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

Remembering Those Brave Individuals Who Fought And Died To Preserve Freedom And Democracy In America

 Friday,  June 2nd, 2023

My Dear America:

I just spent an extended period of time over the Memorial Day Weekend and on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this past week thinking about the Men and Women of our Armed Forces and what they went through with their partners in Britain and France to fight World Wars in order to preserve Freedom and Democracy in our Country and in the World.  

Watching Turner Classic Movies (TCM) on Memorial Day Weekend and also FDR on the History Channel beginning Memorial Day Evening and continuing for Two nights after that was an inspiring experience.

TCM presented a weekend packed with mainly War Films like Darby's Rangers starring James Garner,  The Naked and the Dead, based on Norman Mailer's First Best Seller starring Aldo Ray, The Dirty Dozen starring Lee Marvin and a host of other well known Actors including Jim Brown, John Cassavettes, Charles Bronson, Donald Sutherland, Telly Savales and even Trini Lopez.  Even the Civil War was represented in the War Movie Marathon featuring the actually Highly Decorated World War II Hero, Audie Murphy starring in The Red Badge of Courage.

Courage was certainly on display throughout the Memorial Day Movie Marathon on TCM.  Also on display throughout these films was the Brotherhood of Battle in which Men at War protect and defend one another, along with genuinely protecting and defending their countries.

War is Hell for sure and no one in their right mind wants to join their country's army and go to other Countries to kill people for fun.  Men were willing to fight for their Country in World War II because they had no other choice.  Adolph Hitler was a despicable dictator who had essentially conquered most of Europe and was on the verge of conquering all of Europe and possibly the world with his partners in War in Japan, Italy and Spain.

When America joined with Britain and Russia and the Free French, Hitler's Blitzkrieg (Lightning War) had already conquered most of Europe along with Italy's Mussolini.  Britain was being bombed nightly by the Germans and France had already fallen into German hands when The United States was bombed at Pearl Harbor giving America no choice but to take up arms against the Japanese, the Italians and the Germans.

The truth was that many Americans were reluctant to enter into another World War after the devastating results of World War I.  The Excellent History Channel Series FDR showed that although Franklin Delano Roosevelt knew that America would probably need to enter the fight against the Nazis at some point much of the country did not want to fight until the disaster at Pearl Harbor gave them no choice but to respond to the monsters that were in the process of taking over the world.  

FDR was a very interesting character who was perfectly suited for his time.  He and his wife Eleanor, who was another interesting character saw their four sons go off to war in World War II while FDR struggled to figure out how to outwit the Nazis along with his partner in War, England's Winston Churchill.  These two Larger Than Life Leaders became close friends and recognized how the deck was stacked against the success of their Countries in World War II.  England was on the verge of defeat by the Nazis when FDR rallied the American Troops and came to the rescue of the world.

Roosevelt and Churchill were the kinds of charismatic leaders who were able to inspire their citizens and their troops to fight for Freedom and Democracy in the world.  They had their flaws but they also were nearly perfectly positioned leaders for their times and their countries.

Both FDR and Churchill were in the unenviable position of needing to encourage their citizens who had no real interest in entering another world war to follow their leadership into World War II. 

What I kept wondering as I watched the Movie Marathon on TCM and FDR on the History Channel was how the men and women who sacrificed their lives and their limbs in World War II would view what is happening in America and in the world today.  

What would those truly brave individuals think about people like Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis praising Russian Dictator, Vladimir Putin as he bombs the hell out of the Democratic Country of Ukraine. 

What would those brave individuals from yesteryear think about a Republican Party that has lost its mind and its principles and in state after state pushes for Right Wing agendas like taking away the rights of Women, Gays, Blacks and Transgender people and banning books.

Would those brave veterans of World Wars I and II be Okay with rolling back Civil Rights and Voting Rights in America like Right Wing MAGA Republicans are.

I don't think that those brave souls who fought so hard for Freedom and Democracy in their time would be alright with the liars and the Chicken Hawks who want nothing more than the power to tear down Democracy and Freedom in America and turn it into a Dictatorship.  

I hope that at some point those decent American People who have been bamboozled by the American Right but still truly believe in Democracy and Freedom wake up to what they have signed onto in 2023.

As the election of 2024 creeps ominously closer it is time for Genuine Patriots , not Chickenshit Patriots to wake up to the treason and racist horrors that await us all if either Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis are elected President in 2024.

