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Legacy or Malevolence?

Posted on November 7, 2024 | Leave a comment

‘Tis a sad week for backers of the U.S. Constition and rule of law. Depending on the House results Trump may be blessed with a trifecta plus SCOTUS, all of whom clearly care more for Dear Leader than their oaths or constituency. SCOTUS no longer opines for the ages, but for one man. All I can say is, it’s our own da** fault, voters. Apparently, this is what the American people want. At least until the spotlight turns its evil eye upon them, which it certainly will. Beware what you signed up for, Elon Musk.

As Kamala Harris said, there remain stars in our upcoming dark world. Let me share a few of them.

First of all, Donald Trump is swayed by attention (good or bad, apparently) and popularity (crowd size, anyone?) He’s already about to get the biggest gift of his presidency, a get-out-of-jail-free card. Phew. He could possibly be convinced that burning down the house may not be best for his precious legacy. Of course he’ll still deport a slew of immigrants (but not nearly as many as he promised, remember the wall?) and treat all women like second-class citizens. But he may be dissuaded from following his evangelical base to the nth degree on reproductive rights. Why? Because he can’t run again, and if he wants to build a legacy he can’t have half the nation marching against him every week of his presidency.

Then I could be wrong. I certainly was wrong to even dare to bask in the brief glimmer of hope brought to us by Joe Biden for over three years and Kamala Harris for 107 days.

Even if the House and Senate go Republican, these folks still have to run for re-election and can’t afford to indulge the most evil of Trump’s whims. As soon as he publicly tries to disenfranchise half the population because we have wombs, or tanks the economy through his precious and scattershot tariffs, he could be held in check by realists on both sides of the aisle. Why do you think Congress never bit the third rail for fifty years and enshrined abortion rights into law? We wouldn’t be in this mess today if, in the 1970’s, Congress did one brave act that was made “OK” by prior SCOTUS intervention. Then again, Congress never adopts a budget either, waiting for the last minute to stave off catastrophe again again as in the Perils of Pauline.

Those of us with grand thoughts about protecting our nation through its Constitution and rule of law, we have a lot to do over the next two years to turn Congress and State houses. Let’s not let malaise set in, and instead roll up our sleeves, corral our neighbors and friends and get to work.

All I can say for now is let’s hope Trump lives another four years, more if it’s possible for him to actually pay for some of the myriad crimes he’s committed. Why? Trump’s merely a useful idiot, a dim bulb with motivation only to enrich himself. J.D. Vance, on the other hand, is smart and has drunk a ton of Theocracy Tea. Add to that, he truly despises women (wonder what Usha thinks of that, or is she really a Stepford Wife?) and then we’d be even worse off.

Keep your spirits up, once more into the breach, ladies! Cheers, Dee

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Dear Billionaires

Posted on October 31, 2024 | Leave a comment

To the newspaper owners who chickened out of endorsements in the 2024 Presidential election:

No, I’m not one of you. I am a customer who reads your content or buys whatever you sell. I’ve been an Amazon Prime member for ages. I’m also a taxpayer who pays for the government contracts you’re afraid of losing if Donald Trump wins the presidency.

If yours was a reasoned decision arrived at a year ago, that’s one thing. But waiting until a week before the election and weaseling out is so incredibly cowardly and it defies any other description.

I think of Shay Moss and Ruby Freeman who have feared for their lives for the past four years since Donald Trump singled them out for simply doing their election jobs in Georgia. They had guts and a heck of a lot to lose.

With such a cruel and ephemeral temper as has one Donald Trump, even sucking up to him now doesn’t guarantee for one minute that you won’t be next on his hit list. At least you have excess material wealth to fall back on. Most of the rest of us don’t.

Just because Kamala Harris will uphold the Constitution and rule of law, doesn’t mean that this doesn’t sting. No, she won’t shut down the free press or single you out for retribution, but that’s no reason to be an ultimate weenie. I might go to prison for all the reasoned, anti-Trump posts I’ve penned but I still write of the wrongs Mr. Trump has done and the more he can inflict from the Oval Office toward women, immigrants and other enemies from within.

I stand behind the red, white and blue. Your flag seems only to be green. Given a choice between 250 years of democracy or a new autocracy led by a cruel, inhumane idiot surrounded by sycophants I’ll choose democracy every day and twice on Sunday.

