Could The Mid-Terms Be A Win For Donny? (No Matter What)

We are just a bit over a month away from the mid-terms and everyone is holding their breath because the common belief is that Donny will do all in his power to prevent a Dem takeover of the Congress….and those concerns are that he will find a way to cheat the votes…..but there could be an easier way for him to nullify the vote.

President Donald Trump tried to maintain power following his loss in the 2020 election by exerting pressure on state election officials to, in some cases, “find” the votes.

Loyalist Republicans in Congress then attempted to deny Joe Biden the Oval Office when lawmakers gathered to certify the Electoral College, bringing to light loopholes and deficiencies in the law that could have denied voters their choice.

Similar flaws exist for U.S. House elections.

With concern mounting among GOP lawmakers they may lose control of that chamber following November’s midterm elections, it is not a stretch to imagine state officials could, once again, receive calls from the White House or powerful Republicans in Congress.

What’s less understood is that the House itself has the ability to investigate and potentially overturn the results of any of its 435 races. In a House narrowly controlled by one party or the other, disputes over a handful of seats could become significant.

“The House and the Senate, they are the final judge of their own elections,” explained John C. Fortier, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.

“So, in theory, if a state went through a process and counted all the votes and certified the votes and sent in the results, it still could be questioned by Congress,” he added. “The House has done this in the past. It is much less common today. There was a time in the 19th century where it became extremely common.”

Experts and officials interviewed by States Newsroom pointed to several circumstances that could occur.

State officials could hold back an election certificate, a member-elect could seek to block another member-elect from taking the oath, or legitimate challenges could occur under a federal law dealing with contested elections.

https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/how-us-house-could-overturn-midterm-election-results

I mean the number of Red states is enormous and the legislatures love our dear Donny so something like this is just there in the wings waiting to be activated.

Any thoughts to share?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

This Is Capitalism

To me this next election may very well be an unofficial referendum on the very system of capitalism….at least that is the way it is looking at this time just before the midterms…..

Just my observation.

I have been accused, through my writings, that I hate capitalism (and you know what that means) but that may have been true in my younger years but I have mellowed a bit since those heady days….

What I hate is how the system has totally side-lined the whole principles of this nation.

Can you seriously say this system is working for this country?

Capitalism can lead to severe income inequality, environmental degradation, and recurring economic instability.

  • Income Inequality: The pursuit of profit often concentrates wealth in the hands of a few capital owners, widening the gap between the rich and the poor.

  • Monopoly and Oligopoly: Free markets can naturally lean toward consolidation, where single or dominant firms crush competition and control pricing.

  • Negative Environmental Externalities: Profit-driven production often ignores environmental costs like pollution and climate change, shifting the burden onto society.

  • Economic Instability: The cycle of supply, demand, and unchecked speculation frequently triggers boom-and-bust cycles, causing recessions and high unemployment.

  • Worker Exploitation: Companies may cut labor costs, offer stagnant wages, or compromise safety to maximize short-term profit margins.

  • Neglect of Public Goods: Free markets under-provide essential non-profitable services like public healthcare, education, and infrastructure without government intervention.

  • Crony Capitalism: Wealthy entities can influence or corrupt political systems, using lobbying and campaign funding to rig the rules in their favor.

  • Short-Term Focus: Businesses often prioritize immediate quarterly earnings over long-term investments in sustainability, infrastructure, or worker well-being.

  • Social Divides and Commodification: Everything—including basic human needs like housing and healthcare—can become commodified, increasing social segregation based on wealth.

  • Inequality of Opportunity: Vast differences in inherited wealth mean that individuals do not start from a level playing field, limiting true meritocracy.

Just read that list again and can you really say that capitalism is working for you for we know that it is fine and creating billionaires daily….but are you, personally, doing fine?

Do we need a reset or possibly a change?

Will we see it in the next few elections?

Your thoughts will be appreciated.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

A Peace In Our Time?

The conflict in Ukraine has been back and forth for years and they are no closer to finding a solution than they were on day one….no matter how many civilians die….now there is a proposal (probably going nowhere) to find a peaceful solution……

The war in Ukraine can be ended permanently on terms that protect Ukraine’s statehood, meet Russia’s security concerns, and lay the foundation for a durable European security order. As another round of negotiations gears up in Norway, I propose a settlement concluded as a single package, signed by Ukraine and Russia, adopted by a vote of the United Nations Security Council under Chapter VII of the Charter, and guaranteed jointly by the five permanent members of the Council together with other states that choose to join. The proposal rests on the principle of indivisible security set out in the Helsinki Final Act and the Charter of Paris.

