Real Monsters?

 Growing up in the mid-fifties and early sixties, there were a lot of things to be afraid of. Back in the day, it was the Flying Saucers, or the creatures created by radiation. Monsters lived under the bed or in the closet. Living in Pittsburgh, I watched Chiller Theater every Saturday night and knew something must be lurking in our basement and waiting in the shadows of the alleyway beside our house. Be it the next atomic bomb or the little green men from Mars, the fright was out there, and just waiting to grab you.

As I grew older, and hopefully a little wiser, I realized that my imagination was triggered by stories based on fiction. From tales of the Unknown to The Twilight Zone, my fear of the unknown had been triggered by the talents and imagination of writers, men and women who were able to capture the fear and haunting of an imagined world and, through their abilities with the written word, made the unimaginable real.

I am now a seventy-seven-year-old man, living in the year 2026, and I have once again become overwhelmed with the fear of monsters roaming freely, none of which are fictional, but all of whom are way too real. They are not vampires, zombies, aliens, or giant insects; they are, in fact, the current President of the United States, his administration, Republicans, and billionaires more concerned about their own wealth than the welfare of anyone else who is not them.

Monsters have become real. And I have no idea how to fight these monsters. These monsters are aided and abetted by way too many other people. To say you support Trump or the Republicans is to admit that you thrive on hate, fear, and loathing. To support Trump and the Republicans is to admit that you prefer pain and suffering. To support Trump and the Republicans is to admit that decency is failure, morals are passee, and values are meaningless. 

The monsters and creatures I face today will not fade away when the dawn creates light, or when the TV is turned off. I fear my tomorrows because I sadly believe that evil is so well accepted that too few have the desire to fight it. November 4, 2026 is soon approaching, and as I see it, that will be the beginning of the end, or there will be no end in sight!

It just ain't over

 “Donald Trump's administration is intensifying legal action against US states with just days to go until a midterm election that will decide the balance of power in Washington during his final two years in office.

Four days until the midterms, and the Trump Reich has declared open warfare on the democratic process of voting in the United States. Trump is worried, Trump is afraid, Trump may lie about everything in his life, but deep down inside his rotted orange gut, Trump does know that he is a criminal, a con, a rapist, a pedophile, and one huge guilty man.

In Alaska, ​the Justice Department filed an amended lawsuit on Thursday seeking to block the certification of results in the event of a narrow Republican loss in a hugely consequential Senate ‌race, citing a New York Times report that Democratic operatives recruited a spoiler candidate to siphon votes from the Republican incumbent.

In California, meanwhile, the DOJ is escalating its pressure campaign against state election officials, issuing subpoenas as part of a criminal probe into alleged voting by non-citizens, according to copies of documents seen by Reuters.

The moves, taken together, represent an extraordinary federal intervention in state elections, which are administered locally under the US constitution. As November 3 nears, election officials around the country ​have told Reuters they are bracing for further legal challenges from Washington.” (Reuters)

The election, according to Trump and his Reichstag of DOJ Gestapo, and a very biased Republican activist Supreme Court, can only count as legit if and only if Republicans win and maintain a majority. 

So the question we, the people, must ask is: what happens if the Blue Wave is, in fact, the outcome of the midterms, but the President and his illegal team deny that reality?  Trump believes he is the be-all and end-all, when in fact what he and his gang of goons are trying to do is end all outlets for democracy to continue in this nation of ours.

 

 

What law?

 Democrats demand reform after judge says DOJ ordered her to reverse rulings. A Post investigation examined the Trump administration’s campaign to pressure a veteran immigration court judge before she was fired. (The Washington Post)

Articles like the one above gnaw at my gut and press my worry button deep in my stomach. We have a lawless President, surrounded by a lawless DOJ, encouraged by cultists who place their own outcomes above the law, and a large group of Republican leadership who only prefer living by the law whenever it rules in their favor. And oh yeah, we have a not-so-Supreme Court filled with people who place their own profession and the priorities of their puppet master above and beyond the laws of this land.

So when I read articles like the one above, I grow very afraid that whatever the so-called “Blue Tsunami” is supposed to look and feel like, I must consider that Trump remains in power no matter what, and his cauldron of crooks and criminals still maintains the power and prestige, and no matter the size of the “Blue Tsunami,” will it ever flood and reverse the current cast of fascists running our government.

I grow weary of news outlets trying to outdo their competitors with stories of how large the tidal wave will be…and I ask the question over and over again…if a tidal wave never hits the shore, was it ever a tsunami?

 

 

 

 

another wrench

 SIX DAYS. And of course there is much to worry about. A whole to worry about exactly! Trump was asked if he would accept the results of the midterm elections:

“I will,” the president replied, indicating that he’d accept the election results, before quickly adding, “if they’re honest elections. “And who gets to decide whether the elections are “honest”? According to Trump, he does. (Maddow Blog)

Trump expands hunt for noncitizen voters with broad subpoena campaign before midterms

Courts blocked related voter-roll requests, but subpoenas offer another route to voter data

California officials said federal noncitizen list was unreliable

Critics said probes could fuel post-election challenges and undermine confidence in narrow results (Reuters).