The economy will burst under the grand tariff plan and Trump’s daily mood swings will lead to the polar opposite of economic stability. Thanks for that. Staying on the fence gets awfully uncomfortable. Enjoy it. I voted for democracy and hope others will as well. Dee

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A Few Things…

Posted on October 21, 2024 | Leave a comment

that have been on my mind of late. I’ve been quite busy, moving from a tower in a bustling northern city (swing state) placing our lives in storage, and driving south to a small (slightly under 1,000 acres) cattle ranch in Trump Country.

It’s temporary, and quite an ordeal to find out that my drivers license expires on my birthday next month and the state of Texas requires everyone to prove they’re a US citizen for everything, presumably so that all those millions of “illegal” rapists and murderers can’t vote for Kamala Harris. They did it backwards, though. In order to get a drivers license for a new resident one needs to register their car in the state and in order to get proof of address in a hurry, one must have something like… a voter registration card (!!!) to prove it. So yes, I’m registered to vote here and early voting started today. No, I didn’t have to get a certified copy of my birth certificate because a US Passport is sufficient but most of the folks here don’t have passports and are mighty upset that they have to go back to vital records in the town where they were born for a certified copy. Especially older folks, and especially since many of these elderly courthouses have burned over the years and lost many records.

I read that the The Heritage Foundation (one and the same as Project 2025) did a study over several years of over a billion voters and found that fewer than ONE HUNDRED had voted as an unregistered immigrant, and most of those were accidental. So red states are going nuts about immigration and murderers and insane people descending on communities, taking their jobs and eating their pets…for nothing.

A Criminal Oligarchy

If Trump wins, we’ll definitely have the first but in my mind, not the last part of that description. Why? An emboldened Trump will try to break all the rules, including the Constitution. And he will grift every day in office like he’s doing now and did throughout his first term. Jared and Ivanka will be in charge of foreign grift (laundering money for favors, see how much he’s returned to his $2 billion investors, ZERO), and Eric and Junior domestic through crypto and other schemes. Elon will be cast aside after his $75 million is spent, because Trump is notoriously transactional and has no friends to prove it. And Elon gets as much press as Donald. Donald won’t share power, or limelight, with anyone. But the White House will definitely be for sale, look for high prices on Lincoln Bedroom stays and signed photos of Breakfast with Barron.

The Politics of Less

All my life I’ve strived to be more, more than others expect and more than I expect for myself. I joined public service to actually serve the public, and non-profits because I believed in their missions and wanted to help them grow to better serve their niche whether it be education for the poor, theatre, and other worthy causes even spaying/neutering of feral cats.

Donald Trump works on the philosophy of less. Fewer voters, only appeal to the base, deny emergency funding to states that didn’t vote for him. Deny the oath of office and stay past his welcome using every ruse possible, including the violence of January 6.

A few weeks ago I read that one voter is casting his vote for Trump because “he hates all the right people.” Funny (not), politicians are supposed to add to their voter base, identify and pose solutions to the problems of everyday Americans. Running on proud hatred of women, Jews, Muslims, immigrants (legal as well), African-Americans, Latinos and anyone who’s not at least a millionaire. Not to mention that Democrats and anyone Republican or Independent who doesn’t vote for Trump are now the “enemy within” and may be thrown in the gulag with no legal rights or hope of reprieve.

Perhaps I’m just naive. But I never wanted to join a club whose motto is “hating all the right people.” I don’t like book banners or people who patronize women posing as “protectors” while they take away our Constitutional rights.

Another Person’s Shoes

Have I led a charmed life? Maybe. I grew up in an upwardly mobile, middle class family and always knew I’d go to college. I had good jobs, not the best paying but post-college they were challenging and interesting. Now we’re living temporarily in a town of about 5,000 people, many quite poor. It’s a shock to go to the grocery store, which is nothing like my local Whole Foods Market.

It’s an historic town, that manufacturing left perhaps fifty years ago, so it’s an older community. Very conservative and religious. My husband was born and raised in Texas and retains a hint of the regional accent but I’m definitely a Yank and a Democrat to boot. It’s temporary, so I’ll vote but not make a stink about it.

I’ve always thought it would be advantageous for every American to go to a foreign country and meet the people and see that even if we dress a bit differently, worship a different faith and speak a language we may not understand in the end everything is familiar. We all have family, friends, like to eat good food so there’s always something to talk about. Same with Americans meeting Americans from different regions and socio-economic realms. Republicans still try to make rural folk hate city folk. There’s no difference except there’s a heck of a lot more space out here and in this particular place there may actually be more cows than people. It’s a taste of another world, one which I truly appreciate while I might not choose it for myself on a full-time basis.

