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The Second Coming Comes

Published by Richard Kimball on May 8, 2025

I spent 33 years locked in a promise I made Presidents Ford and Carter. I would not involve myself in partisan politics while running the organization we had begun.

Once retired, I still would not involve in political discussions. That isn’t to say I had nothing to say, it is just after those 33 years of struggling to help people deal with the facts, I am no longer interested in what anyone else thinks.

From where I have stood, no one thinks. Like eating a Big Mack to satisfy their hunger, people have become accustomed to tunning into some political preacher who says what satisfies and then mimics them with “lock box” conviction.

When politics becomes the conversation, I have become a joke. “Mention politics,” they say, “if you want to watch Kimball walk out of the room.”

If I am stuck, as the other day, with a devoted Christian, Trump supporter and close friend, who thought him God’s tool to make things wrong, right again, I simply agree.

Yes, Jesus was selfless, thoughtful, kind, forgiving with endless compassion for the suffering, downtrodden and all those without hope. Trump, his doppelganger – very difficult to see much difference.

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Nothing is more upsetting than that moment in a dispute when you realize you’ve been wrong!

Published by Richard Kimball on May 7, 2025

Daily, millions of our fellow citizens enter that condition.

As the absurdity of supporting this quasar of toddler self-indulgent nonsense begins to roost in bank accounts, a day of clarity presents itself.

It isn’t that right wing media begins to crack, or even Congressional fanaticos suddenly skulking for self-preservation, it is The People, whose roots lock back in and the human desire for justice and fair play is renourished.

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Don’t Kill Trump

Published by Richard Kimball on April 28, 2025

Yes, he wants to end democracy, and YES, his being elected is a compelling argument to do so, but look at who might replace him:

JD Vance, Donald Trump Jr., Nikki Haley, Marco Rubio, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Kristi Noem, etc. all sycophants, all MAGA, all who either once opposed him or have suckled on the tit of obedience from birth.

Perhaps more important isn’t the MAGA party but the media powers with enormous followings, who will attempt to chisel a new Trump out of his droppings:

FOX, Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, Laura Lommer, Kevin Roberts, Laura Trump etc.

Kill Trump and you will have crucified him in the eyes of his zealots. Let him live into his onsetting incapacity and his disciples will devour each other.

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Mixed Messaging

Published by Richard Kimball on April 26, 2025

Went to Alice’s funeral yesterday, a remarkable woman. She retired after 22 years as a captain in the Airforce and then committed the rest of her life fighting for world peace.

At her end, dozens said goodbye with the sweetest stories of her struggles to bring calm to an angry world.

Even Secretary of Defense Hegseth and President Trump celebrated her goodness by sending a military guard to send her off with volleys of rifle fire and a slow dramatic folding of the Stars and Stripes.

Which they had presented to Alice’s wife, Cara, from a grateful nation with these quiet words, “On behalf of the President of the United States.”

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Ukraine

Published by Richard Kimball on April 23, 2025

Over two years ago or almost one year after Putin invaded Ukraine, I wrote these blogged words in solution to the war, words that I hate as much now as I did when I wrote them:

  1. “The West recognizes roughly 7% of Ukraine as Russian, including Crimea and the Russian-speaking areas of Donetsk and Luhansk — roughly the territory Russia claimed in 2014.
  2. Ukraine, whose economy has crashed, gets to retain all of the territory they had prior to the 2022 invasion, gets peace, and the funds to rebuild, substantially but not solely provided by Russia.“

That is exactly where we head now, only after another 30,000 innocent non-combatant deaths.

It is not a brag, but a cracking volcanic blast at cowering, wimpy Presidents who can’t get off their knees when challenged by a country whose economic power is half that of California’s.

This proposed deal, never needed to happen!

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GREATEST GENERATION’S ANTITHESIS: US

Published by Richard Kimball on April 3, 2025

They were born inflicted with the effects of “The War to End All Wars”, in adolescence endured The Great Depression, then in adulthood crushed the tyranny of a megalomaniac on path to conquer the world, shamed Soviet tyranny, blazed a path to equality for all in Civil Rights, put a man on the moon, and their children in schools where teachers were the boss while making us the envy of the world.

The Greatest now gone, the pendulum swung to us, a new generation that cuddles suppression, trashes science, education and truth, in an angry, nonsensical tirade where the pain for all has only just begun!

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GAME ON!

Published by Richard Kimball on March 31, 2025

If Trump and his minions think they can devise some way for him to run for a third term, so be it.

I don’t think they will find a way but if they do, they will have to find a way that also strips Obama from doing the same.

If they don’t, well then: GAME ON!

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THE YELLOW HOPEFUL

Published by Richard Kimball on March 24, 2025

NOTHING WILL CONVINCE, NOT EVEN:

Subverting the 2020 Election?

