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  • Peering through social media

    I’m witnessing safe here at home in USA on my phone, messages videos, and news reports of destruction and violence in Mexico. It’s sad to see the chaos that is unfolding in Mexico. A crime boss was killed by the Mexican Military, and the chaos is in response to the death of their crime boss.

    Now is not a good time to travel to Mexico. It’s not safe in Mexico even for Mexican citizens. Criminals in Mexico are burning property and causing chaos to intimidate Mexicans and everyone in Mexico who are not involved in crime.

    Now that the crime boss is dead, I’m guessing that the criminals are experiencing an identity crisis. The criminals have no leader. Without a leader they’ve lost control. The most profitable criminal activity in Mexico is probably the trafficking of cocaine to United States.

    It’s sad to watch the destruction and violence even safe from a distance. I’m glad I don’t use illegal drugs anymore. I’m glad I’m no longer an addict. I’m glad I no longer associate with criminals. I’m glad I know no criminals in the community I live in.

    I’ve been sober for almost 13 years. I moved halfway across the US to a different State and community away from the criminal activity and criminals I associated with when I was an addict.

    It’s good to be here. Safe and sound.

    In the long run, possibly many years from now cocaine will become legal to consume in United States. If that happened, it could be controlled and taxed similar to how marijuana became legal in many States in United States. The quality would be controlled, and it would be less dangerous. Age limits would be required to purchase cocaine, and less youth would become addicted to it.

    Deaths and violence from the transportation and use of cocaine would decrease. These are positive things that would happen with legalization of cocaine in US.

    In Mexico south all the way to South America the legalization of cocaine in the US would have a ripple effect south of the US border. Crime south of the US border would decrease. Violence and killings south of the US border would decrease.

    I am not sympathetic to criminals, and I am not sympathetic to the crimes they commit. Illegal drugs are illegal for good reasons. Addiction causes many problems to the user and to everyone transporting and selling the drug all the way from where the drug was grown and manufactured.

    Legalizing cocaine won’t stop people from becoming addicts. Legalizing cocaine would not stop people from overdosing and dyeing from consuming it. Legalizing cocaine would reduce overdoses and deaths from consuming cocaine.

    I am for reducing overdoses and reducing deaths due to the consumption of cocaine. I am for the Government to control cocaine. I believe that the best way for the Government to control cocaine is by changing the laws around cocaine.

    If it was legal for adults to possess a small amount of cocaine in the US for recreational purposes on private property, the trafficking of cocaine would have to be controlled and legalized. There would have to be a retail store where the quality of the drug was controlled and only sold in small quantities to adults. The retail store could only be licensed to operate by the Government in a commercial property zone not near any school.

    I knew from being an addict to cocaine for many years that intimidation and paranoia were reasons why I would continue to seek out a drug dealer. Being addicted to cocaine ruined my physical and mental health. Over years I spent many thousands of dollars buying cocaine I consumed. I was often paranoid. I  risked my health and safety and the health and safety of others every time I bought and used cocaine.

    There was no safe place to buy cocaine. The drug dealer was often intimidating and threatening. There was no guarantee that the cocaine I bought wasn’t mixed with a dangerous toxin making it more dangerous and more detrimental to my health. I risked my freedom every time I bought cocaine.

    Every time a person buys an illegal drug they are actively involved in crime. Every time a person possesses an illegal drug they are actively involved in crime.

    Crime is not the answer. Being around illegal activity is bad news. It’s important that illegal substances are controlled by the Government and there are better ways.

  • A wet noodle

    Mike Johnson’s reaction to taking responsibility for being the political party to investigate and prosecute co-conspirators to Epstein’s acts of pedophilia is that of a wet noodle.

    Mike Johnson first blames Democrats for not doing anything to prosecute criminals for four years under Biden then his attitude changes from blaming Democrats to the attitude of a wet noodle as if there is nothing to do. No back bone. No Spine.

    Mike Johnson basically said look at this mess the Democrats left us with while making zero initiative to investigate and prosecute the criminals now that the bipartisan effort forced the DOJ to release the Epstein files.

    Mike Johnson acts like a puppet for Donald Trump echoing every opinion Trump shares in the media.

