The intent of this blog is to promote human equality, human progress, human peace and justice, and optimism. To accomplish this, to encourage the discussion of ideas after identifying and discovering problems, and then creating positive solutions for "we the people," in order to provide for the "general welfare" and "domestic tranquility" of America now and its "posterity" into the future. To encourage an emphasis on separation of religion and state for all, no matter if this is for those "of faith" in a Maker / Creator (Deists, God-loving people, Christians, various people of spirituality) and atheists or agnostics.
I have been hearing in the media the reasons why the Trumpty Dumpty tariffs are not working for the community. What Americans don’t know and what the Democrats are not TEACHING America is how the tariffs imposed by the early U.S. government administrations was to support the development of industries within the USA. As a fledgling nation, we had little commerce within the nation, so tariffs could put a higher price on products imported while bolstering product development within the nation.
The Trumpty Dumpty regime does not even have an understanding of what a tariff is about. Instead they target our enemies and products from nations like China. WRONG. It is so haphazard, and then with the attacks on Iran, that it is all blowing up in our American faces while the Chinese are making out quite well. There have been American-Asian people who have proposed how we can beat the Chinese which have been projected as taking a world leadership role.
The Democrats had a better grip on what these Asian-Americans have said. Trumpty Dumpty regime demonstrates how stupid it is and has the lemmings (its base) following the “pied piper” over a cliff in which all America can suffer. Selective tariffs and all America suffer.
In effect, a tariff is a value-added tax (VAT). VAT is used in Europe. But the tariff is a VAT on imported goods. We could place an ACROSS THE BOARD VAT on domestic goods, too. Thus, rid us of the damn income tax which is a regressive tax punishing entrepreneurs who know how to develop this nation. The Democrats like Kamala Harris made a mistake in not challenging Trumpty Dumpty with a better version of VAT which would include a higher VAT on imported goods, so as to balance our American economy and improve the American GNP. Instead, the Democrats sliced the word tariff from stem to stern and never brought up the haphazard way Trumpty Dumpty regime was using it.
For me, I do not oppose the tariff as part of a VAT system. But I find the Trumpty Dumpty regime to be stupid in its application of it, as Trumpty Dumpty is stupid and chaotic and all other things, too.
Apparently, there are those who think they are experts and say that “tariff is not a VAT.” Wrong. You add value in the form of a tax to imported products, right? Then a tariff is a FORM of a VAT. PERIOD. I don’t wish to argue that with an expert who is actually a “drip under pressure.” A VAT can be a tax added to domestic products OR on imported products. It is a tax added to PRODUCTS. PERIOD. You want to make it as complex as the stupidity of a complex income tax system, a regressive tax, then go ahead and make it that way. Go ahead and make the U.S. Code a thicker volume with complexity of freaking lousy experts who are “drips under pressure.” Lawyers and accountants and others who think they are experts by writing complexity into the U.S. Code. For me, I am fed up and sick and tired of this complexity, hoping we can simply make one VAT across the board and differentiated ONLY by domestic and import products. Imported product VAT with a higher “value” tax than for domestic. KISS, and not kiss the asses of certain people who want tax this way or that for their own egotistical bullshit reasons and benefit to the selfish self. We are America, a nation of many people, not in selective groups to be catered to and make some happier than others so the bastards can be the only ones who become billionaires and run a dictatorial autocratic oligarchy.
It is sad that I can find no one who takes this perspective on this. So, the complexity and confusion begins. The Man-baby has no idea what it all means. The only benefit seen from his freaking lousy perspective is for the billionaires perspective. And the Democrats are just as stupid. They only look at this from the consumer perspective and come out with an inaccurate assessment. “Tax the rich.” That was how we ended up with the lousy fucking income tax. The income tax code originally took up one page of a newspaper. Today it is written in volumes so as to make benefits for all the myriads of stupid groups in America. We go back and forth with the Robin Hood theory to tax the wealthy at a higher rate. The billionaires then come back to the stupid Citizens United crap which is really nothing but Billionaires United crap. And what happens with this Billionaires United shit regarding the income tax? The REVERSE Robin Hood theory. In comes Trumpty Dumpty who does not know shit about any of this, is portrayed as some “white knight” to save the world and the bastard does not even have the foggiest notion about what he is doing with the tariff.
Once again. KISS. And stop kissing the asses of the billionaire group or the opposite side of the class distinctions. Stop kissing the asses of separate groups, offer H&R Block, Jackson Hewitt and other tax specialists the opportunity to run a VAT for domestic and imported products and stop this damn BULLSHIT we have today. As Warren Buffett said, re-write the U.S Code in a much smaller size rather than the tomes which now exist (to put his statement in a nutshell).
And fuck the Man-baby who only knows how to DESTROY, not re-write and reform it. The Man-baby is an ass-wipe and I determined this a long time ago, back to the 1980s. My perspective on the asswipe Man-baby is NOT based on politics, either, as the paranoid jerk seems to think he faces. He has always been a bigoted prejudiced homophobic asswipe as long as his face has been in the media. I have had enough of his asswipe face in the media.
