Rue Burlingham

Rue Burlingham

@xcvbx.bsky.social

Cat fancier, small group travel enthusiast, child of mixed parentage (D mother and R father), avid podcast fan. Glad to meet you!

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Give me a break. That guy who wanted to turn a faucet and release water from No Cal to put out the fires in So Cal has a new brain storm—send the immigrants to Alcatraz Island. And the problem with that? Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink.

As I stood out at a Hands Off rally today, some Joni Mitchell lyrics came to mind—“don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone”. I didn’t think much about the federal agencies until Musk started whacking at them and now we start to see what we’re losing.

Everyone—be sure to confirm your voter registration status online at least 30 days before the next election so you’ll have time to fix it in case there’s a problem. Just to be sure.

If a person is accused of committing a felony while in the US, there is no excuse for giving him an indeterminant prison sentence in a foreign country without a trial. Too likely innocent people will slip through the cracks. Felonius Trump just wants to cross off names.

I just read Steve Schmidt’s warning about Auschwitz and he again raised my terror of the US sending people to prisons in foreign countries. I say “people”, not “illegal aliens” because most of us had family or ancestors who entered this country illegally and we don’t think of them as criminals.

Is this correct—the purchaser of an item pays not only the higher price due to a tariff but also the sales tax on the original item plus the tariff. You are being double taxed.

I am tired of hearing the lame excuse for every crazy idea that Trump comes up with as “This is what the people elected me to do”. Until he lowers the cost of food and rent dramatically, he’s tone deaf to what the voters want from him.

He loves to do the red herring thing, this time with the Kennedy assassinations. But the real question is whether he was really shot in the ear or did he smear red paint down his face and wear a big square bandage afterwards to get more public interest in his rallies. No photos have been released.

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