Do unto others. It’s always been my philosophy. Political leaders, especially presidents, must serve all the people, lifting them up instead of beating them down. We have a choice before us that will determine the future of our nation, our 250-year experiment in democracy. Vote wisely. Our lives literally depend upon it. Cheers! Dee

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A Great Leader

Posted on July 21, 2024 | Leave a comment

I made the mistake, once, of counting out Joe Biden. It was 1988 and he had a brain aneurysm that nearly killed him. I recall thinking, this guy could be a great President.

Finally, he got the chance to do so. Today, he gave up that chance for the good of the nation, its people, and his party. And he was a great President, up there with the best, especially as he was given an impossible task of getting us out of a worldwide pandemic, stopping the economy from spiraling into a depression (instead making it the envy of the world) and being sworn in just two weeks after his predecessor instigated an insurrection to remain in office despite a free and fair election.

I know that I couldn’t have done all those things in one term, not to even think of re-upping for another four years! But to Joe Biden’s credit, he did. For us. All of us.

There is no way that Donald Trump can ever hold a candle to the man Joe Biden is and has been for his Senate constituents then the nation for the past fifty years. I thank Jill and his family for allowing us to borrow him for most of his life and wish them a long and happy post-presidency.

It took several hours after the announcement for me to shed tears for what we’ve had and what we’re about to lose. Let’s hope Joe Biden’s selfless move will jump-start the Democrats into fighting for our lives to save our democracy, because it is the fight of our lives. It matters, it’s our future.

Joe Biden is a leader, a statesman, a true patriot with integrity, and an all-around stand-up guy who has been in it for us all along. He deserves our best as we voters strive to keep our democracy from the grimy hands of Donald Trump, the Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society and people who have in common a deep hatred of the USA and its people.

Donald Trump hates America and Americans. All he wants is power, money and revenge and there’s nothing in any of that for we, the people. Losing our Constitution for a felonious carnival barker, scammer, rapist, hater and even golf cheat is a choice I could never comprehend. Trump can just as easily turn on his wealthy benefactors as his avowed enemies as the list grows and grows.

Remember, a minimum 20 million immigrants will be deported, but who will populate the new military-run camps once they’re gone? Us. Think Nazis. He may not be after you today, but can change his mind in a heartbeat and our military will show up at your door and take you to the camps. Teachers, librarians, judges, doctors and nurses, attorneys general, prosecutors, members of the media. Women who cross state lines to get an abortion. Married couples who use IVF to have a baby or contraception to prevent it. That’s who the camps are for. We, the people.

Joe Biden was the right President for the right time. We needed steady, even boring at the helm. He didn’t need air time every day, or to take credit for everything. He works things out with all the parties quietly and only announces the result and takes credit with all participants and “the team.”

Joe Biden employs the best at what they do and expects results, not bootlicking and unnecessary toadying. He listens to expert government medical researchers for cancer cures and meteorologists for climate change. He cares about the poor and middle class, and doesn’t just reward rich individuals and corporations. He cares about regular folks having health insurance despite pre-existing conditions. He cares about voting rights and how they’re being destroyed by election deniers and the Supreme Court.

As Joe Biden says, and I paraphrase, we’re Americans, and there’s nothing we can’t do if we work together. Historians will judge him kindly. The Republican nominee and all those seduced by Trumpism, less so. I know that because I’ve been around a while and know a bit about the American people. Time to get on the Freedom Train, America. Let’s double down on democracy to save ourselves before we lose our freedoms. Dee

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Listen To Grandpa Joe

Posted on July 21, 2024 | Leave a comment

Dear Democrats,

Our President has just made the greatest sacrifice he could for the sake of our country. Listen to Joe Biden.

For the past few weeks, Democratic leadership and politicians have treated our President with a profound lack of respect, with many being solely concerned with themselves and their individual races, and oblivious to the 14 million Democrats who voted to renominate Joe Biden for the presidency. Shame on you.

Joe Biden is a statesman, a patriot, and has been exactly what the doctor ordered to cure us of Trump in 2020. He is still all of these things and will be so as our President until January 20, 2025.

Democrats have one chance to get this right and beat Donald Trump in 2024. Listen to Grandpa Joe and coalesce around Kamala Harris and her pick for VP. Do not fall all over yourselves at the convention trying to give freshman House members their 15 minutes of fame.

