Happy Fourth Of July To The Readers of Letters To A Lost Nation And To The Listeners Of Podcast for A Lost Nation

Friday July 10th, 2026 

My Dear America:

I have always loved celebrating the Fourth of July and on the 250th Anniversary of the beginning of The United States of America I was once again happily celebrating July 4th.  I was once again in Havertown (My Future Home Town) with some of my Favorite Family Members.

Although I know that all is not well in every American Family I find it necessary sometimes to simply concentrate on those Good Solid Refreshing Moments of Pleasure like swimming with my Daughters and Granddaughters on some of the Brutally Hottest Days of the Year 2026 and reflect on the Long Term rather than the Short Term History of the United States of America.

I love my Country.  I always have and always will.  I am saddened and depressed regarding the fact that we are currently being governed by a Madman and his band of Syncophants who have Hijacked America for purposes that most of us do not agree with.

A long time ago in 2008 I began to write a Blog that I called "Letters To A Lost Nation".

When I began writing my Blog I was hopeful that as I wrote about 2008 that I would be commenting on some Very Important Political History.  After all, the 2008 Presidential Campaign was pitting, on the Democratic side, a Black First Time Senator against A Woman Senator who had also been the First Lady living in the White House for Eight Years while her Husband was President of the United States.  Surely there was some Political History to be had in this incredibly important Political Race for the White House.

Whichever one of these two Candidates who won their shot to be the Democratic Contender for the Presidency in 2008 would certainly prove to be a Historic Candidate.

Hope was in the air in 2008.  Democrats had suffered through Two Terms of Republican President, George W. Bush.  It was now time for a Historic Democratic Candidate to take the reins of government and in the end Barack Obama did that with Style and Grace and waited patiently for Republican Members of The Congress to come to their senses and support him and the American Government.  Unfortunately, however Barack's hope for Unity with Republicans never really occurred.

What has occurred during the intervening years between Barack Obama's Administration and today's Trump Administration, however is an increasing division between Democrats and Republicans that has resulted in Donald Trump's return to the White House with a Vengeance and a Boldness which no longer hides Trump's readiness to milk the United States for all he can get out of it.

In July of 2020 as we prepared for the election in November of that year I decided to turn my Blog into a Podcast in order to do all I could to prevent Donald Trump from being re elected President in 2020.  I know that my Podcasts and Blog Posts did not have a great deal to do with Trump's Defeat in 2020 but I still felt good about the fact that I might have had some extremely minor influence regarding Joe Biden's 2020 defeat of Donald Trump for the Presidency.

As I write presently 18 Years after beginning my Blog and in the Sixth Year of my Podcast I have seen some interesting things occurring.

In the First and Second Year of Trump's Strange and Terrible return to the White House I have seen the numbers of my Blog Readers skyrocket.   Over the years I published my Blog I would be lucky if I got a total of a Hundred Blog Readers over the course of a month. Presently I am seeing at least 2000 and sometimes many more than that Read My Blog Posts over a monthly period.  

My Podcast traffic has also shown some small uptick in traffic but nothing close to the uptick in the Blog Traffic.

I still continue to do my Podcasts because I know that I have Friends and Family Members who continue to listen to the Podcasts with enthusiasm.  And Frankly I enjoy turning the Blog Posts into Podcasts 

I continue to do the Blog and Podcasts with the hope that what I am doing is at least doing something to help encourage America's return to its sense of Patriotic Responsibility.

We still have Newspapers like the New York Times which seem to be attempting to print the truth.  We also have MSNOW and their Hosts trying to get the truth out. Unfortunately, however we also have a number of Television Programs and Newspapers who cater to Right Leaning American Readers and Television Viewers and do not seem to reliably tell the truth to those Americans who depend on them for their news.

I have recently begun to follow the lead of my Blog Readers who I have noticed over a period of time appear to have begun to read not only the latest Blog Postings but also have begun to go back and read many earlier posts.  I have actually begun to do the same thing and as I have returned to some of the older posts I have realized that although I wasn't recognizing it at the time I have been writing what is, for the most part, a pretty detailed Political History of our time and quite frankly I am proud of what I have written and I am encouraged to continue to add to the Political History of the U.S.as time marches on into a new and hopefully more decent Political Climate.

To be honest as I see more Newspapers and Magazines fall by the wayside and more Podcasts and Blogs appear to be veering to the Right of Center I feel more compelled than ever to continue my Blog and Podcast.

