Veterans Day 2026

 Veterans Day, November 11, 2026, and the following headline seem to sum up the Trump Reich and its commitment to this nation's veterans.

“We Have No One”: How Trump’s Dismantling of the VA Left a Veterans Hospital in Crisis. (ProPublica).

Sadly, this is not new news; it is a continuous story hidden by too many other Trump Reich and Republican failures over the past two years. Trump and his band of Republican MAGA love to raise the flag, wear their red, white, and blue outfits, and shout out how patriotic they are by SAYING SO, but looking at their track record, they have only used their words and have so far demonstrated nothing by their ACTIONS.

The MAGA and Trump love to insist that they are making America great again. If you notice, they have never once said that they are MAKING AMERICANS GREAT AGAIN! In the past two years, the only people living in this nation who are feeling great are anyone in the Trump Family, Tech Bros, billionaire donors, and, of course, the corporations, which were deemed as people by the Heritage Foundation Supreme Court Justices. 

Here we are at war, a war conceived and created by Trump, with no real reason as to why this war began and ABSOLUTELY no plans for how this war will end. (We still do not have any honest facts regarding how many of our Troops were killed, or how many of our Troops sustained injuries.) 

Now we have more Veterans men and women who placed America first, and once again, we the people witness our American government placing its needs last.

It Ain't Me Babe

 “Go lightly from the ledge, babe. Go lightly on the ground. I'm not the one you want, babe. I'll only let you down. Go away from my window. Leave at your own chosen speed. I'm not the one you want, babe. I'm not the one you need. It ain’t me, babe; I said no, no, no, it ain’t me, babe!” (‘It Ain’t Me Babe’ - Bob Dylan).

Let’s begin with the ain’t me babe contestant, a guy named Pete Hegseth, who actually used the history books (probably for the first time in his life) and told the media, and basically the American public, that he “WAS JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS”, using a very German explanation for the murder and mayhem from the Venezuela coup, to the shooting of fishermen in the Caribbean, to, of course, the war with Iran. Hegseth reminded Americans that he was just following orders from the Commander-in-Chief!

Now we move on to the House of Representatives, and who says that MAGA is dead? It seems that MAGA Mike Johnson and all of his ass licking of the Trump entrails got him nothing but a rejection of his leadership skills. And now, as if the Republicans had learned nothing at all from this midterm election, what did they do? They voted for Gym (I did not see any troubling acts of pedophilia in the showers of the Ohio State Wrestling Team) Jordan. A gerrymandered MAGA who, while in the majority, rebuked law and order and implemented law-and-order MAGA/Trump style. The media and the Dems may pretend that MAGA is dead, but don’t tell that to the Republicans in the House.

Finally, we have Trump. To no one’s surprise, he takes zero responsibility for the upheaval during the midterms. And why not? Even when you hear the GOP begin to play the victim, they may explain it was affordability; they may claim it was due to the Iran War; they will even whisper that it was due to some corruption, but way too many of them NEVER start the sentence with it was Trump’s tariffs that caused the issue of affordability, it was Trump’s war in Iran, or it was Trump, his family, and his cadre of billionaire donors and Cabinet officials responsible for corruption!

IT AIN’T ME BABE!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LAME DUCK, what now

 Here is the newest deal-io, regarding the MAGA/Republicans. We are officially in what American politics defines as THE LAME DUCK SESSION. (In reality, with the amount of time Orange Ass Licker Mikey Johnson has kept the House from working to continuously protect Trump from facing any consequences for his crimes, felonies, and misdemeanors, I would say the last two years were kind of LAME DUCK), but I digress.

So, now that the House is back in session, because there is no more reason to hide from the public, the MAGA/Republicans, those who have lost this midterm election and those who had primaried out of office by Trump’s intervention have a real life, right in our face decision to make.

Everything from the Iran War to the Epstein Files, the upcoming government shutdown on December 11, the corruption and grifting of anyone Trump, to the Impeachment of Hegseth are all matters that should and could be on the agenda. 

So, let’s wonder out loud for a moment…will the losses accumulated by the MAGA/Republicans amount to a majority of them finally rediscovering their balls and backbones, freeing them to take their morals and values and conscience out of the graveyard, OR will these same men and women finally demonstrate for Americans their real selves as nasty, evil-minded people who give no fucks about law and order, heathens?

We have 217 days remaining for this LAME DUCK Congress to continue to destroy democracy, or to actually embrace democracy and right the wrongs they so dearly and lovingly tried to end. Will the losers be defiant, or angry and who will benefit from their actions?

Absudity and Atrocity!

 The quote from Voltaire: “Certainly…who is in right to make you absurd is in right to make you unjust,” which became widely quoted in English, in the familiar form “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities,” often attributed to Norman Lewis Torrey (1961) for the English rendering, has great resonance beginning in 2016 and continuing into 2026. Ten years of the minion mindlessly losing his or her mind, drinking a Kool-Aid not meant to poison the body, but to eliminate the brain!

Infected, infested idiots and morons, whose pure existence is to extinguish the lives of anyone who is not them, Trump and his band of Fascists have successfully manipulated a large contingent of Americans to point their fingers outward in order to blame the misery of lives on anyone but themselves. The Dark Army, whose generals consisted of billionaires, the Epstein class, and right-wing media giants, understood that absurdities were the lifeblood of those whose own lives were a miserable existence. 

