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Sports news

Will the POTUS stay away?

They’re going to play a big football game next weekend that well could focus as much on one of the spectators as on the student-athletes on the field.

Army will play Navy in the annual right of autumn. Custom tells us the president of the United States attends the game. He’s the commander in chief. That custom also says the POTUS will watch the from one side of the field, then switch to the other side for the second half.

The sold-out crowd usually cheers the president on his arrival. But wait! The POTUS this season happens to be Donald J. Trump. He’s becoming a highly unpopular politician … y’know?

So, my question is whether Trump is going to force himself to listen to the hoots, jeers and boos from the sold-out crowd. Hey, this guy always seeks affirmation. He’s been known to reap it even when it isn’t apparent.

My hunch is that Trump ought to stay away. The Black Knights and the Midshipmen don’t need the distraction the commander in chief would create. Let the officers-to-be play their top-quality brand of tackle football.

Just stay away, Mr. POTUS.

national news, political news

Real reason for MTG’s departure?

As a rule, I dislike being called a cynic, but I have to take issue with Marjorie Taylor Greene’s stated reason for quitting Congress after five turbulent years representing a rural NW Georgia district.

She entered the House after the 2020 election with both guns blazing. She was a proud MAGA Republican dedicated to furthering the agenda favored by her fella … Donald Trump. She has fallen out of favor with the Big Man, who recently called her a “traitor” because she had the gumption to stand up for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s shenanigans. MTG sought to make peace in recent weeks by declaring she no longer would engage in the vitriol that became part of her brand. Well, I believe the congresswoman was about to find out that payback is a serious bitch! I believe the Republican Party is going to have its genitals handed to it after the 2026 midterm election and Greene, who always has struck me as a politician more dialed into the limelight than actual governing, was about to be shoved to the back shelf. Democrats who often were the victims of her barbs would not take kindly to her remaining among their midst were they to retake the majority in January 2027. Therein, I believe, lies the real reason for MTG’s stunning departure from Congress. She alluded briefly to the GOP’s immediate future in her statement, declaring that she does not want to subject her family to the Trumpian onslaught in a bitter GOP primary only to see the Republicans “lose the election.” I will say further that I am glad to know that MTG has thought better of her flame-throwing rhetoric and has vowed to take a more civil tone in discussing policy differences with Democrats. I salute her for standing by her principles … yes, even those with which I disagree. Marjorie Taylor Greene also knows that memories can last seemingly forever in Washington. Reality is a force with which not everyone can reckon.
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Closer to the tipping point?

Every day, it seems, we appear to be creeping closer to the tipping point in which Donald J. Trump says something that will spell the end of his failed presidency.

He crossed another huge line this week by saying out loud and in public that six Democratic members of Congress are guilty of sedition, a crime that carries a punishment of death. That’s right. The POTUS has declared that six opposing members of Congress should be executed for speaking out against the orders that Trump is issuing.

What in the world is happening to this nation? Why are we allowing this moron to get away with these sorts of idiotic pronouncements? Here’s the worst of it: Not even a president of the United States who calls for the execution of political opposition could be convicted by a Senate controlled by members of his own political party … because they are in tacit agreement with this dipshit!

Public opinon polling suggests that Trump’s support among Americans is collapsing as he continues to scarf up more power for the executive branch. The polls aren’t “fake,” as Trump contends. They are real and they suggest that Trump’s MAGA base is shrinking before our eyes. When the likes of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, D-Ga., turn on Trump then you know you are witnessing a sea change.

Suppose there was a chance to invoke the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, which contains a clause about removing the president who is deemed incompetent. Does anyone believe that a majority of this executive branch comprising diehard Trump loyalists is going to sign a document declaring the boss to be unfit for the office? It won’t happen.

That’s why I believe we’re only getting a lot closer to some tipping point that will spell the end of this moron’s time in office.

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MAGA festers in ignorance

The ignorance of the morons who comprise many of Donald Trump’s MAGA base continues to astonish me in ways I never thought possible.

New York City voters elected a Muslim, a democratic socialist as its next mayor. What was the reaction among some of the MAGA cultists who heard this news?

One of them, a member of Congress, said out loud that he wants Zohair Mamdani deported. Yep. He wants to banish him to the country of his birth. I believe it’s Sudan.

One little problem with that idiotic notion. Mamdani has been a naturalized U.S. citizen since he was boy. You can’t deport a U.S. citizen. Good grief, the man wants to live in the United States. He wants to pay his taxes here. He wants to educate his children here. He wants to govern the nation’s largest, most sophisticated, most cosmopolitan city.

