That is the brilliant chorus of the Ten Years After song by the late great Albert Lee (he was also a great lead guitarist). The song goes on to say “Stop the war.” My sentiments exactly, though it’s a different time, different war, but just as stupid.

So what do we do now, at this point?

Are the midterms our last chance?

2020 was supposed to be Democracy’s last chance. We won and thought we had gotten rid of Trump for good!

I think that Biden blew it - he should have resigned after 2 years and let Kamala take over, or at the least should never have run for a second term!

But now we’re back to “our last chance” to save democracy.

Let’s do it!

On November 3, 2026, let’s destroy MAGA.

Vote blue!! 💙

The thing about Cohen was that he wrote about the end of the world in his song ‘The Future’, and we may be on the precipice.

Cohen sang, ‘It is murder’.

The murder of the soul.

And the hole in your culture.

And he sang this -

Give me absolute control over every living soul.

Sound familiar?

Like ‘American Carnage’, from Trump’s first inaugural address.

And control -Trump wants it at all times.

What Trump has found out the hard way, especially with his self-started, chosen war with Iran is that you can’t control everything, even if you bully everyone.

At least Trump’s downward spiral to 37% in the current New York Times poll, his failing health, and grandpa sleeping man’s optic do indicate a most vulnerable time for him, going into the Midterms.

So once again my friends, let’s get together and vote!

We need, once again, a blue tsunami!

But when you’re making money off the grift / you’re the Greatest Grifter of All Time - come on Donny say it - say it a-hole : “I AM THE GREATEST GRIFTER OF ALL TIME!!!” - when you’re a celebrity, when the Supreme Court gives you almost total immunity, you can grab anyone by the gonads! Admit to anything! You’re the king! NOT!!!

My fellow Democrats, let’s make a tsunami, TURN OUT TO VOTE THIS TIME! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!! 💙

At an event at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library on Thursday, 7/25/26, so-called Vice President JD Vance argued that if the Watergate scandal happened today, "it would be like a 12-hour news story" and called the idea that it took down a presidency ‘crazy’.

Well, you’re bat shit crazy, sir! (Trump likes those ‘sirs’ a lot, so maybe his supposed successor does too.)

I remember, at 19 years old, being enthralled by the many hours of the Watergate hearings - no posing by the lawmakers - real questions - John Dean blowing our minds away with the ‘there are tapes’ revelation, so calm about it…

After being asked about Vance’s statements, Trump basically said that Nixon was guilty and made tapes, but he (Trump) was not.

Not having made tapes doesn’t make any difference when you commit your grifts and crimes out in the open like Trump does!

So I naively thought we’d never have another Nixon. And George Wallace, the in your face racist - no way!

Well, Trump has managed to combine the corruption, the racism, all of it, into one big ball of evil shit!

Now we have about 4 months until another ‘most important election of our lives’ - will we continue to turn a blind eye - hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil, or cast the ‘effers’ out - all of them?!

As always, RESIST, VOTE BLUE 💙, keep the fire in your eyes - we will persist!!

So this got me wondering, Yul’s ghost v. Trump, cage fight, for the Kingdom?

Pulp time for the Orange man.

But that’s not my point. With Trump putting his name on everything (don’t touch Kennedy Center any more Trumpzilla), is he worried about so-called immortality a little?

That’s not how people are remembered, Donny! Great people are remembered for great deeds, not death and destruction! In your case, you’ll be remembered as an infamous, evil, so-called man.

So here is the ending of Shelley’s poem:

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away…

As always, RESIST and VOTE BLUE!! 💙

And Wilbur Ross, Trump’s 1st term Commerce Secretary is now 88 years old, but during that first ludicrous Trump term, Wilbur was 80, and guess what, he fell asleep at meetings.

Now it is Trump’s turn to do that.

I must note that at one point, Trump commented that Wilbur was ‘past his prime’— Trump never had a prime!

Unless you count his grifting prime, and unfortunately the whole Trump regime is in their grifting prime. You thought Orban and Netanyahu were corrupt? No one holds a candle to Hegseth, Patel, Trump’s sons, Kushner, etc.

