We Have a Eunuch in the Oval Office

President Musk has officially castrated Donald Trump

Photo from X

I am sure you have all seen this photo or similar ones on X, Bluesky, or Facebook. It tells us all we need to know about who the “real” president is running our country.

I have never seen a photo of the sitting President in the Oval Office where he is not the focus of attention and respect. Even as corrupt as he was, Richard Nixon maintained an air of respect and dignity with all eyes focused on him.

There has never been an occasion where a private citizen, no matter how influential, was the main focus of an event in the Oval Office. But just look at Donald Trump! He slovenly sits in his chair, cowering in fear and disgust of a 4-year-old, Musk’s son X! As seen in the caption in the photo and reported by numerous news outlets, Musk’s little brat told Trump, “You are not president; you need to go away.” It is also reported that little X told Trump to “shut his fucking mouth.” Here is a clip on Instagram that sums it up.

If little X Musk did utter these words to Trump, they were not his own. Children that age only repeat what they have heard others say or what has been said to them. In this case, I am sure he is mimicking his father’s words.

The fact that Musk called the press conference and not Trump indicates who is running the show. Musk further denigrated the integrity of the Oval Office by wearing a MAGA hat and tee shirt, while Trump was dressed in his signature oversized blue suit and mile-long red tie. I cannot recall seeing a photo taken in the Oval Office where people were not properly attired.

In this and similar photos of the event, Trump appears defeated and subjugated, old and worn down. He is no longer in charge. Musk purchased the presidency for Trump, but Trump only enjoys the title. Trump owes half a billion dollars in fines to New York State and millions to E. Jean Carrol for defamation. He doesn’t have the money. Musk will guarantee the money for Trump in exchange for Trump ceding the presidency, the government, and the US Treasury to him. Republicans in Congress have rubberstamped the agreement.

On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump took the Oath of Office but gave his balls to Elon Musk. We now have a Eunuch-in-Chief pretending to be President.

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This Isn’t the First Time Bishop Budde Showed Her Christianity

Do you remember Matthew Shepard?

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During the Inaugural Prayer service at Washington’s National Cathedral, Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde looked Donald Trump directly in the eye and asked him “ to have mercy” on people who are scared. She particularly mentioned the LGBTQ community, transgendered children, and immigrants. The transcript of her sermon can be found here.

Trump was stunned and fired back an angry, childish response to her, as he does every time someone says something he doesn’t like. Naturally, Trump-world exploded, attacking the Bishop with derogatory names and, in some cases, even death threats. Republicans referred to her as “a so-called bishop” of a “so-called church” in their typical hypocritical Christian fashion.

Bishop Budde has become somewhat of a hero for having the courage to stand up to the malevolent Trump, something that very few males in Congress or any other “religious leader dared to do. But this isn’t the first time Bishop Budde has stood up against hate and shown what a real Christian is all about.

Do you remember Matthew Sheppard, the teenager who was beaten, tortured, and left to die on a barbed wire fence near Laramie, Wyoming, in October of 1998? He died as a result of the attack. He was murdered because he was gay. You can read Matthew’s story in The Guardian.

After Matthew’s death, he was never given a final resting place, as his family feared it would face desecration by hate groups. Ten years after his death, Bishop Budde granted Matthew’s parent’s request to have his ashes interred at Washington’s National Cathedral, where he now lies in peace, finally.

Bishop Budde is truly an American and Christian hero whose faith and love for humanity should be exemplified. If you have ever asked, “What would Jesus do”? Your answer would be, as Bishop Budde has done.

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I Fear It May Already Be Too Late to Save Our Democracy

Our descent into hell has commenced

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Like many Americans, I was shocked when Trump won the election, But what shocked me even more was the reaction of the Democrats. There were no lawsuits, no investigations, and no questions asked. They waived the white flag, rolled over, and gave up.

