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I am saddened by the inaction of the GOP over so many things, the illegal tariffs, unconstitutional acts by POTUS, usurpation of Congressional powers, blatant law breaking by the Demented Felon and so the damage of America's status in the world. To me it speaks of cowardness, of frightened little people crawling and whining for their masters approval, and this is not the kind of person I want representing me, I can't believe that's what any one wants. So much of the right wing movement is spilling over with the strong man ethos, anyone else seen the Secretary of Defense strutting like a peacock in his preening false masculinity? But that's not what I see on display in the Congress, doesn't that embarrass you? I know it embarrasses and angers me.
What's going on in Minneapolis, ICE attacks on communities, invasion by Federal forces, murder, will come to every city and village in this country if it's not stopped now. We've seen the beginnings in L.A., D.C., Portland, without action by the people it's coming.
I'm 82, and I've lived the major portion of my life in Portland Oregon as a citizen of the USA, but at heart I'm an immigrant. My immigrant ancestors came from Germany, Ireland, Scotland, Sweden and who knows where else. none of my immigrant forebearers had or needed a passport, almost all came before there was an immigration service, so I'm kind of concerned with the fascist like actions by this administration, led by the personalities of Miller, Nome and Holman. The single most obvious personality trait these three exhibit is callous disregard for human life and welfare and it's a personality trait the is exhibited throughout the DHS.
The Demented Felon illegally attacked Venezuela for the oil resources which big oil ahs said is uninvest able and have basically said thank you but NO. If he persists in his actions toward Greenland it could result in the breaking of NATO. The mineral resources of Greenland are extremely difficult to access for a range of reasons, and while Greenland has encouraged American investment, there have been no takers, so what the hell is Demented grandpa shouting about?
"A strong fortress usually collapses from the inside" The USA is being eaten out from within, the GOP can stop this, but they have been working toward a strong presidency ever since the Regan era, each time they control the presidency they have gathered more and more power in the presidency and weakened the Congressional branch, until the Congress is a hollow husk. We can change that at the ballot box.
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The Demented Felon had the military illegally invade Venezuela and kidnap Maduro and his wife, in order to claim that the oil in that nation was now his. The oil that was sold and will be sold and the funds are to be deposited in a Qatari bank only in the Demented Felon's name, so he is acting as a Pirate King.
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“The Rule of Law” is a real high falutin’ sounding phrase, but what it means is that we as a society enact laws and then we’re expected to abide by those same laws to keep things running smoothly. Now you or I may have a problem with any given law, but there are rules to address that, so when we hear the phrase “Rule of Law” it’s a base line of how to live. The Rule of Law has always been an impediment to the Demented Felon so he ignores it when ever he wants to. This has flowed through our society nowhere more so than in the DOJ. Which is a problem of catastrophic proportions, because what do we do when we cant trust law enforcement. I know there are segments of society that have dealt with this for decades, members of society that have only been able to expect justice in the last few years and others that still don’t receive justice before the law.
This is not mean that we as a country should give up on the Rule of Law, this country and it’s promise has always been about improvement and hope and we cannot give up because of the actions of one Demented Felon toddler and his enablers. There will always be challenges in life and in the life of a nation. We can get through this possibly without essential damage to the nation, it will take decades if not longer to recover our society but that’s how we’ve always liv 6 26ed.
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Much of the talk on line today is about the social-media posts by the Demented Felon that are considered racist, I'm not to bothered all that much because it's the kind of thing I would expect from an alleged man like him. I am much more bothered by other actions he takes hourly that are direct attacks on the Constitution and our rights, the continuous stripping away at the laws of the country, at the military that is more and more inserted into our cities and the continued destruction of daily life. The Demented Felon is the one entity that I wish dead, while Vance would be no better, I believe the miasma in the White House would be effected and that might be for the best.
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All religions have a central tenant, to not hurt others. I think the writer Heinlein said it well, "the greatest sin is hurting other people, hurting yourself isn't sinful, its just stupid". It is amazing to me that we haven't internalized that yet. Through all the centuries we have to keep re-learning such a simple thing. Don't hurt people, seems simple to me. From that simple idea leads to many other ideas, help folks in need, don't take things that are for someone else, and so much more. But what we've yet to learn is to not accept or deal with anyone that doesn't follow the first basic idea.
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What the hell is Habeas Corpus and why it matters to each and every person in the country.In simple terms, habeas corpus (Latin for "you have the body") is a legal right that allows a person in custody to demand that a court review their imprisonment and determine if it's lawful, preventing the government from holding someone indefinitely without cause. It's important remember that habeas corpus is there for everyone, whether you're a citizen or not, which means that if someone is a tourist they still due legal representation if law enforcement arrests them. That isn't what's happening in the country right now, thousands have been imprisoned with laughably thin reasons, and they have no access to legal counsel, most of them don't even know haw to get it. Now I know folks have been told that entering the country with out documentation, it's not, it's at worst a civil infraction, rather like getting a traffic ticket. So why are these thousands of men, women and children being denied habeas corpus for months at a time, is it because they're the "worst of the worst"? or is because some twisted little twerp hates anyone that doesn't look like him?
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I spent the afternoon scanning videos of the Congressional committee trying to question the purported AG Pam Bondi, the impression I got of her was of a mad dog Screaming at everyone, slathering and foaming at the mouth. The utter incompetence of absolutely every member of the Cabinet and every appointment is s endangering the country's standing in the world.
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I have noticed as you may have that true MAGA believers hold hundreds of contradictory points of view, most of which are contradictory. it's a human condition which persists in spite of all common sense. Unfortunately much of this belief centers around the Demented Felon and his stupidity, and supports his actions no matter how horrendous they may be. I wish there was some way that could be remedied, something one could do or say to wake those folks from the continuing nightmare. If any one has any idea or method to do this please speak out. Speaking out seems to be the only way that changes can be made, whether in Portland, Minneapolis or any where in our country, and drastic changes must be made in America if it is to stay America.
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I'm not sure the GOP has had a new thought in the last 5 decades, every time the party tries to do something it's either hurtful to folks, or enriches it's wealthiest patrons. They spent the time trying to undo the ACA, limit folks access to the ballot, screwing with the tax laws to make it easier for millionaires to become billionaires and controlling the publics access to facts, There has been a concerted effort to dumb down the voters, to starve them of truth. It was the Regan administration that really got the ball rolling on the idea that Government is the problem and can't and won't do anything to help. Building mistrust, telling anyone that would listen that voting is useless because both parties are corrupt, and shifting power to the "Unitary Executive" to take more and more rights away from "common" folk."We declare these truths to be self evident," is one of the greatest sentences in the English language, and what follows should be a guide to every American, to strive to, but the "Conservative" mind set has done everything to kill that hope, and is coming close achieving their goal. The American Dream is powerful because it is a dream that has the ability of being realized, and it is precisely that Dream that the GOP is trying to squash. We live by our dreams, our hopes, our vision, to take all that away from a people is evil.
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Kristi Nome spilled the beans when she said "we have to make sure the "right" people elect the "right" people to lead". With all the shit this administration has done including efforts to rig election maps to turn those state "Red", seizing voter rolls to challenge Dem. voters and threatening voters that are new and vulnerable to Not vote. I they can't win honestly, they'll do it by cheating.
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The Demented Felon has said that his kidnapping of another countries President shows that the world is now afraid of the US. This is not the benefit he thinks it is, what it has done is to shout loudly to the world that the US cannot be trusted not to act out is such a way that might harm any given nation that irritates him. Personally I would much rather be seen as a trustworthy ally than the school yard bully.
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SCOTUS has struck down the Demented Felon's tariffs, so when will we see our refund of the one hundred sixty Billon dollars that might be paid out. The answer is that those of us that aren't corporations, or billionaires aren't going to see jack squat, and as an added benefit that absolutely NONE of the prices that were raised because of the tariffs will come down. Prices never go down.
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We live in a country where almost every city and municipality have infrastructure problems specifically with sewage and fresh water, so the Demented Felon's DHS is trying to buy or build multi-thousands people concentration camps based in various buildings or warehouses'. I'm curiousious about first and foremost who are the proposed inmates of these camps, and second how do they propose to run them without clean water or sewage services. One of the things the mostly republican and tea-party folks ran around with their hair on fire because the Dems were going to build prison camps for all the good americans of the "right kind". So if DHS wants to establish hundreds of prison camps all over the country, and at the same time deport millions of folks to other countries, who the hell are they planning to put into all those prison cells?
