Changing Times.

 

We do know what we are up against. We have Super PACs and other corporate groups spending about 2 billion dollars on this year's midterm elections. That is the most ever for a midterm cycle. This money comes from misleading ads from crypto, AI, Elon Musk's poltical machine, and even from AIPAC (when some of their members falsely view dissent with the Netanyahu regime as equivalent to anti-Semitism). Organized money in campaign can be a threat to our democracy. We can defeat Trumpism. Decades ago, Reaganism was popular. I was alive when Reagan was President when I was in elementary school. We knew of his sophisticated, far right rhetoric, his extremism, and his abysmal civil rights record. Yet, Trumpism is much worse than Reaganism, because the MAGA movement acts more cultic to bash anyone who dissent with Trump on any issue. Trump mocking a man killed by a tiger, refusing to condemn his followers assaulting a woman in an Ohio campaign rally, and allying with sellouts to promote his agenda represent the hypocrisy, the bigotry, and the corruption found in the Trump regime. At the end of the day, it is about the people having a better life, having an economy that benefits for all people, having racial justice, protecting the rights of women and immigrants, and believing that health care is a universal human right that ought to be accessible to all people. Never giving up is part of our philosophy, and we shall be victorious in the end.

There is a recent school shooting in and Oregon Elementary School. The suspect has been killed, and multiple people are injured including children. Unfortunately, in America, we have an epidemic of mass shooting shootings in schools, theaters, churches, and other places nationwide. The location of the shooting took place in Bend, Oregon. The investigation is very early. The Silver Rail Elementary school is experiencing massive sadness and a disturbing reality that we Americans have to be on guard for such evil shootings. Mass shootings don't discriminate. They have happened in urban locations, rural places, and suburban areas. These shootings target people of every color, sex, and background. The preparators of such actions are cowards, murderers, and reprehensible people who have taken innocent human lives. The FBI and ATF will investigate the shooter, to figure out if the shooter has a digital footprint in a phone, social media accounts, etc., and other aspects of that person's life. 

Trump stumps for election deniers in Arizona. Some good news is that Judge Kelly (a U.S. District Judge) issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration's ban and allowing reporters from CNN, Politico, and MS Now to keep their White House access while their lawsuit moves forward. The judged ruled that the revocation of nearly 80 reporters' hard passes likely violated the First Amendment (retaliation and viewpoint discrimination) and the Fifth Amendment or due process. The injunction keeps press credentials active during ongoing litigation, through the Department of Justice filed a notice of appeal. The order doesn't force the White House to provide access to restrict areas like the Oval Office or the Air Force. So, the judge extends the block on the Trump White House ban of MS Now, CNN, and Politico. 

Pete Hegseth has perverted religion as an excuse to support Trump and Christian nationalism. Christian nationalism has nothing to do with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It has to do with an agenda to force religion onto people in an inappropriate way, it is about promoting the ideals of Trumpism, it is about a disregard of the separation of church and state, and it is about hypocrisy (in claiming to be the moral police, but excuses Trump's immorality as supporting Trump as a President not a pastor). Pete Hegseth cheered about the Iran War, wanted to live stream an execution (which is grotesque sadomasochism), and desires hatred of diversity (when diversity is one touchstone of the strength of America). Not a single word of Jesus Christ or any words from the Gospel condone migrants being in chains, families being separated, black people being victims of police killings unjustly, etc. At the end of the day, human beings want freedom, liberty, legitimate boundaries, a sense of purpose, integrity, and going about to have a better society than the past and the present. 

Early voting has started in Georgia now. J.D. Vance supports Mike Collins, and Jon Ossoff is opposed to the agenda of Collins. The rising inflation is not enough for many people to support the GOP.  A large majority of Americans don't agree with Iranian war, the corruption, the high inflation, and the affordability crisis (involving housing, health care, education, etc.). Real wages are in decline for months and gas prices have grown. Many polls show Ossoff leading against Collins. This is a major Senate race. Ossoff said that he is committed to serve a full six-year Senate term if he is re-elected. He doesn't want to run for President. Collins is a bizarre person, because refused to say that Trump lost the 2020 election. Ossoff said that he is open to pack the Supreme Court if necessary. Both Ossoff and Collins experienced a contentious debate about many political issues from racism, the Iranian war, the Epstein files, and other matters.

By Timothy