Tag: trump distractions

Saturday’s Theme Music — What do you want?

Ashland, southern Oregon — Saturday, November 14, 2026.

We’re experiencing a classic autumn day — windy, cloudy, a chance of rain and sunshine, nothing too cold nor warm. We’re talking lows of 45 F and highs of 58.

A friend suffered a stroke back on Thursday, November 5. She underwent surgery the next morning and had a carotid stent inserted but then suffered another stroke. She was unresponsive for a while and slowly gained a little back. Doctors though, more strokes are expected because of blood clots. Having no to little chance for recovery, she’s elected to return home and enter hospice.

It’s a pretty shocking cycle. My wife chatted with her on the phone before her Thursday stroke. They made plans for Saturday. After hearing about the stroke, my wife called her and said, “I guess Saturday is out,” which made our friend laugh.

We visited her in the hospital the other day. Her eyes were closed during most of the visit. She said little. Moved little.

She’s made her choice about what she wants. Her family accepts it. Wanting the best for her, my wife and I do as well, but we will miss our friend. Her husband had just passed away on October 17, so people who were once solid rocks of our social circle will be gone.

Looking back over the medical sciences’ advances, though, just think of what her chances would have been like when she was born almost 90 years ago. Yet, even with those advances, there are hard limits.

I wonder what it’ll be like 90 years from now.

What do you want is circling through my head. I find myself asking that about life and politics. What do you want? Do you want a ‘wealthy’ nation where things break down because everyone cheaps out from fixing them, a nation of lagging education because money is more prized over everything else, a nation where some are more free than others, where some are actively repressed and persecuted for being who they are, and some are homeless and starving?

I don’t know exactly how and where I formulated my vision of the United States, but it’s not about getting wealthier or gaining more power. It is about freedom, democracy, and equality, and We the People ruling ourselves. That often takes compromise, but I always assumed that logic, facts, truth, and history would be part of the conversation.

Now, under Trump’s banner, after Vietnam, Watergate, Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Iran, after the Recession when We the People saved those businesses who are too big to fail, after Q-Anon and Pizzagate, Watergate, Vance and Trump’s campaign lies and broken promises, and the Epstein files, I wonder what has been learned. Trump, MAGA, Heritage Foundation, and white Evangelicals have been trying to turn the vision of the United States on its head. Who would have ever thought that people would so eagerly support, follow, and trust Trump, given his history?

So yes, again — what has been learned?

What do you want?

My thoughts inspired Les Neurons once again. Spying on me as The Neurons do without apology, they fired up “Rock of Ages” by Def Leppard in my morning mental music stream. Made sense to The Neurons because the chorus keeps asking, “What do you want?”

Now I want to sit, drink coffee, write, and put worries aside for an hour.

I hope peace and hope rock you and your day this day and for all the days to come.

Cheers

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Friday’s Theme Music — Looking ahead

Ashland, southern Oregon — November 13, 2026.

A rainy day has followed a rainy night. Temperatures were at 58 F when I went to bed last night. I watched them drop from 54 to 50 in the day’s first few hours after dawn. Sunshine is as rare as Trump telling the truth.

We had a mild scare yesterday. When I went out to the store at about 4:30, the air was strange color and looked either foggy or smoky. It all came about very suddenly. Getting out of the car, I instantly knew that this was smoke. I consulted with the Internet. It informed me that the smoke was coming from fires east of the Cascades. The wind carried the smoke in and an inversion trapped it. All of the smoke dissipated within a few hours.

Reading the news and watching Trump and the GOP, I see that Operation Epic LOOK — SQUIRREL! is likely to gain substantial use in the coming year.

Whenever news that disturbs or bothers Donald Trump, Trump responds by trying to distract us. In this week’s case, he’s trying to distract everyone from the terrible, horrible, historic ass-whipping the Republicans experienced in the 2026 midterm elections. Trump desperately wants to convince everyone that it has nothing to do with him or his policies.

Trump is going through quite the spin cycle. Acceptance; contrition; anger; accusations of fraud; lies; now he’s onto hypotheticals.

