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And So It Goes

Today is Monday, April 21, 2025. As if you haven’t heard already, Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff in nearly 1,300 years, has died on Easter Monday. He was 88 years old and died of a stroke followed by heart failure, according to CNN updates. Latest updates appear on an online CNN piece by Antoinette Radford, Maureen Chowdhury, Christopher Lamb, Christian Edwards, Issy Ronald, Aditi Sangal, and Elise Hammond entitled “The latest on the death of Pope Francis as tributes pour in worldwide.”

The news arrived as the pontiff spent his last days participating in the celebration of Easter and making a high-profile appearance in public after battling multiple health issues.

In the wake of such sad news, it was reported that Emperor Dump and his First Lady [who seems as invisible as they come] will be attending the funeral in Rome. Why? He wasn’t liked by this progressive pope at all.

Condolences and tributes started to pour in shortly after the announcement was made by Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the Vatican camerlengo (chamberlain) who said Francis died at 7:35 a.m. local time (1:35 a.m. ET). Until a new pope is chosen, Farrell acts as the head of the Vatican. Farrell was also the cardinal who sealed the Papal Apartment of the Apostolic Palace, the traditional residence of the pope, to mark the beginning of the mourning process. This tradition was highlighted in the recent Conclave film starring Ralph Fiennes that focused on the selecting of a new pontiff on the death of the current one. However, the apartment was not used by Francis, who lived in Casa Santa Marta, and that apartment was also sealed.

The fact that Pope Francis met odious Vice President JD Vance shortly before his death this morning has set off a torrent of internet memes and jokes in which Vance is somehow blamed for the pontiff’s death. Pope Francis had been released from the hospital less than a month ago following a five-week stay for life-threatening double pneumonia. Francis’s passing came soon after he briefly met with Vance to exchange Easter greetings on Sunday. Now, the internet is joking that Vance killed – Heaven forbid! – the Pope – or at the very least, his presence did. One meme depicted lasers coming out of Vance’s eyes as he greeted the Pope. Others darkly joked that Vance should meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin next.

A second disturbing piece of news breaking today is the appearance of another Signalgate incident in which drunken Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has found himself in hot water yet again after revelations that a second high-level chat concerning military operations has been captured on the less-than-secure app Signal. Here he used the app to discuss classified military plans, this time involving his wife and even brother as participants in the chat. This is shocking beyond measure and it’s about time that this idiot president realize how much of a security risk is his stupid choice of Defense Secretary and fire his ass already! In the meantime, the asshole Hegseth just attacked the media for revealing the truth of his indiscretion. This is what these bums do: delay, deny, and deflect. The best thing this guy should do is tender his resignation immediately. This president will never admit he made a fucking mistake, so it’s up to Congress – sheesh! – to demand Hegseth be terminated. Let’s see if this ever becomes reality.

Tomorrow will be my last entry on this page until after May 2, as I’ve indicated yesterday.

And so it went!

And So It Goes

ringwToday is Sunday, April 20, 2025. On this Easter Sunday, the madman in the White House issued his usual deranged, bizarre message of “good will” (it was mostly ill will, not good will) on this holiday. Normally, I wouldn’t have even read or paid any attention to his garbage, but since this is Easter Sunday, I decided to share some of it with you and I dare anyone to not come to the same conclusion that this man in the White House is not fucking insane. In his demented message, he bid Happy Easter to the “Radical Left Lunatics who are scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane [oh, he’s including himself here in this rant], and well-known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife Beaters, back into our Country.” Then he issued a Happy Easter to the “WEAK and INEFFECTIVE Judges and Law Enforcement Officials who are allowing this sinister attack on our Nation to continue [yes, only because they have ruled against him, so he calls them “weak and ineffective.”] He even had kind words for his predecessor who “purposely allowed Millions of CRIMINALS to enter our Country. Then he had the temerity to judge Biden the WORST and most Incompetent President, a man who had absolutely no idea what he was doing.” Here the shitstain person in the White House regularly used the defense mechanism once again of projection in which he knows he’s the worst president in American and world history and just sloughs it off on Joe Biden who had the most impressive record of domestic and foreign policies which this gorilla just shredded in the three months he’s been in office. At the end of this cringeworthy rant, the Chump focused his one pea brain on the presidential 2020 election in which he lost by a considerable margin. He still can’t get this defeat out of his Neanderthal brain!

