I’ve been thinking of it like a ball that has been tossed straight up. It goes up for a while, then begins to slow. It reaches it’s peak and for a moment, a fraction of a moment, it hangs in space, no longer rising, not yet falling. But inevitably, it falls. 51 words. Then I saw Ben Shapiro on ‘Real Time with Bill Maher.’ He put my ball analogy more succinctly. “Cut flowers die,” he said. 3 words.

You go out to the garden and you cut a pretty bloom. You put it with others you’ve cut and set the arrangement in your house. The flowers are beautiful – for a time. But then? They begin to wilt. They sag. Shortly, you can see that the flowers aren’t viable anymore. They began to fail the moment they were cut even though they didn’t look that way at the time.

I think right now in America – this moment in time – we’re at the ‘ball-at-it’s-peak’ moment. The flowers still LOOK beautiful, but cut flowers die. Who did the cutting? Donald J. Trump. Look around you. The world as you know it still looks the same but the underpinnings are all suffering. Donny’s not paying for anything. Without maintenance, things fall apart. I’m expecting things to get shabby.

The cons have been getting away with this kind of thing for decades, now, because the effects of their actions are removed in time from the action itself. In other words, the nation won’t decline overnight. It takes time. We were once a very strong nation with a very strong economy. Donny is attacking that at every turn and he’s winning. That is to say, we won’t be strong much longer.

The copper was being polished until 47. It still gleams, for now, but it WILL tarnish. The Trump economy is hitting in full force. With apologies to Dr. King, we aren’t landing on the Trump economy, the Trump economy is landing on us. Average Joes are certain to be crushed under the weight. Increasingly, that looks like the goal.

Obviously, the cons will simply find a way to blame Joe Biden but in fact, Biden had fixed the various failures of Donny’s first failed attempt and the economy was on the upswing. Yes, I know MAGA media says otherwise. Why would anybody trust MAGA media? The economy KEPT chugging along until 47 started “tinkering.” Old tariff boy is doing serious damage, but there’s a time lag between getting stabbed and bleeding out.

Yes, I DO know the Dow keeps hitting record numbers. So what? In fact, I see that reality as a BAD thing. The vast majority of stocks in this once-great nation are owned by a very small number of people. Very rich people. The Dow hitting record high after record high means the very rich are doing very well. Meanwhile, nearly everyone else is suffering. In real life, suffering trickles down, even if money never does.

I pay less attention to the formal numbers some pencil-pusher gives me and more attention to storefronts and how empty they are. And they are. People are closing their wallets. They have to save their pennies for the grocery store, what with coffee up $10.00 dollars and the price of bacon doubled.

Pay attention to the world around you. You’ll see more business space with ‘Available’ signs and more stores, devoid of shoppers, clinging to life, hoping for… something. And all of it is the direct effect of conservative economic choices. Sure, they’ll blame everyone else but it’s their own doing. It was Donny and MAGA that cut the flower from the root of the funding it needed to survive. The flower is just beginning to wilt but keep watch and remember, cut flowers die…

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When that shooter murdered Charlie Kirk, the whole country held it’s collective breath until we could find out if the shooter was a lefty or a rightie. The first report I heard one way or the other was a radio news report of a Guardian article saying an old high school friend of the shooter had said the shooter had been raised in a conservative household but was to the left of his family. The high school friend went on to note that he hadn’t seen the shooter since high school some three or four years earlier, so he didn’t know his politics today.

By the end of that same day, I had learned about all of the shooter’s ties to the Groyper movement and his loyalty to Nick Fuentes. I learned that the inscriptions on the bullet casings were each Groyper tropes. It looked FAR more like the shooter was an acolyte of Fuentes. It seems clear, the shooter was to the right of Kirk, not the left.

The Guardian article about the high school friend had, itself, cited an original story in the Wall Street Journal. That’s what gave the story credibility in the first place. Now I’ve learned that both the Guardian AND the Wall Street Journal have retracted the high school friend story. The publications were unable to verify any connection between the so-called “friend” and the shooter. It seems as though the “high school friend” story was a plant, attempting to manipulate the story.

Now there’s a story floating about that the shooter lived with a “trans” person in a “romantic relationship.” It should be noted, the story originated from Fox Not-News and the NY Post. Also, according to the Daily Mail, the shooter and his roommate had a third roommate for a time – suggesting a simple living arrangement – and at least one neighbor has said they saw no sign of either roommates being trans…

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So, does Donny really expect us to believe that someone 22 years ago – LONG before he ever became a politician – nevertheless knew to set him up with an incriminating drawing for Jeffrey Epstein of a child, with a message about “secrets” so they could use it against him later? NOT, mind you, when he was running but, instead, waiting until after the “election” to pull out the incriminating evidence?

He claims it’s a fake without ever explaining WHY anyone would want or need to fake something like that way back then. His story beggars belief…