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It’s almost impossible to buy a good horse whip today, they used to be available at every dry goods store, but for some reason no longer. It’s not that I want a horse whip, nor that I have any use for one, my Subaru wouldn’t respond well, I just point out this to highlight one of the things that used to be but isn’t any more due innovations, The followers true creative of Ned Ludd didn’t think to highly of the new fangled weaving machines that put so many out of work, or made them find new jobs in a new world. c
There are all sorts of folk sweating bullets about AI, and the changes that will inevitably come, the changes to the job market. No I don’t think AI will take over the world, it won’t replace true creative work. Songs can be written by machines, but they simply won’t have soul. Poems will be leaps of constructed by AI, but only the mind of a person can create something truly unique. AI cannot replace the human element if any endeavor, simply because it can’t create the leaps of intuition that the human mind is capable of. I suppose what I’m saying is that AI ain’t got no soul. Anything AI produces is something that is a collections of previously words and ideas made by the mind of man.
I’ll come back to this at some time in the future I’m sure, we’ll see.
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the Demented Felon and his administrations have always telegraphed what they intend to try to do by accusing the Dems. of doing something, it's no difference with elections. "The only way they win is if they cheat"... that was a statement during the SOTU address which, if history is any president, means any action the Demented Felon takes regarding the mid-term or national elections is meant to undermine States Rights. Be ready for the moves by an illegal move from the administration...AGAIN...and AGAIN...and AGAIN...
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"Trust is built on consistency" a phrase from a story about a village of women, but a statement that applies throughout society. We trust those that are constant in their acts and beliefs, and that makes for a harmonious life. The Demented Felon is anything but consistent other than in his greed, he says he likes chaos, and it serves him well. But our society cannot exist with constant chaos, the ground itself churns at our feet upsetting all our plans, fear and chaos stalk our streets in the form of our own government, and there is no peace nor trust to be had. I sit in my house, quiet, sunny, relatively peaceful, but my neighboring montessori school has lost many of it's students of color due to the unrest in the country and I cannot be easy in such a circumstance, my whistle is always at hand as is my outrage. We, as a society cannot continue in this manner, it is unsustainable, it is exhausting. Constant resistance is debilitating but seems to be the only option open to us at least until the Mid-term elections when some redress is possible. Stay strong, stay alert, stay involved there is at least a flickering light at the end of this.
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Please remember that being an "illegal" person in the country has broken a law at the level of a jaywalking ticket, does that really deserve kidnapping, beating, detention for an undefined time, and possible rendition to a third country with all the expenses that surround these actions AND of sufficient need to meet the need of 24 or more warehouse's of concentration camps costing billions of dollars to house millions of detainees...really?
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On this the last day of the shortest month, at the beginning of a period of major instability in the world and our country, I find myself disheartened, and ashamed of the country as a whole. The current administration dominated by the Demented Felon has begun an unnecessary attack on a adversary country in cahoots with the highly questionable “leader” of Israel. To be clear the retaliatory actions will not be felt most severely by our country, other than those people that are in the region, no Isreal will bear the brunt of any answer Iran or it’s subsidiaries gives, this does not make the actions any easier to accept. It is depressing to me to see once again the power of the U.S. used to impose the administration’s will on an other country, as it is to watch it being imposed on my neighbors. I have difficulty understanding the wish to move to an armed conflict, or indeed any kind of conflict that could be better resolved by other means.
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Interesting, in December Texass changed all it's voting Districts at the behest of the Demented Felon. that means all new voter maps needed to be published, but the web site still hasn't been updated, which means if you need to know where your voting precinct is you are SOL. Now this may not seem to be all that important to folks here in Oregon where our precinct is wherever you want to fill out your mail-in ballot, but in Texass it's vitally important, especially in the Dallas County , because the voters HAVE to cast their ballots in specific percints or they get turned away, which is exactly what has happened, so there are thousands of votes that were cast late under the assumption that under a court ruling the polls were supposedly open until 9 pm. The Texass A.G. republican Paxton asked the Supreme Court(Texass) to stay the order to maintain the Democratic polls open till 9pm which the SC did, so any Democratic votes cast after 7pm have had their ballots "sequestered" and it's anyone's guess if those citizens will be granted the right to vote. This is going to be one hell of a mess, and GAWD am I grateful to be in a mail-in voting state.
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A "reality show" host as POTUS started a real life war with a very dangerous nation like small children engage in did not did too battles, and puts out "Call of Duty" videos cheered on by an adrenalin pumped Secretary of "War" and the most feckless Congress in history. Where the hell are the adults...oh yeah, they have no power.
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There was a time not that long ago when all the "serious" people were absolutely apoplectic over the affect of violent video games on the children of the nation, but it seems that the real danger is it's effect on the administration. I've seen numeral reactions to military action by quite a few different administrations but I've never seen one that treats us to an amalgam of video game screen shots, film clips and real time video of an illegal war presented as justification to attack and kill thousands of people. It would seem that violent video games and TV has a fancification of adolescent minds, no matter how old folks are.
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Folks, there are things the Demented Felon does that are Just Weird and that is just depressing, this is honestly the ONLY thing that has surprised me about him in the last 13 years. Colbert revealed Tuesday night that his weirdness has taken to guessing his cabinet members shoe size and then ordering them hyper-shiney Florsheims in the size he guessed, this has resulted in some hilarious photos, like Rubio wandering around in shoes 3-4 sizes to LARGE, and the funniest thing is that none of the people t 26hat received the shoes are afraid not to ware them around him.
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We need to return to the situation of the country when the second amendment was drafted, a "well regulated militia" was a term of art for the Slave Patrols established to capture and return escaped slaves, and at the time a weapon in the hands of a civilian was a tool of survival on the edges of society, I can't see the necessity of guarding against wildlife on city streets today, my interactions with wildlife are mostly in the area of looking at coyotes at a distance and birding, not much need for a firearm there so the idea that the average citizen "NEEDS" a weapon is ludicrous and even worse that many of the espousers of this idea are referring to military grade weapons. There is no need for weapons of this sort in today's society and as to what the founders wanted we are so far from those ideas. America was founded on dreams and visions, the founders would not have recognized todays America.
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As a Democracy we're circling the drain. We have a POTUS that is clearly out of his depth and out of his mind, when I refer to him as "the Demented Felon" I mean it as pure description not as slander. He has thrown the world economy into chaos with his tariffs and the general chaos of his administration, his strikes to the welfare of the country with cuts to medical services, social services and his divisive leadership are the reason we are where we are today. He has gone at the world and our country like a bad version of a movie Mob Boss, with random attacks on our traditional allies and neighbors, random attacks on civilians, countries, and institutions. His ego is paramount, a vast empty pit of greed for attention that will never be filled no matter how much adulation is shoveled into it. Attacks of sovereign nations such as Canada, Venezuela, Iran, Denmark and now the threatening of Cuba. He has already started a war with the very country he is supposed to be leading with his attacks on various cities in the name of crime reduction and immigration control, and the para military used are barely trained and infamous for brutality and murder. In my home town of Portland Oregon the acts of ICE have been intense only barely curbed by the Courts, and the use of military grade chemical weapons used against anyone in the way or even near them has been indiscriminate, children and the sick and elderly have been especially vicious. A functioning society cannot function under these conditions, and our is fracturing under the weight of this administration, and it's not just the administration, the actions of the oligarchy (a fancy word for the ultra-wealthy and powerful) are dragging the country to the brink of fracture. Drastic measures must be taken, standing not just against the administration but for the establishment of Lawful Order and the reestablishment of a just society is the order of the day. Choose your paths carefully and recruit partners to travel those paths, we will not restore our lives by only one method, but by the actions of many in many ways just as this nation was built, one step at a time, one act at a time, one building at a time. Rome wasn't built in a day nor was America, and we need to rebuild our dreams the same way.
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I keep hearing that the Demented Felon is after "revenge and retribution" but I cannot for the life of me figure out what the hell he should seek revenge or retribution for. All of the charges against the "man" seem to me to be justified, the charges of a sexual nature have been proven in the courts, and the charges of fraud have been upheld in the courts. The statements that he misused classified documents are there for all to see, and the investigations have been conclusive, so what in the world is the complaint? I know I keep wanting to take a considered rational view of things, I can't help it.
