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Sedition, Misogyny

Posted on October 25, 2024 | Leave a comment

and now … child abuse? Tucker Carlson’s intro for “Daddy” Donald Trump was beyond creepy. Big Daddy is gonna give America a big spanking for being a “bad girl?”

On second thought, I’m going to the City Clerk and demanding my ballot back. This is the platform I want. Let’s toss the Constitution, deport half of the population (80 million Harris voters, 2 Million federal workers, 25 million undesirable immigrants and perhaps half the military, staff of every university, college, high school and grade school plus anyone else on the Trump Enemies List) and take away the rest of the women’s right to vote so that Daddy can control everything they do without them ever having to think about anything serious ever again. And if so, we don’t have to listen to a word they say.

As “Daddy” would say, “boom boom done.” All Dear Daddy Leader has to do now is have his face carved on Mt. Rushmore for posterity. I think it sounds perfect, but then I’m a woman. And, wait, I have a BRAIN! Let’s see how I can use it to defeat the nation’s wannabe daddy once and for all and put him in prison where he belongs for his myriad crimes against American citizens for attempting to overthrow the 2020 election, for stealing secret documents and keeping them in a public bathroom, and for assaulting dozens of women over his lifetime.

My mother tried the “wait until your father gets home” ploy, once. Dad arrived home, tired, and Mom sent me into his home office. He asked me why I called my little sister an idiot. I didn’t have a good explanation and he asked me if she was an idiot. No. Then don’t call her one again. OK. “Now, what do you want to talk about, we have to spend at least five minutes in here before dinner. What did you learn in school today?” After that, Mom put a Chock-full-o-Nuts can on the kitchen table with a slot in the lid and we had to pay a whole nickel (that was a lot on a fifty cent per week allowance) every time we called each other dumb or something similar. Problem solved.

I’m 65 years old and Dad died December 1, 2016. I miss him every day and always tell stories and am still thinking of questions only he could answer. Dang! I don’t need a Daddy to spank me when I’m bad. Dad never spanked me once. I certainly don’t need a president to take the role of mean daddy and spank little girls for transgressions.

We can’t let Donald Trump ever have the nuclear codes again. Please. Everyone’s family is a little different, that’s what makes us special. But Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson need to be sent away somewhere they can commiserate but not ever hurt a living thing again, ever. Please vote! 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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We Won’t Go Back

Posted on July 27, 2024 | Leave a comment

My mother won a prize as a new high school grad in the mid-fifties. She was tied for best grades in the entire city of Montreal, Canada. Her reward was not college but a couple of years as a secretary before marrying my father and moving to the U.S. She kept her Green Card for over fifty years, never becoming a U.S. citizen.

At first, she told me that I could hopefully expect to end up as well as she did, married and with a family to raise. Then in the seventies she read Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem and went to community college to study to become a paralegal. My sister and I, in high school, took turns making dinner after school so Mom could go to class and study.

In contrast, Dad always went after what he wanted. He was the first in his family to attend college and was adamant that all four of his children would go to good colleges and graduate, which we did. Mom started her four-year higher education when I did, she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in accounting and aced her CPA exam first time out. I graduated deans’ list. Late bloomer?

Work seemed daunting at first but I was smart and could do it easily. It just required much time and effort and a lot of thinking outside the box to problem-solve thorny legal issues. The toughest thing for me was looking young, being a single female and being taken seriously in terms of subject matter, pay and figuring out how not to be hit on by wayward legislators every day.

Friends married, had kids. I was happy to be in the thick of policy/politics and still learning new things every day. So I kept it up, not seeing myself like the wives of my male colleagues, with whom I had less and less in common. We were good friends, but in a fashion limited by their routines.

So when did I become a dreaded childless cat lady? Or did I? Yes, I’m married nearly 22 years, childless at 65, and have had only two cats in my life, now passed. I was fighting for the rights of voters, gays and lesbians, and crime victims. I was making things better for all people of my state.

I had, and have, something to offer and I care about my country and its people of all colors, gender affiliations and faiths. I have a stake in the world around me and no-one can tell me otherwise. Not JD Vance, not anybody.

The next few months, after the Kamala honeymoon, will be brutal, and when she wins, it won’t be over. Trump is telling people they don’t need to vote (!) and that they can vote this time but in four years there will no longer be a need for Americans to vote because he will have taken care of things. That is hellishly frightening. Voter suppression will be rampant, along with chicanery, law-breaking, inane legal battles and perhaps even political violence.