Unity (and not the Republican kind of cult membership for Trump’s “in” crowd) for our nation, our Constitution and representative democracy must rule the day. Get your act together, bring in Independents and Never Trumpers, all while treating your VOTERS with due respect. We all need to be rowing the boat in the same direction if we are to win this election.

I want voters and women to gain back the ground we’ve lost, and that includes reforming an overtly political Supreme Court and federal judges as well. We can’t afford to have posse comitatus overturned so the military has to remain on tap for world affairs, not peaceful locel demonstrations or Operation Wetback II. The Justice Department must be quasi-independent and not be weaponized against Trump’s enemies.

Abortion, gay marriage and contraception must be enshrined in law, along with the right of women to interstate travel, no-fault divorce and privacy of woment’s menstrual cycles . We need transparency of big (now dark) political money via the John Lewis Act. We must make sure the Federal Election Commission acts and has teeth, and is non-political. Perhaps another run at the ERA would be practicable, along with more political parties and perhaps states choosing ranked choice voting to open things up to communication and collaboration.

All the holes punched in norms must be plugged, like potholes. No president should use the White House for a political convention, as Trump did. PAC’s should not be allowed to pay for candidate legal bills save for necessary recounts and actual fraud. The emoluments clause must be enforced, as well as time limits before top presidential aides can start raking in the bucks by lobbying or representing foreign entities after leaving office.

We must speak with one voice and defeat Trumpism as a danger to our freedoms and our national security. There is no alternative come November. Get your act together, Congress. We’re counting on you more than ever. Sincerely, a longtime voter, Dee

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Freedom

Posted on July 10, 2024 | Leave a comment

Ask anyone who lives in the United States of America what they cherish most about this great nation and they inevitably say, “freedom.”

Thanks to Donald Trump, the RNC and its joined-at-the-hip Heritage Foundation and Project 2025, we are about to lose that freedom unless we get our act together and let the country and world know that America is the land of the free!

Joe Biden has told us many times that whenever Americans work together, there is nothing that we cannot accomplish. I have believed in that can-do spirit for my 65 years as an American citizen, 47 of those years as a voter (since age 18). President Biden has gotten us over COVID, rescued our economy, is repairing our neglected infrastructure, respects the rights of women and other groups opponents are targeting, and has renewed the world’s respect of the USA through strengthening ties with NATO and other alliances.

He has garnered the vote of 85% of primary voters, who have sent his nomination to delegates who will meet in a few weeks at the Democratic National Convention to nominate him as the Democratic designee for President. He has asked us for our support and we voters gave it. Now party leaders and especially the press (that’s you, Gray Lady) are saying he’s not the one, that we should abandon the man who has given fifty years of his life to serving us, we, the people.

The choice should be clear. One side wants the US to be free, the other wants to tell all of us what to do. One side wants to continue our 248-year democracy, the other wishes to tear up our Constitution. For what? A sixteen-page campaign brochure that gives kingly powers to Donald Trump. To do what, exactly? Anything he wants.

This week, a decision must be made. From then on, every Democrat, Independent, Never Trumper and Undecided (but still yearning to breathe free) must go with the speed and strength of a freight train to save our democracy from Republican political hacks, christian nationalists, paramilitary organizations in Trump’s thrall, a broken Congress and now a MAGA Supreme Court. Because when we put our minds to it and work together, nothing is impossible.

When Tories in the UK fell the other day to Labour, it was to eliminate 14 years of conservative excess that has taken a toll on its economy. The French hemmed and hawed about Le Pen and a conservative takeover just this week and voila, the people heeded the call and turned the tables. What does the American free press say? Biden can’t win because Sunak and Macron are incumbents and voters hate incumbents these days. What?! Citizens want freedom and stable economies, not tyrants with an axe to grind. L’etat, c’est moi didn’t work in the French Revolution, and it didn’t work this week.

I’m sick of hearing that my country is a cesspool, about its downfall, third-world nation status and “American carnage.” That’s not where we live. We live in a land of plenty, of opportunity, of equal rights and talented immigrants. And yes, women who have yearned for equality, the right to vote, hold a good job with good pay, have say over their bodily functions, want affordable child care, want to be safe, along with their children, from gun violence and domestic abuse, and to be able to obtain a no-fault divorce.

