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Now comes the wait … for the midterm blowout

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Elections, they say, have consequences and on Nov. 3 Americans are going to find out whether the 2026 midterm election produces the kind of consequence that many of us desire.

Accordingly, I am going to keep my powder dry with regard to the expected outcome.

Damn near every political pundit this side of Sam Rayburn thinks Democrats are going to regain control of the U.S. House. Getting control of the Senate today looks more hopeful than ever.

Texas has an upstart who has been making a good bit of noise as he campaigns for the seat held by GOP Sen. John Cornyn … who, by the way, lost his GOP primary race to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. State Rep. James Talarico could defeat Paxton in 30-something days. If Paxton pulls this one out and becomes the senator from Texas, well … we’re in deeper trouble than any of us are thinking at this moment.

Donald Trump has made a hash out of our representative democracy. His “handiwork” has trickled down many states’ ballots. For reasons that boggle my noggin, Trump continues to draw support from the MAGA cabal who keep endorsing his cockamamie notion that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. I have heard more than one MAGA nitwit blame President Obama for the 9/11 terrorist attack. Hmm. You and I know that Obama was still eight years away from being elected president when 9/11 occurred. So … how do you reason with idiots such as that?

I am likely to lapse into relative solitude prior to the midterm election. I remain hopeful we can get the electoral result our nation deserves. This MAGA madness has flat worn me out!

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Hoping my wish list comes true

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My wish list for the end of Donald Trump’s time in office is short, not terribly pretentious and I hope it is achievable.

I am wishing for a few things to occur once the Trumps vacate he White House on Jan. 20, 2029.

My first wish is that we get a president who understands the Constitution he or she will take the oath to “defend and protect.” Trump refuses to read the damn thing. And by the way, even though my preference would be for a Democrat to succeed Trump, a doctrinaire Republican would be acceptable over a MAGA moron.

I want whoever takes over to order the immediate removal of the gold doo-dads that Trump has plastered over the Oval Office, as well as the rest of the West Wing. That can be done quietly, without much fanfare.

A return to regular legislative order would be most appropriate. The late GOP Sen. John McCain used to call regularly for regular order. He hated all the partisan sniping that froze any legislative accomplishment.

I want the restoration of collegiality. Of comity among the congressional and executive branch ranks. This might not seem like much of a request. There are many of us who are old enough to remember the legendary friendships that formed between leaders of both major parties. Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill come immediately to mind. In an odd way, so do Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich. These four political titans worked together on key legislation.

The clock continues to tick off time during Trump’s administration. The sooner it all expires the better. My patience is getting a bit of a second wind, however. I’ll wait for the end of this madness and hope for all I’m worth that a new day will restore our nation’s greatness.

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Trump has gone insane!

It’s official … my mind is blown. To smithereens. Into teeny-tiny pieces. Shards of brain matter are scattered all over creation. Donald Trump has become certifiably nuttier than a Payday bar.

The prevaricator in chief has just banned CNN, MS Now and Politico from the White House. No more access for these news outlets. I swear to Almighty God in Heaven, I cannot fathom what I am reading about this idiot.

He calls them merchants of “fake news,” and says that effective immediately, they will have no more access to White House sources. At this moment, not a sound from the right-wingers out there who have been giving Trump a pass on every single idiotic step he has taken since his first day in office in January 2017.

Just imagine Presidents Obama or Biden banning Fox News from the White House. It didn’t happen in the 12 years these men served as president. What do you suppose would be the right wing’s reaction to such a travesty? The MAGA morons would go ape-dookey in an instant. And they would be justified!

Therefore, I am going out-of-my-noggin nuts over this news from the White House that Donald has taken this course of action.

Just remember, this is the dipshit who has the nuclear codes at his disposal.

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Shut up, Donald, about that bribe

Donald Trump’s offer of a $5,000 “dividend” to every living U.S. citizen he would pay if the midterm election turns out the way he wants it is nothing more than a bribe … so that’s what I will call it from this moment forward.

Accordingly, I just wish Donald would cease offering the bribe by yammering through his overfed pie hole.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said the bribe requires a congressional vote to become legal. It won’t ever get that far.

A bribe is what we all know it to be. It is a payment to someone who does someone else a favor. Trump’s poll numbers are taking faster than an ocean liner that hits an iceberg. Donald knows it, even if he doesn’t acknowledge it. The bribe is meant to give those who reside in MAGA Land a glimmer of hope that Donald can actually deliver the goods. He cannot.

