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[PROPOSITION: The dystopian, confusing, and unprecedented nature of the Trump administration’s impact on the American Nation is functionally analogous to that of a hostile nation’s program of tactical propaganda.]

America took note of Donald Trump’s bizarre motivation, whereby, with the assistance of his imp-like sorcerer’s apprentice, Elon Musk, its utilitarian federal civil service was shockingly emasculated. Among the more politically oriented victims of his Federal holocaust was the historically impactful “Voice of America.” We are of an age that can recall the vital role of that dedicated agency in countering enemy propaganda in the Second World War ( viz., “Tokyo Rose” et al.), whose tactical mission was to question and divide America’s public, and undermine its war effort.

To be clear, we do not attribute such propagandic motivation to Trump’s singularly unorthodox and unprecedented policies; nevertheless, the proximate result of his dystopian MAGA enterprise (properly, “Make A Gestapo America”) has a like result.

An enemy nation’s strategic goals would include the perpetration of divisiveness and rancor, feelings of ambiguity and disunity, economic stress and discontent with the prevailing government. Relative to all these tactically impactful goals, Donald Trump and his governmental menagerie of faithful, entirely unsuitable, Cabinet and policy advisors have succeeded beyond any aspirations of a dreaded enemy. nation.

As a consequence the extant vulnerable state of our democratic polity, and Trump’s distorted and feckless understanding of the traditional American way of life poses a great threat to the very endurance of our unique Democratic Republic, and exposes the Nation to the vicissitudes of life in an autocratic State; a goal savored by any of our historic enemies and grievance-laden, underbelly populists.

The anomalous danger to our Republic, to be clear, is not motivated by political .r economic dogma. Donald Trump has irrefutably shown himself to be lacking in any conceivable political or philosophical principle and is singularly guided by his neurotic aspirations to be perceived as a wise and powerful monarch. His catastrophic policies are aptly described as incompetent, amoral, and hubristically reprehensible. The sole exception to his (“alternate facts”), serial mendacity is his declaration of intent to be a “Dictator;” an aspiration evinced by his discarding of the Nation’s Constitution and rule of law, his inappropriate lust for personal treasure, and his existentially neurotic need to be adjudged a “winner.” Illustrative is his concept that trade or contract implies a “winner and a loser” rather than consenting parties, mutually benefitting from a desired transaction; an analogous. Paranoid ideation is confirmed in the totality of his transactions, domestic and international.

Trump’s motivation is uniformly based upon his neurotic, reductionist perception of reality and thus, by the egotistic flourish of his black, velvet-tipped “Sharpie,” despotically and monarchically proclaims unrestrained, hubristic Presidential Orders, frequently in contravention of law and the Nation’s Constitutional architecture of “Separation of Powers.” The discord created by his unique and undemocratic mode of governance, together with the irrational, unjust subject of his autocratic decrees, is causative of citizen discontent, divisiveness, and confused loyalties, the motivational sine qua non of classic enemy propagandists.

Added to the public’s knowledge of the immoral and dystopic, un-American policies of this “orange hazmat,” must be an existential awareness of their relevant propagandistic utility to the Nation’s sworn enemies.

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For better or worse, [NB: for the “worse”] in an era where the quest for efficiency far overshadows the salutory medium of conventional communication, the ubiquitous use of abbreviation has become notably compelling, in our daily lexicon. It appears to be deemed tiresomely passé to currently use conventionally descriptive vocabulary or an officially designated title when a facile abbreviation will suffice. The predictable use of emblematic abbreviations appears to be perceived as an indication of modernity and a sophisticated comprehension of the relevant subject.

Thus, known organizational entities are referred to as the U.S.A., NLRB, NATO, NBC, NRA, AFL-CIO, NASA, E.U., SCOTUS, SLA, NAACP, the UN, IRS, and the like. Personal status and relationships have likewise been signified by such terse descriptions as BFF, LL, LGPTQ, ASAP, SRO, CPA, ATTY, SECY, FBI, H.O., and B.W.

