People listen to speakers at a rally held at Fort Walton Landing on March 8, 2025, prior to embarking on a protest march through the downtown area of Fort Walton Beach. Image by Del Stone Jr.
On Saturday, in my small, conservative Northwest Florida town, we marched in protest. It wasn’t a big protest. Between 50 and 75 people gathered at Fort Walton Landing to hear speakers. About 25 people marched from The Landing, across Main… READ MORE
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“Mickey 17” Starring Robert Pattinson as Mickey “Mickey 17” Barnes, Naomi “Gonna Kick Your Ass” Ackie as Nasha, Mark Ruffalo as Kenneth “Trump Christian” Marshall, Toni “Moms for Liberty Prototype” Collette, and others. (Names in parentheses, barring Pattinson’s, ascribed by… READ MORE
Did you watch the Hemorrhoid in Chief’s lie-athon State of the Union address last night? Neither did I.
But I saw a video clip of one lone Democrat, Rep. Al Green of Texas, who stood up and called out the Hemorrhoid in Chief for his dishonesty and deceit. Now that’s what we need from the Democrats – some fire in the belly. As far as I’m concerned, Rep. Green did a good thing.
When Marjorie Taylor Green, who was dressed like somebody who had just finished up with a customer behind the dumpster down at the 7-Eleven, stood up during Joe Biden’s State of the Union address and called him a liar, she was allowed to remain in the chamber. But when Rep. Green did the exact same thing, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson had him thrown out. He’ll probably end up in the re-education camps.
I’ve had people tell me to stop giving the Democrats a hard time, that they’re doing everything they can and we just don’t see it. Well, that’s the problem. We just don’t see it.
I saw a video clip online that epitomizes the ineffectiveness of the Democratic Party in opposing this quiet coup. A group of Democratic congresspeople was trying to enter the Department of Education building and one lone guy – ONE GUY – was barring the door. What did the Democrats do? Did they relocate the guy 3 feet to the left and enter the building?
No, they stood off to the side with their phones, frowning and fussing, and then eventually went away.
What we need are some Democrats to stand up, fight back and be visible doing it. Stop being polite. MAGA and the Republicans don’t do polite. Be a damn streetfighter. Get in there and scrap with them like they are scrapping with us.
The Democrats need to show some leadership because the American people can only do so much, and we desperately need some sane, responsible leadership at the moment.
About the author:
Del Stone Jr. is a professional fiction writer. He is known primarily for his work in the contemporary dark fiction field, but has also published science fiction and contemporary fantasy. Stone's stories, poetry and scripts have appeared in publications such as Amazing Stories, Eldritch Tales, and Bantam-Spectra's Full Spectrum. His short fiction has been published in The Year's Best Horror Stories XXII; Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine; the Pocket Books anthology More Phobias; the Barnes & Noble anthologies 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories, Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, and 100 Astounding Little Alien Stories; the HWA anthology Psychos; and other short fiction venues, like Blood Muse, Live Without a Net, Zombiesque and Sex Macabre. Stone's comic book debut was in the Clive Barker series of books, Hellraiser, published by Marvel/Epic and reprinted in The Best of Hellraiser anthology. He has also published stories in Penthouse Comix, and worked with artist Dave Dorman on many projects, including the illustrated novella “Roadkill,” a short story for the Andrew Vachss anthology Underground from Dark Horse, an ashcan titled "December" for Hero Illustrated, and several of Dorman's Wasted Lands novellas and comics, such as Rail from Image and “The Uninvited.” Stone's novel, Dead Heat, won the 1996 International Horror Guild's award for best first novel and was a runner-up for the Bram Stoker Award. Stone has also been a finalist for the IHG award for short fiction, the British Fantasy Award for best novella, and a semifinalist for the Nebula and Writers of the Future awards. His stories have appeared in anthologies that have won the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award. Two of his works were optioned for film, the novella “Black Tide” and short story “Crisis Line.”
Stone recently retired after a 41-year career in journalism. He won numerous awards for his work, and in 1986 was named Florida's best columnist in his circulation division by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors. In 2001 he received an honorable mention from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for his essay “When Freedom of Speech Ends” and in 2003 he was voted Best of the Best in the category of columnists by Emerald Coast Magazine. He participated in book signings and awareness campaigns, and was a guest on local television and radio programs.
