The Death of the Republican Party

 Saturday.  As usual, I will be working this afternoon.  Only for 6 hours, however, I will be taking leftovers for a mini-meal.  Eating when I get home, around 7:15 PM, is a little late for me..  The orange retailer I work for gives me a 15 minute break, so I 'break bread' so to speak.

Work is continuing on my kitchen ceiling.  The contractor is doing a really great job.  She is young, mid-20s.  If I'm satisfied, I will have her back to do other work.  As we age, it's best to have either or handyman or contractor to take care of the upkeep.  I don't mind paying.  Here's a shot I took yesterday.  The wall to the left is going to be drywalled over in the spring and probably a cabinet or two will be hung.  You can never have enough storage in a kitchen.

I was going to put a cabinet in the new laundry room, but am now beginning to think along the lines of a rolling cart with possibly wire baskets.

Evidently The Former Guy ruffled some feather by hosting a dinner with Kanye the Anti-Semite, who, supposedly, just happened to bring Nick, the pro-Nazi white supremacist as a guest.  Now tell me, why would anyone be surprised?  Does anyone think trouble might be brewing?  Is Trump foreshadowing in plain sight?  Wouldn't surprise me in the least.  Trump is not stupid.  He wants to be a huge player in world politics.  The Republicans thought he was their savior, Reagan reincarnated as a grifting conman, uniting America.  He isn't, and was never going to be another Reagan.

I noted previously Billy Barr saying Trump would destroy the Republican party if he didn't get the nomination.  Well, this should come as no surprise, but he's going to be destroying it a lot sooner.  Like... oh, say, after he gets his first indictment.  On Thanksgiving he posted "give me freedom, or give me death" on Truth Social.  That was his first salvo.  He is prepping all of those MAGA and Qanon loyalists.  His comment was in a similar vein to what he was Tweeting before January 6.  The instant he makes his first perp walk, he wants them to rise up.  In his eyes, Kanye and Fuentes are allies.  Remember Portland, OR during the BLM protests?  Well, that's what the Orange Anus envisions, lots of Portlands  springing up across America defending him.  When that happens, the Republican party will be dead.  No ifs, ands, or buts about it.  He believes Civil Unrest will save his ass and carry him forward.  It won't.  We had a Civil War in which leniency reigned, the leaders went free.  That will not happen this time.  America will have had enough of this shit.

Washed Out to Sea

 I had baked a pecan pie on my birthday.  Since it's recommended I cut back on high carb / high calorie foods and I didn't want to throw it away, I ate it yesterday.  The entire thing.  I mean, I wasn't about to throw it out.  Why would I waste food?

My brother's taking me out for breakfast this morning to celebrate my birthday.  I will probably eat toast, and several other things.

I am going to stop baking bread for a while.  I bake it frequently, and just as frequently, I eat it.  So many carbs.  I am a carboholic.  Always have been.  Candy, too.  

Today is also a work day.  I really am tempted to call in and take a personal day.  Probably won't.  Either way I'd get paid 8 hours. 

The woman fixing the drywall on the ceiling just realized she had scheduled the repairs over Thanksgiving, a natural mistake since I didn't really know when the holiday was.  She sent me an email asking to start a day earlier.  I just sent her an email asking if she could start after Thanksgiving since the Electrician is scheduled to be here on 11/22.  I'm waiting for a response.

Here's a shot looking out my front door.  Notice the bright golden leaves of my gingko?

And wasn't yesterday fun?  Holy Crap.  Benny Shapiro flipped out on Twitter, blaming the Orange Anus for everything.  The OA, himself, flipped out because it's never his fault.  His entire life has been spent shifting the blame to someone else.  In this case, the blame needs to be spread over the entire Republican hierarchy.  They've been setting themselves up for this ever since they managed to stack the Supreme Court.  Calling your political opponents every name in the book is a fail; the MAGA brain is incapable of understand just how bad the Nazis truly were.  Overturning Roe v Wade hurt the GOP badly.  Their intent to tell women to "shut, we're in charge, and we're going to tell you what you're going to do," simply failed.  America is Centrist, not Conservative, so trying to force Conservative values on the entire country will never work... unless you live in Florida.  Of course, thanks to climate change, Florida will soon be washed out to sea.  Will Republicans learn anything from this?  Probably not, rocks don't think.