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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.

Dim Future

25 Monday Aug 2025

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        The future is not bright because our elected officials of both parties are more concerned about how to make sure they are re-elected in the next election than the distant future.

            Everyone knows we are running full speed into a debt disaster yet they keep cutting taxes and exempting more and more income from individuals and businesses. The longer those sitting in the capitol building run up the debt, the harder it will be to fix it. Remember, the economy boomed during the President Clinton Presidency and that tax rate while paying down the debt. Congress should go back to that rate and do away with more corporate exemptions lobbyists paid for. The longer they worry about re-election, the more painful it will be to ninety-nine percent of us.

            Social Security and Medicare are not being replenished by today’s workers. Again Washington knows how to fix it and most of us know also. A quick change to push the problem farther away is to remove the salary cap so all incomes pay into it whether it’s a wage or an investment. Cap all payouts to anyone with an income of over $150,000. As more robots replace humans, the human cannot pay into Social Security so a solution would be for the company to continue the social Security payment for that replaced human.

            Only a duped fool cannot see global warming is here and getting worse every day. Today’s Congress is bent on increasing the country’s contribution of carbon dioxide and methane. It seems we read every day they have done something to peel back laws and regulations designed to try to save humanity from a very ugly future. The future is much worse than today.

            Congressional members need to be more concerned about us than keeping their chairs.

The Future Has Many Roads

23 Wednesday Jul 2025

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        At least four plots and one attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump have already occurred. How many more will take place before he leaves office is completely unknown. Many people and groups feel they cannot wait until 2027 to see if the expected majority of Republican Representatives and Senators will be kicked out of office and another impeachment occurring. Many remaining Republicans would vote for removal.

            The question is would Vice-President Vance be the same or might he see his time would be short if he went down the same road. After President John Kennedy’s death, President Lyndon Johnson kept JFK’s people, who didn’t like Johnson or him they. They were gone later and he had new ones after his election. Congress has the power to remove them thus making Vance put acceptable people in charge of agencies and departments. They can undo Trump’s destruction that he did without legal consent from Congress. Would Vance be like President Gerald Ford and just finish the term of a disgraced President? No Trump supporter would be confirmed as the new Vice-President.

            If Vance kept following Trump’s advisors and those who wrote the 2025 document he would be subject to impeachment also. If that happened before a new vice-President was appointed and confirmed, the Democratic Speaker of the House becomes the Forty-Ninth President.

            The question is how much commotion will happen if someone kills Trump. He has yet to sacrifice his militant supporters like the Neo-Nazis and the other far right militias. What supporters he still really has could be expected to protest with marches and burn up the internet sites. Would the Trump haters march too, or just be satisfied with staying home?

22 Tuesday Jul 2025

Posted by in Maurene Comey, President Trump

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        Sometimes I am impressed with how someone says or writes something that I can’t believe there could be a better way of getting the point across. The writer I so admire is a lawyer and trained to put words together to get her point and mine across to the masses. The writer is Maurene Comey, a Department of Justice Prosecutor, who was fired on President Donald Trump’s orders. Why, since she was very good at her job. Was it because she had been the prosecutor on the Jeffery Epstein case or because her father is the former FBI Director, James Comey, which Trump fired for doing his job correctly?

            Quoting some of her letter she wrote to colleagues, she elegantly said: “Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought.”     In advising other Federal Prosecutors, she wrote: “Instead of fear, let this moment fuel the fire that already burns in this place. A fire of righteous indignation at abuses of power. Of dedication to truth above all else.”

            Comey is just the latest in the series of firings of DOJ Prosecutors who ran cases Trump was worried about. Those fired are all the January 6 insurrection prosecutors, any who worked with Jack Smith on Trump’s crimes, and, of course, anyone involved in the Epstein sex crimes. The FBI investigators were transferred to far off offices in this country and some to other countries.

            Even the people Trump has appointed are fearful of his ire and kowtow to his every wish without any hesitation. Remember Comey’s words which are so well elucidated in her letter because it is so true. “Fear is the tool of a tyrant.” American across the political spectrum must stand up and put the tyrant into a cage before it is too late!