Inciting an insurrection?

 Corrupting the Justice Department to end those opposing him?

Appointing toadies, suckling on the poison of power?

Cuddling with the man’s most despicable dictators?

CERTIANLY NOT WHEN HE SUGGESTS:

We ingest disinfectants to manage what ails us.

That it’s OK to grab someone’s genitals.

That “we could use a big fat dose of global warming.”

That his pennis is long and beautiful.

That breast feeding babies is “disgusting.”

That conviction of sexual abuse is abuse.

IT ISN’T THE PRESIDENT WHO IS ANTI-PROGRESS, SCIENCE, EDUCATION DEMOCRACY AND DECENCY THAT IS YOUR ENEMY, IT IS THAT FAMILY MEMBER OR NEIGHBOR THAT MONOTONOUSLY PARDON THEMSELVES WITH THE WORDS, “OH, I DON’T LIKE EVERYTHIG HE DOES!”

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Putin/Trump: Besties

Published by Richard Kimball on March 3, 2025

Putin is “A thug and murderer,” said John McCain.

Why? Well because Putin’s opponents are murdered, opposition is arrested and frozen in Siberia, minority rights squashed, foreign territory forcefully annexed, brutal dictators slaughtering thousands of their own citizens are enabled…

In 2023, when American’s still fought for the free, 64% thought this newfound “friend” an enemy, now only 34% do, while 50% want Ukraine to stop fighting and let Russia have the territory, they’ve massacred tens-of-thousands to obtain.

When those betraying that 249-year-old, uniquely American cause of freedom are asked, why?  They simply mimic their leader who said, “Well, I think that our country does plenty of killing, too.”

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Caveat Emptor

Published by Richard Kimball on February 25, 2025

A legion of inexperienced juvenile toadies now locked in place at the head of your Defense, Homeland Security, Education, Trade, Office of Management and Budget, Energy, Labor, Veterans Affairs, Transportation, FBI, Health and Human Services, Secretary of State, CIA, Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, and Environmental Protection Agency.

All parasites suckling on the poisonous tit of a megalomaniac.

All happening, while your protection from Inspector Generals, whistle-blowers and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are deceased.

You are on your own. Caveat Emptor, in all things – good luck!

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Rip Van Winkle Me!

Published by Richard Kimball on February 19, 2025

Wake me up in 20 years when it is all over, the wicked are dead and I can know that somehow democracy pulled through.

List all the human advances you can, for all human time up to 1776.  

 It was 229 years ago that Thomas Jefferson wrote “All men are created equal…” and enterprise by the free was unleashed on a global scale. With little thought, there is not a one of us that would not marvel at what came of it.

Compare your list of what came under every imaginable despot those first 250,000 years of human existence, with what you can list the last 000.01% of it.   Any comparative list would make those first 250,000 years seem devoid of advance in either human comfort, health, convenience, or nourishment. Almost regardless of your circumstance, your life today is with benefits and comforts beyond the imaginations of any ruler in history claiming to be above the law. This relationship between freedom and despotism is no coincidence.

Pride in our forebearers should ooze from every American pore while the return of a despotism boil everyone’s blood.

I’m going to doze off now, but with a hacksaw, on the chance I wake up in a prison.

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ARE STOCKS ON STABLE FOOTING?

Published by Richard Kimball on February 14, 2025

America represented stability in the world, because our institutions were stable, our rule of law was stable, and our separation of powers was able to mute extremists. I believe that is how America provided the safest haven for secure investment and fertile ground for prosperity.

Now with our institutions, the rule of law, the separation of powers being dismantled and a tariff wars kicker, I wonder if the coming pain will root in time for a sleepy self-governing people, charged with running this show, to wake up and save their primacy?

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ME

Published by Richard Kimball on February 9, 2025

The Founders, feared authoritarian government above all else, thus constructed a firewall against any possibility of an authoritarian government. Amongst those few who still know, it was the separation of powers splitting power between the three legs of a stool, that gave government balance and prohibited anyone leg from attaining absolute power over the people.

“If you got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will fallow,” a forecast that hung in the Nixon White House now cemented in a Congress where their leg of the stool has mortified into water fetching lackies.

Trump now goes for the second leg that bars absolute control.

Today, Elon Musk and Vice President JD Vance condemned the judiciary, attacking their legitimacy, the final pillar of the separation of power’s protection against an authoritarian.

As the Vice-President said, “Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.”  While Musk added, judges who oppose him should be impeached.

When the people finally get it, don’t expect Democrats to defend you. As Hakeem Jefferies, the House Minority Leader suggests, we need to wait for the pitches we can hit or Martin, the Democratic Parties new leader, who says we need to find more billionaires to keep up with the Republicans.

