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Times Have Changed

24 Wednesday Sep 2025

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        Times have changed since I was a little kid. If I told lies like Donald J. Trump does almost every day my Mother would have burned my butt with a belt. Today we elect people who lie, cheat, harass, demean, and threaten people and companies with dire things.

            Millions of Americans have come to believe half truths and lies as being factual. The constant barrage of these non-facts and lies has caused the majority of Americans to believe we have been screwed by all other countries, that climate change isn’t happening in spite of what we can see, and vaccinations are dangerous among other fictions.

            A few decades ago Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan made a statement which applies in today’s culture of lies. He said, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not his own facts”. Today anyone with any sense can tell the President lies to cover the lies he has already said. He has built a fantasy world which is getting farther from reality every day. Bad things happen to anyone who goes against his reality.

            Trump has not just changed today’s reality he has ordered Federal, State and Local Museums and organizations to change history to suit his views. Slavery gave poor people good jobs and other rubbish. Of course, all reference to his losing an election or any of his crimes and lies about trying to overthrow the election must be removed or be closed.

            I saw a cabinet meeting where Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, “You’ll like these numbers Mr. President! The tariffs have produced over 300 million dollars on the way to your planned 500 million.” The next week the Customs Agency said they had collected 72 million. So where is the other 218 million?

            One other thing this administration has in common with other authoritarian governments is control of the news media. Putin, Xi, Erdogan, Un, and a few others mostly or completely control all media so lies and other misinformation can be dispensed. Putin killed or locked up reporters who didn’t follow his line. Trump threatens to stop mergers or pull licenses if they continue to print or televise the truth about him or ridicule him. A bad precedent was when ABC gave ten million to an entity under his control. Since then Trump has sued for billions to try to keep newspapers, magazines, and authors from dispensing the truth.

                An old saying is “The Truth is out there.” Unfortunately the truth is way out there and I fear it may not come back in my lifetime.

Criminal Activity

29 Saturday Jun 2024

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        Former President Donald nominated three people to be Supreme Court Justices. They stood before the Senate’s Judiciary Committee and swore to tell the truth. Each one then sat down and proceeded to lie. Each said they would leave Roe Vs Wade along as established precedence. With their first opportunity to overturn the established precedence, they did. That meant they had told Trump and the people vetting them that they would overturn it or they wouldn’t have been nominated.

            Justice Clarence Thomas swore before the Senate’s Judiciary Committee he hadn’t assaulted any women. Anita Hill swore he had and was roasted as a liar. Other women have now come forward to verify Miss Hill’s claim while others say they had the same experience. Thomas has tried to hide that he is in the pocket of a conservative billionaire causing him to follow his pal’s beliefs even when his pal and benefactor have no direct involvement in a case. Oh, Justice Thomas was a Bush II Nominee and the committee was chaired by Joe Biden. Biden had cornered Thomas until Thomas dropped the race bomb on him and Biden was scared off his attack allowing Thomas to get enough votes.

            No wonder Trump thinks the Supreme Court will back him in freeing him from his indictments in New York, Georgia, and Arizona. In Georgia and Arizona he is an un-indicted co-conspirator. Those relate to his attempt to overthrow the government on January 6.

            Neither Party is free from their Senators, Representatives, Governors, being influenced by land deals, cars, gold items, trips, jobs for spouses, and just plain cash.  No wonder we have such a bad opinion for any of the elected people.

Silos

27 Wednesday Mar 2024

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        I wish more than a million people read my views because they are factual and scary. My focus is on climate change, destruction of the planet, historical Presidency, and if necessary, politics. I am not a believer in a lot of technology and the internet which put my views out to readers far from my area. My wife and I donate to several environmental groups and during the election cycle particular people who agree with our views. Our political position is in the old middle camp but as the GOP has gone towards the nutcase radicalism, the moderate line has moved left. That is why moderate Republicans can’t win primaries,

            As I said before I am against the internet because tens of millions of Americans and people in other countries believe the most outrageous writing and not the truth. Those social media posts have created opinion silos which keep people from understanding the entire picture. The anti-abortion silo realizes they have stepped into a quagmire but don’t know how to ameliorate their position to allow some abortions. They think they are forced to support a person they despise. The anti-science silo wants to take America back more than a hundred years to when diseases killed tens of thousands each year. The down-with-government group is against everything especially taxes and expenditures, unless the money goes to something in their area.

            As a student of history, especially wars and their causes, I can see how history is repeating itself with Donald Trump and Adolph Hitler. Only a few in the media have made that connection. The silos supporting Trump haven’t seen what happened to the people who put Hitler into power and destroyed Germany.

Quicker Is Better

12 Sunday Jun 2022

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Who has a right to a speedy trial as the sixth amendment requires? Apparently the politicians have a right to go as slow as possible for a trial date. Some of these trials could last several weeks or even months. Defense lawyers stretch the pre-trial motions and motions during the trial out for years.

Calendars for courts are stacked for years but I am sure quick dates could be had if authorities tried. The longer the trials are postponed the more likely witnesses are to forget or die or evidence to be lost. In high level political trials the latter may be more likely.

Mike Madigan’s trial should have been over a long time ago but the prosecutors don’t seem to be in a hurry. Of course, at his age, he might not live to be tried, much less get jail time. Trump will probably die of old age before any trial and he has said enough to be found guilty in any unbiased trial.

The old axiom is wrong. It should be “The bigger they are the longer they fall”.