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It Doesn’t Feel Like the First Time
The seventies hit rock band Foreigner had many hits back in the day. One was Hot Blooded, another was As Cold as Ice.
Fast forward to 2022 and the parties keep rocking.
One band of many, The Jack Asses, are hot blooded on the campaign trail. They’re peddling a lot of T and A. That’s right, Trump and Abortion.
The other band of many, The Elephants, are as cold as ice. They’re singing I.C.E. That’s right, immigration, crime, and the economy.
Who will ascend to the top of the popular charts? Well, we’ll need to listen to the tunes over and over again until early November to find out.
The Democrats are on their third rendition of Trump just this year. First, it was the January 6th hearing, which was really more like a staged theatrical musical. Then, they broke out or broke into a Mar a Lago diddy. And, yesterday, one of the band members went solo with a head-banging $250 million civil suit against Trump, his family, his dogs, and his goldfish.
Letitia James, NY Attorney General, fulfilled a campaign promise of two years ago by filing suit for the State of NY v. Trump. She called her melody The Art of the Steal. How crafty? For Trump, the hits keep coming.
For the Dems, the more Trump hate the more the base turns out to vote. Trump was so 2020, but never let an oldie but goodie die.
Joe Biden promised in the early summer that the SCOTUS ruling that put abortion back in the state’s hands would put Roe v. Wade on the ballot in November. He was right.
I Am Woman hear me roar. Will the numbers be too big to ignore?
The Republicans sing at a lower key, but the tour stop at Martha’s Vineyard for the illegals was a smash hit. What it did in one weekend was more than what 2,000,000 Tejano border bands of brothers could belt out in two years.
It is said that people vote based on how safe they feel and how their pocketbook feels.
Crime statistics and defunding the police in key cities across America are on the main stage. That Starbucks is closing about two dozen “high incident” stores all urban, and all in Democratic-run cities isn’t lost on coffee lovers from seas to shining sea. For the many that are done with word salad, “high incident” isn’t lost on them either.
And, then there is the economy that Joe calls the best recovery ever. He’s singing the wrong tune and everyone knows it. Inflation is eating a hole in wallets. Inventory on basic items across many industries is wanting. The prices at the pump and the grocery store remind us of that every week.
Real wages are down as the cost of living increases aren’t keeping up with the cost of living.
The astute economic advisor knows that this spiral up is not caused by ABBA singing Money, Money, Money. It’s caused by the government printing money, money, money and giving it to one and all, Ukraine and art appreciation students included.
If you haven’t checked your 401k recently, don’t. You’ll be singing the blues.
So, which is it for America?
Hot Blooded, check it and see.
Or are you As Cold as Ice, willing to sacrifice?
Either way, Americans are no foreigners to mess we are in as it doesn’t feel like the very first time.
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Engage. Enrage. Enjoy.
So much BS, so little time. It’s most about promises that people make and should not. Nobody needs to hear that you will “go after someone”. Nobody needs to hear that “you will pay their bills”. And to top it all off, nobody needs to paint a yellow fricken bullseye on themselves like the Trump Family Vacation.
All I know is that if you or I took documents from our former employer home with us, we’d be sued and maybe prosecuted. My former employer has done it many times. And if we lied on our loan applications about the true value of our homes we’d be in deep kimchee.
It’s a pattern that’s been part of the Trump Family Vacation story for many years. It’s just that they decided to illuminate that yellow bullseye.
All true and all should matter so little going forward as to how this country is lead and run.
Is this tune on repeat? The LP must be scratched. Play it again Uncle Sam.
Pete and repeat as the old wise ones used to say.
We are all on a ” Stairway to Heaven” and we can’t get off.
Hopefully!
You know what would make me roar?
Helen Reddy, getting breast implants.
This comment accidentally was sorted by the filters into the trash file. It has been restored. Though the algorithm might have had it right in the first place.
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