Did you catch the Ryder Cup story?

Trump and his minions attended the contest and were so out of control, even a beer was thrown at Rory McIlroy’s wife, that…

McIlroy went nuclear!

He said you had to respect the game, that there was no place for this behavior on the golf course. Furthermore, he rubbed it in the mob’s face by emphasizing that despite all the rabble-rousing, Europe WON!

So what happened?

PGA of America president Don Rea, Jr. apologized.

As for Heather McMahan, the emcee of the event, she apologized too, after inciting the crowd by saying “f*ck you, Rory” into the microphone. Furthermore, she lost her gig.

But it’s just golf.

Or is it?

What I don’t understand about Bondi’s performance in Congress today, is if you look at the record, and the past is prologue, everybody who went the extra mile for Trump, who defended him with their words even though their positions were indefensible, ultimately got f*cked. His personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. And Rudolph Giuliani. And Jenna Ellis lost her law license. You lose your bar membership, good luck trying to earn a living. As for Giuliani, he got sued and lost a lot of what he had.

For WHAT?

Momentary fame?

Everybody is expendable other than Trump himself. Kind of like Fox… Rupert Murdoch taught Tucker Carlson a lesson.

Did you watch any of the hearing today? The Judiciary Committee members were asking questions, and Pam Bondi was interrupting and losing her sh*t. I mean even when she said she refused to answer a question, she did it with attitude, with a sneer. WHY?

She’s an attorney, she knows you can’t get away with this behavior in court.

Now when the Allies liberated France…they killed those who cooperated with the Nazis. Now after all the shenanigans with lawsuits back and forth, I’m almost willing to let everybody slide after Trump’s term, clean the slate and start all over again. Then again, I still can’t rationalize the pardoning of the January 6th rioters. What exactly am I supposed to take from that? That if I’m connected enough the law doesn’t apply to me? That the law is irrelevant if my guy is more powerful than yours? Now that ain’t the America I remember.

The Judiciary Committee is entitled to ask questions. That’s their job. Why should they be excoriated for doing their job?

And if you think while biting back that everybody who doesn’t agree with the president has Trump Derangement Syndrome…

I think it’s the rank and file who voted for him that have that.

Let me see… They’re not rich enough to save any serious  money with the tax cuts. Their health care is going to go up in price. The local  hospital might close. Their business might sink as a result of tariffs…but they still defend Trump.

You can’t defy gravity. Things are not going to turn out well. If it weren’t for all the investment in AI the financial numbers would not look good.

And what do you say when the pollution from fossil fuels shortens your life and causes your relatives’ death? I mean the Marlboro Man died. Sure, you can smoke a pack or two a day and live to be a hundred, but the odds are not good.

Aren’t these the same people who told us just weeks ago that it was about reasonable discourse, that that was the essence of Charlie Kirk? Then what explains Pam Bondi’s performance today? Throwing random digs all the while. Interrupting a relatively calm Adam Schiff and calling him a bad lawyer.

Why does Trump and everybody who surrounds him act like they’re so OPPRESSED! They control the government, with the presidency and two houses of Congress and arguably the Supreme Court and… They can’t stop saying that the problem is the Democrats. Explain that to me, it’s not like the left has any true power.

Then again, if only a Democrat would act like Rory McIlroy and push back.

I mean imagine Pam Bondi giving this performance in high school. When called into the principal’s office, what is she going to do, BARK BACK? She knows better than that. So why doesn’t she know better with the Judiciary Committee? Talk about a persecution complex.

The right thinks they can act like this and there will be no reaction? That everybody will just take it? I mean despite having all the power, they’ve got to stick it in your eye to boot!

There’s a good piece in today’s “Los Angeles Times”:

“As Trump reign implodes, tell MAGA ‘I told you so'”

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-10-07/trump-maga-i-told-you-so

The writer’s take is the left should stop pussyfooting around the Republicans. Democrats should stop flagellating themselves over the past election and the ineptitude of their officials and just state the obvious…things aren’t good in America right now, and they’re about to get worse.

But if you don’t say what the right wants to hear, if you don’t toe the line, their minions will come down on you and…what is unfathomable to me is most of these morons who bite back at me each and every day don’t have any money! They’re living from paycheck to paycheck. Man were they snookered.

But we’re supposed to stay quiet for fear of pissing them off.

