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diff --git a/_posts/2024-09-11-DayOfRemembrance.md b/_posts/2024-09-11-DayOfRemembrance.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ layout: post
 tags: [terrorism,  alQaeda]
 categories: [September 11 2001 terrorist attacks]
 ate: 2024-09-11 13:14:15
-excerpt: ''
+excerpt: 'When I saw the second plane intentionally crash into the secod tower, I thought al-Qaeda'
 #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png'
 #description:
 #permalink:

diff --git a/_posts/2024-09-12-DonaldTrumpFuckingIdiot.md b/_posts/2024-09-12-DonaldTrumpFuckingIdiot.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ layout: post
 tags: [Donald Trump]
 categories: [2024 presidential election]
 date: 2024-09-12
-excerpt: ''
+excerpt: 'I was an independent voter. But Trump turned me into a Democrat. The Republican Party is dead.'
 #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png'
 description: "Trump Doesn't Know What the Hell He's Doing"
 #permalink:
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ I initially started out putting my opinions of Trump on this page, [Opinions/Don
 
 But it has become too unwieldy to keep it updated, so I switched to the blogging format. 
 
-I was an independent voter, but watching **The Apprentice: White House** unfold in what was then known as the Republican Primary. 
+I was an independent voter, but watching **The Apprentice: White House** unfold in what was then known as the Republican Primary, there was no way in he'll that I'd vote for Trump.
 
 Both political parties fucked up in 2016.
 

diff --git a/_posts/2024-09-12-DonaldTrumpWantsToBeDictator.md b/_posts/2024-09-12-DonaldTrumpWantsToBeDictator.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 layout: post
-tags: [Donald Trump]
+tags: [Donald Trump, news media, free speech]
 categories: [2024 presidential election]
 date: 2024-09-12 12:46:35
 excerpt: 'One of the principles of America is freedom of speech and a free press. Trump wants to control what the media says about him.'

diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-03-EatMoKittens.md b/_posts/2024-10-03-EatMoKittens.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 layout: post
-tags: [immigrants,  hoaxes, lies, JD Vance, Donald Trump]
+tags: [legal immigrants,  hoaxes, lies, JD Vance, Donald Trump]
 categories: [2024 presidential election]
 date: 2024-09-12
 excerpt: "I’ve seen people on television. The people on television say, ‘My dog was taken and used for food.'"

diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-05-HowDoesOneMakeSmallFortune.md b/_posts/2024-10-05-HowDoesOneMakeSmallFortune.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ layout: post
 tags: [Donald Trump, Elon Musk, X/Twitter, Trump Media and Technology Group]
 categories: [social media]
 date: 2024-10-05 9:15 AM
-#excerpt: ''
+excerpt: 'However, the company's future is uncertain, and a lot seems to be hinging on whether the former president gets elected this year. Is this stock too risky to own? Could it ultimately be headed to $0?'
 #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png'
 #description:
 #permalink:
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ title: 'Q: How Does One Make a Small Fortune? A: Start With a Large Fortune!'
 
 ## Is Another Trump Stock Nosediving into the Ground?
 
-It won't be the first time that the paper that the stock is printed on is worth more than the share price. 
+It won't be the first time that the paper that the stock certificate is printed on is worth more than the share price. 
 
 [Is Trump Media & Technology Stock Heading for $0?](https://www.fool.com/investing/2024/09/17/is-trump-media-technology-stock-heading-for-0/?)<br />By David Jagielski – Sep 17, 2024 at 9:45AM. Motley Fool
 
@@ -64,17 +64,17 @@ Reportedly, according to Trump, he is worth $4,000,000,000. So, why is he holdin
 
 Personally,  I'd be concerned that my contribution would be diverted to his campaign finances, or his legal bills.
 
-The GoFundMe page states, *"“an official response for MAGA supporters to offer their financial assistance to their fellow Americans impacted by Hurricane Helene.”
+The GoFundMe page states, *“an official response for MAGA supporters to offer their financial assistance to their fellow Americans impacted by Hurricane Helene.”
 
 The article also questions if Trump made a personal donation. Probably not. Trump owned and operated Trump Charity, but that was shuttered because it was involved in self-dealing where the beneficiary was Trump himself, and people in his circle also contributed.
 
-## <air quotes> *"Truth"* <air quotes> Social Subscribers Are Targets of "Pig-Butchering"[^41] Scams
+## \<air quotes> *"Truth"* \<air quotes> Social Subscribers Are Targets of "Pig-Butchering" Scams
 
 ['What idiots we are': Truth Social users lose hundreds of thousands of dollars to scammers](https://www.alternet.org/truth-social-scammers/).<br />Story by Carl Gibson. October 5, 2024.
 
