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It will have been eight years or so since a majority vote of the public first escaped his grasp, as Trump the other day prematurely announced his third shot at the presidency, via the 2024 Election.
Twitter users mockingly suggested he debuted a new campaign slogan during his announcement, to wit:
“In order to make America great and glorious again I’m announcing my candidacy for president of the United States.”
Wags on social media joked that “Make America Great And Glorious Again” ― or MAGAGA ― would replace Trump’s “Make America Great Again” MAGA acronym.
“The hats’ll have to say MAGAGA — make America great and glorious again. If it makes you gag, get used to it,” cracked a Harvard constitutional law professor. “I tried to say MAGAGA and activated my gag reflex,” actor and comedian John Fugelsang wrote.
A more serous moment was recalled the other day by the Associated Press — specifically about when 106-year-old Virginia McLaurin visited the White House and danced with excitement during a Black History Month observance hosted by President and Michelle Obama in 2016. McLaurin, a sharecropper’s daughter born in 1909, died Nov. 14 at the age of 113. Quite an impression on someone such as I, whose wife is a bit more than 23 years younger.
Continuing on elsewhere from its brief look at results of the mid-term election, the national press noted that the world population has sort of raced its way to surpass 8,000,000,000 (or, stated less impressively, 8 billion). Science seems to be less concerned than I in this regard.
For instance, shortly before I was born in 1929, only some 2 billion souls roamed this planet. Now, almost a mere century later, 8 million of us are beginning elbowing one another. The next billion is expected tp add itself by merely 2037, joining the fast-growing mob quest for fresh air, water, vegetables, etc. I won’t br around by then — but my children, grandchildren, etc. will.
I guess it’s good news that the rate will slow a bit and the 10-billion mark won’t be reached until 2058. Over all, according to the experts, a decline in the world’s population is not expected for about half a century — but how this will be brought about is not explained.
Banishing abortion seems to be a step in the wrong direction.
And please, no finger-pointing. As I shudder as the woman on a TV game show brags about 35 or 40 grandchildren, my parents produced only thre, which is at the moment the exact number of their great-great-grandchildren.
MEANWHILE, Herschel Walker — former football player of note and Republican U.S. Senate dumb-as-a-post candidate in Georgia, faces Democratic incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock in the nation’s most bruising election of the 2022 midterm cycle. Both sides spent heavily on the race while neither candidate reached the 50 percent mark required to seal the election. Per Georgia state election law, Walker and Warnock advance to a head-to-head run-off election. The campaign turned particularly nasty in the hours before the recent preliminary election. The runoff cycle will be no different.
Walker, for his part, raised an eye-popping $3.3 million in the first 24 hours of the new race. But his campaign has had to contend with the presence of former president Donald Trump. Walker’s campaign asked Trump to campaign elsewhere during the race’s closing hours. Walker’s campaign has welcomed the help of popular Republican governors like Brian Kemp of Georgia and Ron DeSantis of Florida.
And . . . Evangelical figures who previously supported Donald Trump are backing off now that he’s announced his third bid for the presidency. “Donald Trump can’t save America,” Mike Evans told The Washington Post. “He can’t even save himself. ”Evans was part of a group of evangelicals who met with Trump at the White House, and at one point gave him an award. Now, he says he’s done with Trump. “He used us to win the White House. We had to close our mouths and eyes when he said things that horrified us,” Evans told the newspaper. “I cannot do that anymore.”
I wonder whom Trump expects to represent on the 2024 ballot. The Republican party certainly can’t want him any more.
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Thomas Camfield
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Wednesday, November 23, 2022 Report this
MargeS
Glad your writing your blog again. I can't say I disagree with anything you pointed out, and I think the walls of justice are finally closing in on Mr. Trump!
Wednesday, November 23, 2022 Report this
Justin Hale
"It will have been eight years or so since a majority vote of the public first escaped his grasp", and yet here you are getting mileage off of his name and image.
I believe and certainly hope that the majority of Republicans have moved on and want someone new like DeSantis to represent them in the next election.
Trump is damaged goods, some of it self-inflicted and some laid on him by a biased MSM all too willing to distort reality and actually lie about him and his campaign.
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 Report this
MargeS
Maybe its because the thought of another Trump presidency scares the H**L out of a lot of people, including me.
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 Report this
Thomas Camfield
DeSantis is no answer to the Trump era's thinly-disguised white supremacy, to heck with the future and grasping for a class society. Might as well propose someone like Ted Cruz of Texas. Blogging is sort of going the way of my eyesight of late, and only at stage one are the recent Georgia special election, decarbonization and such.