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So fuel prices are going up and driving up the cost of absolutely everything else, fertilizer cost is rising and it looks like we're going back to manure ah yes the smell of pig shit in the morning or is that the aroma coming from the GOP? There is a profound change happening in the world right now, alliances are changing, spheres of influence are shifting and the centers of power are moving.What the Demented Felon has been led to do, both by bad actors and his own petulant toddler psychopathy, is and will have a profound impact on every life from here on. MAGA I hope you like it, the rest of us don't. As long as Iran has the Straits of Hormuz in it's control, and it looks like that's going to be for a long long time, they have a strangle hold on the world markets. The countries that this benefits are Russia, China, and possibly Iran, oh and the ghouls that bet on disasters.
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America screwed up...twice, the electorate put in place a sociopathic narcissist to have the his hands on the leavers of power in this country. If we get out of this with our democracy intact, if in tatters we'll be very lucky. At this point there are fires all over the place and it's exhausting to run from place to place to try to put out each little blaze, civil rights, voting rights, national health, civil peace are at risk. I will never understand why people can support the actions of the administration, the damage to one WILL lead to damage to all no matter their status, color, or political position. However I don't think we really have a choice, the fires must be extinguished, the damage must be attended to, the lawless must be controlled. I'm tired and I know you are 3 26too, it's ok to take a day off but we all must return to the fray and support each other. All people are my neighbors, yours too.
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There were times in various monarchies when all the monies gathered in tribute, in taxes or by any other means went into fulfilling the whims of the monarch, this was a situation that was supposed to be remedied by a Democracy, it isn't working right now or at least it isn't how the administration wants it to work. Taking all the monies in the country to pay for the Demented Felon's Iran war, seems to be what is wanted by him, no health care support, no social services, no food support, no infrastructure, nothing but WAR. The Demented Felon bankrupted almost every business he's ever been involved with and his actions are harming the Democracy we are all involved in, and indeed he has bankrupted the ethics of the GOP and attempts to erode the mores of the country. We as a people need to work with one another to reject this. We are ALL Americans or soon to be Americans and with this it makes us stronger as people.
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In an asymmetrical conflict for the party that is being attacked it's not necessary to "win", all they have to do is survive. The war in Iraq was pushed by bad intelligence, the war in Iran has been begun by stupidity, arrogance and bravado, all the information coming in from around the world predicted exactly what would be the short term result of this attack, responsive attacks on allies, closure of the Straits of Hormuz, and an escalation of terrorist activity, it wasn't a secret even the dullest could have predicted what's come to pass. We have no way out. Our future is up to us and the steps we have to take to take hold of the Congress and course correct this slewing ship of state.
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One of the big problems with our form of democracy is that when the government does something, anything, we, each and every one of us share some of the responsibility for the action and the outcomes. When the administration established the TVA( Tennessee Vally Authority) the beneficial results were ours to share, when the Demented Felon acts to blow up the worlds economy and the better part of the Middle East, some of the onus lands on us too, so in a very real sense we are all accessories after the fact, because a majority of us gave him the power to do these things. This weighs on me as it should you, and I find myself furious both with myself and with those in power that allow things to continue as they are. I truly believe that we each and every one has the responsibility as much as we have the power to affect things to make them better both for ourselves and for every one, and if we aren't improving the world around us we aren't fulfilling the promise we all made by being born. We owe improvement of the world to our children and grand children and to any future children, we aren't doing this, and it burdens me.
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There's a panel of judges in Portland evaluating the use of chemical agents for "crowd control", it seems to me that the confusion with the question of first amendment rights and public safety. The real question concerns whether DHS response to first amendment action creates a public heath hazard with their use of chemical agents. I would suggest that the health and safety of the public is of more importance than the DHS's chosen methods of "crowd control".
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NO the current Senate and House aren't going to impeach the Demented Felon, the Cabinet aren't going invoke the 25th Amendment, thebuty can't even buy their own shoes. But they have no answers to high prices, rapidly disappearing Health Care, armed quasi military gangs roaming our city streets, or why the hell the our military is wading into the swamp of war with Iran and all their allies, and no Iran and their buddies aren't go od people, and yes they have needed to be dealt with but not this way. So there are hundreds of things that the administration has to answer to, so no there will be no impeachment or passing of the 25th, we need to hold the GOP's feet to the fire for costs of living, gas prices, voting rights, health assistance, housing gaps, education support, unemployment remedies, loss of basic Constitutional rights, the Epstein files...feel free to jump in and add to the list. There are so many reasons to oppose this administration, that we don't need to waste and time on impeachment or the 25th.
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The Demented Felon's manner of operation is chaos, this is not a useful method of governing a country, further the very essence of chaos is harmful to a peaceful life. No person that acts with chaos can understand the idea of peace, cannot put forward peaceful acts, the statements of the wish for peace are a lie, there is no possible way an agent of chaos can even perceive the existence of a path to peace. Any action taken by an agent of chaos will only lead to more chaos, it is necessary to remove the agency of that agent if any kind of peace can be achieved.
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When having a discussion with a family member I realized the value of large demonstrations, that the biggest failure of Democracy is the non-voter. I'm convinced that if 70 to 85% of the population voted no Republican(at least at this time) would ever see a seat at the table in the foreseeable future. What I hear from non-voters is that there aren't difference between the two parties, they're not. I think the clearest indicator is that two Democratic politicians that have had charges of improper acts are quitting politics while the Demented Felon, a 32 time convicted fraudster, convicted rapist, and multiply accused pedophile sits in the Oval Office and no member of the GOP will speak against him. The difference in social policy is stark as well, statements from the administration that the country cannot afford social programs, food assistance, health insurance assistance, or a myriad of other social programs because a war of choice is more important. The hypocrisy of this policy is chilling.
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Do you think you're trustworthy, are you a person of your word? I would hope that you can answer yes just as I think most folks think they could, but today in the world the country that I live in is not seen as a trustworthy allie, not seen as a safe place for many to visit. The result of this is that we as a people aren't seen as honest in the world. Our standing in the world is more and more that of a untrustworthy bully, I don't want to be seen as that. I want to believe that most folks are as honest as possible, and I want to trust others to keep their word, to live their most honest selves. I want to believe that most folks in the political arena are honest and worthy of trust, it's not easy when we have a POTUS that lies more easily than he breaths and is surrounded by people that lick his cankles and kiss his blubbery ass. He and those around him have infected and decimated an entire political party, and given his followers permission to be their worst selves willing to act in the most base and cruelest ways possible.I am saddened by this and it causes me to hold those things that are good closer to my heart.
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The Demented Felon often brags about the stock market even though it has almost nothing to do with most folks. If you don’t have a stock portfolio but do have a retirement account your relationship to the stock market is tenuous at best. But still he manipulates the market with unhinged pronouncements causing surges and falls to benefit him and his friends, all the while making rules and unlawful acts that harm all of us.
No there won’t be an impeachment nor an invocation of the 25 amendment, especially with this Congress and even if he fell over dead in the next half hour I’m not in the least convinced that things would change substantively, we are where we are with an administration of the damned.
I’m not sure what the path forward looks like I’m just going to keep being kind to those around me and hope it has some “pay it forward” effect. It’s spring and things are growing, birds are singing and the damned grass needs cutting again, so I guess I’ll just keep keepin’ on.
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The Deranged Felon blew the genie out of the bottle and there's absolutely no possibility of putting it back. Iran for the foreseeable future decides whether the straights of Hormuz are passable or not, Iran decides whether the, y will end the war or not, Iran basically holds all the power. It depends on Iran if the oil prices go up or down. I never thought I could see Iran as the sane option but here we are. He is utterly unable to admit reality on almost everything and lies as easily as any one else breaths, irrational, so disruptive that during the rescue of a downed airman The Demented Felon was barred from the skiff where the operation took place. Every time he makes a pronouncement it affects the stock market and that makes him money, it's called fraud, insider trading, and that just means it's Monday in this administration.
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I was just startled to hear an MSNOW reporter that announced that over three million have been killed in this illegal war in Iran and that gas prices were still up. I always thought that the loss of lives was more shocking than the price of oil and gas, but I guess not, imagine being more outraged by how much fuel costs than the murder of over THREE MILLION men, women and CHILDREN. This is intolerable.