I hate to end this writing with such a vulgar sour note. But how long do Americans have to put up with the American Fascist Party (aka present-day Republicans) who say, “their way or the highway?” When will decent Republicans who know the foundation of the party with Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Nelson Rockefeller, Everett Dirksen, and others? Decent Americans with a broader perspective on human lives in America, even if you are some asswipe who wants to find SOME imperfection in each one of these guys. I am sick and tired of finding ONE or TWO things wrong. That would also apply to Democrats like Thomas Jefferson, FDR, JFK, RFK, Sr (not the fucking junior), Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris. One single imperfection and each one is dead meat in the minds of too many lainbrained idiotic Americans who need an attitude adjustment about ideas of humans being PERFECT when we are not.
In your most recent issue (23 Apr 2026), your article, “The Aging Class,” the reviewer (Trevor Jackson) discusses Social Security. The point was made about a solution by Republicans to raise the age limit for retirement. I am going to copycat words used by 666 Reagan a 1980 debate with true Christian president Jimmy Carter, “there you go again.” Except I shall say it like this: “there you Republidumbs go again.” I am fed up with Republicans in this nation calling me a “Dumocrat,” especially if they are part of MAGA or the Christian Nationalists CLAIMING to be “Christians.” This solution to “raise the age of retirement” might be favorable to common folk who just listen and never take the time to consider the overall picture here. Perhaps it could partially solve the problems caused by deliberate Republican strategies to sabotage Social Security by taking money from the fund with investments which come from common folk. But the other sabotage done to Social Security is to make us pay a percentage of our income up to a certain six-figure salary and then it becomes nothing but a base equal rate for all the millionaires and billionaires. Who primarily funds the Republidumbs? The wealthy. A known fact. Why would they wish to change such a situation so that a percentage is applied ACROSS THE BOARD? So they continue to keep throwing the solution of age out there. Meanwhile, many of the Democrats, when they have the majority, ARE too dumb and wimpy to make the change which is necessary. But there are common folk Republidumbs who keep following what the wealthy say, expecting different results every time. That is called a mental illness or a stupid mental attitude. We need an attitude paradigm shift in America. Or one that is a paradigm shift to use some intelligence and common sense when Americans THINK – if they are doing such a thing as THINKING. It does not take a scientist to THINK.
According to government and fact finders, FICA deductions are calculated as a percentage of earnings, with 6.2% for Social Security and 1.45% for Medicare applied to all wages, but only up to a wage base limit of $184,500 for Social Security in 2026.
For incomes of $184,500 and above, the FICA deduction includes a 6.2% Social Security tax on the first $184,500 and a 1.45% Medicare tax on all wages, plus an additional 0.9% Medicare tax for earnings over $200,000. The Social Security tax does not apply to income above the wage base limit of $184,500.
All of this points to a bunch of complexity bullshit so as to keep the common folk ignorant. When ignorant, they just listen to the information fed to them from above by way of a media controlled by billionaires. The media goes about discussing all of the disagreements on the political spectrum and ignores providing FACTS about this condition in FICA and Social Security.
This is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. We need government leaders willing to take the bull by the horns (or by the balls) and do something significant, rather than the bullshit about increasing the age to begin collecting Social Security. There they go again. More bullshit rather than taking the bull by the balls and shaking it a bit.
According to a Facebook posting by FactFusion Space & Science, “Japan just powered its entire Shinkansen bullet train network from solar energy alone — 3,200 kilometers [almost 2000 miles] of track, 450 daily trains, 500,000 daily passengers, zero carbon emissions from the world’s most famous railway.
In order to make America look good, there was a posting about America and its development of “fast trains.” What a joke. After all, we are spending money on bombing and killing civilians in the Middle East when the rest of the world does not support us. In spending such amounts of money on violence, bombing, and killing, we make no effort to do what Japan is doing. In spending such amounts of money on violence, bombing, and killing, we make no effort to provide infrastructure to develop this nation, provide healthcare to our citizens – an expenditure for living, not dying – as the other nations do, we question INVESTMENTS in retirement, don’t wish to provide SNAP money or Medicaid money or home healthcare money. But boy can we shoot down civilians and bomb other areas like a bunch of obnoxious offensive dolts.
China fast maglev train:
Australian solar-run train
Dutch electric trains running on wind power
EV v. Hydrogen powered vehicles
Yet, ‘it will be a few years before America will develop a fast train.” What a joke America has become due to the Mag-baby shithead and his entourage. He thinks he can do better by clearing out his cabinet? What a joke. I would wager we would be further ahead if we had two years now of Kamala Harris than what this stinking idiot and his MAGA Maggots with ICE have given us as we are off to see the wizard of carnage in Iran. F**k the Man-baby Trumpty Dumpty, the MAGA Maggots, and ICE. They take our money away, whether that be taxes or the MONEY WE HAVE INVESTED (and still investing) in MEDICARE and SOCIAL SECURITY. You bunch of shitheads who don’t even consider the lives of human beings, whether in America or the Middle East.
According to CNET, “The crackdown on foreign-made routers labeled a ‘national security risk’ affects most major router brands. ‘If you plan on buying a router soon, read this first.
For me (and perhaps others), there were far less problems with cyber attacks on my computer with the Biden-Harris administration in charge than the high levels of cyber attacks I have experienced since the Man-baby stole the election of 2024. (Or should I say the Man-baby and billionaires like Musk PURCHASED the election of 2024). Just today, an invader of my router changed my settings in Firefox after I had once adjusted such settings.