The Christian right want to send women back to the fifties, the 1850’s. We’ve worked too hard for equality and freedom. Sorry, but no rich white guy is going to tell me I have to give up freedom and equality. What’s the big deal about abortion and only man/woman marriage in the “new and improved” Republican Platform that was passed in secret? The language hasn’t changed, it’s merely been removed. The 14th Amendment is still in there allowing for citizenship upon conception. And I’m sure that in order to get the evangelicals on board, they’re being told that it’s OK to merely remove language that’s been in the platform since Reagan, we’re not really doing anything, just leaving it out to pretend until after the election, see? Once Trump wins and gains control over the House and Senate, it’s back to business as usual and a national ban on abortion, contraception, IVF and everything else on the real wish list. The Platform is only a ruse to get moderates and independents to vote for Trump, it’ll be torn up on November 6 and vettings will begin in earnest for Heritage Foundation leaders to man (yes, to a man, men) the cabinet.

I’m just telling it like it is, folks. If you really believe Trump has no clue about Project 2025, even who the Heritage Foundation is, just look at the banners behind him at speaking events; the people who wrote Project 2025 also wrote the new RNC platform and most of them were on his staff when he was president. Read it and decide if you want democracy and freedom, or tyranny and oppression. Join the freedom train. I see Joe Biden waving us in at the station. Hi, Joe! We’re with you all the way. Vote! Dee

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Denying Project 2025?

Posted on July 8, 2024 | Leave a comment

Donald Trump just found out that Americans don’t want to lose their Constitutional rights or Social Security checks or have a theocracy tell them if they qualify for needed health care. As a matter of fact, while most Americans have not read the 900 page document, they are becoming aware of its greatest hits, and are, understandably, less than enthused.

Ask a voter whether s/he wants to lose their rights, be told what they can and cannot do, and have incompetent political hacks decide what drugs are safe to take and water to drink, air to breathe and they’ll probably say, Hell no!

So Donald Trump, all of a sudden, has no idea what Project 2025 is or who runs it so he “wishes them luck.” Kinda like telling the January 6 insurrectionists that he loves them and they’re very special.

Two problems with this:

  • They’re all HIS people; and
  • Donald Trump does not have a Republican Party platform, only “whatever I want” if that can be called a political platform.

So, are you willing to vote for someone who regularly convenes with his former senior staffers at the Heritage Foundation (author of Project 2025) events and has never stood on a political platform of his own? If he denies he’ll implement Project 2025, then gets elected and follows it to the letter, you can’t exactly vote him out of office for lying to you, again. Think about it.

Project 2025 will burn down the house of American democracy. I don’t think that’s a great way to plan for our great nation’s 250th birthday. And I can’t for the life of me see why so many Americans are willing to toss our Constitution for an imperial presidency that only benefits rich white men. Tossing away 250 years of freedom to live under the tyranny of one orange man is ludicrous, in my opinion. But that’s why we have elections. I plan to speak, and hope you do as well.

At least ask, if not the Project 2025 platform, what’s YOUR plan, Mr. Trump? Is it hiding along with your perfect alternative to the Affordable Care Act, Mexican funding for The Wall, and the always promised, never delivered “Infrastructure Week?” Vote! Dee

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Third World Country

Posted on July 3, 2024 | Leave a comment

On January 6th, 2021, we watched as an angry mob stormed the United States Capitol to stop the counting of electoral votes, kill the House Speaker and hang the Vice President. Afterwards, before the DOJ began investigating this failed coup attempt, the January 6th House Select Committee laid out the comprehensive plot led by President Trump to remain in office despite losing a free and fair election.

Forget the MAGA hysterics about bodies in the streets and American blood being tainted by vermin. And MAGA attacks on special counsels and prosecutors. The only reason Donald Trump is being prosecuted is because he has committed crimes, from sexual assault to business fraud to influence the 2016 election (guilty on both) to trying to overturn our government by refusing to relinquish power when he had no right to wield it. In the olden days, the day of or after such a coup, the perpetrator would have his head removed from his body and placed on a pike as a deterrent to future overthrowers.

What happened this week at the Supreme Court is heinous and cannot be tolerated. The entity trusted for 250 years to protect our Constitution and our democracy chose to do the polar opposite. They kneecapped current indictments against “King” Trump and may overturn convictions of their new king and his future brownshirts (Proud Boys et al), currently in prison for sedition and other crimes during the unsuccessful coup attempt.

