Tuesday’s Cloud Seeding

Music and Protesting

March is a busy time as the weather is fine, people are out and about, and winter visitors are in and out of town. My music schedule is packed this month and I am grateful for it. Mark your calendars!

Dropped By Birds worked up some new songs for Mardi Gras and they’ll be on the list this Thursday, March 5, at Sonoran Moonshine Company, 6-8:30. It will be perfect weather to hang out with us out on the patio. Music and fellowship are much needed right now so join us, won’t you?

Also, please join the growing crowds at Pima and Swan Saturday morning from 9-11am. Now, more than ever before, we need the numbers.

*rump and crew are just making shit up as they blunder deeper and deeper into endless acts of aggression. They don’t have the ability to see adverse consequences as consequences have no meaning to them. You wanted cheaper gas? We may not even have fuel for our vehicles soon as Iran is retaliating by striking oil facilities in Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

This ‘war’ is about money. Money, money, money. CNN reports both Saudi Arabia and the UAE lobbied Trump to strike Iran. Like Saudi Arabia, the UAE has significant financial ties to Kushner and Trump.

As Judd Legum of Popular Information writes, the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF) is the largest investor in Jared Kushner’s private equity fund, Affinity Partners.

The *rump family is corrupt beyond all measure and they’re not only taking the American people down with them, but folks across the entire world. As Thom Hartmann writes, given that Baron, Don Jr, and Eric Trump all apparently suffer from hereditary bonespurs and no Trump has ever served as a “loser” or “sucker” in our military (and his grandfather came to America as a German draft-dodger), it’s unlikely this war will mean anything other than profit-making opportunities for the Trump children.

John Pavlovitz writes of *rump; He is not worth the end of our Republic, an imperfect but determined two-hundred-and-fifty-year experiment in Democracy having its life and liberty choked out by a sneering, narcissistic, intellectually fetal, morally bankrupt bottom feeder.

HCR went on to write last night that whatever their immediate trigger, the strikes fall in line with the ideology of cowboy individualism that began to take over the Republican Party in the 1980s and which, under Trump, has turned into brutal displays of dominance. The old idea of a cowboy from rural America who cuts through the government bureaucracy that threatens his livelihood by coddling racial minorities and women has curdled into the notion that a leader can do whatever it takes, including violence, to force opponents to submit to his will.

And Paul Krugman writes about how Operation Epstein will cost billions that could have been put to much better use.

So just replacing those three jets shot down over Kuwait — each of them, remember, with a price tag of $97 million — will cost about as much as providing 125,000 Americans with crucial food aid or providing healthcare to 100,000 American children. And the war might very well end up costing 100 times as much as the price of those jets.

Now, I support the U.S. government spending whatever it must to keep the nation secure. But the Trump administration, which hasn’t provided any coherent rationale for the war, is hardly bothering to pretend that it has anything to do with national security.

Ordinary Americans feel that Trump is setting billions of dollars on fire with no idea how that is supposed to work out, and that they will end up paying the price. And they’re right.

Hope to see you Saturday at Pima and Swan.

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