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Are they really? His Kult is for sure. The MAJORITY is not!!

#Academic consensus warns of authoritarian consolidation  **Leading democracy scholars and constitutional law experts have reached an unprecedented consensus that Donald Trump exhibits clear authoritarian behavior patterns and poses an immediate threat to American democratic institutions.** Multiple academic frameworks for analyzing democratic backsliding indicate the United States has transitioned into what scholars term “competitive authoritarianism” during Trump’s second presidency, with systematic erosion of checks and balances, constitutional norms, and institutional independence already underway. Harvard’s Steven Levitsky, co-author of the definitive academic work “How Democracies Die,” declared in April 2025 that “we are no longer living in a democratic regime” and that the U.S. has “already crossed the line into competitive authoritarianism very quickly.” This assessment reflects broad scholarly consensus among over 500 political scientists surveyed by Bright Line Watch, who ...

It seems DJT has cut federal beach replenishment funding to NJ just in time for last week’s hurricane Erin to wash away many of the newly created beaches. Pic is of Ocean City after Erin.

Pictured is flooding in Margate last evening as Hurricane Erin made its closest approach to us at 450 miles offshore as a Cat 2 Hurricane. We had winds of 35 mph and some back bay flooding and beach erosion. No big deal.

Donald Literally rolled out the red carpet on Alaskan soil for Dictator Vladimir Putin. Putin then basically demanded that we surrender Ukraine to him unilaterally and trumPutin basically agreed.

The well known phrase “the Bully pulpit”was created by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903 during his 1 st Administration. In the parlance of the day the word Bully had a positive meaning, it meant excellent. So he was referring to the Presidency as a Bully Pulpit or an excellent place to shape public opinion. Donald Trump sadly has changed the meaning to reflect to day’s meaning of the word to Bully to threaten or intimidate others. He has reduced the Presidency into negative Bully’s pulpit and is beating his political opponents & others with his power irregardless of public opinion. In fact the exact opposite of the use that President Roosevelt used it to make Progressive changes to American life. Trump is using it punishing and rewarding people publicly. He’s setting a dangerous precedent that bodes ill for our future. Teddy Roosevelt and his nephew Franklin Delano Roosevelt used its excellent place in public life to forward Progressive ideas and policies that greatly benefited...

Elon Musk threatens Apple with a lawsuit over OpenAI, sparking a feud with OpenAi CEO Sam Altman. Elon is a twerp and a fascist bully he’s busy wrecking whatever he touches these days. Tesla sales have plummeted as he’s severely damaged the brand everywhere and he also might lose billions in Government contracts for SpaceX bc of his feuding with Dictator wannabe DJTrump. Good I hope he ends up broke bc he’s a PIG.

This festering open wound will finally end our Trump nightmare Thom Hartmann August 7, 2025 5:30AM ET There’s a tape. Not a metaphor, not a rumor, not some fuzzy third-hand whisper passed from burner phone to basement podcast. A real audio recording. Two full days of Ghislaine Maxwell, the trafficker-in-chief of Jeffrey Epstein’s underage empire, speaking directly to Deputy Attorney General and  Trump former criminal lawyer Todd Blanche. The Justice Department has it. Transcribed, digitized, real. Senior officials have confirmed it exists. And they’re sitting on it. Why? The answer, as always, is simple: because the truth is radioactive and most suspect that there’s no way she told the truth. And this time, it may not be the crime that blows the doors off. It’ll be the coverup. For decades, we’ve watched this script play out in American politics. Watergate wasn’t about a second-rate burglary, it was about the tapes. Nixon wasn’t brought down by what his men did, but by what he trie...

Convicted Sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell in a lol secret deal with convicted sexual predator Donald Trump aka President Trump told President Trumps personal lawyer and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche she never saw Donald do anything wrong as regards his known relationship with deceased sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. What a surprise 😳!! We’re ALL supposed to just take her word on it thank her move along problem solved nothing more to see here OR Else!!

If he’s anything at this juncture it’s shameless. Yet who can blame him he’s gotten away with everything hasn’t he? It’s very likely he’s going to get away with this as well.