Call to Action

I received this image from HOTNIR,  which is the Heart of Texas Network for Immigrant Rights,  located in and around Waco,  Texas.  The image is self-explanatory:  we so very clearly have government officers behaving like a secret police force intended to mistreat and “disappear” the demonized few (immigrants),  and intimidate the rest of us into submission.  

I am sick and tired of seeing government agencies weaponized and abused into the tools of dictatorship!  On this,  our nation’s birthday,  I call upon all Americans to come together,  and rise up to depose our wannabee-king and all his enabling minions!  Your last chance to do this peacefully at the ballot box is this November! 

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Recent Messages to Federal Reps

Below is the text of my most recent messages sent to all three of my federal representation.  I rather doubt there can be any uncertainty in any of their minds about where I stand on this administration,  and the threat it poses to all of us Americans. 

I have specifically requested responses for most of these messages.  I have received only a few responses,  mostly from Senator Cruz,  some from Senator Cornyn,  and none at all from Representative Sessions.  None of those responses specifically addressed any of my specific concerns.  These were all quite clearly pre-canned generic responses.

What has become clear to me is that all three have completely sold out to Trump,  just to stay on his good side.   All can see what that got Senator Cornyn. 

Those of you who voted for this administration,  please wake up!  You are about to see our democracy replaced by a Trump dictatorship resembling that of Nazi Germany.  Trump,  and your favored sources of information,  have been lying egregiously to you. 

The message record document is reproduced here in its entirety,  right down to an explanation of its format.  It is the 6^th such document I have created over about the last year.

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Further Messages to Federal Reps 6   GWJ 5-27/6-16-2026

FORMAT:

What it is about                                                        how many words

TEXT

Verified who got it                                         sent when (highlight yellow when done)

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Cornyn losing to Paxton                                244 words

I am sorry that you lost the primary,  and I want to congratulate you on your long service to Texas in the US Senate!  In my opinion,  you lost to a multiple-count criminal who was never actually convicted,  simply and only because as the state Attorney General,  he could misuse the power of his office to avoid going to trial.

You and I have disagreed many times on policies,  but that does not diminish my admiration for your long service!  Perhaps,  now that re-election is no longer an issue,  you might accept the gist of my repeated messages,  suggesting that you should overtly oppose many of the things President Trump has been doing in the White House.

Trump is an actually-convicted criminal,  and a known habitual liar,  and in my estimation,  he is (1) attempting to establish a dictatorship,  (2) he has incompetently started a war he cannot win,  (3) he has committed multiple treasons of the aid and comfort type,  and (4) he has repeatedly abused his office for both personal gain,  and the persecution of those who oppose him!  

We need him,  and all his minions,  out of there!  And I think you probably know that,  too,  deep down somewhere.  Impeachment and conviction would seem to be the only way. 

I would be happy to discuss any of these things further with you at any time.  They are what I have repeatedly messaged you about,  over approximately the last year or so.

Verified Cornyn got it                                                 sent 5-27-2026

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Iran war                                                                      300 words

Both Trump’s administration and the Iranians are lying egregiously about what is transpiring with the “peace talks”,  whatever they really are.  But there can be no doubt that Trump lost his Iran war,  and is looking only for a way to “declare victory” and get out.  The nuclear issue is being kicked down the road to be dealt with later,  and it appears doubtful that the Strait of Hormuz will ever be a freely-navigable waterway,  ever again. 

And,  the real rulers of Iran after this war,  have been revealed to be the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps,  whose stranglehold on the country is now far stronger than before the war.  They do not negotiate in good faith,  they cannot,  because they are not in the least “transactional” people.  They are a well-armed terrorist army,  specifically recruited from violent extremists.  They would die to the last man,  rather than negotiate away anything.

This outcome,  the opposite of what was promised,  and the opposite of the treaty Obama obtained (that Trump abrogated),  reveals the total incompetence of Trump and his administration in terms of foreign affairs!  Not to mention the treasons Trump has committed by insulting our allies and effectively destroying our alliances that protected us from our enemies.   Trump and his minions have so very clearly proven that they are incapable of performing their first duty:  to protect and defend this country from its enemies!

I will deal with domestic policy failures in a separate message,  but they are part of this total incompetence picture!

You must act to remove them all from office,  before the damage they do becomes critical,  or even fatal,  for our democracy!  It is called impeachment and conviction.  And the longer you fail to address this,  the more complicit you are in this administration’s crimes and failures! 

Verified all 3 got it                                                     sent 5-31-2026

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Domestic travesties                                                   256 words

As my representation,  I want you to vote against the “weaponization” fund,  such that it cannot ever happen!  That is only a slush fund for Trump supporters who got into trouble with the law by being so extreme.  No president should ever have such a thing! 

I want you to vote against any immunity of the Trumps from having their IRS returns audited.  What’s good for the rest of us is good enough for them.  No president or his relatives should ever have such! 

I want you to vote down any order of any type,  that places politicians or political appointees in any final editorial approval position,  for any sort of scientific reports or science project finances.  I am sick and tired of this Trump administration gutting and destroying our science establishment.  No president,  or anybody in any administration,  should ever have such power!  Your job is to see to that!

