Rita's Spur to Action

Just to give you a few portraits of Trump’s recent appointments and supporters:

1. Charles Haywood is the founder of “the secretive Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR), a men-only, invitation-only, Christian ultranationalist network” that has been pointed to by the Middlebury Institute Report as having “undercurrents of neo-fascist accelerationism … in SACR’s Christian philosophy and articulated by SACR leaders”.

He recently called for “the total denigration of ‘career’ as the main goal of women”.

2. Trump’s own assistant attorney for Civil Rights, Missouri senator Eric Schmitt. In February, Schmitt hired Nate Hochman as a policy advisor. He was hired despite his previous professional history of creating video content for other political figures that contained neo-Nazi imagery and the targeting of Haitian migrants, LGBTQ+ people, and human rights groups.

There is a further roster of people of lesser importance, but nonetheless, destructive to our democracy.

“The American public needs to catch up fast on the reality of American politics,” said Katherine Stewart, the author of Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy. “This isn’t about left vs. right or liberal vs. conservative. The present administration and its Nationalist Convention supporters represent a fanatical movement that does not believe in democracy, individual rights, rational discourse, or anything that actually made America great.”

Notes:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/06/national-convservatism-conference-trump

The murder of Charlie Kirk is a tragedy beyond belief for America. Even if one disagreed with every word spoken by Kirk, it was his right to utter those words. It is the right of every American to disagree with him. It is not the right of any human being to have taken his life in order to silence him.

We are a nation divided. As Abraham Lincoln said, quoting the Bible, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” This division has been exacerbated by President Trump, all starting with his attack on the Capitol on January 6th, 2021. Americans, you must come to realize that the man in the Oval Room has committed treason, not just on January 6th, but by his continuous disregard of the constitution: weaponizing the Justice Department, disregarding court orders, invoking wartime laws in peacetime, deployment of federal forces without cause, attempting to end birthright citizenship, the list is never-ending. Not to mention his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged involvement with his sex trafficking ring. Hopefully, that will be made clearer in the near future.

Americans, this may be your very last chance to save our nation; to save the nation that we love. Whether Democrat or Republican, you must stand up today and vote for a Congress and Senate that does not kiss the ring of the president. Vote for candidates who are not afraid to stand up for what they believe in. Ones that will force President Trump to obey the laws of our constitution, or, simply and definitively, impeach him.

The most important thing facing America, at the moment, “…is how to peacefully and lawfully rid America and the world of this menace.” Trump has as much interest in benefitting Americans as does a rat in a radiator. “We are dealing with a sociopath who is continuously seeking new ways to force others to reward him with personal wealth and total domination.”

“He has [committed] treason against the United States [and forgiven all of his fellow perpetrators] because he has betrayed the American Constitution and everything that America has stood for, for almost 250 years. In fact he is molding America into a police state, not unlike Russia.”

America, wake up! Your wealth is being bled off into the Trump family’s personal fortune. Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution “prohibits federal officials, including the president, from accepting gifts or titles from foreign states without congressional consent,” and Article II, Section 1, Clause 7 “ensures the president receives a fixed salary and cannot receive additional compensation from the U.S. or individual states.”

Yet, Mr. Trump has blatantly ignored these clauses since taking office. What do we call the gift of a plane from a foreign government? His expansion into the Middle East with his golf resort and hotels? The sale of his bitcoins? A potential Trump Tower in Moscow? All of these sending billions into the pockets of the Trumps as a result of his presidency.

Notes:

https://substack.com/home/post/p-172590699

other commentary by Askold Lozynskyj

Trump has only been in office for eight months but he has already destroyed the education system, the healthcare system, damaged our economy, done irreparable damage to the judicial system, stacked the Supreme Court in his favor, scared the Republican party into quiescence, destroyed America’s international relationships, the list goes on.

No country in the world trusts the United States any longer. And the alliances that have kept the United States and the rest of the world free of war for 50 years or more have all been destroyed by Trump in less than six months.

The man is not only a dictator, he’s a maniac.

Democrats, get off your asses and fight for the midterms and get us a Democratic Congress and Senate. Let us be rid of all of Trump’s ring kissers and take back our country. 

Shame on America.

Shame on the NRA.

