... only I didn't say "fudge"

Dear Trump Supporter:

In the months ahead, when Donald F. Trump does the things he's said he'd do, and it finally wakes you up and causes you alarm, I pledge not to say "We tried to tell you". I pledge instead to hug you and tell you that we'll get through it, together.

However, this pledge is rendered null and void if you also happen to utter "Who knew he would do such an insane thing to our country?"

If that happens, I pledge to love you but also to walk away from you forever.

#politics

gotta admire:

#politics

Who's ready to flip Texas?

(hey, a guy can dream)

I will say it now.

Over the next negative-2 to positive-72 hours, let's provide a little grace for anything posted. Like many of you, I am at the end of a long journey, and possibly also at wit's end.

Things are a bit sketch, and not always in a beneficially artsy way.

Let's get through this together, friend.

And please remember that I-ee-I-eee-I, will always love you-oooh-oooh-oooh-oooh-oooh..

For those intrigued by such things (as I am)

https://jorgevelez.substack.com/p/the-mysterious-trump-buyers-on-polymarket-2

We're drowning in a sea of lies, and people who should know better have chosen to ignore and even promote the lies, because they worship and adore the boy who "speaks his mind".

They love the man-child who lies to their face every day.

They love the one who believes that the laws of the country he wishes to "lead" do not apply to him, and he has proven it time and time again by doing whatever he wants, breaking any laws he chooses, and getting away with it.

I brook no part of this delusion.

OK, just one more from my country jag.

I vividly remember this one playing in a darkened roller rink (ask your dad/grandpa) when the couples-only time would start (ask your mom/grandma).

I was 11 years old and wheeled all around the place looking for a girl I knew, because I wanted to ask her if she would go out and skate with me.

Never found her (her parents had already picked her up), so yeah, the song was doubly sad.

https://youtu.be/qLbGeZSUrhg

#cosomusic
#codesmusic 😢

A song I would hum to my baby boy to comfort him and help him get back to sleep, though I didn't know what song it was.

Years later I hummed it to my mom, asking if she knew it.

She looked at me in surprise and said it was the song she would sing to me when I was a baby.

Probably not the most appropriate song to hum to your newborn child, but I guess it was popular a few years before I was born.

So here's Jim Reeves with "He'll Have to Go"

https://youtu.be/bpi8Bek6jdM

#cosomusic
#codesmusic

Fact: You won't hear many country or bluegrass picks from me.

But my Saturday just took an unexpected lateral jag into an old playlist.

So here is Kathy Mattea with "Love Chooses You"

https://youtu.be/WK0Dim-JkaE

#cosomusic
#codesmusic

Yes there is something you can do my love
Won't you help me through these troubled times
And serve to remind
That everything is gonna be alright
Despite my fighting bitter tears
These are the very best years

"Very Best Years" by The Grays

https://youtu.be/EE-znePV0UQ

#cosomusic
#codesmusic