In addition, and by stark contrast to the plethora of abbreviated benevolent entities, exemplified by the existence of benevolent and humanistic organizations, such as, WHO, USAID, UJA, CARE, UNICEF, OXFAM, are the sadly instructive examples of Man’s perverse capability for inhumanity and evil behavior, represented by two reprehensibly perverse and un -American, abbreviated entities which shall eternally constitute eradicable blemishes on the record of America’s traditional aspirations for liberty and equality. The notoriously evil and nightmarish Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and the contemporaneous, Gestapo-like Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (“ICE”).

The KKK (Ku Klux Klan) has been recognized as the first “Terrorist Organization” in the Nation’s history. It was (and perhaps still may be) a violent and homicidal extremist group of Protestant, White citizens that programmatically terrorized and killed American black citizens, Jews, and Catholics. The shameful record of these religiously bigoted monsters will forever be an ugly blemish on the historical record of the avowed aspiration of our Democratic Republic for ultimate, universal equality.

Analogously contradictory to the Nation’s constitution, laws, and historical aspirations, an abbreviated organizational travesty, the handiwork of the would-be dictator, Donald J. Trump, with the perverse approval of his abbreviated lemmings, the large, populist horde of “MAGA” sycophants, has created a functioning nightmarish treplication of the horrors of the KKK, by his use of the abbreviated Importation and Customs Department, (“ICE”) to the m asked terrorizing, arrest, prosecution and atavistic banishment of tan-colored (Hisopanic) American residents to extra-punitive foreign incarceration, without just cause or the very rudiments of American “due process.” This modern-day, Trump-inspired, despotic travesty may conceivably be seen, because of its empirical metastasis and governmental encouragement, to exceed the nightmarish toxicity of the mounted and hooded KKK.

The abbreviation “ICE” is humanistically and legally incomparable with the far more significant abbreviation, “USA,” and must immediately be relegated to its overflowing dumpster of discarded historical garbage.

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The theme and context of this writing can be understood and presented by three commonly used expressions: “What is sauce for the goose, is sauce for the gander” )(British), He who lives by the gun, dies by the gun (American), and “Hoisted on his own Petard, ( Shakespeare’s Hamlet).”

Mainstream Americans have been privy to the ubiquitous conspiratorial ideations of the Trump-MAGA adherents; in large part, the product of Trump’s denigration of the truth and his propagandic support of “alternate facts.” Delusional MAGA sycophants have maintained such outrageous ideations as: Vaccines cause autism, or, alternatively, contain tiny computers for surveillance, Israel shoots rockets on Earth from outer space, the World’s affairs are controlled by Jewish financial interests like George Soros, that the “Deep State” was behind Trump’s criminal prosecutions, That Baracxk Obama was not a born American, that the 2012 election was “rigged,” That certain democratic leaders were commercial pedifiles, that homoexuality can be taught to heterosexual children, and so on, ad infinitum, ad nauseum.

The contextual point is that the cultish MAGA horde was encouraged to believe and to encourage conspiratorial beliefs of the most outrageous scenarios, consistent with the MAGA “group think,” as a tactical alternative to the exercise of individual reason. A small sample of the widespread delusional beliefs is illustrated above; the contextual point is that the tactical encouragement of unsupported conspiratorial ideation became commonplace and appropriate to the compliant, large horde of MAGA adherents, to the exclusion of the possibility of controverting facts.

The inclination to accept and promote conspiracy theories became not only an articulated statement of support and loyalty to the serial mendacious Donald J. Trump and gang, but an ingrained neurotic response to the most bizarre mental configurations, in sync with the compliant cult of Trump acolytes.

Our empirical observation is that the routine acceptance and perversely developed inclination, or mindset, are conceptualized and evident in the recent disclosures of the highly publicized scoundrel, Jeffrey Epstein, notably, to the discredit of the political interests of Trump, personally, and his perceived, undisclosed, persona. The double-edged sword has been drawn out of its equivocal scabbard; the conspiratorial fact pattern of Jeffrey Epstein’s purported list of notable customers for his thriving sex enterprise, coupled with his reported and suspicious suicide, is as tempting to the knee-jerk MGA conspiracy wonks as a ripely fruited blackberry bush is to a hungry black bear.

