The Cheerful Pessimist

tRump & MAGA Republicans oppose every guiding principle our Constitution was based upon.

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WTF This is happening around Omaha. Is it happening in other parts of the country too?

The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million in Transfers Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East examines how bank accounts linked the president’s son-in-law—and former senior adviser—to Israel, UAE & Saudi Arabia. No Paywall 👇

It's Artificial Intelligence. It's Twitter. It's the Gulf of Mexico. It's Lake Ontario. It's the Department of Defense. It's the Kennedy Center.

It’s so hard not to give up. Enough already. How many laws need to be broken before things change?

Our so-called "leaders" need to push back against data centers and Al companies. Congress shouldn't go home until we get an Al safety bill.

A data center is being proposed across the road from my family farm in Nebraska. I own an organic garden & green house just half a mile from where it would be built. A meeting to decide on a moratorium is Tues morning. I’m getting ready to be there & have my voice heard.

The JCPOA, which Trump called "the worst deal ever," ONLY lifted nuclear-related sanctions on Iran. Sanctions for human rights violations, terrorism, and its missile program ALL remained. Trump is promising to end ALL SANCTIONS, even those imposed by international bodies. Victory for Iran.

For anyone who thinks the mid terms are going to be a blue landslide, let this be a warning shot. They are going to spend unheard of amounts of money and do anything nefarious that is possible to stay in power.

Today would be a good day for Trump and everyone in his family to release their tax returns.

Have you been injured? #slushfund

REED: How many taxpayers' returns were leaked by the IRS in the 2020 breach? BLANCHE: Excuse me? REED: 405,427. One of them was Donald Trump, correct? BLANCHE: Donald Trump and his family. REED: And Donald Trump was president at the time. So it was his IRS that allowed this breach of privacy

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Just got through the last 2 weeks of an open greenhouse & having 20 vendors out to the farm. Now time to focus on farmer’s markets. I haven’t been so focused on politics & I guess that’s good.

Gee,I'm wondering where the corrosive rhetoric comes from.

I went through the 40-minute interview from CBS 60 Minutes and found everything the network cut from its 13-minute edit. The transcript is FREE for anyone to read. I didn't put a paywall on it on purpose so more people could read it. open.substack.com/pub/decoding...

Sadly, I think many people’s minds went to, “Is this another distraction staged by Trump?” Very sad this is the reality we are living through.

Of course he had to say it was a record setting crowd tonight. What an imbecile!

All democrats did is punch back, and Virginia has a hella punch!

It’s amazing really that being a child rapist, charity thief fraudster, adulterer and all round asshole wasn’t a red line. Gas prices and grocery prices are. Weird.

In his second administration, President Trump’s family members are expanding their business ventures, earning hundreds of millions of dollars and prompting fresh concerns about influence peddling and conflicts of interest. https://to.pbs.org/4tTfPdh

It is a profound irony when the nation under attack feels more empathy for the attacker's citizens than the attacking government itself.

Trump’s war of choice will cause households to spend an extra $740 extra on gas this year. Meanwhile, Trump used his presidency to boost his net worth by $3 billion. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

Trump isn’t beating the antichrist allegations with these attacks on the pope

This tragedy of errors continues. Not one of the senior US negotiators was competent to the job. The US position was unrealistic. The process was fundamentally flawed.

Vance: No agreement reached. Iranians rejected all terms, incl ending the enrichment leading to a nuclear weapon. He spoke to DJT, Rubio, Hegseth and team consistently. "Iranians rejected out terms, so no deal has been reached" (..) We leave here having presented our last and best offer".

Megyn Kelly: “After 14 years inside Fox News, I’m exposing what viewers refuse to see—how the network morphed from news into a propaganda machine designed purely to cheerlead wars, worship Trump, and feed you manufactured rage instead of facts.” #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #FoxNewsIsPropaganda

The population of Scottsbluff, Nebraska is 14,323. One hundred and eighty-six thousand is thirteen Scottsbluffs. I was careful for sixteen years while thirteen Scottsbluffs happened. open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...

Trump’s safe space is turning into a scene of public humiliation. An analysis of more than 40,000 comments on his Truth Social posts by the New York Times found many of his supporters are disappointed with his second term. Only 25% of the comments were supportive. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/u...

Obviously. I mean, it's a crew of four with one woman, one African American and one (gasp) Canadian. If the Trump people were involved, it'd be completely different.

I am ashamed of my city & the Union Pacific. What a disgrace.

FROM THIS WEEKEND: About 17,000 federal-funded health clinics stand to lose a combined $32 billion over five years as more uninsured patients rely on them. From KFFHealthNews: nebraskaexaminer.com/2026/03/29/t...

If you live in Nebraska, you need to pay attention to this. Apparently the “Democrat“ candidate is not a Democrat at all, but a Trump supporting republican, who just a few months prior to registering to run, attended Republican-led training programs. #SheShed www.cnn.com/2026/03/30/p...

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Stocks fall and oil prices rise after Trump’s latest delay in the Iran war fails to raise much hope

Just completed my taxes. Not much changed between 2024 & 2025, but ended up with half the refund this year vs under the Biden administration. So much for the “beautiful” bill.

The federal government is freckin' piggy bank for these people www.cnn.com/2026/03/25/p...

The GOP lies - and the lies are intentional. They know the lies will appear on Fox news and will be heard by Trump voters who don't question anything they hear. So propaganda and brainwashing the willfully ignorant trump voters. They make the choice to be ignorant and are happy that way

These need to be handed out at every No Kings rally on March 28. Millions of them.

I used to work for the government. In order to justify budgets, bad actors overspend at the end of the fiscal year. So the administration spent $93B on bullshit to justify massive Pentagon budget proposals, all while gutting health care and food assistance. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Are federal officers really being assaulted? Or is the government lying to us about the numbers? You guessed it. They are lying. Call Congress at 202-224-3121 today and demand accountability. #ICELawlessness

Are we still looking for waste, fraud, and abuse? I think I found some.

“What happened to me was a flagrant violation of my Constitutional rights.” Patty O’Keefe was violently detained for legally observing ICE activity in her neighborhood. She deserves accountability from the DHS.