A Problem a Wall won't Fix

 

I am NOT surprised that everything Republicans said in the last 2 days was 100% WRONG! They need to apologize to Democrats and to America.

Trump Progress Report

 

Presidential Candidate Trump promised “the hottest economy in the world,” but the only thing overheating is his tanking approval rating. Just 22,000 jobs added in August, factories still bleeding work, federal payrolls gutted, and the unemployment rate at its highest in four years.

 He even fired the Labor Department’s stats chief to rig the optics, and the numbers still came back uglier than his tie rack. 

Now Fox Business hosts are practically in mourning on live TV, stammering through a jobs report they can’t polish into propaganda. 

Trump’s solution is to nominate a Project 2025 ghoul who fetishizes Nazi battleships to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Meanwhile, millions are jobless, the Fed’s about to slash rates, and the so-called “business genius” is watching his base shrink as fast as the economy. 

The market’s not buying it, voters aren’t buying it, and no amount of gold-plated bullshit will save him from the crash landing.

We Believe You!

 

What I've Learned

1.Listen More, Talk Less...It makes you wiser.

2.In this life, you have to work harder than the next person to really stand out.

3.I've worked on myself over the years, which is a wonderful thing to do when you've got the time.

4.I've always taken calculated risks...I've looked back over my life and wondered how I got the courage to do the things I did.

5.My Mother always said have a firm handshake and look every man in the eye...Don't look down at the ground and don't shuffle your feet. (I still shuffle my feet a little)

6.The Fact that I could sing and I could write and had the gift of gab always got me over with the girls.

7.I like to be approachable....I hate people who put themselves up on a pedestal and nobody can approach them or only certain people.

8.How would I make it through the day without my faith in God?  My Faith sustains me.

9.Do what you say and Say what you mean.

10.Some People Dip their toe in the shallow end of the pool and then retreat...Me, I fell in.

PEACE!

Epstein-Don't Get Distracted

 

State Of The Nation Today

Trump hates facts. He rejects truth. He doesn’t want the public to know what’s really happening. [Cartoon by Walt Handelsman]

Maybe It's Time To Believe Women

 

They Think You're Stupid

 

Much Better Off

 

Why Do People Think Trump is Stupid?

 

A real question from a Trump supporter: ‘'Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?’ THE SERIOUS ANSWER: Here’s what the majority of anti-Trump voters honestly feel about Trump supporters en masse: That when you saw a man who had owned a fraudulent University, intent on scamming poor people, you thought "Fine." (https://www.usatoday.com/.../trump-university.../502387002/) That when you saw a man who had made it his business practice to stiff his creditors, you said, "Okay." (https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hotel-paid-millions...) That when you heard him proudly brag about his own history of sexual abuse, you said, "No problem."

 (https://abcnews.go.com/.../list-trumps-accusers.../story...) That when he made up stories about seeing Muslim-Americans in the thousands cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center, you said, "Not an issue." (https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../donald-trumps.../) That when you saw him brag that he could shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and you wouldn't care, you exclaimed, "He sure knows me."

 (https://www.usatoday.com/.../president-donald.../4073405002/) That when you heard him relating a story of an elderly guest of his country club, an 80-year old man, who fell off a stage and hit his head, to Trump replied: “‘Oh my God, that’s disgusting,’ and I turned away. I couldn’t—you know, he was right in front of me, and I turned away. I didn’t want to touch him. He was bleeding all over the place. And I felt terrible, because it was a beautiful white marble floor, and now it had changed color. Became very red.” You said, "That's cool!"

 (https://www.gq.com/story/donald-trump-howard-stern-story) That when you saw him mock the disabled, you thought it was the funniest thing you ever saw. (https://www.nbcnews.com/.../donald-trump-criticized-after...) That when you heard him brag that he doesn't read books, you said, "Well, who has time?" (https://www.theatlantic.com/.../americas-first.../549794/) 

That when the Central Park Five were compensated as innocent men convicted of a crime they didn't commit, and he angrily said that they should still be in prison, you said, "That makes sense." (https://www.usatoday.com/.../what-trump-has.../1501321001/) 

That when you heard him tell his supporters to beat up protesters and that he would hire attorneys, you thought, "Yes!" (https://www.latimes.com/.../la-na-trump-campaign-protests...) That when you heard him tell one rally to confiscate a man's coat before throwing him out into the freezing cold, you said, "What a great guy!" (https://www.independent.co.uk/.../donald-trump-orders...) 

