Rant

After looking at the news where Speaker Johnson is going to basically let Matt Gaetz’s past crimes go unanswered, that was, of course, after Johnson met Trump at Mar-a-Lago, and then Oklahoma superintendent’s nonsense of having students listen to a video of him praying for Donald Trump. And that’s just two news reports!

I think our whole world is going to be turned upside down and it’s seriously frightening. My youngest granddaughter here is graduating this year and she’s homeschooled. She’s already been signed up into a university. She was just inducted into the National Honor Society this week. I have one other granddaughter that’s young and lives in New Jersey with her parents who are strong people and I don’t know what her fate is going to be, but I would doubt they would keep her in school if this is the way the public schools are going to go.

If you want religious restrictions, indoctrinations on your child, then put them in a private school. The public schools were not made for this. They were never required to be this.

You have got to voice your opinions, you have got to put your foot down, you have got to make yourself heard if you agree with me or even if you don’t, make yourself heard. Don’t be quiet sitting back in your living room watching TV trying to ignore what’s going on. Don’t let it be the Fourth of July 2025 and you’re looking around your little world and thinking is this really what I wanted, is this really happening?

The lineup Trump intends to put into government controlling positions – just look at them, read about them, see what he has chosen – criminals, pedophiles, thieves, rapists, misogynists, people who on January 6 violently tried to take down our government. You don’t need to believe me, all you have to do is look it up – there’s videos of it – videos of law-enforcement being bludgeoned. Trump claims it was a love fest. Not even in the Vietnam protests was it this bad. It’s clear he’s going to use the Supreme Court decision to pardon himself of all the crimes that he has been accused of and done, proven.

The idea that he aims to put an anti-vaxxer in charge of health is another mind-boggling thing. These people he’s choosing for appointments would be funny, surreal, even, and ironic. It’s like the loudest most ridiculous idea person you could put in charge of some thing is his choice.

Things are changing and they’re scary and if you’re not on the right side of this, no pun intended, you and your children are going to be in trouble.

I’m not promising my rants are over but you do have a handy delete button, so use it if you choose.

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Suze asks some questions…

Okay…….I had a daily prompt for a few months, then it turned into a every couple of days…and morphed to a once a week before I simply became overwhelmed with life as I know it. I had a bunch of stupid, intelligent, brash, obnoxious or silly questions all in a draft that I kept…until now.

I figured just use up the remaining ones all in one go and see if anyone wanted to answer any of them.

So here they are…..

  • When was the last time you laughed so hard you almost wet yourself? 2015 when I lost my bladder to cancer and was fitted with a urostomysee? There are positives
  • What’s your favorite song to sing in the shower? I don’t sing in the shower, the auto fan is always on with the light and the curtain doesn’t close all the way, so it’s freezing!
  • If you could have one super power what would it be? I guess making the world free of war is out, so maybe make every person be sympathetic to others.
  • What’s the worst pick-up line you’ve ever heard? You have a great laugh…I don’t.
  • What’s the best joke you know? Two strings walk into a bar, I forgot the punchline.
  • If you worked in a circus, what would your job be? Ticket sales.
  • What’s your best dance move? 😂😂😂😂
  • What was your most embarrassing moment? Too many to state although last year at Halloween was a topper…at the doctor’s office a nurse came out and he was absolutely covered with tattoos a bald head arms everything covered with tattoos and he had some funny kind of glasses on and a Halloween shirt. He asked me if I’d like to follow him in to the exam room area. I thought I was being funny when I said I don’t know. Is it safe? My daughter was behind me trying to melt into the carpet without success, and that’s when I realized all the tattoos were real.🙄🤯
  • What’s your strangest quirk? I find humor in very small things which makes other people look at me like I am nuts, which, of course I am.
  • If you could trade lives with any celeb, who would it be? I wouldn’t be a celebrity if you paid me, I like my private life too much.
  • What’s the oddest food in your fridge? Tomorrow is payday so right now my fridge is practically bare. I suppose a dried up lemon might qualify.

Answer one or all……..or none. Just making this post gave me something to do with my unending time. Maybe you too can waste some of your own.

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The Writers Workshop

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I used numbers 2, 4 and 5.

I’m sure I’ve laughed many a time inappropriately but my brain keeps them hidden. My jokes never go over well because I’m terrible at telling them! I was trying to tell a couple of plumbers repairing my sink, an old joke that involved a plumber and a parrot, maybe you know it? It’s one of my favorites, but do you think I could remember it exactly when telling them?🙄🥴So I’m sure those young friendly guys thought I was a bit touched like most some residents here at the over 55 complex, but hey. Of course I remembered the entire joke the next day. I seem to have a brain that loves to mess with me. I’ll be thinking of a word or name and actually see it run through my head, but it’s too fast to read or catch and hold. Aging is one of those trials we all have to put up with. If we’re lucky!

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This Week’s Writer’s Workshop Prompts – November 12, 2024