To start, I'd like to know, on Main Street, WHO still bemoans the loss of the "Golden Years", of the Reagan administration when, the once upon a time Hollywood actor (sound familiar), and his wife, "just say NO", Nance, there was 18% interest, high inflation, a 50%+ tax cut on Wall Street, trickle UP not down, which didn't work for Thatc…
To start, I'd like to know, on Main Street, WHO still bemoans the loss of the "Golden Years", of the Reagan administration when, the once upon a time Hollywood actor (sound familiar), and his wife, "just say NO", Nance, there was 18% interest, high inflation, a 50%+ tax cut on Wall Street, trickle UP not down, which didn't work for Thatcher either, Union busting, merger mania, deregulation, the beginnings of mass incarceration and privatizing institutions where profits rule over humanity, is beyond my intellect. If that knowledge makes me woke, well, I'm woke.
Reagan did say "Tear down that Wall" and 50+ years later we have a criminal convincing the country "To build a Wall" because migrants are the problem and why there is no middle class.
There is no true middle class for many reasons, but one must look to history to know about how damaging the Reagan years were and how, today's MAGA is different, and is not your father's Republican Party, if that was so great. I add the Founder's mistake was not understanding majority rule, or liking it, so they went the ill way of the Electoral College. It worked when the country was a few but not when it is now 300M+ more.
I read in another substack that, personally, angered me to a different degree as it took, from me, the hope in my fellow citizens to realize what we are up against, entitled "Joe Biden's Parting Gift to America Will be Christian Fascism", and I apparently am, both, naive and the smartest person in a room full of experts. Please allow me to explain.
I began to learn political history, as my life has taken me far from my school degrees, and I wanted some self-loathing activity to engage in, and had forgotten, because, well Biden, at nearly twice my age, could lap me 1000x in memory, and I started with a book by Elizabeth Drew, as a DC reporter, for the Post during the Nixon admin, along with my legacy hero Bob Woodward. He gets people to talk. I digress.
That start produced another 200+ books, from centuries ago through today. It taught me the tip of the iceberg. I have more books to read than years of my life. Most Americans, with little precious time or interest, don't get above the waterline and don't even know the basics of what Trump has been found guilty of, the laws surrounding those results, believe without a shred of evidence because they see no contradiction to their beliefs, don't understand how a man beholden to foreign entities and adversaries will affect them, not to mention his "dictator for a day", loss of their hard earned retirements and medical care, undocumented migrants do work Americans wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole, and Trump is notorious for hiring them, don't vote and if they do it is, statistically, not even worth the time to talk about, drugs will permeate this country until there is no demand as the drugs, today, are cheap, foreign sourced from all over the world, and require so little to get high, they can be brought in and re-engineered , by ever changing supply chains and ingredients, that ensure the supply to the dealers and addicts, they adapt and no wall or ending immigration will stop DRUGS. ICYMI migrants are far less likely to commit crime than native born citizens in all crime areas. By HUGE percentages. That is an issue that has been used over and over and over and for another day and without ROE, MAGA needs something or they'd have passed the immigration bill, Biden was to sign, against Amnesty International calling it the most inhume measure to date. I said let the MAGA have the border and use their weapons, militias, and gun everyone down. Do you know how long that would last? Yet, that is what Trump is telling the country he'd do on day one.
The above piece, about Biden and fascism, blames both parties and I'm not stupid to think Democrats or whatever allegiance you hang your hat on, unless you are MAGA, first your responsibility is to this republic but they all take money from people, places and things. Trump grifts. There is a difference, folks. I remember the nothing burger when Pelosi was scathed on SM about eating gelato in front of her Sub-Zero fridge during COVID instead of how many people were dying and why. Who cares about gelato?
Bemoan Congress insider trading, when an entire community, on X and elsewhere, is committed to hours talking of a 15k sell-off of Boeing stock, which will make the IRS more money because the elected official dumped it, right or wrong, or making money, salary and perks, as a professional, elected official within rules, when said professional is working their best to protect the country, in terms of the government.
