I’ve been thinking about the vast conspiracy that would have to exist in secret for Trump’s legal problems to be caused by a “political witch hunt” led by Joe Biden and the Democrats.

The four criminal cases ALL had evidence presented to Grand Juries. All these jurors in D.C., NY, and Georgia concluded that Donald J. Trump committed felonies, at a minimum. Some of us think he committed treason.

How could all the evidence and all the witnesses be under the spell of Joe Biden and the Democratic Party?

The sheer audacity of this “witchhunt” defense is mind-boggling to any fact-based person!

Dear Israeli citizens,

Look what Bibi Netanyahu has done to lose the next generation of America’s leaders. His rash actions have caused a backlash among college students that will be difficult to recover from. America’s support for Israel is deeply threatened in the short and long term.

Please recognize that for every Hamas terrorist that he kills, he has created thousands of recruits for terrorism among civilians in Gaza that will oppose Israel for generations to come.

The indiscriminate killing of over 30,000 Gaza civilians, mostly women and children, has gained Israel worldwide condemnation, and has put the support of their most important ally at serious risk.

Among the campus protesters, I am seeing Jewish students and Jewish campus organizations among the tent dwellers for Palestinians, and that makes me question the anti-Semitism fears. While there may be anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim remarks made at these protests, many have been attributed to others around the student protesters and not among the students themselves.

If young students, Muslim, Jewish, and Christian, want to protest the war in Gaza, that is not Anti-Semitism OR Pro-Hamas! We must be clear-eyed here that it is the devastation rained down on Gaza that is the offense and not fall back on assuming anti-Semitism because the attacks are launched by Israel. Israel does not get a pass just because there is a history of oppression. The oppressed cannot become the oppressors.

In America, we’re all entitled to be heard but not entitled to use hate speech. Islamaphobia and Anti-Semitism are unacceptable, and even in this day of Trump values, this behavior must be curbed. Yet, branding students protesting the war on Gaza as Jew haters is just plain wrong.

DJT speaks gibberish most of the time. The rest of the time, he’s just outright lying. I’m not yet willing to admit to myself that the American people and voters actually believe the things he says… I’m pretty sure that they just don’t care that he’s unfit to be president.

Trump was right when he promised MAGA, “I am your retribution.” That’s what his voters want — to stick it in the eye of all the rest of us who have managed to find love and peace, meet our challenges, and turn life’s lemons into lemonade.

They want to punish us, and Donald J. Trump is their champion.

In the meantime, the rest of us watch in fascination and scratch our heads as we see that while he calls Joe Biden “sleepy Joe,” he’s the one falling asleep in the middle of his first trial!

We are perplexed as he says “Joe Biden can’t string two sentences together” when we can actually see this!

It seems that the countries of the world are realigning. Russia and China have joined forces, and Iran is joining them, as is India to some extent. Brazil, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates are also part of this group, and today, I read that Turkey is joining them as well.

This group is committing to international trade agreements and alliances. It appears they are forming an international group to stand up to America, NATO, and 19 other non-NATO countries like Japan.

The country I mourn the loss of the most is Iran. The Iranian people love America and want freedom. They elected moderate leaders who worked with America to limit their country’s nuclear program, which was accomplished under Barack Obama. When Trump entered the Oval, he quickly withdrew from the agreement, and the result was that the moderate Iranians were quickly replaced with hardliners who immediately restarted their nuclear program. Iran is expected to have a nuclear bomb within the year, and they just became allies with Russia instead of America. Good job, Trump!

This group seems to think the USA and the West need to be taken down a peg. It will be interesting to see how this power play… plays out!

In the 2024 election, Democrats must run on Supreme Court issues.

Pull the threads of the current concerns of the American people, and many lead back to the recent decisions made by this unbalanced Conservative Supreme Court. From civil rights, voting rights, gun rights, LGBTQ rights, and personal individual rights to the authority of the federal government to enact changes to benefit the lives of our citizens, the Right-wing Justices are making unpopular, unprecedented, and arguably unconstitutional decisions.

In less than two years, this Right-wing controlled Supreme Court has enacted politically motivated decisions on all the issues we care about. According to polls, only about 25% of voters trust that the Supreme Court is “mainly motivated by the law.” With the politicization of the High Court and new evidence of the corruption by Justices Thomas and Alito, the country is ready for a remedy, and as Democrats, we must lead in reforming the Supreme Court.

The only fix to the court-packing done by the GOP is to rebalance the Court by adding four new Justices, taking it from 9 to 13. There is ample evidence that all the Conservatives appointed have outright lied during their confirmation hearings when they said they would support the Court tradition of Stare Decisis.

Stare Decisis is a Latin term that means “let the decision stand” and “holds that courts and judges should honor “precedent” — or the decisions, rulings, and opinions from prior cases.”

This Supreme Court has gutted Civil Rights Laws and Voting Rights Laws, which have long been considered constitutional by the High Court. They overturned Roe which had been challenged and upheld many times over 50 years. They just threw it out, leaving families at the mercy of state legislators.

And finally, they decided that the administration didn’t have the authority to give students loan relief, which they clearly do. $757 billion in loan forgiveness was given over a two-year period of time with the PPP cash loans. Much of it went to millionaire Republicans in Congress, while the student loan forgiveness, which the Right does not support, would be a “10-year cost of roughly $305 billion, as measured by reduced cash flows into the government, according to the Education Department.” And it would provide relief to low- and middle-income borrowers. For many Americans, that’s a ticket to the middle class.

This court packing cannot stand. Mitch McConnell has already said if the GOP retakes the Senate, he will not allow any candidate presented by President Biden to have a hearing… he’ll Garland them! The President doesn’t want to add more Justices because “it might politicize the Supreme Court,” but I have news for the President: the Court is already politicized, and the GOP intends to further politicize it if given the opportunity.

When the Republicans win, they break the rules with bold abandon and cram their extreme policies down the throats of the American people. It started before Trump, and we need to grasp the fact that this is not going to change. The President has managed to get some bi-partisan cooperation from the GOP in his first two years in office… but if the Republicans take the Senate in 2024, they will not continue to cooperate, particularly on the Supreme Court.

That is the feather in their cap and the hill they’ll die on. Save the Supreme Court. Save democracy in America. VOTE BLUE IN 2024!

A M E R I C A!
Future historians will tell the story of what happened to America but in the present… it’s all still unfolding in a blur of confusion. Once the world’s leader, our nation is now being dismissed and doubted across the world.

While President Biden leads the charge to save the soul of America and to secure the democratic values established globally after World War II, the reputational damage dealt to America in the four years of the presidency of Donald J. Trump is currently immeasurable. It’s devastating.

People across the world are shaking their heads and asking, “What happened to America?”

And at the moment, our country seems to be nearly evenly divided, with close to half of our citizens supporting Trump or Trumpism, which is nothing but hate and political revenge. His supporters talk about admiring his policies, but he really doesn’t have any consistent policies. He’s a card-carrying flip-flopper, and his followers don’t actually seem to care.

The Right in America wants a leader who is not a part of “the establishment,” which means they want an inexperienced outsider who has no idea how our government works or likely has any interest in learning. If they chose their surgeon with the same criteria, they’d likely end up in the morgue!

How can half the nation want someone who is clueless about running a government, a hapless baffoon on the world stage, and a lying dictator-wannabe to be our leader? And then there are the immoral, corrupt, anti-Constitution, and seditious insurrection qualities that the Trumpers seem to love!

At this moment, even having a woman’s right to choose stripped from American families, half of the people lean toward Donald J. Trump rather than Joe Biden. Why? Because he’s three years older than DJT?

Keep your passports up to date and handy, folks… we’re in for a very bumpy ride!

The MAGA crowd is acting just like the foreign terrorists!

Not entirely sure that we have a functioning country at this point. It feels more like Afghanistan, where rural warlords exercise their power with defiance toward the central government. And here, as there, they’re armed with an entirely different set of facts and beliefs and a reality that has no resemblance to actual reality. They are also literally armed to the teeth!

Like the Afghani Taliban, these American Trumpers are committed to forcefully taking over the country’s levers of power. They disparage our Constitution’s value of Separation of Church and State and insist that all Americans adopt their religion and make Christianity the national religion.  They substitute their religious faith for science and seek to enforce their control over women’s bodies and lives.

It’s hard to govern an ungovernable country and hard to know what’s really going on. So are the elected Republicans choosing misinformation for ideological reasons? Or are they deliberately sabotaging Biden’s attempt to control this pandemic and playing politics with Afghanistan relations? Unfortunately, many of the elected GOPers don’t believe half of what they’re saying. They just seem to be going along with the MAGA crowds.

Past experience playing along with Trump has often backfired on the GOP… so their reasoning is questionable.  And at this point, the MAGA crowd now controlling the GOP has started to go even further right than Trump himself. That was obvious when his rally crowd booed as he encouraged them to take vaccines. So perhaps Trump and the GOP have lost control of their Frankenstein!

Republicans cannot govern. They don’t even want to govern; they just want to win!

We really need to hang together for the next two elections. We can now see the scope of the damage done to our nation, from the rampant voter suppression, the conservative-stacked judiciary to the violence aimed toward our very government by the right-wing terrorists.

We need to STOP our circular-firing-squad if we’re going to save the country.  Our continued nit-picking of our own Party can only end in discouraging our own voters from showing up for the next two elections.  And preventing the GQP from retaking control is the imperative goal.

The Democratic Party is not the enemy; it is the vehicle we need to save our democracy.  If we have to compromise and don’t get the exact legislation exactly the way we want it, then that’s what we have to do.  Our choice at this point, if we want to keep power out of the hands of the GQP, is to remember to be adults and maintain the ability to compromise, at least on the edges.

STOP calling the Dems “cavers” and realize that compromising was the intention of our Founders in setting up the three branches of government.

I haven’t written in my blog for three years and six days. It’s been a long three years for our nation, and right now our country seems to be just holding its breath. Maybe the world is too.

So America’s back. Maybe. We hope. But with all our failings now exposed and revealed, we have a new reality. The arrogant American, believing that we’re #1 and better than all other nations, has come face to face with our failure to address our sins of racism and violence — and our past sense of self-importance is dashed.

We flubbed the pandemic. Russian cyber wizards have invaded our government sites and now have all our secrets. Our people no longer have faith in our American institutions. We’re lost and we can’t hide or pretend anymore.

We begin to question what we stand for: Win at all costs? Does truth matter? Is cooperation still an American value? Can we trust our fellow Americans? Who are we as Americans?

Perhaps we are at one of those existential moments. Will our democracy survive?

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