Are the Hoopleheads retreating

 The Hoopleheads in the Trump cult seem to be missing. Not many red hatted idiots in the grocery store, and the gunslingers are nowhere to be seen. Maybe the dolts are beginning to feel Trump has betrayed them. Trump called his own dingers stupid for insisting on the Epstein files, yet the simple minded still love him. 

Now for the good part. The dingers are starting to think Trump is the "deep state". Does it get any better?  Trump stirred up some lies that are backfiring on him. His gang is lying about lies he spread. The Epstein mess has the old Trumpster in super lying mode. Will it work? Usually Trump can lie his way out of anything. Fake news, fake news, it was Biden, the democrats, not me. 

Excellent turn out today for Highway 87 protest.

 About 80 people showed up to support democratic principles. It was a good turnout, and the police made sure no MAGA smoke dogs came near. Across the highway a MAGA dog has a car dealership. The MAGA dog made one of the horns on his cars go continuously. A young woman who worked for the MAGA car dealer came out with a MAGA sign. One MAGA across the street from 80 normal people told the story very well. A big thanks to the Payson police. No doubt the MAGA dogs will have some sort of show. It seems the MAGA crowd is embarrassed about the sexual predator they support. Even some MAGAs are turning against Trump. He called his own supporters stupid and said he didn't need them. Wow.

Water fell from the sky

The nectar of the gods fell last night and our holding pond is full of water. The desert pops when rain hits. Many years ago we were in the Baja and it rained as hard as it had in 100 years. The desert popped and the plants bloomed instantly. Old Kadizzle will never forget the experience. Walking in the desert felt like another planet. Unusual plants that looked like something on Mars were everywhere.  

Secretary of State

Adrian Fontes Electrifies Donuts with Democrats

Adrian Fontes delivered a powerful and inspiring speech at the Donuts with Democrats gathering, packing the Democratic Headquarters to capacity. When Kadizzle arrived early, he had his doubts. Jeff was already there, dutifully setting up rows of chairs. Kadizzle figured Jeff was being overly optimistic — but he was wrong. The room quickly filled, and by the time Fontes took the stage, it was standing room only.

Arizona’s Secretary of State proved to be a dynamic and engaging speaker, with the kind of presence that makes you believe he could very well be governor one day. His message was simple but compelling, built around ten two-letter words: “If it is to be, it is up to me.” Fontes had the audience repeat the phrase, driving home the urgent need for action.

The takeaway? Democracy doesn’t defend itself. If we want to stop the slide into authoritarianism, we all need to get off the sidelines — and off our asses — and stand up to the creeping Trump dictatorship.

The Childish MAGA mind.

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What Is the Mind of a MAGA Like?

It’s a question many thoughtful people find themselves asking: What is going on in the mind of someone deep in the MAGA world? The answer isn’t hard to find—just look at the comments they leave on Facebook posts, particularly those that challenge their worldview. The patterns are remarkably consistent and, frankly, revealing.

First, there’s the humor—or rather, the lack of it. Much of the content relies on juvenile jokes, name-calling, or tired memes that might have gotten a chuckle in a middle school locker room. It’s not that humor itself is a problem—it's that their jokes often aim down, mock the vulnerable, and rely on crude sexual innuendo or cartoonishly exaggerated caricatures. These aren’t efforts to persuade or even engage; they’re just attempts to ridicule and dominate.

Second, the comments are rarely grounded in fact or curiosity. Instead of asking questions or offering well-reasoned counterpoints, many MAGA followers jump straight to deflection, conspiracy, or ad hominem attacks. It's easier, apparently, to call someone a “libtard” or post a Photoshopped image of Joe Biden falling off a bike than to discuss climate change, healthcare, or democracy with any seriousness.

Third, there’s an emotional immaturity that runs through much of the MAGA commentary. You’ll notice a visceral need to “win” arguments—not through logic, but through volume and insult. Any disagreement is treated as an attack. Every discussion is a battlefield. There’s little room for self-reflection, nuance, or empathy. Instead, the world is split into heroes and villains, patriots and traitors.

Lastly, there is an eerie devotion to authoritarianism disguised as patriotism. Many MAGA followers celebrate strength, but only when it comes from “their side.” They claim to defend freedom while cheering for censorship of opposing views. They wrap themselves in the flag, but seem to forget what the Constitution is actually about.

So what is the mind of a MAGA like? It’s angry, tribal, and frequently unmoored from reality. It finds comfort in simplistic narratives and black-and-white thinking. It’s addicted to grievance, dismissive of complexity, and quick to lash out. It doesn't want a conversation—it wants control.

And while not everyone in that movement is the same, the loudest voices often paint the clearest picture. We should pay attention to what they say—not just to criticize, but to understand the deeper forces at work in our country.

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Back in the Arizona Mountains

The plane landed on the frying pan at Mesa. 118 degrees greeted the Kadizzles as we got off the plane. Reaching Payson the temperature dropped to 102.  That 16 degree difference is why we live in Payson. It rained while we were gone and the desert plants popped. The shade of dessert green is much more dull than Dakota green. Our good friends in North Dakota served us well. No hotel bills for 12 days was wonderful. 

Dina is pulling up stakes in North Dakota and heading to Seattle. North Dakota will lose the best liberal it ever had. North Dakota Republican greed is insane. The state has 14 billion in the bank it refuses to spend. The money's sole purpose is to protect the rich. North Dakota could have the very best of everything, but sharing is not part of the greed dogs mantra. North Dakota should have the best paid teachers, free health care and no homeless, but the Trump rats will not share. The Trump rats all claim to be direct descendants of Jesus. The Republican Jesus is one mean bastard. 

