Thoughts from others:

• “War As Politics By Other Means.” -Clausewitz
• “The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.” -H.G. Wells
• “War is peace… Ignorance is strength.” -George Orwell, 
• “All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.” -George Orwell
• “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.” -George Orwell
• “The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” -George Orwell
• “The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”  -Aldous Huxley
• “Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.”  –Aldous Huxley. 
• “Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.” Ray Bradbury
• “When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent” -Isaac Asimov
• “The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.” -Isaac Asimov
• “Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.” -Isaac Azimov
• “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” – Isaac Asimov
• “It’s not what happened but how it is told.” -Philip K Dick
• “This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.’ -Philip K Dick
• ‘You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.” -Robert Heinlein
• “A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.” -Robert Heimlein.
• “In my first ten months, I ended eight wars.” -djt.  creator of ‘Board of Peace’

 

                              TAKE THE TEST – Part 1

See where you fit, or if you are fit, or if you fit in, or if you are likely to have a fit.  Just take the test…For each topic give yourself a rating of 1 to 10…Ten being the highest. This is like the Pain Test, only different.

1)  How comfortable does raising taxes on the Wealthy make you feel?  (Your score here):____

2)  How much do you wish you could have gone to the streets of Minneapolis and protested against ICE? ___

3)  How much do you wish you had protested against Israel’s treatment of Gaza?___

4)  How much do you not believe when President Trump looks like he is sleeping in a meeting, that he is not really sleeping but is planning what he is going to do next?___

5)  Now that the Gallop Poll people are not going to publish their polls on who will win the next Presidential race, because the poll  might offend ‘you know who’ and get sued; How much does that bother you? ___

6)  How much do you dislike Billionaires and the power they have over the Government and the Press and everything you buy and do? ___

7)  How much do you wish you were a Billionaire, versus what you are now? ___

8)  The Department of War, specifically Mr. Hegseth, wants to use AI (Anthropic) to surveil American citizens.  If you are an American citizen, how much does this bother you? ___

9)  How upset are you over whatever it is that Iran is doing (or not doing)? ___

10)  How upset will you be if The Department of War attacks Iran?__

10a  (extra credit question) How upset are you that ‘we’ are still shooting Maduro’s fishing boats out of the water and killing the fishermen?___

11)  Our Justice System:  How concerned are you that Billionaire drug dealers, Bitcoin & Corporate fraudsters and Violent Jan. 6’ers have been pardoned while American Men, Women and Children sit in for-profit-ICE prison encampments with little hope for a fair trial – let alone a pardon? ___

FOR 5 BONUS points:  Last Week, who said?: “We have the greatest economy ever in History.” ___ (If you guessed correctly, and that Quotation does not bother you, subtract 20 points from your total score – otherwise add 5)

If your score is 88 or higher: You are probably not a MAGA

If your score is 55 or lower you should not take next week’s TEST and should consider applying for work at ICE, since we hear jobs are opening up there.

A quote:

“The Fundamental weakness of Western Civilization is EMPATHY.” -Elon Musk

 

Disclaimer: The following post was not written by AI. Nor was it influenced by: Russian operatives, Pam Bondi, Steve Bannon, Fox News, my old friend in Ohio who voted for Trump – but says he did not, a software program, a job/cash offer only if I said certain ‘Loyalist’ things, a modest glass of wine, drug dealing sexual predators from Venezuela, vote cheating Georgians, Freedom hating non-Christians. As a matter of fact this posting does not owe its originations from anything other than fulminations from the nether regions of my TDS’d subconscious.

Person, Man, Woman, Camera, TV

• Good News!: The EPA has determined that Greenhouse gass emissions do not pose a danger to Americans’ health and welfare. It goes to show we can admit when we are wrong. I remember when, years ago, it was said eggs, especially egg yokes, were bad for you…and then the egg people got together and we learned this was not true. Now we can drink all the coffee we want, eat all the eggs we want and breathe all the car fumes we want….things are getting better – thanks to less Government overreach. I wonder if all these people who are getting the Measles…if something else was wrong with them other than their not getting a vaccine.
• Quick! Can you remember the 5 words which appeared at the beginning of this post? If you can: You are as smart as the President was last year. This year it was trickier.  He had to identify: A Lion, a Giraffe, a Fish and an Hippopotamus.  It is said He managed to do so, though there were no 3rd party witnesses to the event. He could probably have done it in his sleep.
• “Citizens United v. FEC” (2010) came out with a ruling that basically said “Corporations are people too”. This decision by the Supreme Court changed things forever and corporate money became the  biggest player on the block. I think we need another case where the decision would be “Democrats are people too”. I have not figured out where the money will come from, however.

