What’s Going on in This Country?
Between Trump, his enablers, and Governor DeSantis, will we keep our Democracy?
Folks, it’s been a minute since I’ve written. A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since I last wrote. Both personally, as well as politically.
I deeply apologize to all of you for my absence with all of this political drama that has occurred, but I’m guessing that everyone has been keeping up to date with all of it.
I’m going to pretty much try to cover everything in a short order type of thing, expressing things that I’m not sure people fully grasp, and allow them to expound on this at their leisure.
Booking photo of Donald J. Trump, Fulton County, Georgia.
Our former president, Donald J. Trump, whom for those that haven’t seen any of my references to him on any of my replies to folks on Substack, will in this writing be referred as the “🍓💩🤡”. This is simply because he is a “strawberry shit-headed clown”.
Anyway, 🍓💩🤡 has been indicted four (4) times. He’s facing 91 counts, all felonies. All, if found guilty on all 91 felony counts, will give him prison sentences totaling over 500 years, and fines in the millions.
Frumpy, the 🍓💩🤡, has screwed himself into a corner, and has nowhere to go. There’s nothing he can do. I have read all of the indictments, and I’m honestly going to say this, as simple as I know how to say it.
Frumpy’s screwed!
We all complained about the length of time these investigations were taking. Hell, I even complained about that myself!
BUT, after I read these indictments, with the extreme detail they were written, the evidence that’s clearly laid out in them, on all the charges against 🍓💩🤡, and his 18 cohorts in his “criminal enterprise” that are also charged. It’s quite clear that he is fixing to get nailed to the wall.
Enough of him and his never ending predicament.
Now, I’m going to go into his accounts of “voter fraud”. Thanks to a good friend of mine here on Substack, Shire Jansen (@SHIREJANSEN) https://substack.com/@shirejansen, who’s been kind enough to allow me to share the following information with you here on my publication. I invite you, or beg you, to read this.
Shire has been good enough to keep track of the total voter fraud cases that have been in the court systems across this country. This is just another, added to the count, of Republicans which committed voter fraud in the 2020 election, and been caught and prosecuted. This being an attorney!
Alabama Republican is planning to plead guilty to voter fraud
According to a plea deal, state Rep. David Cole used a fraudulent address while running for office. Local GOPers ignored it, and now he’s facing 60 days in jail.
For the full article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/05/04/pennsylvania-bruce-bartman-voter-fraud/
For the full report (video):
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/david-cole-alabama-republican-voter-fraud-rcna103037
Now, after you read these different articles, and with the MSNBC report video, you will see that this case has some traction to it, especially with the attorney having to take a plea deal to avoid a rather lengthy prison sentence.
Enough on that. Now I’m going to move on to another important topic, to me anyway.
As we all are aware, a Catastrophic hurricane struck the states of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina last week. It made landfall in the Big Bend area of Florida which hadn’t had a direct hit by a hurricane in over 100 years!
Debris flowing down a creek and into the ocean in Horseshoe Beach, Fla., on Wednesday. (Credit...Paul Ratje for The New York Times)
This hurricane totally destroyed that area. I have family, and a lot of friends in the agriculture industry in that area. Every one of them were, and still are, affected by this storm and its aftermath.
President Biden immediately declared the areas struck by the storm as disaster areas, and opened the doors for all federal assistance to get into the area to help all of these people.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-heads-florida-survey-storm-damage-no-desantis-meeting-set-2023-09-02/
Video from: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-heads-florida-survey-storm-damage-no-desantis-meeting-set-2023-09-02/
Hurricane Idalia: US President Biden visits Florida to survey destruction, meets victims. (File photo. Photograph:( Reuters )
President Biden, and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, made a trip to Florida to tour some of the affected areas this weekend. President Biden said he wanted to meet with Governor DeSantis. But, Governor DeSantis refused the meeting. His office gave some lame excuse that he couldn’t meet with President Biden.
Now, I’m not a politician, by any means of the definition. Nor, do I ever want to be a politician by the way most of these politicians act this day and time. But, I would think that if you have over 300,000 or so if your state that have been made homeless, businesses destroyed, infrastructure destroyed, and you heeding all the federal assistance you can get, I’d take the time, put my political views of the other party aside, my political opinions of the President aside, and meet with him to discuss my states needs.
Maybe Ron DeSantis has it in his head that he doesn’t need that much from the President. Maybe, since he’s running for President of the United States and he doesn’t want to he seen “hob-nobbing” with President Biden. He might think it will hurt his campaign.
Really, Ronnie. If it did anything at all it might help your campaign! Seeing as your campaign is all but totally over right now, you are just wasting what little bit of donor money you have left keeping you traveling around the country embarrassing yourself, your family, and subjecting you young child to the actions of the small crowds that boo you and say vile comments to you when you and your family walk on the stage. You should be charged with child abuse.
But, from what I hear, Ron DeSantis is well accustomed to violating the law. I understand he’s broken many laws in the state of Florida. He’s hiding behind his “Governorship” to prevent any prosecution.
Another thing I wanted to report about Governor Ron DeSantis. The federal government has program, which is part of the Climate Change Program which President Biden initiated. In this package is a program where residents, homeowners to be exact, can apply for, and receive, the assistance to have solar systems installed on their homes to lower their electric bills.
Now, I’m not a genius, but I did live in Florida for many, many, years. I checked into getting solar system for my home. The cheapest bid I had for my small 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home was just under $35,000! Now I’m not talking about a big home. I’m talking about a building that was 25 by 50 foot under roof, air conditioned living footage. To have a solar system installed was going to cost me over $35,000, and Governor DeSantis fixed it where people in the state couldn’t apply for, nor receive, the funding from the federal government for help to get these systems on their homes.
You see, how this works, like all federal assistance to people, is the money is made available to the states, and the people have to apply to the state to receive it, and the state is obligated to make sure the money given to them by these programs is used for the intended purpose it was meant to be used. Which makes sense. The states are responsible for the permits, inspections, and the payment for the jobs.
So, DeSantis screwed the people of the state, again! Yet, he gerrymandered the voting districts in the state to make all but one or two predominantly Republican districts. This gave him the win in the election by over 20% which he proudly touts at every rally, press conference, and doweling engagement he has had. Yet, he fails to tell the people how he did it. How he fixed the state voting map where he, and his legislators would be elected so he would have a “Super Majority” in his legislature.
Having this “Super Majority” legislature has given him the full run of his authoritarian powers he’s placed on the people of Florida. His dismantling he has fine to the University of Florida board, and other colleges and universities in the state. He’s replaced all the boards with “his people”. People that have rings in their noses and are led like the sheep they are. People that do exactly as DeSantis says, or he replaces them.
Then there’s his fight with Disney. I’ll save this gut another day. It’s still ongoing. I’m just going to say that if you plan on taking in Mickey, you better pack a lunch!
Have a great day, folks!!!
“I’ll be back real soon!”
More than anything, this nation needs people to wake up and exercise some common sense. All of our problems are self-created. We are currently a nation of idiots.