I can't really say that Donald Trump ineffectual, moronic, but potentially expensive attempt to rename Lake Ontario into Lake America (and by the way, "America" is not the name of the United States) is the absolute last straw for me. That straw was broken years ago. It was obvious right from the onset that Donald Trump was not qualified to hold any elective office. However, in his first, and only legitimate, term as President, there was still a Republican Party. Now that party doesn't exist. It's just a bunch of ass kissers.
At least on the national level.
I'll frequently say that "I'll never vote for another Republican as long as I live", and I don't want to. A party that will not renounce and remove a person like Donald Trump, who is mentally ill, from the Oval Office cannot be supported. It's horrific. But the problem, then, is when you get down to the local level.
We just saw in Wyoming a real Republican Party toss out fake Dixiecrat Republicans from office. The only real survivor of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus bloodbath was Bill Allemand. Some of the really good Republicans who wiped out Freedom Caucus members, like Luke Reiner who tossed out Steve Johnson, will face Democratic challengers. And at the state level, a really good Republican who took the GOP nomination for the Governor's office, Barlow, is facing a challenge from a Democrat and Rebecca Bextel, the clueless Double Secret Constitution Party candidate. So the irony we now face is that the majority, but not all, of the recent Republican victors are good candidates and probably think that Donald Trump is in need of mental help. Given that, an enraged vote for a Democrat here, or not voting for the office at all, would in fact be a bad move.
But that's no excuse to vote in favor of every Republican on the ballot here.
It's particularly not an excuse to vote for Harriet Hageman or Chuck Gray. Indeed, there'd never be an excuse to vote for Gray. Gray doesn't deserve any votes.
Hageman really doesn't either. She's got in office acting like an enraged MAGA harpy even though she probably isn't. In office, she's been the distaff variant of her late father. A smart hyper provincial politician whose drank deeply of the hardworking pioneer myth to the extent that she's drunk on it, and like most of those of that belief, basically believes that farmers should own the whole state and you don't count. She's been, frankly, mean in her public personal and her political one.
Stuff like this really puts Catholics in a spot.
We need to participate for the common good. Sometimes we hear: a good Catholic is not interested in politics. This is not true: good Catholics immerse themselves in politics by offering the best of themselves so that the leader can govern.
Pope Francis.
For a long time, we've been in a spot due to abortion and, more recently, gender issues.
Abortion is murder. There's no two ways about it. Mutilating the body to change genders isn't murder, but it is a mental disease and entertaining it is gravely wrong. At one time there were Democrats who acknowledged these things. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas is the last pro life Democrat in the body. Generally, Democrats are in favor of seas of infant blood flowing out of doctors' offices everywhere.
Today, more than ever, without prejudice to the right to self-defense in the strictest sense, it is important to reaffirm that the ‘just war’ theory, which has all too often been used to justify any kind of war, is now outdated
Pope Leo XIV
Undeclared wars of aggression are also gravely wrong. Under at least Pope Leo's view, only defensive warfare is morally licit. Attacking Iran was not only illegal under the U.S. constitution, it was not morally licit. Attacking Venezuela was illegal and illicit. Murdering people in boats off South American coasts as they're suspected of being drug runners is illegal and immoral. The people ordering these things are committing homicide, as are the people doing them. The US is killing people illegally and immorally as a matter of national policy, or rather the policy of handful of illegally acting people.
Threatening to take property? or life because we can is gravely immoral. Threatening to steal Greenland, or whatever, is immoral. Taking the mineral wealth of Venezuela is immoral.
We are a deeply immoral nation.
How does a person weigh these thing?
Well, in my case anyhow, it means that I will not vote for Republican members of Congress. I just won't. I won't vote for people who are supporting military murder or extrajudicial killings.
Indeed, I do not think it's morally licit to do so.
Nor is it moral to demonize people based on their race or inclinations, which this administration has done and continues to do.
Finally, as a Catholic, and the same would be true for an Orthodox Christian, or a Mainline Protestant Christian, this administration is thickly populated by a certain sort of Evangelical thought that would convert the nation into a Calvinist theocracy. People find that, it seems, to far fetched to consider, but it's a fact and many other things that were only recently too far fetched to imagine have now occurred.
