Rita's Spur to Action

Robert Reich says it best:

“Trump is a peevish, angry, perverse child.

The question I ask myself is how worse will his behavior have to get before Republicans and suck-ups around him take some action to stop him?”

In America today, there seems to be so much abuse of children by family members. Surely, this ultimately contributes to the amount and nature of the crimes being committed in the United States today.

Children need safe havens. They need trusted adults and safe places where they can talk openly about what they are experiencing without fear of punishment, embarrassment, retaliation, or getting themselves or someone they love into trouble.

What kind of a place is that? Is that every day or every week in school?

Maybe, one day a week, there should be time dedicated to dealing with individual problems – a rotation basis with one student discussing their issues with the guidance counselor or another trusted teacher, while the rest of the class continues on with the lesson.

Just some way to make sure each child gets the space to share their experiences and if they need help – allowing these issues at home to hopefully come to an end. Every child needs to grow up in a home where they feel safe, valued, protected, and loved.

Trump will never release the Epstein files. Epstein said he was Trump’s closest friend. There is a plethora of evidence of Trump’s enduring friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump is still finding ways to support his cohort. Notably, Ghislaine Maxwell- the one who procured the underage girls. Obviously, she’s receiving special treatment in prison as a bribe to keep her mouth shut.

As long as he is in office, Trump will do anything he can to hide his connections to Epstein’s crimes.

Americans have become passive.

Generation Z, a generation of people who do not recognize the importance of the need of their involvement in fighting to save America. They do not recognize their true value. They have grown up with cellphones and computers and have little to no connection.

America is on the brink. If you want to save America, go to the polls. “Generation Z – adults aged 18-29 – represented by far the lowest turnout in the 2024 election, with only around 20 million voting despite more than double that number being eligible.” They are the Generation who are now taking over this country. If they don’t do anything, they will have it taken away or Trump will take it away for them. If they don’t come together to do something positive, the Dictator will still stand at large, and Trump will become King.

In Australia, it is obligatory for every citizen to vote. If not, they pay a fine. Meanwhile, only a third of our youth voted in this most recent election.

We need to take action to educate and involve the children of this generation. Encourage them to learn and vote for our democracy and to save America. Make them be the generation that helps get us out of this mess and the terrible Trump regime.

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.