As an addendum, Stone is single, kills tomatoes and morning glories with ruthless efficiency, once tied the stem of a cocktail cherry in a knot with his tongue, and carries a permanent scar on his chest after having been shot with a paintball gun. He’s in his 60s as of this writing but doesn't look a day over 94.
Contact Del at [email protected]. He is also on Facebook, twitter, Pinterest, tumblr, TikTok, and Instagram. Visit his website at delstonejr.com .
Did you watch the Hemorrhoid in Chief’s lie-athon State of the Union address last night? Neither did I. But I saw a video clip of one lone Democrat, Rep. Al Green of Texas, who stood up and called out the… READ MORE
Our new Secretary of Defense, that drunkard, Comrade Hegseth, has decided that Russia no longer poses a threat to the United States and has ordered a cessation of both offensive and defensive cyber security activities aimed at Moscow.
We’re such good friends with Russia now, despite the fact that our favorite Russian oligarch, Polonium Putin, ordered his cyber forces to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election on a seismic scale, and then again in 2020, and yet again in 2024. And they’re still doing it. Just recently, when the Republicans passed that sorry excuse for a budget, thousands of new accounts showed up on social media, accounts with millions of followers, claiming the Republicans had passed a new budget that contained tax breaks on tips, overtime and Social Security, and the horrible Democrats voted against it.
Those social media accounts were fake. Those millions of followers, bought and paid for. There were no provisions for tax breaks on tips, overtime and Social Security in the GOP budget.
It was all a lie.
We’re such good friends with Russia now, despite the fact that Polonium Putin’s political adversaries have an odd way of falling off balconies or out of windows in high-rises, or drinking radioactive tea and unaliving themselves.
And we’re such good friends with Russia now despite Polonium Putin hurling his army, navy and air forces against Ukraine in an illegal invasion, unaliving tens of thousands of innocent people; targeting schools, churches and hospitals with his missiles and bombs; kidnapping tens of thousands of Ukrainian children to diminish his depleted ranks; and raping thousands of Ukrainian women, children, even men.
Tell me something.
Why haven’t these people been arrested for treason? Because that’s clearly what’s happening here. They’re rendering our nation defenseless against its primary enemy – not the Russian people, but the corrupt and criminal Russian leadership.
Russia said the other day that America’s worldview now aligns with Russia’s worldview. If that ain’t treason, I don’t know what is.
And we owe it all to Donald Trump and his alcoholic lapdog Comrade Hegseth.
SMH.
About the author:
Del Stone Jr. is a professional fiction writer. He is known primarily for his work in the contemporary dark fiction field, but has also published science fiction and contemporary fantasy. Stone's stories, poetry and scripts have appeared in publications such as Amazing Stories, Eldritch Tales, and Bantam-Spectra's Full Spectrum. His short fiction has been published in The Year's Best Horror Stories XXII; Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine; the Pocket Books anthology More Phobias; the Barnes & Noble anthologies 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories, Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, and 100 Astounding Little Alien Stories; the HWA anthology Psychos; and other short fiction venues, like Blood Muse, Live Without a Net, Zombiesque and Sex Macabre. Stone's comic book debut was in the Clive Barker series of books, Hellraiser, published by Marvel/Epic and reprinted in The Best of Hellraiser anthology. He has also published stories in Penthouse Comix, and worked with artist Dave Dorman on many projects, including the illustrated novella “Roadkill,” a short story for the Andrew Vachss anthology Underground from Dark Horse, an ashcan titled "December" for Hero Illustrated, and several of Dorman's Wasted Lands novellas and comics, such as Rail from Image and “The Uninvited.” Stone's novel, Dead Heat, won the 1996 International Horror Guild's award for best first novel and was a runner-up for the Bram Stoker Award. Stone has also been a finalist for the IHG award for short fiction, the British Fantasy Award for best novella, and a semifinalist for the Nebula and Writers of the Future awards. His stories have appeared in anthologies that have won the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award. Two of his works were optioned for film, the novella “Black Tide” and short story “Crisis Line.”