We are told that this election was almost a once-in-a-lifetime political happening, one in which many of those who thrive on atrocities actually realized that they were the true victims of atrocity!

So, I ask, honestly: now what, Democrats? Now that you won, what? Where do you, as a collective, go to remedy the wrongs? Do you keep your DNC leadership intact? Do you just impeach the entire Trump clown car of fascists? Do you have any idea how to really lower prices and lower the cost of medical care? Do you continue your usual course of infighting? 

Democrats, you have a chance to stop the absurdity and atrocities, and I, as a lifelong Democrat, worry about how you may either seize this moment or, as usual, destroy it!

 

The Death Star Still Orbits

 I am still relishing the amazing blue wave, or tide or tsunami, that occurred on November 4, 2026, but I must remember that after the celebration, oftentimes, when we have a little too much alcohol making that moment magic, come the days of headaches, spinning rooms, and nausea. Too much of a good thing, I believe, must be considered, because what happens next can be more pain than pleasure. I write this opinion paragraph not acknowledging the democrat win, but in response to myriad articles announcing the end of MAGA and the end of the Trump Reich!

As I see it, the majority- and that is a vast majority of Republicans are pointing fingers at everyone and anything that IS NOT TRUMP. These men and women remain cowards and spineless amoebas, not willing or able to say out loud that they were following orders and threats from Trump for the past two years, and that they enabled a sad, sick monster to disembody the Republican Party. If it is the war in Iran, yeah, Hegseth is a jerk, but Petey boy could not or would not have bombed or blocked anything in the Iranian vicinity if his boss, Trump, had said not to. If these Republicans want to blame Hegseth, and not Trump (and actually, themselves for permitting this idiot to be appointed in the first place), then all they are doing is CONTINUING to bend the knee and offer their backbones to Trump!

And if Trump thought his power was diminished, then why the fuck would he give more power within the Trump Reich in the Nazi/Fascist/ Murderer to Stephen Miller as Chief of Staff? Seriously, all you talking heads, Miller is the poster boy, next to Trump, showcasing how inhuman, insidious, and indecent this Trump administration was, is, and will be. The man who laughingly and proudly created Concentration Camps within the United States is now even more of a player in the Trump Reich!

And I hear ZERO mention from any of the Republicans saying they disavow any connection with MAGA. If these men and women did face reality and did want to work for the people of America, they would say I am no longer a part of MAGA!

I want to believe that evil and the evil doers have ended, but so far the Death Star is still orbiting above the United States.

 

This Iteration

 A malignant narcist, a person with absolutely no empathy, apathy or interest in any one but himself, a con artist needing his fix for the next con, a trapped criminal fearing the truth of actions may be revealed and by a large majority he may be reviled…Donald Trump.

As we celebrate a culmination of Republican spineless orange ass licking, in our joy, please lets not imagine that this loss will make Trump and less dangerous. He remains as President, and as President he obtains some might powerful bits of ammunition, so powerful that doomsday apparitions are not fictional but could become factual.

Is MAGA dead, perhaps this iteration. Has the Trump cult died, perhaps this iteration. I am so tired of the talking heads over and over pontificating that the dystopian days of Trump will soon be behind us. 

We have two more years, a time span in this day and age which can shapeshift into madness, chaos, and mayhem in the time it takes for Trump to think his ego is being damaged, permitting him to act as he always has as a raging maniac.

I am a worrier, I will not argue, but why not at least wonder, how will this malignant narcist REACT, when he realizes that others may not see him as a God!

The Dems

 As I still bask in the landslide results of the midterms, a huge part of my brain and gut reminds me that maybe I should drink my last glass of champagne and keep my bottle of Pepto-Bismol close.

Already I hear rumblings from within the actual politicians who won their races, and a whole lot of those echoes sound more like a war call than a victory shout. The Democrats, as I see it, are very good at eating one another, and often spend more time calling out the bad guys from within their own party. It becomes a war of too progressive, not progressive enough, too socialist, not caring enough about the citizens. I get it and I am glad that these questions arise, but for me, way too often these questions turn into more of a battle cry.

I am thrilled that an actual blue wave swept this nation, but I am also aware that much of the gains came to fruition because the American voter was more anti-Republican than pro Democrat. There should be a cockiness from the Democrats, but often time being too cocky blinds a person from the reality around them. (Also moat of the Media loves to write stories not about happily ever after outcomes, rather prioritizing battel scars and creating rifts as the real story.)

I am torn as to who should lead the 2027 Democratic majority I the House and Senate. I want the corruption of not only Trump, but his family and the myriad men and women of his cabinet to be handled. But in doing so, (all of which matter greatly to me), I am hoping that the list of “TO DO,” items immediately close in on health and welfare of the majority of citizens in this nation.

Health care costs, the divide between the ultra-wealthy and the rest of us, the day to day expenses pf food, energy, the complete defiance of the law, those areas for me should be priority number one. 

I truly hope that the usual “infighting” that has haunted the Democrats will not be the headlines in 2027. We are told this election was a seismic shift, well Dems please find a common path, compromise with one another, and keep this seismic shift going and going and going!