2) Trump’s Clear Attempt to Change the 2020 Electoral Count in Georgia was a Crime in Plain Earshot

Reason #2 to Vote Blue on Nov 5 On Jan 3, 2021, I listened to the recording of Trump browbeating the Georgia Secretary of State on the telephone into changing the 2020 State election count.  What I heard then was both amazing and shocking.  Amazing that Trump could talk for more than ten minutes straight and yet the logic is so poor – one sentence (if it’s actally completed) rarely … CONTINUE READING THE WHOLE POST

1) Trump’s Love of Tariffs Will Hurt Workers and the Poor

Reason #1 to Vote Blue on Nov 5 Higher tariffs raise consumer prices. Why? If the United States puts a higher tariff on products, let’s say charging a car manufacturer in Europe $1,000 to sell its automobile in the US, that company does not want to reduce their profit. So that $,1000 gets added to the sticker price in the US. So, generally speaking, it is with all tariffs on … CONTINUE READING THE WHOLE POST

Four Years and Three Posts

I set this blog site up 4 years ago with the expectation that I would post extended notes or essays of my reaction to the Trump years. Given that I have, since then, written only two additional posts until now, I did not do what I set out to do! In general, I am good at starting great creative projects, but terrible at follow-through. In the case of this website, … CONTINUE READING THE WHOLE POST

Moral Courage

Yesterday, October 10, 2019, I wrote a Facebook post, that arose in my mind from Trump’s decision to turn his back on the Kurdi fighters who helped us “win” the war against ISIS. Knowing that many Republican (GOP) Senators condemned the President for that, I ended my post with these words: So, now what GOP Senate? Do you see what happens when you turn your back to “minor” “flaws” in … CONTINUE READING THE WHOLE POST