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Is It Me? Or…. Two or three days a week I ride a bike around different neighborhoods in town. And by the way, it is an “Old Guy” powered bike. I do have an e-bike that I ride too, but mostly the pedal powered one. But I digress. Since it is election season there are hundreds, if not thousands of campaign signs in yards and on street corners. Most just give the candidate’s name. Some proclaim that they are a Conservative or a Republican. Haven’t seen one yet stating that the candidate is a Democrat or a Liberal. But this morning, on a ride, I realized that, unlike in past elections, I have not seen one sign stating that the candidate is MAGA or a Trump supporter. Not one. And I covered nearly 20 miles of city streets this morning. Not one. And just a few stating the candidate was a Republican and or a conservative. One good looking sign said he was an “American First Conservative”. But again, no mention, even in the fine print, that he was MAGA or a fan of the current President. What’s the matter guys and gals? Could it be that admitting that you are MAGA might actually cost you some votes? Have you taken the pulse of the people and found that openly proclaiming your MAGAism might be a liability even among your own supporters? Has the shine worn off of the Golden One? Or could it be that you are tiring of high prices at the grocery store and gas station. Or of a war with no good way out of in the foreseeable future. Or are you bothered by the giant Golden Arch or the Massive ballroom? Welcome to the real world.

Maybe I am Confused Donald Trump starts a war without the approval of, or consultation with Congress. This war is costing somewhere around $1 Billion dollars a day and yet Congress has not approved one cent to finance his war. One of the various reasons Trump attacked Iran was regime change and to accomplish that Trump needs to obliterate Iran’s military and wreck it’s economy. And among the several ways of doing that he has lifted some of the sanctions on Iran. And to further his goal he also lifted some sanctions on Russian oil. The same oil that is propelling Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Oil from the same dictatorship that is providing intelligence to Iran’s military to be used to kill and injure American soldiers. Trump declares daily that the war is won and then states that it probably will be over in another week or two. Trump gives Iran deadlines with dire threats if they don’t do what he wants and then extends those deadlines again and again. Trump says that there will be no American troops on the ground unless he changes his mind and yet there are thousands of Marines on their way across ocean heading to do battle with a country whose soldiers believe that dying for the Ayatollah will get them into heaven where 70 some virgins await them. Now to be sure, Iran having atom bombs is a terrible idea and should not be allowed. But as a retired Army general pointed out, the much-feared enriched uranium can be stored in barrels and kept in someone’s garage, back porch or the basement of houses. In other words, we have no idea where it is. Therefore all those bombs we are dropping may not solve the problem. So what the heck are we doing?
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