That you have watched the parade of neo-Nazis and white supremacists with whom he curries favor, while refusing to condemn outright Nazis, and you have said, "Thumbs up!" (https://www.theatlantic.com/.../why-cant-trump.../567320/) That you hear him unable to talk to foreign dignitaries without insulting their countries and demanding that they praise his electoral win, you said, "That's the way I want my President to be." (https://www.huffpost.com/.../trump-insult-foreign...) 

That you have watched him remove expertise from all layers of government in favor of people who make money off of eliminating protections in the industries they're supposed to be regulating and you have said, "What a genius!" 

(https://www.politico.com/.../138-trump-policy-changes...) That you have heard him continue to profit from his businesses, in part by leveraging his position as President, to the point of overcharging the Secret Service for space in the properties he owns, and you have said, "That's smart!" (https://www.usnews.com/.../how-is-donald-trump-profiting...) 

That you have heard him say that it was difficult to help Puerto Rico because it was in the middle of water and you have said, "That makes sense." (https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../the-very-big-ocean.../) 

That you have seen him start fights with every country from Canada to New Zealand while praising Russia and quote, "falling in love" with the dictator of North Korea, and you have said, "That's statesmanship!" (https://www.cnn.com/.../donald-trump-dictators.../index.html) 

That Trump separated children from their families and put them in cages, managed to lose track of 1500 kids, has opened a tent city incarceration camp in the desert in Texas - he explains that they’re just “animals” - and you say, “Well, OK then.” (https://www.nbcnews.com/.../more-5-400-children-split...) That you have witnessed all the thousand and one other manifestations of corruption and low moral character and outright animalistic rudeness and contempt for you, the working American voter, and you still show up grinning and wearing your MAGA hats and threatening to beat up anybody who says otherwise. (https://www.americanprogress.org/.../confronting-cost.../) 

What you don't get, Trump supporters, is that our succumbing to frustration and shaking our heads, thinking of you as stupid, may very well be wrong and unhelpful, but it's also... hear me... charitable. Because if you're NOT stupid, we must turn to other explanations, and most of them are less flattering.

Juneteenth

 

No Kings Day

 In America, We don't Bow down to Kings....Haven't Done it Since 1776...We won't start now!

None Of This Had To Happen

 

R.I.P. Sly Stone (1943-2025)

 Rest in Peace Sylvester Stewart-  Sly of Sly and the Family Stone.

Sly and the Family Stone was the first successful R&B/Soul/Rock group to show the strength and positivity of racial harmony. The messaging in most of their music was bold and to the point back in the day.

Thanks for the music Sly... Here are Three of my favorites...

Made For Clicks

 

A Rogue President

 

Three People You Should Never Trust

 

Nacho President

 

Morally Bankrupt

 

Worst President Ever!

 It is official....Donald J. Trump is the most hated, lowest rated, most reviled U.S. president in modern history. Polls show he has the lowest approval ratings at the 100 day mark of his second regime of any president in 80 years according to an @abcnews poll, topping the previous record holder: Wait for it.....Drum roll please ! Donald Trump in his first term.

His present approval rating as of this writing is %39 percent!

Message To The Democrats

 This is Liz Chaney, a Republican who I would have never sided with about 10 years ago...But we are on the same side now and what she has to say is spot on-

From Liz Cheney Dear Democratic Party, 

I need more from you. You keep sending emails begging for $15, while we’re watching fascism consolidate power in real time. This administration is not simply “a different ideology.” It is a coordinated, authoritarian machine — with the Supreme Court, the House, the Senate, and the executive pen all under its control. 

And you? You’re still asking for decorum and donations. WTF. That won’t save us. I don’t want to hear another polite floor speech. I want strategy. I want fire. I want action so bold it shifts the damn news cycle — not fits inside one. 

Every time I see something from the DNC, it’s asking me for funds. Surprise. Those of us who donate don’t want to keep sending money just to watch you stand frozen as the Constitution goes up in flames — shaking your heads and saying, “Well, there’s not much we can do. He has the majority.” I call bullshit.

 If you don’t know how to think outside the box… If you don’t know how to strategize… If you don’t know how to fight fire with fire… what the hell are we giving you money for? 

Some of us have two or three advanced degrees. Some of us have military training. Some of us know what coordinated resistance looks like — and this ain’t it.

