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A Disaster Preparedness Expo is scheduled for 9 a.m. to noon at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway, with several vendors and speakers and lined up, including Emergency Management Director Jonathan Lord, Sheriff Rick Staly, Flagler Cares Executive Director Carrie Baird and Flagler Humane Society’s Amy Carotenuto. The event is free and open to the public. A lineup of the agenda is viewable here.
The Community Traffic Safety Team led by Flagler County Commissioner Andy Dance meets at 9 a.m. in the third-floor Commissioner Conference Room at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. You may also join virtually by computer, mobile app or room device. Click here to join the meeting. Meeting ID: 276 236 998 121 Passcode: CyEKoW [Download Teams | Join on the web]
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The St. Johns River Water Management District Governing Board holds its regular monthly meeting at its Palatka headquarters. The public is invited to attend and to offer in-person comment on Board agenda items. Note: meeting start times vary from month to month. Check here to verify the time. A livestream will also be available for members of the public to observe the meeting online. Governing Board Room, 4049 Reid St., Palatka. Click this link to access the streaming broadcast. The live video feed begins approximately five minutes before the scheduled meeting time. Meeting agendas are available online here.
The Flagler County School Board meets at 3 p.m. in workshop to go over the items on its upcoming school board meeting two weeks hence. The board meets in the training room on the third floor of the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. Board meeting documents are available here.
The Flagler County Planning Board meets at 5:30 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. See board documents, including agendas and background materials, here. Watch the meeting or past meetings here.
The Flagler Beach Library Book Club meets at 5 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every Tuesday and on the first Saturday of every month the Random Acts of Insanity Comedy Improv Troupe specializes in performing fast-paced improvised comedy.
Notably: The United States used to be on that list. That was back in the day when Dwight Eisenhower could drive through Karachi, Pakistan, at 5 miles per hour in a convertible, with tens of thousands of people jamming the road and no fencing (when not even Kennedy could do likewise in Dallas). We have long ago stopped being a favored nation around the world. We only have ourselves to blame. Anti-Americanism has nothing to do with the old Bush line: “They hate us because they hate our freedoms.” (I am paraphrasing, but it’s at least grammatically correct.) The great, the fabulous Simone de Beauvoir, the French philosopher so far superior to Sartre, her boyfriend, picked up on the trend when she visited the United States in the Truman years (1947), when red-baiting was pinking up: “To declare anti-American the books, the films, the remarks which still lend Jefferson’s ideal a living reality, this is what would mutilate America; the day it is forbidden to challenge itself, it would no longer be different from the totalitarianisms to which it claims to oppose.” We are there.
—P.T.
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October 2025
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Friday Blue Forum
‘Sweeney Todd’ at Athens Theatre
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Meeting
Peps Art Walk Near Beachfront Grille
‘Sweeney Todd’ at Athens Theatre
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In the morning paper I come across two small events that together seem significant. The black singer Paul Robeson was supposed to give a recital in Peoria; at the last minute, the concert was canceled on the pretext that Robeson is a communist. The authorities insist that they didn’t refuse to give him access to the hall because he’s black but because he’s a communist. Elsewhere, an amusing episode just reached its conclusion. Several weeks ago, a bus driver with a bus full of passengers traveling along some avenue got the bright idea to bypass all the stations and the terminal and to head out onto the highway amid his customers’ panicked protests. He let them out in the end, then calmly continued on his way to Florida. When stopped and questioned, he cheerfully declared, “That route was too monotonous. I’ve always wanted to see Florida. One fine morning, I said to myself,
‘Why not go to Florida?’ So I went.” This driver has become a popular hero. Although he’d been fired, he went back to work yesterday amid ovations. He was interviewed, as well as photographed a hundred times, and in all the papers he’s seen laughing through the windshield of the new bus he’s just been given. Perhaps such a fantasy is conceivable only in New York; friends have told me that nothing similar could happen, for example, in Chicago. But even if they are incapable of doing it themselves, all Americans adore these uninhibited actions in which they see ready proof of their love of freedom. This driver is a “character,” an original who has openly demonstrated that individualism America is so proud of. And certainly in France he would never have been reinstated in his job. It’s true that America is much more indulgent of sudden whims and impulses that do not seriously challenge its authority. […] “Our democracy is nothing more than a pseudo democracy,” a friend said to me this afternoon, as we were commenting on these incidents. “The word ‘freedom” is devoid of all content. The individual has no more rights; he’s at the mercy of arbitrary wills.” And indeed, people today invoke two principles successively and together, slipping from one to the other in a way that catches them in a fatal trap: “The interests of each person take precedence over the interests of all,” they declare; and at the same time they assert, “Everybody is free; even a coal miner is master in his own home.” Yet if a citizen is considered Red, he will be fired from the civil service in the name of the general interest; on the other hand, private employers will refuse to hire him: “It’s their right; everybody is free.” And the citizen also finds himself free, to be Red and to die of hunger. In the name of the first principle, the right to strike is restricted and labor unions are destroyed; in the name of the second, all sorts of private persecutions of racial minorities and political parties are authorized. And the sad truth is that the “general interest” applies only to a “private” category of citizens those who profit from the ruling elite and who intend to go on profiting. And the others are free only to the extent that they submit, which is the most abstract of freedoms.”
