The day of the Democrats is upon us.

Well, let’s stop it before it gets started.

What?? Stop the Democrats? But I thought you wanted the Democrats!

No, I wanted MAGA out. And during these painful two years, I’ve come to realize that the illness isn’t just MAGA. It’s spread. It’s everywhere, and it may be incurable. Maybe.

So here I am sounding the doomsday horn. Well, yes, I am. And maybe it’s just a grade-school flutophone, but either way, we have been shown corruption on a scale that many of us never thought possible.

And I hate to break the news to you, but it isn’t all red in color.

And it isn’t all about money. Or power. Sometimes it’s about ego, or hurt feelings. Right, Haley Stevens?

Whatever the root cause, the end result is that constituents have become the last thing our representatives represent.

Is it really their fault? Many got into politics because they believed they could do some good. They believed they heard the voice of the people. They took an oath, they did their best, and then somewhere along the way they either made a deal, compromised their principles, or simply got bought off.

Well, isn’t that what the definition of POLITICS has become?

So is it really their fault, I ask again?

You’re damn right it’s their fault. If you haven’t the backbone or the moral fortitude to do the job, stay home.

So, have I wandered off course again?

No, I haven’t.

The day of the Democrats has to be stopped before it becomes another day of unchecked political power. The day of the PARTY IN POWER has to be stopped before it continues.

That’s the only way Elon Musk and others like him lose their political influence. Musk alone spent nearly half a billion dollars trying to influence the outcome of these midterms. And let’s not forget that he has billions of dollars in business interests tied to the federal government. SpaceX, government contracts, federal relationships, and a whole lot of money riding on decisions made in Washington.

Now, I’m not suggesting that every dollar he spent was intended to protect those interests, but I think it’s a fair question to ask what a man with that much at stake expects in return for that kind of political investment.

It’s the only way Super PACs lose their grip, and it’s the only way we have a chance of getting an honest politician back into office.

Let’s call it what it is. Political bribery, for lack of a better choice among a hundred other words.

I spent the past two years campaigning against the corruption of MAGA. And we won this skirmish, not the war. Because the war is much larger than one political party. It’s the corruption that drives all the parties.

Democrats, we’re watching.

And we’ll be watching with much clearer eyes than ever before.

The Fork In The Road

As we go forward, we can take a huge breath of relief. The Democrats have outmaneuvered Trump, everything will return to building a healthy nation, and we go where no man has gone before.

Sounds like the introduction to a fictional sitcom, and it is.

I see two avenues ahead. The first is what we’re being shown right now. Congress will fight diligently to accomplish all those wonderful things, while DJT will realize he has lost, sit back, and make a lot of noise. He’ll continue to whine over his ballroom, his Golden Arches with fries, and insist his Oval Parlor is a National Monument, a shrine to him that, by law and executive order, shall never be touched.

This is the avenue we hear most of the bobbleheads currently proclaiming. And it too shall come to pass.

Then there’s avenue two, and this is where it gets tricky. Because, like all serpents, this road doesn’t give you a choice. It’s forked, and both avenues will exist. Only avenue two will be a lot quieter, provided Miller Time can put a muzzle on the Great Leader for a while.

You see, Donald has an EGO issue. He can’t just do something and enjoy the rewards. He has to taunt you first. Like a petulant child tormenting a puppy just to see how far he can push it.

I dare you. I dare you. I double dare you.

And that’s what he’s doing right now. So pay attention. He’s showing his cards up front. He’s never been particularly cagey. Why use finesse when you can just be a bully?

So what’s the surprise?

Well, it’s the same thing as always: total control. His Proud Boys, his Patriots, his ballroom and bunker. Only this time, he may get it piece by piece, by giving in. A concession here, a concession there.

And at the same time, he’s already attacking. It doesn’t matter who he threatens, intimidates, or files lawsuits against. That’s just fair play, apparently. But now that he’s under attack, the threats are coming quickly and loudly. Anyone who threatens his staff with a lawsuit will be dealt with. Yadda, yadda.

Fear and intimidation are the only ways he knows how to make a deal.

