Cottage cheese w/ketchup was Nixon's favorite meal. Now I'm going to make your blood run cold..

[jodymarie aimee]

This is my August LTE for our local paper to be published this Friday. I have been writing for them since 2009. After last week's Bill Maher segment there was no doubt what my topic would be......I usually employ humor and poetry...this time I had a lot of info to get out in 500 words...so I put the humor up front..Please to enjoy. Jody.

TRUMP IS THE SIDESHOW FREAK, KOCHS ARE THE RINGMASTERS


Cottage cheese with ketchup was Richard Nixon's favorite meal. There, you've had your levity, now I'm going to make your blood run cold. In 1917 Fatima, Blessed Mother embarked on a comeback tour appearing to three Portuguese kids giving them three Prophecies. The Lady hit a chilling bullseye. Two World Wars and "Russia spreading its errors" were forewarned.

What if there had been a fourth Prophecy? I'll take over for Fatima now. America will cease to exist, returning to the Gilded Age and a rebooted confederacy, destroying the equality of all its citizens. Trump's America is small potatoes in comparison to a Koch America. As we've seen with Trump's election, 25% can do enormous damage to society's norms and the operation of government. While we are distracted by Trump's tweets, the Kochs have been playing the long game, quietly. Corporate media use the latest technology to dumb us down as steadily as if they were standing on a stool pounding our brains with a frozen ham.

The brothers are this close to getting Kavanaugh on the Court. Their goal: The first ever Section 5 Constitutional Convention, radically changing our Constitution. Unlikely scenario? So were Brexit and President Trump. In the works for 50 years, the groundwork has been laid.

They aim to repeal the Bill of Rights. Our Constitution is already the most restricted of majoritarian democracies in the world. We have four veto points. Most have two or three. These guys are so greedy they want to add more. The Kochs want to effect a Constitution not of checks and balances, but one of locks and bolts. They've been lining up authorizations and have 29 of the 34 states needed. Three linked measures were just fast tracked in Wisconsin. They have 10 Liberty Amendments teed up and ready to go. Their "Balanced Budget" Amendment would end Social Security, Medicare, the New Deal and the Great Society/Civil Rights.

Universal Voter ID, installing Christianity as the law of the land, revoking the 17th Amendment(Senators used to be appointed) are all in there. State Governments are easiest for corporations to capture and preempt. The Kochs own 30 states, putting a chokehold on progressive policy.

Republicans are aware they are the permanent minority and Americans will never accept their version of America. How do they get around that? Hijacking the Constitution. Fatima warns be vigilant and actually read the other side's stuff. Trump is their misdirection tool while the rich change the game permanently. Kochs are working overtime(they're aging) to set up a government to do their bidding, now.

There are times we can feel destiny closing around us like a fist around a doorknob. It won't budge. Terrified? You should be. Kick in the jamb. Vote while you still can.

Jody Hurrish
Stevens Point, WI

[hlthe2b]

1. I can't even imagine ketchup on cottage cheese,so I can't decide how grotesque it might be...

The rest? It's a given.

[xmas74]

4. I've had it.

But I also grew up eating cottage cheese with tomatoes, green peppers and scallions,salt and pepper.

It's not awful. It's not my first choice.

[empedocles]

2. Even if the Dems get a majority in the House in November,

its difficult to imagine how much the 'right' will fight to obstruct the seating of the Dems in the House. This is 'the right' opportunity, which will make the last 2 years of the 'right' opportunity to advance their agendas, look like small potatoes compared to what they will try.

[ZZenith]

3. Yeah, but fuck 'em

They are in the minority and will slowly be snuffed while we scramble to catch up with the rest of the world.

[marybourg]

5. Cottage cheese with pineapple actually.

[Blue_true]

6. Sounds more like it.

When I heard cottage cheese and ketkup, I almost threw up. But cottage cheese and pineapple or even strawberries, not so much.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

7. K&R. Good job, Jody.

I like the way you write to capture people's attention and then hold it.

Your points are valid and few in America are aware of what the plutocrats have been doing in semi-secrecy for decades, uisng money trickled-up from all of us to destroy the country we know and love.

Keep up the good work....... ..........

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. Nixon was a prince compared to Trump.

He might have been a successful president if he learned to love himself.

[pamela]

9. Ford liked cottage cheese on a tomato slice with A1 sauce.

It's actually pretty good like that.

[keithbvadu2]

10. cottage cheese with black pepper