    Trump says the Epstein files are a Democratic led hoax and Mike Johnson backs Trump by saying it’s all Democrats fault.

    Mike Johnson doesn’t want to get fired and agrees at work with everything Trump said to the media. Speaker of the house Mike Johnson has shown he’ll bend over backwards to please Trump.

    The same goes with Karoline Leavitt. Karoline Leavitt doesn’t speak her own thoughts and her own opinions at work, she regurgitates at a podium Donald Trumps most recent expressions to the media.

    I don’t blame the speaker of the house and the press secretary for being loyal to their leader. I blame them for only speaking at work their versions of their leaders thoughts and opinions.

    A problem with the Trump Administration is that Trump likes to entertain Americans and when there are serious decisions to be made often his decisions cause a lot of heart ache and troubles for very many Americans not amused with Trumps form of entertainment.

    The only thing more powerful than hate is love.

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1963 book Strength to Love

    “Bad Bunny” Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio 2026 Super Bowl Halftime performance message

  • America

    I want it all to go away. The hate, the fascism, the lies, the warrantless detaining of Americans, the disappearing of my fellow Americans, the corruption, the intimidation, Trump and his team of goons, all of it, gone. That’s what I want. I want Trump to be held accountable and locked in prison for many years for his many, many crimes against Americans and for being complicit in wars against humanity.

     I don’t want to wait three years for this to happen. I want Trump removed from office now. ICE has caused so much heartache, deaths and separation of honest hardworking families in our country. ICE needs to be toned down by 80%. I want the mass murders and killings to stop. Immigrants make America great.

    I am considered a blue dot, a Democrat in a Republican county with more red dots, more republicans. It makes me sick to see all the hatred Americans have for their fellow Americans. It makes me sick to see the hatred and killings in the news every time I turn on the television.

    The United States are led by an authoritarian fascist tyrannical Government. It’s disgusting. ICE are a bunch of racist thugs who hide their faces from their victims. This is not the America I grew up in. This is not the America I’ve lived in for 48 years.

    This new form of Government is pitting people against each other, causing chaos and unrest. It’s very sad to watch videos of Americans scared for themselves, their families and their children, scared of the Government. It’s sad to witness all the destruction and erosion of trust that has come from Trump in power. I wish I could do something to help people who are being targeted by the Government.

     I wish I could tell them they are safe and can resume going about their lives normally again. It’s traumatic what the Government are doing to it’s own people. All Trump does is lie, he’s an actor and a bad one at that. He says people are being paid to protest and that is a lie.

    The murder of Renee Good by ICE agent Jon Ross feels like a tipping point. America, United States is deeply wounded. The bloodshed needs to stop. The violence and bigotry and racism needs to stop.

     Peacefull protestors have been detained and arrested, tear gassed and shot with rubber bullets. These are difficult times. America is not respected around the world like we have been in the past. America is feared and laughed at and people of safer more law-abiding countries look at us and are sad to see this country in such disarray.

    Trump is making United States an enemy on the world stage. An enemy of countries around the globe. Trump is a crooked old man a racist and a bigot and a danger to Americans everywhere.

    Remember to vote. By voting we’ll impeach Trump. By voting we’ll elect a good leader into office with a new Administration. A respectful leader who looks out for Americans and welcomes immigrants to this country. A leader who will work for all of us. An honorable leader.

    Today is January 15th 2026 and most of the year is ahead of us. It’s not going to be easy. There will be many difficulties ahead of us. Americans need to come together and work together and get Trump out of office. Trump must be held accountable. 

    In November are the mid-term elections and our chance to regain control of the house of representatives and regain control of the Senate and regain control of Congress.

    There is a lot of hard work a head of us. Hard work is good work. Hard work is honest work. Together we can unite this nation and pull it out of the rubble and ash the current Administration is responsible for and rise up strong and bright and lead with freedom for the people.

    We can lead with respect and with dignity. We can lead with generosity and care. We can overcome and take back our country from the evil grip holding onto it. We will overcome.

    We will lead with intelligence and restraint and respect for people’s differences. We will lead by respecting women’s rights and respecting women’s rights to make their own health care decisions and their own decisions about reproduction.

    We will encourage people to vote and to get an education. We will encourage people to better themselves and look out for people in their community. We will make health care affordable.

