Category: Politics, Religion & Money

There is no better contrast between presidents than Jimmy Carter and Donald Trump. A decent, honest man and an indecent, dishonest man, respectively. When Carter was president, I didn’t see him as being “holier than thou,” but I suppose others did. Trump is down and dirty, and the half of the country that has always resented “political correctness” loves him for it.

This photo of my ’65 Chevelle brings to mind another true factoid from my past. I bought the car for $100 while working in radio. It was twelve years old, when that was ancient for a car, and it failed inspection because part of the floor was rusted out. I took it to an auto body shop in town and paid another hundred bucks to have a floorboard welded onto the frame. See how happy I was that it passed inspection?

The owner of the auto body shop was very involved in local politics. After I switched from being a DJ to doing news full-time, I encountered him regularly and we’d discuss politics, local and otherwise. He told me he was going to run for mayor, and he wanted me to be his campaign manager! I was both flattered and dumbfounded, but between the conflict of interest and not (yet) wanting to quit my job, I had to decline. As I recall, he won a later mayoral election.

Jimmy Carter has died. I should tell about the time I asked Ted Kennedy if he intended to challenge Carter at the 1980 Democratic National Convention.

Trump got what he wanted from the poorly educated voters he claimed to love. He won the election, so now he’s tossing the suckers aside like everybody else he’s used throughout his life. Will Trump pardon his January 6 mob, now that he no longer needs them?

Trump sides with Musk in H-1B fight

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/28/musk-war-h1b-racists-maga-doge

1. Musk calls MAGA element “contemptible fools”

   https://www.axios.com/2024/12/27/elon-musk-contemptible-fools-maga-doge

2. Massachusetts drivers are worse than any other state

   https://www.yahoo.com/news/state-worst-drivers-massachusetts-drivers-120206419.html

Two extremes about the same thing, where the circumstances couldn’t be more different.

When it’s rape…

… and when it’s something else.

Russia’s billionaire oligarchs are allowed to exist at Putin’s discretion. They know they’re dead if they attempt to influence government policy. With the return of Trump to the White House, we now have “Oligarchy, American Style.”

Trump let the richest man in the world dictate policy, then he followed his lead, giving Musk the appearance of acting as de facto president-elect. It’s bizarre. This is a marriage of convenience that won’t have a happy ending. Until Musk has been sidelined, J.D. Vance is effectively out of the picture.