Heather Cox Richardson, Aug 27, 2025 Letters from an American
Today, for the second time in as many days, President Donald J. Trump suggested that Americans want a dictator. In a meeting in the Cabinet Room that lasted more than three hours, during which he listened to the fulsome praise of his cabinet officers and kept his hands below the table, seemingly to hide the bad bruising on his right hand, Trump said: “The line is that I’m a dictator, but I stop crime. So a lot of people say, ‘You know, if that’s the case, I’d rather have a dictator.’”
With Trump underwater on all his key issues and his job approval rating dismal, the administration appears to be trying to create support for Trump by insisting that the U.S. is mired in crime and he alone can solve the problem. The administration’s solution is not to fund violence prevention programs and local law enforcement—two methods proven to work—but instead to use the power of the government to terrorize communities.
There is a frantic feel to that effort, as if they feel they must convince Americans to fear crime more than they fear rising grocery prices or having to take their children past police checkpoints on their way to school… . .
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lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Crime is down down down — BY THE POOR AND THE WORKING CLASS. It is up up up by white collars and/or elected officials — and especially by the Criminal Monster at the helm. Or maybe the white collars have been doing it all along but are just not bothering to hide it anymore.
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Lisa, this was exactly what I was going to say. If they steal bread to feed their family..jail time or exportation. Steal billions from welfare, social security, education, parks, etc etc and you get rewarded for it. Crazy times.
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YES IT IS. I’m damned sick of this lopsided arithmetic.
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The key here for me is that people voted for this butt nugget and people will believe what he says. This is the flaw in a democratic system. I despise this person, but that he was the voters’ choice in a free and fair election upsets me more. They might indeed accept this. I don’t deal with it any more. It doesn’t improve my life, and it doesn’t change anything. I believe that for many Americans the word “dictator” is meaningless. They have no concrete sense of what it means.
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i know.. that is the most distressing thing because if they don’t change their minds about him based on what he’s done, it means it is acceptable to the majority..and redistricting won’t help.
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In my opinion (which everyone is clamoring for) the 30% of eligible voters who don’t vote is a big part of the problem. I look at this and I think, “Well, about a third voted for this butt nugget and a third didn’t vote at all. That’s fucked up.” I don’t have an answer. Maybe the answer is in what’s happening now.
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Most of my femals friends refuse to let the topic of Trump to be brought up…I think this is part of his strategy. make things so awful that people bury their heads in the sand.
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Don’t make the mistake of thinking that we who do not talk about it have our heads buried in the sand. Some do, no doubt, but for me? Talking about it is pointless
We talk about it here in oblique ways like today at the Refuge where the guy I talked to — who works there — made the comment, “We’re getting compliments on how this place looks even though we’re short-handed.” That was a deep meta message. 1) the people who comment know the situation and are not happy about it and want to support the staff who remain, 2) the staff are not happy about it. We’ve lost 3 experienced wildlife biologists in butt nuggets cuts; they left so younger people could have jobs.
I’ve seen that people don’t talk about things directly, but obliquely.
Anyway, I don’t talk about, but I sure as hell don’t have my head in the sand. I just figure 1) I’m old; I might live 5 more years I might live 20, but I don’t know. They’re not going to get easier, 2) I vote, 3) no one has the right to live in my head without my welcome. Of course he does, but he has a very small room.
Living in the PRC in the early 80s was also a pretty harsh school for surviving totalitarianism and that is my goal. What I also see in the national media — the fighting back of people who have power? it’s happening and they are courageous.
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I know.. I agree. I can’t dwell on it but feel I need to keep an idea of what is going on and share it at least in my blog. People can decide whether or not to read..But voting, demonstrating and writing are about all I can do.
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My post today is about people doing something. I think a lot of people are doing a lot of things in their way in their place and we don’t see them or know about it. i’ve written about “it” a few times. Sometimes it just gets to be too much.
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This man is totally crazy
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I keep being reminded of the Julio-Claudian Emperors – Nero and Caligula.
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I see all the news that come from the US and it is horrendous. I just don’t understand that is is possible. I tried to avoid the news as they make me so mad, but there is no escaping it. I think we know more than the average American.
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I will celebrate this man’s demise. It can’t happen soon enough. The damage and division he, and the pitiful morons who support him, have wrought on this nation is truly shameful.
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