Crumbling

Today the Kadizzles return from North Dakota where we visited a lot of old good friends. Age is taking its toll. The old timers are crumbling. People are moving awkwardly, slowly and painfully. Like all old people the discussion is what happened to old Willy or what is the latest doctors visit about. Adjustments come with crumbling. Steps have a whole new meaning when they have become Mount Everest. Oh, and replacements. Yes, new knees, borrowed eyes, shots of lubrication. What fun. Now kids get ready we are moving back to be close to you. Yup, you get to take care of us. We will be your new set of kids. Then the mind goes.  Do I know you? Where am I? Driving, look out. Pills, doctors appointments. What did I do to deserved this? First you let yourself get fat, then you drank too much, and of course lack of exercise. 

Old friend Dave delivers pills to nursing homes. Dave took Kadizzle on his route from the airport to Stanton. It occurred to Kadizzle nursing homes are just well appointed jail cells where the last stages of crumbling occur.  Hope this has all been uplifting. 

Another Day in North Dakota

 Our trail crew friends spent the night with us in Stanton, ND.  We toured the Knife River Indian Village.  Cissie helped build the replica Earth Lodge there. North Dakota is so isolated and peaceful. The nights are dark and quiet. Wildlife is abundant, and the Missouri river is nearby. In the old days we sailed here and often floated the Missouri. North Dakota has many charms, you just have to discover them. 

Working on the farm

Our old friends in North Dakota let us stay in their spare house.  It is a wonderful home built by an old friend who had amazing talents. The house has some wonderful touches including custom stain glass in the Frank Lloyd Right style. The yard is several acres and Brian has a big job mowing it. Winkie and Kadizzle used to pheasant hunt here and we have many good memories of the hunts. Winkie picked a lot of June berries down by the Knife River. The main house is unique. Brian and his dad aligned the house so the sun would shine in one dormer, and out the other on only one day a year. They used to have a party on the Summer Solstice to celebrate that day. Brian like to heat with wood so he has a pile of huge logs we have been splitting. 

The Deplorables

For entertainment Kadizzle has been interacting with the deplorables. One constant in the communication is the total lack of writing ability the deplorables are cursed with. Reading their comments it seems obvious they are stuck somewhere on the fifth or sixth grade level. The reasoning ability of the MAGA dogs is non existent. It becomes obvious why Trump loves the deplorables. They are easily fooled and manipulated. Low information MAGA minds are ripe picking for Republicans. 

Summer in North Dakota

Summers in North Dakota are hard to beat. Nights are cool, days are long, and the temperature is damn near perfect. The good old days when Kadizzle used to wake up on his wonderful sailboat back in a bay. I've got to remember its a fine memory. The quiet, ah the quiet, no dingers in loud trucks, just the birds. Green, the green is pleasant compared to the parched desert. 

We lived in North Dakota for forty years. Not much has changed. Slow, life is slow here. The total lack of people is astounding. North Dakota is the cleanest state in the union. Slumming is not popular here and people keep their property up. 

Western North Dakota has some rolling hills, but the flat East is unbearable. 

A different planet

Today Kadizzle awakened on planet North Dakota. So different. No slummers, green, green everywhere. Not a mountain in sight. The Missouri river, and prairie to the horizon. A strange prosperous state with 14 billion in the bank and only 750,000 people. It could be absolute heaven, but it is infested with Republicans in the cult protecting the rich from taxes. So a state that could have free health care, the highest paid teachers, and extremely low taxes does not. Why. The hoarded oil money is for one thing only to make sure the rich are never taxed. That is the goal of the Trump cult, protect the rich from taxes. Enough money is in the bank account to give every man woman and child 17,000 dollars, but no, protect the rich. 

Who fixes your plane

Think it through. Many years ago Kadizzle visited a nursing home in Florida. Who do you think took care of all the old racist. Yup, it was black people. If you were a lifelong racist would you want a black person making your eggs. Maybe a little spit in your eggs would do you good.  

Yesterday Kadizzle sat beside a Mexican jet engine repairman. Guess whose jet engines he rebuilds? Yes Trump might want to think about who he is abusing. 

MAGA sexual hangup.

Blog Post Title: Why Are MAGA Folks So Obsessed With Sex?

Spend five minutes in a Facebook comment thread on any local news story, and chances are you’ll find it: a MAGA follower making some wild, obscene sexual reference. The story could be about potholes, the weather, or a bake sale, and somehow we end up talking about drag queens, genitalia, or how Joe Biden is secretly turning kids gay. It’s not just an online phenomenon either—bump into a hard-right Republican at a coffee shop or the gas station and just wait. Somehow, some way, the conversation will detour into transgender bathrooms, gay marriage, or their deep-seated fear of books in libraries that mention the existence of sex.

What gives?

Why is the MAGA wing of the Republican Party so obsessed with sex? And not just healthy, adult conversations about sex, but twisted, fearful, paranoid ideas about it. To hear them tell it, sex is lurking around every corner, waiting to corrupt their children, poison their schools, and topple the very foundations of the Republic. It’s like they see a Pride flag and immediately need therapy.

Let’s unpack this a bit.

Projection 101

First off, there’s a heavy dose of projection going on. Many MAGA loyalists accuse others—teachers, librarians, LGBTQ people—of being “obsessed with sex,” when they themselves bring it up constantly. They can’t stop talking about “groomers,” “porn in schools,” and who’s using what bathroom. If anyone else were that fixated on these topics, we’d be deeply concerned. But somehow, when it comes from the right wing, it’s “protecting the children.”

