mruelberg.bsky.social

@mruelberg.bsky.social

Retired mental health counselor. Enjoy reading, animals and fewer and fewer people!

If Lindsey Graham hadn't called his sister, I wonder how long he could have been missing from the Senate without consequences or investigation? Kean was gone 4 months, McConnell over a month so far and then there was the GOP congresswomen discovered in a nursing home.

Just read Trump rang the NYSE bell this morning from the Oval Office and that he wants to keep it as a decoration for his ballroom. What better memento for The Epstein Ballroom than the very bell from the NYSE, stomping ground of many of the Epstein Class. Enough of this People's House, right?!

And he's delayed fireworks by 2 hours so he can get in his rant/speech during prime time. I'm sure it won't be an issue for kids to be staying up and outside for fireworks starting at 11. Sure hope the old man doesn't get heatstroke!

My memories of the 1976 Bicentennial, despite being on the heels of Vietnam and Nixon, felt proud and enthusiastic about our country. Trump's hijacking festivities with his own Freedom 250, has just sucked the joy out of the milestone and done more to tear us apart than unite. I pass on celebrating.

What's going unnoticed in these redistricting schemes is that urban areas are being stripped of representation, as if 21st century US is one giant rural composition. Cities have different concerns, are where the majority of taxes are paid and are losing representation in this government.

If Qatar is hard up for money, how about we give them their plane back instead of front the oil rich countries with our taxpayer money. Or Jared and the Trump family could cut them a personal loan with the billions they have raked in during the term.

I have an idea, let's go after drug trafficking in this country. Should be simple enough, you expect the South and Latin American countries to eliminate it. And, while you're at it, let's fund treatment and prevention. Keep the intercepts at the borders but focus on fixing us, America First!

Has anyone reported how many Venezuelans were killed or injured? Innocents who had nothing to do with any of this atrocity. I don't give a shit if our equipment made it back unscathed, I care about the human suffering in unwarranted events like this.

Republicans can reopen the govt and fund the budget on their own as they control the Senate. Why haven't they punched another hole in the filibuster rule? It's because they want Dem votes to make them complicit in stripping away healthcare from millions of poor and working class people. Don't cave.