No living president has ever appeared on US currency of any kind.  Put a stop to the proposed Trump $250 bill!  No other bills or coins,  either.

I do not want my tax dollars spent on Trump’s East Wing ballroom,  or his Arch d’ Trump monument.  Period!  End of issue!  I want you to make sure those travesties do not happen!

We have known about the screw worm fly threat advancing north through Mexico for some time now.  Why are the sterilized flies not already deployed to eradicate it?  Is that not total incompetence on the part of this Trump administration?  DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT!

Verified all 3 got it                                                     sent 6-5-2026

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Iran and Ukraine wars                                              147 words

This may,  or may not,  be a practical suggestion.  There was a laser weapon twice used recently,  in and near El Paso,  in botched attempts to down drug-smuggling drones.  It was my impression that this was a device ready for field tests,  but not yet ready to deploy. 

Why not send a few examples of this laser weapon,  and some field test teams with them,  to Ukraine?  That would be a real field test of such an anti-drone weapon,  and under conditions that are totally realistic!  And without commercial air traffic to endanger. 

If it proves effective and is judged to be about ready to deploy,  then put it immediately to work in both Ukraine and the Persian Gulf region,  shooting down all those Iranian and Russian Shahed-type drones.  And start mass-producing the things!

I see the Europeans are also testing at least one anti-drone laser weapon!

Verified all 3 got it                                                     sent 6-5-2026

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Iran war                                                                     274 words

The charade continues over an end to the Iran war.  Yet again Trump (or a minion) says a deal is near to end the war.  Yet again Iran denies it.  Yet again,  there really is no deal.  When a possible deal is announced,  the stock market goes up.  When that deal outcome proves false,  stocks drop again.  We have seen this pattern multiple times now. 

Why should you,  or I,  or anyone else,  believe a single word from this President,  or any of his minions?   The fact checking shows that essentially every investigated claim that Trump has ever made,  dating back to his first run for office,  is false!  And usually not just a little lie,  but most often a “pants-on-fire” lie.

What I wish you would do is something an ordinary citizen like me cannot do:  investigate stock market activity by Trump and his family and his companies,  during this repeated debacle of “a deal is near” when it is not.  I think you might find that he (they) sell stocks when the market swings up after every “deal” announcement,  and that he (they) buy stocks when the market drops again once the “deal” proves elusive. 

That would be the most egregious insider trading ever seen,  since the market responds to whatever Trump says.  And that is illegal!  Also illegal is profiting off the Presidency,  which this is,  as well!  But he has weaponized the DOJ into being his personal lawyers,  instead of the nation’s lawyers!  Expect nothing from them to correct these illegalities.  You (and your colleagues) are going to have to correct these crimes!  Or else be complicit in them,  too.

Verified all 3 got it                                                     sent 6-12-2026

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Screwworm fly eradication                                        336 words

This is for all 3 of my federal representation.  I write this as an open letter to all 3 of you!

Decades ago,  the screwworm fly was eradicated,  down to a small area on the Isthmus of Panama.  For the last year,  it has been known to be marching north again,  through Mexico.  Now that it has already crossed the border into the US,  eradication preparations are just getting started. 

The time to have attempted eradication was a year ago,  when the area to be treated was quite small.  Now about a quarter of the continent needs treatment,  at a gigantic cost!  This delay was not just stupid,  it was notoriously and egregiously and intolerably stupid! 

I have to ask:  “why the delay until the threat was already here?”  Why did the Trump administration not work out a deal with Mexico about a year ago,  to do the eradications down there,  in far southern Mexico?  That,  instead of pissing the Mexicans off with tariffs,  trade wars,  and a so-obviously-racist “border security” policy? 

So,  I must also ask:  “why were tariffs and trade wars more important to the Trump administration than the safety,  health,  and welfare of the American people?”   Such would be a Constitutional duty of the presidency (and of Congress).  A duty I see left entirely undone,  for only crass politics-playing!

I want you to publicly pose my two questions on the floors of both Houses of Congress,  and I want you personally to go to the White House and ask my questions there!  I want to know the answers you get from the administration,  and I want you to make those answers public!  And I want this done very fast,  well before the midterm election! 

Stupidity and dereliction of duty,  of this apparent magnitude,  simply cannot go unaddressed by the people at the ballot box!  It is quite intolerable in all elected officials!

If you fail to do as I request,  that tells me all that I need to know about you!  Consider that!

Verified all 3 got it                                                      sent 6-13-2026

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Iran war                                                                      449 words

The things to be obtained by war with Iran were (1) a re-opened Strait of Hormuz (but it already was open before the war started,  it was this war that closed it!),  (2) no nuclear weapon for Iran,  (3) an end to Iran’s proxy armies causing death and destruction,  and (4) possibly getting beneficial regime change in Iran.  In point of fact,  the only way to actually prevent an Iranian nuclear weapon,  plus get an end to Iranian proxy terrorist army attacks,  actually is beneficial regime change in Iran! 