 Yes, the tours around the country? Nice. The speeches? Nice. The clever congressional clapbacks? Nice. That was great for giving hope. Now we need action. You have to stop acting like this is a normal presidency that will just time out in four years. We’re not even at Day 90, and look at the chaos. Look at the disappearances. Look at the erosion of the judiciary, the press, and our rights. If you do not stop this, we will not make it 1,460 days. 

So here’s what I need from you — right now: ⸻ 

1. Form an independent, civilian-powered investigative coalition. I’m talking experts. Veterans. Whistleblowers. Journalists. Watchdog orgs. Deputize the resistance. Build a real-time archive of corruption, overreach, and executive abuse. Make it public. Make it unshakable. Let the people drag the rot into the light. If you can’t hold formal hearings, hold public ones. If Congress won’t act, let the country act. This isn’t about optics — it’s about receipts. Because at some point, these people will be held accountable. And when that day comes, we’ll need every name, every signature, every illegal order, every act of silence—documented. You’re not just preserving truth — you’re preparing evidence for prosecution. The more they vanish people and weaponize data, the more we need truth in the sunlight. ⸻ 

2. Join the International Criminal Court. Yes, I said it. Call their bluff. You cannot control what the other side does. But you can control your own integrity. So prove it. Prove that your party is still grounded in law, human rights, and ethical leadership. Join. If you’ve got nothing to hide — join. Show the world who’s hiding bodies, bribes, and buried bank accounts. Force the GOP to explain why they’d rather protect a war criminal than sign a treaty. And while you’re at it, publicly invite ICC observers into U.S. borders. Make this administration explain — on camera — why they’re terrified of international oversight. ⸻ 

3. Fund state-level resistance infrastructure. Don’t just send postcards. Send resources. Channel DNC funds into rapid-response teams, legal defense coalitions, sanctuary networks, and digital security training. If the federal government is hijacked, build power underneath it. If the laws become tools of oppression, help people resist them legally, locally, and boldly. This is not campaign season — this is an authoritarian purge. Stop campaigning. Act like this is the end of democracy, because it is. We WILL REMEMBER the warriors come primaries. Fighting this regime should be your marketing strategy. And let’s be clear: The reason the other side always seems three steps ahead is because they ARE. They prepared for this. They infiltrated school boards, courts, local legislatures, and police unions. They built a machine while you wrote press releases. We’re reacting — they’ve been executing a plan for years. It’s time to shift from panic to blueprint. You should already be working with strategists and military minds on PROJECT 2029 — a coordinated, long-term plan to rebuild this country when the smoke clears. You should be publicly laying out: • The laws and amendments you’ll pass to ensure this never happens again • The systems you’ll tear down and the safeguards you’ll enshrine • The plan to hold perpetrators of human atrocities accountable • The urgent commitment to immediately bring home those sold into slavery in El Salvador You say you’re the party of the people? Then show the people the plan. ⸻ 

4. Use your platform to educate the public on rights and resistance tactics. If they’re going to strip us of rights and lie about it — arm the people with truth. Text campaigns. Mass trainings. Downloadable “Know Your Rights” kits. Multilingual legal guides. Encrypted phone trees. Give people tools, not soundbites. We don’t need more slogans. We need survival manuals. ⸻ 

5. Leverage international media and watchdogs. Stop hoping U.S. cable news will wake up. They’re too busy playing both sides of fascism. Feed the real stories to BBC, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Reuters, Der Spiegel — hell, leak them to anonymous dropboxes if you have to. Make what’s happening in America a global scandal. And stop relying on platforms that are actively suppressing truth. Start leveraging Substack. Use Bluesky. That’s where the resistance is migrating. That’s where censorship hasn’t caught up. If the mainstream won’t carry the truth — outflank them. Get creative. Go underground. Go global. If our democracy is being dismantled in broad daylight, make sure the whole world sees it — and make sure we’re still able to say it. ⸻ 

6. Create a digital safe haven for whistleblowers and defectors. Not everyone inside this regime is loyal. Some are scared. Some want out. Build the channels. Encrypted. Anonymous. Protected. Make it easy for the cracks in the system to become gaping holes. And while you’re at it? Stop ostracizing MAGA defectors. Everyone makes mistakes — even glaring, critical ones. We are not the bullies. We are not the ones filled with hate. And it is not your job to shame people who finally saw the fire and chose to step out of it. They will have to deal with that internal struggle — the guilt of putting a very dangerous and callous regime in power. But they’re already outnumbered. Don’t push them back into the crowd. We don’t need purity. We need numbers. We need people willing to burn their red hats and testify against the machine they helped build. ⸻ 

