Today is Sunday, December 21, the first day of winter. Brrr! The Winter Solstice for the Northern Hemisphere of 2025 was noted at 10:03 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST). This marks the shortest day and longest night, when the Earth’s axis tilts furthest from the Sun, but also signaling the beginning of longer days ahead. I am not a fan of this season, so I definitely will look forward to more sunlight during the day, not less, as the months go by.

In the meantime, it seems as if the sun has definitely descended on this country as it reels under the supposed leadership of its 47th president. But there are some glimmers of hope, very minute, in the recent announcement of two resignations from politics from two of Grump’s most staunchest ass kissers, Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), who just announced her resignation from the party, saying she would not seek reelection at the age of 71.

Stefanik was poised to seek the governor’s post – God forbid – but she made the decision to suspend her campaign for governor to pursue motherly pursuits instead. This is so fucking ingenuous coming from a female MAGAt who would have done anything to kneel at the cross for her Supreme Leader, but she was recently put out of favor of Drumpf’s patronage for whatever stupid reason, and she knew this very well and that she instinctively understood she would not have had a chance in Hell to progress in the governor’s race in a blue state, especially with how dissatisfied many voters are with Dump right now and with MAGA, both Republicans and Democrats, as well as Independents. Her decision to withdraw from the race came less than two months after she launched her campaign in November. She will also not seek reelection for her House seat in 2026. All I can say to her is “Good riddance!”

Another breaking story concerns the continuing “cover-up” of releasing the notorious Epstein Files that was mandated to be carried out on Friday. Which was not done in good faith, and because of this disappointing disclosure of some – and not all – of the files, I’m now hearing that bipartisan Congressional members are seeking to file inherent contempt charges against Bimbo Bondi, the Attorney General. I just wish this finally happens without too much discussion about it. Congress is out of session until January 2026. So nothing is going to happen here now – until then.

Even a Republican, Thomas Massie, from Kentucky, is supporting such a measure to file contempt charges against Drumpf’s personal attorney general who doesn’t take a step without consulting her Anointed One. This is quite a big thing in that a repugnican is also talking about filing these charges against Bondi.

In three days, Elliot and I will be leaving for our annual Christmas trip to “Ralph” and “Sandy’s” home in Easton, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, December 24. We generally stay three days with them, and we’ll return on Friday, December 26.

Therefore, I’ll be posting two more blogs before Wednesday. I hope you enjoy them.

Have a good week.

And so it went!