The Ides of November

 What the hell..

He's selling WHAT?...BIBLES. of course. He's selling bibles to help pay the legal bills he's incurred regarding a case based on paying off a porn star he cheated on his wife with so we wouldn't find out at election time. There is no shame, no bar too low. Golden sneakers..basically anything he could put his name on to petal to the faithful. A political Televangelist. Brother Don and his church of the Holy Grift. whats next?..adaptations to the commandments?..7 Commandments according to DON. (no mention of adultery, theft or coveting thy neighbors wife(or daughter). What gets me is that people buy it. They believe he actually cares about them. Even after J6 where we all sat and saw the attack on the capital to stop the election process. Cant even keep track of the lies. It surpassed 10,000 months if not years ago. 

           Court cases: 91 indictments. Makes no difference to the faithful. They believe its 100% politically motivated because he says so. He passed legislation that raised their taxes while lowering his and friends. Lied about Covid and people died. Apparently donated one quarter of his salary (though noone can figure out what he donated it to) and the faithful claim he donated all his salary. Claims about "I'll be too busy to play golf" were quickly forgotten as he formulated a plan to play and stay at only his own courses and gouge the government for services for his entourage and secret service to the tune of (last estimate I saw) 165 million dollars) 428 days of the 1461 days he was in office(almost on in three) . In four years he played TWO rounds outside of his property. This became the norm and was quietly forgotten about. 

          Back to the court cases. He is counting on delay upon delay until he is again elected president then all these little "inconveniences " will go away magically. The President has unlimited immunity. Think about that. He can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants to and there is no consequences in his mind. He once said in Iowa at a campaign stop "I can shoot someone of 5th avenue and nothing will happen". When your the president in trump's eyes thats true. Now as the wheels of Justice grind exceeding slowly as appeal and delay and appeal again is allowed and November is coming. All I can say about the situation is an ancient quote some 2000 years old paraphrased to fit the situation.

                                        America, Beware the Ides Of November

Caesar was murdered by the roman senate in 44BC. In November we have to decide what type of country we want. The parallel is daunting. We can easily find our Republic murdered at the ballot box. Our elected officials across our country are submitting legislation about subjects they have absolutely no experience in but make great sound bytes. Old men who's experience in medicine is taking a Statin every night and looking left while coughing believe they are experts on female reproduction. Overly religious zealots are passing legislation that strips citizens of their rights. LGTBQ+ rights that were long in coming and way overdue when they were finally enacted are now endangered. There is no future for us I see if we keep going backwards. 

How to begin moving forward again? There are a number of things we need to do. Even an idiot can see we need to fix our borders. I cant argue that point but barbed wire and other hazards that risk the lives of these people trying for a better life is wrong. People are dying trying to get here. Oh the cry about criminals and rapists and the dregs of other countries is not new. It was dumped on every unfortunate group of immigrants since our country was founded. It only changed when a newer group came. Now its the Latin Americans. the Mexicans, ..the people (if you were to believe the propaganda) are taking all the welfare services and all the jobs.