–From Simone de Beauvoir’s America Day By Day, April 19, 1947 entry.
laurel says
Some of Trump’s loyalists believe he is “working for free”!
Yeah, he’s working for free, and all he can steal.
Y’all love a double standard, don’t ya?
Capt Bill Hanagan says
True of course but whataboutism is no more righteous when it comes from the left
Truth says
Trump and the republicans are domestic terrorist!
Sherry says
Take a look at the latest polls. The majority of those polled “Disapprove” of the job trump is doing! Now, Maga will tell you that polls mean nothing as they are just a snapshot in time. . . well, this “Disapproval” of trump has been going on for several months now. Therefore, those “consistent” polls should be meaningful. . . and, they actually do reflect the opinion of the majority of the US citizens. BUT. . . Maga will never ever accept that truth!
https://www.realclearpolling.com/latest-polls
OK. . . Maga in denial will now post their lame BS excuses.
Jim says
Pelosi did use her position (and likely continues to do so) to get rich. In Congress, that’s totally legal. They all do it. Part of the grift we voters have put up with for way too long.
The Donald has set new lows for getting rich while in office. The cartoon catches that quite well. He’s the scum of the earth and we’ve got another 3-1/2 years of this crap to go.
We are at a low point in democracy in this country and I fear we haven’t hit bottom yet.
Pogo says
@Anyone
… an orange tree bears no apples; sometimes, people doth protest too much.
Ed P says
Listen to voter concerns and put forth alternative solutions that work better than Trump’s. It’s just that easy.
The constant anti-Trump drumbeat is the quintessential definition of insanity.
Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
The theory that the Democrats secretly support many of the changes in the first 200 days is being floated. What else can it be?
If it’s not true, prove it with better methods/ideas.
Andy Montgomery says
He has dedicated all his grif revenue for porn star retireses, suicidal virgins care from Epstein area, charity funds for all the Atlantic City workermen he robbed and all the woosies he grabbed and loser soldiers he dishonored.
Pelosi can match these acts of compassion and grace.
Kill that bitc…
🥸🧚🏻♀️
Ed P says
Sherry,
A typical “credible” political poll surveys between 600 and 1000 people.
That is “supposedly “ able to provide a margin of error 3-4%. The construction of the question asked is even more suspect.
Your logic and opinion on polls will never be viewed as “credible” by anyone who know the difference between Apple butter and shit.
Polls are in fact nothing more than a snap shot in time how those polled feel. They will never reflect the “ majority” of the country. It’s nothing more than consultants scamming money….big money.
As indicators they are about right 50% of time regardless how those experts spin the results.
So maybe you are right or maybe not…priceless or worthless?
Sherry says
Just as I said. . . and right on time too. . . LOL! LOL! LOL! Maga BS excuses for trump’s high “disapproval” ratings! There is no need for proof. . . the polls speak for themselves whether Maga likes it or not!
Sherry says
trump’s using his presidential powers to enrich himself began during his first term. . . this from Politico in Jan. of 2020:
Trump has spent one out of every three days as president visiting one of his luxury resorts, hotels or golf courses. He has leveraged his powerful international platform to promote his developments dozens of times. And he has directed millions of dollars from U.S. taxpayers to his businesses around the globe.
In three years in the White House, Donald Trump has accomplished something no president before him has done: fusing his private business interests with America’s highest public office.