We admittedly have no information as to the existence of a purported, elite “client list,” nor any rational basis to believe that Epstein’s death by “suicide, was, in truth, other than the reported suicide, viz., murder. We do know that the public has viewed televised pictures of the friendship between Donald Trump and Epstein at the latter’s party girl arena; however, the precise cause of Epstein’s death is neither known nor of any especial interest to us. In our estimation, no one is going to write a laudatory biography of the tawdry life of Jeffrey Epstein.

However, the sexual, suicide, or homicide, celebrity, Trump scenario, is irresistible to the neurotic mindset of MAGA-inculcated conspiracy theorists, and no doubt palpably irresistible as a political main course for those groomed to dine on the irresistibly unlimited menu of conspiracy.

Take your pick: “double-edged sword,” “hoisted on his own petard, or “what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander;” each relevant phrase is empirically acceptable.

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“Pictures at an Exhibition” * (1874) is a musical depiction by Modest Mossorsky of a promenade taken at the Imperial Arts Museum in Saint Petersburg, past several paintings by the artist Viktor Hartmann. The separate musical scores relate to the theme and mood of the respective paintings as expressed by the composer.

We have chosen (with apologies to the venerable composer) to construe a plinyblog version of the melifluous Romantic composition relative to our frespective perception of the contrasting “off-key” and dissonant (dis)harmonies of the Trump Administration. We would request that the reader analogously picture himself walking slowly while simultaneously perusing the respective depictions to the suggested music relative to each “work of art.” We will list them in such perambulatory order.

EXHIBITED PORTRAITS and ACCOMPANYING MUSIC:

DONALD J. TRUMP: Shown with half-eaten “Big Mac,” ketchup stains on his face, menacingly brandishing a black, velvet-tipped “Sharpie,” in the presence of a cadre of adoring sycophants. Music: “Hail to the Chief.”

J.D. VANCE: Portrayed as holding a Bible, Marriage Certificate, and copious amounts of blank Birth Certificates, plus a banner demonstrating his support for the Nation’s National Christian White Militias. Music: “Old Folks at Home.”

PETE HEGSETH: Shown, holding in his right hand an M-6 rifle, together with a band of extra clips of bullets around his neck and a dripping, half-empty bottle of Vodka in his left hand. Music: the song, “Show Me The Way to Go Home.”

JFK, Jr.: Drinking milk directly from a cow’s prodigious udder, while simultaneously wielding a hammer, smashing a tabletop loaded with vaccination needles.

KRISTI NOEM: Shown wearing a wide cowboy hat and pulling the ignition lanyard on a military Howitzer, directly aimed at an ASPA animal shelter.

KASH PATEL: Reading Batman comics while blotting out selected phrases from the U.S. Constitution. Music: “Tiger Rag.”

TOM HOMAN: Seen, casting out an enormous fishing net while sitting on a large wooden crate of steel handcuffs. Music: “The traditional (radio) music theme for ‘The Lone Ranger.”

TULSI GABBARD: combing her streaked hair to a reprise of a classic WW2 broadcast by TOKYO ROSE. Music: “Ain’t Misbehaving.”

PAM BONDI; Shown, knitting a large garment containing a “Trump enemy list” in the style of Madame Defarge in Dickens’ “Tale of Two Cities.” : Music: “La Marseillaise.”

There are additional musically descriptive pictures to experience, but our feet suddenly feel tired, and we are surfeited with the nauseating portraiture of typical Administration misfits.

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Readers of this blogspace undoubtedly are aware that we have consistently castigated televised advertisements for the sale of medicine to the general public, as irresponsibly ignoring the individually nuanced possibility of adverse effects. For this reason, we have suggested their curtailment, similar to that of cigarette ads. We have also recommended, especially to our sisters, the salubrious practice of accepting the immutable process of maturity and its changing contextual perception of personal appearance as wiser and more rewarding than the ultimate futility of dependence upon advertised cosmetic products.

With analogous reference to the individual’s nuanced, natural age-related cognitive decline, we are obliged to perceive the televised offers of relevant amelioration, empirically questionable and perhaps misleading. No scientific or empirical basis is offered for the empirical efficacy of the proffered items’ highly vaunted cognitive and memory benefits, save the scripted assertions of physically attractive, mature actors, reciting the scripted roles of purportedly satisfied users. We have sought the advice of several medical professionals who have uniformly advised us that the publicly alleged benefits of such products are entirely unproven.

