If I ever do a political podcast, this is what I’d have called it! :)
This is where you’ll find the opinion pieces (often political) so if you’re not into the rantings of someone who is generally fiscally conservative and socially liberal that the two main political parties blew off years ago, you might want to give this space a miss!
Even when I'm trying to flunk the test with a perfect zero percent, my voting algorithm has a quite different idea... ;)
Welcome to the start of the midterms in the land of the most egregious hyper-partisan gerrymander in the most purple state in the entire country! The carpet bombing of our post boxes and TVs has already been in full swing...
There were more than a few who showed us what their character truly is during that rather boorish celebration of the US men's hockey team winning the country's first gold since 1980. And it's not a pretty picture at all...
President Trump's vituperative post about last night's Superb Owl was right on one point. It just wasn't the one that he thought it was by a long shot but at least he'd watched Bad Bunny's performance to at least not comment on it from a perspective of complete ignorance... :(
I am genuinely conflicted as to what is more absurd...that this country has elected someone as President who is so clearly insecure and unable to live without sycophantic adoration or that FIFA felt compelled to make up a "peace prize" for a President whose body of work in that area doesn't bear close scrutiny!
After Charlotte was invaded by ICE agents over the weekend, it appears that Raleigh is the newest front in the reign of terror that says it is only interested in nicking violent criminals who are eligible for deportation as illegal immigrants but their tactics seem to be stomping all over the Fourth Amendment (among others) of the Constitution... :(
Historians years from now will be writing massive tomes on how not to handle an existential political crisis that threatens to bring down a President. This administration’s handling of the Epstein files seems to be just such a threat…
Senator Hise certainly had a lot to say about those new Congressional district maps he's so proud of but the statement that'll win him the award isn't the one attributed to him that went viral...
Even though the aspiring monarch in Washington DC is certainly the most notorious of those who would wish to subjugate the population to their rule by fiat, there's more than a few would-be kings on Jones Street who have been a problem for far longer than King Donald I...
With the Supreme Court's latest travesty of a ruling from it's shadow "emergency docket" and the President's obvious admiration of how Vladimir Putin rules Russia, is it so much of a stretch of the imagination to imagine the ICE gangs who have routinely ignored the Fourth Amendment and the Constitution writ large taking the next step and actually becoming the KGB?
Here is another post from the Facebook thread started by a mate of mine that I wanted to capture as we're now almost two years on from Hamas attacking Israel with the situation on the ground now being far more dire and deplorable. The person I was talking to pivoted to her hatred for President Trump because he "allows Netanyahu to kill all Palestineans. I do hate him for this" as well as his inability…
Hating Trump is certainly "easy" in this day and age but what I truly feel is pity for the shadow of a human being he's become and those much more clever than him that rule him from the shadows. Pity is far, far worse than hatred and it is something for which the President and his sycophants in government have no effective defence.
Who knew that the memory of Richard Dawson on "Family Feud" would become the defining way on how I'd come to view being able to actually celebrate Independence Day this year in spite of the deplorable activities of our current government?
Senator Murkowski in a rare moment of unintended honesty after being the vote that allowed Trump's evil budget bill to go back to the House made it clear her vote was for sale to whoever would exempt Alaska from the pain this bill will cause the rest of us. :(
Much as I respect Attorney General Jeff Jackson, I can't in good conscience agree with his assessment of Senator Tillis announcing he was standing down from the Senate. After years of ignoring consistent majorities of North Carolinians, he's decided to chicken out of standing in the mid-terms and let the voters have their say about his extensive records of political flip-flopping and inability to stand his ground against a threatened primary opponent in the 2026 election. Sir Robin has forgotten more of courage than Senator Tillis will ever know... :(
When Israel started attacking Tehran and Iranian nuclear weapons sites, the only question was *WHEN* the US would be asked to bring in the B-2 Spirit and it's two GBU-57 MOP (Massive Ordinance Penetrator) bombs to really ruin the day at Fordo and Natanz.
For all of the hullaballoo about President Trump's "birthday parade" and the comparisons to authoritarian regimes it evoked, the blatant politicisation of the event back home at Fort Bragg two days prior and apparent erosion of the standard of the military being professional and apolitical when on duty is far more terrifying than the tanks rolling down Constitution Av.
History is replete with examples of why an effective government needs a professional and apolitical civil service to faithfully execute the laws and defend the Constitution. President Jackson's disastrous implementation of the spoils system of patronage is exactly why the Trump administration's desire to implement Schedule F's successor is a dreadfully dangerous idea at best... :(
The Great Writ of habeas corpus is a fundamental right derived from centuries of legal tradition and one that should not be taken lightly or suspended by fiat. The ability to challenge one’s detention by the state and force them to provide evidence as to why your liberties should be curtailed is a right no citizen of a democratic society should be deprived and we shouldn’t let the current administration even progress it past the informal proposal stage!
It should be the easiest speech a President ever delivers on a solemn occasion where we honour those who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country. It is not a partisan political speech nor should it be self-aggrandising. Sadly, this was not the case... :(
If I wasn't allowed to offer an EPA employee a $15 lunch after mending their computers for ethics reasons, there's no way in hell President Trump should be allowed to accept a "gift" from the government of Qatar of a Boeing 747-8i Intercontinental "Palace in the Sky" massively upgraded at taxpayer expense that he couldn't possibly be allowed to fly as an Air Force One and would eventually end up as his personal property once his term ends. Some "gifts" like this one from a not-so-friendly regime should be flatly refused...just ask the Trojans what happened when they forgot that rule!
One down, several more need to go after National Security Advisor Mike Waltz walks the plank over to a cushy job as ambassador to the UN. How about Whiskeyleaks Hegseth next, eh?
Secretary of Defence Loose Lips is at it again posting military operational plans on Signal. But at least he didn't have a journalist seeing those details...this time, it was his wife who I'm pretty sure has less of a security clearance than the Pentagon janitors. It's man overboard and he clearly needs to go but it seems clear his boss has other ideas... :(
The Secretary of Defence tries to defend the indefensible and fails miserably! There's no way a SecDef that no defence minister in the world can ever trust again can stay in the job after a scandal in which not only actionable intelligence of a sensitive nature was compromised, it was done in the most silly and stupid way which just beggars belief. Any junior officer or official would have already been cashiered out of the service...it's time for the "warfighter's SecDef" to actually do the honourable thing for once and resign for the good of the service.
Get ready for another rendition of that dance we all know as "The Potomac Two-Step". Cabinet officials discussed classified military operations details on a commercial and insecure platform called Signal and willfully violated OPSEC (operational security) if not the Espionage Act in the process...and that was before the National Security Advisor added a journalist to the chat. This is *WHY* we need people who know what they're doing minding our national security... :(
