The reflecting pond is green and the blue-painted floor is peeling off. The U.S. appears moronic, while Iran appears to have gotten a great deal. Israel's reputation is diminished and the underdog Ukraine is pounding Moscow. This is a lesson in hubris more than anything. When you walk around boasting about how you're the best, never seeking humility, you draw more attention to your failures.

The reflecting pond typically turns green when it's drained, cleaned, and refilled. It happened under Obama's presidency as well. But you never heard about it because Obama wasn't holding press conferences from the Oval Office to brag about how he was the best at cleaning pools while haranguing his predecessors

Honor is a quality that runs counter to the MAGA movement; any agreement is subject to be ripped up on a whim if the wind doesn't blow their way.

There could be a sound strategic argument for releasing $300 billion to Iran, it's plausible, but after you've spent literally years campaigning how awful it was to send $1.7 billion as part of a deal which actually gave us physical shoes-on-the-ground access, you begin to look like a dementia patient.

Moreover, after you've obsessively bragged about how you've obliterated your enemy, it makes you look like a fool when you have to quit attacking them because they won't stop lobbing missiles at the world's trade routes and refineries — a neat little trick they weren't doing before all this, but now have learned works really well.

Obama opened his library today and reminded us of the type of leaders we are capable of electing. Leaders who are humble and kind, and wield America's diverse strengths with honor and dignity, instead of all this vengeful, ignorant pride. May we all pray that the MAGA movement is short lived and that Vance - or Rubio or Miller or Hegseth - doesn't carry the baton for this mental depravity into the next generation.

Vote out the red hats. Out of office. Out of society. Out of our culture. Get the virus out of the system.

If you are someone I know who voted for MAGA, of course I forgive you — 100%. Let's move on from this disaster together. I won't blame you if your intentions were good.

If you are still all about that MAGA, you don't have to disconnect with me, because I am willing to strive to understand what has driven you to the point of accepting a circus.

I remember an old boss 10 years ago explained his vote for MAGA as wanting to "watch the world burn," and so I've come to realize that some people see the world differently. Sometimes that's okay, sometimes it's not. Sometimes there's a balance, and sometimes it has to be black and white. This is black and white, and red's all over.

Overheard someone talking on their phone at Walmart Sunday:

"He had to sell the farm. They can't find any tubing because of the tariffs."

I kept walking. Not sure what kind of tubing it was, or why it was so important to the farm; probably just my imagination because America is great again. I'm sure he just didn't want to buy American tubing, that's all.

My sincerest apologies: I know I promised some of you I would give you my $2,000 tariff check as a way of admitting I was wrong about Trump (I think I made this promise to at least 2 or 3 of you). I’ve decided not to do this and instead donate my $2,000 tariff check to help fund the ongoing war in Iran. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

It's usually been $40 to fill up the tank. Now it's $70. Iran used to allow us to come in and physically monitor their nuclear energy programs. Now we can't even freely pass a ship by. China’s stance remains mostly unaffected if not emboldened. Maybe they'll buy our soybeans. Maybe they'll take over Taiwan's chip manufacturing. Yet somehow it's still Obama's fault and Kamala would have been a disaster.

It's usually been $40 to fill up the tank. Now it's $70. Iran used to allow us to come in and physically monitor their nuclear energy programs. Now we can't even freely pass a ship by. China’s stance remains mostly unaffected if not emboldened. Maybe they'll buy our soybeans. Maybe they'll take over Taiwan's chip manufacturing. Yet somehow it's still Obama's fault and Kamala would have been a disaster.

I just heard Dana Perino claim that Americans are glad Kamala Harris isn't the one who's making decisions about Iran. Aside from the fact that Trump walked us up to this situation that would not have existed were he not president, I'm pretty sure our most advanced military generals are presenting Trump — or any president, as it would have been with Harris — a set of options. In that set of options, surely there would be a less aggressive option than what Trump and Hegseth chose.

I operate in an environment that's 60-70% women and let me tell you, women get shit done. I imagine a woman's approach to matters such as Iran — while having the full force of the U.S. military behind her — would be incredibly effective and lack all this unnecessary fire and brimstone.

We have the largest economy with unlimited access to the world's most advanced military technology and intelligence, but you're telling me the best we can still do is blow it up? I'm not discounting the sheer impressiveness of that tactic, but I imagine a more psychological and politically adept method of accomplishing regime change exists besides making it go boom-boom.

There's an utter sadness in most of America right now. And those who don't feel the sadness, feel the hatred. If they don't feel the hatred, they experience the ignorance and file testaments of a vile society; degraded.

We have men not able to write an email to their boss commenting on complex geopolitical challenges, while our youth quit jobs to become influencers in a world we've built on AI-driven call trees.

Now for over ten years we've sold our attention to the lowest bidder in exchange for temporary dopamine sinks, and it's time to pay the piper in the form of cash payments from the bank of solace.

As a whole, we have not done our due diligence to better ourselves with civics, history, government, or technology. It takes one craftily written headline with a suggestive image to shape the minds of millions into a distorted ball of grime, a remnant of life's essence.

At this point if you still believe all the MAGA propaganda coming from DHS and DOJ (and the whole executive office) then you are complicit. I am tired of hearing Trump's supporters argue that what I'm seeing with my own eyes is not really what it seems. This gaslighting has been enough, and it has been going on for 10 years now. We all saw this coming, so my only conclusion is that this is what you all wanted, and we are not the same.

Christ teaches us to love one another. What Trump is doing to this country is the opposite, but he is your savior now.

The basis of his reasoning for tariffs has changed so much from its original inception of protecting us from fentanyl, that one has to wonder if you can even trust his continued supporters' reasoning with regard to performing basic daily tasks such as operating a motor vehicle safely or correctly counting your change at the till. If you see someone who still fervently supports this man just walk away, don't engage, and whatever you do, do not remind them about the midterms elections.

I just want to say that if it gets bad enough, we will NOT be allowing immigrants to stay in our attic . . . We have three extra guest rooms and plenty of space for air mattresses, which will be far more comfortable than the attic.

This has been a masterclass in the worst way to do everything.

2024 was about immigration. There was a better way to handle the problem without shitting all over the backbone of what made America great — which used to be the fact that we were a melting pot. E pluribus unum, remember? "Out of many, one."

Before you go about your merry, right-hearted way demonizing non-white people because you all of a sudden can freely express your hate for immigrants, maybe take a minute to remember that immigration is what made America so successful. Maybe you should get involved in your civic duty to create better leaders — unlike Trump — who won't so gleefully stoke the flames of divisiveness, but instead speak for all of us again as one people.

Financially speaking, this country is not poor enough yet to be blaming immigrants, so let's not lose our aptitude for good moral character when it comes to loving our fellow human.

Many of you out there I've known over the years as Christians, I've seen you going around preaching about Jesus, and your silence is loud right now. You've allowed your politics to blind you from that most-important rule: to love your neighbor.

The next time you hear some rhetoric generalizing all immigrants based on the illegal actions of a few, ask yourself where your garbage-ass great, great, grandpa came from and feel free to take your trashy ass on a boat right on back. Or, choose to stand up to the bullying that this administration is perpetrating and vote this hatred out of office every chance you get.

A year ago today we were talking about the high cost of eggs and Haitians eating pets.

Today? Eggs are affordable and I haven’t heard anyone complain about Haitians eating pets.

Everything else has gone to shit but those two non-issues are still no longer issues.

A preacher once told me if you pour orange juice into a glass, that you will not pour milk from that glass. Trump has been pouring orange juice into our country’s glass and so that’s why we have all this orange juice spilling all over the place.