-Some *"Truth"* Social subscribers have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The demographics of its subscriber base, older Americans who are retired and have a significantly larger life savings,  makes it a honeypot for scammers.
+Some *"Truth"* Social subscribers have lost hundreds of thousands of dollarsto pg-butchering[^41] scams. The demographics of its subscriber base, older Americans who are retired and have a significantly larger life savings,  makes it a honeypot for scammers.
 
-Romance Scams are taking place on *"Truth"* Social also. One person in his 7's lost $21,000. So far, he hasn't told his wife.
+Romance Scams are taking place on *"Truth"* Social also. One person in his 70's lost $21,000. So far, he hasn't told his wife.
 
 [^41]: "pig butchering." That type of scam involves a grifter winning the trust of a mark, persuading them to invest in a questionable money-making scheme and cajoling them into making even larger investments by tricking them into thinking they're making money.
 

diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-06-HereComesDaJudge.md b/_posts/2024-10-06-HereComesDaJudge.md
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ I live in a county, [Lexington County](https://lex-co.sc.gov/), that is so red t
 From April to mid-May 2021,  I was hospitalized at [Lexington Medical Center](https://www..lexmedlcom/). Even then, four months after he was evicted from the [White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/), Trump was still whining, *"I won! I won!"* Each morning during the daily cognitive test, "What year is it?", "Do you know where you are?", etc., that I'd have a little fun with the nurses.
 I would also add one of the following statements:
 1. "Biden is still president." 
-2. "Trump is no longer president."
+2. "Trump is no longer president.$ 
 
-Consider this, if a Democrat had acted the same as Trump, the "Republicans" would be jumping up and down screaming for justice. 
+Consider this, if a Democrat had acted the same as Trump, the "Republicans" would be jumping up and down demanding justice. 
 
 
 ## [Calmes: Jack Smith's filing shows that Trump is already starring in a Jan. 6 sequel](https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-10-06/jack-smith-donald-trump-tanya-chutkan-jan-6-insurrection)
@@ -29,24 +29,26 @@ Opinion by Jackie Calmes. October 6, 2024.
 - **Legal and Political Implications:** The unsealed government case against Trump highlights the potential consequences if he is not held accountable and re-elected.
 - **Call to Action:** Figures like Liz Cheney urge voters to prioritize patriotism over partisanship to prevent Trump’s return to power.
 
-Trump has demonstrated time and time again, over and over, that Donald Trump has no respect for the rule of law, except when he is the beneficiary. 
+Trump has demonstrated time and time again, over and over, that Donald Trump has no respect for the rules of law, except when he is the beneficiary. 
 
 Yes, there are voters who will vote for Trump no matter what just because he is their party's nominee. Ignore those comments that she's a communist, or a socialists; that's just Trump who never graduated from elementary school of childish behavior using taunts, and name calling. 
 
-But I urge y'all to vote for Harris/Walz, I'll use a phrase that Trump uses, *"Vote for Kamala, or you won't have a country anymore."*
+But I urge y'all to vote for Harris/Walz, I'll use a phrase that Trump uses, "Vote for Kamala, or you won't have a country anymore."
 
-<hr />
+## 
 
 I've done my best to replicate the front page of the document filed in the UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA of the case, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. DONALD J TRUMP.
 
 That document is 165 pages long. I am not going to screenscrape a document that large and separate the words with spaces. It is also quite damning. My copy  and paste brought in the text with as many as five to seven words strung together without separation[^11]. The court document is available from many different news media websites. Heck, it may even be available on Faux News.
 
-[^11]: Sort of like *"Trump-Speak"* where Trump strings random thoughts into a *"tossed salad of words",* and hopes it makes sense.
+[^11]: Sort of like *"Trump-Speak"* where Trump strings random thoughts into a *"tossed salad of words",* and hopes it makes sensel
 
 One thing that attorney Jack Smith laid out in this document is that although Trump was indeed president at the time that these crimes were committed, in the reelection, he was also candidate Trump, an ordinary citizen that cannot claim presidential immunity, which the Supreme Court sent back to the district Court to determine immunity.
 
 ## [UNITED States OF AMERICA v. DONALD J TRUMP](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/73357920e3c8d739/8fc8bfd0-full.pdf)
 
+<hr />
+
 Case 1:23-cr-00257-TSC Document 252 Filed 10/02/24 Page 1 of 165<br />
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@@ -143,6 +145,4 @@ But what really sealed the deal, according to Smith, is that as president, Trump
 
 One unidentified Trump campaign employee did push hard for litigation in Democrat-run Michigan: When a colleague “suggested that there was about to be unrest reminiscent of the ‘Brooks Brothers Riot,’ a violent effort to stop the vote count in Florida after the 2000 presidential election, P5 [the unnamed employee] responded, ‘Make them riot’ and ‘Do it!!!’”
 