There once was a day when real Republican conservatives railed at the thought of a budget deficit. Remember when Ronald Reagan chided President Carter during the 1980 presidential campaign for running the government on a deficit that totaled $43 billion? It scored enough political points to carry him to a landslide victory. Trump’s deficits have been running consistently in the trillions of dollars. Sending bribe money out to every American is going to blow an even bigger hole in the deficit and add another $1.4 trillion to the national debt.

Donald Trump is a feckless fool for even suggesting such a thing. He ought to shut his trap.

And concentrate on ending that idiotic war in Iran.

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Just who suffers from TDS?

Many of you already are aware that I’ve been accused of “suffering” from Trump Derangement Syndrome. I actually don’t consider it a malady I should shake. I am proud of the variation of the syndrome I lug around in my head and heart.

What I should say right off the top is that my accusers suffer from it, too. Only their syndrome is an affliction that is causing them distress that might be going unrecognized.

A pro-Donald Trump reader of this blog, and I believe I have more of them out there than I probably know about, is as stricken with the ailment as I am. Only he or she will never acknowledge it publicly. Therein might lie a fundamental difference between them and me. I wear my TDS proudly and I call it what it is. They don’t. They hide behind some fiction that life has been better for them and for the country since Donald took office a second time in January 2025.

How in the world can it be that they believe such fecal matter? We’ve gone to war with Iran after Trump said categorically he would never sanction such an activity. The individual has imposed tariffs against the entire planet, driving up the costs of essential goods and services. He said he would end the Russia-Ukraine War on “day one” of his new administration; it rages on.

He continues to lie about the scope of his victory in 2024 over Kamala Harris, calling it a landslide when in reality he just barely squeaked by her.

If you’re going to accept his lies and disregard the fact that he has added trillions of dollars to our national debt, well … I believe you have the Trump Derangement Syndrome you accuse me of having.

Just own it, OK?

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Never have seen hatred like this …

My interest in politics and public policy goes back a ways … to, oh, around 1968. I had just graduated high school the previous year and was floundering in college.

Military duty awaited me, along with the Vietnam War that was fueling much of the debate in this country. The war and the debate raged on after I donned the Army uniform in the summer of ’68; in fact, I was inducted on Aug. 21 of that year, which means I will commemorate my induction date in just a few days.

I had a preferred presidential candidate that year. It was Sen. Robert F. Kennedy of New York. He was possibly on track to be nominated that summer as the Democratic candidate for president. Then in June 1968 it ended in a hail of gunfire in the Los Angeles hotel kitchen the night of the California Democratic primary that RFK won.

I went on to serve my country. I returned home in 1970. I got involved in the 1972 presidential election.

Where am I going with this? At no time, not a single time, did I witness the kind of bad blood flow among activists and politicians that we’re witnessing now in the Age of Donald Trump. We are witnessing the tearing apart of one of the essential threads of our political fabric. It’s the fabric that tells us that civility and decorum have their place … even as we debate with every ounce of mental and emotional strength in favor of policies and politicians we admire.

These days we hear about politicians fearing for their lives, that their political foes could react violently. And I won’t be coy about this aspect of the today’s climate: Pols and activists on the right — especially the MAGA right — are the most guilty of fomenting this fear. To be fair, the violence has its roots across the spectrum. I will cite the gruesome murder of right-wing provocateur Charlie Kirk as a key example of how dangerous this rhetoric has become for everyone in the public eye.

Can we return to the good old days of fierce debate among friends in high places? I damn sure hope so.

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Trump earns title of ‘loser’

One of Donald J. Trump’s favorite epithets appears to be “loser,” which he bestows on anyone he deems to be, um, well … not worthy of any description other than that one.

I want to hang the label round the flabby neck of the current POTUS, for he has assumed the title of loser in chief.

He keeps harping on an election he lost to Joe Biden. He has filed 60-some lawsuits and lost every one of them in various courts of law. Trump continues to tease us with the half-baked notion of running for a “fourth term” in the White House. Why four? He won the first race in 2016, claims to have won the second one in 2020, captured the presidency in 2024 and suggests the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution doesn’t apply to him … so he might run again. The amendment says he’s only able to win twice. He did so. At the end of the current term, he’s out. For keeps. Forever!

