Mayor Mamdani: a portrait of failure.  Courtesy Newsmax. (Fair Use)

Seriously!  It never works, and they never learn.  Now I’m not one to go around proselytizing on behalf of conservative principles.  I do that on the radio and online and that’s enough.

But if it comes up, what can I do? 

So, I’m in a business office, completing a transaction when I casually mention that Trump lost the tariff case in the Supreme Court.  The sweet lady who had just taken my money gave off that anti-Trump vibe at the mere mention of the name.  Okay, I say.  You don’t like him, but things are pretty good in America.  She doesn’t see it.

I say, remember Joe Biden?  All the inflation?  The high costs?  The open borders?  She doesn’t see it.  I mention Newsom and California; Mamdani and New York.   And I wonder:  liberalism’s record is one of misery and failure.  Why do so many people keep voting for them?

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You can tell them facts from dawn until dusk and they just don’t get it.

I mentioned that this lady I was visiting with is sweet.  She most certainly is and I will not reveal her name.  If she’s reading this column, I hope she will forgive me.  However, she’s not alone.  My best guess is that the political Left comes from a shared emotional reaction to current events, stemming from a background of college indoctrination.  Conservatives come from a real-world place where the past is prologue and is far more practical.

There is an old maxim that contends:

If you’re not liberal when you’re young, you have no heart.  If you’re not conservative when you’re older, you have no brain.

That’s how it was with me.  When I was in college at the University of Texas in the early seventies, I tended to prefer liberal candidates.  As a musician, I played at a rally for Frances “Sissy” Farenthold, an abortion pusher whose policies I would learn to despise later in life.  But in those days, she seemed cooler (remember that term) than, say, stodgy old Dolph Briscoe.  Republicans were too establishment, too buttoned-down for me.  Besides, Democrats were “in” on colleges campuses.

Video:  Frances Farenthold campaign ad.  She ran in 1972 and again in 1974, losing the Democratic primary to Dolph Briscoe both times.

The man I credit with turning me around was Jimmy Carter. 

My young brain was taking in the news, processing it, and spitting it out on the radio at WFAA and then KRLD in Dallas.  I was sent out on the campaign trail as major candidates from both parties stumped through the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.

In the KRLD newsroom, most of the anchors and reporters were lefties.  That seemed normal enough to me.  But Carter didn’t.  I began to realize that what he was saying made no sense.  (Someone from the opposition made the statement that the closest Carter had ever come to foreign affairs was having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.)

As a street reporter in those glorious days of the seventies – we never thought of ourselves as “journalists” – I routinely interviewed the best-known politicians of the day including John Tower, John Connally, Lloyd Bentsen, Jim Mattox, Anne Armstrong, and Ronald Reagan.  Dallas was a big important city and political VIPs were always passing through and looking for free publicity.

I interviewed them all, and began to note that the answers some of them gave were not exactly logical.  I most certainly wasn’t on board with Jimmy Carter’s platform.  I don’t recall ever voting for a Democrat for any important office during my seven years in Dallas radio.

Back to that office and the sweet lady who doesn’t like Trump.

Have you thought about why so many people are renting one-way U-Haul trucks and leaving California for Texas, I say.  I mention that Gov. Gavin Newsom has run California into the ground, and the high taxes and government red tape are so bad that people are flocking to Texas.  She’s listening, but it’s not sinking in.

I try Mamdani next.  I say, the new mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani promised to tax millionaires and give other people free stuff.  But he’s already planning a big property tax on the people.  If he governs as a socialist, wealthy people will move to Florida and Mamdani will have no upper-class tax base to plunder.  She’s listening.  So, I go on.

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States like Texas and Florida are low-tax compared to the blue states, and are much friendlier to businesses and corporations.  You can despise rich people, but they create wealth, open companies, and hand out paychecks.  She seems to think that the rich are unfair because they are wealthy and others are not.  I suggest that college football coaches are rich, and they don’t even create businesses.  I get nowhere with that.  So, I go for the gold.

Under Joe Biden, I say, we had open borders.  Millions of illegal aliens came in and a lot of people were raped or murdered.  We didn’t know who was in our country, or what they might do.  ICE is hated, I say, but ICE is fixing Joe Biden’s terrible immigration policy.  She’s listening and I keep going.  And under Biden, I say, Democrats (mostly, but Republicans did some of it) used the pandemic to spend trillions of dollars, which led to inflation, which fueled higher prices.

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Trump hasn’t brought them down, she says.  True, I say, but once prices go up across the board, they never some down.  Trump has brought inflation under control, and salaries will catch up.  She nods.  The Dow Jones Average went over 50,000, I say.  She nods.  Things are really pretty good in America right now, and we’re all far better off that we were under Biden.  I’m on a roll, but I’ve made my points, and I head for the door.

Will you still vote for Democrats, I ask, as I walk out?  She says, yes.  I get in the car and can’t help but think of the peaceniks in Waco that gather their anti-Trump signs and commandeer an Interstate 35 overpass every week.  They’re all lefties and climate change enthusiasts and they think Trump is a fascist.  They get a lot of honks from passing cars they take as support.  I think the motorists are telling them to go jump in the Brazos River.  And they go on my Facebook page to tell me how great Joe Biden was.

How many times does liberalism have to fail?

What does it take for them to see it?  California is a disaster under left-wing rule, and New York is being pummeled by the socialist Mamdani.  Chicago is a once-great city that now has to use all ten fingers and all ten toes to count the weekend murders.  The Left has brought us open borders, high taxes, massive inflation, transgender insanity, huge deficits, floundering and near-bankrupt states, high crime, overseas wars, and possibly even acne.  Do they love misery?

They hate Trump; that much we know.  And that may be part of it, but left-wing governance was a failure before Trump came on the scene.  Failure is cooked into their policies.  Why don’t they give it up?   Perhaps because it’s trendy to have a transgendered sixteen-year-old daughter that used to be a son, and because wealth redistribution seems so much more compassionate than allowing someone to keep what she or she has worked hard to attain.

On the other hand, healthy brains learn and adapt.  Illogical brains remain mired in college-era indoctrination and seem to think that caring about people not having a job is preferable to actually starting a business and giving people jobs.

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Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom are two of the most vapid, dangerous politicians in America who have each been a disaster for their state of California and for the nation.  Pete Buttigieg may very well be the worst transportation secretary in the history of the United States.  And yet, these three people are the frontrunners for the next Democratic Party presidential nomination.

Any of the three of them would fail miserably as President of the United States, but it wouldn’t matter.  Democrats would vote for them again.

Lynn Woolley is a Texas-based author, broadcaster, and songwriter.  Follow his podcast at https://www.PlanetLogic.us.  Check out his author’s page at https://www.Amazon.com/author/lynnwoolley. 

Order books direct from Lynn at https://PlanetLogicPress.Square.Site.  Email Lynn at lwoolley9189@gmail.com.

Democrats could learn a lot from this book.  If only they could use someone else’s money to buy it.

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Official 2025 Inaugural Portrait of Donald Trump by Daniel Torok (Public Domain)

You’ll recall that line from the Animals’ song “House of the Rising Sun,” in which the protagonist is heading to New Orleans to wear a ball and chain.  But I’m referring to the Trump Train, where I have been firmly planted, but now have removed one foot.

The foot that’s still on the train is there because I firmly agree with most of what Trump wants to do. We need to deport illegal aliens, especially the worst of the worst, and I’d love to have Greenland.

The foot that has exited the train and is now on the platform is there because Trump’s behavior has become so erratic that it can’t be passed off anymore as “three-dimensional chess.” 

Like them or not, his treatment of reporters is appalling.  His use of tariffs is unconstitutional.  And his ego is enormous.