    We will extract our military from foreign countries where we are not needed. We will stop funding foreign wars. We will protect our citizens. We will accept that climate change is real and work with industry to reduce pollution in America and everywhere around the world where we are responsible for it.

    We will remove corrupt politicians from power and lock them in prison. America and United States will become a better place to live and raise a family. A better country to invest in and a better country to migrate to.

     We will reduce gun violence and make it a crime for private citizens to own weapons designed for the military. We will make background checks on the purchase of guns and rifles stronger and universal in United States. We will encourage diversity in the workplace and in our communities.

    We will make it easier for every day Americans to compete in business and make it easier to start and run a business. We will make the wealthiest Americans pay more taxes. We will learn to respect and encourage our GLBTQ members of our communities. We will learn to respect Trans men and women and make life easier for them.

     We will honor our past and write clear honest records of our history. We will respect native Americans and ensure that they have equal opportunities to live the American dream. We will take care of homeless people and create more opportunities for homeless people to move into housing. We will fight crime and fight addiction.

    We will make it easier for people with mental health problems to get treatment and support. We will lower the cost of prescription drugs. Just like the Trump Administration has transformed the US economy, the look and feel of what it is to be American, Democrats will transform the US economy making it a better safer place to live and making it feel better and look better and more enjoyable to live.

  • Louder than words

    I’ve been sober for almost 12 years. Sobriety is a blessing I am thankful for everyday. Before getting sober I was addicted to cocaine and methamphetamine. I was severely addicted for years and spent many thousands of dollars on my addiction. My addiction to illegal drugs reduced my health significantly. I made bad decisions over and over again. I put myself in danger every time I met a drug dealer and I put my loved ones at risk because of the bad decisions I was making. One of the bad decisions I made during that time was to stop taking my medication for my mental health. My mental health spiraled out of control. I closed my business and with no income my savings were soon gone. I could not afford to renew my lease on my home and was soon homeless.

    That was 10 years ago. While I was homeless for six years I rarely had money and when I did have money it was usually no more than $20. I stayed sober while I was homeless which helped me survive. Still I was not taking medication for my mental health and stubbornly apposed taking medication despite my parents and sisters urging me to take medication. I got back into housing 4.5 years ago because the police intervened. I was placed in a psychiatric hospital where I began my recovery. I’ve been taking my medication every day since the intervention when I started to recover.

    These days I lease an apartment. I went back to work part time. I have a pet dog. I have a car. I am disabled and can work part time and keep SSDI. I hope to go back to work full time and get off SSDI. My mental health condition is considered a life long condition that is expected to deteriorate over time. I’ll need to take higher doses of my medication to manage myself at some point. Taking a higher dose of medication is well worth living independently.

    Cocaine and Methamphetamine are dangerous drugs, highly addictive, illegal and are responsible for many deaths every year. People lose their lives when they are addicted to drugs. People become incarcerated when they are using drugs. People are exposed to violence and gangs and cartels and low lives who are a danger to themselves and others when they do drugs.

    I’m inspired to write about my struggles using illegal drugs after watching a news report on television about the capture of Nicolas Maduro. There will always be people who say that he is a good man and there will always be people who say that he was the leader of not only Venezuela but also a cartel responsible for many violent deaths and the trafficking and distribution of cocaine.

    Cocaine comes from Peru and Columbia. Venezuela is in route between those countries and USA. Venezuela is also a very large source of oil. Weather the capture of Nicolas Madura and inevitable regime change in Venezuela is about stopping cocaine from getting to USA or improving business conditions for oil to be shipped to USA or both I’m not going to argue about any of those.

    I hope the regime change in Venezuela brings peace and stability to the Venezuelan people and that a democratically elected leader comes into power in the foreign country. I hope no one loses their life in the regime change and US Military are not brought in further to run Venezuela.

    People use cocaine and it’s bad news. People will continue to use cocaine and their demand for the supply of cocaine from Peru and Columbia will continue to spread bad news and bad outcomes for everyone involved. The problem starts in Peru and Columbia where the plant grows and is processed all the way in the trafficking of it to the person whether they are using it for the first time or are addicted to the drug.