Anyway, my whole point is that someday this whole mess will be over, and we will sure have a lot of cleaning up to do.

So we now have less than 6 months to go before the midterms - let’s vote them all out!

No amount of gerrymandering is going to stop us.

RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!!

If the ceasefire actually works, the so-called ‘excursion’ will only have killed a whole bunch of innocent civilians, our troops, and destroyed many buildings.

All for the madman’s ego, and Netanyahu - wow, what a waste war is! But we know that Trump doesn’t care - just like Shingles (oblique reference).

Work for the Russians - Trump doesn’t care.

People die from COVID - Trump doesn’t care.

Attempt a coup and hurt Capitol police - Trump doesn’t care.

Cancel US Aid - Trump doesn’t care.

Deport and kill people - Trump doesn’t care…

Start a war and kill more innocent people - Trump doesn’t care.

RESIST!!!

VOTE!!!

The Nazis reportedly were quite banal, like talking about the weather while they nonchalantly blew out your heart.

But there is another thing about evil - the longevity of it. The fact that it’s persisted throughout humanity. Before and after the Dark Ages, famine, the Plague. There has always been somebody wanting to profit from other folks pain.

And that brings us back to one Donald John Trump, the grifter of grifters, mean, evil, and the worst so-called president of all time. His longevity in many forms is most disturbing. But I’ll just start with a litany of Trump’s escape from retribution, over time:

Shady real estate dealings - got away with it.

Racism - still getting away with it.

Birther movement - got away with it.

Lying all the time - still getting away with it.

Indicted 4 different times - got away with it, except he’s a CONVICTED FELON now!

Oldest president - got away with it.

Started a war with Iran - BUT WILL NOT GET AWAY WITH IT.

The American electorate will finally put an end to his longevity of evil before nature does.

RESIST!!

VOTE!!!

(As an aside, analog clocks’ usage prevalence has been sharply declining, especially among younger people. But until they get older, I would think that analog clocks will still be used. But digital clocks? An 8 year old could draw that.)

Anyway, I drew a very nice clock, passing both tests.

Would Donald Trump draw a passable clock? Perhaps an ‘evil’ one? With devils hands?

But seriously, the rambling ‘word salad’ convicted felon is, in not just my opinion, demented.

Here are some clock drawings indicating some types of dementia issues:

I would like to see Trump’s clock.

As always, RESIST!!!

Furthermore, “cycles in which the state responds to protest or dissent with repression can transform peaceful opposition into armed struggle, particularly if security forces commit abuses.”

This is ICE. This is the killings of Renee Good, a mother and legal observer and Alex Jeffrey Pretti, also a legal observer and a an ICU nurse who worked at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Luckily, there is NO armed struggle on the civilian side but a lot of anger and a lot of peaceful demonstrations.

This whole situation is part of Donald Trump’s Retribution Regime.

Kristi Noem, Greg Bovino, and the shooters have blood on their hands.

We are at the precipice - let’s not go over.

Remain peaceful, but RESIST!

Everything is transactional with you. It’s all a reality show. Quid pro quo’s.

I do believe you were surprised by your win in 2016. Then the BIG LIE. You can’t get over Biden or Obama, you little man.

Do you care? About anyone else but you? And what about this crap about getting into heaven?

One last thing - you put down the Iraq War - getting into endless wars, and now you have invaded Venezuela for oil!!!

That’s another beautiful topic for us Democrats - thanks!

And as always, people: RESIST!!

How about the Felon Prez?

Or the Grifter Extraordinaire?

Or simply criminal?

The Most Corrupt so-called president of all time?

The meanest low IQ prez?

The Supreme Evader of all crimes?

The Destroyer of East Wings?

The Corrupt Ballroom prez?

The Tackiest prez of all time?

How about the least empathetic (and pathetic) prez ever?

Attacking a dead man (the great Rob Reiner) who was apparently killed by his son is classless, as a pundit put it today. Trump made it about politics and himself, not a tragic family matter.