-[^61]: There Trump goes again again. Trump is having another **Trumper Tantrum** with his use of **ALL CAPS.[^62]**
-[^62]: @RalphHightower: Trump must go through a lot of keyboards or *Twitter-phones[^63]* with him banging on the *SHIFT* key.
-[^63]: @RalphHightower: calling a smartphone in Trump’s hands is an oxymoron. 
+[^61]: There Trump goes again again. Trump is having another **Trumper Tantrum** with his use of **ALL CAPS.**
diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-07-HillbillyElegy.md b/_posts/2024-10-07-HillbillyElegy.md
@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ title: 'Hillbilly Elegy'
 
 Story by Mackenzie Mays. October 7, 2024.
 
-- **Family Reunion**: Five generations of Vances gathered in West Virginia for a reunion, but JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, did not attend.
+Five generations of Vances gathered in West Virginia last month for a reunion, singing hymns and swapping stories in a quiet park hugged by towering green mountains waiting to burst into autumnal shades of orange. JD Vance — the Republican vice presidential nominee who reunion attendees say is part of the family — was not among them.
+
+- **Family Reunion**: Five generations of Vances gathered in West Virginia, but JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, did not attend.
 - **Criticism from Terra Vance**: Terra Vance, a distant cousin and Appalachian activist, criticizes JD Vance for misrepresenting Appalachian people in his memoir "Hillbilly Elegy."
 - **Different Perspectives**: Terra Vance argues that JD Vance's story unfairly blames Appalachian people for their struggles, while she highlights systemic issues and her family's hardships.
 - **Political Divide**: The article discusses the broader Appalachian movement rejecting JD Vance's narrative and the political divide within the Vance family.

diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-07-NationalDebt.md b/_posts/2024-10-07-NationalDebt.md
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+---
+layout: post
+tags: [Kamala Harris,  Donald Trump,  national debt]
+categories: [2024 presidential election]
+#date: 2019-06-25 13:14:15
+#excerpt: 0''Neither candidate has meaningfully stressed budget deficit reduction in their pitch to voters. But multiple analyses show a clear difference of Harris being much more fiscally responsible than Trump.'
+#image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png'
+#description:
+#permalink:
+title: 'National debt could increase under Harris, but it would surge under Trump'
+---
+
+[National debt could increase under Harris, but it would surge under Trump: new report / AP News](https://apnews.com/article/budget-deficit-trump-harris-kamala-debt-1ee3ff65e22ccf19d19b792ee22c46da)
+By  JOSH BOAK
+Updated 11:02 AM EDT, October 7, 2024
+
+- **Higher Deficits**: Both Kamala Harris' and Donald Trump's economic plans are projected to significantly increase the national debt over the next decade.
+- **Harris' Plan**: Could add $3.5 trillion to the debt, despite claims of fiscal responsibility and higher taxes on corporations and the wealthy.
+- **Trump's Plan**: Could add between $7.5 trillion and $15.2 trillion to the debt, with large tax cuts and increased spending.
+- **Debt Growth**: Under either candidate, the national debt is expected to grow faster than the economy, exacerbating fiscal challenges.
+
+The revenue from Trump's tariffs won't ease the huge increase in the national debt, but the tariffs would increase costs to consumers and businesses. Aothough Trump says that tariffs won't increase costs, if it costs foreign companies more to bring products into the U.S., that's a cost to the companies; the companies would have to raise tariffs so they won't lose money.
+
diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-07-PigButcheringOnTruthSocial.md b/_posts/2024-10-07-PigButcheringOnTruthSocial.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 layout: post
 tags: [pig butchering, scams]
 categories: [Truth Social, pig butchering]
-date: 2024-10-07 02:25 PM
+date: 2024-10-0702:25 PM
 excerpt: 'After I pay this, they promise there will be no more fees and I will receive my assets'
 #image: 'BASEURL/assets/blog/img/.png'
 #description:
@@ -29,4 +29,4 @@ One individual, a 72-year-old man, reported chatting with a “beautiful” woma
 [^11]: [Pig butchering • Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_butchering_scam?wprov=sfla1): "Sha Zhu Pan" or Shazhupan, (Chinese: 杀猪盘), translated as Killing Pig Game, is a type of long-term scam and investment fraud in which the victim is gradually lured into making increasing contributions, usually in the form of cryptocurrency, to a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme. They are commonplace on social apps. The scammer builds trust with the victim through online communication, subsequently persuading them to invest in a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme. The "butchering" or "slaughtering" of the victim transpires when their assets or funds are stolen.
 [^12]: Truth Social is a social media platform that was launched by Trump after he was permanently banned from Twitter (B.M.)[^13] for inciting and encouraging the January 6, 2021 riot and melee at the U.S. Capitol to halt the certification of Biden as president and the peaceful transfer of power. 
 [^13]: B.M.: Similar to the time periods, B.C. and A.D., B.M. is that time period of Twitter, *'Before Musk.'*
-[^14]: @RalphHightower: *"Whoops! I wonderwhat she'll do when she finds out."* 
+[^14]: @RalphHightower: *"Whoops! I wonderwhat she'll do when she finds out."*