Ironically, the more they scream about it, the more it looks like they’re the ones with unresolved issues.

Moral Panic Is the Point

The truth is, this sexual hysteria is a political tool. It’s been used for decades, from Anita Bryant’s anti-gay crusades in the ’70s to the “Satanic Panic” of the ’80s. Now it’s the “trans panic” of the 2020s. It works because fear is powerful. Scaring people into thinking their children are under attack makes them easy to manipulate. Just toss out a few inflammatory buzzwords—“woke,” “drag,” “groomer,” “porn”—and boom, you’ve got a loyal voter base frothing at the mouth and ready to pull the lever for whoever promises to save them.

Sex = Control

There’s also a deep cultural undercurrent here: sex is about control. Who’s allowed to have it, who’s allowed to talk about it, and whose bodies get policed. MAGA ideology is obsessed with maintaining traditional gender roles and a very narrow version of morality. Any deviation—whether it’s a transgender person living authentically, or a school teaching comprehensive sex ed—is viewed as a threat to their entire worldview. It shakes the foundation of the good ol’ days they desperately want to return to (you know, when people knew their place and kept their secrets).

The Porn Paradox

And then there’s the irony so thick you could butter toast with it: the loudest voices screaming about pornography are often the ones secretly consuming it in record numbers. Studies have shown that some of the most conservative states have the highest porn viewership. It’s the old preacher-who-gets-caught-in-the-motel-room story, just scaled up to national politics.

Final Thought

It would be funny if it weren’t so sad—and dangerous. When MAGA folks obsessively inject sexual fear into every political conversation, they’re not just being weird or crass. They’re distracting from real issues: healthcare, climate, wages, corruption. They’re demonizing innocent people to score political points. And they’re feeding a toxic stew of ignorance and hate.

So the next time a MAGA warrior brings up genitals in a school board meeting or posts a comment about drag queens on a story about zoning laws, remember: this isn’t about protecting children. It’s about fear, power, and projection.

And frankly, it’s exhausting.

Bee Bumble Bee wins design award

Kadizzle could not be prouder of Megan, his youngest daughter.  To grandpa she is still just a kid. There is no one like Megan. When Megan decides to accomplish something it is going to happen. Growing up in a small town with no art program Megan went on to design clothes for Macy's, KMart, and Anthropology. Before that she started her own design business in New York City. Now, my wonderful Megan has developed an interior design company which just won and award for designing a kitchen area. In her little town she designed the bookstore. This fall her designs will be featured in a fashion magazine. 
 

A classic runner Timothy Coyne

When the Galumphs Scatter

Mike F. and Kadizzle arrived early at the town hall meeting, taking seats as a few other early birds filtered in. Sitting alone in the back was a familiar figure—a large galumph of a man: Timothy Coyne.

Coyne, a local Facebook poster and prolific liar, has long trafficked in the false accusation—originally stirred up by Gary Morris—that Kadizzle committed assault. Morris’s lie didn’t hold up in court; Kadizzle exposed it, and Morris has been curiously silent ever since.

Kadizzle had challenged the liars—Coyne included—to meet face-to-face. None accepted. But here was Coyne, in the flesh. Kadizzle approached and calmly asked if Coyne wanted to discuss the falsehoods he’d been spreading.

The galumph sprang up and started jabbering. True to form, he deflected, refusing to engage directly or allow Kadizzle to address the lies. Cornered, Coyne had a choice: stay and be unmasked in front of the room, or flee. He chose flight, insisting they "talk outside"—away from witnesses—then quickly slunk out of the meeting room entirely.

Coyne fits right in with the other runners: Mayor Steve Otto, ex-GOP chair Gary Morris, Michael Heather the serial fibber, and council member Charlie Bell. They all share the same strategy—slander from a safe distance, then scatter when confronted.

The pattern is clear: when the truth walks in, the galumphs head for the door.

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Dear Mayor Steve Otto

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Mayor, Council Members, and Fellow Citizens,

I come before you today not in anger, but in defense of truth and civility.

Recently, both the Mayor and another council member made false public statements about me. When I approached them—in a public place, calmly and without threats—simply asking for a conversation about these falsehoods, I was accused of “assault.”

Let’s be clear: disagreement is not assault. Asking someone to explain their words is not assault. The law defines assault as an act that causes another person to fear imminent physical harm. At no point did I raise my voice, use threatening language, or make any physical move toward anyone. The only thing I brought with me was a request for honesty and accountability.

Calling a civil conversation “assault” is not just a misuse of the word—it’s a dangerous distortion. It silences public discourse. It weaponizes fear. And it attempts to paint political disagreement as violence.

This is a small town. We all live here. We see each other at the grocery store, the post office, and the park. We must be able to confront lies without being slandered ourselves.

Public officials should be held to a higher standard. If they misrepresent a citizen, that citizen has every right—every responsibility—to seek clarification and defend their name.

I’m here tonight to say: I will not be intimidated. And I hope this council understands the difference between disagreement and aggression. Our community deserves honest dialogue, not fear-based accusations.

Thank you.

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Miss the old sailing days.

 The thought often goes through the mind of the many days spent sailing Lake Sakakawea. As the song goes " I've got to remember, its a fine memory. So many nights under the stars anchored in a secure cover sleeping the best sleep one could have with a gentle breeze blowing through the boat as the Sovereign kept her head to the wind. It was a fine boat taught and true. Good sailing friends are missed and the magic of moving without a motor. The storms, the calms, the all night sails, the races, and watching our girls grow up as sailors. 