Moreover, abortion, at the Federal level, is no longer constitutionally protected. That takes that fight down to the state level, at least for the time being, although it is certainly not impossible to imagine a Democratically government, House, Senate, and Oval Office, acting to protect it on that level. Whatever is going on in regard to transgenderism seems to have sort of stabilized and there doesn't seem to be anything going on with same sex "marriages". Indeed, nervous Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is in one, putting him in the same category as Pete Buttigieg who was routinely lampooned by MAGA for being a homosexual in a same sex union.
Indeed, it's hard not to notice all the hypocrisy in the Republican Party on all of the remaining moral issues. Bessent is homosexual and in a homosexual "marriage". Vance is a Catholic but was boosting IVF. Trump is a serial polygamist. Republican politicians engage in marital infidelity and misbehavior with the GOP ignoring it ,while the opposite is true for Democrats when they transgress.
And finally, Trump, in order to remove the threat from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., made a deal with him to appoint him to the head of the nation's health, resulting in a further moronic decline in vaccinations and a major boosting of health stupidity.
All of this, again, haunts the Apostolic Christian. Does a person vote for Republicans on the threat of abortion reviving, and thereby vote for war, childhood death by disease, ICE shooting in the streets, and on and on, let alone just voting for the patently stupid.
Of course, the two party system really isn't. And often you really don't have to vote for the Republican or Democrat. I haven't voted for a GOP nominee for White House in at least the last three elections, nor have I voted for the Democratic one. I voted for the candidates from the American Solidarity Party.
The trouble there is that there often isn't a ASP candidate on the local level. There are none here. The third parties that show up here are the Libertarian Party and the idiotic Constitution Party. The Constitution Party is worse than the Republican Party, and always has been.
So for this year, I will vote for Barlow for Governor He's a good choice. I'd like to vote for Byrd for Senate, and I won't vote for Hageman, but I have yet to decide what I will do. For House I'd like to write in Christensen and I won't vote for Gray while I want to avoid Kinney.
All somewhat tough races to face.
Locally, I'm lucky that I don't have to make such decisions for my local legislative districts. The City Council race is non partisan. The County Commissioner race is partisan, however, and one of the finalists is simply awful, and I'd guess, quite frankly, actually extremely liberal in spite of running as a Republican, and another nice but not a great candidate. That leaves the two Democrats to consider. Abortion and whatnot will not be a county issue and while I have not made my mind up on who I will vote for, I won't vote for two of the three GOP finalists.
If any come by, I'll flat out ask; "why are you in a party which picks on Canada, declares illegal wars, and hates the original native name for a large lake?"
From this afternoon (apparently pollsters don't honor the Sabbath).
Pollster: Your race?
Me: White, I guess.*
Pollster: Do you consider yourself Hispanic, Latino, or come from a Spanish speaking household?
Me: Pause. . . No, I guess. . .
Pollster: Repeats question
Me: A lot of people speak Spanish who aren't Hispanic.
Pollster: Nervous laugh.**
Pollster: Are you a Republican or a Democrat?
Me: I register as a Republican.
Pollster: Are you a traditional Republican or . .
Me: Traditional.
Pollster: Do you have favorable view of MAGA?
Me: MAGA isn't Republican.***
Pollster: Um, would that be unfavorable?
Me: Yes.
Pollster: Do you have a positive or negative view of the Freedom Caucus?
Me; I have a less than favorable view of the Freedom Caucus.
Pollster, um, we'll put that down as unfavorable.
Pollster: Did you vote for Donald Trump or Kamala Harris in the last election?****
Me: Neither one.
Pollster: Did you vote?
Me: Yes.
Pollster: Um, um
Me: I voted third party.
Pollster: Nervous laugh. Thanks me for my honesty.
Pollster: (Reads long ballot initiative that will gut property taxes here). If the election was held today would you vote yes or no?
Me: No.
Pollster: Are you sure?
Me. Yes.
Pollster: Any chance of changing your mind?
Me: No.
And people wonder why polls are wrong. The questions were too narrow, and my guess is that my results are now put down inaccurately. They'd nearly have to be.
Or they're just tossed out.