Hip Boots

14 Monday Jul 2025

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        There is an old saying my generation uses when the flip side of an issue occurs and the people who were against the first side are quiet after the flip. It is “The shoe is on the other foot now”. I remember the prime movers of Watergate were Democrats but many Republicans joined to oust President Nixon. That bi-partisanship was notable. I remember the Republican created scandals involving the Clinton’s and their finances. Another is the Billy Carter Beer endorsement. Recently it is the money the Obama’s has made selling their biographies after they left Washington. Of course, we can’t forget Hunter Biden doing the same thing the Bush boys did with their Daddy’s job. The other party usually made a scandal out of the situation real or created.

            Today’s antics, graft, and corruption in the Oval Office and in much of the administration is like hip boots to the bath slippers of past Presidents. We just heard the convicted and imprisoned leader of the gangster disciples was freed from Federal Prison after his sister donated $1,500,000 to Trump’s campaign fund. It is over $600 million now and he wants it to reach one billion. This isn’t the first time he has pardoned a felon for money. One felon pardoning another!

            The corruption in Trump’s business dealings is evident because they are usually announced by the White House Media People. The ear of the President can be bought by buying a million or two of his stable coin and attending the dinner for the big donators in the White House. The biggest buyers get face time.

            When will the cowered Republicans finally act? The scandals already require hip boots.
When will the Republicans need chest waders to wade in the Trump swamp? The order of this presidency has encircled the world. They know he can be bought and are doing it with a plane, loans, partnerships, or land. How far is President Trump willing to go?

Six Percenters

18 Wednesday Jun 2025

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        The six percenters are those people the government has given protective status and work permits to because they have fled natural disasters, criminal activity, or political conflict. They are most likely from Cuba, Haiti, El Salvador, and Venezuela. They are six percent of the legal American workforce.

            Many of those immigrants continued in the same professions they had in their native country. They have been educated and tested and given certification to continue in their teaching, engineering, medical, and other professions. Most of those professionals consider themselves and their families Americans. We need those people to stay here and continue in their professions, running their companies, and working in our businesses.

            A larger percentage of our illegals do work that most Americans of many generations consider too hard, too dangerous, too dirty, or doesn’t pay enough. They work in meat packing plants, construction, landscaping, maintenance, and cleaning jobs. As Americans age out of working and retire, many of those illegals will replace them or do the necessary work the retirees need done at home or retirement facilities.

            Traditionally, a much needed job illegals have done is to pick the fruit and vegetables our farmers grow. Without them the farmers would have to grow other crops and we would then have to import all of our food. Others work in restaurants and hotels, and we need them.

            Granted some of the legal and illegal immigrants commit crimes but studies have shown it is a smaller percentage than the average American population. They seem to get more publicity when caught to support political motives. By deporting those law abiding people we hurt ourselves. President Donald J. Trump now says MAYBE we shouldn’t deport the millions that work on farms or in restaurants and hotels. Trump’s policies are not dependable from day to day. 

The Real Trump Doctrine

12 Thursday Jun 2025

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        I watched an episode of Washington Week on PBS. The main topic of discussion was the Trump Doctrine and Trump’s transactional diplomacy. They used the right words but missed the real meaning of the words. President Donald J. Trump’s doctrine is to make as much money as he can out of his last term and it is transactional if people, companies, and countries can put money into his pocket through various ways, they will get his support.

            The list of bribes goes from his stable coin to a 400 million dollar jet. Those are multi-million ones that are obvious. Remember all the items he sold to supposedly finance his campaign but went into his pocket. He is putting his name on a new golf course here but the huge development in the U.A. E. and “financed” by that country and licensing of two new hotels in Saudi Arabia is worth millions more.

            How does that matter to the average American? If a country wants to lower tariffs, put money in his pocket. India is negotiating on a lower tariff. Oddly Trump Jr. just put together a couple of hotel deals in India where they had not been allowed to do before. Don’t forget his strong arming of Canada and Denmark. Remember tariffs are a tax we pay and not the foreign country as he says. Ukraine only got his support after giving up their minerals which I am sure he will be involved in what companies dig them up, transport them, and utilize them.

            When asked about his oath he said it is a question that his lawyers should answer. He has violated it many times and as long as the Republicans are scared of him, he will continue. An impeachment is sure to happen in 2027 when the House and Senate flip to Democrats. He can be tried for much of the corruption without impeachment as it wasn’t a Presidential duty. More to come!    


