For me, in politics, it was always confusing trying to separate the wheat from the chaff. As Websters says: “Which people or things in a group are bad and which ones are good?”
Is supporting education and science good or bad?
Is fighting environmental pollution good or bad?
Is fighting genocide good or bad?
Is spending trillions you don’t have good or bad?
Goldwater, Reagan, and every other Republican nominee for President screamed GOOD, GOOD, GOOD, AND GOOD!
But every recent poll shows that Modern Day Trumpians scream BAD, BAD, BAD AND BAD!
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List what you can in human advance in all human time, till 1776. Then compare to the last few hundred years, when American’s launched what free peoples could enjoy with the benefits of their own labors.
Nothing of the joys and conveniences you now expect, did not come from that event.
All from what the rest of the world envies and has struggled to send their children to: our systems to develop knowledge.
Responsible for 419 Nobel Prizes, more than the next half dozen countries combined, is our prestigious universities, and the public education system Horace Mann championed 175 years ago.
All now being dismantled by those not in line when the brains were given out.
I have spent almost all my life thinking women were brighter, more thoughtful and compassionate than men.
I suppose that was due to my mother, who was tough but fair in her launching four difficult Kimball boys on her own, into successful lives.
But my view has taken a precipitous drop late in life for many reasons, almost entirely due to white women. So many easily manipulated, flock to jam about this slight or that, then in such parroted confusion as to who’s at fault, most will support a felon convicted of sexual abuse to lead the nation and their families’ lives.
It is unfortunate that Trump got on the Knowledge-Go-Round so late in life.
I was with Trump on bunker busting their nuclear sites. After all, you just cannot allow such a despicable rouge state with the mantra “Death to America” to have nuclear weapons. Hell, they had built over 3000 ballistic missiles and enriched uranium to weapons grade, far beyond what is needed to generate power.
So, yeah, lets buy some time, bust it up, so we can get back to the Barack Obama deal that Trump trashed, where we do exactly what Ronald Reagon insisted, “Trust but verify.”.
Take just one teensy example, a favorite: Lindsey Graham, who Trump called a “disgrace, nut job, one of the dumbest human beings,” who is now tethered on the ring Trump had punched through his nose.
Today, Lindsey just hobbles dutifully along, echoing his master’s every whim, just as he did during his long-lost salad days when he did the same for his buddy, John McCain with his spine to crawl up on.
Let me be clear, I think the assassination of Trump would be repulsive.
However, I am surprised that in America, such evil still exists.
Even Hitler had at least 40 attempts, many by insiders, but with Trump no insider will do what over 700,000 of our family members, neighbors and fellow defenders of democracy have done: Die in freedom’s defense.
Never mind that he claims responsibility for parking dead bears in Central Park. Never mind the worm he claims ate its way into his brain. Kennedy has stumbled on the truth I have long been straining to uncover “Fluoride causes low IQ and brain damage.”
That’s it, that must be it! Fluoride has made Americans stupid.
In spite, of all those Trump intimates, the Generals, Chiefs of Staff, even Musk, broadcasting Trumps childish, ignorant nature, millions that don’t know him, never worked with him or have ever even seen him, are stuck on him.
Why is it that so many Americans not in the know, without the teensy bit of know, lock on, despite what those in the know are screaming at them.
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.
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.
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.”
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!
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:
The public should no longer remain ignorant.
Education should be paid for, controlled, and sustained by an interested public.
Education will be best provided in schools that embrace children from a variety of backgrounds.
Education must be taught using the tenets of a free society.
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?
LIKE TITANIC WE CALMLY SET SAIL WITHOUT BINOCULARS
Good people with thoughtful hearts seldom recognize how horrible an event can be and when they do, most sit frozen, drop jawed, as their heart is slowly eaten.
Titanic, The Gulf war, Deep Water Horizon, Pearl Harbor, Challenger, Chernobyl are amongst the many sufferings that could have been avoided if our better angels were heeded.
Now the most odious flight of all is about to take wing. As it has slimmed its way above to lord over us all, those saddened, thoughtful hearts hide in the cracks dreaming that lucidity and sanity will magically reappear.
No massive demonstrations planned, no public outrage evident, “Brownshirts” have won the day and there will be Hell to pay.
That was the furious, in my face, response to a speech I once gave about the need to provide voters with easy access to accurate relevant facts about candidates that anyone, conservative or liberal, could turn for the truth in absolute confidence.
That quote was from Arizona’s representative on the Democratic National Committee, the “The oldest continuing party… leading with its values…” says their website. It is exactly that horror of hypocrisy that has led to the frustration that Trump feeds and grows on.
Are you going to be a problem
It is not too late. Do your homework. VoteSmart.org, the organization I had been referring to in that speech, is still a place that can help you do it.
but Tom Matthews was the Lee Harvey Oswald, John Wilkes Booth wannabe clipping Trump’s ear. Had he been an inch closer to center, what would have happened?
Would MAGAS go supernova and attempt to dismember all the fantastical goblins Trump has fingered in the “Dark State?”
Would one of the Trump wannabes grab his banner and carry forth or would they just feed on one another?
Would the Republican Party be regained by lifelong conservatives riveted on reducing spending but for military protection?
Would the ebbs and waves of politics return to that world of responsible give and take that has so continuously inched America and the world forward toward fairness?
I don’t know, but it is my guess that Trump is the one Gorilla Glue that holds MAGAS from each other’s throats.
The well-educated, compassionate, loving are always the least likely to defend themselves, throw a punch, and fight.
With heads in the warm comforting sands of the way they wish things would be, should be, they succumb to a beckoning dreaminess that somehow things will be made right. Somehow?
It is a rare, glorious moment when the meek turns and stands. It takes the greatest of evils: The Revolution, The Civil War, Women’s Suffrage, Hitler, Civil Rights, all brought a divided country together by the quietly hopeful finally deciding to stand.
Now no one knows that “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” more than the Grand Old Party gone under the foot of a strong man.It would be hard to miss the truth of that old 19th century axiom as we witness the GOP’s leaders abandoning their principles and falling like dominos under the weight of a single boot.
Absolute corruption can subdue the entire known world when the meek fail to stand up. My favorite example: Genghis Khan, another megalomaniac who essentially rode into a town one day with his friends and said, “Give me everything you have.” When they refused, he and his friends slaughtered every man, woman and child and rode off to the next town. Again, he said, “Give me everything you have.” When they refused, he hacked them to death and rode on. Eventually towns got the message and had readied for him all they possessed. It was just in that way the largest contiguous empire ever known was made. In his homeland they still find in him a source of adulation.
Is it too early to dread the day when that coiffured, self-obsessed effigy is towering over the Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson monuments?
Hardly a day has gone by these past nine years when I haven’t gotten up in the morning, opened my computer and hoped to hear news of Trumps fatal heart attack or brain aneurysm. He has represented all that I have opposed in life – honor, truth and decency.
He is a danger to all that I believe. I can’t say that my feelings do not border on hate, which is exactly what he has generated, not just against him but against each other, which for me is unforgiveable, both for him and for me.
