Today's Topics: Trump to Tell Trump How Much of Your Money to Pay Trump to Settle Trump’s Bogus $10 Billion Suit Against IRS And Utah Sen. Mike Lee, Meet Disbarred Attorney John Eastman. . . . Oh, I See You’ve Met medium.com/p/c4e1f2cd5c...

Secretary of warmongery Pete Hegseth is backed by an anthropomorphized America-first Jesus who displays the same arrogance, violence, hate, spite, ruthlessness, and mercilessness that define Hegseth, all in violation of the 1st Amendment. richardvanwagoner.medium.com/an-easter-me...

Trusting the Trump/Bondi DOJ with the objective, independent responsibility to investigate and discipline its own lawyers who engage in illegal or unprofessional conduct falls among their most transparently pretextual and grotesquely farcical ideas to date. medium.com/p/00491984f2...

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Among a long and growing series of inane decisions, the commencement of a preemptive war in the second most populous country in the world’s most volatile tinderbox tops the list — so far. This From the Person with the Nuclear Codes and Sole Authority to Launch. medium.com/p/d7025c9e21...

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As the U.S. turns geopolitical conflict into fanatical religious absolutism and lunacy — which has defined conflict in the Middle East for millennia — whose fanatical, delusional, apocalyptic lunacies will first come to pass? medium.com/p/899ba802fd...

He used tariffs to enrich himself and his family. After the tariff ruling, he imposed a 10% worldwide tariff which increased to 15%. He, of course, can and likely will continue to adjust tariffs for the countries that praise and flatter and enrich him. medium.com/p/34f57f95a7...

Utah legislature's failures to undermine voter initiative Proposition 4 - which outlaws partisan gerrymandering - continue. Appeal dismissed for legislature's failure to follow basic rules of civil and appellate procedure to a secure proper appeal. medium.com/p/2655bd1580...

The Nominees for Cabinet Member of the Week are Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Pam Bondi, Kristi Noem (three nominations), Pete Hegseth (two nominations), and Howard Lutnick medium.com/@richardvanw...

Did Trump Find His 11,780 Votes? If your GOP lawmakers have their way, we may be looking at a form of Trumpism in perpetuity. The most important battle facing preserving the country as a constitutional republic is against voter suppression and the administration’s scheme to commit election fraud.

Comprehending the underlying truth of what this administration says and does at any given moment requires foreseeing its intended outcome. Pretext is what they use for every act and omission. IT'S ALL A LIE richardvanwagoner.medium.com/everything-i...

I watched and listened to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s elegantly crafted and delivered speech at Davos. It would have been appropriate but unnecessary for Mr. Carney to stand up at the end of Trump’s speech and declare, “I rest my case.” richardvanwagoner.medium.com/speeches-at-...

The First Amendment has Taken a Beating Nationally and Locally by Elected Officials and their Minions. First Amendment Freedoms Must Withstand the Authoritarian Onslaught. Using Them to Expose Lawlessness and Inhumanity May Be the Only Way to Combat the Administration’s Campaign Against Them.

Robert Redford’s line from Spy Game, “If I’m walking into a shit storm I wanna know which way the wind’s blowing,” explains why Republicans’ held Jack Smith’s deposition behind closed doors. GOP subcommittee members quickly learned the stuff on their faces wasn’t just egg.

Cloaking political power in the robes of constitutional necessity, the Utah legislature is now angling to have its way with the judiciary by bringing courts under the supermajority’s political control. Dangerous! richardvanwagoner.medium.com/utahs-superm...

I will consider watching 60 Minutes again so long as the segments were banned then bootlegged.

Please enjoy 33 gorgeous pieces of my father's art (he died 12/25/2013). (Never a paywall.) I'm taking a short break from posting about right-wing extremism and other nonsense. richardvanwagoner.medium.com/33-gorgeous-...

Holding anti-MAGA sentiments may put you on a secretive list of “domestic terrorists.” Extrajudicial killings on the high seas of alleged members of what Trump has designated “foreign terrorist organizations” show us what happens to people on his lists. You do the math.

The FIFA Peace Prize goes to the sulking child in the front row. Bongino accidently tells the truth, blowing a hole in right-wing propaganda's cover Lee Beamon who allegedly filmed himself having sex with hookers and had fourth wife watch them as "training films" checks all administration boxes

With the Trump administration and some of its lawyers operating at the highest levels of incompetence, dishonesty, and malevolence, many courts no longer presume regularity and are, at least implicitly, presuming the opposite, i.e., procedural irregularity, lies, deception, and pretext.

Impeaching a judge for holding the legislature's gerrymandered map violates Utah law would confirm that the constitution, the rule of law, voting rights, and the courts are mere obstacles to overcome for Republicans in reaching their goal of holding onto power and using that power never to let go.

He only does best. Does America’s authoritarian need a high body count to secure his place among the world’s best dictators? The best ones have high numbers. He’s on his way to join their ranks but has some work to do. richardvanwagoner.medium.com/people-live-...

The shooting death of Afa Ah Loo during the June 14 “No Kings” rally in SLC was preventable had the Utah Legislature refused to allow AR-15 style assault rifles at emotionally-charged events such as political rallies with thousands of protesters and counter-protesters in attendance. Disgraceful.

Trump is transforming the White House’s neoclassical architecture into a style inspired by the Magpie Syndrome. A helpless Congress watches from their home districts. And Utah’s red legislature is determined to choose which voters get to elect the state’s eunuchs to serve in Trump’s royal court.

The Telegram group chat portends a future Republican Party reveling in racism, antisemitism, misogyny, violence, white supremacy and nationalism, the decimation of human and civil rights, and extrajudicial killings. I am sorry to break the news, but that future Republican Party is now. It’s here.

They stand before cameras with straight faces — except the speaker who presents with the smug smirk of pious certitude he was born with — and lie vociferously with talking points spoon fed them by White House propagandists and with as much staged conviction as their soulless eyes can muster.

Utah’s congressional delegation profess the Constitution was divinely inspired and god’s plan was for people to have free will. They choose to erase their god’s handiwork, turning the Constitution into a shell where power isn’t in the people but in a tyrant to whom they have pledged their loyalty.

The recent executive orders and speeches to the generals were unabashed incitements to political violence against Americans to suppress lawful dissent in his campaign to accumulate power. He expects military top brass to devote loyalty to him over their sworn oaths to the Constitution. Will they?

Trump declared negative coverage of him is now illegal with no 1st Amendment protection: “When 97 percent of the stories are bad about a person, it’s no longer free speech.” Some might say the media’s reporting of Trump, according to his own assessment, was nearly perfect — off by only 3 percent.

Dear Gov. Cox: Your description of the assassination fairly characterizes DJT's murder of “the American experiment,” his “attack on our ideals” which “cuts to the very foundation of who we are, of who we have been, and who we could be in better times.” richardvanwagoner.medium.com/dear-utah-go...

The message it sends to the international community is that the United States is not a country that can be trusted, is not a country of laws, does not honor or respect its treaties and alliances, does not respect constitutional due process, and has zero regard for human or civil rights.

The U.S. senate knowingly placed world-class agencies dedicated to life-saving research in the hands of a wildly dangerous conspiracy theorist, a medical charlatan, a fraud who used his family name and dynasty to make millions off quackery, threatening the lives, health, and safety of Americans.