Friday, March 28, 2025

Never Surrender Your USA!

 


Take Heart Americans! Even if your Congressional representatives have sold their souls, the grassroots protest movements have formed and are quickly growing throughout the nation.

If you still follow mainstream media, e.g., NBC, ABC, CBS, or certainly FOX, you likely don’t know that your fellow Americans have been protesting, en masse, the Trump/Musk demolition of our Republic. If you caught the MSNBC Rachel Maddow earlier this week, 24 and 25 Mar, you were lucky and saw her excellent recap of thousands of US citizens protesting in multiple cities throughout the nation.

The UK publication, The Guardian, is your best source for honest reporting. Here is their take on the Trump/Musk Resistance Movement: The resistance is alive and well – and our research shows it, Erica Chenoweth, Jeremy Pressman and Soha Hammam, The Guardian, 28 Mar 2025.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/protest-research-trump-musk

By the way, do you remember the protests during the previous Trump Administration? I posted this link to a Nation article on 17 Mar 2017, after little more than one year into Trump.1:

This Is the Resistance: More Than 5,000 Grassroots Groups Have Sprung Up Since Trump Was Elected, Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener, The Nation, 9 Mar 2017.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/at-least-75-new-grassroots-groups-have-been-created-since-trump-was-elected/

NEVER SURRENDER YOUR USA!!

Monday, March 10, 2025

Is Mr. Trump a Russian Asset?

At the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, March 4, 2025 hearing Sen Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) questioned Deputy Secretary of State nominee Christopher Landau pointing out that Trump acts identically to how a Russian Asset would act.

@briantylercohen

Good question. What do you think?

What is his deep inside layer? Is Mr. Trump really a Russian spy Matryoshka Doll?

Friday, March 7, 2025

We Let Hackers Inside

 


No greater gift could we give to people hell-bent on destroying the USA than provide an open door into our nation’s data systems, empower them to shut down funding, and fire thousands of federal employees. The harm caused will be felt for years to come, assuming the USA survives.

Who allowed that? 

Some of us voted Mr. Trump into office. He brought along the world’s richest hacker himself, Mr. Musk, plus assorted MuskRats, to do the dirty work.

While Republican Congressional “leaders” applaud, Democrats scramble, and the courts contemplate, the rest of us, everyday Joes and Janes, are standing alone to face the consequences of our USA in shambles.

Our ancestors were once at a similar point. But their challenge was not the result of traitors inside the government. Rather, it was terrible combat that took out their officers and comrades, leaving only a few standing alone, to either hide in fear or move forward to try to complete their mission.

And they did. They kept going. 

Everyday Joes, the sergeants and privates, got the job done.

Now it’s up to us to take back our government from the MuskRat hackers and restore our government under the Constitution.

Here’s the story about The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc, originally posted on 20 June 2014.

Getting the Job Done, No Matter What it Takes

I've been working on a project about what makes an excellent leader and revisited a book written by Douglas Brinkley, The Boys of Pointe Du Hoc.

While some of the text is devoted to Reagan’s 40th D-Day Anniversary speech and his speech writer, Brinkley described the history of the Army Rangers and their role in taking out the big guns at Ponte Du Hoc during the D-Day invasion.

When I heard Brinkley recount the story of the Rangers scaling the cliffs and the terrifying loss of men, 70% I believe, I also remembered reading Cornelius Ryan’s The Longest Day, in which he said, when the few surviving Rangers took the gun emplacements they found them empty.

Ryan never found out the rest of the story: the Germans had only pulled the guns out of their emplacement and moved them back away from the shore in order to avoid the allied bombs and naval gun fire. They were simply waiting for the best time to bring them back into position and then open up on the landing fleet.

What stopped them from doing that?

Brinkley discovered that a couple sergeants survived the battle for the emplacements. When they discovered them empty, they still went on to complete their mission, which was to disrupt German communications and interfere with troop movements behind the gun emplacements.

They had only 11 men but moved out anyway. Soon they discovered heavy equipment tracks leading to an apple orchard. They followed them and found the “five camouflaged guns in ready firing position with ammunition piled nearby”. Somehow the gods of war were kind that day because the German crew and defenders were clustered away from the guns at such a distance that the two sergeants were able to disable them with the thermite grenades that they and the others were carrying.

