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The Three Biggest Lies

  1. Sure, I will respect you in the morning (clean version)
  2. The check is in the mail
  3. I will give every American $5,000 if the Republicans win the mid-terms, or so sayeth El puta pendajo

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.

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Venn Diagram for Upcoming Election

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.

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The USA’s Problem in One Image

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.

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Public Comment Period: Proposed Monumental Arch at Memorial Circle

Submit your comments at: https://savingplaces.org/monumental-arch

Yet another example of El puta pendejo‘s ego run amok.  No matter how you spin it, this is a monument, aka Arc de Trump, to the insatiable hole that is the tRump’s ego.  I had no idea that it would have such a drastic and negative effect on what the National Park Service is calling the viewscape. However, it right in line with his defacement of the White House and his attempt to plaster the obscenity that is his name all over Washington, D.C.   I see it as slap in the face to all veterans buried at Arlington and to Lincoln as the 250 foot tall Arc with dwarf the Lincoln Memorial and the entrance to the Arlington Cemetery.

And what a horrible waste of tax money when he the Republican party are doing their best to take away health care and social program from millions of Americans.  Does his hubris, his cruelty have no bounds?

If you have been to Washington, D.C. you will know that this space is perfect the way it is.

The Romans used to march defeated armies through their arc in Rome.  I suppose Cadet Bone Spur needs a place to march the defeated Iranian army through.

May Isis save us all.

From the National Park Service website:

National Park Service is accepting public comments on this project until June 15, 11:59PM MT. Learn more below and on nps.gov.

If you submitted comments to the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) or Commission of Fine Arts (CFA), please submit again to NPS. This is a new comment period for a separate government entity.

Members of the public have the opportunity to provide input on a proposed Monumental Arch at Memorial Circle on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, near Arlington National Cemetery and along the Potomac River.

The location of the proposed Arch will interrupt the highly significant relationship between the Lincoln Memorial, across Arlington Memorial Bridge, to Arlington National Cemetery and Arlington House. One of the most symbolic landscapes in Washington, D.C., the vista was designed to represent the post-Civil War reconciliation of the north and south of the United States.

It is because this viewshed carries so much meaning to the country that the National Trust has raised concerns about the proposed Monumental Arch, whose scale, location, and design will disrupt this important visual and symbolic vista. In addition, the Arch will dwarf the Lincoln Memorial and disrupt the long, open, and uninterrupted viewsheds, overwhelming the entry to Arlington National Cemetery—the hallowed resting place of 400,000 veterans and their families and a powerful reminder of American military sacrifice, selfless service, and national unity, all within sight of the monumental core of the Nation’s Capital.

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My 4th of July Conundrum

Well, maybe not a real conundrum as I have only celebrated the holiday sporadically.  Every few years I will go to a fireworks display, usually at the suggestion of someone else.  Although when I lived in Tulsa, my apartment complex was right on the Arkansas River.  Every year they had a fireworks display put on from a bridge about a 5-minute walk from my apartment.  I simply stepped out onto to my patio to watch.  The last few years we have stayed home as Prancess Lily is so terrified of fireworks that Robin does not want to leave her alone.  When the muchachos were younger we made a little bigger deal of it, but those times have passed.

My problem is this.  This is the semiquincentennial of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.  Normally, I would think this grand and a cause for celebration.  However, El puta pendejo aka the current occupant of the now defaced White House, is dead set on making this event about him. A real President might be the head cheerleader of such a celebration, but he/she would step aside and let the celebration be the most important thing.  Given the current state of this country, I see no reason to be celebrating.  (I started to write our country, but I feel like my country has been taken away from me.)  The United States of America, as currently manifested, is not a country to be lauded. Maybe there is a way out of this depressing morass, but if the billionaire’s puppet known as the Republican Party and the Religious Right have their way it is only going to get worse.

The 250th anniversary of the United States of America is feeling more and more like another thing that Cadet Bone Spur has put his reverse Midas touch on. And I certainly do not want to celebrate anything Trumpian.

