October 18, 2025

I'm not a historian, but I think Trump I is worse than George III,

I’ll leave it to the likes of John Meacham, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, and Doris Kearns Goodwin, who are actually historians, to go deeply into a comparision between King George III and Donald Wannabe King Trump.

However, on the morning of this No Kings protest day I do want to spitball some differences that came to mind as I was falling asleep last night.

Going back to the time of the American Revolution we had the colonists, most of whom hailed from England, deciding they’d had enough of British rule and things like taxation without representation. They decided to fight back with muskets and and artillery.

Looking at this from King George’s perspective the American were a group of ungrateful nere-do-wells who dared to challenge the rule of their rightful king. Britain was an empire, it was The British Empire! Consider how many countries they ruled and how long it took for them to gain independence.

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As I see it there was no other option for King George than to put down this rebellion with the mighty British Army and Navy. He probably thought it would be easy.

What he didn’t take into account was the tenaciousness and resourcefulness of the patriots and brilliant leadership of our Commander in Chief George Washington and his generals.

Now Trump wants to be a show-off and celebrate the coming 250th anniversary of our independence from England. If you missed this one:

Excerpt:

A senior White House official told CNN the arch was Trump’s idea.
“He came up with the design and has been part of the process every step of the way,” the official said.
Trump remains deeply attuned to his background as a real estate developer and has taken major steps since returning to office to apply his aesthetic vision to Washington, DC: paving over the White House Rose Garden and decorating it to mirror his Mar-a-Lago patio; adorning the Oval Office, Cabinet Room, and West Colonnade with gilded features; and launching a major ballroom expansion.
Last week, AFP photographer Jim Watson captured images of a pair of three-dimensional models of the proposed arch atop Trump’s desk in the Oval Office as the president met with his Finnish counterpart, President Alexander Stubb. Canadian Minister of Energy Tim Hodgson also posted a photo of Trump showcasing one of the models to a group of Canadian officials. The models were on the president’s desk again on Wednesday as he hosted an event on crime statistics.

Apparently he favors the larger version shown in the drawing above.

This photo is from NPR:

Of course the Lady Liberty statue on top is gold.

It is something of a no-brainer to note the nauseating irony that Trump wants to celebrate our independence from a king when he wants to be one himself.

I am surprised he doesn’t try to outdo King George III and have a statue (like the one shown below) commemorating himself. It would, of course, be much bigger than Kings Statue in Weymouth, Dorset. That was installed in 1809 in honor of the Golden Jubilee of King George III who died in 1820. Trump wouldn’t want a giant monument erected after he’s dead. He want to see it.

Getting back to the comparison between the two kings, the one who actually had a crown (though he only wore it on state occasions).

Prior to independence the colonists were British. Today most people who live here are American citizens. Those to actually reside here and aren’t just visiting aspire to be citizens. Trump wants them to self-deport. If they won’t do this he plans to round them up brutalizing them in the process along with any actual citizens that end up targetted by ICE by mistake.

He also is in the process of trying to imprison all of his enemies starting with those who have pissed him off the most and working his way down to anyone who challenges his right to be king.

Instead of conquering colonists like King George III fought a war in a failed attempt to do, Trump has started a war against more than half the country.

This is why I think Trump is worse that King George III.

Addendum:

I think that No Kings, while a good name, doesn’t fit what Trump is doing. After all, compared to Trump, King George III was a pussycat.

The No Kings toolkit from Indivible now has “No Dictator” signs:

Perhaps by the time we have another national protest the notion of Trump being a king will be passé and we will be having No Dictator demonstrations.

Addendum: It is beyond words to describe how horrible it is that HUFFPOST is justifed in publishing “Taking Photos And Videos At A Trump Protest Could Have Alarming Consequences.”

I am posting this again today. However I am a citizen. If I am arrested or brutalized by ICE or MAGA provocateurs the headlines can emphasize that I am 81 years old.

Addendum:

One thing King George III and King Trump I have in common is that both manifest signs of being mentally ill. This is from ‘I FEAR I AM NOT IN MY PERFECT MIND’: 7 MENTALLY-ILL MONARCHS FROM HISTORY:

George had already been on the throne for 28 years when he was struck down by his first prolonged bout of mental illness in 1788. Gibbering for hours on end and foaming at the mouth, the king’s illness was deemed serious enough for a bill to be drawn up in Parliament for his son, George IV, to become regent. Before the bill could pass, George recovered his senses and all was well with the king for the next eleven years. Then, in 1810, his mental illness came roaring back, and this time it was here to stay.
Already blind thanks to cataracts, George deteriorated rapidly. He would babble on for hours, lost the ability to walk and eventually succumbed to dementia. Towards the end of his life, he was incapable of understanding anything, such as the death of his beloved wife Charlotte in 1818 and lived as a deluded, long-haired recluse in Windsor Castle until his death from pneumonia in 1820. For the last nine years of his life, his son George ruled as regent in his stead.