AUDIO:  Random Samplings of a Logical Mind

Excuse me, but I don’t care what party he’s in.

Like many other conservatives, I was thrilled with the election of George W. Bush.  We all were.  Songs were written about what kind of man GWB was – stronger than Poppy, and conservative to the bone.  Well, no.  After a while, I realized that the entire Bush family is wobbly on abortion, and outright wrong on immigration.  After Bush (or was it the late Dick Cheney) took us to war with the wrong country, namely Iraq, after 9/11, I lost it with the Bush dynasty.

Video:  One foot on the platform and one foot on the train:  The Animals.

I say that to make this point:  I don’t give a fat rat’s rear end what party someone is in.  I have no blind allegiance to any politician; in fact, I firmly believe that many of them become suspiciously rich after making it to Washington.  So, if you think I will routinely support any politician just because of party loyalty, then you have me mixed up with someone else.

In fact, while I disagree with most of what Sen. John Fetterman stands for, I often applaud his comportment and common sense.  Fetterman is a Democrat, and he subscribes to left-wing ideology, but he gives Trump’s ideas a fair chance, and applauds when they work. I often said that I would give Joe Biden credit for the good things he did.  He never did any that I can recall.  I was happy about the “cancer moonshot” announcement and said so on the radio, but nothing ever came of it.

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Biden was a disaster.  Totally and completely.  He left the country in a shambles from his open-border policy that got a lot of people killed, and his ungodly spending that caused rampant inflation and what I always felt was a recession.  Biden said there was no recession, so his blind followers in the media also said it.  But Biden, who I thought was a jerk and a liar, was easy to critique.  After all, he was a Democrat and they’re usually wrong on most everything.

Biden was so awful that Trump had little trouble getting back into office.

Inflation and open borders got Trump back in.  He fixed the open border quickly and efficiently.  So far, so good.  But his economic policy went to threatening every country on the globe from enemies to allies with tariffs – on one minute, and off the next.  Tariffs are taxes, and that means they’re inflationary.  When Trump uses them as a weapon against Russia or China, that makes sense.  But as I woke up today, an Associated Press headline was blaring:

Trump threatens Canada with 100% tariffs over its new trade deal with China

That’s classic Trump.  I hope I complete the writing of this column before he changes his mind.  But here’s the rub:  when Trump threatened to make Canada the 51^st state and started using tariffs against them – sometimes with good reason – he created turmoil.  He’s right that Canada could do better; they’ve always relied on their juxtaposition to the United States for national defense, but why not hold a summit and talk these things out and get them fixed?  Then, have a joint news conference with shaking of hands and declarations of how the two countries work together?

That’s not Trump.  Trump prefers the bully method, which now has driven Canada over to China, which is a disaster.  Trump appears to realize that and is going back to the tariffs threat.  I think Trump had an “Oh Sh*t Moment” in which he saw what he’d done.  He could call Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, and try to work it out.  I’m no fan of Carney’s, but it could have been worked out.  Canada knows better than to get in bed with Red China.

Trump’s enormous ego.

Herein lies much of the problem.  Trump cannot handle criticism at any level so far as I can tell.

When reporters ask serious questions that he doesn’t like – questions I’d ask if I had the chance – he calls them “a terrible person.”  Reporters are not supposed to kiss his ass.  They’re supposed to ask real questions about policy and try to get real answers.  They are our eyes and ears in Washington, even though some are weasels and some are down-the-line.  Their job is not to make Trump look good, but to get answers on vital issues.  Trump should have the fortitude to answer all questions, even the ones he doesn’t like.  If you can’t take the heat, stay out of the kitchen, as the saying goes.

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I’ll also note that Trump has sued CBS News and other networks over deceptive editing.   With regard to the Kamala Harris edit, he had a point. But long interviews on videotape have to be edited.  Trump should recognize this and call them out only when they are deceptive.  Lawsuits are a bridge too far and could damage actual news reporting.  We don’t want state-run news here.  On the other hand, CBS News should use better judgement.   So should the other networks.

When the Cabinet meetings are televised, or at any public event or interview conducted with a Trump administration official, we hear constantly about “Trump’s great leadership.”  This line is used so much by all those under Trump, that I have concluded that it is an unspoken requirement.

Video:  Cabinet members praise President Trump for his leadership.

When the Nobel Prize committee spurns Trump, as you might expect, Trump complains and openly campaigns for the award.  He even takes one that was awarded to someone else.  As I’ve said on the air to my partner Jim Cardle, I’d love to be in the Texas Radio Hall of Fame.  But I’m not, and I’m not going to nominate myself.  In the universe of awards, they’re best won by deeds and actions and not by whining.  The Nobel Peace Prize went to Barack Obama for no particular reason, and Trump knew that.  He should have kept his mouth shut about it, and he would have been a bigger man.

The re-naming of the Kennedy Center as the Trump-Kennedy Center was a bridge too far, and if done, should have been done through an act of Congress.  If we had a functional Congress, it would have stood up for that.  We do not have a functional Congress.

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On the Trump Train itself, there’s a lot to be thankful for.

Biden and the Dems told us they could not control the border without an act of Congress.  That was stupid, and Trump proved them wrong.  Simple enforcement was the answer.  In spite of Trump’s tariffs, inflation is hovering at an acceptable rate, so we’ll see what happens.  Trump has forced NATO members to pay more of their fair share of their own defense, and that’s good.  Trump has a shaky peace in the Middle East, and no one thought he could do that.  He took out Iran’s nuclear capabilities and that helped nullify Hezbollah and Hamas.  He ought to have gotten the Nobel Prize.

On deportation, he’s gotten a lot of the bad hombres out of the country – the Tren de Aragua gang members and such.  But the fervor to remove the millions that Biden let in looks harsh on TV, and in politics, the “optics” are important.  Trump recognizes the danger of having Ilhan Omar in Congress and says so.  The rapid rise of Islam in America is concerning and Trump knows that, and that’s a good thing.

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Trump has taken on the hard issues that Joe Biden and other presidents preferred to avoid.  Obama was there to preside over America’s decline.  Trump’s America First polices have reversed that decline, and that’s why I have one foot still on the train.

I’m not sure Democrats will try to impeach him again.  They’ll go further than that.

With all the good things that Trump has done, it’s his comportment that may be his downfall.  If Trump turns into Captain Queeg, the Democrats will use the 25^th Amendment to declare him unfit for office.  The question then becomes:  Is Trump capable of taking on his own personal issues of self-grandeur?

Video: The Caine Mutiny (1954) – Paranoid Breakdown Scene

The problem with Trump is not usually about what he hopes to accomplish, but in the methods he chooses to achieve his goals, typically through insults, bullying, and his “Dear Leader” complex.  The choice is his, but he has only a short time before the mid-term elections could render him irrelevant on the world stage.

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A calmer, more deliberate, more presidential Donald Trump might go down in history as one of the greats.  His accomplishments are many.  But the alienation of friends, allies, and next-door neighbors is not a winning formula.  Note that Trump attacks Republicans in Congress, such as Chip Roy, for the slightest disagreement.  If Trump’s issues with his ego continue to escalate, and the House and/or the Senate fall into Democratic Party control, some Republicans may cross over and vote to remove him.

I don’t know what I would do if I were in Congress and Trump continues to make threats to allies as he has done in the case of Greenland.  I want Greenland; I do not wish to invade it and risk a breakup of NATO, which is the force that has prevented World War III so far.  I have one foot on the platform.  But I still have one foot on the train.

There are zero Democrats on the train.  In the final two years of Trump’s second term, how many Republicans will step off the train and onto the platform?  That is entirely up to President Donald Trump and whether he can put some controls on his biggest enemy:  his own ego.