Is the tide turning?

My old friend Mike F. likes to hold a protest sign on highway 87. You can gauge the traffic by how many nice waves and happy faces you see versus, the number of mean nasty MAGA dogs that give the finger. People seem to have given up on the orange rat, Trump. Very few nasty dogs went by. In Payson a lot of the traffic passes through from Phoenix.  People seem to have awakened to what a disaster Trump is. The best indication was the turnout last week when about 450 normals turned out to object to the orange menace, and the MAGA dogs had a little over twenty. The MAGA dogs seem on the run. At the Donuts with Democrats yesterday we had another good turn out. Maybe the tide has turned.  

Lets Meet at the Library. Dedicated to Denise Alexander

Truth on Trial: Social Media vs. Reality in Payson, Arizona

One of the crown jewels of American democracy is our justice system. It’s not perfect, but in principle, it's built on a brilliant foundation: facts are weighed by neutral parties—judges or juries—who are sworn to consider evidence and arrive at the truth. We may take it for granted, but that system stands in stark contrast to the circus of misinformation unfolding daily on social media, especially right here in Payson, Arizona.

On Facebook and other local forums, truth is often treated like a nuisance—something to be twisted, omitted, or trampled if it gets in the way of a good partisan rant or a conspiracy theory. Half-truths, cherry-picked facts, and outright lies are tossed around like horseshoes at a backyard barbecue. And heaven help you if you try to inject facts into the fray. The response is usually name-calling, deflection, or silence.

But there is a solution. It's radical in its simplicity: let the people who spin falsehoods meet the people who have the facts—in person. You know, like in a civilized society. Face to face, fact versus fiction. Let’s bring back the idea that truth should be something we see, not something we just scroll past.

Kadizzle, who has been repeatedly smeared by the usual local fabricators, has made this offer many times: meet me, and I’ll show you the facts. The records, the evidence, the truth—laid out plainly. Not surprisingly, most of the local blowhards decline. Some don’t even respond. Others retreat behind excuses: “I’m afraid,” they say. “I don’t want a confrontation.” That’s convenient. They’ll hurl accusations from the safety of a keyboard, but won’t back it up in a public, peaceful setting.

To make it even easier, Kadizzle has offered neutral venues: the public library, the police station, anywhere civil and safe. But still, the offer is ignored. Why? Because when facts enter the room, lies have to leave.

If we want anything resembling a functioning democracy—locally or nationally—we need to reclaim the value of truth. And that starts with accountability. Until the liars in Payson are willing to stand behind their claims in person, in the light of day, we can all safely assume they don’t have facts. They have Facebook.

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The mind of a Hooplehead.

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Hoople Logic on Full Display

Kadizzle has been stirring the pot again on a local Facebook page, and the responses from the MAGA faithful—what we affectionately call the Hoopleheads—have been revealing.

First off, it’s clear that thoughtful dialogue isn’t their strong suit. When challenged, their go-to move is a childish insult or some obscenity tossed out like a dodgeball. If it’s not a cartoon meme or a slogan they can chant, they’re lost. Depth just isn’t their thing.

Then there’s the casual relationship they have with the truth. Maybe it’s a learned behavior from their idol, but distortion and outright lying don’t seem to bother them one bit. And logic? Forget about it. Here’s a perfect example: the Hooples claimed that two busloads of protesters—roughly 110 people—were shipped into Payson. Yet in the same breath, they insisted only 20 people got off the buses. Makes no sense, but the Hoople crowd swallowed it whole.

And then came Saturday. A diesel truck-driving Hooplehead rolled past a line of peaceful demonstrators—many elderly—and deliberately belched out thick black exhaust. A shameful act by any decent standard, but among the Hooples? He was a hero.

This is what we’re up against: a movement allergic to facts, incapable of reasoned thought, and all too happy to embrace cruelty when it suits them.

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Would you like a version with a more sarcastic or more serious tone?

Payson Liars, and runners

Old Kadizzle is addicted to stirring up the Hoopleheads. There is a local facebook page in Payson where the dingers hang out. The MAGA liars are trying to rerun a smear campaign about Kadizzle. The most notorious liar, Gary Morris ran out of gas when he went to court with Kadizzle. Lying works fine on facebook, but no so well in court. Gary was doing fine with his lying in court until a different judge came up from Scottsdale. Gary's judge would not allow evidence against Gary and his lying. The judge from Scottsdale was honest and looked at all the evidence. Sadly for Gary Morris he was exposed as a pathological liar. Gary lost the case and resigned from his position as leader of the local Republican party. 

All the facebook liars are the same. They print half truths, and misleading information, just like Gary did. Kadizzle has challenged every facebook liar to meet in person to defend their lies. Not one has the courage to meet face to face, yet they go on lying. Sometimes Kadizzle will see one of these liars in person. When you challenge them in person about their lying the reaction is always the same. They run. After they run from Kadizzle they will claim they were assaulted. Three that used the exact same tactic are mayor Steve Otto, Gary Morris, and Charlie Bell. Kadizzle approached Steve Otto in a town council meeting. Even with many people around who saw the truth, Otto claimed he was assaulted. Kadizzle met Gary Morris at a Tea Party meeting. Morris lies like a rug, and claimed Kadizzle spit on him. Kadizzle took a video of that encounter which clearly proves Morris lied. At a town hall meeting Kadizzle used the restroom. Charlie Bell used the restroom at the same time. Kadizzle spoke to Charlie Bell about what a hypocrite he is on the town council. Charlie Bell claimed Kadizzle followed him into the restroom and it was an assault. 

