It has been such a busy news week or two, the floor of Ye Olde Blogge hasn’t been swept for a while. Here’s what was laying the dust bin even though some of it is a bit dated, albeit from the beginning of the week or the end of last week. However, they remain some of the snarkiest, sarcastickiest, and profaniest comments on what’s been happening around the country.
Trump Threatens the Monied Interests
When the monied class’ interests are threatened, the grift dries up, and diminishing grift gets Trump’s attention. At that point in the algorithm, someone has to go under the bus. In this case there is a small group of possibilities, Bovino, Homan (sp?), or Noem. If it is bad enough, all three.
Hitler’s Propaganda Playbook in Minnesota
Are we at Minnesota TACO time — declare victory, cuss your opponents, and get the fuck out — or we just witnessing rule number seven of Hitler’s Propaganda Playbook being enacted in real time, Exploit Opportunities: Seize every chance to stir up controversy or create a political maelstrom. Is Trump just lying that he is backing off even a little bit and just using Pretti’s spectacular murder as an opportunity to keep MAGA stirred up?
The Trump Election Timeline
We’re following the Trump 1.0 timeline: Outrage at the nincompoopery and corruption in year one, backlash in midterms, cooling in year three, overreach in year four leads to more outrage and back lash. Unfortunately, the establishment Dems in Congress are too namby-pamby to take advantage of it and lack vision for what the country could be.
The Final Solution
Given the events of the past couple of weeks, both at home and abroad. The solution is clear: Trump must go. Impeach, remove, or resign.
We Are Unreliable
The problem we are facing is not a crisis in confidence in Trump’s fitness for office. It is a crisis in the reliability of the American electorate because (a) we returned him to office and (b) we keep electing Republicans at all levels in the land.
The electorate is not reliable.
It’s 1928 All Over Again
In 1928, the Republican Party ran ads proclaiming, “A chicken in every pot…” Hoover won the election, the stock market crashed in 1929, and the Great Depression began. In 2026, Sec o’ Ag, Brooke Robbins said, “A piece of chicken on every plate…” What do you think is coming next?
Republicans Broke the Constitution
The only way out of the mess that Il Dunce has put us in is to re-write the Constitution. The Republicans have broken the Constitution. The only way forward with a democracy is with a new Constitution. When we write a new Constitution, it is clear that we need to incorporate into it many of the norms that we assumed our elected and appointed officials would follow. For example, the independence of the Department of Justice and the Offices of Inspectors General. It is clear that we need a fourth co-equal branch of government, the Department of Justice to guarantee that investigations will be carried out without fear or favor.
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The Psy of Life 
The GOP would relish the idea of crapping the Constitution…Donny must be eliminated for sure…..this country will not be whole again until he is out of the picture. chuq
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Howdy Chuq!
Unfortunately, it isn’t just Trump that we need to get out of the picture before we can return to some kind of normalcy. It is the entire Republican Party. This is the response I wrote to a similar comment (forgive me for pasting it here):
As luck would have t, there is a conservative push to organize an Article V Constitutional Convention (follow this link for my explainer post). The post hasn’t been updated with current numbers, though. Currently, 28 states have passed the Convention of States measure. They need six more to reach the two-thirds requirements of 34. Luckily, we need three-fourths (38 states) to approve whatever they would come up with. Unfortunately, every state gets ONE vote so low-population states are equal to high-population states.
On the left this is never talked about. I haven’t seen anyone writing about it anywhere. But, I think that Trump and the Republicans have stress tested our democracy and have shown us where we have weaknesses.
My feeling is that we’ll get to the 34 state threshold, be utterly surprised by it, and have a real fight on our hands to limit the damage that conservatives will do. If we get real lucky, 2026 will be a wave election and we will take back some state legislatures, and then we’d be wise to get the convention started while we might prevail.
I really think that the only way for us to restore the country and the world order is to adopt a new or heavily revised consitution.
Huzzah!
Jack
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I agree….one that sets out the law in plain unimpeachable words….interpretation is what killing us. chuq
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Howdy Chuq!
Unfortunately, the Republicans already have theirs already written, aka the Heritage Foundation’s Project 25. Dems are just not that well organized.
Huzzah!
Jack
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Jack….they have not been organized for decades….since 1992 they have been corporate agents….and look where we are today…..chuq
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Howdy Chuq!