Experience has taught us that acquisitions of facile, commercially bruited “quick fixes” or alterations of naturally occurring aging phenomena are, at best, illusory and fertile grounds for sophomoric self-deception and, accordingly, ripe opportunities for commercial profitability.

Concerning the subject of aging memory and cognition, the aspiration for prevention or amelioration is not satisfied in the practice of taking pills in one’s senior years, but rather seen in the individual’s earlier habitual lifestyle of contemplative pursuit of knowledge, mature perception, and empirically based understanding. A healthy lifetime of contemplative use of one’s mind is the best assurance of acceptable cognitive health in later years, as opposed to not purported, miracle-working retail products hawked on television to gullible audiences.

By instructive analogy, an individual who has unwisely chosen to live a sedentary life cannot, in later life, acquires desired physical prowess and an attractive musculature by retail purchase, albeit the possible accuracy of the commercially televised declarations of efficacy. In the context of the theme of the present writing, we find utilitarian value in the populist phrase: “If you don’t use it, you lose it.”

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We would preface this writing with an apology for the exalted (Biblical) title and, notably, for the presumption implicit in its theoretically radical and unprovable context; however, we felt that our recently ruminative speculation relative to the advent of the human persona was at a minimum, worthy of expression and hopefully, at least a modicum of thought. We do not attribute to it any empirical or demonstrable verisimilitude, but present it merely as a conceivable possibility.

Writings like “Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” by Robert Louis Stevenson, and “Siddhartha,” by Herman Hesse, are thematic presentations of the arcane, unexplainable duality of Mankind’s persona. Like Cain and Abel in the Biblical chapter of Genesis, the human persona is empirically bifurcated between righteous individuals and those who are evil. In this waiting, we have bravely, and perhaps overly presumptuously, undertaken to express in our speculative and radical theory, attributing an early, in fact, neonatal dynamic as determinative of the advent of such universal deviation. The theory, if conceivably valid, would possibly reveal the etiology, for example, of the notable contrast in persona between “Mr.(Fred) Rogers” and Donald J. Trump.

We have read and been privy to the usual ubiquitous explanations for the origins of the empirical contrast universally observed among human personalities, evincing morally responsible inclinations, and those whose actions and sentiments are deemed pathologically, atavistic, and cruel. One such posited theory assigns causation to the beneficial presence or empirical lack of norm socialization by parental example or instruction; another would also consider the nature and quality of intimate social relationships. There are, in addition, arcane theories concerning physiology, notably mental or physical nuance (ex., glandular, hormonal, chemical), still another would maintain that character is experiential, i.e., learned from social experience; still others would facilely attribute such contrasting variations in persona to inherited inclination. Our speculation, as to the advent and perhaps the etiology of the universal “Cain and Abel” contrast between moral and pernicious human personality, is not pragmatically demonstrable; nevertheless, it may be empirically sound

Because our theory of the advent of the causation of personality nuance is radical, perhaps perceivable as rationally or dynamically bizarre, we would respectfully request the reader’s temporary suspension of understandable repulsion or remonstrance at its recitation and, at minimum, a scintilla of effort towards the possible validity of its theoretical conception.

As John Locke momentously declared, Man is born with a “tabula rasa” (a clean slate) and all of his knowledge is learned by his experience; we are inclined to reject any theory of inherited or naturally inclined traits. The earliest learning experiences by the newborn baby are primitively simple, as warmth, light, wet, dry, and the feeling of being firmly and safely held. These neonatal experiences are material to the newborn’s sense of self-discovery. Our (speculative) theory is that at this primeval stage, the newborn’s early perceived experience with maternal nurturance, particularly nursing and feeding, is the crucial time for the fundamental development of future personality, relative to lifelong selfish preoccupation or, by contrast, moral and empathic inclinations. We would suggest that the neonatal perception of a generous, warmly nurtured experience, or, contrastingly, the felt urge to personally and selfishly survive, are the incipient bases for the later, anecdotal development of persona.