The MAGA crowd in Payson is full of shameless liars. KMOG radio is the local version of Fox News. Yesterday KMOG spent an hour and a half trying to patch up the bad publicity they got in the Payson Roundup. Isaac Blake wrote a letter to the editor and exposed the fraud of KMOG. 

MAGA lies are cheap and endless. The MAGA crowd claimed Democrats bussed people in for the rally on Saturday. A complete unsubstantiated lie. The numbers at the rally drove the lying Hoopleheads nuts. Democrats turned out well over 400 people. The MAGA crowd could only muster 50 at best and the real number was more like 20. 

Challenge a runner like Gary Morris, Steve Otto, Michael Heather, Charlie Bell or any of the facebook liars and the result is always the same, they run and claim they were assaulted. 

Now two of the lying runners are trapped. Charlie Bell and Steve Otto can't run because they are on town council. Every citizen can confront those two liar for three minutes and the liars have to take it. Isaac Blake has blasted the liars in town council meetings several times. So have many others. 

Gary Morris was the original one who tried to smear Kadizzle with false claims Kadizzle has a record for assault. The claim is easily disproved. Now here is the strange part. Every MAGA liar voted for Trump. In court Trump has been convicted of sexual abuse, defrauding college students, an 39 felonies. The MAGA people have no problem with voting for a felon, but are all upset with the false claims against Kadizzle.  

To top off the tactics of the MAGA liars on facebook they are trying to get someone to commit vandalism against our home or us. The MAGA dogs have published information on facebook so MAGA dogs can harass the Kadizzles at home.  Also MAGA dogs have made threats against us. The MAGA dogs are a sad bunch. At MAGA rallies they carry guns. When Gary Morris and his MAGA dogs approached Kadizzle they were armed. This is the MAGA dog mentality. 

 

The Oldest Trick in the Book

 The Oldest Trick in the Book — Lying by Omission in Payson Politics

There’s an old trick in the liar’s handbook: don’t lie outright, just leave out the important parts. It’s subtle, it’s slippery, and it’s exactly what’s happening here in Payson.

We’ve all seen it — people in power telling just enough of a story to seem truthful while conveniently leaving out the parts that might change your mind. It’s like bragging that you won a football game — at halftime. Technically, you were ahead. But anyone with an ounce of honesty knows that’s not how the game ends.

Right now in Payson, this tactic is being deployed not just occasionally, but systematically. From Mayor Steve Otto to Councilmen Paul Fromelt, Charlie Bell, and Gary Morris — we’ve got a roster of public figures who seem to have mastered the art of the half-truth.

Want an example? Let’s talk town finances. When the subject of a new community pool comes up, we’re told the town just “can’t afford it.” What’s left out? The millions spent elsewhere with little scrutiny, or the fact that a modest bond measure could fund the pool at a cost of just a few bucks a month to the average taxpayer. That context changes the story entirely — which is why they leave it out.

Or how about public safety and protests? When people gathered peacefully to express concerns about national and local issues, some leaders painted it as a threat, fueling paranoia about “outside agitators.” What they didn’t mention? The protest was organized by locals, attended by hundreds of concerned citizens, and completely peaceful — until a diesel truck deliberately rolled coal on senior demonstrators. That part somehow got left out of their version.

These aren’t harmless omissions. They shape public opinion. They distort reality. And they erode the trust we’re supposed to have in our leaders.

The people of Payson deserve better than halftime spin. We deserve the whole story — the messy, complex, inconvenient truth that democracy depends on. Half-truths are still lies. And those who spread them have no business calling themselves leaders.

Let’s stop settling for the edited version. Let’s demand full disclosure. And let’s remember that when someone tells you they won the game at halftime — they’re probably trying to hide the final score.

Mile of Patriotism

Trying the same old smear

In court Gary Morris got busted lying about Kadizzle. The MAGA gang is trying to resuscitate the same old lies. Gary Morris was the head of the local Republican party. Poor old Gary the gun slinging little cowboy resigned after he was humiliated in court where Kadizzle proved he was a pathological liar. The MAGA liars did not learn a thing. Again they are promoting the same twisted lies. 

What is amazing is they claim Kadizzle has a record, untrue, but they voted for Trump who is a convicted felon. Now, what sense does that make? 

Republicans supporting free speech. Gasing good Americans in Payson

 

Amazing

Lying Hoopleheads are amazing. After an amazing number of people turned out yesterday to protest the dictator the Hooples took a picture of two buses from google. The Hooples claimed the buses brought people from out of town. The Hooples posted the picture of buses on facebook and made their false claims. Then the silly Hooples said there were only 40 people. So it took two buses to bring only forty people? Of course the Hooples had to admit some of the 40 were local. So that means if you use Hooplehead logic it took two full size commercial buses to bring maybe 20 people.  

Two simple minded Hooples set their exhaust on their Hoople wagons to spray people with diesel fuel. The Hooples were proud of their action. One of the Hoople truck drivers pulled a gun when he was confronted with his idiocy. These are the Trump birthday guys. 

BIg Day

 Should be an interesting day. In Payson the little men with their big guns will be out. Simple minded dingers will drive by giving patriots the finger. Trump will have his birthday dictator parade rained on. Makes you think there is a God. Will the country change course or go down the tubes? Today will say a lot. 