As I say this, there are probably people out there saying, “see, it is all for protection of ‘national security’ since it is worse today.” Don’t jump to conclusions. Because the same router I had when we had the Biden-Harris administration still exists in my home today. So the same router has gotten WORSE, not better? You can blame it on the Chinese. You can blame it on shoddy manufacturing causing my equipment to degrade. I blame it on sabotage by the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans).
IF the Chinese are blamed, then where is the evidence and proof? Every time the Man-baby regime does something, it never has the evidence and proof. Just talk and that is it. Just a bloviating f**king tirade by the Man-baby. So I ask. Why would the Chinese do such a thing when there is a threat to the Chinese of losing business should there be a FCC ban? It is like murdering the messenger with informative news about the truth (and not lies as with the Man-baby Trumpty Dumpty Regime). We might say, “please don’t kill the messenger” when the “messenger” is informing us of truthful information we don’t already know. It is not the “messenger” who lies to us, as the Man-baby Trumpty Dumpty lies to the American people all the time.
From this, my conclusion is to identify the common method used by the American Fascist Party(aka Republicans) to destroy what we Americans have which “ain’t broke” at times. This is being done so the Man-baby Trumpty Dumpty MAGA Maggots can say, “see, we told you that we should destroy it because it’s broken.”
One word describes what is happening. Sabotage. Sabotage Social Security. Sabotage Medicare. Sabotage ACA. Sabotage vaccines. Sabotage PBS / NPR. Sabotage the image of immigrants. Sabotage government operations. Shall I continue with the list? Now it is sabotage foreign imports of routers by causing far more problems with cyber invasions which are being done by means of remote access and changes in our personal systems. While there may have been a sporadic occurrence of such things happening before the billionaires purchased the 2024 election, but it has increased exponentially since then.
What was the Biden-Harris administration’s solution to this problem? Not banning, as Mississippi Dixiecrat lainbrained idiots do to abortions (and then force all of America to do what they want – like a dictatorship, while Jackson, MS, has THE HIGHEST CRIME RATE INT HE NATION). No. The Biden-Harris administration put forth the idea of developing our own industry so we do not have to depend on foreign imports, especially when the supply dries up here in the USA. Again. Sabotage. The Biden-Harris-Democrat infrastructure was sabotaged, unless a local congressperson dolt stupid dickhead of the American Fascist Party (aka Republicans) returned to home base and told – no LIED TO – constituents about “supporting” any infrastructure project applicable to his/her constituents. Since the Man-baby Trumpty Dumpty regime began in 2016, with the help of Putin and liars on the Internet who were living in Russia and manipulating websites favorable to Man-baby Trumpty Dumpty.
I am fed up with “wait and see” attitudes and want us all to resist whatever the Man-baby SOB bastard Trumpty Dumpty puts forth. This time it is by way of the FCC. Next time, what will it be? Meanwhile, what has been achieved about the sex trade and Epstein and how involved the Man-baby was with that effort? What about what I just learned that Watergate asswipe Charles Colson did from Naples, FL, to destroy other people’s lives, even to murder while claiming to be a “Christian.” A “Christian” who may have been pardoned by Jeb Bush, but the bastard never repented. One of the Evil ones. “Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil ones, for our Creator is with us.”
Furthermore, the Man-baby asswipe should be spending money on creating cyber security to protect Americans, continue building our manufacturing infrastructure for our own nation, and placing those in jail or locate them who intrude on us in our homes and BLOCK them. That would include those from Russia, India, and other locations. Instead, the asswipe spends money on attacking and killing civilians in Iran. Instead, the asswipe spends money on ICE to kill Renee Good and imprison good AMERICANS who are here seeking citizenship papers. What does he do? Find someone from a foreign country, enlist them in the CIA, then send them back? Is this recruitment for the CIA? F**k such moves and spend money on AMERICANS to make life better for all and thus lower crime rates in America.
As a historian, I consider what can be learned from history. Being an avid viewer of Murder, She Wrote, Perry Mason, and [Ben] Matlock, Poirot (Agatha Christie), Murdock Mysteries (produced and broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.), I often consider what it takes to research what is happening, both historically and during our current days. Actually, I have been doing research about much of what has been happening with political figures since I was a librarian working at a Florida corporation where Lawton Chiles (“Walkin'” Lawton who won his U.S. Senate seat after walking the entire state of Florida). While I spent most of my time researching environmental impacts of zebra mussels on hydro plants, nuclear energy and cold fusion as an alternative, alternative fuels, and self-insuring the corporation following losses due to Hurricane Andrew in 1992, I was also assigned projects by the CFO of the company who likely got the orders from “Walkin'” Lawton who was serving on our board of trustees after he departed the U.S. Senate and was preparing for a run for governor.
The assignment was to research the possible impact of Jeb Bush on our company should he run for governor. In the process, I discovered “Jebbie’s” interests were strong in gambling and attempting to make gambling legal in Florida. (“Jebbie” was the name used by a Republican in Florida whom I had known most of my life who had come from Newark Valley – speaking as if he knew “Jebbie’ personally; he may have; coincidence: once gambling happened in Florida, the guy spent a great bit of time at the gambling casino; the CFO of that company was related to the founder of the Publix chain which, along with “Walkin'” Lawton, stood firmly against legalization of gambling; another note: the one from Newark Valley was the widower of a former mayor of Newark Valley; both were in two different political parties, but at that time, I was still a registered Republican; that guy was also a veteran of the U.S. Army Air Corps of World War II). Apparently there were a number of us who were looking into Jeb Bush and in various arenas in Florida and who knows where else.