Footnotes:
*I'm caucasian, but I don't get the question in some ways. A lot of Hispanics are just as caucasian as I am, and I have a little French ancestry, does that make me something else? Most of my DNA is from Ireland. Before WWI Americans regarded that as some sort of separate race.
For that matter, horror of horrors, I have a trace of Beaudoin Arab. Probably some crusader brought home Mariam from Tyre when he went home to Beuvron-en-Auge. "Mama, Papa. . . J'aimerais que vous rencontriez Mariam."
M'eh.
A point, for those who follow such things, Normans are fair skinned people. The French, however, often are not. In the summer, I'm not, and my skin doesn't burn. Look at my daughter, and you'd think she was a Viking. Look at me, and you'd think I was an, well, Arab.
**So are people who learn to speak Spanish suddenly Hispanic
**MAGA is not more Republican than the Social Democrats are Democrats. MAGA are some strange sort of fascist for the most part.
****What kind of stupid question is that? I voted for Brian T. Carroll.
The Donald Trump Effect, voters running from candidates endorsed by the deranged octogenarian whose administration is protecting the rapist of teenagers, starting wars, and causing rising inflation, is having a noticeable nationwide, and even international, effect. Voters in special elections all over the US are dumping MAGA candidates and electing Democrats. It's an absolute certainty at this point that, unless something dramatic happens, that the Republicans are going to lose badly at the midterms and retake the House. And now it appears they're likely to take the Senate. The Cook Political Report shifted four Senate races this past week to favor Democratic and pundits are now openly saying the Democrats will take the upper house.
Of course, Democrats have a way of shooting themselves in the foot. Nonetheless the momentum is clear. Trump has lost independents, who he needs in most places for the GOP to remain in office, and he's lost Hispanics. This past week his actions were such that if he has not lost non Hispanic Catholics, its only because those voters value Trump more than the Faith or are engaging in some really self delusional thinking, keeping in mind that you never actually have to vote Democratic and that in the primaries there is usually a Republican willing to run who isn't a slave to Trump.
California Republicans refused to endorse a Governor's candidate in a convention that was just held and snubbed Trump's endorsement of one. They see the handwriting on the wall.
But still you have this.
An entire group of Wyoming candidates acts like this adoring girl. Shoot, they'd like to be squeezed by Trump too.
If Wyomingites are going to wake up, and that's unlikely, there's be a point, if we are not already at it, where voting for the GOP candidates who associate with themselves with Trump would be a no go. And some of those candidates would already be no gos.
Chuck Gray, who barely won the Secretary of State's office and only did so by lies and screeds about an imaginary pack of left wingers always oppressing him is running on being perpetually pissed off at at the left and being in deep love with Donald Trump. Reid Rasner promises to be Trump's number one fan. Megan Degenfelder has "Endorsed by Donald Trump" on her campaign signs.
All three are Catholic. If they can still stomach Trump at this point, there's literally no value they hold that they actually hold. No Democrat is going to win, so lashing themselves to Trump is either cynical or self delusional. It's inexcusable.
Degenfelder's signs out to read "Endorsed by Blasphemer Donald Trump". Gray and Rasner, who are both young enough, ought to joint the Marines and put their bodies where their mouths are.
Another far right Catholic figure in Wyoming is Rachel Rodriguez-Williams, who is now running for Secretary of State as Rachel Williams. She's never said anything about Trump of which I'm aware, but as a Freedom Caucuser she ought to fell uncomfortable with the company she's been keeping.
It'll also be interesting to see how columnists like Jonathan Lange, a Lutheran minister, approaches what is now too obvious to ignore. . . Trump doesn't care about religion at all and feels free to outright mock it. Granted, he's not Catholic, but for sincere Christians what was depicted is blasphemous irrespective of which branch of Christianity a person might be in.
And then we have this:
There's no excuse for what Gray did.
Even some Republican states are opposing giving voter data to the Federal Government, but Chuck was the first to comply.
We'll see how this plays out, but if he loses, given his position, he ought to get the maximum penalty.
Anyhow, we're in the thick of the election now, but every day, Donald Trump gets weirder and weirder. He's insane. Standing by the insanity is not excusable.
This may be showing that the bloom is actually off the Trump rose. Generally, Wyoming Republicans have been complete Trump toady's.