The court made up this unnecessary and supremely unwise decision on a political 6-3 vote, adding proscriptions to evidence in hand in the January 6 federal investigation. In addition to that ridiculous (Amy Coney Barrett concurred) opinion, fellow justices threw out other MAGA bones (special counsels may be illegal, come back and ask us to rule on that one) as red meat to Trump’s base.

As we prepare for America’s 250th birthday as a democracy, there is little to cheer for, with women and minorities on the chopping block. Not to mention voters. Say what you will while you enjoy the jobs, economy, democracy and personal health (getting us out of the COVID pandemic) that Joe Biden has brought us. Turning our backs on our very democracy just to please one orange man is absolute lunacy.

Too bad Joe Biden’s not going to avail himself of the kingly powers he’s just been granted. If I had my wish, Donald Trump would be arrested and sent to GITMO with no phone or social media access, for treason for having tried to overturn our Constitution. To keep him company, I’d send along Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Jim Jordan, Leonard Leo and would remove Steve Bannon from Danbury Country Club prison and send him, too. Roger Stone as well, Mr. Dirty Tricks himself.

Add Ron Johnson just because he’s the weasel who tried to hand-deliver Wisconsin’s and Michigan’s fake elector forms to Vice President Pence on January 6th, plus he did (and does) nothing for the people of Wisconsin. Also Scott Perry, Matt Gaetz and every Senator and Representative who voted against certifying the 2020 election results. Have a big crane deliver a few cows over the fence every few days so they can fight each other for scraps while they await, and await, and await, trial.

Oh, as MTG and Lauren Boebert are frenemies now, put them in a cell together in the toughest women’s prison ward in the country and see how long they last. Add cameras for live streaming, but don’t allow Gitmo to have any TV’s. That’s the start of of my revenge fantasy. What’s yours? Dee

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Optics

Posted on June 28, 2024 | Leave a comment

The debate is over, probably the last debate between these presidential candidates. Was it good? No. Did I learn anything new? No. Did it change my vote? No.

We have here two older white men with varied expertise. One is a lawyer who has been well trained in legislating, mastery of foreign and domestic policy and a lifetime of leadership and, yes, statesmanship. The other is a real estate developer who has had middling success at business, having been given a major leg up by his inheritance, and a lifetime of conning people into giving him money, topped off by great training as a reality tv host. Are either eloquent speakers? I think not.

The pundits have been handicapping this debate for months. I don’t think you need 23 cable tv hosts (crammed behind the same desk) live telling you everything they think about what the debate participants are saying. Plus, the Friday morning quarterbacking was insane. I know you get paid to hear yourselves talk but, please. Give it a rest.

In the end, these are the two people we voters have a choice for, for president of the United States. They’re the same people they were 24 hours ago before the debate, and tomorrow morning they’ll still be the same people with the same qualifications.

Yes, I believe that Joe Biden flubbed a lot of opportunities given to him by his opponent with his firehose of falsehoods. He could have been over-prepared, or his brain was just working too fast for his words to catch up. I know the feeling. But a former president, who wants to be re-elected, lied so many times I couldn’t even count them. And many were stupid lies, about losing the 2020 election, abiding by the vote count in 2024, even saying that Democrats are “for” murdering infants. Presidents should not be in the business of lying to the American people, look at what that did to the country during COVID.

The debate was neither man’s best performance, but let’s take it for what it was, a performance. It’s not what presidents are judged on. Presidents are decision-makers who have a wealth of information at their fingertips to make the best decisions for the American people. All Americans, not black or white, red or blue.

We can have a man who has served the American people all his life, surrounds himself with the best and most knowledgeable people, represents all Americans and will fight to preserve and defend our democracy. The other is a convicted criminal who tried to overturn the last election that he lost fair and square, who surrounds himself with sycophants and will repopulate the administrative state with theocrats and party loyalists who have no expertise in gene sequencing or meteorology or anything substantive and only wants to help rich, white MAGA Republicans. It’s an easy choice for me.

Heaven forbid, if Joe Biden kicks the bucket in his next term, we all know his VP, who has been vetted and is up to the task. With Trump, we might end up with Ivanka, Don Jr. or even Eric.

Yesterday was a day in the life. I’m a lifelong Buffalo Bills fan. Yes, they lost the Superbowl, more than once, but they got up the next day and fought on. Joe Biden’s been here before, and been underestimated before. Stop wringing your hands, Democrats. Joe Biden has given America over fifty years of his life. We can allow him an off-night. Think, and vote. That’s today’s Dee-ism.

