Wow. Yes, wow. As most know, obviously – I’m no Trump fan, not even close, and there aren’t many around here. But it takes quite a bit to make me mad nowadays, I spend most of my time more sad than mad, more intrigued about what might be next than singularly focused on the right now, which is fairly straightforward. I’m trying to stay neutral in my analysis at least. But it’s still possible to make me angry and one of the surest ways is for anyone in the government, in any administration – though this one stands way out, that doesn’t have American citizens’ backs first and foremost. I don’t think that it is too much to ask that a U.S. president stand wholly behind Americans when speaking to an international audience. Whatever differences we might have, whether Republican or Democrat, rich or poor, black or white, when it comes to the American president speaking to the world, it would be absolute baseline expectations to hold that president accountable for sticking up for Americans as some of the best people on Earth. It is not too much to ask. And yet it does seem like it is beyond Donald Trump who simply cannot bring himself to do it.
It is even more offensive on learning that the following comments were made to Saudi Arabian billionaires – a group that we know Trump just slobbers over. He worships money and it is too much to take when he’ll sell Americans out in trying to buddy up to the people to whom he most wants to ingratiate himself. From Joe.My.God.com we have this report, try not to hurl. This is Trump complaining that federal employees spend too much time playing golf, as told while he gives businesses great advice:
“We’ve also required that all federal employees must once again show up to work. It’s a new phenomenon, you know, since COVID showed up, to work in person like the rest of us. So, I mean, it doesn’t work when you don’t show up. And I see companies now are all going back to it. They’re all going back. It’s great. I watched some of the big business leaders saying, we absolutely are going back.”
Right, Ace. Because big companies really have no idea as to how to operate and are all looking to you as an example? Come on. Even you don’t believe that. Of course, companies are going to do what’s best for the bottom line and guess what? There are some positions and some people who outperform themselves when working from home. They don’t have to worry about the commute, spend less time on dressing correctly, don’t worry about someone else getting the kids from school – they can take their break and do it, not worrying about much of anything except sitting down at their desk and working. It is not for every position, not for every person, but the ones that have held on to it do so for a reason – it works better, they do better business, and don’t need hints from you. Please don’t act like American businesses are a step behind anyone in the world because that’s what this comment implied. Trump went on:
“You can’t work at home. They’re not working. They’re playing tennis, they’re playing golf, or they have other jobs. But they’re not working or they’re certainly not working hard. You could never build a company or a country with that. So we have a very strong policy. And if they don’t show up to work, they do get fired. And we’re trying to make our government smaller but much stronger.”
Now this is outrageous. First, he makes it sound as though Americans are more apt to be dishonest or lazy in their work than anyone else, when his presumption as the American president should be the opposite. I believe Amazon built itself on people working 20 hours a day, many of them from home (Amazon has a horrible reputation for treating its employees terribly, executives and line employees), but that is not the point. Here we have the American president trashing American workers, especially workers for the federal government, many of them experts in fields forgoing bigger salaries to serve the public, as somehow particularly lazy or irresponsible, and doing so in a talk to foreign nationals, foreigners with whom one suspects this president feels a kinship due to the vast wealth, not only irresponsible but brutally dishonest – golfing on the clock instead of working implies basically stealing vacation time, and it doesn’t happen, not regularly, not by anyone but the president… And is it too much to ask that he just not trash Americans to others? This can make me really angry really quickly.
This is like the little brother principle. The idea that yes, I can kick my little brother’s ass but the moment you think you have the right to do so you have a serious fight on your hands with me. Trump can talk his shit about various people on the left or problematic Americans all he wants when speaking directly to us – he does so at his own political risk but whatever. Asking him to not put other regular Americans down – not politicians, just hardworking Americans of all stripes – not put them (“Us”) down in front of foreign nationals doesn’t seem like a tall order and would otherwise sure seem like the minimum we might demand of an American president. This is especially true when its dripping with hypocrisy. Golf?
While DOGE henchmen have been busy firing all those lazy federal workers, Donald Trump was able to work from his golf clubs five days in a row.