The forked road isn’t about options. It’s two paths running parallel, and we’re only supposed to pay attention to one of them.

So pay attention to what he’s asking for in return.

It’s still his fortress of power. He has no plans of going anywhere, and with people like Stephen Miller now serving as his official voice, the I-dare-yous have never been louder or clearer or more dangerous.

Don’t believe for a moment that it’s over yet.

This is what The Grand Old Party has become

There is NO PLAN, Just Name Calling and Ballrooms and Arches.

That is why they are no loner relevant. Sad, so Sad

What Are We Going To Do?

There is an old saying, or maybe I’m dreaming and just making it up, but anyway, you get what you deserve.

And come November, that just may be what we get.

Let’s face it. The handwriting’s been on the wall. In ink, crayon and magic marker. If you haven’t seen it, go to Costco, get your eyes checked.

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That’s the thing about what got handed down to us. It wasn’t a slogan. It was a vote that counted, a ballot that got mailed and counted, a peaceful argument settled at the polls instead of settled by whoever’s willing to cheat hardest. That’s the specific, unglamorous thing in the folded flag. Not a feeling. A mechanism. And it’s the mechanism currently being tested.

So, once again, maybe we get what we deserve. Because I think we’re at the point where we either roll over and take it, or we don’t.

Maybe that should be: DO NOT TAKE IT.

The only question I have now is what we’re going to do with what we were handed.

What are we going to do?

Are we going to get what we deserve?

It’s up to you.

The Gift

These social media outlets are filthy rich from the advertising dollars made off you.

When Instagram gets a glitch, my ass, and disables the No Kings Accounts during their march on 10/17/2026 some thing smells worse than Trumps Diaper.

It may hurt or it may actually give you some freedom for a change, tell them that is unacceptable, You will not tolerate their interference.

Do so by canceling your account. Hurt them in the their wallets because that is all they care about anyway.

There comes a time.
We have all heard it in one form or another.

Fish or cut bait
Put up or shut up
Lead, follow, or get out of the way
Make a decision already

my favorite

Shit or Get Off the Pot.

There comes a time, when you have to make the decision, Just what are you going to do?

There comes a time, when you have to make the decision, Just what are you going to do?

What are you going to do when Trump refuses to rule out declaring a national emergency or invoking the Insurrection Act in connection with the midterms?

(He has explicitly said “I don’t rule anything out or in. We’ll see” and “I could use it. A lot of people think I should use it sometimes.”)

What are you going to do when Trump claims the midterm results are rigged/fraudulent if Republicans lose seats?

(Consistent with his long-standing rhetoric; he continues to call U.S. elections “rigged,” dismisses unfavorable polls as “fake numbers,” and has a track record of early victory claims followed by fraud allegations during the counting period.)

What are you going to do when Trump pushes to “nationalize” voting or impose federal control over election administration in key places?

(He has publicly called for Republicans to “take over the voting in at least 15 places” and signed executive orders attempting greater federal restrictions on mail-in voting and related rules—several of which courts have blocked.)

What are you going to do if federal agents or troops are directed toward polling places under emergency or security pretexts?

(Related to the Insurrection Act comments; administration figures have not fully ruled out federal law-enforcement presence at polls, though military deployment to polling sites remains legally constrained.)

In Short.

What are you going to do when Trump cancels the Elections?

What are you going to do when Trump declares the election results fraud or fake?

What are you going to do when Trump declares the insurrection act?

Figure it out NOW because if you wait until he does it it will be to late. Wait for the courts, yah, right, ask Roberts for his take, or sit through another six months just to have Trump tell the courts to kiss his ass.

Why do you think Trump is trying so hard to get his money for his Jan 6^th Thugs, and Proud Boys? Why do you think he needs another group of private rioters.

Wake up now and decide what your going to do because if you wait to long, it will be to late.

That doesn’t mean give up on voting, Oh hell no. That is still our strongest defense and our strongest tool of Government and it will be our strongest defense in protecting our selves if he try’s to do anything.

Vote like your life and your freedom depends on it, because it does.

But you also have to decide now.

What are you going to do if Trump refuses to abide by the results?

