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Become a student of change.
Bobby Vee - The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
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The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.
Mama Didn't Lie Jan Bradley
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The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is
What Will Mary Say - Johnny Mathis
What we have here is a one-party-controlled government that lacks the leadership in the White House that can run the government and negotiate in good faith with the opposition.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 22, 2026
The real solution to this problem is privatizing the TSA, not an incompetent Bastard-in-Chief threatening to unleash his untrained, unmasked Gestapo on the flying public. https://t.co/Gvir3RHEjj
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 22, 2026
Because it's unconstitutional and it disenfranchises millions of Americans in "solving" a statistically negligible problem. Yeah, the same hypocritical bastards who argue against a popularly elected POTUS will use a "majority" to take away the votes of other voters.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 22, 2026
Trump is too emotional to act as a credible Commander-in-Chief. He lacks discipline, and his bullying threats are more desperate than effective. Trump is in over his head. https://t.co/p4Xull08v8
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 22, 2026
This is unconstitutional; it violates the tenth amendment. There was a time the GOP supported state rights. There's a reason other election criteria started as amendments. I don't trust any poll that doesn't point out that up to 21M Americans could lose their vote under the bill.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 22, 2026
Interesting CBS poll on the GOP disenfranchisement bill. Voters reject the SAVE Act 31-28. (Others undecided.) 80% like the idea of a photo ID, but 66% for proof of citizenship. Polls also think voter fraud is more widespread than it is, based on real data.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 22, 2026
Patriot of the Day pic.twitter.com/aWSgHVkG4L
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 23, 2026
Some awesome March Madness games this weekend as Kentucky drilled a long 3-pointer to tie Santa Clara at the end of regulation, winning in OT. Then there was Iowa's come-from-behind closing seconds 3-pointer, edging defending champ Florida.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 23, 2026
I guess wag the dog sometimes doesn't work that well. pic.twitter.com/Mefi3p99Rj
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 23, 2026
Via American Research Group: pic.twitter.com/3TYQs8gZLO
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 23, 2026
Trump is now trying to tie the unconstitutional SAVE Act passage as a prerequisite to ending the DHS shutdown as if the flying public is blaming the minority opposition Dems instead of him. The dude has a 41% approval; he's underwater on the war, the economy, even immigration.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 23, 2026
I remember demonstrating to a grandnephew and grandniece how to play with a shape sorter. Trump has abused his "authority" over personnel for untrained missions like soldiers as cops or his Gestapo for the TSA. The dude insists om jamming the wrong piece into the available shape.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 23, 2026
Can you believe the utter stupidity of Trump? Apparently, patting down US citizens for weapons is a critical skill also used in groping female travelers at airport security. https://t.co/ur3GSx8PrP
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 23, 2026
Some 70% of unauthorized aliens are gainfully employed, about 5% of the US workforce. Trump's war on immigration is hurting the US economy.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 23, 2026
Via the Mirror: pic.twitter.com/fcyToofnzs
"Trump says Republicans against SAVE Act should not be in party." RINOs should not be in the White House.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 23, 2026
This is beyond stupid. There are literally dozens of ways of verifying voters without a photo ID. Plus, have you ever heard of stolen/fake IDs/identity theft? Have you known people who have lost wallets or misplaced IDs? I've known other cleared personnel who have lost CACs.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 23, 2026
This SOB is a war criminal. We cannot afford to pass on his unnecessary wars to our grandchildren. He has never cut a defense budget. He's signed the largest military budgets in world history. https://t.co/J1LjKX0fJS
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 23, 2026
How do we know Trump, with 6 bankruptcies of his own company, is POTUS? Look at the country's balance sheet. Via Fortune: pic.twitter.com/f7WTPKKFKw
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 24, 2026
I have published a follow-up to my earlier critical essay on the unacceptable SAVE Acthttps://t.co/ibcnEXuIHK
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 25, 2026
The Hypocrite-in-Chief: via the Gray Lady pic.twitter.com/THC5aeHuab
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 25, 2026
The Strait of Hormuz is shut, and Trump is clearly in a fake news state of denial. The Gaslighter-in-Chief has no residual credibility. https://t.co/CzgXJYif2S
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 25, 2026
I never quite understood why Republican Congressional leadership hasn't resorted to budget reconciliation, which bypasses the Senate filibuster.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 25, 2026
Autarcky is no substitute for the win/win prosperity of free trade. Cheesy nationalism is a heresy in our federal republic. https://t.co/vzdbAGhjr6
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 25, 2026
I think the contractor's client had 30 days to pay their invoice. The net effect was that I was already getting paid later than their own employees. The manager who had contracted with me finally resolved the issue, but felt the incident sabotaged his attempts to hire me FTE..
