At 7:27 PM, Donald Trump emerged from behind the blue makeshift curtains wearing a dark suit and a bright red “USA” baseball cap. He drew a shape in the air with his finger before walking toward the podium, stopping to pull himself up the stairs before moving behind bulletproof glass at the Gastonia Municipal Airport in North Carolina. He then launched straight into an hour-long campaign rally for Michael Whatley, the Republican candidate for Senate, by attacking Democrats, fabricating crises that do not exist, and telling the crowd, “I was quite impressed with my intelligence. I'm a high IQ person after all.” He was impressed with himself for adding a dollar to a number.
I am so sorry you are having to sit beside a sick relative and am so grateful that you have even so found the time to write to keep us all informed.
As I read the post I was thinking Trump is like the spoilt child that throws a stone into a deep puddle to splash everyone, he has successfully tried to drown us all and the ripples of his corrupt self serving behaviour have caused huge problems world wide.
What is good and hopefully will start things improving is we are beginning to sort out the problems. Mark Carney is making an alliance with Europe, hopefully UK will start mending some European fences and we are all praying the midterms will remove in entirety Trumps evil ability to cause such chaos. Get out there and win the house and the senate.
Heather if I lived in USA I would bring you some soup , I hope you have a better day today. Sending love and hug.
I just wish to say thankyou for your courage and stamina as you wtite your daily posts. Thankyou for your humanity, your determination that the truth be heard, your compassion for the welfare of other writers such as you, your deep concern about how Trump's constant malignant lies are affecting not just your country, but the wider world. Thank you so much.
Thanks Heather - your courageous commitment tonight as you support a family member in the hospital is truly inspiring.
And I know we all feel the drain and the burden along with you of the relentless sh*t storm spewing from he who should not be named our President and his maladministration.
It will take all of our collective strength to grab hold of the America we know and love and wrestle it away from those who are actively perverting it for personal gain or too far gone to care.
We have to care. We have to vote. And we need to help others see the good in our country is worth saving.
I am weary when I am not angry or horrified. Tonight I can’t sleep again, so I am doing some drawing, a thing I call marker art. It has been a dependable relief valve when I have needed one, but it’s not a thing that takes me too far away from the fray. Tonight I will put my whole self into it, and then tomorrow it is back to active resistance.
Heather, before responding to the political parts of this Substack, I’d like to send my prayers to your beloved person who is ill, and hoping they are on the road to recovery. We all need reminders, that amid this chaos, there are more important issues/people to think of.
With Trump’s demented and financially focused mind, it should be no surprise that Michael Whatley, a registered sex offender and twice imprisoned for crimes involving children, was allowed to lead the opening prayer and ask God for “integrity and honesty.” Birds of a feather?
What a sickening sycophant Like his idol, Whatley has money in ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Shell. Feathers are molting.
You’ve reminded us that gazillionaire Trump, who has never stepped out of his limo to pump gas, refutes our anger of higher gas prices resulting from Trump's war in Iran. Get used to it and stop with the bitching," he likely growls.
Dear Hillary Clinton once named Trump enablers as “a basket of deplorables.” She was criticized for that on the spot description. But that aptly describes everyone in the Trump camp.
Your explanation that MAGA followers remain because “leaving would mean admitting they were conned” doesn’t satisfy me. I’ll stick with the description of 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013,
The basket is rotten and continues to stink up all that surrounds it.
I read you because you tell me things I wouldn't know otherwise. You clarify the inexplicable. And you call it like it is. Thank you for all of these things. I believe that having you as a conduit saves my sanity. I do worry about yours, however, as all of these speeches and Bullshit Social posts that you watch and read must have affected you in ways that will not be apparent from the outside. Please know that you are doing a great service for your country by writing the truth every night. It matters. Also, take care of yourself. Let go sometimes and just sleep, think of beauty and read a book for pleasure. A cup of hospital soup is a small step. Good thoughts coming your way for your family.
OMG! This is so abominable and repetitive from IQ47 ! It makes me angry here, half a world away! I feel so sad and sorry for you who are in the thick of it. He is exposing himself for who he really is and it’s worse than we thought. But in a way, this must be a good thing for the coming elections. There are hints of the tide turning. Thankyou, Heather for all your work and your posts and best wishes for your family member. Love from Oz.
My thoughts are with you, your sick relative and all Americans that are tired and exhausted. Find strength from each other. Give support where and when you can…keep the faith! Nothing is for ever. X
Thank you Heather. You’re an artist with words. I want to second your notion at the end of the essay. Give of your time locally. Help others in need. It’s not just the right thing to do, it nurtures your soul.
