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Tightrope, No Safety Net

It is astonishing and hiliarious what you can find on the internet these days if you look. I entered “image Trump on a tightrope” and came up with more than I had hoped for.

We are in dangerous times. Our President is reckless, and leaves a trail of wreckage. All the guardrails, so carefully set up to avoid corruption, abuse, waste and degradation have been dismantled. The watchers have been fired. The laws have been weakened, if not destroyed.

The relationships with reliable allies have been demolished with bravado, as if it were a good thing not to have cooperative friends.

A civilized society operates within constraints. It demonstrates self-restraint for the greater good of all. Have you ever heard this President exhibit a single concern for the citizens of the USA? Any note indicating a desire to serve and protect? You know, like the oaths of public service require?

The safety nets are gone. ICE operates with impunity; poorly trained, without accountability, preying on the most vulnerable among us. We are told in the earliest books of our religion to “welcome the stranger.” We are told by the crooks, rapists and bad people in charge that the immigrants are “crooks, rapists and bad people.” They have little protection, and, it seems, no longer have the rights guaranteed by the court system so carefully developed.

Our president and his family skim billions from the economy and deals made on the basis of presidential power. Croneys make billions from an endless war which serves no purpose and has no credible way of ending.

Our trusted institutions teeter on collapse.

I pray for our country, as I watch with horror and anticipate the next outrageous proclamations of the president and his confederacy of dunces.

July 25, 2026 - Posted by intlxpatr | Character, Civility, Community, corruption, Crime, Cultural, Financial Issues, fraud, Fund Raising, Leadership, Lies, Money Management, Political Issues, Quality of Life Issues, Stranger in a Strange Land, Survival | Destabilizeation, Destruction, Foolish Risks, Idiocy, Wreckage