Lynn Woolley is a Texas-based author, broadcaster, and songwriter.  Follow his podcast at https://www.PlanetLogic.us.  Check out his author’s page at https://www.Amazon.com/author/lynnwoolley. 

Order books direct from Lynn at https://PlanetLogicPress.Square.Site.  Email Lynn at lwoolley9189@gmail.com.

There are no trains in this book.  But there are solar buses and starships and time machines.  

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Lynn Woolley at the U.S. Capitol on June 21, 2020 (Photo by Julie Sullivan for WBDaily)

That line, from a John Lennon song, always gets me to thinking.  What did I do wrong during the outgoing year, and what can I do better in the new one?

And for that matter, what did our elected officials do wrong, and what might they change?

In my own case, it’s about taking a breath, and saying to myself, Lynn, you don’t have to get everything off your plate today.  It’s true that being the opposite of a procrastinator can be just as bad!

As for our venerated leaders in Washington, they could use just a bit of my urgency – and fix immigration and healthcare.  They could also stop procrastinating about paying off the National Debt.  I’d like to see them work more for the country as a whole, and less about bringing back pork to the district.  And maybe they ought to worry just a little less about reelection, and just do the right thing.

AUDIO: Random Samplings of a Logical Mind 

2025 brought changes to me and to the country.

I got older – by a year, of course, and made a few decisions about what to do with the rest of my life.  The small stuff is easy.  I don’t have to stop using bad things like tobacco, because I never have.  I haven’t salted my food in 40 years, and I never add sugar to anything.  I suppose I could get off of Diet Dr. Pepper, but that addiction is too strong.  I run on a treadmill enough to keep my stamina up, and so I’m good there.

Musically, I always want to be a better guitar player, and I’m still the same guitar player I was a year ago.  But I try.  I do add a few songs to my repertoire each year to try to keep performances fresh.  I change my strings twice a year.  And I try to appreciate current music, but it’s so awful that I have trouble with that.

Video:  John Lennon – Another year over and a new one just begun

The period from the late fifties, starting with Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, and Buddy Holly, up until the early seventies is my favorite period.  We lost Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul and Mary) and Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys in 2025, and that aged me considerably.

I wrote a song in 2025 about writing country songs.  Seems silly, but I put Willie Nelson in the lyrics, and it’s not bad at all.  Crowds liked it, and that just encourages me to write more songs.  I’ve written about 75 songs as things stand.  It pains me to know what when I die, so will those songs, but that’s the way it is for a non-famous, local songwriter.  No one will even notice, so no harm, no foul.

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My love life was kind of a mess in 2025.  I’ll work on that and try to do better.  If there’s one thing I have learned about women, it’s that they’re a gift from God and if you’re a man and you have a good one, cherish her.  Make sure she knows that you do.

As for the country…

It’s the same old same old.  President Trump came into office again and fixed some of the Joe Biden mess, including the open border and the rampant inflation.  But I wish he’d handle the tariffs differently since they seem to be pushing consumer prices higher – and affordability is what may decide the next election.

Video:  Trump to reporter:  You’re a terrible person…

I wish the President would be slightly kinder.  I cringe when he tells a reporter, you’re a terrible person.  Reporters do their jobs, and the President could simply answer the questions, but that’s not his style.

He’s always been rough around the edges, but it seems worse this year, and I hope he can see that.  His demeanor, especially to Marjorie Taylor Greene, has become off-putting, at least to me.

Video:  Trump called MTG a “traitor” and she resigned from Congress amidst threats to her family.

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On the other side of the aisle, I wish Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, the two Democratic Party leaders in Congress, would be forced to sit down in front of a TV screen to hear the way they talk.  It’s no wonder we can’t accomplish anything.

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These numbskulls, along with members like Jamie Raskin, make Congress look like a bunch of junior high thugs.  They’re worse than Trump, because at least he gets things done.  And, in 2026, can we do away with congressional hearings?  Watching members of the two parties preen for the TV cameras with prepared talking points has become tiresome.

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We now have 2026 to do better.

I know what I need to do, and will try.  But I’ll skip the resolutions, and just try to be better.  Congress and the other two branches are well paid to do better.  They rarely do, but it’s a free country (so far) and any of us can call them out.

We know what they ought to do.  So do they.  Will they do better in the new year?  Not likely.

Lynn Woolley is a Texas-based author, broadcaster, and songwriter.  Follow his podcast at https://www.PlanetLogic.us.  Check out his author’s page at https://www.Amazon.com/author/lynnwoolley. 

Order books direct from Lynn at https://PlanetLogicPress.Square.Site.  Email Lynn at lwoolley9189@gmail.com.

New year.  Same book.  Still good.

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National Debt Clock as of November 8, 2025 (Photo by Lynn Woolley for WB Daily)

America has a lot of problems and some are genuine crises.

Weirdly, some of these are vastly more important to the political Left than to the Right, and vice versa.  The Left thinks the presidency of Donald Trump is a crisis.  But that hasn’t quite taken the place of Climate Change, which is now a more subtle religion for most progressives.

On the other side of the aisle, and mostly ignored by the Left, is the breakdown of the traditional family, the failure of our educational system, and the loss of a well-defined American identity.

The Right also worries about the threat of radical Islam and socialism and Communism with the election of Zohran Mamdani in New York, as well as the China threat, and the National Debt.

Perhaps artificial Intelligence can help us solve these crises – except that AI itself is also on the list.

AUDIO:  Random Samplings of a Logical Mind

Crises change from generation to generation.

Back in the days of J. Robert Oppenheimer, virtually everyone on the planet lost sleep over the threat of Mutual Assured Destruction from nuclear weapons.  That threat is vastly more real today than then, but nobody worries much about it.  It seems too horrible for even Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping to contemplate.

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Besides, if you’re a political junkie, it’s more fun to see where we go with crises that mirror the ideology of progressives or conservatives.  I chose seven crises that come to mind, and set them up in what I consider to be reverse order.  That means we’ll end with number one, which to me, is what poses the most danger.

Crisis #7:  Climate Change

Ho-hum.  Not many people seem to care much about this crisis anymore since Trump won a second term.  There’re diehards out there; in fact, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson recently attended a climate conference in Rio de Janeiro.  He came back to town and issued a release on it with all the old talking points that have never come to pass.

Even one of the world’s richest men, Microsoft’s Bill Gates, has shifted his position on this issue from one of a “doomsday scenario” to a more pragmatic one of “human welfare.”  In short, this is a crisis – if it is one at all – that we can’t do much about.  Let’s focus on clean water and clean air and move on.  Earth will be fine.

Video:  Bill Gates warns about Climate Change alarmism

Crisis #6:  The presidency of Donald Trump

This one is good for a few laughs, especially if you thought the presidency of Joe Biden was a crisis.

What did Biden do?  He immediately opened up the southern border and let millions of illegals cross over including drug dealers, cartel members, pushers of fentanyl, rapists, murderers, and human traffickers.  He also overlooked the Constitution when he wanted to, such as when he tried to forgive student loan debt.  He was known as the “Big Guy” in his family business of selling influence.  Under his watch, government spending went crazy resulting in the high consumer costs we have today.

What did Trump do?  He secured the southern border, tapped down the most insane parts of the liberal agenda such as sex-change and men playing in women’s sports.  You may not like his tariffs, but his accomplishment in the first year of the second term are stunning.  Joe Biden never came close to a peace deal in the Middle East.  He never had the guts to take out Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

Trump’s methods are unconventional, but if there was a “crisis” presidency in the last decade, it was that of Joe Biden.

Crisis #5:  The threats of Communist China and Radical Islam

This one is very real.  The Red Chinese have a 100-year plan to take over the world.  They’re patient.  They want to invade Taiwan, and maybe they will – and then what?  The Democrats carp about “Russian interference,” but China is likely a bigger problem along those lines, with tentacles into our social media and our educational system and possibly even into the halls of Congress.