The Hoopleheads are mentally slow, their reaction to anything they don't understand is to censor it. Kadizzle has been truth bombing the local Hooples on one of their chat sites. Block him they yell. The same Hooples make sure no normal people can attend Republican or Tea Party meetings. When the cult meets they want no heresy.  

100 in Cottonwood.

Cannot resist toying with the simple minded cult people. Payson has a facebook page that appeals to the Trump cult people. Taunting them into displaying how really ill informed and ignorant they are is fun. Most of them cannot make anything but a cartoon reply, a obscene comment, or repeat some crazy conspiracy theory or lie. It does serve a purpose. Normal people can see the mental deprivation of these people. It is obvious most of them did not finish high school. 

The mind of the cult

Kadizzle has been toying with the cult on social media. Cult members love cartoons, and emojis of the finger. In the cult deep thought just does not happen. The fact these people are intellectually challenged is very obvious. The deplorables had a hard time in school, and their gene pool condemned them to shallow thinking. Trump loves them. 

Eyes of the Immigrant to be sung on KMOG

KMOG likes to start their show the Forum with a  phony prayer. Hopefully the next Democratic show will start with this song and the prayer will be scrapped. 

Get off your ass and fight the dictator

We now live in Russia, even if your coffee is warm and your beer is cold. Trump has used the military with glee to fight rioters. However, when rioters attack the Capitol, no problem. Saturday you need to get your ass off the couch and show up at a demonstration to try to preserve the country for our children. Trump admires dictators and is one. If you haven't noticed you will. 

Trump's corruption and theft is mind boggling

How is it people just don't notice how much money Trump is stealing. His wealth has doubled during his presidency. This doesn't count what his children and wife are stealing. Read about it in the New York Times. No con man has ever come close to Trump for his outright corruption. 

I am just a Pilgrim on this highway

The theft and corruption of Trump is dazzling, yet the Hoopleheads just can't see it. The New York Times editorial lays out the scope of the billions the Trump family has stolen. How can the cult fail to see the rat stealing the cheese? Diversion is the key. If a nuclear bomb fell on a dinger they would ask " But what about Joe Biden?".  The dingers are deep in delusion. The Musk blow up should have awakened any normal person to the insanity of Trump and Musk, but no.  

Biden's auto pen and the simple dinger who makes comments here

Unknown is back making comments on this blog. If you want a look into a cult mind, the mind of a child, a Hooplehead, or just a simple dinger check out the comments of "Unknown".  The poor soul is a coward that cannot confront directly. Unknown plays the right wing tune. Try to blame everything on Biden. Wait, Elon is blaming Trump. What about? That is the only game the cult has when you ask a hard question. Ask a cult member about the con man Trump, and garanteed you will get the "What about?".  Trump can do any immoral thing, and all the dingers have to say is " What about?".  Try that in court. 

Maybe there is a God

God works in strange ways. Trump and Elon busting up is a fun circus if there ever was one. The cult heads must be spinning. On the local front it looks like KMOG radio has chosen profit over propaganda. Kenny Murphy will be replaced as the host of our hour today. It is crucial good Americans call in and support Jim and Diane. The three stooges Steve Otto, Jim Farris, and Charlie Bell are doing their best to destroy our town. Get with the program, pay attention. Democrats will meet at ten today at headquarters. Get your ass there. 

Watch this damn it.

I was Tricked

Mayor Steve Otto of Payson lies like a rug as the old saying goes. Otto claimed on KKKMOG radio he was "tricked" into voting for progress on a new town pool. Anyone in Payson can go to the town website and see Otto vote for the pool. Otto had all the information and was certainly in a position to ask all the questions he wanted. Such blatant lying and the co conspiracy of KMOG is disgusting. Otto goes on the radio and distorts the cost of the bonding, and makes claims he knows are untrue. The bond was for 16 million, yet he continues to claim a cost of 40 million. 

Any resident of Payson can watch the video of the recent special town council meeting on the town’s website. During that meeting, Steve Otto clearly voted to move the new pool project forward at the Malibu site. Yet the very next day, Mayor Otto went on KMOG radio and claimed he had been "tricked" into voting for it.

This is not only disingenuous—it’s dishonest.

Mayor Otto seems to be borrowing a page from the national Republican playbook: deny, deflect, and claim ignorance. You can’t have it both ways. Voting yes on a project and then pretending you didn’t understand what you were voting on may work with the Tea Party crowd, but the rest of us aren’t buying it.

Payson deserves honest leadership, not political gamesmanship.

Jim Farris the failed ferret.

Jim Farris, what a piece of work. Farris is on the Payson Town Council. Jim whines like a baby to get what he wants. Endlessly the adults in the room yesterday had to listen to Farris insist the new pool be built where the old pool was.  Fortunately the adults won and the new pool will be in a sensible place. The three stooges, Otto, Bell, and Farris have a bizarre idea Payson has a deep state that is spending too much money. Jim Farris is the ferret that is going to cut cost and find the waste. Good old Jim who bitches about the salaries of town employees complains because the town cannot find a manager or a police chief, or an engineer. Now here it comes, Jim says offer more money. 

Old Kadizzle could not sit through the idiocy brought on by the three stooges. How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? That kind of debate went on for hours while nothing got done. Charlie Bell and Farris vied for who could be the biggest hypocrite. The stooges last council meeting attacked the library. Too much sex at the library, and not enough at home for the stooges was the theme. 

The special meeting that was supposed to start at four did not start until five thirty. 

