This past year has been an eye opener. The Congress has all but capitulated to the whims of Trumpelstilskin. The evidence of his malfeasance and downright criminality shows in every sector of America and our allies on all sides. Without making an impossibly long list, look at his increase in wealth on the backs of citizens medical plans, tariffs which affect American consumers and general ignorance of the role of President. His cabinet choices are disasters and have been the reason for medical crises, job losses and the desecration of public buildings inside and out. One of the most egregious acts is an attempt to push legislation that would prevent he and his family from prosecution for his outright theft of public funds.
Suppose we were able to have all of the past legislators (and some current) from both parties who really spoke and worked for the voters and the country, would we be better off? With all of the negatives we have experienced from various members of Congress we should be smarter in voting, yet we are not! I struggle to remain as neutral as I can in politics but the past political climate from pre-civil war until now has shown me that the political parties fail regularly, it comes down to who fails the least or causes the least harm to voters. Flexible voters should be our goal-not locked in parties.
The success of a country depends largely on the people being engaged in the election process by a reasonable knowledge of what their elected officials are doing on their behalf. We have all heard, seen or experienced political rallies that promise actions and fail to deliver. Denigrate their opponents to get votes and still do not deliver! It ONLY takes a little more reading or listening to several news sources for a realistic view of what is happening in our daily lives. Politics seems to have two primary effects on those who run for office and win, they either go high or they go low each extreme land on the heads of the voters. This constantly moving event causes irrational voting and understanding of what is being done leaving the door open for misinformation and division between voters according to their place in life.
I am sure everyone who looks at any news has seen or heard any news understands (or should) that the current administration is corrupt and dishonest. We all marvel at how people we elect (some of them) go into the office poor (so to speak) and leave well heeled. Prime examples: Mitch McConnell, Mike
Madigan. The dailies on the current Presidiot are jaw dropping! Truumpel went into the office a mere Millionaire (if we are to believe him) and is now in less than a year is a billionaire! Congress has said nothing or done nothing except chase down Dr. Anthony Fauchi. Voters have the power to end it
Trumpelstilskin is still trying to spin tariffs into income for Americans. The last round of tariffs resulted in less income for voters and their families. The administration was sued for tariffs by many companies and won! Now the Presidiot is putting more tariffs on goods to finance his ill-fated war with Iran. It should be no surprise that this administration is failing as the cabinet members are all unsuited for the jobs they were selected for (fealty should not the main qualification for a cabinet post). There is a possibility for Congress to wrest control of the Government if they chose to do so, this has been shown by statements from retiring members of Congress who broke with Trumpel on their way out the door.The one strong card the voters have is the vote, and (pardon the pun) our Trump card.-
It is difficult for me to believe that so many of us (voters) still think our votes do not count, well you’re wrong. Think about the machinations of this administration to create new laws regarding voting rules governing who can vote. The 2020 election was clean and fair, yet the Grifter of the United States is still trying to litigate it in the public sphere. The power to create good government starts in the voter’s booth. it’s time to say” no mas, no mas “to Trumpels actions which amount to high crimes and misdemeanors which are impeachable offenses. To the die-hard Trump supporters, if you believe in his actions against other countries and deporting the residents of those countries who work in our fields, our healthcare facilities and other sectors are good things, then explain to me why hospitals. farms and other unskilled labor jobs are going unfilled.
It is bad enough that we are in an unnecessary war that we are the losing (note that no allies or military personnel were involved in that decision) and has caused our nearby to be attacked with no warning. The cost of this incursion is costing the American people, and we will get no return on our money!
Dude made a deal with the Saud’s for Nuclear abilities in exchange for? Most likely some deal for himself and his family. It should be understood that the dude is out for himself and not the United States. Essentially, he is stealing in plain sight! His ineptitude is classic to say the least and prominent in his “deals” which always result in his enrichment! He needs to go!!
We have forgotten or ignored the phrase: “Lest WE Forget”. The indications and actual statements has given us clues as to what FFLOTUS was going to do in a second term. We have an opportunity to compare the first term to the Biden term as well as the accelerated actions of FFLOTUS’s second term (which is only a few months old). The speed of actions (Executive actions) and the unresearched content or effect is a wakeup call, or IT SHOULD BE! The so called “red” states” and their representatives to Congress are oddly quiet while the changes, tariffs and cuts to the Government workforce which will affect all states with a federal government office in its cities. What is affected by cuts and tariffs? Tariffs are Taxes pure and simple no matter what anyone says. Downsizing government offices staff will slow processes needed to continue the Governments work. The hardest hit will be the least able to afford even the smallest cut in their incomes. Then there’s the illegal war with Iran! Trumpel started this war as an affront to Biden and Obama and perhaps to enrich himself and his cronies. The current Congress (GOP) has all but given up the legislative responsibility it has to enact war powers and control spending. The most wasteful administration in decades is spending wildly with only a few comments from Congress. As a taxpayer, I see the erosion of public trust and the decimation of the national ability to function in a normal fashion. Now more tariffs are proposed on Canadian goods on top of what already exists. This administration has stolen more funds from the people than any criminal organization in history. We are essentially in a “Nero fiddles while Rome burns” situation. The way out is an all-out voter revolt where the people speak out in the voting booth!