The package would have four core commitments.

The first is Ukraine’s permanent neutrality, adopted in a constitutional law on the model of Austria’s law of 1955, which would return Ukraine to the founding choice of its Declaration of State Sovereignty of 1990. Ukraine would join no military alliance and host no foreign bases or forces, whether of NATO, the European Union, their member states, or Russia. Neutrality would not mean disarmament, and Ukraine would retain armed forces for its own defense.

The second is that Ukraine would pursue its candidacy for membership in the European Union as a permanently neutral state, with a neutrality protocol in its accession treaty on the model of Ireland’s, and Russia would affirm that Ukraine’s membership in the EU is consistent with Russia’s security.

The third is an armistice line drawn along the line of contact on the date of signature. Each side would exercise de facto jurisdiction on its side of the line, neither would recognize the other’s territorial claims, and both would renounce force in any future adjustment. This formula is compatible with both countries’ constitutions, which bar or severely restrict the cession of territory.

The fourth is the end of NATO enlargement eastward. At signature the North Atlantic Council would declare that NATO will not admit Ukraine or other new members in Eastern Europe or the South Caucasus, withdrawing the Bucharest pledge of 2008.

The settlement would take effect as a permanent end of hostilities on signature, not as a temporary ceasefire, and its provisions would be implemented in stages under international verification. No element would be negotiated in isolation, and no party would be asked to make a concession in advance of signature.

https://original.antiwar.com/jeffrey_sachs/2026/10/21/a-framework-for-peace-in-ukraine/

Sounds good but what are the chances that both sides will gladly accept these conditions?

Right now I say there is no way this will fly.

What do you think?  A good proposal or nothing more than a fart in a hurricane?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Burn Baby Burn

If you are watching the news then you have seen the protests that have turned violent in France….Police arrested at least 1,800 people across France after violent groups clashed with officers and looted shops during nationwide demonstrations that drew hundreds of thousands of people who denounced rising living costs and poor conditions in schools, per the AP.

Does any of that sound like the conditions here in this country?

Donny jumped on this event with both feet and is using it as a campaign ad and of course the bad guys are the Dems….

President Trump continued his midterm campaign swing Monday in Kansas, where he used stark language to warn what would happen if Republicans lose control of Congress. “If you want to see what’s at stake in this election, just look at what’s happening in France,” he said, referring to widespread protests and looting fueled by anger over public services and the rising cost of living, reports Reuters. Trump said the “once-great nation” is being “conquered, looted, and burned to the ground by migrants, jihadists and communists,” adding, “When you see burning steeples and raging fires in France, just remember that is what the radical Democrats want to do in America.”

Trump visited Kansas to support GOP Sen. Roger Marshall, who is in an unexpectedly tight race for reelection with Democrat Adam Hamilton, a Methodist pastor, per the Washington Post. In his speech and in comments to reporters beforehand, Trump emphasized his administration’s anti-immigration policies by seizing on the unrest in France. “The whole world was coming in, and as you know, Paris is going to be a Muslim city very soon,” he said on the White House lawn, per the Guardian. “We closed our borders. He didn’t,” he added of French President Emmanuel Macron. Other top Republicans were hitting the same theme, with VP JD Vance calling the French violence a failure of “Western liberals.”

It’s those damn socialists according to the morons in charge.

Yeah that is it….it has nothing to do with what these slugs have done to the economy and society as a whole.

This is his pathetic attempt to gain the upper ground in the election where his numbers are in the crapper.

Yes I think it is a stupid thing to say….and I am not alone….

Emmanuel Macron says he has a message for “many people, including foreign leaders”: Stop using France’s troubles as campaign material. During a visit to Qatar, the French president blasted what he called “stupid” comments and the “manipulation of information” about last weekend’s riots, saying some foreign leaders were exploiting the unrest for political gain by claiming the social unrest is being caused by Muslim migrants. Pressed on whether that included President Trump, Macron answered, “Among others,” reports the Guardian.

