Twin Traitors On The 2024 Presidential Campaign Trail

 Tuesday, July 25th, 2023

My Dear America:

There is something Deadly Wrong going on in America today.  Sometimes I feel as though I'm the only one who sees how bad things are.  But I'm not the only one who knows how bad things are.  My Wife knows it.  My Children know it and most of my friends know it too.  We can all see where we are today and where we are headed.  we can clearly recognize just how close to the edge of madness our Country's political system has become.  

I am scared to death that it may already be too late.  Just like it may be for Climate Change.  I hope that is not the case but it is difficult to clearly recognize just how close to the end of Sanity and Democracy we may truly be in the United States of America.

Good God, the madness is everywhere you look.  Yes, I recognize just how Insane I sound but the truth is that I'm not Insane.  I'm just worried that not enough Americans are clearly recognizing just how incredibly important this coming Presidential Election is going to be for the future of Democracy in America.

For Christ's Sake, Two of the Higher Polling Candidates already signed up for the 2024 Republican Presidential Primary are not simply just Right Wing Nuts.  Dumb Donald Trump and Reckless Ron DeSantis are Straight Up Traitors. 

Yes, I said Traitors.

Among the many good things that President Joe Biden has done is to change the American policy toward Ukraine.  

One of the main reasons that Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. Congress was that Trump blatantly tried to keep arms shipments that the United States Congress had authorized for Ukraine from being delivered to Ukraine.  Who can forget that "Perfect Call" that Trump made to Ukrainian President Zelensky in which Trump showed his inappropriate favoritism for Vladimir Putin.  Trump also did everything he could to weaken NATO, making it very difficult, but luckilly not impossible, for Joe Biden to help repair the damage and bring NATO back to Unity and Strength.

Clearly Donald Trump feels a genuine Affinity and an Authoritarian Kinship with Russian Leader, Vladimir Putin.  We have all seen Trump kissing Putin's ass over and over again during the Trump Administration.  We also heard Trump praising Putin's brilliance at the beginning of the Ukrainian Conflict until he realized just how out of step he was with the rest of the country.  These days Trump seems to be going out of this way not to make any comments on Putin or the Senseless Russian Invasion of Ukraine.

Can anyone really believe that if We were unlucky enough to have Donald Trump return to the White House that Trump would do anything other than try to help Putin defeat Ukraine.  

The answer is "No."  If it walks like a Traitor and Talks like a Traitor it's a Freakin Traitor.

The other Traitor on the Republican Campaign Trail who has shown himself to be totally unfit to run for President but is doing it anyway is Ron DeSantis.

DeSantis has, up to this point, shown himself to be a disturbingly reckless clone of Donald Trump's cruel policies although in some instances this Nazi influenced White Jackbooted fool has sometimes outdistanced Trump in his hurtful treatment of human beings in his home state of Florida.  

Book Bans

LGBTQ Bans

Fights with Disney, one of Florida's main employers

He has sent representatives to Texas to lie to Illegal Immigrants in order to send them to other states.

He even seems to have had the gall to see some good things about Slavery that he thinks should be taught in schools 

This guy is a real Jackass.

Oh, and he has said about Ukraine that the United States should not be involved in a "Territorial Dispute."

A Territorial Dispute is not what has happened in Ukraine.  

Russia cruelly and violently Invaded their Neighbor, Ukraine and Russia has been continuing for over a  year to attempt to destroy their Next Door Neighboring Country.  There is no territorial dispute.  This war would be over immediately if and when Russian forces had the good sense to return back over the border to their own country and left the Ukrainians to live peacefully, free and democratically in their own country, which they were doing for many years prior to the Russian Invasion.

It seems logical to believe that these Two Obnoxious Republican Traitors do not have a snowballs chance in hell to be elected President even if one of them becomes the Republican Nominee for President.  

But I find it difficult to believe in logic anymore.  Logic would have told me in 2016 that Donald Trump would not have been elected President and that Hillary Clinton should have been Elected.  She had more votes in 2016.  Yet Trump became President.  Illogical.

