Ashland, southern Oregon. Tuesday, August 4, 2026.
Supposed to get hellishly hot here today. 89 F now, the temperature is expected to go over 100 F. Heat index supposed to magnify the intensity.
Smoke from the fires has floated into our area. Air quality is slowly declining.
Back east, my sister reports that the closing on Mom’s house has slid back to August 14.
Reading the news, checking the weather, I again have “Running with the Devil” by Van Halen playing in the morning mental music stream. Trump is burning down the world. GOP is going along with it. MAGAts cheer him on.
Deteriorating quality of life, weather, rising inequality, increasing costs — who cares as long as Trump is getting his, right? That’s the Republican vision for the United States: protect Trump. Laugh at his ridiculous antics. Pretend that he’s not stealing them blind. Pretend that he’s making life better.
All they need to do is not think too hard about it. Stay in their Trump shells. Blame everyone else, everything else. And when he’s gone?
Well, first, will they accept that he’s dead? Will he become a second Jesus, where they spend their days waiting for him to come back? Will they pretend that he’s alive but being hidden by the deep state.
It’s all possible. GOP and MAGAts are good at pretending. Better at pretending than they are at thinking.
Hope you stay safe and comfortable, wherever you are, whatever you’re doing.
Cheers
Michael Seidel, writer 
I don’t see it discussed often. Usually the Left is planning their obit celebration parties. With his age and obvious poor health, the question of “What will happen when he blessedly dies?” has concerned me, for the reasons you wrote. Will the MAGAts believe it? Will they blame Biden, Clinton, Obama? What kind of woke conspiracy will it be? They stormed the Capital on Jan. 6. There is presedence. Also, when Lindsey Graham aka POS died, if people were anything other than “speak no ill” the MAGAts went nuts. We live in a stupid time line.
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“They stormed the Capital on Jan. 6. There is presedence.” — And this is downright scary!!
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