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Mr. Rogers, we need your spirit now more than ever.

The National Union of Friendly Americans (NUFA) has your portrait hung above the bar in the Great Hall of Camp Shack and we try to be good neighbors to all, try to be friendly to a fault. It’s the least we can do to offset the fear and grievance run amuck in our daily lives.

Fear and grievance has been employed to effective means over the recent decades and Payosa Loco, the Crazy Clown, Mr. Donald V. Rumpt (V for vindictive) has become the vehicle for our latest descent into chaos.And boy, is he enjoying this unchallenged momentum.

Ruling by the decree of executive orders he and his minions have gleefully manhandled the Constitution and the rule of law. Congress has forfeited its responsibilities to a con man and the judiciary has only recently woken from its slumber to assume duties as a check on executive power long abdicated by our elected representatives.

The New Conservative Neanderthal Party (NCNP), formerly known as the Republicans, has been cowering in the wings of governance, acting the part of the dupe, unwilling to speak up for fear of retribution from the billionaire class that appears to be running the show.

Question: how many billionaires does it take to change a lightbulb? None. They enjoy keeping the populace in the dark even though they are entirely operating in the visible spectrum. They so smart. Rest of us so dumb.

Dear Rep. Pete Stauber, career law enforcement officer, how can you remain silent when Payosa Loco offers pardons to white supremacists, militia members and other loonies prompted to attack the police to stop the counting of electoral votes?

“I have nothing to do with pardons,” he mewed to the Minnesota Star Tribune when the question was posed.

Now that’s spineless subservience if you ask me. 

Our other Minnesota lackeys – Reps. Emmer, Fischbach and Finstad – are equally as compliant in the shenanigans, such as the illegal gutting of departments, agencies and administrations created by congress, not a president with a crown made of barbed wire and rusty beliefs and ethics.

Vengeance is in the air.

Yes, yes, quite a few people here in Lake County voted for Payosa Loco. I understand that but am still trying to understand what demonizing the press or flogging Joe Biden accomplishes.

Now we throw our Canadian friends and neighbors under the bus. We threaten to abandon the Ukrainians and Europeans and claim we can do business with a career KGB agent and authoritarian who plays Payosa Loco like a harmonica.

Putin knows he’s dealing with a chump who needs attention like he needs air.

When not playing golf or selling Teslas on the White House lawn, Payosa Loco has now anointed himself as the exalted chairman of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He has decreed that English is the official language of the United States. That birthright citizenship is no more. That there will be no more targeting of Christians. That you can buy a personally autographed Bible and, according to the Dallas Observer, “For $60 a pop, you can read the Ten Commandments and the first 10 amendments to the Constitution side-by-side.”

Yes, all that will improve our health care system, eliminate poverty and make us better people.    
Hello Lake County neighbors, after another flimsy winter has anyone noticed that climate change is upon us? 

Has anyone noticed the threats the billionaire class pose to public education, social security, medicare and medicaid. From all angles it appears as though another round of tax cuts and the blueprint of Project 2025 will mean another round of cuts to the social safety net to pay for proposed tax cuts. Oh, don’t forget the sparkling glow of tariffs as a boost to the economy. That faulty math will do no one any good in the end.

By the way, since when does a private right wing think tank like the unelected Heritage Foundation earn the right to govern the republic? I guess when the elected representatives of the majority party choose not to govern.

Several weeks ago my older daughter in Duluth’s Lakeside neighborhood texted me as she was heading off to work that a black Chevy Suburban with U.S. Government plates was parked in front of the house. She went out and asked “Who are you?” Wasn’t long after and they were at the end of the block hauling some roofers off for questioning. They weren’t drug dealers or criminals or rapists. They were roofers and it appeared some were back on the job later in the week.

Keep immigration a political tool and threaten our neighbors. Sell some Bibles and demonize the opposition.

We aren’t living in Mr. Rogers’ neighborhood, that’s for sure.