So Republicans think it’s OK for a man to marry an 11-year-old girl, but not another man. Got it.

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, a Trump-like Republican, is caught in a rabbit hole.He is being sued by a medical doctor for defamation of character because he didn’t check the facts related to a medical procedure she performed. Rokita is thoroughly frustrated. Instead of admitting and offering an apology for his ill-advised statements, he is doubling down by indicating he will investigate the doctor’s entire history. How sad! I suspect he will find that she sampled a grape in a grocery store five years ago and then accuse her of being a thief. Rokita is the epitome of ineptness.

It appears that the doctor in the 10-year-old girl’s abortion case is going forward with a lawsuit against Todd Rokita for defamation. If Rokita loses, will the taxpayers of Indiana be on the hook to pay for what he did as an act of personal animosity? Of course, he will likely say that he was just representing the will of the people of Indiana, so it was all just part of his job. Sort of like it was the will of the people of Indiana that they pay for Rokita to attend a Trump rally a few months back.

The head of the Secret Service is a rabid Trump supporter,and yet we’re supposed to believe that the deletion of ALL text messages between agents on January 5th and 6th was just routine maintenance? And the fact that they were deleted after being requested by the January 6th Commission was just a coincidence? None of this passes the smell test. Was the Secret Service colluding with Trump to impede the confirmation of electoral ballots? Mike Pence apparently knew something was up when he refused to get in that car.

Republicans have voted against a bill to have an active shooter alert on your phone. An alert like the Amber Alert that would inform you if a shooter was in your child’s school, mall or store. How do people still vote for do nothing, pass no bill Republicans?

Indiana legislators say they can’t suspend the gasoline tax because it’s necessary for road maintenance. They don’t have any plans for using their big surplus of funds, except maybe they’ll give tax payers a rebate. Yet every road I drive on looks like a patchwork of cracks and filled potholes. I guess those “rough pavement” signs use up all the funds.

At what point in time are we going to realize that high costs don’t matter when our interests,not needs, take over? Many Americans are complaining about inflation along with high food and gas prices. Yet, airlines are having problems trying to keep up with travel requests. During the July 4th holiday, fireworks sold at a record level. In Chicago, groups were burning a lot of gas doing doughnuts in the middle of the streets. Americans are buying firearms like never before! Last but not least, the average household is spending around $273 dollars a month on TV, streaming subscriptions, cell phones and other media packages. What’s my point? The cost of milk, eggs and gas is driving up our stress levels. In contrast, we spend heavily on non-essential stuff and brag about our 70 inch big screen TV with an inflated subscription package.

You can see textbook examples of the uneducated and unemployed by watching footage of the Capitol riot and any Trump rally. If the attendees were employed, they wouldn’t be able to attend these foolish events, and if they were the least bit educated, they wouldn’t fall for Trump’s lies and conspiracy garbage. Trump is the gold standard for politicians, I must agree, as long as the criteria is fraud and corruption. He is the G.O.A.T when it comes to dishonesty and the art of the scam.

I guess if your only measure of a good politician is if other reasonable people do not think they are making appropriate leadership decisions, then you have your ideal candidates in our AG and the former guy. Some of us actually think and make decisions on who we vote for based on the effect these guys have on our lives not on how much others dislike them. You seem to get off on irritating others. Seems like odd behavior to me.

We could have eliminated our inflation if we had just spent half the resources we wasted on this Jan. 6 Dog and Pony Show. Since these elected leaders participating in this sham add no value for America, let’s dump them.

I don’t see anyone complaining about Potbelly restaurants being forgiven for their $10 million loan. Good thing it’s not about student loans.

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