If republicans win, then there is nothing to see here; if the Republicans lose, then of course there is plenty to see here and plenty for Trump to use to once again disrupt the sanctity of our democratic process. If the Dems lose and do not gain the majority, Trump believes he will not be up for prison, for criminal prosecution, and for impeachment. If the Dems even take control of one House of government, then Trump and the Legion of Doom DOJ and his Supreme Court Fascists will block and throw wrenches into the entire election process, and ya wanna bet it might take forever for the real will of the people to be heard!

My question is, and I am not being naïve about this, how does this nation, built on law and order and our Constitution, ever fight back and regain its true authority?

A little levity, maybe

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President Donald Trump was interrupted by a heckler criticizing his controversial White House ballroom construction at a campaign rally ahead of the midterm elections.

A crowd member shouted at the president as he gave a speech on stage during a rally backing Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Corinth, Mississippi, on Oct. 26.

"Shove that ballroom up your fat a--," the person said.” (USA Today)

A blog of levity from me today: there is very little to laugh about, as I see it, regarding the upcoming Midterm elections in the United States- that is, if you really care about the future of democracy actually being saved. I grow more concerned each day, knowing that Trump does not want to lose power, does not want to go to jail, and does not want any truth about his decades of rape, pedophilia, theft, gifts, and perhaps being a Russian agent to ever be found out.

But at a rally in ruby-red Mississippi, a very brave heckler stood tall and shouted down Trump by saying, "Shove that ballroom up your fat ass!” My kind of hero, the kind of person who has had enough bull shit thrown his way, who is tired of wiping away the muck and mire of lies and corruption thrown at him by Trump and his enablers. 

Trump pretended that this disruption was caused by a paid Democrat worker hired to provoke the audience. Actually, Trump claimed that this guy was paid the going fee of $250 to do so. (Ya gotta wonder where Trump pulled out that number…um…maybe from the Republican Party playbook!

Oh yeah, Trump was stumped for Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, the person who, when asked about the high price of beef, replied, as a usual Trump acolyte might, by saying Too bad you are complaining about the cost of beef; do you prefer Iran have a nuclear weapon. And then, as most Republicans often do, she added, " Go find cheaper ways to eat protein! 

With seven days until we, as a nation, do or die, a little levity helps!

  

"Oink, oink"

 Donald Trump praises Nicki Minaj’s ‘beautiful ass’ during rally speech: ‘It’s hard to miss. (USA Today)

"By the way, I looked at one hell of a beautiful ass before — Nicki Minaj," Trump said behind the lectern at Port Huron's McMorran Place Arena. "That's hard to miss." (USA Today)

There is just so much wrong with this scenario at a Trump/Republican Michigan rally. None of it should have come as any surprise, but all of it, unless you are a MAGA-Manosphere-Maggot, is something you come to expect and adore.

The MAGA men have demonstrated over and over again, ad nauseam, just how very emasculated they view themselves, and how fragile they view their own masculinity. From their enjoyment of supporting rapists, to their delight in ignoring male pedophiles, to their sheer pleasure in pushing back the rights of females, Trump and his colony of MAGA Men, go out of their way to portray themselves as real men, not afraid to rape, not afraid to be misogynists, and not afraid to act the pedophile.

Let’s be blunt, shall we? If you are a male and none of the Trump actions and statements make you want to puke, you are pure insecure men who think that bragging about hurting women makes your dick grow! And if you are a female MAGA, you are even more pathetic than your male counterpart, because you seem to find self-gratification in permitting the men in your life to treat you like shit!

 

SIGH!

 President Donald Trump has indicated he is considering issuing blanket pardons for members of his administration before the end of his term. President Donald Trump left the door open to pardons for White House staff and administration officials, telling reporters on Saturday that he would be “allowed” to grant them despite insisting he has not given the idea serious thought.

“Well, I haven’t thought of it, but I will tell you, it would be very unfair to go through what we went through for four years with the corrupt weaponization that took place,” Trump said when asked about pardons for administration personnel. (MSN).

The 34-count felon, the man found guilty of rape, the guy who still hasn’t permitted any more insight into his role in the Epstein pedophilia case, the creep continuously grifting and full of corruption, has the power to grant pardons for all of his cultists who, in their own right, have committed crimes against Americans.

Yeah, it clearly states that the president of the United States can grant an endless number of pardons without needing to explain or answer questions. A criminal can pardon his mob family of criminals, and the rest of us- those of us who try our hardest to obey the law must just sit back and watch.

Sigh. Sigh, that somehow a Felon can become president. Sigh, because as president, this sociopath can continue to break laws and encourage his staff to break laws. Sigh, because this piece of sheer slime sits in the most powerful governmental position on Earth, and he just gets away with crime after crime after crime!