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 25, 2026
America needs protection from a megalomaniac, incompetent authoritarian, more focused on his power and glory than on honoring our Constitution. A large percentage of unauthorized aliens entered the country legally but overstayed their visas. The vast majority are law-abiding. https://t.co/ieXnFbd9qK
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 26, 2026
No. Congress has no constitutional authority to legislate on election administration, which is the exclusive responsibility of the states. It takes chutzpah for this political whore to talk about standing with Americans when he is trying to disenfranchise 21 M of them.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 26, 2026
Working around a broken immigration system is a civil, not criminal offense. I am not a Dem, but they are more committed to due process of lawful asylum seekers within the context of US law than Trumpkins. Also. about 75% of aliens are tax-paying workers in our labor force. https://t.co/Z72zf0OTaX
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 26, 2026
No, the GOP has control of Congress and the White House. What we have here is GOP Congressional leadership refusing to curb the abuses of a lawless White House and scapegoating the opposition.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 26, 2026
This is Soft Rock America. Dash Crofts has passed. Remembering one of Seals and Crofts' greatest hits:https://t.co/CCd1Gpyf5r
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 27, 2026
States retain responsibility for election administration, including security. There are some nuances to federal restrictions, like unspecified criteria for candidates (e.g., term limits) and general election dates. Musk can lobby the 32 states that do not require a photo ID pic.twitter.com/AfVvMSwsKd
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 27, 2026
Trump recently raised the idea of yet another unconstitutional executive order using the Treasury like his own slush fund, redirecting allocated funding to pay TSA employees using his wildcard excuse of an "emergency". Political stalemates over funding aren't emergencies.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 27, 2026
Congressional Republican leadership is failing to exercise oversight of a lawbreaking Trump Administration, which frequently ignores due process, judicial warrants, etc., especially in ICE https://t.co/GsLJGOPmMX
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 27, 2026
Congress never declared war. This is an unconstitutional, illegal war and impeachable conduct. https://t.co/38lm1ArB3q
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 27, 2026
Paul McCartney's latest single is a reflection on his Liverpool youth. https://t.co/eCbxF8KFyH
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 27, 2026
A disingenuous pretext to rationalize an unconstitutional, unprovoked war. https://t.co/20PqWeCpgw
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 28, 2026
When America was attacked on 9/11, NATO had our back. Trump is a condescending bastard bullying our allies diplomatically and with unprovoked trade wars. Trump started his war on Iran without the support of rest of NATO at rhe expense of their energy security. https://t.co/3zeoIfRhdJ
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 28, 2026
Speaker Johnson has failed at exercising necessary oversight over a rogue White House which routinely violates due process, ignores the need for judicial warrants and detains US citizens. https://t.co/9axa96wjnp
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 28, 2026
We don't have federal elections. We have state elections with occasional federal races. The general government has no say on election administration. States implement their own election security, including things like signature verification and/or challenge questions. https://t.co/W3RnJOzd3n
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 28, 2026
Nope. Trumpkins impose their own type of censorship; which some of us refer to as patriotic correctness. The Trump regime has sought to deport foreign students who disagree with Trumpkin policies, Trump routinely threatens late night comics, and the FCC threatens licenses. https://t.co/JM2fWBtrts
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 28, 2026
Trump's illegal, unconstitutional tariffs risk agricultural exports globally. https://t.co/yIlegf69K9
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 28, 2026
Unconstitutional. Airports aren't federal property. A congressional dispute and Trump's plummeting job approval are not an "emergency", and the Treasury is not Trump's slush fund. Our Constitution does not enable unilateral POTUS activity. https://t.co/6vTMjhVBIq
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 28, 2026
Rubbish, and I'm not a Dem. Obama deported more aliens than Trump, hardly open borders. The Dems are simply demanding Trump follow the Constitution he took an oath to uphold, including due process and the necessity of judicial warrants. pic.twitter.com/EUeNwestLf
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 28, 2026
This dumbass doesn't realize we haven't had open immigration ever since Calvin Coolidge signed an economic illiterate quota system into law, and even before then we had racist exclusions or quotas aimed at Asians. Republicans won't recognize legal asylum programs.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 28, 2026
Real Americans do not fear foreign competition, do not try to tell other Americans what they choose to buy regardless of source. We don't need jingoist label gimmicks. https://t.co/5q8NNer2H5
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 28, 2026
A Senate majority voted against it. 32 states don't require a photo ID. No, Photo IDs do not constitute election security. Fake IDs have been real for decades. The Congress does not have the authority to impose photo ID on states. pic.twitter.com/qNj84eXHGZ
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 28, 2026
This crackpot unprecedented narcissism is intolerable. Talk about debasing a currency: putting Trump's signature om a hundred dollar bill? I'm tired of his self-serving BS, like a dog pissing all over DC.https://t.co/LPYjm78QBa
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 28, 2026
Not with Trump sabotaging agricultural exports with his unconstitutional tariffs.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 28, 2026
Republicans say nothing about killer cops hired as part of Trump's Gestapo. The blood of American citizens is on GOP hands.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 28, 2026
The House GOP leadership is responsible for prolonging the TSA crisis. No Steve Urkel "Did I do that?" when the GOP gets it ass kicked this fall.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 28, 2026
Trump has sabotaged the domestic economy with his reckless war on 5% of our labor force and unconstitutional tariffs.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 28, 2026
Iran, unlike America, has not launched an unprovoked attack on US soil. Recall it was America who manipulated the democratically elected government in Iran in 1953 setting up the stage for the theocratic dictatorship in the Carter Administration.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 28, 2026
In God I trust. In Trump, I don't.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 28, 2026
Pope Leo is right, of course, but I don't think it's effective with neo-con war hawks. First, Trump never served in uniform himself. Second, the guy spoke 15 years ago against war with Iran. Third, the war is more than American casualties. Iranian primary school children? pic.twitter.com/Wm5egDPbia
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 29, 2026
Nope. We just have an ineffective POTUS who can't negotiate with the opposition. https://t.co/7ruz39GeSL
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 29, 2026
There aren't the votes to end the filibuster. And ending the filibuster is a double-edge sword that the RINO Felon-in-Chief will need after the midterms. The SAVE Act is unconstitutional, anyway. Election security is a states' responsibility, not the general government's. https://t.co/HCqBF3DI1A
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 29, 2026
Up On The Roof - Drifters
The blog continues to attract a large number of questionable page views. I'll likely break 40 posts for March; I finally published a follow-up essay on my earlier rant on the pushing on a string voter ID bill, trying to manipulate an almost certain midterm rebuke of Trump. This essay focused more on the unconstitutional aspects vs. voter suppression.. X/Twitter remains challenging, especially for impressions on my political tweets. My followers lately have oscillated between 207 and 215
Much of my attention over the past week has focused on March Madness, with my 2 graduate schools, UT and UH, reaching the Sweet 16. Unfortunately, both failed to reach the Elite 8. I don't recall Illinois ever trailing in the UH game. I think it took 4 minutes before UH scored a point, and from a tie at half, Houston quickly fell well behind and never threatened Illinois in the second half. I can only recall 2 UH foul shots all game, and their offense was lackluster most of the game. The wrong time to have an off-game shooting. To be honest, I had seen 2 late season losses against Arizona, and I had doubts about them returning to the finals.
I finally did my taxes for 2025. It was a bad year for a variety of reasons, including a death in the family, poor professional work opportunities locally, and my health situation a year ago. In theory, I would have done it weeks ago, but I had to wait on paperwork related to the family passing. One of my pet peeves with the federal paperwork is that they don't make fillable PDFs or spreadsheets for worksheets.
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From A Jack To A King - Ned Miller