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast.bsky.social) 2025-02-19T20:29:00.103Z
Trump: "We're gonna spend hundreds of millions of dollars advertising how bad drugs are so that kids don't use them."
Trump: "In another program, $50 million plus another $50 million for condoms for Hamas. You know that? $100M for condoms. Does everybody know what a condom is?"(This has been debunked multiple times, including last week when Musk admitted it was false)
— Republicans Against Trumpism (@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social) 2025-02-20T00:45:20.995Z
I find it offensive. It takes quite a bit for him to make me mad nowadays, sort of played out in a lot of ways, resigned, picking spots. This is one. I invite you to join me. We don’t need this.
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He cannot fathom that people would do otherwise than he would in that situation.
And, in the federal employee hierarchy, the #1. first and foremost emplyee is….? What, after less than a month in the job, is his golf count? Just occurred to me: with less than a year in post, should he not be identified as a probationer and all that implies in the current climate?
I think I read that he’s averaging a round every 3 days, and done 9 at one of his clubs – a true moneymaker for him with SS cart rentals, room rentals, and meals. Plus, I think he’s golfed the last 4 days in a row. Hypocrisy at his finest. I’ve read, “Every accusation is an admission.”
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WHEN are the Democrats going to start holding daily press briefings, to inform citizens of the truth and to counter the Trump regime’s B.S.? And Dems should flood prime-time TV with ads to highlight the GOP’s misdeeds. Waiting until a few months before the mid-term elections is far too late … if we even have elections again.
Yesterday’s D Senate Press Conference in case you missed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8ViALG-8FQ May allay your concerns a bit. Dems are doing things daily to speak out against the B.S. and back The People. Their Press Conferences have been weekly.
Re TV ads – MSM has capitulated to Trump, running scared of the GOP-Nazi mobsters. Many have begun avoiding covering any news that counters the Trump + Musk fear-mongering propaganda. Some are paying millions of protection $$$ to Trump; others are afraid of terrorist attacks and retaliatory criminal lawsuits meant to shut them down or drive them into bankruptcy. You may have heard WaPo just turned down a pro-Democracy $115,000 front page newspaper ad.
If MSM were not unbiased & not censoring ads… would love to see a daily firehouse of TV & newspaper ads… but where is all the $$$ going to come from to keep that up? That takes hundreds of millions of $ to saturate all the possible news markets to keep that firehose going for weeks. Dems who would contribute to those ads are mostly holding on to their wallets with the economy contracting, prices rising, unemployment soaring thanks to DOGE, tariffs, concerns about Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, Pensions & SS being cut or eliminated, the stock market crashing & the unrelenting GOP-Nazi attack on democracy & the rule of law.
Agree waiting til 2026 mid-terms is a losing proposition, but the Dem state AGs, the non-Trump bought off Federal Judges, and Dems in Congress haven’t been waiting.
Only ones I see waiting are the pro-democracy, anti-fascist undercover factions of the CIA, FBI, and former Generals for the best moment for a planned surgical strike to take back our White House & Government; or the Cosa Nostra hitmen to assassinate Trump, Elon & Vance; and the rest of us waiting for Trump to pass from his steadily failing physical health: His diseased failing liver, kidneys & heart, his poor blood circulation, increasing dementia, his fainting from mini-strokes, his stomach cancer – which the White House Press & MSM continues to cover up. Won’t be long before Trump mysteriously disappears from the public eye because he’s hospitalized and all news of it is censored.
Meanwhile, best thing to do is NOT to give in to the fear propaganda, whose #1 purpose is to get the public to submit to King Trump, stay silent and do nothing. Don’t buy the propaganda either about the federal government shutting down March 14th. Just more fear tactics. It won’t happen. Wall Street & the billionaires won’t let it – they have too much money to lose from the added chaos.
Never forget: all politics is local. Be active in your own backyard/neighborhood. Don’t lie down, never give up, build from the bottom up, strength in mumbers is a foundation on which those more connected can build. (and, as it catches fire, it gives momentum to the powers that be, even if they seem ineffictive for the mo). The ground is becoming more fertile as people are laid off, each one has circles of family and friends. The ripples will widen and grow. But they need help.