If you’re puzzled by Donald Trump‘s fealty to Vladimir Putin, consider:

1. Donald spent time in Moscow.
2. Moscow is awash in Slavic Sweeties.
3. Donald is reputed sometimes to ruffle the sheets.
4. Moscow hotels have cameras.
5. Very little escapes former KGB chief and Russian President Vlad’s surveillance.

Regarding Donald Trump’s and Joe Biden’s cognitive acuity, distinguishing “remembering” and “reasoning” is instructive.  While the latter routinely relies on the former, they are distinct.

Think of memory as a bag of marbles.  Through our formative years the number of marbles is small.  Finding the green one with the orange stripe is easy.  With several hundred marbles in the sack, the green and orange one becomes more illusive.  After decades, with thousands of marbles in the bag, apart from those recently acquired, the identity and significance of most, e.g. a specific date, event, or experience, is wholly forgotten.   

“Reason” applies accessible memory, “apperceptive mass,” and current data to an issue at hand.    

This said, who?

• Suggested injecting toxic chemicals to combat COVID-19 virus?
• Bragged, “with Obama, we won an election that everyone said couldn’t be won.”?  (It was Hillary.)
• Said, regarding confronting the January 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, Congress, and Constitution, “Because of lots of things like Nikki Haley is in charge of security.  We offered her 10,000 people, soldiers, National Guards, whatever they want.”  (Go figure?) 
• Said wet magnets don’t work?
• Said “(Biden’s) now in charge of dealing with Russia and possible nuclear war  .  .  .  just think of it, we would be in World War II”?  (We already won that one?)
• Said wind turbines kill birds?  (Automobiles kill 500 times, communication towers 50 times, and buildings’ windows twice the number of birds as wind turbines.)
• Said wind turbines cause dead whales to wash up on America’s east coast “on a weekly basis.”?  (NOAA finds that fishing nets, being struck by vessels, disease, and starvation account for most whale deaths.)
• Would let Russia “do whatever the hell they want” against NATO countries unable fully financially support the alliance.  NATO is America’s frontline against Putin.
• Said John McCane, hence all prisoners of war, is not a hero?
• Reputedly said armed forces personnel are “suckers” and “losers”?
• Despite over sixty failed court challenges, overwhelming evidence to the contrary, and universal consensus he lost, still insists he won the 2020 Presidential election?
• On the heels of, (1) orchestrating an attack on the Capitol, Congress, and Constitution, (2) pressing Secretaries of State, Governors, and Legislators to overthrow 2020 election results, and (3) absconding with thousands of official government documents, says, “I did nothing wrong.”?
• Said undocumented immigrants are, “poisoning the blood of our county”?

And who,

• Has more employed workers than at any other time in American History?
• Passed the CHIPS Act authorizing $280 billion for domestic semiconductor research and production?
• Rescued the economy and changed the course of the COVID-19 pandemic?
• Passed Bipartisan Infrastructure Law which: expanded access to clean drinking water; will repair rebuild and build highways and bridges across America; improved and expanded public transportation; will upgraded airports, ports, and expand passenger rail service; upgraded America’s power infrastructure; cleaning up Superfund and abandoned mines, oil, and gas wells?
• Enacted Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, removing firearms from dangerous individuals and expanding mental health services?
• Protected marriage for LGBTQI+ and interracial couples?
• Quarterbacked worldwide support for Ukraine against Putin’s aggression?
• Issued executive orders protecting reproductive rights?
• Advanced equity and racial justice through, criminal justice reform, narrowing racial wealth gap, criminal justice reform, and a Public Safety Trust?
• Delivering the Most Aggressive Climate and Environmental Agenda in American History?
• Expanded health insurance to more Americans than ever?
• Passed Inflations Reduction Act capping Medicare beneficiaries’ out-of-pocket cost for brand-name drugs to $3500 per year?

