{"id":38085,"date":"2026-03-16T08:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=38085"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:54:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:54:41","slug":"things-are-not-always-what-they-seem-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=38085","title":{"rendered":"Things are not always what they seem Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Post: <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=38070\">Books. Truman page 420 of 992<\/a><br \/>\nNext Post: <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=38090\">The Long Game<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55099597489_cd28819125_t.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <strong>Click here if you want a return to Lincoln<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/weltyforcongress.com\">Weltyforcongress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a morning consuming coffee and the news including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/trump-slams-supreme-court-says-it-ransacked-america-11681858\">Newsweek story<\/a> about Donald Trump calling the Supreme Court names and being an embarassment to our founders I&#8217;ve concieved three posts in a row (including this one) that I will create as I go along this morning. The three of them are part and parcel of what has become my life&#8217;s ambition. To save the America from the mutated Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the story from Newsweek which is no doubt similar to a dozen other news outlets they were prompted by the dramatic story in the book Truman that I read in the middle of last night about the nation-wide strikes that ground the United States to a halt in 1946 that Truman stopped in their train tracks. (poor pun on the rail road workers strike one of dozens crippling America then in the rush to make up for wage freezes from WW II. The small connection to my threesome thread of posts is the mention of Senator Bob Taft who for a couple decades Republicans pined to nominate and elect as their president. When his time seemed ripe he was set aside for an unbeatable candidate General Dwight David Eisenhower who the Democrats were also courting for their nomination. The strike episode showed that Bob Taft was a man of principle because he ultimately voted against the Truman Plan for reasons our Founders would have appreciated despite the House of Representatives manic near unanimous immediate support of Truman&#8217;s brilliant unconstitutional proposal. SPOILER ALERT: The threat of the president&#8217;s strike busting plan cooled all the unions jets and brought sanity to our economy.<\/p>\n<p>The above is two paragraphs above are a topic for another day. But I digress&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Related to the Newsweek story and the founding fathers was the gross and pissed off subject heading of an email I left blank as I only wanted to remember the subject heading for a future post: It was: &#8220;When Trump sticks his finger in his butt he demands his allies lick it off.&#8221; It refers to Trump demanding that our NATO allies help him clean up his shitty mess in the Persian Gulf with their Navies. Two which one of the dozens of disasters Trump has set off was described in a NY Times think piece about the thriving glittering wall of skyscrapers of Dubai just a misiles&#8217; launch away from the poked hornet&#8217;s nest Iran. Thanks Donny dick head. How many other pieces of china did your juvenile attempt to run away from Jeffery Epstein&#8217;s grave did your attack break. You look like they guy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1203568\/conan-obrien-found-condom-donald-trump-pocket-late-night-1997\/\">who got you to wave a condom<\/a> at his late night crowd when he cold opened for the Oscars last night.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1057\" height=\"595\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XjvnclCos_0\" title=\"Conan O&#39;Brien&#39;s 98th Oscars Cold Open (2026)\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now that that&#8217;s off my chest, for five minutes, back to the thread of this post and the next two to follow.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been wavering between several goals ever since I first file against Pete Staiber&#8217;s finger licking politics back in 2018. Fixing the Party of Lincoln. Cleaving off a Party of Lincoln from the Trumplican stampede. Running as a Democrat to teach Republicans a lesson. Writing books that make America slap is forehead and wake up. Writing books to make Republicans wake up or Independents wake up&#8230;&#8230;or make Americans want to read their history.<\/p>\n<p>Being in Congress is only interesting to me because if I got that far I&#8217;d have a larger audience, Maybe even a large enough audience to accomplish the previous paragraphs objectives. As it is I haven&#8217;t put anything together that will get more than a dozen people to a posat like this one. <\/p>\n<p>So, my last resort, which is emminently do able and which I&#8217;ve been doing for twenty-five years it to keep my head from exploding by writing what I know. I know the story suggested in this post&#8217;s title and after sixty years I pray to God that the family members tied to it aren&#8217;t traumatized by my recounting the ugly chapter in their lives it paints. And screw you busybody&#8217;s who try to track them down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Post: Books. 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