What Are We Going To Do?

There is an old saying, or maybe I’m dreaming and just making it up, but anyway, you get what you deserve.

And come November, that just may be what we get.

Let’s face it. The handwriting’s been on the wall. In ink, crayon and magic marker. If you haven’t seen it, go to Costco, get your eyes checked.

I can trace my family back many generations, to many wars and much blood that was spilled for the opportunity to sit here and write this. My family has the folded flags, the medals, and the war stories that my father, brother, uncles NEVER told. Because that’s what people who actually went out and fought for us do afterward,  they don’t talk about it. They just hand you the freedom they bled for and let you figure out what to do with it.

So here’s what we’ve done with it.

Money. The stock market is up, so something must be going right? Wrong. A thin slice at the top is getting rich off it, along with a handful of funds skimming their cut. Everybody else is taking it in the shorts, can’t afford the gas, can’t afford the groceries, can’t afford the rent, can’t afford a home. I won’t relitigate whether healthcare, food stamps, or welfare programs work the way they should. But when you cut them to hand billionaires a tax break, that’s not a policy disagreement. That’s a choice about who the country is for. My father didn’t come home to build a country that works better for people who already have everything.

Security. That’s a good one. Let’s start a vanity war nobody asked for except somebody in Israel, one we can’t get out of, one that’s already cost us lives and untold billions, led by generals and admirals and even a Secretary of the Army who quit or got pushed out, all under an unqualified former news anchor and his golf-handicap of a wingman. Some team.

The cost isn’t just dollars. We’ve become a joke, and now a depleted joke, our stockpiles at an all-time low, unable to supply the allies we promised, while the threats we invited watch over our shoulder wondering if we’re still serious people. My uncle didn’t hand down a war story he never told so his country could become a punchline with an empty armory.

And now the part that should scare you most. Midterms are coming, and this administration knows exactly what’s coming with them, so it’s trying everything to rig the outcome before it happens. That much is already on the record: manufactured voter-fraud cases, mail-in voting under attack even as the President mails his own ballot, what a hypocrite. What comes next is where I’ll admit I’m extrapolating, not reporting: whether that pressure escalates all the way to a national emergency used as an excuse to delay or disrupt the election itself. I hope I’m wrong about that part. But you don’t get to the edge of a cliff by accident, and we are closer to that edge than this country has been in my lifetime, and I’ve been voting since 1968. Yes, I joined the Military 4 years earlier, but it took the Vietnam war for Congress to decide that if we could die for our country, we could also vote.

That’s the thing about what got handed down to us. It wasn’t a slogan. It was a vote that counted, a ballot that got mailed and counted, a peaceful argument settled at the polls instead of settled by whoever’s willing to cheat hardest. That’s the specific, unglamorous thing in the folded flag. Not a feeling. A mechanism. And it’s the mechanism currently being tested.

So, once again, maybe we get what we deserve. Because I think we’re at the point where we either roll over and take it, or we don’t.

Maybe that should be: DO NOT TAKE IT.

The only question I have now is what we’re going to do with what we were handed.

What are we going to do?

Are we going to get what we deserve?

It’s up to you.

The Gift

It doesn’t matter, it just is more campaign promises.

Please just look at the timeline, anybody that isn’t brainwashed can see that absolutely NOTHING COULD REACH OUR SHORES before November 3rd.

Nothing.

So it’s just more Trump Talk and have you EVER, Repeat, EVER had a single Trump promise fulfilled? Please don’t let this lie influence November 3rd.

And if he did, then he just financed Putin’s war against the Ukraine, the country we where supposed to be allies with, go figure that one out.

And if I’m wrong, it will be the first time regarding Trump. That’s right. I have been wrong so many times about so many things in my life, but look through the Elephants Ink Room and find one thing I have called incorrectly. Dare You.

I’m a conservative, a true Republican, not a RINO, like Trump.

Midterms are coming up fast. Faster than you can kiss Freedom Goodbye.

So, if you want to make a difference please read this short note.

I am reading all these great posts from a lot of people a lot smarter than I am, but guess what, so what.

