Do you remember Ty Cobb?

Dear Friends: This is from Trump’s former lawyer, Ty Cobb! He was a former member of the Trump legal team... and he speaks out now that he has experienced the REAL Donald Trump! (Trump is a worse 'President' than anyone in our history... in my experience and opinion! -Ty Cobb!)

As people seem to have forgotten, I was very critical of Biden... and despite knowing him and his family well... I spent 4 years writing about his cognitive decline and weak foreign policy! (He had competent advisors, though, including very decent men as AG and head of the FBI. While you could fairly question their effectiveness... You couldn’t doubt their character!)

Trump... meanwhile... has real contempt for the country... appoints wholly unqualified people to key positions... just kicked 12 million people off Medicaid... eliminated child food support... and killed worldwide healthcare efforts monitoring pandemic producing diseases... including Ebola! (Among countless other dangerous/stupid things!)

His tariffs... like his bibles... crypto... extortion of colleges... media companies... and his efforts to rewrite history... are purely personal... corrupt... and have zero policy-based support!

They are just exercises in the power he craves so intensely!

He has... and will continue to damage... our economy... and our culture... until and unless he is stopped!

Fortunately, the courts have shut down his Constitutional overreach in over 180 cases... [96% of the cases he has brought or defended in the last six months] ...but without Congress... which has been neutered by its collective cowardice... the tide cannot turn completely!

We are more vulnerable economically and on national security than ever before in history... because he and Hegseth have eliminated the majority of the military's experienced and enlightened leaders!

Healthcare is in the toilet under RFK JR, and many diseases are... or soon will be... on the rise due to the elimination of vaccines... and the defunding of the sciences... which at one time made our energy, environment and healthcare the envy of the world!

And, finally, his Bible and crypto GRIFTS... to name a few... are pure greed! (His net worth is up over $3 billion since taking office 6 months ago!)

No one has ever seen corruption at this level by a President!

Most of these actions have been pure exercises in power and greed... and have no guiding principle beyond self-interest and vengeance!

Competence, leadership, science, and the rule of law... which historically distinguished us from petty dictatorships... have all been abandoned or curtailed to serve his ego and narcissism!

AND... his narcissism is so real... and so extreme... It's at the heart of everything he does... and always has been!

We can only hope the norms he has broken and the damage already done to us economically... and to our stature in the world... (where we have gone from the beacon of liberty to isolated bully in just months) can be restored... and that the damage yet to come will be less severe... but the country is in real trouble... and sadly the weakest among us will feel it the worst!

Moreover, the cognitive decline we saw in Biden is very real with Trump as well!

His 'Us vs Them' approach to other countries has been more divisive than any prior President! Just yesterday, he announced how much he “hates” all Democrats! (“Hate” worked for Hitler... briefly... but no one considers it a leadership trait!)

His racism is also palpable!

The country needs new leaders with character... and I don’t care if they are Republicans or Democrats!

I just want someone who is honest, principled, intelligent and compassionate... and who can unite us!

Trump, in my experience, is none of those things!

This is what I believe and why I am engaged!

I could, of course, be tilting at windmills... but don’t really have much choice if I want to sleep at night... given the stakes as I see them!

Ty Cobb!

The Real Problem with the United States of America!

 After extensive research and a lot of soul searching... I have come to the conclusion that the United States of America is suffering from a malady or malaise that is threatening to tear the country apart!

Oh, it's not the usual suspects like the Military-Industrial Complex or Big Pharma or the Health Care System or the Pandemic or Wall Street or the Insurance Industry or Gerrymandering or Voter Suppression or Climate Change or the Economy or Unemployment or Corporate Corruption or Election Reform or Lobbying or the Media or.... or... or... well I could go on and on, but you get a general idea of what I'm talking about!

No, my friends, the problem with the United States of America is not with "things" it's with the people themselves. 

The States has become a sick and divided country that is slowly rotting at the core and unless something is done to change the people (the culture) and their problems nothing will prevent America from sliding into oblivion... just as it happened to Rome over 1500 years ago!

As of this writing, there is a sizable percentage of the American population that has come under the spell of what we euphemistically call the cult of Trumpism, while there is also a big chunk of people that is revolting over the discrepancy between the rich and the poor. (While the rich have continued to get richer... the middle-class has remained stagnant for the past thirty-plus years!)

The American population also has a sizable chunk of minority groups mired in racism and poverty while the plight of the poor has also not improved in the last half-century. (More and more groups fall below the poverty line while the welfare state is slowly eroding from within!

There are big groups of people who believe in the propaganda spouted by Fox News and Rush Limberger as well as followers of QANON and Alex Jones of Info-Wars.

Need we mention that millions of gun owners who want to be able to intimidate anyone they want... and the religious movements that wish to prevent anyone from aborting a human fetus... but are all for capital punishment of grown-up humans!

There are countless individuals who are engaged in crime and violence while others are members of the underground drug culture. 

Fringe groups and mainstream movements dot the landscape with gay rights and LGBTQ awareness while ethics and moral/religious values decline... and fracture American Family Values!

After everything is said and done there are so many fringe and disparate groups that contribute to the general decline of the United States culture that we have been able to identify only one single, solitary family in the whole country that could still be considered somewhat normal.... and even that's a stretch!

The way I see it anyway!

(The Clark Griswald family while on vacation!)