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Another Horrible Day

Posted on June 15, 2024 | Leave a comment

in Milwaukee. Today there’s a music festival in the neighborhood spanning seven stages with a number of local bands to showcase and tons of vendors. I think we’ll venture out this afternoon, the horrible weather will be sunny and in the low 70’s, before the heat wave hits tomorrow for the foreseeable future. But rest assured, a sweltering summer like we’ve never experienced should not be equated with any climate crisis caused by burning excessive fossil fuels.

We’ll probably run into our horrible neighbors, because who but horrible peoplle, as described by one Donald J Trump, would live here? Mr. Trump is expected to bring his felonious reputation and fellow felons to town next month to be crowned king of the Republican National Committee and its nominee for King of America, or should I say president. One step at a time, buster.

I’m told different stories by his enablers about why he called Milwaukee, his kind host for the 2024 RNC Convention, a horrible city. They can’t seem to get their answers straight. What I read through the inevitable cover-up is that it is because of: violent crime, and that rate has plummeted since Trump was president last time; and something about the 2020 presidential election being rigged, even though the Trump campaign’s own recount of Milwaukee and Madison showed that Biden won fair and square.

In fact, when Trump plans to be in town next month for the convention, his mere presence will increase the crime statistics, because so many of his business and campaign associates are also felons. Then there are all the as-yet unindicted ones, many who still hold elective office, who have been with him lock, stock and barrel in The Big Lie since its inception.

In Milwaukee if I am mailed an absentee ballot, I have to fill it out in front of a witness, sign and date it and have the witness do the same. Then I have to make sure the Board of Elections has a valid copy of my Wisconsin drivers’ license with photo on file showing current address, with proof of said address via a bill or official document sent to my home. Then, because drop boxes are now illegal and the mail is uncertain to be received in time to be counted, I have to drive downtown to the main election office and go up to the fifth floor and hand-deliver my ballot.

Then, I have to go back down to the idling car where my husband is with our dog (who we can’t leave in the car because it’s too cold in November) and sit there while he hand-delivers his ballot. Why? Because otherwise I could be convicted of “ballot harvesting” even though he is my legal witness to said document and I am his.

Welcome to being a registered voter in Wisconsin! Whenever I can, I vote in person as the precinct location is walkable and the poll workers amiable. I deliver my absentee ballot, unopened, and assure that it is voided, then I am issued a new ballot to fill out. Upon watching my ballot go into the counting machine I am given my “I Voted” sticker, thank all the poll workers for their service (followed by an email to the Board of Elections thanking everyone) and promptly lose the sticker in the snow/wind as I walk home.

The irony of all this double-checking and proof of this and that is that ballots received prior to election day are not allowed to be opened until the polls open on election day. That is not for “election integrity” at all. It was devised probably by the RNC so they could say mail ballots are fraudulent and so that someone like Donald J Trump, as he did on election night in 2020, can say that he won and to STOP COUNTING BALLOTS! And you wonder how The Big Lie got started.

Question. If Donald Trump won the presidency in 2020, why weren’t any down-ballot races investigated? Doesn’t it seem odd that ONLY Donald Trump was cheated that year? Just like all the investigations into this particular president’s attempts to steal the 2020 election (federal and state cases pending), steal top secret documents that belong to the American people (case pending) and illegally influence the 2016 presidential election (guilty, 34 federal felony counts) are “politically motivated?”

Maybe rural Wisconsonites will vote for Trump regardless of his thoughtless comments on its most populous city, but that’s OK. They’ll like him until he tariffs their farms out of existence. Perhaps a day will dawn when they finally realize Trump doesn’t care a whit about them, their businesses or their lives and only cares for his own and that of his rich donors. He said it himself last weekend, he doesn’t care at all about his voters, he only wants their votes. What you see is what you get.

The sun is up, dog is fed and walked and the windows are open bringing in fresh lake air before closing up for the summer. Lest people from outside Milwaukee think it an urban hellscape, I assure you it is not. I don’t trip over homeless people outside our building or worry about being robbed while walking to the market. There are people walking everywhere, many with canine companions, and families grilling picnics in the local park. Tennis players at public courts across the road. Music and arts and even kite festivals. And here, a lot of houses have front porches where people can hang out and watch the world go by. It’s summertime, school’s out and it’s time to put the top down or dust off your Harley for a beautiful, sunny day. Vote! Dee

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