Stone recently retired after a 41-year career in journalism. He won numerous awards for his work, and in 1986 was named Florida's best columnist in his circulation division by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors. In 2001 he received an honorable mention from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for his essay “When Freedom of Speech Ends” and in 2003 he was voted Best of the Best in the category of columnists by Emerald Coast Magazine. He participated in book signings and awareness campaigns, and was a guest on local television and radio programs.
As an addendum, Stone is single, kills tomatoes and morning glories with ruthless efficiency, once tied the stem of a cocktail cherry in a knot with his tongue, and carries a permanent scar on his chest after having been shot with a paintball gun. He’s in his 60s as of this writing but doesn't look a day over 94.
Contact Del at [email protected]. He is also on Facebook, twitter, Pinterest, tumblr, TikTok, and Instagram. Visit his website at delstonejr.com .
Our new Secretary of Defense, that drunkard, Comrade Hegseth, has decided that Russia no longer poses a threat to the United States and has ordered a cessation of both offensive and defensive cyber security activities aimed at Moscow. We’re such… READ MORE
Well, that was disappointing.
I tuned into the Oscars last night expecting fire and brimstone. What I got was tea and crumpets.
There was a little bit of Gaza, a little bit of immigration, a little bit of the Holocaust and racism, one mention of Russia, and that was about it. You would have thought those people had been counseled beforehand to avoid the subject of politics.
Man, in the past actors like Meryl Streep, Sean Penn, Jane Fonda and Shirley MacLaine would have been all over that shit. But last night? It was like watching a bunch of people who had been huffing helium-filled balloons laugh at their Donald Duck voices.
I guess this means we’re on our own. We’ve been abandoned by the media, the government has sold its soul to the devil, the courts are starting to knuckle under and now Hollywood has abandoned us too.
Well, that’s OK. We can do it. We’ve done it before; we can do it again.
About the author:
Del Stone Jr. is a professional fiction writer. He is known primarily for his work in the contemporary dark fiction field, but has also published science fiction and contemporary fantasy. Stone's stories, poetry and scripts have appeared in publications such as Amazing Stories, Eldritch Tales, and Bantam-Spectra's Full Spectrum. His short fiction has been published in The Year's Best Horror Stories XXII; Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine; the Pocket Books anthology More Phobias; the Barnes & Noble anthologies 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories, Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, and 100 Astounding Little Alien Stories; the HWA anthology Psychos; and other short fiction venues, like Blood Muse, Live Without a Net, Zombiesque and Sex Macabre. Stone's comic book debut was in the Clive Barker series of books, Hellraiser, published by Marvel/Epic and reprinted in The Best of Hellraiser anthology. He has also published stories in Penthouse Comix, and worked with artist Dave Dorman on many projects, including the illustrated novella “Roadkill,” a short story for the Andrew Vachss anthology Underground from Dark Horse, an ashcan titled "December" for Hero Illustrated, and several of Dorman's Wasted Lands novellas and comics, such as Rail from Image and “The Uninvited.” Stone's novel, Dead Heat, won the 1996 International Horror Guild's award for best first novel and was a runner-up for the Bram Stoker Award. Stone has also been a finalist for the IHG award for short fiction, the British Fantasy Award for best novella, and a semifinalist for the Nebula and Writers of the Future awards. His stories have appeared in anthologies that have won the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award. Two of his works were optioned for film, the novella “Black Tide” and short story “Crisis Line.”
Stone recently retired after a 41-year career in journalism. He won numerous awards for his work, and in 1986 was named Florida's best columnist in his circulation division by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors. In 2001 he received an honorable mention from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for his essay “When Freedom of Speech Ends” and in 2003 he was voted Best of the Best in the category of columnists by Emerald Coast Magazine. He participated in book signings and awareness campaigns, and was a guest on local television and radio programs.
As an addendum, Stone is single, kills tomatoes and morning glories with ruthless efficiency, once tied the stem of a cocktail cherry in a knot with his tongue, and carries a permanent scar on his chest after having been shot with a paintball gun. He’s in his 60s as of this writing but doesn't look a day over 94.
