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Sorry.
When I originally posted my article The Three Biggest Lies, I was rushing out the door. I mixed up trillion and quadrillion. A trillion has 12 places (1,000,000,000,000) while a quadrillion has 15 places (1,000,000,000,000,000) after the first set of numbers.
C’est la vie.
Let’s see… the current population of the United States is 342,620,143. Multiple that by $5,000 and you have an amount of this blatant bribe of $1,713,100,715,000. To put it another way, 1.7 trillion dollars. Even if he is just talking about taxpayers in the United States of which there are 153,800,000 that number is $769,000,000,000 or 7.69 billion dollars.
Yeah, right!
That, my friends, is the definition of inflation, when the government starts printing money wildly like would be needed for that give away.
To give you some perspective, the first number is roughly what the United States spent on social security in 2025, a program that the Republicans are trying to eliminate as they say it is too costly.
Sorry. When I originally posted this as I was rushing out the door, I mixed up trillion and quadrillion. A trillion has 12 places (1,000,000,000,000) while a quadrillion has 15 places (1,000,000,000,000,000) after the first set of numbers.
Apologies to the comedian Don McMillan, an engineer who has forged a very good comedic career using Venn diagrams. This is not his Venn diagram, but I like his idea of using Venn diagrams for such things. Check him out on YouTube.
If you like what the Enshittificator-in-chief has done to this country, the economy, the world, our relationship with our allies, the return of childhood diseases, a food inspection program in shambles, a military in disarray, the dismantling of our social safety nets, ICE harassing folks simply for the color of their skin and murdering citizens and non-citizens, climate change about to hit us like a sledge hammer, a man who idolizes murderous dictators, a man who started an unnecessary, unwinnable war that has killed hundreds of innocents, a man who has made $2.2 billion using the office of the President, a man who has made the United States the laughing stock of the world, and a man who is mentioned 38,000 times (according to the New York Times) in the Epstein files, then by all means vote Republican in the upcoming mid-terms.
Remember that Trump could not have done any of this without the Republicans enabling him or minimally, lacking the backbone to stop him.
Venn diagram of what happens when corruption meets incompetence
May Ahura Mazda save our souls.
yeah I know you did not ask!
You should so be blessed – well cursed at times actually – with a mind such as mine, making all these weird connections between my rumored neurons. Just be thankful that I do not share all of my random thoughts.
I have decided that I want to get into a poker game with a bunch of MAGAs. They obviously do not know when to fold a losing hand or how to bluff convincingly about such a losing hand.
But then again, they might follow their idol’s example and ignore the rules. Thus, claiming their pair of jacks beats my 10 high straight. An argument would ensue with the flipping of the card table sending chips, cards and cash flying to all corners of the room causing a mad scramble for the greenbacks. Phones would be drawn, racing to post a video of the bad behavior on social media. They neighbors would hear the clash and the loud voices. They police would be called and I and the others would spend the night in the hoosegow for disturbing the peace and illegal gambling.
Perhaps I should forego the opportunity to pad my wallet.
The image below is circulating on social media.
There is so much wrong with this image, I am at a loss as to where to begin. While the majority of our Founding Fathers were deist, and many other presidents were not particularly religious, Abraham Lincoln comes to mind, Trump does not believe in anything except himself. And I am even doubtful of that. I do not even believe him to be irreligious as that would imply he has thought, even if only shallowly, about religious beliefs. If he has a god, it is green or gold. If I were a religious person I would view this depiction as a gross sacrilege. Come to think of it, I am not religious, and I still view it as a gross sacrilege. If there is such a thing as unholy, the definition is: See Trump.
What is sad to me is that politics and religion have almost always walked hand in hand. Both are efforts to control the behavior of large groups of people. Religion tends to pretty it up with ideas about improving the person and society, with ideas about aiding the believer to get to heaven or, more importantly, stay out of hell. Politics frequently dresses itself up as doing the most good for the most people, but often does not even bother with that. In the end they are both about the same thing, power and control.