Trump says he would ‘easily’ beat ‘highly overrated’ Obama

This comparison makes total sense in the fractured world where Trump resides. Trump is extremely jealous of former President Obama’s popularity. Obama is highly and openly regarded as a statesman and speaker while Trump is ridiculed for his word salads, twisted logic, fantasies, and delusions. Polls show President Obama is much more popular with the voters than Donald Trump.

In addition to all of that, people throw other things in Trump’s face: former President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Former President Obama was never impeached and was POTUS when the US finally ‘got’ Osama bin Laden.

Former President also never lost run for the presidency, and won both the Electoral College and popular vote. Donald Trump ran three times, lost once, and never won over fifty percent of the popular vote.

Former President Obama is slender, friendly, charming, intelligent, and often smiles and jokes, traits which Donald Trump clearly lack.

All Donald Trump can do in response to those being pointed out to him is smirk, brag about being rich and a convicted felon, and appearing in the Epstein files more.

Looking ahead to the end of the year and the beginning of next year, Donald Trump is going to have many, many, many reasons for him to invoke Operation Epic LOOK — SQUIRREL! and try to distract us from the truth.

Today’s theme music is by Bruce Springsteen. “Don’t Look Back” came out in 2001. I was thinking of a friend this morning and wondering what he’s up to. Been a long time since I’ve seen or heard anything of him.

As part of my recollections about him, I remember that he was a big Bruuuuccce fan. We were in Germany together and went to two Springsteen concerts in the late 1980s. Later on, in California, we connected a bit after we’d both left the service. Visiting him in 2001, he was listening to this song a lot.

So the song ended up in my morning mental music stream alongside what I remember about my friend. The lyrics are another interesting Springsteen composition, but the idea of looking forward and looking back suits my mood today.

Hope that you’re looking back with some satisfaction and looking forward with hope. Have the best day you can.

Cheers

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The New Trump Republicans

Republicans are shocked and dismayed that they were pummeled by voters during the midterms.

Yet, they go on being and doing the shit that delivered the results which upset them.

Here we go, your 2026 lame duck Republicans.

Final Thoughts:

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Thursday’s Theme Music — Just watch

Ashland, southern Oregon — Thursday, November 12, 2026.

Balmy and windy here today. 70 F and yet — not much sunshine. Just layers of lurking, casual clouds, gathering to let out on us tomorrow.

We’ve already seeing the Trump and Republican game plan. GOP is out to pass whatever they can in the next sixty days before they’re told to sit down. And they’re going to be devious about it, more devious than usual.

Likewise, Donald Trump is going to be mega MAGA Trump. He’s not out to make America great but that’s his base’s catnip, so he’ll be using it to get them going.

And Trump already doing that crap.

Trump Says He’s Pulling Vance Off Iran Talks to Focus on Fraud Campaign

That’s some deeply misplaced thinking that Trump is exposing. Looking to the past, refusing to let facts get in the way, Trump is trying to paint his loss with the same paint that failed before.

Meanwhile, affordability is an ongoing crisis for Americans in the Trump era. The war in Iran — a war that Trump started as a choice after promising no new wars — is negatively affecting affordability for Americans.

SMFH.

We can derive a few things from Trump’s stated intentions here.

  1. 1. This is another Trump distraction. This time Donald Trump is trying to distract Americans from the promises he broke, his failure to end the war he started, and the crushing midterm losses the Republicans suffered while Donald Trump is leading the party.

    2. Donald Trump has no idea how to end the war. It didn’t go to Trump’s script because he and his Defense Secretary fired or ignored the people who were the experts in how to conduct a war like that. Trump and Hegseth think it’s about being macho and using the biggest hammers. Only fools who ignore recent fail to grasp the nuances of modern warfare. Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth have consistently demonstrated that is exactly the kind of fools they are.

This is the start. More will be coming. Just watch.

Today’s theme music is by Mark Ronson, featuring Bruno Mars. The Neurons tapped into my thoughts and delivered “Uptown Funk” to my morning mental music stream.