So sorry to hear that someone you care for is ill. Things like this always seem compounded when you have to listen to a lunatic who robs us every day, and has zero compassion for others often affected by the conditions he has created. I pray every night for our country and that the people who once believed that a course and cruel lying man would bring them prosperity and honor will change their minds, for we have surely lost all prosperity and any national honor. In their place, we have outrageously wealthy and greedy billionaires who dance to the lunatic’s fiddle, and their abandonment of a nation of people wondering when they will feel safe, protected from disease, can afford gas, own a home, and have adequate healthcare. Until this cruel and desperate man is dead and buried, and his sycophantic party regains some integrity, will we not have peace. Thank you for your daily posts, and remember to care for yourself too so we can continue to read them. ❤️🙏🏻🇺🇸
Thank you Heather. First am so very sorry about your family member being in a hospital, hoping and wishing for a full and speedy recovery and peace. To also your determination to continue writing and keeping all informed. The old adage continues on, we do what we must do.
Meanwhile Canada and the EU are making a pact that benefits both. The seal of this deal is when the President of the European Commission, the European Union Ursula von der Leyen, says to PM Mark Carney “Dear Mark we see the world with the same eyes. From AI to climate change, from the Arctic to geopolitics.” A partnership that brings in a new dawn, a new era. Who knows what may happen in the future yet anyone can see that it’s an opportunity for so many great events on the horizon for the EU and Canada. The shift the “rupture” taking place before all our very eyes. Maybe once was known as the “Middle Powers” no longer being subdued and expanding exponentially to become the leaders. Such a long time for one nation, counted in decades and one person in an elected office has been known as the “Leader of the Free World” is changing hands. Quietly, no war, no conflict, no engagement with weapons, the succession already underway because the Canadian PM is grounded, has the values and moral clarity that once was present that held that mantle previously. The “rupture” is well underway and what is truly remarkable is at least 30% of the America population are unaware because they follow the declining Felon every step of the way. The lackeys in Congress either will not admit or just remain their normal silent complicit selves as to the changing of the guard in global economics, wealth, and even power, the entire physical movement of Earth's surface caused by tectonic forces, the large-scale mass of redistribution. Fly high Canada, so well deserved PM Mark Carney 🇨🇦
Meanwhile the toppling is occurring, the continuation of lies that ironically are saying this nation is thriving economically, taking in money, versus spending the money that at this point doesn’t even exist. That we all are doing great economically, that those 401k’s are booming, and we all can hold on for just a wee bit until after November 3rd and then gas prices will come down. The question is down from how much, $10.00 per gallon? The continuation of a cemented partnership of at least two Felons lives on. It’s an odd relationship at best because Putin decides to halt as quickly as a hiccup from bombing railways in Ukraine while a son ‘n law is en route with one of the Felons crypto-partners and once in Ukraine again Putin orders the bombs to go off raining in Ukraine. Such strange bedfellows, which seems beneficial to the eldest son and the new daughter ‘n law to have a blast of a celebration at the expense of a close Putin buddy. Then the escalation intensifies out of Iran, with Iran’s friends sending missiles, drones into Saudi Arabia and another waterway is compromised, no oil flowing. So many U.S. bases are attacked, yet that news doesn’t get into the Mainstream media because that Pentagon is not as transparent as the vessel in charge says it is. He’s so caught up being called Secretary of WAR and receiving another shot of testosterone and going into makeup prior to hitting the cameras.
The VP deciding to ask the American public to give them all the chance to continue their agenda by electing all those Congressional selections to be House Reps and Senators. It’s like being asked by the wife beater for us all to hang around, promising we may not get smacked upside the head but anyone with a brain knows we will be punched in the face and kicked down the stairs.
All the while the lackey in charge, Mickey-Mikey of the House of Reps says they’ve worked real hard on their return back from over a six week vacation to once again leave until well after Election Day November 3rd and the lackeys are out in full force taking flight back to their home bases who we all know will not be having any town halls, or meet with the general population of their constituents but in this only safe houses surrounded by their loyalists in the MAGA cult.
Ah yes the majority in Congress the lackeys, sycophants who bring their stench back to home base looking to continue on…
Please take a moment and think about all our service members in the Middle East. They need all our thoughts, prayers and good mojo, trust me it’s difficult when you have two grandchildren involved, one on land one at sea…
The rupture is already underway. Have your plan to vote, execute your plan. Stay safe and healthy. See you at the voting polls.. — VOTE
Hi Heather. I just wanted to add my well wishes for both your kin’s recovery and your well-being. Your strength is manifest in part by your willingness to face these issues daily, when many of us try to cope by “rationing” our exposure to reality. It’s right to be angry, and what is happening to us is going to become unbearable, as it already is for many (probably thousands) of his victims. You’re only human, but at least you ARE human — I think of him as our most dangerous illegal alien! Stay strong kiddo.
Heather
I am so sorry you are having to sit beside a sick relative and am so grateful that you have even so found the time to write to keep us all informed.