The melding of conservative politics with fundamental religions is as scary to me as various theocracies, past and present. There are good reasons the Founding Fathers were so adamant about the separation of church and state.
God save us from the religious.
yeah I know you did not ask!
You should so be blessed – well cursed at times actually – with a mind such as mine, making all these weird connections between my rumored neurons. Just be thankful that I do not share all of my random thoughts.
Spellcheck…
I am trying to decide which is the lesser of two evils. To release one of my puerile little blog articles into the wild with spelling errors, or to release it with spellcheck having unknowingly substituted my original intended word with a word spelled somewhat similarly but with an entirely different meaning.
Between my fat fingers and the inability to edit my own writings, it is of deep concern for this poor, deluded scribbler.
yeah I know you did not ask!
You should so be blessed – well cursed at times actually – with a mind such as mine, making all these weird connections between my rumored neurons. Just be thankful that I do not share all of my random thoughts.
Back in the day… what used to trigger my decision that I needed a haircut was when my bangs began to interfere with my vision, or in recent years when Señora began chasing me around with her scissors. As the years have descended on me like a rugby scrum, my decision is frequently triggered by my eyebrows having grown to the point that they are interfering with my vision.
Gotta love this getting old gig.
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Señora has been cutting my hair for years now. Her doing so was a combination of things. First, there was COVID with everyone staying home afraid of being around other humans. Then, the barber who I had been going to for years had a series of small strokes. She was still trying to work, but her quality was less than optimal. I hung with her as long as I could out of loyalty, but at some point I had had enough of her hacking up my hair. A lot of other customers must have felt the same way as her shop closed up not too long after I stopped going there.
Gotta love this getting old gig.
Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence. I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.” ~~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Yup, that Roman cat Cicero was prescient about our current situation in the United States… just saying.
Sad part is that he was writing about a situation in the Roman Empire 2000 years ago, and it still applies today. As a species, it seems we never learn some very basic lessons, we seldom learn from our mistakes. What was it a renowned sage once asked, “are we suffering the Arrogance of Ignorance, or the Ignorance of Arrogance?” Either way, we are screwed.
And so it should not go.
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yeah I know you did not ask!
You should so be blessed – well cursed at times actually – with a mind such as mine, making all these weird connections between my rumored neurons. Just be thankful that I do not share all of my random thoughts.
There is a book that came out about 34 years ago, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. I have been thinking there might be room in the market for a book about the differences between girlfriends and wives. If there is room for that book there there is probably room for a book about the differences between boyfriends and husbands.
Let’s get back to differences between girlfriends and wives. One section might deal with if a woman’s man has been somewhat remiss in his “manly” duties. A girlfriend will frequently use the art of seduction to remedy the problem. A wife simply jumps straight to guilt induction.
Which reminds me of a joke I have told many times:
How many Jewish mothers does it take to change a light bulb?
Don’t worry dear, you go ahead and go out and play. I will just sit here in the dark.
Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence. I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde.
“Find out who you are and do it on purpose. And do it with purpose. Don’t ever sacrifice who you are, your principles and your morals and your values to just try to get ahead in business. It ain’t worth it.” ~~ Dolly Parton
Dolly was famously loved by the LGBTQ community and was supportive of their right to be who they are.
“… [I do not] believe that we should criticize and judge other people. I think we should be accepting and loving. We are all God’s children. We are who we are, and we should be allowed to be who we are…. I just think that we should be more loving, more caring. We are who we are. If you’re gay, you’re gay. If you’re straight, you’re straight, and you should be allowed to be, you know, how you are, and who you are.” ~~ Dolly Parton
She has frequently stated:
“We’re all God’s children and God should be the one to judge, not other people.” ~~ Dolly Parton
For a great summation of the life and career of Dolly Parton here is a link to Richard Cox Richardson’s news letter, Letters from an American: August 26, 2026
She was a special soul.
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