Their message is falling on the same ears. If your reading this, then I am speaking to the same people I always speak to, just like they are speaking to the same people they always speak to, Bottom line, so what.

I am not asking for money, I am not asking for agreement, I am asking for you to speak up and speak out. To someone other than the same person you always talk to.

For the mid-terms, I have fallen back into what started me out here. Pointed, satire in memes, sarcasm that I hope bites created with bytes and hope.

You only see me here, where ever here is. What you don’t know is I publish from my own web site, and I use a blog poster that distributes my posts, articles, videos and memes to different sites. I get very little feed back, but I don’t care. That’s not why I am here.

So my suggestion to all of you, especially the big guns, the bloggers with a following, the authors writing long and boring but accurate posts. Cut them short. Stop the click bait titles. Got news for you. 3 click bait titles, and I don’t click anymore.

Forget begging for money. We have a crises to stop. This is real.

What I have found effective and I know it’s not for everyone, is the meme that cuts to the bone with short and sharper lead ins. And I am directing them to anyone I get to look at them because they are the voters. I’ll worry about all the contributors that never contribute later.

It’s nice to know all about the law suits Trump is losing, over and over again, but Joe Blow never reads or sees your video or article. Get it?

Right now, today, tomorrow, up till Election day. Get in the voters face.

This is what I am doing, like it or not, I don’t care.

Vote Like Trump is On The Ballot

My memes can be stand alone, the message adds to them, share them, pass them around, post them where I can’t get to. (Right click on an image, copy then paste)

Those with Truth Social Accounts. Make Trumps Day.

Have Ideas, something to add? This isn’t my ego.

This is stopping a replay of the Dachau I walked through as a 7 year old. This isn’t a joke.

Here is something I want every American to think about. You may agree with my politics, or you may not. That doesn’t matter right now. There is one very obvious, very overlooked change happening, and everyone had better wake up and take notice.

We’ve all heard the phrase “serves at the pleasure of the President.” What does it actually mean?

It means the President can hire you and fire you. That covers the Cabinet secretaries, the White House staff, and the political appointees who run the agencies.

It doesn’t cover Congress. Senators and Representatives answer to the voters. It doesn’t cover federal judges, who hold their seats for life during good behavior and can only be removed by impeachment. And it has never covered career civil servants, who are protected by law from being fired for political reasons.

Since Trump took office for the 47th time, we have seen him repeatedly try to change those terms to this:

Everyone serves at the President’s pleasure.

Yes, we’ve seen the lawsuits. We’ve seen the court battles. We’ve seen the White House ignore rulings, to the point that I now wonder whether the rule of law is enforceable anywhere outside of traffic court.

And we are seeing the Roberts Court.

So here is my morning take. Saturday night  10/03/2026 , at a rally in Vandalia, Ohio, Trump said:

“And now we are on the cusp of beating the communists, socialists, radicalized lunatics, and villains once and for all. We’re going to put them down once and for all, because the United States of America will never be a communist country.”

Notice who he’s labeling. It isn’t a policy, it’s a list of people, and it’s open-ended. If you stand against him, you get a label. He does love his labels.

Before you think I’m wandering off course, I’m not. I believe that very soon, if this isn’t stopped, just being an American will be defined as being at the pleasure of the President. I believe that is his ultimate goal, his ultimate grab for power. It doesn’t matter whether you’re liberal, progressive, conservative, woke, or MAGA. That should scare the shit out of you.

And if it isn’t stopped, and you need someone to blame, go into your bathroom and look in the mirror.

I’ve been chasing a ghost, found it, killed it, exorcised it, and the sons of bitches tried it again this morning. I thought I knew where it originally came from (and it may have multiple origins), but here’s at least one that I’m sharing right now.

Long story short: I thought my cash cards had been skimmed. Oh no, nothing that simple. I activated a credit card on Saturday at 1 pm; it was declined at 2 pm. Wells Fargo caught the activity and froze the account that fast. I drove home, checked the accounts, went downstairs for a beer… and the greedy little bastards already had my mouse cursor scrolling across the screen. I caught the flicker of the screen going from black with “ScreenConnect” in white text back to normal.