This is WAR, and opposition has yet to find a leader to enter the field of battle believing that The People can govern for themselves.

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Laid to Rest by Elon Musk

Published by Richard Kimball on February 8, 2025

Horace Mann

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the same school Trump attended and constantly trumpets as proof of his intellect, joined US News and World Report officially proclaiming studies that show the United States has surpassed both Germany and the United Kingdom (amongst all others) as the acknowledge greatest education system in the World.

With Trump’s praise Musk now ends, the most glorious effort, copied the world over. It was the 1830’s when Horace Mann hit full stride, forever earning him the title, The Father of American Education on these principles:

  1. The public should no longer remain ignorant.
  2. Education should be paid for, controlled, and sustained by an interested public.
  3. Education will be best provided in schools that embrace children from a variety of backgrounds.
  4. Education must be non-sectarian.
  5. Education must be taught using the tenets of a free society.
  6. Education should be provided by well-trained, professional teachers.

Why are we unable to understand that education, our ability to know, is the only thing that separates us from the lowliest of other species on the planet?

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GOLD BAR BOB

Published by Richard Kimball on January 29, 2025

In a normal world someone standing at the apex of political power going to prison for 11 years would saturate the news. After all, Bob Menendez was charged with leading foreign-policy, and overseeing billions in foreign aid, the sale of arms to foreign powers, holding confirmation hearings, NOT the cash discovered stuffed in his boots and pockets or the gold bars anointing him with his nick name.

I have witnessed such sliminess at every level both as a Congressional staffer, State Senator, Corporation Commissioner, a non-profit leader, and as me.

Sometimes the payouts were enormous from those willing and able to dip the largest shovels into special interest public projects.

While others just getting started get their beaks wet with offers of free trips, premium seating or just some movie tickets.   I loved movies, and although I refused all others, I went to see a few free films.

It is a cycle, little known, little written about, but contagious with those elected.  You grow a big head; think you are somehow worthwhile and more deserving than those that voted for you.

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TRUMP IS LEMON REFRESHING

Published by Richard Kimball on January 25, 2025

He does whatever he can to do, what he said he would do, legal, illegal, everything and anything that can be done to do what he promised.  Can you name a single other President willing to do so much for what he said he believed?

What a different world it would be if Obama, Bush or even Clinton had the mind set to be so craven and committed to their cause as is Trump.

If precedent, the rule of law, decency and conscience is going to be so thoroughly trashed, I wish it had been trashed by a President concerned with issues like global warming, an educated citizenry, health care, insurance companies, or just a love of people struggling to become part of this glorious achievement we call America, just as my ancestors and yours likely did.

It is as if a nincompoop stumbled into the Pitt of Endless Disenchantment where eons of candidate elected promises have gone withered and died and came out still simple and with a simpleton’s idea:  I am going to bust ass, on my absurdities, right or wrong and see if we (or I) get traction.

He will find great success, his number of supporters will continue to grow as “America First” takes root and finds purchase, up and until Americans discover they aren’t part of his America.

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CAPTURE THE FLAG

Published by Richard Kimball on January 19, 2025

NO LONGER A CHILD’S GAME

We were all put on notice by those that knew him best:

His Vice President, Mike Pence: “Anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be president of the United States.”

His Attorney General, Bill Barr: He “shouldn’t be anywhere near the Oval Office.”Enter your email to sign up for CNN’s “What Matters” Newsletter.

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His  Secretary of Defense, James Mattis: “He tries to divide us.”

His Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper: “I think he’s unfit for office.”

 His Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Mark Milley,  “We don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator.”

His Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson: “His understanding of global events, his understanding of global history, his understanding of US history was really limited.”.

 His Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley: “A terrible thing happened on January 6 and he called it a beautiful day.”

 His National Security Adviser, HR McMaster: “We saw the absence of leadership, really anti-leadership, and what that can do to our country.”

 His National Security Adviser, John Bolton: “I believe (foreign leaders) think he is a laughing fool.”

 His Chief of Staff, John Kelly: “A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law… God help us.”

 His Acting Chief of Staff, Mick Mulvaney, “I quit because I think he failed at being the president when we needed him to be that.”

 His Communications Director, Anthony Scaramucci: “He is the domestic terrorist of the 21st century.”

 His Communications Director, Stephanie Grisham: “I am terrified of him running in 2024.”

 His Homeland Security Adviser, Tom Bossert: .He “is an utter disgrace.”

 His White House lawyer, Ty Cobb: “Trump relentlessly puts forth claims that are not true.”

 His top aide in charge of his outreach to African Americans, Omarosa Manigault Newman: ” I could no longer be a part of this madness.”

Every thinking American: “THERE ARE NONE SO BLIND AS THOSE WHO WILL NOT SEE!”

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