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OK, MAGA, Now It’s Personal

Posted on March 17, 2026 | Leave a comment

Let’s say there’s a real issue issue with voting irregularities. There is not. Ideally, states would get together, perhaps at the annual governors meeting and hash it out. Rural states, urban states, states with unique or non-unique issues. Done.

Let’s say it turns out to be a national problem. States would convince Congress that certain universal tweaks are needed. It would be discussed in a bi-partisan manner and fixed.

But no, we couldn’t possibly do anything like adults. Trump wants to win the 2026 election because he knows his second term crime spree will come to a crashing halt and he may be stuck with just the $4 billion he’s taken so far this term. OK, he’ll still give himself another $10 billion on top of that, as he’s suing the government for investigating him for trying to steal the 2020 election and absconding with tons of top-secret documents. So what did he do first? Not electors, that one bounced in 2020. Mid-term re-apportionment in Republican-led states. Sounds great! Crash and burn.

What next? Keep tens of millions of likely Democratic voters from getting registered or going to the polls by disenfranchising married women, rural residents, disabled citizens and seniors. Plus, go against the Constitution and federalize elections by demanding everyone re-register, and collect all voter data at the federal level for a Constitutionally (purposely, ask the founders) state function.

If MAGA can’t keep Democrats and Independents and RINO’s from registering or voting, they can mess with the actual votes to get the results they want. Now there’s democracy in action! Add masked goons to the party just for fun, to terrorize potential voters at polling places and it sounds like a grand plan.

I have news for you. I’m a married woman, a senior citizen and rural resident. If you think you can keep me from voting for James Talarico (D) for U.S. Senate for John Cornyn’s (R) seat in Texas, you have another thing coming. I have my valid passport, can re-apply for my birth certificate, and have my marriage certificate, Texas REAL ID (one of the five states that includes citizenship), TSA Pre, and Global Entry pass. And I can also bring my police-trained Rottweiler to the polls as a service dog. [Note to reader: I have an extremely friendly Mini-Aussie I call my Ambassadog, not a Rottweiler, or trained except to herd me and my husband. It sounds good, though!} This is Texas so my shotgun is right outside in my SUV [OK, no shotgun either, failed marksmanship in high school, required in another red state].

The federal government has no legal need for sensitive voting records. They should have no right to do daily maintenance of voter rolls and machine maintenance, or ballot security. Unfortunately, I just moved to Texas and this is one of the few states that has handed over my voting records. But they only have it for the time I was in Texas, not in three other states in which I’ve voted for the past 45+ years.

We must convince Republican senators to vote no on the SAVE Act. Its sole purpose is to disenfranchise voters in order to illegally win elections. If they do pass it, with its gratuitous additions of anti-trans prohibitions, it’s time to vote them out and elect people who will treat women, the disabled, and country folk with respect.

Driving is a privilege. If I get too many speeding tickets, I’ll lose that privilege. Voting, on the other hand, is a right. The government has no right to take away my vote in a democracy.

On another matter, the DOJ, having dismantled its ethics efforts and encouraged lawlessness by its attorneys, is now proposing a rule to prohibit state bar associations, which regulate attorney members, from initiating actions against lawless DOJ personnel. Comments are due by April 6. Reference DOJ-OAG-2026-0001-0001. We need MORE transparency, more ethical actions, not fewer. This regulation would allow DOJ to bury state inquiries into illegal acts like lying to a judge. It’s a bad thing for all of us. Check out ACLU and ABA for cogent info so you don’t have to absorb the entire filing, which of course is written in legalese.

Save our right to vote! Dee

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Another Justice Jackson

Posted on February 23, 2026 | Leave a comment

Reader’s Note: Please see Post immediately prior for background. As I’m just an old, retired lady and not a legal professional, I will not be providing citations, merely an overview and comments. Sorry, kiddos, you’ll have to go to AI to write your history paper!

He was Justice Robert Jackson, and in his concurrence that President Truman over-reached his presidential purview (Youngstown, 1952) he concluded with the following:


“With all its defects, delays and inconveniences, men have discovered no technique for long preserving free government except that the Executive be under the law, and that the law be made by parliamentary deliberations.“

I’m fascinated to learn of congressional and court deliberations and the reasoning behind decisions made and rebutted. There’s so much more available now than in the days when I was doing everything longhand and “Shepherdizing” cases via law books. We had no internet access back then, and when Lexis/Nexis came along we had to make an appointment for our librarian with a perfect query and if she agreed, she’d send the request. I actually scoured newspapers and professional journals for articles of interest to soon-to-be-fellow analysts during the half-year I was paid by our staff librarian. I sent them along as actual “clippings” hand-delivered by our own excellent messenger, Nadine, a very kind young lady with Down Syndrome who had a juge crush on Rick Springfield. Yes, I remember her well.