Get it? Someone had control of my computer. They saw what I was doing. They were using a legitimate tech-support utility that antivirus programs like Bitdefender often don’t flag, so don’t think you’re safe just because your AV is quiet.

I got ScreenConnect removed after two hours of labor-intensive help from ChatGPT and PowerShell. We’ve been checking everything a couple of times a day since. One thing to check: open Task Manager → Services and look for ScreenConnect running. Also check your Downloads folder for ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.exe. Look for a folder in Downloads named DOC; inside it on my system was documentreader.exe.

I don’t know whether it’s waiting for you to find it and think “what’s this, let’s click and find out,” or whether it’s waiting for a reboot so it can auto-install. Either way: check now.

This is a friendly Public Service Announcement.

It went past the phishing stage into an active attack. I got it under control in a matter of hours money-wise and about a day of solid labor. I also close all accounts and opened new ones either in person or by phone and have move all online banking to my iPad (just bease it has never really been used for anything)

For most people it would just keep draining them day after day, because the attackers can see exactly what you’re doing to try to correct or protect yourself and simply adapt or re-infect on the fly.

I need to note ” I didn’t fall for it,” I had previously been hacked 1.5 weeks ago, maybe by this, maybe by something else and the real danger isn’t the email, it is the ScreenConnect.

Screwed, Blued, and Tattooed

Yes, you’re screwed, blued and tattooed.

A little history for you youngsters. The phrase “screwed, blued and tattooed” (sometimes “screwed, blewed and tattooed,” or variants like “stewed, screwed and tattooed”) is classic slang meaning thoroughly cheated, taken advantage of, victimized, or put in a hopeless/messed-up situation. It’s emphatic: not just screwed, but really screwed.

So yes, my Republicans, you have been Royally screwed, blued and tattooed.

Take a deep breath. Here is the lay of the land. Right now, take a good look at what kind of a Republican you are. MAGA, far right, deaf to all but the noise that validates your rock-solid position? If so, read no farther. Go away. I’m not interested in you. I don’t like closed-minded people. Goodbye. Oh, and that goes for you on the far left as well. Adios.

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And it’s the same when the far left keeps referring to all Republicans as MAGAs. You don’t need to apologize, but if you’re not a card-carrying MAGA, tell someone that. Hey, I’m a Republican, I’m conservative, but please don’t make me a NAZI and I won’t make you a COMMIE. Deal?

The Outrage Is Not an Accident

Here’s something you can test yourself, no research degree required. Open your inbox. Count how many fundraising emails from either party mention a policy detail versus how many mention a villain. Scroll your social feed for five minutes. Count how many posts from either side describe the other as “evil” versus how many describe a disagreement.

I’ll save you the counting. It won’t be close.

That’s not because one side is worse than the other. It’s because both sides are being run through the same machine, and the machine doesn’t care who wins. It only cares whether you open, click, share, and donate.

Political fundraising emails are A/B tested the same way a shoe company tests two versions of an ad. Somebody writes version A, calm and detailed. Somebody writes version B, urgent and scary. They send both to a slice of the list, measure which one gets opened and which one gets money, and then everybody gets version B. Every cycle, every party, this has been true since direct mail. Fear and urgency outperform nuance. Not sometimes, reliably, across decades, regardless of which side is running the campaign. “The commies are coming for your guns” and “democracy dies if you don’t give $5 right now” are the same product with different labels on the bottle.

Your social feed runs on a similar engine with a different fuel. Engagement, not donations, is the currency. And the version of any political opinion that gets the most shares is never the accurate one, it’s the most inflammatory one. “Republicans are all MAGA extremists” gets shared more than “most Republicans are people I disagree with on policy.” “The left wants to destroy the country” gets shared more than “the left and I disagree about the size of government.” Nuance doesn’t clip. Contempt does. So what shows up in your feed isn’t a representative sample of what people actually think, it’s a representative sample of what got the most clicks, which quietly trains you to believe the loudest, angriest version of the other side is the normal one.

