Monday evening reading - May 19, 2025
More goodies from the stack of stuff I read on a daily basis here on Substack.
When I get to between six and eight posts (or so) I think are worth sharing, you’ll get Monday evening reading. It won’t be every week, but likely more often than not. There’s nothing wrong with link love! Once again, I culled this down from about 15-20 posts to the ones you see here, all from authors to whom I subscribe (and maybe you should too.)
Go ahead and read these pieces, then come back and see what I have to say.
This one is going to eventually be a more light-hearted one, as I don’t have a lot of “heavy” stuff this time. But it’s all still good.
One of the early wins from the Donald Trump 2.0 administration is the practical disappearance of our border security issue. Thus, as they ask at
, why isn’t it being trumpeted?
Well, we all know that answer: success for the Trump administration is failure for the mainstream media.
gets it, too. And he’s fired up about it:
Destroying our culture, borders and language and destroying our national sovereignty is still the plan. It’s not dead just because the Democrat Party Communists are currently and probably temporarily out of power.
Nothing quite brings my anger to the fore as when I consider all America’s enemies have done, especially since the Obama era, to undermine and destroy Her, and all I can hope and pray for is that Her patriots will one day soon arise and send thousands, if not millions, of America’s traitors to the grave and on to the Hell they have earned and deserve.
Tell us what you really think, Justin.
However, I really liked this take on the whole situation by
. When you think about it, who really benefits when we are divided (hint: it ain’t us.) As I alluded to above, we (and many others in the eastern half of the country) had some rough weather over the past few days, and it wasn’t exclusive to Democrat or Republican areas. There was a tornado near the Democrat stronghold of downtown St. Louis and one in tiny Galestown, Maryland that probably blew down the Trump signs that are still out.
Of course I have a worldview, but I also have a duty to help my fellow man.
Yet that also means I need to point out issues with our government where they are spotted: case number one being overreach by our city-slicker majority in the Delaware General Assembly trampling on local rights.
These may seem like minor issues, but they exhibit a continuing trend.
And it’s not just here. I like to get the international perspective of
but normally it’s not in a format that works for MER. This time he does.
See, it’s not just our Congress that forgets about its duty of oversight. In fact, they do almost as well as bureaucrats in prolonging problems that were supposedly “solved” by big government. Did you know we’ve been subsiding wind and solar energy to allow for those industries to grow for 33 years now?
I love the tagline from the
: “Without your money, wind and solar would be living in a van down by the river.” It sure didn’t take 33 years for the fossil fuel industry to take off because it was useful - including coal, as points out.
That photo of his brought back the thought of being at my grandparents’ house and watching the long coal trains go by at the end of the street, heading north to Toledo and their power plants. (See - another quick Monday memory.)
Now for fun stuff.
must know I do a lot of my Substack writing (including this piece) on Saturday since it’s often an unencumbered day off - well, except for the ballgame I’m going to tonight. But it’s my rest and recharge day from my “real” job.Since he’s retired, though, for him…
Charles gets the double dip this week because I also like his new dog.
I also like bacon, which means this “web-only” drop from
makes the cut as well.
Regardless, despite the fact that I overshot “6-8 posts” and (almost this time) made it too long for e-mail, all that should keep a good reader going and thinking for awhile. It’s a good way to start the week, right?
Next week for Memorial Day I will be dark and the following week I’m doing a Monday Memory. So it’ll be a tough cut for the next MER in June.
In the meantime, though, you can Buy Me a Coffee, since I have a page there now.
Thank you for the mention, Micahel! It is an honor to be in your posts.
Thanks for the mention. Restacking this, there's some good stuff in there.