Yes, some of this is smart, some is dumb. But all is recorded as I'm walking and listening to podcasts and I'm responding to the content of those, and my walking environment, and my thoughts in general. It's not a well designed set of thoughts. And therein lay some of it's usefulness, humor, or insight (or not)...
Today’s Instagram post is a view of my nearly finished new fence. Here's the before video.
Today’s podcast is from Pod Save America and Mary Trump's Podcast. I listened to Pod Save America for a while, but my curiosity about Mary Trump‘s podcast got the better of me and I switched over.
Weather today is overcast, cool, humid. OK, here we go...
The Trump Dead Brain Trust (TDBT) has now called for the murder of Mitch McConnell. Frankly, humanity wouldn’t even miss him, America wouldn’t miss him. Congress wouldn’t miss him. But Senate Republicans and the once Republican Party kind of would.
I've said this for a while now. Four years under POTUS45 was four years living in Donald Trump's mind. What we get for that now is that Republicans have turned even more narcisissistic (partly why they liked Trump). How else do you explain loving doing anything you want no matter how offensive or hurtful to others while laughing at the demise of democracy? Which after all, really is about people coming together safely and productively, who are all very different.
Wouldn't it be interesting if it was the radical radical white, right wingnut, toxic conservative, fake Republican, Trump dead brain trust... so rapidly developed by Donald Trump and on such very fertile ground, prepped by the GOP for years, which led to exactly what they've been railing against? A big brother state we had to create to protect the country from THEM? What if it’s because of people like them that actual Big Brother (or Deep State if you enjoy your fantasy name) that is built to protect all of us, because of them as they become increasingly ever out of control? Weird, right? I think they call that a self fulfilling prophesy.
You know, that WOULD make sense because MAGA are trying to destroy America as we know it. A country set up to be as protective as possible against royal power, the power-hungry and toxically autocratic. Republicans have done their best to bend toward these power-hungry toxically capitalistic & conservatives who may very well Evoke a new kind of Patriot Act to act in ways we never would’ve allowed or conceived before. All because of this Republican Party, because they allowed someone like Donald Trump to be elected, become a POTUS and now an FPOTUS, who is allowed respect he never gave the office of president, as well as a variety of protections he fully doesn’t deserve. Trump needs to be treated like the toxic conservative and #1 criminal citizen that he is, so we can eventually correct this massive American misstep as our second darkest blotch on our history, after the Civil War and slavery.
“Christians for Trump“ should be an ever growing organization to take down Donald Trump and the foul stench he’s evolved and amplified. Just as the Russians and Chinese have done to us. Trump really is our greatest threat as a domestic terrorist and leader of an actively operating disinformation machine.
We should find a way to start charging Donald Trump and the Republican Party for all the millions of dollars they have been cost America to protect people Trump has targeted. Even former FVPOTUS Pence who had Secret Service protection that cost more while he was in office, because of Donald Trump and his enablers and his MAGA dead brain trust wanted to kill him. This decades long zombie Republican Party has got to be purged, as well as those who Trump seated within our government. Not to mention those in our military, long before Trump even hit the scene, and in our local law-enforcement. We have ignored this festering ideology thinking it was about free speech, when it was really about sedition..