This MAGA idiocy reminds of when Nikki Haley, the Republican governor South Carolina, agreed to take down the Confederate flags in her state, drawing calls for her deportation. Wait! She was born in South Carolina to parents of Indian descent. I guess her parentage made the all-American governor a deportation target.

You cannot negotiate with a political movement that comprises so many of these morons!

national news

Is it the truth …?

I have been a member of Rotary International for the past 30 years and I have sought to live according to the concepts espoused by what is arguably the world’s pre-eminent non-governmental organization.

Rotary has authored what it calls its “Four-Way Test of the things we think, say and do.” The first of those concepts asks, “Is it the truth?”

A Rotarian from Shelby, N.C., pitched a fascinating notion in a letter to the editor of Rotary magazine.

I am certain he is aiming his barbs at D.C. leadership, namely the president of the United States. “These are times that try the consciences of Rotarians in the United States,” writes Steve Nye. “In our world today, there is a concerted effort to prevent anyone from getting the truth. For years we have heard claims that are based on false assumptions and nonexistent evidence,” he writes.

Yeah. Ya think?

He implores Rotarians to reach out to those in power to get them to live by the rules espoused in the Four Way Test. Indeed, the demand for truth-telling carries an implied directive, which is that the truth must be demonstrable. There must be evidence to back up whatever assertion these people make.

“If we are to be true Rotarians,” Nye writes, “then it is imperative that we ask for the unvarnished truth, even if ithe facts prove to be contrarary to our own personal beliefs.” He continues: “There is a reason that ‘Is it the truth?’ is the first rule of the Four-Way Test. Without the truth, we are left with a situtation where chaos reigns over all we hold dear.”

This man’s cogent message must fall directly on the audience that hears the rubbish that comes from the White House these days. The man who utters is beyond redemption. He’ll never change. It becomes our responsibility to call him out whenever he bellows such blatant lies.

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One year down (almost), three more to go

Listen up, boys and girls, I have some good news to remind you about some news that might cause you some queasiness … as it does for me and I’ve just now thought about it.

The good news is that we’re closing in on the first year of Donald Trump’s second term as POTUS. He took the oath of office on Jan. 20, 2025, which means on that date next year — which is just around the corner! — he will have completed the first year of his Retribution Tour.

Now for the rest of it. Dude’s got three more years to wreak havoc on our democratic republic.

I shall qualify the bad news with a few glimmers of hope that we might be able to stem the damage this blowhard can inflict.

The midterm election is coming up next fall. A year from next week! It’ll be here in a flash. We have to prepare for a back-alley brawl with the MAGA cultists. It is winnable. The House of Reps is close to flipping to Democratic control. If the nation can elect a handful of Democrats, we can welcome Hakeen Jeffries as our next speaker. The Senate is a tougher climb, but there appears to be a GOP senator or two who might be vulnerable to defeat. I am not going to toss John Cornyn under that electoral bus … at least not yet.

Trump keeps yammering that he’s in the strongest public approval rating in history. Yeah, he actually has said it. He’s lying. His approval rating at this moment stands at around 41%. President George W. Bush’s rating peaked at around 90% right after 9/11. President Bush the Elder’s rating topped out at 91% when he declared that Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 “will not stand.” President Reagan won a 49-state re-election landslide victory in 1984, garnering 59% of the popular vote. President Nixon also won a 49-state re-election bid in 1972, and with a 62% popular vote.

Finally, Donald Trump said this week that he cannot seek a third term as president. The Constitution’s 22nd Amendment won’t allow it, he acknowledged. So, there … even the insurrectionist in chief has realized that amending the Constitution to allow him to run for a third term is out of the question.

What does all this mean for democracy’s future? It means that Trump is the lamest of ducks and that if he continues to blunder and bumble his way through the rest of his term that there well might be a candidate who can restore regular order to the way we govern this great country.

business news

Deal maker in chief is MIA

Someone will have to explain to me why the deal maker in chief, the guy who keeps bragging about his ability to cut deals with anyone is missing in action on any effort to broker an end to the government shutdown.

You’ve heard Donald Trump bellow and boast about his deal making skill. He yammers about how he can bring two sides together to strike deals that benefit everyone affected. How’s he doing on the shutdown?

He has shown virtually no interest in cutting a deal that would return hundreds of thousands of federal employees to their jobs. No interest in paying those who’ve still been working. Not a semblance of interest in seeking a long-term solution to this ongoing string of continuing resolutions that are good for only a few months before we return once again to the grandstanding we’re seeing in our nation’s capital.

