Rita's Spur to Action

Trump wants to import beef into the United States because he mistakenly thinks it will give “space for our Great American Beef Herd to grow again.”

Here is Trump’s recent stupid, self-supporting gesture to the United States.

Destroy the American cattle industry. That must be his new mantra.

Otherwise, why would he import 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef?

He has also wholly mistaken the root of the problem.

The primary reason America’s cattle herd is at a 75-year-low is drought, combined with the high cost of inputs like diesel, fertilizer and equipment, which are now more expensive thanks to Trump’s Iran war and his tariffs.

Each Trump Generation is worse than the other.

These people are crooks, criminals. Self-avowed bleeders of the American public.

Trump recently began selling access to his social media posts to Wall Street trading firms milliseconds before they go public, permitting them to buy and sell with insider information. The cost for this service, according to Marina Dunbar of The Guardian, is up to $100,000 a month.

Kathleen Clark of Washington University School of Law, an expert in government conflicts of interest rules, told Bernard Condon of the Associated Press that this scheme is “yet more brazen corruption, an improper exploitation of government power to enrich himself.”

Notes: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-4-2026?r=tsm7z&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

America, what’s the matter with you? Don’t you understand?

Consumers are being shafted while big American corporations are making tons of money under Trump. This is why he has the support that he has.

With crude oil prices averaging $95 a barrel between March and June — up from about $66 before the war — ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and Occidental Petroleum have collectively raked in some $31 billion in earnings for the second quarter of this year.

That’s up from about $12 billion for the same period last year.

But American consumers are bearing the burden, as gas prices once again soar past $4 a gallon, a dollar more than they were before Trump started his illegal war on February 28.

Big corporations aren’t raising a fuss about the war or tariffs because they like what’s happening.

Consumers may not have armies of lobbyists and piles of campaign contributions to do their bidding, but they do have a way to express their disapproval. They can vote out all Trump Republicans on November 3.

Notes: https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/the-huge-hidden-upward-redistribution?r=tsm7z&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

In 1945, President Truman introduced the idea of healthcare for all.

Since 2025, Trump has done everything possible to remove these benefits from all American citizens.

When Lyndon B. Johnson passed Medicare and Medicaid into law at the Harry S. Truman library, he said: “The people of the United States love and voted for Harry Truman, not because he gave them hell—but because he gave them hope.”

“No longer will older Americans be denied the healing miracle of modern medicine. No longer will illness crush and destroy the savings that they have so carefully put away over a lifetime so that they might enjoy dignity in their later years.

“And,” he said, “no longer will this Nation refuse the hand of justice to those who have given a lifetime of service and wisdom and labor to the progress of this progressive country.”

President Trump willfully destroyed the White House without consultation and without authorization from Congress to do so.

As a result, it should now be his legal obligation to rebuild the White House at his own expense, out of the $280 billion that he has awarded to himself and his family during his presidency.

Historically, no U.S. president had derived personal financial gain from holding office.

By tearing down the East Wing—a space that once housed the private offices of former First Ladies—to make way for a $300 million ballroom, he fundamentally changed a historic public building.

The White House belongs to the American people, not to any one president, and anyone who fundamentally alters it for personal benefit should be required to restore it at their own expense.

Trump claims that the Smithsonian museum does not represent American history.

Surely, no one could depend on an egotistical, ignorant, self-serving, illiterate, sub-human being to correct any existing mistake in the curated exhibits in any museum.

Trump believes that American history is history as he sees it.

To reinforce his perspective Trump is trying to eliminate national health and education for all.

He wants a dumbed down society. As do all dictators.

Abraham Lincoln once said, “A nation divided cannot stand.” Trump is succeeding in dividing this nation and destroying America. Today, America is divided by a President who has managed to divide the country on issues, such as abortion, gay rights, immigration, religion in schools, and so much more.

Instead of advocating for health benefits and welfare for all citizens, he is advocating for the presence of his manufactured Christian values in schools and the integration of religious expression. He is a man who has no values and has never fully read the Bible.

He makes $290 billion as president and those are his Christian values. Never in the history of America has a president financially benefitted while being in office. Trump and his family have made billions in personal gains. He is determined to destroy our country.

Benjamin Netanyahu is Prime Minister of Israel. Israel has been attacked by Palestinians since 1948, and in 2023, the Hamas led the cross-border attack from Gaza. A number of Israelis were taken prisoner or killed, and it was his job to retaliate. Unfortunately, he got carried away by killing off all of the enemies of Israel at one time and then he decided it was his obligation to starve the population of Palestine. He did have the right to retaliate but he does not have the right to starve a population at his whim. Once the war is over, the fighting stops and Netanyahu will have to face his already established charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, and the biggest – an arrest warrant. He currently denies all of these charges.

New York City was once an iconic town.

As children, we swam in the East River with friends on hot summer days. Can you imagine doing that today?

Central Park had the reservoir and it was a criminal offense to throw anything into it.

The streets were clean and the pavements were more or less, even.

The gutters were cleaned regularly by men driving little carts.

There were very few parked cars. There were no trucks on Park, Madison, 5th Ave, or Central Park West.

Cars were fewer and no one raced their motors or pumped their horns.

The buildings were not covered for years at a time by scaffolding.

Although there were tall buildings they were neither so high nor so dense that one could not see the other buildings or light and sunshine.

Stores were stores and people shopped.

It was fun to walk the avenues and see what was available.

Neighborhoods were patrolled by cops who had assigned beats and whom we knew.

And people who worked in the city could afford to live in the city.

Today, New York City, Manhattan specifically, is becoming increasingly a city for the uber rich and the homeless. The people who work here can’t afford to live here. A city where office buildings and stores stay empty, others are torn down and left as garbage dumps.

Every day brings more destruction. Obliteration of light and views.

Is this the city of our dreams? Is this the city that was the envy of the world?

We must ABOLISH ICE and hold these people accountable for murder. As ICE is owned by TRUMP, and like him, are acting as judge, jury, and executioner in enforcing immigration policy. Trump and ICE are responsible for the murders of American citizens – Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and Ruben Ray Martinez – and three other legal immigrants – Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.