What more is there to say?

 

The photo below was just sent from Honduras, showing my young friend Oliver, whom I have known his whole life. His parents have asked me to please visit them again, but I am not sure about ever going back. My passport has expired and I am quite short of funds after paying a humongous tax bill after selling my DC house.

Here's another recent  message from Honduras from a former Peace Corps volunteer now retired there, where the cost of living in so much lower than here in the US. 

Things are going well in Honduras. The new president, who was apparently a former mayor of Tegucigalpa, has made some good changes, but the increase in the price of fuel is difficult. The new Congress has also addressed major issues and seems fair in creating new laws.

Please stay well and keep on fighting Trump with us all!

URGENT APPEAL

Senator Bernie Sanders will force votes on  2 Joint
Resolutions of Disapproval to block weapons sales to Israel this week, so
the time to turn the pressure up on the Senate is *NOW!*
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 URGENT CALLS TO BLOCK ARMS TO ISRAEL
 
*☎️ 📞 ☎️ MAKE URGENT CALLS TO YOUR SENATORS TODAY!*
 
1) Call the Congressional switchboard at *202-224-3121*
2) Ask to be connected to your senators' offices: repeat for each of your
two senators. Make 2 calls!!!
3) Once connected, give them this message (in as many of your own words as
possible):
 
*Hello, my name is ____________ and I'm a voting constituent from (your
city/state). I am calling to urge the senator to co-sponsor and vote YES on
two Joint Resolutions of Disapproval to block the Trump Administration’s
unilateral shipments of over 20,000 bombs worth $660 million and bulldozers
to Israel. *
 
*S.J.Res.138 would block the sale of 22,000 one-thousand-pound bombs, and
S.J.Res. 32 would block the sale of Caterpillar bulldozers, used to destroy
civilian infrastructure and displace Palestinians in Gaza and the West
Bank. I want to see the senator co-sponsor and support both of these
critical resolutions. Thank you.*

PBS, Democrats grow bolder on talk about removing Trump from office after his Iran threats

Yahoo, Calls Grow To Remove Trump From Office Using the 25th Amendment

 Daily Beast, "Trump, 79, Faces Congressional Bid to Invoke 25th Amendment"
https://www.thedailybeast.com//trump-79-faces-congressional-bid-to-invoke-25th-amendment/?via=ios

Yahoo News. Efforts to expel Reps. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., and Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, from Congress gained bipartisan steam on Sunday, as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle said they would vote in favor of two separate measures to remove the congressmen following separate sexual misconduct allegations against each of them.

Earlier this year, Gonzales, who was running for re-election to the House in Texas, dropped out of the race after reports that he had exchanged sexually explicit text messages with a staffer who later died by suicide. In March, Gonzales acknowledged that he’d had an affair with the staffer, saying, “I made a mistake, and I had a lapse in judgment. And there was a lack of faith, and I take full responsibility for those actions." He added that he has now “reconciled” with his wife and has decided to leave Congress. 

Swalwell had strongly denied all the allegations against him, but the accusations kept piling up and actually appeared to be credible. Why would so many women in so many very different positions and locales suddenly have all come forward against Swalwell, who had just announced a run for California governor, while their accusations revealed him to be a would-be Casanova and a rampant sex addict apparently lacking any basic self-control. He should now forget all about becoming governor or even about remaining in office. 

Wash. Post, Swalwell suspends campaign for Calif. governor amid sexual misconduct claims

Swalwell now needs to quit Congress and find another job. (Maybe as an escort?)

Even as I have been writing this, Swalwell finally has resigned from Congress, as Gonzalez had done just before him. Good riddance to them both! 

Yahoo News. President Donald Trump called former President Joe Biden “mentally retarded” twice.

Who actually is the guy with more mental health challenges? In any case, Biden is not trying to remain in government and Trump certainly is. 

President Trump recently posted this image of himself at Easter, possibly to appeal to his evangelical supporters. (How do you think they might have reacted?) 

VP JD Vance was put in a tight spot.

Appearing on Fox News' Special Report with host Bret Baier, Vance—who had converted to Catholicism in 2019—was pressed directly on the AI image, showing Trump in a Christ-like pose healing a sick man, surrounded by American flags and a bald eagle. Trump posted it to Truth Social, hours after calling Pope Leo "weak on crime, and terrible for foreign policy."

"I think the president was posting a joke," Vance told Baier. "He took it down because he recognized that a lot of people weren't understanding his humor in that case."

Where, pray tell, was the humor? 

Wash. Post, Pope responds to president’s insults: ‘I have no fear of the Trump administration’

Reuters, Pope Leo urges end to 'madness of war' as US, Iran start talks

Judge dismisses Trump’s $10B lawsuit against WSJ, Murdoch over reporting on ties to Epstein

Even assuming that the WSJ got all the facts wrong and that Trump never actually had any ties to Epstein, which is something pretty hard to believe, then how did that reporting result in doing $10B worth of damage to President Trump? Does Trump even have $10B in assets that could be damaged?

Now concern about the President's mental health is being revived.

NY Times, Trump’s Erratic Behavior and Extreme Comments Revive Mental Health Debate

Some former allies and advisers are  questioning whether President Trump has grown increasingly unbalanced, describing him as a “lunatic” and “clearly insane.”

            Of course, to himself, whatever Trump says and does may seem perfectly rational.

Dozens arrested as protesters demand Schumer and Gillibrand block sale of bombs to Israel

Israel and Netanyahu are no longer being regarded as "good guys" after urging Trump to bomb Iran for no apparent reason, not that the leaders of Iran can be considered good guys either. But many innocent civilians have already been killed or injured by US bombs and missiles, so that needs to stop

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Late in the evening after dark, just posting on this blog or answering emails is becoming increasingly difficult. Strange things start to happen or else nothing happens at all. Are too many users clogging up the network during evening hours? That certainly may be the case, especially in the remote rural area where we are living now.

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