Thursday, December 8, 2022 Report this
Justin Hale
Thanks for providing an example of how you Democrats slandered Trump from day one, and now use the same tactics to go after DeSantis, Cruz and most likely any Republican running for office. So now it's DeSantis who is, according to you, a white supremicist, how so? what has DeSantis done to warrant your name calling? or is it guilt by association? You people call Trump all manner of evil, so therefore any Republican is fair game for your name calling. The truly sad thing is that there are enough stupid voters in this country that bought into your BS.
Saturday, December 10, 2022 Report this
MargeS
No one has to slander Donald Trump. Just look at his record as president and ex-president. I do agree I don't think DeSantis is as stupid as Trump but there are other Republicans that could be better candidates for President. Trump and DeSantis have too much baggage. How about Liza Murkowski (Alaska), Susan Collins (Maine) Liz Cheney (Wyoming) for example. They seem more in tune with conservative Republicans, "The Republican Party is known to support right-leaning ideologies of conservatism, social conservatism, and economic libertarianism, among other -isms. Thus, Republicans broadly advocate for traditional values, a low degree of government interference, and large support of the private sector."
Saturday, December 10, 2022 Report this
Thomas Camfield
You've named some pretty good leaders for rebuilding the Republican party, Marge.
Saturday, December 10, 2022 Report this
Justin Hale
Marge, compare 2018 to 2022 and tell me that the average American is better off today.
Monday, December 12, 2022 Report this
MargeS
one way is in 2022 we do not have an insurrectionist, traitor as president.
Monday, December 12, 2022 Report this
Justin Hale
Maybe you're not aware Marge but there are millions of Americans who are having a hard time getting by ever since Biden took office. The inflation at the gas pump and the grocery store, feeding their families, and getting enough fuel to get to work is what most people are concerned with, not some fantasy about Trump being an insurrectionist or a traitor.
Monday, December 12, 2022 Report this
MargeS
Too bad you keep supporting Trump. He did nothing for this country but sow the seeds of hate and bigotry. I will gladly pay more for gas and food to get rid of someone that wants to destroy America, for his own narcissistic needs.
You need to take a course in economics.
Monday, December 12, 2022 Report this
Thomas Camfield
Amen!
Tuesday, December 13, 2022 Report this
Justin Hale
"He did nothing for this country but sow the seeds of hate and bigotry" I've heard more hate and bigotry coming from the Haters like you and Tom than I have coming from Trump.
The only course in economics anyone needs today is a trip to the gas station and to the grocery store. Those who have functioning brain that isn't rotted out by their hatred of all things Trump will remember a time not so long ago when the basics of life were a lot more affordable. You say " I will gladly pay more for gas and food to get rid of someone " please tell me how Biden's inflation is going to get rid of "someone" i.e. Trump. In fact, it will just add fuel to Trump's campaign in 2024.
Wednesday, December 14, 2022 Report this
MargeS
You just don't understand world economics or what effect the Trump presidency had in the world. It would seem if you live long enough you understand that world trade has a lot to do with what happens in the world.
Other presidents tried to unify the nation after turning from the campaign trail to the White House. From his first days in Washington to his last, Trump seemed to revel in the political fight. He used his presidential megaphone to criticize a long list of perceived adversaries, from the news media to members of his own administration, elected officials in both political parties and foreign heads of state. The more than 26,000 tweets he sent as president provided an unvarnished, real-time account of his thinking on a broad spectrum of issues and eventually proved so provocative that Twitter permanently banned him from its platform. In his final days in office, Trump became the first president ever to be impeached twice – the second time for inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol during the certification of the election he lost – and the nation’s first chief executive in more than 150 years to refuse to attend his successor’s inauguration.
Trump’s policy record included major changes at home and abroad. He achieved a string of long-sought conservative victories domestically, including the biggest corporate tax cuts on record, the elimination of scores of environmental regulations and a reshaping of the federal judiciary. In the international arena, he imposed tough new immigration restrictions, withdrew from several multilateral agreements, forged closer ties with Israel and launched a tit-for-tat trade dispute with China as part of a wider effort to address what he saw as glaring imbalances in America’s economic relationship with other countries. https://www.pewresearch.org
Wednesday, December 14, 2022 Report this
Justin Hale
Oh, so Biden's inflation is actually Trump's fault,,,uhhuh.
One thing that I didn't like about Trump was his big mouth, and his childish name-calling, not exactly what I want to see in a President.
You bring up Trump's tax cuts, and of course, you parrot the left's line that corporations were the biggest beneficiaries, which is inaccurate.
"Income data published by the IRS clearly show that on average all income brackets benefited substantially from the Republicans’ tax reform law, with the biggest beneficiaries being working and middle-income filers, not the top 1 percent, as so many Democrats have argued." (https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/584190-irs-data-prove-trump-tax-cuts-benefited-middle-working-class-americans-most/)
Trump was correct to get US out of the Paris Accords, as well as his opposition to the green new deal. Was Trump hard on a lot of our enemies, yes, deservedly so.