Since then, there have been some issues regarding the election that have called into question the validity of the election. During the campaign, people remember Trump telling his supporters he did not need their votes. Did he know something we didn’t? Two days ago, Trump made this odd statement about Musk, “He knows those computers better than anybody all those computers those vote counting computers”. Trump was thanking Musk for his help in winning Pennsylvania. The video may be viewed here.

I’m not saying the election was rigged, but I am wondering what would happen if it was. What would happen if there was sound, irrefutable truth that Musk tampered with the voting machines to change the votes in favor of Trump? And what would happen if there was indisputable evidence that this was done at the direction of Trump and his campaign staff? What if it could be proven that Trump was never shot in that supposed assassination attempt where the alleged shooter was killed and that Trump orchestrated the entire incident?

Sure, everyone would say impeach him. That wouldn’t work. The Republicans in the Senate blocked an impeachment in his first term. This time, his MAGA Republicans control both the Senate and the House of Representatives.

So, how about the Department of Justice and the judicial system investigating, charging, and indicting him? That won’t work because Trump will have his hand-picked Attorney General, who has pledged loyalty to him, block any such actions. The last refuge of hope would be the Supreme Court. But we are in this position today because SCOTUS allowed a person who planned an insurrection to run for office and then granted him almost complete immunity.

If, by some miracle, Trump was impeached and removed from office, we will still be left with an autocratic style of government. Every single person in the line of accession to the presidency has been hand-picked for their loyalty to Trump. The entire Trump regime, the Supreme Court, and numerous Congressional Republicans would have to be impeached, removed from office, and imprisoned. It will never happen.

We will never get to a point where, if there were abundant damaging evidence against Trump and Musk, the public would never know. Fox News, the official propaganda arm of the Trump syndicate, would never allow anything negative about Trump to be reported. The major cable and network news organizations are under the control of wealthy Trump supporters, and they would never jeopardize their relationship with Trump.

The Constitution has no provision for dealing with an entirely corrupt and treasonous government. Our Founding Fathers never in their wildest imaginations could have envisioned such a dangerous and disastrous situation.

I do not hold out much hope that Trump or anyone in his Reich will allow another fair presidential election. Otherwise, we are doomed. I hope I am wrong.

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It’s Only Day One, and He’s Screwing the Very People Who Supported Him

It’s Only Day One, and He’s Screwing the Very People Who Supported Him

I told you so

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Here we are on day two of the Trump oligarchy, which is actually the first full day since his anointing. He didn’t wait for today to start his reign of terror, though. Yesterday, he began firing off executive orders like he was ordering Big Macs at McDonalds.

For all his followers who are on Medicare and Medicaid and have difficulty affording their prescription drugs, you must be thrilled. When Biden lowered the cost of insulin and other prescription drugs for people on Medicare and Medicaid, you were excited, but you didn’t give Biden credit for helping you. No, instead, you believed Trump’s lies promising you better healthcare. Yesterday, Trump rescinded Biden’s order. You now have lost your prescription drug savings so Trump could put more money in the pockets of his big pharma buddies.

Now that your prescription drug costs will remain high, you must be careful not to get sick. Don’t worry; Trump withdrew the US from the World Health Organization, so if there is another pandemic, you’re on your own, left only with bleach and heartworm medication. It must be comforting to hear Trump say he knows so much about health issues!

Yesterday, Trump also withdrew the US from the Paris Climate Agreement to protect his wealthy cronies in the oil industry. I’m sure this doesn’t mean anything to you MAGA supporters, who think the weather and the climate are the same thing. Maybe you’ll discover the difference when your home is blown away in a hurricane or left in ashes after a wildfire. But climate change is a hoax.

Thank God all of you Trump followers are straight, white Christians. Yesterday, he rolled back policies protecting gay and transgender rights and supporting equality and diversity. If your son or daughter loses their job or faces discrimination over their gender or sexual identity, you can proudly tell them you voted for that.