In sum, under our purely ruminated theory, the infant, by its nuanced perception of the dynamics of early maternal-child interaction, acquires a lasting generalized inclination towards empathic humanism or its opposite; nevertheless, an unhealthy or unsocial outlook can be assuaged by significantly altering personal experience or professional therapy.

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It is inarguable to observe the empirical principle. that, in a perceived context of personal danger, mankind universally, will defer all prior concerns to prioritise the thoughts and actions necessary for his safety. By empirical extension, it would appear that the individual is inclined to relegate prior thoughts and concern as well, to matters of far less import, such as, getting a splinter, sustainimg a minor injury or sufferin digestive upset. Observably, there is a wide variety of empirical causation, yet a predictable singularity of response.

It would appear that the nature of one’s responsive reaction to stimuli is dependent on the nature and quality of one’s relevant situational perception, as distinguished from the process of deliberative and rationally considered concern; such emotional inclination often results in the misplacement of priorities.

The extant roiling national disputation relative to the character and actions of President Trump, it seems, has singularly and contextually captured and deflected a myriad of unrelated but, inarguably, truly cogent concerns contemporaneously confronting the Nation and the World.

Trump’s nefarious intention to rule in the manner of the stereotypical autocrat, his blatent rejection of the Constitution and precedential rule of law, serial mendacity and hubristic ideations are startling and an ominious threat to the Nation’s normative conception of the Office of the Presidency; his policies and actions, egregiously offend all reasonable moral standards. Trump is shockingly engaged in self-aggrandisizing behavior to the detriment of the welfare of the Nation, inclusive of its relationships with its historic allies and trading partners, while treasonously cosying up to the Nation’s declared enemies. He has funded a private (masked) army, (“ICE”) in stereotypical, Gestapo fashion, to terrorize, torture, and deport foreign-born, brown-skinned Americans without just cause or due proce has, contrary to his campaign demagoguery, made deceitful, and undelivered assurances of immediate peace in Gaza and Ukraine, to lower consumer prices but, sophomorically, chose to impose high tariffs on the Nation’s trading partners, thus elevating such prices, hubristically attempted to alter the Nation by the wave of his analogous”royal scepter” ( felt-tipped “Sharpie”), irrespective of the Nation’s three established branches of government, cruelly cut the historically established programs of financial assistance to disabled and retired American citizens and the Nation’s disabled military veterans, as well as halting the compassionate, and “soft diplomatic” programs of financial and medicinal aid to needy foreign nations, while, simultaneously cutting taxes for his billionaire donors.

There yet exists an additional dumpster-full of exigent reasons for the mainstream American citizen to fear for himself and his democracy. Notably, the specific instances, by their all-consuming popular concern, appear to be disappointingly effective in justifying a National, all-encompassing concern.

In keeping with the theme and context of this writing, we would suggest that such dire concern for our National Democracy, while understandable, has thoughtlessly overridden the fundamentally existential and rapidly metastasizing peril to the civilizational Planet, viz., “Global Warming.”

This year has seen mid-August weather in June, threatening consistent with the abnormal seasonal and climate conditions occurring globally, rising ocean levels from melting Arctic Ice, unprecedented flooding, inundation of inhabited territory, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. excessive rainfall, tornadoes, mud slides, fires of immense magnitude, shore destruction, the increase in arid desert territory, pollution of the air and atmosphere, destruction of woodland and stresses on agriculture with the swings in abnormal temperature, destruction of ocean coral, prodigious winds, hurricanes, tornadoes and an additional ubiquitous host of dangerous and threatening phenomena, attributable, as determined by scientific research, to the pollution of the air and atmosphere, from the consumption of fossil fuels.

More worrisome is our contextual observation that Mankind is focused, singularly, on existing political and economic issues, to the detriment of the existential need to consider the exigent steps necessary to preserve our planet and its inhabitants.

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We have long contended that the bizarre, megalomaniacal behavior of Donald J. Trump is more comprehensively understood in an appropriate clinical context, rather than as an instance of perniciously nuanced persona. Our declaration is not, to any degree, intended as mitigation, but rather is advanced to facilitate an accurate clinical perception of his nature and disposition.

