I couldn’t let this special, special moment pass without comment. I’m so happy. Have you ever heard that commercial on the radio about donating your car to a charity called Kars4Kids? They have the most annoying jingle in the history of jingles. Once you hear it,you’re stuck with it, like herpes. The ad is SO annoying, I decided long ago that if I ever DID give a car to charity, it would be ANY charity other than Kars4Kids.

So, right here, I’m going to add an apology. I’m aware, now that I’ve mentioned it, you’re going to have that nightmare jingle playing in your head for a while as an earworm. Sorry about that. If it helps any, I’m suffering writing about it, too, but, in this case, it’s worth it.

The special moment? We may never have to hear that ad again – once the earworm fades, that is. A California judge ruled that the hated Kars4Kids jingle and ad campaign was misleading. One hears the ad and infers the charity helps disadvantaged children, right? It’s right in the name: Kars4Kids. Kids. And it does help kids – just not the kinds of kids you expect and not in the way you expect.

Instead, Kars4Kids supports a group called Oorah, a Jewish organization that helps fund young adult trips to Israel. So, kids, yes, but adults, too. Hell, send the whole family! It’s on us. (Someone gave us a car!) The judge ruled that the obnoxious ad is misleading. It fails to disclose the religious affiliation of Oorah and it knowingly leaves listeners with a false impression of the mission of the group.

The judge ordered the group to pull ALL of it’s advertising in California for 30 days and when they DO come back, they have to be more honest about who they are and what they’re doing. That means a definite reprieve from that effing jingle for at least 30 days and likely, forever. Frankly, if there IS a God, I would rather he protect the world from the evil of 47, but if the best the “All-Powerful” can do is relief from false advertising, well, I guess I’ll take it…

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The top story in the Guardian, this morning, reads, “‘We’re not ready’: US lags on pandemic preparedness after Covid, experts say.” Duh, you think? Wasn’t that Sleepy Donny’s goal? He tore everything apart around Covid. You don’t think he put anything back, do you? That would take foresight. Sleepy Donny is very much an in-the-moment person – when he’s awake, of course.

Biden, sure. Biden has foresight and his administration announced a policy to restore preparations against pandemics but Donny wants that money for himself. He doesn’t want anybody else to have it. He shutters important agencies, allowing things like pandemics, then brags about saving money. Honestly, given a choice, I’d rather he try to save those lives first but in the US, money is God.

This is yet another example of the US quickly becoming a submerging nation. That’s my own term and no, I don’t mean, “We’re sinking below water.” At least not literally. Countries breaking free of Third World status are commonly referred to as “Emerging Nations.” A First World nation feverishly working to achieve Third World status – see the US under the Drumpfster – is clearly submerging…

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Beetlejuice fan (ahem!) Lauren Boebert seems to be on the outs with 47, these days. She’s not a new face in the defection file, but her situation is coming clearer. She was once loyally MAGA. She doesn’t seem to hold that status anymore. MAGA seems to be fracturing and Boebert, along with Marjorie Taylor Greene, is helping to lead people out.

MAGA started off to be an America first movement. The message 47 used to draw people in was that America was suffering from mismanagement and too much focus on the rest of the world. MAGA promised to focus American resources on Americans. That was the context of every speech he gave. We all know his promises, now better classified as lies. (If you really can’t call his false statements lies, you can always dismiss them as ‘campaign rhetoric.’)

Fix the housing crisis, lower the cost of living, no more foreign wars, release the Trump/Epstein files. Oh, remember this one? ‘Drain the swamp?’ That one sold BIGLY. They ate that up with a spoon. No one ever explained to them that the US maintained it’s power, at least in part, by helping the rest of the world so MAGA just wanted that to stop. Much of it HAS stopped and now, China has stepped in to help those people. Now China is the primary power on the planet and the US is yesterday’s news. (That’s what Xi meant when he referred to the “Thucydides Trap.”

Slowly but surly, as one campaign promise after another got 86’d, Boebert found herself at odds with Sleepy Donny, sure, but also MAGA in general. He didn’t release the Trump/Epstein files (because he’s a liar). He didn’t avoid foreign wars (because he’s a liar). He hasn’t lowered the cost of living (because he’s a liar). He hasn’t fixed the housing crisis (because he’s a liar). In short, he has made America worse, not better and certainly not “great again,” (because he’s a liar).

Some MAGA, like Boebert and MTG, have noticed. They’re still loyal to the idea of taking care of Americans first. They’ve just noticed that Donny, by every measure and metric, is taking care of Trump first and has pretty much turned his back on Americans, in general – even loyal MAGA. So there’s a new movement starting, America First and it’s starting without Donny the Dotard as it’s “leader.”

They’ll need a better name. ‘MAGA’ stuck because it was easy. Americans are nothing if not lazy as hell and we’ll shorten everything we say. ‘America First’ is so many syllables. But ‘AF’ already means something. (For the uninitiated, ‘AF’ means ‘As F*ck’ and is meant to indicate lots and lots. “Oh, man, it’s hot AF!” Like that.) So, they can’t just become ‘AF.’ They can go with a popular common trend and give the movement a technological-sounding name. Maybe they could call their movement “I Like America First,” or iLAF. Just a thought…