In Medeval Germany, around the begining of the Renaissance for the German States, a renaissance man, learned in physics, law, alchemy, and medicine had lived. He was bored and searched for new purpose in his growing age. Learning all that could be, He decided to summon the angels and God. But they did not answer his call. Then his assistant, a man named Wagner, told him, "Good Doctor, I implore you to just be satisfied. God's grace shall come to the patient."
The Doctor was displeased with his response. Instead, he gathered a small audience and told them he would summon the Devil. Instead, another demon came forth to them. Clad in black and red, he bowed to the Doctor and said, "I am Mephistopheles. Why have you summoned me?"
"I wish for more."
"More? Not anything specific? Just more?"
"Yes"
"Very Well. I shall give you more. 24 years of pure excess and whatever you desire. Of course, a paymennt so large, requires the largest fee. I wish for your soul."
The many people imploded the Doctor to refuse but he instantly agreed. He shook Mephistopheles' hand and signed a contract with his own blood. Horrified, the audience left but The Doctor was certain he would be ok. And for good measure, with a wave of his hand, Mephistopheles made the Doctor younger at the prime of his youth. "Doctor Faustus, go and enjoy yourself."
He indulged in everything. Hedonistic desires for sex, food, drunkenness. New insight and intellectual stimulation that was forbidden or had no limit on what could be learned. He had access to kings, emperors and the Pope to get new power and prestige.
As the time went on, he finally felt satisfaction. However, Mephistopheles saw he could no longer feel pleasures from going so extreme and 24 years didn't pass. But he took Faustus' soul. He begged the demon not to take it but it was too late. After he took his soul, Mephistopheles summoned the lesser demons to drag Doctor Faustus to hell.
The End
So some of you might know of The Faustian Bargain. If you're a fan of The Little Mermaid or Little Shop of Horrors, you've seen Howard Ashman have this as a theme of his stories.
(Audrey 2 serenades Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors)
Whether be Audrey 2 promising you everything with the only price being a fresh human meal or Ursula giving you legs to possibly kiss the boy, the Faustian Contract has some well known steps, We sell our soul for something but the price is more greater than we realized, hurting us in the process. And often, our salesman tries to hurt or manipulate the terms to ensure the Piper is paid. Little Shop has the whole cast get eaten and world domination comes rapidly. Ariel at least gets a better fate since her father sacrificed his kingdom and power for his daughter. Ariel fights back to free her father and her love interest kills Ursula.
We in the real world aren't so lucky. We had an election and the Democrats lost. Not majorly, (The House is a few votes away from denying legislation. The Filibuster still exists.) but it was a wound licking trial. Trump has gotten every person he wanted for his Cabinet and he signs more executive orders than the media can fully keep up with. But this is the begining of Trump Faustian Bargain.
When we, the voters, voted Trump in, he sold us on his Make America Great Again manifesto once again. Blaming the Biden administration for a slow recovery from the Pandemic, Trump promised to put it in full gear and put the pedal to the medal. Grocery prices dropping on day 1, an immediate end to the Russia Ukraine war, more respect on the international level, and more money to burn than what we know what to do with it. Sounds good right? Right?
More like it was too good to be true. Let's look at the facts and situations. There is an Instagram channel now dedicated to tracking down egg prices until it drops to $1.99 for a dozen eggs. While I have kept asking them, they have not responded to where these prices are, understandable due to privacy and safety. Have a look on the prices around him.
Ukraine and Russia talks seems to be at a standstill as of March 9th, 2025. Over a week ago, we had this friendly talk with Zelensky. Now we aren't financially backing him while Trump demands half the entire minerals of Ukraine. Zelensky has tried to say no until he has had a true physical commitment to the defense and survival of Ukraine. Zelesnky knows he's dealing with Mephisto and knows he wants to ensure the least harm to himself and others for the future. This is the issue of transactional leadership. Its good on a short term but long term consequences will always be behind until it shows up a year or two down the line. This video by Belle of the Ranch helps explain her issues but comes off in an informative and direct way for non-political people to understand.
I don't think I need to showcase our broken Alliances with Europe, Canada, and Mexico but lets do it. Some are looking to our enemy China, a major geopolitical ally to Russia, for economic support. Our soft power of defending USAID will come at the cost of not a humanitarian crisis but of a vacuum needing to be settled. China has the funds and resources to help other countries at their own faustian cost. Maybe Trump learned the Art of the Deal from the Chinese government. Make a deal to where you win but they lose...dramatically.
The tarriffs are an utter disaster and Trump plays with our economy and lives like he stole Andy's Toys from Toy Story. He plays stupid economic games and makes us pay the stupid prices. Canada openly had taken Tennessee Liquor off the shelves and did retaliatory tariffs. Mexico did the same. With friends like us in the US, who needs enemies?
(Statue of Mephistopheles and Margaretta from Goethe's adaptation of Faust. Artist unknown)So what was all this for? It feels like another article I need to write but we have job losses due to many Federal Agents losing work and now must find new work, egg prices still aren't down and it's possible the corporations responsible might have caused these prices to be even worse, these tarriff games will make us an international pariah, what's next for us?
We got a Secretary of Education deleting her department and claiming to help kids when she allows boys to be raped and molested by a former announcer. (Linda McMahon had indirect ties to The Ring Boys Scandal and is being sued along with her husband Vince). Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel don't seem to be interesting in stopping government spying by NSA and encourage it. RFK is ignoring the Measels and thanks to 2 deaths of unvaccinated children, he now discusses it. The list keeps going on.
But the biggest surprise to all is that we didn't just sign a Faustian Bargain. Trump did too. With one Elon Musk. Musk paid for Trump's campaign and won big. Now he controls the government to where he might as well be President. Maybe King. But even that came at a price for Musk.
Right now protests in America and Europe are hurting Musk's reputation. His stocks are going down, (not fast enough for me) various Tesla dealerships are being burned and vandalized. Unfortunately Tesla Car owners are being caught in the crossfire though I would advise them to buy another electric car make and model to avoid radicals painting "Nazi Asshole" on their property. (Save it for Musk guys!) And of course, speaking of Nazi, his godforsaken salute where people claim he made an "autistic salute." God as an autistic man, it insults me so hard. This kind of talk comes from illiterate and uneducated philistines who never met autistic people or have infantilized us all our lives. Had to rant to piss on those type.
However, we shouldn't lose all hope. Protesting against Trump is a start! Nagging our representatives, regardless of their politics, will help. Espeically Hakeem Jefferies and Chuck Schumer. They need to go to the side and let real fighters in. We need to focus on community organizing through the philosophy of communitarianism. Trump's world is slowly crumbling. People are starting to realize Trump is only in this for himself as Mephistopheles was. But we got a lot of things to do. It's quite overwhelming. And since this article might be too long. I'll send some suggestions later for another article on what you can do. Remember my friends, United we Stand, Divided we Fall!