Why? Well, it’s that chorus, of course.

“Don’t believe me, just watch.”

Yes, we’re watching you, Trump, and you’re validating every misgiving we’ve ever had about you. You’re proving again to be incompetent, arrogant, thin-skinned, greedy, and a liar.

I hope a terrific day for you and yours, rich with peace, good health, good food, and a joyous life.

Cheers

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The Same Ol’ Trump Song & Dance

Trump is doing his dance once again, singing a weave of lies, blame, and misinformation mesmerized and fooled so many in 2016 and 2024.

That must be qualified. Some were fooled because they weren’t paying attention. They liked Trump’s sound bites about affordability, releasing the Epstein files, and no new wars.

Stalwart MAGAts were not fooled. They knew what Trump was, and they liked it. Trump talks about hating others, and they like that because they hate others, too. Trump also blames the ones he hates for what happens to him, and those stalwarts like that because they like to blame the ones they hate for what has happened to them.

White Evangelicals weren’t (mostly) fooled. They’re interested in a Christian nation, as long as they can re-define Christianity (and American history) in ways that make them feel righteous and justified in hating others and preaching hate.

The wealthy were not fooled, either. They see Trump as a wealthy but useful idiot, cutting regulation, encouraging greed and profiteering as long as they gave him a taste.

Nor were the rock-hard conservatives like the Heritage Foundation fooled. They also saw Donald Trump and his stalwart base as useful tools for breaking the norms and precedents established through 250 years of existence as a nation. They disliked the direction of the country because it was too liberal and progressive, and they really prefer kings and dictators.

Those are the groups who sit in Trump audiences, regurgitating “Lock her up” and “Let’s go, Brandon”, limited in scope about what they’re able or willing to see and accept. Despite the blue wave of the 2026 midterm elections, those are the groups Trump is trying to win over again.

Just watch Donald Trump’s 2026 song and dance.

First: Trump thinks himself very popular. Why, if he was on the ballot, the results would have been very different. Even though all the accepted and respected polls tell Trump that most of the nation dislikes and disapproves of him, he insists otherwise.

Second: the blue wave wasn’t Trump’s fault. Even though Trump campaigned for others and urged Republicans to come out and vote like Trump was on the ballot — REPUBLICANS LOST.

So Donald Trump decides that it’s because all those other Republicans are losers.

Third: Donald Trump is very contrite in an interview. Yes, I went through this yesterday, and some media, as they so frequently did with Trump, tried to humanize and normalize him.

How long did that last? Why, within a few days, Trump was doing his regular dance moves.

Fourth: The midterm elections were stolen!

Gasp! How is that possible! It’s never been claimed before — except, of course, by Trump and MAGAts, people who can’t believe they lost and refuse to accept the evidence right before their eyes.

Fifth: Trump announces, gosh, the Iran war is ‘effectively over’.

Donald Trump has declared the Iran war he started as over, effectively over, or won before, and told the world that it would be over in a few weeks when he started the war over eight months ago.

Donald Trump also said he would not start wars, that he would stop war.

Your Trump Quote of the Day:

Donald Trump also said he never promised he would never start a war.

Next, Trump, said that he believes in freedom of the press, attacks a reporter for asking the questions which freedom of the press demands. Then he’ll blame the ‘fake news’ for the election results.

The next step will be Trump declaring that the economy is doing great! Prices are already coming down! They’re coming down fast! We’re in a golden age. A gaggle of distractions will be released, like this one, trying to change the subject.

Next, we can expect Trump to blame former Presidents Obama and Biden. Why, it’s their fault.

It’s the same ol’ song and dance that Trump was doing in 2015 – lie and blame others. Accept no responsibility. As the blue wave demonstrated in November of 2026, Trump’s song and dance is so yesterday.

A change is needed. The blue wave was the beginning, but a lot of work remains to be done.

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Monday’s Theme Music — In the dark

Ashland, southern Oregon — Monday, November 9, 2026.

