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BALLROOM PRANCING!!!

Published October 24, 2025 Uncategorized Leave a Comment
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Not only do we Americans finally get what we have been waiting for these past 150 years, a new 100,000 square foot ballroom, but we also get a new and viable revenue stream that will help to finance the government through future government shutdowns. The Administration has already received a staggering number of banquet reservations, promising to keep the new ball room booked through Trump’s third term.

The new White House East Wing Ballroom will feature a lavish interior with capacity for up to 1,000 people. Renderings show an interior that draws from the grand Baroque-style of the Palace of Versailles, with shining marble floors, intricate gold leaf designs, ornate orange marble columns (to match the color of Trump’s skin), 17 elaborate crystal chandeliers, and a bulletproof glass exterior. What better representative of this administration’s haute culture?

Who’s on board, you ask? The Daughters of the American Revolution were the first group to book the new East Wing Ballroom for their week-long Continental Congress held each June in Washington, D.C. The Convention will include daily tea parties (where they actually drink tea), seminars including Patriotism and Etiquette, and Tracing Your Genealogy back to the Mayflower. The girls are very excited about their new venue and have booked through 2035.

The National Rifle Association quickly jumped into the fray and announced that they will being holding their annual gun show at the new East Wing also for the next 10 years. This year’s theme is the “Keeping Assault Weapons Legal.” The NRA announced that Kid Rock and a case of Bud Lite will be performing at gun show during the event in 2026. Should be a blast!!!

The Proud Boys will convene their annual convention (think Coachella with fewer good vibes) at the new East Wing. The theme of the coming convention is “How to Lose the Battle and Still Declare Victory.” Dress code is camouflage with tactical vests. There will be seminars during the convention including Patriotism for Beginners, Beard Grooming for Intimidation, Techniques of Using a Flagpole as a Weapon, and Selling Tee-Shirts and Bumper Stickers.

The Oath Keepers have marched right down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House and also booked the new East Wing for their next five annual meetings. This year’s theme is “How to Break the Law and Still Get a Pardon.” Seminars include The Constitution for Dummies, Freedom and the Proper Use of Zip Ties, and How to Use Crypto Currency to Protect Your Assets. Should be a fun week for the Oath Keepers.

In addition to right-wing political groups, many corporations with large and lucrative contracts with the government or companies needing government approvals have lined-up to rent the East Wing for annual events or sales meetings. This includes, of course, all of the major military contractors, the large media conglomerates and the pharmaceuticals looking to extend government contracts. Oh and Tesla is back!!! Tesla announced that the annual Tesla sales meetings will now be held at the new East Wing. Trump has promised Musk that he will be allowed to display the full array of Tesla vehicles on the front lawn of the White House during the sales meeting.

Also, many foreign governments with close ties to the USA are also booking reservations at the new East Wing Ballroom. Saudi Arabia has committed to hold the next three weddings for MBS at the new East Wing Ballroom. Each wedding promises to be bigger and more elaborate than the previous one. Argentina has guaranteed to rent space each year for the next 10 years at the new Ballroom as this arrangement was tied to the $40 billion bailout of their currency by the USA. Israel has booked the Ballroom for the bar mitzvah of Netanyahu’s grandson and the Bris of his future great grandson. Israel agreed to book the Ballroom as part of the ceasefire negotiation. Pakistan has also booked the Ballroom for a week at a time over the next five years; although they do not have a specific event to host there, they just want to keep in Trump’s good favor.

In summary Trump thinks the new East Wing Ballroom will make Washington DC the center of high culture in the world just as Paris was in the 18th century and Vienna in the 19th century. The truth is, though, that all Trump has created is a gaudy, over-aggrandized renovated ballroom at the Holiday Inn in Washington, DC.

COME TOGETHER RIGHT NOW!!!!!

Published June 10, 2025 Uncategorized Leave a Comment
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People all over the country are mad and scared about many of the practices that are being initiated by this administration. ICE has arrested more than 100,000 people nationwide. Foreign students with appropriate visas watching these visas get cancelled. People are learning that close to 10 million people will be cut off of Medicaid. The SNAP program is being gutted. Funding for medical research has been cut. Many important government services have been eliminated. Our legal system has been politicized and the government is trying to control the press. Many of the personal liberties that people fought for years to attain are now being cancelled. And now we learn there are talks to cut Medicare, the healthcare system for close to 70 million Americans.

With all this disruption to our previous way of life, it is surprising that there is so little apparent resistance. One reason is, these government policies affect different isolated groups, and there is very little overlap between them. The ICE raids are a threat to the way of life for the Latino community. The cuts to Medicaid affect the poorer segments of the population. The cuts to Medicare affect the senior population. The squashing of the rights of the LGBT population has little impact on the rest of American life. As long as these issues and the groups these policies affect remain separate, it is hard to imagine a large, cohesive and motivated group coming forward to fight the disruption to all our lives.