    People joke about illegal drugs, wishing that they were legal. When I was using illegal drugs I joked about the topic of legalizing illegal drugs. It’s not funny. Cocaine and  Methamphetamine are deadly and cause chaos in every corner and every turn.

    I can’t go back in time and turn down illegal drugs. It’s a part of my past and the past doesn’t change. I survived. I quit using illegal drugs. I let go of everyone I knew who used and sold illegal drugs. I moved half way across USA to a community new to me where I know none of those bad influences. They exist. I see people in public struggling with addiction. I see people lying on the ground in public overdosed on fentanyl. The problem remains and I keep a safe distance from it.

    Using illegal drugs is selfish. It’s a selfish act. It puts the user in danger and the act of buying illegal drugs encourages the whole supply chain that is fraught with deception and hiding from the law and hidden agendas.

    The problems surrounding cocaine effect people of all ages and all races and all levels of economic prosperity and economic hardship. If you are struggling with addiction to illegal drugs there is help. People want to help you. Safe people in safe neighborhoods want to help you. People living law abiding lives want to help you. People want to see you overcome your addiction and leave it in the past. People want to see you healthy and happy. People want to see you in control of your life. People want to see you succeed. People want to see you safe and secure and healthy. Quitting illegal drugs is an action. It’s louder than words.

  • Kill em with kindness

    Remember this, just because someone didn’t go to or graduate from college doesn’t make them MAGA. Trump the man child resonating with uneducated Americans is not about stupidity. Stupid and uneducated are not the same.

    Uneducated people have a moral compass, care about people who are different than themselves, care about immigrants, equality, LGBTQ+ individuals and the environment. Trump used threats and fear to rally support. College educated people are better prepared at responding to threats and a fear-based person attempting to lead and that’s a big reason why we didn’t vote for Trump.

    Calling people stupid doesn’t win them over, it doesn’t encourage them to think for themselves. When a person is called stupid over and over again, they respond to threats and fear in unhealthy ways when undereducated Americans voted for Trump.

    The way forward is to not insult Americans and to not call Americans stupid. The way to vote better leaders into office is by encouraging Americans to be better people and think for themselves.

    We are stuck with Trump for another year. If we impeach Trump next year we need all the support we can get, that includes treating MAGA with emotional support and encouragement to impeach.

    Calling people stupid and saying MAGA is a cult doesn’t support their ability to make a resounding vote by Americans to impeach. Forgiving the vote for Trump is the way to encourage MAGA to vote and elect better officials.

    The majority of American voters responding to Trump had to do with preexisting problems in American entertainment. What Americans consider entertainment apposed to what Americans consider cruelty is a big problem. Calling people dumb and stupid is not entertaining; it perpetuates fear and is threatening.

    Encourage undereducated Americans to impeach Trump by being kind. Lead with compassion and with care towards Americans regardless of who they voted for.

    Stand up for yourself and others. Speak out against tyranny and authoritarianism. Speak up for immigrants and the environment and against Trump. I believe it would be difficult to forgive Trump for deporting a law-abiding American immigrant member of your family. There is a lot of hate and rage about Trump for doing this.

    Center the hate and rage in your core and melt it into compassion. Fight hate with kindness, This is how we will overcome.

    Kill Em With kindness

  • Remember

    We are making new memories for younger generations. Youth from, raised, and brought up in United States will remember mixed messages in the media and on news reports as they grow old enough to vote and form their own opinions about the men and women they wish to elect as leaders.

    That is the power struggle. The struggle for power is continual, it always has been in US and on foreign soil. US Citizens have the freedom to vote in United States. Hold this freedom close to your heart and vote.

    Fascism has not been major breaking news in United States for many many generations. The Government has recently, this month of October 2025 designated Antifa as a terrorist organization. For that reason individuals who say they are Antifa I steer clear of.

    Whether you support or resist the current Government policies, as a US Citizen you have the right to speak up to our elected officials and have your voices heard. Peaceful assembly at a peaceful rally, peacefully protesting a policy is one of many ways to get your point across to our elected officials.

    You can still yell and scream and hold up a sign while assembling, respecting the property peacefully at a rally.

    Fascism is a word I’ve heard seldomly over the years mostly in the context of a conversation about the distant past. It didn’t make much sense to me when I heard the word fascism used and it doesn’t now. More modern words to describe politics are Democracy, Republic, Liberal and Conservative.