Logic also would have told me that in 2020 when Trump obviously lost the election to Joe Biden that he would not try to manipulate the system and stage a Coup to stay in power.  But Surprise Surprise, Trump tried to manipulate the system and if Mike Pence wasn't a bit more concerned about the Constitution than Kissing Trump's ass Trump might have pulled off his coup.

And as we look forward to the 2024 Election would it be logical for us to believe that if Donald Trump loses this election that he will this time go gently into that good Mara Lago night.

I don't think so.

We Democrats have a lot to think about this next time around.  But first we have to win the 2024 Election for Joe Biden.  Enough with the whining about how old Biden is.  That doesn't matter.  Trump is only a few years younger and he is a Traitor who should never be allowed near the White House ever again.

Biden's Presidential accomplishments are many and important.  We must not let Republican lies about Biden win out in 2024.  We are looking at an election in which the results  are clear as a bell.

Democracy must win this one and MAGA Republicans who obviously don't have Democratic values must lose.  

In 2024 when we go to the voting booth we must say "No" to MAGA Republican Traitors. 

Sincerely Yours

Jerry Gallagher

  

  

Message To MAGA - Reflections On The Third Anniversary Of "Podcast For A Lost Nation

 Tuesday, July 18th, 2023

My Dear America:

It hardly seems possible that "Podcast For A Lost Nation" has been in operation on Spotify for the past three years but in July of 2023 we are beginning the Fourth Year of Presenting "Podcast For A Lost Nation".  

Although the Podcast does not seem to be destined for engaging staggering numbers of listeners, I understand that there are a lot of Podcasts available with more arriving all the time so I am Okay with my limited but steady numbers of listeners.

Many of those who are and have been listening to the Podcast are Treasured Friends and Relatives and although I am thankful for all my listeners I am extremely grateful for those closest to me who have listened and encouraged me to keep up the fight for Sanity and Democracy in the United States of America.

Thank You Mickey, Johns (A couple of them) Larry, Dave, Dom, Evan, Bruce, Rachel, Laura, Colleen, Sandy and everyone else who has tuned in over the course of the Past Three Years.

As I have revealed in Previous Anniversary Reflections I would never have begun "Podcast For A Lost Nation" without the Encouragement and Guidance of Michael Moore.  Although I am not lucky enough to know Michael personally I have been a big fan of his Incredibly Powerful Movies for a long time.  When I found out that he was doing a Podcast I tuned in.  As I expected, Michael's Podcast, "Rumble," was just as powerful as I thought it would be.  Michael Moore had been one of the few American Commentators who in 2016 thought that Donald Trump could possibly actually win the American Presidential Election.  Early on in his Podcast Episodes he identified his concern that it might be possible for Donald Trump to either win another term legitimately in 2020 or try to steal the 2020 Election and remain in office illegally.  Now, we all know how that turned out.  We are still dealing with Donald Trump's Continuing Deranged Lie that he "Won the 2020 Election by a wide margin" That was total Bullshit.

Anyway, during Michael Moore's First Episodes Michael encouraged his Podcast Listeners to consider creating their own Podcasts through Anchor and Spotify.  Mr. Moore made it sound very easy for anyone to create their own Podcast through Anchor which would make it available on Spotify and several other Podcast Sites.  Thanks to Michael Moore I followed through on his advice and found that he was telling the truth.  Anchor made setting up and continuing to make Podcasts so easy that even I could do it and I have been doing it for the past three years.  

Although the process for making the Podcast Episodes was rather simple there were a few other factors that encouraged me to resort to Podcasting.  As we all remember July of 2020 was a time when a lot of people in America and indeed all over the world were dying of Complications of Covid 19.  As we also remember President Donald Trump was, as he admitted to Journalist, Bob Woodward "Playing Down" the results of Covid.  Clearly Trump was Playing down Covid because he didn't want to become a "Loser" in the 2020 Election.

I remember feeling panicked in 2020 that Donald Trump, whose entire performance during the three and a half years he was in the Presidency was a complete horror show, could actually be Re Elected.  This prospect certainly encouraged me to take what I felt was the logical step of turning my Political Blog  called "Letters To A Lost Nation" which I had been writing since 2008 into a Podcast in July of 2020.

