This finger is for the nondisabled lily-white liberals who have told me I should use kinder language when I post about Donald Trump & the MAGA morons. You think being nice to people who support Nazi ideology is going to accomplish anything?
Trump, mad that the press is informing the People about the illegal work he’s having done on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, posts an AI generated image of Obama, Biden and Pelosi swimming in a filthy version of the Reflecting Pool with a caption that says “Dumacrats Love Sewage.”
That’s especially funny when you consider that Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., took his grandkids out to swim in a creek flowing with raw sewage.
I guess this is just more of that projecting that MAGA morons typically do.
Just some thoughts that came to mind while reading Heather Cox Richardson’s report today. Because she mentioned Senator John Kennedy, that made me think about President John F. Kennedy.
People have been pointing out that the rich are bad news and they should not be running the country because they are disconnected from the rest of society. They don’t understand what it’s like to struggle financially. They’ve never had to worry about money. They’ve never had to worry about not having food or being able to pay the rent. They’ve always had everything they needed or wanted. Jim Wright reminds us that the rich always fear the poor, that the goal of the rich is to keep the poor down and that we need to stop electing rich people.
I agree. But I suppose there are a few exceptions. Weren’t the Kennedys always one of the wealthiest families in America? I feel that several members of the Kennedy family, particularly those involved in today’s government, are a threat to our nation and humanity. But from what I know about John F. Kennedy, during his short presidency, he actually did work to make life easier for people who were struggling.
Am I right about that? I didn’t experience that era. John F. Kennedy was assassinated fourteen years before I was born. I know he wasn’t perfect, and I’ve heard about his behavior when out of the public view. But when on the job, my understanding is that he devoted his time to fighting for minority communities and the poor.
Maybe that’s what got him assassinated. Did other rich people feel that he was a threat to them and their way of life? It would explain why we still don’t know for sure who assassinated Kennedy. The rich and powerful have shown us that they can and do cover their tracks.
I have always been extremely proud to have been named after my grandpa. Gramps fought the fascists in World War II. I wanna be like Gramps.
I miss the days when most Republicans had some honor, the days before they became the fascist cowards that they are under Trump’s presidency. Colin Powell had been a Republican who I respected highly. He was a Republican until he declared himself an Independant after the extremism of Trump’s first term as President.
Powell wasn’t perfect. He made mistakes. He made big mistakes, some that had him crucified by the nation. But I admire how he admits to his mistakes in “It Worked for Me“. The degree of humanity this man had comes across clearly in this book, the extraordinary care and respect he had for fellow human beings, whether they were everyday civilians, soldiers, immigrants, politicians, foreigners. Powell was generous, kind and respectful.
A few years ago, I read R. Lee Ermey’s “How to Get Squared Away Like a Marine”. While I found some things from Ermey’s book useful, I was put off by other things. Through much of Ermey’s book, he was an asshole, and his views on people were too extreme for me. Powell, another military man who rose much higher in rank than Ermey, had a better attitude toward people and life. I felt that Powell had more useful things to say than Ermey.
Though I was never in the military, I had thought of Colin Powell as my general. Though Powell was an old man and he was fighting cancer, reports were that he was doing well, until Covid struck him down at the age of 84. I blame Trump’s mishandling of the Covid 19 pandemic for Colin Powell’s death.
I won’t be someone who sticks his head in the sand and keeps his mouth shut so privileged people can be comfortable with their ignorance.
Thanks to Torkelson for his hit in the bottom of the 9th, the Tigers swept the White Sox, 4-3. They are now 5-4 for the season. Not looking bad. Having more wins than losses is always promising.
So, the Tigers were swept by the Dodgers. Then they won two out of three games against the Mariners. Now they’ve swept the White Sox. Tomorrow, they play the Yankees.
Life is better when it’s baseball season.
So, I was just on Tobias Buckell‘s website. I’d gone by there a few times over the last few weeks, and it was pretty much gone, with a notice telling us that a new site was coming soon. Well, it’s back now, and with a whole new look, and sounds like he intends to use his blog more regularly, like he was back in the old days.
I need to move away from social media. I’m always trying. I try to restrict my usage of social media, to just going on there for a few specific reasons and then getting the hell out of there. But I constantly go on social media because I can’t resist the urge to say something that’s on my mind (which is not one of the specific reasons), and what usually happens is I get sucked into some other crap and end up wasting a lot of time.
I have a nice website that my brother built for me. It has not seen much use over the last few years. I should use the blog here when I have something to say, instead of social media. I going to give it a try, anyway.
I’ll probably still go on social for the few specific reasons. For one thing, Jonathan Maberry recently started a weekly “Ask Me Anything” livestream on Facebook and I enjoy participating in that, so that’s one reason I’ll still be going on social media.
Spring is here again, though it doesn’t quite feel like it yet.