I doubt that any of you MAGA people have relatives who are children granted US citizenship through birthright citizenship because Trump is trying to eliminate that right. However, it will be next to impossible because it is a Constitutional Amendment. So forget about turning in your neighborhood children because they look Mexican.

These are just a few of Trump's executive orders issued on his first day as President. Wait until he places a 25% tariff on goods from Mexico and Canada! I’m sure you won’t have any problems paying 25% extra for your cars, fruits and vegetables, and beer. After all, your fearless leader said you weren’t better off with Biden.

This is only the beginning of Trump’s reign of terror, and there will be many, many more to come. Since he and wealthy white supremacist Christian nationalists have more in store to return the country to the days when the robber barons ruled and minorities existed in the shadows. For now, I will refrain from saying I told you so. I am sure you will get everything you deserve.

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January 20, 2025, A Felonious First

Let the raping and pillaging begin

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In three days, for the first time in American history, the first convicted felon will be inaugurated President of The United States. He will take an oath with his hand on a Bible he has never read to defend the Constitution, a document he has never read nor understood or respected. He will, as usual, make a speech filled with gibberish, accusations, lies, and promises he does not intend to keep.

So now he is being inaugurated for his second term. His goal was not to “Make America great again”, as his branded slogan asserts, because America has always been kind of great. He doesn’t want to unite the country because his campaign was formulated to divide it with “us” versus “them.”

He has no intention of making life better for the poor and middle class, the workers, the aged, and the infirmed. He doesn’t care about voting rights, LGBTQ+ rights, women’s rights, the climate, or the economy. He doesn’t care about crime, the rule of law, or democracy.

He has two main goals: to stay out of prison and to bring unprecedented wealth to himself, his family, and his fellow millionaires. To achieve his goals, he plans on being the exalted and feared leader of an authoritarian government, in the style of his idol Vladimir Putin.

He did not win the election in a landslide, as he has proclaimed. He does not have a mandate from the American people, as tens of millions stayed home instead of voting. People who did not want a Black woman as president and those glued to Fox News voted for him. With those votes and hundreds of millions of dollars, Elon Musk was able to purchase the Office of the President for his puppet, Donald Trump. No doubt Putin also had a hand in the win. Trump will be President in name only.

During Trump’s campaign, he promised his MAGA followers that he would do many things on day one of his presidency if elected. According to NBC News, they are as follows:

1. Begin a mass deportation program.
2. End birthright citizenship.
3. End Biden-era policies.
4. Pardon the January 6 defendants.
5. Ending the war in Ukraine.
6. Implement tariffs.
7. Cancel the electric vehicle mandate.
8. Drill, Drill, Drill.
9. Made in America auto industry.
10. Limiting transgender participation in women’s sports.
11. End gender-affirming care practices.

None of these, if carried out, will help bring down the price of eggs, groceries, or gas. They were promised to stir up the racism and bigotry of the far right.

Remember these promises and see how many are implemented on day one, as he promised. You can keep score if you wish. Trump has evaded prison time. He now will concentrate on enriching himself and his cronies and staying in power. He doesn’t need MAGA anymore. They are now only his subjects to be tossed aside.

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I Think It’s Time to Move On Over to Substack

It may not be the answer, but it beats stagnating on Medium

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It’s already been over two weeks since Medium began its death spiral; things haven’t gotten better; they’ve gotten worse. At the beginning of January, my reads and views more than doubled and tripled compared to previous months. But my earnings rapidly declined to where they are now, about 2 cents a day.

Every writer on this platform experienced the same devastating earnings and was searching for some answers that never came. Medium staff sent out a few emails that created more confusion. According to Medium, they were working on eliminating scammers, spammers, and other non-genuine members. This didn’t explain the extreme drop in earnings, though.

I cut back on publishing stories in hopes the situation would change for the better. They haven’t. In the past few days, my reads and views dropped significantly. My earnings amount to 1 cent per day.

