This is not a great day for the USA, Planet Earth and Humanity.  MAGA for Donald Trump and our country today could well be the acronym for Make American Grim Again.  We've had worse days, but from all fronts, life is grueling. President Donald and Melania Trump went to Texas today, where flash flooding killed 120 people last weekend, with another 161 still missing.  Even though he will be in a Republican stronghold, he will be faced with the fact that  he cut back on FEMA and NOAA funding  that no doubt exacerbated the debacle.  This will not be a crowd that will heckle him for downplaying global warming, but the media will. The State Department will today fire 1300 employees, further drawing the U.S. into isolationism.  The Supreme Court this week cleared the way for these layoffs. The department has already dismantled the entire U.S. Agency for International Development. Is Elon Musk's American Party a concern? To Republicans and Donald Trump, yes. M...

First, yesterday President Joe Biden gave a talk about democracy in Arizona.  This was his most blistering attack yet of Donald Trump and his MAGA extremists.  Did you know that  Joe introduced John to Cindy , his wife? And speaking of Trump: His civil fraud trial trial in New York could begin as soon as this coming Monday.   Also, his pool of funds to pay legal bills for his cronies is running out.   Trump won't bother to even seek a transfer of his case from Georgia to a federal court. Finally, that House quagmire about the government shutdown tomorrow.  Looks like Keven McCarthy lost his battle to pass anything only with Republicans.  Democrats in the House say that if only 5 Republicans vote with them, all this nonsense can be avoided.  But if McCarthy makes that move, he will lose his speakership.  So be prepared for at a short shutdown.  Will this be terrible?  Nah.   The USA has had 21 of them over the pas...