    While each one of those four words have extreme examples some individuals went to, in general they are much safer to use and in most cases not the views of extremists. Being a moderate or a centrist is what the political party in power does to lead the masses. While the political party in power leans to the left Democrat or to the Right Republican, going to any extreme alienates a number of their constituent’s, their citizens and their voters.

    It’s necessary for a politician to claim the name of a political party when leading. Names have meanings. Old names, recent names and new names. While Democracy and Republic names are far from new they are modern. Independent is also modern. Stay safe and pick a modern political party you believe in that best represents you and your interests.

  • One good consumer

    I’ve been an active consumer since I started buying things on my own as a young boy many years ago. About 99% of the things I buy are at a set price. That means 1% of what I buy the price is negotiable. I can’t remember the last time I bought something and negotiated the price of the thing with the seller. I was probably on vacation in Costa Rica and talked down the seller from their asking price for a piece of their art on sale in an open air market.

     Sometimes I buy vegetables and fruit from local farms at the weekly open air market in town. The prices are always listed and I’m buying for me and not a large crowd of people so there’s no reason to negotiate a lower price for a large purchase of vegetables. Expecting a set price is normal market behavior when buying in person in stores in U.S. The same applies when buying things on the internet. I buy things for me and not for a large number of people.

    Politicians in Washington D.C. often have to negotiate the cost of a law they want to implement with the other side of the aisle. Their negotiations on a cost of putting a law into action effects US Citizens in US and US Citizens living around the world. Their negotiations effect everyone living in US including illegal immigrants. Currently in Washington D.C. the top order of the day every day until the Government reopens is the amount of money needed in the budget to reopen the Government for a specific amount of time.

     Negotiations are ongoing. When the Government reopens it will come with a future date when new negotiations on a budget to fund the Government will require an agreement by both sides of the aisle. That’s what a budget is, a specific amount of money to spend in a specific amount of time.

     Both sides of the aisle are on different sides of the argument regarding illegal immigrants. Republicans are saying Democrats want to provide free health care to illegal immigrants. It’s a lie. Democrats know that illegal immigrants in US are not eligible to receive health insurance.

    While most US Citizens have a health care policy every US Citizen does not. Health care and health insurance are not the same. Care is not insurance and insurance is not care. Having health insurance is very important and it’s not the same as being cared for by a health care worker.

     A health insurance policy is an agreement between a insurance company and health care workers and the individual who’s health insurance policy’s name is in. As an American I care for my fellow Americans. My care is not that of a health care worker. I write. I write about people, places and things.

     US Citizens are American and not every American are a US Citizen. America reaches from the US State of Alaska in North America going through the foreign country of Canada to US all the way down to the foreign country of Costa Rica in Central America to the foreign country of Chile in South America. People from America are Americans. America is much larger than the country United States.

     Where you’re from matters and why you’re in United States matters. Whether you were born in US or migrated here from a foreign country matters. How you came to US matters. Why you’re here matters and what you’re doing here matters. If you are in US illegally our forces are working to bring you to justice. Democrats and Republicans disagree on many topics, it seems to be in our nature to disagree with the party on the other side of the aisle. If you are a US Citizen research, learn, ask questions, get informed, pick a political party or be independent. It’s your choice, up to you to choose and your right as a US Citizen to support a candidate and vote for them.

  • I’m very glad that Barack Obama was POTUS for eight consecutive years. The fact goes to show that Americans can and do show humanity. While before Obama was president there were many successful Black Americans in business, with US Government careers and in entertainment it was Obama who rose to the highest office in the nation. For the first time an official representing the Black minority led the country. Before Obama was POTUS there was more intimidation minorities experienced when it came to leadership roles in the US Government and business. Black entertainers have had a solid foothold in American culture for many generations but the farther you look back in history, Black people and people of many other minorities working in entertainment were subjugated to smaller roles and reduced pay and often received roles that portrayed the individual as uneducated and unintelligent.

