Y is for Yes We Can over You Can't Do It

 My theme for this year's A to Z Challenge is the A to Z of Democracy. This is your trigger warning. If you are going to be bothered by my descriptions of what I believe America should look and feel like, please stop reading and come back next year when my topic may go back to music or scrapbooking or interesting tidbits. Please respect my space and DO NOT leave disinformation or inflammatory statements in the comments. It's my blog and I will delete them. Thanks for your cooperation. 

Yes We Can	You Can’t Do It
Freedom Courage Strength	Restrictions             Limits             Prohibits

I have heard people talk about how frustrating and frightening it is to live in our world right now. "What can we do about it? We have no power to make changes." That is not true. We do have power. We may not have the majority in the congress but we already have the laws on the books (Constitution and the Bill of Rights). All we need to do is use them! And when we do get back in power we need to strengthen them so that this debacle never happens again!

Freedom of speech! As evidenced by the most recent Jimmy Kimmel incident when he said in his monologue that Melania looked like an expectant widow and the charges against James Comey for writing 8647 in the sand, the administration wants to restrict what we can say while using the most vile and hateful rhetoric ever. They want Kimmel fired and Comey in jail. Well, the last time they wanted to restrict Jimmy Kimmel we got together and cancelled subscriptions to Disney + (the parent company) and within a week he was back on the air. That's power in my opinion. We made our voices heard in a way that they listen to, their pocketbook!

I don't know if any of you have participated in the protests that have happened around the country. I have been to three, two holding signs on a freeway overpass and one as part of a human banner on the beach in San Francisco. I get so emotional when I see the numbers of people joining me. It really brings it out that we are not alone in how we feel and that we just need to keep showing up. They are getting weaker and weaker and they are afraid.

As always, credit goes to Speaker Hakeem Jeffries who gave an impassioned speech on the floor of the House of Representatives at the beginning of the 218th congress. 

 

X is for Xenial over Xenophobia

My theme for this year's A to Z Challenge is the A to Z of Democracy. This is your trigger warning. If you are going to be bothered by my descriptions of what I believe America should look and feel like, please stop reading and come back next year when my topic may go back to music or scrapbooking or interesting tidbits. Please respect my space and DO NOT leave disinformation or inflammatory statements in the comments. It's my blog and I will delete them. Thanks for your cooperation. 

Xenial	Xenophobia
Hospitable Treating guests and strangers with friendliness and generosity	Fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners.

"They're eating the dogs!" That was the battle cry during the 2024 election. I mean, really how much more xenophobic can you get? Ice grabbing up anybody that looks like the are from a foreign country whether they have committed crimes here or not. It's just disgusting. Even the way #47 has treated some of the foreign leaders has been so undignified. (Zelenskyy for starters)

And yet, the ones that get the most hospitable treatment are the ones that bring golden gifts. I mean, I haven't seen him give anyone else a gift but he sure likes to take them. The display he put on when Putin came was ridiculous.

I really pray that we can get some dignity back in the White House soon!

As always, credit goes to Speaker Hakeem Jeffries who gave an impassioned speech on 

W is for Working Class over the Well Connected

My theme for this year's A to Z Challenge is the A to Z of Democracy. This is your trigger warning. If you are going to be bothered by my descriptions of what I believe America should look and feel like, please stop reading and come back next year when my topic may go back to music or scrapbooking or interesting tidbits. Please respect my space and DO NOT leave disinformation or inflammatory statements in the comments. It's my blog and I will delete them. Thanks for your cooperation. 

Working Families	Well Connected
Regular people with normal lives raising kids and working everyday trying to get ahead and build a life.	Those with lots of money who have friends in high places that can use their wealth to gain special favors.

So this one is kind of easy, isn't it? We can surely see that those with money have power over the rest of us folks. From inauguration day when all those millionaires and billionaires were standing behind #47 as he took the "oath" of office it was clear to see who was going to be most important. The subsequent bills that have been passed cutting all the needed services like healthcare, veteran's benefits, food supply, etc. in order to pay for tax cuts for those folks who truly don't need another dime in their lifetimes absolutely shows what's happening here.

Can we imagine for a moment what would have been possible had the woman won? There was talk about assistance with first time home buying, starting new businesses and more. Sounds much more in line with the common man, no?

As always, credit goes to Speaker Hakeem Jeffries who gave an impassioned speech on the floor of the House of Representatives at the beginning of the 218th congress. 

