"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread, winding it's way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that, 'my ignorance means just as much as your knowledge. "
~Isaac Asimov
This is so stupid and salacious I don't even want to think about it, but it is now apart of history, so here were are. This woman, Natalie Harp, is in love with Trump. How? Why? Who knows, but it's fairly apparent that she is. From ridiculous love letters, that spooked the Secret Service, to her hiding out in trunks of government SUVs to be with him, it's plainly clear that this young lady has a screw loose. As Maggie Haberman of the, New York Times, put it recently, Natalie Harp is Trump's binky. Her main function is to run his social media accounts, and feed him cool stories about himself. Trump is an 80 year old man, with failing health and who is in obvious mental decline, but what is her excuse? Why is she so gaga over a man so misogynistic, mean spirited, and cruel towards others, women in particular? A liar whose, at last count, has told well over 34,000 lies since jumping into the world of national politics. The number is more than likely higher than that! You'd think that hearing him call a female reporter, "piggy" would be enough to tarnish that devotion, but apparently not, she is his faithful Girl Friday. Available to answer his every whim, and reassure his fragile ego that he did indeed win the 2020 election. Oh yeah, and that he's better looking now then when he was in his 30's and his dick is 12 inches long. There's only one thing left to ask about this bizarre circumstance, does Laura Loomer know she has a rival?
Laura Loomer
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Update:
Oops... I guess she does! It seems that the White House has a leaker in their midst!
Inside The Mind Of An Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes
Ugh. Blech. On Thursday night, Trump will deliver a primetime speech, which has all the possibilities of being one of his most terrifying moments our country has faced. I am already stressed out. Will he end free and fair elections in his speech? Will he declare Martial Law? Will he unseat the two senators from, Georgia? Is he panicking? Will he simply deliver his usual long string of unhinged, repetitive, whiny nonsense? Or has his Acting Attorney General, Todd Blanche, provided him with fake evidence that brings all of their favorite election interference conspiracy theories to life? Who knows what he will say, he almost always goes off script.
What do we do if he declares the 2020 Georgia election results invalid?
What happens then?
I am terrified about so many things. Todd Blanche has a confirmation hearing later today and I have a little hope that he won't be confirmed, but at this point I hate dealing in hope. I will be watching it. It starts in a little 3 hours from now. At least I hope I will be awake. It's my plan to be awake. Sigh. I mean who can sleep? I still have so many questions just ruminating through my mind. Trump needs to be impeached and removed from office for obvious reasons. The only hope we have of that is the upcoming election, when we can take the house and senate.
Growing up I didn't have any idea that this would be what my life would be at 64. I knew physical pain came with growing older, but I never knew that I would be facing the stress of my own country becoming an authoritarian nation, led by puny tin pot dictator. On my wedding day, when hubby and I looked into the future, all we could see was incredible happiness. We were blind on love and hope. Life was shiny and happy for a long time. Then we lived through our share of tragedies, as most folks do in the course of a lifetime, but the last 10 years, better know as the era of Trump, has been among the worst of our life, for so many reasons.
So yes, I am stressed.
But his speech isn't until tomorrow night. Let's get through today, shall we?
"We should be profoundly skeptical when one party claims certainty and blames the other for our problems. That's a con. You know life isn't like that. That's why we invented democracies in the first place."
~ Scott Pelley
Truth Worth Telling: A Reporter's Search For Meaning In The Stories Of Our Times
Scott Pelley's Full Statement
"60" has been the number one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.
The waste is heartbreaking.
Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause/. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.
For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I've been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.
At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to "keep up the good fight." Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership o ^0 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.
I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion... a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again... a day when sanity, competence, and courage return."
~Scott Pelley
June 3rd, 2026
Scott Pelley's firing last Tuesday was Earth shaking. The Trump and his administration and donors are nothing short of a bunch of oligarchs and crooks. We are closer than ever to losing the American experience, all to make a few ultra rich, even richer, while we pay $6 a gallon for gas! This summer will be among the most challenging I will have experienced in my lifetime. Not just as I maneuver through my own health challenges, but also the stress of watching Trump destroy the country I was lucky to live in my whole life. This is the country my grandfather immigrated to, because he saw all the possibilities! He loved America, as did my father. My heart breaks daily. Dad would be beside himself to see what's happening. I miss my father, I think if him daily, but I would never want him to know about what we are all facing right now.
This story will more than likely shake out over the summer. I know we haven't heard the last of Scott Pelley. He truly earned my respect the other day, when he did his job and spoke truth to power! I felt good and found my own self respect the other day too. I haven't watched CBS in ages, their programming has gotten too repetitive! How many CSI shows does one network need? So, after Steven Colbert was kicked to the curb, never watching that network was no loss, but let me tell you, cancelling our Paramount+ subscription made me feel really good! All this pain at that network, and beyond, is for a merger that will bring us closer to having to endure state media, rather than a free press! I am not going to pay to support these people. They can kiss my ass. And as for Donald Trump, he hasn't permeated every area of my life yet, so with any luck he will be impeached, and with a little luck, we won't have him to kick around any more!
Yet another woman came forward yesterday, this time in Beverly Hills, to accuse Eric Swalwell of rape. That brings the total to five. So, criminal investigations have been opened in 3 counties, New York, Alameda County, and Los Angeles. He's done with his political career. He killed it! He's going to have a miserable few years coming up, and of course all of it will play out through the media, so that means we get to share the misery with him. Or not. For the most part, I have moved on, but what remains is the frustration of watching yet another person with all the talent in the world, fall from grace so hard that they can't or probably won't come back from it. It's such a waste. I will let go completely... in time. In the mean time I have hope for the midterms, when if we can just flip the congress and the senate, we can begin to do some cleaning of the dirty laundry that's been piling up! We have a real chance of being able to impeach Donald Trump, and begin making him pay for his years of pedophilia and raping of women. If we are going to expect Eric Swalwell to face his demons, then Trump had better face his too. At least that's what should happen, if it will, well, that's another story! I guess cynical is my current emotion.