The 90’s were an interesting time. We were at a crossroads and the Republicans had us on the ropes to some degree. As I recall we don’t have a very deep bench. We had Paul Tsongas, Jerry Brown, Bob Kerrey, and Douglas Wilder. None of them inspired me and all of them had their issues. I like Tom Harkin. I’ve always been drawn to populists, but I recognized that there was no way Harkins could actually win. I confuse Tsongas and Dukakis and I think he should’ve done about as well as Dukakis did. If it weren’t for the economy going down, I Don’t know that Clinton should’ve won.
Clinton has some impressive political instincts. He understood that the country, especially white America, was pivoting to the center and further right. If the pivot had been to the left, he would’ve positioned himself further left and pursued concomitant policies.
While I don’t like the changes he made to the social safety net, I think he did pretty well as president. But, he did allow corporate America to consume most of the Democratic Party. Not moving in those heady monied circles, I Don’t know how to navigate them.
Luckily, we have a fairly strong progressive wing of the party and can help pull us to more humane positions when and if we ever get back into office.
Huzzah!
Jack
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Jack I hope you are right about the progressives…..my problem is there is not enough true progressives that are will to fight. chuq
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Howdy Chuq!
I came up through the hippy dippy types of counter culture when I was a young man. One of the things that was most off putting for me in that crowd was the unwillingness to participate in our political system. There was always a lot of complaining and criticism — and more than their fair share of hypocrisy — but little willingness to actually do anything.
Nowadays, though, looking at the likes of AOC and Omar and Foster, they are willing to work towards changes.
I’m afraid that our system is completely broken, though. We are a zombie nation. We may continue with the same basic framework of a government, but the norms and institutions and our relationship to the government will have to change.
Huzzah!
Jack
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Jack I agree the true progressives are the mouth of the nation the sad part is few want to look beyond partisan BS….we have the capacity for change all it takes is the will. Do we have that? chuq
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Howdy Chuq!
Trump 2.0 is an indictment of us, We the People, as a whole because we elected him a second time. That we haven’t addressed the difficult problems we face, social security solvency, the soaring deficit, tax give aways to the rich, is because We the People lack the political will to do so. We keep electing people who won’t make the difficult decisions.
Huzzah!
Jack
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That is the point of the spear….not making difficult solutions because it will upset their money machine on K Street. chuq
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One of the worst aspects of our elected officials is their steadfast belief that the worst thing that could happen to the country is that they fail to be reelected. They won’t make a har choice if it will jeopardize their reelection chances.
Jack
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There it is…..the real reason….re-election…..chuq
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Our unreliability appears to be driving a lot of urgent trade deal making in the rest of the world, and all of our erstwhile allies thinking they need to get more together and build their own nuclear deterrent forces.
This book seems to explain a lot, and the interview is quite good – China is a land of engineers while the US is ruled by lawyers. https://www.npr.org/2025/09/20/g-s1-89568/china-us-lawyers-vs-engineers-dan-wang-book
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Howdy Bob!
I’ve been working on a post — god knows if I will ever finish it, knock on something resembling wood — about the sidelining of America. The real danger is if the dollar ever loses its status as reserve currency. Right now central banks all over the world are selling dollars and buying gold — what a shit show that’s going to turn into. And, they’re selling US government bonds, begging the question of who is buying them.
Trump has no vision and no understanding of how the world works. He is going to plunge us all into a volatile worldwide economic and diplomatic order. Prepare for the Greater Depression, my friend.
Huzzah!
Jack
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And, the price of copper is through the roof too. Data centers and the accompanying upgrade and maintenance to the grid eat copper and some rare earths fast.
This just came to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxfkyw7vTUQ
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Oh we might get a new constitution alright, a constitution completely written by the Maggots …after a huge purposely created national crisis and a period of national martial law ….
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Howdy John!
As luck would have t, there is a conservative push to organize an Article V Constitutional Convention (follow this link for my explainer post). The post hasn’t been updated with current numbers, though. Currently, 28 states have passed the Convention of States measure. They need six more to reach the two-thirds requirements of 34. Luckily, we need three-fourths (38 states) to approve whatever they would come up with. Unfortunately, every state gets ONE vote so low-population states are equal to high-population states.
On the left this is never talked about. I haven’t seen anyone writing about it anywhere. But, I think that Trump and the Republicans have stress tested our democracy and have shown us where we have weaknesses.
My feeling is that we’ll get to the 34 state threshold, be utterly surprised by it, and have a real fight on our hands to limit the damage that conservatives will do. If we get real lucky, 2026 will be a wave election and we will take back some state legislatures, and then we’d be wise to get the convention started while we might prevail.
Huzzah!
Jack
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I can see it now, the first constitution of the new reich
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