Elon Musk is a non-elected super rich narcissistic South African immigrant

Democrats must unit to gleefully but forcefully resist❗
Echo letter to the edtor of teh Penn Bay Pilot newspaper in Rockland Maine:

"stagecraft of Elon Musk’s hyperactive dancing with his obscene chainsaw"

Gleeful cruelty is the despicable scene being played out as Trump and his minions pursue their evil DOGE initiative.

Their purpose claim of rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse is undermined by their indiscriminate and illogical actions:

• Providing lifesaving food and medical care to starving children and families around the world is not waste.·

• Supporting medical research for cancer treatments, other diseases, and in studying preemptive strategies for evolving potential future epidemics is not fraud.

• Upending the lives of dedicated civil servants and the consequential impacts of restricted or unavailable vital services is not efficient or humane.

• The withdrawal of funding for low-income Medicaid services so that tax breaks are extended for corporations and the wealthy is not efficient or humane.

This depressing list of DOGE’s recent targets could go on, but these attacks simply represent gleefully cruel and evil abuses of executive power informed by a non-elected, super-rich narcissist leading Trump around by the nose.

The stagecraft of Musk’s hyperactive dancing with his obscene chainsaw while MAGA loyalists clap and cheer tells us all we need to know about motivation and intent.

In this moment of anxiety and trauma we need more than ever to have bipartisan leadership stand up, say no, and assert their constitutional authority. While Maine’s congressional delegation is mostly on board with this, Senator Collins remains unresponsive.

In DOGE world, it is not simply vital agencies and personnel that are being fed into the ‘woodchipper’, it’s the treasured soul of our democracy.

Gleefully but forcefully resist❗

From Neal Guyer who lives in Thomaston Maine

Donald J. Trump will never have and does not deserve eloquent eulogies like those praising President Jimmy Carter

Echo opinion letter to the editror

Stakes for America's collective future could not be higher
By Neal Guyer published in the Penobscot Bay Pilot (PenBay Pilot) in Rockland Maine.

President James Earl Carter October 1, 1924 – December 29, 2024

With the death of President Jimmy Carter, the nation mourns the passing of a truly praiseworthy life. 

As this sad occasion unfolded, and heartfelt tributes poured in, it also became a celebratory reflection upon Carter’s essential goodness and how integrity, empathy, morality, and selfless service can, and should, inform a portrait of leadership.

In the aftermath of the Nixon years, Carter pledged, “I will never lie to the American people.” He kept that pledge. He was caring and kind, he was his brothers’ keeper, a peacemaker, a leader who lived his faith-based values.

At President Carter's memorial service, attending former presidents were undoubtedly called to reflect upon what might be the characterizations of their presidencies. 

One might wonder if it registered with Trump, that no such affirming words will ever be spoken of him.

One might reflect that Trump also lives his values – even as they promote a corrosive standard of leadership. He has elevated the act of lying to the American people to the level of an openly cynical art form. His hateful and demeaning rhetoric has no bounds.

As a life-long educator, I find it profoundly tragic that our nation’s electorate has chosen to shamefully elevate Trump – a foul mothed, narcistic, twice impeached, convicted felon and sex offender to our nation’s highest office. This should not stand as an acceptable exemplar of leadership for our students. The contrast between what we have lost and what is on our political horizon over the next four years could not be starker.

Which leadership model would you desire our students and future leaders to emulate? The stakes for our collective future could not be higher.*

Neal Guyer lives in Thomaston, Maine

* In other words......Dump Trump, destroy 👿evilism-trumpziism and impeach the monster 👾❗