I wrote a parody speech a while back putting a fake $5,000-per-voter bribe in Trump’s mouth, tied to a mocked-up currency bill “backed by the Department of D.O.G.E. and Tariffs.” It worked, if it worked, for the same reason the fundraising emails and the outrage posts work, it’s built to travel faster than a fact-check, because a joke that lands doesn’t need anyone to read past the headline to get the point. I’m not proud of that mechanism and I’m not ashamed of it either. I used the same lever everyone else is pulling. That should bother you a little. It bothers me a little.

None of this means the disagreements are fake. Real differences exist on taxes, immigration, healthcare, foreign policy — differences worth arguing about hard. But the version of the argument you’re being shown, on both sides, has been filtered through machinery optimized to make you angrier and more loyal, not more informed. Loyal is the goal. Loyal voters don’t need to be persuaded. Loyal voters just need to be reminded who the enemy is, on schedule, forever.

So here’s the ask, and it isn’t complicated: stop voting the party line because it’s your team, and start voting for the candidate who actually earns it. That might mean sticking with your party most years and breaking from it some years. It might mean voting in a primary specifically to weaken a candidate you can’t stand, even in your own party. It costs you nothing but the discomfort of not being predictable to the machine that’s counting on you to be.

Nobody’s asking you to switch teams forever. Nobody’s asking you to feel bad for the values you hold. The ask is smaller and harder than that: notice when you’re being fed fear instead of information, on either side, and vote like you noticed.

Screwed, Blued, and Tattooed

Yes, you’re screwed, blued and tattooed.

A little history for you youngsters. The phrase “screwed, blued and tattooed” (sometimes “screwed, blewed and tattooed,” or variants like “stewed, screwed and tattooed”) is classic slang meaning thoroughly cheated, taken advantage of, victimized, or put in a hopeless/messed-up situation. It’s emphatic: not just screwed, but really screwed.

So yes, my Republicans, you have been Royally screwed, blued and tattooed.

Take a deep breath. Here is the lay of the land. Right now, take a good look at what kind of a Republican you are. MAGA, far right, deaf to all but the noise that validates your rock-solid position? If so, read no farther. Go away. I’m not interested in you. I don’t like closed-minded people. Goodbye. Oh, and that goes for you on the far left as well. Adios.

Okay, so you have a Red Hat, and it has some letters on it, and the slogan coined by Ronald Reagan was actually a pretty good one, until it was hijacked and bastardized by the First RINO. Yes, the real RINO, not the Republicans that could actually think for themselves.

Maybe you even voted for someone and now have regrets. Well, you may not be alone. You see, the campaign promises were actually pretty good promises, but a campaign promise is not a legal contract. No politician fulfills all their campaign promises, but most try.

Sadly, this time around, it was more like the reverse of every promise is what he did — except the Dictator part. But this isn’t about Trump’s character. It’s about YOU, and what you are going to do now.

Don’t drink any more Kool-Aid (actually it was Flavor-Aid), and administer the Vaccine. It is easy to self-administer, it is painless, and it makes you feel good instantly. Its label is Voter’s Ballot.

Okay, let’s go back to being a Republican. I would never suggest you change parties. By the way, I am a registered Republican. But what I would suggest is that you stop voting the party line. I would suggest you evaluate the candidates by their strengths and what they bring to you.

We may have to vote for an independent or a Democrat in the next couple of elections to get our country back on track. But if we do, then study the candidates and vote for the ones that best align to your values. You may even have to “change” parties for an election. Or vote against the one you can’t stand in your party just to weaken them in the primaries.

Remember, this isn’t about being LOYAL. Loyalty sucks and is stupid if it means supporting an evil, stupid person. Think that one over.

Most of all, stop the HATE. The other party is not evil. There may be bad people in the party, and the extremes of all parties come close. But when you hear “they are all Commies” or “all Socialists”, that’s just BS to scare you and control you.

And it’s the same when the far left keeps referring to all Republicans as MAGAs. You don’t need to apologize, but if you’re not a card-carrying MAGA, tell someone that. Hey, I’m a Republican, I’m conservative, but please don’t make me a NAZI and I won’t make you a COMMIE. Deal?