That beneficial regime change was NOT achieved!  Indeed,  the bombing turned the Iranian people away from us,  something quite predictable,  making beneficial regime change far less likely,  than it ever was before this war started.

What this war actually achieved is regime change in Iran,  but not in the right (beneficial) direction!  The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is now the effective ruler of Iran,  and they are a well-armed and funded army of terrorists,  recruited specifically from violent extremists!  These are not transactional people!  So,  you can rule out any effective prohibition on an Iranian nuclear weapon,  and now that they know they can do it,  you will never again see the Strait of Hormuz as a freely-navigable international waterway,  ever again,  for as long as they rule!

The nuclear weapon question is kicked down the road to “negotiate later” in this supposed peace agreement of Trump’s,  which actually means there will be no such prohibition!  Israel and Hezbollah will continue fighting,  which will stop any of that downstream “nuclear negotiation” stuff,  and the Iranian proxy terrorist armies are not even addressed at all,  or else the Israel-Hezbollah thing would not be such a threat to Trump’s entire process.  And it so very clearly is!

What Trump’s “peace process” with Iran really is,  is the terms of US surrender to Iran!  They now have more power over the rest of the world than they did before.  Which inherently means we lost! 

It does not matter what Trump says about this,  it only matters what it really is!  Trump started a war he could not win,  against all contrary advice,  only because he liked Netanyahu,  and Netanyahu wanted to go to war but needed us to help.  Now Trump is desperate to get out of the mess he created,  at any price whatsoever!  Trump just lies to disguise his loss,  and that this leaves us in a far worse position than the one we had under the Obama agreement,  which Trump unilaterally abrogated in his first term.

This kind of totally-failed ,  utterly-incompetent leadership is simply intolerable!  Do your Constitutional duty!  Get him (and all his minions) out of there!  Now!

Verified all 3 got it                                                     sent 6-15-2026

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Clear and present danger                                          209 words

There has been yet another Mideast war (which we seem to have lost),  one that we-the-people did not want!  Trump did that,  while promising he would not!  Because of it,  recession looms,  simultaneous with high inflation,  in part because of the Strait of Hormuz,  but mainly because of all the idiotic trade wars and tariffs.  When he promised prosperity.

And there are all the treasons of the aid and comfort type,  committed by Trump while he has been destroying our alliances,  something that I have repeatedly messaged you about. 

Plus putting public health at risk,  and making health care less accessible. 

Plus muzzling the broadcast media. 

Plus spending my tax dollars to build monuments to himself! 

Plus trying to impose a dictatorship upon us,  complete with what amounts to a secret police force to disappear some (the unfairly demonized immigrants),  and intimidate the rest of us.  About which I have also repeatedly messaged you.

Will you,  or will you not,  do something about this clear and present danger to our democracy,  that is Donald Trump and all his enabling minions?

If you continue to support him,  that tells me everything that I need to know about you,  for your next run for office,  whatever it might be!  Consider that!

Verified all 3 got it                                                       sent 6-16-2026

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Update 6-29-2026:  A slightly cut-down form of the screwworm message of 6-13-2026 just above appeared in the Waco "Trib" this last weekend as a letter to the editor.  

I have seen absolutely nothing since any of these Iran war messages were sent,  to alter my conclusion that Trump screwed up big time starting that war when he could not win it (and everybody but him and his minions knew that).  

The US is now far worse off than it was before he started it,  and way worse off than it was before Trump abrogated the Obama agreement during his first term!   No asymmetric wars can be won by conventional means (something known since Vietnam),  and employing only air attacks achieves nothing useful,  they never have,  (known since WW2).

Both Netanyahu and the IRGC are sabotaging the downstream negotiations regarding nuclear stuff with cease fire violations,  and the IRGC clearly has no intention of ever letting the Strait of Hormuz be a freely-vavigable international waterway,  ever again!

Thank you Donald Trump for screwing over most of the world with your idiotic war of choice!

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Are You Not Tired of Criminals In Office?

No political party should ever run convicted (or even un-convicted) criminals as candidates for public office!  We do need laws or a Constitutional amendment to make that a binding requirement on all political parties and independents. 

Here in Texas is our latest choice for a Senator:

Talarico is the Democrat,  considered the “wrong party” by 60+% of the Texas voters.  Paxton is the Republican.  So,  whom do you prefer,  the “wrong party” or the so-evident but still-un-convicted criminal?   

And why is the “wrong party” wrong,  anyway?  Only because the party that runs criminals for office tells you so!  Think about that!  That thought process might make your brain hurt,  because you’ll realize you’ve been lied to and believed the lies,  but think about it anyway!

This criminality-in-office problem is no different for some other national offices.  Look at what that same party offered for president,  for a second time,  in 2024!   And a majority of the electorate was stupid enough to fall for the lies and vote the criminal back into office! 

I worked with classified information decades ago.  Had I done back then,  what Trump did with classified information upon leaving office in 2021,  I would still be in jail today! 

You must ask yourself how did he escape justice?  Because a loyalist he appointed to a federal judgeship during his first term,  ended up as the judge overseeing his classified documents case while Biden was president.  She delayed doing anything about that case,  to repay him,  until after the 2024 election!  Simple as that!  And just as nauseatingly ugly!