And so it should not go.

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A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma

A friend made the following comment to me:

“For years I have tried to decipher humanity and figure out if we suffer the Arrogance of Ignorance, or the Ignorance of Arrogance.”

That comment was followed up by a very polemic comment about the current political situation in these here United States of America.  Although I do not know why, since I am way beyond worrying about hurting the feelings of tRump supporters, I am refraining from adding it to to this post.

His poser is a conundrum that I do not have an answer to.

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A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.

From Dr. Strangelove… Slim Pickens riding the bomb down

The caption of this post is the latest insane quote from our so called POTUS.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” ~~ Donald J. Trump

It sounds like he is threatening to wipe out a whole country. For what? They did not bow down to his royal ass? Of course, this is referring to Iran and oil shipments. The problem with tRump and his malAdministration is that none of them are chess players, they are not even checker players.  They cannot see the global chess board one move in front of them.  How else could they start an immoral, unneeded war that was urged on by the madman in Israel, and the power hungry, greedy leader of Saudi Arabia?

Might does not make right.

Truth is I really do not know what to say.  This is beyond comprehension. This is not the country that I have loved and been proud of for most of my life. Not by a long shot.  This cluster f*** is even worse than I could have imagined. I would have never envisioned the United States as a terrorist country, but we are fast becoming one.

For a more nuance and scholarly take on the the catastrophe that is dangling over us like the Sword of Damocles go to Paul Krugman’s video for today:  Our Darkest Hour (read the transcript – it is quicker and easier)

What has the MAGA mob gotten us into.  May Huitzilopochtli save us all.

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Quote of the Day – Donald J. Trump, Another Day, More Threatened War Crimes

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.

“Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day, all wrapped up in one in Iran. There will be nothing like it. Open the fuckin strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in hell. Just watch. Praise be to Allah.” ~~ Donald J. Trump

Targeting civilian targets like power plants and bridges are war crimes under international law.  Obviously, this man has never heard the poker maxim about not drawing to an inside straight.  At last count his sycophant, Pete Hegseth, has fired 20 generals who were trying to put some brakes on this madness.

Still happy with your vote for this madman, may Allah save your soul.

For a little more nuance on the quote (verified from several sources), here is Krugman’s article: Living in Hell… read the transcript rather than watch the video.

To see more Quotes for Day, visit this link: Quotes for the Day

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Monsters – Still Happy with Voting for Trump?

What has happened to my once beloved country?

Here is a link to Krugman’s post today: Monsters

It starts out:

All this after they had control of the man who, from what I have read, was only trying to protect a woman from pepper spray being used by ICE agents.

The really sad part is that this is getting to be a common story.  Trying to find accurate statistics about ICE and ICE deportations is almost a hopeless task. Whether you agree with deportations or not, I find it hard to believe anyone would approve of the tactics of this Fascist regime and the government agency, ICE, that seems to populated the worst of the worst.  And the Trump Administration is defending them and cheering them on.

Are you still happy with your vote for Trump?  Are you still happy with voting for Republicans enabling this madman strutting around the White House? Are you happy with government sponsored armed thugs in our streets? Are you happy with the mass abuse of people, who by the vast majority, were simply seeking a better life? Are you still happy with a President who has surrounded himself with the worst possible people? Are you still happy with a President that has pissed off just about everyone of our long term friends and allies, all the while sidling up to the worst dictators on the planet?

God save your soul.

My hope is that we will vote the monsters out in November.  A bigger part of me is afraid we will not have the opportunity.

All of this for what?  To stroke a madman’s ego… to bring on the Armageddon… To rid our country of brown people… All this so the rich get richer and the rest of us without benefits…

I have never felt so hopeless about the future of this country.

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Trump’s Letter to Prime Minister of Norway

Here is the letter that Trump wrote to the Prime Minister of Norway.  It has been verified by several sources including Norway’s Prime Minister, Jonas Gahr Støre:

“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT

I don’t care what universe you reside in or what your political leanings are, that is bat shit crazy to the nth degree.

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