Dear David,

The Democratic Party is a party of the billionaires and war. How else can we explain their decision to force the longest government shutdown in history, with dire consequences for federal public-sector workers and millions of poor people, and gain absolutely NOTHING for us? They held the shutdown just long enough for the 2025 elections to get done, to win some electoral battles against Trump. Then they picked a group of Democratic Senators who are either retiring or are not up for re-election in 2026 to be the ones to vote to allow the Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies to expire, which will cause working people's healthcare premiums to skyrocket.

The other day an acquaintance posted a Trump rant on FB that began with the words "I don't get it."

Ever since grade school, those four words have been interchangeble with a desire to understand. It's a student's distress call that they aren't keeping up with the rest of the class.

Looking forward to seeing @GordonGChang and his MAGA boys cry into their beer about the latest indictment of their fascist hero. "Yoon, ex-military officials indicted for allegedly provoking North to justify martial law." https://t.co/s8HO4prgRa

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Random Thoughts and Observations

We spent last week as agritourists at Will Harris' White Oak Pastures in the small town of Bluffton, GA. I'll write an essay about the visit next month, but since I featured our local farm, Windy Hill, last week, we'll give farming a break and briefly look at at the current state of geopolitics below the fold.