What the Hell is Congress waiting for? Trumpel has put the country and our allies (if they still are) with this ill-conceived war. His search for greatness has left our country the weakest it has ever been in 250 years. It is time to dump this zero and his minions. We are losing to a small country who apparently has nothing to lose. Iran is taking to our allies as well as our troops in the middle east. Secretary of war is asking for billions more to fight Iran, Trumpel is assessing more tariffs on Canadian goods while inflation is doing a mega creep upwards. Trumpel in his spare time is netting millions for himself and his family but stomping on American voter’s rights and wellbeing.
Congress (GOP) is trying hard to pass the SAVE act before this year’s elections to please the President while not fully invested in its content and purpose. If Congress is really the protectors of the people and the nation, then there should not be a question of passing bill that weakens the voting system and disenfranchises voters. It is becoming increasingly obvious that our national leader is unfit to serve and should be removed. It is time for Congress to save the nation and clean house at the “Peoples House”!
A color-treated photo illustration featuring U.S. President Donald Trump.
Throughout his second stint in the Oval Office, Donald Trump has raked in over a billion dollars on the backs of his most loyal acolytes. Some of his grifts harken back to the Trump cons of yesteryear, like the spectacularly cringeworthy Trump Mobile smartphone, a “made in America” device that was, predictably, produced entirely in China.
Most of the president’s most successful pulls, however, are predicated on either the cryptocurrency market, where winner-take-all scams are the name of the game, or fly-by-night stock offerings that get a temporary boost from the business mogul’s endorsement. And as Trump pulls the billion-dollar ladder out from under him time and again, his ride-or-dies are starting to crack.
One superfan, Vadim Fistikan, spoke to Forbes about what it’s like to be on the receiving end of a presidential con job. After painstakingly saving over $100,000 to buy a house near his family, Fistikan, a truck driver by trade, got wind of the special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, being built around the president’s Truth Social social network.
“I’m like, ‘I’m getting in,'” Fistikan told Forbes. At its peak, the trucker’s investment in the president’s social media firm reached $205,000 — a life-changing amount of money for a working class person in the United States. Today, Fistikan told the publication his investment is worth a dismal $30,000.
“I’m like, ‘hey, this is a scam,'” he told Forbes. “And a lot of people were like, ‘no, you’re just a Trump hater.’ I’m like, ‘no. I was on board since day one… I’m now broke.”
For anyone who’s heard of a SPAC before, it’s not hard to see why. A SPAC is a dubious type of investment vehicle commonly used by celebrities to take private companies public. First, the day-one sponsors — like Trump — raise money from day-two rubes through a shell company. Once the SPAC has enough capital behind it, the paper entity will merge with an actual private corporation like Truth Social to go public.
The end result is a situation where the earliest adopters rake in mountains of cash — and their acolytes are often left holding the bag.
Donald’s son, Trump Jr, took a SPAC for a spin back in 2025, raising $179 million from supporters to take the ecommerce firearm website GrabAGun public. Though GrabAGun made its public debut trading at $21.40, the company’s share price quickly plummeted to $13.20 within the first day as trading volume went through the roof — indicating that early backers were fleeing like rats on a sinking ship.
Today, GrabAGun sells at just $2.88 per share; just one of the manyscams the Trump dynasty has left in its wake since returning to power.
Trump Fans Confused by How Their Investments in His Crypto and Stock Are Now Worth a Tiny Fraction While He’s Getting Richer
Joe Wilkins
Updated Mon, July 6, 2026 at 2:55 PM CDT
A color-treated photo illustration featuring U.S. President Donald Trump.
Throughout his second stint in the Oval Office, Donald Trump has raked in over a billion dollars on the backs of his most loyal acolytes. Some of his grifts harken back to the Trump cons of yesteryear, like the spectacularly cringeworthy Trump Mobile smartphone, a “made in America” device that was, predictably, produced entirely in China.
Most of the president’s most successful pulls, however, are predicated on either the cryptocurrency market, where winner-take-all scams are the name of the game, or fly-by-night stock offerings that get a temporary boost from the business mogul’s endorsement. And as Trump pulls the billion-dollar ladder out from under him time and again, his ride-or-dies are starting to crack.