Trump's policy on our border was correct, we should not allow people to enter our country illegally. Look at the mess we have today on our border thanks to the Biden administration, so much for protecting US from our enemies.
Friday, December 16, 2022 Report this
MargeS
So which one of Trumps NFTs are you asking Santa for? Oh, I bet you ordered all of them. He is what he has always been, a narcissistic, all about me kind of guy. Orange Jumpsuit, that's what's due Trump.
Friday, December 16, 2022 Report this
Justin Hale
I have no idea what a Trump NFT is. Since you seem to be more in tune with all things Trump maybe you can tell me what that is.
Friday, December 16, 2022 Report this
MargeS
think Trump as Superman, Cryptocurrency, Non fungible tokens . . . Narcissism
Saturday, December 17, 2022 Report this
Justin Hale
I've never thought of Trump as any sort of "Superman", I know next to nothing about Cryptocurrency or nonfungible tokens.
Saturday, December 17, 2022 Report this
MargeS
Wow! you no longer think Trump was a great president? How the mighty have fallen. Good news for America.
Saturday, December 17, 2022 Report this
Justin Hale
I never considered Trump a "great" President. Better than what we have today? yes!
Sunday, December 18, 2022 Report this
MargeS
Not even close. Biden is better any day of the week. Trump is just weak!
Tuesday, December 20, 2022 Report this
Justin Hale
By what measures has Biden been better for the average American since he took office? 401 participants have lost thousands from their retirement funds. The average American living from paycheck to paycheck has been hit hard at every turn, the Biden administration claims that the southern border is secure, and yet in the past four months, according to CBP statistics, migrant numbers along the southern border have increased steadily over 200,000 each month, the largest numbers ever.
Anyone who thinks Biden is doing a good job is living in La La Land.
Wednesday, December 21, 2022 Report this
MargeS
Trump did very little for the average American as far as the economy, healthcare, foreign relations, etc. are concerned. President Biden has been working with the Democratic House to help solve the problems he inherited from Trump.
The Republicans vote against any plan the Democrats have but offer no solutions to them except to give the wealthy huge tax breaks.
He appointed supreme court justices who are so conservative they overturned a 50 year old federal law. "In Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022), the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade (1973), which guaranteed a constitutional right to abortion. Some state constitutions, however, independently protect abortion rights."
Donald Trump refused a peaceful transition of power, claiming the election was stolen, inciting rioters to storm the capital, urging his followers to violence causing death and destruction on January 6th.
He is the only president since the 1970s to let his taxes be released to congress. They have recently been released for the first time. There is no law stating a president has to release their taxes, although doing so is usually seen as beneficial to their image.
The bi-partisan (more Republicans could have been on the committee but declined) January 6th committee after a year and a half investigation has referred the following charges to the DOJ
1. allegedly obstructing an official proceeding,
2. conspiracy to defraud the government,
3. inciting an insurrection
4. conspiracy to make a false statement.
Why would anyone in their right mind even suggest Donald J. Trump is fit for office!
Thursday, December 22, 2022 Report this
Justin Hale
As I said "La La Land".
"The bi-partisan (more Republicans could have been on the committee but declined) January 6th committee". More La La Land nonsense. Pelosi rejected Republican members that she knew would not go along with her BS committee, and she selected two Republicans that had already voted to impeach Trump for the 1/6 Capitol Hill riots, bi-partisan my as.
I predict that the January 6th committee will have the same result as the previous impeachments, a waste of our tax dollars for nothing.
But you Haters will, for a while, have your La La Land fantasy.
Thursday, December 22, 2022 Report this
MargeS
History has been recorded, time will show that what the Jan 6th committee accomplished was an important deterrent in stopping another Trump happening. The Republican approach was that by opposing an independent commission and by refusing to keep any of their choices on the House committee, Republicans would successfully short-circuit the effectiveness and impact of the investigation before it got started. The idea being that without Republican participation the whole thing would look like a partisan witch hunt, with little practical damage, politically speaking, to the GOP.
But I think they miscalculated.
Representative Kevin McCarthy, the Republican minority leader, chose last summer to withdraw all of his nominees to the House committee investigating the riot on Jan. 6, 2021, and its roots. Credit...Tom Brenner for The New York Times
A Year Later, Some Republicans Second-Guess Boycotting the Jan. 6 Panel
But the public display this month of what the panel has learned — including damning evidence against Mr. Trump and his allies — left some Republicans wishing more vocally that Mr. Trump had strong defenders on the panel to try to counter the evidence its investigators dig up. By Luke Broadwater, New York Times
Maybe they just didn't have any strong defenders!
