Catching Up

There are a great many things in the news about which I have an opinion, but you know, just because an opinion exists is really not an excellent reason to air it.  (Especially since my readership is getting to be small!)

Politics 

Lots of different things happening; maybe I should review them.  For a while, there seemed to be a sustained assault on Minnesota, especially Minneapolis.  The more well attended the peaceful protests in that city were, the more vicious the ICE attacks were.  They shot many people, including Renee Good, a married lesbian, with at least one child; and some time later, Alex Pretti, a health care worker attached to a VA hospital.  (Generally speaking, the Trump administration seems to view Veterans and POWs, and retirees from the Pentagon with manifest disrespect.  Added to the fact that Trump evaded conscription several times, quoting heel spurs, I can't imagine why servicemen and women don't resign en masse from the services.)

It's well known that the Trump Cabinet consists of wildly unqualified, and even inept ìndividuals recruited from the ranks of TV personnel, some of then, and some of them— Kristi Noem springs to mind— from no obvious source.  (Yes, she was the Governor of Montana, but ... I still don't know how that pathway works out, except that she claims to have shot a puppy.  It might just be a story made up to appeal to Donald.  She's very much into cosplaying a cowgirl, and spending government money to draw attention to herself, ɓut no qualifications other than those.)

The government has run out of money at least twice, having cut taxes for high income Americans, and of course, extravagant White House redecorating sprees, and playing golf on the weekends. 

There must still be some who support the GOP and MAGA for being uninformed of misadventures of the federal government.  It's been more than a year, though, of ineffective Trump tweaking of the economy, with the expert help of Elon Musk, and the faithful conservatives should not have any remaining hope that Trump will make the USA a better place; a shinier, bigger, city on a bigger hill than Reagan imagined.  Now Trump is grasping at straws, such as schemes for discouraging women from going to the polls (by making the voting procedures more difficult).

Will the conservatives lose this election?

Unless Trump's—and his enablers'—cheating works, and they steal the election, they will lose the election.  If the Republicans win, I expect a repeat of January 6th, except that this time it will be the anti-trump folk that will be enraged.  They're playing with fire.  The liberals have rolled over and played dead for so long, that Trump and his playmates expect that it will be a cakewalk.

War again 

Trump's attack on Iran was unjustified.  Certainly the theocratic leadership of that country was repugnant to a large sector of the population, including almost all the women.  Heaven knows Trump is no friend to women, especially Islamic women.  But the US did not drop bombs on Teheran to cut the women a break.  It was, most likely, to draw attention away from the Epstein Files.

Why does he care so much about the Epstein files?  We knew he was a pedophile all along, and all his MAGA Bros, and Fox news, they all knew that Trump and friends were no respectors of women (and girls).  So why not own up to it, and have some wild parties at the White House?  Decent women would certainly stay away, e.g. the US Olympic hockey team.  Ónly team players like Tulsi Gabbard, and Kristi N, and Pam Bondi, would attend, and blind eyes will certainly be turned.   (Ooo, am I nåsty?)

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