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I hope some of the resources on the Democratic Party side are going toward drafting a 2029 Plan that will undo EVERYTHING that man in the White House has done.

With that new Trump coin, is anyone setting up a contest to see who can deface it in the most creative way? I am thinking lasers and Dremmel tools will be at work.

To the Republicans I still consider "decent" people: If you persist in putting (R) by your name, you are showing the world who you are and who you support. Labels is how the Allies won the war and the Nazis lost.

I attended a celebration of life of a woman who died 6 months ago. The love expressed by those who spoke in remembrance was moving. The lesson? Live to be well-remembered by those you share life with.

Taxes are rarely popular, but they come about through our political system. Paying $2 more per gallon of gas or diesel, known as the TRUMP TAX, came about through an egotistical know-nothing. Not anything that could be called a system.

Last week I commented on Trump's comment "Glory to God" noting that it was nearly "Allahu Akbar." Now, on Easter, he says "Praise be to Allah." All signs point to loony.

Donald Trump punctuated a recent Tweet with "Glory to GOD". In Arabic he would be saying "Allahu Akbar!" What's next? "Death to America?"

Every reference Trump made in addressing the nation about the war in Iran was punctuated by "the likes of which no one has ever seen." Why does Trump only hang with ignorant people who don't understand the phenomena of the world? He exaggerated the danger of an obliterated Iranian nuclear program.

What's more disturbing? That Trump knows what he's doing or that he doesn't?

I made it through one hour of the State of the Union. I didn't think I could hate him any more, but I was wrong.

Montana Secretary of State, Christi Jacobson, apparently gave Montana voter registration data to the feds. President Trump stopped walking and her nose got caught in his posterior.

Listen up, everyone under the age of 50. This is the song we need to be listening to these days...https://youtu.be/T5al0HmR4to?si=d8QIz3x5vcXwMU9O

In anticipation of the mid-terms it is now time to begin hyphenating the names of every Republican candidate who fails to disavow Trump with Trump' name. I'll begin: Senator Daines-Trump and Congressman Zinke-Trump of Montana.

I'm against shooting people--it's wrong. ICE shooting a man who was down is sickening. What everyone wonders is it that hard to imagine ICE agents in the cross-hairs of a deer rifle held by a fed up Minnesotan? The whole game will change with the first ICE agent gets shot from 250 yards.

Renee Good was a mother. She was a poet. The last view of her we had, she was smiling and non-threatening. Then an ICE agent in a mask shot her in the face. The administration covered it up and my Republican Congress-critters have said nothing in objection. They are all terrible people.

Tomorrow I will, as will all my 8 siblings, make herring salad, a family tradition that is about 60 years old for us. It's made with potatoes, beets, onion, pickle, apple and hard boiled eggs. In spite of being the color of Pepto Bismol, it's delicious, and brings prosperity in the new year!

My parents are from Chicago, ergo my being a lukewarm fan of the Cubs and the Bears. That said, I think my fandom improved with that insane Bears win over the Packers. Something good is going on in the Windy City.

The Republican Congress has put the President in an untenable situation. He doesn't want to reveal the Epstein files and yet his only exoneration(if you can call it that) is to have everyone be able to see them. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. I have said "damn him!"enough its working.

Imagine you were the President. Would you behave as he does? Of course not, and not because you don't have the guts or the nerve to. You have moral grounding in your personality and Trump does not.

On my No Kings rally sign I will have another quote from Teddy Roosevelt that I made up: "If Donald Trump gets put on Mt. Rushmore, I am climbing down from there."

My sign for the local No Kings rally will include this quote from Theodore Roosevelt: “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

This cropped up on another site today. "The vanities of our false distinctions..." Hang out with that one a while.

If you are a 79 year old lying, cheating grifter, overweight, stupid, bigoted, unChristian and lacking any empathy or self-awareness, can you still be called a "punk?" I mean, if you earn it, you earn it, right? President Punk.

I read an account of how Charlie Kirk rose to power. He was, it related, bank-rolled by radical right rich guys and his father. It made me wonder if anyone has coined the term "nepo-fascist?" That said, I condemn shooting ANYONE because of their political beliefs.

The price we must pay for the 2nd Amendment is the lives of children. I know it seems harsh but think of all the men and women with mental or emotional problems expressing their best lives. Who cares about children when that hangs in the balance? What do you mean "A Well-ordered Militia..."

I hate a lot about putting the armed military on American streets. I worry there will be an "accidental" firearm discharge injuring or killing a citizen. Remember all that's has been done to use the 2nd Amendment to arm every whacko ever? That's how a shooting war in our streets starts.

A drawer full of clean underwear is like money in the bank.