The five are Kevin Christensen, who called the post blasphemous, Matt McGinnis, and John Romero-Martinez. Romero-Martinez, who is a devout Catholic, added that it was not only blasphemous, but sacrilegious.
Kinney the Democratic candidate and Johnson the Libertarian also criticized the act, but less forcefully.
Johnson made the excellent point that this is one of a string of outrages.
Both Rasner and Gray are Catholic and if that's all they could muster up people who sit next to them at Mass on Sunday ought to ask them what's the matter with them.
Elsewhere this was an act that finally had a reaction. Like Johnson noted, you have to wonder where these people were all along. Trump fan Riley Gaines noted:
Seriously I cannot understand why he’d post this. Is he looking for a response? Does he actually think this?
Gaines must have been asleep for the past decade to actually post a query on Trump's character. He's self centered and narcissistic, and she seems surprised.
This trend locally and nationally shows that the wheels are really coming off of MAGA. A Turning Point USA convention that was just held was grossly under attended. Locally Republicans for the first time feel able to criticize Trump. There's a significant movement in the state to boot out the Wyoming Freedom Caucus. A bipartisan movement in the House caused the removal of a Democratic and a Republican sex abuser, bypassing the pathetic Mike Johnson. It appears the Democrats are going to take the Senate and the House.
For the Republicans, the good thing is that they are finally out of the cave to a degree. The GOP has been wrecked by Donald Trump, but this may actually give them a chance to start to rebuild it, whereas waiting until after the November election will be utterly too late.
cont:
I recognize that a lot of young voters don't love the policy we have in the Middle East. Okay. I understand that. Don't get disengaged because you disagree with the administration on one topic. Get more involved. That's how we ultimately take the country back.
J. D. Vance.
WTF?
Vance did oppose the war. We know that as he leaked like crazy. But getting involved would mean booting the GOP into the dustbin, maybe forever.
Vance has remade himself repeatedly. A person now stating that this is how "we take the country back" is raising interesting questions about where he himself is headed. He's including himself in the "we" who are young and who oppose the policy in the Middle East.
Is Vance having a Humber Humphrey moment?
It'll be interesting to see if this is Vance's first cautious step into independence. He's not dumb, and he obviously sees and even acknowledges that the GOP is going into the dumpster. That statement would seem to be a declaration of independence from Trump.
April 17, 2026
Governor Gordon confirmed that he is not running for a third term.
While we're unlikely to mention this race again, Sheriff Harlan is running for reelection in Natrona County, Wyoming.
Rep. Harshman of Natrona County is running for Superintendent of Public Instruction. He'd make a very good choice for this position, but it puts his house district in play. A far right wing candidate was challenging Harshman as well as a Democrat.
Albert Sommers is running for the seat he lost in the last election, House District 20. It fell to a WFC member.
April 19, 2026
Yesterday was the day of dueling mail flyers for the U.S. House race. Identically sized campaign flyers for Chuck Gray and Reid Rasner arrived in the mailboxes of Natrona County residents. Apparently the Gray ones went statewide.
They were really laughable. Gray's depicts the diminutive Californian standing next to Donald Trump, looking slightly above him. Trump is something like 6'2" tall where as Gray is absolutely tiny. I'm not a very large person, 5'6", and I look down on Gray, which says something. Gray has also taken up wearing western wool shirts in an effort to make him look like a Wyomingite, but which really point out that he isn't. His campaign is based on far right MAGA platforms and sticking next to, and apparently slightly above, the demented belle of the far right ball, Trump.
Rasner, who has no chance, attacked Gray in his, and frankly some of his attacks are landing. He may carve votes away from Gray.
Locally, small business owner Neil Jeske announced he was running to take on J. R. Riggins in House District 59, which includes part of Casper and all of Mills.
Riggins is probably in trouble as he only won in that race in the first place as he was the only one running. He missed the first legislature he was supposed to serve in entirely due to heart problems. I saw him at a political event before the last legislative session and he really appeared to be out to sea.