My wife and I had spent some time during years previous to 2016 getting involved in local politics and spending time calling Democrats on the phone for some local Candidates and even some Presidential Candidates including Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Kerry.  We found those experiences less than satisfying since mostly nobody answered our calls and sometimes those who did answer were annoyed and hostile.  In 2020 I wanted to do something to support Joe Biden who I had admired for a long time so I chose to Blog and Podcast advocating for Biden and I was very pleased when he won the 2020 Presidential  Election.  After the election I initially expected Donald Trump to do the right thing and fly off to Mara  Lago and never be heard from again, just as losing Presidential Candidates had done for many years.  

My After Election Plan in 2020 was to switch Blog and Podcast themes to more Cultural rather than Political topics following the swearing in of President Biden in January of 2021.

Of course that switch in topics didn't happen thanks to those Trump Supporters whose devotion to their leader was so strong that they felt that they were willing to Deep Six Democracy rather than let Donald Trump go.

I have said time and time again, like a broken record, that I do not understand and will never really understand, although I've tried, what in the hell the attraction is about Donald Trump that would make people, who I assume are normal Americans, be willing to ditch our Democracy in favor of a Dictatorship led by Donald Trump.  

For God's Sake can't you MAGA people, many of you who are Christians, realize that Donald Trump is as far away from Jesus Christ as it is possible to be.  In addition to his unfamiliarity with the Bible his actions always speak louder than his words.

Christians, Donald Trump does not care at all about you except for what he can get from you.  He demands your loyalty but what loyalty does Donald Trump give anyone.  Ask Michael Cohen who went to jail for paying off a Porn Star for Donald Trump what lessons he has learned about being loyal to Donald Trump.  Trump re payed Cohen's loyalty by instructing his Attorney General to engineer Cohen's prosecution and incarceration for an act that Cohen did simply as a favor for Trump. It was not something Cohen did for himself.   Cohen got nothing out of it other than a Jail Sentence. Suffice it to say that Michael Cohen learned a very hard lesson as he sat in his jail cell for years.  That lesson was that it doesn't pay to be loyal to Donald Trump.

If you are planning to vote for Trump in 2024 Please think about what the consequences of your vote is going to be.

Donald Trump unleashed is not something I want to see and if you haven't given up completely on Democracy and Decent Behavior I hope that most Americans don't want to see it either.  Yes, I must admit that the man can be a Charming Con Man at times and put on a Great Act and sound sincere.  

But please note that Donald Trump's heroes are not normal American Heroes.  His bedside reading material was a book of Hitler's speeches.  That should tell you something.  What world leaders does he admire.  Not normal world leaders like Justin Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron.  He loves Dictators like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un.  That is because he longs to be a Dictator himself.  If he is elected in 2024 and given the reins of power in America again we may have more than Immigrants locked up in American Labor Camps.  Trump has already indicated what kind of people he will be hanging out with.  Jews and Blacks won't be on the list unless it is someone sicker than himself like Kanye West.

We have seen over the past few years what it is like to have a President put the American People's interest in front of his own.  Although he has been given little credit by the American people, Joe Biden's accomplishments during the past few years have been staggering, despite Republican attempts to block his efforts to improve the lives of normal Americans. 

Only those who are as corrupt as Donald Trump should be willing to vote for a Dangerous  Egomaniac Nazi for President.  For the past few years since Trump was defeated by Biden, Trump has continued to identify Enemies of the People as Journalists, Doctors, Teachers, Librarians Professors and Scientists.

For God's Sake MAGA voters.  Wake up and look at Donald Trump Realistically before it is too late for all of us who Truly believe in Democracy in America.

Donald Trump did not Clean up the Swamp during his time in office.  He created the Worst Swamp we have ever seen and he and his Henchmen and Women are looking to do it again.

Lets not let MAGA Republicans turn America into Nazi Germany with Donald Trump as the Fuhrer.