A quote, or three:

• “Let’s just focus on unity and love.” -Pam Bondi
• “We’re gonna make everyone rich. Everyone’s going to be rich” -47
• “A fool and his money are soon elected.” -Will Rogers

 

 

 

 

 

It takes a worried mind to ask a few questions which need be asked:

• Which President only made about a half billion dollars in his first term…(Aside from salary and previous business dealings)?  A) Sleepy Joe B) Non-Citizen Obama C) The  healthiest man alive, aka The Donald. (C is the coerrect Answer)
• Which President made an estimated 2.5 billion Dollars in the first year of his second term? A) K Harris ( Wrong: even though she won the ‘popular vote – she was not ever the President. Duh!) B) The Donald (B is the correct answer, subject to revision, of course, because the actual figures are being removed from all sources.)
• How many Law-Suits has the current President been involved in, in his lifetime?  A) Over 4000 – as of April 2025.  B) No one really knows..accurate figures are hard to retrieve – even with AI. C) If tariffs were placed on all the President’s Law-Suits, the country could get out of debt and the price of eggs would go down. (Answer: A,B, and C are correct.)
• Who is the happiest that ICE is at the Olympics? A) The ICE people themselves.  B) No one else. ( A and B are equally correct… but some of the people in Minneapolis are happy that some of the ICE people are in Italy and not in Minneapolis, so maybe B is not as correct as A.)
• We captured Maduro because: A) the Venezuelan fishing boats were really drug dealers and we have saved over 25,000 lives by shooting them dead. B) Maduro is a bad man and does not share the oil money with his people and does not even know how to drill for oil like we do. C) Maduro jimmied our voting machines and threw the elections to the Democrats and then he cheated on the votes in Puerto Rico. Something like that. D) Our good President may pardon Maduro for his offenses if Maduro tells everything to  our Congress and apologizes – especially if he whistleblows that he cheated for the Democratic Party. (All answers are the only ones provided. And none of them are correct.)

It could be the News, it could be the weather; but I am having a little ‘Writer’s Block’. So, trying to kickstart a stream of consciousness I am looking at a few notes I have here,.. thoughts from others…international, domestic & irrelevant

• “Being five minutes early is being late.”- German Proverb. (In NYC you are still “on time” if you are only 20 minutes late.)
• “God invented Alcohol so the Irish would not conquer the world.”  -Irish Saying.
• “Americans will always do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.”” -Winston Churchill
• “Do to others whatever you would have them do to you.” -‘Mathew 7:12’.  or,…
• “Do unto others before they do unto you.” -Perhaps from the ‘Book of ICE, Chapter 1: Verse 7’
• “It does not require many words to speak the truth.” -Chief Joseph
• “Les Gros Poissons mangent les petit.””  -(Trans.: “Big fish eat little fish.” -French proverb)

Aahhh, at last, some thoughts are trickling in…

• “Money Talks, Nobody Walks”‘ -American Proverb…Speaking of which, I have a money making idea: You know how with AI we can alter images of things? Well, I say we  make a little statuette – coffee table size – and re-image the Statue of Liberty: Give her big lips, maybe long hair hanging down, put jewelry on her arms and maybe a $10,000 watch on her wrist…maybe take that light out of her hand, put a gun in there…put on a bullet-proof vest and maybe place some zip-ties and smoke bombs in her other hand. Keep the words “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…” those will still make sense.. Anyway, I say we could make and sell this statue as a piece of Merch. I want 10%.

• I see where The President is saying when he appears to have fallen asleep in meetings…he is not actually sleeping…he says he already knows what is going on in the meetings and he is concentrating on future plans and events. That’s what I do too. But when I open my eyes I forget what those plans and events were going to be. Usually when I open my eyes after closing them for a half hour or so, I have to go to the bathroom. I wonder how He can just sit there and not have to go to the bathroom. There is much to be learned.