Autumn is clicking in the valley. Changing leaves and falling leaves: we have both! Rain and sunshine, chilly nights and sluggishly warm days? Yes!

It rained this morning. 53 F now, sunshine and dark clouds fence. Rain skirts in and drifts out.

We did our Food & Friends deliveries today, so I’m late posting things. Adding to my tardiness was breakfast out at a local favorite, Brothers.

We’re moving toward winter solstice, the longest night of the year. Came to me this morning as I crossed rooms and noticed how dark everything seemed because clouds were blocking whatever sun managed to clear the mountains.

Thoughts about being in the dark multiplied. As it happens with life, we’re often in the dark, waiting for decisions or see how someone else acts or responds, to health issues to…well, it’s a big list, isn’t it?

We know the Dems are taking over in January. But who will be leading the Dems? We’re in the dark at the moment.

What will happen with the Iran war? In the dark, aren’t we?

And what will Trump do between now and the end of his term? Lot of expectations and predictions based on his past but we’re in the dark. We wait in the dark to see what Trump’s next distraction.

Will prices go down? Will AI take over and build giant robots which become our overlords? In the dark.

And, thanks to Trump and his DOJ, we remain in the dark about exactly what the Epstein files hold.

The Neurons ran with being in the dark, producing “In the Dark” in the morning mental music stream. Billy Squier wrote and performed the song, releasing it in 1981. The lyrics are all about how you might feel in the dark.

The other part of this how woefully Trump is in the dark, deliberately so, about how unpopular he is. His policies are failures for We the People unless you’re among the wealthiest of the people. Then Trump’s policies are just peachy. If you’re wealthy enough that you live off the profits of your stock investments and don’t worry about the costs of things like food, housing, gas, energy, and healthcare, then Trump’s world fully fits your needs.

I hope you find comfort, love, and peace whether you’re in the dark or in the light.

Cheers

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The Trump Blue Wave Weave

It’s very interesting to look at how different industries responded to the 2026 blue wave.

Wall Street loved it! They foresee political gridlock, which is ‘good for the stock market’.

The AI industry and data center construction were instantly up in arms, warning what the Democrats will do via building limitations on new and bigger data centers.

Healthcare and insurers focused on ACA were delighted, as Democrats were bound to make moves to restore the subsidies which many people need to afford insurance in this era.

Oil prices dropped, which will bring relief to food sectors because fertilizer prices should drop, along with gas and diesel prices, and the shipping costs associated with those. This comes just in time for Black Friday and the traditional holiday shopping frenzy in the US.

Oil stocks dropped. Sad face for those oil companies which made huge profits since Trump attacked Iran in Feb of 2026.

The renewable energy sector is also excited but realize, too, that with Trump in the White House, the Federal government will stymie investment and construction of windmills and solar arrays. They’ll probably turn to the states for renewable energy initiatives.

Meanwhile, who will emerge as the Democrats’ leaders? My wife is pushing a ‘take no prisoners’ attitude. She is all for bringing back the guillotine. Her choice to lead the Dems is AOC.

Others are pushing for Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, but there are also those pushing against those two, viewing them as enablers. Champions for these two react by claiming that the blue wave is a direct success from their leadership.

Selecting their party’s leadership is just the beginning for the Dems. They must decide on their priorities and objectives. One contingency of voters wants to go after Trump and his enablers and minions and demand accountability for their transgressions.

A more moderate group preaches to attack affordability first. Retake the purse strings and re-establish checks and balances. Put out the fires and then go after Trump et al.

Hakeem Jeffries suggested that voters don’t want to go after Trump at all. Jeffries said, “”I haven’t had a single member of the House Democratic caucus talk to me about impeachment. We’ve been relentlessly focused on affordability and accountability.”

Personally, I’m not certain that accountability can be achieved without impeachment, but that such claims either way should be part of a transparent investigation. Trump’s corruption is another growing sore point among Americans.

Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread

I suspect that if corruption isn’t investigated, Republicans would seize on that as evidence to them that the Democrats are the source of corruption. I make that suggestion based on Trump and the GOP’s recurring use of projection.