V is for Voting Rights over Voter Suppression

 My theme for this year's A to Z Challenge is the A to Z of Democracy. This is your trigger warning. If you are going to be bothered by my descriptions of what I believe America should look and feel like, please stop reading and come back next year when my topic may go back to music or scrapbooking or interesting tidbits. Please respect my space and DO NOT leave disinformation or inflammatory statements in the comments. It's my blog and I will delete them. Thanks for your cooperation. 

Voting Rights	Voter Suppression
Right to participate in elections Ability to make your own choices for leaders	Taking away the right to vote Making it difficult for certain people to vote

And this is another topic that is SO scary and totally unfair. To make women go through so many hoops to be able to vote is absolutely voter suppression. I have a passport so it's okay for me but not everyone gets one of those. We had to show lots of ID when getting our "real id" driver's licenses and it was a pain. Fortunately I had all the documents but a lot of folks don't.

I have to laugh about old Caitlin Jenner and her dilemma about the passport saying that she is a male. And yet she still likes #45. He doesn't seem to care too much about her problem. Probably because he knows she still approves of him regardless.

And knowing that registering to vote puts you in the "system" why would "illegal aliens" want to get themselves on the books like that. It doesn't make sense. But then again, a lot of things going on now don't make sense.

As always, credit goes to Speaker Hakeem Jeffries who gave an impassioned speech on the floor of the House of Representatives at the beginning of the 218th congress. 

U is for Understanding over Ugliness

My theme for this year's A to Z Challenge is the A to Z of Democracy. This is your trigger warning. If you are going to be bothered by my descriptions of what I believe America should look and feel like, please stop reading and come back next year when my topic may go back to music or scrapbooking or interesting tidbits. Please respect my space and DO NOT leave disinformation or inflammatory statements in the comments. It's my blog and I will delete them. Thanks for your cooperation. 

Understanding	Ugliness
Compassion Mutual agreement Comprehension	Offensive     Hideous     Unpleasant

I am not sure what happened to all the compassion and understanding we had for our fellow humans. It sure seems that the members in congress that are in control now have lost all sense of that when it comes to passing the laws that will enable people to have affordable healthcare, help when they need it like Medicaid and even the help that Ukraine and other countries need during their difficult times.

Instead we get masked goons coming into our cities and terrorizing little children. We get concentration camps where who knows what is going on. And to be told lie upon lie upon lie is just offensive to my intelligence.

I'm from the SF Bay Area. Can we please just have some more peace, love and rock and roll?

As always, credit goes to Speaker Hakeem Jeffries who gave an impassioned speech on the floor of the House of Representatives at the beginning of the 218th congress. 

T is for Triumph over Tyranny

My theme for this year's A to Z Challenge is the A to Z of Democracy. This is your trigger warning. If you are going to be bothered by my descriptions of what I believe America should look and feel like, please stop reading and come back next year when my topic may go back to music or scrapbooking or interesting tidbits. Please respect my space and DO NOT leave disinformation or inflammatory statements in the comments. It's my blog and I will delete them. Thanks for your cooperation. 

Triumph	Tyranny
Victory Joy                         Success	Oppressive power Government with a single ruler Harsh and unjust act

I think the best example of this lately is the victory in Hungary over Viktor Orban. He had been in power over the people of Hungary for 16 years! The corruption and oppression were terrible. He was old #47s idol (along with Putin). Even sending the vice-president over there to try to help Orban keep control didn't work. The people had had enough.

It gives me such hope. Watching those Hungarians dance in the street after the election was exciting. I can't wait until we can dance like that too!

As always, credit goes to Speaker Hakeem Jeffries who gave an impassioned speech on the floor of the House of Representatives at the beginning of the 218th congress. 

S is for Substance over Slander

My theme for this year's A to Z Challenge is the A to Z of Democracy. This is your trigger warning. If you are going to be bothered by my descriptions of what I believe America should look and feel like, please stop reading and come back next year when my topic may go back to music or scrapbooking or interesting tidbits. Please respect my space and DO NOT leave disinformation or inflammatory statements in the comments. It's my blog and I will delete them. Thanks for your cooperation. 

Substance	Slander
Fundamental characteristics Ultimate reality Weight Practical importance	False charges that damage reputation False statements Defamation of character

The most recent defamation lawsuit brought up by those incompetents is the one from Kash Patel regarding the reporting of alcohol abuse while on the job. I mean, just look at his eyes people. It seems to me that there is substance in those allegations because we all saw the video of him chugging the beer at the Olympics. Really dignified actions for the FBI Director.

Can we please go back to respectable times?

As always, credit goes to Speaker Hakeem Jeffries who gave an impassioned speech on the floor of the House of Representatives at the beginning of the 218th congress.