In our view, it is facile and erroneous to facily perceive his singularly outrageous persona as simply “irreverent,” “improper,” or ” inappropriate.” By contextual analogy, the fictional tale “The Emperor’s New Clothes” does not merely concern a witless sovereign, but one who is so delusionally demented that he can proudly parade naked before his subjects under the mad delusion that he is fully dressed in newly made royal trappings.

Donald Trump’s “Mad Hatter” behavior and his recurrent bizarre declarations go far beyond the permissible bounds of empirical nuance and, notably, are revelatory of a clinical inability to perceive reality in place of his clinically delusional mania. For starters, what sane candidate in a democratic, American Presidential election would publicly declare his intention to be a dictator? Even worse than such inappropriate and bizarre admission (and his unexpected success) are his earnest efforts to destroy the constitutional underpinnings of our Nation, and to rule as an autocrat.

It requires no special skill in observation to reach the all-too-apparent conclusion solely that Donald Trump is systemically enclosed in an all-encompassing, impenetrable bubble, such that empirical reality is reducible to his delusional concern as to whether he will be adjudged a “winner” or a “loser.”

At an official visit to the Arlington National Cemetery, he publically consigned the hundreds of deceased soldiers, who bravely and self-effacingly, gave their lives for the Nation, to the role of “suckers” and “losers.” His delusional lack of reality orientation was further demonstrated by his next, clinically discernible question, “What was in it for them?” The significance of these egregiously articulated public statements is empirically consistent, with the unabashed expostulations and skewed underpinnings of his quotidian declarations of “fact” and intention.

Trump has evinced a hubris-driven appetite for solid gold bathrooms, in the context of a nationally challenged economy, and has shamelessly accepted inappropriate and clearly unconstitutional gifts (bribes) from foreign autocratic countries. He has effectively downgraded the Nation’s historically venerated White House to a shopping mall, shamelessly hawking retail items such as red insignia baseball hats, golden sneakers, Bibles, steaks, colognes, vodka, and more recently, “meme” colns with replications of his smugly posed, majestic, Caesar-like visage.

This living caricature of the American Presidency has, in exchange for (tactically given) praise has befriended Western Civilization’s historic enemies, has accepted bribes, including a super-sized, multi-million dollar, jet-powered airplane from a Middle Eastern Nation, defrauded democratic Ukraine, by the ultimate denial of existentially needed military arms to the besieged Ukraine, in the interest of his bro-mance with the Russian autocratic aggressor, Putin. Inconsistent with the historic American context as the World’s avatar of democratic polity, he has publicly supported autocratic tyrants such as Putin, Kim Jong-un, Viktor Orban, and Nicholas Maduro.

The “Mad Hatter,” delusional character of Donald Trump is ubiquitously and inarguably demonstrated by his insane demand to unilaterally convert our sovereign neighbor, Canada, to an included State in our American Union, his announced intention to aggressively acquire Denmark’s ownership of Greenland, and, sophomorically to change the accepted geographic name of the “Gulf of Panama” to the “Gulf of America.” These egoistic aspirations are diagnostic symptoms of mental illness.

If necessary, our contextually observed diagnosis is buttressed by consideration of his inappropriate disparagement of the existentially vital peacekeeping, viz., NATO, his ignorant imposition of high tariffs on our trading partners, and his irrational destruction of the Nation’s health protective agencies. Trump has eliminated food and medical relief, domestically, by eliminating the SNAP program and reducing the Nation’s Health research agencies, as well as, internationally, by eliminating USAID, which empathically and diplomatically, provides food and medicine to needy nations; Trump has irrationally crippled the Nation’s Medicare and Medicad and Social Security systems while simultaneously enriching himself and performing his solely capable talents in the use of his hubristic gold bathrooms.

