By design, the really draconian cuts the Big Beautiful Bill Trump signs today won’t begin to affect those of us who aren’t billionaires until after mid-terms next year. If voters understand what’s in store for them if they don’t turn out, and give the House and Senate back to Democrats, most of the damage can be undone. If there are elections, that is … anything is possible with King Donald on the throne, protected by a compliant Supreme Court.
Happy Independence Day? Yes, my feelings are mixed, but even so Donna and I will join our neighbors this morning for the Sunnywood Estates annual 4th of July parade.
My least favorite of the holidays, big badabooms pumping up my tinnitus, scaring the animals, and fouling the air.
I know it’s supposed to be triumphant but it reminds me unpleasantly of the battle of Song Mao, where Chinese and Russian rockets and mortar bombs tried to turn my precious body into scattered and far flung, hairy strawberry jam. With no glory or victory or triumph.
Such meat gobbets and blasts of the red red kroovy no longer happen in war judging by drone videos from YouTube of Russian orcs being gloriously dissambled and blown up real good.
Instead of gore we just see pixels where the Russian rapist war criminal used to be. War is lots less horrifying these days according to Google/YouTube.
So that’s neat, blood, guts, bone and brain tissue tend to stain. Good that only pixilation happens these days instead of blood, that might lower the click count.
That’s one reason I hate Russia and China to this day and beyond, 50+ years on, irrational or not. Yet I love the Vietnamese, our proported enemy.
I hate all who support the Russian and Chinese despots as well, such as the imPOTUS and the Grifting Old Party.
Fellow travelers, useful idiots and outright traitors are what comprise the formerly loyal party, winner of our civil war against slavery, on 4 July, 2025.