Thursday, December 22, 2022 Report this
Justin Hale
It was a partisan witch hunt from the start, just as the Trump impeachments were partisan Democrat BS. And like those impeachments, this committee will have the same outcome. More of your tax dollars well spent!
Friday, December 23, 2022 Report this
MargeS
In the face of the truth, some chose to stick their heads in the sand. Say Hi to Trump while your down there Just In Hale!
Friday, December 23, 2022 Report this
Justin Hale
I hear very little "truth" coming from you Haters, lot's of opinions, very few facts, but then hate doesn't require facts does it?
Monday, December 26, 2022 Report this
MargeS
You can't blame haters, Trump sewed the ribbon of hate across America.
Monday, December 26, 2022 Report this
Justin Hale
Really? The Haters can't be blamed for hating on Trump even before he took office?, for calling him every manner of evil? for claiming that he was a racist?. The Haters aren't the ones who created and promulgated the "Russian Collusion" hoax for four years, a headline story that had an impact on the 2020 elections? The Haters aren't the ones who gave US the Biden administration and the worst inflation and the worst border security in years?
Tuesday, December 27, 2022 Report this
MargeS
Time to take it down a notch.
Trump began his business career while still enrolled in college, investing in Philadelphia real estate. Upon completing his undergraduate education in 1968, he returned to New York and joined his father’s business full time. Public criticism and scandal marked Trump’s early career. In 1973, the US Justice Department accused the Trump company of discriminating against African American would-be renters. Although the company did not admit wrongdoing, it settled the matter by agreeing to rent more apartments to Black tenants.
The Trump Organization faced severe financial challenges. Trump borrowed significant amounts of money to fund the hotels and casinos. The situation grew so severe in 1990 that Fred Trump, then in his 80s, purchased more than $3 million in casino chips at Trump Castle so the casino could make an interest payment. That purchase was later judged to be an illegal loan, and New Jersey assessed a fine of $65,000. Two Trump-owned companies filed for bankruptcy during this period: the Trump Taj Mahal in 1991 and the Trump Plaza Hotel in 1992. An unflattering biography of Donald Trump, published in 1993, was titled Lost Tycoon and declared that he has become a “public laughingstock” in the wake of his business failures.
Trump’s businesses were also involved in a large number of lawsuits, both as defendant and plaintiff. The newspaper USA Today reported that, as of 2016, Trump or one of his companies had been involved, in 3,500 legal cases in federal and states courts. Trump was the plaintiff in 1,900, suing someone else; in 1,450, he was the one being sued. The remainder included other types of cases, including bankruptcies.
Donald Trump is not capable of being president of any country, dictator maybe.
I am so glad Joe Biden is president. A man who is articulate, thoughtful and has the best interest of the American people.
Tuesday, December 27, 2022 Report this
Justin Hale
Amazing! I post about the hater's behavior towards Trump, from before his administration till this very day. I post about the "Russia collusion" hoax. I post about the fact of the worst economy and border security in the last 30-40 years. Things that actually affect the average American.
And your reply is to cite Trump's business dealings before he became POTUS. The average American does not care about Trump's business dealings, when he was a private citizen, more than they care about paying their way through this inflation and dealing with this crazy world we have created.
Wednesday, December 28, 2022 Report this
MargeS
Trump created a "Crazy" America. You called haters before Trump became president, I showed some of the reasons people didn't trust him long before he became president.
Where does the hatred some of his supporters display come from? And what can we do to promote healing?
"In Profile of a Nation, I outline the many causes that create his followership. But there is important psychological injury that arises from relative—not absolute—socioeconomic deprivation. Yes, there is great injury, anger and redirectable energy for hatred, which Trump harnessed and stoked for his manipulation and use. The emotional bonds he has created facilitate shared psychosis at a massive scale. It is a natural consequence of the conditions we have set up. For healing, I usually recommend three steps: (1) Removal of the offending agent (the influential person with severe symptoms). (2) Dismantling systems of thought control—common in advertising but now also heavily adopted by politics. And (3) fixing the socioeconomic conditions that give rise to poor collective mental health in the first place." Scientific America - By Tanya Lewis on January 11, 2021
You can go on and on but we are all better off without Trump.
Wednesday, December 28, 2022 Report this
Justin Hale
What a load of krapola.
Thursday, December 29, 2022 Report this
MargeS
Speaking of Krapola: Trump is an artiste and beauty is his overriding consideration in all matters, doncha know? We’re sure glad to hear that, Donald, since the value of these digital, crypto, crapola cards is now descending way into the basement.
Thursday, December 29, 2022 Report this