That Trump was not already behind bars for this crime,  well before the November 2024 election,  is itself an ongoing crime against America!   In which that loyalist judge is complicit!

And that was not his only crime!  So was inciting this infamous insurrection,  for which the rally on the ellipse was only the “go code”,  for something months in the build-up:

And so also a crime against America is Trump and his enablers trying to change history about that insurrection,  and Trump’s pardoning of those who committed it:

Also a crime is the ongoing killing of drug-smuggling criminals on sight,  instead of bringing them to trial.  Simply calling them “terrorists” does not make criminals into enemy combatants!  Under our laws,  and international law,  the commander-in-chief may only order lethal strikes upon actual enemy combatants!  

How about the 34-count criminal conviction in New York state for mishandling campaign money,  specifically to illegally influence an election?  That last is what raised it to a felony.

Or the civil sexual abuse case decided against him,  for which he has so far avoided paying the victim,  and is now having his weaponized DOJ “investigate” her in revenge?

Or the 13 year old girl he and Jeffrey Epstein raped several years ago?  Trump avoided justice for that crime by settling-out-of-court with her family for $13 million.  Instead,  he should have gone to jail,  forced to register for the rest of his life as a sex offender!  But no!

Or the 6 bankruptcies of record which allowed him to completely stiff all his creditors,  without having to tighten his own belt?  Ordinary folks cannot do that,  but the rich can!

And yet another crime is treason.  Weakening our alliances when our enemies could not do that for themselves,  is nothing short of treason!   “Aid and comfort” type.  Period! 

He did it by angering and alienating our allies,  even threatening war upon two of them over Greenland.  Our allies no longer believe that America would come to their aid if an enemy attacked them,  because of what Trump has said and done.   Every alienated ally is another count of that treason.  Including our non-NATO ally Ukraine,  which he starved of aid while he removed sanctions on Putin’s Russia that attacked and invaded them.  Treason!

So I have to ask,  why should you believe that any of our allies would come to our aid at all,  when they no longer believe we would help them?  That’s what the destruction of our alliances looks like!  Trump himself did that,  no one else did.  Treason!

Trump promised you prosperity,  better health care,  and no more foreign wars.  So,  what did he actually bring you?  Inflation due to tariffs and interruptions of oil shipping.  Inflation of grocery prices due to tariffs and interruptions of shipping.  Higher gasoline,  diesel,  and jet fuel prices due to interruptions of global oil shipments.  Drying-up of health care options.  The Iran war,  after doing a raid on Venezuela,  and now threatening Cuba.  All lies,  as it turned out!  Lies that cost all of you dearly,  right in your pocketbooks!

Do not listen to the lies politicians chronically tell,  especially Trump!   Look only at what they actually do or did!   And what Trump did to you is part of a long pattern:

Now,  you who supported Trump tell me again why the Democrats or third parties are the “wrong party” to vote for!  If you can. 

And you Trump supporters tell me why I am wrong in thinking there is no real Republican party left in America,  only the cult of personality that is the party-of-Trump!  If you can. 

I don’t really think you can!

So,  I think you might ought to consider believing me,  when I tell you that America is rapidly sliding into a fascist dictatorship under Trump,  as the cult figure around which his party-of-Trump is built.  For only one infamous example,  the Nazi party became a cult of personality around Adolf Hitler,  if you’ll recall!  And there have been many,  many others.  

We already have a secret police force mistreating some people (unfairly and incorrectly demonized immigrants,  usually of brown or black skin) and intimidating the rest of us (up to and including killing some US citizens who protest).  You have all seen it on live TV! 

We already have concentration camps in which those abused by that secret police force await their “disappearing”.   With inmates dying of neglect there!  You’ve seen the reports!

Censorship of all information media is largely in place,  or Colbert’s Late Show would still be on CBS,  as only one example,  of several,  that all of us have seen!  Now Scott Pelley!

The government has already been mostly weaponized into tools of persecution for all Trump opponents.  And their persecution has already begun!  As all of us have seen!

The Trump dictatorship in America is almost fully in place!  Compare:  

Your very last chance is to vote out all of Trump’s enablers and followers this November!  You will have to turn out en masse to do that,  in order to overcome the off-year gerrymandering meant to steal that election from you!  Think about THAT! 

And those of you who voted for him before,  are going to have to see through all the lies,  and recognize that he has actually done things which hurt you!  And then vote for somebody else!  Think about THAT!

Fail to turn out the Trump enablers in November 2026,  and there will be no future elections in America that are not rigged shams!  You will no longer be allowed to oppose or protest anything that he does!  Just like the way it is,  in Russia,  North Korea,  China,  Iran,  and many other dictatorships!

If the completion of the imposition of that dictatorship happens,  your only other recourse is armed revolution in the streets!  That would be a total bloodbath,  because he has already cashiered many of the high-ranking military officers who might oppose him.  Those military opponents who are retired,  are being persecuted by his weaponized DOJ or DOD,  as was retired Navy captain Senator Mark Kelly,  for but one example!

