Update no.1249

Update from the Heartland

No.1249

22.12.25 – 28.12.25

Blog version:  http://heartlandupdate.blogspot.com/

 

To all,

Our employee occupying the Oval Office, AKA [the person who shall no longer be named], is an embarrassment of the worst kind, and sadly, he represents 77 million American citizens who actually want him to be doing what he is doing. The orange one proffered a prime-time national televised address on Wednesday evening. The principal aim seemed to be to assuage growing concerns about the economy, or at least the personal economy. From my perspective, the performance was just another campaign rally filled with misstatements and outright falsehoods, taken to a far more bizarre level. For reasons unknown, he shouted his reading of the teleprompter speech, almost screaming. If he intended to instill confidence within the citizenry, he accomplished exactly the opposite. He came across as a scared, confused, verging on a panicked bully who demands we believe him just because he says it. Unfortunately for him and for us, the Felon-in-Chief has a very long, sordid history of misstatements, falsehoods, gross exaggerations, and outright lies. The reality is, if he says something, it is not true, and the truth is most likely the exact opposite of what he just said. That behavior is not presidential—never can be, never will be. The Bully-in-Chief is rapidly becoming the antithesis of what it means to be presidential. As if that is not bad enough, he does not know basic mathematics, or rather simple arithmetic. If you reduce the price of something 100%, you are giving it away for no cost. If you reduce the price of an item, say a medication for example, “400, 500, and 600 percent,” you are paying a consumer to take your product. Sadly, there are people who actually believe him. Being president of the United States of America is so much more than just being a wrecking ball to the federal government. The current fellow has certainly performed well in the wrecking ball category, but he has failed miserably, demonstrably, and dramatically in all other aspects of being president.

 

In his effort to waste extraordinary amounts of the national Treasury (our money), [the person who shall no longer be named] continues his penchant to gild everything, as he is King Midas in the flesh. So now, he created a so-called ‘presidential walk of fame’ with gold framed images along the exterior of the West Wing Colonnade. Each image is framed in gold. As a metric of his infantile behavior, the Felon refused to display President Biden’s image; instead, he used a simple photograph of an autopen above the former president’s signature. As can be easily imagined based on the orange one’s established conduct, selected, cast, brass plaques offer his particular insults, baseless claims and random capitalizations. Those plaques have absolutely nothing to do with history—only his brand of inflated ego. They read like his Truth Social vindictive posts. He is such a weak, shallow man, and I truly hate to call him a man. He is far more akin to an immature boy, who failed to grow up.

 

Joining the near infinite list of aberrant conduct, the orange one demonstrated that he did not need Congress, did not care about the law, and basically thumbed his nose at We, the People. He directed his name to be added to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. First, only Congress can change the name of a facility they created. Second, the orange one’s malignant narcissism affliction has contaminated so bloody much of the nation’s capital. He can play his silly narcissistic games, but the Gulf of Mexico will always be the Gulf of Mexico. The Department of Defense will always be the Department of Defense, until Congress properly changes the name. And, the Kennedy Center will always be the Kennedy Center.

 

Comments and contributions from Update no.1248:

Comment to the Blog:

“The notion that we can’t do two or more sound national actions because of the cost ignores the fact that the wealthiest 1-10% are not paying their share of taxes. It’s used to evade our nation’s responsibilities. (The defense budget is also a factor, but that doesn’t get much discussion.)

“Not only does the Orange Menace need a weak-enough enemy, he also needs distractions from the corruption.

“The ‘war on drugs’ (as marketed) is a failed approach to reducing use, much like Prohibition.

“The ‘disease of despair” the other contributor discusses strikes me as depression. It’s understandable, but must be addressed individually.

My response to the Blog:

Well said, and spot on. The wealthy pay less in equivalent tax than you and me. A goodly portion of the Defense budget is a gravy train for Congress. That must change.

Also well said, and spot on. Such are the symptoms of malignant narcissism.

Always has been; always will be. Alcohol Prohibition failed because it refused to address demand, so it is with the ‘war of drugs.’ Demand is the key. If we cannot impact demand, then the best approach is to supply demand legally, properly, and well regulated.

Exactly so from my perspective.

Postscript after thought, re: ‘war of drugs’: When you constrict supply, prices go up, and generally, demand gets more desperate to feed their addiction, which in turn means there is more crime of all sorts. There are addicts who are dependent upon psychotropic substances because they seek the sensations offered. Others are dependent because of the physiological effects of removing the supply. Desperate situations drive desperate people to do desperate things, and We, the People, ultimately pay the price. We must help those who want help, and to be brutally blunt, we should supply proper, clean, regulated substances to those who seek the euphoria. Fentanyl is NOT a ‘weapon of mass destruction.’ It is a highly effective pain reliever, when used properly. Illegal, smuggled fentanyl can be contaminated and be a contaminant. We need to stop killing people with the contaminants of unregulated production and distribution.

 

My very best wishes to all.  Take care of yourselves and each other.

Cheers,

Cap                  :-)