It is time to stop bitching about how old Joe Biden is and recognize that despite his age President Biden, after the disaster that was Donald Trump, has managed, with no real help from Republicans, to veer away from the traitorous rhetoric and actions of the Trump Administration and has shown the Citizens of the United States that, like FDR, Winston Churchill and the Veterans of the past, American Presidents can be and mostly are believers in Freedom and Democracy.

It is time to recognize that the American Electorate made a Serious Mistake in electing Donald Trump to the Presidency and it is incredibly important that we never make that same mistake again.  

It is time to recognize that people in America have died for the freedoms that we sometimes take for granted and may be on the verge of losing forever.

Wake up to reality, my fellow Americans, before it is too late to save the Freedoms that our Fathers, Grandfathers, Sons and Uncles fought for in our name.

Sincerely Yours

Jerry Gallagher

The Nazis Are Coming, The Nazis Are Coming - No, Wait THE NAZIS ARE ALREADY HERE

Friday, May 12th, 2023

My Dear America:

Back in 2017 in response to American Intelligence Reports that turned out to be true, namely that Trump had nefarious dealings with Vladimir Putin and Russia, Donald Trump had the following response on Twitter.

"Are We Living in Nazi Germany?"

These days those of us who are living in America should be asking ourselves the same question that Trump asked.

"Are those of us living in the USA, indeed, Living in Nazi Germany, or some place very similar to Nazi Germany?

I think that Rachel Maddow's MSNBC Program on Monday Night, May 8th, 2023 showed us that when it comes to Nazis, who we thought we fought very successfully in World War II and eliminated, we need to wake up and smell the Treason and The Stench of the German Death Camps and realize that Hitler and company may be dead but Nazi ideas like killing Jews are still alive and well, not only in America but these days they can be found all over the world.

Rachel's May 8th Program was incredibly disturbing to anyone who recognizes the truly frightening history of just how close we came to losing World War II to a Nation led by Bloodthirsty Madmen who thought it was Okay to wipe out the entire Jewish Population of Europe including not only Jewish men but also Jewish Women and Children, as well.  Although a  limited number of Jews survived the Holocaust, Six Million Jews did not survive Hitler's Sick Extermination Plan.

Now we are living in an America in which countless Americans are posting "Hitler was right" on social media.  

What the hell is wrong with these people.  What the hell is wrong with our country.

No, my fellow Americans.  Hitler was not right.  Hitler was an Evil Monster whose hatred of the Jews was wrong on so many levels.

But lets get back to Rachel's program.  

Rachel pointed out that this weekend, following a night in which Donald Trump is getting normalized by being interviewed by Caitlin Collins on CNN in what is being billed as a Presidential Town Hall, Trump will then go back to Florida and participate in a Two day Trump Presentation featuring many of the former members of the Disgraced Trump Administration, as well as at least Two Straight Up Jew Hating Nazi's promoting their hate filled propaganda as featured speakers at the Trump Event at Trump's Doral Hotel in Miami.  Rachel made it a point to warn her audience that they may not like what these individuals had to say  before she played video footage of Scott Mckay and Charlie Ward spewing their Jew Hating Screeds. Rachel explained that both of these Nazi Propagandists were presently on tour with Eric Trump.

Some of what McKay and Ward apparently accuse Jews of include the following: They say that Jews were responsible for 911 and were also responsible for every American Presidential Assassination including not only Kennedy but also Mckinley and Lincoln, as well as many other reprehensible acts. And here we thought Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth.

Unfortunately, because Freedom of Expression is guaranteed in America by our Constitution we are stuck having to tolerate a certain amount of this Nazi Bullshit.  But what we have seen and learned in recent years is that many of the individuals who are carrying out senseless mass murders all over America are Far Right Extremists who have followed Former President Trump down his dark path toward victimizing Jews, Blacks, Latinos, Migrants, LGTBQ and other targets of Trump's venom.

Indeed, the Recent Mass Murderer in Allen, Texas was shown in pictures to have Swastikas on his body and RWDS on his Tactical Gear.  What was learned from the Proud Boys Trial was that RWDS stands for Right Wing Death Squad.

What Rachel Maddow has pointed out on several of her shows is that Nazi Madness is clearly on the rise not only in America but in other countries, as well.  Victor Orbon, the Right Wing Leader of Hungary has proved to be a favorite of many individuals calling themselves Conservatives and has been a featured speaker at CPAC conferences in America and Hungary.  At a recent CPAC Conference in Hungary Orbon went on a rant about why he would not allow "Race Mixing" in his country.  His rant was so extreme that one of his Government leaders resigned in protest stating in his resignation that the speech that Orbon had delivered was a "purely Nazi Diatribe worthy of Joseph Goebbels."

