When an entitled brat starts whining for special favors, indulging it is the wrong thing to do!

The MAHA (make America healthy again) report on the adolescent crises like ADHD, says that these are caused by food additives and environmental issues. It says medicating the afflicted is unnecessary. Experts disagree.

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No surprise here, except that whistleblowers are complaining to the Press. It's very likely that the DOGE MUSK-eteers uploaded every single file they could from every agency they could and most of it may be on the cloud or sitting in some server in the Arctic somewhere.

What better way to screw America in the American people then to upload every single byte of data from government information systems and then be able to secretly sell it to whatever adversary is willing to pay for that information? Treason from on us by Putins best friend forever.

No surprise here, except that whistleblowers are complaining to the press. It's very likely that the DOGE MUSK-eteers uploaded every single file they could from every agency they could and most of it maybe on the cloud we're sitting in some server in Iceland or the Arctic somewhere.

What better way to screw America in the American people then to upload every single bite of data on government information systems and then be able to secretly sell it to whatever adversary is willing to pay for that information, Treason from Putins best friend forever.

The critical issue that Americans should be concerned about is low voter turnout.

Most elections usually get only 50% or less voter participation. With a nearly 50-50 split between Republicans and Democratic voters, too many elections are decided by approximately 25% or less of the constituency!!

No experts have documented significant rates of election fraud in American elections. But low voter participation is a real, very evident problem!

When Oregon sent every registered voter a ballot to be returned either in person or by mail, voter participation rates surged to 80%. Voting by mail as an option drives up voter participation.

Oregon's model is one every state should emulate.

The critical issue that Americans should be concerned about is low voter turnout.

Most elections usually get only 50% or less voter participation. With a nearly 50-50 split between Republicans and Democratic voters, too many elections are decided by approximately 25% or less of the constituency!!

No experts have documented significant rates of election fraud in American elections. But low voter participation is a real, very evident problem!

When Oregon sent every registered voter a ballot to be returned either in person or by mail, voter participation rates surged to 80%. Voting by mail as an option drives up voter participation.

Oregon's model is one every state should emulate.

The huge US flag flying from that tank with an equally large Russian Federation flag was very likely just pro-Putin propaganda. After 3 1/2 years of costly war, Russians are (or WERE) largely demoralized or apathetic. Trump's overt alliance with kleptofascist dictator Putin weighs on Russian propaganda scales like a superhero's endorsement. L

Despite Putin's 2021 revisionist oration to his nation to convince every citizen of Russia that Ukraine was always and always will be Russian, Trump's very very public affinity for an otherwise globally ostracized war criminal Putin is like a papal dispensation.

For every career military American veteran Trump's endorsement of Putin is a hard pill to swallow. Since WW2, most American soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines believed the US flag represented fairness, justice, freedom, opportunity for all, and a high standard of personal and national integrity. All qualities that dictatorships like Putin's lack.

In a word, this administration's poorly disguised love for Putin and all he stands for is DISGRACEFUL.

Trump is Putin's lap puppy.

Trump is Putin's lap puppy.

No doubt about Trump's favoritism for "tough" autocrats who have something Trump covets. Trump's been groomed (brainwashed) by KGB affiliates since the 1970s when he began cavorting with Ivana Zelnikova. Her parents were informants for the then KGB-affiliated secret police. After that, Donald's and Ivana's children were raised on the laps of their then communist autocracy-supporting grandparents.

No wonder Trump's casinos would launder money for Eastern bloc entities, and no wonder Trump bristled at the West's counter-intel and counter organized crime networks. His casinos were fined over 2 dozen times for violating anti-money laundering laws and many of his wealthy Russian occupants of his properties were identified as having suspicious nefarious ties to Moscow.

With over 50 years' grooming from Russia's autocratic oligarchs, it's doubtful Trump has the guts to be tough on Putin.

Friday's Alaska Summit Agenda;
(Warning. Any resemblance to the actual agenda is coincidental.)

AM:
1. Putin - why I love Trump, my BFF
2. Trump - why I love Putin, my BFF
3. Putin - what's in it for my BFF Trump if I annex Ukraine
4. Trump - what's in it for Vlad, my BFF, if he helps me annex Greenland and Canada and to get the Nobel Peace Prize

PM:
5. Lunch Break for Caviar &Big Macs:& Vodka
6. Blood brotherhood ritual
7. Then: Deals are signed, sealed and delivered.

Next summit: Renaming the Arctic Ocean, "Vlad & Don's Ocean"

Trump got what he wanted when Pennsylvania's voters pushed him over the Electoral College votes needed to be certified. (Was PA's vote rigged?) Black voters for Trump made significant impacts in Pennsylvania and Michigan. But as Trump the evangelical group before Election Day, "Vote for me now, and you'll never have to vote again."

That wasn't hyperbole " it's appearing more and more likely that Trump will either declare the end to elections, or create a system as Putin did in Russia where the outcome of elections will be predetermined, and voting will just be part kabuki dance to give the appearance of a fair contest.

While Putin & Trump are cutting deals on how to illegitimately appropriate countries that don't belong to them, Putin will advise Trump and Traitor Vance how to split the Arctic Ocean with Russia after Vance & Trump take over Canada and Greenland.

Greedy is as Greedy does. Two peas in a pod.

If anyone wonders how democracies fade away, it's when one side of the political spectrum gets riled up by honest satire and discovers ways to persecute the satirists. Mugabe, Orban, Putin are relatively recent examples of autocrats who have quashed their opposing satirists.

And Fox fans, don't think Fox's style is satire. An analysis of Fox's "Five" shows it has non of the class or nuance or principle that Colbert has. It masquerades as a newsy talk show but is basically just a parade of bullies who resort to a chain gang of boorish insulters of anyone and everyone they want to demonize. And Greg Guttfeld's blanket accusation that every target of his "a Communist" orb"a terrorist" isn't funny or satirical. It's slanderous. And like how the honest world responded to Joseph McCarthy who made wild snd inflammatory accusations like that, there's no satire or truth in such accusations. Just mean spirited evil. (Like Himmler or Mussolini eere when they made such accusations.)

The fact that the Department of Defense (DOD) is being led by the least experienced, and least qualified SecDef is a big factor in this FUBAR situation.

But the US Senators who confirmed the immature racist to lead the DOD are ultimately to blame for its negligence in confirming a prima facie unsuitable nominee to lead the world's largest most complex, and best funded national security organization.

The sad truth that the confirmation was accomplished almost solely by Republican senators makes the Republican Party guilty by association. Sad to say.

When will the Republicans in Congress accept responsibility and serve with less blind partisanship and instead start exercising appropriate due diligence to the American Constitution and to their role in checking the excesses of the Executive Branch?