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China sent a high-altitude balloon flying over the United States in January 2023 that carried intelligence-gathering equipment.  President Biden said it was no big deal.

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Meanwhile, in New York, get ready for the United States’ first radical Islamic mayor.  New York joins London as a world-class city with an Islamic mayor.  Remember, New York was the main city attacked by Islamic terrorists on 9-11.  How quickly the voters forgot about that.  Russia is a minor player compared to these two threats, both of which are quite existential.

Crisis #4:  Colleges, Universities, and Culture Rot

College campuses are where American culture goes to die.  President Trump has famously had feuds with Harvard and Columbia.  These and other campuses are springboards for the new, left-wing-approved racism of antisemitism.  Colleges are festering with progressive professors who hate America, and who hate our system of capitalism.  What we used to call “multi-culturalism,” and now call “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” is the new racist trope that America is split into the “oppressed” and the “oppressors.”

Students often graduate with huge student loan debt and with an indoctrination that America is a terrible country, born in the original sin of slavery.  We used to have something called the Melting Pot, out of which, came a blended culture that was born of the best aspects of many lands.  E Pluribus Unum is still on our coins, but we don’t really practice that anymore.

Our colleges and universities are badly broken, but who will fix them?

Crisis #3:  The Breakup of the Traditional Family

The traditional family consists of a mother (female), a father (male) as role models for children, and probably a dog or a cat.  Boys learn how to be men from their dads and what a woman is from their moms.  Girls have a mom as a role model but see their dads as a strong protector of house and home.  It worked that way for 10,000 years.

Now, we have areas in big cities such as Chicago where fathers are as rare as a complete sentence from Kamala Harris.  Lots of big cities are infested with gangs, and children get caught in the crossfire, and they die.  In an even somewhat-perfect world, little boys would have dads to take them to baseball games, teach them how to treat girls, and even help them with homework.  That seems so quaint now.

In today’s inner city hip-hop culture, the F-word is often what young kids learn first.  A family may consist of a single parent, almost always the woman, with several kids from different fathers and enabled by generous welfare programs.  Some families now consist of a woman and her wife or a man and his husband – all to the detriment of the traditional family.  Is this a crisis? — yes!  Is it solvable?  Probably not.  Not unless the country decides to make men financially responsible for the children they create, and to curb or end welfare programs that make all this depravity possible.

Yes, folks, government created this problem with welfare and the left-wing idea that the traditional family is obsolete.  This crisis is off the charts, mostly because Congress is too dysfunctional or too left-wing to take action.

Crisis #2:  Artificial Intelligence

Maybe AI will cure cancer and solve some of the other crises.  But first it’s going to plunge us into a dystopian hell where we may never know if a new artist is even a real person.  Already, there are singers from the fifties up on You Tube with some pretty cool tunes you may not remember.  That’s because the song, the image, and the music are all created by AI.  And companies like Amazon are invariably going to replace all the jobs they can with AI, likely causing a depression if it happens too fast for new jobs to be created.

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Artificial Intelligence is that rare crisis that has many benefits, but that also comes with grave dangers.  AI could render virtually all desk jobs obsolete.  We already have driverless cars, and trucks and planes will be next.  Robot surgeons (guided by human doctors) have been performing operations for years and as they get better at it, will we need human surgeons?  AI has its good points and will make life very easy, especially for students who can use it to generate an essay in about 10 seconds.

But will it destroy our humanity?  Has it already started the process?  Should we stop it now before it begins to control everything?

Crisis #1:  The National Debt

This crisis trumps all the others because the United States is on the verge of not being able to pay its bills.  Imagine a government shutdown that is permanent.  That’s what will happen when government spending and borrowing gets so out of control that all the GDP goes to pay the interest.  We are now at $38,000,000,000,000 in debt.  Some members of Congress recognize this, but there aren’t enough of them to make a difference.

Virtually all the Democrats and a great deal of the Republicans are in a kick-the-can mode where they have to keep their constituents happy right now in order to get reelected – and to hell with future generations.  Most government shutdowns are about the Republicans trying to hold down spending and the Democrats wanting to do more of it and exert more government control over such things as student loans and healthcare.

Video:  The National Debt crisis explained, but it’s much worse now than when this was posted

There is a fiscal cliff coming where we won’t be able to kick the can.  At that point we become a third-world country.  Congress will wake up and see it coming, but the train will be speeding down the tracks and it will not be stoppable. It will be too late.  When the full faith and credit of the United States government means nothing, we will have no country.  What’s the tipping point?  We’re at $38 trillion in debt now.  Is it $50 trillion?  $100 trillion?  At the rate Congress spends, we may soon know.

Note that the next category of debt will move from “trillions” to “quadrillions” and that each number in the sequence is a thousand times larger than the one before it.

The worst part about these crises is that all of them exist at the same time.

Maybe a dysfunctional Congress could fix one of these threats.  Maybe two.  But I doubt it.  The two parties hate each other and will not work together to solve anything.  Which crisis will eventually destroy us?  My guess is the National Debt will weaken us and China will make its move.  On the other hand, by that time, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, and Austin may have radical Islamic mayors.  Or maybe AI will recognize these threats and save us from them.  If that’s our best hope, we’re in trouble.

RELATED: We could have a functioning immigration system if we had a functioning Congress

The optimist in me says that maybe – just maybe – we’ll have better politicians in the pipeline some day that will see these issues and move to fix them.  It’s a faint hope, but the United States of America is the best country that’s ever existed and its time isn’t up just yet.

Lynn Woolley is a Texas-based author, broadcaster, and songwriter.  Follow his podcast at https://www.PlanetLogic.us.  Check out his author’s page at https://www.Amazon.com/author/lynnwoolley. 

Order books direct from Lynn at https://PlanetLogicPress.Square.Site. 

Email Lynn at lwoolley9189@gmail.com.

If you don’t buy this book — right now — that might constitute a crisis for me.  So get it done!

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Sen. John Fetterman official portrait (Public domain)

I’ve said it many times and I’ll say it again.

The Congress of the United States is non-functioning.  If it were an automobile, you’d take it to the shop.  If it couldn’t be fixed, you’d get a new one.  As it is, we’re stuck with an entire branch of the government comprised of people that appear to hate each other.

So, there’s no wonder we get name-calling, profanity, and government shutdowns. 

Who wants to sit down and negotiate with the other side, if you hate them?  There is one guy who says he would do just that.  He says he’ll meet with any other member and talk things out.  It’s Senator John Fetterman, a Pennsylvania Democrat with whom I disagree much of the time.

I wonder if there any other members like him.  I wonder if there’s enough to start a new party based on actually finding solutions.  A party, perhaps, based on logic.

AUDIO: Random Samplings of a Logical Mind

This is not just another column demanding logical solutions.

Not at all. This a column suggesting that members of Congress bury the hatchet somewhere except in the backs of their fellow members.  Yes, I know presidents do it, too.  Trump is Trump and his nastiness is a feature rather than a bug.  It works for him.  It didn’t work so well for Joe Biden when he gave his speech at Independence Hall with all the Nazi-like imagery. He came off looking worse than the person he was trying to demonize.

Video:  Biden at Independence Hall attacking Donald Trump and MAGA.  Is this the kind of rhetoric that got Charlie Kirk murdered?

As for Trump, I have said many times that his style is not my style.  He makes it work; no one else in politics can.

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Take the current Minority Leader in the house, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York.  It would be nice to see him come up with some great ideas, perhaps some way to pay down the National Debt, or fix the violence that is prevalent in cities like Chicago.  Instead, he peppers every speech or news conference with insults and accusations aimed at Republicans.  It’s apparent that Jeffries hates them, but what are his ideas to make America a better and more solvent country?

