These kids battling gun violence are amazing. I put a short video on the Heather’s Homilies Facebook page yesterday highlighting comments from people calling for their murder! It’s like an alternate reality. They will be this generation’s Civil rights and anti-war protesters, and they’ll make a difference. They’re going to shift the Overton window, and we could even see that stupid 2006 SCOTUS ruling being overturned.

Then there’s the general who resigned as a Fox News commentator last week because so many of their shows have become propaganda for Trump.

I think back to the election. My brother did his MBA at Yale, worked at Goldman Sachs before 9/11, and was a solid Republican (though socially liberal like most NZers). He hoped the Republicans would lose the election because they’ve lost the plot by nominating Trump. I notice there are more and more Republicans saying something similar. Hardly any Republicans were supporting the more reasonable John Kasich then, but his support is growing. Yesterday Arnold Schwarzenegger called for Kasich to start running for 2020 now. A change is coming because the extremists are going too far.

Thanks Thomas! It was certainly nice to win again after a depressing series of losses rerecently.

I just like the established fact that bullshit never sleeps. It shines awake and wide-eyed every day and at all times. At the FoxTrumpPropaganda network it seems they’re on cult-creating territory. The true magnitude of the Mueller investigation probably won’t reach those in the cult-thralls. But the wake-up call is resounding in other demographics. Shifts are happening. The Bolton thing is terrifying, but it also shows a weakness. Hiring a paranoid, conspiracy-theorist lawyer to replace his previous corrupt but more level-headed lawyer is also a weakness. Another of his many political follies.

And out there is a true young American movement that is against the amalgamation of guns, hate, paranoia, fear and politics. We’ll see, but I feel good about this fervent passion…they are legion. I graduated HS in ’87 and never for one second thought about getting killed by a psycho w/ an AR-15 running amok in the halls. I also know that politics (Reagan was POTUS) was never discussed to any relevant extent. Now many schools and esp. high-schools have metal detectors, lock-down drills and some call for armed teachers. FFS and WTF? These American children have had enough and they have my 100% support. We trudge along over here with the gun violence; the most obvious and easiest solution to mass murders is to get a handle on the guns. Federally, not by state discretion… but this conundrum is the quintessential impediment in US policy: ideology inserted into politics. Feds for some reason have become the ‘bad guy’.

Hope you’re feeling well…living in New Zealand is always an advantage on this earth. Living here is a continuing battle for reality, as you know.