So there it is! Chump’s off-the-wall and bizarre Easter Sunday message to the nation. Forget previous rants he’s unleashed on the country in remembrance of other holidays like Mother’s Day or Christmas in which he couldn’t veer away from his own fucking narcissism and lack of soul or empathy toward people in more vulnerable situations. Damn him and those who kowtow to him which is primarily the entire repugnican party!

Well, it’s another week. I thought I would make this entry short today.

Have a good week. I’ll be leaving for Los Angeles on Wednesday, April 23, to partake of the TCM Film Festival, from April 24 through April 27. Then I’ll meet Elliot in Phoenix, Arizona, to stay with our cousin, “Joan,” in Scottsdale. We might take a side trip to Tucson the week I’m there. And it’ll be nice not to obsess over this authoritarian administration over the next week and a half.

And so it went!

And So It Goes

Today is Friday, January 24, 2025. Authoritarianism was in full force, sadly, after Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde delivered a plea for mercy from the incoming autocrat sitting in the front pew, along with his wife, and his vice president and his wife on Tuesday, January 21. An online article in The New Republic by Parker Molloy entitled “The Price of Speaking Up in Trump’s America” outlines an abominable scenario arising from this succession of power that just took place on Tuesday, January 21. For those who couldn’t watch the proceedings, here’s a breakdown of what happened during her address to the devil who is now president of the United States. All she did was urge the Orange Turd to display mercy toward “those people who are scared now” that he’s become president again.

Budde then listed those communities who find themselves very vulnerable under a second Drumpf presidency: “gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families.” She went on to mention “the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meatpacking plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals.” She recognized that these individuals may not be citizens or have the proper documentation, “but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals.” [Try to pound this fact into the empty heads of far-righters who still believe the hogwash that all undocumented people are criminals.] All she asked of the president is to find compassion for these people.

Instead of simply accepting the message of true brotherhood inherent in the pastor’s speech, the response was swift and severe. The bastard himself on his social platform called her a “radical left hard line Trump hater.” He even demanded an apology from the courageous cleric. Chump told reporters that the service was “not too exciting” and that organizers “could do much better.” Is this deranged or not? The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh declared that “hell exists for people like Mariann.” Is this necessary?

With conservatives whipped into a frenzy over nothing, Budde herself says she has begun receiving wishes for her death.

“All of this – the full machinery of right-wing outrage – deployed against a religious leader who simply asked for kindness toward vulnerable people.” This kind of disproportionate response to a plea for mercy tells us exactly what this country will be dealing with over the next four years. Four years of cruelty from a pig!

When asked about the backlash, Budde told NPR, “I regret that it has caused the kind of response that it has, in the sense that it actually confirmed the very thing that I was speaking of earlier, which is our tendency to jump to outrage and not speak to one another with respect.” She has stood firm – thank God – about needing to apologize to the bastard. She won’t!

The whole irony about Budde’s sermon is that it was actually about unity. As she explained to The View, her responsibility “was to reflect, to pray with the nation for unity,” and her remarks were an attempt to “say we need to treat everyone with dignity, and we need to be merciful.”

This response to one woman’s words embracing true Christian values just shows what this country has done in voting for this tyrant and his party of MAGAts. There was one member of Congress, even, who suggested that the American-born bishop should be “added to the deportation list.” Shameful!

This whole incident can be viewed as a preview of how dissent with be dealt with under a second Chump regime. These dissenters to Budde’s message are not just disagreeing with her, they’re trying to destroy her for delivering the message in the first place.

So this shameful episode from January 21 should be remembered by all of us as we see how the machinery of government under Chump can be used to carry out a full-scale campaign of intimidation from the highest levels of government and media.

Another piece of nauseating news: Chump’s unqualified nominee for defense secretary was tonight confirmed in a very narrow Senate vote – with Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote. The country is in deep shit with this confirmation, I believe. Whatever it’s worth, Senator “Bitch” McConnell issued a searing “no” vote on Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary. He noted how the position of defense secretary is even more important today “in the face of the gravest threats to U.S. national security interests since World War II.” Let’s hope Hegseth makes good on his promise to quit drinking now that he’s defense secretary. I don’t see how he can keep this promise, given how murderous the job is.

Oye! And so it went!