I’ve called Jeffries the pull-string politician, because he’s similar to those action figures where you pull a string and they play a recorded message.  Jeffries never changes from his “Republicans-are-bad” message.

Video:  Pull his string and Hakeem Jeffries will tell you how awful Republicans are no matter what the issue.

The current Majority Leader, Mike Johnson, isn’t as bad as Jeffries, but part of his job is to attack Democrats.  He can be good at it during those times when the two parties are at opposite ends of an issue – which is most of the time.

Am I letting Trump off the hook on this issue?

Nope.  Sometimes, I wish he’d act in a way that we used to call “presidential,” but those days are gone.  Obama wasn’t all that presidential and Biden could be a jerk’s jerk.  Trump is a brash New Yorker and he’s a billionaire, and he’s used to getting his way.

The difference is that Trump uses his brashness to get things done.  Biden, on the other hand, went to the beach and slept.  Both Trump and Biden are adept at spouting profanity when they want to, but Biden was a total failure as Chief Executive and Trump has had many successes.  That’s why he gets somewhat of a pass.

Now, what’s this about a third party?

That takes us back to Senator Fetterman who has said on TV that he will never call anyone “Hitler.”  That’s a damn good start.  Calling people Hitler may be part of why mentally unstable people keep going around trying to assassinate political figures, and sometimes succeeding.  Charlie Kirk is dead by an assassin’s bullet, and Trump almost was.  When Fetterman said he would never accuse political opponents of being Hitler, I cheered.

Video:  “Cuomo” on News Nation.  The Fetterman interview starts at 9:25.  You don’t have to agree with Fetterman’s politics to agree with him on how Congress ought to function.

This is not just Rodney King asking if we can all get along.  I’m talking about the people we elect to run our country, and who are supposed to be a cut above.  Yet, because they seem to hate each other, we can’t have a decent healthcare system, we can’t make our cities safe, and we can’t make college affordable like it used to be.  We have a $38,000,000,000,000 National Debt (yes, I capitalize the letters like the Associated Press capitalizes the word “black”).

As Elon Musk would say:  let this sink in.  I’m not even sure how to read the figure.  Six zeroes are a million and nine are a billion, so I think the National Debt could be expressed as “thirty-eight-thousand billion dollars.”  Did that sink in?  If so, congratulate yourself because it hasn’t sunk in to members of Congress.

A three-party solution.

Forget world peace, or nuclear stockpiles, or climate change, or sanctity of life, or curing cancer, or making America a better place.  The two parties are so far apart that all they can do is hate each other.  We can’t fix any problem so long as we are run by people like Hakeem Jeffries and, Chuck Schumer, who are the worst of the worst.

Video:  Yes, I think this is the most disgusting single comment ever made by a politician and that Schumer ought to have been charged with inciting violence or he should have resigned.

Yes, I think more hatred comes from the political Left, but the Right has their own set of bomb-throwers.

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I wonder what would happen if a significant number of congressmen and ladies from both houses, regardless of political positions, started a party based upon comity?  That means you could be for or against abortion or climate change so long as you agree to sit down and discuss the issues without accusing the other guy of being Hitler.

I think that’s what John Fetterman is saying.  It’s what I’m saying when I go on the Cardle & Woolley Show on Talk 1370 and say I’m not certain I will support JD Vance for the next Republican presidential nominee.  Vance, much like Hakeem Jeffries, is quick to blame the other party for everything that’s wrong in America.  As a conservative, I may agree with him on most things, but can we never, ever talk things out and reach an agreement that makes sense?

Yes, I know that following every successful abortion, we have a dead baby.

I get that.  It’s hard to compromise on issues concerning life.  Maybe we can’t have a meeting of the minds on that issue, or even on climate change.

But could we at least sit down like human beings and listen to the other side?  What about the National Debt?  Surely both sides that see that we’re headed for an existential fiscal crisis.  Surely both sides know that China is a major threat.  Surely both sides want to cure cancer.    But listen to them.  They agree on practically nothing.

My imaginary third party does not have to have members that agree.

It just has to have members that will sit down with each other and talk about the issues like human beings, and look for ways to solve them.  Issues such as crime in our cities, the high cost of college, the rise of socialism and Communism in America, water and air pollution, making Americans healthier, the high cost of health insurance, and so many others ought to transcend party affiliation.

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I think that’s what Joe Manchin used to say before he was run out of office.  Fetterman has filled the vacuum.  He’s really the only one that talks about getting rid of the hate and working to solve problems – maybe even admitting from time to time that the other side has a good idea.

Video:  Manchin to CNN on his divorce from the Democratic Party.

Let’s call it the “Logic Party,” or the “Unity Party.” 

Not “unity” in how we think, but rather unity in how we behave.  What works for Trump seems to have the opposite effect for Congress. Congress is very broken.  Pull-string toys like Hakeem Jeffries are not only insufferable, but also useless.   America needs big thinkers – like Trump – who can bring forth big ideas, and it needs level-headed legislators – like Fetterman – who will listen to them, even if they are not his own ideas.

Maybe this aspirational third party could lead to a functioning Congress. That would be amazing, because that’s something we currently do not have.

Lynn Woolley is a Texas-based author, broadcaster, and songwriter.  Follow his podcast at https://www.PlanetLogic.us.  Check out his author’s page at https://www.Amazon.com/author/lynnwoolley. 

Order books direct from Lynn at https://PlanetLogicPress.Square.Site. 

Email Lynn at lwoolley9189@gmail.com.

Should I send a copy of this book to Senator Fetterman?  It’s sensible.  It’s logical.  He might enjoy it!

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From a shaky peace in the Middle East to tariffs to enforcement of immigration laws, nothing is as it was.

On this episode, Lynn is joined by IT expert and college professor Shane Curington to discuss the mark that Trump has made upon politics, largely through the force of his own personality.

We take a deep dive into what the country and the world would be like if there were no Donald Trump.

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Lynn Woolley is a Texas-based author, broadcaster, and songwriter. 

Follow his podcast at https://www.PlanetLogic.us.  Check out his author’s page at https://www.Amazon.com/author/lynnwoolley. 

Order books direct from Lynn at https://PlanetLogicPress.Square.Site.  Email Lynn at lwoolley9189@gmail.com.

Someone should should buy a copy of this book for President Trump!

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Official 2025 Inaugural Portrait of Donald Trump by Daniel Torok (Public Domain)

There is a political game afoot that I’m not sure I’ve ever witnessed before.  You might call it the art of making the opposition support something they shouldn’t.  Nobody plays this game better than President Donald Trump.  Right now, with his crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C., he’s got Democrats appearing to support crime. 

How’d he do that? 

It relates to Trump Derangement Syndrome – the left-wing malady that causes the Left to be for anything Donald Trump is against – and vice versa.  I can just imagine Trump, chin on hand, in the Oval Office, thinking:  how can I drive Democrats up the wall today?  What better issue than the high crime rate in Washington, D.C. and Chicago?  He brings in the Guard and cleans it up, daring the Democrats to come out in favor of crime.

And that’s exactly what they seem to do.  They know they shouldn’t but they just can’t help themselves.

Audio:  Random Samplings of a Logical Mind

The crime issue is a huge losing issue for Democrats.

The Democratic Party has always been soft on crime.  Well, there was a time when Joe Biden was a sponsor of a Crime Bill that sent a lot of criminals to prison.  But in today’s world, the race of the criminal matters more than the crime.  Prisons, to Democrats, became racist, and so they changed from “tough on crime” to “criminals are the real victims.”

Video:  CNN’s Anderson Cooper reports on Trump’s crime crackdown.