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Remembering the basic premise that everything the Demented Felon touches turns to shit, let's make a random little list: The Kennedy Center, was doing ok till he wanted in on it, now it's closed for the foreseeable future; the GOP, is now hopelessly unable to accomplish anything, and spends most of it's time on internal turmoil; international commerce was recovering from the pandemic till he imposed ridiculous tariffs and jammed it all up, then, not satisfied with that started a war with Iran, which is a nasty regime that everyone else knew was the honey badger of world politics; here at home he has poked his fingers in every aspect of our lives making things so much worse; he has torn down the East wing of the White house for a multibillion dollar "ballroom" with his own underground "Hitlers death bunker" underneath without so much as a "by your leave " to the owners of the building the american people; and now we find out that he called in a renovation of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool to paint the bottom of the pool blue, and now it doesn't reflect. There's so much more we could add to the list, but it's Sunday and I've go and finish the laundry.
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I seldom encourage folks to take any specific action other than voting which I always do with no concern for how they vote, but the latest whiny little bitch action that the Demented Felon is taking is ripe for activity, and that's the attempt to get Jimmy Kimmel removed. The last time Mr. Kimmel was suspended public pressure was sufficient to cause them to reverse course. Public pressure is powerful and the threat against the bottom line for any business and can be effective. Stephen Colbert is loosing his show in May and personally I think that CBS is going to regret that action deeply, they're going to loose market share in a big way, just like ABC was threatened with the last time Mr. Kimmel was taken off the air, so if you find the attempt to further control the public air waves something you're not willing to accept then let ABC know, and possibly remind CBS of your displeasure.
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Voting rights are essential to this country, and the ongoing attack against those rights continued today, the Supreme Court has been at the cutting edge of limiting voting right for all. Since Reconstruction power holders have been on a tear to control black voting to the absolute minimum and there have been relentless attempts to eliminate the voice of the people save a very few and specific voices. Remember when the Demented Felon said that when he was elected no one would have to concern themselves with voting again and the Supreme Court have been working to that end with great vigour. This is utterly undemocratic, unfair, and dangerous, and we should make opposition our prime concern, I know I will.
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I've come to feel that on the federal level that I'm seeing fewer and fewer of my concerns being expressed or attended to, the things that the federal government is putting my money into isn't where I want that money to go. The GOP is in the thrall of a Demented Felon that is an emotional year old that wants what he wants RIGHT NOW, wants all the money in the world, wants to have all the attention in the world and resents everybody. I don't know if he actually is a paranoid narcissist, but he certainly seems like he's giving a pretty good performance of one. I'm not one to think that everyone should believe like me, how boring would that be, nor do I think that in general everyone should only vote for only one political party, but in the current political atmosphere it eludes me why any one would support a republican or any political position put forward by the GOP. As ever it's your vote your choice, but I would suggest we all look at our lives and make wise choices.
5 10 26
It might be time to take stock of where things are, both in the country and in the world. The world as we have known it has changed, it won’t return to what we have known what has been the norm since the second world war. We now live in a country that is a Democracy in decline, a large portion of the populace doesn’t understand and doesn’t seem to value the democratic system. Now this is understandable, most folks are under such a load of social and economic pressure that it’s difficult to see the future for the bills and the oligarchy is using this to whipsaw the public all over the place.
The last few decades have been horrendous for most people, between COVID, the first tRUMP term, the economic turmoil caused by COVID and then his second term and the implementation of the illegal tariffs.
The Demented Felon has been acting in his normal fashion acting the Furrer, with his complete disregard for the law and the turmoil that has caused, it’s no wonder we’re exhausted, but this still isn’t time to relax, we must stay cognizant and responsive to the things going on.
5 12 26
We all have opinions, that’s a good thing, it indicates we’re thinking about stuff, and it’s good to share those opinions to find out if we share common ground. But why should one’s opinion cause one person’s from another, we don’t need to agree to be part of a team and that’s what the American experiment is, teamwork. One of the things that’s not spoken about often enough is teamwork, the fact that we are part of our jobs involve being part of a team, if the members of the team refuse to work together the team ceases to function. If the basic functions of society cease to function, society goes to hell in a garbage bag. Who profits from this? More to come…
5 14 26
The other day I wrote about opinions and how we all have them, but I want to go beyond merely having an opinion and asking what do we do with it. Well, what comes to mind is the attitude that there are so many folks are ismissed as being one interest voters, now I don’t think single issue voters are really the problem some folk think the are.. If you put enough single issue voters together you can get pretty much all the issues the country is concerned about covered. So if someone only wants to talk about one thing listen to them you might want to include them in your conversations.
5/20/26
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slush_fund cannot be substituted for a legal settlement which Wikipedia describes as “In law, a settlement is a resolution between disputing parties about a legal case, reached either before or after court action begins. A collective settlement is a settlement of multiple similar legal cases.[1] The term also has other meanings in the context of law. Structured settlements provide for future periodic payments, instead of a one-time cash payment.”
Because in the case of the Demented Felonious Toddler there is no legal case to connect to.
This is the latest plot to wrest money from the American tax payer, and I think that if he could just back a semi to the Treasury and shovel gold into it he would and the complicity of the Congressional GOP is appalling.
Whacha going to do? Get pissed. Call your Congress members and let them know, and when the opportunity arises, vote out the cowards that are ok with this.
5/21/26
It strikes me as odd that politicians that stay staunchly together when their positions are secure, speak out against the King when they have nothing left to lose. It speaks to me of a level of hypocrisy that seems to pervade the party. If the Congress people that are leaving are any indication, then there must be many more members that share their opinions but are too cowardly to speak out. I can't see how any of those people could stand up in front of their supposed constituents and plead any amount of honesty, if the know in their hearts that what the current administration is doing is utterly un-American and damaging to the welfare of the American people, and their continued "service" to the public is utterly unwarranted.
5/24/26
The end of America as we have known it is neigh, the world will never be as we knew it, as we grew up in it, but that might not be such a bad thing.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident…” The document it’s self holds the answer to our current situation.
“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness”
We as a nation can choose to reestablish ourselves as a new republic, we can, with Constitutional authority
y can dismiss the offending elements of our government and establish a New America and I think that’s a path we should consider.
Jefferson saw the potential need for this action at the very beginning. It won’t be easy, the reimagining of a system never is, but it could save our Democracy.
5/26/26
In times like these we need, more than ever, to listen to the Historians, Ken Burns, Cox-Richardson and their ,compatriots. We know that if we don’t learn from our past then we are doomed to repeat the failures of our history.
We as a people have for the most part forgotten our history, myself included, and we need to relearn civics, civil discourse and where we all come from.
We are as a nation, one people, that is what makes us remarkable beyond all other nations.
6 1 26
I heard the phrase “culture wars” again today and it got me thinking, that there really can’t be a war on anyone’s culture so what does it mean? Wikipedia has a definition:
“A culture war is a conflict between social groups over values, morality, and lifestyle, often influencing politics and public policy. It involves struggles to impose one's ideology on mainstream society, leading to polarization on issues like abortion, gender identity, and social policies.”
Which is a perfectly plausible definition, but sort of unsatisfying. It seams to me that it boils down to “I have an opinion and you have an opinion and they don’t match so I’m going to get real mad at you and raise one hell of a stink until you change” which makes absolutely no sense to me. Unless your neighbors “unacceptable” is sacrificing your children to Ba-all I’m not sure it’s your business, it sort of comes under the heading of MYOB or in stronger terms MYOFB. It appears to me that we Americans have a habit of getting in our neighbors faces when we should mutter “Well, That’s different” and walk away. But we’re a controlling people, from the Pilgrams to MAGA, some of us seem to have a need to tell others how to live their lives.
Don’t do that, fix your own life, decide how you want to live ave and spend your energy doing that, other folks can figure out how they want to live, it’s quieter that way.
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I’ve never been much of a “joiner”, so finding myself sounding like a rabid Democrat, is somewhat surprising. So I thought I should look at the reasons.
When I first registered to vote I registered as an Independent, then I found out that my ballot was very short, I couldn’t vote on anyone with an R or D associated with their name, so I looked around at my choices and decided to go with the Dems. That brings me to this point and I decided that at this point in time my votes have less to do with which party, and more with the essential questions of good and evil, I don’t know how else to put it.
This election and in this political time have set a new baseline of political morality, and this administration has and are setting new lows of morality or lack there of. So while I’m nominally a Dem it’s because I don’t see any options of whom to vote for.