There’s also a fear that Democrats will waffle and bicker and not come to any decisions or take any directions, leaving us swirling around and around in a whirlpool of indecision.

Suggestions are out there about what to do. Drew Magarey published his demand list for Dems. It’s something to think about.

In the meantime, Donald Trump remains in the Oval Office, disconnected from reality, pushing forward an aggressively reactionary agenda, dismissing social services, pursuing deregulation and causing destabilization, distracting us from serious challenges as he tries to build things and name things in honor of him. Expect a great deal of Operation Epic LOOK — SQUIRREL! from Trump in the coming months. Expect more, too, quiet behind-the-scenes maneuverings from the Heritage Foundation. I have little doubt that they’re coaching Trump, pushing his lawsuits and attacks on checks and policies, sneaking around, trying to advance the goals and ideals of Project 2025.

Going into 2027, we know that for every Dem action, there will be a Trump reaction. Donald Trump will resist ending the Iran war and fight to keep the tariffs in place. Trump will fight renewable energy projects and attempts to gain transparency into his administration.

It’s not science. Just history.

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Trump Flails Again!

Trump has become a bad television show or movie, one you stay with because it becomes so bad, it’s funny.

Unlike those television shows and movies, Trump is a real-life challenge to our norms and acceptable behavior, with far-ranging repercussions emerging from his action.

We rolled into Tuesday, November 3, 2026 — Election Day in the US — with Trump and his policies and administration growing less popular. Donald Trump has fired effort after effort to enhance his standing. He’s offered payments, subsidies, and benefits to offset the impact of starting a war in Iran, driving up prices, and causing death and chaos. He’s even portrayed himself as various respected people like superheroes and saints. Nothing is swaying the voters because the pain from Trump’s failures is cutting too deeply.

As part of Trump’s flailing desperation, he turned again to Iran. New attacks were launched, resulting in greater confusion and tension about what was going on with the war. Donald Trump previously said no attacks on Iran were planned and also mentioned that the war was over or won, that the war wasn’t a war, and that gas prices would quickly come down, soon.

Your Trump Quote of the Day:

Trump was trying to say that the US isn’t at war because there was no shooting going on — never mind the death and destruction already caused by the seven months of war already endured.

Unfortunately for Donald Trump, commander-in-chief, the US announced new military strikes on Iran shortly after Trump’s convoluted weave about what constitutes war. The timing between Trump’s defensive explanation and the new attacks left Trump looking like an a) an idiot, b) a liar, c) out of touch, d) not in charge, or e) all of these things.

Trump already attempted to reduce the impact of voting by mail. Recent elections showed more Democrats than Republicans voting by mail so Trump tried an end run, attempting to slow down the mail. This slowdown affected rural areas more sharply. Rural areas in the US tend to lean heavily Republican, so these postal measures have paradoxically created the highest risk of ballot rejection for the very demographic that Trump historically needs, rural voters.

Trump also attacked voter registration in California and other states, and tried intimidating state voting officials. In parallel, red states attempted to reduce voter participation by onerous voter registration and ID laws, closing voting locations, and prohibiting water in line.

With none of that working, Operation Epic LOOK — SQUIRREL! went into action.

Operation Epic LOOK — SQUIRREL! is Donald Trump’s recurring project to keep people distracted from what’s going on — especially bad things like a war not going as planned, prices rising across the board, and a rising national debt and a growing deficit. Worse than all of those things for Donald Trump is the specter of the Epstein files and what they tell about Donald Trump, and Trump’s declining popularity.

Under Operation Epic LOOK — SQUIRREL!, Donald Trump has launched a succession of distractions. These include trying to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, demolishing part of the White House, starting construction of a new, gigantic White House ballroom, festooning the Oval Office with tacky gold decor, paving over the historic Rose Garden, tearing up a golf course, cutting down trees, arbitrarily declaring new names for places, sending ICE into US cities, abducting the sitting president of Venezuela, and of course, attacking boats at sea, killing people, and starting the war with Iran.