               

Oval Office is For Sale

09 Monday Jun 2025

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        When I was studying for my real estate agent license the instructor asked how to evaluate the worth of a property. He wanted the answer to be by checking its comparables but I said it’s whatever some fool would pay for it. My backup was many people want some property and will pay whatever they must to get control of it. He agreed but said the test wasn’t looking for that answer. Never has the Oval Office been For Sale before, but it is now!

            Now apply my answer to today’s presidency. Slap a big tariff on a country to force them to give the President’s companies a preferential deal on a property like Viet Nam did. Maybe to gain friendly influence for a royal family they give the President a jet plane or allow him to build several hotels and golf courses in your country like Qatar and Saudi Arabia have done. Let’s not forget India was pressured into a licensing of the Trump name on some properties. Back Israel and build hotels in Gaza.

            If you want a perfect example of bribery it would be the stable coin (same as the Bit Coin scam) that Trump did before taking office. It is in a non-revocable trust that hides the beneficiaries. It has sold over a quarter billion dollars worth do far. The biggest 250 buyers got a gala dinner in the White House with Trump where he pushed crypto currency and other topics for the wealthy. Interestingly he has commuted the sentence of some drug gang kingpin in prison. Is it a coincidence that the sister of one prisoner was at the gala, donating 1.5 million to his campaign with drug money?

            Did anyone notice all the departments and agencies were cut except the NASA Agency where Musk gets millions? Remember, Musk put a lot of money into the Trump campaign and pocket. Is it a donation to give money a Trump campaign and then it goes into his pocket? Is a donation to a Trump company or project just plain bribery? Funny all the Federal Law Enforcement Agencies go after people and companies that haven’t put money in Trump’s pocket and stop the pursuit when those same people pay him somehow? 

Deep Debt Problem

20 Tuesday May 2025

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        Do you remember President George Bush II saying something to the effect of “Who is better at managing your money, you or the government?”  He then cut income taxes causing a growing National Debt after President Bill Clinton had paid off the 30 year, 20 year and much of the ten year bonds. National Banks around the world were pleading with the Treasury to stop since they used the bonds as their financial reserve like they formerly used gold.

            Then President Trump came along and wanted to cut his taxes even more putting America even farther in the red. Now he is telling Congress and the Senate to not only renew his old cuts but cut them even more. He just said these additional cuts would be paid for by his tariffs. He says his taxes are going to be fairer to the poor (who don’t pay taxes) and the middle Class (which is getting smaller). Think about it. A Tariff is just another tax and raises the cost of living more on the poor and middle class than the wealthy because the wealthy can better afford it. That is a back door or a great sleight-of-hand tax on the average American. Remember Trump’s famous quote on the wall “Mexico will pay for it,” now it’s “China will pay for the tariffs.”

            The point is we are supposed to be the American Government and spend the money we give it to benefit us. We elect people to have the government do what we need done and they are failing to do that. They are cutting programs the people need and running us into a disastrous debt that they don‘t have the guts to fix. They could take us back to Clinton’s taxes and end the exemptions that reduce the taxes even more on the rich.

            Remember the famous mechanic saying, “Pay me now or pay me later!” Well, it is later.

Replacement Rates

02 Friday May 2025

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        The American administration and others have suddenly started talking about our low birth rate. A 2.1 is supposed to be an equalized and balanced population. I think that is an old ratio since Americans are living several years longer than when that number was made. The reasons are many around the world. Some parts of the world are two and three times the replacement number. Most African countries are well over. Israel is 2.89 and Russia is supposed to be getting smaller and the war should be making the gender ratio greater.

            One reason for the change is the ratio between men and women. Decades ago more males were produced than females but for some reason genetics has changed causing more females. The United States ratio of women to men is 100 to 97. In China with their old one child policy (it’s 100 to 112) causing their ratio to be 1.18. Mao’s policy has been replaced with Xi’s two kids but couples still favor one child.

            President Trump suggested a bonus would help so he would like to give the parents $5,000. My hospital said the pre, post and delivery costs would be about twice that amount and much higher in big cities.

            President Donald J. Trump and Elon Musk have been talking about the problems of a declining birth rate when they are pushing to bring manufacturing back. If you listen carefully to Musk (a South African) and Trump (a closet racist) they want more white babies instead of black or brown. Of course Musk says his robots will be the needed workforce.

            The problem is traditionally those jobs whites don’t want are done by those brown people they are exporting. They have made up for the falling birth rate by increasing our population.