As a result, when Lawton Chiles ran for governor in 1994, his opponent was “Jebbie” Bush. “Walkin'” Lawton defeated “Jebbie” Bush in that 1990 election. It likely really angered “Jebbie” and I believe I have felt the target of vengeance, among many others. For during that time, there was an influx of Republicans beginning to work a hostile takeover of our company where I owned company stock. They were working with two that I know of. Kenneth Lay of a natural gas company based in Houston, TX (where possibly – speculative – a NV Baptist and former Democrat racist bigot turned Republican was employed – his family enemies to my mother). The other person was Charles Colson. Colson had bee released from prison and made his home in Naples, FL. Other we had not found as much about him in this regard. My bet is that he was far more involved than we knew.
If one reads the details of Charles Colson in a Wikipedia article, one discovers there is a great deal of connection to both “Jebbie” and George W. Bush. First of all, Governor “Jebbie” pardoned Colson and returned Colson’s right to vote, in spite of being a convicted felon. Hypocrite “Jebbie” later created a privatized prison system in Florida for the purposes of jailing black folk. The reason? To arrest young black folk on misdemeanor charges in which white fold were NOT arrested, putting those young folk in jail with hardened criminals. Once released those kids were often tied up with the criminals in jail and often got framed for crimes they did not commit and ended up back in jail. Eventually they became felons who could not vote. Do we know a church where the pastor was formerly imprisoned and framed after returning to society? Framing is a common way to put good people away and remove their rights as citizens entitled to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” in the land with “liberty and justice for all.” It was a device used in Florida quite frequently, especially with black folk. Our Peace & Justice Ministries, an ecumenical group, worked to fight that as much as we could. We had Protestants and Roman Catholics all working together to work in the name of Christ and top the BS being done by racists in Florida. People up here say, “why should we be concerned because it can never happen here.” Think again. THINK… as Thomas J. Watson would say.
While president, George W. Bush gave an award to Charles Colson. Did he deserve it? Not on your life did he deserve it.
Furthermore, “Jebbie” pushed for a law called “Stand Your Ground.” It was sold as a means to stop people with guns. It was actually a law to shoot down black folk. For example, shortly after the law was passed, a young black man in a car turned the volume of his rap music up to high levels. Some white guy shot the guy and killed him. The white guy gets off for murder based on that law in Florida. Yet, as with Renee Good of Minnesota, the young man never threatened the white man.
Another example. A black person in a theater was talking during the movie. He was shot to death by a white person. Another example. An inter-racial couple at a stop sign in Fort Lauderdale were shot dead by someone “standing his ground” because he did not believe that there should be inter-racial marriage.
If anyone thinks this “foreshadowing” of events could never happen here? You are mistaken and we need to be prepared for such.
One more issue with “Jebbie.” He joined the SAR at the same time I did. When some of us wanted to admit black folk descended from veterans of the American Revolution, “Jebbie” was opposed to such. That would mean that my black relatives (inter-racial marriages) in Binghamton would not be able to join the SAR, based on the same ancestors I have.
Oh, yes. Can I forget when I was at St. Mary’s Medical Center in North Palm Beach (where “Jebbie” was on the board of directors), I was blackmailed by some woman on staff there who had said she knew “Jebbie.” Hmmmmm. Her last name was Ellis. Do you know what JEB is? JOHN ELLIS BUSH – related to the Ellis family. She tried to blackmail me unless I expressed support for Donald Trump. That was 2018 during Trump’s first term. Furthermore, I am still wondering why I was carted a long distance by helicopter to St. Mary’s when there was a trauma center within a short driving distance from my home and that hospital was where my own primary care physician worked.
The question still remains. In the last month of “Walkin'” Lawton’s term as governor, as “Jebbie” was about to assume the office of governor, he suddenly died. There has been talk “on the street” that Bush and that family was responsible for the death of Chiles. But it has never been proven. After reading the article about Charles Colson of Naples, FL, I have to speculate, based on the number of times that Colson used poisons and LSD against people whom Nixon had a vengeance. One person was against a reporter named Jack Anderson who had released a defamatory story about Nixon just prior to the 1960 election. Nixon held a vengeance against Anderson, blaming him for losing that election of 1960. And even today, we still live with this bullshit with the Man-baby and the Kennedy Rose Garden and the Kennedy Performing Arts Center.
Do I have proof that Colson was involved with Governor Chiles’s death? No. I do not. Only circumstantial evidence and hearsay “on the street.” A huge part of the circumstantial evidence is the popularity of Governor Chiles so as to defeat “Jebbie” in 1994. It was widely known that the Bush family was scared of Governor Chiles as he had plans to run for president in 2000 and the governor of Texas was favored by the Republicans: George W. Bush. Chiles could have beaten Bush, for sure.
It is also said that many who would be good leaders have been frightened by these events and don’t want to get involved in politics. Is this true? I don’t know.
