A pause for reflection in a nation that puts “In God we trust” on its money and its president hates the IRS
A while back I hired GoDaddy to help me create the not for profit Alabama Lawyer Became A Mystic website/blog, alabamalawyerbecameamystic.com, where I wrote lots of posts that poked this or that, including myself.
About a month ago, I hired GoDaddy to create this not for profit website/blog, theredneckmystic.com- and to promote it on Facebook and Instagram. I hoped this site would be geared more toward sharing what it’s like being a mystic, and not so much what it’s like being a mystic who also is a political gadfly. Today, gadfly tends to be an uncomplimentary label, but there was a time when people like Socrates honed being a gadfly down to a very fine sharp edge, to the point they were gotten rid of.
My half my age friend Bob does the tech work for not for profit The Redneck Mystic Lawyer Podcast and The Redneck Mystic Podcast, which have ad free YouTube channels and are hosted by around 50 Torrent platforms and the free internet libraries, where Bob placed my free ebooks- here’s a link if you are in America: https://archive.org/search?query=Sloan+Bashinsky. Bob, The Witch and I will do new podcast episodes from time to time. Here’s a link to the most recent. Bring plenty of popcorn :-). The Redneck Mystic Podcast, which have ad free YouTube channels and are hosted by around 50 Torrent platforms and the free internet libraries, where Bob placed my free ebooks- here’s a link if you are in America: https://archive.org/search?query=Sloan+Bashinsky. Bob, The Witch and I will do new podcast episodes from time to time. Here’s a link to the most recent. Bring plenty of popcorn :-).
Books to Save Mankind and a Discussion of How Trump and Elon are Trying to End Mankind
Meanwhile, my childhood friend, who still works on Wall Street, took a few moments to text me his most recent sentiments about the two white men running America into the ground, and I told him how I feel about that, as well.
Childhood friend
Good evening to the Wizard and his Wonderful Witch. Would a man of the law, sometimes, but not permanently, removed, care to comment on the result of the Wisconsin Supreme. Court Race, the Democrat beat the Trump-Musk Republican? Does this mean anything other than the Orange Turd and the Tesla Turd have suffered, in their minds, a simple setback, or will some of the few, but tradidional Republicans, be they temporarily MAGA blinded, tell OT this shit is beginning to hit the fan! Why, because a bipartisan sense of decency and respect for human rights is beginning to swell in this country. We concur that J. Biden did a shitty job, but OT trying to prove that it takes only three months to do it worse. How many massive heart attacks regret they took out a really great guy when the GOP now offers so many candidates? Forgive me my blessed Savior for voicing that during this Holy Season.
Me
Been mulling your missive.
The only Republican president I liked was Eisenhower, Romney was the only Republican candidate I liked. I liked Democratic Presidents Kennedy and Carter, and I linked Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders.
Wisconsin is an interesting study, experiment? I have a dear friend in Wisconsin, who still thinks voter fraud cost Trump Wisconsin in 2020. Probably no way he doesn’t vote for Trump in 2028.
I do truly hope down deep the tide has turned in the GOP against OT with Musk’s splendid help. The GOP litmus test, I think, will be in Congressional behavior and SCOTUS. Surrounded by MAGAS, I don’t see them voting Democrat, ever. Perhaps in time, they will be less inclined to vote? Perhaps the Democrats will gain the House majority in the midterms?
I dread seeing it, but if Social Security, and Medicare, and Medicaid falter, that will cost the Republicans dearly in Congress. Alas, if Trump croaks, J.D. Vance is president, and his vice president is rat poison, too.
I blame Joe Biden and the Democrats for Trump being president again. America is one nation, under Lucifer.
I wrote that recently at my new blog, The Redneck Mystic. Might need to weave our moanings into it:
My half my age friend Bob does the tech work for not for profit The Redneck Mystic Lawyer Podcast and
The Wonderful Witch’s best woman friend and her husband are loyal Trumpers. The husband has a history of not filing income tax returns. The IRS knows him well. They think Trump will abolish the IRS. He’s crippled the IRS and Social Security by firing so many of their workers. Imagine federal tax revenues falling 50 percent because the IRS doesn’t have the manpower to enforce the Internal Revenue Code. Beyond all of that, I can’t imagine any woman or non-white male American, or any white male American, voting for Trump, if I don’t give Lucifer credit.
Childhood friend the next day
Time for some underground whistleblower to dig up OT’s real GPA at the Wharton School (if it even exists). Very much doubt it was stellar given the Rose Garden debacle today (I beg your pardon…).
Me
I just watched the first ten minutes of his teleprompter speech he surely didn’t write and I would have loved to ask him to lay out details, especially the money he saved ordinary people, which they didn’t see in their wallets, and where’s the $1.98 gasoline? I think you know people who can dig up his Wharton grades.
Childhood friend
Well they tried without success in 2016, which suggests the $$$ may have played a role in the non disclosure.
Me this morning
As I watched for 10 minutes, I thought Trump says whatever suits him in the moment, as actual facts are irrelevant, and there is no way to believe anything he says is not shaded in some way. There is no way to get a straight answer out of him. And underneath It all, he is scheming how to make himself more money off of America and other countries, and what he Is trying to do with tariffs is stop himself and other oligarchs and their businesses from having to pay federal income taxes, period. The proof is he is firing so many IRS workers that the IRS can’t enforce the Internal Revenue Code. The GOP and the Wharton School of Finance’s lifelong wet dream come true. Says someone raised by a capitalist who hated paying federal taxes, and who wasted two years of his life getting a masters in tax law and by then Congress had abolished half of what he had learned in tax law school. I’m fine with shrinking the U.S. Government spending and reducing its debt, but it looks to me the way Trump and Musk are going about it is simply to reduce their federal income taxes. If they wreck Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, they may wish they had never been born and they already live on Mars?
Matthew 6: 24 NIV
No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
Matthew 25:31 The Sheep and the Goats
31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’
45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.â€
