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Sunday, March 01, 2026

Most people really have no idea what makes me tick.  If you want to talk politics, it really is not about Politics.  If you want to talk about religious beliefs, it really has nothing to do with Religion.   Let me give you some idea how I really feel. You might think Kennedy was the best the Dems ever had to offer. I think everything went haywire under a previous Democratic president, Harry Truman, who inherited the job from a really good Progressive administration under FDR. From there, it went steadily downhill and has never recovered. His biggest sin was creating the CIA and gave it a free rein with no oversight. Dwight Eisenhower had some good ideas, but he dumped a real mess in JFK's lap. JFK tried to rectify it and was determined to rein in the CIA and make it accountable to the president, but of course, the result was the CIA, under Allen Dulles, who Kennedy had fired as head of the CIA, took him out. Any president since that day, does not dare to buck the flow, as they quickly remind him what happened to JFK. You might also mention Ronald Reagan, as if he was the best the Republicans had to offer since Abraham Lincoln. He was in actuality, one of the worst, both politically and economically. The first thing he did, was make a deal with the Iranians that was the biggest scandal we ever had. He was the first American to win the presidency by colluding with the enemy. I suppose, that is where Trump got his ideas from. Secondly the day after he was sworn in, he brought in Donald Rumsfeld, who quickly got Aspartame approved by the FDA. Rumsfeld was also responsible for telling us he had lost track of 2.3 trillion dollars, 4 days before 9-11, and that is why one of the "planes" hit that area of the Pentagon where those records were kept. He single handedly ushered in the Age of Terrorism under GWBush and brought us into Iraq to depose Sadaam Hussein under the guise of going after weapons of mass destruction. No wonder, Trump, today is going after Iran under about the same pretexts. As for economics, it has been proven many times over that "Trickle Down Economics" does not work.  If you give the wealthy more money, they simply hoard it. You want to stimulate the economy, you give it to the very poorest of the poor, and they can not afford to hang on to it, so they rush right out and spend it, and that money gets used over and over and over and that is the real way you stimulate the economy, and many Democrats have proved that, then the Republican gets in and it goes away. One of the best examples in recent history was when GWBush wiped out Bill Clinton's surplus in his first four years as president, largely by fighting two wars without paying for them with any sort of taxation. Not to mention, of course, FDR taking us out of the Great Depression brought on by Herbert Hoover. And Obama, by the way, had us cruising again, briefly after Bush gave him the mini depression of 2008. I blame GWBush personally for my loss of two homes because of that housing crash. No, my friend our differences are vast, but they have very little to do with Left vs Right. That is where the real ruling elite wants us. Fighting across the aisle. The Bible tells us these days will bring Mother in Law vs daughter in law, etc etc. Myself, I have five daughters. Two of them are Trumpers and two are strictly anti Trump. The fifth sort of rides the fence. I can't myself personally see there is any middle ground. As Winston Churchill once famously said, "If you are not with us, you are against us." If you think I stand where I do out of ignorance, you, yourself are poorly informed. I listen to literally thousands of videos on hundreds of subjects. If the video is nine hours long, I sit there and watch all nine hours of it. I read extensively, not just the 66 books of our Biblical canon but many of the 81 in the Ethiopian version. Many of those books were in the Hebrew Bible before they were eliminated by Constantine and others in about 350 AD. I also read tons of non Biblical literature, including Sumerian, Accadian and Babylonian writings predating the Bible by thousands of years. I may be easily the most well informed person you have ever met. I am very open minded and will listen to anyone's point of view. In some cases, I have already pretty well made up my mind and I am not open to hearing any more hair brained ideas about certain individuals, and one of those, I am sorry to tell you is Mr Donald J. Trump. If only 1 tenth of what I am told is true, he is not fit to be President of the United States. He thinks he has already been exonerated in the Epstein Files. I don't believe he is so poorly informed. I have to believe, sooner or later he will get his just desserts, probably in the first year after Democrats win the mid-terms in an avalanche he will finally be impeached.  I know this post sounds highly political, and, admittedly, I believe there are more good liberals than there are good conservatives, but I maintain that the ruling elite own both parties and they really do not care which party wins a particular election.  A good example was the 2000 Presidential election between Bush and John Kerry.  They were both "Bonesmen".  No matter which one won the election, the American public lost.   As Jesse Ventura told us many years ago, the day he was sworn in as Governor of Minnesota, The CIA had him in an office explaining the facts of life to him.  What in the world does the CIA have to do with the Governor of Minnesota?  Well now you have some idea who is really in charge.  If anyone wants to buck the flow, they are reminded of what happened to JFK.  If they could take him out in front of thousands of people on live television with no consequences, what chance do you think you would have trying to fight them? We are no longer a Democracy in this country,  We are an Oligarchy, where the really wealthiest 1% make and enforce the rules.