Those of us who want to retain/return to the rights we fought for and deserve need to be in it for the long haul, because if the executive and SCOTUS have their way, there will be no Constitution, no United States of America as we know it. I PREFER FREEDOM!!! 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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Lock ‘Em Up!

Posted on July 14, 2024 | Leave a comment

This was my first thought after an unusual day (someone shot at the former president) followed by the usual Beltway response. It’s complicated by the RNC’s shindig this week. I thought we might give regular people in Washington, D.C. a vacation anywhere outside the city, and lock up as “inmates” all the politicians without cell phones, computers or television. Leave them there for a. week without allowing any news in or out. They’d probably kill each other, which might not be a bad thing, but it wouldn’t achieve the goal I hoped would ensue.

So, scratch that idea. Let’s give the real residents of D.C. a break. How? By giving every member of Congress a paid two-week vacation, starting the Monday after Labor Day. There’ll be four piles of names for each Sen./Rep., with each pile filled with the names of a constituent who’s solidly middle class and one at the poverty line, one for an individual registered to vote in the Republican or Democratic parties. For example, they get to spend a week with a poor Republican family, another with a middle class Democratic family in their own district.

The aim is to get them out of the Beltway and back home where they can really listen to their constituents and learn how much broccoli really costs or how to scrimp and save to send Susie to college. No staff, no cell phones, no meetings. Just Monday to Friday, for two weeks, with families from different political persuasions. Chosen randomly from a hat, so to speak.

There will be no political fund raising, or getting in front of the next news cycle to beat the “enemy.” During that time, the news media will volunteer to stop reporting anything from inside the Beltway and will instead take on assignments to tackle the issues of concern to everyday American families. Perhaps they can call it “hopes and dreams” or even “hopes and fears.” Just have everyone get off the hamster wheel and remember why they were elected/hired to begin with. The exercise will begin with everyone (including host families) getting a mini-copy of the United States Constitution as a reminder of who we are and who we hope to be when we grow up. It’ll provide good dinner table conversation, I hope.

Perhaps these representatives of the people will remember when they were young and running for office to make a difference in the lives of Americans, to work toward a brighter future for all. No, I haven’t smoked any wacky tabacky and yes, I am an eternal optimist. This is what happens when I believe the people who have the power we’ve entrusted them with to represent us, forget why they’re doing what they’re doing. We live in a land of opportunity, with a flawed but democratic system in place for self-governance. I believe the answer is not to burn it all down, but to go back to basics and remember why we’re all here. We’re all in this melting pot together, and we need to be able to live our best lives without ruining the lives of others in the process. It’s not a zero sum game, folks. Happy Sunday, voter! Dee

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Shots Fired!

Posted on July 13, 2024 | Leave a comment

I was going to write a somewhat humorous piece earlier today about Trump’s denigration of our town, Milwaukee, as a horrible place. His enablers were quick to point out that no, he didn’t really mean horrible, it’s just the crime rate, or perhaps the inability to correctly count presidential votes.

The crime rate is quite low and decreasing ever since COVID, and Milwaukee and Madison (Democratic areas) counted the votes three times with even more votes going to Joe Biden so he really did mean this is a horrible place, a matter with which I heartily disagree. I was going to say that 55,000 MAGA zealots are marching on Milwaukee with weapons, led by a notorious criminal. It’s similar to how most MAGA conspiracy theories get started, but it’s about themselves. Haha.

Not any more. We’ve a law in Wisconsin that doesn’t allow municipalities to stray from state law in certain subject areas. So I read yesterday that in the safe space in and around the Fiserv Forum (where the RNC Convention will be held) certain items will be banned, such as tennis balls and light bulbs. What WILL be allowed are handguns, hunting rifles and AR-type weapons. How nice. A one-week crime spree in the making. I, for one, plan to stay in my neighborhood and not venture downtown or even to local restaurants.

Wisconsin’s two largest cities, Madison and Milwaukee, are not allowed to restrict guns any further than in rural areas where farmers actually need them for when varmints attack their livestock or crops.

Perhaps, given this horrific incident at today’s Trump PA rally, the Secret Service will reconsider firearms in the arena and surrounding buildings where events are scheduled. I’m concerned for attendees and for fellow residents of our host city.

For months we’ve been talking about the Hamas attack on Israel and the inability to reach an agreement for immediate or lasting peace. A huge part of the problem is that Hamas doesn’t want Jews to exist. At all. That is an untenable position and one with which I could never agree. Unfortunately, the split between political parties in the USA has reached an intolerable stage in.which political opponents are not “the loyal opposition,” but enemies who deserve to die.