Lets not forget that Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Tucker Carlson, Ron DeSantis and others on Fox News, OAN and Newsmax have all done their share to normalize Jew Hating.  Putin has had the gall to claim that the reason he sent Russian Troops into Ukraine  was to root out Nazis, who he claimed were creating atrocities.  The truth was that President Zelensky was Jewish and there was no evidence of Nazi horrors in Ukraine before the Russians invaded the country.  Indeed, it was Putin's army that has been shown to have been committing Nazi Style Atrocities in Ukraine.

To someone who grew up in an America in which Nazi's were shunned, arrested and deported when they were found hiding in our country after World War II, I find the acceptance of Nazis and Nazi Propaganda to be deplorable and hard to understand.  I will never understand or accept the premise that Jews can be or should be killed just for being Jews.  What happened during the Holocaust is difficult to understand but there is certainly enough evidence to show that what Hitler and Germany did to the Jews was one of the foulest episodes of Inhumanity to man that has ever happened.

Whenever I think of Jews I think of Sol Gelb, a Jewish Corner Store owner in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.  When I met Sol I had just been hired as a Counselor for one of the first Youth Opportunity Job Placement Centers opening in Pennsylvania.  I was newly married with a child on the way and when I explained my situation to Sol and the fact that I was broke and would not get paid for at least a month Sol and his wife took my wife and I under their wing and showed us nothing but kindness.  Sol kept us supplied with whatever we wanted from his store until I finally got my first check and paid him what he was owed.  Sol and his wife did not need to be as kind and considerate as they were but I was sure glad that they were willing to help us.  Because of Sol I have always had good feelings about Jewish people and I always will have good feelings toward Jewish people.

What the Nazis did to the Jews of Europe is something that should never be forgotten or forgiven and the fact that Nazi propaganda is on the rise is something that should concern all Americans

The fact is that Donald Trump is a convicted Sexual Abuser as of May 9th, 2023.  He is also clearly a Nazi Sympathizer and a Putin Ally.  As of May 8th polling shows that in a recent Presidential Poll Trump got 44 Percent and Biden only got 38 Percent.  Something is radically wrong here.   It is inconceivable to me that Donald Trump could actually be re elected to the Presidency.  I know that polling can be off by a lot sometimes.  I sure hope that this recent poll is way off the mark. The thought of another Trump Administration with Trump unleashed and Nazi Sympathizers by his side is too much to bear for me and should be too much to bear for all Decent Americans.

Nazis should never be normalized and neither should Donald Trump.

Sincerely Yours

Jerry Gallagher  

 

What The Fox Happened - An Unauthorized Apology That Fox News Should Have Been Required To Issue To The Dominion Voting Machine Company

Wednesday, April 26th, 2023 

My Dear America:

The Following Apology is merely a suggested outline for a Legitimate Apology that I feel should have been issued by Fox News at the time of their Multi Million Dollar Settlement with the Dominion Voting Machine Corporation.  Fox came up with the Cash-Big Time (787 Million Dollars Worth).  People, That Ain't Chump Change.  But  Uh - An Apology, Not so much.  So I thought that I would try to help out Fox News by Issuing their Apology to Dominion and to the American People on their behalf.

So Here Goes:

A Fox News Apology To Dominion Voting Machines Corporation & America

      Prepared and Issued by G. Gordon Gadfly, Fox News Minister of Patriotism

Recent Circumstances surrounding our Legal Difficulties with Dominion Voting Machine Corporation have caused those of us at Fox News who truly are Genuine Patriots to reevaluate our Responsibilities to our viewers and also to those people who are not Fox News Viewers.  

We are beyond ourselves with regrets regarding mistakes that we have made in the past.  One of those mistakes included our On Air Lies about who won the 2020 Election for President of the United States.  We now realize that Those lies fueled the Patriotic Fervor of those individuals who wanted so badly for Donald Trump to remain President of the United States that they Cooperated in the Shameful and Anti Democratic events of January Sixth, 2021.  Those events included such things as  breaking into the Capitol Building, building a scaffold to "Hang Mike Pence" and perhaps some other Politicians as well.  We realize that those individuals who ransacked the Capitol, beat the hell out of Police Officers and pooped all over the place were simply exercising their Patriotic Duty that we have tried to ingrain into our Fox News Viewers for so many years but what we did in pushing the Election Lies of Donald J. Trump and his Republican Conspirators was a mistake and regrettable.