7. Study the collapse—and the comeback. You should be learning from South Korea and how they managed their brief rule under dictatorship. They didn’t waste time chasing the one man with absolute immunity. They went after the structure. The aides. The enforcers. The loyalists. The architects. They knocked out the foundation one pillar at a time — until the “strongman” had no one left to stand on. And his power crumbled beneath him. You should be independently investigating every author of Project 2025, every aide who defies court orders, every communications director repeating lies, every policy writer enabling cruelty, every water boy who keeps this engine running. You can’t stop a regime by asking the king to sit down. You dismantle the throne he’s standing on — one coward at a time. ⸻ 

Stop being scared to fight dirty when the other side is fighting to erase the damn Constitution. They are threatening to disappear AMERICANS. A M E R I C A N S. And your biggest move can’t be another strongly worded email. We don’t want your urgently fundraising subject lines. We want backbone. We want action. 

We want to know you’ll stand up before we’re all ordered to sit down — permanently. We are watching. And I don’t just mean your base. I mean millions of us who see exactly what’s happening. I’ve only got 6,000 followers — but the groups I’m in? The networks I touch? Over a quarter million. Often when I speak, it echoes. But when we ALL speak, it ROARS with pressure that will cause change. We need to be deafening. You still have a chance to do something historic. To be remembered for courage, not caution. To go down as the party that didn’t just watch the fall — but fought the hell back with everything they had. But the clock is ticking. And the deportation buses are idling.

Aint Amerika Great?

 

Last Four Years

 

KOed by Democracy!

 

Senator Booker Makes History!

 Thank You Senator Booker for breaking segregationist Strom Thurmond's record for longest Fillibuster speech. Thank you for speakiong for those who can't speak for themselves right now. 

A Word From Joy!

 

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Direct Attack

 Mark is saying it all!

Consumed!

 

You Were Warned

 

What I've Learned

 

1.Expect The Unexpected

2.A Broken Heart will kill you just as much as anything.

3.You spend the second twenty years of your life ,trying to sort out the first twentuy years.

4. We all have childhood trauma...By the time you're 60 you should have dealt with it and let it go.

5.Succes doesn't fix you...but purpose kinda does.

6.When I was younger, I used to lose my temper quite easily which always made a bad situation worse.

Today, not so much!

7.I used to talk a lot...A whole lot.. Toiday I don't..What I do is listen.

8.One Thing About Covid...It gave a great many people the time to think about what was really important to them.

9.I never was a Flashy dresser..It was important to me to be Hip, yet comfortable.

10.Shit Happens!

PEACE!

Don't Buy Anything Today!

 

R.I.P. to Two Soul Giants... Roberta Flack and Jerry Butler.

Roberta Flack

 1937-2025

Jerry "The Iceman" Butler

1939-2025

The Cost Of No DEI Initiatives

When a major corporation ends all of its DEI initiatives and programs, this is what it means for Black people: 

• No more making an intentional effort to recruit qualified African Americans for junior and senior level positions. 

• No more spending ad dollars with Black newspapers, magazines, and radio stations. 

• No more donating corporate funds to scholarship programs like the United Negro College Fund and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. 

• No more donating corporate dollars to support Black museums such as the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History in DC. 

• No more engaging with and supporting the HBCU community as well as sponsoring HBCU sporting events and business competitions. 

• No more running ad campaigns that acknowledge, celebrate, and promote Black History Month. 

• No more sponsoring and financially supporting Black events, expos, and conferences. 

• No more using corporate funds to give grants, venture capital, and other funding opportunities to Black-owned businesses. 

• No more helping Black entrepreneurs become franchise owners or hiring Black-owned firms to become suppliers.

An Anti Black agenda by a Fascist and Anti Black President and his administration!

When Maga Will Finally Quit Trump

 

SUPER BOWL CHAMPS-2025 PHILADELPHIA EAGLES

 

My very first post on this blog, way back in 2007 was about the Eagles.....We have come full circle now!

Dear Amerika

 

Happy Tariff Day

 

Message to MAGA

 

Can't Come Soon Enough

 

Sad Mockery

 

Super Stupid!

 Why do Anti-Trumpers Like me think Trump Supporters and Maga People are Stupid?

