Streamer,

Assuming your source is correct, then thank you for pointing out that Trump isn't the leader in EOs. However, that doesn't mean that Trump isn't acting like a dictator. He's consolidated executive power by rendering the GOP Congress into spineless jellyfish - those Republicans who disagree with him won't stand up to him. Trump, through his useful idiot Noem, is turning ICE and HS into a Gestapo police force. By not bothering with warrants - which the law requires - the number of citizens arrested continues to climb. Trump wants to use the military - in violation of federal law - to police cities. It's speculation on my part at this point, but I think he wants to use military policing to control elections in 2026 and 2028. We'll see.

I agree that Congress truly screwed up with SS back in the late 70s when they borrowed from it to supplement the General Fund to reduce national debt increases via promisory notes. It was mismanagement then and remains so, but it's what we're stuck with as a nation. I wouldn't mind a constructive fix. I think it should be put in its own separate fund - or "lock box" - as Bill Clinton referred to it. And there it should be managed by a separate entity like the federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) is, where Congress can't touch it. The TSP was created during the Reagan years, and it's been working out very well for federal and military employees.

Federal courts continue ruling against Trump, but Trump just keeps on breaking the law because he doesn't want a "nation of laws," which has defined the US, he wants a nation that kow tows to Trump as the only law. Trump has the DOJ so screwed up it will take years to fix, and then only with successive Democratic administrations - which is dependent on ever having free and fair elections again, which again remains speculative.

Another day, another criminal pardon by Trump, this time his crypto buddy who accepted the Trump family's World Liberty Financial crypto. And did you see the list of donors to Trump's new East Wing ballroom? Corksoakers all.

And what about the Trump/Hegsgeth gambit of blowing up boats they claim are transporting narcotics to the US? With zero evidence revealed. What's the probability that this is all a lie? A lot closer to 100% than 0% unless some clear, cogent, and convincing evidence is revealed.

Congratulations on voting democracy out and autocracy in. I can only hope it bites all Trump voters where it hurts - like the American soybean farmers and cattlemen who voted Trump. The banquet of face eating leopards continues to grow!