Sincerely Yours

Jerry Gallagher 

 

 

What The Hell Is Going On In Russia or Mr. Prigozhin Don't Stand Too Close To That 7th Floor Window

 Friday, June 30th, 2023

My Dear America:

This Past Weekend was a very strange weekend for all of us who are interested in what is happening and what is going to happen in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

It has been well known for some time that Yegevney Prigozhin, the Rogue Leader of the Wagner Group Forces in Ukraine was not happy with what had been going on with the Russian Armed Forces Leadership who were in charge of what the world Calls The "War in Ukraine" and the Russian People are only allowed to call the "Special Military Operation in Ukraine."  Regardless of what it was called, the senseless Invasion of Ukraine by Russia has not been going well for over a year for either the Ukrainians or the Russians.  The only bright spot for the Russians recently was the taking of the Ukrainian City of Bakhmut after a devastating series of battles between mainly Russian Wagner Forces and Ukrainian Forces.  In the end the Ukrainian Freedom Fighters lost out to the Wagner Forces but only after a devastating loss of human lives by both sides, although it was reported that by the end of the Battle for Bakhmut The Wagner Group had lost many more lives than did the Ukrainians.

The Wagner Group has been made up of thousands of Dirty Dozen Type Soldiers.  In other words the Prigozhin led group had been culled from some of the most dangerous Killers and Psychopaths that Prigozhin could find inside Russian Prisons who were willing to agree to kill or be killed in battle in Ukraine and in other dangerous locales in the world including Africa and Syria in exchange for their Freedom and a few Rubles.

Prigozhin made it clear in recent weeks that he was not happy with certain individuals who were in change of the Russian Military Establishment who Prigozhin felt were not supportive enough to the Wagner Troops in Ukraine.  Prigozhin complained bitterly about the lack of ammunition and other needed munitions and equipment.  Prigozhin's complaints seemed to fall on deaf ears within the Russian Military establishment, including Vladimir Putin, Prigozhin's longtime Ally and Boss.  

Reports are that the last straw for Prigozhin was the apparent bombing of a Wagner Military Camp in Ukraine by regular Russian Military forces which killed numerous Wagner Fighters and could have killed Prigozhin.  Prigozhin did not take this Russian military action well.  He gathered up what was left of his Wagner forces in Ukraine and left Ukraine moving his forces to the Russian Military headquarters in Rostov, Russia where for a time Prigozhin appeared to control the Military headquarters.  Following this move it was reported that Prigozhin and his troops were on the road to Moscow where God Knows What was going to happen.

Things were not looking well when Vladimir Putin spoke and declared Prigozhin's actions "Treasonous."

Sometime after this statement by Putin things took a strange turn.  The leader of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko supposedly reached an agreement with Prigozhin in which Prigozhin would move to Belarus as a Sanctuary and a bloodbath in Moscow and elsewhere in Russia would be avoided.  The agreement supposedly indicated that no charges would be filed against Prigozhin and the Wagner Troops would be absorbed by the Russian Army.

At the present time we don't know the whereabouts of Yevgeny Prigozhin.  One report states that he is in Minsk in Belarus living in the only hotel in Minsk that has no windows.  My advice to Prigozhin is to continue to stay in that hotel in one of the first floor rooms, since it is well known that numerous individuals who have fallen out of favor with Vladimir Putin have also strangely fallen out of high windows in recent times .  

Clearly Vladimir Putin has been tolerant of Prigozhin for a long time but it is hard not to assume that Prigozhin's days are numbered.  Certainly it does not appear as though Prigozhin is going to go quietly into retirement.  He has already opened a serious can of worms for Vladimir Putin by his statements indicating that Vladimir Putin's reasons for starting the War in Ukraine, namely that Putin wanted to rid Ukraine of Nazis, was an outright lie.  

The truth is that neither Putin nor Prigozhin are good people.  Prigozhin at least told the truth about the War in Ukraine but a saint he is not and replacing Putin with Prigozhin would be replacing one Monster with a Worse Monster.  

What does seem to be the case at the present time is that Prigozhin's brief but serious rebellion seems to have shown weakness on the part of Vladimir Putin.  What will happen as the result of that weakness is anybody's guess.  Would Prigozhin be a better leader for Russia.  

No.

But at least Prigozhin would possibly not wish to continue the War in Ukraine.

It will be very interesting to keep an eye on what is happening in Russia in the near future.

Sincerely Yours

Jerry Gallagher