Plane trip cancelled today, another day in New York

 Who knows what the scale will say when Kadizzle returns to Arizona? Some good food got digested here.  Yesterday Kadizzle met a sandhog. Son in law Sam did not know what a sandhog is. Sandhogs dug the tunnels under the Hudson river in New York. Long ago Kadizzle read a story about a sandhog that was blown from under the river to the surface of the water unhurt. Was the story true? The sandhog confirmed that indeed such a thing had happened. The tunnel sandhogs work in are pressurized. The pressurized air blew out to the river and took the man with it.  He flew up through the sand and into the air ultimately landing in the river unhurt. 

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The other world.

Tomorrow we return from the other world. In the other world poverty does not exist. Kadizzle cannot afford to be rich, it cost too much. There are no shacks or old cars in the other world. No one does real work that involves sweat or dirty hands in the other world. The roads don't have potholes. Vacationers don't pull trailers, they ride jets.  The sky is full of private jets in the other world. Back home the sky buzzes with Cessna flies. Two coffees a pastry and a small piece of quiche, $32.  A meal that would cost one hundred dollars in the real world $300 in the other world. You don't cut your own grass, or clean your own house in the other world. No jacked up obnoxious pickup trucks here. Civilized people living the life of ease. 

Sitting in the jungle.

Granny and Grandpa are in New York, north of the big city.  The landscape is so vastly different from Payson, AZ.  From semi desert to jungle is a transition. Water falls from the sky here every day. Back in the homeland once every five or six months a drop falls. Also we are in the land of acute prosperity.  Poor people have been totally banned from the area. Price all the homes at a million or above and you have no problem with riff raff moving nearby.  A bobcat went down the driveway yesterday and the abundance of birds is a birders delight. On Saturday it is back to the semi desert climate.  

Must Read

Transcript below of an incredibly powerful and deadly accurate speech in the French Senate two days ago by Mr. Claude Malhuret. This may some day take its rightful place alongside the best of Sir Winston Churchill and President John F Kennedy.

Brace yourself:

“President, Mr. Prime Minister, Ladies and Gentlemen Ministers, My dear colleagues,

Europe is at a critical turning point in its history. The American shield is crumbling, Ukraine risks being abandoned, Russia strengthened.

Washington has become the court of Nero, a fiery emperor, submissive courtiers and a ketamine-fueled jester in charge of purging the civil service.

This is a tragedy for the free world, but it is first and foremost a tragedy for the United States. Trump’s message is that there is no point in being his ally since he will not defend you, he will impose more customs duties on you than on his enemies and will threaten to seize your territories while supporting the dictatorships that invade you.

The king of the deal is showing what the art of the deal is all about. He thinks he will intimidate China by lying down before Putin, but Xi Jinping, faced with such a shipwreck, is probably accelerating preparations for the invasion of Taiwan.

Never in history has a President of the United States capitulated to the enemy. Never has anyone supported an aggressor against an ally. Never has anyone trampled on the American Constitution, issued so many illegal decrees, dismissed judges who could have prevented him from doing so, dismissed the military general staff in one fell swoop, weakened all checks and balances, and taken control of social media.

This is not an illiberal drift, it is the beginning of the confiscation of democracy. Let us remember that it took only one month, three weeks and two days to bring down the Weimar Republic and its Constitution.

I have faith in the strength of American democracy, and the country is already protesting. But in one month, Trump has done more harm to America than in four years of his last presidency. We were at war with a dictator, now we are fighting a dictator backed by a traitor.

Eight days ago, at the very moment that Trump was rubbing Macron’s back in the White House, the United States voted at the UN with Russia and North Korea against the Europeans demanding the withdrawal of Russian troops.

Two days later, in the Oval Office, the military service shirker was giving war hero Zelensky lessons in morality and strategy before dismissing him like a groom, ordering him to submit or resign.

Tonight, he took another step into infamy by stopping the delivery of weapons that had been promised. What to do in the face of this betrayal? The answer is simple: face it.

And first of all, let’s not be mistaken. The defeat of Ukraine would be the defeat of Europe. The Baltic States, Georgia, Moldova are already on the list. Putin’s goal is to return to Yalta, where half the continent was ceded to Stalin.

The countries of the South are waiting for the outcome of the conflict to decide whether they should continue to respect Europe or whether they are now free to trample on it.

What Putin wants is the end of the order put in place by the United States and its allies 80 years ago, with its first principle being the prohibition of acquiring territory by force.

This idea is at the very source of the UN, where today Americans vote in favor of the aggressor and against the attacked, because the Trumpian vision coincides with that of Putin: a return to spheres of influence, the great powers dictating the fate of small countries.

Mine is Greenland, Panama and Canada, you are Ukraine, the Baltics and Eastern Europe, he is Taiwan and the China Sea.

At the parties of the oligarchs of the Gulf of Mar-a-Lago, this is called “diplomatic realism.”

So we are alone. But the talk that Putin cannot be resisted is false. Contrary to the Kremlin’s propaganda, Russia is in bad shape. In three years, the so-called second largest army in the world has managed to grab only crumbs from a country three times less populated.

Interest rates at 25%, the collapse of foreign exchange and gold reserves, the demographic collapse show that it is on the brink of the abyss. The American helping hand to Putin is the biggest strategic mistake ever made in a war.

The shock is violent, but it has a virtue. Europeans are coming out of denial. They understood in one day in Munich that the survival of Ukraine and the future of Europe are in their hands and that they have three imperatives.

Accelerate military aid to Ukraine to compensate for the American abandonment, so that it holds, and of course to impose its presence and that of Europe in any negotiation.