When I was in the SAC in the USAF, with a secret clearance for nuclear weapons, I met a nice guy who I eventually discovered, in a rather uncomfortable way. when I was taken with my wife to a compound he belonged to in the back hills of Idaho. We visited his friends at a white Christian nationalist compound. Had I known, I wouldn't have gone and it made me nervous and somewhat terrified my wife. Some of those there were dressed in Nazi like uniforms. They dissembled on that point, saying their Nazi-like uniforms were NOT Nazi uniforms. THEY were NOT Nazis. If you were to compared their uniforms, that was true. But they were definitely Nazi-like uniforms. They also saluted like Nazis, and in their church. Which, knowing history, was chilling. I considered notifying the Air Force that next work day, but my best friend talked me out of it. He said, they know where you live, they picked you up from home, right? Your wife is alone when you're at work, 15 miles away at the airbase. I eventually later went through the process to join the OSI and I was accepted. I should’ve told them. But then, nothing would’ve happened. Because of all our rights. Because they knew how to lay low, below the "radar". And back then our not knowing what would come all these decades later. Or how it would end up in a "Donald Trump" fascist wannabe, Nazi type as president, with his invoking sedition and insurrection. But there’s been a kernel of this toxically conservative Christian white nationalism in our military for decades. As well as in our law-enforcement. None of this is new. It boils up every so often and we (the Feds, the FBI, etc.) take it back down every so many years, maybe once every decade or so. This has to be properly addressed and quashed with our greatest rationales and reasonable prejudices for our own protections. For our democratic Republic. For the survival of this country whose shining light across the world has been tarnished and dimmed in its actively being worked towards putting that light out. By the Republican Party of all people. And then desiring to ignite a new and darkly disturbing light under the auspices of autocracy, or kleptocracy, or oligarchy, or literally anything they can get to replace democracy with. Things those people will support in MAGA, or QAnon, or whatever stupid side of the Republican Party that they can get to "click", until one day they will realized, when it is too late, that they called for their own demise along with the rest of us. They may hope they will have time, that there will be time for them to make their dark revolution permanent. But inevitably, eventually, as we see worldwide all through history, it always happens and they will fail. But first the amount of damage, degradation and destruction they will invoke will be monumental. And THAT is if they do not act like Donald Trump and try to take all down with him as he falls.
So, Dr. Oz has done medical experimentation on dogs where they were terribly mistreated. Apparently this came out recently. I never paid any attention to him or his "snake oil" marketing. But apparently Columbia University ended up cutting ties with him. I mistakenly thought Oz was a nice guy. Much like I believed for years that Donald Trump was. But only because I saw him on the Letterman Show when Dave would call some billionaire up in New York City who was always there to talk. Of course I'm sure that was prearranged. He seemed like a nice guy. So by time The Apprentice started, I had read his book and it seemed good. I didn’t know it was bullshit and written by a ghost writer. But I should’ve known. I had bought into The Apprentice phantom-Trump, fake TV "titan of industry" manufactured by a production company company and his producer, Mark Burnette. Who owes America for never releasing those tapes he has of Trump showing who he really is. Mark, your Karma has got to be some of the most foul on this planet right up there with Trump's. Here’s hoping we'll get to hear when it strikes. Same as with Trump. Same with his family. Except, Mary Trump. Same as it should be with Trump's MAGA/ Russian/ Republican/ QAnon/ conservative toxic individuals and associated groups.
Regardless what anyone says, COVID-19 is still alive and thriving. Not like it was to be sure. Things are indeed better. We do have vaccines now. But, you can still get it. President Biden said the pandemic is over. I think he misspoke. In a certain sense or form of the pandemic, that is over and that is what I think he was referring to as things are better now. But it’s over when it’s over and it ain’t over yet.
I had two vaccines, two boosters and I still got a really bad form of CiVuD that left me with long CoViD for the second time. I got the updated booster about three weeks ago in September 2022 when it became available. So... Be careful. Be healthy.
To be clear about those who say, "Hey, I never got it!" Look. A lot of people did get it and never showed symptoms and were never tested. Some of those who were tested came out negative and yet, they had it. That’s just the way it is. I have a friend who is showed no CoViD symptoms, but may well have had COVID-19 and now seems to have long CoViD. I told her she very well may have had COVID-19 but just didn’t know it and you can still get long Covid. So protect yourself, and don’t be ashamed, embarrassed, or cowed by friends or especially, by ignorant strangers
Anyone wonder why retired criminal millionaire Donald Trump doesn’t have a podcast? There’s a good reason.
COVID-19 has only been around for 2 1/2 years at this point. We still don’t know much about it. Maybe another 2 1/2 or five years from now, we will. Probably, we will. But that’s not now. The biggest things we need to protect ourselves now, is from ignorant information spread as science or fact, and the virus itself. Though one other element is definitely our own ignorance. Especially, if we don't realize just how ignorant we are.