We now know that that this isolation will not overcome the monster. We must join forces in this fight. There is strength in numbers. It is time to realize that we are all connected, “brothers looking out for each other.” If we fight for fairness for one group, we fight for fairness for all groups. It is time for all of us to “Come Together.” We must see and feel each others pain and suffering and hear each others grievances. We should support each other. Together we can bring about change because together we are the majority.

I am proposing that we all protest on July 4 of this year – “The Unity March.” The anti-Trump people around the country need to be energized and feel enabled. There will be protests of thousands and thousands of people marching in many cities all around the country all at the same time. There will be a million people in Washington DC, a million people in NYC, a million people in LA and Chicago. And there will hundreds of thousands of people in Houston, Miami, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Boston, Detroit, etc. This one day, July 4, 2025 will mark the beginning of the end of the “evil empire.” What better day than on July 4th, the day we celebrate our independence from tyranny? This massive protest will give people hope that we have the support and backing of millions of people, and it will give us the strength to fight and will give the opposition political party the backbone to take on this political nightmare. We need this now…so let’s COME TOGETHER on July 4, 2025.

DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS DYING

Published June 6, 2025 Uncategorized Leave a Comment
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How long can we keep this terminally ill patient on life-support? This patient that has suffered many self-inflicted wounds in the past few years and recently tried to commit suicide in the 2024 presidential election. How do we get the patient off life support?

The Democratic Party is the party that allowed for the continuation of the war in Afghanistan through eight years of the Obama administration while making no progress on the ground during this stretch. This is the party that allowed an estimated 10 million or more illegal immigrants into the country under the Biden administration. This is the party that failed to create a second nuclear treaty with Iran, worried that it might look soft compared to the hard right wing voters in the country. This the party that grew the deficit by almost $8 billion under Biden because they were scared to raise taxes on the ultra-wealthy. This is the party that allowed inflation to grow out of control while ordinary Americans suffered from higher prices at the grocery stores and in the shopping centers. This is the party that crucified Al Franken for some petty sexual offense, or castigated a Congressman because he publicly stated that he did not wish his teenage daughter to play sports with transgender athletes. This is the party of old and tired politicians who did not have the guts to stand-up to Biden and confront his rapidly failing mental condition.

And this is the party that continues to recycle old ideas and policies as its once-solid majority drifts away. The Democratic Party has lost touch with blue collar America as it pushes for more and more extreme social programs. It has failed to develop a fair border and immigration policy which scared many voters off and surprisingly pushed away the traditionally Democratic Hispanic vote. Its programs of school and police reform have even forced the black voters to scale back their support for Democratic candidates. “Clean air and keeping democracy strong” does not resonate with voters who are concerned about putting food on the table and living in safe neighborhoods. Only 1.5% of the cars in America are electric vehicles so a $7,500 tax credit on new purchases of EVs will not have a wide appeal for the voting public. Forgiving college debt obligations does not excite a US population where less than two-thirds go to college.

So what is the political policy that has a very wide appeal and that cuts across economic levels and appeals to white, black and other minority populations? What political idea can appeal to a young white college educated couple living in the suburbs who just had their first child; or to a single black mom living in Alabama working two jobs with three children that are cared for her by her mom because there are no other options; or to a blue collar couple where the dad works long hours at a factory with the wife staying home because they cannot afford any child care options.

The answer is simple: free universal daycare for all children from birth to kindergarten. Anyone in America will be entitled to free daycare. We have free education in the USA from kindergarten through 12th grade. The Democrats should now propose to extending this free education from childbirth through to kindergarten. This proposal addresses many social problems in our country at the moment. First, the cost of daycare is prohibitive for families just starting out. Many young couples have to juggle jobs in order to afford childcare. One reason that the US birthrate is low is that the cost of childcare prohibits young families from affording to have several children in daycare at the same time. Also, many single moms cannot go to work because they cannot afford childcare and are forced on to welfare and Medicaid to pay their costs. Also, the US is falling behind in education relative to other industrial nations. I believe that starting kids in school at an earlier age will improve education results many years down the line. And jobs!!!! This program will create tens of thousands of jobs, from teachers to administrators to staff and to unskilled teacher aids. Another $1,000 tax credit is not going to pay the daycare bills. This is a program that will Make America Great Again. Paying for this program will be discussed in another post.

Of course, Democrats need to support an Equal Rights Amendment, not just for women but for all Americans. Yes, the Dems need to keep fighting to make the environment clean and inhabitable for the next 100 years. The Dems absolutely need to develop a firm and enforceable border policy. They also need to end the fighting in the Middle East and develop a policy that includes an independent state for Palestinians. The US must give Ukraine the weapons they need to end the Russian aggression. And of course, the Dems need to offer a single payer program for healthcare that will cut costs and cover all US citizens.

In summary, the Dems now have a new and simple policy to lead them into the 2026 midterm elections – paid universal childcare for all kids from birth up through kindergarten.

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