Contact Del at [email protected]. He is also on Facebook, twitter, Pinterest, tumblr, TikTok, and Instagram. Visit his website at delstonejr.com .
Well, that was disappointing. I tuned into the Oscars last night expecting fire and brimstone. What I got was tea and crumpets. There was a little bit of Gaza, a little bit of immigration, a little bit of the Holocaust… READ MORE
Russian bots are in hyperdrive, flooding the social media zone with disinformation about Trump, the GOP and Russia.
First they targeted the budget, claiming the recent GOP spending proposal included provisions eliminating taxes on tips, overtime and Social Security, and pointing out the Democrats voted against those tax cuts.
Wrong.
The budget contained no such provisions. They could be introduced later in the year, but they’re not in this plan.
Then the bots began filling social media with posts praising Donald Trump and his outstanding leadership. After yesterday’s disgraceful mugging of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky I don’t know that any human being with a shred of integrity could believe Trump or JD Vance were anything but liars and traitors unworthy of anything but our contempt.
This is propaganda, folks. The Russians are master practitioners of the craft. Americans, with their addiction to media, are suckers for these subornations of reason. Don’t be a sucker. Don’t fall for them.
And with that, I’m going to take a break from social media for a day or two because I’m tired and discouraged. I’ll get back to you when I feel stronger.
About the author:
Del Stone Jr. is a professional fiction writer. He is known primarily for his work in the contemporary dark fiction field, but has also published science fiction and contemporary fantasy. Stone's stories, poetry and scripts have appeared in publications such as Amazing Stories, Eldritch Tales, and Bantam-Spectra's Full Spectrum. His short fiction has been published in The Year's Best Horror Stories XXII; Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine; the Pocket Books anthology More Phobias; the Barnes & Noble anthologies 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories, Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, and 100 Astounding Little Alien Stories; the HWA anthology Psychos; and other short fiction venues, like Blood Muse, Live Without a Net, Zombiesque and Sex Macabre. Stone's comic book debut was in the Clive Barker series of books, Hellraiser, published by Marvel/Epic and reprinted in The Best of Hellraiser anthology. He has also published stories in Penthouse Comix, and worked with artist Dave Dorman on many projects, including the illustrated novella “Roadkill,” a short story for the Andrew Vachss anthology Underground from Dark Horse, an ashcan titled "December" for Hero Illustrated, and several of Dorman's Wasted Lands novellas and comics, such as Rail from Image and “The Uninvited.” Stone's novel, Dead Heat, won the 1996 International Horror Guild's award for best first novel and was a runner-up for the Bram Stoker Award. Stone has also been a finalist for the IHG award for short fiction, the British Fantasy Award for best novella, and a semifinalist for the Nebula and Writers of the Future awards. His stories have appeared in anthologies that have won the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award. Two of his works were optioned for film, the novella “Black Tide” and short story “Crisis Line.”
Stone recently retired after a 41-year career in journalism. He won numerous awards for his work, and in 1986 was named Florida's best columnist in his circulation division by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors. In 2001 he received an honorable mention from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for his essay “When Freedom of Speech Ends” and in 2003 he was voted Best of the Best in the category of columnists by Emerald Coast Magazine. He participated in book signings and awareness campaigns, and was a guest on local television and radio programs.
As an addendum, Stone is single, kills tomatoes and morning glories with ruthless efficiency, once tied the stem of a cocktail cherry in a knot with his tongue, and carries a permanent scar on his chest after having been shot with a paintball gun. He’s in his 60s as of this writing but doesn't look a day over 94.
Contact Del at [email protected]. He is also on Facebook, twitter, Pinterest, tumblr, TikTok, and Instagram. Visit his website at delstonejr.com .
Russian bots are in hyperdrive, flooding the social media zone with disinformation about Trump, the GOP and Russia. First they targeted the budget, claiming the recent GOP spending proposal included provisions eliminating taxes on tips, overtime and Social Security, and… READ MORE
Well, this is some shit.
Last week we submitted my tax return to the IRS.
Yesterday, I received my tax refund.
Never, ever have I gotten my tax refund that fast.