What I am trying to get at is the depravity of the soul here.

Consider this brilliance from the great Leonard Cohen (copyright 1992)

“Things are going to slide, slide in all directions

Won’t be nothing

Nothing you can measure anymore

The blizzard, the blizzard of the world

Had crossed the threshold

And it has overturned

The order of the soul

When they said REPENT REPENT

I wonder what they meant

When they said REPENT REPENT

I wonder what they meant

When they said REPENT REPENT

I wonder what they meant”

Does Trump wonder what they meant? Does he care? Remember, there were “fine people” on both sides!

Leonard Cohen predicted this nightmare that we are in now brilliantly with “The Future”.

Look at the violence, look at the destruction!

We need to push back, peacefully protest, and RESIST NOW!!!

These 4, in a Tuesday Cabinet (praise dear leader) meeting, did the following:

Trump: called Ilhan Omar garbage, all Somalis garbage, and generally once again proved that he is a racist piggy! And of course, he also fell asleep.

Hegseth: Hear no evil, see no evil (especially!), SPEAK a whole lotta evil. Remember, there’s an impenetrable “fog of war”!

Bondi: laying low right now, ye of the “no Epstein List”?

Noem: The dog killer, trying to match the Dear Leader’s unending vitriol: “…a full travel ban on every damn country that’s been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies.”

I may be being a bit harsh here, but Trump and his buddies like that. Cruelty is the point.

And of course, there’s the rest of the regime, Patel, RFK Jr., etc. - just as evil, just as corrupt, and just as cruel…

Justice will be served at some point - I hope it’s not too late!

Until next time, RESIST!!!

Actually, I do agree with some folks that Republicans are still in a jam regarding healthcare. “I’m a no.” said the late John McCain, who was sent under, over, around and through the bus by Trump.

So now we move on from the Mike Johnson clown 🤡 show, at least over to a certain extent (let’s see what he pulls next week) to an Epstein Ghost of Horrors Past show via a treasure trove of emails - here’s hoping the victims efforts to get them out in the open pay off in the end. Those horrors are still ‘present’, I’m sure, for the victims. They need justice, at least.

But capitulation to the tyrant, the would-be dictator must be damned - we really are in danger of losing our democracy!

Tell him to go to hell, law firms, universities, republicans, tech bros and all the sycophantic billionaires!

Yes, I did march on No Kings Two Day, hell I was at the Women’s March in 2017.

Many people are anti-Trump - he only has about a 37% approval rating right now.

So it’s time to keep it up - the peaceful resistance, that is.

As people keep saying, in election after election now, vote like your life depends on it in 2026 - it really does!

But now, as of the second term of Donald Trump, and his hiring ruthless and incompassionate underlings in what can really be called a regime (not an administration), we are now doing our best to resist a different kind of Civil War - one against 'the enemy within'. Those are Trump's words that he exclaimed to a 'forced' meeting of soldiers, along with the outrageous Peter Hegseth.

With the recent events in Chicago, separating and belligerently 'handling' children and parents in a blitzkrieg of a 'made for TV', hellish assault on an apartment building, Trump and his minions invaded the home of the brave! These are Gestapo, secret police, "let's scare the hell out of everybody" tactics!

Now Trump is going to send TEXAS National Guard troops to Chicago - that's basically state against state - a new kind of Civil War.

So what happens next? If Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, declares Marshall Law, congress should FINALLY impeach and convict him! That's what the lawmakers in South Korea did to their so-called president.

We'll see if that happens.

Or what if the Republicans on the Supreme Court finally follow the law?

The Republicans in Congress and the Supreme Court are not standing up to Trump - our last line of defense against the tyranny is US.

On October 18th, we must have the biggest turnout for a second No Kings Day peaceful protest ever!

As Franklin said when asked what the Founders had created, "A Republic, if you can keep it".

RESIST!!

The inspiration for this article is the brilliant song by that sublime artist and ex-Beatle George Harrison.

