Posts in Category: Daily, or my first cup of coffee
It Hurts To Be Right
This morning, a text to as friend:
I hope they have Trump give the closing eulogy, that will give everyone at least 30 minutes to leave, otherwise they will have to listen to 30 seconds how great Charlie was, and the remaining 29.5 minutes about ‘who the fuck knows, but you know windmills and talent will be included’
The Memorial Service was held and is over, so I asked Grok this question and got this response.
how long did trump talk at the kirk memorial
President Donald Trump spoke for approximately 34 minutes at the Charlie Kirk memorial service held on September 21, 2025, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Multiple eyewitness accounts from the event, including live reactions on X (formerly Twitter), confirm this duration, noting that his remarks began as the final speech of the evening and extended well beyond initial expectations, blending eulogy elements with political commentary. For context, the full service lasted around five hours, drawing nearly 100,000 attendees, and Trump’s address was described in media coverage as lengthy and meandering, prompting some early departures from the crowd.
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Why People Are So Angry
Anger in America, Part 1: Why People Are So Angry
It isnât hard to see why tempers are boiling over in America. Every day brings another round of double talk, broken promises, and political gamesmanship. People work hard, play by the rules, and still feel ignored.
They watch leaders twist the system to their own advantage, then sneer when ordinary citizens cry foul. Add to that the endless stream of lies, name-calling, and finger-pointing, and the frustration deepens.
Anger, at its core, comes from powerlessness â and millions feel powerless in the face of a political class that cheats, bends rules, and shrugs off accountability. No wonder people are furious.
Anger in America, Part 2: How Leaders Fuel the Fire
This anger didnât appear out of thin air. Itâs been stoked, often deliberately, by those who profit from division. When leaders lie with a straight face, they corrode trust. When they weaponize insults, they cheapen public life. When they change the rules to shield themselves, they leave citizens feeling that playing fair is pointless.
Itâs not just one man or one party, though Trumpâs barrage of falsehoods and attacks made the trend painfully visible. Washingtonâs insiders have grown comfortable rewriting the playbook to suit themselves. The result is a public that feels cheated and betrayed â and thatâs on the leadership, not the people.
Anger in America, Part 3: The Way Forward
Hereâs the truth: anger is justified, but violence isnât the answer.
The same frustration that tempts people to lash out can also fuel something better â a demand for honesty, accountability, and decency. Citizens donât have to swallow lies or tolerate corruption.
They can demand reform, expose the cheaters, and use their voices in ways that canât be ignored. It starts by calling out the truth and refusing to be distracted by the circus of insults and spin. The anger is real â but it can be turned into a force that builds, not destroys. Leaders created this climate, but itâs the people who can change it.
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Loyalty to Country, Not to a Man
Too much of our politics today has twisted the idea of loyalty. Weâre told to prove weâre âtrue patriotsâ by lining up behind one politician, one party, one personality. Thatâs not patriotismâthatâs blind allegiance.
Real loyalty isnât to a man. Real loyalty is to our country. And a country shows its loyalty back by taking care of its people. That means intelligent solutions, not slogans. It means tackling the hard problemsâhealthcare, jobs, inflation, veteransâ careâwith real ideas instead of scapegoats.
If a leader asks for loyalty to themselves instead of loyalty to the people, thatâs a red flag. We donât need cults of personality. We need leaders willing to work, compromise, and solve problems.
Stop the bullshit. Enough with the distractions. Loyalty to country means loyalty to each otherâand itâs time our politics caught up to that simple truth.
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Get Back to the Issues
Election season is here, and with it comes a flood of ads and fundraising emails. Most of them have a familiar rhythm: tell us the country is on the brink, paint the other side as evil, and finish with âchip in now if youâre a true patriot.â
Whatâs missing? The issues that actually affect us.
Where are the promises to make healthcare more affordable? To create better jobs and protect small businesses? To tackle inflation in a way that makes sense to working families? To make sure veterans have the care and respect theyâve earned?
Voters deserve more than fear and name-calling. It doesnât matter if the attack ads come from the right or the leftâtheyâre distractions. What matters is whether a candidate will look us in the eye and tell us what they plan to do for our families, our communities, and our future.
Ignore the hype. Donât let the noise drown out the questions that matter most. We have the power to demand real answers about healthcare, jobs, inflation, and veteransâ care. If someone wants our vote, thatâs what they should be talking about.
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Gerrymandering: Why Do Rules Exist If No One Follows Them?
Gerrymandering: Why Do Rules Exist If No One Follows Them?
If no one is playing by the rules, why do the rules exist?
That may sound like a rhetorical jab, but itâs an honest question. The United States was founded on principles designed to safeguard fairness, accountability, and representation. The Constitution and the framework of government were meant to ensure that no group could hoard power unchecked, and that citizensâ voices would shape the course of the nation.
But gerrymanderingâwhen politicians redraw voting districts to give themselves an advantageâcuts against the very heart of those ideals. It is a quiet form of tyranny, a manipulation of the democratic process for partisan gain. Instead of voters choosing their representatives, representatives are choosing their voters.
When either party engages in gerrymandering, they are not just breaking some technical rule of fair play. They are undermining the moral foundation of democracy. The rules of representative government only matter if leaders commit to follow them in good faith. If they donât, then how are we any better than the monarchs, oligarchs, and tyrants we once rejected?