Trump’s early decision to maintain his grip on his sprawling real estate empire — despite his pledge to put his business aside while in the White House — has created a vast web of potential conflicts of interest, accusations about his policies being driven by his business interests and even possible violations of the law, according to documents and interviews.
Even as Trump kicks off his fourth year as president this week facing the stain of an impeachment trial, he has managed to skirt accountability for widespread possible conflicts of interest that critics say represent a blatant abuse of power and create dangerous risks to the integrity of the presidency.
The intersections between Trump Inc. and President Trump are everywhere: A Chinese state-owned company was awarded a multimillion dollar contract to help develop a Trump golf course in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, amid a U.S.-China trade war. T-Mobile executives stayed at Trump’s Washington hotel while seeking a green light from the federal government for a merger. The IRS commissioner, who refused to release Trump’s tax returns to Congress, collects rent from a pair of Trump condos in Hawaii.
And in recent weeks, even Trump’s staunchest allies bluntly acknowledged that the president had left his own properties vulnerable to attacks by Iran after his order to kill the country’s top general.
“The level of this is shocking and deeply disturbing,” Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), a member of House leadership who serves on the Judiciary Committee. “This president has a habit of doing things out in the open, which are completely improper or even illegal and somehow … the average person thinks, ‘Well, if he’s doing it out in the open it must be OK; I must not completely understand the rules.’ But it’s not.”
“This president has a habit of doing things out in the open, which are completely improper or even illegal and somehow … the average person thinks, ‘Well, if he’s doing it out in the open it must be OK.’”
—Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.)
The White House and the Trump Organization didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Even after Congress launched an investigation into his businesses, the Trump administration authorized foreign governments to rent condos in Trump World Tower in New York, according to previously unreported documents obtained through a public records lawsuit by American Oversight, a watchdog group engaging with Congress on oversight of the administration.
Trump, already facing an impeachment trial while campaigning for a second term in office, is saddled with an unprecedented onslaught of investigations and lawsuits, many alleging he is violating the law by accepting money from U.S. taxpayers and foreign governments, both of which are forbidden by the emoluments clause of the Constitution.
The House launched an investigation last year, demanding the administration and Trump’s company release details about Vice President Mike Pence’s 2019 stay at a Trump resort in Ireland that came at the president’s suggestion. While they refused, new records obtained by POLITICO show the Irish police spent at least $4,000 at Trump Doonbeg while covering Pence’s visit — on top of $145,000 for other visits.
Lawmakers eventually cut the allegations out of their articles of impeachment, choosing to narrowly focus on Trump pushing Ukraine to open an inquiry into Democratic political rival Joe Biden. But lawmakers say they will continue to investigate to try to stop Trump from profiting from the presidency, force him to repay taxpayer money and prevent further conflicts.
“President Trump is openly enriching himself by encouraging government entities to spend money at his businesses, and foreign entities appear to frequent his business to curry favor with this administration,” said House Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y). “President Trump must be held accountable for his blatant disregard for the Constitution.”
Trump ignored calls to fully separate from his eponymous company, which comprises more than 500 businesses and includes properties in nearly two dozen countries, after he was sworn into office.
Sheri Dillon, a lawyer for the Trump Organization, said in January 2017 that Trump “wants there to be no doubt in the minds of the American public that he is completely isolating himself from his business interests.”
That never happened. Trump still owns his business, though he asked his adult sons to run it. His holdings were placed in a trust designed to hold assets for his benefit from which he can draw money at any time without the public’s knowledge.
Trump has responded to repeated criticism by denying he is using the presidency to boost spending at his resorts, insisting people frequent them because “they’re the best” and calling the emoluments clause “phony.”
“It’s not a big deal — you people are making it a big deal,” he told reporters in December 2016. Trump joined others in his administration who argued that voters don’t care. “They all knew I had big business all over the place.”
In 2015, Trump famously rode down the escalator of Trump Tower in New York and launched his candidacy. It was a sign of what was to come.
Sarah McBride won’t be baited by GOP ‘provocateurs’ | The Conversation
Trump has visited his properties more than 350 times since he was sworn into office 1,095 days ago, according to a compilation of information released by the White House.