And don’t think Trump would not use the military on you in any such revolution!  He has already sent the National Guard to opposition-led cities,  and threatened sending the Marines,  whether requested or not (it was not),  and whether there was a valid reason or not (there was not)!  We all saw it live on TV!  It is but a small step from there,  to lethal military strikes on opposition-led cities!

Don’t ever say that I did not warn you,  either!  Because I just did,  yet again!  Several times now already!  Right here on this site! 

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Here is a list of related articles on this site.  It is a long list!  I have been trying to warn you all,  for some years now,  all the way back to 2015!   The list has titles and posting dates,  which dates and titles are all that you need to use the archive tool on the left side of this page.  Jot down the info for the ones you want to go look at.  Then click on the year.  Then click on the month.  Then click on the title,  if it is not top-of-list that month. 

6-3-2026          This Is What Control of the Media Looks Like!

5-16-2026        Trump China Trip Has Pitfall!

5-12-2026        Plenty of Iran War Failures to Go Around

4-24-2026       Trump the Incompetent Liar

3-26-2026       Do Something About Trump and His Iran War

3-21-2026        Just So You Know …

3-16-2026        Messages to Federal Representation

2-25-2026       Fact Checking

2-15-2026        The El Paso Airport Shutdown Fiasco

2-13-2026        More About Trump Treasons

2-13-2026        Incompetents End the Fight Against Climate Change

2-3-2026          The Trump Dictatorship Is Here

1-19-2026        An Australian’s View of Our Situation

1-18-2026        Assessment of Completeness:  Imposition of Trump Dictatorship

1-13-2026        Recent Letters to Federal Reps

1-8-2026          About Venezuela

12-24-2025     On Recent Activities At Sea

12-9-2025       Evaluating Trump’s Ukraine Actions

12-7-2025        About the Boat Strikes

10-23-2025     Sad to Say …

10-7-2025        Trump Dictatorship Is Already Here!

9-23-2025       Open Your Eyes and See!

8-24-2025       Tariff Smarts?

8-16-2025        History Rhymes Pretty Close,  Does It Not?

8-13-2025        Dictatorship Is Upon You!

8-10-2025        Rear of a Whale?

7-28-2025       Education Department to be Shuttered by Trump?

7-18-2025        Why Trump Did Not Want To Release The Epstein Files

6-29-2025       Where You Get Your “Facts” Matters!

6-25-2025       On the new Iran war

6-16-2025        History Does Not Repeat, But It Does Rhyme (The Turd Reich)

6-13-2026        Trump Cognition?

6-11-2025        Hegseth the Incompetent

6-9-2025          Getting Rid of the Opposition

6-7-2025          Trump Parade?

6-5-2025          History May Not Repeat,  But …

6-3-2025          Only One Felon Here!

5-31-2025        Bravery Is Taking a Stand

5-30-2025       Learn to Count?

5-28-2025       Trump vs Hitler

5-26-2025       Trump and Putin

5-23-2025       Comey Seashell 86 47 Photo

5-16-2025        What to Do To Oppose a Trump Dictatorship

4-24-2025       How Tariffs Really Work?

4-21-2025        Bad Data Leads to Bad Decisions

4-6-2025          What Trump Has Brought

3-25-2025       Trump Denial Syndrome

3-3-2025          Dictatorship and Treason!

2-20-2025       Gallows Humor

2-13-2025        Open Letters Regarding Ongoing Evils

1-30-2025        You Think This Chaos Is Bad?

11-11-2024      Trump Again?

10-19-2024     Why Vote For He Who Will Hurt You?

8-18-2024        Elections

7-23-2024       Project 2025 is a Blueprint for a Dictatorship

7-21-2024        Biden Withdraws!

7-6-2024          Obsessive Coverage Obscures the Risks to Weigh

6-28-2024       Thoughts on the Presidential Debate

4-16-2024        Thoughts on Multiple Bad Things

1-23-2024        Trump Cult Warning

1-8-2024          Immigration Crisis?

12-29-2023     Israel vs Hamas: It Is Worse Than You Think

12-10-2023     Conspiracies Have Short Lifetimes

10-22-2023     On the Israel-Hamas War

10-18-2023     Jim Jordan: Speaker of the House? NO!!!

8-31-2023        Famous Quote Is Still True

7-19-2023        Trump as Target of DOJ Jan 6 Investigation

7-11-2023        Public Figures Not Doing Their Jobs

5-19-2023        Debt Ceiling Negotiations?  BS For Sure!

4-11-2023        Classified Intelligence Leak

3-31-2023        A Crack In the Dam?

1-8-2023          Border Emergency

12-7-2022        Invasion at the Border? No, I Don’t Think So!

11-16-2022     You Are What You Spout

11-1-2022        Voters Beware!

9-1-2022           Mishandling Classified Materials is a Very Serious Crime

8-9-2022          FBI Raids Trump’s Mar-A-Lago Estate

5-22-2022       THIS is what has gone wrong!

1-27-2022        The Vaccinations Really Do Work!

9-16-2021        Cassandra Speaks (Yet Again!)

