I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. Wells

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Here is some of the content in this report:

We now have, as a result of Trump’s choices and the endorsement of every or virtually every Republican in the US Senate:

— An alcoholic B-list weekend TV star in charge of our military,

— A formerly heroin- and sex-addicted brainworm-infected lawyer in charge of our public health,

— A wrestling promoter in charge of our Education Department,

— The president’s personal criminal defense lawyer in charge of the Justice Department,

— A C-list reality TV star in charge of our air traffic control system,

— A plumber in charge of Homeland Security,

— A “miracle weight-loss pill” TV hawker in charge of Medicare and Medicaid,

— A social media hustler and children’s book author in charge of the FBI,

— A predatory hedge fund guy in charge of the Treasury,

— A fracking CEO who denies the climate crisis in charge of the Energy Department,

— Jeffrey Epstein’s former next-door neighbor and Epstein Island visitor in charge of the Commerce Department,

— A politician who built his career on a phony story about his parents fleeing Castro in charge of telling America's story to the world,

— The mentee of an anti-democracy billionaire as our VP,

— A Project 2025 architect who was excited to put federal workers “in trauma” in charge of America’s federal budget,

— A racist whose own uncle publicly denounced him as an immigration hypocrite, and whose leaked emails pushed white nationalist material to Breitbart, in charge of immigration policy,

— A former NFL player in charge of public housing,

— A real estate developer and golf buddy with no diplomatic experience whatsoever negotiating with and sucking up to Vladimir Putin,

— The world’s richest man firing people investigating him and his companies while gutting the federal government and killing millions by “feeding USAID into the wood chipper,”

— And a self-described “proud Islamophobe” with no government job vetting the National Security Council staff.

The model here is straightforward: government is something to be exploited for personal gain not public service, because government is essentially an evil thing. So, load it up with incompetents, suck up as much money as you can, and leave the mess to the Democrats:

— Three Republican presidents borrowed over $35 trillion, put it all on the national credit card, just to hand all that money to the billionaires who fund their campaigns and sustain their lavish lifestyles.

— Republicans in Congress have thrown millions off of food stamps (SNAP) and Medicaid and refuse to fix Social Security or Medicare.

— Trump just discarded many of our pollution rules, a move that will lead to more cancers and asthma among our children.

— Bob Kennedy saluted putting cancer-causing chemicals on our food supply.

— Anything Putin wants from Trump he gets.

— They’re selling off public lands and destroying our park system like there’s no tomorrow, while rewriting America’s history into a white supremacist fantasy.

— Miller’s ICE goons are murdering Americans and getting away with it while imprisoning brown-skinned people without due process.

— Trump has made billions since becoming president through crypto scams and bets on his own war proclamations.

And that’s just the beginning. Which is causing millions of Americans, scratching their heads in wonder, to ask:

“Where did this anti-American-government insanity come from, and how did it come to seize control of the entire Republican Party?”

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
Barbara Walters

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Eleanor Roosevelt

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Wiesel