There was a line coming from a Fire Sign Theater bit that went:"She had a balcony you could do Shakespeare from." For some reason that line popped into my head when I learned of the plans to name the National Opera House for Melania Trump.

What do ICE agents get paid? When they take the "king's shilling," what do they get paid to do these horrible things? If I ever want to sell my soul, I want to know what the market will bear.

The annual interest on the national debt is around $952 billion. It is not going away. The big beautiful bill will add $120 billion to that number. And federal debt gets paid before money for any other purpose. Our grandchildren are going to hate us for tax breaks for the wealthy.

Parades: Bands playing Sousa Marches, Floats, Baton Twirlers, Service Clubs handing out candy to kids, Scout Troops sort of marching, a few folks on horseback, Flags, of course, all kinds. You will notice there is no place for the Abrams A-1 tank. Just doesn't belong.

I can't help but imagine that this weekend's BIG military parade--something that under ANY other President would be dignified and celebratory--is going to be potentially dangerous and/or violent simply because a whacko is President. How far from GREAT he has made us.

I am not the first to notice that everything Donald Trump touches is wrong, diminished, crooked or ruined. It's a feature, not a bug. That said, I still cringe when he works his will on things like Memorial Day.

I am happy to be joining thousands in wishing Bob Dylan a Happy Birthday and Many Happy Returns of the Day.I have been repaid many times over for whatever I have paid to hear his music. He's an artist, and he knows how to look back.

James Comey made a blunder when he posted the picture of seashells formed to say 86 47 because it could be seen as a call for violence. Keeping in mind that the 25th Amendment can be used to remove a President, how about this?

Is there a rainbow hiding behind Trump's destruction of the US science performing capability? I mean, more than dollars saved for tax cuts for billionaires? Well, the aged, sick and infirm will all die more quickly so they will be less of a burden. Kind of an anti-science eugenics. Ghastly.

The way the Chinese government has responded to Donald Trump's tariff torrent is the first cousin to telling a child to go sit at the kids' table because the grown-ups are talking. DJT's trip to the Pope's funeral probably saved him from further belittlement. Stay tuned.

When the President swears an oath to faithfully execute the laws, and then he doesn't, how can we not discuss impeachment? Oh, yeah. The craven nature of House Republicans (they learned from Mitch McConnell). If we are not bound by the law, what's left?

Now that Congress has passed the SAVE Act, all you married women better go dig up your passports if you took your husband's name. You will need a passport or some other document to prove you are not an illegal alien trying to vote. Yes, this is a hassle brought to you by whacked out Republicans.

President Trump's suspension of his tariffs resulted in a big jump of the stock market. Crashing the market because of tariffs was predicted by many. If you don't think this was a form of market manipulation on behalf of the oligarchs, you aren't paying attention.

Every high school debater learns a simple concept in argument:"assertion is not evidence." Just because you say it doesn't make it so. Apparently all the MAGA folks never were high school debaters. Whatever Trump says, they accept as Gospel truth. Without any evidence. No pushback.

I can't help but think the reaction of most of Americans to the threat of a recession is to simply stop spending. When the corporations that gave Trump their full-throated support see their quarterlies tank, you will see true voter remorse.

I saw the full gamut of citizens at the Missoula "Hands Off" rally today. While these folks were angry, they were motivated and engaged--not violent. I hope the dark part of America that conceives of violence as the answer stays asleep.

Every time Trump touts Wm. McKinley as his role model for tariffs and expansionism, I wonder if he read the part about how McKinley was assassinated by a disgruntled ararchist. Trump better hope America's anarchists are sufficiently gruntled.

There was a time when you couldn't get away from Republicans/conservatives talking about how you should live. Now, with Trump, they are demure and say, "I'll have what he's having." Never forget the ones who allowed it to happen.

It seems the complete takeover of the United States will happen with the complicity of Congress. They don't know how to fight. The courts are a feint, not a solution because DJT doesn't respect the courts. Remind me how many guns are in the hands of the soon to be damaged by Trump's policies?

The lower edge of the middle class is fraying. Thousands of federal workers and contractors cut out of work with no warning in a process that seems arbitrary. Jillions of guns in America. Any guess when we will be revisiting the Second Amendment part that talks about "a well-regulated militia?"

I got a collection of poems by Diana Seuss for my birthday. Man, what a voice. I only think about whether she is related to Dr. Seuss a VERY little. Don't let anyone tell you poetry is dead while poets like her are around.

December 7 and no snow in the valley. I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. And I fear no snow shoveling.

I understand why the President pardoned his son for tax and gun crimes he was charged with. Anyone other than Hunter Biden would have been dealt with much more leniently by prosecutors. But he didn't lie. He changed his mind. As a father and a President, he can do that.