Earl Stephens

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In a world that feels like it just might fall off the edge, imagine how much better off we'd all be right now if Kamala Harris had been elected president in 2024 …

It has been another long, brutal week of lies, misdirection and lawlessness from Donald Trump and his political party of sycophants, who spend the majority of their time somewhere in the vicinity of their master's wobbly knees.

Like you, my friends, I am dealing with a lot of grief and anger about the terrible state of affairs in the United States of America right now.

It comes at us in waves …It relentlessly pounds away at our heart and soul, threatening to break us in two …This week it again washed ashore in all the likely places — Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, and finally our corrupted, irredeemable “Supreme” Court housed in what was once the world’s cradle of ...

D. Earl Stephens It comes at us in waves … It relentlessly pounds away at our heart and soul, threatening to break us in two …

Truth is, I like doing both just fine, because sitting down for a good meal is one of life's underrated treats.

I am continuing to untether myself from the battleground state of Wisconsin and a group of Democratic warriors who are giving their lives to protect a country that is under siege from a vile, lawless, orange bigot, and the millions of morally busted people who somehow support him with a slovenly gusto.

What if Kamala Harris had become president, promptly leveled the historic East Wing of our White House, and then spent each day like a petrified drama queen shrieking that taxpayers should purchase her a new ballroom?

As the smoke finally started to clear following Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election, and Donald Trump's violent attack aimed at overthrowing our government just two months later, I wrote a piece castigating our disintegrating working press in the United States.