Truth! Certain foolish Americans, MAGA in particular, voted for Donald Trump because he was a successful businessman. That still makes me laugh because a simple Google search would have told them a wildly different story. The true story of Trump is, he was just as deep a bottomless pit of incompetence as a businessman, as he is a president. Just since his declaring war on Iran, and as of the writing of this post, in the premarket, oil surging to about, $78 per barrel, and the Dow is falling, it's currently down, -533,00 (1.09%). Shit his own stock sucks. And now he's trying to run this war with Iran, the way he did his businesses. He will fail at war too, and then what?
"Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and never tell."
~Kim Edwards
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
So much can be said without uttering a single sound.
Virginia, I wish you could have been here to see his arrest. While it was not directly for the devastation he inflicted on you, it will help to bring to light the full extent of his crimes. You were unique and strong. You'll be remember for being the one that fought the hardest for justice in this dreadful situation. You will never be forgotten.
I am praying that you have found peace.
"Don't be fooled by those in Epstein's circle, who say
"We cannot violence by blaming it's victims. We are in a culture of victim blaming and victim shaming, where the wounded are questioned more than the more then the one's who wounded them, because responsibility scares a society built on denial."
"Almost any sect, cult or religion will legislate it's creed into law, if it acquires the power to do so."
~Robert A. Heinlein
Will you be there? I plan to set the time of this post at 1:00 am PT, or close to that time, which means his testimony is a mere hours away. It's a crazy ride the last several days and I expect today will be no different. I don't know if I want to stay up, 7:00 am will come soon, or if I want to get at least a little sleep and face it refreshed and ready to deal with the FRESH HELL that today will probably end up being. Shrug... don't know, I will get back to you on it.
But for right now...
Again, I ask...
Will you be there?
Good, bad or otherwise, it's history.
Personally, as you might guess, I can't look away.
Trump is a dangerous person, he always has been. Is he an authoritarian? Is he a dictator? I don't think so, I think he is something new. Something no one has seen before. While some of his tactics can be held up to what we have seen in history, Trump is a bit simple from past evils. He is a corned dog. He is protecting podophiles, and eventually, maybe soon, we will find out the depth of his part in that. All this evil, like trying to conquer Greenland is a distraction, and a deeply misunderstood calculation. His hand in Minnesota is all about starting the civil war that some in the Magaverse have been aching for. Will WWIII happen first? I don't know. It may all begin simultaneously. It may not start at all. Waking up in the morning is hard, because who knows what we will be waking up to, but I know one thing, I never expect that we will be waking up to anything good. And I no longer think of ICE as a federal agency of the United States, no, they are the American Gestapo. Watch what they do.
"Since we cannot see Christ, we cannot express our love to him. But we do see our neighbor, and we can do for him, what we could do for Christ if He were visible."
“November is usually such a disagreeable month...as if the year had
suddenly found out that she was growing old and could do nothing but
weep and fret over it. This year is growing old gracefully...just like a
stately old lady who knows she can be charming even with gray hair and
wrinkles. We've had lovely days and delicious twilights.”
Yes, I know, I have waited a few days to say it, but yes, I am a very happy girl right now, politically speaking. How could I not be? So, life is good, and I am finding the humor in things, and I have high hopes for the midterms next year. Good for America, it's waking up to the monsters, good and bad, and facing them head on, and after everything is said and done, it is Halloween every day, right? The monsters are real, and we can defeat them!
And finally, here is his current approval ratings...
I get up every day thinking that it will be the day when I hear that Donald Trump had fallen15 points behind Kamala Harris in the polls. Not only has that not happened, but Harris is the one slipping downward, despite the violent speech and promise of installing a fascist state once elected, coming from Trump. It's like living with Pennywise the Dancing Clown every day, and the citizens of the United States are just as cowardly and forgetful as the citizens of, Derry Maine. The people of Derry ignored the danger that cycled around every 30 years or so, but in America's case, it seems our memories fade a lot sooner than that. Case in point, did COVID fatigue cause you to forget the real danger Trump posed during the pandemic?And did you forget he incited a mob to attempt to overthrow the United States? I can go on with his list of evils, but do you really need me to help you remember, or do you know deep down, without me reminding you of a thing, that Donald John Trump poses a real and genuine threat to our very lives?
While in the Cosumnes River Preserve the other day, I found a stick on a bridge that reminded me of everything spooky. The stick figures hanging in the trees in the, Blair Witch Project, were the same types of figures in American Horror Story seasons Coven, and Roanoke. Was this a stick monster? Or maybe an omen of some evil to come? Nah, it was just a really cool stick, but it's fun to consider it, because when horror is done right, it can inspire the creative mind to imagine, what if? Like the movie Halloween points out, sometimes the Boogeyman wins, and when he does, it can take your whole life to defeat him.
We are in that situation right now with the upcoming election. Donald Trump is a boogeyman, and he is coming at us relentlessly. Will he win again? Even if he loses will it all be over? What horrific deals has he already done with world leaders?What is coming at us in the next 32 days that will shake us to our core. I love being scared, but this is not the kind of scared I want to be. We have already began our scary movie-a-thon for October, I will get it caught up here soon. I can't wait to share what horror movies we will be watching. Hopefully, watching them will help me deal with the high jinks of the biggest monster of them all! One recommendation I will make right now is, The Devil's Advocate. It will give you chills, for obvious reasons.
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