     I am Generation X and grew up learning how Martin Luther King united Americans around US and was a humanitarian leader people around the world celebrated. MLK is no longer with us. MLK has been no longer with us for many years. It was good news for Americans and for humanity when Barack Obama was elected POTUS. Barack Obama became not only a leader of Black people but a leader of Americans and a global leader for humanity. America and US has done a lot of healing since Obama’s Presidency from 2008-2016. For the first time minorities around US looked to a leader that represented everyone.

    While there were many Americans and US Citizens who did not vote for Obama and did not want him to be POTUS and were discouraged with Obama leading US and America, more US Citizens voted for him and were glad he was leading the country. Power struggles are part of life. There are always people and groups and individuals trying to have the most power and control. That is human nature and that is an aspect of humanity.

     The current POTUS Donald Trump is unique and original like every POTUS throughout history. Donald Trump leads Americans and the US and appeals more to white people. White people are the cultural majority in United States. Having a white American as POTUS is not new. Every POTUS throughout US history was white accept Obama. More and more over time white US Citizens make up less of the population.

     I grew up in a predominately white community in US. That was normal to me. At 26 I moved to Los Angeles California where I experienced for the first time living in a very culturally diverse city. I was excited, and I was challenged. It was challenging to be around and meet people from different cultures most of the time. White people are a minority in Los Angeles. I was not used to residing in the community as a minority and living as a minority when I was in public. Deep down inside I felt threatened. I felt threatened that most of the people I saw and met skin color was darker than mine. I felt uncomfortable when I passed through a largely gay neighborhood.

    In truth what I perceived as threats were not threats at all and were challenges of living in a community new to me and very different than where I am from and very far away from the community I was born into. I moved far away from Los Angeles since and am grateful for the challenges I experienced living in Southern California. Overcoming challenges makes an individual stronger. While living in a culturally diverse community could present challenges for people from smaller communities with less diversity, cities are a part of life on Earth and civilization as we know it. Cities tend to be more culturally diverse than towns.

     I would not trade my past living in the city for the world. Living in the city has to do with who I am today. Moving far away from where you were brought up is challenging for everyone who embarks on the adventure. Every adventure does not end in success. What’s normal in one place is considered strange and unheard of in another place. The financially wealthiest people on Earth are challenged when moving to live and reside in a community far away from where they were brought up. Many people never move far from where they were brought up. Often when someone moves away into a community that is new to them it is for a work opportunity that did not exist where they are from.

     Other times the reason to move is greater than a new work opportunity. The reason to move might involve romance, adventure, being in a new place and meeting people in a community beyond the same faces and places where a person is brought up. Be careful out there.

  • Charlie Kirk might be a martyr to you, that’s your reality. It is pointless to compare Charlie Kirk to Martin Luther King. Martin Luther King and Charlie Kirk lived many generations apart. The issues Americans experience today have many differences than what Americans were going through when Martin Luther King was giving speeches and marching for justice. If they lived at the same time they would have been at odds.

    Children in the 1980’s including myself growing up in America at public school learned that Martin Luther King was a great man who led many people, black and white away from oppression. Martin Luther King led with words of love, care and respect for Americans. Martin Luther King was considered an enemy to a smaller number of Americans who were focused on racism and segregating white and black communities in United States. MLK was assassinated and the assassin was never caught. It is a mystery to this day who the assassin was.

    Charlie Kirk’s messages were controversial in that they were considered divisive to many Americans. While Charlie Kirk certainly had a following of Americans that included Americans who support the current POTUS Trump, many Americans were troubled and disturbed by the messages Charlie Kirk shared. The person who assassinated Charlie Kirk was brought to justice within several days. The assassin acted alone and had psychotic tendencies. The assassin was not left or right in the political spectrum. He was a deranged individual and danger to others.

    It’s early in the days after Charlie Kirk was assassinated. It’s early to tell what impression Charlie Kirk’s legacy will leave on Americans. Certainly, there will be Americans who praise what Charlie Kirk said as well as Americans who saw Charlie Kirk a hate filled racist bigot. The records of Charlie Kirk’s debates are online for you to peruse and come to your own decision about who he was based on what his words make you think or feel.

     Recently the Government hosted a large memorial ceremony for Charlie Kirk in a stadium in Arizona. While many Americans attended and tuned in, many Americans purposely avoided the memorial. Charlie Kirk was that divisive in the sense that many Americans felt threatened by the words he said, and many Americans felt encouraged. Charlie Kirk is deceased; his words are available to listen to in history records that won’t be forgotten any time soon.