6/5/26
I'm a city boy, born and bred, but the Farmers of this country have and are being screwed, by both parties. Right now the GOPocalypse is doing the screwing and if they're allowed they're going to close down the food conduit to the American people. What's being done to the economy between fuel and fertilizer costs is bankrupting family farms one after another, and putting a serious strain of every body. While the Demented Felonious Toddler is prattling on about Washington D.C. fountains, the Reflecting pool, Ballrooms and slush-funds for J6 rioters the real problems in almost every American home get worse. There are so many sectors of the public that need to be paid attention to the American Farmer for all our sakes.
6/9/26
With all the furor over the validity of elections, and the GOP’s hair on fire flailing about over “rigged” elections, I have yet to see any, any, ANY concern from the GOP about making voting easier more, responsive or more representative, everything I hear is about eliminating voters, I even heard one FUX host say the whole swaths of the electorate shouldn’t vote at all. Why would some one want certain people not vote, is it possible that they feel that if everyone votes they CAN’T win?
6/10/26
You’ve gotta give the Demented Felonious Toddler a certain amount of credit, when he ran the last time he swore the country, the economy, the whole country was in chaos. It turns out that he wasn’t describing things as they were, but things as he wished to see it, and after only a year and a half, he’s pretty much achieved his vision. The economy is in shambles, the country’s in an illegal war that there’s no obvious road out of, fuel is unaffordable, food is sky high and famine is a distinct possibility, BUT there’s a the new White House Ballroom coming, the fountains of D.C. are being “refurbished”, and on the 14th, there’s going to be a damned expensive birthday party for POTUS including an exclusive MMA fight on the White House lawn. Now in my opinion that’s quite a lot to have gotten done, I could wish it were different but there we are. Oh, that comment about impending famine? That’s due to his starting a war in the middle East and the subsequent cut of oil shipments. No oil, no fuel, no fertilizer, and if there’s no fuel or fertilizer crops won’t be planted, grown or shipped. Even if we could afford stuff it won’t be available.
6/11/26
Fear is a product, it is a product that the Delusional Felonious Toddler deals in. He sells Fear like the ShamWow guy on late night TV sells his product, that’s to say he’s good at it, he has turned about a third of the American people believe it. He has frightened the GOP into cowering to him. But here’s the thing, since Fear is a product, we don’t have to buy it, we can choose not to make Fear part of our lives or at least be very picky about what to be concerned over. Now there are many things that I’m concerned with, food costs, fuel costs, the safety of the air and water, and the availability of access to safe foods, but I can in most cases take precautions to keep me and mine safe, except for a few things that are out of my control.
I will try to take some control of my situation at the mid-terms, and put my ideas forward to cause other folks to make the world safer, But the main thing I won’t do is buy any FEAR.
6/15/26
Remember the AI meme of the Delusional Felonious Toddler joyfully flying over a crowd dumping shit on everyone? I’d like you to hold on to that picture as the true way that he looks at the world. We’ve long known he is the most singular person on the planet, no real friends, and what associations he has are totally transactional including every marriage he’s had and child he’s fathered. No pets, ever. His favorite method of communication, brute force. He has no understanding of nuance, which is what makes him such a disaster at negotiations in spite of all his bluster about being a “deal maker”.
6/16/26
A post by Paul Krugman got me to thinking about vulgarity and how the display of both in our society has a the effects they do. The Delusional Felonious Toddler is vulgarity dressed up as a human, he is the vulgar persons vision of what a rich should be, he is not.
6/18/26
To add to the other day’s thoughts, I’ve been watching the Obama Center’s festivities, and I’m struck by the atmosphere of the day, the joy, the hope and the general tenor of the attendees is markedly different from the grimy, flashy exhibition of the 14th. The amount of pure hope and happiness that came from Chicago today should be able to be felt all over the country, but it won’t be, because too many folks have been convinced that if someone they think they should dislike, for some unknown reason is happy, they should be angry about it. I’m tired of being disrespected, of how that makes me feel, and how hurtful that is to the world. I want to feel hopeful, to care for my neighbors and the world. I find it hurtful when folks I don’t know think I hate them, of look down on them because I’m just folks like them. It’s not just the vulgarity of the administration that repulses me, it’s the dismissive attitude, the feeling that I and my neighbors are less because we hope for something else than what they want to have. This administration is selling only two things, the accumulation of money in the fewest hands possible, and fear. The forever message from them is that we have to fear and hate who they want feared and hated, including all our neighbors. I can’t accept that message nor should you, because when we let someone else tell us who to fear and hate we are being played.
6/19/26
The problem with "Make America Great Again" is "Again". The dependence on the idea of what was and not what is or will be, is delusional, we can't only look back and move forward, I've tried, it doesn't work. We can and should be fully conscious of the past, but only as a list of what does and what doesn't work. We as a people have invested unlimited time, energy and money to live in some fantasy of the past until many of our neighbors have come to think fantasy history is real. We can't live in the past, we have to deal with the real world at the present moment, any other path leads to disaster.
6/21/26
What's so difficult for normal folks to understand about the Deranged Felonious Toddler is that he's not normal. He likes chaos and that is abnormal for most folks, rationality is NOT his strong suit, or anywhere in his closet. I refer to him as a toddler because he demonstrates the patience, mannerisms and temper of a toddler. If things don't happen RIGHT NOW for him, giving him the outcomes he wants, he shows a toddler's temper. Things aren't going to get any better until the GOP is willing to tell him NO, and I can't see that happening any time soon
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I guess it all started with Joe Pyne, a New Jersy disc jockey who turned from music to talk radio host. His signature phrase was “Emotions equal Dollars”, and the talk radio industry was off and running. Soon came people like Limbaugh and Micheal Savage, and they were all “populist” riling up their listeners with screeds against the establishment, and taxes, fluoride, and the world in general change is bad, “someone” is plotting against you, fear the immigrant, the new, the “Man”. They pushed their listeners to fits of rage, and fear, and they’re still doing it today. Except today they operate out of the White House and the Halls of Congress. People that lead you by your emotions can be the most dangerous and pernicious.
6/24/26
The Demented Felonious Toddler won't sign the Housing Bill because "no one cares about housing", now that's quite a statement from someone that lives in government housing, and various golf cubs, down town towers, and castles. I guess no body cares about housing because he said so. Oh he might sign it if we give up the right to vote, but otherwise, no. The GOP is for selfish reasons starting to push back against him, but for the most part they won't act, it's even worse in the States, where the zealots knuckle under to an unamerican philosophy of MAGA. I don't want to live in the country they envision and I don't think most folks do either. We don't all have to agree, we can talk about it and discuss the possibilities, but it has to be WE. We can't do it alone, but we can do it together.
6/26/26
Well I guess now we know. The V.P. whom we've been told is a smart man, has blamed Richard Nixon's political demise on the "deep state". Now we know that Nixon surrendered the Presidency because the ENTIRE GOP came to him and told him that if he didn't quit THEY would impeach him and turn him out. His own party gave him the boot, so I guess now we know that the "deep state" is actually the Republican party. Case settled.
6/27/26
I’ve read commentary about the Lincoln Refecting Pool, that suggests it’s a reflection of the country it’s self, or at least of this administration, and I tend to agree. The whole mess started with an uncontrolled POTUS handing out no-bid contracts to his buddies, they did shoddy work, under the Demented Felonious Toddler’s direction terrible decisions were made, driving down the length of the pool with a fleet of very heavy SUVs before the “lining” had had time to completely cure, filling the pool with city water, disabling the filter system for a period of time during very hot weather, and when the algae bloomed pouring essentially paint remover into the pool was not well thought out. What all this really demonstrates is an utter lack of competence, and a stunning unwillingness to ask an expert.
There has long been at least a wariness of anything that come from the “Government”, mostly from stories spread by folks that operate at the edges of the law, moonshiners and such, also by the modern mythology glamorizing such activity. This is an idea pushed by folks that want to curtail civil rights for their own purposes, in the modern age the Regan administration popularized the idea that the government wasn’t’ to be trusted because they wanted to interfere in voting civil rights and civic economics, by this time the current administration has supersized the effort with attacks on damn near every aspect of our lives with no help form the GOP, that needs to be brought to a dead stop with the elections.