Lots has been written about Trump’s mental condition. This is the most recent: ‘He’s completely nuts’: George Conway gobsmacked by Trump’s commutation of ‘fraudster’.

I have seen a few of these but have heard them many times. They are loud. The do not sound like ordinary helicopters. Read article.

October 17, 2025

The MAGA Republicans know they have to remain in power because if the Democrats ever depose them they will rightfully be on the recieving end of a revenge tour de force. By Hal M. Brown

Today John Bolton is in the news.

This is the most recent stop on the Trump revenge tour. It is one of the side avenues he’s going down on his somewhat slow motion blitzkrieg to take over the country and turn it into his Hitlerian vision of what he wants the country to be. While he hopes he’s immortal there are signs he toys with the notion that there’s an real afterlife and he wants to go there to sit in his rightful place next to God 1 (don’t forget the footnotes) where Hitler himself will be on the other side and God will be complementing them for the great work they did on Earth while they were alive.

If, however, God hasn’t lost His marbles He will be throwing His all-knowing and all-powerful support behind those who fought against what Trump tried to do to hurt everyone from a child in a country where AID funds were cut to James Comey and John Bolton.

The Bible teaches that vengeance belongs to the Big Man (not Trump). It is addrssed in Romans 12:19, which states, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” Leviticus 24:19-20 emphasizes the principle of “eye for eye.”

Trump has tried to poke his DOJ finger in the eyes of lots of people. While his evil eyes are protected from the law thanks to the Supreme Court, the eyes of those who did his evil deeds are not.

God may decide to allow and assist the court system so it achieves justice here on Earth. He could also decide that more direct Heavenly Intervention is appropriate if American courts get bogged down.

Rising pop star Renée Rapp unloads on Trump and ICE in expletive-rich Portland rant

I am a secular Jew who doesn’t believe in God. I respect those who do as long as they aren’t hypocrits. I concluded a long time ago that if there was an all loving and all powerful God people like Trump and Hitler wouldn’t be unable to hurt people. There would be no famine and natural disasters. My logical conclusion is that if there is some kind of diety presiding over an afterlife they have to be indifferent to what happens on Earth. People would live out their natural lives and die peacefully without pain.

October 16, 2025

And then there's Hitler

When I read the fantastic JoJo from Jerz Substack “I’m fat and going to Hell” I was just going to post something about it as an addendum to today’s Substack.

Then I thought I wanted to make sure all my subscribers read it so I am posting it in an afternoon Substack.

The other day I wrote about Thom Hartmann referencing Hitler five times and fascism seven times in his Substack. I wrote “I’m not the only one harping on Hitler, Hartmann is too.”

That was my third Substack in a row about Hitler. I wondered if enough is enough. Now, with four, is this too many, I ask myself.

Here’s what JoJo from Jerz wrote today.

She begins writing about the Nazi cosplayers caught writing about how they admire Hitler:

It’s late when I’m writing this. I’m up because my mind won’t shut off. My body wants sleep, but my brain’s doing backflips in steel-toed boots. Everyone’s talking about those Republican “youth leaders” who got caught “joking” about gas chambers and Hitler, and yeah, they’re vile. They’re not kids. They’re not naïve. They’re antisemitic, bigoted, misogynistic fascist cosplayers. They deserve scorn, condemnation, and unemployment. At best, their next job should be scrubbing truck-stop urinals with a toothbrush while humming God Bless America through a respirator that smells like diesel and shame.

Then she gets to Trump and Hitler:

He wants erections everywhere. A man infamously small in the pants trying to immortalize himself with towering erections of marble and fake gold.
He’s desperate to convince history that he was big at something.
And when people say we shouldn’t compare him to Hitler because there was only one Hitler, sure, that’s true.But a whole lotta shit still lines up uncomfortably well. The cult. The paranoia. The myth-making. The need for monuments. The difference is aesthetic. Hitler wanted architecture. Trump wants gaudy erections.

The crucial part for me is the last paragraph. I am as cognizant as she is about the “there was only one Hitler” argument. There was only one Holocaust too. Had it not happened I would have a lot more relatives than I do. Had World War II not happened the human population might be much greater than it is and one of them might have discovered the cure for cancer and many of our loved one, including my wife, might not have died an early death.

To answer to my own question about how many Substacks about Trump and Hitler are enough I have decided that there is no limit. As long as he acts like Hitler I will write about this.

Read JoJo’s entire Substack for some of the best descriptions of Trump you’ll find anywhere. For example:

He looks like a man who gave up halfway through being embalmed — pink, rubbery, overdone, a human shrimp left under the heat lamp of history. His skin has that glossy, radioactive sheen, the shade you’d get if you basted guilt in iodine and regret. The top of his right hand is still bruised and black, like it spent the weekend auditioning for the afterlife. His cankles have achieved the structural density of pudding. Every step he takes looks like a war crime against geometry. He moves through space like a haunted beanbag chair, listing sideways, one ankle begging for retirement while the other files a grievance with gravity.

The photo is of me with the flag and one of the two custom made signs we will be taking to the o Kings protest.

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