A Christmas Movie Tradition
Christmas Tree 2024
One Year Later
On Friday, I had a CT scan and met with the oncologist today to discuss the results. This was the first scan since surgery on November 17, 2023 to remove a cancerous tumor. One of the pitfalls of modern technology is that I received the results over the weekend on an app before the doctor.
Aside from a few minor issues that are of no concern and weren’t even mentioned by the doctor, there was no evidence of cancer. Welcome news.
I’m hoping the results are as favorable after my first follow-up colonoscopy next month.
Happy Birthday
2024
The Real Threat
Quotes from the party of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
◦ Kamala Harris — repeatedly: “Trump is a threat to our democracy and fundamental freedoms.”
◦ Kamala Harris: “It’s on us to recognize the threat [Trump) poses.”
◦ Kamala Harris: “Does one of us have to come out alive? Ha ha ha ha!”
◦ Joe Biden: “It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.”
◦ Joe Biden: “I mean this from the bottom of my heart: Trump is a threat to this nation.”
◦ Joe Biden: “There is one existential threat: it’s Donald Trump.”
◦ Joe Biden: “Trump is a genuine threat to this nation … He’s literally a threat to everything America stands for.”
◦ Joe Biden: “Trump and MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soul of this country.”
◦ Joe Biden: “Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic… and that is a threat to this country.”
◦ Tim Walz: “Are [Republicans] a threat to democracy? Yes. … Are they going to put peoples lives in danger? Yes.”
◦ Gwen Walz: “Buh-bye, Donald Trump.”
◦ Rep. Nancy Pelosi: “[Trump) is a threat to our democracy of the kind that we have not seen.”
◦ Rep. Jasmine Crockett: “MAGA in general — they are threats to us domestically.”
◦ Rep. Dan Goldman: “He is destructive to our democracy and … he has to be eliminated.”
◦ Disgraced Harris staffer TJ Ducklo: “Trump is an existential, urgent threat to our democracy.”
◦ Top Harris surrogate Liz Cheney: “Trump presents a fundamental threat to the republic and we are seeing it on a daily basis.”
◦ Rep. Steve Cohen: “Trump is an enemy of the United States.”
◦ Rep. Maxine Waters: “Are [Trump supporters] preparing a civil war against us?”
◦ Rep. Maxine Waters: “I want to know about all of those right-wing organizations that (Trump] is connected with who are training up in the hills somewhere.”
◦ Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Trump is an “existential threat to our democracy.”
◦ Rep. Adam Schiff: Trump is the “gravest threat to our democracy.”
◦ Rep. Gregory Meeks: “Trump cannot be president again. He’s an existential threat to democracy.”
◦ Rep. Dan Goldman: “Trump remains the greatest threat to our democracy.”
◦ Rep. Jake Auchincloss: “What unifies us as a party is knowing that Donald Trump is al existential threat to Democracy.”
◦ Rep. Abigail Spanberger: “Trump is a threat to our democracy … the threats to our democratic republic are real.”
◦ Rep. Annie Kuster: “Trump and his extreme right-wing followers pose an existential threat to our democracy.”
◦ Rep. Becca Balint: “We cannot underestimate the threat [Trump] poses to American democracy.”
◦ Rep. Jason Crow: “Trump is an extreme danger to our democracy.”
◦ Rep. Raul Grijalva: “Trump is an existential threat to American democracy.”
◦ Sen. Michael Bennet: Trump is “a threat to our democracy.”
◦ Rep. Stacey Plaskett: Trump “needs to be shot.”
◦ Rep. Steven Horsford: “Trump Republicans are a dangerous threat to our state.”
◦ Rep. Gabe Vasquez: “Remove the national threat from office.”
◦ Rep. Mike Levin: “Donald Trump is a threat to our nation, our freedom, and our democracy.”
◦ Rep. Eric Sorensen: “He is the greatest threat to law and order we have in our country.”
◦ Rep. Greg Landsman: “The threat is not over.”
◦ Rep. Pat Ryan: “Trump is an existential threat to American democracy.”
◦ Rick Wilson, The Lincoln Project: “They’re still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump.”
◦ Former Harris-Biden staffer Kate Bedingfield: Democrats should “turn their fire on Donald Trump.”
◦ Rep. Hakeem Jeffries: “We must stop [Trump].”
◦ Rachel Vindman, wife of disgraced impeachment hoax ‘witness: “No ears were harmed. Carry on with your Sunday afternoon.”
◦ Rep. Mikie Sherrill: “This really seems to be the confluence of two very bad things going on in the Republican Party … the attempts to divide, to enrage the population.”
◦ State Rep. Steven Woodrow (D-CO): “The last thing America needed was sympathy for the devil but here we are.”
◦ Lester Holt, NBC Nightly News: “Today’s apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail. Mr. Trump, his running mate JD Vance, continue to make baseless claims…”