There is also evidence that Teddy Roosevelt may have had ADHD. In those days, there was no medications to curb ADHD, as today. The claim has been made that those today who are like Teddy Roosevelt with ADHD would be pushed off into a background job of accounting or technology and not seeking leadership positions at all. Is this true? I don’t know for sure. TR’s father, Teddy Roosevelt, Sr., like many people of wealth, had purchased his way out of the draft in the Union Army of the American Civil War. TR reacted to that by insisting, during a later stage in his life, joining forces in the Spanish-American War where he led forces up San Juan Hill in Cuba.
But in 2007, Democrat Lee Iacocca wrote a book titled, Where Have All the Leaders Gone? It was not conclusive, but did bring up many questions for consideration. Iacocca did mention the favored status of the Saudi government by the Bush regime as it exited members of that royal family out of the USA following Osama Bin-Laden’s 9/11 fiasco. And much of what was happening with the corporation where I was working – Kenneth Lay, etc. – was related to the Saudi Arabians. I have a suspicion that the attack on Iran is more than just Netanyahu and Israel. Here we are in 2026 and the same ones who gave us high oil prices under Nixon are likely still involved with what is happening today, one way or another.
Side note: I have discovered that Lee Iacocca was at Lehigh University at the same time that a former Tioga County legislator from Newark Valley was at Lehigh University.
One thing about J.B. Fletcher, the character in Murder, She Wrote, was that she had taught English in the Cabot Cove High School. She often used literary elements in her work as a mystery writer and in assisting solving murders. Often she mentioned the use of foreshadowing in literature and applied it to real life situations. In this case, I see Charles Colson with Nixon and others, plus Florida events from the 1990s until the present day as foreshadowing what we are seeing now. People must not be familiar with this idea of “foreshadowing.” Most of my writing for the past 20 years is meant to be a foreshadowing based on what we all experienced in Florida.
Instead, I got this. “Don’t talk to me about politics.” It’s not politics. Sometimes what happened in Florida had to do with murder , framing, and blackmail by people who have no morals, scruples, or ethics.
Rather than look at what I say as a “foreshadowing” and an environment to learn from history, as I pass the historical experiences and information to others, people shoot holes in the information before even considering it. Listening to one another? You have to be kidding.
The Democrats who ran the corporation where I worked often had us doing brain-storming. NO ONE was to shoot something down and all was to be like placing our cards on the table before even discussion and communication. But there was NEVER to be shooting at something as if some person’s ATTITUDE was that the idea was stupid. If that shooting happened, such a person was only thinking about themselves, how THE PERSON could win, and push their narrow part of the world. Such ones had no capability for viewing the wider picture.
There is too much shooting down of ideas and solutions among the Baby Boomers and younger. In brain-storming of the 1980s and 1990s, those in the WWII generation were less likely to do such a thing. They had experienced this nation going through quite a hassle in Europe and the Pacific, besides experiencing the Great Depression. They had witnessed how this nation had to solve the problems of those days so such WWII people knew what to do in brain-storming. The idea for researching self-insuring rather than relying on big corporate giants of insurance so as to protect against hurricanes came out of one of the quality circles brain-storming sessions. Before we could take it any further, the GD Republicans swerved in and shut us down. An example of how much those bastards only like big corporate billionaires, which was something I viewed in the late 1980s and early 1990s in Florida. In those years, the Republicans shut down R&D for cold fusion and the R&D moved to Europe where they have made progress in that area, even if it is still not solved. As with the treatment of Einstein and 19th Century “Clinton’s Ditch” builder, narrow-minded Republicans scoffed at the ideas as if they could not be used to solve problems. Of course they could not when Republican strategy is to destroy by sabotage, as they have done with forms of public retirement and retirement healthcare which could provide capitalist ROI for retirees. To Republicans. It is called “capitalism, stupid.” Capitalism with balance and profits which is not an evil thing. Meanwhile, the one-sided lop-sided bulging pockets of billionaires is NOT capitalism. The 1000% PLUS increase in CEO salaries is NOT capitalism.
Colson did quite a large amount of damage to this nation and then was pardoned with his rights as a felon overturned so he could vote, and then awarded a presidential award. Life is not about winning and being vengeful when not winning. Such actions are described in the Hebrew Scriptures with verses about vengeance such as “you must take an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” In this time of Holy Week, we need to remember that Christ overturned that Hebrew Scripture. Christ also would not have accepted the Machiavellian words of selfishness and greed: “the end justifies the means.” Colson and others all follow such a principle or else they would not have invaded the Watergate Hotel and then validated their actions by putting down those who challenged them on their evil actions because “the end justifies the means.”
And with Nixon and Watergate, we thought it was all over when Nixon resigned in 1974. It was not. Democrat turned Republican Ronald Wilson Reagan reared his ugly head and challenged Gerald Ford from the moderate wing of the Republican Party, setting up the path for the fascists in that party. And going back even further, fascist Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover of that political party. Taft had challenged Teddy Roosevelt and the party was split in 1912. The difference was that, in the 1970s, Gerald Ford did not know how to “speak softly and carry a big stick” when Reagan came on the scene. That was also the beginning of huge increases in CEO salaries for people who don’t know how to make money the old fashioned way – “to earn it.”
Man-baby Trumpty Dumpty has no idea what it means to “earn” money. And this was known before he even ran for president in 2016, but did people take it seriously? Nope.
There is more. Charles Colson and the Christian Nationalists. Another day. Maybe?