It’s as if the IRS said, “Well, shit. We’re all gonna get our asses fired anyway so fuck it! You’re due a refund? Here’s your money. We’re not checking anything. Take it! Enjoy!”
I wonder what it’ll be like next year?
About the author:
Del Stone Jr. is a professional fiction writer. He is known primarily for his work in the contemporary dark fiction field, but has also published science fiction and contemporary fantasy. Stone's stories, poetry and scripts have appeared in publications such as Amazing Stories, Eldritch Tales, and Bantam-Spectra's Full Spectrum. His short fiction has been published in The Year's Best Horror Stories XXII; Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine; the Pocket Books anthology More Phobias; the Barnes & Noble anthologies 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories, Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, and 100 Astounding Little Alien Stories; the HWA anthology Psychos; and other short fiction venues, like Blood Muse, Live Without a Net, Zombiesque and Sex Macabre. Stone's comic book debut was in the Clive Barker series of books, Hellraiser, published by Marvel/Epic and reprinted in The Best of Hellraiser anthology. He has also published stories in Penthouse Comix, and worked with artist Dave Dorman on many projects, including the illustrated novella “Roadkill,” a short story for the Andrew Vachss anthology Underground from Dark Horse, an ashcan titled "December" for Hero Illustrated, and several of Dorman's Wasted Lands novellas and comics, such as Rail from Image and “The Uninvited.” Stone's novel, Dead Heat, won the 1996 International Horror Guild's award for best first novel and was a runner-up for the Bram Stoker Award. Stone has also been a finalist for the IHG award for short fiction, the British Fantasy Award for best novella, and a semifinalist for the Nebula and Writers of the Future awards. His stories have appeared in anthologies that have won the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award. Two of his works were optioned for film, the novella “Black Tide” and short story “Crisis Line.”
Stone recently retired after a 41-year career in journalism. He won numerous awards for his work, and in 1986 was named Florida's best columnist in his circulation division by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors. In 2001 he received an honorable mention from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for his essay “When Freedom of Speech Ends” and in 2003 he was voted Best of the Best in the category of columnists by Emerald Coast Magazine. He participated in book signings and awareness campaigns, and was a guest on local television and radio programs.
As an addendum, Stone is single, kills tomatoes and morning glories with ruthless efficiency, once tied the stem of a cocktail cherry in a knot with his tongue, and carries a permanent scar on his chest after having been shot with a paintball gun. He’s in his 60s as of this writing but doesn't look a day over 94.
Contact Del at [email protected]. He is also on Facebook, twitter, Pinterest, tumblr, TikTok, and Instagram. Visit his website at delstonejr.com .
Well, this is some shit. Last week we submitted my tax return to the IRS. Yesterday, I received my tax refund. Never, ever have I gotten my tax refund that fast. It’s as if the IRS said, “Well, shit. We’re… READ MORE
Here I am (left) enjoying a pleasant summer day of frolicking along THE GULF OF MEXICO in 1965. Image by Del Stone Sr.
I just realized I never got to bitch about this “Gulf of America” bullshit. I’m a little late to that parade but fuck it. Onward. The Gulf of Mexico is bordered by three nations: the Divided States of America, Mexico,… READ MORE
I was talking to a friend the other morning. He and I are in agreement that this country will likely enter a recession later this year.
Nothing Trump, Musk and the Republicans are doing will keep it from happening. In fact, their actions are raising the probability of a recession.
Trump’s tariffs are re-igniting inflation, and his tax cut for billionaires is adding more stress to already-stressed low- and middle-income wage earners.
Musk’s firings are destabilizing the employment sector. People aren’t spending money because they’re afraid they’ll lose their jobs. When people don’t spend money, manufacturing declines. Companies stop investing in their future and lay off employees, further exacerbating the unemployment problem.
Instead of addressing the debt, the Republican-led Congress is raising the debt limit and borrowing another $4 trillion, adding to the mountain of red ink.
Trump’s strategy for energizing the economy – tariffs and “drill, baby, drill” – are based on misconceptions. Foreign countries don’t pay our tariffs. American businesses that import foreign goods pay tariffs. They in turn pass the cost of those tariffs off on the American consumer. So a tariff is operationally equivalent to a tax increase.