That’s great, until someone gets mugged or has a family member murdered by the gangs or becomes afraid to take a walk after sundown.  That’s the way it in in many parts of our major urban areas.  A person may be politically liberal, but still, he or she is touched by crime.  I suspect that millions of left-leaning voters have to think twice before voting for a politically correct leftist who coddles criminals, or a right winger who doesn’t.

It gets worse.  In comes no cash bail, a left-wing idea that puts criminals right back on the streets, and the advent of “George Soros District Attorneys” who coddle criminals because of social justice.  These two phenomena have become familiar in our big cities, and our big cities have become crime-ridden.  A Southside Chicago single mother may vote for Democrats, but she might not if a drive-by shooting kills her child.

President Trump saw the crime issue as a way to fix crime and make Democrats seems foolish in one fell swoop.

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Trump’s plan was flawless. 

He could have advocated for more police.  Remember, Democrats worked to defund the police.  But simply advocating for more funding wasn’t what Trump has in mind.  After all, if more money to fight crime was sent to liberal cities, it would have probably gone into social programs rather than enforcement.

So, Trump sent in the National Guard.  Crime in D.C. went down instantly, and the number of days without a murder stretched to twelve.  That wasn’t the only stretch without a murder, but it was significant because it appeared to be a cause-and-effect result.  Trump’s crackdown on crime was working.

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Democrats couldn’t stand it.

Already soft on crime, big-city mayors and left-wing governors warned him not to send the Guard into their cities.  Note that D.C. is a federal jurisdiction and Trump has full power to do what he did.  Chicago and Baltimore are another matter because they’re in states. So why not work with the President, request that the troops come in to get the crime rate down, and put an end to the bloody weekends that take place in Chicago on a regular basis.

Video:  California Gov. Gavin Newsom fighting back at Trump.

That would be logical.  It would make sense.  But governors like Gavin Newsom of California and Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago virtually came out in support of criminals.  Johnson went on the “Morning Joe” on MSNBC and was asked five times by Joe Scarborough if 5,000 additional police would bring the crime rate down.  Johnson never gave a straight answer, but at one point, suggested that the answer to crime is affordable housing.

Video:  The Mayor of Chicago cannot give a straight answer to Joe Scarborough on MSNBC.

It was the same thing when Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent troopers from the Department of Public Safety to Austin to hold down crime and curb the murder rate when Austin was short hundreds of officers.  Some local officials and left-wing activists didn’t like it.

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Trump took the crime issue and made it into an art.

Democrats are at odds to begin with on this issue.  Except when they briefly tried to own the crime issue, and it backfired on them, the Dems have adopted the position that the criminal is really the victim.  They seem to think that crimes committed by a criminal are the result of racism, poverty, or whatever else they can think of.

Donald Trump saw this, and exploited it.  In Washington, D.C., it worked pretty well.  In other crime-ridden cities, governors and mayors who warn Trump to stay away are playing into his hands.

In Washington, Trump’s policies got the crime rate down.  In other cities, in which the mayors told him not to come in and crack down on crime, he made them look like fools.

Lynn Woolley is a Texas-based author, broadcaster, and songwriter.  Follow his podcast at https://www.PlanetLogic.us.  Check out his author’s page at https://www.Amazon.com/author/lynnwoolley. 

Order books direct from Lynn at https://PlanetLogicPress.Square.Site. 

Email Lynn at lwoolley9189@gmail.com.

Who are the Reppters?  Can they take over Planet Earth? 

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New York Post 7/2/24 (Fair Use)

Is it too much to ask politicians not to lie to us?  They tell us what we want to hear far too many times.  Sometimes it’s in the throes of a campaign.  Sometimes it’s about an issue that is in the news.

Bill Clinton said, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinski.” Barack Obama is famous for his line “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.”  Joe Biden promised to unify the country, but he did just the opposite.

Rep. James Comer of the House Oversight Committee promised that he had the goods on Joe Biden.  But nothing ever happened.  Donald Trump promised to release the Epstein files, but later changed his mind.  And he promised to punish Vladimir Putin with more crippling sanctions if the peace talks failed.

It’s on me, I suppose, for believing them in the first place.

AUDIO:  Random Samplings of a Logical Mind

Promises not made could never be broken.

Take Joe Biden’s “Cancer Moon Shot.”  On the radio, I praised him for that.  Joe Biden was going to be the president that pushed science into the breakthrough we all want.  If anything ever came of that, I don’t know about it.  He never should have made the promise if it was just for show.

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Biden’s other promise, made during his inaugural address was to unite the country after the previous four years of Donald Trump.

Video:  Biden promises unity.

But the country got divided even more, especially when Biden decided to open the southern border, while claiming he could do nothing about it unless Congress acted.  That was a lie, too.

Video:  Bill Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky lie.

Trump and Epstein and Putin.

I’ve never been particularly fascinated with the Epstein files.  Everyone knows about the Lolita Express and Epstein Island, and that well-known political names are involved.  Hopefully, none of them had sex with underaged girls, but the case was running a bit cold as far as news coverage.  Big shot Republicans decided they wanted to make an issue of it, and that was fine with me, too.  So, I expected to see all the gory details, except that Trump changed his mind, saying it was stupid to even think about the Epstein Files.

Video:  The Obamacare lie.

The only reason I was determined to get them released is that Trump promised it.  After he backtracked on the promise, then Democrats decided they wanted the files released.  Ain’t politics wonderful?

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Now, about Putin: yes, we have sanctions on Russia, because if Russia can’t sell oil, it can’t fund the Ukraine War.  But Trump promised even stiffer sanctions if the summit meetings did not get Putin to the negotiating table with Ukrainian President Zelenskiy.  They didn’t so far.

Video:  Rubio on Meet the Press – more promises of sanctions…

But instead of slapping on the sanctions – as promised – Trump sent Secretary of State Marco Rubio to the Sunday shows to say that more sanctions would only prolong the war.  Which is B.S.

Video:  Rep. Comer’s investigation about Biden’s lies.  But nothing came of it.

Politicians that do not over promise and do not lie are a rare pleasure.

I’ve always liked Austin-area Congressman Chip Roy, who’s leaving Congress to run for Texas Attorney General.  Roy was a pain the butt for House Speaker Mike Johnson – and that’d why I liked him.

Roy took the National Debt seriously.  He tried to rein in spending, in way that most members of Congress do not.  In that way, he was unique and usually unbending.  I will miss him in Congress, especially as the National Debt soars above $37,000,000,000,000.

Broken promises are a form of lying.

There are outright lies – such as 51 members of the Intelligence Community signing a letter that claimed the Hunter Biden laptop was “Russian Disinformation.”  Of course, all of Biden’s little self-aggrandizing stories – he grew up in a black church; he drove a truck; he stood down the mighty Corn Pop; he was arrested with Nelson Mandela – can be sloughed off as Bidenisms from old Uncle Joe who doesn’t know what day of the week it is.   Then again, the man was President of the United States.

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Also, there’s promises made to get elected or promises made to satisfy the base.  Biden’s promises at his inauguration ought to mean something.  Unity, he promised, but that’s not what he gave us.   Trump’s promises about the Epstein files and the Russian sanctions may have been slammed by reality.  Why make such promises in the first places?  So you can look silly later?

Video:  Corn Pop was a bad dude.

Here’s what I’d like to hear!

From the Democrats:  Climate Change is an issue, but it’s not going to kill us.  Open borders was a bad idea implemented for political purposes that caused a lot of people to be hurt or killed.  Spending copious amounts of money using the pandemic as an excuse was a terrible idea and led to the obnoxiously high prices we have today.  We defunded the police and elected George Soros DAs and crime skyrocketed.  There’s more, but you get the idea.