It is not politics when it comes to human lives, human justice, human rights, and humanity living together in community and not as cliques which control other human beings. Lives have been lost in the Middle East due to an asswipe called the Man-baby who has no idea why he did it. That tells me he is a puppet of not only billionaires but also the Netanyahu Zionists of Israel. Zionism is a HAWKISH sect of the Jewish religion and I don’t like them as much as I don’t like those of the local Baptist Church and Christian Nationalists who believe anyone who does not believe as they do are heathens and heretics.
Those are NOT the words of a 1st Century Jewish man named Jesus Christ. My belief is that Christ is my Savior, in spite of the asswipes called Christian Nationalists who do not know the truth about Jesus Christ nor do they even understand the truth about Christ. So there. They claim we are all heathens. I just called that sect of asswipes heathens. Makes me feel better, don’t you know?
Zionism is actually similar to the 1st Century Zealots who were hawks and had one member of their group betray Jesus Christ and then he hung himself. His name was Judas Iscariot. Perhaps there was a purpose for Judas to betray Jesus Christ, but he realized his mistake and took his life, rather than repent for what he had done and change his ways. “Poor Judas” were two words used in song lyrics of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock musical, Jesus Christ Superstar. “Poor old Judas.”
Is it not time to say, “poor old Zionists and Netanyahu?” The ones who the Man-baby Trumpty Dumpty follows blindly along with Putin of Russia. The Man-baby proves that he has no brain of his own nor does he do any thinking to consider the overall picture. He is a puppet and only does what the Man-baby thinks will be best for his egotistical narcissistic ways.
In this environment, what we have during this Holy Week of 2026 is something similar to the “Saturday Night Massacre” of 1973 when Nixon fired several people due to the Watergate scandal. Just by coincidence (and I am saying ONLY coincidence, unless something proves otherwise), at that time (1973), oil prices were soaring so high that we lowered the speed limit on the interstates to 55 MPH, set up car pools, and made other attempts for consumers – you know, the DEMAND SIDE OF THE CAPITALIST MARKET – to save money and not be pushed when the envelope was pushed to extremes. One may recall driving four hours to attend college as a freshman and frequently car pooling on the trip to college and back.
What we have today, on Good Friday (3 April 2026) is a Judas-type asswipe in charge of this nation and we are there “when they crucified my LORD by killing other people. For Christ said, “those who do the least of these things to others, they do it to me.” The evil one with the Zionists are doing murder to the least of those in humanity because Christ believed in all people. Much to the chagrin of the Jews of his day, he spoke with people he was not supposed to speak with. A Samaritan woman. A prostitute. A leper. A hated tax collector. He said we need to love one another, which, according to a Lutheran pastor who wrote a book about James, the brother of Jesus, said is based IN the Jewish religion. Netanyahu and the Zionists, like Judas the Zealot, are NOT acceptable Jews, just as the American Christian Nationalists and the Man-baby in charge are NOT true Christians. Thus, this week, we viewed the “Holy Week Massacre.”
Furthermore Netanyahu and the Zionists demonstrate what it means with the oppressed becoming the oppressors. It happened with the fucking gentile puritans in the USA. It has happened with Roman Catholics, too. In 1948, the USA and its WWII allies were so comforting to the plight of the Jews in Europe, they helped them set up the nation we call Israel. The intent was not to make oppressors out of those who were oppressed, but to bring freedom to the Jews. When they fought, it was in defense of their land. This crap today is offensive and I mean obnoxious offensive done by oppressors who need to be shut down. Stop being like Judas Iscariot, you asswipes.
The person who told me, today, it was okay for us to “agree to disagree,” I say this. Your attitude sucks because I was addressing issues related to humanity not the fucking Man-baby and his fascist dictatorship which goes against humanity. It is NOT about politics when I am FORCED to pay a huge cost for injections in the eye while all other developed nations have FREE HEALTHCARE. Besides this consideration, there is another consideration. I spent almost 50 years paying into Medicare and could figure a large amount of money. It is a huge sum of money when it is added together, PLUS the fact I STILL INVEST IN MEDICARE TODAY WHILE BEING RETIRED. I SHOULD have access to the money so as to not pay huge amounts for healthcare. But due to the sabotage of people like the fucking Man-baby, we don’t get what we invested in a scenario of CAPITALIST ROI. What is ROI? Look it up in the dictionary, you dickheads. You MAGA shitheads. You fucking lousy ones who call us “Dumocrats” when we attempt to reason about CAPITALIST ROI. And where is MY MONEY GOING? To kill people in the Middle East, not for healthcare for the living. Fuck the USA military and the hawks running the Dept. of Offensiveness, not the Dept. of DEFENSE. Fuck all of you because you have pushed the envelope far beyond what our Founding Fathers would have accepted.
My apologies for becoming so irritated, but I am fed up with dismissing me with “agree to disagree” when it comes to human issues. That is fucking lousy thing to say to me. The stupid ones who cannot THINK are not even looking at things from an overall broad picture and are unable to discern right from wrong. We expect a secular government in the USA because we have FREEDOM OF RELIGION. Just because I use such words does NOT negate the fact that I believe in love for one another – unconditional love. Because we have a leadership which really sucks and tries to force their hawkish ways upon all of us – an attitude opposite to love and called hatred. Besides, I have seen more use of the “f” word on Facebook by people whom I have known rarely use the word. What is the fucking Man-baby going to do? Line us all up like the Jews in Europe and gun us down into mass graves? That is called genocide.