6/28/26
I this life there is, was and always be pain and loss, and it seems to me that the best use of our time here is to lessen the pain and grief for ourselves and each other as much as possible. I seems to my understanding that this is the basis of practically every religious or social structure. So it is to me utterly incomprehensible when I encounter some one that acts any other way. I understand there is hate, intolerance, evil and greed, but those things don’t make much sense to me when acting kind and generous is so much simpler and beneficial to everyone concerned. So I really don’t understand what’s happened to this country, I am genuinely puzzled by what’s happening.
7/2/26
The United States has been unique in world history, in that it has never been made up of a single group of people, but of people from every corner of the world. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are the founding documents and describe the hopes and desires of a group of people. So we aren’t built on fear, but hope. In current we have been driven by fear of what is real, potential and fictional. The power that feeds this fear is spreading fear purely for profit. I mentioned him before but Joe Pyne was the father of talk radio and his mantra was “emotions equals dollars” which is self evident and so an enormous number of grifters and various other hucksters to feed at the trough. I was once a tiny speck in the world of the Portland talk radio scene, so I do know a tiny bit about it. I see Fox “News” as the culmination of the talk radio trend and the movement they engendered is Trumpism and the resultant MAGA. MAGA is a self renewing movement, it tells itself what to fear and whom to fear and it currently sees itself as threatened, by the progressive movement. It has been said that the most important phrase is our history is “We the People”, that we as a nation are made up of many different peoples, hopes and dreams, but do we still dream do we still hope. Tell your hopes and dreams to some one that you might think won’t listed or care. You might learn something new.
7/3/26
There are many that expect a 2nd civil war, I think we are in the midst of it. The nation has been split on purpose using the tools of the fascists. The powers that want to subjugate the country have sewn hate and chaos, distrust and fear of their neighbor, and an economic landscape that supports the effort.
After the Civil War this country was re-founded, it had only been beneficial for white men that owned property, it now had to have room for all the newly freed black folks. This was a huge change for the folks that supported the slave culture and the Confederacy, and a certain portion of our population hold on to the resentment of the loss. I don’t know how to change their view points, and it may be that for many there is no way to reach them. But reach them we must at least try.
7/4/26
On this of all days it’s important to look at where we are and where we came from. We started as a colony of a Unitary Monarch and rebelled against it, we refused to continue to accept that, so we established an independent Social Republic based on the democratic ideal. The order of the society is kept by the grace of those governed, the government is based on the three branches of government the Congress, the Judiciary and the Executive. At no time was there any thought that the Executive should be the be all and end all of authority, the idea of the Unitary Executive came long after the writing of the Declaration and the Constitution, and I think the founders would be against the idea. The current administration seems to like the idea that all power should be held by POTUS, and indeed the “think tanks” that advise the administration and the GOP are doing all they can to turn the President into the single source of power and decision mostly because they feel that anyone installed is more easily manipulable. If there is a “Deep State” that’s those folks, the would be power behind the throne. I do NOT find this to be a desirable end to our Democratic Republic, for the end of the American experiment is what the adoption of this plan would bring about, the end of America. The Unitary Executive is a fairly recent theory as outlined in Wikipedia, “The theory originated in conservative legal circles like the Federalist Society,[12] and the term dates to the Reagan administration,” so it’s not an idea that the founders had, if
anything the revolutionary war was fought against those exact ideas. So on this anniversary of July 4th in 2026, if there is to be a purpose in celebration let it be in part as a repudiation of the Demented Felonious Toddlers demands for power.
7/9/26
Remember the Birch Society? I do, and you might too if you too are 3 days older than dirt. The Birchers were the beginning of the ultra right and the great grand father of MAGA. Their tactics were very recognizable today, “Scholar Celestini Carmen argues that LaHaye used the JBS's culture war methods and rhetoric of "fear, apocalyptic thought and conspiracy" to forge the Moral Majority, with "fear, anger, and disgust as essential.” Sound like any GOP member you know? Well we’re looking at one of their pet talking points, if you have someone you want your base to hate just call them a “COMUNIST”. Joe MacCarthy was pretty rabid at it until someone finally called him out in one of his witch hunt hearings, when he went down, he went down hard, but he did leave a template for the GOP and boy are they using it. Any one that is anti-MAGA, Trump or GOP policy is now being labeled as a communist, This is all in the “I wanna be a fascist” handbook that the Demented Felonious Toddler has be reading out of, and we’ve been here before. There is a chance to tamp some of it down in November, so hitch up you trousers and spread the word, and the word isn’t communist it’s Fascist.
7/10/26
The USA is no longer the big dog in world politics or commerce, the Demented Felonious Toddler with his “I alone can fix it” actions has brought us down to just another kid on the block. The EU is spending big efforts to arm it’s self with out any input of the US, Sweden and Germany are now big players and Ukraine is the single leader in Drone tec and tactics. MacDonald Douglas is taking it in the shorts, and other avionics companies are suffering, just look at the deals between Canada and Sweden over the Grippen instead of the F-whatever the number is now, is going to cost the US big time. So we’re not a “Power” we’re just another player in the International card game where every body cheats and with the current administration we’re not that good at it, the Toddler in Chief is more interested in raping the US and dismissing everyone else. So it goes, if there is any hope we have to create it ourselves at the ballot box. Don’t loose the plot before November.
7/11/26
Love may make the world go around but trust is why the world works…when it does, and when it doesn’t we loose trust in the system, and we are ltving in that time. Where does the Demented Felonious Toddler’s power come from? Well partly it comes from the people around him that mostly are afraid of what he’ll do if his wishes are thwarted, and the rest feeds of the chaos he creates, like feeding off of a hurricane. My instinct is to let the Toddler lay in the middle of the floor pounding his little fists and screaming incoherently, but it seems I may be one of the few. No one trusts him, not the market, not the rest of the world, and that’s why things are going so sideways, he has sullied much of the government and has followed Regan’s lead of showing that government is the problem, that’s not true of course, it’s the GOP that is the problem, admittedly not each not each and every individual republican but the party in general is an utter loss, we have to get rid of as many of them as we can, so we can begin to establish some trust in the folks that keep society thudding along.
7/11/26
I am not a trained writer as may be painfully honest, but I do write both commentary and poetry and so I try to be careful of my words, and it reminds me of how carefully the founders chose words and phrases to craft the Documents that established the country. Over the years other folks have chosen words to lay out their thoughts and premises. These writings stand in stark contrast to the blathering of the Demented Felonious Toddler, who throws language around with the same abandon of a shit throwing gibbon.
I find him exhausting, sorting out what to pay minimal attention to and what to dismiss as fool drool. And so it goes.
7/14/26
I don’t know about you but I rather enjoy leftovers usually, some things just don’t reheat that well, talking about you French fries, but Thursday evening the Delusional, Felonious Toddler will try to sell the country a mound of leftovers. “The 2020 election was stollen, Dems are all communists, Antifa is all terrorists, I’m so misunderstood,” and on and on and on, until my ears bleed. Those leftovers aren’t so tasty and indeed might cause it’s enough to give you indigestion. This administration is so corrupt I really think the Corleone’s would be envious. I’m not sure how much more of this our neighbors can take. Now historically nations in this much chaos erupt into some kind of violence, which we do daily, or revolt, America has only done that once and it was horrendous and I hope we would not repeat that error.
7/17/26
I grew up hearing that “creeping Communism” was going to be the end of out country, which was bullshit, it was then and it is now. The folks that chanted that then aren’t that different from the fools that spread the political manure now, the have ulterior motives, they want to run the world, it’s just that simple. They want to tell everyone what they can think and say and believe and where they can live and who they can live with and, and, and… there really is no end to what the want, including all the money and power, o so there really isn’t any more reason to pay any attention to them than there was the last time, Except, this time they’re starting out with most of the political power and ability to make the laws, and in this country the law is supposed to be the King, and we’re all in the habit of trying to follow the law. Just for general information even dedicated Communists wouldn’t want to bring down the whole country. There’s a great scene in A Man for All Seasons, when some young firebrand tells Sir Thomas More that to catch the Devil he would “cut down all the laws of England, though they be as thick as the forest of Arden”, to which More replies, “ and if you cut down all the laws of England, when the Devil turns on you, where would you hide”. No communists trying to take down the country, no agents provocateur, no one hiding in the background, other than Kristi Nome, and only one party seemingly intent on destroying Democracy, and oddly enough that’s the GOP.
