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World has gone mad!

There can be no getting around what I believe is obvious, which is that our world has gone mad, nuts, bonkers, into the loony bin … and beyond.

I’m going to harken to the 2024 presidential election in which a tiny plurality of Americans decided to ignore the obvious warning signs about the Republican Party nominee for president and elected this guy to a second term in the White House.

Yep. Donald Trump told us what was in store if we elected him. He would be the “retribution” for the MAGA cult and that he would all by himself fix what he said was wrong with the greatest nation on Earth. My goodness! The message could not possibly have been clearer!

He took office on Jan. 20, 2025 and commenced to do precisely what he said he would do. And no one seemed to care! OK, many of us did care. We have been raising holy hell ever since the end of the ’24 campaign. But those in power have blown it off.

It’s getting worse by the day. I read Trump’s “Thanksgiving message” and wanted to puke onto my lap. He hurled racial slurs, insults, epithets and utter rubbish at his opponents. Damn near every word that poured forth from his overfed pie hole was a lie.

Now there appears to be significant evidence of cognitive decline. He’s falling asleep in Oval Office meetings. Try reading transcripts of statements he makes and if you can discern a cogent message out of them, be sure to broadcast it loudly and clearly because no one has been able to make a shred of sense of what this guy is saying.

I’ll say it again, with gusto … which is that we have gone ’round the bend, kids. It is imperative that we collect ourselves and get busy fixing what is fundamentally wrong with our republic.

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Trump goes beyond vile with this screed

Many of us were waiting for this sort of thing from the man posing as POTUS … but we got something even worse.

Here is how Donald Trump opened his Thanksgiving Day screed of insults, vitriol and outright racism:

“A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our Great American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our Country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at, along with certain other foolish countries throughout the World, for being ‘Politically Correct,’ and just plain STUPID, when it comes to Immigration.”

It gets even more despicable.

This individual is certifiably off his rocker. He is fu**ing nuttier than a Snickers bar.

The rest of his series of social media posts are chockful of lies, smears, slurs, demogogic statements, stuff that could have been gleaned from KKK or white supremacist manifestos … and they sound for all the world like the beliefs of a serial sociopath/madman.

And to think that a tiny plurality of Americans actually elected this certifiable moron to the nation’s highest office.

I will invite any of you who are interested in reading what this dipshit said to look it up on the Internet. It’s out there in its sickening entirety.

OK, here is a taste of what I am talking about.

A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our Great American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our Country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at, along with certain other foolish countries throughout the World, for being “Politically Correct,” and just plain STUPID, when it comes to Immigration. The official United States Foreign population stands at 53 million people (Census), most of which are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels. They and their children are supported through massive payments from Patriotic American Citizens who, because of their beautiful hearts, do not want to openly complain or cause trouble in any way, shape, or form. They put up with what has happened to our Country, but it’s eating them alive to do so! A migrant earning $30,000 with a green card will get roughly $50,000 in yearly benefits for their family. The real migrant population is much higher. This refugee burden is the leading cause of social dysfunction in America, something that did not exist after World War II (Failed schools, high crime, urban decay, overcrowded hospitals, housing shortages, and large deficits, etc.). As an example, hundreds of thousands of refugees from Somalia are completely taking over the once great State of Minnesota. Somalian gangs are roving the streets looking for “prey” as our wonderful people stay locked in their apartments and houses hoping against hope that they will be left alone. The seriously retarded Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both, while the worst “Congressman/woman” in our Country, Ilhan Omar, always wrapped in her swaddling hijab, and who probably came into the U.S.A. illegally in that you are not allowed to marry your brother, does nothing but hatefully complain about our Country, its Constitution, and how “badly” she is treated, when her place of origin is a decadent, backward, and crime ridden nation, which is essentially not even a country for lack of Government, Military, Police, schools, etc…

I trust you’ll see what I am talking about.

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Will Trump choke on this message?

Americans from coast to coast are getting ready to celebrate a uniquely American holiday when they commemorate Thanksgiving. I am — strange as it sounds — waiting to hear how the president of the United States is going to honor the day.

Donald Trump has repeatedly botched what should be a simple task: to deliver a statement honoring veterans, or the birth of the nation, or to honor the flag we fly on our front porches. He tends to politicize everything. He also has laced his comments with a level of snarkiness that simply has no place.

Will the man in the White House deliver a snotty statement sometime tomorrow or will he somehow rise to the occasion and speak to us as the leader of the nation he was elected to lead? I have no particular expectation on what we’ll get from this fellow.

To borrow the cliche, I’ll hope for the best but won’t be surprised if Trump falls on his face … again.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.