June 15, 2025

And to top it off, the blow was dealt to MAGA by Trump himself

two days before:



His 180-degree turn away from the anti-nonwhite immigrant mandate upon which he has stood since 2016 saves his corporatist overlords the cost of wrecking their profit margins by having to replace immigrant indentured servitude with American citizens expecting a living wage and benefits.

It's no secret that MAGA is a sub-minority political group and always have been, complete with Trump losing the popular vote three times in a row: you can't "rebuke" what was never really there to begin with.


Rocknation

June 15, 2025

Well, duh dot com, President DuhDon!

He was ordered to stop going after farm/hotel/leisure industry immigrant workers by farm/hotel/leisure industry corporatist management (and Trump donors) because having such employees to underpay and/or otherwise exploit is what boosts their profits.



Thanks to a lack of the "common sense" he mentions in his closing sentence, Trump turned both his military birthday parade and the "No Faux King Way" protests into anticlimaxes: June 12, 2025 is when he actually began the end of his presidency.




Rocknation

May 23, 2025

Bruce made the comments, not the band. And as Steve wrote in his final sentence

it's the customers' call to make, not the venue's.

People who do not wish to see the band on account of something that BRUCE said -- not THEM -- should not be deprived of the right to take their business elsewhere (though venue owners should keep in mind that bands can take their business elsewhere, too).

If Riv's owner REALLY hated Bruce Springsteen's hating Trump so much, why did he hire the cover band in the first place? He blames and punishes the band for what Bruce said, but was willing to take the money of any CUSTOMER who hates Trump but likes Bruce? That's not a moral patriotic stand, that's a grifting hypocritical double standard -- I mean, he MUST have been aware of how much Bruce "liked" New Jersey governor Chris Christie!

Well, the band not only got a replacement gig for that night, they will be sharing the bill with a band who have played at Riv's at least twice!


Rocknation

January 22, 2025

If Trump's problem is that "Gulf Of Mexico" seems to exclude the USA

then calling it the Gulf of NORTH America is the only solution: it shares borders with the North American nations of the USA, Mexico, and Cuba.

More to the point, the Gulf of Mexico has never excluded the USA or Cuba: the Gulf is actually named after a region and civilization that existed centuries before the nation of Mexico did.

So it's actually a moot issue -- and besides, wouldn't it go against Trump's anti-DEI stance?


Rocknation

January 13, 2025

I avoided a serious accident because I had time to see a Hummer swerving across the median

and heading straight toward me, and had time to ask myself, "Should I hit the gas or swerve?" Decided on doing the former because I was in the right-hand lane and had no traffic in front of me. With my eyes focused straight ahead, I heard rather then felt the Hummer hit me -- thankfully nowhere near hard enough to knock me off course.

The car's driver-side tail light was my only casualty (someone was taken to the hospital by helicopter). I chided myself for not having driven a little faster because it would have allowed me to emerge completely unscathed, but only until I realized that I had been on an overpass: If the Hummer had missed me completely, it could have gone through or over the railing and down to the road below.


Rocknation

January 13, 2025

Creating something worthwhile isn't SUPPOSED to be "fun"

Well, yeah, duh dot com -- that's why it's CALLED "work."

To paraphrase the writer Dorothy Parker, "I hate PUTTING IN what it takes to create, but I love what COMES OUT of it." Whether you're trying to come up with a song, a photo, a photo book, a cake, a touchdown, a cost/benefit analysis, world peace, plumbing that no longer leaks, an illegal drug, or a tire rotation, ANYTHING you aim to create as well as possible requires work. It's the END PRODUCT for which you get to take pride, generate respect, and possibly earn money -- the destination, not the journey!




And with all due respect to the music industry's reaction to AI music, shouldn't the actual music creators get an equal slice of the pie?

IS it merely a coincidence that AI can also stand for anti-intellectualism?



Rocknation

December 16, 2024

That's definite now -- DuhDon DID get LESS than 50% of the popular vote?

MORE people voted AGAINST DuhDon than FOR him? Then woot woot woot and happy trifecta -- that means we can JOIN him in bragging of his LOSING the popular vote THREE TIMES in a row!!!


Rocknation

October 28, 2024

Works for me

Well, duh dot com -- especially since I called this shot back in December (with an assist from Thomas Michael Crooks back in July).

With a week left, it is now time to forget the polls and get TO the polls...DON'T wait if you don't have to...VOTE if you haven't already!!!


Rocknation

October 23, 2024

I recently moved to a different county within New Jersey -- was I going to have a problem with voting in 2024

if I was not a 30-day legal resident of the county as of Election Day?

As a precaution, I arranged to move in during the last week of August instead of the first week of September, then went online to update my voter registration info and re-apply for mail-in balloting. About ten days later, I received, completed, and returned a mail-in ballot request form.

I began to worry when I got no immediate response, but figured that the smartest route to take would be waiting a full 30 days before trying to take any action. It turned out to be the right call -- my mail-in ballot turned up about ten days into October!



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October 18, 2024

It certainly explains what happened in 2020

Posted by Rocknation November 2020:

"With a combination of overall higher turnout (despite the voter suppression attacks); most of Biden's votes being cast early or by mail; and only about just one third of the votes actually being cast ON Election Day, maybe there just weren't ENOUGH blue in-person machine ballots TO flip."
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Posted by Rocknation January 2021:

"Trump's (AND Biden's) 'new' votes ALL came from those who DIDN'T vote in 2016 due to being either too young or too apathetic. "
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