The goons and gunsels masquerading as ICE agents are Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers as much as Donald Trump is a Republican.

In “Trumpism” I quoted Saul Bellow: “A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is great.”

I was mistaken.  In Trumpism, “intelligence” should be replaced with “effort.”

Fascism 2026

Hitler had his SS.

Trump has his ICE.

Cheney’s Oil Barrons used pretexts of nuclear weapons and a corrupt leader.

Trump’s Oil Barrons use pretexts of illegal drugs and a corrupt leader.

Donald Trump, Tuesday, coupled a racist rant against Congresswoman LIhan Omar and “hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia” with his wish that Norwegians, Swedes, and Danes immigrate to the United States.  For me the question is, do Scandinavians want to immigrate to the United States?

“World Population Review” suggest the answer is, “No.”  Their research concludes the “Happiest Counties in the World 2025” are 1. Finland, 2. Denmark, 3. Iceland, 4. Sweden, and 5. Israel.  The United States of America ranks 25^th.

For a study of why Finns, Danes, Icelanders, Swedes, and Israels are happy, see “On Socialism” in My Really Good Essays and Poems – One old man’s musing.

Too often Americans treats symptoms rather than causes.

Housing the homeless, murdering drug smugglers in the Caribbean, and warehousing lawbreakers, are analogous to combating the rising water in a reservoir by dumping more dirt on the dam.  The only way to fix the problem is, hop in your skiff, motor upstream, discover the water’s source, and divert it.

Americans’ problems gave grown systemic.  Why are Americans homeless?  Why do we need conscious altering drugs?  Why do we commit crimes?

Diagnose the illness, treat its source, and its symptoms vanish.

Unprovoked demolition of merchant vessels on international water is pre-meditated, cold-blood or murder!

If Commander in Chief Donald J. Trump orders a member of America’s Armed Forces to rob a bank of commit murder, should he or she obey the order or the law?

Who mocked a physically handicapped reporter and called another “piggy?”

Hint: Rhyes with “rump.”

Electing Donald J. Trump President of the United States of America is proving akin to handing a three-year-old a loaded pistol.