Allow me this point of personal privilege. I am planning to board a jetliner for a flight back east in about 12 days. Air traffic controllers are on the job … but aren’t getting paid for keeping planes from crashing into each other. I believe I will hold my breath for the entire length of the length of the flight; that goes in both directions, too!

Trump has sent a healthy portion of his career in politics bragging about how crafty he is at the negotiating table. I’m ready to see if this know-nothing can deliver the goods. If he doesn’t, an entire country is going to continue to suffer.

national news

What if it were your house … ?

Let’s play a little game of “what if” … if you don’t mind. I’ll be brief, but the point I want to make is pretty damn big.

What if you rented your home to a tenant who promised to take good care of your property? He wouldn’t touch it. He would make no alerations to it and would return it to you in precisely the condition he found it when he took the keys to the place.

Then, suddenly — and with virtually zero advance warning — bulldozers and backhoes show up and start knocking down an adjoining structure. What if your tenant told you he wanted to build a room to make fishing flies. But … wait! That’s not the deal we entered into when I rented the place to you, is your response. That’s tough, he said … live with it.

So here we are. The man who is living as renter in the people’s house, the White House, has decided to knock down the historic East Wing. He wants to build an opulent ballroom. He wants to use that ballroom to entertain heads of state. He deems the State Dining Room, where presidents have welcomed visiting kings, queens, potentates and assorted leaders of various nations for many decades.

Donald Trump is making a mockery of the house that you and I own. Where I come from, I call it “de-facing public property.” Yes, I get that he’s a U.S. citizen, too, so he can claim ownership of the White House where he will live for the next three years. To my way of thinking, that does not give him license to destroy a couple of centuries of history by building a ballroom that likely will look like a sort of Mar-a-Lago on the Potomac.

I’m sure you’ll recall the jokes that went viral when Trump considering a run for the presidency. Some jokesters wondered aloud whether he would erect a huge “TRUMP” sign and hang it on the front of the White House. It got a huge laugh.

Today … it’s not so funny.

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Future is in our hands

The future of our democratic republic well may lie in the hands of those of us who care enough to vote to preserve it. That’s my call, ladies and gents.

I now shall explain.

We have an election coming up in a little more than a year. We are going to elect a new House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate. A lot of incumbents who have swallowed the Donald Trump swill are on the November 2026 ballot in all 50 of our United States.

Now comes the question. Are we going to continue to stand silently by while both congressional chambers cede their constitutional power to an overreaching, overzealous, overheated POTUS who sounds and acts like a man intent on tossing aside the limited powers granted in the Constitution?

The correllary question is whether we’re going to use the power granted to us by the founders and vote out the gullible goons who comprise so much of today’s Republican Party. I hate saying this, but that has to include a man I had hoped would know better, my congressman, Keith Self.

Self is a retired U.S. Army combat infanty officer. A West Point grad. He’s a man who understands the value implied in the oath he took to defend the Constitution. Donald Trump does not honor the oath he took to honor the governing document, and yet Self — who I consider to be a good man — continues to stand with the numbskull masquerading as president.

The county is chock full of others just like Self. We need to rid ourselves of the men and women who follow the dictates of a charlatan blindly and with no regard to the sacred oath they took. After all, they end their recitation of the oath by declaring “so help me, God.”

legal news

Vengeance effort picks up steam

Donald Trump’s campaign of retribution appears to be gathering a head of steam and for those of us worried about the future of this great country, serious worry is settling in … rapidly.

Today brought news that former Trump national security advisor John Bolton has been indicted on 18 counts by a federal grand jury on charges stemming from allegations that Bolton mishandled classified material. More bullshit from the Justice Department.

Former FBI director Jim Comey is indicted in the slimmest indictment in human history. New York Attorney General Letitia James is indicted for alleged real estate fraud crimes. What do Bolton, Comey and James have in common? They all are Trump critics!

Good grief, man! Who’s next? Sen. Adam Schiff of California is reportedly a target. Same, perhaps, for Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona?

Trump is out of his mind. He’s fu**ing insane!

He’s now presiding over a government that has shut down because Republicans don’t want to fund Affordable Care Act subsidies. The shutting down of the government is depriving Americans of services they paid for. It is endangering travelers at airports because traffic controllers aren’t getting paid. Trump is sending troops into the streets of great American cities to crack down on crimes that don’t exist.

Donald Trump 2.0 is far worse than Trump 1.0. He told us he would do precisely what he is now doing. And yet he got elected president in 2024.

Come to think of it, maybe it’s the small plurality of Americans who voted for this numbskull who need their heads examined.