Racing Thoughts 12 August 2025

As I ran this morning:

News Alert: Inflation rose in July as President Trump’s tariffs intensified price pressures across a wider range of consumer goods and services.

I have walked the streets of Washington DC, New York, and Little Rock, Arkansas, at all hours. I only have ever felt unsafe in one of those places. It wasn’t Washington DC or New York.

If you support this administration, then you support the dismantling of my marriage, which, by the way, has proven more stable than most heterosexual marriages I have seen come and go. The Supreme Court has now been asked to take up overturning the law that grants my marriage its rights and privileges.

The defense secretary, or the secretary of war as Trump calls him, recently reposted a video endorsing men voting for their wives, meaning women should not have the right to vote.

Socialism has more in common with Christianity than capitalism has with Christianity. The Democratic Party is not a socialist party. If you believe in socialism, you actually want the Democratic Party to be way more socialist than it is. Free education, free healthcare, tax based on wealth.



I have worked with very poor people and very rich people. Very rich people go to great lengths to hide their assets. I have had jobs where I helped them do it. I’ve seen this. Now I work with very poor people. They tend to simply want to survive.



If you think for one moment that ultra wealthy Republicans, or even moderately wealthy Republicans, don’t get on-demand abortions when they want them, you are incorrect. It comes down to money. Rich Republicans take take away the rights of poor people, but rich people can afford to retain those rights for themselves.

Finally, a poem.

Red hats today.

Swastikas then.

Same boots. Same road.

Same eventual end.