The Senate Judiciary Committee exists to ask questions. You can be civil or…

What’s going to happen when the left starts to behave just like the right?

Watch out!

P.S. No matter what happens, anything bad will be blamed on Biden and the Democrats.

P.P.S. I mean if I acted this way at the DINNER TABLE, my father would have reached over and hit me. If you act like Bondi did today at the corporation, you lose your job! What lesson is being taught here? And, once again, you can act this way and I can’t? Do you think if you keep saying the problem is Antifa and the woke mob on the left that that will make Democrats cower? It’s a witch hunt, and today the witch flew in on her broom and tried to cast her spell, but…magic is a ruse, and boorishness will get you nowhere.

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“Tin soldiers and Nixon coming

We’re finally on our own”

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young was the biggest band in the land.

It started in 1969, with the initial Crosby, Stills & Nash album. A record no one was anticipating that was a slow burner that truly didn’t gain traction until the fall. Although “Marrakesh Express” made inroads on Top 40 radio, it was the opening cut on the LP that opened the doors, “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.” You heard it once and…

You hadn’t heard anything quite like this before. Rock had gotten harder. Amplification was the thing. Acoustic guitars? Harmonies? Multiple movements, i.e. a suite? You dropped the needle and were wowed.

And by this time the goal was to have the best stereo you could afford, to get ever closer to the music, you wanted to be INSIDE the music.

The rest of the record… Was at times heavy, laden with meaning. No one was appealing to the gatekeepers, this was music made on its own terms.

Meanwhile, Neil Young was an unknown quantity to most. His solo albums had no impact. The first time many even heard his name was when it was appended to the moniker of the group. With the release of “Déjà Vu” on March 11, 1970.

This was serious business. The record was encased in a faux-leather jacket. You only wished you could get closer to these gentlemen living in a rarefied air of money, sex and music. This was a tablet brought down from the mountaintop.

And the opener was “Carry On.”

“One morning, I woke up…”

This wasn’t quite “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” but what could be? Yet, the mellifluous sound was there, pure magic to the ears.

And, once again, it was the Graham Nash song that crossed over to AM radio, “Teach Your Children.” But by this time…

Album rock ruled. And FM rock radio was infiltrating more markets. And as big as music was, then came the “Woodstock” movie…a cultural moment that eclipsed the festival itself. It was all there, and you might have lamented you missed the event, but one thing you needed was to get ever closer, to the music.

So the U.S. had been involved in Vietnam for years, to the point where many were fatigued with the saga. The fall of 1969 was one of major protest, most especially the Moratorium in D.C. on November 15th. In this pre-internet era when network news still dominated, the story was everywhere. But the result?

Same old war. And by time 1970 rolled around, the younger generation was licking its wounds. Until Nixon decided to invade Cambodia at the beginning of May.

This was news, if you were paying attention. And those on campus were tuned in and started to protest. We’d seen this movie before, until…

The  National Guard was called to Kent State and they fired bullets and killed four.

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Sure. there were guns, shootings before Kent State, but the young on campus thought they were immune. Shooting deaths took place overseas, in the inner city, not on the leafy green campus.

And then they did.

And a rash of protest ensued. To the point where Nixon himself left the White House in the early morning of May 9th  to commune with protesters at the Lincoln Memorial.

And then came “Ohio.”

“Gotta get down to it, soldiers are cutting us down”

Unlike the crap in the Spotify Top 50, “Ohio” was not written by committee and massaged for success. Neil Young composed it on inspiration and it was cut on May 21st and released shortly thereafter, which was unheard of back then. And when that guitar intro blasted out of the radio…

It was a rallying cry, you felt like someone was on your side.

So…

All of this was unpredicted spontaneity. Nixon didn’t think his attack on Cambodia was going to cause such massive protest, he certainly didn’t think that the National Guard, a poorly trained force of weekend soldiers, would get trigger happy and shoot students. That was not foreseen. But that is what happened.

What is going to happen now?

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Today it’s 1970 squared. Trump is acting with impunity, and the general public is paying the price.

Now you’ve got to know, not every citizen was anti-war back in 1970, although their numbers were growing. Just like every citizen is not anti-Trump today. But what is the unforeseen trigger that is going to touch people off?

It could be ICE. Because despite the hoopla of ridding the country of illegals, the effects of these raids are trickling down to many. You might not have been drafted, but someone you knew was…

You can be totally legal and get caught up in the dragnet. People have lost their lives. At what point is it too much?

