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Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
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Mueller's favorite place to pray (written about in "Prophet's Way"), and the roof of the room where the Last Supper is reputed to have happened.
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The Repug(nants) are salivating to "run the Govt". Liberals are saying "now let's see them run the Govt". Pull your heads out people, they have been running the Govt, horribly, for 35 years. President is an executive position, the Repug(nants) have dominated econimic policy and paid the SCOTUS to fabricate laws for 35 years. Also, the Repug(nants) have dominated state govt, which is FAR larger than the feds. Violent overthrow is NOT a viable option, but I think we may well end up trying it. I participated in a 5,000 person anti-war march on the courthouse in Houston, that received absolutely ZERO media coverage. Nobody knows that we marched and peacably occupied the town square for 24 hours. I wasn't surprised, the media is own by war corporations, but many young folks in the crowd were calling for violence, so they could no longer ignore us.
Trump played the entire nation. Unlike the buffoon borax salesman whose campaign he copied, Trump is a SUPERB character actor. He PLAYED buffoon, but he's no buffoon. Fooling his base was easy, but more important, he completely fooled Democratic voters that he was impossible to elect. I smelled a rat when Trump and the trumpettes all admitted they'd lost on the day before voting. His character would never do that. Trump singlehandedly convinced 135 million Democratic voters to stay home. I'll leave with one memory. When Trump started, he said that it was ridiculous that the USA didn't have single payer health care and that war that accomplished nothing was idiotic. The reaction from the Repug leadership was so strong that Trump never mentioned either again. I remember because I seriously considered changing from Bernie to Trump, except he put on his brown shirt within a week.