Unfortunately, Jeske is the candidate that Natrona County doesn't need. He already is on the reduce spending and reduce regulation platform. Wyoming already has so little regulation that the state government would have to go out and regulate something in order for their to be regulation to cut, and the legislature is so cheap that Wyoming has very large financial reserves that just sit there as the state won't distribute funds to local governments, their only real way of getting them. We probably need more regulation and less financial restraint.
Jeske is apparently a truck driver. I don't know what Riggins is. At any rate, truck driving in 2026 is sort of like being a teamster in 1916. It's a real job. . . and one that's about to disappear. Hopefully somebody else will step up and run.
April 21, 2026
Based upon his campaign propaganda, Jeske, mentioned above, is a worst pick than Riggins. He's another out of state implant and of far right wing views. He's going on the don't vote for list.
Riggins, on the other hand, based on his public lands voting, appears to have risen to his position.
April 22, 2026
In the move The Hunt For Red October the pursuing Soviet submarine commander orders the safeties taken off of his torpedoes so he can hit the Red October from close range. The U.S. submarine USS Dallas deflects the aim of the fired torpedo which circles back and hits the Soviet sub. As it happens, a Soviet submariner tells his captain, "You arrogant ass, you killed us".
That's exactly what Donald Trump is doing to the GOP.
More particularly, that's what he did by demanding that Texas redistrict out of cycle.
Worried that thing were turning against him, Trump demanded that compliant Texas Governor Abbot cause the GOP controlled Texas legislature to convene and specially redistrict. Abbot, to his everlasting shame, complied.
Trump is apparently so dim that he didn't realize the same strategy could be used against him. First California did it, and now Virginia did.
Even accepting the conventional math, there are now more Democratic districts that added to the map for the fall than there are Republican ones, although only barely so. Still, the results are remarkable. In Virginia, where it was done by the voters, it will mean that Virginia returns to being an overwhelmingly Democratic state in terms of is House or Representatives delegates. Trump actually completely flipped an entire state from Republican to Democrat prior to the election itself.
The GOP, in order to keep this game up, must now have Florida do the same thing. It's not assured, however, as Florida is starting to go to the Democratic Party a bit all on its own. Redistricting may simply assure that occurs.
And ironically, the Texas result may have added Democratic seats in Texas. Texas actually has more Democratic voters than Republicans. In recent years its only been a Republican state for the same reason the rest of the South is. But Texas also has heavily Hispanic districts. Trump took them in 2024, but now that's changing.
And this from a guy who claimed to master "the art of the deal".
A note here about one state that tried to redistrict and couldn't, that being Utah.
Most Western states have a much better system than the rest of the country and require fair and balanced redistricting. Much of the rest of the country which had Democratic administrations was moving that way. Republicans, who were rapidly becoming a minority party in the 1990s, resisted it. That's why in Californian and Virginia, redistricting is being democratically. It's also the reason why in one Midwestern state that's currently done this way the legislature refused to consider redistricting even though its Republican controlled. They knew the voters, in that instance, would take it out on them.
In Utah, a court turned the effort around. It was only one seat, but that shows something interesting. Utah has a Democratic Congressional seat. Utah's the same state that sent Mike Lee to Congress for some reason, but not every district fits that mold.
And in a state like Wyoming, which of course only has one Congressional seat, this couldn't happen as it would be against the state constitution.
cont:
Wyoming Public Radio reports that for the House race, Reid Rasner, who will go down in August like a kerosene doused biplane flying through a blast furnace, has raised $1.2 M in this campaign, the majority of which is a loan from himself. Chuck Gray has done the same and nearly approached $1M.
Committing that amount of money to a job that pays a fraction of that per year should flat out be illegal. We need to address that in our "don't vote for" list, which has been switched over to being a page on the website, rather than a thread.
It's a real oddity that in a nation which adores choices, we've chosen not to have very many in politics.
You can go to the grocery store and find an endless number of option for bottled water, and I don't mean the mineral waters from far off regions. Just regular old water. Water comes right to the house at a cheaper rate through the municipal water system, but people still buy it contained in plastic bottles from the store.
And yet we have only two political parties we choose to take seriously, no matter how much they've failed us, and are failing us.
Not only that, we seriously listen to those who argue we must not consider any other options.