THE SERIOUS ANSWER: Here’s what the majority of anti-Trump voters honestly feel about Trump supporters en masse: That when you saw a man who had owned a fraudulent University, intent on scamming poor people, you thought "Fine." (https://www.usatoday.com/.../trump-university.../502387002/) 

That when you saw a man who had made it his business practice to stiff his creditors, you said, "Okay." (https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hotel-paid-millions...) 

That when you heard him proudly brag about his own history of sexual abuse, you said, "No problem." (https://abcnews.go.com/.../list-trumps-accusers.../story...) 

That when he made up stories about seeing Muslim-Americans in the thousands cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center, you said, "Not an issue." (https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../donald-trumps.../) 

That when you saw him brag that he could shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and you wouldn't care, you exclaimed, "He sure knows me." (https://www.usatoday.com/.../president-donald.../4073405002/)

 That when you heard him relating a story of an elderly guest of his country club, an 80-year old man, who fell off a stage and hit his head, to Trump replied: “‘Oh my God, that’s disgusting,’ and I turned away. I couldn’t—you know, he was right in front of me, and I turned away. I didn’t want to touch him. He was bleeding all over the place. And I felt terrible, because it was a beautiful white marble floor, and now it had changed color. Became very red.” You said, "That's cool!" (https://www.gq.com/story/donald-trump-howard-stern-story) 

That when you saw him mock the disabled, you thought it was the funniest thing you ever saw. (https://www.nbcnews.com/.../donald-trump-criticized-after...) 

That when you heard him brag that he doesn't read books, you said, "Well, who has time?" (https://www.theatlantic.com/.../americas-first.../549794/) 

That when the Central Park Five were compensated as innocent men convicted of a crime they didn't commit, and he angrily said that they should still be in prison, you said, "That makes sense." (https://www.usatoday.com/.../what-trump-has.../1501321001/)

 That when you heard him tell his supporters to beat up protesters and that he would hire attorneys, you thought, "Yes!" (https://www.latimes.com/.../la-na-trump-campaign-protests...) 

That when you heard him tell one rally to confiscate a man's coat before throwing him out into the freezing cold, you said, "What a great guy!" (https://www.independent.co.uk/.../donald-trump-orders...) 

That you have watched the parade of neo-Nazis and white supremacists with whom he curries favor, while refusing to condemn outright Nazis, and you have said, "Thumbs up!" (https://www.theatlantic.com/.../why-cant-trump.../567320/) 

That you hear him unable to talk to foreign dignitaries without insulting their countries and demanding that they praise his electoral win, you said, "That's the way I want my President to be." (https://www.huffpost.com/.../trump-insult-foreign...) 

That you have watched him remove expertise from all layers of government in favor of people who make money off of eliminating protections in the industries they're supposed to be regulating and you have said, "What a genius!" (https://www.politico.com/.../138-trump-policy-changes...)

 That you have heard him continue to profit from his businesses, in part by leveraging his position as President, to the point of overcharging the Secret Service for space in the properties he owns, and you have said, "That's smart!" (https://www.usnews.com/.../how-is-donald-trump-profiting...) 

That you have heard him say that it was difficult to help Puerto Rico because it was in the middle of water and you have said, "That makes sense." (https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../the-very-big-ocean.../) 

That you have seen him start fights with every country from Canada to New Zealand while praising Russia and quote, "falling in love" with the dictator of North Korea, and you have said, "That's statesmanship!" (https://www.cnn.com/.../donald-trump-dictators.../index.html) 

That Trump separated children from their families and put them in cages, managed to lose track of 1500 kids, has opened a tent city incarceration camp in the desert in Texas - he explains that they’re just “animals” - and you say, “Well, OK then.” (https://www.nbcnews.com/.../more-5-400-children-split...) 

That you have witnessed all the thousand and one other manifestations of corruption and low moral character and outright animalistic rudeness and contempt for you, the working American voter, and you still show up grinning and wearing your MAGA hats and threatening to beat up anybody who says otherwise. (https://www.americanprogress.org/.../confronting-cost.../) 

What you don't get, Trump supporters, is that our succumbing to frustration and shaking our heads, thinking of you as stupid, may very well be wrong and unhelpful, but it's also...hear me...charitable. 

Because if you're NOT stupid, we must turn to other explanations, and most of them are less flattering. 

- Adam-Troy Castro

Remind You Of Anyone?

 

People Who Are Actually Helping in CA

 

Promises of 2025

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR