"¿Who wins when a U.S. utterly unfamiliar to me turns her back on fellow Americans north of the U.S. border with Canada over Prime Minister Carney's effrontery of telling the truth about U.S. policy?
"We are all fed up with the U.S. news-cycle. As citizens of the United States, we need to stand together with the few brave mena nd women out there to rein in a runaway authoritarian.
WHAT I WROTE ELSEWHERE.
"Two questions weigh heavily on me these days, thanks in large part to the Everything Briefing and its daily news curation by Jacob Redman.
https://everythingbriefing.substack.com/p/may-19-2026
"¿When does morality matter in policy?
"¿Should morality matter in politics?
"OF COURSE MORALITY MATTERS, as well it should.
"¿Who wins in Cuba as a U.S. that I no longer understand grinds most of the ten million Cubans into grinding poverty for decades?
https://abcnews.com/International/cuba-grid-collapse-situation-growing-dire-experts/story
"¿Who wins when a U.S. utterly unfamiliar to me turns her back on fellow Americans north of the U.S. border with Canada over Prime Minister Carney's effrontery of telling the truth about U.S. policy?
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5883148-canada-defense-cooperation-trump-carney-tensions/
"¿Who wins when Europe takes more serious than the U.S. the cutural rot at the core of the Epstein files?
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/french-prosecutors-have-identified-more-victims-in-epstein-probe-69f1060b
"We are all fed up with the U.S. news-cycle. As citizens of the United States, we need to stand together with the few brave mena nd women out there to rein in a runaway authoritarian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zytfjwzhXg
"Representative Massie's political philosophy is not my own, far from it. Yet his courage is evident."
Totally agree with you.
There have been so many lies told and so many people playing both sides for their own profit.
Is anyone on the side of the ordinary man & woman any more?
As an erstwhile Republican and very confused conservative, I can only answer your question, Karen, by saying, "I do not know.."
The truth will out - probably in an unexpected way.
G-D knows that I hope so.
P.S., as Jimmy Kimmel points out: there is more oil in Hegseth's hair than in the Strait of Hormuz. 😉