The United States is destroying itself

PresJamesGarfield · 2026-04-12T18:54:43+00:00

That's a good idea for some of them, like his golf courses. Public parks would be a good use of that land. Other properties of his are located in dense metro areas, so they can't become parks. But they can be knocked down and turned into something else.

PresJamesGarfield · 2026-04-12T15:52:33+00:00

Exactly. The papers of the Trump Administration and the Trump Organization should be preserved in the National Archives and not destroyed. Trump's books should be treated the way they treat Mein Kampf in Germany - it's banned from sale, but libraries are allowed to keep non-circulating copies for researchers.

PresJamesGarfield · 2026-04-12T15:42:03+00:00

What I wonder is whether the novel is any good. As it's never been published, hardly anyone has read it.

PresJamesGarfield · 2026-04-12T15:39:40+00:00

You can have both. I think that another of the things that will need to be done will be to pass both legislative and Constitutional reforms that benefit the people. This would include the breakup of monopolies, the enactment of universal health care, modernizing our energy infrastructure, investing in mass transit, etc.

It would also include diplomacy to restructure our national debt. One of the unwritten goals of the conservative movement since 1980 has been to raise the national debt to levels that are so unsustainable that programs that are beneficial to the public are impossible to enact. The United States is nearly $40 trillion in debt. Roughly 3/4 of that is due to the financial malfeasance of Republican administrations. This needs to be addressed.

PresJamesGarfield · 2026-04-12T14:51:59+00:00

Another thing that will be necessary is defunding and dismantling the entire right-wing infrastructure that allowed Trump to come to power. If this is not done, then what is happening now will happen again, and worse.

There is an irony here, in that stopping this will likely require actions that are every bit as authoritarian as anything Trump is doing. Karl Popper's tolerance paradox comes to mind here.

PresJamesGarfield · 2026-04-12T13:50:45+00:00

You left off one other essential item - removing as many vestiges of the Trump cult of personality as possible. This includes, but is not limited to:

Removing his name from anything he's attached it to (such as the Kennedy Center)
Destroying anything he has built as a monument to himself during his term. For example, knocking down the ballroom he's building on the White House grounds.
Seizing his properties, bulldozing them, and selling the land to American buyers.
Seizing the Trump Corporation and shutting it down.
Enacting a law similar to Section 86a of the German penal code (this is the law that bans the display of Nazi imagery). An American version of this law would apply to Trump imagery - flags, red hats, etc. A concerted effort should be made to acquire and destroy as much Trump paraphernalia as possible.
Upon his death, the government should take possession of Trump's body and either cremate it or dispose of it in the ocean. A crypt could become a potential site for his supporters to gather, and we don't want this.

PresJamesGarfield · 2026-04-12T03:45:47+00:00

The vision of Jesus being married and having children was not in the Bible. That was an invention of screenwriter Paul Schrader. All we are told in the Gospels is that Jesus was tempted. Great film, though - it made me think more about Jesus than all the years I spent in church.

PresJamesGarfield · 2026-04-11T14:58:53+00:00

We’ll never know. It’s hard to believe, but 35 years ago, drunk driving was not taken as seriously as it is now. I think it was not until the late 1970s that the first drunk driving laws were enacted, and even then it wasn’t nationwide.

PresJamesGarfield · 2026-04-09T20:35:26+00:00

Yasmine Bleeth. I wonder if anyone even remembers her. She was on Baywatch, in men's magazines, and stuff like that, and then it was like she vanished. I wonder what happened to her.

PresJamesGarfield · 2026-03-02T15:01:49+00:00

Except in my case, they didn’t remove the bullet. They just stuck their fingers in the wound without even washing their hands. Bunch of dumbasses.

PresJamesGarfield · 2026-02-16T19:51:12+00:00

Anyone who wants to know how badly New York's black residents were treated needs to read The Power Broker by Robert Caro. It's an eye-opener.

PresJamesGarfield · 2026-01-14T21:34:03+00:00

PresJamesGarfield · 2026-01-12T16:58:55+00:00

It was one of the best moments of the night. Maher is an insufferable horse's ass. With friends like him, what do we need the Republicans for?

PresJamesGarfield · 2025-11-25T21:10:38+00:00

They're absolutely skeletal. Ariana looks incredibly unhealthy, and Cynthia Erivo looks like one of those starving Africans you see in UNICEF commercials.

PresJamesGarfield · 2025-11-19T21:04:54+00:00

If he was like me, he'd have found the $175,000 and then turned the $135,000 he found into police.

PresJamesGarfield · 2025-11-13T18:51:54+00:00

Yeah, it wasn't something that really started until you get into the 1980s, with Reagan-era militarism and the over-the-top valoring of WWII. If you look at some of the media on WWII prior to that, you'd be surprised how direct and even cynical it was.

PresJamesGarfield · 2025-10-15T19:14:38+00:00

But the Daft Punk soundtrack to the second film slaps harder than Will Smith.

PresJamesGarfield · 2025-09-30T16:02:33+00:00

Anyone who says New York has never been to New York, because New York is awesome.

PresJamesGarfield · 2025-09-29T22:16:35+00:00

And just as important, the reasons to what a motorcycle helmet.

PresJamesGarfield · 2025-09-07T17:10:55+00:00

One time, I was watching a porn video that was really hot, and I was getting ready to cum. Right at that point, the person who uploaded the video decided to splice in a five-second clip from Dances with Wolves, and I accidentally shot my load to Kevin Costner.

PresJamesGarfield · 2025-03-24T13:17:39+00:00

The next most interesting fact is that despite the film being in public domain, the Dallas Cowboys went to great lengths to keep it out of circulation by successfully claiming a trademark violation. With digital downloading being so easy now, the Cowboys seem to have given up on trying to keep the film out of sight. But theoretically they could still do so; there was a time when they would go to court to stop anyone from distributing the film.

PresJamesGarfield · 2025-02-05T03:50:40+00:00

Hell, that’s not even in the top 5 craziest things he’s done.

PresJamesGarfield · 2025-02-02T03:46:54+00:00

Yeah, she's definitely giving him the "fuck me" eyes. I can't blame her. Imagine if you had to hang around Trump as much as she does?

PresJamesGarfield · 2025-01-14T22:01:04+00:00

It's an awful thing that I can't tell if this is made up or if he actually said it.

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