But I digress. Some of my favorite legal minds that I look to for insights and further reading are now online or even on television. They include the following, in no particular order: Neal Katyal; Andrew Weissman; Mary McCord; Rep. Jamie Raskin; Joyce Vance; Laurence Tribe and Judge Luttig.

Iin terms of the tariffs case decided by SCOTUS last Friday, I was particularly interested in the opinions of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Gorsuch. Over the weekend I got to see (on TV) Neal Katyal, who successfully argued the case, and an analysis by Andrew Weissman. It appears that there may be some “deciders remorse” (my definition) regarding the Court’s presidential immunity ruling.

At the time, SCOTUS had witnessed the multiple indictments and impeachments of Donald Trump for various crimes and thought the president needed immunity from lawsuits based on actions within the scope of presidential duties. There was also, as I recall, particular attention given to private conversations with the Department of Justice. Now, with Trump fully weaponizing the DOJ and going after his real and perceived political enemies, it appears to me that the balance has gone totally the other way. Not to mention that I strongly believe in the rule of law and that Donald Trump doesn’t give a whit about it. Only power.

Of course SCOTUS didn’t define the scope of presidential duties. Anyway, Mr. Weissman opined that the language of Roberts and Gorsuch may provide a hint as to future issues of presidential overreach and perhaps deciding to limit or curtail them. I certainly hope so. Even though there is currently a banner of Donald Trump’s face (à la Ayatollah, Mao) gracing an entire side of Main Justice’s building downtown D.C.

I believe in We, The People and not a tyranny of one, or a theocracy. Ditto a tech bro-ligarchy. Free and fair voting (no SAVE Act) and counting of ballots. No masked goons at polling sites. If we can’t save our democracy beginning in 2026, I believe that as a nation, we’re toast.

So, write your Senators against the SAVE Act. Say it’ll hutt Republicans at least as much, if not more, than Demovrats. Get out with the people and be counted at No Kings and other protests, such as ICE Out. And if you’re not registered to vote, do so right away and vote in the primaries and in November. Write about your experience with voter suppression or whatever you want.

I’m just a legal nerd, and for a reason. My answers still come to me about 3 a.m. and I’m working on an organization that will change things, more on that in another post. Be informed! And vote like our country depends on you, because it does. Yours in respect for the rule of law, Dee

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Real ID?

Posted on February 16, 2026 | Leave a comment

It took Congress 20 years to finally implement Real ID throughout the USA. Now, they don’t want to use it. Wonder why We The People mistrust Congress?

Now that everyone in the government, including TSA, knows who we really are, voters in 44 states can’t use Real ID as identification at their polling place. Why? If Donald Trump has his way, they’ll need a birth certificate or Passport in order to prove that they’re citizens. Fewer than 50% of Americans have a Passport. Heaven knows how many of us can provide a certified birth certificate. Mainly up to 70 million female voters will be unable to cast a ballot if the CARE Act passes the Senate.

Why won’t the majority of female voters be unable to cast a ballot? Because they’re married and took their husband’s name when they exchanged vows. In Texas most counties kept birth records at the county seat, in the Courthouse. Any idea how many of these magnificent old courthouses have burned over the past century since they were built? A lot. Goodbye, permanent records, goodbye voting privileges.

Every polling place I’ve ever been to, in a number of states as I moved around alone, then with my husband, I’ve always encountered a similar situation. Either the polling folks knew me as a neighbor, or if they didn’t they both checked me out to see that I am who I say I am and verified me to vote. If they didn’t know me by name, most knew my dog. I’ve had several really cool dogs over the decades, just lucky I guess.

Behind every desk was a duo: a Republican and a Democrat. They were ostensibly neighbors as polling places are local in nature, so perhaps they only saw one another at the polling place when there was an election, or they could have even played bridge on Thursdays as they had for the past forty years. They always worked together and agreed on voters. Now they do the same with my Real ID.

Most times, except at rush hour, the polls have light turnout. Last time was a special election and there were two clerks and only two of us voting at that particular moment. Every time, since I was 18 (nearly five decades for those who are counting) it has been a respectable and well-run organization. Every time I thank them for their service. Never has there been a police presence at the polls and I’ve voted in New York, California, Utah, Texas and Wisconsin. Different machines, different people, very orderly and professional everywhere.