From the Republicans:  Yes, the Democrats are big spenders, but we’re just slightly better and that’s because we talk a good game.  Yes, we’re pretty sure that Joe Biden committed crimes through his “family business” of selling influence, and no, we’re not going to do a thing about it.  Maybe Putin sweet-talked Trump yet again and that’s why he hasn’t put more crippling sanctions on Russia.

Or better yet:  Stop lying to us, and don’t make promises just to get elected or to satisfy the base when you know you can’t follow through.  I never vote on the basis of what politicians say in television commercials or in those ubiquitous mailers that many of us throw away without reading.  I vote for them on the basis of their past records in business and in politics.  And whether I’ve ever caught them in a lie.

Lynn Woolley is a Texas-based author, broadcaster, and songwriter.  Follow his podcast at https://www.PlanetLogic.us.  Check out his author’s page at https://www.Amazon.com/author/lynnwoolley. 

Order books direct from Lynn at https://PlanetLogicPress.Square.Site. 

Email Lynn at lwoolley9189@gmail.com.

I won’t lie to you.  I would love to sell a few books!

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Official portrait. (Public Domain)

Senator Chuck Schumer is a leader in the Democratic Party.  I can’t think of a single issue I agree with him on.  It’s the same with the House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries.  Factor in the new socialist wave of the Democratic party, and not only do I disagree, but I think it’s important that their vision for America never happens.

What should we do to stop them?  Whatever it takes. 

And that’s the current zeitgeist.  The Democrats hate President Trump.  Guess how I felt about President Biden.  Now we’re in a redistricting war.  The Democrats say that the Texas Republicans must be stopped to save “Our Democracy.”*

I thought about that, and then decided that the GOP ought to get as many seats in Congress as possible.  If we’re having a National Divorce, I want the keys to White House and a lock on Congress.

*Our Democracy:  literally, the nation as defined by the Democrats.  A democracy of the Democrats, by the Democrats, and for the Democrats.

Audio:  Random Samplings of a Logical Mind

There is one thing I agree with Chuck Schumer about, now that I think about it.

Schumer believes his side must go all out to defeat the other side.  I agree.  Democrats have eschewed common sense and logic to the point that nothing they want to do would make America a better or stronger country.

Video:  Schumer appearing to call for violence against Supreme Court justices.

As Joe Biden would say, you know the thing!  Democrats stand for taxing and spending, high deficits and an unlimited National Debt, open borders, multiculturalism, and transgender “women” who are really men competing in women’s sports.

And they hate Israel.  Boy, do they hate Israel.  But they seem to have a soft spot for criminal aliens and terrorists.  They’re obsessed with climate change but their dire predictions never come true.  I could go on.

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I can’t believe half the country falls for that, but look at election results, and especially watch what happens in big cities.  City councils will spend money on diversity, equity, and inclusion before they’ll fund the police.  They spend millions on the homeless, but always on housing them and rarely on treating or curing them.

I’m sorry, but they’re nuts!  [That’s a strong as I can get without using the F-word, which now is a big part of left-wing rhetoric.  The Republicans need a good cuss word to call their own, but the Dems have already claimed most of them.]

If you don’t think we’re headed for a National Divorce, take a look at the news.

Democrats in the Texas Legislature left town to protest gerrymandering and went to the left-wing, heavily-gerrymandered state of Illinois.  They’re nuts, remember.  Democrats from Chuck Schumer to California Governor Gavin Newsom declared war.   Unfortunately for them, most blue states are already gerrymandered so that Democrats get a bigger percentage of congressional districts than voting patterns would deem fair.  But it’s war and in war, everything is fair.

Video:  California Gov. Gavin Newsom at war with Republicans (fact check it, please)

Many of our big, blue cities are crime-ridden hellholes and drug dens.  When President Trump sent in the National Guard to clean up Washington, D.C., saying the national capital ought to be safe for people to visit, Democrats sued him.  No good deed goes unpunished, and certainly not in the middle of a divorce.

For decades, we’ve ignored our immigration laws.  But then Joe Biden opened the southern border and millions more flowed in along with human traffickers, South American gangs, and fentanyl.  This seemed perfectly normal to Democrats who like the idea that congressional seats are apportioned by the total number of people in a state, and not by total citizens.  What’s a few murders or missing kids, or hundreds of drug deaths to a Democrat if they can gain seats in states like California, Texas, and Florida?

RELATED: We could have a functioning immigration system if we had a functioning Congress

This made no sense to Donald Trump, who, in his second administration, decided to actually follow immigration law.  Note that Congress could easily – in about two hours – draft a logical guest worker program, but they won’t because we’re in the middle of a National Divorce.  And guest workers would not count for apportionment, and they don’t vote.

If Trump likes it, Democrats hate it.

It’s silly, but it’s true.  And it defines the two sides.  Trump supports Israel, so Democrats hate Israel, which is easy for them because they’ve always hated Israel.  Trump did not want to finance the War in Ukraine, therefore Democrats did.  Trump thinks it’s for men to play in women’s sports.  That very fact made it necessary for Ketanji Brown Jackson, when she was up for nomination to the Supreme Court, to claim that she couldn’t define what a woman is.

Video:  Is this as dumb as it gets?  Ketanji can’t define a word that she is.

Draw a line down the center of a piece of paper. 

On the left side, list what Democrats stand for.  On the other side, list just the opposite and you’ll have the GOP point of view.  It’s beyond stupid.  John F. Kennedy, a Democrat, was elected president in 1960.  JFK was a war hero and a Communist fighter.  He screwed up the Bay of Pigs, but he stood down Nikita Khrushchev in the Cuban Missile Crisis.  To stimulate the economy, he cut taxes.  He wanted to put Americans on the moon.

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Today’s Democrats want open borders, cancel culture, hundreds of languages in our schools, and government-owned grocery stores.  Make America Great Again to them means free stuff, higher deficits, controlling the weather, and public everything.  America would rot if that were to happen.

Video:  Joe Biden’s “red” speech in Philadelphia.  Perhaps his lowest point.

So!  If we want out of this marriage, who gets what?

The Democrats own the schools, so they already have custody of our children.  That could change under a plan that is the best I can think of.  We could, you know, draw a north-south line and make the North progressive and the South conservative.  That sounds a lot like the War Between the States, so never mind.  Here’s a better plan:

The people of the states ought to decide. 

Texas, for example, could vote to be red or blue – it would choose red – and that would mean that schoolrooms will post the Ten Commandments and there will be no argument about it.  Over in lala land (California) they can abolish Bibles if they want to.  They can banish God and the Reagan Library, and anything that stands for conservatism.

California would be a declared Blue State just as Texas and Florida would be declared Red States.  If you come to Texas, you will get right-wing governance.  But if you go to California, you will be governed by loons.   Voters in all 50 states get to decide, and they can change their collective mind every ten years – you know – during redistricting.   <cough>

That leaves the problem of how to run the Federal Government.

Such things as foreign relations, minting our money (if we still are going to do that), and immigration are issues that the states can’t decide.  We’d have to have joint custody, and so the political wars would continue, but not nearly as much.

The other solution is all-out war for control of “Our Democracy.”  Is a divorce worse than being forced to live with someone you can’t agree with?  At some point, we may have to decide, because that’s where we are right now.

What I need to know is what Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries want to do about it.  Because whatever they want to do, I will be for the exact opposite.

Lynn Woolley is a Texas-based author, broadcaster, and songwriter.  Follow his podcast at https://www.PlanetLogic.us.  Check out his author’s page at https://www.Amazon.com/author/lynnwoolley. 

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Email Lynn at lwoolley9189@gmail.com.

Science Fiction and politics!  Go together like a horse and carriage!

