OR

I continue to be amazed that the media says Trump and Harris are running neck to neck. How is that possible? How can a senile old sadist, saddled with a moronic Vice President conceivably be on an equal footing with an brilliant candidate like Harris and her charming and experienced VP, Tim Walz? Maybe it's because most people are still unaware of the 2025 Project. If they knew what that entails no one would vote for Trump and this draconic nightmare. If Trump is elected you can kiss democracy goodby, said adieu to freedom of speech, and adios to lots of your good neighbors. You can fix up a space in your home for your soon to be without Social Security parents, get ready to answer all the stupid questions your poorly educated children will ask, and feel guilty for not visiting your gay friend at that government work camp. Trump is sure to be on a "must watch" program every day, and god knows what TV shows you can watch that aren't banned. Then comes that inevitable day when Trump falls ill and, golly, checks out. Suddenly all those ubiquitous retouched posters of Donnie are replaced with those of President Vance, eyeliner and all and the lousy economy gets even worse. And if you voted for Trump you'll hate yourself, but not as much as those who didn't despise you. And you tell yourself, this is too weird, it's got to get better. Which may be true. But sadly not in your lifetime.

SIC EM

If you make your living  from  any aspect of the news media, get off your ass. Stop mollycoddling Trump by ignoring his insane whines.  Learn to say these three words to him, "That's a lie". Use the same kind of criticism you used on Joe Biden. Tell him he's too old, too repetetive, too boring. What are you afraid of? That he will leap across the lectern and attack you?  If he wins you have as much to lose as the rest of us, and it will be mostly your fault for years of turning you head away. Come on. Move it. Get into gear. Use all the comments you've had in your mind. Slay this dragon.

 I don't know why the media allows Trump to get away with lying. Here are just a couple of comments they could have questioned but didn't.

Trump:"Millions and millions of illegals are stampeding into our country."

Millions? Where did you get that figure, Mr. Trump? And do you have any idea what stampeding means?

Trump: "Many from countries you never even heard of"

Can you name one, Mr.Trump?

That same speech had many other lies, which the media totally ignores.

 

ROGET'S

Poor Donald Trump. He is so hurt about being called weird that he actually opened a Thesaurus,which he scanned until he settled on the word "freakish". Now he's thrilled that he can call Walz freakish, though there's nothing freakish about Walz. Well, then, since Donald hates women and knows nothing about tampons he'll villainize these sanitary products and curse Walz for making them available to high school girls and toss in another of his insane lies suggesting he also gave them to boys. (Now that's weird, Donny.) Lacking the intelligence to debate in a sane and  adult manner, Donald can only rely on insults and poorly thought out attacks on what is actually praiseworthy about Walz  like free school meals. Like everything Trump does, this also backfires and one can only be left feeling that Trump is not only weird but freakish.

INSANE

Why have we allowed a mental case to run for president? A man would have to be deranged to think the number of his his January 6 thugs even came close to Martin Luther King Jrs. August 28, 1963 "I Have a Dream" audience of 250,000. Why do we keep denying that Trump is a nutcase? He's a paranoid, narcissistic, compulsive liar that should be in sanatorium with other unhinged loonies. Yet he invades our airwaves, treated by the media as if he were sane and entitled to claim control of the world's leading position. What's going on? How is this possible? Are we really willing to hand our 248-year-old democracy to this elderly, overweight, lazy whack job? Have we become a suicidal society who has lost all sense of reality. In the entire history of the world's weirdest dictators, there has never be one so pathetically destitute of any charm, intelligence, strategy, humor, learning, and possibly hygiene. This goon is a walking disease creating a mental miasma wherever he goes, somehow brainwashing low IQ persons with his hypnotic droning, endless repetitions and the vacant emptiness of his fish eyes. There is no logical reason he should be permitted to run for president. Yet there he is.

SINCERELY

When I was younger I was an avid letter writer. I still am. I wrote to companies praising or criticizing their products. I wrote to celebrities, to politicians, to authors, to anyone about anything that aroused my interest. And amazingly most people wrote back. It was very encouraging to a teenager to get free samples from a leading manufacturer or a letter from a famous person like Marcia Davenport telling me she had no interest in selling her bestselling novel, My Brother's Keeper, to Hollywood. In the past ten years, I have probably written over 400 letters and gotten fewer than ten replies. In many cases I had to do tiresome research since so many companies and individuals are secretive about their locations. The rudest non-responders to my letters are all three news networks, Publix markets, Starbucks, and Freedom from Religion. The two responses that I most valued were from highly successful and busy musical giants: Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Sondheim. Should I stop writing? No. It's still satisfying to get an idea or gripe off my chest even if so many people have lost the ability to correspond.