What is doubly shameful on our part is the fact that we were the first network to call the Presidential Election For Joe Biden.  When Donald Trump dumped his ridiculous claims about "Winning the Election in a Landslide" on us we should have insisted that he should tell the truth but we didn't.  clearly the Former president did not want to be called a "Loser."  That was the kiss of death for him.  But he was a loser.  That was clear to us then and is even clearer to us now.  And as a result of our unwillingness to tell our viewers the truth we have now joined Donald Trump in the Loser's Circle.

We at Fox also regret the fact that we not only supported Donald "Loser" Trump after the 2020 Election but we also supported his Lying Loser Circle of Weird and Wacky Friends like Mike "The Pillow Guy" Lindell, Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, among other Lying Losers who preferred to support Trump's unlawful attempt to become a Dictator over supporting Democracy and Joe Biden, the truly legitimate winner of the Presidency in November of 2020.

We at Fox News are at a loss as we realize by supporting Donald Trump for so long from the time of his First Campaign Announcement up until now just how many problems we have helped him to create not only in America but throughout the world.  Clearly we should have known from the time of his Announcement when he was disparaging Mexicans and stating that he would "Build a Wall And Mexico Would Pay for it" that Donald Trump was a liar of epic proportions.  But it was clear to us from the beginning of his run for President that this Liar had something special going for him.  Trump was capable of outrageous lies that no other Presidential Candidate in the history of the United States could ever have gotten away with and he still had people who loved him and supported him.  What the hell was it that this guy had.  We are still trying to figure that out.  But the Truth is that Fox Viewers loved Donald Trump and still do, many of them.  Certainly not all of them.  But there is no doubt that after Donald Trump (A dedicated Democrat for most of his life) decided to run for President as a Republican, clearly the Republican Party latched onto him and they have never to this day let him go.

Donald Trump was Twice impeached, took Russia's side in a dispute with America's Intelligence Agencies, Took Putin's side in the Invasion of Ukraine and led an Insurrection trying to get his followers to hang his Vice President and prevent Congress from Certifying Joe Biden's legitimate Election Victory.  He has recently been arrested and charged with criminal conduct in New York and may also be charged with even more serious crimes and he is still the leading Candidate on the Republican Ticket for President in 2024.  We at Fox would like to deep six Trump.  He has been nothing but trouble for us.  For God's sake, he and his lies have already cost us 787 Million Dollars.  But what can we do.  Are we going to refuse to cover the Leading Candidate for President in the Republican Party.  Talk about being between a rock and a hard place.  That's where we are at Fox News. We have no choice but to cover Former President Trump.

While we are mentioning our Mea Culpa's we also wish to apologize to other companies and Groups who are suing us for all manner of things.  Especially Smartmatic.  Please Smartmatic, go easy on us.  We have been through a lot and most of our money has gone to Dominion, not to mention the outrageous Legal Fees that we have already paid out. 

One additional Apology that we wish to make is to the women of Fox News who work in many types of employment positions at our company.  While we have paid off some of those women who have accused some Fox News Executives and Employees of Sexual Harassment and/or Sexual Abuse we at Fox are recognizing the error of our ways in not doing more to prevent cases of Sexual Misconduct by individuals in responsible positions at Fox News.  We now realize that our long time CEO at Fox News, Roger Ailes was guilty of Not Only Sexual Harassment but of Sexual Abuse, as well.  One Female Employee of Fox News who we paid off accused Roger of two decades of Sexual Abuse causing her to endure both Physical and Psychological repercussions.  We are sorry for that and we are also sorry for the problems caused by Bill O'Reilly and others, some of whom were forced out with significant payoffs.  The 2016 Suit brought against Fox by Gretchen Carlson with support from other Fox News Women caused us to significantly review our policies regarding Sexual Harassment and Sexual Abuse.  We regret that so many women of Fox News have had to endure Sexual Misconduct s the result of working for Fox News.  We pledge to do better going forward.   