Trump has tied the violence to “migrants, jihadists and communists” as he stumps ahead of US midterms; Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken of an “invasion of extremist Islam.” Macron told reporters that some leaders “in the middle of election campaigns, whether here in the region or on the other side of the Atlantic” were “naively spreading narratives that certain circles are clearly trying to promote.” The BBC calls that an “apparent swipe” against Trump and Netanyahu; Israel’s parliamentary elections are next Tuesday. Macron added that there have been “AI-generated images depicting scenes that never actually happened in France. We’ve had people claiming that we were invaded by hordes of migrants and Islamists, which is completely false.”

I wish someone would tell this d/bag to STFU….someone besides me.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Democracy In Crisis

With the election just a mere month away I think most of us can agree that our democracy is in crisis….and some seem to think that this election could change all the woe that has been foisted on our beloved country.

But will it change?

Despite being divided on most issues, an overwhelming majority of Americans agree that their democracy is in a state of crisis or facing serious challenges.

A few of the symptoms of the problem: Close allies see the U.S. as a threat to peace. Immigration raids by poorly trained federal agents have terrorized cities. President Donald Trump claims that only his own sense of morality limits his power. The Trump administration has politicized the Justice Department, and many of Trump’s political nominees refuse to acknowledge that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election.

Plato warned that an unhealthy democracy can easily fall prey to a tyrant. As a scholar of American government, I see dishonest leaders, an environment of declining trust and a cultural penchant for violence as symptoms of Plato’s scenario.

The courts, which research suggests are ineffective at instituting significant political change, cannot adequately counter today’s democratic crisis. So what can?

One thing I’ve learned over two decades is that when it comes to the fundamentals of democracy, political science is not rocket science. A healthy democracy requires educated citizens, including a free press and an engaged public.

https://theconversation.com/americans-agree-their-democracy-is-in-crisis-yet-the-solution-is-as-simple-as-it-is-elusive-286541

There is the problem…..we have few educated citizens, our press is no longer free and the public is not engaged just spouting platitudes at each other.

So is the democracy in trouble….you bet your ass it is and we are the reason why….yet we cannot seem to find our way out of this darkness, which seems to get deeper as we go along.

Public opinion is at an all time low…..

  • Widespread Concern: Over 80% of Americans say democracy is either in crisis or facing serious challenges.

  • Low Confidence: Trust in federal government institutions and traditional media remains near historic lows.

  • Partisan Divides: Views on specific threats and the overall health of the system vary sharply along political lines.

That says it all….and yet the voter does little to change the direction we are traveling….

The crisis is looming large and within a few short weeks will know if it has left the room or not….

If you plan to vote then choose wisely or kiss this democracy good-bye…..possibly forever.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

“Committed” To “Eliminating”

This illustrates the Israeli mindset perfectly.

AS the war of words continue with Iran BiBi has said (I am sure that Donny agrees) that he is determined to eliminate Iran….

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that Israel was “committed” to “eliminating” the Iranian government and that he spoke about the idea in his recent conversation with President Trump.

According to The Times of Israel, Netanyahu made the comments at the Tel Hai University in Kiryat Shmona near Israel’s border with Lebanon. “I am committed to finishing the job,” he said, referring to Israel’s war in Lebanon.

“Finishing the job means bringing down the terrorist regime in Iran. It is the head of this poisonous octopus. You cut it off, and it will fall. We will also have peace with Lebanon,” he said. “We must complete the elimination of the Iranian regime — that is the primary objective. I have spoken about this with President Trump more than once, including the day before yesterday.”

A day earlier, Netanyahu released part of a phone call he had with President Trump on Sunday, where he thanked the US leader for endorsing him in the upcoming Israeli elections. In Trump’s endorsement message, he suggested that the US may have to “finish the job” against Iran without the help of Israel if Netanyahu doesn’t remain prime minister.

In his conversation with Trump, Netanyahu said that the US and Israel have a “job to finish,” and his comments on Tuesday suggest that means regime change.

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth made an unannounced visit to Israel on Monday and met with Netanyahu. The US and Israel have been coordinating closely in the lead-up to the Israeli elections and the US midterm elections, and according to recent reporting from Axios, they have been discussing the possibility of resuming the full-scale bombing campaign against Iran.

(antiwar.com)

This is not something new for BiBi has been lying about Iran for 30 years….if he gets his way who will be next on his ‘hit list’?

Then there is what the soldiers think about this conflict….that is American servicemen….

The poll surveyed 156 people currently serving in the military, 431 veterans, and 144 immediate family members of active-duty service members between September 15 and 28.