Some defend the practice as just âpart of the game.â But democracy is not a game. The purpose of elections is to reflect the will of the peopleânot to manipulate it. When politicians normalize bending or breaking the rules for personal advantage, they donât just weaken their opponents; they weaken faith in the entire system. And once that faith is gone, itâs far harder to restore than it is to destroy.
The danger of gerrymandering is not only unfair maps. Itâs the message it sends: that rules are optional, that power is the only goal, and that principles can be cast aside when inconvenient. If thatâs the lesson, then the ideals written into our founding documents become nothing more than decorative words on old parchment.
So the question remains: if no one is playing by the rules, why do the rules exist? Perhaps the answer is that the rules are waitingâfor us. They are waiting for citizens to demand better, for courts to enforce standards of fairness, and for leaders to rediscover the humility that comes with serving rather than ruling.
The rules still exist because they are the difference between democracy and tyranny. But they will only matter if we decide to make them matter.
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A Morning Note to a Friend That Isn’t Like Me
We started out with him sending me a clipping,
The five most dangerous cities in the United States have been revealed – and they are all run by Democrats.Â
Memphis, Tennessee, has been ranked as America’s most dangerous city in a r…
I sent him a quick rebuttable, something like ‘BULLSHIT” then he sent back another conservative article and I realized neither od us was right, the problems and answers and solutions can be thrown about at will, so I finally wrote back what follows.
Good and bad. Good that youâre looking for backup data to support your position. My real issue with the stuff you send is that itâs so biased, often from outlets like the Washington Post or the internetâs version of The Inquirer.
The key here isnât affirmationâitâs truth. Yes, I do think the woke philosophy has made a mess of things. Iâve seen Portlandâs steady decline firsthand, living just outside the city. We even considered Boise, Idaho at one point, but realized itâs on the same path because many of the people who damaged Portland have moved there.
Democrats often avoid real solutions, framing these problems as the result of a failed society. The reality is many of these so-called âdowntroddenâ are instead lazy, addicted, or opportunisticâknowing they can live off handouts and steal without consequence. On the other hand, Trumpâs âarrest them allâ approach isnât a solution either. These people still have rights. What happens after the arrests? Deport them? Ignore the Constitution? Thatâs where he has his head up his ass.
I want crime addressed just as much as Trump supporters do. My problem is with his methodsâand his obsession with power. He wants to be king for life. He doesnât appoint competent people because he canât stand anyone with an independent mind. He takes credit for everything, fixes what isnât broken, and expects everyone to bow afterward. He doesnât think or care beyond his own glow.
Take his use of the National Guard as an example. Those Guardsmen have civilian jobsâtheyâre pulled away, employers arenât required to pay them, and Guard pay is lousy. Does Trump care about the impact on them or their families? Not at all.
Everything he does is about what he feels he deserves. Thatâs why I distrust him so deeply.
But back to your point: donât just accept headlines at face value. Fact check. Dig deeper. These cities canât be explained in a headline or pinned on one political party. You have to look at economic decline, population shifts, local industries that collapsedâDetroitâs auto industry, coal towns, steel cities, and so on. Poverty, opportunity, and history matter more than whether a mayor has a D or R next to their name.
I donât claim to have the answers. Sometimes I just want to run from it all. But I know this: Iâm against both violent and non-violent crime, against leaving people to rot on the street, and against pretending shelters alone are a fix. The system needs an overhaulâand Trump isnât the one to do it.
Just a Monday morning cup of coffee..
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The Most Important Political Move You Can Make
Check the Values and the Agenda of the Political Party You Think You Are
A long time ago, in a land far, far away, I found out my father was a Republican. And if he was a Republican, well, thatâs what I was too.
For decades I voted the party line. There was only one box I shaded in, and it was the one that said âRepublican.â After a while, I started to actually think about who I was voting for, not just what. I began making independent decisions â something most of us never do. But Iâll admit, on the issues I wasnât up on, I still voted the party.
This little note about Charlton Heston â one of the actors I admired â makes sense to me. Not because he changed from being a Democrat to a Republican, but because of why he changed:
âBy the 1980s, Heston supported gun rights and changed his political affiliation from Democratic to Republican. When asked why, he replied, âI didnât change. The Democratic Party changed.â In 1987, he first registered as a Republican.â
Now, letâs take a step back â because this isnât about Democrats or Republicans. Itâs about us.
When I look at MAGA and what theyâve done to the GOP, I feel despair. Theyâre so extreme I canât feel ownership of that party anymore. Over the years Iâve probably become more liberal, or maybe Iâve just admitted it to myself. Either way, I donât consider myself a Republican â not if being Republican means I have to be MAGA.
I have friends on the other side of the fence â long-time Democrats who are not âwoke.â Weâve let the extremes take over on both sides.
MAGA Hypocrisy
First I would like to say I never saw Charlie Kirk do anything so I certainly have nothing bad to say about him, and I do NOT approve of the violence and certainly not murder. But if he was half the man the far right claims him to be, then he would be shocked to see the hypocrisy MAGA is doing in his name. In less than one week from his murder MAGA is stumping his image and memory for a few dollars more, And got Jimmy Kimmel fired for calling them out on it.
Delivering his opening monologue, the host said the “MAGA gang” was “desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it”.
He also accused them of “working very hard to capitalise on the murder”.
All Kimmel did was call a spade a spade. MAGA Hypocrits
I am a registered Republican and this shames me. Free Speech, I don’t think so.
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