Why I'm nervous

1.  When the game is in the late innings and the pitcher has a no-hitter going, nobody on the team refers to it.  No one says, “Hey, it’s the seventh inning and you have a no-hitter in the works.”  Why?  Because it will jinx the no-hitter.  All MSNOW pundits talk about is possible Democratic victories.  Will Kansas go blue?  Will Susan Collins be defeated?  What about Texas, Georgia, even Mississippi?  They are going to jinx this.

2.  I remember ten days before the 2016 election Hillary Clinton had a ten point lead.  Everyone was so happy.  Perhaps you also remember that one.

3.  The polling has been off in the past.  A pollster predicted that Harris was going to take Iowa by 10 points.  

4.  After Trump’s terrible first term and his call for his supporters to storm the Capitol and his coverup of the Epstein files and his project 2025, he still won a second term.  “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” 

So maybe this Is not a Trump supporter

At a Trump rally in Rock Hill, South Carolina, a Fox News reporter approached a guy with a full beard and blue baseball hat and asked him

“Why are you here this morning?”

Guy:  “Well, in the late 70s, I was a little too young to go to South America for the Jonestown Massacre.  But this is as close as I’ll ever get so that’s why I’m here.”

Fox reporter:  “Wait, the Jonestown massacre?”

Guy:  “That’s right.  See, there’s nothing like seeing a cult right up front, man.”

Fox reporter:  “All right.  So maybe this is not a Trump supporter.”

You can watch it online.

$100,000

If you pay $100,000 to Truth Social, you can get inside info on future U.S. governmental policies.  Truth Social is controlled by the Trump family.  Say the military is about to send missiles against Iran.  You could get that info before the rest of us.  If you are a trader in stocks, that would be valuable info for you to have.  It is also illegal.

Tonight I heard Ryan Crosswell, former official in the Public Integrity part of the Justice Department who resigned in protest, explain why he and others have filed an amicus brief in a lawsuit to stop this illegal activity. 

The lawsuit should put an end to this blatant misuse of federal power.  Trump makes Nixon look like a choir boy . 

Dan Meuser explains why Trump was elected

Congressman Meuser represents portions of five Pennsylvania counties–Luzerne, Lebanon, Schuylkill, Wyoming, and Lycoming.  He wrote an article for the Times News published on Jan. 10, 2025, shortly before Trump began his second term in office.  The article was entitled “Making the American economy great again.”  

Meuser began his essay with this sentence  “The American people voted for President Trump’s plan to grow the economy, cut waste and restore fiscal sanity.”

Later in the same article Meuser says “By reversing restrictive regulations like the LNG Pause and Methane Rule and embracing domestic energy production, we can lower costs for families, bring down inflation and revitalize manufacturing.”

He really wrote that.  I am not making this up. 

Now Meuser is running for re-election  

 

A Year Ago

On Nov. 2, 2025 The New York Times Sunday Opinion cover had this message in a font that took up the whole page:

Donald Trump has

persecuted opponents

bypassed Congress

sent troops into cities

defied the courts

changed election rules

vilified minorities

enriched himself

Where will it end?

It hasn’t ended.  In fact we could add

started a war

stabbed Ukraine in the back

pardoned vicious criminals

killed innocent people on boats

supported genocide in Gaza

sucked up to Putin

alienated our closest allies

Feel free to add more.  So many more.

Lula wins

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has just won the presidential election in Brazil, beating the rightist (and bully) Flavio Bolsonaro.,  Lula supports democracy; Bolsonaro is an authoritarian would-be caudillo.

A series of right-wing candidate victories has come to an end.  I’m thinking this is a harbinger.  Of course, and true to form for right-wing candidates around the globe, Bolsonaro says the election was rigged.  These guys need a new playbook.

Undocumented immigrants

The Times News, our local newspaper, printed a letter from a guy who had his knickers in a twist because an article used the term “undocumented immigrants.”  He wanted them called “illegal,” and went on at some length at how the term “undocumented” was buying into left-wing propaganda.

First of all, I don’t think a person can be illegal.  Acts of a person can be illegal, but can an individual actually be an “illegal” person"? 

Secondly, what kind of a man has that much hate inside him that he would be concerned about labels?  Why not worry about families separated?  Or children being deported?  Or citizens detained illegally?  Or people put into “detention centers” with bad food and no medical treatment?  Or people getting shot and killed by ICE?  

And he’s worried about the nomenclature?  What an ass.