As for “drill, baby, drill,” thousands of oil drilling leases on federal lands are lying fallow already. Why? Because the price of oil is so low the oil companies would lose money by “drill, baby, drill.” So what’s the point in encouraging even more drilling?
Inflation is up 3 percent. Consumer confidence plunged 7 points in February. The expectations index dropped below the magic number of 80, which signals the approach of a recession.
I don’t know how long it will last, and how severe it will be, but I’m convinced it’s coming. My advice to you is to buckle up.
About the author:
Del Stone Jr. is a professional fiction writer. He is known primarily for his work in the contemporary dark fiction field, but has also published science fiction and contemporary fantasy. Stone's stories, poetry and scripts have appeared in publications such as Amazing Stories, Eldritch Tales, and Bantam-Spectra's Full Spectrum. His short fiction has been published in The Year's Best Horror Stories XXII; Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine; the Pocket Books anthology More Phobias; the Barnes & Noble anthologies 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories, Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, and 100 Astounding Little Alien Stories; the HWA anthology Psychos; and other short fiction venues, like Blood Muse, Live Without a Net, Zombiesque and Sex Macabre. Stone's comic book debut was in the Clive Barker series of books, Hellraiser, published by Marvel/Epic and reprinted in The Best of Hellraiser anthology. He has also published stories in Penthouse Comix, and worked with artist Dave Dorman on many projects, including the illustrated novella “Roadkill,” a short story for the Andrew Vachss anthology Underground from Dark Horse, an ashcan titled "December" for Hero Illustrated, and several of Dorman's Wasted Lands novellas and comics, such as Rail from Image and “The Uninvited.” Stone's novel, Dead Heat, won the 1996 International Horror Guild's award for best first novel and was a runner-up for the Bram Stoker Award. Stone has also been a finalist for the IHG award for short fiction, the British Fantasy Award for best novella, and a semifinalist for the Nebula and Writers of the Future awards. His stories have appeared in anthologies that have won the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award. Two of his works were optioned for film, the novella “Black Tide” and short story “Crisis Line.”
Stone recently retired after a 41-year career in journalism. He won numerous awards for his work, and in 1986 was named Florida's best columnist in his circulation division by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors. In 2001 he received an honorable mention from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for his essay “When Freedom of Speech Ends” and in 2003 he was voted Best of the Best in the category of columnists by Emerald Coast Magazine. He participated in book signings and awareness campaigns, and was a guest on local television and radio programs.
As an addendum, Stone is single, kills tomatoes and morning glories with ruthless efficiency, once tied the stem of a cocktail cherry in a knot with his tongue, and carries a permanent scar on his chest after having been shot with a paintball gun. He’s in his 60s as of this writing but doesn't look a day over 94.
Contact Del at [email protected]. He is also on Facebook, twitter, Pinterest, tumblr, TikTok, and Instagram. Visit his website at delstonejr.com .
I was talking to a friend the other morning. He and I are in agreement that this country will likely enter a recession later this year. Nothing Trump, Musk and the Republicans are doing will keep it from happening. In… READ MORE
I see where Donald Trump wants to eliminate Pride Month and replace it with some kind of military appreciation month.
You mean like May, Donald? The month of May is designated Military Appreciation Month. Plus there’s Veterans Day, a federal holiday, and Memorial Day, a national holiday, and a whole slew of other days, like Military Spouse Appreciation Day. They’ve even got a day to appreciate military dogs.
But let’s get rid of the one time of the year when maybe a little bit of kindness could be shown to a group of people comprising 10 percent to 15 percent of the population of the United States, people who have been tormented, abused, assaulted and even unalived.
We all know Trump doesn’t care about the military. Otherwise, he wouldn’t say the horrible things about them he says, and he wouldn’t have fired a thousand VA workers. This is just another Trump culture war dog whistle intended to distract you from the fact he’s screwing up everything he touches, and aside from implementing Project 2025 he doesn’t have a plan for the future.