    I never went to Charlie Kirk’s debates. I watched several minutes of his debates when I scrolled to his platform unknowingly. Charlie Kirk’s messages didn’t motivate me. Charlie Kirk’s words in debate irked me and made me feel uncomfortable. I stopped watching his debates after a few minutes. I don’t mourn Charlie Kirk. I do respect the right for the deceased to rest in peace and for his widow and children to live in peace.

  • This is a first

    I’ve never done this before. I want to thank United States President Donald Trump. I was raised in Democratic homes. And in Democratic neighborhoods. I was taught that us Democrats were correct in many more ways and Republicans were wrong in many ways. I’ve always voted Democrat and don’t anticipate that changing.

    A truth is. There are two sides to a coin and two sides to a story. In a boxing match there are two fighters. In a boxing arena each fighter needs their opponent to fight. In politics words are what are used to win a debate, a campaign, an election.

    In the worst case men and women turn to violence, and is something I condemn. I’ve never seen Trump speak live at a rally. That’s ok. Rhetoric is a word usually referred to with a negative tone. The truth is that both Democrats and Republicans use rhetoric in their speeches and my guy or gals rhetoric sounds a lot better to me than the opposition’s rhetoric.

    There have always been either a Democrat POTUS or a Republican POTUS in charge of the white house in Washington DC since I was born. And this is how it is today. While many Americans are weary of the two party system, it has worked long before I was born and through the years. It makes sense to me that there are two parties continually jockeying for power. Right, wrong. Left, right. True, false. Fact, fiction. Here, there. Then, now. These are opposites and while it is said that opposites attract they also repel.

    I am open to a different political party coming into power in DC and I don’t anticipate that happening anytime soon. Donald Trump has managed to keep war away from United States. Sometimes it takes a physically strong man to show strength and shake off threats from a foreign adversary. Was United States threatened by foreign adversaries before Donald Trump began his second term? The answer is yes and no. In general no and there are terrorists in the world that would harm Americans and American interests if they could.

    Is terrorism a threat to United States? Yes and no. In general no and it is very important for Americans to stay vigilant to protect our interests domestically and around the world from terrorists that would otherwise take advantage of us if we let our guard down.

    I think Trump is doing well in these regards. A Change of power of leadership in United States at the top happens every four to eight years. It has been this way since long before I was born, through the years and currently on schedule. Some percentage of Americans have expressed concern that Trump will remain president after 2028. I for one have not bought into that rhetoric. Were not there. It’s 2025. I don’t see that happening and I don’t see many US citizens concerned with the topic.

    America has changed a whole lot from when I was a young boy. The Cold War ended. The Cold War was something I learned that ended when I was a young boy. Donald Trump is older and lived through more of the Cold War until it ended. The Cold War was a long lasting and pervasive threat to Americans for many years. I grew up at the tail end of the Cold War and I’m sure Baby Boomers have their own take as to what the Cold War meant to them.

    From what I’ve learned there were no casualties in the Cold War. No bombs dropped, no missiles launched, and no fighter jets deployed. From what I’ve learned the Cold War was a build up of tension and verbal hostility between U.S.A. and Russia what was known as U.S.S.R. at the time and a build up of weapons of war. Eventually the tension dissipated, and verbal hostility cooled and the stockpiles of weapons of war were reduced. It was a victory for U.S.A. and for U.S.S.R. both. A win win.

    United States is at peace on our soil. We are protected by our military domestically and the brave men and women of the US military are stationed around the world protecting our interests abroad. It is a blessing US is at peace on our soil and that’s not to say there is not crime on our streets. Crime is a problem in every city in the US and in smaller communities to some extent. Counteracting crime is not my work and is not my call.

    The conservative approach is different than the liberal approach not just when it comes to crime but also economics. There are many topics I disagree with Donald Trump about. I can leave it at that.

    I’m better off not defining liberals and conservatives something younger generations will surely do as they grow and choose who to stand up and vote for and sink their teeth into details of specific causes they believe in and build their opinions including everything worth fighting for, hopefully in a civilly and in debate.

    God bless America