For me this story underscores what our military does do right most of the time: empower all of our people with a “can do” spirit to complete whatever mission is assigned and train them to use their minds and ingenuity, stay alive, and get the job done no matter what it takes - no matter one’s rank.

One of us, the everyday Joes and Janes, will get the job done.


Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Oath of Office & The Bible

What does it portend when the president-elect does not put his hand on the Bible when he recites: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States”?

Trump does not swear on Bible during inauguration, no impact on oath, Reuters, 20 Jan 2025.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-stirs-curiosity-online-after-not-placing-hand-bible-during-oath-2025-01-20/

Are you a follower of the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount?

I am. 

My guess is that majority of us are. No matter our religious upbringing, we still follow and believe in the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount. Matthew, chapters 5, 6, and 7.

In the spirit of the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount, Right Rev Mariann Budde, Episcopal bishop of Washington, “…appealed directly to Donald Trump to “have mercy upon” communities across the country targeted by the new administration’s immigration and LGBTQ+ policies.”  (Courtesy of Guardian News & Media Ltd)

WATCH: Episcopal bishop asks Trump 'to have mercy' on LGBTQ+ communities and immigrants, PBS NewsHour

Mr. Trump made these comments following the prayer service:

Trump criticizes church service after bishop makes plea for immigrants, CNN, OutFront, Erin Burnett


Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Voting for Coach

Gov. Tim Walz

Maybe you remember someone from your days past who helped you become the person you are today. 

I sure do. 

They were high school and college teachers and friends. And, certainly, my parents, who helped me through tough times and hard choices. 

Among them were three coaches. Coach Toth who introduced me to soccer. He was a Hungarian Olympian refugee. Coach Gillespie, who coached us through junior high and into high school. Then, against all odds, directed creation of our non-approved high school soccer league. Finally, track and cross-country coach Auten helped me overcome a sandlot football concussion that nearly sidelined all my aspirations.

I remember their kindness, support and words of encouragement. 

They were and are my heroes because they were living proof that I could overcome my self-limitations and reach my goals.

I see and hear them when Coach… Gov. Tim Walz speaks.

I’m voting for him this November.

‘Clear eyes, full heart’: the unlikely championship that launched Tim Walz , Andrew Lawrence

Wed 21 Aug 2024, The Guardian.

Monday, July 1, 2024

You Are the President!

 

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus

So, Mr. President, the Supreme Court has just ruled that you have immunity from prosecution no matter what you do. Even if you order a Seal Team to assassinate one of your rivals.

That means you, sir, have the power to save our Democracy from Trumpian Maga Insurrectionists right now. 

Use it!

Arrest Trump and his fellow insurrectionist supporters.

Take the action that the Republican insurrectionists never imagined you would do. Trump paved this path thinking he would become dictator. But the Supreme Court has just unknowingly given you the power, as well. 

You, sir, are the President.

Follow in the steps of Cincinnatus and save our Constitution. Save the USA.

Cincinnatus - A Leader Geo. Washington Respected

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus  (519 BC – 430 BC) a Roman aristocrat and statesman whose service as consul in 460 BC and dictator in 458 BC and 439 BC made him a model of civic virtue. Twice granted supreme power, Cincinnatus held onto it for not a day longer than absolutely necessary. Early in his life, due to the actions of his son, Caeso Quinctius, Cincinnatus was forced to pay an immense fine, to sell most of his lands and compelled to live in humble circumstances on a small farm, where he and his family were able to subsist on the work of his hands. George Washington admired Cincinnatus. Today, would we value or denigrate Cincinnatus for placing public service above personal gain? (Wikipedia)

Monday, May 6, 2024

A Gnat's Memory


On campuses, students are protesting injustice once again.

Governments are standing silent once again.

Thousands are needlessly dying once again.

And we, the people, are once again doing nothing to stop the insanity.

Americans, it is said, have a gnat’s memory. 

Please go here for the rest of the story:

When Demagogues & Incompetence Rule Innocents Die