The government is reactive, uses money like water, exposes no truths beyond the veil, if it were on Wall Street it would have been long gone, and that is that. I am all for capitalism but not run amok. I'm not Bernie. I'm not blaming Biden for the world's problems even though he's been around the same amount of decades as Trump. I shame those for the "hum-drum" because, folks, life is "hum-drum". Yet, we are at a point hum-drum needs to convert to knowledge and voting and forget the rest until democracy is saved. If it isn't, everything this piece and the one I mentioned WILL NOT MATTER. NO SCOTUS. NO MEDIA. ONLY HAVES and HAVE NOTS, but worse. Far worse.. No need to fret over the middle class or another election.
H Biden was hawked for 6 years, and is still fighting tax and gun indictments, while the board of the corporation, Trump's meme stock merged with, has Jr., another who was a chief of staff in Trump's admin, Trump gets 56% of the vote for stockholders and is aligned with China. The surety bond in his "rape" and defamation case was secured by Chubb and Evan Greenberg who is aligned with Russia. You can't keep saying HOAX to a person with any kind of know how in discernment and logic.
The article explains Biden's inability to pass more New Deal laws and didn't. "Scuse me? As a an interested American I can say he has or has attempted to do mostly what he set out to do but the POTUS can't change the price of groceries or set fuel costs, or alienate all of Wall Street, which in a standard, built of the impossible, he's actually done more of, optically than others, and put pen to the paper in cases where he can.
It is never enough and it will never be enough. There will never be clean coal. No one can stop AI but we can make training for such jobs cheaper and easier so Harvard isn't the only college that churns out smart people. In fact, those not Harvard educated I view as better citizens and future leaders. DEI, or Musk's DIE, was done to roll back, thank you insurrectionist husband, Black SCOTUS justice who should take a trip to hell with Cannon, civil rights progress by a billionaire and a couple of Asian Americans. Mind blowing. This might piss off people. But really?
I'm not going to burn myself outside of a consulate because we have had nearly three years of innocence killed, raped, tortured in Ukraine that is like America, in trying desperately to hang on to a democracy, after Shokin and the Russian defector Poroshenko got their corrupt asses voted out. I might change my mind after a zen buddist retreat, in the Plum Village, prior to Thich That Hanh's death, to understand.
My point is that whether you understand, or not, the problems HERE, in the richest country in the world, which one can complain, be pissed off at, about eggs or radically burn themselves to expose the atrocities committed in the world, and threaten to destroy this country when this administration isn't responsible for the world's burdens, making the outrage look pointless, in these last 3 years.
What does that say about the same populist "LOOK AT ME" that Trump does when he declares himself a martyr or victim? Do you think he cares about that young man or that he promised clean coal and that people can't buy eggs? I'm using extremes, I realize this. People are disengaged and need teachers, not literally, but to learn what preponderance of the evidence is, how one state's court decisions affect your state and why those elections matter MORE, how originalists on the SCOTUS, as the Federalist Society teaches, are of absolutely no use and are political hacks. The Founders knew a changing dynamic must be met with changing interpretations. Ambition must be met with Ambition or close to that. How is it the SCOTUS rules the state's control voting rights, still being gutted, but can't keep a person off their own ballot because of a bad look? Did they define or answer the insurrection question about Trump in the request, by CO? NO.
There will always be billionaires. Exposing them and telling and teaching Americans about them is the problem and if we eek out this election those with a voice need it everywhere to start the teaching on day one. Not town halls, not here, not SM. I haven't done enough. Most haven't. Some have done too much for others. A collective effort to end the Electoral College, codify laws, and start action not afraid of Wall Street but asking them, until forcing them, how they'd like to begin to be responsible corporate citizens and if it takes the veil away, then it must be immediately done if given the chance. We aren't who we were but we have sins to pay for, people to help and educate, train. I could go on for days. My intention is only to point to my own opining and knowledge about all the nothing burgers that, today, people worry about without stopping to understand what may come of their complaints in November if they can't find their conscience buried in lies and conspiracy theories because it is easier to hate than to learn.
To start, I'd like to know, on Main Street, WHO still bemoans the loss of the "Golden Years", of the Reagan administration when, the once upon a time Hollywood actor (sound familiar), and his wife, "just say NO", Nance, there was 18% interest, high inflation, a 50%+ tax cut on Wall Street, trickle UP not down, which didn't work for Thatcher either, Union busting, merger mania, deregulation, the beginnings of mass incarceration and privatizing institutions where profits rule over humanity, is beyond my intellect. If that knowledge makes me woke, well, I'm woke.
Reagan did say "Tear down that Wall" and 50+ years later we have a criminal convincing the country "To build a Wall" because migrants are the problem and why there is no middle class.
There is no true middle class for many reasons, but one must look to history to know about how damaging the Reagan years were and how, today's MAGA is different, and is not your father's Republican Party, if that was so great. I add the Founder's mistake was not understanding majority rule, or liking it, so they went the ill way of the Electoral College. It worked when the country was a few but not when it is now 300M+ more.
I read in another substack that, personally, angered me to a different degree as it took, from me, the hope in my fellow citizens to realize what we are up against, entitled "Joe Biden's Parting Gift to America Will be Christian Fascism", and I apparently am, both, naive and the smartest person in a room full of experts. Please allow me to explain.
I began to learn political history, as my life has taken me far from my school degrees, and I wanted some self-loathing activity to engage in, and had forgotten, because, well Biden, at nearly twice my age, could lap me 1000x in memory, and I started with a book by Elizabeth Drew, as a DC reporter, for the Post during the Nixon admin, along with my legacy hero Bob Woodward. He gets people to talk. I digress.
That start produced another 200+ books, from centuries ago through today. It taught me the tip of the iceberg. I have more books to read than years of my life. Most Americans, with little precious time or interest, don't get above the waterline and don't even know the basics of what Trump has been found guilty of, the laws surrounding those results, believe without a shred of evidence because they see no contradiction to their beliefs, don't understand how a man beholden to foreign entities and adversaries will affect them, not to mention his "dictator for a day", loss of their hard earned retirements and medical care, undocumented migrants do work Americans wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole, and Trump is notorious for hiring them, don't vote and if they do it is, statistically, not even worth the time to talk about, drugs will permeate this country until there is no demand as the drugs, today, are cheap, foreign sourced from all over the world, and require so little to get high, they can be brought in and re-engineered , by ever changing supply chains and ingredients, that ensure the supply to the dealers and addicts, they adapt and no wall or ending immigration will stop DRUGS. ICYMI migrants are far less likely to commit crime than native born citizens in all crime areas. By HUGE percentages. That is an issue that has been used over and over and over and for another day and without ROE, MAGA needs something or they'd have passed the immigration bill, Biden was to sign, against Amnesty International calling it the most inhume measure to date. I said let the MAGA have the border and use their weapons, militias, and gun everyone down. Do you know how long that would last? Yet, that is what Trump is telling the country he'd do on day one.
The above piece, about Biden and fascism, blames both parties and I'm not stupid to think Democrats or whatever allegiance you hang your hat on, unless you are MAGA, first your responsibility is to this republic but they all take money from people, places and things. Trump grifts. There is a difference, folks. I remember the nothing burger when Pelosi was scathed on SM about eating gelato in front of her Sub-Zero fridge during COVID instead of how many people were dying and why. Who cares about gelato?
Bemoan Congress insider trading, when an entire community, on X and elsewhere, is committed to hours talking of a 15k sell-off of Boeing stock, which will make the IRS more money because the elected official dumped it, right or wrong, or making money, salary and perks, as a professional, elected official within rules, when said professional is working their best to protect the country, in terms of the government.
The government is reactive, uses money like water, exposes no truths beyond the veil, if it were on Wall Street it would have been long gone, and that is that. I am all for capitalism but not run amok. I'm not Bernie. I'm not blaming Biden for the world's problems even though he's been around the same amount of decades as Trump. I shame those for the "hum-drum" because, folks, life is "hum-drum". Yet, we are at a point hum-drum needs to convert to knowledge and voting and forget the rest until democracy is saved. If it isn't, everything this piece and the one I mentioned WILL NOT MATTER. NO SCOTUS. NO MEDIA. ONLY HAVES and HAVE NOTS, but worse. Far worse.. No need to fret over the middle class or another election.
H Biden was hawked for 6 years, and is still fighting tax and gun indictments, while the board of the corporation, Trump's meme stock merged with, has Jr., another who was a chief of staff in Trump's admin, Trump gets 56% of the vote for stockholders and is aligned with China. The surety bond in his "rape" and defamation case was secured by Chubb and Evan Greenberg who is aligned with Russia. You can't keep saying HOAX to a person with any kind of know how in discernment and logic.
The article explains Biden's inability to pass more New Deal laws and didn't. "Scuse me? As a an interested American I can say he has or has attempted to do mostly what he set out to do but the POTUS can't change the price of groceries or set fuel costs, or alienate all of Wall Street, which in a standard, built of the impossible, he's actually done more of, optically than others, and put pen to the paper in cases where he can.
It is never enough and it will never be enough. There will never be clean coal. No one can stop AI but we can make training for such jobs cheaper and easier so Harvard isn't the only college that churns out smart people. In fact, those not Harvard educated I view as better citizens and future leaders. DEI, or Musk's DIE, was done to roll back, thank you insurrectionist husband, Black SCOTUS justice who should take a trip to hell with Cannon, civil rights progress by a billionaire and a couple of Asian Americans. Mind blowing. This might piss off people. But really?
I'm not going to burn myself outside of a consulate because we have had nearly three years of innocence killed, raped, tortured in Ukraine that is like America, in trying desperately to hang on to a democracy, after Shokin and the Russian defector Poroshenko got their corrupt asses voted out. I might change my mind after a zen buddist retreat, in the Plum Village, prior to Thich That Hanh's death, to understand.
My point is that whether you understand, or not, the problems HERE, in the richest country in the world, which one can complain, be pissed off at, about eggs or radically burn themselves to expose the atrocities committed in the world, and threaten to destroy this country when this administration isn't responsible for the world's burdens, making the outrage look pointless, in these last 3 years.
What does that say about the same populist "LOOK AT ME" that Trump does when he declares himself a martyr or victim? Do you think he cares about that young man or that he promised clean coal and that people can't buy eggs? I'm using extremes, I realize this. People are disengaged and need teachers, not literally, but to learn what preponderance of the evidence is, how one state's court decisions affect your state and why those elections matter MORE, how originalists on the SCOTUS, as the Federalist Society teaches, are of absolutely no use and are political hacks. The Founders knew a changing dynamic must be met with changing interpretations. Ambition must be met with Ambition or close to that. How is it the SCOTUS rules the state's control voting rights, still being gutted, but can't keep a person off their own ballot because of a bad look? Did they define or answer the insurrection question about Trump in the request, by CO? NO.
There will always be billionaires. Exposing them and telling and teaching Americans about them is the problem and if we eek out this election those with a voice need it everywhere to start the teaching on day one. Not town halls, not here, not SM. I haven't done enough. Most haven't. Some have done too much for others. A collective effort to end the Electoral College, codify laws, and start action not afraid of Wall Street but asking them, until forcing them, how they'd like to begin to be responsible corporate citizens and if it takes the veil away, then it must be immediately done if given the chance. We aren't who we were but we have sins to pay for, people to help and educate, train. I could go on for days. My intention is only to point to my own opining and knowledge about all the nothing burgers that, today, people worry about without stopping to understand what may come of their complaints in November if they can't find their conscience buried in lies and conspiracy theories because it is easier to hate than to learn.