As a result, we end up in this nation with a fucking lousy leadership which crucifies our LORD. We shall overcome.
What is happening now, one could call this the “Holy Week Massacre,” in remembrance of Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre.” According to Sky History and Wikipedia, “The ‘Saturday Night Massacre’ occurred on October 20, 1973, during the Watergate scandal when President Richard Nixon fired special prosecutor Archibald Cox after Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus resigned rather than comply. This event marked a turning point in the Watergate scandal, leading to widespread public outrage and the eventual impeachment proceedings against Nixon.
Some may say history is repeating itself. I find that hard to believe. However, there are similarities. One big similarity is the Man-Baby Trumpty Dumpty pointing the finger at everyone else while three fingers point back at himself. Same with Nixon.
We have this Man-baby in charge. I have never liked the man since using one of his real estate persons in Florida to purchase my first Palm Beach County home. That was 1996. I hoped I could get over the bastard. The bastard returned into my life in 2016. I wanted Hillary Clinton, as did most of those in the popular vote where Hillary won over the Man-baby.
We then had Joe Biden. I had always liked Joe Biden. Maybe there was an imperfection. But overall, I liked President Biden. I liked Vice President Kamala Harris, too. I find it disgusting those who think either one was “not qualified” enough. Usually it was due to some imperfection. Bullshit on imperfection because we are ALL imperfect at some point. But what is the overall picture?
Why have so many Americans lost sight of the appreciation for what America is all about, in SPITE OF IMPERFECTIONS at times? What has caused this?
First of all, it was Reagan/Bush and the removal of the Fairness Doctrine. BTW. When I mention it was Reagan, then someone contests me that it was Bush. I say Bush and someone contests me that it was Reagan. That is another problem with Americans of the Baby Boom Generation and younger. They don’t consider the point being made but feel compelled to shoot something down – perfection babies. That is bullshit. There is not perfection. But by not taking a look at the overall picture with Hillary, Biden and Kamala, we have ended up with this shithead whom a British tabloid called the “Man-baby.” I call him the Man-baby Trumpty Dumpty who has falls and everyone puts him back together again.
The Fairness Doctrine in the media was put together following World War II so as to protect America against what the Nazis did to Germany. Hitler Propaganda Minister Goebbels utilized a strategy to tell lies over and over again until they become the truth. Propaganda. Americans who suffered under World War II were intelligent enough to see that we needed that Fairness Doctrine. The freaking lousy Baby Boomers and younger cut off their noses in spite of their faces. Thus, they care unable to discern fact from fiction and fall in line, especially the younger ones who were never taught the words of the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution or Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, etc., who are not able to discern what is right and wrong with regard to morality and ethics. And these asswipes never learn from history that prohibition (alcohol, gambling and what not) have NEVER WORKED to teach a society right and wrong. That history shows us that censorship does not work, either. In fact, there are European examples today that regulation and moderation education work better than prohibition and censorship. Even Bobby Kennedy, Jr., gave a 2007 speech with FACTS and FIGURES that Massachusetts regulation of abortion did a better job of curtailing the number of abortions than the state of Mississippi (and so many lousy Dixie states from the old Confederacy and still fighting the civil war) did with attempts to PROHIBIT abortions. Stupid SCOTUS with no brains never saw this. And now I guess Kennedy believes “if you can’t beat them, then join them” – with his stupid idiotic asswipe crap about “anti-vax” vaccination position with no facts to back himself up.
Without the Fairness Doctrine, the media has become such an abysmal nightmare, it is unbelievable. During the Biden administration, how many times did the media put out good vibes about Biden’s accomplishments? How many times did the media keep broadcasting all the f***ing crap in front of crowds which the Man-baby gave us? People bought it, too.
How many times did I hear people AND the media complain about inflation during the Biden years? Many times. Yet the facts and figures told a different story and if one just looked at prices on the grocery shelves, one could see where there were increases and where there were not. If one was a skillful intelligent consumer on the DEMAND side of a capitalist market, they could have helped lower inflation even more. But no. Asswipe instant gratification Baby Boomers and younger HAD to have what they WANTED and never considered “what is it I NEED and how does that fall in line with prices?” Had the NEED outweighed the WANT, then one would have seen the price of beef short ribs to be over $10 per pound and dozen eggs to be over $5. There is no NEED for such when there are plenty of other options at lower prices. But no. Let us go along with the media and the result was to lambast Biden, Harris and the Democrats. You stupid jerks who cannot even discern the differences between what was right and what was wrong.
Furthermore, the environment for supply-side Reaganomics monopolies stupifies Americans. It has become far worse now than it was when we had more WWII generation people still with us. Don’t learn from history because the Republicans have done a number on civics and history education, let alone the information specialists in libraries who have been destroyed by the Republicans. Under leaders in business and education who were Democrats, I have witnessed business and education thrive with good results while Republicans worked to sabotage it all rather than work with others who were not so fixated on bulging pockets rather than a simple thing such as PROFITS. Profits not such a love of money that the executives bulge their pockets so much that we have seen an increase since the 1970s in salaries of those idiots in corporate board rooms increase more than 1000%. Ever check to see what has happened to the idea of living wages for common folk in that same time period? Something Bernie Sanders addresses. And where have jobs gone? Few can hold positions at the top and those jobs at the bottom have gone to other nations – nations which provide FREE HEALTH CARE while the billionaires of America with their freaking lousy puppet regime find ways to make it more difficult for common folk Americans to find jobs and receive adequate healthcare without going broke.