Of Course, looking back on it We probably should have paid the Dominion Company up front, and avoided looking like fools when our Fox News On Air Talent like Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity's E Mail's and texts were released to Dominion and to the world.  Clearly their Texts and E Mails and the Texts and E Mails of other Fox News On Air Personalities have shown very clearly that Donald Trump was despised by these people despite the fact that they kissed his ass on air frequently even though they knew he was lying to them constantly.  We also apologize for the fact that Tucker Carlson is not only one of America's favorite On Air TV Personalities but we also regret that he is also one of Russia's favorite On Air Personalities and a genuine favorite Russian Asset for Vladimir Putin.  We now realize that he is a traitor but his Ratings on Fox News were so high that he thought we can't fire him.  As of now we are proud to say that Tucker Carlson was wrong.  He has cost our network too much money and credibility and is now permanently gone from Fox News.    

Finally, we think that it is time for us to apologize for our continuing Coverage of gun violence in America.  We think that it is about time for us to show the NRA the door and begin to discourage people like the 84 year old guy who shot a black kid because the kid came to his door and scared him.  The old guy's grandson told News people that his Grandfather watched our channels constantly.  We applaud his support for us but we wish he didn't shoot anybody.

From this day forward, we at Fox News are requesting that all of our viewers put your guns down and hand them over to the police in your area.  We especially wish our viewers stop buying AR 15 rifles and stop buying ammunition for them.

We also wish to promise our viewers that we have learned our lesson and will be more responsible in the future.  That is when and if our vast array of uninformed MAGA Republicans, Traitors and Old People continue to watch our Programs and buy our advertised products.  Unfortunately, if our viewers turn away from Fox and go to other Right Wing Propaganda Stations like One America News and Newsmax all bets are off and we are back on the Trump Train heading for 2024.

Thank you all for Reading or Listening to our Unauthorized Fox Apology.

Sincerely Yours

Jerry Gallagher

No Shame In Nashville - At least Not For Republican Legislators

Saturday, April 8th, 2023

My Dear America:

I know that there are no Republicans looking for any Political Advice from me at this point in time, or at any point in time, for that matter.

But, regardless of that I am still going to give Republicans some free and I believe worthwhile advice that I hope they might freely use to improve their Political Future.

First of all, Dump Donald Trump and scrub every trace of his miserable Corrupt ass from your Party.  Trump has turned your Republican Party into  something that is unrecognizable compared to the Old and Highly Respected Republican Party of Yesteryear.  Maybe Republicans cannot see it as clearly as Democrats can but what is clear after over Six Years of Trump's massive corrupting influence over the Republican Party is that he and his MAGA Cohorts have commandeered your party and turned it into something akin to the Nazi Party that corrupted Germany and caused the Second World War and the Holocaust.

Secondly, Dump Ron Desantis, who is simply a Trump Clone who has tried and in some cases succeeded to be more extreme and destructive than his Mara Lago Mentor and 2024 Presidential Rival and since he still has some power in the State of Florida he continues to pull your party down a shameful path.

Thirdly,  Dump Maga Morons like Kevin McCarthy, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar and others who believe that the best things that they can do is follow Donald Trump to the Gates Of Hell and back.  These dumbasses, some of whom follow stupid Qanon  conspiracy Theories, need to be exorcised from your party like the demons thtat they are.

Fourthly,  Turn off your Fox News, Newsmax and OAN and start listening to Truthful News like MSNBC and CNN rather than LNN, Liars Network News.

In my opinion Republicans taking these simple steps that I just outlined could and would improve the future of the Republican Party significantly.

Now why would I really want to improve the prospects of the Republican Party.

Well, the truth is that I don't really want to see the Republican Party improve too significantly.  

Quite frankly, I am fairly certain that a Party that supports Fascists like Donald Trump, Ron Desantis and Tucker Carlson is too far gone down the rabbit hole to return to Reality and Democratic Values any time soon.

But the truth also is that America is a country that has developed and has been sustained by a Two Party System and to survive as a Democracy both of those two parties need to be both Strong and  Sane.  And right now only one of the major parties is Strong and Sane.  That party is the Democratic Party.

Republicans have clearly lost their minds over Donald Trump.  That was obvious long before this week's indictment of him for 34 Counts of Fraud by the New York City District Attorney, Alvin Bragg.  But now, everyone can see that Trump's disrespect and denigration of DA Bragg and the Judge in his case and the Judges family as well as Trump's constant threatening of Death and Destruction on Trump's Truth Social is way over the line of respectability and sanity.

What is truly disturbing to me is the fact that instead of Republicans recognizing how awful and disgusting Trump's attitude and behavior continues to be it seems as though many high profile Republicans don't seem to be angry at Trump.  They are instead angry and threatening toward the New York DA and Judge in the case.