As I read the post I was thinking Trump is like the spoilt child that throws a stone into a deep puddle to splash everyone, he has successfully tried to drown us all and the ripples of his corrupt self serving behaviour have caused huge problems world wide.
What is good and hopefully will start things improving is we are beginning to sort out the problems. Mark Carney is making an alliance with Europe, hopefully UK will start mending some European fences and we are all praying the midterms will remove in entirety Trumps evil ability to cause such chaos. Get out there and win the house and the senate.
Heather if I lived in USA I would bring you some soup , I hope you have a better day today. Sending love and hug.
Charlotte, can I second what you have said? I’m sure that your soup would be a big improvement on that picture, & a real comfort to Heather.
One thing that did come to mind is extra salt and pepper and a dash of Tabasco usually cures most soup ills. !
So Heather Tabasco in your handbag and start collecting salt and pepper from take aways xx
Great analogy about a puddle and Drumpf throwing in a big rock to splash everyone!
I hope your family member is doing OK, Heather.
I just wish to say thankyou for your courage and stamina as you wtite your daily posts. Thankyou for your humanity, your determination that the truth be heard, your compassion for the welfare of other writers such as you, your deep concern about how Trump's constant malignant lies are affecting not just your country, but the wider world. Thank you so much.
Thanks Heather - your courageous commitment tonight as you support a family member in the hospital is truly inspiring.
And I know we all feel the drain and the burden along with you of the relentless sh*t storm spewing from he who should not be named our President and his maladministration.
It will take all of our collective strength to grab hold of the America we know and love and wrestle it away from those who are actively perverting it for personal gain or too far gone to care.
We have to care. We have to vote. And we need to help others see the good in our country is worth saving.
Hope your family member recovers quickly.
I am weary when I am not angry or horrified. Tonight I can’t sleep again, so I am doing some drawing, a thing I call marker art. It has been a dependable relief valve when I have needed one, but it’s not a thing that takes me too far away from the fray. Tonight I will put my whole self into it, and then tomorrow it is back to active resistance.
Heather, before responding to the political parts of this Substack, I’d like to send my prayers to your beloved person who is ill, and hoping they are on the road to recovery. We all need reminders, that amid this chaos, there are more important issues/people to think of.
With Trump’s demented and financially focused mind, it should be no surprise that Michael Whatley, a registered sex offender and twice imprisoned for crimes involving children, was allowed to lead the opening prayer and ask God for “integrity and honesty.” Birds of a feather?
What a sickening sycophant Like his idol, Whatley has money in ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Shell. Feathers are molting.
You’ve reminded us that gazillionaire Trump, who has never stepped out of his limo to pump gas, refutes our anger of higher gas prices resulting from Trump's war in Iran. Get used to it and stop with the bitching," he likely growls.
Dear Hillary Clinton once named Trump enablers as “a basket of deplorables.” She was criticized for that on the spot description. But that aptly describes everyone in the Trump camp.
Your explanation that MAGA followers remain because “leaving would mean admitting they were conned” doesn’t satisfy me. I’ll stick with the description of 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013,
The basket is rotten and continues to stink up all that surrounds it.
I read you because you tell me things I wouldn't know otherwise. You clarify the inexplicable. And you call it like it is. Thank you for all of these things. I believe that having you as a conduit saves my sanity. I do worry about yours, however, as all of these speeches and Bullshit Social posts that you watch and read must have affected you in ways that will not be apparent from the outside. Please know that you are doing a great service for your country by writing the truth every night. It matters. Also, take care of yourself. Let go sometimes and just sleep, think of beauty and read a book for pleasure. A cup of hospital soup is a small step. Good thoughts coming your way for your family.
OMG! This is so abominable and repetitive from IQ47 ! It makes me angry here, half a world away! I feel so sad and sorry for you who are in the thick of it. He is exposing himself for who he really is and it’s worse than we thought. But in a way, this must be a good thing for the coming elections. There are hints of the tide turning. Thankyou, Heather for all your work and your posts and best wishes for your family member. Love from Oz.
IQ47. Good one.
Again, thank you for your efforts. You are a champion for good and deserve all you wish for.
Best wishes to your relative, I hope the stay is a short one. With love from England
Hi Heather,
My thoughts are with you, your sick relative and all Americans that are tired and exhausted. Find strength from each other. Give support where and when you can…keep the faith! Nothing is for ever. X
Thank you Heather. You’re an artist with words. I want to second your notion at the end of the essay. Give of your time locally. Help others in need. It’s not just the right thing to do, it nurtures your soul.