What is annoying is the change in the number of notifications I receive daily. I now receive over a hundred notifications each day. The vast majority of these are “also highlighted” notifications. But I am getting more and more followers from people who haven’t read or interacted with my stories and have not published anything. I am also getting more replies to my older stories, asking me to “please read my work.” They must have escaped Medium’s spammer net.

I moved to Medium after spending years writing blogs that made little money and attracted only a few followers. I put in a lot of work and got little in return. Now, I have come to a complete circle on Medium. I have tried numerous strategies to increase my readership, including starting a newsletter on Kit in hopes of increasing readership. Unfortunately, most subscribers ignored my newsletters and didn’t open the emails.

I now see only three options left for me. Firstly, I can stay on Medium and do nothing but wait, hoping to survive on this site. Secondly, I can try to make a go at publishing on Substack. Or, as a last resort, I can return to my blogs, where I continue to maintain my custom domain. For now, I have decided to move over to Substack.

I am uncertain whether or not any of my followers or subscribers on Medium would see value in spending money for a paid subscription to my articles. Subscriptions to my Substack newsletter, Stephen Sovie’s World, are free. Hopefully, if enough people subscribe, I can offer a paid subscription in the future.

I apologize to my followers who have stuck with me for all the confusing changes I have subjected you to in my efforts to make my content more available and profitable. Once again, I am asking you for your support. If you would like to continue to read my articles, please subscribe. Thank you.

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It’s Official: The Insurrection is Complete

And Trump got away with everything!

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Today, January 6, 2025, the House of Representatives certified Donald Trump as the winner of the 2024 presidential election. Unlike in 2024, when Trump refused to accept he lost the election to Joe Biden and organized and led an attack on Congress, there were no objections, no false slate of electors, no riotous mobs, and no one was killed or injured.

In the four years since Trump’s insurrection attempt, there have been many legal battles to hold Trump accountable for his treasonous acts, as well as other felonies he has committed. He was found guilty of fraud in one case and has been adjudicated a rapist in another, both state charges.

Trump has not been held accountable for his actions on January 6, 2021, or his mishandling and concealment of classified documents, which are more serious charges. It is doubtful he will ever be held accountable for any of his crimes.

A rogue, corrupt, far-right SCOTUS and an incompetent federal judge who sided with Trump during legal actions against him effectively shielded Trump from any serious legal actions. SCOTUS ruled that Trump was basically above the law and could not be prosecuted for any crimes committed in association with the duties of his office, even murder.

I must point out that five people died in connection with the January 6th insurrection, and no one has ever been held accountable. According to SCOTUS, even if there was irrefutable proof that Trump was responsible, he could not be prosecuted. He would get away with murder. He has previously bragged that he “could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose any voters.” It turns out he was right.

We would never have gotten to this point in time if Attorney General Merrick Garland hadn’t been such a blatant coward and investigated not only Trump but the many sitting members of both the House and Senate who actively participated in the planning and execution of the insurrection. Even the wife of a Supreme Court Justice who financially supported the insurrectionists was allowed to evade any questioning.

The House Select Committee on the January 6 attack uncovered solid evidence against Trump and members of Congress but lacked the power to do anything. Those members of Congress with intimate knowledge of the insurrection refused to testify and ignored subpoenas issued to them. Garland and the Department of Justice did nothing.

Garland, the Justice Department, and even Biden were so afraid of being accused of being “political” that they allowed Trump, members of his administration, and numerous members of Congress to get away with treason and even murder.

Even though there were many inconsistencies in the 2024 election, Democrats chose not to investigate or litigate. I am not suggesting they should have acted like Trump and his supporters. They should have been more forceful in prosecutorial work long before today. Instead, they rolled over and waved the white flag. Once again, they brought a knife to a gunfight. I don’t expect much meaningful resistance from them in the next four years.

The attempt to take over the government began on January 6, 2021, and successfully ended on January 6, 2024, without a raised voice or a shot fired.

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