The SAVE Act is nothing more than voter suppression. Our founders kept the federal government mainly out of federal elections for a reason. And they kept politicians, especially POTUS, out of it. No federal agency needs our state voting records. Ditto other state records including DMV et al. They just don’t. It’s only a way to re-gerrymander and do other nefarious things to remain in power forever.

There is no real issue of undocumented migrants voting illegally, and yes, it is already illegal for an undocumented migrant to vote in federal elections. Think about it. Is it worth losing your job, family and risk deportation to cast one vote? No. Republicans just want to accuse Democrats of encouraging “illegals” to vote, which they can’t, and don’t. That might explain why the minority tend to win elections when the party in power has crummy policies that are executed horribly.

Please vote. Primaries count. Off-presidential elections count. Our nation’s democracy counts. Under no circumstance think that your vote doesn’t matter, because it does. More than you know. Yours in citizenship, (US today, maybe Canadian tomorrow), Dee

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Where is Sesame Street

Posted on January 28, 2026 | Leave a comment

when we need it? I’m specifically talking about The Count. As you may recall, Sesame Street always featured a number and at the end of the show certain letters and numbers were credited as “sponsors.”

It appears that the Republican Party has a dire need and should bring on The Count as a consultant for an exorbitant sum.

They’re learning the number 1. Except they still think the First Amendment means MAGA gets to say and do whatever it wants (see Jan. 6) and no-one else does. That needs a lot of work. When one thinks that half the country are heathens and domestic terrorists, they’ve got another numbers problem, as in convincing more voters to elect them.

Of late they’ve been having issues with the number 4. As in the Fourth Amendment, illegal search and seizure. ICE and Border Patrol activities have been brutally killing Americans while running amok in the greater (and great) Twin Cities area.

Now, after Saturday’s violent murder of protester Alex Pretti, a firestorm has erupted over the number 2. Now, Republicans have been flogging ability to bear arms anywhere, at any time, for any purpose. Now MAGA Chief Trump says protesters aren’t allowed to legally carry a weapon on the streets. Wait, wasn’t that hailed on Jan. 6’s insurrection? If I, who’s never had or wanted a firearm, am confused, imagine the MAGA gun devotees who’ve done everything to be able to bring their guns to stores and to church. The NRA is flexing its weakening muscle, but a lot of MAGA voters will dump Trump in a heartbeat if he disappoints them on his newest take on the Number 2.

Aside from numeric advice, I’ve some political advice for MAGA faithfuls. NEVER elect a politician who says his/her national platform is “whatever I say it is.” All you get is guns one day, no guns the next; tariffs one day; triple the next and none the following day. And Tylenol causes autism, y’know. Don’t even talk to me about mifepristone.

Look at the Constitution, MAGA. What hill are you willing to die on for Trump? Think about it. Yours in peace and justice, Dee

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Dead Men Tell No Tales

Posted on January 25, 2026 | Leave a comment

Well, here we have it. ICE and Border Patrol are killing innocent protestors, U.S. Citizens to boot, and defining them as “domestic terrorists.” Then they’re hiding the evidence so that the agencies cannot be supervised by Congress or held accountable by the courts.

Now Senator Mike Lee (R – UT) and Rep. Tim Burchett (R – TN) are using their expertise as representatives of renowned maritime states (Utah’s Great Salt Lake is so salty even fish can’t live in it) to authorize piracy on the high seas.

These bozos want to revive from Civil War days the practice of “letters of marque and reprisal,” where ship captains can seize ships even outside territorial waters and keep most of the proceeds. No word as to whether they’ll be masked or if just an eye patch will do.

Because there’s nothing important for Congress to do except go on extended vacations, they’d like private pirates to take on the war against drug cartels. Nothing can possibly go wrong in their envisioned scenario!

Homeland Security still hasn’t provided information on any of the U.S. military strikes on “drug boats” in international waters, so one can assume these pirates will be just fine as judges and executioners of anyone whose boat they board at sea. Will they fly the Jolly Roger to identify themselves?

On another matter, consider the great lengths gun rights advocates have gone to in order to open carry in Wal-Mart and church. Problem is, the latest murder, of a V.A nurse, was filming ICE/CBP actions while trying to assist a protestor who was sprayed in the face. He never went for his weapon, and after they took it from him, they shot him multiple times anyway. But he’s not allowed to carry a licensed firearm, probably protecting his own neighborhood, because using his cell phone to record illegal government actions is “domestic terrorism.” He brought it upon himself, people, using his cell phone camera to “massacre” masked agents.