2-2-2021          Time For Change

1-17-2021        Sometimes You Simply Must Do What Is Right

1-10-2021        It Ain’t Over Yet!

1-1-2021           Observations About the Mainstream Media,  And Much More

12-18-2020     Q As A Threat to the US

10-30-2020     Yet Another Funny Related to Elections

10-13-2020     Voting Safely

8-25-2020       Voting Safely

8-23-2020        Protests vs Riots

7-27-2020       Thoughts on the Pandemic from an Engineer and Teacher

7-16-2020        The White House vs Fauci

6-4-2020          Thoughts on the Protests

6-2-2020          On The Pandemic

4-24-2020       Revised Hat

4-4-2020          On the Covid-19 Pandemic

3-19-2020        Whoa! Calm Down!  (on Covid-19)

2-13-2020        Beware of Leader Cults

10-1-2019        On Climate Change and Solutions

8-1-2019           Trump 2020? Nope!!!

7-1-2019           Chief Prevaricator for the Prevaricator-In-Chief

5-23-2019       Mueller Report

1-17-2019        Border “Crisis”? Nope

12-17-2018     The “Train Wreck” Nears in DC

10-30-2018     Recommendations for Election 2018

10-18-2018     Taking a Knee is Way Over-Politicized

10-3-2018       On the Senate Kavanaugh Accuser Hearings

7-7-2018          Immigration Politics and the Nazification of America

6-19-2018        History Begins to Repeat Itself!

3-4-2018          Forget the Stupid Wall!

12-13-2017     Alabama Special Senate Election Outcome 2017

9-23-2017       Why So Many Illegal Immigrants?

8-13-2017        North Korea Has Come to a Head

5-11-2017        President Trump Is Not Whom You Should Fear the Most (bad title)

4-15-2017        Do We Fight Global Warming Or Not?

4-8-2017          The Time Has Come to Deal with Iran and North Korea

2-1-2017           Muzzling and Dismantling the EPA Will Kill Americans

1-26-2017        “Alternative Facts”?  Really?

8-12-2016        Election 2016 As A Turning Point

8-4-2016          Evaluation of Choices for 2016

7-29-2016       Stuff You Normally Do Not Think About

6-5-2016          Trump?  NO!!

4-24-2016       Better Choices in November

12-21-2015     Facts Must Trump Politics

9-12-2015        Go Look It Up for Yourself

9-12-2015        Religious Freedom vs. Sworn Duty?

9-12-2015        Iran Nuclear Deal Nonsense

This is What Control of the Media Looks Like!

This needs no comment from me.  Just read it for yourself.  Know also that this travesty is not unique,  it is happening at every broadcaster.  Then decide what you will do.

JUST IN: Scott Pelley BREAKS SILENCE after firing from 60 Minutes. Here is his statement in full:

“There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58^th season, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley”

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Update 6-4-2026:  Here I add my observations of exactly how control of the media is being imposed.  Look at who owns the big networks who run evening news programs on broadcast television.  ABC is owned by Disney.  CBS is owned by Paramount.  NBC is owned by Comcast which also owns Universal.    

Trump threatens expensive-to-defend lawsuits from himself or his weaponized DOJ,  or threatens their broadcast licenses with his weaponized FCC.  And he threatens approval of their planned mergers and acquisitions with his weaponized SEC.  These is all big money-losing threats.  So,  to avoid losing lots of money,  these corporate masters exert intense pressure upon the news organizations they own to self-censor,  meaning only say things that Trump will like.  That is the antithesis of journalism!  They only care about the money!

CBS is currently in turmoil over Colbert and now Pelley.  ABC went through this over Kimmel,  but the threat of boycotts at Disney theme parks apparently outweighed Trump’s threats,  at least so far.  NBC has not yet had its turn in the hot seat.  PBS did,  and lost its federal funding,  which hurt them badly,  but did not close them down (which is what Trump really wanted).

That’s exactly how it is done to control all public information in most dictatorships!

Fox News gets no such threats,  because it has favored right-wing propaganda since its founding by Rupert Murdoch.  Who said in public that Fox News was not about news,  but about entertainment for the political right and far-right! 

Trump pretty much watches only Fox News in the evenings,  then stays up all night tweeting rabid nonsense inspired by them.  Why is anyone surprised that he falls asleep on the job,  at his age?  Which is only 3 years younger than Biden!

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Trump China Trip Has Pitfall!

The following is the text of a column that I submitted to the Waco "Trib",  as a member of their board of contributors.  So far they have not chosen to use it.  However,  I thought the content important enough to post here,  so that at least some of the public could read it.  So here it is:

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President Trump is a transactional-type person,  and he demonstrably only understands other transactional-type people.  It’s always only about the deals to be made.  Which in part explains the raid into Venezuela,  and the start of war with Iran:  those on the other sides would not make any sort of deal with him,  and that angered him into impulsive actions. 

It also explains why the Iran war has dragged on without any resolution.  Those left in charge on the other side are mostly just the terrorist army (Revolutionary Guard),  who are anything but transactional.  For them,  there is no deal to be made.  They either stay in charge and inflict whatever harm they can on the rest of the world,  or they die. 