For the record, being anti-abortion is not being pro-life. But is being anti-science. Does you’re anti-abortion stance make you a good person? Well, if you're a five year old, maybe. If you’re an atheist, and anti-abortion? Do know that you’re supporting a religious belief. Way to go to fight for the other side. The separation of church and state is being broken down on purpose. Why a shattered Republican Party with their criminal, autocratic leader, supported by a ridiculous belief system of toxic conservatism, of QAnon, of a far right extremist MAGA cult of their Lord Trump who is doing his best to play antichrist. As we’ve seen, even the church of Satan, which isn't quite what you might think it is, are actually fighting more for what is right, against those fake righteous right wingnut toxic conservative types, delusionally thinking they are the "good people." There’s your sign. Don't you think there’s something seriously wrong with the Republican Party, when even the Church of Satan has the moral higher ground over them?
Blaming Pres. Biden for the gas prices in a world economic crisis in part initiated by Donald Trump, yeah I’m just not seeing how much of it is actually Joe Biden's fault. Though from an illegal war by Trump's buddy Putin, who has gaslighted Russia into genocide in Ukraine, a country historically very close to Russia and their people, blaming Biden is like blaming FDR for World War II. It takes a real incompetent person or conservative party, stupidly historically unaware of current world problems and civics, in a MAGA dumb mindset to be pushing this kind of agenda at this time. Stop embarrassing America. Just, stop it!
It’s ironic how many entitled Republican Party attacks lack any moral or legal common sense about actual American entitlements that we're entitled to as a right in being American, from those people acting criminally entitled. Being "American" should carry weight and benefit. This "logic" involved in the Republican Party selling their disingenuous wares to a subset of Americans who've been following toxic conservatism for decades, truly boggles the mind
From Mary Trump‘s podcast... in 2016 most white women voted for Trump... in 2020 even more voted for Trump... after years of misogyny and crime and bullshit. However their husbands voted more for Biden in 2o20. all which has something to do with white women historically leaning into segregation. - Wajahat Ali
Remember on these podcasts you listen to, the "skip forward 30 seconds" button, is your button friend. Also be aware, when commercial time comes up and you go to skip it, sometimes you don’t need to because it will go right back into the show. I guess maybe they got enough money from their ads or it's a rerun or something
Herschel Walker is a misogynistic violent person not to be elected to public office. I’ll never understand why the facts and information are actually out there and yet people won’t do their due diligence to be sure they aren’t voting for a criminal. I mean they actually elected one as POTUS45. How stupid was that? I don’t know what comes after stupid, but that would be it in still supporting him. Yeah, the world and all of history will definitely see you.
Why are people so attracted to Autocrats and Fascists and this Republican Party and Donald Trump? I don't see the attraction. Is it because we work hard, and we’re bored, and some of us seek entertainment for entertainment's value? Never registering one iota that it actually affects us, our lives, and others, and the world, negatively? The Apprentice wasn’t real! As many “reality“ TV shows are not real. "Unscripted" does not mean real. It means produced. "Donald Trump" is not real. Not the one people are attracted to and vote for. "Donald Trump" is a manufactured brand. I suspect if you put people individually into a room with him for some length of time and he had to be completely himself and exhibit who he truly is, maybe one percent of one percent of his supporters would walk out of that room still a supporter. While those remaining loyal to him we need a serious mental health evaluation. Just as Trump does.
Trans kids' situation being referred to as a “culture war“ is as much a culture war as when science says something is a bacteria instead of a virus. MAGA of course would argue that it would be a culture war. And they’ll deny that. But if we put it into action, 100% they'd start arguing how science doesn’t know what they’re talking about. This referring to culture war stuff, when it’s actually science, is abusive, ignorant, and truly only for the self-destructive who wish to push that out to the rest of our country. It’s not our fault that some people are so entrenched in their little bubble of unreality that they can’t move forward and would instead prefer to elect criminals. But it is up to us to stop it.
