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Call it what you will, but this heat is unprecedented. I've lived in this same place for thirty years, and I've never experienced anything like this July. Since August is typically our hottest month, I'm dreading what's coming next.

Today was slightly better—"only" 105 degrees, a full five degrees cooler than yesterday's record-breaking 110. We're still looking at another night of thunderstorms with lightning and dangerous winds, which has become the nightly routine.

The only comparable year I can remember was 2007, when we went more than three months without rain. That summer, I watched our hay fields turn brown and crisp, leaving me scrambling to buy hay from south Georgia where they'd actually had rainfall. By summer's end, I was trucking hay in from Texas because the entire East Coast looked like it had been torched.

If this July is any indication of what August holds, we might be looking at 2007 all over again—or worse.

And you're only about 50 miles north of me. I heard we were supposed to be cooler, too... maybe it will be 105 today instead of 110. Wow, it's a scorcher. I've given up on my garden... can't keep it watered enough and everything is dying.

If there was ever a time to impeach a senator or a representative, now is the time. If we could get these do-nothings out of office and get someone in who will stand up to this fat jerk, we'd be better off. If you or I went to work at the railroad everyday and did absolutely nothing, and the train ran off the track, we'd be fired from our job. These Republican senators need to be kicked out the door. Impeached. That's where we have to start... on the local level because they have done nothing. Trump illegally got us in a war without going through Congress. That is a reason for impeachment at the highest, but they do nothing.

This country truly needs a third party. I personally am a fan of Bernie Sanders, but he'll never win as long as he's an Independent. Plus he's getting too old now. But he keeps his rhetoric going year after year, and he's made enough money off politics for his entire family to live happily ever after. Looks like Gavin Newsome may take a stab at it in the next election... if there is one.

Changing the subject, but did anyone watch the opening of the G7? I was so embarrassed to know that big orange buffoon represented our country. All he could talk about was his BFF Putin, but Carney shut him down. I knew he'd leave before it was over because the attention was on Carney and not trump. He can't stand being around anyone smarter than him, so he had to get back home so he could be Boss Hogg in the comfort of his oval office, surrounding himself with the resident idiots.

I can't believe the general public is okay with all these major companies that are leaving the US because of the idiot's tariffs. GE announced today it's leaving. When they do there will be hundreds of thousands of people unemployed, thanks to the hatchet Musk took to jobs, Walmart's decision to leave, Amazon's threat, and now GE. Why isn't there a hunting squad out somewhere ready to end this nonsense? I don't get it. And I can guarantee you the CEOs of all those companies voted for trump. The other news I heard today is that Canada has said they will cut off all the power they are now supplying to the northern states. They at first put a 25% retaliation tariff on it, but now Mark Carney is saying he's going to cut it all off. Do you think any of these states will start an open rebellion? I've worked for a power company before, and building a power grid takes years, not days or weeks. Those huge transmission lines are not built overnight, and neither are the substations needed to power up the neighborhoods.

And, yet today, trump reiterated his tariff bullshit. I don't know when this madness will stop. And, Vern, I agree that trump never backs down once something is underway, but his advisors may have told him to back off Musk. We know Musk bought the election... he said so... when will we stop that kind of thing from happening again? We have to put limits on how much a company and an individual can give to one campaign. That's totally ridiculous because little peons like myself have to live with the candidates the rich people buy. We haven't been a "democracy of the people, by the people, and for the people" in decades, but it's worse now than ever.

LOL! That would be better than what we have! But the sad news is that all the Maggots will believe only what trump tells them... and he will blame it all on Biden or Obama. I can't believe how ignorant they are.

I don't think Vance would be as idiotic about these dang tariffs if trump was out of the way. And since it's a rigged election, which we all knew, maybe Vance isn't going to be allowed to stay either. All these big companies, including Walmart, are leaving the US because of the tariffs, and the republicans sit on their butts and do nothing about it and expect to get re-elected in 2026. Truth is, Musk won't be there to win the elections for them... goodbye Marjorie Taylor Greene... and the others like her. At least I hope so. I hope the public will finally wake up and demand a take-down of this entire illegal regime.

Trump wanted to win strictly for revenge on the judges who tried to put him in jail. That's all he wanted... save his butt from Sing-Sing and punish anyone who said he was guilty. Jack Smith should've nailed him earlier because he should've known there would be hundreds of delays in trump's favor.

Trump and Musk both should be arrested for domestic terrorism. Trump for all his threats, and Musk for firing all the government people without being an official employee of our government... an illegal branch that was never approved by Congress.

I can't wait to see how Clarence Thomas is going to fit into all this. He will retire before the going gets too rough... wait and see... and he will be replaced by Aileen Cannon if trump is still in office as the time Thomas exits for another country.

Harry Truman was president when I was born, too!!  We're older than dirt, but the laugh lines deepen daily. And thanks for that nice comment... you're so sweet! I hope Di is stable. Give her a big hug for me!! 

Dot dot dot to keep this open so Sol can see it.

My last chapter of "Rambo's Last Call," Chapter 6, is 1597 words. I used 10.71 points to post it, and it pays my reviewers .99 points.

SOL... we've got to do something to improve this ratio, or we will never grow. We deserve better than this. We're trying our best to rebuild this site after the Great Crash of 2023, but it's almost impossible to do it with that kind of ratio. Two of the latest people to join have told me they won't be staying because they're having to spend too much time reviewing everyone else's work in order to post one chapter. You can see what I'm talking about with the ratio I just pointed out.

This is not the first conversation we've had about the unfair ratio, so could you give us an approximate date as to when that will be taken care of? I'd like to be able to say to those new people, "Please stay until XXXX (date) because SOL is working on the problem.

Thanks,
MJ