friday, December 19, 2025
I haven’t written much about our situation because it’s the same stuff, just more and worse.
I’ve now read that he’s renaming the Kennnedy Center to The Kennedy-Trump Center. Great.
Why not rename Washington Trumpington?
Taylor
I mean why not?
One thing has become clear, he has no idea how to govern. His idea of governing is to gaslight. That is to call a press conference and lie. But actualy figure out what to do to ammeliorate a situation? Fugetabout it.
The level of viciousness and cruelty is something we’ve never seen before.
His lackeys talked about “Flooding the Zone”. Many thought this meant flooding the zone with Executive Orders and that happened, but who thought they’d flood the zone with crimes? Right out in the open!
Bobby Kennedy Jr. has destroyed HHS. Gavin Newsom has picked up many of those who have left that agency. Hopefully, California will lead the nation and other states in public health sanity.
I wonder what’s going to happen when folks learn that their health care costs will double in January? Some have pointed out that this health care still isn’t free or cheap. Want to get cheap health care? Want to get everyone covered? Consider this – We now have more people pushing paper and denying claims than we have providing health care. As to the idea that private insurance is better than government run insurance think about this, “What is the objective of a company? Versus what is the objective of government?” In the case of health care an insurance company wants to make a profit, the more profit the better. For an insurance company every claim paid, every sick person represents a cost. What about a government agency tasked with health care, what’s their objective? To make people healthy. Big difference.
I forget the estimates but if we went to a health care for all system the costs would decrease by something like 50% or more, and everybody would be covered. Not only that but our overall life expectancy would increase, and people would be healthier.
Trump has shown how fragile our government is, and how many rich and powerful want to destroy it.
So a term or phrase i heard that seems to describe the administrations “policy” and actions is “ad hoc” even though they intentionally want to create fear and cruelty it is still fairly ad hoc random without a plan form of governance. The renaming of things like the Gulf of Mexico and stuff and McKinney center. I felt like even creating a space force is a way to imprint your vision on the future on the government which is very authoritarian and basically what fascists have done in the past.
As I read The Heretics of Dune, I am amazed at Frank Herbert’s ability to describe a similar administration in the 1980’s. Frightening!
The speech the other night was really scary. He was absolutely unhinged. But, given how awful he looked and sounded, I’m hoping the end is nearer than ever.
Please Santa, that’s my only Christmas wish.