Look for more on what I’m calling the “Insurrectionist Full Employment Act” for Three Percenters, Proud Boys and other semi-organized militias of pardoned, angry white men who love using guns on citizens and those in the legal system trying to become so. I can see the recruitment ads now, similar to ICE and CBP. Perhaps they’ll purloin some Jimmy Buffet tunes. “Boat Drinks,” anyone?

My thoughts are with the people of Minnesota who are living in he** right now. We must stop this madness NOW! Yours in freedom, Dee

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Oysters

Posted on January 13, 2026 | Leave a comment

No, not the bivalves. Though I love them. I’m talking about “the world is my oyster” and the dangers of naming as general manager of the world’s largest grocery chain a man who has evidently never been to a grocery store.

My grandfather was a carpenter, a handyman, a fix-it guy. He replicated an 18th century workbench that he left my dad, along with all his tools. When I was growing up, Dad went to the hardware store in our small village to get washers or brads or something he needed for a project.

Dad didn’t follow in his father’s footsteps, instead became the first to go to college and go on to get his doctorate and become a college president and many other things. As an adult, one day I took him to the new Home Depot and he was flabbergasted by the range of stuff one could buy. All right there, under one roof! Wow! He had no idea.

Donald Trump has probably always had a full larder, filled by servants. He never had to look at the price of anything or decide a week’s meals on a budget. The fact that he only equates beef and bacon as “groceries” demonstrates only his mastery of a fast food menu.

Now, he’s been elected general manager of the largest grocery store in the world. He has no clue that the bacon and beef he’s so fond of come from farms. That only two countries in the world can successfully grow vanilla beans, an item practically every country in the world wants and needs. Or that it’s tough to grow great coffee beans and aside from Hawaii, the USA can’t produce enough to satisfy a nation with a coffee crush. Bigly. More than his affection for Diet Coke.

This might explain why he wants to give every Greenlander $100K to switch allegiance from Greenland to the USA. He only wants to give Americans a $1K cash award instead of health insurance that won’t even cover a month’s premium, wait, it’s not even allowed to be used to pay the premium, only out-of-pocket costs which will cost more than that if your kid breaks his finger playing hoops with his buddies in your driveway.

What’s on the menu today, Stephen Miller? Greenland? Panama? How about Canada, gotta get me some maple syrup for those pancakes. Nicaragua, nah that’s so last week. The oil companies can fight that out, “my” military did what I wanted so now everyone’ll play ball. I need a new shiny object for today. Whose lives can I ruin today, Stephen?

This week I’m using the last greens from a frozen garden to make a vegetable soup with farro, frozen tomatoes from the summer crop, and a couple cans of cheap Navy beans that have been in the pantry for a while. Trump has someone buy him a steak, cook it and he never sees the prep, cooking, clean-up or leftover management operation. It’s “one and done.” Out of sight, out of mind.

Trump tweets and others spend months planning to decapitate a despotic regime, invading another country’s inviolable territory to benefit his mega-donors. Then he has a party to watch the invasion on TV, brags about it at a press conference, and now his wiki bio is padded with “Acting President of Venezuela.”

Done, what’s on today’s agenda, Stephen? Let’s go to a small town in Iowa and roust people out of bed in the middle of the night and shoot them if they ask to put on clothes before they’re stuffed by masked men into an unmarked vechicle and deported to El Salvador without so much as a phone call.

Fellow Americans, we are all in the crosshairs now. Literally. ICE is not just after violent criminals who are in the USA illegally. They’re the tail-light police, the free speech police and they won’t take no in terms of a valid US passport for an answer. One wrong move and you’re shot in the face for shopping at Home Depot. And over your dead body they’ll swear that you were a socialist lefty pig who is part of a large anarchic conspiracy to make one Donald J Trump look bad.

I recall going to Mass as a child after Vatican II, when we stood, looked to our left and to our right, reached out with our hand and gave the sign of peace. Now is the time for Americans to look out our doors, smile at our neighbors and share a sign of peace. We’re in this together, all races, creeds and sexual orientations. This is our clarion call. We’re better than what the Trump regime thinks we are. We’re smarter, tougher and have the Constitution and laws of the land in our favor. We’re Americans. Call your Senators and Representatives and say as they did in “Network,” “I’m mad as Hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.” Yours in freedom, Dee

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“I Lift My Lamp

Posted on December 31, 2025 | Leave a comment

beside the golden door.” The New York Harbor is, along with Ellis Island, what was first seen by many of our ancestors as they traveled to this promised land. The tired, poor huddled masses yearning to breathe free remember the welcoming figure who stood gloriously in the harbor, our Statue of Liberty. The Emma Lazarus poem is at its base, The New Colossus.