Common Defense is a veteran-led group that advocates for progressive policies and endorses Democratic candidates, though a 47% of respondents to their September poll are self-identified Republicans. Nearly 20% identified as “pure independents,” while 35% said they were Democrats.

Though Republicans surveyed in the poll backed Operation Epic Fury at a rate of 77% to 16%, overwhelming opposition among Democrats and independents left respondents opposed to the war overall, 49% to 44%. Veterans were by far the most supportive of the ongoing conflict, with 53% in support and 44% opposing, while active-duty service members opposed it by a 16-point margin and military families by 38 points.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/military-poll-iran-war/

There you have it…..no one but Donny and his throng of babbling morons are the only ones supporting this war.

What will happen after the November election?

Will we return to the stupidity of war or will more logical heads prevail?

Whatcha think?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Medicare For Americans

I have writing about Medicare For All (M4A) since it was first unveiled back in 2018…..and I have bee supporting the idea….it is not perfect but it is better than any other options being considered….and now the corporate Dems have offered up what they call Medicare For Americans….

Corporate-backed Democrats evidently see the writing on the wall.

The latest polling from Axios-Ipsos American Health Index, released Wednesday, found that a purality of Americans support replacing the for-profit health insurance industry with a government-run Medicare for All plan, and that 62% of Democrats back the idea. Supporters of a single-payer healthcare program like those that have long existed in the United States’ peer countries swept primary races across the US this year. And one of the top potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidates, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), is a vehement supporter of the idea.

But instead of simply joining efforts to extend the popular Medicare program to everyone in the US, Majority Democrats—a group of Democratic lawmakers aimed at “reshaping and growing” the party, with billionaire hedge fund manager Stephen Mandel as its top funder—is intent on recycling an old proposal, with a new name.

The group introduced “Medicare for Americans” in a six-minute video posted on social media Tuesday—one that essentially described a “public option”—or a government-run healthcare program that would “compete” with health insurers instead of dismantling the $5.3 trillion-per-year for-profit system.

The video describes a plan similar to one unveiled in 2020 by former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, then a presidential candidate, who called his proposal “Medicare for All Who Want It.”

“If we want to earn voters’ trust back,” says the narration, “we need a real solution… A revolutionary plan that will make a real difference in how we handle healthcare in this country.”

The plan would “offer every American who is sick and tired of private insurance a plan through Medicare,” the narrator continues. “People who want to keep the private insurance they have should be able to.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/public-health-option

What a pile of steaming cow manure!

These slugs are totally owned by the health industry….this is fake concern for us average peasants.

If they are truly worried about you and me why do they fight the M4A?

This plan, Medicare For Americans, is the billionaire option.

… one progressive streamer wrote that Majority Democrats “want to pretend like they support progressive healthcare policy but are just protecting private insurance.”

I believe that is an accurate observation.

This will be a con job on the American people….especially retired Americans.

Thoughts?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Dems Are Not Moving Left

If you believe the propaganda machine of the Right and even some of the so-called Dems the party is moving Left….that is pure Bullshit!

Every one is running sacred because of the progress the DSA has mad in our electoral process so the Right has to counter it with something….and what better counter than to resurrect the old ‘Red Scare’ tactic?

But it is a LIE!  And a whopper at that.

Basically they are, the Dems, are trying to return to their roots….

Be advised: “Democrats are in danger of going too far left in 2018.” So warn Republicans like Mitt Romney and ex-Democrats like Joe Lieberman and public personae as diverse as James Comey and Howard Schultz. In recent months, the pundit class has determined that the party’s leftward lurch heralds the rise of a “liberal tea party”—a movement that could very well unmoor Democrats from their longstanding center-left traditions, in close imitation of the spiral of events that caused the Republican Party to turn sharply to the right in recent years.

What’s fueling this argument? For one, more Democrats have rallied, either noisily or cautiously, around such policy innovations as “Medicare for all,” universal college and a universal basic income. That a smattering of Democratic candidates have elected to call themselves “democratic socialists” has only fueled the claim that such programs are “socialist.” “The center is Harry Truman and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, not Eugene Debs and Michael Harrington,” warned New York Times opinion columnist Bret Stephens recently. (Debs and Harrington were self-identified socialists.)