So sorry to hear that someone you care for is ill. Things like this always seem compounded when you have to listen to a lunatic who robs us every day, and has zero compassion for others often affected by the conditions he has created. I pray every night for our country and that the people who once believed that a course and cruel lying man would bring them prosperity and honor will change their minds, for we have surely lost all prosperity and any national honor. In their place, we have outrageously wealthy and greedy billionaires who dance to the lunatic’s fiddle, and their abandonment of a nation of people wondering when they will feel safe, protected from disease, can afford gas, own a home, and have adequate healthcare. Until this cruel and desperate man is dead and buried, and his sycophantic party regains some integrity, will we not have peace. Thank you for your daily posts, and remember to care for yourself too so we can continue to read them. ❤️🙏🏻🇺🇸
(((hugs))) I know how stressful an illness in the family can be.
Thank you, Heather. I will add an extra prayer for your family member tonight. Take care of yourself too & eat well.
Thank you Heather. First am so very sorry about your family member being in a hospital, hoping and wishing for a full and speedy recovery and peace. To also your determination to continue writing and keeping all informed. The old adage continues on, we do what we must do.
Meanwhile Canada and the EU are making a pact that benefits both. The seal of this deal is when the President of the European Commission, the European Union Ursula von der Leyen, says to PM Mark Carney “Dear Mark we see the world with the same eyes. From AI to climate change, from the Arctic to geopolitics.” A partnership that brings in a new dawn, a new era. Who knows what may happen in the future yet anyone can see that it’s an opportunity for so many great events on the horizon for the EU and Canada. The shift the “rupture” taking place before all our very eyes. Maybe once was known as the “Middle Powers” no longer being subdued and expanding exponentially to become the leaders. Such a long time for one nation, counted in decades and one person in an elected office has been known as the “Leader of the Free World” is changing hands. Quietly, no war, no conflict, no engagement with weapons, the succession already underway because the Canadian PM is grounded, has the values and moral clarity that once was present that held that mantle previously. The “rupture” is well underway and what is truly remarkable is at least 30% of the America population are unaware because they follow the declining Felon every step of the way. The lackeys in Congress either will not admit or just remain their normal silent complicit selves as to the changing of the guard in global economics, wealth, and even power, the entire physical movement of Earth's surface caused by tectonic forces, the large-scale mass of redistribution. Fly high Canada, so well deserved PM Mark Carney 🇨🇦
Meanwhile the toppling is occurring, the continuation of lies that ironically are saying this nation is thriving economically, taking in money, versus spending the money that at this point doesn’t even exist. That we all are doing great economically, that those 401k’s are booming, and we all can hold on for just a wee bit until after November 3rd and then gas prices will come down. The question is down from how much, $10.00 per gallon? The continuation of a cemented partnership of at least two Felons lives on. It’s an odd relationship at best because Putin decides to halt as quickly as a hiccup from bombing railways in Ukraine while a son ‘n law is en route with one of the Felons crypto-partners and once in Ukraine again Putin orders the bombs to go off raining in Ukraine. Such strange bedfellows, which seems beneficial to the eldest son and the new daughter ‘n law to have a blast of a celebration at the expense of a close Putin buddy. Then the escalation intensifies out of Iran, with Iran’s friends sending missiles, drones into Saudi Arabia and another waterway is compromised, no oil flowing. So many U.S. bases are attacked, yet that news doesn’t get into the Mainstream media because that Pentagon is not as transparent as the vessel in charge says it is. He’s so caught up being called Secretary of WAR and receiving another shot of testosterone and going into makeup prior to hitting the cameras.
The VP deciding to ask the American public to give them all the chance to continue their agenda by electing all those Congressional selections to be House Reps and Senators. It’s like being asked by the wife beater for us all to hang around, promising we may not get smacked upside the head but anyone with a brain knows we will be punched in the face and kicked down the stairs.
All the while the lackey in charge, Mickey-Mikey of the House of Reps says they’ve worked real hard on their return back from over a six week vacation to once again leave until well after Election Day November 3rd and the lackeys are out in full force taking flight back to their home bases who we all know will not be having any town halls, or meet with the general population of their constituents but in this only safe houses surrounded by their loyalists in the MAGA cult.
Ah yes the majority in Congress the lackeys, sycophants who bring their stench back to home base looking to continue on…
Please take a moment and think about all our service members in the Middle East. They need all our thoughts, prayers and good mojo, trust me it’s difficult when you have two grandchildren involved, one on land one at sea…
The rupture is already underway. Have your plan to vote, execute your plan. Stay safe and healthy. See you at the voting polls.. — VOTE
Hi Heather. I just wanted to add my well wishes for both your kin’s recovery and your well-being. Your strength is manifest in part by your willingness to face these issues daily, when many of us try to cope by “rationing” our exposure to reality. It’s right to be angry, and what is happening to us is going to become unbearable, as it already is for many (probably thousands) of his victims. You’re only human, but at least you ARE human — I think of him as our most dangerous illegal alien! Stay strong kiddo.