Ours is a nation of immigrants, and now the perfectionist a***es who want an Aryan “Christian” authoritarian nation want only “heritage Americans” to be here.

As a politician running for office in a democracy, it’s tough to sell Stephen Miller’s version of America and get elected. I’ve read that Mr. Miller wants only one hundred million of us 330 million Americans to actually belong and remain here. Thanks to Donald Trump, a supine Republican Congress and backwardly (and monetarily) motivated Supreme Court he may get his wish, if we don’t stop him.

Thanks to the Big Awful Bill, Trump’s now got his secret Gestapo, disapearring thousands without Constitutional protections. He’s deporting us, starving us (SNAP), cutting off our access to health care (Medicaid, Medicare) and vaccines that have prevented nasty diseases for decades. They’re polluting our air and water, and not providing aid (FEMA) in natural disasters that are compounded by climate change. Oops, the scary weather thingie that doesn’t exist.

Still, getting rid of 200 million of us without us knowing about it is a challenge. Am I a Heritage American? No-one knows. Like “woke,” it’s in the eye of the eye of the beholder. Let’s see, my mother had a Green Card for fifty years. Parents Brit/Irish and French-Canadian. Father born in US from German and Swiss parents. Sounds suspect, especially as one side was Catholic, the other Lutheran. I’m a mutt, for sure, but always an American.

Let’s beat this, together. The only true native Americans are, well, Native Americans. The rest of us came from elsewhere. My grandfather escaped Hitler’s brownshirts in the 1920’s. Let’s stop these Nazis. Dee

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White House Walk of Shame

Posted on December 19, 2025 | Leave a comment

President #48 Walk of Fame to Oval Office, redesignation of TRUMP PLAQUE

Framed Photo: Trump condoms “I’m Huuuuuge!

Donald J Trump was elected twice. A convicted sexual predator, he sullied the nation by being the first White House occupant convicted of multiple (34) felonies, who encouraged his children to follow his example by shaking down world leaders and rich folks with business before the U.S. government for money to vastly enrich his family personally; thus contravening our Constitution, laws and presidential norms.

He proudly brought overt hatred of everyone not a rich, white, heterosexual, Republican, Christian male into the White House and therefore, American revisionist history. His abject loathing of all (but subservient) women, Blacks, minorities, the disabled, veterans and all Democrats was foisted on the American people as acceptable and desired behavior.

Notoriously thin-skinned as  late-in-life politician, he spent most of his second term exacting retribution against anyone who might have once crossed his path and irked him in any way. Military heroes, astronauts, comedians, no-one was safe from his IRS, DOJ, Pentagon, mortgage lending arms or FCC. Entire states were denied federal funds because they had a Democrat as a governor, and he took great pride in his efforts to divide our country against itself

He brought his real estate expertise to bear, changing Washington, D.C. regardless of zoning laws, historical considerations, funds needed or how his changes affected the American people who own all these structures. His particular style blends rococo and tyrant chic and while he would never admit to having been inspired by anyone, his muses include worldwide wrestling, Liberace and in his “Je ne sais quoi” attitude, Marie Antoinette.

Early influences were mob lawyer Roy Cohn and the most notorious pedophile the world has ever known, Jeffrey Epstein, he knew in his “gut” to only learn from the best. Known for rewarding loyalty over competence, both his terms courted disaster for the nation’s democracy and rule of law.

To experience Trump’s Washington, visit the newly-gilded Trump-Washington monument, the Trumponian Institution (formerly the Smithsonian) and the Arc de Trump. The Trump Ballroom, his signature work, was nearing completion when a giant sinkhole suddenly ate it, all 875,000 sf of it. The current administration has invited all Americans who have lost their Medicare, Medicaid and SNAP benefits to pan for gold in the sinkhole (all the gilded Oval Office decorations were tossed in for good measure). When every last shred of gold is gone, the former East Wing will be rebuilt under the guidance of historic preservationists and a Blue Ribbon panel of former First Ladies.

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Peace At Any Price

Posted on October 11, 2025 | Leave a comment

I commend the choice of Ms. Machado for the Nobel Peace Prize. There is a vast difference in wanting peace and solely wanting a peace prize.