But there’s something wrong with this historical interpretation: Truman strongly supported single-payer health care. Moynihan supported a universal basic income in the 1960s. Dating back to World War II, Democrats sought to make a government-paid education available to as many Americans as possible. If Democrats are marching to the left, that road leads directly back to platforms and politicians who, in their day, commanded wide support and existed firmly in the mainstream of political thought.

What’s more, to label these programs “socialist”—which is to say, far outside the center of the political spectrum—reveals a constrained worldview. For over six decades, center-right parties in Europe—in Britain and France, Germany and Austria, and almost everywhere between—have either participated in or acceded to the very same policies.

In a remarkable way, today’s debate today strongly resembles a broader discussion that occurred in the United States and Europe in the 1940s, amid wartime mobilization and economic reconstruction, and in the decades following.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/04/elections-2018-democrats-history-liberal-progressive-socialist-222187/

The rank and file maybe trying to return to the roots of the party but I cannot say the same for the DNC which controls who gets support for any upcoming election.

Can you see the problem?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

 

Has Ukraine Been Compromised?

For several years there has been a mash-up between Ukraine and Russia and of course the US and most of the western world has been helping Ukraine as much as possible….but it looks like that is about to change.

In the works Donny is playing footsie with Putin….and that issue will limit Ukraine’s effectiveness to respond to the attacks by Russia.

Ukraine is just about out of the Patriot missiles it needs to defend itself from Russian attacks, and officials on Monday said they’ve located the bottleneck. The Trump administration has not approved the next deliveries, a delay that applies not only to missiles coming from the US, but those going to Ukraine from other nations—transfers that require Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s approval because the missiles are made by US companies. The officials said Hegseth has not officially blocked the transfers but has not taken the necessary steps to allow them, either, the Washington Post reports.

It’s another of the US-inflicted setbacks for Ukraine, which have included President Trump backing off congressionally approved sanctions on Russia and a deal to allow Russia’s sale of diesel fuel. “The Pentagon is delaying the delivery of missiles” already paid for by European countries, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday, per AFP, saying all that’s needed is Hegseth’s signature. “The missiles are ready, and they could already be in Ukraine,” Zelensky said.

Does this turn have anything to do with the diesel deal Donny cut with Russia and a relaxing of some sanctions?

I look for Zelenskyy to beat feet to Dc and try to save the weapons deals of the past.

And then there is the proposed upcoming meeting between Putin, Xi and Donny….there cover story is the war with Iran….but I would bet that there is more to it than that.

We have known for years that Donny has this pathetic fascination with Putin and it appears that he is going out of his way to accommodate whatever Putin desires.

Am I looking at this in a wrong way?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

 

“Get Out Of Jail Free” Card

Since Donny has been in office he has pardoned in the neighborhood of 1800 people….and that will not be the end of it…..he may have further pardons in mind……

President Trump says he could wipe his own legal slate clean—and that of his team—if he so chooses. In a Newsmax interview on Thursday, the president said he has the authority to grant himself a pardon, though he claimed he hasn’t seriously considered it because he believes he “did nothing wrong,” per People. He noted he could’ve done so at the end of his previous term but didn’t expect to be, in his words, dragged “through the mud.”

“I’m allowed to do a pardon, a self-pardon,” he added. Trump also said he’s weighing clemency for aides so they don’t endure “years of nonsense” and legal bills. No president has ever tried to self-pardon and then faced prosecution. Asked on Friday if Trump actually plans to pardon himself or his staff, a White House spokesperson pointed back to his Newsmax comments.

One person who may not be lucky enough to receive such clemency from Trump, per the Irish Star: Kimberly Guilfoyle, the now former US ambassador to Greece and former fiance to Trump’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr. “I don’t wanna think about it,” the president told Newsmax of a potential pardon for her. “I was disappointed in what I read. … I haven’t spoken to her. I’ve known her over the years. I’ve known her for many years.” He added that she’d done a “very good job” as ambassador and that “the interesting thing is she was the toast of the town over in Greece.”

For all his ‘illegal’ doings he may have a plan to avoid being held accountable for his misdeeds.

I would expect nothing else….he sees the writing on the wall and he is scrambling to walk away from this treasure chest robbery scott free.

Is there a plan in place that cannot prevent him from escaping these misdeeds and being made to pay….and pay dearly?

What will the Dems do?  Do they have a plan to stop this from happening?

I seriously doubt it.

And what do you think?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”