President Trump went to China to make trade deals.  That’s why he took American billionaires with him.  However,  China’s dictatorial leader Xi is a strategic thinker as well as transactional!  Trump is not a strategic thinker,  as his foreign affairs actions have proved. 

Xi wants the US to stop supporting Taiwan,  so that mainland China can take it over.  He is counting on Trump to abandon defense of Taiwan,  in order to get some sort of trade deal.

Xi is also very deceptive:  the public excuse here is that Taiwan is historically part of China,  and they “just want their territory back”.  That same excuse has been used by Xi’s predecessors all the way back to Mao Tse Tung. 

But in today’s world that excuse is simply no longer true:  if simple territory were the goal,  a massive military strike-from-a-distance,  conventional or nuclear,  would depopulate the island,  and they could just walk ashore and occupy it.  They have not already done that.  So,  today,  it is so very clearly not just about the territory!

Taiwan has over 90% of the entire world’s manufacturing industry for computer chips and electronic devices.  That is a huge industry,  worth hundreds of billions of dollars,  if not trillions!   That industry is what Xi in China wants,  not the island and its people.  And that is why they have not already launched an invasion.  They would have to defeat an armed Taiwan,  supported by the US to help with its defense,  but they must accomplish that without destroying that industry! 

If Xi’s China possessed that industry,  it would essentially be a monopoly supplier of chips and electronics devices to the rest of the world!  It could extort anything it wanted from everyone else!  Gaining that ability to extort whatever he wants,  is Xi’s strategic goal here. 

A weakened Taiwan without US support makes that possible!  And in Xi’s own words,  his military is to be ready to do that,  starting in 2027.

Xi also knows that Trump is a transactional thinker,  but not a strategic thinker!  He intends for Trump to offer abandoning the defense of Taiwan,  in order to get the trade deals he wants.  The odds actually favor Xi getting that outcome,  and he knows it!  Such is based on the past un-strategic things Trump has done:  stopping support for Ukraine against Putin’s Russia,  and alienating our European allies.

Trump simply cannot see past the immediate trade deal!  He cares not about the consequences for the US and the world,  should China acquire what would be essentially monopoly control over the availability of electronic chips and devices to the rest of the entire world,  including the US.  Which would be an economic catastrophe unlike any other!

Trump has more-than-amply demonstrated his lack of strategic thinking ability,  by not caring (and he said so,  publicly!) about the still-unfolding but horrific consequences of the current oil shortages upon everybody’s economies,  including the US.  Those are traceable directly to the interruption of about 20% of the world’s oil supply through the Strait of Hormuz,  due to his war.  That strait was open,  before he started that war!

So now you understand what the true looming pitfall is here,  with Trump’s trip to China along with the billionaires.  He is about to “give away the store” to Xi!  If that fails to happen on this trip,  it will still happen soon. 

And you,  not Trump,  will have to pay for it!  He’s too old and too rich to suffer any of the consequences.  Consequences that all of you and your children will have to bear,  for the rest of your lives!

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I want to take you one step further now.

You readers out there need to ask yourselves a critical question.  Is not weakening and destroying our alliances against our enemies treason of the aid and comfort type,  when those enemies could not do it for themselves?  

Your answer should help guide your vote in November,  despite the gross, blatant attempts to steal that election,  by gerrymandering.  Massive turnout might still overcome that.  But if it does not,  I predict you will never see another national election that is not a sham in a dictatorship imposed upon you.  And the secret terror-police force for it,  is already in place.   

Remember,  your Representatives must impeach,  and your Senators must convict,  to address that treason,  since the Supreme Court gave Trump immunity from prosecution,  for any crimes that he commits while he is in the White House!  Impeachment requires only a simple House majority,  but conviction requires a 2/3 majority in the Senate!  

Trump has already weaponized the Department of Justice into being his personal law outfit.  We have all already seen it.  No help there!

As for the candidates you might vote for,  do not listen to what they say!  Words are cheap,  and political words are usually lies.  Look only at what they have already done!  That is the only reliable guide as to what they might yet do.

If you find your present officials,  or your usual candidates lacking,  then vote for somebody else.  Anybody else!  You could not do worse,  but you might do better!

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Plenty of Iran War Failures to Go Around!

The following is the text record of 3 recent messages I have sent to Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz,  and Representative Pete Sessions.  They are my federal representation,  as of this date.  The record of those messages pretty much tells the tale here.

President Trump has embroiled us in an Iran war that has no “off ramp”,  and is beginning to crash the global economy (including ours),  simultaneous with the threat of rampant inflation!  That inflation is just barely getting started,  with high oil and fuel prices!  The price of everything else depends upon the fuel prices required to produce and transport it!  It is inevitable!  We have seen this before:  a recession with every oil price shock!  And inflation!

The House and Senate have done absolutely nothing to stop this war,  or to authorize its continuation!  They have therefore failed in their Constitutional duties,  for only the benefit of political party advantage!  My representation does not work for Donald Trump,  or the Republican party,  they are supposed to work for us!  But I see absolutely no evidence that they think they really work for us!