He backs candidates who win their Republican primaries. So, he can claim victories there. The test of success has come in general elections when his MAGA morons face real opposition. Then they lose. I am suggesting strongly they’ll keep losing throughout the 2026 midterm election season.

What does make the 47th POTUS? It makes him a loser. Pure and simple.

His legislative agenda — such as it is — is dead. He’s heading for certain impeachment once Democrats reclaim control of the House of Reps. Then it will fall on the Senate to determine if he stays in office. If the GOP keeps control of the Senate, he might hold on until the end of his term. If not, well, then the fun really begins.

The loser in chief’s legacy will be cast in stone.

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Trump surrounds himself with dimwits

It is as clear as the length of the day that Donald Trump’s premier broken campaign promise is the one that he pledged to surround himself with only the “best people,” the brightest minds and bona fide experts in every field known to humankind.

It also is clear as the deep blue sky that Trump has delivered us an executive team full of dimwits, nimrods, dipshits and kooks. I won’t name them all, as they likely would take too much time to finish these thoughts.

However, I want to explore briefly why Trump has scraped so low to fill his government executive team. It’s because the boss himself — that would be the POTUS — fits into all the pejorative descriptions I laid out in the previous paragraph. The last thing Donald Trump wants to do is have his team show him up by actually have an understanding of government, the Constitution and the limits the framers placed on the president.

In a strange, perverse sort of way I kind of get it if that is Trump’s desire. He doesn’t want to be shown up by underlings. We saw glimpses of that during his first term. He had a retired Marine Corps general, Jim Mattis, as secretary of defense. Mattis got the boot because he knew better than to just be a yes man to the president. The same can be said of John Kelly, another USMC general who took a spin at White House chief of staff. Mark Esper, another Defense boss, also got the boot in the. rear. I would even count Rex Tillerson, the first secretary of state to serve the Trump team.

The second term administration is filled with lackeys, yes men and women and assorted individuals who have no business serving in the highest levels of government.

We are getting the kind of government we should expect from a POTUS who brings to the highest office in the land zero background in public service.

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Trump’s fixation with ‘things’ proves key point

Donald J. Trump’s fixation with adorning the West Wing with gold trimming, his destruction of the East Wing to build a fancy ballroom, his plans to build an Arc de Trump, his decision to plaster his name on the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts proves what many of us have said all along about this fraudulent “champion of the people.”

He doesn’t give a rat’s ass about everyday Americans, nor does he care a one tiny bit about the value of public service.

I used this blog to warn folks about supporting a man who has never spent a waking moment of his adult life thinking about improving the nation. His entire focus, every damn moment, has been aimed at enriching himself. He doesn’t care about the MAGA morons who proclaim his virtue … such as it exists.

He talks about our “great military,” yet he refers to warriors as “suckers” and “losers.” He desecrates the memory of the late U.S. Sen. John McCain, a Vietnam War hero who was tortured during his years as a prisoner of war.

The physical evidence of Trump’s real passion can be seen all over the nation’s capital. You hear it in his remarks. He cannot stop talking about that damn ballroom and he presumes to believe that Americans are in favor of spending more than $1 billion to build a place for the POTUS to entertain heads of state.

Well … we don’t want to spend more money on a fancy dining hall, Donald.

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More of the same trash from Trump

I won’t pattycake this issue with you … but so help me when I heard that Donald Trump had a big announcement to make during his prime-time TV talk I was hoping for something really spectacular.

That would be an announcement that he was quitting the presidency, that he’d had enough of the negativity surrounding him and his administration. Truth be told, I was hoping for a sort of an “LBJ moment,” that might remind us of the time in March 1968 when President Johnson announced on TV that he was suspending the bombing of North Vietnam and then dropped the biggest bombshell of all by declaring he “would not accept” the Democratic nomination “for another term as your president.”

I musta been living in a dream world. I get it. What we got from Trump instead was a warmed-over speech about unconfirmed and unprovable claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. What a crock of sh**!

Trump has no more ideas left in that vacuous, pointed skull of his. He is relying now on the raw emotion of the MAGA morons who have bought into his election theft rubbish.

He said he would release documents that never have been seen. That was his “major announcement.” Big fu***** deal, Donald!

If anyone on Earth is guilty of attempting an election theft, it’s Donald John Trump. And, brother, we had better wake up to the fact that the incumbent president is the thief in chief.