Indeed, it's sort of an interesting example of the Adam Sandler Effect. That is, everyone agreeing to something because everyone else seems to agree that we should agree with it, combined with the Jo Jo Rabbit Effect of only hearing those right around us.
Everyone has had the experience of something being heralded in a locality with no real reason. "It's great", they all say, even though it isn't.
American politics right now in that sense, are like two restaurants in the same small town strip mall. They're competing against each other fiercely, and even have their adherents, but frankly neither is very good. Basically, you can go into one and have the crap sandwich on white bread, or the other the sh** sandwich on rye. Out in the parking lot, however, there are food trucks with different menus.
Both restaurants agree you shouldn't go to the food trucks.
Well, if you live in a state where one of the two restaurants seems to be permanently closed for renovation, you can definitely go to one of the food trucks.
The Harris/Trump debate took place last night. I missed the first 45 or so minutes.
I don't know what happened in that time frame, but in the part I saw, watching Donald Trump was like watching a racoon on crack.
Even Fox News declared Harris the "clear" winner, while whining about ABC moderators fact checking "everything" Trump said. Given that Trump is a massive liar, the fact that they did fact check was a public service.
One newscaster, post debate, stated that it was like watching "an old man yelling at clouds", which apparently is a reference to an episode of the Simpsons. Apparently Simpson meme's went wild after Trump repeated the J. D. Vance bizarre canard about immigrants stealing pets for food (completely untrue). Trump specifically stated:
In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating – they’re eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what’s happening in our country, and it’s a shame.
The claim was immediately debunked by moderator David Muir, but people were quick to pick up on it.
And even as the newscaster made the yelling at clouds comment (and also mocked "get off my law") the memes were flying.
A rational party, which the GOP no longer is, would sideline this candidate. The problem now is, however, that as J. D. Vance went out on a limb and admitted he would have acted illegally in regard to the bogus election claims, he's unfit for office and there's nobody to go to.
Whether it really matters or not is another matter, but post debate Taylor Swift endorsed Harris.
Wyoming's Congressional delegation declared Trump the winner of the debate, which was predictable. Seriously, however,. if even Fox News states that Harris was clearly the winner . . .
September 12, 2024
Trump found Taylor Swift coming out against him, citing herself as a "childless cat lady", two days ago. Now Linda Ronstadt has:
Stevie Nicks (whose music I can't stand) has also done so, citing herself as a "childless dog lady".
J. D. Vance has proven to be the gift that just keeps giving to the Harris campaign, given the numerous and provocative statements he's made. He also has been due to philosophical stances he's taken, which is another topic. At any rate, trends in regard to Trump aren't favorable to him, even if he should be successful in the election.
September 13, 2024
Trump on the leader of the Taliban in a press conference this week:
He called me 'Your Excellency.' I wonder if he calls that to Biden. I doubt it.
There's something really bizarre about Trump. Being called "your excellency" apparently really matters to him, so much that he thinks being called that by the Taliban is nifty.
In psychiatry, the tendency to conspicuously and rigidly repeat a thought beyond the point of relevance, called “perseverance,” is known to be correlated with a variety of clinical disorders, including those involving a loss of cognitive reserve. People tend to stick to familiar topics over and over when they experience an impairment in cognitive functioning—for instance, in short-term memory. Short-term memory is essentially your mental sketch pad: how many different thoughts you can juggle in your mind, keep track of, and use at the same time. Given the complexity of being president, short-term memory is a vital skill.
If a patient presented to me with the verbal incoherence, tangential thinking, and repetitive speech that Trump now regularly demonstrates, I would almost certainly refer them for a rigorous neuropsychiatric evaluation to rule out a cognitive illness. A condition such as vascular dementia or Alzheimer’s disease would not be out of the ordinary for a 78-year-old. Only careful medical examination can establish whether someone indeed has a diagnosable illness—simply observing Trump, or anyone else, from afar is not enough. For those who do have such diseases or conditions, several treatments and services exist to help them and their loved ones cope with their decline. But that does not mean any of them would be qualified to serve as commander in chief.
Richard A. Friedman, a psychiatrist, in The Atlantic.
September 14, 2024
Both are against life, be it the one who kicks out migrants or the one who (supports) killing babies Both are against life.
Pope Francis on Harris and Trump.