America is a tinderbox. It’s just one step away from a conflagration.

It happened in the sixties on a regular basis. Can you say “Chicago,” the Democratic convention of 1968?

The same thing happened, in that the authorities clamped down, with force…believing all that mattered was order, as if the people involved were not citizens, as if they deserved no protection.

This is what is in the offing. It’s not about the government shutdown, it’s not about the 2028 election, never mind the 2026 and gerrymandering. It’s something you feel more than see. It’s the agitation of the populace.

As for those enthralled by Trump… On one hand, there’s nothing he can do that will cause them to uncouple, they hate the libs that much. But when the effects of his actions touch them…

That’s what’s coming down the pike. Trump is not pulling back, he’s doubling down, pouring flammable gasoline on the nation seemingly every day. And the left has no ruling power and the right is pledging fealty to Trump and will not stand in his way and…

It’s just a matter of when.

And it won’t be foreseeable. It will be spontaneous. Nearly instantaneous. Because when you keep pushing…there’s ultimately a concomitant push back.

It will not come from elected officials. It will not come from those with money. Those with nothing to lose, who are losing as a result of Trump’s policies, are the ones are going to get touched off and react.

This is where we’re headed.

You don’t have any power, and you’re being constricted constantly. If you say anything negative about Charlie Kirk, if you make a bad joke, if…

Disney and the multinational corporations will cave.

But not the people.

It all comes down to the people. And as calm as the country might look today…

Be ready for tomorrow.

“And ICE is gonna come, bust down your door

Try to build a house no one builds no more

But I got a telephone

Kids are all scared and all alone

The Boss stopped bumping, the rock stopped rolling

The middle finger’s rising and it won’t stop showing

I got some bad news

The fading of the red, white and blue”

Have you heard about the South Carolina judge whose house exploded?

By time you read this, they may have more news, but as of now…there’s no knowledge of the cause. Then again, how often do houses explode, especially those of people who have been subjected to death threats?

And I’m just about through with my web roundup, my three sets of tab groups in Safari, and Drudge (a font of great links) sends me to this:

“‘ICE Is Gonna Come Bust Down Your Door'” – Zach Bryan Teases Politicallly-Charged New Song, ‘Bad News'”

http://bit.ly/3ILslJY

Subsequent research says the song is entitled “The Fading of the Red, White and Blue,” but who knows for sure, BECAUSE IT’S NOT OUT YET!

It’s only a snippet, and you can see Zach playing the guitar and singing here, and you should:

This is the difference between a pro and an amateur, someone doing it from the heart as opposed to someone trying to cash in. With this one snippet, Zach Bryan has eclipsed all of Jesse Welles’s clips… This is not a lark, this is dead serious, from one of the biggest acts in the land.

But no one e-mailed me about it. Doing research, I find that “Billboard” did cover it…but that magazine doesn’t know whether it’s consumer or industry-facing and it’s no longer a must-read. As for hitsdailydouble…I didn’t see it there, then again…Bryan wasn’t paying them for promotion, so…

My point here is news bubbles up from the underground. There’s a lot of discussion of this new song on reddit. But as of now, the general public can miss it.

Have you been following the rollout of Taylor Swift’s new album?

I think she’s review-proof, but there’s a lot of fodder here for her to react to on her next album.

First I read Amanda Petrusich’s erudite take in “The New Yorker”:

“‘Why Does Taylor Swift Think She’s Cursed? – ‘The Life of a Showgirl,’ the artist’s new album, is full of cringey sexual innuendo, millennial perfectionism, and an obsession with haters that wears thin.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/13/why-does-taylor-swift-think-shes-cursed

Now wait just a minute, weren’t essentially all of the initial reviews positive?

Then again, I point you to this clip from marketing guru Rory Sutherland, wherein he claims you get more independent thinking from working class people than those further up the economic food chain. He says:

“The upper middle class in the U.K. is reputationally paranoid. Is incapable of expressing opinions that might get them disinvited from dinner parties.”

@mindset.to.mills

Rory Sutherland argues the middle class are more constrained by social pressure than the working class or aristocrats, calling it “reputational paranoia” and likening it to “mental nudism.” #rorysutherland #class #independentthinking #Psychology #socialpressure

? pop! (tapping the mouth with a hand)(912415) – LEOPARD

Watch this clip, really.