On Morning Joe, September 25, conversative commentator Charles Sikes opined, “Joe Biden can say, ‘Yes, I’m old, but he is crazy.’”  Crazy is only three years junior to Old.

Your choice.

Someone please explain how a flagrant huckster and liar, Donald Trump, can make Republican Senators and Representative dance like string puppets?  The blue suit, white shirt, and red tie suffice to mesmerize and manipulate his MAGA minions.  Surely more sophisticated—I believe a majority of—Conservatives are not flummoxed by the malignant machinations under the red cap.  That these folks don’t exhibit the character and courage to cut the strings and lead the Grand Old Party back to its vital and honorable roots is maddening!

At a Mason City, Iowa, rally, January 5, Donald Trump decried magnetically powered elevators for hoisting and lowering carrier-based aircraft.  In the heartland of John Deere manufacturing, candidate Trump pitched for votes with, “Think of it, magnets.  Now, all I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets.  Why didn’t they use John Deere?  Why didn’t they bring in the John Deere people?  Do you like John Deere?  I like John Deere.”

Magnets function quite effectively in water.  While hundreds perform essential functions onan aircraft carrier, few if any, get wet.

Like the notion that intravenous chemicals may eradicate COVID-19 virus, our “stable genius” again reveals his grasp of science. 

A side note: Amid the blast of his often-verbal firehose, Donald’s astonishing facility to concoct whatever serves his purpose in the moment, without regard to fact or truth, is easily overlooked.

Do you really want this man’s finger on the Nuclear Trigger?

Think about it! 

Who held authority to activate “10,000 people, soldiers, National Guards” against the January 6, 2021, assault on America’s Capitol, Congress, and Constitution?  Who was Commander-in-Chief of America’s Armed Forces, the person “in charge of security” that tragic day?  Drumroll, ta-da—Nikki Pelosi!

Do you really want his man’s finger on the Nuclear Trigger? 

Think about it! 

For anyone who anticipates or fears an impending Trump Presidential juggernaut, Chris Hayes points out that of the 115,000 Iowans who caucused on January 15, 2024, 56,620 or 49%, 5% of the state’s registered Republicans, voted for Donald Trump.

Hate and love have one thing in common: The more I give, the more I have.

In the runup to the 2020 election, Donald Trump asserted that if Joe Biden became President America would experience a “stock market collapses the likes of which you’ve never had.” 

When Biden’s administration saw the Dow catapulted from just over 30,000 to a record 37,557, Joe felt prompted to comment, on X, “Good one, Donald.”

Donald Trump says immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” As always, the erstwhile President is mute regarding facts to support his allegation.

Whose blood is being poisoned, by whom?  My guess—who knows?—Trump views the blood being poisoned flowing from Eastern Europe: Britan, Ireland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, the Rus’?  Iberian, Italian, Greek, and Balkan blood probably would not pass muster.  Mexican, Central and South American, African, Middle and Far Eastern, and Asian immigrants, three-quarters of Earth’s population, conspire to poison America’s blood.

Donald’s paternal grandparents, his mother, and two of three wives are immigrants.  Trumps were German.  Mom, Mary Anne (née MacLeod), Scottish.  Wives number one, Ivana Marie (née Zelnickovia) and three “Malania” (Melanija née Knavs) are Czech and Slovenian immigrants.  Do immigrant mothers’ blood poison Donald Jr.’s, Ivonka’s, Eric’s, and Barron’s Trump blood?

The proposition that any race or nationality is inferior or superior to others is antithetical to America’s fundamental principles and creed, the heart of human-caused suffering.  To assert that any human is “vermin,” that they poison “the blood of our country,” is stereotyping, prejudice, and bigotry at its very worst!

From Jamestown to L.A., Plymouth Rock to Seattle, American is a nation of immigrants.  What became of,

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The retched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

  Emma Lazarus’s sonnet, “New Colossus,”
  on a plaque inside the Statue of Liberty