The Republican madness is almost understandable when we see the attention paid by the news media to Trump's indictment.  Some news organizations followed Trump's procession from Mara Lago to the Airport, filming his takeoff in Florida and his landing in New York and the vehicle caravan from LaGuardia to Trump Tower.  In the few times and few minutes I was been able to stand the Indictment and Aftermath coverage on Fox, OAN and Newsmax I realized quickly what a different world those viewers were living in.  There was no discussion of Trump's Lies and deceptions.  He was a Genuine Hero on the Liars Networks. Incredible, absolutely incredible.

One of the worst things that Donald Trump has done to the Republican Party, I believe is his convincing the party members that they should be like him.  Never apologize.  Never admit weakness and, of course, never admit defeat. Never admit to being a "Loser."  Certainly in Trump's estimation Republicans should be like him and never be ashamed, or at least never admit to being ashamed of anything that they have done.

Certainly Trump's indictment coverage dominated the news this week even though there were major stories around the world that were far more consequential to the world than Trump's indictment.  

The war between Ukraine and their Russian Invaders continued.

There were Crowds of Jewish protestors fighting to keep their Prime Minister, Trump's Buddy Benjamin Netanyahu from destroying their Democracy by taking power away from their Supreme Court, who just happen to be investigating charges against Netanyahu.

There were crowds of Frenchmen protesting an increase in the retirement age in France.  

China was angry that Kevin McCarthy was meeting with the President of Taiwan at the Reagan Library in California.

There was plenty to be concerned about in the world and then there was the situation in Nashville that exploded out of the blue and suddenly focused attention on some of the nasty things happening in American Legislatures, much of which has been under the radar for some time now.

Back in the late Fifties and Sixties when Rockabilly Artist, Johnny Cash started out recording in Memphis, Tennessee his incredible backup band was called "The Tennessee Three."

After this week, however, we have a new "Tennessee Three."  They are Two Black Justin's, Justin Jones-27 representing Nashville and Justin Pearson-28 representing Memphis, as well as a White Gloria, Gloria Johnson-60-A retired Teacher and a survivor of a Knoxville School shooting in which one person was killed.

When a well attended group of mainly young students showed up at the Tennessee State House to demand the passage of Gun reform laws after a school shooting in Nashville that killed three children and three adults "The Tennessee Three" showed support for the young protestors and demanded that they might be heard by their colleagues in the Tennessee House of Representatives.  The House, which was dominated by Republicans, reacted quickly and viciously by voting to expel the two Black Justin's although they didn't expel White Gloria.  

Both Justin's have shown in their reactions to being thrown out of the Tennessee Legislature an incredible amount of restraint, courage, optimism and clearly some incredible oratorical skills that reminded me of Barack Obama.  Former President Obama and President Biden have already weighed in on the situation and Biden sent Vice President Harris to Nashville to meet with the now former legislators and their supporters.

Clearly this situation smacks of Racism, Republican unwillingness to do anything about gun violence and possibly some collusion between State Gun Manufacturers and Republican Legislators.

One thing is for sure.  This situation is not over.  Tennessee has had a lot to answer for previous to this. It was the state where the Ku Klux Klan was born.  It was a state where Civil Rights Struggles have been difficult and important.  It is also a state where a Republican State Legislator can make a statement about how it might be a good thing to bring back Lynching in the state.  That Legislator, however, continues to keep his seat while the Two Justin's are expelled for insisting that the Legislature needs to consider doing something about gun reform.

What I have seen in watching film of the Two Justin's speaking to the Legislature on their own behalf is that these two individuals are committed to gun reform and are two of the most articulate individuals that I have seen involved in Politics for a long time.  Whether or not they return to their elected posts in the Tennessee Legislature they are shining examples of why Republican Legislators are and should be panicked.

The Racists and the Fascists who are now running the show in Nashville, Washington and elsewhere can see the writing on the wall.  They refuse to pay attention to the lessons that they should have learned during recent elections.

The Democrats are on their way to the Future.  The Young, The Women, The Blacks and those people who have sincere compassion for other people are on their way.

So I say to Republicans.  Enjoy your power while you have it because a new day is dawning and you and your insane, ruthless and lying candidates are headed for the dustheap of history.

The Tennessee Three are only some of those New Democratic challengers who you will regret trying to shaft.

Sincerely Yours

Jerry Gallagher