The Pope counselled to "choose the lesser evil". If you live in a state, however, that's going overwhelmingly for one candidate or another, you don't actually have to, and can vote for a third party like The American Solidarity Party.
Laura Loomer, about whom I know nothing, but who is apparently an extreme right wing personality, has been traveling around with Trump. He's now criticizing her but she's been seen a lot with her including some photos in which they are uncomfortably close. Trump has a knack for appearing with embarrassing people.
In a campaign speech over the last couple of days Trump promised the largest mass deportation in history, starting in Springfield Ohio and Colorado.
September 15, 2024
Penultimate conservative George F. Will endorsed Kamala Harris.
September 16, 2024
A second assassination attempt on Donald Trump occurred yesterday. In this instance, the Secret Service spotted the would be assailant before he staged his attempt and opened fire first.
The assailant was Ryan Wesley Routh, who had been convicted in 2002 for possessing a machine gun. He used that weapon in a stand off with the police. How he had a AK47 type rifle in this instance is an obvious question. Based on news reports of his social media, he at one time claimed he was going to go to Ukraine and fight (he clearly didn't), and he had pro Palestinian and anti Chinese posts as well.
Governor Gordon’s Executive Order Directs State Agencies to Prevent, Report Non-Citizen Voting Efforts
September 19, 2024
Recognizing voter concerns over non-citizens attempting to vote nationwide, Governor Mark Gordon issued an Executive Order (EO) directing state agencies to take further steps to ensure Wyoming’s elections continue to be safe and secure.
“Recognizing the Biden/Harris Administration’s disastrous border policies compel us to do all we can to protect the integrity of our elections, I, alongside fellow Republican Governors, have taken the action afforded to me by the Constitution and the Laws of Wyoming to confirm the security of Wyoming’s elections,” Governor Gordon said.
“I remain confident Wyoming’s elections are the most secure in the nation,” the Governor added. “As required by the laws enacted by the legislature, our county clerks are thorough and diligent when determining, investigating and verifying voter citizenship. With this Executive Order, I reaffirm my commitment to that ideal.
Residents can be confident that this order removes any confusion and clarifies for our agencies – should there be any doubt – that they will not enable or facilitate any noncitizen to register to vote or help them to vote.”
Executive Order 2024-11 directs State agencies to take a variety of actions to ensure that non-citizens do not vote or register to vote. State agencies may not provide voter registration materials to non-citizens and must confirm that they are not required to provide those materials to non-citizens when contracting with federal programs or agencies.
In addition, the EO encourages the Secretary of State and the County Clerks to continue to effectively and efficiently use the tools provided to each of them by Wyoming’s election code to investigate and verify voter registration. The Wyoming Constitution requires every person to be a citizen of the United States before they can legally register and vote in Wyoming.
As he did earlier this year, the Governor continues to urge the legislature to provide clarity on the definition of the term “bona fide resident.” Wyoming’s county clerks have indicated to the Legislature that this clarification is needed, and the Governor agrees.
A poll places incumbent Senator Ted Cruz in a dead heat with his Democratic challenger, Colin Allred.
Cruz going down in defeat would be a major blow to Republican efforts to secure the Senate.
I will shut down all entries through Kamala’s migrant phone app. She’s got a phone app. It’s meant for the cartel heads. The cartel heads call the app, and they tell them where to drop the illegal migrants… It’s not even believable.
Donald Trump. Indeed, for the rational, that is not believable.
They come from the Congo in the Africa. Many people from the Congo. I don't know what that is, but they come out of jails in the Congo.
Many people, from the Congo, which he doesn't know what it is?
Melania Trump has cut a Trump/Vance ad in which she notes that she's pro infanticide, one more step in the GOP abandoning its formerly pro life plank. Vance has already boarded the IVF ship fully, in spite of that involving the death of fertilized eggs. Melania was baptized a Catholic, although there's no real evidence that she's practiced in any recent period, and Vance is a convert who is now demonstrating again that politics will prevail over conviction for him.
The American Solidarity Party is the only real pro life party in the race that I"m aware of.
For at least those who are not in a swing state, this is one more reason that the American Solidarity Party candidates should be voted for, and are perhaps the only moral vote in such states.