It would require a far more expansive writing to encyclopediacly relate Trump’s full plethora of clinically irrational and often hazardous behavior, such as the illegal and treasonous p;urloining of governmental top secret documents, insanely stored in a publicly accessible bathroom of Mar-A-Lago, his ego-delusional election denial and fomenting of a violent insurrection against his Nation’s Capitol, his recommended ingestion of of bathroom solvent as his solicitious cure during the pandemic, his illegal and anti-societal behavior as legally adjudged by 34 jury criminal convictions and a veritable, plethora of criminal indictments, frozen in place solely becaus his election, his Court adjudicated status as a sexual predator, a tax chiet and a defamer. To add some icing to the cake of his undeniable insanity, the illustrious Chief Executive has been supportive of the treasonous, anti-democratic, White Christian Nationalist militias and has chosen to ubiquitously interfere with the Nation’s democratically definitional right to vote.

There are many more anecdotal symptoms of Trump’s mental aberration; our personal favorite is the singularly revealing instance when, in the context of a publicised televised news interview, he publicly mimicked a news reporter suffering from the painfully obvious symptoms of palsy. This egregious performance may, in our view, exceed the full dumpster of Trump’s exotic behavior.

We are fully in accord with the observation of mainstream citizens to the effect that Trump’s bizarre persona is singularly inappropriate to an American President; however, it is our specific opinion that the etiology has inarguably been shown to be diagnosably clinical.

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The science of meteorology is universally recognized for its many essential applications in studying the Earth’s atmosphere, encompassing the fluctuating weather and changing climate. It makes accessible an empirical understanding of our atmospheric phenomena, thus beneficially enabling the prediction of weather and weather patterns, and the analysis of these patterns, including their effects on the planet and its inhabitants. Contextually, it is a secular, contrasting, empirical science, rationally focusing on visible, worldly phenomena of Man’s experiential life rather than the widespread, contrasting belief in spiritual, non-worldly causation.

The referential utility of weather reports, relative to elective activities such as outdoor picnics and sailing, in addition to its pragmatic usefulness in the quotidian choice of clothing, is universally appreciated. Notwithstanding our accord with such positive observations, it is our extended view that the modern advent of the science of meteorology has served a significant role in the metaphysically overriding factor relative to the fundamentals of the rational and societal development of Man.

Ancient history reveals the universally primitive belief that the changing seasons and variations in daily weather are reflective of God, or Spirit-like declarations of approval or disapproval with Man’s choices of behavio The widespread believers in the “Sun God” fearfully witnessed his death every Autumn and his miraculous Springtime revival, the latter causally responsive to their indigenous ritual; conceivably, the advent of the extant religious dogma of “death and resurrection.” The Hopi Indian Rain Dance, before too long, indeed, led to the salutary presence of rain; the Biblical account of the tossing overboard of Jonah, perceived to be a sinner, quieted the roiling ocean, the temperament of the Norse God Thor was visibly expressed by lightning and thunderstorms, and so on, relative to the nuanced cultural ethnos of the diverse human societies. In some cultures, it seems, the horrors of ritual human sacrifice were prescribed as the panacea for undesirable weather, poor harvest, drought, or disease.

The beneficial development of the “Age of Enlightenment” ultimately led Man to the acceptance of the salubrious exercise and dependence on human reason and its thematic application to the mystery of the changing seasons and other observable meteorological phenomena. The brilliant, scholarly written views of the classic empiricists, such as Locke (“Man is born with a ‘tabula rasa’ [ a clean slate] and his knowledge is solely acquired by his empirical experience), Rene Descartes, Isaac Newton, Frances Bacon, Voltaire, Erasmus, and the multitude of other venerable thinkers, were, no doubt, solely accessible to highly literate scholars; the average man relegated to learning from his own personal experience, albeit, anecdotally hampered by his culturally inherited beliefs in the supernatural. dynamics of the natural phenomena

This atavistic mode of belief persists contemporaneously, despite the era’s substantial advancement in science and emphasis on rational thought. Atavistic beliefs still obdurately and fearfully endure in mankind, existentially hampering Man’s aspiration for the achievement of his evolved, natural potential to attain the ultimate goal of wisdom.

Notwithstanding the widespread persistence of “faith” as the questionable fount of knowledge, the thematic revelation of the scientific and experiential nature of meteorology has been existentially important to Man’s banishment of “evil spirits,” and belief in the existence of supernatural causation, at a minimum, regarding Seasons and the Weather. May the salubrious process of rational thought continue!

