Today is Monday, June 23, 2025. This is my first blog since Thursday, June 19, 2025, not because Elliot and I went away or – God forbid – I was suffering from malaise or anything like that. (Since Dump was reelected, I have truly been suffering from unrepressed anger and gargantuan disillusionment over my fellow Americans who would stoop to bring this convicted felon back into the White House.) As I said when we journeyed to Norway and Europe in early May, no one I spoke to had any words of approbation for this criminal governing this country until 2028.

The reason for this mysterious lapse in the blog had everything to do with a nonfunctioning keyboard that began Thursday night when I decided to restart the computer after I saw my screen flickering for some strange reason. After I did that, I restarted the computer, went into my half of the computer, and then promptly learned my keyboard stopped typing. I couldn’t understand why. This keyboard works with batteries; it’s not powered by plugging it into a power source. I changed the batteries first as a solution to the problem, and again, the keyboard wouldn’t type one letter. So I wasted away for two long days before I called a tech guy from two years earlier, who helped us install our new Mac device. He didn’t come until Saturday around 2 and stayed for about an hour or so and he was unable to do anything. So he told me he had to take the keyboard away with him to test it with another computer and wouldn’t return until today, Monday. I was without my little device for four days, and Elliot said I was experiencing computer withdrawal symptoms. I agreed with him. I couldn’t write my blog, read my email, or write anything else for those four days. I’m not content with finding these things on my cell phone.

So “Eddie” returned today, but much later than I had hoped. Even though he’s very good at what he does, he really didn’t respond to my texts right away; I had to resort to calling him this morning to find out when he was coming. So I did call him close to 11 to inquire when he was coming, and he said, around 1 to 2. I ran out in the sweltering heat for a quick bite and came home to wait for him. Actually, Eddie didn’t come until around 3:20 instead of the time he earlier indicated in his text to me. I waited until 3 and was just about to call him when he did text me to indicate his phone died and that he was going to come in about 20 minutes, which made it about 3:20.

When Eddie appeared, he had a new keyboard in his hand and mouse, and he sat at the computer desk and got me to sign into my screen name, and – voila’ – the keys were working as beautifully as they should. But my old keyboard was now fodder for the garbage bin. It was not working; Eddie declared it corrupted. He provided me with a brand new black keyboard whose keys actually feel a little less taut than the old one. However, I’m still not totally inured to the new Logitech mouse. That might take more time to get used to.

So look what I missed in just four days: The big news is this “peace” president’s stunning pronouncement that this country dropped several bunker buster bombs on Fordo, Iran’s heavily fortified nuclear facility on Saturday, June 21. I’m sure this “wonderful” news was greeted by cheers by most decent-loving Americans! Not at all!

So now calls for impeachment have actually grown since this decision made by this lying sack of shit who just stated he was giving the Iranian regime two weeks to return to the negotiating table. I think he said this lie a day before dropping those bombs. Could you imagine the uproar if this brazen lie were made by a Democratic president, say, Joe Biden? Those hypocritical, cowardly repugnicans would be calling for his head!

An online article in Common Dreams by Eloise Goldsmith covers this development in “Calls for Impeachment Grow as Trump Floats ‘Regime Change’ in Iran.” As the president took to social media on Sunday to suggest that regime change was on the table for Iran, calls from Democratic lawmakers and outside progressive voices have continued to grow calling for his impeachment following the weekend bombing of Iranian nuclear sites.

As for those claims that these Iranian facilities were completely destroyed, independent experts who viewed satellite imagery of the areas told NPR that the strike left Iran’s nuclear program damaged, but not destroyed. Unlike what the drunken Pete Hegseth who is our Secretary of Defense, who countered the facilities were “obliterated.” Not so, Pete; look at your own intelligence reports.

And there isn’t any proof that Iran was even attempting to build a nuclear weapon, according to U.S. intelligence agencies. Doesn’t this rash attack smack of our falsehood of “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq that were never there during the Bush era? Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), a frequent vocal critic of this president, wrote on X, “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

Meanwhile, Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) wrote on Sunday: “This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the U.S. without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachment offense.”

Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) have introduced a war powers resolution in the U.S. House last week, asserting the constitutional requirement of congressional approval for any declaration of war. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) introduced one in the Senate.

Countering the notion that this illiberal regime wants regime change in Iran, Defense Secretary Hegseth said in a press conference on Sunday, “This mission was not, and has not been, about regime change.” Vice President JD Vance said on NBC News on Sunday morning, “Our view has been very clear that we don’t want a regime change.” If you believe these liars about their true aim in a foreign country, then I have a bridge I can sell you cheap!

Well, I’m very glad to be back! I hope you missed me!

Stay cool tomorrow if you can. Temps are going to be in the vicinity of 99 degrees! I’ve already canceled plans on getting together with my friend “Harvey” tomorrow since I don’t want to be on a subway platform during the day.

And so it went!