January 6th cannot be forgotten, an armed attack on our Capitol to stop the electoral count and designation of the president-to-be. The political rhetoric is dangerous and unbalanced individuals can hear it and try to take matters into their own hands. It’s a sad situation for a democratic nation who has nearly always (Civil War excepted) arrived at consensus through discussions and free and fair elections.

Let’s make sure everyone is safe in Milwaukee next week, and Chicago in a few weeks. But let’s all think about the country we live in, how we want to spend our 250th birthday coming up, and what kind of country we want to leave to our kids. I just heard that Mr. Trump was grazed by a bullet (his post) and not hit by glass, and that one spectator is dead and two others critically wounded. It’s a sad day in America. Dee

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Informed Voters

Posted on July 12, 2024 | Leave a comment

Right out of college I was looking for work and taking short-term gigs in the process while living at home, in the middle of no-where. I traveled back to my alma mater’s stomping grounds for a round of interviews and got two offers.

One was to be head of PR at a major summer festival, a year-round job that paid very little and on the off-season, transitioned to planning for next season while doing administrative work. The other, for 75% more pay (still very little) would drop me into the deep end in the statewide political sphere, working as an analyist for the Speaker of the Assembly.

That was on a Friday. On Monday I became a policy wonk. At first I was filling in for the insurance committee analyst who was on maternity leave. I must have done OK because they only kept me on after Session, paying me to shift between information support and odd projects until a committee came up that I could staff.

The hirers, my former bosses all those years ago, saw something in me that I wasn’t able to see for myself. That I could dive into the deep end and swim, learning esoterica about whatever subject I was confronted with. Luckily or unluckily, the committee that came to me was governmental operations. I didn’t get to dive into a single subject, like banking, tourism or real property taxation.

No, not me. I had the largest committee without a complementary staff such as Ways and Means and Judiciary. I had 750 bills to shepherd, more than twice the normal committee, and this was pre-computer. We wrote out bill reports by hand for transcription by a clerical staff and tracked all bills by hand. I had to become an expert on legislative ethics, fire and safety codes, crime victims, non-professional business licensing (financial advisors, estheticians), civil and human rights, veterans’ affairs, cable television franchising, qualified immunity for police officers, land sales, let’s just say it was the “grab bag” committee.

I loved delving into policy. A couple of years into it, a lawyer from the bill drafting staff said, “no problems with this major piece of legislation you wrote, I have no changes. Did you know you’re the only analyst who writes your own bills?” Huh?

Last night Joe Biden gave a masterful press conference in which I learned a lot about the wars in both Ukraine and Gaza. Only someone with such history and policy/political expertise could have explained the intricacies of our negotiations on the world stage to achieve peace. If voters want to know a bit about what is needed to achieve successful diplomacy, they can’t ask for a better example.

I’ve my own theories about the student protests pre-graduation and think they may have been averted if they knew more about the historical situation. I do believe the U.S. is now on the right track using world pressure to get a cease-fire, prioritizing food and aid, and going through the steps for a two-state solution.

All the information I got back in the day came from nightly news and daily newspapers, including NYTimes, WaPo and local papers. One morning I got in to work super early, dropped my stack of papers by my desk and got to work immediately. My boss walked in and asked what I was doing. I told him I had too much work to spend time on the daily news. No, he said, that’s my job. Read the news, then get to work! Good lesson.

Now our information comes from so many and so few sources. Voters have to read a panoply of new sources to judge for themselves what is true. I always look at who wrote the article, what it’s published in, and what the writer/publication has to gain from spouting this point of view. If one only gets news from TikTok or Facebook, they have very limited information and it may be skewed misinformation or disinformation from un-trusted sources.

Being a good citizen isn’t easy. Last night I learned that we won’t grant 2,000 lb. bombs as part of our assistance packages because they cannot be used in urban environments as they cause unnecessary damage to innocent civilians. Who knew outside of current policy wonks and military officials about that granularity of information?

Next time your neighbor says there’s a pedophile ring coming in across the street from the barbershop, don’t accept it as gospel. Check it out. I get notices about public hearings on certain types of new businesses (after stopping an after-hours biker bar) and it turns out not to be the case. I’m not happy with what moved in, as it seems sketchy, but no-one’s ever there. I got it from the horse’s mouth, my barber, across the street. Get your news from reputable sources, read up on the issues, and 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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