The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

The Good? 
Barry is making beer can chicken but he's doing it with an imported Italian orange soda.  It smells and looks really good!  He's fixing carrots a "different way" -- not sure what he means by that, but it WILL be good!

The Bad?
Another gloomy day of rain.  I can't remember the last time we saw the sun here in central Kentucky.  At least it's not all snow.  Temps are supposed to plummet tonight and tomorrow though.

The Ugly?
Students from Covington Catholic High School, wearing "MAGA" hats, harass a Native American Vietnam veteran.  The video has gone viral, and is giving Kentucky a bad name all over the world.

Well, I want people to know that not all people in Kentucky feel that way.

I have good friends who are Trump supporters.  When they post pro-Trump memes I want to respond, but out of friendship I bite my tongue.  When they go low, I stay silent, because I don't want to lose their friendship.  Is that OK or am I like the person Pastor Martin Niemöller wrote of when he said, "First they came for the ..."?

Wanting to shout from the roof, "How can you people support Trump?" I just look at their posts, and continue to post MY sentiments.  But I am totally conflicted.  I'm living "blue" in a "red" state, but I DO have liberal friends, too, and maybe it's not worth my time to argue with my Trump supporter friends -- they won't change their mind, and it will just piss them off, and cause my blood pressure to rise.

They don't listen to facts -- those are fake.

They won't listen to centrist news media -- those are fake too.

They only listen to FOX -- the ONLY source of "truth."

They deny everything that Trump has been PROVEN to have done -- liberal media "witch hunt" they say...

But nothing, NOTHING, I can do will cause them to change their minds.  So I go on not responding to their ridiculous posts and memes, while my blood pressure rises.

And I wonder, where and when will this all end?

But I really don't want to know the answer.