No. The reasons today’s fascist Republicans want to stupify Americans in this regard is this. It is all done for the whims of billionaires and others so as to get common folk on board the submarine which is heading for a crash on the ocean floor. And let us get scared by ICE and other maneuvering strategies by billionaires and their puppet regime run by a mentally ill bastard called the Man-baby.
I see the manipulation of the media to always show Trumpty Dumpty’s face on television, while all the good things Biden and Kamala accomplished are ignored, while the media is talking about bullshit like inflation, while it was actually decreasing and the Federal budget heading more towards a balance than towards insolvency which is used as a means to destroy Social Security and Medicare where the common folk have INVESTED their own money and don’t want it used for the Federal general budget items. Musk and others have devised this strategy towards insolvency of a government so as to use it as an excuse to STEAL from common folk and ignore the ROI we all deserve from money we put into that system. It is called SABOTAGE by Republican fascists doing the will of an autocratic oligarchy It is called THIEVERY by Republican fascists doing the will of an autocratic oligarchy. It is called VANDALISM by Republican fascists doing he will of the autocratic oligarchy.
The ones in control and power are the money lovers who stole rather than EARNED their way to the top. They did it to me and others like me in Florida who were laid off – as early a the 1990s. Sure. I should not be asking for a little “cheese with my w(h)ine” because after all, I got through it. I was lucky that I had friends who were Democrats who cared for me more than the Republicans who just went along with the fascists. But not all are so lucky to have had that. And I am not talking about Democrats who were leaders with handouts. I am talking about Democrats who often were NOT leaders but helped blaze a path of OPPORTUNITIES, not handouts. And that is the difference between the thievery of the wealthy who no longer make money the old fashioned way – the “earn it.”
The puppetry of the penis by the autocratic oligarchy needs to stop. Such asswipes make it easy to call Republicans Republi-dumss. Make it easy to see that the word Republican in the dictionary is found between “reptiles” and “repugnant.”
Anyone for cheese and wine, my friends and fellow common folk Americans? I’m ready! The “cheese” I hope for is a return to an environment with a Fairness Doctrine and recognition that hate speech and lying (slander) is NOT protected as free speech. That is my cheese with the wine.
Note: AI is supposed to work in WordPress. Seems it is being used to block me. So….
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Commentary on “The Aging Class” in the New York Review of Books, 23 Apr. 2026; RE: Social Security
In your most recent issue (23 Apr 2026), your article, “The Aging Class,” the reviewer (Trevor Jackson) discusses Social Security. The point was made about a solution by Republicans to raise the age limit for retirement. I am going to copycat words used by 666 Reagan a 1980 debate with true Christian president Jimmy Carter, “there you go again.” Except I shall say it like this: “there you Republidumbs go again.” I am fed up with Republicans in this nation calling me a “Dumocrat,” especially if they are part of MAGA or the Christian Nationalists CLAIMING to be “Christians.” This solution to “raise the age of retirement” might be favorable to common folk who just listen and never take the time to consider the overall picture here. Perhaps it could partially solve the problems caused by deliberate Republican strategies to sabotage Social Security by taking money from the fund with investments which come from common folk. But the other sabotage done to Social Security is to make us pay a percentage of our income up to a certain six-figure salary and then it becomes nothing but a base equal rate for all the millionaires and billionaires. Who primarily funds the Republidumbs? The wealthy. A known fact. Why would they wish to change such a situation so that a percentage is applied ACROSS THE BOARD? So they continue to keep throwing the solution of age out there. Meanwhile, many of the Democrats, when they have the majority, ARE too dumb and wimpy to make the change which is necessary. But there are common folk Republidumbs who keep following what the wealthy say, expecting different results every time. That is called a mental illness or a stupid mental attitude. We need an attitude paradigm shift in America. Or one that is a paradigm shift to use some intelligence and common sense when Americans THINK – if they are doing such a thing as THINKING. It does not take a scientist to THINK.
According to government and fact finders, FICA deductions are calculated as a percentage of earnings, with 6.2% for Social Security and 1.45% for Medicare applied to all wages, but only up to a wage base limit of $184,500 for Social Security in 2026.
For incomes of $184,500 and above, the FICA deduction includes a 6.2% Social Security tax on the first $184,500 and a 1.45% Medicare tax on all wages, plus an additional 0.9% Medicare tax for earnings over $200,000. The Social Security tax does not apply to income above the wage base limit of $184,500.
All of this points to a bunch of complexity bullshit so as to keep the common folk ignorant. When ignorant, they just listen to the information fed to them from above by way of a media controlled by billionaires. The media goes about discussing all of the disagreements on the political spectrum and ignores providing FACTS about this condition in FICA and Social Security.
This is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. We need government leaders willing to take the bull by the horns (or by the balls) and do something significant, rather than the bullshit about increasing the age to begin collecting Social Security. There they go again. More bullshit rather than taking the bull by the balls and shaking it a bit.
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