This will be expensive. It will be necessary to end the taboo of the use of frozen Russian assets. It will be necessary to circumvent Moscow’s accomplices within Europe itself by a coalition of only the willing countries, with of course the United Kingdom.

Second, demand that any agreement be accompanied by the return of kidnapped children, prisoners and absolute security guarantees. After Budapest, Georgia and Minsk, we know what agreements with Putin are worth. These guarantees require sufficient military force to prevent a new invasion.

Finally, and this is the most urgent, because it is what will take the most time, we must build the neglected European defence, to the benefit of the American umbrella since 1945 and scuttled since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

It is a Herculean task, but it is on its success or failure that the leaders of today’s democratic Europe will be judged in the history books.

Friedrich Merz has just declared that Europe needs its own military alliance. This is to recognize that France has been right for decades in arguing for strategic autonomy.

It remains to be built. It will be necessary to invest massively, to strengthen the European Defence Fund outside the Maastricht debt criteria, to harmonize weapons and munitions systems, to accelerate the entry into the Union of Ukraine, which is today the leading European army, to rethink the place and conditions of nuclear deterrence based on French and British capabilities, to relaunch the anti-missile shield and satellite programs.

The plan announced yesterday by Ursula von der Leyen is a very good starting point. And much more will be needed.

Europe will only become a military power again by becoming an industrial power again. In a word, the Draghi report will have to be implemented. For good.

But the real rearmament of Europe is its moral rearmament.

We must convince public opinion in the face of war weariness and fear, and especially in the face of Putin’s cronies, the extreme right and the extreme left.

They argued again yesterday in the National Assembly, Mr Prime Minister, before you, against European unity, against European defence.

They say they want peace. What neither they nor Trump say is that their peace is capitulation, the peace of defeat, the replacement of de Gaulle Zelensky by a Ukrainian Pétain at the beck and call of Putin.

Peace for the collaborators who have refused any aid to the Ukrainians for three years.

Is this the end of the Atlantic Alliance? The risk is great. But in the last few days, the public humiliation of Zelensky and all the crazy decisions taken in the last month have finally made the Americans react.

Polls are falling. Republican lawmakers are being greeted by hostile crowds in their constituencies. Even Fox News is becoming critical.

The Trumpists are no longer in their majesty. They control the executive, the Parliament, the Supreme Court and social networks.

But in American history, the freedom fighters have always prevailed. They are beginning to raise their heads.

The fate of Ukraine is being played out in the trenches, but it also depends on those in the United States who want to defend democracy, and here on our ability to unite Europeans, to find the means for their common defense, and to make Europe the power that it once was in history and that it hesitates to become again.

Our parents defeated fascism and communism at great cost.

The task of our generation is to defeat the totalitarianisms of the 21st century.

Long live free Ukraine, long live democratic Europe.”

-Claude Malhuret speaking to the French Senate Tuesday March 4 2025. You have just read the transcript of a speech that will live forever in the history books.

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"What's Coming Is WORSE Than A Recession..." – Richard Wolff's Last WARNING

None are so blind as those who will not see

 We live in a dictatorship, with the supreme con man stealing at a pace never seen before. Trump's entire family is looting as fast as they can, yet the MAGA hat crowd is blind to his greed. Trump will side up to Putin, and any terrorist if he can exploit the situation. Trump's speech at West Point showed his mental illness in full glory, but his cult just refuses to see. 

Most amazing is Trump's abuse of his cult. Most of his cult is made up of the busted flat low information guys. Trump steals them blind and gives the money to the rich. The Red Hats just don't notice. Greatness seems just like ungreatness, nothing happened but the theft. Prices are up students grades are down and the attack on common sense never ends. Trump has alienated every country in the world and opened the door for China to take over. 

Two wild monkeys

Old grandpa Kadizzle is in New York visiting his grandchildren. Waking up Grandpa was attacked by Quinn. After a lot of wrestling the other wild monkey Evie showed up. To some degree they entertain themselves, but old Grandpa get into the fray periodically. So much energy is unbelievable. Right now they are racing around chasing each other at a pace no adult keep up. Of course they are growing like weeds. Their cousin the Giant in Denver is now on her first boyfriend adventure. Watching Sylvie turn into a talented young women was a delight. Quinn and Evie will now be the young ones to watch. Megan their mom has started an interior design business.  Watching that take off will be fun.  

Eli Crane does not allow his local rep Lori Miller to talk to Mike Quinn

Recently, I reached out to Lori Miller, Congressman Eli Crane’s local representative, to ask a straightforward question: Will Congressman Crane be holding a town hall in our area? Her response was, “I can’t talk to you about that.”

That answer is both baffling and unacceptable. As Eli Crane’s representative in this district, Lori Miller’s role is to serve as a liaison between the Congressman and his constituents — not to dodge simple, respectful questions. If she “can’t talk” about a town hall, then who can?

Town halls are a basic expectation in a functioning democracy. When a Congressman refuses to face his constituents — and his staff refuses to even discuss the possibility — that’s not representation. That’s stonewalling.

Voters deserve access, not silence. And we deserve representatives and staff who remember who they work for.

A Simple minded dinger writes a letter to the Payson Roundup

Paul Frommelt, a local Trump cultist wrote a letter to the paper explaining how we are great again. The constitution has been destroyed, every country in world has been alienated, Trump has kissed the ass of every dictator, and prices are rising. Paul has swallowed the marijuana gummies. Living under a con man raking in graft has made us "Great Again".  It is like bringing back slavery. Dolts are amazing and we got em right here in Payson.