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New York Assembly member Zohran Mamdani (Fair Use)

Essentially, the Democratic Socialists of America or DSA is an organized movement determined to tear down the American Capitalist system.

Like Marxism, it is a worker’s movement that doesn’t believe that making a profit should be the goal of business.  Rather, it believes the workers should be running businesses and the entire country.  The face of the movement is U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont whose latest failed presidential campaign helped swell the ranks of the DSA from about 6,000 members to 90,000.

What do they stand for other than shared misery? 

They would kill the Electoral College and the Senate filibuster.  They support government healthcare for all – essentially all the things Karl Marx stood for.  The DSA is a big movement on college campuses, and in Congress where it’s known as The Squad.

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The DSA has a new face:  Zohran Mamdani, and he is likely the next mayor of New York City.

From all indications, Mamdani is a true believer.  He has supported pretty much all of what the national DSA movement stands for, including defunding of the police.  After the shooting in late July at a New York skyscraper that housed offices of the National Football League, Mamdani attempted to break away from past comments—but without much success.

Video: ‘Disgusting and disqualifying’: Zohran Mamdani blasted for vow to defund police

If he’s elected mayor of New York, Mamdani will likely replace Bernie Sanders as the unofficial leader of the DSA.  His views, per Wikipedia, are quite extreme:

His campaign platform includes support for fare-free city buses; public child care; city-owned grocery stores; a rent freeze on rent-stabilized units; additional affordable housing units; comprehensive public safety reform; and a $30 minimum wage by 2030. Mamdani also supports tax increases on corporations and those earning above $1 million annually.

His idea for city-owned grocery stores has attracted a lot of attention, but mostly for its ignorance.  Imagine your local bustling H-E-B or Safeway, and then conjure up a mental picture of what a grocery store might look like as run by government workers and without competition.  And of course, Mamdani despises Israel; that’s a given for DSA members.

Video:  Critics take aim at Zohran Mamdani’s plan for city-owned grocery stores

Mamdani is not alone in the world of politics.

There’s lot of little Bernies and Mamdanis around the country.  Most big cities have to deal with it, especially if they are home to a large college campus.  The antisemitic movement on Ivy League campuses like Columbia are driven by the DSA.  To his credit, President Donald Trump has fought with Columbia and Harvard to try to end DSA-inspired racism.

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Then, there’s the Squad, with Austin providing one of the newer faces on the far-left caucus.   

His name is Greg Casar, another true believer who served on the Austin City Council and seemed to have a lot of political sway there.  He ran for Congress in an extremely left-wing district and quickly became the Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Casar’s socialist credentials are quite impressive; he can stand with members like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar and be right at home.

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Video: Ultra-left Greg Casar runs for Congress.

Speaking of the Austin City Council, a 10-1 affair with a Mayor (Kirk Watson) and ten single-member districts each with a far-left councilperson, the DSA is well represented.

Homelessness, climate change, and equity are right up there with city services such as police, fire, and EMS.  During open-mic session, it often seems like all the people who sign up to speak are DSA members.

Video:  DSA members at Austin City Council.

Like a lot of left-wing cities, Austin spends a buttload of money on left-wing causes like equity, and has a multi-million-dollar budget deficit.

What if Bernie Sanders had gotten elected President?  What if Mamdani or Casar ever does?

I imagine that the left-wing elites in Washington, D.C. would do fine.  But you and I would be putting our money (if we’re allowed to have any) in government banks that are shaky as hell, and buying rotten bananas from one of Mamdani’s government-owned grocery stores.

Here’s more of what the DSA believes, taken from its own website. 

First, here’s their statement of who they are:

The Democratic Socialists of America is the largest socialist organization in the United States because we’re a member-driven mass organization. We believe that working people should run both the economy and civil society, and we show our commitment to this principle by being an organization of, by, and for the working class.

Here’s what they think of the American Capitalist system:

Capitalism pits us against each other and workplaces are fundamentally authoritarian unless workers can self-organize and build collective power. This is why people build unions, and why employers undermine them. It is also why the capitalists as a class constantly promote narratives about unions that frame them as unnecessary, undemocratic, or ineffective. We know better, and we’re building worker power in every region of the country.

Their big priority is changing the weather:

The climate crisis is an emergency. The world’s top scientists are saying we have little time to get off fossil fuels. Meanwhile, inequality is already out of control — and rising. We fight for a Green New Deal because it’s the only plan that meets the scale of the crisis, one that puts people and planet over profit to build a more just and sustainable economy. We’re organizing in our workplaces, communities and schools to build the working class movement it will take to win.

As stated, they hate Israel as in this response to the Iron Dome vote:

Yesterday, the US Congress once again increased spending on war instead of the services and protections that working people desperately need. In a vote of 221 to 209, Congress approved H.R.4016, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, sending a staggering $831.5 billion to the Pentagon. This money will be used to fund militarism abroad…

They were, of course, elated with Mamdani’s win in New York:

In New York City, socialism has won. Time and again, the capitalist class have told working class New Yorkers that providing the basic necessities of affordable housing, efficient transit, and universal child care are not possible, and they should be grateful for the crumbs they do provide.

They are proud socialists.  They do not hide what they are.

And yet, the misery that comes with socialist countries is rarely brought up by the sanest member of the Austin City Council, Mayor Kirk Watson.  The mayor is a political veteran.  He is a creature of the Left, but he’s not an out-and-out socialist.  He knows better, and he ran on a platform of affordability – but yet the council spends like drunken Congressmen.  With no conservative on the Council, it’s up to him to call out extremism.  I think he knows that.

He’s probably aware that a lot of Austin’s problems stem from the years that Greg Casar was on the Council with a pliable mayor name Steve Adler.  Joe Biden was a senile and pliable president and the people around him spent crazy amounts of money, caused inflation to skyrocket, opened the southern border, and made climate change a priority.  Biden may not have been DSA, but a lot of what he did fell in line.

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Socialism is shared misery.

New York may be about to find out.  Back when Rudolph Giuliani was Mayor, he cleaned up the crime and made the city livable.  The Left trashes him now, but for a while he was America’s Mayor.  Since his departure from that office, New York has regressed, and it will be far worse if Mamdani is elected.  People are already leaving New York and swelling the state of Florida where Capitalism is still king and the people are free to innovate and excel.

The Left that worships equity may get it with Mamdani.  The city will become miserable, because socialism is designed to create equity by bringing everyone down to the same level.  Capitalism provides incentive to grow and be the best you can be.  That’s not what the Left wants.

President Donald Trump is the ultimate capitalist. 

Even as president, he sells watches and sneakers, and Bibles and what-have-you.  He loves his skyscrapers and his golf courses.  Joe Biden, on the other hand, never had a real job, but always lived off the taxpayers and (presumably) what Hunter forked over to the Big Guy while selling influence.  I think Trump’s merchandising is a bad look, but I’ll take it any day over a socialist.

When that nutcase stormed into a New York skyscraper and killed four people including a New York policeman, Mamdani likely world have sent a social worker to the scene.  The DSA has little use for police.  Or Israel.  Or making a profit.  Or someone working hard to be the best he or she can be.  Under Mamdani, Casar, or Bernie Sanders, we would all be equal like Harrison Bergeron in the Kurt Vonnegut story.

When everybody is made equal through government mandate, Mamdani and Casar may finally be happy.  Just so long as they’re not forced to be as miserably equal as the rest of us.

Lynn Woolley is a Texas-based author, broadcaster, and songwriter.  Follow his podcast at https://www.PlanetLogic.us.  Check out his author’s page at https://www.Amazon.com/author/lynnwoolley. 

Order books direct from Lynn at https://PlanetLogicPress.Square.Site.  Email Lynn at lwoolley9189@gmail.com.

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