He’s sure doing a number on the economy. Inflation is up 3 percent and when the next report comes out it’ll be a lot higher. Unemployment is also up – you can’t fire a couple of hundred thousand people without that number changing. Consumer confidence is plunging. People are afraid to spend money because they don’t know if they’ll have a job and they’re afraid the economy is heading south. The latest polls show 53 percent of Americans disapprove of the way Trump is handling the economy. On Friday, the Dow plunged over 700 points, as if to accentuate those worries.
He’s throwing our allies to the wolves and cozying us up to our enemies. I’m surprised he hasn’t booked a flight to Iran so he can pal around with the ayatollah. America is becoming known as a rogue nation, like some of the other garden spots of the world like Yemen, North Korea and Somalia.
As for Project 2025, you remember when Trump was on the campaign trail and said he knew nothing about Project 2025? Remember that? Well, get this: Somebody has built a Project 2025 tracker, which keeps tabs on the number of Project 2025 that have been implemented by the Trump regime. So far, that number is up to 39 percent. And virtually all the authors of Project 2025 are now working for Trump. What an astounding coincidence!
How does it feel being lied to?
The intent of Project 2025 is to transform America into a theocratic dictatorship with right-wing Christian extremists calling the shots. They don’t care how much of the Constitution they have to violate to get what they want.
As for Trump and Musk, this is just a good old-fashioned smash-and-grab. You rush in, break everything, take all that you can, then head for the hills. The Democrats are looking on with their frowny faces, and the Republicans are actually cheering for the muggers because they think they’re going to get a share of the loot.
And we owe it all to prejudice, bigotry, laziness and greed.
Congratulations, MAGA. You voted for this.
About the author:
Del Stone Jr. is a professional fiction writer. He is known primarily for his work in the contemporary dark fiction field, but has also published science fiction and contemporary fantasy. Stone's stories, poetry and scripts have appeared in publications such as Amazing Stories, Eldritch Tales, and Bantam-Spectra's Full Spectrum. His short fiction has been published in The Year's Best Horror Stories XXII; Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine; the Pocket Books anthology More Phobias; the Barnes & Noble anthologies 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories, Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, and 100 Astounding Little Alien Stories; the HWA anthology Psychos; and other short fiction venues, like Blood Muse, Live Without a Net, Zombiesque and Sex Macabre. Stone's comic book debut was in the Clive Barker series of books, Hellraiser, published by Marvel/Epic and reprinted in The Best of Hellraiser anthology. He has also published stories in Penthouse Comix, and worked with artist Dave Dorman on many projects, including the illustrated novella “Roadkill,” a short story for the Andrew Vachss anthology Underground from Dark Horse, an ashcan titled "December" for Hero Illustrated, and several of Dorman's Wasted Lands novellas and comics, such as Rail from Image and “The Uninvited.” Stone's novel, Dead Heat, won the 1996 International Horror Guild's award for best first novel and was a runner-up for the Bram Stoker Award. Stone has also been a finalist for the IHG award for short fiction, the British Fantasy Award for best novella, and a semifinalist for the Nebula and Writers of the Future awards. His stories have appeared in anthologies that have won the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award. Two of his works were optioned for film, the novella “Black Tide” and short story “Crisis Line.”
Stone recently retired after a 41-year career in journalism. He won numerous awards for his work, and in 1986 was named Florida's best columnist in his circulation division by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors. In 2001 he received an honorable mention from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for his essay “When Freedom of Speech Ends” and in 2003 he was voted Best of the Best in the category of columnists by Emerald Coast Magazine. He participated in book signings and awareness campaigns, and was a guest on local television and radio programs.
As an addendum, Stone is single, kills tomatoes and morning glories with ruthless efficiency, once tied the stem of a cocktail cherry in a knot with his tongue, and carries a permanent scar on his chest after having been shot with a paintball gun. He’s in his 60s as of this writing but doesn't look a day over 94.
Contact Del at [email protected]. He is also on Facebook, twitter, Pinterest, tumblr, TikTok, and Instagram. Visit his website at delstonejr.com .
I see where Donald Trump wants to eliminate Pride Month and replace it with some kind of military appreciation month. You mean like May, Donald? The month of May is designated Military Appreciation Month. Plus there’s Veterans Day, a federal… READ MORE