Ms. Machado is a champion of her people, trying to bring democracy to a dictatorship while hiding in fear for her life. No doubt the prize money will be used to help in her herculean efforts.

Donald Trump wants the Nobel Peace Prize for any number of reasons, the ones I can think of offhand are that: Obama has one; he wants another picture on his wall and if the prize is not solid gold, to gild it so it’s a matching set with all his other Oval Office tchotchkes; and he wants to be able to say that the Nobel Committee supports with its “sponsorship” his tacky ginormous ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never see, and that has no place on the White House grounds.

Lasting peace is something world leaders (many not elected) work tirelessly to attain, then to keep. Trump sees it as a five minute effort with perhaps a handshake and details to be ironed out later, that includes a big personal pot of gold for him and his equally greedy family.

“Winning” a Nobel Peace Prize while bombing countries, also boats in international waters, unconstitutionally tossing out the U.S. Constitution when it’s nettlesome (habeas corpus, free speech) and instilling fear in Americans everywhere apparently doesn’t fly with the Nobel powers that be. Bullying and outright lobbying for the honor is tacky and beneath the office of the presidency. So does alienating our neighbors and other allies, and leaving sick and hungry people in poor countries to die of disease and starvation after years of consistent support. Our president demeans our great nation and all Americans when he acts this way.

He’s not in it for the peace, he’s only in it for a prize. What a shame. Namaste, Dee

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Another School Shooting

Posted on September 15, 2025 | 1 comment

with a couple of twists. First, the target, a speaker instead of random students. Second, the Keystone Kops response.

Yes, a non-elected political personage was shot and killed. It should not have happened in such an “enlightened” society as ours, except that our gun laws are incredibly lax and allow those with criminal or crazy impulses to easily acquire firearms.

Second, the response was a lesson in how NOT to conduct an investigation. Instead we got an audition for a painfully inept cop show with the FBI director submitting a demo tape for the role of local police chief. And, not to be left out, POTUS himself submitting a demo for police department spokesperson. One writer said that Kash Patel swooped in to impress his “audience of one.” Said author did not say that this is exactly what Dear Leader wants! As a matter of fact, POTUS wanted to get to the mic first.

Then, back in his seat as POTUS Donald Trump maligned the entire half of the country’s active voters who didn’t vote for him, threatened all our first amendment rights (and the right to work and live in our communities) in favor of the second amendment to hunt us down, fire us and kick us off social media for life.

Everyone knows when there’s a disaster, the locals come first and investigate the crime or get on top of the severe weather situation and take care of the survivors of both human-caused and other situations. Similarly, it is also common knowledge that doctors are cautioned, even prohibited, from treating family and friends in order to keep strong emotions at bay.

Now when on a deserted isle and a loved one is bitten by a poisonous snake, the doctor has to act. And when the family returns home safe and sound, no medical board is going to take the doc’s license. Here, in an assassination situation that to this point is a local and state issue, not a federal one, it’s time for POTUS and FBI to step back and let the professionals do what they do best.

What I want from my president in, say, a global pandemic, is to assure the people that he is going to find the problem, get his best people on it and fix it. In the meantime he wants us to stay safe by doing A, B and C. Not to say, if you get the plague and your neighbor is a Democrat, go visit him right away and get his whole family sick. Then I’ll give you the antidote but not them. That way we’ll win the next election and anoint my family as royalty and no longer have elections. And that pesky Constitution can go the way of the dodo.

But what does POTUS do? Ask for millions to beef up his security and, presumably, that of the few federal judges he still likes. Not call for putting down arms or the need for peaceful dialogue, instead let’s kill the bastids and make sure all Democratic donors are shut down so the money is turned off for my opponents and everything will always and forever be about me me me me me.

And Congress? They now want millions for personal security as well, because people don’t like that the Republican trifecta just stole their bank accounts and made sure their children could never afford college or a home of their own. “We can’t hold town halls because people yell at us! They must be paid by George Soros to be here!” We need 24/7 security teams.”

What has changed since last Wednesday? A man was killed, and his killer will go on trial and he’ll probably be jailed for the rest of his long life, setting an appropriate example for others who might be contemplating their own 15 minutes of fame. Law enforcement did their job. The criminal justice system will do the rest. It’s time to turn down the heat, people. Fewer guns, not more. Talk, not violence. To ALL our elected representatives: take stock; be rational; be calm; call for unity and understanding; and, breathe…..

We are the people of the United States of America. We can, and must, do better. All of us. My thoughts go out to yet another grieving family. Dee

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