He regularly visits his golf course in Sterling, Va., just outside Washington, and also travels to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., in the winter and to Bedminster, N.J., in the summer. On Friday, Trump left for Mar-a-Lago, where he held a closed Republican fundraiser, and returned to Washington on Sunday night.
Trump is losing money on many of his businesses, but revenue increased at some of the resorts he visited in 2018, according to his most recent personal financial disclosure forms. That comes even as Trump’s overall income dipped slightly, to $434 million in 2018 from $450 million in 2017.
Trump has promoted his properties dozens of times while in office, mentioning them in official remarks, everywhere from the United Nations to the Oval Office, and in tweets to his more than 60 million followers, with the frequency increasing each year he’s been president.
In March, he tweeted about Trump International Scotland, melding his businesses and his presidency in the message. “Very proud of perhaps the greatest golf course anywhere in the world. Also, furthers U.K. relationship!”
Trump announced last year that he planned to hold the 2020 G-7 world leaders’ summit at his financially struggling Trump National Doral Miami resort. But he reversed course after days of intense scrutiny from Democrats and Republicans, who complained he would be lining his pockets with both U.S. and foreign government money.
Trump and his adult children have been criticized for frequenting Trump resorts around the globe on vacation and on business trips, forcing the Secret Service and other federal agencies accompanying them to spend taxpayer money at Trump properties.
The Secret Service spent more than $250,000 at Trump properties during a five-month period in 2017, according to documents, providing a hint of what it may have spent over the three years of his presidency. There’s no way to determine how much in total the administration is spending because no single entity tracks that money.
More than 100 officials and groups from 57 foreign countries have made visits to a Trump property, according to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a government watchdog group. Trump even invited leaders of seven countries to meet with him at Mar-a-Lago.
And state-owned companies in China, Saudi Arabia and South Korea are building Trump resorts while other countries are constructing roads and donating public land for new developments — all potential violations of the Constitution.
More than 200 Democrats filed a lawsuit in 2017 alleging Trump is violating the emoluments clause through foreign payments received at his properties. The House even launched an investigation into allegations that groups — including at least one foreign government — tried to curry favor with Trump by booking rooms at his hotels but never staying in them.
Meanwhile, Republicans are flocking to his resorts, perhaps to ingratiate themselves to the president or just run into him.
Nearly 200 campaigns and political groups — virtually all conservative — have spent more than $8 million at Trump’s resorts and other businesses since his election in 2016, according to a report from the left-leaning consumer rights group Public Citizen released late last year. In addition, at least 285 top administration officials, more than 90 members of Congress and 47 state officials — some using taxpayer money — have made hundreds of visits, according to CREW.
In the nation’s capital, Trump’s hotel has become a place to see and be seen for candidates, Trump staffers and lawmakers. Trump leases the building from the federal government despite language in the contract that says no “elected official of the Government of the United States … shall be admitted to any share or part of this Lease, or to any benefit that may arise therefrom.”
Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.), chairwoman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee with jurisdiction over the hotel, is demanding documents from the Trump administration about the hotel’s looming potential sale to try to stop a questionable transaction, such as one that involves a foreign buyer.
“I think this is one of those problems of his own making,” she said. “He said he was going to divest, and then he didn’t divest, and then he put it in his children’s name and he’s kept on doing business.”
Sherry says
And. . . Now. . . During trump’s second term he is actually “Looting the USA”. . . This from the Milwaukee Independent:
Once a global standard-bearer for democratic norms and the rule of law, the United States now teeters on the edge of something far darker under Donald Trump’s renewed leadership: a full-fledged kleptocracy.
The warning signs were all there during his first term and the chaotic years that followed, but the opening months of Trump’s second term have obliterated any remaining illusions. The daily reality is a government openly run for the enrichment of Trump, his family, and his loyalists, while the machinery of state is weaponized against perceived enemies and rivals.
Kleptocracy is not a term to use lightly. It describes a system where those in power exploit national resources and institutions to enrich themselves at the expense of the broader public. Trump’s actions fit this definition with chilling precision.
The pattern is unmistakable, with attacks on due process and civil liberties for the disfavored, impunity and rewards for the favored, systematic undermining of independent institutions, and the transformation of government into a vehicle for personal profit.