Whew! That’s not even a complete list!

The distractions aren’t working. In fact, many of them blew up in Trump’s face, acting as a catalyst to decrease his popularity and approval ratings.

Something had to be done. Something grand!

U.S. will stop $4B in aid to Israel at the end of the year, Trump says

I yawned when I read Trump’s latest desperate distraction.

There are a number of legal, political, and logistical impediments to Trump’s grand declaration. Besides those aspects, I’m dubious of Trump maintaining the focus and political will to do this. I put this alongside of many other Trump announcements, like eliminating the national debt, prices coming down on day one, no new wars, prescription drug prices being cut by hundreds or thousands percent, and stopping the Ukraine War before he even began his second term.

Donald Trump makes many promises. Few promises result in anything close to what he claims. Instead, he’s enriched himself, increased division in the nation, and is inflaming the affordability crisis.

A change is needed. I hope enough people realized this.

I hope a blue wave is sweeping the US.

Fingers crossed that it will make a difference.

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Friday’s Theme Music — Notorious

Ashland, southern Oregon – Friday, October 30, 2026.

Octobers is sliding home. On to November – highly anticipated, fraught with tension and holidays, November. Many think change is needed. Disagreement still fills debate about what change is required.

It was another cold night last night, 34 F. Today is bleakly sunny with faded, slanting sunshine and a high in the low 50s.

My wife and I are going to a movie tonight at the Varsity Theater. “Wicker” is finally out, a movie starring Olivia Colman, Peter Dinklage, and Alexander Skarsgård, my wife has been looking forward to it for months. Based on a short story, the movie is a romantasy comedy about a woman who commissions a basket weaver to make her a man made of wicker.

Mom and I talked on the phone for another 30 minutes today. Her voice doesn’t carry well and her thoughts seem to scatter. She’s free of her UTI for today, and her birthday went well as my other sister, Lisa, visited her. Gina went by today, dropping supplies off for Mom. Gina also will take Mom to her doctor appointment on Tuesday and take Mom to vote. Peace is at hand for a day.

Like many, I’m waiting to see what happens on election day next week. Mail slowdowns have been spotted so people have voted early in reaction. Trump’s Department of Injustice is already attempting to influence and challenge election results in several states. Whispers keep circulating about ICE being deployed to voting locations or other ‘strong man’ intimidation tactics. Trump insists without evidence that it’s needed because others will cheat. Well, we can smell that trumpshit, because we’ve smelled it before.

Trump is notorious for being indifferent to the law – or anything and anyone who isn’t him. When it comes to his welfare, wealth, image, and legacy, he’s very concerned. Not so much when it’s anyone else.

Donald Trump has failed in so many ways. Economy, healthcare, national debt, war, popularity, cell phone, crypto, tariffs, trade agreements. He even failed to win the Nobel Peace Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. He’s only won fake prizes created to appease him.

And his approval and popularity are getting lower and lower, especially compared to former President Obama. President Obama is filling places, getting cheers, and grabbing headlines. He’s very popular. People came away from President Obama’s speeches saying, “President Obama is so smart, and he looks so good. Wasn’t that another great speech?”

Trump is winning empty seats and crickets. He’s very unpopular. People come away from Trump’s erratic rants wondering, “What the hell was he saying? God, he looks so sick and unhealthy. I think he’s going to die soon.”

So, we’ll see what Trump. Tries. Next.

“Notorious” by Duran Duran is today’s theme music. Yes, The Neurons plugged it into the morning mental music stream after I used the word notorious while discussing Trump with my wife this morning.

Although it was released in 1986, the song has some lyrics which fit well with the Trump practice of making and blowing off promises.