And my point here is all the initial reviewers who were positive, were they afraid to be on the wrong side of the fence, wary of being denigrated not only by the Swifties, but their compatriots in the field?

Because days later you get this:

“Finally, everyone can say bad things about Taylor Swift”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/entertainment/being-mean-to-taylor-swift

Once again, Swift is review-proof. The legs of the album will depend upon hit singles. There’s no middle ground in the Swift camp, you’re either in or you’re out, and it doesn’t matter what anybody has to say about her and her work. But the casual listener/fan can be exposed to a hit track and listen some more.

Then again, we’re talking here about pop music, hit music, Spotify Top 50 music. That’s what the business cares about, that’s what you read about on hitsdailydouble.com

Then again, Zach Bryan is signed to Warner, and has had arguably two hits, but that doesn’t mean you sell the most tickets ever to a gig, 112,408 at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor.

Are the hoi polloi aware of this date?

I’d say many more are aware of Taylor Swift’s new album, but…where is the heart of today’s music world, is it pop or…

Or to quote Don Henley, “we haven’t had that spirit here since 1969.” But if Zach Bryan throws it all down, not some ancient classic rocker, does that signify a renaissance, a changing of the guard from the pop dross of the past decades?

And Zach Bryan isn’t easily claimed by one political tribe or the other, after all, he served in the Navy. But here, he’s definitely taking a swing at ICE… Which has more press than any act, it’s number one with a bullet in the news right now. If you heard Governor Pritzker’s speech today…

But this is just a snippet, that’s all. But Zach’s audience is hungry for everything he does.

But isn’t he worried about BACKLASH?

God, you can’t get a musician with traction to stand up to Trump. Tons of nobodies, but they’re just doing it for attention, and when you’ve got nothing, you’ve got nothing to lose.

Are Trumpsters going to burn Zach Bryan records like they did with the Beatles?

Well, there are no records. Sure, there are some physical souvenirs, but everything is available to everyone online, it’s just a click away.

So we’ve got ICE…

And the phone… You can be informed and broadcast right from your palm.

And the reference to Springsteen and maybe rock being dead, who knows, lyrics are up to the eye of the beholder.

But one thing is for sure, Zach Bryan is disillusioned with America.

And one other thing… We’re never going to have an overarching protest song like we had in the sixties. That’s not how it works anymore. Everything is niche, including Zach Bryan and Taylor Swift.

But this kerfuffle, and it is one online, was all started by just a clip, Zach Bryan and his guitar. There were no co-writers, no remixers, none of the b.s. dominating the Spotify Top 50. Zach didn’t need Max Martin to gain the public’s attention, he could do it all by his lonesome, which hearkens back to those “Hotel California” days.

Does the entire song come out and become a national discussion point? Or is it released to a thud and instantly forgotten.

One never knows anymore.

But those who take chances end up the victors. Those evidencing unrestrained humanity, their voice to our ears with no intermediaries, are the winners.

More like this please!

First we had the Swifties, convinced via Taylor’s endless Easter eggs that she was going to play the Super Bowl. You don’t need to be too sophisticated to know that she’s off-cycle, and that would never happen. To start from nothing, create a whole new show, rehearse it…exactly why? She’s got nothing to promote!

And that’s what the Super Bowl is all about, promotion. It’s capitalism at heart. You do your show, and the next day you put your tickets on sale.

Then again, Dr. Dre and Snoop, et al, had nothing to sell. They did it for the victory lap, to illustrate the power of hip-hop, how it dominated. A finger in the eye to the endless classic rock acts who preceded them, along with the popsters. Furthermore, they delivered what could not be bought elsewhere, which is very rare in today’s society. It was one and done, it was special. And there wasn’t even a movie thereafter, like with Beyoncé and “Homecoming.” Then again, how many people watched the Coachella livestream?

But “Homecoming” was a Taylor Swift moment, with the fierceness sans the need to settle scores. It delivered Beyoncé gravitas, which she used to great effect with “Cowboy Carter”… Good luck saying something negative about Beyoncé, it’s kind of like Charlie Kirk. Don’t go against the tide. Don’t even ponder if “Texas Hold ‘Em” was country music…all you’re going to hear in response is that country is derived from Black  music, and you don’t want to double-down and debate that.

