Democrats are really bad people

My friend John C. was working the polls on election day and a Republican at the polling place was also handing out literature.  Her cards had this message:

If you haven’t figured it out yet, Democrats have chosen

The enemies of Israel, over Israel

Muslims over gays

Rigged elections over democracy

Communism over capitalism

Criminals over police

Globalists over America

Wall Street over Main Street

Illegal Aliens over citizens

Transvestites over men and women

and Satan over God

I don’t quite get the “Muslims over gays” thing.  The “Wall Street over Main Street” is also kind of weird.  And “criminals over police” is dumb in light of the “slush fund” for cop killers at the Jan. 6 riot.  Do Republicans really believe this junk?  I guess many of the MAGA types do.  Scary stuff.

Trump continues to wreck our national parks

President Trump by executive order has lifted the ban on off-road vehicles in national parks.  You can now drive your ATV, dune buggy, snow mobile, or dirt bike in our national parks.  Go off-roading.  Scare and run over animals.  Make loud noises.  Tear up the environment.  It will be fun.

And for those of you opposed to this move, buy clothes line and tie it across off road vehicle trails at neck height.  Dirt bike riders shouldn’t be the only ones who enjoy some fun.

Cruelty for its own sake

The Trump administration has cut off all kinds of government programs and services for documented immigrants including medical care, tax credits, financial services, educational programs, and jobs.  The goals are to force immigrants to leave the country and to make this country less welcoming to anyone moving here.  

Even housing is taken away.  The Department of Housing and Urban Development plans to bar mixed families (where some members are citizens and others are residents not yet citizens) from living in public housing.  About 20,000 families will be kicked out.

The Small Business Administration says it will back loans only to businesses fully owned by American citizens.  Green card holders will be excluded.  

Head Start programs have been removed for immigrant children.  Federal tax credits will be taken away from kids who are American citizens if their parents are undocumented.  

In the meantime we have money for arches and and reflecting pool painting and cage fighting domes and SpaceX rockets and ballrooms.  

What an embarrassment: Trump's cabinet kisses ass

It is hard to believe that adult men would fawn over Trump.  Trump loves it, of course, but I don’t see how these grown-ass men can live with themselves.  The Times devoted two full pages to detailing the sucking up that occurred at the the last cabinet meeting earlier in the week.  Here are three sickening examples:

“You have saved the country.”  Scott Bessent, Treasury Secretary

“You’re the only leader in the planet that can bring two sides together.”  

Marco Rubio, Secretary of State

“He is willing to take a bullet for all of you.”  Lee Zeldin, E.P.A. administrator

Are all young people this dumb?

“Both parties are the same.  They both have the same level of corruption.  They both take lobbying money.  It’s different lobbying, but the same corruption.”

–Max Cook, 24, college student in San Diego

“I don’t care which party I’m voting for as long as they’re representing people instead of corporations.”

–Tai Vetrone, 18, Waltham, Mass.

“The parties have gone pretty wide on the spectrum of left and right while most people are in the middle and agree with points on both sides.  I really don’t think I have a political home.”

–Patrick Tehonica, 25, construction worker in upstate New York

Wow.  As a member of the Democratic Party I will admit to a lot of mistakes in the party, but my party is not actively involved in trying to subvert the Constitutional order in this country.  Goodness gracious.  Do these people even know what is going on?  Did they hear about ICE?  Do they know about the corruption?  Do they understand who is standing with the tech bros, the AI data centers, the destruction of the environment, the end of alliances, the dismantling of research into diseases, and on and on.  My God!  This is nuts.  

Gripen jets for Ukraine

Gripen jets are made by the Saab Company in Sweden.  The jets are comparable to F-16s, but are easier to service and can take off and land on highways.  Like the F-16, the Gripen jet is a supersonic aircraft, but it is easier to load with missiles than an F-16.  By the time this deal is over, 150 of the Swedish jets will be in the Ukrainian armed forces.

Where is the U.S. in all this?  Probably giving more aid to Netanyahu, starving Cubans, trying to work out a deal to open the straits of Hormuz, and sucking up to Putin.  It is so good to see Sweden stepping up.

See Pranav Baskar, “Sweden to Send Fighter Jets to Ukraine” New York Times, (May 29, 2026), p. A10.

MPGA

Last night while driving through Weissport I saw a guy in his 20s wearing a sweatshirt that said “Make Pedophilia Great Again.”