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And So It Goes

Today is Wednesday, October 22, 2025. I’m posting this blog rather late tonight since Elliot and I were being hosted by our new friends on the second floor, “Randy” and “Burton.” We were invited over for dinner and Randy prepared a lovely dinner consisting of roasted chicken, coconut-flavored rice, and marinated cucumbers. For dessert, we all shared some sweet delicacies from a bakery Randy patronized in Astoria. All during dinner, we were greeted by Randy and Burton’s lovely 14-year-old cat, a Main Coon-type cat called Poofy or some name like that.

We were invited for 7 and we stayed at least 2 and a half hours. Elliot announced a little after 9 that he was getting tired, as we also decided to defer to Randy who was leaving for Portugal tomorrow night to participate in some sort of marathon. He mentioned that he was also spending some time in Paris before flying home to New York, and Elliot promised to give him several tips as to where to go in the City of Lights.

The only article I will comment on tonight then is one that should terrify President Poop and that is the online article in WGTC by Jorge Aguilar entitled “‘They’re dominating media institutions’: The No Kings movement just got a lot bigger, and Trump should be terrified.”

The thrust of the article is that the No Kings movement, the people behind the massive anti-Dump protest on October 18, of which I proudly participated in, is officially rolling out a nationwide response network that’s going to call on supporters to take new actions every single week. Boy, will this fascistic president be shitting in his Depends over this! The leaders of the movement told The Guardian there’s serious energy for “some type of disruption,” and they’re not messing around.

Future actions could include targeted boycotts, campaigns at universities, more street protests, and electoral organizing in local communities. This is huge news, and it signals the era of passive opposition is positively over, as one organizer put it, “The No Kings era is here, and it’s defined by widespread mass defiance of this regime.”

The sheer scale of this turnout is what should have the administration quaking. Tens of thousands of people like myself joined a national call earlier this week just to hear what’s next for the growing resistance. I emailed Indivisible just today to volunteer my skills to the organization and to receive communiques about what the next steps will be. “This broad showing is a big deal because it proves just how much opposition to Trump there is in every single corner of the U.S.”

The idea of a general strike is also on the table, and it’s one that has some serious top-tier support. Chicago’s mayor, Brandon Johnson, brought up the idea at his city’s rally, and labor leaders like the United Auto Workers president, Shawn Fain, and the Association of Flight Attendants counterpart, Sara Nelson, have both called for it.

The cofounder of Indivisible, Ezra Klein, said, “No successful antiauthoritarian movement in the history of the world has relied exclusively on one-day protests, even historic, incredible life-giving one-day protests like Saturday. Successful movements grow, they evolve, they diversify their tactics, and they do new things together. There are going to be big mobilizations in our future, but before that, there’s going to be overreach from this regime. We’re seeing it with our own eyes. They’re dominating media institutions, they’re dominating universities. They’re bullying businesses and political opponents, and we need to coordinate a way to respond quickly and powerfully with the full force of this movement. The era of capitulation and obey ion advance, that’s over.”

Some of the targets that this movement could be focusing on could be corporations or institutions that support the despicable MAGA platform. (By the way, I saw a wonderful sign this past Saturday in which the acronym was given a new identity as “MAGA = Morons Are Governing America.”) Other places of commerce like sports arenas could also be targeted to disrupt the flow of capital.

This is the only piece of good news I’ve heard about since the Orange Tyrant took office in January. Let’s show this corrupt regime the true power of the people.

Tomorrow I will probably be AWOL from here again since Elliot and I have invited this time our thirtyish friend “Taylor” over for dinner. He is the fiancé of our adopted niece, “Rebecca,” and we have cultivated his friendship ever since he entered our lives several years ago at our friends’ house in Easton, Pennsylvania, some Christmases past.

Have a good Thursday then.

And so it went!

And So It Goes

Today is Monday, August 25, 2025. In a hard-hitting online article for Daily Take, Thom Hartmann writes “The Great American Betrayal: Trump’s War on Ordinary People,” in which he outlines how Dump always never fulfills his promises to the American public and how he has egregiously betrayed the very base who has traditionally supported him.

Hartmann provides us a short history lesson in saying how the old Confederacy was launched. He writes that it was built on rightwing oligarchy and racism, while the Democratic Party abandoned the Klan and the Lost Cause in the 1960s, it was the Republican Party that picked up the mantle. And it was this madman who was ideally suited to lead the new GOP movement since he was a lifelong racist, notwithstanding his weak avowals of denying it.

“Trump exclusively serves whoever pays the biggest bribes, either in cash, 747s, or votes, who today are mostly big, monopolistic businesses, the morbidly rich, foreign dictators, so-called ‘Christian’ hustlers, and the Republican base of male white supremacist racists.”

One undeniable reason for Dump’s popularity is “Trump-loving white racists continue to vote for the Party because he’s working so hard to disempower women and Black people while pushing brown people out of the country or throwing them into concentration camps.”

In the meantime, in the service of their rich donors, Chump and his repugnican toadies have:

  • “Fired over 8,000 Social security workers, throwing the agency into chaos so that peoples’ experience working with them will be frustrating to the point where privatization will be accepted as the only option left.
  • Killed off research into mRNA vaccines that were showing great promise to prevent and even cure cancer, among other diseases.
  • Ruined America’s “soft power” around the world by shutting down USAID, leading to the death of millions, mostly in Africa, while China and Russia pick up our former allies.
  • Betrayed our democratic ally Ukraine by withholding new weapons for eight months now while sucking up to Putin and now openly taking the dictator’s side.
  • Embraced autocratic and dictatorial regimes around the world while dissing our democratic allies in Europe, Asia, India, Australia, South and Central America.
  • Politicized our military, something George Washington warned loudly against and every president since Jefferson has done his best to avoid.
  • Corrupted our courts and prosecutors by appointing unqualified Fox ‘News’ personalities and others, including people credibly accused of sexual assault, taking bribes, and engaging in a coup attempt.
  • Ignored due process requirements in U.S. law and the Constitution when it comes to brown-skinned immigrants.
  • Corrupted America’s reputation as a beacon of democracy for the rest of the world.
  • Intimidated media, law firms, and corporate leaders into going along with creep fascism while demanding from them bribes and tribute to the Trump Crime Family.
  • Pitted Americans against each other while whipping up hysteria around race and religion.
  • Put masked, armed thugs on the streets of America to terrorize people and turn the country into a police state.”

And this is not the whole list. Is this roster of transgressions committed on the part of this president long enough for you?

Hartmann then muses out loud as to what it will “take for average people to wake up to how badly they’ve been screwed by Trump and his bizarre crew of lickspittles.”

Hartmann then speculates that it will take a global recession created by this idiot that will eventually turn everyone against the Orange Ogre. He writes that Dump’s incoherent – and clearly unconstitutional – proclamation of a phony “economic emergency” to commandeer from Congress the power to impose tariffs is already slowing our economy, increasing unemployment, and jacking up inflation.

Let’s finally “wake up,” as California Governor Gavin Newsom warned just a while ago to the creeping fascism taking over in this country as Donald Dump tramples over everything heretofore held sacred in this country.

I now have to find Atticus who is hiding somewhere.

And so it went!