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Time to give Trump what he’s been missing his whole life

Posted on February 3, 2025February 3, 2025 by Mike Weland

“Trump and Elon are purging the filth that’s infested all levels of our government for decades,” a woman wrote with sincerity. “Removing the grifters.” How anyone can draw that conclusion watching the…

MAGA, still putting the fun in dysfunction in the Idaho House

Posted on February 1, 2025 by Mike Weland

Dear teacher, I must ask that my child, Idaho “Conservative” GOP, be excused yet again this year, as he is pale as a sheet and still suffering terribly from a horrible MAGA…

We must have open eyes, stand as one

Posted on January 30, 2025February 5, 2025 by Mike Weland

As fully expected by anyone with their eyes open, the world is watching the fall of a once great nation beneath the heel of a hateful egotist solely to assuage his lust…

In week one, Trump executes laws like nobody’s seen

Posted on January 28, 2025January 28, 2025 by Mike Weland

One week in office, and in a flurry of frenetic activity coming so fast as to be a blur,  our former president, returned to office after a four-year hiatus, shows the American…

MAGA will waken

Posted on January 26, 2025January 28, 2025 by Mike Weland

According to a CNN article today, “Trump divided America as a candidate. So far, he’s doing the same as president,”  voters say president Donald Trump is moving quickly to keep promises and…

PEACE, sheepish Republican style

Posted on January 24, 2025January 24, 2025 by Mike Weland

U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.), and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) introduced today the Protect Equality and Civics Education (PEACE) Act to prohibit the use of taxpayer dollars…

Chicken Little governance

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Mike Weland

It’s a deliberate ploy and at present the MAGA GOP is winning the game of Chicken Little politics, not only in Washington, District of Crazy, but in nearly every GOP-controlled statehouse, county…

Trump off just as expected

Posted on January 21, 2025 by Mike Weland

While a good many MAGA are still stomping, clapping their hands and cheering themselves hoarse on this second day of Donald J. Trump’s second stint in the oval office, I’m sure at…

My final Trump prediction

Posted on January 18, 2025January 21, 2025 by Mike Weland

Monday, January 20, 2025, will be a day of pomp and celebration for many. Not for honoring the legacy of a man who’d done so much to bring the United States a…

Opposing opinions on the days ahead

Posted on January 3, 2025January 22, 2025 by Mike Weland

Idaho Senator Jim Risch says that with the new year comes a new era in Washington, D.C. Donald Trump is returning to the White House, and Republicans will control Congress. We have…

I humbly ask forgiveness, I may have been wrong

Posted on December 27, 2024January 24, 2025 by Mike Weland

I stand before you humbled and penitent. For I have had an epiphany, and I hereby issue my apologies for close to ten years of dire predictions regarding Donald John Trump and…

The train crash is near … brace yourselves

Posted on December 14, 2024January 22, 2025 by Mike Weland

We human beans what are U.S. citizens are funny critters. We know a train wreck is imminent yet we try to convince ourselves the train’s moving fast just to get back on…

When America was great … Happy Thanksgiving

Posted on November 28, 2024January 24, 2025 by Mike Weland

Before November 5, I often said that the 2024 election would be the most consequential since the election of 1860. The American people have spoken, and by our choice, we are once…

The people have spoken

Posted on November 9, 2024January 24, 2025 by Mike Weland

“The people have spoken.” Yes, they have, and much the same as they did for Hitler and the Third Reich in the 1930s. And now, ten years of following Hitler’s playbook has…

Opposing opinions

Posted on November 3, 2024January 25, 2025 by Mike Weland

On the day before the momentous 2024 general election, Idaho Republican Dorothy Moon waxes poetic about how beautiful the world will be with Donald Trump once again at the helm of our…

Why I voted for Harris, Proposition 1

Posted on October 28, 2024January 25, 2025 by Mike Weland

The role of a political party is to help like-minded citizens more effectively present their ideas and ideals for the betterment of a nation’s government, provided, of course, that the nation affords…

See them for what they are … fascists

Posted on October 21, 2024January 25, 2025 by Mike Weland

Oh, how I’d love to see a return to the halcyon days of American politics when most who sought or held office of public trust recognized that the word “public” was all…

Proving lies and irresponsibility

Posted on October 10, 2024January 25, 2025 by Mike Weland

My last opinion piece, “Make America Great Again? No, let’s make her ever more perfect,” in which I call former president Donald J. Trump a liar, elicited a greater Facebook response than…

Make America Great Again? No, let’s make her ever more perfect

Posted on October 2, 2024January 25, 2025 by Mike Weland

Most people I know will not long tolerate a liar, yet there are millions today who rally to protect and defend the greatest and most brazen liar of our time. It’s not…

Trump a savior or a sap? Two opinions

Posted on September 25, 2024January 26, 2025 by Mike Weland

Heaven help us if too many like you Wow, what a rambling opinion of a man I for one of many consider a savior of our country from the communist left, who…

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