7/24/26
A gent speaking on MSNOW just made a brilliant, "This administration is based on Bullshit, and that is why things are so bad, you can't bullshit a war" share
7/27/26
Loyalty is a fine thing, in husbands and wives, in armed service persons, in dogs, but loyalty is a two way street, loyalty not returned is subservience, and this is NOT a subservient country We all know that the Delusional Felonious Toddler demands loyalty and never offers any in return. It seems some folks in farm states, including mine, are starting to realize that he really doesn’t care at all about them, that he only cares about his own interests.
On another subject I find it chuckelable that the public lost their minds over Platner’s questionable choice of drunken tattoos, and don’t seem to have any Problem with Hegseth’s HUGE Iron Cross.
7/28/26
It’s damned hard to be an American and to try to live up to the ideas the Founders laid out, because the fellers that started the whole thing were a tangled hot mess of contradictions, “All men are created equal” wrote the slave holder, and the curious idea that in a land of free and equal citizens, Indians, Black folks and Women couldn’t vote, and as a matter of fact if a man wasn’t a property owner he couldn’t vote either. So this country was established for White Wealthy Men, that espoused much, much higher ideals. That’s quite a swamp to wade through, but we’ve been trying for 250 years and we’ve made some progress, we’ve got a hell of a long way to go, and we don’t make it easy on ourselves, but at least most of us are trying. Which is why it’s so frustrating to have to deal with grifters and frauds on the way, folks that only look out for themselves and will step on another’s face if they can get away with it. Those folks are tiring, they get in the way like grease and onion peels in the drain, they clog things up, don’t serve a purpose and are just damn disgusting. That’s why I support the idea of getting rid of them the sooner the better.
8/4/26
This all happened in 1933, when a cabal of business men, plotted to put a retired Marine General into the t as a fascist style dictator, so this isn’t the first time we’ve dealt with a self styled dictator. The business community is as happy as a hog in muck because the stock market is so out over it’s skis as though the end of the run isn’t going to be really gnarly.
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8/13/26
I really dislike having to vote against something, be it person, party or position. I mush prefer to vote for things, especially positions and plans that can help the community. If I don’t like something I can just it ignore it, that’s easy, what’s not easy is trying to educate others especially some folks that are unreasonably convinced of an un-true idea. So this midterm is troublesome to me. I want to vote for changes to our lives that benefit my neighbors, and I mean real change. We can’t go back to things the way they’ve always been, we have to listen to EVERYBODY, not just the monied few. I sant to see a new day that entitles everyone in the country to the best there is to offer.
8/13/26
There is a saying that “if you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re on the menu”, and this applies in politics and in life, and I frankly am tired of being on the menu. This administration has had a broad menu of Americans, the White House is feeding at the public trough with gusto, and they seem to be intent on keeping the country funding it, now an for the seeable future. The GOP congress is the Most unproductive congress in the history of the country, not only can the not get very little done on their own agenda, but they have done almost nothing for the American people. The Congress did manage to pass the Housing Act, which became law only because the Felonious Demented Toddler didn’t touch it. If you had an employee that was almost totally non-productive I have doubt you would keep them, that’s a way to go broke. Mid-terms are coming and you have to ask why would we keep non-productive employees.
8/17/26
The Tower of Babble was built out of arrogance, a monument to power, can any one today tell me where it is? The Felonious Demented Toddler's ego is gilding D.C and creating his own tower of babble with every word he speaks, for what reason? will it put gas in any one's tank? will it feed a child anywhere? will it provide a cure for any illness. No. We all know that everything done by and for him is only for him, he is an emotional black hole, nothing will ever be enough, and until we remove every supporter he has from any kind of place of responsibility or any access to power there will be no peace. To exist in this world it is essential to acknowledge even those we don’t know or don't especially like are still our neighbors and part of our lives.
8/19/26
The whole rumble in the Democratic Party between the “Corporate” Democrats and Democratic “Socialists” is just ridiculous, I don’t know what the book definition of a Democratic Socialist is, but it’s got to be more palatable than a MAGA Republican. This all reminds me and others of an age of the McCarthy hearings and the whole “Red Scare” period, (wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Scare), and those freaking out over the wins by Democratic Socialists seem to be parroting back the Republican talking points confusing socialism and communism, and, ONCE AGAIN, bellowing about the END OF DEMOCRACY. I think that many of us can agree that the GOP is much more of a threat to democracy than any democratic socialist.
8/21/26re
It seems to me that the biggest problem with the composite age of the ruling class is their world view, in that things that have been acceptable and the way thing once worked are just the way things should be, and that just isn’t how most folks today think. In the space between the old view and now, things have changed…drastically, folks just don’t see the world in the same way they used to. The idea of socialism isn’t as repugnant as it used to be, since the ACA, the idea of universal health care has become much more popular, and the howling gap in wealth is not acceptable. Back in the day George W Bush touted the future of the “Ownership Society” and folks thought that he meant that every one could afford to own their home, or business, or a second pair of pants, but today we see the rise of the Ownership Class, and it ain’t pretty. Now we see what was really meant by “Ownership class, except many of us call them Oligarchs, and Ownership means owning EVERYTHING, and that’s just not how things should be in the future most people want to see.
8/22/26
The question I see asked more and more is what comes after the Demented Felonious Toddler, and I think that’s a good question, especially in view of the political scene and the up coming Midterms. On the Democratic side, there is a kerfuffle in the chattering class over the differences between the various “divisions” of the National party. I consider the whole discission bullshit, I don’t see a dividing line between run of the mill Democrats and the dreaded Democratic Socialists. Now the GOP are using the Red Scare from the 40’s and trying to paint Dems with the “communism” brush stirring up vague fears that lie under the skin of our nation. It’s always a good indicator of what may be a bad actor. Socialism and Communism have damn few similarities, if you don’t know the differences read the Very readable Tim Snyder and his writings on politics, they are definitely worth the time. In this country anyone tells you that any political philosophy is a danger to our consumer way of life is delusional. Capitalism is not going away, it’s here to stay, what we need to do is not to give way to worship of it and instead capitalism needs to be tightly controlled because it’s fully and deeply entrenched, and nothing can change that.
(to be continued)
8/28/26
The demonization of an opponent is a device as old as time, for all our lives we have read stories of the evil of some “other”, the horror stories of what any given opponent will do if “they” win. There isn’t any difference between those stories and what the GOP is doing right now, but, as always, it’s necessary to take a close look at those stories. In so many cases the terror tales have no basis in reality, they are ling to every one to win their loyalty because the truth and the reality isn’t on their side. So it is today with how the GOP is going to war against the American voter, and make no mistake it is a war against the ability to vote. Usually these claims are used because the party doesn’t have anything else to offer, they don’t have any plans that
are different to offer or they are trying to cover up their real intent, I think that’s the case today. Todays GOP seems to want to turn every thing the government owns into income for themselves.
9/3/26
Gloria Steinem, and that makes three, one gave us shits and giggles as an actor, one as an entertainer and possibly the absolute best of us, a loving and caring giving human, and a person that led the way to a better life for millions of people by teaching the fact that we are all better and stronger if we promote the equality of all.
9/3/26
So what are “Culture Wars”? Absolute bullshit imho. If someone wants to believe in some cultural point of view that’s fine, but this isn’t a society that can force that view on anyone else, that isn’t how anything works. But there are those that want others to live according to their beliefs and so if they can gain the bully pulpit will insist that pursuing their beliefs is of paramount importance. They are wrong, and as a result things pursued as culture as a war is utter bullshit.
9/8/26
I feel bombarded with information to the point of exhaustion, and I’m convinced I’m not alone. There are so many things and situations to pay attention to, we just cant keep up with them all, so it makes me happy to lean toward the Democratic party, for so many years one of the main accusations against the party was that it was so fragmented, but to me that’s one the Dems biggest assets. If I can’t pay attention to EVERYTHING all at once there are some folks that will, there is some one that can pick up the for a bunch of reasonsbaton and carry the investigation on, keep a watch on what I can’t. So good on all of you that watch what I can’t and bring attention to what I miss, we need each and every one of us to monitor the important points, Keep it up, and when we’re told the Democratic Party is to fractured to function, don’t remind them that that’s the point.