You have always had term limits within your grasp,  for as long as our elections have not been reduced to shams (and that appears to be coming quickly,  too,  with all the gerrymandering nonsense).  Vote for somebody else!  ANYBODY ELSE!  You could not do worse than what you have now!

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Trump’s Iran war                                                                      395 words

Trump lied about everything since the start of his Iran war,  including why,  and why now.  He lied about how thoroughly we destroyed their military capabilities,  painfully evident since,  while reduced,  they can still strike targets in the region,  and ships in the Strait of Hormuz. 

And Trump has been lying about the progress of the peace negotiations!  Evidently,  he did not even know who he was really dealing with!  Or why things he thinks he obtained from these talks get taken away,  repeatedly. 

Those officials at the table in Islamabad are not the de facto rulers of Iran now,  the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is!  They are a huge,  well-armed terrorist army of violent extremists,  recruited specifically because they are violent extremists!  They would die to the last man before stopping hostilities,  using the other proxy terrorist armies,  giving up their uranium for their terrorist bomb,  or relinquishing control over the Strait!

Trump does not understand people like that,  not at all.  And he (and Netanyahu) made the IRGC the de-facto rulers of Iran by killing off most of the clerics and many of the regular government officials in the first few days of this war!  And,  Trump has essentially united the people of Iran against us,  instead of helping them overthrow their regime,  which is what about half or more of them wanted.  We did it before,  to install the Shah,  and we should have been able to do that again.  But no!  Trump would never think that way! 

It appears to me that Trump started this war because he could not get the then-ruling clerics to deal with him.  Just like with Maduro in Venezuela.  And soon Cuba,  if and when Trump gets clear of his Iran debacle.  To get clear,  he must commit war crimes by deliberately bombing civilians and their infrastructure all across the country!

There is absolutely no excuse for that level of lying,  and that level of incompetence,  that we have seen out of Trump,  and nearly every appointed figure in his administration!  And you bloody well know that what I say is true!

Now go and do your sworn job:  get him and his appointees out of there,  so that we can have somebody at least barely competent in the White House!  You have absolutely no excuse not to do this,  for all the American people!

Verified all 3 got it                                                                   sent 4-19-2026

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Iran war                                                                                        225 words

I would remind you that you work for us,  your constituents!  You do NOT work for Donald Trump,  and you do NOT work for the Republican party!  They do not hire and fire you,  we constituents do!

This constituent is very angry,  and tired of all the lies,  blunders,  and illegalities associated with the conduct of the Iran war!  Many of us think that this was started by Trump outside of any Constitutional authority,  by attacking another country that did not overtly attack us first!  Even if that start is considered to be authorized,  the 60 day limit is now up,  so that Congress must either authorize its continuation,  or else put an end to it!  You have NO legal choice otherwise!

The Constitution and associated 1973 war powers act say NOT ONE WORD about deadline extensions for cease-fires.  And,  while the bombing is paused,  the naval blockade is active.  So this “cease fire” is hardly a full cessation of war activities!

What is going on right now is either another never-ending Middle East war,  or a defeat for the US by failing to achieve required objectives,  or both!  THAT UGLY SITUATION is intolerable!  As is your playing politics with this,  instead of dealing with it properly! 

Now,   get off your political duff and go do something constructive about this!  AND I DO MEAN NOW!

Verified all 3 got it                                                                   sent 5-1-2026

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Iran war                                                                                        325 words

I saw an interview on the PBS NewsHour website with right-winger Robert Kagan,  in which he says that it is likely the US will lose the Iran war,  because we will not obtain any of the things we want from Iran.  Those are an end to their nuclear weapon program,  and opening the Strait of Hormuz to free transit. 

Why is a loss likely?  Because the other (sometimes-restraining) officials were killed in the opening days of the war,  Iran is now a country ruled only by a terrorist army of violent extremists (the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps,  or IRGC),  who do not care how much the people of Iran might suffer.  No terrorists would!  They have already taken what resources they need.  And they are killing all who might oppose them. 

The only remaining way to achieve our goals is regime change in Iran,  which would require mounting an invasion of around half a million (or more) men,  to sweep all across that large country,  and root-out all the IRGC extremists!  And dispose of them!  Failing that,  terrorist-ruled Iran will NEVER stop trying to build a bomb,  and will NEVER AGAIN allow free commerce to transit the Strait,  because that is now the best weapon left to them.

Trump is not going to do that regime change mass invasion,  because he would be impeached,  and he would likely be brought up on war crimes,  as well.  So,  we lose! 

Trump’s demonstrated extreme incompetence in starting this war,  when the experts told him there was no reason for it yet!  And as long as Iran is ruled by a terrorist army,  that means oil shortages in perpetuity,  which in turn means a crashed global economy,  with simultaneous high inflation (which is already just barely starting). 

Stop supporting this incompetent fool!  Get him and his sycophant minions out of there!  Do it now!  Or else we constituents will (sooner or later) fire you! 

Sooner would be better!

Verified all 3 got it                                                                   sent 5-12-2026

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Al Jazeera photo taken early in the Iran war

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