POLITICS 101: The 2025 Version
It’s over awhile since I posted anything on this blog. It is not that I lost interest, it is not that nothing was happening, it was just “sometimes life gets in the way”. For those interested my other blog intuneandintime.com is still kicking, mainly about politics, music, and the downfall of my beloved New York Rangers. Also, my 2024 music “hit list” can be found along with other pompous and opinionated degenerates on PooPlist.
January 2025: As I near my 73rd trip around the sun I reflect on how me, an aging study of political phenomena (history buff) can slowly become anesthetized by the comings and goings of our democracy. Yes, I was somewhat deflated by the Election of 2024, how it shifted from a “milk toast” incumbent versus a man who has influenced the GOPs for at least a decade, to a contest of a former talk show host/ president (#45) against a woman who “turned black”. The outcome was stunning, not just who became the 47th President of The United States but what the voting data actually revealed.
THE DEMOCRATS are in a shambles, blaming each other or MILK TOAST JOE for losing the PRESIDENCY, even though up to the very end he thought he could win the election. Delusional to say the least. There appears to be no direction for that party’s recovery. Considering even when the DEMS won a 2024 (Senate/House/ State) election, the GOP losing numbers were substantially higher than previous years. HARRIS gave a “gracious”concession speech to her supporters, many seen crying as Joe continued to hide in the WHITE HOUSE preparing to leave. Where the party goes from here is anybody’s guess. WaPo stated “the party suddenly faces a vacuum at the top” and “political parties rarely give a starring role to defeated White House aspirants” except for Donald TRUMP. That trend suggests HARRIS is a one and done candidate.
As far as TRUMP goes, he has been on the political scene for quite a bit of time, announcing his desire to be president in 2015. That means Trump is no longer considered an aberration. Young voters of 18, 19, 20 have lived with the Trump news cycles since they were 8 years old. It is little wonder why Trump made gains with the young voters.
From November on the Democratic Party autopsy continued…Jon Stewart complained, “The country felt like government wasn’t working for them, and the Democrats in particular were taking their hard-earned money and giving it to people who didn’t deserve it as much as them. And so the Democrats got shellacked.” However, in the theory that the DEMS choose “wokeness” he said, “Those are the Democrats,”… “They didn’t talk about pronouns. They didn’t say ‘Latinx.’ It was the opposite.”…“They didn’t do the woke thing. They acted like Republicans for the last four months…”
The “TRIFECTA” is there, Republicans will enter Congress this term with 53 SENATE seats, the HOUSE (Speaker Mike Johnson, who was re-elected) is theirs with the smallest majority in history: 217 to 215, and #45 is now #47. The restraints on the president will become looser than they have been in many, many years. Well, at least until the mid-term election of 2026, which in political days is quite a ways off. However, The DEMOCRATIC PARTY needs a new voice, a new direction, possible with a new beginning. SLEEPY JOE was not the answer, nor was the woman who “turned black”. The tide has changed with increased numbers of voters, their ethnicity, location, and age.
THE DEEP STATE:
Imagine a time, biblical if you will, when Christ himself walked into the temple , seeing the “money changers” who were turning the house of prayer into a den of thieves. They, the “money changers” (Matthew 21:12-13) were exploiting the poor by charging high prices for the exchange of foreign coins, also by selling doves (sacrificial animals) at a exorbitant price.
While watching the church service attended by (or in honor of) the incoming #47th President of The United States I noticed standing collectively in the crowd were Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Sundar Pichai (Google), Tim Cook (Apple), and of course the omnipresent Elon Musk aka “the world’s richest man”, all tech titans seeking a stronger relationship with the President, an oligarchy if you will. My mind started to wonder to the phrase…WWJD (What Would Jesus Do?)…see (Matthew 21:12-13)
Here we have the richest of the rich congregating in the crowd of St. John’s Church, Washington D.C. the same church where Trump in his role as #45 , June 1, 2020, held a Bible (upside down) posing for a photo-op during the George Floyd riots in D.C. reclaiming DC for the law abiding people.("I am your president of law and order.”)
Oh, Ye, gentle mistresses and most distinguished gentlemen, and others… The opinions and observations are solely my own views, and I take full responsibility for any errors of fact, not to mention any predictions that prove to be wildly inaccurate.