ATTACKS ON DUE PROCESS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES
Trump’s approach to governance has always been transactional and vindictive. From the earliest days of his presidency, he targeted those he considered disloyal or “enemies of the people.” The Justice Department, once a bulwark of impartiality, was bent to serve his personal interests. Investigations into Trump and his allies were dismissed as “witch hunts,” while federal law enforcement was urged to pursue his critics.
This erosion of due process has already accelerated since the start of his second term. Trump’s regime has pushed for sweeping changes to the civil service, making it easier to purge career officials and replace them with loyalists.
The result is a government staffed not by experts or public servants, but by political operatives whose primary qualification is fealty to Trump. Dissent is punished, whistleblowers are targeted, and the machinery of justice is wielded as a weapon against opponents.
The most glaring example is the treatment of those involved in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. Trump openly promised pardons to those convicted insurrectionists during his 2024 campaign.
One of his first official acts after returning to the White House was to deliver a blanket pardon to those criminals, signaling that loyalty to him was a shield against accountability. Meanwhile, those who protest his policies or expose wrongdoing face harassment, legal threats, and the full force of the state.
IMPUNITY FOR THE FAVORED
While Trump’s enemies are relentlessly pursued, his allies enjoy unprecedented impunity. The pattern was set in his first term, with high-profile pardons for political cronies and convicted felons who refused to cooperate with investigators. In his second term, that became a routine policy in the first 100 days. Trump’s inner circle operates with the confidence that the law does not apply to them.
This culture of impunity extends to Trump’s family and business associates. Investigations into their financial dealings are stonewalled or shut down, or smothered before even gaining oxygen after allegations surface.
Regulatory agencies are packed with loyalists who look the other way as conflicts of interest and self-dealing proliferate. The message is clear: loyalty to Trump is the only currency that matters, and those who possess it are above the law.
ATTACKING ALLIES, EMBRACING DICTATORS
Trump’s contempt for America’s traditional allies and his admiration for authoritarian leaders are not new, but they have become more pronounced and dangerous. He has repeatedly undermined NATO, insulted democratic leaders, and questioned the value of longstanding alliances. At the same time, he has praised and sought closer ties with autocrats in Russia, North Korea, Iran, and elsewhere.
This realignment is not just rhetorical. Trump’s foreign policy decisions are increasingly driven by personal and financial interests, rather than national security or democratic values. Military aid and diplomatic support are conditioned on loyalty to Trump, not the interests of the United States. This transactional approach weakens America’s global standing and emboldens authoritarian regimes.
RECONSTRUCTING THE U.S. ECONOMY FOR PERSONAL GAIN
Perhaps the most insidious aspect of Trump’s kleptocratic project is the systematic reconstruction of the American economy to serve his interests and those of his inner circle. Trump’s economic policies are designed to reward loyalists and punish dissenters. Government contracts, regulatory relief, and tax breaks flow to favored businesses and industries, often with direct ties to Trump and his family.
The revolving door between Trump’s regime and his business empire spins faster than ever. Family members and close associates are appointed to key positions, where they wield enormous power over economic policy and regulation. Decisions about infrastructure spending, pandemic relief, and trade policy are made with an eye toward personal enrichment, not the public good.
THE WAR ON SCIENCE AND OBJECTIVE TRUTH
Trump’s hostility to science, medicine, and independent sources of information is not just a matter of personal preference. It is a deliberate strategy to consolidate power and suppress dissent. Scientists, public health officials, and journalists who challenge Trump’s narrative are smeared, silenced, or driven from their posts.
The consequences of this war on objective truth are dire. Public health guidance is ignored or distorted to fit political needs. Climate science is dismissed outright, with regulatory agencies forbidden from even mentioning the term. Data is manipulated or withheld to obscure the true toll of policy failures, whether in pandemic response, environmental protection, or economic management.
In this environment, only the president’s word is treated as fact, and all other sources of information are branded as hostile or fake.
The campaign against reality serves a clear purpose. It allows Trump and his allies to operate without oversight, shielded from accountability by a fog of misinformation and manufactured doubt.
When facts themselves are up for debate, corruption and abuse of power become easier to hide. The result is a government where decisions are made in secret, for private benefit, and the public is left in the dark.
SELF-ENRICHMENT AS POLICY
At the center of this system is the relentless self-enrichment of Trump, his family, and his closest supporters. The lines between public office and private business have been obliterated. Trump’s properties openly profit from government and foreign spending, with officials, lobbyists, and foreign dignitaries encouraged to patronize his hotels and resorts.