“Beware of Darkness” appears on the singer-songwriter’s masterpiece album “All Things Must Pass” - you hear that MAGA?

Anyway, I was delighted to see (and hear) the opening of the movie “Weapons” featuring the Harrison song.

In particular, the following lines were most prescient and timely:

“Watch out now

Take care, beware of soft shoe shufflers

Dancing down the sidewalks

As each unconscious sufferer wanders aimlessly.”

Grifter Trump, anyone?

I just stepped into a whole pile of grifters! My my, the corruption is stacked to the ceiling!!

And here are the lyrics where Harrison really nailed it:

“Watch out now, take care of greedy leaders, they take you where you should not go”

So that’s it - beware of the Trump regime! He took his cult, and now the country, where it should never have gone!

There’s an invasion of D.C. going on right now, we’ve got the secret police, where are they taking the homeless, and we’re on the path to being a fascist country! But hey, there’s gonna be a UFC fight at the White House next year!

Lyrics copyright George Harrison.

RESIST!!!

But if you’re unfortunate enough to answer the door to a fake policeman who has been radicalized by MAGA / Trump (their dear leader), your life will be violently ended.

Which is tragic, like the mass deportation crap is!

But does Trump think that this is just a reality show, made for TV, so that his producers can just send another person in from his ‘central casting’, to replace those people voted off the island?

Send in another Democrat to beat up?

Get another extra for ICE to disappear?

Replace Amy Coney Barrett with someone more in lock step with der fuhrer?

No, this crap is REALLY HAPPENING - the second coming of the Orange One, who should be locked up in the notorious El Salvador prison!!

So as of today, Trump is still using his wait ‘two weeks’ schtick in the ‘should we get into another endless war’ decision.

Is World War III on the horizon, just over that hill up there?

RESIST!! NO KINGS!!

Scott Bessent, a multimillionaire and member of the Clown Show Posse Government, came up with the absurdist phrase ‘strategic uncertainty’ today, in an attempt to spin Trump’s tariff games. Hey paly, IT’S CALLED CHAOS!! IT’S CALLED A SALES TAX ON ALL OF US!!

100 days of chaos and fascism!

We’ve been through a hell hole, a wormy reincarnation of Trump 1.0, this time on steroids!

The cruelty is the lynchpin, and incompetence is a byproduct of throwing everything at the wall to see if it sticks, like Trump’s spaghetti tantrum (or whatever he was stuffing into his pie hole).

There will be more fascism, more cruelty from this wanna be dictator. But the American people are finally beginning to catch on - look at the polls, the marches, the protests. We WILL overcome!!

March on, sisters and brothers - RESIST!!

In the meantime, mainstream media is STILL continuing to NORMALIZE a mad man. A grifter, a convicted felon, a psychopath with many-layered orange makeup on his mean face. (Retribution time, folks.)

This is after an election that should have had “convicted felon” scrolling underneath his bloated image EVERY TIME that he was on the news.

And how about “THIS IS NOT NORMAL” in the corner of the screen!

The madman is not alone - his sycophants and psychopathic enablers are not exactly back, just cloned but this time with no qualms about the law or empathy or even a consideration of long term consequences. There is no tomorrow. Everything is transactional. The supposed guardrails are off. Trump is on a train of the electorate’s making, and he’s going to keep the throttle down until democracy itself dies. He doesn’t care. His train of irrational meanness and cruelty is so close to jumping the tracks that he’s careening off the edge of the proverbial cliff.

As of now, the judiciary is the only thing that’s even slowing him down. How about democrats in the House and the Senate? All we have is Schumer’s blunder and AOC’s indignation. Democrats need to, actually MUST do better. Senator Chris Murphy,  Bernie Saunders, and AOC need to lead the charge. And the Resistance must wake up! We need even more protests and fighting back!

Remember, this is not a drill, THIS IS NOT NORMAL!

Every time that we speak about this Orange grandpa, convicted felon, grifter with the nuclear codes, we should be holding up signs with the words THIS IS NOT NORMAL!

THIS IS NOT NORMAL!

RESIST!!