In addition to Trump starting a war with Iran to deflect from the Epstein files, scans of the news makes clear that the US, and its democracy and rule of law, are in a period of major collapse. The damage is staggering and accruing on all fronts. No one can keep up with it. As usual, nearly all of the MSM’s reporting is too fragmented and siloed for most people to get a feel for how bad the situation has become. A couple of matters touch on the scope of the collapse.
The NYT reports (not paywalled) that to scrounge up money of a staggering $1.5 trillion ($1,5000 billion) military budget, the “peace president” Trump is looking to gut spending on domestic programs. He is targeting ~$4 billion in federal subsidies for home heating and cooling costs that about 6 million households rely on. Trump justifies his domestic spending cuts spending by saying the US can’t afford it. He asked Congress to cut about $73 billion next fiscal year across a wide array of domestic agencies and programs, including education, health care, housing and nutrition assistance.
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In other collapse news, Trump has turned the White House website into a for-profit information gathering site. A reddit post was about an official WH statement by Melania Trump ranting about internet chatter and reporting linking her to our 2nd favorite pedophile Jeff Epstein and his pedo friend Ghislaine Maxwell.*
But, here’s the collapse part, slathered on top of her official statement as 1st lady, something I didn’t know existed for the WH website, was a Trump pop-up ad “Welcome To The Golden Age” presumably a portal to Trump’s grift operations. He likes fleecing the flock. Trump's ad demanded your email address to get past Trump’s grift entry portal before you could read Melania’s rant. Regarding his grift power, independent estimates indicate that Trump has personally made at least ~$1.4 billion since returning to office in January 2025. Estimates of his total wealth vary up to ~$58 billion depending on the value of his crypto holdings at any particular time. Now that’s serious grift power!
Download the official White House app today!!
Trump ad on the left blocks access to
Melania’s rant unless you cough up your email
* Our 1st fave pedo, of course, is Trump himself!
Apparently, the court in a defamation lawsuit that Melania filed against a columnist who publicly linked her to the Trump-Epstein pedo industry granted discovery power to the columnist (defendant). He is aggressively demanding evidence in discovery about Melania’s fun part in the pedo industry. That has made her very, very angry. Or maybe very very scared.
To stay in the loop on this red hot breaking Melania is in a snit news, download the official White House app today!! /s
Q: Is this great collapse news or what?
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In more collapse news, the walls are closing in on democracy. a NYT article discusses the MAGA party’s imperial displeasure with voters exercising their power to get policies they want but MAGA elites hate. The NYT article (not paywalled), Stung by Voters, Republican Legislators Move to Curb Citizen Initiatives, describes how red state citizen ballot measures to protect abortion, expand Medicaid and raise the minimum wage have MAGA legislators and governors seriously pissed off. Clearly, MAGA elites are just not going to take this democracy and voting crap any more. People need to sit down and STFU so MAGA can do its work saving democracy, voting rights and whatnot. (/s) Apparently, red state voters frustrated by one-party control, are getting aggressive about using citizen-sponsored initiatives to get policies they want but that their MAGA legislatures refuse to give them.
To make things right, MAGA legislatures in North Dakota, Utah and South Dakota are putting measures on the November ballot to would raise the threshold for approving citizen amendments to 60%, up from a simple majority. That will fix that feisty majority of citizens by golly.
Those darned voters and that darned democracy and voting, it just enough to make a MAGA elite scream. Poor MAGA elites. They are being horribly victimized by what’s left of our democracy and citizen’s power. /s
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In domestic spending collapse news, reporting is covering the collapse of a big food charity in the Midwest, Ruby’s food bank. That charity served several hundred thousand people in MN, ND, WI and IA, has closed its operating sites in those four states. The reason cited for the collapse was financial. What that means isn’t clear, but it comes in the time of MAGA, which (1) is intensely hostile to charity and federal spending for food and anything else for low income people, and (2) has caused inflation that made the charity's operating costs unsustainable.
Ruby’s failure was in an ecosystem that Trump and the MAGA GOP have spent years actively attacking and degrading. Trump-aligned Republicans pushed a spending bill that gutted federal SNAP food spending by ~$187–300 billion over a decade, restructures SNAP to push costs onto states, and slashes related supports like SNAP-Ed. Meanwhile, food prices remain historically high under MAGA inflation, war and high uncertainty. In all of this, MAGA elites and politics refuse to use available tools to keep families fed during shutdowns. In this context, the sudden failure of a rural, volunteer-heavy pantry network isn’t a random misfortune. It’s a predictable outcome of the MAGA wealth and power movement, which is hostile to robust programs and institutions that materially serve large numbers of ordinary people (and this, and this too).
Q: Are all those people using federal and private food charities, as MAGA elites constantly tell us, just a bunch of socialist or communist takers who need to get off their lazy butts, pull themselves up by their bootstraps, and get a job, or, is there maybe something more to it?
A highly successful up-pulling by boot straps,
well, boots at least
It can be done!
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