As for Kendrick Lamar? His rap beef with Drake was not the all-encompassing cultural event his fans believed it to be, but this appearance was also a victory lap, with a poke in the eye of Drake and a racist society, but the only thing is if you weren’t a fan of Lamar’s music to begin with, you missed it completely. Then again, if you said anything against the performance, you were a pariah.

Which brings us to 2026. Who’s it going to be?

This is kind of like the Song of the Summer, a fake construct that is irrelevant, kind of like another awards show, never mind that our society is so now so fractured and it’s so difficult to reach anybody that no track rose above.

You can only live in the past for so long. Which is why the NFL hired Roc Nation to book the Super Bowl. The players are Black, the owners are white, it’s a bad look, and the NFL is always worried about its image. Pushing anything that contradicts it under the rug, like CTE.

So Roc Nation is thinking about who will play the Super Bowl and…

First thing you have to know is a whole slew of people don’t want to do it, for a multitude of reasons. They don’t want to spend all that money only to be compared to Prince, unfavorably. They don’t want to risk failing in front of over 125 million viewers. Maroon 5 still hasn’t recovered from its appearance.

So, after you narrow it down to who is willing, which is a relatively small pie, since the acts pay the expenses and almost no one is going to do it if they’ve got nothing to promote…

Bad Bunny is a PHENOMENAL CHOICE!

Huh?

Friday night, at the end of Bill Maher’s “Overtime,” Thomas Friedman said: 

“I’ve actually never looked at Twitter, never looked at Facebook, never looked at Instagram, never looked at TikTok, and never smoked a cigarette. And my plan is to die saying all five.”

And Tom did not say this sheepishly, but self-satisfiedly.

Thomas Friedman may be one of the most derided opinion columnists out there, the naysayers declare that he’s out of touch. THIS PROVES IT!

All that anti-tech b.s. in the “Times”… If I read one more article about the perils of the internet and social media…

Let’s get this straight… The internet is NEVER going away. Nor is social media, although the platforms may change.

If you grew up in the fifties and sixties, TV was the devil. Did that make kids watch less? Their parents wanted them to turn off the box and read, like they did. Did it work? NO! And at this point, the highest art form, the most popular art form in America, is streaming television. TAKE THAT!

If you don’t know about that which you speak of…

This is the problem with those on the right deriding the choice of Bad Bunny. They see him as a left-wing, Trump-hating Puerto Rican who does not deserve amplification. HOWEVER, Bad Bunny is one of the three biggest acts in the world, if not the BIGGEST! But they don’t know that.

The three biggest acts in the world are Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen and Bad Bunny.

However, as broad as Taylor Swift’s audience is, her music does not reach everybody, females are overrepresented in her audience.

As for Morgan Wallen… As big as he is in the U.S., and he’s GIGANTIC!, country music doesn’t play that well overseas.

But Bad Bunny? Good time music works for EVERYBODY!

It was hard for many to appreciate Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl appearance without knowing the music beforehand, which was the case for most viewers, ubiquity is history, everything is niche.

But you don’t have to know Bad Bunny’s music to like it. You’ve just got to hear it, and you’re in. It’s usually upbeat with a groove you cannot deny, it’s nearly impossible to keep your body still, the fact that he sings in Spanish is irrelevant. As if most people can even quote the lyrics of their favorite songs…the words may be important, but they come LAST!

So, all those Republicans didn’t just dip their toe, they jumped right into the pool and opined about that which they knew little about.

More people in the world know Bad Bunny and his music than were even aware of Charlie Kirk, never mind his message. THAT’S the power of music. When done right, its reach is phenomenal. Write your screed in the paper, online, even be a talking head weighing in on TV news…you’re no competition for Bad Bunny.

Fox News averages 2.5 million viewers in prime time, 1.6 million viewers during the day. Bad Bunny? He’s got a song with TWO BILLION streams on Spotify. Others with in excess of one billion. His reach is far beyond Laura Ingraham, never mind Corey Lewandowski and Danica Patrick.

This is a fight the right cannot win.

But let’s play it out…

They lean on the NFL… Well, the NFL has plausible deniability, it can easily say music is so far out of their purview that they hired an outsider to make the choice, i.e. Roc Nation. As for final approval…their expertise is football, can you really blame them?