One superfan, Vadim Fistikan, spoke to Forbes about what it’s like to be on the receiving end of a presidential con job. After painstakingly saving over $100,000 to buy a house near his family, Fistikan, a truck driver by trade, got wind of the special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, being built around the president’s Truth Social social network.
“I’m like, ‘I’m getting in,'” Fistikan told Forbes. At its peak, the trucker’s investment in the president’s social media firm reached $205,000 — a life-changing amount of money for a working class person in the United States. Today, Fistikan told the publication his investment is worth a dismal $30,000.
“I’m like, ‘hey, this is a scam,'” he told Forbes. “And a lot of people were like, ‘no, you’re just a Trump hater.’ I’m like, ‘no. I was on board since day one… I’m now broke.”
For anyone who’s heard of a SPAC before, it’s not hard to see why. A SPAC is a dubious type of investment vehicle commonly used by celebrities to take private companies public. First, the day-one sponsors — like Trump — raise money from day-two rubes through a shell company. Once the SPAC has enough capital behind it, the paper entity will merge with an actual private corporation like Truth Social to go public.
The end result is a situation where the earliest adopters rake in mountains of cash — and their acolytes are often left holding the bag.
Donald’s son, Trump Jr, took a SPAC for a spin back in 2025, raising $179 million from supporters to take the ecommerce firearm website GrabAGun public. Though GrabAGun made its public debut trading at $21.40, the company’s share price quickly plummeted to $13.20 within the first day as trading volume went through the roof — indicating that early backers were fleeing like rats on a sinking ship.
Today, GrabAGun sells at just $2.88 per share; just one of the manyscams the Trump dynasty has left in its wake since returning to power.
*What does it take for all Trump supporters to realize a mistake was made by electing him (again). He promised to make” America great again”, while the underlying message is far more sinister. “Trumpel” being the grifter he is has played his constituents like a fiddle (missing some strings). Understanding how unwieldy the U.S. Government is, he has exploited every loophole he can through suspect “executive Orders. What’s worse or perhaps better is the weakness in Congress following his lead. The better is that voters now see who their elected representatives work Certainly not for the voters! MA
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Michael Abrams-Indy Writer
Trumpelstilskin has enriched himself, his family and associated friends to an extent (as Trumpel says) “never seen before”! Using Race and ethnicity as a backdrop the grifter has managed to get elected twice, escape punishment through impeachment 2 times, accepted bribes on a grand scale and out loud. He has recognized the opportunities to scale up graft using tariffs, reorganizing tax codes that benefit the rich, releasing 1500 criminals who attacked the Capital leaving several law enforcement officers dead and injured. I am trying to wrap may head around the solid support from the hard-core MAGA members and the GOP when all of his illicit actions affect us all. I am especially concerned about our duly elect members of Congress who stand silently by while the “child” plays with his toys-the Citizens of the United States! What goes unsaid is the loss of tax and social security revenue loss by exporting longtime foreign citizens who pay taxes and raise children who become excellent citizen and pay taxes also. Essentially, we have a state of Racial suppression and purge which has created an undercurrent of hatred and distrust by those who fail to realize the origins of America was created by its diversity not ethnic purity! As a country we have already fought a civil war over many of the same issues in spite of the contributions of our diverse population. Need to mention that “Trumpels” ancestry (then and now) would be a victim of the evil of the “save America” act
“The big, beautiful bill” which benefitted the rich (anyone making a million or so annually). The one thing that was fobbed off on us was the $12000 deduction for Senior Pairs which wiped out most if not all available tax deductions leaving them getting low to zero refunds. The money kept back by this bill sends that cash to the richest and some middle-class folks. We have been grifted again by the best scammer since Bernie Madoff or perhaps Ponzi. Think about his picks for his cabinet who are fealty choices with little to no knowledge of the job other than the trickling’s from the brain of an idiot riddled with possible mental diverticulosis.
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Possible Trumpelstilskin affliction?
Background: Diverticular disease is common in the western hemisphere with approximately half of the United States population aged 50 and over being affected. The spectrum of diverticulitis ranges from uncomplicated microperforation to large-scale macroperforation resulting in feculent peritonitis. Treatment modalities are governed base on Hinchey classification. Extra-abdominal manifestations of diverticulitis, such as brain abscesses, remain exceedingly rare with only five previously reported cases in the literature. The bacteria involved in this phenomenon are commonly flora of the Streptococcus milleri group and of the Enterococcus faecium species, both of which were isolated in this patient.
Case Report: In this report, we describe a case of a 64-year-old female with diverticulitis resulting in brain abscess formation, present the clinical and radiologic features, and discuss the treatment options.
Conclusions: Brain abscess secondary to diverticulitis are seldom reported in the literature, it is our hope that reporting these unusual instances will raise awareness of disease manifestations and allow for earlier diagnosis and treatment. Possible Trumpelstilskin affliction?
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