9/9/26
Data centers are all over the news and a hot topic in lots of circles, I understand, they’re big, really damn big, they’re expensive to the public for a host of reasons, from the subsidies that municipalities offer, to the huge amounts of both water and power absorb. They are big, noisy and the pass on costs are massive. I’m neither for nor against the idea of data centers, I understand that with the amount of computing power this society demands, we need to do something. But I have some questions. Do they have to be so damn big? could they be re-sized down ward, are there better ways to keep them cool and use less water and power? China is experimenting with putting data centers into the sea, and lord knows we’ve got lots of lakes and rivers. I don’t know but it seems that’s there’s a whole lot of study that needs to be done before they forge on.
9/10/26
. The Demented Felonious Toddler wants everyone to "pretend" he's on the midterm ballot, well if you're willing to do that then "pretend" gas only costs $2.00 a gallon, food is affordable,
there isn't a useless war in the middle east, and his tariffs have no effect on your daily life. While you're at it go for clean air, water, streets and your food won't poison you.
9/15/26
I’ve read SciFi for decades and one of the many pillars of the form is good AI gone bad, or the militarization of AI. Alternatively there are many where the AI is a savior or at least a more than willing helper. Both these scenarios are possible in this moment with our real life adventure with AI. I tend to feel that one of the things that can determine what the future holds is how we regulate the system. Asimov put forth the three laws of robotics in 1942, so we as a people have been thinking about this for some time.
The idea of “robots” has been in folk-lore from the beginning, the golem, Australian Mud men, the play RUR in eastern Europe, and the question is often the same, at what point does the manufactured person become “self aware” and more “human”, and if and when that happens how does it react to us. I dare say that this question has broad applications specifically how does the peasant the slave, the down and out, react to the society that deprived them of their humanity. Literary answers have been all over the place, but reality has generally been much more benign. The Blacks of South Africa didn’t slaughter whites, for the most part, and while the have been slave and peasant revolts throughout history, for the most part things have been fairly quiet.
The idea of governmental regulation is anathema to the current administration and the big money backers that support it. The idea of government having a strangle hold on business is pretty popular on the right so much so that how the quest for “de-regulation” has been a banner issue for the last 6 decades, the idea that un-regulated commerce is the only way that capitalism can exist is upmost in capitalistic circles. The proven fact that un regulated capitalism tends to ultimately eat it’s young and collapse never seems to enter the discussion. So it will be with the continuation of AI, there must be guidelines, laws to reign in how and where AI is used, it’s a tool, and like any tool there have to be rules for how it is to be safely used.
9/17/26
A close friend asked “how much longer do we have to put up with tRump?” I said 2 more years but upon further thought I don’t think I’ll live long enough to really see the backside of him. The damage he and his minions have inflicted on American society is going to be very long lasting and in some cases it will be permanent. Our country has changed and there’s no going back to the “way things were”, we have ahead of us a long path of rebuilding, but like any modern craftsman there are improvements that need to be made. Looking into the future is going to be essential, and planning the future is going to become a profession. I’s possible that AI can be used carefully to create our future the computing power can be useful, but the most important tool we can use is empathy. The country has tried to run the country like a business, and it’s been a colossal failure, people are not cogs in the machine, they are the reason the machine exists, if it does not serve a human purpose, it doesn’t need to exist at all. I feel the next step needs to be to up lift the human condition. It’s going to entail increased education in the workings of any society, we’ve given up the civics education of past years, and that loss has done us no service. So we need to relearn how and why society and it’s adjacent governing function and how to make these systems work better. It’s going to be a long haul, and it’s will take longer than I have, se la guerre.
9/20/26
Since there’s little else to spend our attention on, I like to offer some things to muse on this weekend. Currently I’ve been thinking about the abuse of the immigrant worker, these folks work for far less per hour than would be allowed for anyone else, they pay all the taxes and fees that a documented worker should pay, but they get absolutely none of the benefits that the rest of us get, no insurance, can’t vote, they’re just hanging in the wind. Now the administration has decided that any one that is first and foremost those of color should be ejected from the country. The fact that these same people do the jobs that no one else are willing to do, and that they are for many business’s these are the folks that are the glue that hold things together. Costs are rising everywhere and we must remember that one of the reasons is the cost of workers.
9/23/26
I vote, I vote for things and people that I think will bring the greatest benefit to society, both in my own interests and for the greater good. I know that sounds quaint in the current political climate but it’s how I was brought up. So it’s a puzzlement to me why folks would vote for something or someone that is utterly opposed to their best interests, I suppose it’s rather like buying some thing flashy or on a whim, but it still puzzles me. I’ve done it, but still…
That said voting feels to be a more important thing. So when someone asks for my vote who has already proven themselves to be untrustworthy, it’s kind of a no brainer to ignore them. The prelude is a sign of the future, and the prelude has been horrendous, prices of food and fuel, the demolition of essential services and rights has been a horror show and the continuation of things as the are right now is vomitous.
89/24/26
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Oh my poor country, we’re facing some of the highest prices in history while the “leader” snivels at a leader of a competitor nation, who is taking our markets world wide, while our farmers struggle with costs of diesel and fertilizer to the point that they operate at a loss, the Demented Felonious Toddler has trumpertantrims placing unlawful tariffs on our former allies. The GOP pleads to be allowed to continue in power using culture “war” arguments, calling the opposing party as hating our country and trying to destroy our way of life. Let me be quite clear about it, I don’t think anyone in this country is truly intent on bringing this country to ruin, what positives can the GOP term electionsoffer? A continuation of the current policies, depleting our military to a point of inability to respond to crisis’s, the policies of the administration in degrading the economy and the quality of life. No help in the areas of medical, monetary policy, or any quality of life to the citizens they want to represent only accusations of the vileness of the people that oppose them. It seems to me that if the GOP can only blow smoke up our nose’s and scream at the country, then they don’t have anything to offer.
9/28/26
The GOP won the last election…bigly, so why is their hair on fire about the honesty of the upcoming midterm elections? Could it be that they only want to believe an election is honest if they win? Or that they want us to have the believe.
9/29/26d
Capitalism that is uncontrolled is a disaster to the public, and the same goes for AI. Now for most folks AI is an unknown, or only a vague or SciFi understanding, from the Jetsons to Terminator to Star Trek and that’s not a really good footing, and really there’s no reason that they should understand it all that well, but we all need really need to be aware of the consequences of a malicious us of AI. The GOP seems willing to enable this wild rush to a very problematic future mainly for their own enrichment, leaving the rest of the world to deal with the inevitable down sides of the AI revolution. Now AI has tremendous benefits in store for mankind, but the need to mitigate the harmful effects is obvious.
10/7/26
So there’s going be a military public execution by firing squad, live streamed for anybody to watch, we’ve reached the “circuses” portion of the fascistic take over we are watching, but don’t expect the “bread” part, they’ve turned that part around and taken food out of the reach of large portions of the public, along with medical care medical and food safety, making life in general much worse off. The midterms are 24 days away and there is one political party that is willing to take on the enormous task of restoring sanity, no the Dems aren’t perfect, but they don’t seem willing to take us back to the dark ages.
10/11/26helpers
Cruelty is a choice. Some folks live a really tough life, some have a gentler existence, and we all develop our personalities in response to the life we have experienced, and at some point we have to make a decision how we want to interact with those around us. Some choose to be a good kind, helpful citizen and some choose a life of isolation and self-centeredness, and if the opportunity arises to be cruel and they don’t automatically turn away from it then each time the chance is offered it becomes easier to be cruel. I really don’t understand cruelty, it revolts me, it disgusts me and it frightens me. Yet it is a choice that this administration seems to have made a essential part of their political plan, to the point that the quote “cruelty is the point” has become common. This is no way to live.
10/16/26
The Victorians take a lot of abuse in this modern society
due to the beliefs and practices of their society. The ‘virtues’ that were up held seem exceptionally restrictive and extremely judgmental, so modern views hold that the Victorians weren’t all that nice. There are, however there are a few things that some Victorians and a handful of American Tycoons got right and should be considered laudable. The funding of Colleges and Universities, the funding of Libraries, and there were visible efforts to improve the lives of many, and that’s a thing we need to recover for our country, the funding of public institutions, the concern for the public. “greed is good” is a phrase that is part of the problem, and the mouth music of Christianity, with out the showing of any adherence to Christian philosophy. The need for actions to match the words being uttered, is now needed more than ever. This midterm election is an opportunity to deal with these problem.
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