Taking from the poor to give to the Rich – The Trump Swamp

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Still waiting!

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Letter to America

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Letter to America

Dear America

You disgust me

With your fake Christian values and hypocrisy

Your lies and fears.

I hate your gun-toting cruelty;

Your heartless brutality.

America, you call yourself civilised but you are the epitome of primitive vengeance.

America, you quote the Old Testament too much

You should try Jesus’s love for a change

Not so much an eye for an eye as turn the other cheek

Welcome strangers.

But America you pick and choose the verse to support your greed.

America you are afraid

You are afraid of black and brown

You are afraid of immigrants

But unless you are Native American you are all immigrants.

Immigrants pick your crops, serve your tables and cook your food

Immigrants mend your cars, unblock your sinks and connect your electricity.

You are afraid

You are afraid of being overrun

You are afraid of replacement

You think you are entitled.

America I have news for you

You are no better than anybody else

And Jesus was brown

America you disgust me.

America you do not value truth

You value tribalism.

America, you are prepared to support a greedy crook because he hates the same people as you.

America you do not care if he’s a racist, a rapist, a crook, a paedophile, a greedy conman.

You do not care if he puts your prices up

The price of gas and food is immaterial.

All you care about is hate and fear.

America you are a sick, diseased piece of scum

Led by the nose by a narcissistic megalomania

Who is robbing you blind

While feeding your hate.

America you disgust me

Sincerely

A friend

How to be Altruistic!

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About that Swamp!

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Enough said!!

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We are being controlled!

The swamp is bigger than ever!!

The peadophile ring wasn’t in Washington with alien lizards; it was on Epstein Island with Trump.

While Musk plays with rockets people queue at food banks.

I reckon Brexit opened up a can of worms & festering crap!

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It empowered racists.

It empowered fascists.

It empowered nationalists.

It empowered populists.

It empowered intolerance.

It empowered nastiness.

It created division, fear, tribalism and hate!

All the scum crawled out from under their rocks. Fed by conspiracy on the web stemming from right-wing Trumpists. Fed by the ultra-right GB News. Fed by billionaires like Musk with his malevolent X. Fed by Farage and the Reform with their stirring of hatred and fear and orchestrated fear of immigrants.

We are living in a right-wing fascist take-over fuelled by algorithms on social media! Hypnotised by greedy bastards with vested interests and distracted by lies!!

A great Idea!!

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Give the ultra-rich an extra trillion dollars! They’ll invest it wisely. The economy will grow and it will trickle down to the poor!

But where can you get a trillion from?

We’ll take it from Medicare. The poor will die off and that will solve that too. They probably vote Democrat anyway! Win! Win!

That’s nowhere near enough!

OK. We’ll cut food assistance for the needy. That’ll kill more off them off, reduce the bill and stop them voting Democrat. Win! Win! Win!

Still nowhere near enough.

Right! So we spread all this conspiracy about Green Energy being useless and expensive, then we extort big money from the gas, oil and coal industry, sell it to MAGA as bringing back jobs and lowering costs and make a killing.

But what about the pollution? What about the future – we should be world leaders developing that technology. In the long term it’ll be a disaster.

Who cares about the future? We’re here now. By the time the shit hits the fan we’ll have made a fortune and be out of here.

You’ll never sell the idea of taking a trillion from the poor to give to billionaires. They won’t buy it.

Of course they will. Depends how you dress it up. We’ll call it ‘The Big Beautiful Bill’, put lots of stuff in it so that it confuses them and tell them it’ll Make America Great Again.

But the media won’t go along with that.

We own most of the media. They’ll do what we tell them. The ones we don’t own we’ve discredited. Everything they say is fake news.

This’ll sink the GOP forever.

Who cares? Did I tell you – I’ve already made $3 billion in the first six months!

I still don’t believe you can get away with taking a trillion from the poor to give to the rich!

We’ll see.

Immigrants

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Immigrants

We share the same genes.

We breathe the same air.

Under the same sun

The same stars light our nights.

We breathe the same air.

Our bodies are water.

Our cells are protein.

Our dreams are shared.

Our dreams we share.

We breathe the same air.

We stand on the same ground.

We eat the same food.

Our spirits dream.

Our dreams are of love.

Our dreams are of happiness.

Our dreams are of safety.

We breathe the same air.

Our bodies are water.

Our cells are protein.

Our dreams are shared.

Our dreams we share.

We breathe the same air.

Opher August 24th 2025

I wrote this in response to Trump and Farage’s scapegoating of immigrants. I believe they are jumping on a populist theme, stirring up fear, exploiting xenophobia and racism and drumming up a hollow patriotism.

I despise them.

We need immigrants. We ALL stem from immigrants. In the past our ancestors roamed and sought new havens.

No. They are not all rapists, murderers and gang thugs. They pick our crops. They treat us when we are sick, tend to our wounds, operate on our cancers and cure our diseases. They unblock our toilets, care for our elderly and cook our food. They do the work we can’t or don’t want to do. They have families to support and ambitions to address. They are fleeing war, torture, repression and starvation.They seek a better future for themselves and families.  They want to live. They are just like us.

As I see the flag-waving thugs outside the hotels I despair. Where is our empathy? Where is our compassion? Where is the spirit that makes the British special?

There is too much immigration. That may well be true.

They are not integrating. That may be true.

Some of them are undesirable. That may be true.

The answers to these problems are not callous thuggery. It’s complex.

These people did not start the wars. They did not cause the global warming. They are not responsible for the gross inequality that causes mass poverty and starvation.

They are victims. They are people just like us. We breathe the same air. Our bodies feel. We share similar dreams.

How do some politicians become amazingly rich?

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How do we put up with people like Farage, Boris Johnson, Rees-Mogg, Tice, Trump and nearly all the US Senators becoming obscenely rich (at our expense?). They are meant to be public servants working for us!

Perhaps a few rules and a little scrutiny might not go amiss?