March 14, 2025

I’m just sitting down to ramble today as the pouring down rain is hammering against the windows. A real coastal storm. Almost as big a storm as the upcoming vote in the Senate for the Continued Resolution bill passed by the House a couple of days ago. The storm is from the Dem’s and the caving in by Chuck Schumer to side with the MAGA’s. On Wednesday I wrote that Schumer said the Republicans didn’t have the Democrat votes to pass the CR. Well, that sure changed in a day. You know when DJT congratulates Chuck Schumer for being gutsy and courageous, doing the right thing, that Chuck is nothing but a spineless CS. The only folks not pissed at him right now are the MAGA’s across the aisle from him. This is not going to end well for Schumer. No way is he going to be able spin his decision on this one. Politics have changed from the time Schumer entered the political scene. There is very little sitting down and negotiating in a bipartisan way. Trump and the GOP/MAGA’s demonstrate every day that those days are over and many of the senior Dem’s just can’t understand it. Trump threatens to “Primary” (support a challenger to any RINO that doesn’t bend his knee to the King’s wishes). I think we are going to start seeing senior Dem Representatives and Senators being “primaried” by younger and smarter challengers in upcoming elections. Anyhoo, we’ll see how the vote goes this afternoon.

As democracy is being challenged every day and our civil liberties are being repressed by a leader who calls himself a King, thank God we have some judges who follow the rule of law and are holding the line to fight the efforts by a certain party to move us to authoritarianism. In the past few days we have seen rulings by two judges against the mass layoffs by Elon and DJT, ordering the immediate reinstatement of employees from several federal agencies, saying the process used was “illegal,” a “sham,” and the contention that the firings of probationary employees had been for cause, and not considered a mass layoff, “borders on the frivolous.” Another judge granted a temporary restraining order stopping one of Trump’s vindictive executive orders against a well-respected law firm, writing in the order “To the extent that this executive order appears to be an instance of President Trump using taxpayer dollars in government resources to pursue what is a wholly personal vendetta, advancing such political payback is not something which the government has a cognizable interest.” If only some judges on the Supreme Court would have the courage to not bend the knee to the Trumpster.

I’m reading more and more articles of MAGA’s all of a sudden expressing “buyer’s remorse” at their decision to vote for the savior. Farmers complaining about the effect of the tariff talks and the DOGE dismantling of USAID; homebuilders complaining about the effect of tariffs on steel and lumber, and the deportation of immigrants who actually build the houses; winemakers worried they will be put out of business with the tariff wars resulting in the high cost of exporting of their wine to countries like Canada and buying corks and wine barrels from Europe; automakers talking about the price of cars going up $12,000; and then investors, retirees, workers contributing to their 401-K’s watching the stock market take a dump as a result of all this nonsensical chaos. Just like the kid on the playground getting detention for punching another student, elections have consequences and you get what you voted for. March 14, 2025

Oh my, and those poor GOP Representatives not taking the advice of their House leader and foolishly still holding town hall meetings. I guess another one from North Carolina got abused by a rowdy crowd yesterday at what he thought would be a love-fest.

Well, Happy Pi Day. We made it through another exhausting work week. Oh, wait, I’m retired and every night is now Friday night. I think I’ll go get the popcorn popper out, pop up a bowl of those lil kernels and watch the Senate vote. Hmmmm, what popcorn topping would go with my martini. Have a great evening. Over and out! Foxtrot Delta Tango. Ziggyman