The presidency has become a marketing tool, with Trump and his family leveraging their positions to secure lucrative deals and expand their business empire.
That pattern extends far beyond the Trump Organization. Cabinet members and senior officials routinely use their positions to benefit themselves and their associates. Ethics rules are ignored or rewritten to permit conflicts of interest that would have been unthinkable in previous administrations.
The message is unmistakable: public service is now a pathway to personal fortune, and those who play by the old rules are left behind.
THE MAGA PARADOX: BLINDNESS TO KLEPTOCRACY
Perhaps the most bitter irony is the reaction of Trump’s most fervent supporters. Many in the MAGA movement rail against the specter of communism and Marxism, warning of government control over business and individual lives. Yet, they are willfully blind to the reality unfolding before them. Their government now exists not to serve the people, but to enrich a single family and its loyalists.
Kleptocracy is not about ideology, it is about power and profit.
Trump’s America is not a socialist state, but something far more corrosive. It is a system where the rules are rewritten to benefit the few at the expense of the many. The very abuses that MAGA supporters claim to fear are being enacted in plain sight, only with a different set of beneficiaries.
THE HUMAN COST
The consequences of this descent into kleptocracy are not abstract. Real people are harmed when government resources are diverted for private gain, when public health is sacrificed for political advantage, and when the machinery of justice is weaponized against the vulnerable.
The erosion of democratic norms and the rule of law leaves ordinary Americans exposed to abuse, with no recourse or protection. Communities are left without critical support as funds are siphoned off to favored projects and cronies.
Public trust in institutions collapses, replaced by cynicism and fear. The sense of shared purpose that once bound the country together is shattered, replaced by tribalism and suspicion.
In the end, kleptocracy is not just a matter of corruption. It is an existential threat to the very idea of America.
THE FIGHT AGAINST KLEPTOCRACY
Stopping kleptocracy from metastasizing in American politics is not just about opposing Trump or his policies. It is about defending the principles of accountability, transparency, and equal justice under the law. It requires a public willing to confront uncomfortable truths, to demand real oversight, and to reject the normalization of corruption and abuse of power.
This is not a partisan issue. It is a test of national character. What does America still stand for? The choice is stark. Americans can accept a government that serves only the powerful and connected, or reclaim the promise of a democracy where the law applies to everyone, and public office is a trust, not a prize.
Americans of this generation must decide quickly if they want kleptocracy to be their legacy for future generations, by allowing the rot of Trump to become a permanent stain on the American experiment.
Ed P says
Sherry,
After simply pointing out the weaknesses of polls you went on a 300 plus line regurgitation of conspiratorial fodder that if one truly believes, it’s time to invoke the Baker act.
The only solution or policy that can be extrapolated from all three of your response posts is we need a Democratic President, or anyone but Trump, but a Maga , but a Republican, or anyone from the right who might achieve results that middle Americans endorse.
I have suggested numerous times that the left has to stop the insanity of defending the wrong side of 80/20 issues. Put forth some policies and legislation that help everyday Americans. Trump is our President and none of your complaining is changing that or providing any solutions. The term broken record is invoked.
Find your Messiah.
Sherry says
Everybody now. . . to the tune of “Rawhide”
“Trollin Trollin Trollin”. . . “Keep those lies a Rollin”
To the tune of “The Twist” . . . ” Come On Maga, Let’s Do The Twist”. . . “Take All Those Little Facts and Twist ‘Em Like This”
LOL! LOL! LOL! ‘
Skibum says
Ed P… I would like to suggest that a proper response to your comment to Sherry to “find your Messiah” would be for you and others of the maga mob to wake the hell up and renounce YOUR Messiah!
Sherry says
Thank you Skibum!
BTW. . . me, I don’t kowtow to ANY Messiah. My personal spirituality is the powerful belief that each and every one of us is a treasure that belongs to a loving “universal spirit” that binds us to one another as human beings. Our individual value is based on our active “intent” to “evolve” personally within the species. Foundationally, that evolution depends on living and acting from a place of the highest character and principals. My personal sacraments are actions of honesty, ethics and integrity, creating sacred trust above all else. That is why people like trump and his passionate followers are anathema and toxic to me.