Sample Lyrics

Girls will keep the secrets so alone the boys making noise
Fools run rings to break up something they’ll never destroy
Grand notorious slam (bam) and who really gives a damn for a flaky bandit
Don’t ask me to bleed about it I need this blood to survive

You own the money you control the witness I’ll leave you lonely
Don’t monkey with my business you’ve paid the profits to justify your reasons
I’ve heard you promise but I don’t believe it that’s why I done it again
No no notorious, notorious, notorious

I can see references to the Epstein files via ‘girls will keep secrets’ too. Ditto, ‘fools run rings to break something’. Damn, that pretty well summarizes the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025: let’s break everything so white rich people can rule and make more money!

I hope these final days of October of 2026 find you in good health and good spirits. May you keep both through the coming months and many years beyond.

Cheers

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Sunday’s Theme Music — Caring

Ashland, southern Oregon — Sunday, October 25, 2026.

A dull sky hangs on as the sun struggles with heating and lighting, product of the Earth’s tilt and annual trip around the sun. 56 F now, it doesn’t feel that warm. Most of the trees are losing their leaves in my area. The leaves which remain glow gold against the overcast sky.

We attended a party for a friend’s 90th birthday. Her sister came up from California and hosted the party. They rented a large house in the country where all the family members stayed. Very good time by all. The woman, Anne, seemed like she was about 74 years old instead of 90.

On the negative side of the daily ledger, two friends tested positive for COVID. He suffers from Parkinsons and broke his hip. After three pins were put in it to fix it, he’s convalescing in an assisted living facility until he’s able to get around on his own. She, his wife, tested positive after him. We believe he caught it form staff or a visitor, and she picked it up from him. Not a fun way for them to end October.

Your Trump Quote of the Day:

Just a reminder of Trump’s response to COVID-19 and the pandemic. Six years later, and COVID-19 is still here.

Over in politics, Trump is becoming more openly aggressive and partisan. Through DOJ, Donald Trump threatened to investigate Alaska’s election results if a Republican doesn’t win. Within a day, Donald Trump himself warned that he would probably not do anything to help South Carolina in his official capacities if a Republican doesn’t win there.

Bottom line for all this: Trump cares nothing about the law. Yes, already well established. Nor does he care about Americans, including MAGA and Republicans. That’s clear as well now, because he would obviously try to help Republicans and MAGA even if it’s not a Republican representing them. But with the same certainty that the sun is hot, DJ Trump cares nothing except himself. End of story.

As October ends, I fully anticipate an ‘October surprise’. What will Trump do? Declare another emergency? Launch another wave of ICE assaults on US cities and citizens?

Both of those possibilities are within his wheelhouse. Trump may also orchestrate another ‘assassination attempt’ on him in an attempt to garner some sympathy votes.

Just as likely, Donald Trump, who claims he’s a peace president, will attack another nation, or increase his attacks on Iran. I can imagine Trump warning that he’s going to go nuclear, too, just to distract everyone and get their attention. Because this is Donald Trump. He doesn’t care what happens to anyone except Donald Trump.

Sure. Trump is ‘unifying’ people by threatening states and lawsuits if they don’t vote his way.

I’ll keep saying it and writing it because there are still some out there who think that Donald Trump cares about them: Donald Trump cares about nobody except himself. Until everyone out there agrees, Trump cares for no one except himself, and states it out loud, I’ll keep repeating it.

In honor of Trump’s attitude, Les Neurons installed Phil Collins’ classic song about caring in my morning mental music stream. “I Don’t Care Anymore” in 1983. Some of the song’s lyrics beautifully reflect what I think when I hear Trump these days.

Sample Lyrics

I don’t care what you say
We never played by the same rules anyway

Of course, while I don’t care about Trump and his lies, I must care about what he does and how he damages our nation, and the world. It’s a matter of collective security and future wellbeing. I care that others have equal rights, freedom, and the vision of a functioning and healthy democracy. Closer to home, I share the anger and frustrations that my wife, sisters, and female friends express about women’s rights and protections being stripped away by Trump. I share, too, the anger that people feel that they’re expected to work at multiple jobs in order to just survive while Trump keeps handicapping them with his callousness, greed, hate, and stupidity. It’s just fucking wrong.

May you be surrounded by caring friends and family and enjoy a carefree day.

Cheers

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