Louisiana Voice

At least one reader is of the opinion that I’m in failing health (I don’t really think macular degeneration falls within the purview of “failing”) and that I’m in dire financial straits (I can only guess he draws this conclusion from the twice-yearly fundraiser LouisianaVoice conducts which is currently taking place) and that LouisianaVoice is sub-par as a political blog.

Sub-par it may well be because I do not depend on it as a livelihood. I’m involved with several projects, but admittedly, I’m not hi-tech, though I do know the difference between A-1 and A-I.

I also can see that the first 100 days of Making America Great is nothing short of an unmitigated disaster.

But, as we were told repeatedly during the Vietnam War, I think I can see a light at the end of the tunnel – and I really don’t think it’s not an approaching train, which we got back when we were trying to wear down Ho Chi Minh in that ill-advised war of attrition.

Unlike Col. Bonespurs, I did enlist in the military just as Vietnam was heating up, but never set foot in the country.

But today, I see so many areas where this man is stripping us of our rights, of our dignity and of democracy itself.

He has targeted ATTORNEYS AND EDUCATORS, even AMERICAN CITIZENS. He’s deliberately UNDERCUT allies, DEFUNDED a refugee aid agency, threatened to ERADICATE an entire society in Gaza in favor of erecting a tourist mecca – to his own financial benefit, of course and launched an attack on the FIRST AMENDMENT.

And now, he wants to fire Central Bank Chairman Jerome Powell because he is somehow attempting to shift the blame for the coming recession, brought about by his own Daffy Duck-like economic policies, on Powell.

And now we learn that Col. Bonespurs wants a lavish military parade in honor of his 79th birthday next June. The event is anticipated to cost taxpayers a cool $92 million, including $21 million for public safety costs alone. All this, while imported goods are expected to increase for working Americans who haven’t seen him do anything about the price of eggs – one of his big campaign promises.

A military parade for a draft dodger who called military heroes “losers.” Can you spell arrogance, boys and girls?

And during all the chaos, Elon Musk and his DOGE has been running rampant through the federal government while downsizing his TARGETED CUTS of $2 trillion in waste to $150 billion. And yes, a billion here and a billion there, as Everett Dirkson once said, and soon you’re talking about real money. But $150 billion is light years from the anticipated $2 trillion.

But it’s interesting to note that while has been slashing and cutting with the precision of a meat cleaver, his own companies, Space X and Starlink have been mercifully SPARED. Meanwhile, Musk covered his own tracks with a series of OUTRIGHT LIES.

But wait.

It now seems that he has taken aim at a formidable foe by threatening to cut grants to HARVARD, which has the financial resources to fight back. The university, with its $53 billion endowment, may be just the schoolyard nerd to take on the bully and win.

The university, founded in 1636, long before Trump’s immigrant forebears made it to this country as unwashed foreigners, RESPONDED to IMPOTUS’s bluster by placing a chip on its symbolic shoulder and daring the buffoon to knock it off.

By standing up to GOLFER Ima Fraud, Harvard just may have gotten the attention of other schools and attorneys who might find the courage to lock arms with the Crimson.

Already, we’re seeing more frequent and larger demonstrations against this administration and its attempted trashing of the US Constitution.

Revolutions are ignited by a small spark and Col. Bonespurs may have provided that spark.