The only whistleblowers left is the free press...guard it well updated

Update: 3/2/2025 One of the real challenges in writing on my blog is finding the facts or at least finding someone to report them regardless of whether they fit or contradict the Trump regime line. I was often using  Reuters and AP, and both were denied access to the pressers in the epic blowup between Trump, Zelensky, and Vance in the Oval Office. Yes, at least this explosive conversation was available on U Tube soon after and I posted it on Facebook for everyone to see and judge for themselves. The blog always contains the source sites of what I write, and I try to avoid those with paywalls or known biases. Both are challenges and hard to avoid..

 Truth and facts can hurt either side, but wannabe dictators only want you to see and hear their alternative facts. That is my personal experience with dictators, first hand, Communist ones in East Germany and Tito in Yugoslavia. It is not only the content of their stories but also the stories they report. Without a free press, voters will not even know that they have been hurt by whom, much less be able to mount a resistance. One job of a free press is to expose such lies or twisted data. The Trump regime provides an abundant opportunity. Former Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham ‘knows he can basically say anything, and his base will believe.’ That is what it is like to live in a dictatorship. https://thehill.com/.../4394676-grisham-trump-knows-he.../.

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Grisham: Trump ‘knows he can basically say anything and his base will believe’

Update: 2/27/2025 The Associated Press has been barred from White House pressers; CBS was forced to settle a lawsuit over an interview with Kamala Harris; the owner of the Washington Post, billionaire Jeff Bezos, has taken over the Washington Post editorial page and will permit no dissent.  Update 2/28/2025, AP, Reuters, kicked out of presser that was a drama of Trump and Vance acting badly in front of the whole world.

 The free press is the last line of defense of democracy threatened by a president who now boasts he is a king. The free press is key to America becoming aware of the danger and the fallout that will also harm the very lives of American citizens.  Without a free press, voters will not even know that they have been hurt by whom, much less be able to mount a resistance.   Trump thinks he can lie, and he can get away with it because his loyal followers will believe any thing he says.   Grisham: Trump ‘knows he can basically say anything and his base will believe’   That is what it is like to live in a dictatorahip.  

: "Modern-day dictators have gained the power they seek because they have used modern technology to spin and mind-control their way to their position. .They spin the news to engineer their support" "The central goal remains the same: to monopolize political power. But today’s strongmen realize that in current conditions, violence is not always necessary or even helpful. Instead of terrorizing citizens, a skillful ruler can control them by reshaping their beliefs about the world. He can fool people into compliance and even enthusiastic approval. In place of harsh repression, the new dictators manipulate information. Like spin doctors in a democracy, they spin the news to  support. They are spin dictators." How Do Dictatorships Survive in the 21st Century? | Andrew Carnegie Fellows | Carnegie Corporation of New York   

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 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-bars-associated-press-oval-office-air-force-one/

https://mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/when-it-comes-to-corruption-trump-is.html

https://newrepublic.com/post/192012/jeff-bezos-change-washington-post-opinion  Bezos takes over editorial page of the Washington Post and will not allow dissent. https://newrepublic.com/post/192012/jeff-bezos-change-washington-post-opinionhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd650zdwe8do The Associated Press is denied access to White House pressers because it dared argue with Trump over the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico.   0352075501b779b8b187667f3427e0e8 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-bars-associated-press-oval-office-air-force-one/

https://mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/when-it-comes-to-corruption-trump-is.htm

https://newrepublic.com/post/192012/jeff-bezos-change-washington-post-opinion  Bezos takes over editorial page of the Washington Post and will not allow dissent. https://newrepublic.com/post/192012/jeff-bezos-change-washington-post-opinionhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd650zdwe8do The Associated Press is denied access to White House pressers because it dared argue with Trump over the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico.   0352075501b779b8b187667f3427e0e8 

Beware. A warning to gullible voters who only listen to media they trust:\ https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4394676-grisham-trump-knows-he-can-basically-say-anything-and-his-base-will-believe/      

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