The Pot calling the Kettle Black means a hypocritical situation where someone criticizes another person for a fault that they themselves also possess. Trump called Pritzker a SLOB who should go to the gym.
I began this post the morning the FBI raided John Bolton's home. Of course it's payback; Bolton's one more Trump's crossing off his list, he's such a vindictive Toddler-in-Chief. You may not have heard much of what I'm about to report, primarily because the White House has been systematically relegating reliable news organizations to the cheap seats. He may allow them (for the moment) to attend his news conferences, but always makes a point of deriding the corrupt/horrible/fake news reporters. He passes them over while calling on his social media sycophants to ask fluff questions. No wonder you're not concerned.
I heard a story the other day regarding a Victim Advocate office in Portland which is closing their doors because of budget cuts. A five-year old girl was to testify in court about what her father did to her; but she was so frightened and traumatized she couldn't even speak her name. An advocate spoke with her until she was finally able to receive some justice, but now that advocate won't be there for others. So the victim loses; the advocate's out of a job so their family suffers; the owner of the building needs to find a new tenant; local businesses lose customers; and finally the banks foreclose. It's easy to scream, "Budget Cut" and "Fire Them" when you don't think past your nose.
That's just one example of what Trump/DOGE is accomplishing while transferring money to the Uber-Wealthy. My groceries haven't gone down and I'm still paying around $4 a gallon for gasoline. Now he's trying to get rid of mail-in ballots, something which didn't bother Trump back when HE voted that way; but Putin put a bug in his ear about the subject and whaddaya know? Trump suddenly does a turn-around, echoing Putin's words like a ventriloquist's dummy.
Trump's turned the country into a place where his 'subjects' are meant to fear his Pretorian Guard. I'm waiting for him to send troops to Portland, as soon as he's finished militarizing Chicago and New York (while ignoring crime in Red states). We Oregonians won't go down without a fight. If you're against him you're in danger of something. In my case I figure it'll likely be censorship. Once the White House send out little spiders to locate derogatory words or themes deriding the Grand Master, my little blog will simply disappear, like people on the streets. No use getting upset, and until that time I'll continue to voice unpopular, or Revolutionary, opinions.
My tipping point came last month when I understood that Trump, et al, aren't worried about the next administration reversing their restrictive changes in government, education, legal and business sectors...because they have no intention of going anywhere. Adding 5 more Republican seats in Texas will help assure that, in case we DO have elections again.
It's happening - we're really becoming a divided nation again. I hoped that wouldn't happen, but people will start moving en masse to live amongst 'their own'. However, there's still a bit of hope left in me when I watch Pritkzer and Newsom fighting back; and when I saw a bit of OR Republican Cliff Bentz's 'By Invitation Only' Town Hall. I'm sure he went in feeling confident touting Trump's Big Beautiful Bill among 'his kind'; but do you know when his loyal constituents turned on him?
While discussing the end of funding for Public Broadcasting, of all things. His constituents live in very rural areas which depend on PBS for local information. You know, the little guys.
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