Shame on the gun lobby.

Shame on the only country in the world with more guns than people on the streets.

Shame on a country that allows any sick in the head, angry person, of almost any age to buy a gun and to use it to shoot children and anyone else.

Shame on a country so venal that a few more dollars in the pockets of the gun manufacturers is worth pretending that the second amendment says anyone can have a gun. What the second amendment allows is the right to own a gun for the protection of your home. Even that should be subject to training, license, age, and any number of limitations. 

America is on the brink. Everyone must rise up against Trump and beat him in the polls and in congress. We have to get a democratic majority in the congress. A concerted effort needs to be made by everyone in the democratic party. Send cards, write letters. Everyone needs to understand what this man has done and continues to do. He is a total destroyer of the democracy. 

His occupation of the capital; His shutting up Ghislaine Maxwell by moving her to a more luxurious detention center to carry out the rest of her sentencing; His stacking the supreme court in his favor.

His aim is to totally destroy the democracy of the United States as we know it.

First he took over Los Angeles.

Now, Washington DC and threatening New York City and Chicago.

Stop him.

He must be impeached. Impeached meaning put out of office. At the very least, his power has to be reduced. He must not have a kiss the ring congress, senate, judicial system.

We the People must rise up, and stand together to stop him from breaking his oath of office, pleading ignorance and denying his presidential responsibility to defend our Constitution.

Unless we all follow the constitution, there is no United States of America – no land of the free and no home of the brave.

Fight America. Fight to save our country. SAVE AMERICA. SAVE THE WORLD. 

Hit the streets. Protest on every level possible!

Vacation time! Back in September.

Edward Hoffer, a Massachusetts physician, recently posted information on the fluoridation of water and RFK Jr’s ignorant and dangerous attempt to eliminate it.

“In April, Robert Kenedy Jr ordered the CDC to stop recommending fluoridation of the public water supply, contrary to the recommendation of the American Dental Association and most public health experts.

The science behind fluoridation is solid. Fluoride helps remineralize tooth enamel and it prevents cavities.

Those opposed to fluoridation point to the dangers of high fluoride levels, which can result in discoloration of the developing teeth, brittle bones, and, at very high levels, neurologic defects in children. All of these occur at levels of fluoride much higher than that in public water. Almost anything that is safe in usual amounts can be dangerous in excess.

The benefit of having the public water fluoridated is that this proven effective therapy is available to all, without regard to their income or ability to get regular dental care. It saves a lot of money. Estimates are that $1 spent on fluoridation saves $38 in dental expenses.

The science is clear. Fluoridation at recommended levels of 0.7 mg/liter is safe and it dramatically reduces dental cavities. Do not let conspiracy theories or disinformation sway you.”

Notes: https://www.whatswrongwithhealthcareinamerica.com/2025/06/fluoride-in-water-good-or-bad.html

Robert Reich has called attention to the abuse of political power in America. “It would seem that this group — Thiel, Musk, Sacks, Karp, and Vance, among others — does not want to conserve much of anything, at least not anything that occurred after the 1920s, including Social Security, civil rights, and even women’s right to vote.

If America learned anything from the first Gilded Age and the fascism that grew like a cancer in the 1930s, it should have been that gross inequalities of income and wealth fuel abuses of political power — as Trump, Musk, Thiel, Karp, and other oligarchs have put on full display — which in turn generate strongmen who destroy both democracy and freedom.”

Notes: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/palantir-the-worst-of-the-corporate

According to Robert Reich, “Palantir Technologies, [co-founded by Peter Theil] is an AI-based data platform that allows its users — among them, military and law enforcement agencies — to analyze personal data.

This personal data is used to identify and surveil individuals.

Palantir is now busily combining personal data on every American gleaned from the Department of Homeland Security, Defense Department, Department of Health and Human Services, Social Security Administration, and Internal Revenue Service, including their bank account numbers and medical claims.

Representative Warren Davidson, Republican of Ohio, told the Semafor news site, “When you start combining all those data points on an individual into one database, it really essentially creates a digital ID. And it’s a power that history says will eventually be abused.”

Thiel’s Palantir has fallen under the control of Trump. How this story ends is up to all of us.”

Notes: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/palantir-the-worst-of-the-corporate