I want to sincerely thank Blogspot and Spotify for their assistance in allowing me to freely use their platforms without ever throwing impediments in my way to alter or impede anything that I wanted to say regarding anything I wrote. I appreciate their granting me the Freedom to say whatever I wanted to say.  I also want to say that I greatly appreciate everyone who has supported me by reading my Blog and Listening to My Podcasts.  

I continue to hope for the best in America and as long as I can do it I intend to speak out truthfully as long as some Americans are willing to read my Posts and Listen to my Podcasts.

I thank all of those Americans participating in the "No Kings" Protests.  

I live in Hope that there are enough of us left who will vote in the future in an effort to Recapture Our Democracy before it is too late.

Sincerely Yours

Jerry Gallagher  

  

The Slippery Political Journey Of JD Vance

 Wednesday July 1st, 2026

My Dear America:

There are plenty of Slippery Characters in the Administration of Donald Trump.  There is no doubt about that.  Certainly Donald Trump, himself is an extremely slippery figure himself and clearly he refuses to be held down to one position on any political subject.  Indeed Trump is clearly a master of distraction but based on what I have seen in the past week Trump has some very serious competition when it comes to slippery political behavior from his Vice President.

I watched JD Vance on two relatively left leaning Television programs during the past week and I have to give this guy credit where credit is due.  On both "Real Time with Bill Maher" and on "The View" JD was like Daniel in the Lion's Den but the slippery bugger danced through both those programs like a master of slippery behavior.

Although Vance was asked some very important and relevant questions by Bill Maher and the girls from the View that certainly didn't mean that he was required to answer those questions truthfully or even to answer them at all.  

I have watched politicians interviewed on Television for many years but I don't really believe I have ever seen someone as skilled as Vance when it came to dodging questions that he didn't want to answer or simply changing whatever he was asked into talking about a subject that he did want to talk about.  

This son of a gun was good.  i'll give him that 

I have often wondered what it was that convinced Donald Trump to offer the Vice Presidency to JD Vance.  I don't wonder about that anymore.  

JD has some serious skills and is clearly smart as hell.  He proved that by charming his way into not only becoming a best selling Author but by getting himself befriended by some very influential Tech Giants who were loaded with money and helped JD to get on the Rich Track.  JD's Rich backers helped him to ease himself from Author to Hedge Fund Manager to Senator all in a very short space of time.

When Donald Trump chose JD Vance to be his Vice Presidential Running Mate in 2024 it appeared to many, including me, to be a very odd and hard to fathom choice as is the case with many things that Donald Trump Does.  Looking back on it, however, it was clearly a brilliant choice.  

Vance had started out during the time that he was hawking his book as a clean shaven newbie who had nothing but scathing criticism of Donald Trump.  He identified Donald Trump as an "American Hitler".  Apparently at that point in time Vance had not developed the skill of lying and Kissing Trump's Ass that he would in time become super skilled at.  

These days Vance seems focused on selling his new book, "Communion" in which he apparently describes his progression from Hillbilly Baptist to Catholic and in the process has felt as though it was OK for him to instruct Pope Leo on the ways of the world.

Pretty Audacious, I think.

Although we don't know for sure what is going on in the White House with JD Vance and Donald Trump we do know that JD was probably the only one of the President's advisors brave enough to risk Donald Trump's Wrath by advising Trump not to attack Iran.  

Trump's reaction to Vance's rather sensible advice was  to put Vance in charge of the next to impossible task of negotiating a peace deal with the Iranians Who never Trusted America to begin with and after getting the shaft by America twice certainly don't trust us now.

Speaking of Trust, JD Vance Cannot be trusted.  I will never forget a Rachel Maddow Program where she showed some videos in which one of JD' buddies and Mentors was promoting the value of America becoming a Dictatorship.

And Furthermore JD Vance has had the gall to state that if Watergate happened today that it would be nothing but a one day story in the media.  The enraging fact to me is that he is probably right.  The way one commentator put it is that comparing Watergate to the extreme corruption of the Trump Administration is like comparing the crimes of Jaywalking to that of a Serial Killer.  By the way if anyone is interested in learning a lot more about Watergate My book, "Letters To A Lost Nation: A Watergate Chronicle" is still available through Amazon in Paperback or E Book Editions

Jesus, And this guy, JD Vance is our Vice President and may one day become our President.  

Let's hope not.

Sincerely Yours

Jerry Gallagher