If making America great again requires you to pay more for everything, lose your retirement savings, work more for less pay, be unable to afford health insurance, become an indentured servant to the oligarchs, maybe you were better off with the no so great version.

“True Charm” that I saved from the Lowe’s clearance rack. It’s bounced back nicely.

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad.

There’s not.

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

This Caribbean Breeze rose decided to give me a bit of color while I’m in the garden prepping for a busy spring. Given the way everything is sliding off into hell I’m going to try to grow a much larger percentage of my food this year.

Trump just withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement.

The US now joins Iran, Libya, and Yemen as the only countries in the world not in the agreement.

California's state of emergency bans price gouging for a range of goods and services, including rental housing.

Any rent increase above 10% since the start of and for the duration of the crisis is illegal.

Violations can be reported here:

The same Republicans trying to put a man accused of child sex trafficking at the top of the DOJ and an anti-vaxxer atop HHS, are telling us that the reason they’re banning drag queens, gender affirming care & books with two mommies is because they want to ‘protect our kids.’

Bullshit.

‘Julie Andrews’ is continuing to put out blooms even in November. One of my favorite roses 🥰