And the NFL does not want to cave, because Democrats watch football too…they don’t want a Jimmy Kimmel situation.

As for Roc Nation… You don’t want to pick a fight with Jay Z, he may not be an elected official, but he’s a titan in America, a billionaire just like Trump, with an army of fans he’s built over decades. He came from nothing and built an empire. Whose side is the public going to be on?

And Roc Nation are never backing down…never ever. Bitch all you want about DEI, the bottom line is being Black in America is still hard, and Jay Z knows it, he’s never going to kowtow to the oppressor, the whites who have enjoyed the fruits of his labor and have kept his people down for centuries.

So the right wing talking heads are bitching about Bad Bunny…

And no one listening. They don’t have the leverage. And like Thomas Friedman above, it’s just illustrating how out of touch they are.

Never mind that Bad Bunny hosted SNL last night. Cancel Bad Bunny and good luck getting ANY performer who is not a dyed-in-the-wool Trumper to ever play the Super Bowl again. Isn’t this what Disney learned, that it wasn’t about Kimmel, per se, but their entire entertainment production, no one would work with them if they didn’t stand up for Jimmy!

And even Nexstar and Sinclair caved.

So this is a bridge too far.

But having said that… One thing we have learned is you can never predict the future. Dr. Dre, et al, did the Super Bowl with nothing to promote. There was no tour, unlike with even Kendrick Lamar.

What I’m saying here is the NFL COULD blink. Nothing is set in stone anymore, everything is up for grabs.

You’ve got to understand that these are people making these decisions. And seemingly NO ONE has a hold on the culture, even though uninformed, head-in-the-sand doofuses believe they do.

Isn’t that what the internet has taught us over these last three decades? That  the newspapers and other media don’t cover every story, and oftentimes they don’t get it right? It’s citizen journalists, the same decried by those who ruled in the past, who are surfacing stories/truth today.

Which is one of the reasons the NFL hired Roc Nation in the first place. Sure, they wanted to avoid responsibility, the plausible deniability referenced above, but in truth THEY JUST DON’T KNOW!

I’m stunned how many puffed-up people bloviate, not knowing what the landscape holds.

And if you’re never wrong…

Hell, I’ve been wrong, I hate it, but it happens. That’s the nature of being a human being. But these talking heads who never apologize, they’ve got feet of clay, they’re depending on their fans to never see the truth.

This is what happened to movie stars. They used to be exalted. But once all their foibles, their personalities, their identities were revealed online, they were seen mostly as two-dimensional and not worthy of adulation.

The internet did that. And the internet made Bad Bunny a STAR!

The starmaking machinery?

That’s so last century.

Like I said above, it’s nearly impossible to reach anybody. TV appearances don’t yield success…active listeners, those who sway markets, create hits and heroes, wouldn’t be caught dead listening to terrestrial radio.

It all exists, FOR FREE, online. Pull up a Bad Bunny video on YouTube right now. MTV is never coming back…waiting for a video, are you kidding me?

My point is it’s harder than ever to be big, and respect those who are. And Bad Bunny is big, REALLY big, and it is his audience that grew him, not the machine…he’s really not obligated to anybody but himself.

Could Bad Bunny go gonzo on Trump in the months before the Super Bowl and lose the gig? Definitely, like I said, the future is unpredictable. But he’s a smart guy and he doesn’t want to, he wants that Super Bowl appearance now more than ever, to stick it to the man, those who believe he doesn’t deserve a chance.

But Kristi Noem’s talking about ICE at the Super Bowl… Have you seen the price of tickets? Do you think this is an event that draws a plethora of undocumented citizens? What next, looking inside the Jonathan Club or the Bohemian Grove for illegals?

And sure, maybe the vendors, the workers are not here legally. But doesn’t that kind of prove the point, that these people are needed to make the whole thing work, our country?

Just like the shut down…

The news media is down in the weeds. Even health care is not the issue. The Democrats wanted their elected officials to take a stand, to say no mas, the details are IRRELEVANT!

And unfortunately, Trump and the Republicans can’t see this.

Or, to use a cliché, you can win the battle and lose the war.

That’s the question in Gaza right now.

That’s the question with Trump.

That’s what the Kimmel fracas demonstrated… Everything is intertwined, no domino is isolated, topple one and even if you war game it out a zillion times there will be unexpected effects.

So if you don’t know what you’re talking about, STFU!