Look. I've said this time and time again. I don’t hate Republicans or conservatives or MAGA people. I don’t hate Russians. I don’t hate Chinese. I don’t hate North Koreans. It makes me angry that their beliefs are so delusional, sure. And detached from reality. It makes me pity them and the rest of us, for them. But not really for them so much as for their foolish beliefs. Many of which are founded on thousands of years of ridiculous religious belief. Beliefs which have been weaponized by those seeking power and wealth. I just don’t believe in hating people. I don't believe in hating other Americans. But I do despise stupidity in those purposely sowing disinformation, and cramming it down other people's throats. I also don’t hate ignorance. I think it’s something we’re supposed to help others be brought up out of. I have a saying that I’ve been saying for decades now, that "ignorance is noble" because we all begin ignorant. But it is our job to farm and plant in our mind, to sow good and useful thoughts, so we can eventually harvest wisdom and share that with others. Benefiting all, and not just ourselves. Which seems anymore to be the only thing the Republican Party is based upon. Let's leave that for petty dictators (who Trump; loves so much) in Putin, North Korean leaders, and so on. Let's not bring it anymore into America. Because that's not what we were founded to do.
Anyone, who you’re arguing with about the bullshit that’s going on, who devolves into "whataboutisms" is just trying to distract or pivot, like saying "not all white people are like that" or "not all Republicans are...", or whatever… Those people are energy vampires so stop talking to them and get out and do something useful.
Our Republic, our democracy, is about humanity. Not about politics. Politics is a means to an end. We’ve seen time and again hardliners who, one put with people they hated, who spend time with them end up walking away, saying, "Wow, I was so wrong about them. I was so wrong about their problems. Now I see the abuse they live through every day. I wanted to fight against the abuse I saw they were experiencing while I was walking with them, nd I found myself wanting to punch out people, who are just like me and abusing them in public and in private. Who are harassing, terrorizing these people, who don’t deserve it. All because of politics that says they hate us, they want to end us, or they want to replace us. Well? They don’t. They just want to live and experience life as everyone else does and can."
Republicans, Congress in general...do NOT pass new laws to protect FPOTUS' like Donald Trump. Pass new laws, as you just did, that even Mitch McConnell signed onto, to protect America and our democratic republic...from THEM. We're who is important. Not THEM.
This just popped in my head from the other day… I saw pictures of a Russian nuclear train, allegedly headed to Ukraine (nope, see link to article). It seems to me when you know something like that is there, any other country in the world should’ve taken that train out. We have to be (correct) more proactive as a planet. Especially, if they are known and headed for the border even if it was still in Russia. Well, maybe. If it's going to Ukraine, fine but if wasn't and you take it out, maybe not so good? Or maybe it would make a long needed point. The point needs to be made clear by the entire world that we're tired of these despots and tyrants and genocidal assholes who act like normal respectable leaders and plying legalities that are actually illegal and even murdering their own citizens. All while the world watches doing what? Nothing? Nothing immediate, proactive and substantive? It would be nice if we could just come together as a planet (but oh no, cries of one world government and loss of autonomy from the wanna be autocrats). We are all in the same sandbox, let's just start making sure we all play nice. I'm tired of this adolescent orientation of an entire planet being abused by a few.
It’s true what someone is saying on the podcast that the 2022 midterm election could be it. Our last chance. If we succeed to keep our government out of the hands of toxic Republicans and autocrats, Trump MAGA, QAnon, and other fools of that type of poor materiel… we will still have to start it all over again for the 2024 presidential election. Aren't we tired of this yet? However, if we blow it now, we’ve probably blown it for good. We may one day look back on this and see 2022 as the seminal moment when we decided to let democracy go. I mean yes, you can go back to 2016 and say it was when Trump was elected, or back to the early 1990s with Newt Gingrich on C-SPAN play acting at midnight in pretending he’s in front of a full Congress, spewing his lies and bullshit and showing the Republican Party how to use SOVIET style disinformation and propaganda to skew America away from democracy. All for the purposes of perpetual power and wealth. There is an argument to be made that all of this began when our motto was changed from "e pluribus unum" to under the more easily weaponized, "In God We Trust". With all the patriarchy, bigotry, and toxic theology that can be loaded into that phrase, with that as a foundation. As it has been and still is being done.
If America were to split off into different small countries, I don’t see how there wouldn’t end up being a war at some point. With those believing in democracy trying to protect those in the new abusive countries. Which would then be run by the abusive states with new Republicans, with some of the worst track records around for human beings and abuses of civil rights and reasonably perhaps, name themselves the Republic of Gilead.
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