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Today is July 4, America’s (Happy?) Birthday. It is the most significant and universally celebrated American holiday, perennially serving as a reminder of our Nation’s systemic aversion to autocracy or monarchical rule and its ardent preference for an established Democratic Republic. The Declaration of Independence (from the English King) was officially adopted by the Continental Congress on that celebrated date, in 1776, officially giving birth to our new independent Nation. Americans, of every political stripe, annually celebrate this historically significant radical and enlightened break from the historic European-style of monarchical rule. We are of the view that its observance is patriotically related to America’s Memorial Day, the latter, commemorating those who gave their lives in service to the Nation.

It appears that prior assumptions of the permanent endurance of this established mode of governance, viz., “by and for the People,” for which Americans have fought and died, at the time of its current birthday, are disturbingly being called into question.

The contemporary governance by a singularly irresponsible, egocentric, and demonstrably incapable Chief of State, characterized by uncontained hubris, autocratic leanings, and an empirical lack of empathy or moral compass. Mainstream Americans, terrified by his arbitrary, autocratic policies and unconventional actions, are disconcerted by his unprecedented rejection of the Constitution and apparent disregard for the traditional American way of life. Donald Trump’s defeat of Joseph Biden appears to have resulted, metaphysically, as we in the defeat of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln, avatars of the Nation’s avowed democratic character.

It is difficult to happily join a National birthday celebration when the Nation’s Chief Executive has declared his intention to be a dictator, has arrogated to himself the right to legislate and adjudicate ( regardless of the foundational “Separation of Powers'” provided by the Constitution) by his unprecedented Executive Orders, signed with the egoistic flourish of his velvet-tipped pen; even to the extent of superceding the arduous, constitutional mandated protocol regarding constitutional amendment, ( birthright citizenship),

It presently appears difficult, in spirit, to celebrate the unique democratic nature of a present government whose Chief Executive expends millions of taxpayer dollars to autocratically raise a Gestapo-like masked army to infiltrate the peaceful lives of immigrants, arrest, jail, and banish them to foreign torture prisons, who autocraticalkly and illegally uses the military to enforce his decrees, who continues to engage in the perverse use of the office ofthe Presidency to obscenely enrich himself and his family, in irrefutable contravention of the constitution’s “Emoluments Clause,” and whose perverse policies are inclusive of “retribution” against his political enemies and the officials who dutifully prosecuted him for his heinous crimes, and for his arbitrary destruction, without Congressional participation, of our Nation’s utilitarian Federal Civil Service, most notably our existentially vital Health and Medical Agencies, ignorantly boasted of his imperial authority by singly imposing large arbitrary tariffs on America’s trading partners, thus increasing, rather than reducing, as promised, domestic prices inclusive of items like food and medicine, championed the perverse criminalization of Woman’s natural right to elect an abortion, fails to adequately assist beleaguered Ukraine with necessary arms for that democracy’s defense against despotic Russian aggression, challenged the policies and very existence of Universities and other institutions of learning, expresse his Napoleanic desire to take over our friendly neighbor, Canada (” a 51st State”) and Denmark’s Greenland, delusionally attempst to change the geographic name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” conduct of intimate relationships with America’s autocratic enemies;l and, on the domestic front, purloining Government Top Secret documents and irresponsibly rendering them publicly accessible by bizarrely chosen storage at his Mar-A-Largo bathroom, personal responsibility for many-faceted instances of voter interference, denial of certified voting results, fomenting and supporting a violent insurrection and thereafter, pardoning the criminal participants engaged by him. tactically making false demagogic promises of ubiquitous benefits to citizens, together with multi-dumpsters full of violations of societal norms, whose listing would exceed the conventional limits of the stereotypical”blog.”

It is our request that Donald Trump, whose publis statement, relative to the many hundreds of young soldiers buried at Arlington Cemetery as “suckers and losers,” while shamefully asking: What was in it for them?” be excluded from the list of Presidents deservedly honored on President’s Day. We would also respectfully and earnestly request permission to forego our usual participation in this year’s Fourth of July celebrations.

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